Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1907 — Page 2

A SMILING VILLAIN.

CHAPTER XXVll— (Continued.) She was so very hysterical that, for the time, she could give no explanation or attempt any extenuation of her conduct. Her sisters took 'her off to her bedroom <• over'and comfort the ’stray lamb with every endearing word and loving caress. The Rector thanked Lewisson in a few short but feeling words, that showed how deeply he was moved. "For really-these last Ifcodayalhava felt as though a load of stone had fallen upon me. and it is a blessed relief to know it 1!T Off. I suppose why Bride hooked it was because she was frightened?’’ Terry asked. ________ “It was because she discovered that all anwittingly she had divulged a secret to •m who made a bad use of it," Lewisson ■aid solemnly. “One who had betrayed had been honored, and used it as a cloak to further his nefarious designs. You. say the jewels have been- Restored? ■ There ** ■ "Die two actual thieves are in custody," Angus interposed solemnly. “The other, who was the prime mover, the leader, has paid his penalty. Bertram Charteris is dead." : ~ “Dead!” - at Caterham landing stage we saw the bant approach. Charteris was on her, and instead of waiting for the gangway to be lowered, tried to jump on to the stage. T do not know why, perhaps he saw and recognized me and it upset him, but he jumped short and went in. lie was swept under the pontoons at once. His cry ot abject terror and despair is still in my ears. (Ve stayed for an hour or sd, but they had not recovered the body when we left.” “He was concerned in the robbery?” the Rector asked slowly, his face ashen white. . “He is the one who directed the other two and planned the whole affair. We found cipher letters and telegrams from him in the rooms where the second man was arrested that showed very plainly his connection with the society." “Did you know him as a thief?” Mr. Beresford asked. — ’ “He was connected with them, but he passed under another name, and I only met him once or twice when he wore both beard and moustache. Here he was elean sh a v ,-n. But the recognition this morning was mutual. I suppose he grew alarmed at the silence of his confederates, and was anxious to hide himself for a while. But he is dead now."

CHAPTER XXVIII. It was a great shock to all the family to learn of the dead man’s duplicity and evil doing. Bride cried a great deal when she was told of his end, but Moyra suspected that there was much relief mingled with the sorrow. "I did like him. I was very fond of him,” she sobbed, with her head on Moyra’s shoulde-r, “and he said he was very, very fond of me. and —and I thought it was very grand having a lover and being engaged when no one knew anything about it. And I was so wicked! I believed all the horrid nasty things he used to tell me about you all without really saying them, that you were jealous because I was younger and prettier than you”—covering Moyra’s face with repentant kisses —“and that you were jealous because you wanted, to marry him. Oh, how could I be so wicked! And then there was that dance, that horrid dance! I’ll never go to another so long as I live. And he was so queer, and when he did eome for our dance I—l—really think” — sinking her voice—“that he was drunk. He talked and laughed and was so queer; and all of a sudden it seemed as if I had suddenly discovered what he was talking about] And, and”—her cheeks burning—“he tried to kiss me. and I was frightened. and he lost his temper and- said dreadful things, that I should be put in prison, that I had told him where the jewels were kept, and Mr. Fenton would

~ta W me aeut to jail. - “ KT''got‘’so'Trighleh?d'''fhrfl’'went’irpatairs to see if the jewels were safe and they were gone. I did not know what to do. 1 nearly died. And the professor was oo good to me. I shall never forget how good he was to me. When Lulu told me about the robbery and I heard that I was to be examined, I thought of the professor at once, and I felt no matter what happened I should have to tell him and ask him I must do? So I telegraphed to him from Bampton, and he met me in Birmingham. It was not until he had talked to me,” Bride continued, hanging her head, “that I saw what a ■elfish thing I had done in going off as I did. But, oh, Moyra, I was so frightened I” With Bride’s return the Rectory party seemed to settle into its accustomed grooves, and after the storms of the last month there seemed to be an inauguration of peace. ]fet only the next day the Rector opened the dining room door with a comical look of amusement and astonishment on his face. Ailoen was writing at the table, and seeing that she was alone he entered and closed the door. “Never in my life before have I been no astonished.’ he began. “Prof. Lewis■on has told me he wants to marry Bride. I thought he was your possession, Aileen?” “No —I went overboard when he saw Bride.” “Well, I’ll go and find Moyra, and find out her ideas on the matter. Dear me, a learned professor, known all over the world, wanting to marry our ignorant Bride, who doesn’t know a word of Greek and does not want to know it It is a gueer world.” » The Bector did not find out Moyra’s Ideas as he had intended. He walked into the school room and stopped almost petrified at the sight of Angus and his eldest daughter in very dose and unmistakably loverlike proximity. "Upon my word!” the astonished gentleman gasped, an he realised what was happening

