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CHAPTER XXV—(Continued.) I Christmas and the opening of the new wear passed. February came in mild and Aright, bringing with it an odor of sweet dolets ami a gleam of snowdrops; but ,ts beauty was all lost upon i’eter Lenox. He must have suffered greatly, for 'te had grown thin and pale. He was / *ot like the man who during the year Preceding had been the proud head of one »f the finest establishments in London. I Mrs. Carew had been away during the (winter months. She had returned in the spring, for which season she had a pecufcar liking. But Mrs. Carew did not seem to enjoy the season as she usually did. There were whole days when she paced up and down the garden paths, thinking deeply, as one who had a problem to solve. She has lost somewhat of her bright ex- I pression. It was plain that there was a struggle going on in her mind. i “I used to think,” she said to herself one morning, “that human life was a jest. It seems to me that in what has passed of mine I have had the roses, and now must prepare for the thorns.” I Her son Beltran came down to spend lis Sunday with her. The bright, graceul artist, the changeful, lovable, vivatious woman, the sensitive, gifted genius, oved her son better than the whole world. She was proud of him. She glories in his (right, strong manhood. She gloried in Jhis talents, and his goodness. i He looked pale and wan. He had the Sir of one who had worked hard not only ( tiring the day, but far into the night, (when he should have slept. His mother I (taxed him with ( it, and he told the truth, mor some time he had worked nearly (twenty hours out of twenty-four. I “Why not pay for assistance, and save {yourself?” his mother asked. | “Because I want every shilling, mother, that I can earn,” he replied. “I have not (one to spare.” i Her bright, changeful face clouded. “Why do you want money so, Beltran?” >he asked. “To marry, mother,” he answered. “I (want a pretty home for my darling. She (does not hurry me about it—she would (&e willing to wait for years; but I am sunxious about her.” ’ “Why?” sh£ fioubt her?' “Doubt her, my dearest mother?” he (cried. “I would just as soon doubt heavien! There are few so loyal or true as ^he. It is not that; but Lady Ailsa is not Strong, you know, and Beatrix tells me tow she suffers at Strathnarn. I want to fetch them both away, and I cannot untll I have a home for them.” “Does that cross, stern old man still hold out, then?" asked Mrs. Carew. “Does he show no signs of relenting?” “No, and never will. We do not speak about him. His money and his lands are forgotten. We never think of him when we make our plans. Only one thing troubles us, mother. Beatrix has shown such truth and fidelity; for love of me she has declined to be Duchess of Heathland; for love of me she has lost one of the largest fortunes in England. No man living cares less for money than I do; but I wish —how I wish!—that I had a fortune for her sake. Work as I will, it must be many years before my income will be more than moderate. Oh, mother, if I had but a reasonable rent roll, I should he the happiest man in the world!” “But you tell me always that Beatrix does n.ot care for wealth,” observed Mrs. ,Carew. “Nor does she, mother. At the same time I wish with all my heart that I had it to give her. Os course it can never ba, but I should have liked to go to her und say: ‘You gave up everything for me, my darling, now it is in my power to re pay you.’ ” “Would that make you very happy?’ ■he asked, musingly. “Yes, very happy,” he replied. “I will think the matter over, Beltran.” “What good will thinking do, mother?” he asked. “Rather forget it and do not mind my troubles.” “You would really be the happiest man In the world if you had wealth, Beltran?” ■he interrupted. “Yes, I should indeed. But, mother, do not think that I am complaining. The man who makes a fortune is greater than the man who inherits one. I must work hard, study hard, and save my money.” She looked at him wistfully. “You must not work by night and day,” she said, “that will not do. Beltran, if I could give you wealth and did not, you I would consider me very cruel, I sup- ! pose?” “I should indeed,” he laughed. “But.

as that is not the case, I consider you 1 very kind.'’ And "Mrs. Carew turned away when she ' heard the words. 1 CHAPTER XXVI. Mrs. Carew had many long fits of musing after that conversation. She saw that her son loved his beautiful fiancee eo dearly that he would wear his life away in trying to surround her with luxuries. She thought of it by day and by night. Her work was at a standstill; her whole time was spent in thinking. The result was a note addressed to her son. It ran: “My Dear Beltran—-I must go to Strathnarn; and it will save trouble if you will go with me. Make arrangements for the journey, and let me see you this evening.’’ The astonishment of Beltran Carew when he read his mother’s note was equaled only by his surprise at what he heard when he reached Strathnarn. lie went at once to his mother, and his first question was: “Why are you going to Strathnarn,

