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15 h C L CHAPTER III. Richard Dempster had never entirely trusted Hutchinson.Although he had been a member of his firm for years he had never made him a partner, and the utmost he hid done was. to allow him a very liberal salary, and a commission on what 1: had mad.- Therefore it was not a difficult mailer to get rid of him; but 1 1 i - interview between the three men was one which neither forgot. Alan Mackenzie, who. as ho told Veronica, wanted no on1 to do his dirty ivctk. was present, and unfolded document after do( inating matter. Is' intent of merlin- ( he had not made tho d'scovery it that the it would have comp to Ihv.zilian government ' would have arraigned the firm of Dempster on the charge of selling tire- ' ftrms to the in-urger.ts. Iii. hard Dempster Knew that the onfhb u:o In them would be shaken unless he be- I haved firmly. He dimised Hutch- 1 inson. ottering him no consolation; ; the la.m must consider himseh dis- j grace:,. i i is ir.;-, recatir n against i Mackenzie v. re dt p and teirible. Alan would nut have tared if it had not been Yro'K-a. Afhr all. thman was Yen.-n:c.i':. faUi although the girl had net why she had je-ve rightly un.p r.-tood j i -en a. km.wl. dged. j Then was a ir.v.-P'ry whn h Hutchinson clone 1-. bet h- was a ;ub t and l r : rain, steeped to the brim in ph. Is. an qui'-: 1 1 op!-' Dempster' were rt. ed m"." he been i:i his ii ( wi'd be hinge: i.ius. as a! i":."' ean. a !;. :: to Hutrhinson "Y-.ej won hi hav- betray--aid to the man who had ( :::;!- for year-, more be ean 1 to think, "'if it had yea is than not bet n for M... k. nzic! My word has j alv.a.- b .n w 1! ? 'nought of uu: il now,' my lir:a an honorable one; but you would Lave dragg d me down!" Hutchinson said nothing, b it glared at Mackenzie. 'That young cur!" h-" said: "but I will be even with him yet!" "When it eame to sayying goodbye to Alan it w..s another anair. 'I he elder man had taken a great liking to Alan; he had full confidence in him. "Look hose, my lad." lie Faid. "I sha'n't have you at Santa Roa I'm not sure it will be worth your powder and shot: but go there now. and I will move you on to San Iago in a little while." Alan thanked him and wont. His head was full of Veronica. The girl was about to show her confidence in him in the fullest way a woman can. True she was leaving nothing but unkiudness and tyranny; but Veronica was your.;; and very beautiful, and many men would have rejoiced to have secured her for life. He had made all arrangements for the girl. She was to leave Rio at once id go and wait for him at Santa Rosa. He had sent her money, and hail found a lady who would look after her until he came to claim her for himself. They would be married at once, and He would begin his life there a married man. He was looking forward to this new life. Hp wanted a companion a woman. Sometimes he felt that, if it had been possible, he would have preferred a woman who would demand more of him, for as Ion? as he was simply joined to Veronica she was perfectly happy. Poor child! she had had so much unkindness in her short life, for she was but seventeen! Aba Mackenzie, was not a man who makes plans that come to nausht. Refore another three months were over he was established at Santa Rosa, married to Veronica. She had a surprise in store for him. She told him that Hutchinson had come home from the momentous interview vehemently abusing Alan. She had stood up for him. and then he l a 1 down Into a violent rage and had j;buse.l her. telling her that she was not his child, and that she had no claim upon him. In some strange way this rather pleaded Alan, lb- had very definite ideas a;', to duty, and it had vexed him that it was his fate to unmask the father of the girl he was to marry. Therefore, Hutchinson's words that she was not his child rather relieved him. , And now thre began some months of quiet, uneventful, pleasurable life. Veronica was sweet, g nth-, loving, imd Tery beautiful. It was knpossible Dst to become fond of her; and though Jlan knew that there were possibilities of love within him which she rever drew out, yet he never regretted his chivalry. She was not very useful, but she made a home. Slip always looked charming and made the rooms pretty with flowers and ornaments. She was always there, too, to talk-to him when he wanted to talk, to ride with him when he wanted fo ride. She seemed to live simply to give him pleasurp. Trup, he never discussed any serious topic with her, and' there was- a part of his nature Jhat was a sealed book to her; but thät did not prevent its being a happy, easy life. But it only lasted four months. Alan and his chief corresponded two or three times a week, but only on business affairs. If Richard Dempster heard a rumor of Alan's living at Santa Rosa as a maried man he did not attach miuh importance to it. Alan was doing such good work that he was almost wasted at such a small center a3 Santa Rosa. He knew it hinwlf, but hp had been grateful for the'opportunity of establishing himself therj. Now Richard Dcmpsier wished him to go further down the const, to thp growing town of San Iago. toestablish a brnnrh of his busincFS thero. It was four days' journey by Kteamr. and Alan thought that the best plan "would be to leave Veronica, in hr own comfortable little house, wdth her owa serrants, until he could find a suitable place for her in the new town. TLe news of this separation was like a blftw to Veronica. Sho clung so to Alan that it seemed to him that ,eh Ui no life apart from him. Rnt B5tJ made no demur; everything that ha said was law, to her. She on!y lifted