By VIOLET M. FLINN.

The couple grew very red when they saw him, but Moyra drew her hand from Angus' grasp and flung her' arms around her father’s neck. “May I ask what this means?” the Rector said, but there was a comprehending twinkle in his eye and a friendliness in his tone that reassured both. "I know I can only be regarded as a usurper." Angus said meekly, “but I have loved Moyra from the moment I first “Of course, of course !" the Rector’ said. “That goes without saying.” CHAPTER XXIX. Perhaps no event ever created a greater, impression in Caterham West than did the news of Moyra’s engagement to the man whom some days • before every one had been abusing as a thief and a scounMian Prior, t? he sure, made ill-_ natured remarks, but, on the whole, comment was very kind. As Terry said, Moyra’s happiness was so apparent that no one hadthe heart to make invidious remarks. . The Fentons Were particularly pleased; Billy's congratulations were sincere and hearty. Vera petitioned to be a brldesmaid, and Mr. Fenton, after oger-Hig prb-’ fuse apologies to Angus, presentcd the bride-elect with one of the now celebrated necklaces. Every one seemed happy and at ease during the last few days of the vacation.A cablegram had been received from South tnuwtcn offering —congratulations and announcing Mr. Robertson’s departnro hy th** port hont. There was much talk of wedding preparations, and Angus was anxious to buy the big house, so that Moyra rfitght still be within reach of Bride, who seemed rdther pleased at the idea of being mistress at ‘the Rectory. "Angus says it will .do her good, that we have coddled her too much,” Moyra said, discussing the plan with Aileen, as she helped her to pack. "And father will bear a good deal of discomfort under Bride’s rule better .than a little under any one else's. Resides, 1 shall be so near I shall be able to lu-lp a great deal. I think it’s'a splendid idea.” "Yes,” said Aileen. Presently she said casually’,’ ”1 thought ttyat the Fen Lons had bought the place?” "Xo—only rented it for the winter. They are going away in March. Delda is very mopy about it. Indeejl, we shall all miss them. They have boon very nice neighbors in spite of the robbery. But I dare say, if that had not happened, I might never have been engaged. It was only when trouble came that I recognized-.

how I felt towards Angus.” Aileen assented again, and Moyra, who, in her absorption in her own plans, had almost lost sight of the affairs of other people, went on packing and made no further. reference to the Fentons. When luncheon was over Aileen put on her hat and coat, and went for a solitary walk along the shore. It was a cold, sunshiny day, and a bitter wind was blowing, That was probably the cause of the tears that coursed rapidly down her cheeks. She walked steadily on and on. a solitary figure on the bare, sandy expanse. She .collapsed in a heap on the sandhill and wept despairingly. Curiously enough the thoughts uppermost in her mind were how she should miss the excitement of Billy’s frequent letters in the coming term, his flowers, the accidental encounters with him in “quads” and streets. For a whole term they had broken the monotony, and provided a spice of adventure to the girl who, at that moment, was inclined to wish she had never heard of the Cause or been regarded as the “show” student. Now Billy had seen and recognized Aileen, and had guessed why she had turned towards the sandhills, so had continued hrs way along the shore, nt the same time watching eagerly for a glimpse of her as shpassed along. —But as he could see no signs of her, and as he fancied that he heard a call, his steps began to wavyr, and finally he too went up the hills. and, looked eageHy Aileen almost at his feet. “I’m afraid you’ve had an accident,” he said stiffly, as she pushed her wet handkerchief into her pocket, and hoped that he would not see that she had been crying. “Can I help you?” “If you please* I am caught in a rabbit trap”—and she drew her .skirt aside to show him. -

