Pike County Democrat, Volume 24, Number 13, Petersburg, Pike County, 18 August 1893 — Page 3

THREE LITTLE PIRATE& Merc are three little piratee,'over the way. Active, relentless and bold: Jackie, the leader, sweet little Meg, And Dickie boy. three years old. it watch them each day as they work at their play. And I wonder at all their misdeeds: See them worry each victim, enforce each demand. As piratic necessity leads. But the crowning event in a record of crime, ^n»eso pirates so happy and gay, la a charge and a shout and a man put to rout With “What have you brought us to-dayf" ■These three little pirates, over the way. So active, relentless and bold, (Never lose any chance, never waste any time, As they gather piratical gold. dThtlr gold is their pleasure and frolic and fun. Happiness claimed as their right: ■'Tls the tribute they take, ’tis the booty they love. And they lory oa all in their might; But the greatest event* which they never forego. These three little pirates so gay, Is the desperate run as ev'ning comes on, And “What have you brought us to-day?" As in days long by. that we read of In books, <= When pirates infested the seas— Tho weak, peaceful merchantman, seeking a port, Paid tributo to lust such as these; ;Sonow the fond father, weary of work, As he comos to his haven of rest. Pays these pirate demands in all that he has. And knows that tho trouble is blest. •Tis the happy reward that kills ev’rj care, And makes hardest labor but play. When they meet him with glee, this piratical threo. With “What have you brought us to-day? ’ And often I wonder, over the way. If these pirates, bo active and bold, Will !;eep an account of the tribute they take And repay it when ho has grown old. This tributo of labor and watching and love. Of struggle and sorrow and pain That he pays without murmur, perhaps does not know, And offers again and again. "Yes, ! know that they will; they arc sturdy and true. And,when ho is aged and gray, Be ho ever so sad they will make his heart glad With tho lovo they will bring him each day. —James Paddock, In Detroit Free Press.

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•ICopyrUihteU, 1801, hy S. S. Morton, and published by special arrangement.] CHAPTER XVII.— CONTINUED. “Immediately after our engagement -we were separated. Business called him home to New York, and mamma and I returned to Boston. Then fell upon me the first bitter sorrow of ray life. I cannot tell you the story that was brought to me—the cruel, cruel story that forbade me ever to think of him again! I tried to believe it was false, but so fair -an aspect of truth did it wear that I was forced to give it credence. Overwhelmed -with grief, anger and humiliation on ■ discovering that I had been deceived, I acted foolishly and hastily, my one thought being to sever the bond that had so suddenly grown hateful to me. I ■sent the engagement ring back to him with the simple request to be released from a promise which I was no longer able to fulfill. Mamma was ill at the time—too ill for me to tell her then of this trouble; and that very day herphy--sician had ordered a sea voyage for her, as the only means of prolonging her life. Our arrangements were hurriedly made, and in two days more we were on the ocean, bound for the south of Trance. This may have been the reason • that no word from Mr. North ever reached me; at all events, I received no answer to my message, and could only infer from his silence that my release •was granted unconditionally. “We remained in France until poor mamma's death last summer; then I returned to Boston, at the request of the administrators, to remain there until the estate could bo settled. In the meantime I had learned the truth in regard to the rumor that had caused me to break the engagement, the fatality that had linked his name falsely and unjustly to the story of another man's wrong-doing. I was thankful for his -vindication, even though I might never look upon his face again; and this I ^scarcely expected to do. 1 saw nothing ■of him, heard nothing of him, until, on

4 1 ' ■■ “ a. CRIMIN’A. I*!11 •the very first day of my visit here, we met as strangers.” The resolute voice died away here in ■something very like a sob. There was .silence for a few moments; then Mrs. .Maynard said, quietly, though with evident emotion: “It is natural, perhaps, that after the manner of your dismissal—sudden, peremptory and without any explanation whatever—Mr. North should now give jyou nothing but a stranger's greeting. Remember, he had sufficient occasion -for resentment, being innocent of that -of whkffi you believed him to be guilty, and perhaps wholly unconscious of the supposed fault for which you con- - .detuned him unheard.” “Oh, I know!” interrupted Miss Hilary, with a i-Jiarp accent of pain, that wounded liks impatience, in her voice. “There is no defense for my course; I was hasty, Irrational, unjust, and I de- • serve to suffer all the consequences. It isn’t that—it is the evidence of hi» ■fickleness; his treachery, his deliberate double-dealing—oh, don’t you undei«tand me, Mis. Maynard? Believe m«,

