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CHAPTER XIV. (Continued.) But now Jeanne's tongue was loosened. snJ her fears poured out: "That is what I was certain that Monsieur would know. for she had changed her dress and without doubt gone out. Her furs are gone, and her hat and walking boots. I found her diner dress on the floor when I came up from supper, an hour ago." An icy hand seemed to clutch at Stewart's heart. For that one instant th? thought that she had gone with Norman flashed through his brain, but he shook it off like a vnomous reptile. "My poor darling!" he muttered to himself; she might have trusted me to take care of her; she would hare, I think, if it hadn't been for my madness the other day! By - ! If harm comes to her. someone shall pay for itl" lie pulled himself together, body and nind, to face the present emergency. The indoors light and warmth grew insufferable to him, whea Mathilde was out alone somewhere in the winter night. Ie spoke quietly: Is there anything else taken or changec? And h? maid took courage from the steady purpose in his face, and answered quickly : A little jewel-box has gone from its place, and a small traveling-bag." "That's right !" and she saw by her master's face that his news was not unwelcome. "Now, listen. Jeanne," he went on impressively. You are a good, faithful oul, I am sure, and I shall trust yoa. I aa going out, and may be gone all night : but whatever happens, until you hear from me, stay by thw rooms. Hare food fires, hot water, soup and brandy ready, and a bed heated. Get one of the other women to stay with you. If his voice seemed to choke "if Madame hould come back while I am away, see that she has every care. Send for a doctor or anything you need." Stewart's next movements were managed with incredible rapidity. The old butler and housekeeper were given confidential order?; the men from the stables sent far. The only momentary check was when his man could only lay hands on one glove. "They were here when I went down to upper, sir." . . "Never mind, any pair will do," and Stewart was- o3 to the servants hall, where the men were gathered. In a few curt words be explained that Mrs. James Stewart had gone out, and, it was feared, had missed her way, or met with some accident. A groom was to drive quickly with a light trap to the station, and make inquiries. The coachman was to follow with k brougham, in case she should wish to return in it. The other men were to take lanterns, and in couples search the rarious avenues that led through Orkwell woods, he himself being one of the number. With ready alacrity the menwere scattering, whea Stewart's man came in. "Please, sir, Jeanne says that No mid is not in the sitting-room, a'nd I've hunted and whistled all over the house for him. I thought you might like to take him." A ttraegs spasm crossed Stewart's face. Was the thought so hard that a dog should share the darkest hour from which he was excluded? "Thanks." he said gently. - "I dare say that he has followed Mrs. Stewart." Action brought some relief, and it was a greater relief still to be sharing the darkness and coldness of the night, instead of being comfortable within. How long they tramped through the woods Stewart never very clearly knew, but it seemed as though several nights of suspense had been compressed into the time before the distant howl of a dog broke on the stillness. Stewart grasped the keeper's arm. "Tom, can it be Nomad?" he said. "It's some dog in distress; a terrier, I should say ; and it's down the Coombe Bottom road, sir. Swiftly Stewart plunged through the brushwood for a few moments, then paused again. "Whistle, Tom, I can't!" The howl was changed to an excited bark, and they rushed on. Out on the hillside path, the bark quite Bear now, and then they instinctively Blackened their steps a bit, aril Stewart, with a shaking hand, turned the hntefn nto that dark mass that lay across his path on Mathilde's outstretched form, n the dog crouching against her. With wild ytps of joy, Nomad recognized his master, but the noise failed to arouse Mathilde. While the keeper held the lantern, ßtewart rubbed lips and temples with brandy, felt a faint fluttering of the keart, and rubbed on with greater hope. Back from the land of shadows she came, to find her head pillowed on his breast. Lis arm around her, his voice murmuring, broken with its passion of .tenderness. "My darling, my own darling! Her eyelids fluttered and lifted, and she saw his face in the lantern light a It bent above her. "Jem!" she murmured, and a smile of perfect content was on her face. Tom, the keeper, was a married man of a few months standing, and he fairly blubbered over the sight; but he was practical. "I'd better blow my whistle for help, sir, he suggested. It was needed, for presently, when Mathilde was able to whisper enough words to tell that her knee was hurt, it was clear that it would no easy task to carry her back up that rough hillside in the dark. It w&s done though, for blankets sed polos rad been brought for such an emergency, and though she once or twice lost consciousness from pain, the little band at last reached Ork well. As they neared the door, already open for their heralded approach. Stewart felt a faint pressure on the hand that held Mathilde's as he walked beside the extemporized litter. "What is it, darling?" he whispered. Yo;i won't let them come near me?' "Never! You shall never one of them nain." "Bat once more she whispered anxiously : "But have I any right to be here? I thought I .-hould only come back dead. "Thank Cod. you come back to me alive. You corae home your home for life." And. reassured, she let herself sink back inro shadowlans! rgain. The outspoken country doctor, a clever man :n his way, :n.sitid to Stewart on a chetrful view. "A feverish cold, and a shock to the nerves snfj.