mother? What can you possibly want there?” “My dear Beltran, I have a story to tell; and, as I do not care to tell it twice over, t you shall hear it there.” Nor could he win one word more from her. They started the next day, and dur- ’ ing the whole journey he thought his ' mother strangely unlike herself. She laughed and cried. She was in the wildest of spirits, and then was tilled with sudden gloom. In the same breath she described herself as happy and miserable. They reached Strathnarn in the dull twilight of a dull spring day. Mrs. Carew looked around with sympathizing eyes. “How terribly dull it is here!” she said. “Is it possible that Miss Lennox has been shut up in this place? Why, Beltran, it is a ruin, not a house.” Margaret Macpherson opened the door, and looked up in surprise on seeing Mr. Carew and a lady. “Right glad I am to see you, sir,” said the old servant, "for the ladies are but dull; they do not expect you, though, and Lady Lennox is niling. I will fetch Miss Lennox, for my lady must not be taken by surprise.” “That will be best,” remarked Mrs. Carew; and in another moment Beatrix, looking lovelier than ever, stood before them. She uttered no cry, but her face grew deadly pale when she saw Beltran and his mother. He kissed the pale face until the color returned in a burning flush; and then Mrs. Carew kissed her. Beatrix lookI ed from one to the other. “There is nothing wrong, I know,” she said, “or you would not laugh; but why come to this miserable place, where no one can be properly received?” “We are here,” replied Mrs. Carew, “because I have a story to tell you.” “A story?” repeated Beatrix, wonderingly. “Yes, a story—one that you do not dream of or suspect—a story that concerns both you and Beltran, though it is but another record of the instability of women and the stupidity of men.” “Beltran is not stupid,” laughed Boa trix; “yon may say what you like about other men, but you must make him the now, Beatrix, if your mother is weak ami unwell, will you prepare her to see us? We shall not remain long; so do not distress yourself by thinking of our entertainment. I have ordered the carriage to return in three hours; then we depart.” There was an air of natural command about Mrs. Carew which no one ever thought of resisting. Beatrix went to prepare her mother to receive their visitors. Lady Ailsa clung to her daughter’s hand. “Is there anything wrong, Trixie?" she asked. “It seems so strange, my dear. Can your uncle be ill, do you think?" “I do not think so, mamma. I feel that there is some good fortune in store for us. Mrs. Carew looked as though there was.” Then Mrs. Carew entered the room. She went up briskly to Lady Ailsa and kissed her as she lay on the couch. CHATTER XXVII. “Do not disturb yourself, dear Lady Ailsa,” said Mrs. Carew. T am come only to recite a short history to you, and when I have done so, I shall go away. Pray do not move. I will sit here by your side. Beltran, my dear, I should feel easier if your hand were in mine.” He went at once to his mother's side and took her hand; then, while all three looked at her in silence, her fa^e changed slightly, the color varied. She looked half shyly, half boldly at them as she began: “I was never quite like other women, dear Lady Ail a; I lacked their prudence and their calculating wisdom. I have greater failings, but I think, also greater virtues and greater genius. If you look upon me as you would upon other women —you will never understand me, and there will be a terrible misconception. My name —you see I am beginning at the beginning—was Grace Carew,” and Beatrix, looking at her lover, wondered why his face flushed and his lips quivered with sharpest pain. Lady Ailsa raised her head and listened with a gieat show of attention. Mrs. Carew smiled, ami nodded at her son. “I know what you are thinking of, Beltran,” she said. “You must listen pa--1 tiently. My father was not an artist,” i she continued, “nor can I tell you whence ; I have my love of color; my passion for j art certainly came not from him. Ho

was a doctor, but a ne’er-do-well. I cannot remember that he ever remained in one town or city more than two years. lio was very clever —wonderfully clever lint he was anything but steady. He would write a treatise that would set the faculty at loggerheads, and then foolishly spend the proceeds. Y"ou must under-

stand that this erratic life of bis did not in the least interfere with my education. I was kept in a fashionable school in New York until I reached my sixteenth year, and then my father sent me a letter asking me if I would like to go to Teru with him. We went to Peru together, and there I met my fate. “I wish for my own sake,” continued Mrs. Carew, “that I had a picturesque love story to tell you. Unfortunately, mine was a most commonplace wooing. We did not take a home at Lima—the city in Peru where my father hoped to do so well —but we lived at a large hotel there; and there also lived an Englishman, a young man, stern and cold, but reputed to be rich. At that time I was very enthusiastic about art. I began to evince a decided talent for sketching