H was iao jealous curiosity on my part, but I could no^help seeing—” “1 understand you, my dear Myra," said Mrs. Maynard, calmly, as the distressed girl paused here, at a loss for words to continue. “You rightly divined that Mr. North was my avowed suitor; but, happily for me, .not yet accepted!" “I have no right to complain of that," interposed Mies Hilary, her pretty head lifted, her eyes bright with girlish pride. “It is not strange that ho should admire you, love you, as his every glance and tone and action revealed that ho did; why, he seemedscarcoly conscious of my existence, Ip5 wholly absorbed was he in you! And to me the strangest part of it all was that he betrayed no recollection of the past, no resentment toward me, no consciousness that we had ever met before. This pained me, but I accepted it as only what I ought to expect, and I resolved to go away as soon as I could find any reasonable pretext for cutting short my visit here, and henceforth bury out of sight that dead past in which he bore a part. It was only when he looked at me as he did to-day, as a lover might, you know, that 1 saw the depth of his duplicity; and I think now that I hate him for being so false to us both!” Again there was a little silence, so controlled that no hint would have been given a casual observer g>f the tragical emotions that were contending in the hearts of these two women. It was Mrs. Maynard that spoke tfext, in a cold, hard, relentless tone: ‘•We both have great cause to congratulate ourselves, my dear Myra, on having discovered Mr. North's true character before it was within his power to wreck the life-long happiness of either. I hesitate to tell you the truth that has recently forced itself upon my

bqnef. The color died quickly from Miss Hilary's face again; there was a vague alarm expressed in her trembling tones as she responded hurriedly: [‘•Oh, let me know the worst, Mrs, Maynard! What is lie? What has he dbr.e?” ■‘It would lie nothing,” continued Mrs. Maynard, bitterly, “for him to vacillate between two fancies—to alternate and hesitate in his choice between yburself and me—” “Oh, dear Mrs. Maynard!” came in tpnes of whispered protest from the white-faced listener. “It would be nothing,” repeated Mrs. Maynard in the same hard, bitter tone, “that his conscience would reproach him for, or that society would seriously condemn: therefore, this phase of his conduct does not materially surprise toe. Hut i am surprised to find that this man. whoJs habitually so watchful of his own inffrests, so careful of his own safety, so jealous of his own comfort and happiness, should allow his interest in any matter to carry him to the length of becoming a criminal in the eyes of the law." “A criminal!” Miss Hilary’s white lips repeated the words breathlessly; then for a brief space refused to speak again. At last she asked tremulously; “What crime has he committed?” “Oh, a very gentlemanly one, indeed,” returned Mrs. Maynard with quiet sarcasm. “It is nothing worse, my dear Myra, than forgery. -I have already told you briefly of tft}e recent will contest in which I had so great an interest at stake; I did not tell you, as I feel in duty bound to do now, that I suspected who it was that forged that will. By his own tacit admission I know that it was Mr. North!” The calmness was all gone from voice and manner before these last words were fairly uttered. A woman with less pride would have broken down completely; Mrs. Maynard sat with compressed lips and tightly interlaced fingers, holding herself under a rigid control. She did not look at the girl who was sitting so silently on the hassock at her side; but she was vitally conscious of all the grief and amazement that Myra Hilary’s face so plainly revealed. The fairy castle in the grate suddenly fell into sparkling ruins, sending out a flash of brilliant flame that illuminated the twilighted drawing-room for a moment with the glow of a strong, red light. Then by degrees the illumination subsided into; fitful gleams, playing with weird effect of light and shadow over the dim room, and giving a transient glow of color to the two white faces that were turned silently toward the tire. It seemed hours to Myra Hilary, in the blank wretchedness that kept her own lips dumb, before Mrs. Maynard spoke again; but it was in reality only moments, a space easily filled by the slow striking of the great clock in the hall and the tardy response of the drawing-room clock, whose silvery chime fell tinkling upon the silence. As if waiting only for this interruption to cease, Mrs. Maynard resigned as soon as the last stroke died