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A Fascinating Romance by Alan Adair., a pale face, down which tears were streaming, to her husband, and said: "Hut not for long, Alan not for long!" "Not for a week longer than I can help, darling." he said fervently. He, too, would feel the s?paration; he loved her a? one does an affectionate child who idolizes one. She never pretended to be on equality with him, and .-he was quite content to be just loved by him and p"tted; but she loved him with all tin.- force of her nature. She saw that if .she made any difficulties it would only worry him, and so she made none; but Alan could not but nonce mat siie grew thinner day ny day. "Do you mind my going so much, dear little one?" he asked her, on the 0Vtl before Iiis departure. They were sitting on the verandah together, on one of those moonlight nights which always reminded Alan of the first time he had seen Veronica. He. too, was feeling sail. His poetical nature was easily touched, and his wife's qui' f. dignified grief made it more diffi alt to P ave than any noisy demonstration of woe. "Mind it?" she said, her voice vibrating with passion. "Mind it? You do:i' know what it is to me! It is like tearing ul from body!" He hud not thought ehe had real depth within her. "If you feel it like that you will make me miserable." he said. "Will I?" She smibd. as if pleaded rhnt she could make him feel miserable. "You will understand when I say tin: 1 am pleased, won t you, Alan?" "My dear child, it is only a matter of weeks! I don't suppose that I shall have been tL re a fortnight before I shall have found something suitable for you. And then, vou know. I have , . . , arranged fur this house to be taken off I your hands, so that you may not have any trouble." "It is a dear liitle house!" she said, with half a sign. "I shall ahvavs be grateful to it. It is the only place I have ever been happy in." He pinched her cheek. Men do not always understand why a woman likes one house and not another. ' shall '..member that you like a vrandah with flowers round it," he said. "Have you any other likings about a house. Veronica?" "Only that you must be inside it," she laughed, with rather a pitiful attempt to be merry. "Alan, you mist write the instant you arrive, and 'you must not mind if my letters are short; I write such bad letters." "Put mine must be long is that it, little one?" She laughed again and then she stopped. "How many days before you get there, Alan, four or five? And you will be on that horrid black water at night! Oh, 1 hate the thought of it!" He laughed outright at this. "And I a sea captain's son! Why, I love the water, Veronica! I could willingly tpc-nd my life on it!" The very next day he left. Veronica had exercised ail her strength and courage, and she nerved herself to wish him goodbye; but she had dreamed of .the man who she had kugwn as father, and that always alarmed her. Still, though she was nervous, she was no coward, so she kept her fears to herself, only she prayed earnestly tht no harm might come to her beloved, and she showed him a bright face before she left. Alan accomplished his four days' voyage in safety, and wrote home to his wife constantly. As he had predicted, there was no great difficulty in finding a home which would suit Veronica. He only placed the necessities of life in it, knowing tlmt it would please her to make it prety. He got servants, and saw that the place was full of flowers; and though his work engrossed him to the utmost, yet he began to look forward to the pleasant home life he had enjoyed in Santa Rosa. "I must not become selfish," he said to himself. "A wife like Veronica, so loving and yielding, makes, a man selfish; but I will not be that." He thought how he could make her life fuller, by encouraging her to read and to know more of the outside world. "Just now I fill up her life," he thought. "1 may not always be enough for her." And then at last the day for her departure came. He had booked her berth for her in one of the best of the little f-oastiug steamers the. best was bad, as we reckon steamers and then he waited for his wife. The weather was stormy, and ho was rather uneasy. Veronica would sure ly be a bad sailor, and she was not very strong just then. He was