faces. My father was delighted about !t t and said that if I could have lessons from a good master I should make plenty of money afterward. He had no money pay the master, but the stern, silent young Englishman offered it to him as a loan—only as a loan to be repaid when I had finished my course of lessons. “I do not want to trouble you with a lot of details; but my father was pleased that I should be able to earn money. jj e was grateful to the young Englishman and asked him to dine with us; and when the first ieserve was broken down my father and his young benefactor became great friends. His character had a wonderful charm for the young Englishman After a time he was quite at home with us; he liked to spend his evenings in our rooms; he talked a great deal to me, and I was so young. so blithe of spirit, so happy in my art that I talked gayly enough to him. “I never thought seriously about him* but suddenly he asked me to marry him* I was utterly indifferent. My only answer to him was that I had no time to think of getting married, lie must have gone to my father at once, for presently he sent for me and said that ho had been informed of the offer made to me, and that hp thought I should do well to accept it.” Mrs. Carew paused for a few minutes^ and an expression of sadness came ovo the bright, changing face. "I make no excuses for myself,” slw continued. “I was not persuaded A threatened. My father treated the wluffe matter half as a jest, half as a business agreement of a most satisfactory nature. We settled between us that 1 should marry the young Englishman. I made but one stipulation, and that was that after my marriage 1 should still be allowed to pursue my .art education. The grave young Englishman agreed, and then it was supposed that all difficulty was removed. The Englishman took a handsome house in Lima. “Listen, I.tidy Ailsa you who fee] so tenderly for your daughter. I was just seventeen, without the least notion of what I was undertaking, when I married. I was ignorant of the sentimental as of the practical side of the matter; and 1 never seemed to realize my obligations unI found myself a wife, without knowing what, the duties of a wife were. I have never been constant to one set of opinions for many days. With a true, tender, constant love I have never loved but one object; and that is my son Beltran. So, Lady Ailsa, I married; and the name of the Englishman I married was Teter Lennox I” Had a thunderbolt fallen in their midst there could not have been a greater expression ot surprise. Lady Ailsa repeated the mime. Beatrix cried aloud: “Are you ‘the mystery' that has shadowed all my life?” Then Bel'ran rose suddenly, ami with n white, stat tied face confronted his mother. “Lennox!" he repeated, with an air of incredulity. “Oh. mother, is this a jest?” “My dear Beltran," she replied, calmly, “all things considered, I wish that it wore a jest perhaps mu for your sake, hut for my own. I do most certainly. I nfortunately, what I have said is true." “My I’m le Lennox your husbaiid?” cried Beatrix. "Is it possible that the story can be anything but fiction?” I “It is no fiction," replied Mrs. Byt you have not heard al! my story jyt We were married I one of the most indifferent, most heedless, most careless of girls, he one of the grimmest, sterm^t of men. I must speak truthfully of him. He had a most i>assionate love for me. It could not have been greater indeed it would have been much better had it been less. He loved me with a wonderful love, all the more that 1 was so profoundly indifferent. I cannot blame myself. Ht ought to have had more sense than to j marry me.” “I cannot believe such a recital,” cried Beatrix “it is too wonderful to be true.” (To be continmsl.) Overdid the Business. "With a little more horse sense I might have been Governor of a great State once," laughed a man who is so thoroughly out of politics that he usually forgets to vote. "I was popular at home, was widely known, had held : several minor offices and had my eye I on the presidency. I was a bachelor, ' well off and thought mighty highly of myself. "When nominated for the governorship I started right out to help do my own campaigning. AVe decided to clean up the country districts first and mass our forces on the big cities at the finish. My first date was at Millsdale. 1 called upon several of the local leaders, not forgetting to dandle the babies and vow that each was the handsomest little thing 1 had seen in many a day. When I came to speak there was a goodly sprinkling of rural maidens in the audience. I threw all the admiration possible into my features, admitted the solitude of a bachelor’s existence and vowed that the reason I had never married was because I had never been to Millside before. There was great hilarity, and it was evident that I had made a hit. 1 had captured the girls, and each one of them could control at least a single vote. “But it was such a good tiling that I decided to push it along. In every village and hamlet where I went I made the same assertion and secured the same evidence of approval. But there came the day of judgment. My opponents got hold of what I had done. They told the story from the stump and through the press, charging me with insincerity toward the tender sex, and toward every one else, for that matter.

