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SUNDAY MORNING. SIR JASPER’S ADVENTURE. Sir Jasper Peters was the fortunate pon of a man who had made a large fortune In trade, and who had then devoted himself to one of the great political parties with so much dogged ness that he had been rewarded by a baronetcy without ever having had to expose the defects of his early educa tion by making a long spiech in the house. Whatever his party did v/aa right; that was his motto, and he had lived up to it with a simplicity which had brought its inevitable reward. The consequence was that his only son was able to give up any active share in the business, and to play at being a country gentleman of patri archal descent, while his wife could assume the airs of a Lady Bountiful on the one hand, and, outshine all the great ladies of the neighborhood by her diamonds, on the other. Peterscourt, the country seat of the distinguished pair, was of course an old place where many generations of ancestors —of somebody else —had lived their little day. it was a large, rambling, two-storied building, dating from some far away period, and altered in the castellated style in the early years of Victoria’s reign. Beautifully situated in the southern part of the country of Dorsetshire, it was a little too far away from London to be quite to the taste of Lady Peters, wiio was ambitious of playing a great part in society, and who would often run up to town for a few days at a time, while her husband was enjoy ing his dignified seclusion within the well wooded grounds and park of Pet erseourt. It was on one of these occasions, when the baronet was sitting in soli tary state in his great library after dinner, ills little electric lamp on (ho table behind him and a pile of litera ture suitable to a country gentleman by his side, that he was disturbed in his leisurely perusal of bis paper by tile sound of a footstep on the gravel outside. He had scarcely raised his heal, when, to bis surprise and alarm, a man in tiie unmls,alcalde dress of a convict, panting, breathless, wltii slarling eyes *nd hanging jaw, l-aprl upon the window ledge from outside, and then fell, exhausted, upon the carpet. "By Jove!” cried Sir Jasper a3 he sprang up and made for the bell. But the man was too quick for him. Panting still, Indeed, but recovering himself sufficiently to stagger to his feet and across the floor, t'.ie unwel come visitor threw himself upon the terror stricken baronet, and stooping at the same moment for the poker, which he was near enough to reach, lie growled out between his set teeth a threat to "do for” that unhappy gentleman If he so much as uttered a call for help. air Jasper gurgled out promise to refrain, which he did not moan keep, and the man thereupon let him down again into the arm-chair from which be had risen, and suddenly altered his threatening tone for one, of abject en treaty. “Look 'eve, gntruer.” said he. in a thick, hoarse whisper, moistening his mouth as he spoke, still standing near and holding the poker in his hand, but no longer menacing his unwilling host. "I don’t want for to do yer no 'arm. I'm not so bad as what you'd think for to look at the dress I've got 0r.." "You're a c —r —convict!" stam mered Sir Jasper, half timorous and half study. "You've escaped from Portland!" The man frowned uneasily. "Well, so's a many more than me been convicts, and a many as deserve it a precious sight wus nor what I do." said .he man. And as he spoke he throw from time to time an an xious glance toward the window by which he had entered. "But this ain't no time for to throw my failings in my face. I'm a 'tinted man. that's what I am. The warders is after me " “What!” cried Sir Jasper, with something so like relief in ais face that his guest scowled him promptly Into silence. “Surely, guvnor, you wouldn't go for to betray a 'tinted man, a noble gentle man like you, with everything 'and some and comfortable about him! You wouldn't go l'or to give up a poor wretch that hogs you to give hint a change of clothes, would you? Alt—hh!" The sound he uttered was an inde scribable one. as ite suddenly straight ened himself and listened Avi,it strain ing ears to the unmistakable sound of a rapid footstep on the grave!, "They’re coming! They've traced me 'ere! For mercy's sake, sir, don't give nv up!" The baronet looked at the close cropped head, with the ugiy ears standing out on each side, and the coarse features distorted with fear, with a disgust no found it hard to bide. I-le, tix>. heard the approaching footsteps, and secretly congratulated himself upon his prosper.ive deliver ance from iiis tormentor. Before he had time to answer the man's-emreaties the noise of footsteps ceased; the convict threw one glance at the window, a second glance round the room, and ,hen he made for the door with all speed. Sir Jasper jumped up from ills chair and ran to the window. Yes. there, at the distance of but a dozen steps, was one of the prison warders, with a carbine in his hand. He was standing srili and looking about him. It was evident that