so,liitJo nr-ed to think of weather and winds that he was rather astonished to think how nervous he had bexvome. He put it down to his kve for Veronica. Anyhow, he wai down at the quay rirly on the fourtlrmorainif, and was st-ill more uneasy at hearing that there was no news of the steamer. He haunted the quay all the next day, rather to the detriment of his work, and at night he could not slevp. Thoughts of Veronica's fears and sufferings obtruded themselves. Fie blamed himself for leaving her, for not. having returned to fteh h-r. although he could not well have left. She h;d always hatpd the water and f fared if, and he had loved It. The next day howwjK down at the quay again, tryrng to get tome information about the steajner.. In a little while not he alone, but. the owners of the boat, began to get frightened. Thev Coirbl get no news. No other boaf seemed to have seen anything of her. IJy a Ed by there were storWi of sorae of the wreckage of a steamer leizs wisbed aHhrro, and at Hie end of a fortnight the haggard man who spent Ida days at, the quay looking out for the bo.it which Would n.ever return to trio town had to $v;p up all hope. Tk steamer haTl assuredly gnno dfwii, and all hands with it; and Veronica, Dl wife, was lost with the others! Ä Än'd so .ended this brief Tittle eptfxdaw Alan had been v-ery hapjy with nil

gentle wife, and South America was loathsome to him now. lie began to long, with a longing that had been stilled during his brief married life by the drawing out of other parts of his nature, for England and things English. The white, clear moonlight, the scent of the tropical flowers, the soft, dark eyes and liquid accents of the Spanish women, the songs they sang, the very guitars they played, reminded him of his poor Veronica, now lying fathoms deep under the restless sea. Rut as she had never stirred the passionate depth of his nature, so her death never drew out passionate grief. He felt lonely, that was all; and the glowing land, where everything was so beautiful and yet seemed so ephemcial, became distasteful to him, so ho gladly accepted Richard Dempster's offer to manage the export part of his business in London, and to return to English shores. In a short time his South American experiences almost faded out of his mind. Veronica became a sweet memory to him, which moonlight nights freshened. He was very succc-jsful in his work, and in four years tir e had gained a good position for himself. He was ambitious, too, and began reading for the bar, which he found he could do together with his work for the firm. And four years after he left South America saw him respected and much made of as any young man of twentysix might be who is beginning to be known as a man who may become important. (To be continued.)

Debarred from Koj.il I'rcM'Uc. Now and then one hears of society bulbs be in 4 offered large sums and act epting them for presenting an ambitious woman at a drawing room; but money will jiot always secure of of the lord chamberlain's cards of ad-Kii.-io:). n- example, the wife or duv.'.'hter of a retail tradesman, howe r large his business and. however wealthy he may be, is never allowed to enter the royal presence, and two or three other .classes are rigorously bairel. There is also an objection to the wives of compan promoters. Indeed, when there is a drawing room announced the clerks in the lord chamberlain's office have quite an exciting time in inquiring into the position of those desiring to attend. London Chronicle. What W r.reatho. Ir. Edward Smith has made soma careful examinations in regard to tha inhalation of oxygen and the exhalation of. carbon during physical exercise. Allowing the figure 1 to represent the quantity of air inhaled by a man when lying flat, the quantity of air inhaled when he sits is LIS. when ho stands 1.S3, when he walks j one mile an hour l.l'S, four miles an hour 5, and when he runs G miles an hour, it Is 7, In other words, if a man at rest inhales 4S0 cubic inches of air per minute, he Inhales 2,400 cubic inches when ha walks four miles an hour, and 3.C00 cubic inches when he walks six miles an hour. The exhalation of carbon increases proportionately. Now Yorli World. Languages of l'oljuesia. A Hawaiian finds it almost impossible to pronounce any word ending ia a consonant. Mr. Hale, in his Polynesian grammar says: "In all the Polynesian dialects every syllable must terminate in a vowel, and two consonants are never heard without a vowel between them. It is chiefly to this peculiarity that the softness of these languages is to be attributed. The longest syllables have only three letters, and many syllables consist of a single vowel." Again, no s liable, as a general rule, in the Da-ntu family of African speech can, enter in a consonant, but only in vowels. SelN Statesmen Their nrtoon. There is a man in Washington who does a flourishing and piofitable business in collecting the cartoons of statesmen as they appear in the