in a second Billy was on his knees beside her, examining the construction of the snare, his face black with rage. Had the owner of that trap been within reach of Billy’s ire just then he would never have forgotten it. \- “I am afraid I shall hurt you terribly in getting it open,” he said, looking up anxiously. “I will try not to touch you more than I can help.” “I’ll try not to scream,” Aileen answered. The constraint of her stiff position was making her feel faint and giddy. v Billy did hurt—he could not help it, and once Aileen uttered a little cry of pain, and caught his shoulder. At the sound muttered something that was far more emphatic than decorous, but Aileen did not resent it. Instead, she smiled a little, and looked at his strong bands with an expression that Billy ought to have seen. How strong he was! she thought, all a Roman's love of animal strcrjtb rising within her, and then she uttered a cry of dismay. “You have hurt yourself. It is bleeding. Oh, Billy!’’ He shook the blood from the jagged tear and looked up, flushing. “It is nothing—only a scratch. There, lift your foot quickly!” She did as he told her, while he held the springs apart, and then released them. Aileen murmured some confused words of thanks; her thoughts were elsewhere. “Let me look at your hand,” she commanded. “Oh, it is a dreadful tear! You must cover If before anything gets under the akin”—andt she drew her handkerchief out, returning it to her pocket

with a deep Mush. "Let me have yours.” Billy gave it her in silence. He set his teeth, feeling that he could not restrain himself much longer. The sight of Aileen with tears shining on heroheek, the touch of her hands, her unusual gentleness -were ail alike intoxicating. They reminded blm so strongly of all that he had lost, of those few brief moments, those rare times, when be had' fancied that Aileen's heart was responsive to his. "You must bathe your hand well with warm water,” sheaildras she knotted theends of the handkerchief securely. “I hope it won’t make any difference to your rowing.” - "Oh, no—not a scratch like that ! Why, Aileen, you’re crying I” “You—you are so unkind!” Billy’s eyes opened wide. “What have I done now?” he demanded, not unreasonably, almost beside him? self at the sight of her tears. “Aileen, darling, don't cry! It drives me crazy. Ob, do stop!—Tell me what I’m W do”— as Aileen sank down on the nearest sandhill and sobbed wildly, and, it must be confessed, ostentatiously. “Is it your foot? Do you want me to go away?” The sobs suddenly ceased, and Billy as ’suddenly dropped on his knees beside his very perplexing lady love. He drew her hands down from her blushing face and regarded her steadily. "I said I wouldn’t ask you again.’ he ’reniarked. wiien the scrutiny had-satisfied. him, “so you’ll have to do it.” There was a pause—a long pause; then suddenly, with a gesture that spoke volumes, Aileen flung herself into his outstretched arms. “I’love you, Billy,” she said simply. It was a long time afterwards, when they were walking very slowly- homewards; -that Billy suddenly remarked with n happy in light— ■ “You haven’t proposed yet, Aileep.” “I don’t mean to. do so. Yes—l will, Tor I’ve got the whip hand" —with—ameaning nod. “Let me see. Alan Hamilton Heywood Fenton,” she_said_co.lemn-_ ly, "would you likemeto 'WbWlibfl.t a Lid