-ient to kill a weaker woman. he s.'id. unknowing th. sting his words contained; "out I can see that she has a munificent phys;c:ue, and we'll pull her Urbich, none the worse for it, I trust. I a nx t say tnru lire n-auiiji ui the knee-cap wou't be tedious, but there are so many wor.se things than tediousness in th world. Plca-e Cod, there are xaany days of strength ahead of htr, while there is Sir James " and he breathed au bontvc sigh for an old friend. Tiie hue winter's uav.n had c..ne without Slew art's having thought of rest, but Le dl I g-i near ta public rooms of the L.ris. until he had heard two carriar'S driving away. S "5i after he bad breakfasted in lis jwn room, three notes were brought to him:A curt renunciation of all future acquaintanceship from Norman ; a lengthy, dust-shaking-oS epistle from his ... i . i: Ä r

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earts a o o o o o o o o JOHN Leslie Publishing Housa si.ter-in-?aw, wherein her own virtues were set forth in striking contract to the sins of himself and his wife, and a prophetic denunciation of the sorrow in store for Orkwcll under regime. The first smile that had been on Stewart's face for many hours appeared as, reading on, he found that Norman and Miss Fearon were included in the general commination service, as having been playing their own game in the attack on Mathilde, with a view to diverting Sir James' disposable property in their united direction. Lastly, Nejlie's letter was a long and incoherent lament aver her own treachery under Norman's influence; over her affection for him and his cold-hearted abandonment of her as soon as he found the scheme wa useless. She ended with a pathetic acknowledgment that she did not dare to meet him now, but still hoped for his future forgiveness. "A pretty lot," Stewart said to him self; "but they matter 'nothing now," and he turned back to graver anxieties. But the doctor was right; Mathilde had a magnificent constitution, and grad ually she emerged from that vague feverland back into her own personality once more. It was pleasant in that first weakness to lie and watch the nurse and Jeanne moving about the door, or the flicker of the firelight on the walls and on bowls of roses, and then to doze oil into slumber again. Stewart had from the first quietly brushed aaide any professional objections to his presence, and established his right to slip In and sit beside her, so that sev eral times she woke to see him sitting there, and grew used to the sight. He spoke but little to her at first, but there was the old feeling of protection, and of strength in his strength, the latter estrangement seeming to have faded away into unreality. CHAPTER XV. It was gradually and guardedly that Mathilde was allowed to learn the pres ent state of affairs. On a dark, wintry afternoon, when with great care she had been lifted on & sofa, with bright-tinted cushions and down quilt heaped about her, and wrap ped in the daintiest of pink silk, lacetrim mc J tea-gowns, there was an un doubted air of convalescence over the scene, which aroused her energy. Mathilde looked at her husband, who sat staring into the fire, and was encouraged by a new placidity which she saw ia his face. lie was no longer a man at war with the world. Her voice was a bit tremulous as it first broke he silence. "lou have never told me a word about Flora." He turned on her a scrutinizing glance, then, apparently satisfied with her aspect, demanded lazily : "Weil, what do you want to know about her?" "Oh, everything! What she said and did that night; what she has done and said since." "That's a large order. Unfortunately, I cannot gratify your second demand, for I have not seen her since she left ts house the morning after your accident." "Left the house ! Oh, please don't tease me, but tell me altout it." And then Stewart did tell her, very gently, the story of the end of that event ful evening. Mathilde's tears fell fast as she heard Sir James last words, and of his present death in life. "Oh, I am sorry ! I am sorry !" she sobbed. "I would give so much if we had never deceived him." "So would I !" he said In a low voice. adding presently: "Thank God, be never understood what that woman said, or knew what we had done." Mathilde still sobbed, and Stewart, afraid of her agitation, said : "Now, you must be good or I shall not tell you about the rest." "The rest?" she asked vaguely. "Yes. Only think- of your having a romantic love affair under your nose without your ever detecting it." And then he told, with a touch of humor, of poor Nellie's disappointing schemes and affections. "Nellie?" she n urmared. "Nellie? But I thought" "What did you think?' he asked gravely, almost sternly. There came no answer and the silence was heavy between them. "What did you think?" again he repeated the question with greater emphasis; then suddenly leaning forward and catching her hands : "Good heavens ! You never could have been mad enough to tb'r.k that it was I?" There was a touch of her old self ia the flushing face and the resentful y?ice. I thought nothing. It was what I saw." "What did you see?" "I saw her in your library crying and leaning against you. while you held h?i with your arm. What else could I think?" Stewart laughed, half in impatience, half In mirth. ' "So you saw us that night when the little chit came crying to me about her dressmaker's bills, and got a big check out of me! How co'uld I help it if sh would prop herself up against me? Dut that you should think when you mi-t have known that no other woman exts.ed for me save you !" "But how could I know when you to'd me you were tired of n.e?" "I was tired 'of the