illustrated daily and weekly newspapers of the country. When he gets together an extensive collection of the caricatures of any particular statesman, he invites the victim thereof to view them, and he usually finds an eager enstomrr at once. It makes no difference whether the fortes or foibles of the subject are illustrated in the pictures they go at good prices just tb.9 same. Immensity of China. China and its dependencies have a tcta.1 area of 4.21S.101 square miles and a population of J02,GSCUK)0. In area it includes nearly one-twelfth of the total area of the globe, while its population includes nearly one-third oi all the people in bhe world. As compared with the United Stabrs. tho latter's island possessions being excluded, China has 803,000 more square miles of territory and more than five times as many Inhabitants. The population bf China proper icr square mile i2!)2; that of the state of Rhode Island is 231, and that of Texas six. 1"t1ih Shoe kel hy VHiiUeville. His more or less royal ex-hHrhness, the Prince Kalaminanole, of Hawaii, who is now in Nw York, wtmt alone to see a vaudeville show there to determine if it - was a proper plaoo to take Ids wil'o, and though tho performance was mild enough mom a Now York standpoint, he was greatly shocked and decided it would not do for tho princess. Nafivi-H Want tli C.tnnL Ex-IYesideut Zaldwar, of Salvador, who recently anno to Washington as minister f that country, says tho pooplo down thero want an interocoanlo canal as badly an tho Unitexl Btobw, and they prefer tho NicuHigua routa bsrauao it wpuld givo Salvador an, Atlantic port for its markets, Bomothina which it has rvot at present Jonathan 1.. Heard' 3TMiiorbiL Tho First Church of Northampton, Mas., will, on Juno 22, place a tablet upon the Trails of its PAnrtTLarjr mpiory of Jonathan Edtrarda. trhd Ws pastor of this church1 from 1726 to

(Chicago Letter.) The respective national headquarters of the two great political parties in Chicago are pretty busy places these days. Both were opened on Aug. 1, which is a month earlier than usual in presidential campaigns. It is said that much more money will be spent than in l$rC. This is especially true of tne Democrats. Their treasury is fatter by far tuan it was in ISO'k With each succeeding election it has become easier and easier for the managers on both siues to use money bounteously. This docs not mean that there is to be a wholesale debauchery of voters. All kinds of politicians agree that the two national committees had at least $5.'00,000 to spend in the fight four years ago, and the same authorities are unanimous in declaring .-at the two committees will have fully as much this year. For every dollar that the national committees spend it is a conservative estimate that the stare committees of the two parties will spend four, anl this will make up the total of $23.000,000 that the election will cost. To show where so much money goes, a study of the eot of campaign speeches alone Is very instructive. Each national committee spends at least ?.O.Ouo for speeches, and the täte committees spend 10 times as much more. This Is one Item of 000,000. The Republican national committee this year will send out 2,500 speakers from the New York headquarters and 3,000 speakers from the headquarters iu Chicago. The Demo crats will send out an equal number. These speakers cost on an average $110 a week, that sum including salaries to the spellbinders and an extra allowance of $S a day. Some of the campaign speakers receive salaries as high as $2e0 a week, while others aro content with $25 a week and their expenses. The average cost of the speakers to tho committee is $110 a week, and they are on the stump eight ScrxJias Queen. orvru Vv w t - ' ' ' . a This is Queen Draga, formerly rlaiu Mmc. Draga Maschin, though not The MOO'RJiSH OLFNBOAT HAANI. The smallest navy in tho wtn.rM ia that of the KuUan of Morocco. It consists of only one ship, tha gunboat (Hassan, which until recently was tn && unique position of being a fighting craft without weapons. Its crew'flra3 armed, though the boat Itsett carried

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weeks. While the national committee of each party thus will have 5,300 speakers out, the various st;?o committees will have 10 times as many more on the stump. The salaries of speakers engaged by the state committees may be less than those paid by the national managers, but the state committees have to pay the rental of all the buildings in which campaign meetings are hell. This item adds tremendously to the total. One of the most expensive items in the campaign next to the speakers is that of printing and station- ry. For tins each national committee spends ab least $o00.'t0. The number and size of documents sent out have increased with each campaign, until this year it is expected that the M.