Lincoln County leader., July 06, 1900, Image 6

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ISS COXSIDINE was the rage
that season; a tall, haughty
'looking girl, with magnificent
great dark eyes, and a torrent of dead
black hair, which she was always con
triving to wear as nobody else did, tum
bling over her shoulders cloudily or
wreathed about her small, elegantly
shaped head.
She was a stranger in the town, but
she brought letters of introduction from
people of the highest respectability in
the metropolis, and was accompanied
by a slaid-looUiug lady of middle-age,
who always wore pearl-colored silk and
performed chaperon nightly in an alto
gether Irreproachable manner.
Miss Cousidine's toilets were artistic
perfection. Her laces were priceless,
said judges; her jewelry dazzled the
eyes of even accustomed upperteudom.
Miss (jonsidiuc was a mystery, and
the greater sensation, perhaps, for that
very chill whisper which seemed to
thrill in the air about her, and which
had its foundation In tne mere fading
of the beauty's brilliant color, the flick
er of her liquid glance at unexpected
moments, and for no apparent reason.
She was a coquette of therst wa
ter. That was a discovery early made.
She had a way of looking sideways
through those long silky lashes of hers
that was Infinitely more aUurlng than
a level glance would have been, and
the smile which visited those rosy lips
only now and then was doubly at
tractive from Its Infrequency.
A creature of dangerous graces, she
was what people mean when they call
a woman fatal. Men Imagined heaven
in her glance, and counted that lost
when her smile was withdrawn.
My Lady Dangerous met her match,
however, toward the close of the sea
son. A yellow-haired German, whose
azure glance had a softer dazzle than
her own, and who called himself by
the fascinating title of Count Ludwlg
Vermandorf, presented himself about
that time to compete with the beauti
ful girl for her place as sensation of
the day.
He was shy of Miss Considlue at
first, but gradually he too seemed to
be drawn within the circle of her wiles,
yielding with such a reluctant, pensive
grace as clad his radiant face with a
new charm. Kven Miss Consldlne
drooped her dangerous eyes with a
flickering blush under the tender bril
liance of the Count's smile, and her fin
gers trembled in his clasp, instead of
resenting the fond, faint pressure of his
hand. Count Ludwlg Vermandorf wns
an assiduous wooeV. Never devotee
knelt at the shrine of his patron saint
with more rapt and untiring devotion
than he at the feet of Miss Consldlne.
It was not new to the coquettish
heauty to lie sought humbly. Hut this
man was her master even at her own
game.
He knew how to clothe his most Im
passioned moment with a reserve that
continually mocked and tantalized; to
say one thing and look another; to
sting with a word and soothe with a
touch. He never said too much, but al
ways too little. His looks were elo
quent of love; ills tongue so silent on
that fascinating theme that the heart
of the haughty beauty grew to fairly
writhe within her with mingled pain
and anger.
Count Ludwlg was an artist of some
talent, and he Insisted that he must
paint Miss Cousidine's portrait." She
was not at all loath, though she feigned
reluctance when it was first spoken of.
These sittings, from which she hoped
much, and for which she draped her
perfect shape with every artistic com
bination her rare taste could devise,
proved utter failures as far as her ob
ject was concerned.
Whether It was the same with Count
Ludwlg remains to be seen. He would
permit no one, not even the beautiful
subject, to look upon his picture while
it remained Incomplete.
Miss Consldlne, since her acquaint
ance with the fascinating Count, had
changed greatly. All that rich tropical
Mount, peculiarly hers, had vanished.
Instead was a dusky pallor, varied by
fitful crimson Hushes, like the leap of a
smoldering tlame. Count Ludwlg had
changed also. The soft radiance of his
handsome face had turned to the chill
dazzle of snow peaks; his smile was
like the Ice beneath. His blue eyes
were like steel magnets.
It was as though from this man ema
nated some deadly creeping Influence
which Miss Consldlne cowered before,
but could not resist. It was scarcely
lover and loved one. It seemed rather
the executioner and his victim.
One night Miss Consldlne invited a
select few to witness the mysterious
unveiling of the picture about which
there had been much conjecture. A
sensation was expected. The magnifi
cent drawing-room was ablaze with
light, a-tlutter with expectant guests.