bargain, -aud ol having a wife who sev:nT? tj belong ;o everyone ?lse moo thm no! Am I tuppose you will say that you didn't know how jealous I wis whea I said h?" "I didn't, really V "You didn't? Oh. MrtthiMs'" Utting ih" tenderness in Li voice have scope, "how angry I could be with you but for this." This was a remarkably shabby dogskin glove, which he pulled from his pocket and which Mathilde seemed to recognize Without a word she bent her head, ai Stewart now knelt beside her, with his arm around her, there was no place to rest it on, save his coat. "Well, but how could I have known? You never told me." "On your word of honor now," and his hand raised the drooping face for h)s inspection ; "had I not shown you that I cared for you?" "Sometimes when jou were so nice, I thought ierhaps you did ; but I never was quite sure, and I always thought you so kind and considerate. But I used to get unhappy, and then, when I saw that "Naughty chilt', I should like to shake you. I wou'd if you weren't lame. Tell m" and his voice grew earnest ag.iin, 'hadn't von come to understand why I did it all"?" "No," she whispered In an unusually meek voice. "And I was sure at one time that you had! Perhaps you will acknowledge that if on board ship, knowing your tory, I h-id told you that I admired juu more than any woman I had ever ern, and a.-fced you to marry me the next wvk, you would probably have refused?" "I suppose so," she agreed, still meekly. "And then I might not lave found It easy to renew the friendship in Paris. You certainly showed groat talent in alip-

p!nf away from Hudson. So my play of marrying 3-ou first and making love to you afterwards wasn't quite so mad is it teemed, was it?" "It very nearly failed, though." "Yes, fifty times over : but never quite. And now I have you af-. and yoa s'inll nt ruu away again. To1! rr," he v.hi"where you were soiug that night." She told, slowly anl with many paust., the tale of her eiTorts and sufferings which, ir. the shelter of those eafohliLg arms, seemed so strangely unreal. As she tJd of how she tried to make her face calm, so that he might fn.d it fair in death, she felt a tear upon her lorehrad, and raised her lips to his. Presently she asked : "How did you find the glove?" "It was stuck in the front 'of your dies?, when I felt to know if the dar heart were beating. Ah, I cannot bear to think of it ! My life shall be an atonement f.r it!" he murmured. And so at last their mutual lives were clear to each other, for once and to those lives' end. (the end.)

SXUFF TAKEHS OF THE SENATE. Senntors Still Indulging Are Provided with Urtlcinl Snuffboxes. There are two snuff takers in the United States Senate, Mr. Overman of North Carolina and Mr. Carter of Montana. For the benefit of these two men the Senate still maintains the official snuff boxes, which are kept carefully with fresh material for producing sneezes, the Boston Transcript says. These boxc3 are little lacquered affairs about four inches lens, two and a half inches wide and an inch deep, and are fastened by screws to the top of the projecting ledge, one on each side of the Vice President's dais. The snuff Is purchased by the ser-geant-at-arm3 In four eight-pound jars, at a cost of 73 cent3 a pound, and It take3 an average of about five pounds a year to replenish the boxe3 twice a week during the sessions. The werk of refilling the fcoxe3 was for years one of the duties ceremoniously performed by the late Capt. Bassett, the venerable assistant doorkeeper of the Senate and Inveterate user of the powdered weed; but since his death, Ave years ago, the tasrt has fallen" to the lot of one of the pages, who, naturally, Jog3 not bestow upon It the loving care of his aged predecessor. Capt. Bassett when he died had completed nearly sixty years of continuous service in the Senate and was almost the sole relic of the days when the use of snuff was general in that body. For many years before his death h-3 dignified, almost ceremonious, manner or indulging in the habit excited thft wonder and awe of the modern page. He was very proud of a gold snr.S box presented to him by the senators upon the fortieth anniversary of his entry Into their service, and he kepf it filled with a choice brand of the powder. He carried it In a tail pocket of the frock coat In which he always appeared, and the force of his habit of leaching for it caused a laugh at his expense. It was during the troublous tlm?3 attending the Hayes-Tilden contest, and it was thought best that Capt. Bassett, as custodian of one of thf boxes containing the disputed electoral votes, should be armed. He was accordingly provided with a revolver, which he carried In the pocket of the empty coattall. As the procession wa3 about to start on the march from the Senate to the House Capt. Bassett was asked if he had his revolver with him. "Yes," he replied, "here it is," and. diving Into the wrong pocket, he produced not the revolver, but his cherished geld snuffbox. There had been threats of attacking the procession on the way to the House, and the members of the party were In rather a sober frame of mind, but the tension was relaxed for the moment by the laughter which was caused by the mistake. Perhaps the most noted of the senators who were addicted to snuff within the memories of the old employes wa3 the late Allen G. Thurman of Ohio. Mr. Thurman was a frequent vi3itor of the official snuffbox on the Democratic side. After helping himself to a liberal pir.ch he would return to his desk r.nd bring forth his huge red bandanna, which afterward became a well known political emblem In his campaign for the Vice Presidency. Then, after sneezing several times, he would "blow a tremendous blast. Vice President Wilson, who died in his room at the capital, was