-Kinley and the Bryan managers each will send out no less than lU'hO't'j.e.i.) documents. Before the GarhVld-IIaiu o k campaign was half over the Republicans and Democrats had sent out more than 12,0'.000 dominants, and this style of campaigning has become more popular with each presidential contest. The bulk of this matter is s--nt by express to the chairmen of the various state committfes lor !..- trUMtion. A great deal of it goes free, being franked from "Washington. S:ee. lies delivered in congress by Republicans and Democrats co-:stitute a large Gihbs. Hanna. A CONFERENCE OF LEADERS AT part of the campaign matter, and Republicans and Democrats alike take advantage of this opportunity to get to the voters speeches favorable to their side of tins contest. Each national committee sends out 3.000,000 buttons and 5,000,000 lithographs, all of which are distributed through the state chairmen ok' the two parties. Senator Hanna and Senator Jones, the respective cnairmen of the two great political parties, are organizing machinery for the? campaign of l!)o0 as complete and substantial as though they expected never to do anything else but elect presidents. 'If they were organizing hundred-year pr sidential plain of face. Sh2 is also a woman of beautiful figure. Young King Ferdinand married he a short time ago against the wishes of his royal parents. Now the wives of diplomats at his court at Belgrade give her the cut direct, and behind her back say 1111pretty things about her. Grotulh of the Hctton Industry. The shell or button industry on tho upper Mississippi river is growing to enormous proportions. The crew of the (Jen. Barnard, a Mississippi freighter, have had occasion to observe this. They report that on a -recent down trip between La Crosse, Wis., and Clarkesville, Mo., they counted H 27 men and women in the main channel of the river engaged in getting out shells from the stream. About a year ago they counted only 71 C. Of course there are a great many in the sloughs bell md the islands, etc., that were mvt

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clubs they could not ! e more thorough and systematic. The national chairman maps out the work and divides givat responsibilities among his im mediate assistants. Ihey in turn dl vide their work so that a (lo,:rr. or 20 ' or 100 men will look after tho details, These men in turn assign important tasks to hundreds of party wo.hcrs tinder them. After the campaign is well under way th-- minor workers report to their superiors a- a Keut'-n mt in the army n ports to his capt tin. The captain in turn repo-r.-- to his :aa2 y, the major to his co". wi. a:. l the j olon.'l to hi n- ral. -lator Hanna or S' nator Joie s. as tho c"so may be. When a si''i:.f ion a:;.-. s down the line that threatens tro-ible Senator Har.na or Senator Jo-. hears of it and devises some plan fo die rting the danger. lie then directs his subordinates to see tli at the id an is tiid and requires full explications for failure. While- the nntb vil chairma n are very busy de-vising phu.s for succ .s, they a!.-o hn l time to ruis the bulk of the campaign I'm. is 'J he lb-leg;! te tO Otl K-rs the a-;-: or s. j ) :-n lit- r: ; ing speaker. jr- send in i: ret r, ! tu re engaging and receiving ealhu-s and ansv.-. ring corre-.-"1--tnder.ee and Mudyiag r-port n conditions in the varioa- sta; s. Soeakers are told th" . ab-'-;-?.- mi Bliss. REPUBLICAN HEADQUARTERS. which they may talk, and they are directed as to how they shall handle their subjects. If it is found that a certain line of argument is received with disfavor in a certain state the speakers in that state aro warned to shift their arguments in accordance with new instructions. No feature of tho campaign is watched by the national chairmen more closely than the preliminary and final canvass of the voters. Both parties will soon have under way a canvass of every voting precinct. This will show in a general way how mrny of the voters favor Bryan and how many favor McKinley. It will also counted. They estimate that no less than n.000 people earn a living gathering shells. Just l.tt low Dut Uipie 1L) were counted in one patch. Button fattorics have been established in every town along the river and in Muscatine there are twenty-two. F;v or six steamboats of 1m) tons capacity do nothing else but tow shells. Few men of his age were so aile and athletic as secretary Hay. lie is past ;0, but still indulges in all sorts of exercises, including a fast walk every afternoon. Every morning at 7 o'clock he undergoes massage tieatnvt at the 'nan. is of a skilled SweJisu operator. The Russian enrperor has contributed the sum of "l.tuO rubles from his own pocket toward the study of the flora of European Russia, Siberia, Turkestan, the Caucasus and Crimea. T 1 rryw e mmm, i-i ARMAMENT OF THE IIASSAN1. Ua.sani is a converted merchantman of about 1,000 tons register, biiilt ol iron and EtcfJ, and chiefly used in conveying the 6iiltan's soldiers from point to point atong tho Moorish coast, as they do not alwajs dare to travel overland.