The veiled portrait occupied a magnifi
cent position at the lower end of the
long salon, and thither pressed the
tbrouir the peerless belle conspicuous
upon the arm of the artist, Count Lug
wig. Hoth were pale, but the Count smiled
right and left, dazzling. The beauty
was grave and silent, watching the man
upon whose arm she leaned furtively,
and with a half-foruidding look in her
liquid dark eyes. From time to time
she pressed one Jeweled hand steadily
upon her side, as If to still the throb
bing of the stormy heart beneath, while
she continually questioned herself:
"Why do I fear? What is this terror
tl.nt steals my very senses from me?
Ho cannot know."
At last Count Ludwlg loosened her
Jeweled fingers from his arm, and step
pint, forward, drew the curtain with a
sweep ot the hand.
There was an instant's breathless si
lence. An affrighted amaze seemed to
stop the beating of every heart. Then
broke forth an exclamation and jutcr;',
and above all, like the death scream of
some dying animal, rose a woman's
g'irick.
The picture was, first, 'a room, rich
in decorations of green and gold. In
the foreground, half reclined In a cush
ioned chair, an old man, with long,
softly curling white hair. Ills head had
f.itlen a little to jne side, his eyes were
fixed In a glassy yet reproachful stare
upon the exquisitely beautiful face of a
woman, whose Jeweled hands he
grasped with a dying clutch. Both his
hands and hers were blood-stained.
Hers held a stlletto-llke dagger, from
ABOVE 'A noSB A WOMAN'S SHRIEK.
v. hose glittering point also blood drip
ped. There was a gaping wound in
the old man's side, nnd the woman's
face was that of Miss Consldlne!
When the appalled woman, for whose
sole benefit this picture had been paint
ed, would have flung up her frenzied
hnnds to shut out the sight, Count Lud
wlg caught them In nn iron grasp, and
almost shouted in her ear in his excite
ment :
"No, no, madam; you shall look, aitd
look, and look, till the sight blinds you
or kills you, I care not which. Do you
see him, false siren the poor old man,
who was so kind to you -who took you
out of poverty to marry you who never
harmed the most helpless creature?
What had he done that you should kill
hint, you murderess?"
Miss Consldlne had ceased to strug
gle. The blanched whiteness of her
face nnd the startling eyes were some
thing awful to see, nnd the screams
that broke through her rigid, ashen lips
curdled the blood to hear.
"Shall I tell you who I am?" Count
Ludwlg continued, without releasing
her, still compelling her to look. "Count
Ludwlg no longer. I am his son that
Uodolphus of whom you have heard,
but whom you never saw. When 1 came
home nnd found that the poor old man
who loved me had been ruthlessly slain,
I swore never to rest until I had found
and given to Justice his murderess. For,
madam, I never doubted a single In
stant who she wns. You laid your plans
well. You married a doting old man
for his wealth, and with your sorceress
designings you Induced him to disown
his own children nnd make a will which
gave you all. Then you contrived that
ho should send the servants for a holi
day, except that valet, who was hanged
for the murder. Poor old Ceorge! He
would have died sooner than harm his
master. You pretended to quit the
house yourself, but you came back lu
disguise and did the deed."
He paused. Miss Cousidine had not
uttered a sound for some moments.
The horrible ghnstllness had not left her
face, but she had lu a measure recov
ered her self-possession. Now she
spoke In an utterly changed but com
posed tone.
"You cannot prove a syllable of this
mad story," she began, but he stopped
her, with eyes that seemed absolutely
to blaze with rage and menace. Draw
ing swiftly forth a purple velvet case,
ho lifted the lid and showed upon the
white satin cushion nu exquisitely
wrought sandalwood bracelet. It was
stained with something which had dried
upon It, and changed its color all ex
cept about a tllrd to a dai., sickly
shade, whose hue It was not aitflcult to I
recognize.
Said Count Ludwig in an awed
tone:
"I found this among the cushions of
the chair In which my father was slain.
It is his blood upon It. It slipped from
your arms in the struggle with him.
You wear Its mate this moment upon
your arm."
He held his ensanguined token an in
stant beside the one on the woman's
bare, exquisitely molded arm. Then
he laid her slowly down upon the car
pet and drew back. She never stirred.
"I think she Is dead," he said quietly.
It was true. Some vessel, had burst
Inwardly In that wild struggle against
the shock of knowing that the man she
had learned to love was the sou of her
unhappy victim. Site had been dying
while he spoke to her.