another noted patron of the Senate snuffbox, and so was Senator Edmunds of Vermont. In later days Senator Carter of Montana and Senator Turner of Washington were the sole representatives of the old regime of habitual snuff users. Ill rien. Hobo Please, mum. would yon give a pore man sumthin' t eat wofs out u a job? Lady It looks to me like a strong man like you ought to get work. , Hobo I could git plenty uv work. mum, if I only had a letter uv reeom mendashun from rce last employer. Lady And won't he give you one? Hobo I reckon he would, mum, but he's been dead for twenty years. Spiteful. . "Grace seems to take a1 deep Interest In yachting, doesn't she?" "Yes; she 13 quite carried away with it." "And she knows all those nautical terms, too." "Well, why shouldn't she? Her fath er started In life as deckhand, you know." Onp Olhrr. She I don't believe It Is possible for anyone to look more uncomfortable than a man in a millinery store. He Oh, I don't know. There's the woman who goes into a barber shop with her little boy to get his hair cut. WaltlnK Tortlier Orders. Caller Nellie, Is your mother In? Nellie Mother is out shopping. Caller When will she return, Nel lie? Nellie (calling bar k) Mamrai, what shall I say now? Short Stories. Trial of Mod are. "Mrs. Hedge, I am sind to hear snod reports frcm your hushar.d. The nay he abstain; from drink religiously." "Oh, i-ir. net rrlhovrsly. I'm afraid! There di be times w'u-u bis laugursgj be dreadfül. tit!" Ti:i k. Meuni fjr Kiie-inr.iKfüipn, Artist Yes, I l.oo pegging away. Sometimes I gr-t !!:? our:'.gt.-.l ?:ul r;iy to myself. "What's te u.;?-' Friend Pcr.'t jrlve i:: cul men. Yov can't do v.cr. 0 than ;tu'c tlonr, yoi know. Jr.de. "Buddy Jone:-;, you're t'2.9 worstfat bo on this bloc k!" "Aw. qui ver Cattery!

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Tiy MUS. LOVBTT CA.MEHO Xuthor of "In a Grass Country, "A Daughter's Heart," A Sister's Sin, Jack' Secret," Etc., Etc.

U4 plot is naL firi' splendid a case

which is admirably natural and well carried out. The young life of beautiful Irene Garland is saddened and broken, and that of loyal-hearted Rupert Carroll nearly wrecked by a strange accident which separates them; and leads to a mysterious series of complications. This story is in truth a remarkable piece of fiction, and will prove a great literary success. ( ,

- ft tw rm? Y CHAPTER L "All that sort of thing Is a dreadful mistake," said Mrs. Garland's slster-n-law to her severely. "What sort of thing, my dear?" in quired Mrs. Garland, mildly. "Oh." following the direction of the other woman's eyes, "that?" The two ladles were seated In the shade, upon the smooth lawn that eloped from The Cottage down to the river. The little garden was pay with flowers, tho summer air was full of eweet scents and sounds. ?he tea table, with Its dainty white cloth and Japanese tea-service, had been set Upon the grass beneath the shelter of n wide-spreading plane tree. The Cottage faced one of the most levely ack-waters on the Thames, being secluded from the more public traffic of the main stream, by a long wooded island with a fringe of grace ful willows, that bent low over the ihadowy water. The object which at the present moment aroused Lady Garland's dire displeasure was, tvs a matter of fact, one of the most delightful river pictures that could possibly be Imagined. A young girl dressed all In white. and fair aa any dream, was standing up in a punt half-way across tho Btream. Her slender figure, seen to best advantage against the deen greens of the background, was perfect in Its supple grace, and she plied her long pole slowly and with dexterous ease as she approached the bank. Her companion, a good-looking: young fellow of six or seven and twenty, lay at full length upon the scarlet cushions In the stern, his arms flung Idly back behind his dark curly head, and his brown eyes fixed upon the girl In dreamy absorption. "It Is a horrible, mistake!" repeated Lady Garland once more, almost with anger. "That rrene should amuse herself. Anna?" Inquired the girl's mother, with a gentle smile; "why should not the poor child have a littlo pleasure?" "Uut who ts this young man, pray. with whom you allow her to go punting about on the river from morning till night?" "Rupert Carroll? I think he seems very nice young man Indeed." "Seems! but what do you know about him? Who Is h where does he come from?" "Oh, he is Just staying at the George for fishing." replied Mrs. Garland placidly. "My dear Gertrude, you really are the most aggravating person In tbe world! As if staying at a country Inn for fishing could be a sufficient guarantee for anybody's respectability! How do you know, pray, what this man 13? He may be an Impostor." "I think not. Mr. Carroll is a gentleman." "Aryhow, he is probably a pauper. Trayl Gertrude, think of your child's future. She is beautiful and barely eighteen, she ought to marry well, for she has no other fortune but her face. And believe me, my dear, these meaningless ilirtations only get girls talked about, and are horribly prejudicial to their settling In life." A flush came suddenly into her mother's gentle face. "We do not think of such things, Irene and I," ;he said with a little dignity. "I do not want my girl's head to be filled with with Ideas of what you call 'marrying well I would rather keep her at homo with me. At U1I3 moment the punt grated aurainst the shallow shore at the end of the garden, and Rupert Carroll sprang out to assist his companion to land. As he took her hand, he held It a moment clasped tightly in his. "Won't you really do as I ask you. Miss Garland?" "Mamma would not. like me to go, Mr. Ciirroll," tiie girl answered, trembling a little, and not daring to meet his eyes. "Rut why tell