for the moment he had lost the track of his quarry. Sir Jasper beckoned ro him quickly. "Warder!” cried he. "Warder! This way!” The man turned and came rapidly toward him. He was a tail, strong, fine looking man, with shrewd eyes and clear cut features; and, even as Kir Jasper called him, he was smit ten by a sense of the inequality of the contest between this stalwart, well fed, handsome pursuer and the under sized, lean, grizzled rascal of whom he was in pursuit. Saluting as he came, the warder was under the window in a moment. “You are looking for a convict who has escaped?” said the baronet. "Yes, Sir Jasper.” "You know me, then?” “Why, yes, to be sure, we all know Sir Jasper Peters,” said the warder with a smile. "Have you seen any thing of the man, sir?” “Yes, yes; he’s in my house at this moment,” answered Sir Jasper, in stinctively lowering his voice with a sort of fear of retribution at the hands of the hunted man if he were to learn he was betrayed. “Where, sir. where?” Even before the baronet had finished the sentence the warder hail put his iiand on the window sill and sprang into the room. Sir Jasper pointed to the. door. “He got away through there the mo ment he heard you coining." The warder looked at him in con sternation as ite crossed the room. "Then I'll he bound he’s rifling your stiong room, sir," said he. “The mart's one of the cleverest safe thieves In England, and he’s got some sort of tools with him he’s managed .o make; and as you ha'’e got .plenty of stuff to steal. I'll he sworn he's having a shot at it.” "W—w —w—what!" stammered the startled baronet. "How can lie know?" Already he was leading ihe warder out of the room and across the hall, in .he direction of the strong room. “These chaps know 'most, evory iking. Goodness only knows how. Else wity should he come slraignt hero? It’s miles from the prison, your house is, and there's many a place he might have took in on bit way. in stead of making straight for neio! It was my guess to come this way, the only one of the lot ,o believe he'd got so far." The baronet was hunting for his keys. Titey were standing together at the door which led into ihe base ment and as Sir Jasner turned tno handle he said. “We'd better have the butler with us, had we noi?" Tlie Warder smiled, and raised hi* carbine. “1 think this will be protection enough for us both. Sir Jasper: and I wouldn’t call the man if I was you. You're never quite sure, with men ser vants, whether they’ll be a help or a hlu drauce.” So tne two descended together into the basement, looking an 1 listening, but without coming upon any trace of the escaped convict until they leached the strong room door. Sir Jasper turned up the electric light in the opposite wall, and heaved a sigh of relief as he saw that tu-re was no sign of any attempt having been made to tamper wi.lt the lock. The warder, however, was stooping to listen at the tiny keyhole and mak ing a sign to Hie baronet to keep quiet. Then ho nodded and came to wanl liim. "Will you listen at that door, sir, and tell me if you hear anything?” he asked. Trembling, and sick with alarm. Sir Jasper took his place at the keyhole. "I—l fancy 1 hear a kind of scratch ing,” whispered he at 'ask The warder nodded. "That's it. sir. That’s our man at work!" Sir Jasper stood up. "But how did he get in?” said h<v with white lips. The warder shook his head. The baronet took his Utile key front his tvaich chain and proceeded to fit it in the lock. “Have n care, sir!" Sir Jasper, tints warned, opened the dco" most cautiously, and filing it wide. Then, hastily pressing the but ton Just inside, he flooded the smait aitar.ment at once with light. He drew a long sigh of relief—there was no one there. "And the jewelry—is that all right. Sir Jasper?" The baronet advanokl into the room and opened a safe at the father end. Lady Borers' emeralds and diamonds were almost world famous, and a sud den ntc.nemar.v doubt flashed through the baronet's mind as to the wisdom of letting even the prison warder know the exact place where they were kept when her ladyship had them for use in the country. But a glance at the warder reas sured him. The stalwart guardian had his watchful eye. not on the safe Where the baronet was busy, but on the dark corners inside and oiustde the room, and even as he looked about hint he held his carbine ready in case of a surpiise front unseen enemies. "It's all right!" cried Sir Jasper, with relief, as he came to the snug vel vet nest where the jewels were spark ling. But even as he uttered the words the warder's cry broke upon his ear, — “Ah, would you!" And, looking around. Sir Jasper saw the convict rush past the warder from some unseen corner outside, and, THE BRUNSWICK /DAILY NEWS. j jerking up the arm which held the I carbine, make a da3h for the jewels. ! The next moment, before the baronet ! had time to make all safe, he per | ceived that the warder’s weapon had fallen to the ground, and that his right arm hung limp, w.ti!e he cried out excitedly,— "Seize him, Sir Jasper, seize him!" The convict, even as these words i