AN ELEPHANTS TOOTHACHE.
Often the Great Pieces of Ivory Will
Thrill with Pain.
"I told you the other day about the
Sulta-u of Zanzibar's clocks," said
Itoberi Crawford yesterday, "but there
was another, thing that I heard of while
In that. .country which Is not without
interest. The sultan used to take me
round to show me the place and of
what Its trade consisted. It is the
greatest clove-raising country in the
world, and as such conveys comfort
and courage to out-between-the-acts
theater-goers the world over. Other
spices and cocoanut rope are also Im
portant features of their export trade.
But in addition to the sale of that
w hich they raise within their own bor
ders, their revenues are largely In
creased by the trade In Ivory. Zanzi
bar is the greatest market for South
African Ivory, which is brought there
In large quantities from the interior.
The ivory is placed in large ware
houses from which it Is either sold at
once or else held therein for a better
market. The man in charge of these
warehouses was a very interesting
character an expert In ivory. He told
me many curious things about it, and
among others propounded the following
theory as an explanation of why ele
phants go mad and occasionally run
amuck. In the warehouse were a pair
of magnificent tusks, measuring fully
fourteen feet from tip to tip, which In
life must have been carried by a veri
table Gollah among elephants. The
expert. In showing me those tusks,
pointed out the fact that while one was
complete and flawless, the other was
broken off at the point and showed
deep scratches and abrasions through
out Its length. 'Now,' said he, 'if you
will look near the base you will find a
hole made by decay that had struck In
to the nerves and given that elephant
a toothache, and think what a tooth
ache of toothaches a fourteen-foot
tooth must have held. In his effort to
relieve this pain the elephant rubbed
his' tusk against, rocks and trees and
drove it into the earth, which mutil
ated it in the manner you see here. I
have frequently come ncross placet
where an elephant has ripped up great
spaces in the forest and torn down the
trees, and I am positive that toothactaa
was the cause of this frenzy. An ele
phant In a circus going suddenly mad
and killing his keeper Is not an uncom
mon thing, but I'll wager that In nino
cases out of ten If they would properly
Investigate the matter they would find
that the brute's sudden frenzy sprung
from so ordinary a cause as common,
everyday toothache.' "
I ipmeae Design.
The system by which the Japanese
are taught the art of designing is large
ly responsible for the peculiar charac
ter of their work. The Japanese stu
dent who Is taught drawing Is given a
small book, In which the designs art!
printed in small squares, until he hag
grasped the salient features of each.
He Is then sent out Into the open coun
try, and told to observe the works of
Nature . spread out before him In all
their luxuriance. Finding some suita
ble object for his nttentiou, he proceeds
to reproduce the same, Introducing,
perhaps, some Imaginative details. It
Is here that the system of squares
comes In. Those elegant steins and
feathery petals, which are apparently
thrown together without restraint, are
really the particular feature of the
mass of vegetation he has selected for
individual study. His long course of
study in this Hue has given him the
faculty of following a single vine
through tangled underbrush, and Ig
noring nil the rest of the growth. The
tortuous course of this one vine, when
brought out by his brush, appears, to
the Western art critic, as crude aud
without merit, whereas, lu reality, It Is
full of Interest The greatest merit of
their work lies' lu the ability to touch
the characteristics of natural objects.
II vlval of Old English Words.
A London literary journal has offered
a prize for "the best list of six old, En
glish words which might be revived
with advantage." The winning list
contains one word mournfully appro
priate lu time of war. The word Is
"commorient," which signifies dying
together. Another list supplies the old
Chaucerian word "algate." meaning at
any risk: "To Dyomede algate I wol
be trewe."
Some people kuow Just enough tj
I'icathe and eat
SERIOUS FACTS ABOUT FOOD.
How Can th Danger from Alnm Bak
ing Powders Be Avoided?
The reported cases of poisoning from
the use of alnm baking powder have
awakened the public to the serious
danger which menaces the health of i
the people of this country In the num
eroua alum powders whicli are urged '
upon consumers.
Among the leading physicians and .
scientists there is no question as to the
detrimental effects which alum baking
powders produce upon the system. In
many "foreign countries and in many
cities of this country, the anthorities
have absolutely prohibited their sale or
the sale of bread containing alum.