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I show who of the ot. : s a-j doubtful, j who are incline! to ft vor Bryan and, j who Iran toward M K:r.hv. Tha takinj of this canva.-s clous sum of mo;:-y, m a n a c e r s m v. :-1 ) : . e 0.-.13 a tremanbut the party it in order to i gauge th- outlook. 71. y to in j:;covi er where their o-. :: !:?.e.s are ikest and where thnv- of th-nr adv.. :.- ir!e3 are strongest. Wnile sups are l-::ng t::k:h to insure : ss r-.t or:': j-Z.nt and to avt u t di.-:. :; at anot-, r, cud and llnal (a:i.!s is i" gun. T.hi usually i corupb t-d t wo weeks ber-jro tie eleitlon. By that time a 1 ;r? proportion cf the doubtful voVrs h .vi an !, i :. it a canvass v. hi. h tri lair clearness c .-, .... , . 1 3 I ' 1 probable r again th. the eb t:on. On e ! grs of :e parties s an ii for th port ant weak points zt wh dec-idin Oi work in the closing days of the campaign.. Some novel ca gn ruthols will two parlies 'his n T' -eirt ...1 n v t t i -i.? year. The lb-publicans air-ady have adopted the plan of .ndiog out a large number of phonograph-, whi-.-h 'vi 11 be usid in small places. FIop. nt party .-p.- a hers, like rc presents -ive Dolliver of Iowa and Representa tive Dike of p. ut viva r.ia have Manley. The Democrats, on the other hand, will make free use of stereopticons. James K. McGuire. rlnlrmaa of th Democratic state committee of Na York, already has arranged to glvi Democratic stt reoptb on exhibition all over the state, lie will send out these shows on a schedule in every respect similar to that made by a theatrical manager who puts a show 'oa the road." The Republicans also will use flags and maps in novel ways. They will send out thousands of mapi of the world, showing the American Hag floating over Hawaii, Philippine and Porto Rico. Gen. Vcn Lcsscl. Commander of the rman Land Forces in China. Heath's Successor. William M. Johnson of Hackensaclc, N. president of the state senate ol New Jcv.soy, and a lo.uiir.g lawyer ol the state, has been feadercd and haa accepted the olhYe of first assistant ivwtmaster general, made vacant bj tlu resign.Mioii o: Perry S. ricath. Mr. Johnson was born in Newton. N. .7., mi IS 17. His f it ic.u-. Whit held S. Jol.n--o.n. was -rut.wy of state far New )-r?r f ri 11 1n1 to ISn:,. Th pon was graduated from Princeton In M".7. Ho was admitted to tie lür W. M. Johnson. in 1S70. After prart h-lng for fonj ycrs In TrNit-i,he moved to II acte cnsac.k, having martie.i on-? of thi most charming cf tTic Trenton twills a Miss White. He I3 counsel for thi estate of vniinm V-lter Phelps, an has many other great interests la hi care. The seedtthat never falls. Suc4.

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