away: “\ou can imagine with what a shock -this rcvelgjion fell upon me—tills dreadful suspicion which his own words and manner first suggested to my mind, and then tacitly, but unmistakably, confirmed. It was difficult for me to realize what I was nevertheless forced to believe. And then I blamed myself far more than him, for I feared that it was my eagerness to secure that fortune that had led him on to take this fatal and desperate step. You know what reason I have to wish for an independent fortune; you have seen with your own eyes the unhappiness of my life here, under the same roof with the man who has hated me with a causeless, insane hatred from the day of my marriage to Us brother, and who, during the four years of my widowhood, when the conditions of my husband’s will made my inheritance of the pittance that he allowed me dependent upon my • continued residence here, has abused to the utmost his invalid's privilege to make existence a burden to me. ' Can you wonder that I saw a welcome release in the ehance of possessing that cUldless oid woman’s wealth, wUch she had conditionally promised me over and over again should be mine? And it was for this, I thought, to secure to me the prize that I coveted no eagerly, that

he had committed this deed! Yon can perhaps imagine the agony of selfreproach that this thought brought to me. Then by degrees the scope and possibilities of his motives were revealed to me; my perception of his character and his capabilities widened, liy a wonderful and unexpected turn of the wbapl of fortune, the missing niece and heir-at-law was discovered; the proofs of her identity and whereabouts fell into his hands. Instantly his active sympathies were all transferred from ,8jy interests to Annie Dupont’^. The desire to ingratiate himself with the successful heiress would be perhaps a natural and sufficient motive for this change in him; but that another and still stronger motive exists, I have be? come reasonably convinced. And this; my dear Myra, is the keynote of my warning to you.” “To me?” Miss Hilary repeated the words incredulously with a little start of amazement. “To me? Why, Mrs. Maynard, what have 1 to do with this matter?” ‘"Perhaps I can satisfy you that you have a very important part to play in this interesting little drama,” returned Mrs. Maynard, with a rather forced smile. “1 date Mr. North's sudden interest in you, which you yourself noticed for the first time, to a certain day this week when we drove by the Clement house and saw him about to step into a carriage that was waiting there. With him was a man who had called here an hour before, and left the house in company with Mr. North; the mysterious man through whom all the recent discoveries about Annie Dupont > were made. Mr. North had just had a private interview with this man, and doubtless had heard his story. And, as we drove slowly past, it was you that absorbed his whole attention; you at whom he gazed with such rapt interest that he did not see me at all. I bowed to him as usual; he paid no heed; his eyes were fixed upon your face, while a strange excitement and agitation were apparent in his whole

/ </ " / m ^ MYRA CI.A9PKD HER HANDS. manner. I did not see him again until he called this morning’. During the few moments ^that we were alone in the conservatory he told me that Annio Dupont had been discovered, and that he should soon be in possession of all the evidence necessary to establish her legal position and rights; told me exultingly, as if he took a cruel pleasure in taunting me with my defeat. He little knew that I had divined the truth, the secret that he was so jealously guarding, that he had discovered Annie Dupont under my own roof!” Again Myra started with visible amazement. There was no clearly defined perception of Mrs. Maynard's meaning in her mind, yet the words had been spoken with too much significance to fail utterly in impressing her with their suggestive trend. She repeated them mechanically, with ▼ague speculation in her tones: “Under your own roof?” “In you, my dear Myra,” continued Mrs. Maynard, her white lips smiling faintly as she returned the girl’s inquiring gaze. “Don’t ask me for proof. I know it; partly by intuition and partly by an endless chain of trifles that would vanish into thin air if I were to attempt to put them into words, but which are nevertheless as convincing to my mind as the'most palpable evidence could be. I cannot be mistaken; I feel, I know, that it is so!” “I will not ask for proofs, Mrs. Maynard,” said Miss Hilary, still bewildered and incredulous. “I will simply ask you how this can be true. Oh, it seems utterly impossible! I cannot believe it!” she added quickly, waving her hands toward the fire with a resolute gesture of rejectiop. “My dear Myra, it shows a very limited knowledge of life to say that anything is impossible,” returned Mrs. Maynard, with a slow shake of her head. “But for my familiarity with your early history, I might have considered my present theory improbable, to say the least; as it is, I soe no reason to doubt it. You were very young when Mrs. Hilary adopted you, were you