Even small doses of alum given to
children, have produced fatal results,
while cases of heartburn, indigestion,
griping constipation, dyspepsia and
various kindred gastric troubles from
irritation of the mucous membrane, at
tributed to the continuous use of food
prepared with the alum or alum phos
phate powders, are familiar in the prac
tice of physicians generally.
Congress has recently been investi
gating the subject of food, and in its
official report to the senate the com
mittee says: "So far as the' use of
alum in the manufacture of a food
product, such as baking powder, is con
cerned, the committee, in view of the I
overwhelming mass of evidence antag-1
onistio to its use, recommends that its
use in food products and baking pow
ders be prohibited by law."
It is not possible that any prudent
housewife, any loving mother, will
knowingly use an article of food that
will ir-jure the health cf her household,
or perhaps cause the death of her chil
dren. How shall the dangerous alum pow
ders be distinguished? And how shall
the danger to health from' their use be
avoided?
Generally alum powders may be
known from the price at which they are
sold, or from the fact that they are ac
companied by a gift, or are disposed of
under some scheme. The alum powder i
costs but a few cents a pound to make,
and is often sold at 20 or 25 cents a
pound; sometimes as low as 10 cents.
It is impossible to name all the alum
powders in the market, but any baking
powder sold at a low price, or adver
tised as costing much less than the
well known, high class powders, or
accompanied by a present, or disposed
of under any scheme, is of this class,
detrimental to health and to be avoided.
These facts should incline consumers
to turn a deaf ear to all importunities
to buy the inferior powders. The wise
housekeeper will decline in all cases to
take them.
Good Till He Took to Drink.
A few years since a large farmhouse
on my country place being vacant, 1
offered, through one of the settlements,
to take some poor woman with small
children who seemed to need it for a
two-months' rest and fresh air. Among
those sent up was a good looking and
soft spokqn young woman with three
small children. She bad just come
from the hospital, and had a scar nearly
all around her neck which was just
healing up. Her husband, a carpenter,
had cut her throat in a drunken spree,
nearly severing the juglar vein. She
was taken to the hospital and he was
tried and sent to prison. "Was he
always ugly to you?" she was asked.
"Oh, no," she replied. "He was very
good till he took to , drink.'.' National
Advocate.
'"Mr. Dolley, won't you let me look
at your watch a little while?"
"Certainly, Miss Flypp. Do you
want to consult the time?
"No," replied the girl, as she opened
it and examined its case and works.
"I was curions to see if water tarnished
gold, or had any effect on the watch's
delicate mechanism."
"Water? What do you mean?"
"Well, Mr. Hunker told me yon
were in the habit of soaking your
watch. What is the object of such
treatment, Mr. Dolly?" Harlem Life.
The uncommon woes of a married
lady in Damascus, Ohio, have impelled
her to seek a divorce. To prevent her
from going to a party she declared that
her husband threw her false teeth in
the fire and concealed her switch of
false hair. Now she can't go out until
he gives her money to secure new teeth,
and he heartlessly refuses unless she
promises to renounce parties for ever
more. A Buffalo milk man is in trouble.
To a customer he supplied milk which
had earthworms in it, and the custom
er had him arrested. He has decided
to carefully Rtrain the water hereafter
betore he dilutes his milk with it,
and use the worms for bait.
Governor Leary, of Guam, is a joker.
He has placed a tariff of $4 a gallon on
whiskv, which everybody there wants
to drink, and yet has decided to admit
free painting and statuary, whioh no
body there cares about.
"Your husband has a heap to say
about how the country shall be run,"
said a neighbor. "I reckon he takes
hisself fur a purty smart man."
"I reckon he does." said Mrs. Corn
tossel. '"But I don't 'low he's ever
goin' to Bet the world on fire."
"No, not if he has to git out hisself
an' chop the wood fur kindlin' to start
theblaze." Washing ton Star.
Unconscious Contempt. ..
In a case of criminal libel that was
oeard not long ago a lady had gone
into the witness box on behalf of the
plaintiff, whose counsel was examining
her.
"Now, madam," the lawyer began,
"please repeat the slanderous state
ments made by the defendant on this
occasion, just as you heard them."
"Oh, they are unfit for any respecta
ble person to heart" was the emphatio
answer.
"Then," said the examiner, coax
foglyi "suppose you just whisper them
to the judge." Collier's Weekly.
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Evening News.
The quicksilver mines in Brewster
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