It became notorious that I had said the same thing to ail babies and all lasses. The mothers and the girls were against me ‘to a man,’ and I was lost under a landslide, though the remainder of the ticket won. I quit politics and the State.” —Detroit Free Press. Some physicians say that people who ride up and down six or eight stories in an elevator two or three times a day will develop some form of nervous trouble. They go so far as to say that the daily use of an elevator inducea headache, heart trouble ajxd brain fever. In Spain the goat is the domestic substitute for the cow., that country having 4,350,000 goats.

: Rioting at folton. 1 _ REMOVAuOF WOODMEN OFFICES CAUSES TROUBLE. R'ulton Loses the Modern Woodmen Records, a Mob Threatens the Lieutenant Governor and Adjutant General and Troops Arc Sent. Militia in the Fight. The controversy over the removal of the head offices of the Modern Woodmen from Fulton to Rock Island came to an end Thursday in a sensational manner. The Lieutenant Governor of the State was kept a prisoner for four hours by a mob, the Adjutant General of the State was roughly handled and both feared that their lives were in danger. Gov. Tanner was called on -for troops, both Lieut. Gov. Northcott and the sheriff of the county declaring that the civil authority was powerless to preserve order. Militia wire ordered to the scene, but later the order was countermanded, but Mhe countermand came too late to stop • one company. In the meantime the seal and principal books of the order were reF ^noved to Rock I sin nd. ’Judge Gest of the Circuit Court, who hlfias been dissolving the injunctions reH Straining the removal of the offices to Rock Island as fast as they were issued, ^lursday dissolved the sixth injunction at Morrison. Anticipating his decision, forty residents of Fulton chartered a special train to Aledo, where Judge Ramsey, who resides at Morrison, is holding court, to get him to interfere in their b ■- । half, but he refused to do so. A telegram was at once sent to Rock Island telling the interested men to come i and get the hoiks ami records. They came forty strong on the little steamer Hennepin, among them Lieut. Gov. Northcott ami Adjutant Gern'ra! Reece.!

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Irr I a.mnlin from the office to the river, air no drayman would haul them. They took a portion of the books to the steamer and then decided to send the remainder by expre-s nt (5 o’clock. When Lieut. Gov. Northcott ami General Reece started for the depot to take a train, they were followed by a crowd and pelted with to- , matoes. They took refuge in the Wood- . men office. Afterward they attempted to board the Burlington train going se.uih j at 6:10. The crowd was at the depot, and when Mr. Reece showed himself it was a i signal for the opening of fiostilires. Mr. Recce was pounded and culled, but succeeded in boarding the train, where he ; was further assaulted while on the way p. I Clinton. Mr. Northcott was fr ghtened at the outbreak and succeeded in returning to the waiting room, which was surrounded by the crowd, which kept growing. He was kept a prisoner there until 8 o’clock, the citizens preventing serious outbreak. Sheriff Fuller requested Gov. Tanner to send militia. Major Anthony of Sterl- , I ing. Captain McGrath and forty members of Company G of Dixon, and fifty deputy ' sheriffs from Sterling arrived at !Ll7 o'clock. All was quiet when the company arrived. At 10:10 o'clock Mr. N- rtheott boarded a north bound train for Savanna, after being detained for four hours. The militia, under Mr. Northcott’s orders, were sent to the head clerk’s office to guard it and assist with the remainder of the removal. History of the Trouble. The controversy of the Modern Woodmen is an old one. In 1883 the several camps then in convention at Fulton. 111., organized what was termed the Head Camp. A charter was secured and the perpetual office of the Head Camp was located by the charter granted by the Sc retary of the State of Illinois at Fu’t n. There was a board of eleven direciors or executive committee, charged with the R listration of the order. The order e^ed and the Head Camp at Fulton lea matter of local importance. All or thdmoney received for death benefits Bas sent to the town. The postoflice inoreased in business and classification. The lo cal banks reaped the benefit of the deposit of the money anil a large number of People were given employment. In 1890 the organization had a number ’I State camps and an element in the orler began to chafe over the Head Camp. R was claimed that the State organizations forming a national organization had i an undoubted right to administer the busi- ' nes s of the order, and the result of a con-