her? Why not come out quietly as I ask you to do, without eaylng a word? It 13 not ns If we bad not been out after dinner before-, and you have 110 idea how beautiful the weir looks by the li,;ht of this harvest moon it is a dream!" Irene's downcast face was a picture of Indecision and confusion. As a rulo It was a face that was a triflo cold and proud, but now something new and wonderful had transfigured and changed it, so that it was only sweet, and tremulous, and timid. For a fortnight past tho girl had been living in Dreamland. This man, whom three weeks ago she bad never ln-urd of, hnd entered Into her quiet life one gidden summor d.iy, and had taken possession of her whole existence. A chance Introduction to Mrs. Garland an.l her daushtr-r bad brought about the Intimacy, and very coon Carroll y id found that posting with Irene was a iai w.Gr" entrancing occupation that fishing bv himself. Mrs. Garland, an Irishwoman by birth. I was. as aro all her countrymen and

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story that must appeal to every literary taste. Primarily, its merit lies in the fact that its

entirely new and origi CJThe action of this serial depends upon of mistaken identity, '' " - women, the very soul of hospitality; the young man found himself In a few days quite at home ia the pretty cottage on the backwater. One day Irene said to him: "My aunt is coming down, from Friday to Monday." , "I am very sorry," had answered Carroll, ungraciously. "Oh, but you must not say that!" cried Irene, uplifting her eyebrows reprovingly. "My aunt is very kind, she Is my godmother, and she is very nice and very clever; you will be sure to like Lady Garland. My poor Uncle Richard was knighted, you know, because he was very rich, and because he gave a large sum of "money to found a night school for apprentice boys at the east end of London." Carroll had never heard anything about It, but ho nodded as If the fact was perfectly well known to him. "Well, two years ago poor Uncle Richard died, and my aunt was left a widow; she has only one daughter. my cousin Florence, who was married a little while ago to a Mr. Purvis. I believe he Is very rich, and I suppose he Is very fond of her, and she of him, or else she would not have married him, would she? It seems funny, because Mr. Purvis Is 63, and Florence Is 24, but then, of course, there are many old men who are very kind and quite nice, so I don't know why I should say It Is funny that she should be fond of him." And Carroll nodded again sympathetically, although he turned his head away to hide an Irresistible smile, over the late Miss Florence Garland's disinterested affections. "Florence was married six weeks ago. Mamma and I did not go to her wedding." continued Irene, with guileless candor. "Aunt Anna said that she couldn't have me to stay In London till after her own daughter married. I suppose there was not room for me In her house, but taext spring I am to go to her for a regular sea son In London. I think It so kind of her to ask me, don't you?" "Oh, very I and I suppose there will be another rich old man found for you." answered the young man with asperity. "What do you mean? Oh!" flushing very ro9y red. "I think that is a very horrid thing to say to me, Mr. Carroll." And Rupert Carroll had to grovel in abjectest penitence and humiliation, before she would consent to forgive him. All the same, ho felt certain that the arrival of the aunt boded him no good. As to going out by moonlight 'with him up to the lasher, Irene had done her best to say "No" very firmly in deed, but then Rupert Carroll would not take "No." he detested that little word. It hurt not only' his heart but his vanity as well, that she should say him nay. "Just say Yes Instead of 'No'." he murmured caressingly. "Then I shall believe you care to make me happy just one tiny little bit," and he bent his handsome head and looked into her face. 1 "I am afraid it Is not right.' she faltered. "Mamma would 'not like It, I know, but If you really wish It so very much, well, Just for half-an hour, perhaps " "You know that I wish it! And you will come, then? Ah! now you are my dearest little friend once more I will be at the stops waiting for you at 9 o'clock." "Come and have your tea, young peop'e," called out her mother's voice across the lawn. "Mr. Carroll, let me Introduce you to my sister-in-law. Lady Garland." Mr. Carroll bowed, and Lady Gar land bowed her head in return, and then she put up her long tortoise shell-handled eye-glasses, and sur veyed the young man critically. "Perhaps you and my sister-in-law have met before in London?" suggest ed Mrs. Garland, as she gave him his tea. "No, Indeed. I have not had that honor. Not to my knowledge at least," he replied. "Are you qulto sure that we have not met before, Mr. Carroll?" inquired the knight's widow, eyeing the young man attentively. "If not, I think I must have met your twin brother." "No. I am certain that I never met you, I.ady Garland, and I am happy to say that I have no brothers," re plied Carroll, politely, yet with a cer tain conclusive f-nality, as though the subject of his relations, real or imagi nary, were not one that he cared to pursue. Then he turned to his hos tess, almost as though be wished to divert tho conversation Into other channels. "Mrs. Garland," he said to her gaily, "you have no Idea how lazy I have been to-day, and how hard your daughter has worked. Mis3 Garland positively Insisted on my lying down on tho cushions doing nothing." Lady Garland was watching him

furtively. 'If he has no btather, then I am certain I have met him before.! she was saying to herself. "But wh're on earth have I seen your face, young man? I can't remember In the very least." i (To be continued.)