were uttered, was springing upon the j baronet, who, good man, living an easy ; life, was net in condition to grapple i cs equal terms with the lithe, spare frame of his assailant. In another moment both were on the floor, the convict on tne top. There was a short, sharp struggle, during which the baronet felt him self for some moments blinded, chok ing. I'hen the man was pulled off him by the superior force of the war der. who even with one arm disabled, knew a trick or two which made him more than a match for his man. "Now sir, up with you an t help mo with-him,” cried the warder, wnile t!ie convict muttered curses on them both and vainly struggled to get free. It was some seconds even then ire fore the warder was able to clap the handcuffs on he desperate prisoner, at the cost of much pain to himself from his wounded arm. But win the baronet’s assistance he at last over powered the wiry rascal and dragged him upstairs, where, wuh the help of the men servants, who aow, hear ing the noise of the scuffle, joined their aid ,o the master's, the convict, still Jefinant arid sullen, was led out of the house and hoisted up into a light cart which happened to be within Hat 1. “To Portland!" oriel the warder, as barely remaining long enough io re ceive the congratulations of .he baro net, he sprang up in the cart and laid a powerful detaining hand on ihe rascal’s shoulder. Then Sir Jasper, who was some what dazed as a result of these un wonted exertions and exci.cmc.its, turned back to the mansion wit:i a sigh of relief and a distinct conscious ness Dial he was considerably bruised. He could not, however, wai. to at tend to his wounds or even to ascer tain the extern of them, as he sudden ly remembered that ,ie had left tie door of t ie . long room open, ami ilia: even the safe w.iere his wife's Jewels were kept was still unlocked. As the lights were burning botli in side and outside the strong room, however, it was a matter of a few seconds only to retrace his steps and to regain the velvet nesi where he gems lay. What was his amazement, his hor ror, to find, on looking into t.ie case which he had previously opened, tha' the chief treasure of the collection, ills wife's tiara of hung emeralds mounted in brilliants was gone! The unfortunate baronei s.ood for a moment petrified by his discovery. He could not remember at what point of the hurried proceedings of the iasi salt hour it was that the convict had had the opportuni.y of seizing ihe jewels; vo. tHat lie had made good use of some momentary chance was only too plain. A trembling examination of the other canes showed ihat a magnificent that tan real, of ihe collection was safe. Scarcely aide to walk, the baronet made all safe and iotcored upstairs. “Order tlie phaeton around at one?.” said ae to the first servant he met, and then, as ho paced up and down the hall, he debated the chances of his ever recovering the property. He knew well enough thai if the rascal were to take the jewels bark to Portland with him the search he would undergo would discover the stolen property; Imt his fear was that the man. whom the warder had Ic some means of getting rid of them on ill ■ > way. If they were to lie (tun;; into a di.elt or into i he sea. wiiat was his chance of ever seeing them again? The minutes seemed hours as he drove along in the darkness toward the prison, and when he leaped to tire ground and addressed the warder who opened the door ais voice was cracked and broken as ae stammered out.- "l—l want to s >e the warder who brought the escaped prisoner back." The ma.i stand a. him Intently. "What escaped prisoner, sir? There has been no escape of a prisoner.” "Oh, yes. there lias." said Sir Jas yer. impatiently. "I tell you he was caught in my house—Petersoourt— not an '-our ago." due warder looked at him, recog nized cue of the nragnat.es c.f the neighborhood, and begged him ,o step inside ihe lodge. Sir Jasper, with a terrible sinking of tilt heart, accepted the invitation, gave a minute account of what had taken place, and was shocked to see a more dubious look come over the warder’s face. When he paused, the man said, — “I'm very much afraid. Sir Jasper, that you stand a poor chance of see ing your jewels again. You've been the vicilrn of a very artful robbery, an t!i, by your description of the men. I should think it was the work of Neiherby and Fletcher. If it is them, and they've pulled off a big thing like that. I should thing they'll be out of the country before tomorrow morn ing. They've evidently laid their plans very well, down to having the cart in waiting to carry them off. I'm very sorry for you. Sir Jasper, but you’d better drive to the nearest po lice station and lodge your complaint a* once. It's your only chance, and I'm afraid it's a very poor one." And so poor Jasper found. Not otriy were the police convinced that he had been robbed and that he ! stood a bad chance of recovering iiis i property, but it even seemed to him ; that they took a misguided pleasure | in hearing every detail of the affair at I great length, in order to express some