henpeck you?” “Very much !** Billy responded. “You may have your college and fill the house with Profrssors and blue, stockings,' and I’ll humbly follow your lead. But, whenever you grow too obstreperous I’ll remind yoti of—your proposal,” “No, you won’t !” Aileen retorted. She pushed' up -her coat sleeve, and disclosed a—very-Taint-purple bruise on her wrist. “There is a worse one higher up, let me tell you !” she said, as Billy gazed at the mark in horror. “Aileen, did I do it —that night of the dance?” he asked, in a horror-stricken voice. “Your dear little wrist!” “Yes, you did it, and, it hurt very bad" ly. So if ever you remind me of my proposal, or don’t want me to have my own way, I’ll remind you of your strong fingers.” He did not resjxpid to her badinage, and, at the sight-of® bis grave face her own expression changed. She came close to him, and raised her face to his, looking into his eyes with an expression that left him in no doubt of her sincerity. “Oh, my dearest, my king!” she murmured softly. “Don’t you know I’d rather be bruised by you than have any other man lying at my feet?” He held her to him in his strong, young arms and kissed her almost reverently. "I believe you mean it.” he said. ” (The End.)

Egidu of Nineveh.

There was a kind of public record office attached to the palace and temple at Nineveh, In which it was customary to deposit important legal and other documents, such as contracts and agreements for the purchase and sale of property, marriage settlements, wills, etc. Among these there were discovered official statements as to the history and transactions of the eminent banking house of Egldu at Nineveh. Assyrian chronology proves that these refer to a date about 2.300 years before the Christian era, when Abraham dwelt at Ur of the Chaldees, as is stated in Genesis. We may therefore claim for thii? firm the reputation of being the oldest bank in the world at least of which we have any record or are likely to have. The accounts are very voluminous and cover_ the transactions of five generations of the house from father to son. The firm grew rapidly in importance during this period, during AVlfleh liiey attained great wealth, fepthey succeeded in securing from the king the appointment of collectors of taxes, a position which in the east always leads to fortune. Thev afterward farmed the revenue for several of the Assyrian provinces with very great gain to the firm.—T. P.’s London Weekly. ,

Terrible Fate.

There is something which will appeal to every American in the horror of a fate invoked upon Henry James, Sr., by his son, the novelist, and recorded in the letters of E. L, Goodcorded in the letters of E. L. Godkin. The young man had been worsted in argument, and exefaimed: “Then may your mashed potatoes always have lumps In them!”

Keyed Up.

Prue —Do you think motoring has improved yOur health? Dolly—lt has made my lungs stronger. Charlie can now understand what I say to him without reducing the speed.—Puck.

No Attempts, Please!

Mother (to future son-in-law)—l tell you that though my daughter Is well educated, she cannot cook. Future Son-In-Law —That doesn’t matter much, so long as she doesn’t try. —Fliegende Blaetter.

He Knew Better.

Mr. Krusty—You’d be a great deal better off If you had lived right aud worked hard. k Tramp—l don’t agree with you, sir. I might have worried to death about the money market 1 - Rations of tobacco are aerved to Italian soldiers.

HOME THE FINAL TEST OF HUMAH NATURE.

The human being attains his highest earthly development at home. Home Is the crucial test of human nature. If, when divested of “company, manners” and free from all restraint and necessity for pretending, we are still lovable,

JULIET V. STRAUSS.

To those earnest women who are so diligently seeking the key to smooth, pleasant dally living without annoyance-or friction, let me say that they are on a fruitless quest —Life Is very muCh alike for us all. Home Is a thing of various phases, Its sharp contrasts only the more endearing us to its pleasant and restful moods. We all have our cold mornings with nothing but furnace gas coming up the registers, our bad dinners, when the roast la tough and the tablecloth not quite immaculate, our grouchy evenings ’when business has gone wrong and the children’s report cards haven’t been satisfactory. Again, we have our golden daybreaks with the robins singing, our fireside confabs, our evenings when somebody softly touches the piano keys and the young folks take a waltz turn in the dusky hall and father’s and mother’s voices chord touchingly In an old duet.—Juliet V. Strauss, in Chicago Journal.

WOMEN IN PUBLIC LIFE.