EGGS AS POISONS. , Some Fersons Always Affected and Others Only Occasionally. Instances of egg poisoning appear from time to time in periodical literature and the subject is referred to in some, but by no means all, works on dietetics. While cases of acute poisoning ire rare, writes a physician In the Medical Record, some susceptibility a3 regards eggs is not so very uncommon. People constantly assert that eggs make them bilious and, while In some thl3 is often imaginary, In others the condition actually exists. This Is notably true of infants and young children. Not only do many infants and young children digest eggs with difficulty, especially when first eaten, but many more are made ill If this particular food is partaken of too reely or, in the case of older children, f the egg diet is kept up too continu ously. The inability of young children to digest eggs is probably In line with the well-recognized fact that the in fant's stomach or digestive Juices must be taught to digest most dietary arti cles other than the maternal milk. Cows' milk, for Instance, Is a verita ble poison to some infants, while many a newly born requires some practice and education before It can thoroughly digest even mother's milk. Individual susceptibility as regards eggs is extremely variable; In fcome persons eggs always act as poisons, while in others ,the toxic influence may be marked at one time and at another much diminished or entirely wanting, especially when the subject is in sound condition. The susceptibility may be observed 11 egg3 of every degree of freshness, and in some cases only with the eggs of certain birds. Changes in eggs may also be brought about by methods of cooking; for while seme persons mani fest their susceptibility only when the egg is raw, others are poisoned when it is cooked or prepared in some unu sual and unaccustomed manner. In most of the reported cases the white of the egg appears to Lave been the offending element The symptoms of egg poisoning differ greatly in degree; In some cases only nausea and headache occur; in others the most Violent symptoms, suggestive of irritant poisoning, aro observed. Sometimes, when the use of egg3 la long; continued, they give rise to the symptom group which we call bilious ness, which after all is but a form of auto-intoxlcatlon, due possibly to the presence of some alkaloid in the blood. The symptoms of egg poisoning are essentially those of so-called ptomaine poisoning. It is true that the efe,.. giving rise oxic phenomena are In most Instances apparently fresh when eaten, but when we recall that the porous shell of the egg will admit the micro-organisms that cause the egg to rot, as well as various strong odors, it Is easy to com prehend that an egg may appear fresh and yet contain bacteria that In susceptible persons, and In certain con ditions of digestion, may produce changes which may cause toxic symp toms. Ilrtped the Cabman. A very old man once called to see Lord Strathcona at his offices and explained as the reason of hi3 visit that he was the cabman who drove him to his ship when he set sail for Canada long years before. Lord Strathcona was Interested In this reminiscence of his youth and lis tened to the ancient Jehu when he went on in a tearful voice to complain that death had Just deprived him of one of two grandsons and that he himself had fallen on evil times. Lord Strathcona soothed the old fel low's sorrows with a little money. Again, after a time, the old man called on Lord Strathcona and this time told him that both his grandsons were down with typhoid fever and, as Lord Strathcona had helped him before, perhaps he would again. After some gossiping chat about Scotland Lord Strathcona again comforted the old man with a little monecy. When he had gone an official who had overheard the conversation 6ald: "I hope you did not give that man any money. Lord Strathcona. When he saw you before one of his two grandsons was dead. Now he says both are ill with typhoid fever." "Thank you very much, Mr. Jones," said the high commissioner, with a twinkle In his eye, "but do you know when I left Scotland for Canada I had no cab to take me to the ship, but Just wheeled down my things myself to the dock in a barrow." London TitBits. A Mind Header. Pat had got hurt not much more than a scratch, It Is true, but his employer adopted the wise course of sending him at once to the hospital., After the house surgeon had examined him carefully, he said to the nurse: "As subcutaneous abrasion Is not observable, I do not think there Is any reason to apprehend tegumental cicatrization of the wound." Then, turning to the patient, he asked quizzically: "What do you think, Pat?" "Sur, sir," said Pat, "you're a wonderful thought reader. You took the very words out of ray mouth. That's Just what I was going to say." Cur rent Literature. Not Limited. "You must try to love your papa," said the visitor, "as much as he loves you." "Oh, I love him more," replied Tommy. "Indeed? Doesn't your papa love you very much?" "Not much. He says he loves me only when I'm good." Catholic Standard and Times. A Willing Worker. "How do you manage to live without work?" asked the kind lady. "I don't, ma'am," answered the hobo. "I'm allers workln' somebody." Then He llutrjfed Her. The Male Graduate I propose to girdle tho earth. The Female Graduate Why do you begin on such a big thing? Wise Child. "What a bright baby! Can Jyj talk?" "Yes'm, he can say 'Thanks' whea j"ou put a nickel In his hand' The reward o one duty Is the pover to fulfill another. George Eliot