v ^ntion at Springfield was the prevalence the opinion that the camp headquarters s ould be removed to Rock Island. The 0 aboard of trustees, by amendment, was down to five and the outsiders, as the Mople of Fulton term the members at ‘ ’Se. secured control of the order. a n "heated efforts to remove the head^'•ters l 0 Rock Iskind wcre foiled by organization at Fulton, which no?? ^at the board was still in buii.p by v 'rtue of the charter, and the v J i n S erected at Rock Island has never Th?" oc eupied. • m j , I)00 Pleof Rock Island began to take wantJ?? ' n the controversy. They obst lUp) - headquarters, and after legal Ported+" S Were P la ced’in their way they ago a " . for ce. One night three months madea?' 11 toad of Rock Island people repulsed on Fulton. The sally was juredf a ' t! a number of people being intp capq? e riot that followed the attempt -- the headquarters. Since then

injunctions and counter injunctions hav? followed one another in rapid succession, until Jianlly anyone knows the exact l€ fc,r al situation. Just as the affair looked darkest to the Fulton people it was decided to appeal to the Federal courts. Someone not a resident of Illinois would have to bring tlm bill to get it into the jurisdiction of the Federal court. William A. Tenn of Clinton, lowa, volunteered to lend his name as complainant in the bill. In the bill he asked the court to restrain the present board of trustees or executive committee from further interference, pending the adjudication of the court on the issue raised. The court decided in favor of Rock Island, and since that time the battle of injunctions has waxed fierce. ARTIFICIAL BONES. I>r. Allport, an Expert, Creats a Sensa- I lion in the Luetgert Case. Public interest in the Luetgert murder , trial at Chicago continues with unabated ; intensity. The testimony of Dr. Allport, an expert, Wednesday afternoon was greatly to the big sausage maker’s liking. Dr. Allport declared the femur, which I’rof. George Dorsey of the Field Columbian museum identified as that of a human, was the femur of a hog. Dr. Allport is a professor of descriptive and comparative anatomy in the Northwestern I Diversity. The dispute between these two eminent authorities as to the bones lias brought about a cr : us in the case. If the jury believes Dr. Allport the conclusion can hardly be escaped that no human body was boiled in the vat in Luctgert's sausage factory. | When Dr. Allport went on the witness ■ stand again '1 hursday lie created another I sensation by declaring that the temporal । bone which Prof. Dorsey identified as human and from its formation probably the right temporal bone of a female, is । not human. Dr. Allport emphatically remarki d that there were no indications upon which to base the conclusion that

being. He believed it came from the skull of some lower nniuml. He also declared that the phalanges in evidence bei 'Hg' d o the lower animal kingdom. Dr. I Allport made a statement on the witness j stand Thursday that caused a profound sensation for a few minutes. He was examining the temporal bone which had I identified by Prof. Dorsey and proaouneed by the latter not only a temporal bone, but the temporal bone of a woman. "That bone is not a temporal bone either of a human or of the lower order of ani- • iIL / r\V TROT. ALLPORT. mals,” declared Dr. Allport, gazing at the exhibit intently. “It is a composition of bones put together by artificial means. The trace here which Prof. Dorsey said was the outline of a facial nerve is a fiber of animal matter with which the bones are stuck together. - ’ The statement was received with something akin to dismay | I by the prosecution for a moment. Luet- j gert leaned back in his chair and laughed. ; । DECIDE NOT TO STRIKE. Chicago Street Railway Employes Will Invoke the Law. At 1 o'clock Friday morning the mass meeting of Chicago street car employes in Coffey's Hall, (Bd and Halsted streets, unanimously adopted a resolution indorsing the organization of a local branch of the Amalgamated Association of Street Car Employes of America and boldly declared for further activity in organizing the street car monos Chicago. It was decided to notify Superintendent Bowen | of the Chicago City Railway Company । that the cars of the company on the South I Side are now run by union men and that an injury to one is the concern of all. The plan of the executive committee to resent any further dismissals was ratified, and future action was referred to that committee with power to act. A secret bal_lot of the men gives the executive committee the power to order a strike withou: any notice to the company. It was developed at the meeting that the claims of the organizers concerning the numbers of men who had joined the union were exaggerated. Meetings of men loyal to the company were held and resolutions adopted declaring against a strike and announcing that no grievance | exists. W. J. Allen, a member of Company G, 112th Illinois Regiment, an inmate of the national military home at Dayton, 0., and John Btandenberger, a soldier, were found dead. Death was proinbly due to heart disease in both cases.

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