thing very like admiration of th* means by which the two artful scoun drels had possessed, themselves of tha jewels. "Then—then it must have been the one tha. pretended to be a warder tb.3t took the things!” he stammered, whits with rage. "That's it, sir,” said the officer, cheerfully. "While you was on the floor struggling with the convict —I mean the one dressed like a convict — why, the tail chap was helping him self!" Sir Jasper groaned. "He never seemed to look at me or the safe either!" sighed he. "He's the mort artful rogue I ever heard of, and I’d give the world to see him in the dock!” Sir Jasper did have that pleasure some six months later, when Ne.her by ami Fletcher, after having expatri ated themselves for a time, rashly re turned to their native land. The baronet had the satisfaction of seeing them, forlorn and dejected, re ceive a sentence of some years penal servitude. But neither he nor Lady Peters ever saw the jewels again.— Black arid While. fiUAiNT AND CURIOUS. You cannot swear at or abuse any body in the Japanese language. The worst you can say of anybody is that he is a "fellow," and if you waut to express your very, very pointed indig nation you shout, "There, there!" A German has arrived in Vienna, Austria', after walking 14.000 miles pushing a perambulator containing his wife and child. On an average he cov-, ereil 20 miles a day, and often gave lectures in the evening. Heat from cold water seems fabu lous. hut it is an established fact. The water is decomposed by electricity into its const 4 'pent gases, hydrogen and oxygen. When these gases are reunit ed the act of combination causes the evolution of intense heat. The well known theatrical limelight is an ex ample of this. At. the Paris Mont-ile-Piete is an Empire clock pawned in 1835 for S.!O, an old silver lid pawned To years ago and a l it of lace pawned T 5 years ago tor $2.50. For alt these things the contract has lawn religiously renewed every year by somebody. But the outl et; i of these oddities is a common old umbrella in green gingham, in value perhaps worth 50 cents to a connois seur. Tiie pledge for this has been steadily renewed for 03 years. The curious custom of marriage by P’oxy still exists in Holland. A Dutch gentleman residing In liatavia was re cently united by proxy to a young lady residing with her parents at Amster dam. and, incongruous as it seems to our ideas, the bridegroom's sister rep resented liim and took the young lady in his name "for better or worse.” it seems (hat the young man was tired of waiting for his old love any longer l ot found that she would not be mar ried unless her mother was present. Her parents would not go to Batavia am; he •-oilid not go home. A compro mise was happily possible, as they wire both Dutch subjects, by the lady icing married with her relations around her, and she has now sailed for J..va. The British government has iate’y caused a survey to lie made of several islands in the Indian ocean, and in the published account of it mention is made of sortie peculiar crabs of the “hermit ' species that were found there. It is said tlial they were once inhabitants of the sea, but having abandoned it for ihe land, they retain their habit of protecting the under part of the body by some hard cov ering. To do this, they take posses sion of shells abandoned by other sea animals. and of anything of a similar nature that they can find. One was observed running about with a bro ken co count shell as its protection, but the awkwardness of smh a "house” did not seem to interfere with either its locomotion or it3 com fort. Shot ly mi Kupilmo Hunter. Wild geese and brants are known to travel, during me migratory season, very far south. Recently a large wild goose was killed not far from Spokane City. Wash., which had evidently winged its way from ihe remote Eski mo lamb-. When the hunter picked up the bird he was surprised to ob serve a slender piece of ivory protrud ing from its breas. just below one of its wings. With much difficulty be succeeded in pulling out the piece, for the flesh had grown tightly around it. It proved to be an arrowhead, about eight inches long, which had some queer carvings on the stem where it had been fastened to the shaft. The carvings were delicate, though quite disiin t. On a careful inspection by sonic Klondike miners the carvings were pronounced to be of Eskimo orig in. No arrowpeint of that kind warg ever known to have been used by tha Indians of Washington or British Co lumbia. Tlie head was of fine ivory, no doubt carved from a walrus tusk. Evidently the goose had been shot 'ey an Eskimo hunter in the Arctic ro- I gions, the wound had healed, the flesh i had grown around the weapon, and in j its long flight the bird had no doubt j broken off the arrowshaft—Scientific | American. An Owl’# I>iet. Eighty pigeons had their eyes pick ed out recently by an owl which en tered their loft by night at Ncrdbaa sen. Prussia. The same owl the night before picked out the eyes of a whole litter of kittens which were in the same building. SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. " Sufficient power fr the automatlo winding of a clock has been obtained from tbe expansion and contraction of a column of alcohol under the daily variations of temperature. Many steam-pipe explosions are due to water-hammer action, in a late paper Mr. C. E. Stromeyer showed that a plug of water only six inches long propelled only two feet under a pres sure of 15 pounds would exert a pres sure of 6400 pounds on being suddenly stopped. Sweden is about to establish a sta tion for wireless telegraphy, and the recent Diet voted the necessary money therefor. A start has been made al ready with the preliminary work of establishing this form of telegraphy betwen tae island of Gothland and the mainland. The Japanese military authorities in Formosa have lateiy made an in teresting experiment by mechanically protecting soldiers from the bites of mosquitos. A whole battalion of sol diers was protected for 161 days and not a single ease of fever was ob served. During tbe same time and at tlie same plai e 231) cases of malaria occurred m another battalion not so protected. It would scorn chat the scientific demonstration of the agency of the mosquito in producing malaria was complete. The popular notion about South Af rica is that. it. is a vast. dry. r.it 'less plain, little suited to crop farming or stock raising, but it is really one o! the best regions for sheep. The west ern half of it is almost rainless, and all but the coast laad3 along the south and east have a‘deficient rainfall, so that farming is not possible. But over nearly the whole area nutritious gras.es grow, and water can be had for stock simply by sinking wells, it Is estimated that before the war 13,- 000.060 sheep were grazing in the Great Karoo desert in the northern part of Cape Colony, and the flocks of the Transvaal were without number. Tn the water supply and irrigation papers of llie United States Geology Servey (Nos. 57 and 61) are lists of all wells in the United States deeper than 300 feet. The cables give the depth of each well, its diameter, the yield per minute, etc. References are also given to publications relating to the wells of each particular region. The large product of natural gas in the cast and in the west, the enormous output from the oil fields of Califor nia. Texas and the east, and the con siderable and indispensable w-ater supply furnished by deep wells on the plains and in arid regions make concise information of the sort of gu-at use to all those interested in the economic development of such productive fields, as well as to scien tific geologists. it is well known that many diseases are propagated by vermin. Flies transport tuberculosis, mosquitoes yellow fever and*analaria. rats the plague. Mr. V. Haazen in the An nales do Bharmacie reports the resulL of experiments on the destruction of verm'u. that are of immediate prac tical importance. Bedbugs resist exposure for 24 hours to an atmos phere containing six grams of formic aldehyde per cubic metre. With eight grains a certain number died. All per ished with nine grains per cubic metre. The gas furnished by the burning of 25 grains of sulphur per cubic metre also destroyed all these pests. Flies and mosquitoes are killed by two grains of formic, aldehyde per cubic metre of air. Fleas are destroyed by seven grains per cubic metre, or by burning sulphur. Rats and mice are destroyed oy 36 hours' exposure to an atmosphere containing 15 grains of formic aldehyde per cubic metre, but the full exposure of 36 hours must, be given; 24 hours is not suf ficient. Tliw Ajippnilix—Mlmt It I. People as a rule know nothing se garding the appendix. They talk about appendicitis, but. the organ afflicted is to them a profound mystery. Let me endeavor to make plain the nature of this curious vestige in human ana tomical history. The digestive system of man. and that of all other animals, is a canal or tube whereof the stomach is simply a dilated part. Now, be yond the stomach we find the intes tine tor bowel), which in man aver ages 26 feet, in length. It is divided into the small intestine, meas uring about 26 feet, ami into the large intestine, which makejau about six feet of the total lenga^^ Wheje The small intestine —which is the part that immediately succeeds the Uom ach —joins the large vve find the cae cum. Tills, as its name indicates, is a evil tie sac, a kind of blind alley, lying below the point ol' junction. Attached to the caecum we find the appendix, a little tube-like vestige, averaging about three inches in length, and of the di ameter of a goose quill. If the caecum is a blind alley the appendix is a kind of trap, lying as it does to the back of the caecum. When indigestible things find their way into ihe appen dix —cherry stones, grape seeds and and even the hairs of tooth-brushes— they cause irritation, and when this irritation goes the length of inflamma tion we get the ailment known as "ap pendicitis.” The removal of the ap pendicitis is an operation of modern surgery which, under ordinary condi tions. is both safe and successful.