“So young',” answered Myra, with a little break in her voice, “that I never realized that she w*s not my own mother.” “Did she ever tell you”—Mrs. Maynard’s voice was slightly unsteady as she asked this question, while all her nerves were tense with anxiety—“anything about your parents?” “Nothing, except that they were dear friends 'of hers, and were both dead. But, my dear Mrs. Maynard”—Myra clasped her hands and laid them on the arm of Mrs. Maynard's chair while she looked earnestly into that lady’s face— “if there were such a history as this connected with me, I should have learned something of it long ago. I cannot believe anything so wildly improbable.” “But, if it be true,, what then, Myra?” questioned Mrs. Maynard quietly, a singular little smile on her face as she looked directly into the girl’s eyes. “You will be a rich woman; rich enough, perhaps, to hold the allegiance of this self-lover, who has at last chosen between us. Oh, how bitter that sounds! But it was the dreai of seeing you sac

| riflced to his mercenary aelflshneaa IkM j forced me to speak these words of warn- ■ ing and enlightenment. My responsible . ity ends here. Yon are free to dAa ' with him as you think best, knowing all that he,has done and is capable oi yet doing if his selfish ends require it/ Miss Hilary rose quickly from the lotu 1 hassock and stood facing Mrs. Maynard, her hands clasped, her head thrown ; back, her eyes glowing like stars. She was very pale but perfectly composed, and when she spoke her voice was firm and free irom the slightest trace of excitement. “I am grateful to you, Mrs. Maynard," she said, “deeply grateful for the kind- ! ness that prompted you to speak as you have done. 1 am scarcely able yet to ; realize all that you have told me; I only j know that it is very, very dreadful! i But I can never think of Mr. North I again except with feelings of utter abi horrence. Even gratitude would be impossible, if what you have suggested should prove to be true. I would forego any good fortune, rather than receivedt at his hands! Can we not let him know, | Mrs. Maynard,, how plainly we see all his wickedness? IIow utterly we condemn him? Need we go on in this preI posterous way, affecting to countenance him when we know him to be so un- | worthy?” I 8 “No!” exclaimed Mrs. Maynard, with sudden resolution. “We will act this farce no longer. " The very next time ■ he comes here we will denounce him as I he deserves.” Early the following morning, how- ; ever, instead of a call from the perfidious North, Mrs. Maynard received this ■ hurried note: j “Mr Dear Mrs. Maynard: “Before this reaches you I shall bo en route i to Charleston, on business intimately concernj ing yourself. When I return I will report to \ you in person, faithfully yours, ar “A. North." | TO BE CONTINUED. J !

PLANTING NEW FORESTS. Pennsylvania Woods Cnt Away to Form Coal-Mine Props. In the coal regions of Pennsylvania nearly every piece of available timber has been cut away to form props for the archways and for various other uses in connection with coal mining, says Meehan’s Monthly. Nearly every stick and every piece of plank used in these regions how all have to be brought from a distance. The Girard estate has endeavored to solve the problem £y making some small plantations as a test. Eight years ago a large number of larches and Scotch pines were planted; plow furrows were simply driven through the underbrush growing up where the old forest had been 1 cut away and one-year-old seedling | larches and pines planted. The larches I now average some seventeen or eighteen feet high and are particularly healthy and thrifty. There can be no doubt, from these experiments, thait forest planting in these regions would be an undoubted success. It may be noted that the larch was the most popular of forest trees in the early planting on the western prairie, but the leaves were attacked by a fungus; the timber, therefore, did not properly mature. It finally fell into disfavor for forest planting. On these early experiments the larch i has suffered lunch in reputation, but it haust be remembered that the western prairies furnish unfavorable conditions for the larch. It is a mountain tree, one thriving in comparatively poor soils, and the low altitude and rich earth of the western prairies was entirely foreign- to its nature. Girard planting* are some fourteen hundred or fifteen hundred feet above the level of the sea; these are the conditions of its own home, and the remarkable healthiness of these trees show that they appreciate the position in which they find themselves.