Brilliant Pollnb Portia Recently Admitted to the French Bar. Women are now In increasing numbers entering the various professions, ing In the field of actual and practical politics. In four States of the Union they possess suffrage on equal terms with men. In Australia and New Zealand they enjoy full suffrage rights, and In the ancient duchy of Finland nineteen of them have seats In the national parliament. The day of “woman in politics” has dawned, and if the same agitation for full political rights is kept up for the next twenty-five

years as it has in the past, the equal suffrage demands of women should be complete In many lands. ► Professionally, women have achieved their emancipation. Women In the professions are familiar enough now in the United States; and in Europe the woman doctor and lawyer are met with. France granted to women the right of becoming lawyers in December, 1900, and since then women have been competing with men for honors In that honorable calling. The latest accession in Paris to the ranks of women lawyers is Mlle. Miropolsky, belonging to a race which has given to the world many women of noted beauty and noted talents. She is a Pole and Is beautiful as well as talented. Had she tembraced the stage Instead of the legal profession, Miss Miropolsky would long ago have been famous, for she has a beautiful voice charm of manner which is most captivating. But like her countrywoman. Madame Curie, the co-discov-erer of radium, she goes in for the serious things of life. The intricacies of law appealed to her bright and analytical mind and Paris predicts for her at the bar a brilliant and successful career.

Absentminded.

In the autobiography of Sir Henry Roscoe there is a capital example of the absent-mindedness of Bunsen, the great German scientist lie -had bad bis evening clothes put out that he might attend a card party to which he had been invited, but forgot all about it until the next mornlug,

■till free from actual coarseness, still endeared to the ennobling side of life, which so many people ■ only pretend to hold to, we are Indeed fortunate, f I am often struck with the indoinitable quality of the homemaker whq persists cheerfully and patiently In her taak Of presenting attractive rooms and good meals to~a. famlly>whlch fakes them as a matter of course, never stopping to consider what a gigantic task it Is. Not that the inere work of homekeeping is so hard, though it is hard work in reality, but that so much of the real homemaking Is creative. It comes out of the vital force of the woman. She must furnish her family with a spiritual essence—not religious training, or correct manners, or good taste —none, of these things in the abstract so much as a mere quality of llveableness which she must tyring to her home. For this reason a woman’s tastes must be varied if she is to give to her children the much-to-be-deslred talent for living.

when his man pointed out that the evening clothes had not been worn. "And" then he know what I’ll do.” That evening he put on his dress clothes, went to the lady’s house at the appointed time and walked which he had been invited. The hostess, much too polite to tell him that he had mistaken the evening and that the party had taken place on the previous night, sent to her friends asking them to come in to play a rubber again. They did so. In the course of the-even-ing the conversation turned on absentmindedness, and Bunsen begau to tell them what had happened to him a long time ago—how that he had for-

MLLE. MIROPOSKY.

gotten an invitation and how he had made up his mlud tq go the next night —and thus he told the party the whole story, forgetting altogether that he was giving them an account of what was happening at the very moment

The problem and the peril of the Colorado river are not difficult to understand. A great river running slowly on a rldga of its own creating, running in a broad and tortuous channel, choked with Islands of mud and bars of sediment, running with a fall of only one foot to the mile, while to the north and westfday a vast depression below seallevel and Inviting the sluggish river to a swifter flow ; between this sunken area and the uncertain course of the river -p great garden of Eden in promise and potency, needing only to be watered and kept, then a canal tapping the river, a flood gathering at the far away sources, a breach in the unprotected bank and the whole volume of the river, forsaking Its ancient and outgrown bed and rushing Into that pit in the desert, sweeping In its course through miles of fertile farms and cutting canyons where canals had been—this is an outline of the situation and a hint of the peril.— A. J. Wells in Sum set Magazine.

Mrs. Gotham—Don’t you think the taking of medicine should be frowned upon? Mrs. Flatbush —Yea; why, even my children frown at it —Yonkers Statesman.

A Runaway River.

And Make Faces.