— London Chronicle. A thornless rosebush blooms in th-. gardens of Mr. Leopold de Rothschild at Acton. It ig named the Zepherin Drou'.in SEPTEMBER 21 THREE ACES OF WOMAN. At fifteen, like an opening bud, The maiden fair is seen; And she would have the world believe That she is full eighteen. Next, by the time that thirty years Their steady course have run. She tbeu would have us understand Sho is but twenty-one. Time roils around, her girlhood friends Are nothing more but names, Though she has seen but ninety years. A century she claims. —New York Tim*. HUMOROUS. Wigwag—How did you get along abroad, not knowing any of the lan guages? Newrich—Oh, money talks." Tom—lf I stole one kiss what would you think of me? May—Not much; I have little sympathy for petty larceny. Stulib —There goes a man who i3 full of mystery. Penn—You don't say! Stubb—Yes, he just ate a bowl of chop suey. Nell —At any rate, I shall never be disappointed in love. Belle—How do you know ? Nell —I'm going to marry for money. More cruelty—"l make it a rifle," he said, “to learn something every day.” “My!” she replied. ■ “How fast you must forget.” Timid Suitor—l wish to ask for your daughter’s hand, sir. Father—You might as well take the entire daugh ter. young man. Mistress (to newly engaged cook) — And now, what shall we call you? Cook —Well, mum. me name is Bertha, but me friends all calls me Birdie. The youth—l think Bessie Billus is as pretty as she can be. Don't you? The Maiden—Oh, yes; if she could think of any was" to make herself prettier you can bet she'd try it. "His attentions to you have been marked, have they not?” said the young woman's experienced friend. "Oh ye3. He has never taken the price tag off any of his presents." Clara (to her old chum) —And that, horrid Jones boy that used to pester you with his love-making—does he worry you as much as ever? Ethel — Well, hardly; you see, we'er married now. Cassidy—Shtop kickin’ about yer hard luck, man! Some mornin' ye'll wake up an’ find yersel’ famous. Casey—Faith, O’ll bet ye-whin thot mornin’ comes 'twill be me lui k to overslape mesel’. Bi/.zer —It makes "my wife angry when I refuse to let her have the last word in an argument. Buzzer —Why don’t you let her have the last word? Bizzer —Well, then she says I am afraid to argue with her. "Y’es, the poor fellow met his death by a steal.” "You don't say! Some one hit him over the head with it?” “No; he ate it.” “Get out!” "Y’es; it was a toadstool, and he thought it was a mushroom.” "Has he been maried long?” “Well, i can't quite make out whether he's still in the honeymoon days or has been married long enough tq be well trained. It's one or the other, for I notice he's dreadfully afraid of being late to dinner. LAWS OF HEREDITY. “ Tlirp# Owners lion* to Mnku m Gentle* mail M 1 set. Not Theory. Professor Karl Bearson, F. R. S., who lias taken a leading part in found ing the doctrine of evolution on a sta tistical basis, explained to a deeply interested audience at the Royal In stitution some of the results, nays the London Telegraph. Two of these are of special importance. It is shown by examination of large numbers of per sons that mental and moral as well as physical qualities are inherited, and to the same extent. Taking school children and examining them minute ly with respect to curliness and color of the hair, length, breadth and height of the head, color of the eyes, the ce phalic index and health on Lie one hand; and on the other testing them for intelligence, vivacity, conscienti ousness. popularity, temper, self-con scientiousness, shyness and handwrit ing, the degree of inheritance in the two categories came numerically as close as 521t0522. Secondly, it is prov ed that two or three generations will suffice to create anew stock. Statistics of large numbers show that there is more than is often supposed in the say ing: "It takes three generations to make a gentleman," and in the expres sion, "Visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth genera ion.” Pedigree in hu manity. as in the lower animals, is a vital factor. Thus a family or a na tion will certainly progress or degen erate as the issue of heredity. It need3 but to repress the numbers of the bet ter and higher afid to multiply the numbers of the lower afld less fit for two or three generations to make na tional degeneration terribly real. Pro fessor Pearson’s tabular results show ed the universality of the laws of in heritance. not only :n animals like horses and dogs, but in lowly insects and even in plants. Income from Knilowmeiite. A common note in the financial re ports of institutions of al! kinds i3 the regret at the fall in the rates of interest. The basis is now three or three and a half instead of six or seven a dozen years ago. This means that endowments must be doubled In order to keep up the income returns. The lower rate alro has a far-reaching jA'ect upon the chances open to the S-erage man of retiring in his age with a competency. He has to save twice as much to secure the income that he desires as in the early seven ties.—Boston Watchman