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PRISON TWINE SHOP TO CLOSE? Trust Deal May Cnt Oft Supply of Raw Material. Governor Marshall and the State Prison Board have been in consultation, and it is admitted that the State may have to abandon its binder twine plant at the Michigan City prison. The difficulty of obtaining raw material with which to operate the plant makes its future uncertain, according to Governor Marshall. There is about one million pounds of sisal in the. warehouses of the plant out of which to manufacture twine, but fear is expressed by members of the board and the Governor that when that supply Is exhausted It will be Impossible to purchase raw material to enable the plant to continue to compete with the trustmade twine. The board bases Its fear on a report that the" International Harvester Company has closed a deal with the authorities in Yucatan by which the authorities have agreed to hold up the price of the raw material to prison plants and to independent establishments. If this condition comes about, as the board and the Governor expect it to, there will be nothing to do except to close the plant. DYNAMITE KILLS WORKMAN. Another Is Injured jln a Serlona Ex plonlon Near Cravrfordavllle. Charles Hubble, age 35, is dead, and Jasper Thompson, age 50, was fatally injured by an explosion of dynamite at the Crawfordsville Shale Brick Company's pit north of Crawfordsville, near Sugar Creek. Hubble's skull was crushed and he suffered other ser!ou3 injuries by the force of the explosion which caused his death. Thompson was injured about the face and his es'es' were seriously burned by pow der. The men were preparing a shot for blasting when the explosion occurred. Hubble's wife and 1-year-old child were within six feet of him when the explosion occurred. They miraculously escaped injury. -Quit lien eta After 3G Yearn. Judge Oscar W. Welborn of Princeton, who has been on the circuit bench In Indiana thirty-six years, and who Is in point of service the oldest jurist in the State, will retire Oct 6 and will be succeeded by Judge Herdis Clements of Mt.' Vernon. Judge Welborn's circuit is composed of Posey and Gibson Counties. ThI AVeddlnff n Family One. The Rev. Ewald Somerlatte, pastor of the Reformed Church, married Miss Clara Hoff in Terre Haute. The ceremony was by his father, the Rev. Paul Somerlatte of Philadelphia, Pa., assisted by a brother of the bridegroom, the Rev. John Somerlatte of Baltimore Another brother Is a minister. Fire Engine I Fire Victim. Fire which started In a store In which the town's chemical extinguisher was stored, destroyed a business block at Bugger. No resistance could be offered to the flames and a loss of $75,000 was caused. The Dugger State Bank and the city prison were de stroyed. x Arretted la Murder Mystery. . John McCaughey of Cleveland, Ohio, was arrested In Hartford City, charged with the murder of Frank Hall, also pf Cleveland,, who died refusing to divulge the name of the person who stabbed him. McCaughey refused to make a statement Kill Wife and Another. Albert Carnahan, 53 years old, shot and killed his wife and Miss Ida Calvin and then committed suicide in Indianapolis.. Carnahan has . been separ ated from his wife for five weeks. Ap parently he had become Insane. . Murder Trial Jury Dlxagrreea. The jury In the case of Thomas Dun can, on trial for the murder of James ßugg of. Cannelton, reported a dis agreement and was discharged. Home's Kirk KIH Farmer. Louis Ludwig, a wealthy Hammond farmer, was killed by being kicked In the head by a vicious horse. Train Kills Kentucklan. M. L. Delossa, of Louisville, Ky., em ployed at Peru, Ind., fell under a train and wa3 killed. SHORT STATE ITEMS. Fire, reported to be, of Incendiary origin, destroyed the business center of Newpolnt Damage, ,$30,000. Joseph Gray was Instantly killed and Jesse Bonhomme wa3 fatally Injured at the Empire Paper Mill, in Vincennes, when a derrick fell, crushing them to death. Three persons were seriously in jured and fifteen hurt in k collision between a Chicago, Lale Shore & South Bend Interurban car and a Chicago Terminal engine, between Hammond and East Chicago'. A stranger, believed to be from Chicago, tried to commit suicide at Bloomfield by shooting himself twice In the head. He is still alive, but refuses to talk. The name "W. Carmichael" was found on! his shirt collar. Kerr Case of French Lick, was killed and O. P. Turley, of Orleans, a well-known contractor, seriously Injured as the result of an accidental explosion of dynamite In a quarry pear Paoli. Silas Anderson, a wealthy Washington elevator owner, got a beard of wheat fastened in his throat several days ago. It could not be located, and the pain was intense. A physlcial lanced his thraat and found a large ulcer had been caused. He says Anderson would have died within a few days. I James Devore, formerly a lieutenant of the United States army and afterwards widely known as an Inventor and architect, committed suicide near Elkhart by stepping In front of an Interurban car. Devore was confined In the asylum for a short time. Virgil Heese, rural route carrier, who was Injured while returning from his route by running Into a rope which had been stretched across the street In Thornton for the Mills memorial fountain celebration, died. , He was 41 years old and leaves a widow and child

(JNCLE SAH WARS ON THE RAT "Worst Mammal Pest" Blamed foi ihe Loss of Millions. ' Rat clubs and other societies for systematic warfare on destructive rodents may leap Into popular Ä.vor among housekeepers, now that the government has officially sanctioned this method of extermination of the worst mammal pest in the United States. The. rat ha3 been recognized by the government. as a problem. Its activity in disseminating infectious diseases has long loomed up as a danger signal to the health authorities, and losses from its depredations run into many million dollars a year, according to an ofü:ial statement just Issued by the Department of Agriculture. Dr. David E. Lantz of the bureau of biological survey has taken vigorous hold of the question, and thus he proceeds to throw a bomb into the camp of believers in the cat as a rat destro3'er. "However valuable cats may