A PREHISTORIC HABIT. Dried Herbs Did Duty for Tobacco Dons Before Raleigh’s Time. The habit of smoking dried herbs in pipes is evidently of enormous antiquity, for both in the British islands and in many parts of Europe and Asia, to say nothing of America, the supposed native land of smoking, pipes of soap stone and red clay, which could not hava been used for any other purpose than the burning of some form of fragrant weed,have been discovered in graves and famuli which date fai beyond the dawn of history. With regard to these islands, Pearson's Weekly thinks there is not the slightest doubt that smoking was practiced long before tobacco was introduced by Dawkins and italeigh. In, the Historic of Plantes, published in 1578, occurs the passage: “The perfume of dried leaves (of eoltsfoote) laid upon quicke coles taken into tho mouth of a funnell or tunnell helpeth such as are troubled with shortness of winde and fetch they res breath thicke and often,” This points only to the medicinal use of the practice; but it there were any doubt as to the antiquity of smoking for pleasure among our ancestors it would be disposed of by the following statement of Dr. Petrie, one of the most learned of Irish antiquarians. He says: “Smoking pipes of bronze are frequently found in ! our Irish tumuli or sepulchral mounds of the most remote antiquity. On the monument of Donough O’Brien, king of Thommond, who was killed in 1287, j and interred in the abbey of Corcum- ! rae, in the county of Clare, he is repre- | sen ted in the usual recumbent posturo with the short pipe or dhudeen in hia mouth.” _ Too Modeit. He—Give me a kiss. She—You should be ashamed of your self. “Ashamed of what?” “Of asking-ior a kiss when you have : such a chance to take one,”—Texas 8 if tings. _ A Frightful Situation. First Anarchist—Vot vas dere madder mil; Schimmelspeck? Second Anarchist—His vife vill gif him to a boliceman ohf he don’d com-) home; und ohf he comes home she vill make him vork!—Puck. Owen 1,700 different kinds at sous are known.

Castoria la Dr. Samuel Pitchei •nd Children. It contains neither Oplu other Narcotic substance. It Is a luu for Paregoric, Drops. Soothing It is Pleasant. Its guarantee Bullions of Mothers. Castoria dcstrors feverishness. Castoria prevents vomiting Sour cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. Castoria roller* fettling troubles, cures constipation and flatulency Castoria assimilates the food, regulates the Stomiufl and bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep, toria is the Children’s Panaeea—ih > Mother’s

Castoria. ■ Cnctcrta is an excellent medicine for children. Mothers have repeatedly told me of its ' good effect upon their children.” Da. O. C. Oaoeon, Lowell, lU*. .«* Castoria Is tha bout mroady for children of which 1 am acquainted. I hope too day U not far distant when mother* will consider thereat interest of their children, and use Castoria instead of thevariouaquaclc nostrumswhich are destroying their loved ones, by forcing opium, morphine, soothing syrup and other hurtful Menu down their throats, thereby sanding them to prematura graves." Da. J. r. KmcHSLon, 'Conway, Ark.

Castoria. " Castor! a Is to well adapted to child! m (had I reootnmfad Istueuperiortoauypiesrlpltos known to toe.” H. A. Aeows-'t,! L Ik, 111 So. Oxford Si., BrooWy i, Jf. T. “ Our pliysfcians in the chlldrot “s department hare spoken highly of tholr U|wi enco In tleir outside practice wit l ( astasia, end although we only hare aiDCic ear medical, supplies what is known is regular products, yet we are free to ooofee that the merits of Castoria has won us to Wok wttt favor upon it.” Chits* Hosnraa am Dts retains. Bouton. Mass Aixm C Sums, JVaa. t

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