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

1086—The Domesday Book, a general survey of England, completed. 1093— Malcolm Camnore, King of Scotland, slain in battle at Alnwick. 1815—Swiss defeated the- Austrians a* battle of Morgarten. 1840—Moors defeated at battle ’•I Tarifa, in southern Spain. 1881 —Adolphus, Count of Cleves, founded “The Order of Fools.” 1618—Sir Walter Raleigh beheaded at Westminster for high treason. 1686—Treaty of neutrality between Eng- _ land and France for America. Antwerp... .The Netherlands, Napies, iviiian, etc., ttaueu to utc austrian dominions. 1727—New England shaken by an earthquake. 1761—The ehip L’Auguste wreeked..oflL. Cape Breton, 114 lives being lost. , 1763—Mason and Dixon arrived from England to survey the Pennsylvania and Maryland boundary. 1770 —Bruce, the African explorer, discovered what he considered to be the source of the Nile. 1775 — Benedict Arnold, with American troops, arrived at Quebec to lay siege to the city. 1776 British under Howe attacked Fort Washington. 1777 Washington retired to White Marsh, below Philadelphia. 1806—Lieut. Pike first sighted the Colorado mountain which bears his name. 1810—First steamboat on western waters left Pittsburg for New Orleans. 1814—The “Robert Fulton,” the first steam war vessel, launched. 1833—Remarkable display of meteorto ' stars seen over a large part of North America. 1839 —Khelat, capital of BeloqchiStan, 1846 —Cracow annexed by Austria. 1848— Count Rossi, minister of the interior, assassinated at Rome. 1849 — The ship Caleb Grimshaw burned at sea with great loss of life. 1856—The Grand Trunk ’ railway of Canada opened. 1860 —Major Robert Anderson of Kentucky ordered to take command of the Federal forces in Charleston harbor. 1864 —Gen. Sherman began his march to the sea.... Gen. Sherman cut the wire connection between Atlanta and Washington.... Gen. Sherman burned a part of Atlanta. 1881—Trial of Charles Guiteau, the assassin of President Garfield, began. 1885 —Servia declared war against Bulgaria. •1888 —Friends of the condemned Bald Knob outlaws in Missouri lynched five of the leading witnesses. 1889—Revolution at Rio Janeiro and a republic proclaimed. TB93 —Demonstration by Chicago anarchists. 1894 —Seer eta rjc Carlisle called for bids for a second issue of $50,000,000 of bonds. .. • 1898 —Earl of Minto sworn in as governor general of Canada. 1900—United States cruiser Yosemltt wrecked at Guam by typhoon. TgtjpzEkiggailbfi'' 6f OgclgggrTor der of President McKinley. 1902 —Attempt made on the life of King Leopold of Belgium.

New Volcanic Isle Changes.

Readers will recall the discovery late July of a new and eteaming hot yoicanie Island to the vicinity of Unalaska by ths revenue cutter McCulloch, in command oi Lieut. B. H. Camden. Lieut. Camden now reports of bis second visit to the scene, three months later. The cloud of steam had vanished and one of the two peaks, named McCulloch, 395 feet high, had entirely disappeared, leaving the half of the other peak, known as Perry, “with its perpendicular wall standing in grim silence as a headstone at the grave of the departed peak.” The rugged outlines of the island had been softened by a padding of lava dust, while the sand spit which connected the two parts of the Island had attained the height of from 20 to 100 feet. At intervals while they looked on, masses of lava dust Jarred from crevices high up crashed downward to the beach/—.. ..

Vaudeville Deal Denied.

A. L. Erlanger, head of the theatrical trust, has denied most emphatically the report that his vaudeville campaign had been abandoned and a deal made with the Keith people, although he admitted that the latter had tried to buy him out.

New York Skyscraper Limit.

Drastic regulations adopted unanimously by the Building Code Revision Commission of New York City to be In effect after Jan. 1 provide that no new building ehall be over 2.10 feet in height This is expected to end the mad race of builders for the prize of “the highest building,” if the regulations are approved by the Board of Aidermen. Already more than twenty buildings in New York have exceeded this limit. This action is in response to the warning recently sounded by the fire underwriters and by the fire fighters.