be as mousers, few of them learn to catch rats. The ordinary house cat is too well fed and consequently too lazy to undertake the capture of an animal as formidable as the brown rat." The department, in a bulletin emphasizes the importance of rat club3 and suggests tha. interest In organized rat hunts may be stimulated by offering prizes or rewards in various communities to the individual hauling forth the greatest number of dead rat after one of the crusades. Pamphlets dealing with the rodent problem and suggestive of ways in which the rat may be eventually routed from its haunts have been scattered broadcast among the farms and villages all over the United States, and the department expects to make its campaign in this direction one of thoroughness. Call to Peary and Cook. Upon the suggestion of. President Osborn oCthe American Museum of Nat ural History and President Huntington of the American Geographical Society, President Remsen of Johns Hopkins, who is also head of the National Academy of Sciences, wrote both Commander Peary and Dr. Cook that the academy would be pleased to judge of sny data concerning their polar explorations that they desired. to submit. This Invita- , tion was at once accepted by Peary, but was declined by Cook on the ground that he had promised to submit his data first to the University or Copenhagen, after which they would be open to all the scientific societies of the world. About the same time the National Geographic Society of Washington Invited both Peary and Cook to submit their data to a scientific commission. It decided to print the records of both explorers. WJiile in Washington last Sunday Dr. Cook announced that he vas willing o submit his data to the American scientific men simultaneously with that of the Danfsh University, provided that the findings should be made public at the same time. Dr. Cook was accorded a mnst enthusiastic and official reception in Washington, where he delivered a lecture, the district commissioners taking part, In the welcome extendedSimilarly cordial receptions were given to Dr. Cook at Pittsburg and Baltimore. The Peary Arctic Club read Peary's official statement and voted lta confidence In his report of the discovers' of the North Pole. 3. Kausae City, Mo.. Is Just completing a labor temple, New Jersey State convention Printers League meets at Orange thl month. ' Indusf'.ial disputes in Canada during Af gust meant the loss of 108,000 working days.' The offlclaljournal of the International Association of Steam Engineers will hereafter be printed In Brooklyn. N. y. In England the trade unionists are interested in the establishment of a central labor college, which th;y will finance. Through the Initiative of Boston (Mass.) Typographical Union, a call has been issued for the formation of a New England Typographical Union. The formation of a council to be composed of wood carvers, upholsterers, cabinet makers and finishers Is being discussed in Boston, Mass. Delegates from eight building trades councils in Massachusetts met recently to discuss the advisability of forming a State branch of build'ng trades councils. The first Armenian mass meeting held in Boston for "the purpose of arousing interest among Armenian workers In the trade union movement took place recently. The California section, -woman's department of the national civic federation, proposes organizing a number of co-operative homes for girls employed in offices and shops. The Wisconsin Legislature during the session ending June 18, 1909, passed eighteen of the seventy-four labor bills introduced, and five of the fourteen joint resolutions relating to labor. At a meeting of the Victorian (Australia) Dockyard and Ship Laborers Union It was decided to take into consideration the advisability of joining In a federation all dock laborers in the commonwealth. The labor stuation In Switzerland has peculiar features. A conslderablt part of the country' Industrial operations are carried on In the rural districts, the employes working In their own little strips of land during the short farming season of the summer, and In the factories or other Industrial establishments the, rest of the year. Trade unionists in Sweden have a novel way In staving off defest and starvation. In nearly all of the cities where the organized men are strong numerically, parks are owned by them. Here the men congregate every day, and their share of the rations, which the t'r.ioit purchases, is given them. It is said that the strikers have the sympathy of the farmers, and that the farm products are being sold to the men at a nominal titrure. State Printer Shannon reports that the use of linotype machines in the St;iie printing office during the last ri8?ion of the California Legislature t-aved the Ftate $14 6 a day. The. American Federation of Musicirrs h;'.s adopted a law that requires ::11 applicants for membership in subordinate bodies to 1 American citizens or to have declared intention to become such. I.m-kjar After Vnert nation. A 3-year-old boy of Bloomfield, N. J, who was vaccinated three weeks ago :ind who attended school without appar nt ill effects for most of the period, suddenly developed lockjaw and died within twenty-four hours, much to tha astonishment of the physicians. Patronize those who advertise.