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TO HEAR Ail SIDES Senate Committee ; Will Consider Railroad Rates. NEW BILL IS TO BE PREPARED Two Months Will Be Devoted to Hear ing Testimony of Experts on Question. Washington, April 15. Railroad rate legislation and kindred topics will again be brought prominently to the attention of the public with the meet ings here, beginning Monday, of the senate committee on interstate com merce, which will- assemble for the purpose of ventilating the subject in a manner more thorough than any here tofore on record. The meeting will be held in the committee's rooms at the capitol and will be public. Senator Elkins,' of West Virginia, will preside. The Republican members are Cullom, Illinois; Aldrich, Rhode Island; Kean, New Jersey; Dolliver, Iowa; Foraker, Ohio; Clapp, Minnesota; and Millard, Nebraska. . The Democrats are Till man, South Carolina; McLaurin, ' Mis sissippi; Carmack, Tennessee; Foster, Louisiana; and Newlands, Nevada. 'As a basis of . consideration, the Esch-Townsend bill, passed by the house at the last session, will be ex- pected to serve. The committee had the measure before it many days before the adjournment of the last congrsss and was urged to put it on its passage'. Arguments were advanced, however, protesting against hasty action because of the alleged radical character of this measure, and the importance of the in terests involved. Chairman Elkins and Senator Foraker were among those who advocated delay, and the commit tee, near the close of the session, after much time had been devoted to hear ings, reported to the senate a resolu tion authorizing it to continue the bearings during the recess. This authority was granted and Monday's meeting will be the initial meeting under that authority. Although the house committee on in terstate commerce, which evolved the Esch bill, took sufficient testimony, to 11 several large volumes, and although the senate committee was not idle in that regard, the investigation of the subject now imminent promises to be most exhaustive. Both 'sides, in fact many sides, of the case will be heard. BUTCHERS DENOUNCE PACKERS New York Trade Up in Arms About Advance in Beef. New York, April 15. Prices of all kinds of meat have begun to rise in New York because of a reported in- creased cost to dealers of about 2 cents a pound. This advance in dressed beef by the packers means a corresponding increase of from 4 to 6 cents per pound at retail on the average grade of sir loin steaks, porterhouse steaks and prime ribs of roast beef. Retail dealers say they received notice of the first advance ten days ago, but postponed an advance to their customers. However, on receiving notice of a further raise next week it was found necessary to make a change in retail prices. Meetings of the Retail Butchers and Meat Dealers' Protective associa tion will be held "in all boroughs to take action. The Brooklyn branch of the association already has met and discussed the situaiton. Several re tailers bitterly denounced the packers, who were alleged to be taking concerted action. . It was declared that while the advance of wholesale prices was attrib ute to- falling off in supplies of cattle at the Chicago stock yards, no such falling off had taken place, and that the raising of prices was entirely un justified. Preparing; for Long Siege. Tokio, April 15. It is reported here that the Russians are continually rein forcing the garrison at Vladivostok and that the work of strengthening the fortress is constantly progressing. It is said that the plans of the Russians contemplate a garrison numbering 100, O00 men, with 500 guns. Many addi tional batteries, redoubts, barriers, and pits are in course of construction and 'normous stores of ammunition are be ing accumulated. The Russians, it is aid, have equipped their ; fortress to withstanding a siege. Standard. Asks the Impossible. Topeka,, Kan., April 15. The Stand ard Oil . company has filed in the Su- preme court a motion "to make more -definite and certain" the petition in the suit filed by Attorney General Cole man to oust the Standard company irom the state. It will be absolutely impossible to comply with a motion of this kind, the attorney general says, tut the Standard says it is necessary to obtain this information in order to properly defend itself. ; 1 Ten Million Dollars for Good- Roads, Albany, N. Y., April 15. The pro posed constitutional amendment an thorizing a state issue of $10,000,000 for building good roads tinder the state aid law , passed the assembly tdday Having passed the legislature last year, the proposition will now be submitted to the popular vote at the November -election. ADVANCE IN ALL BIO MARKETSJ Packers Raise Price and Lay Blame Chicago. April 14. Prices of heef have advanced in every important mar- oi me united states.- The con sumer is paying the advanced nrice. which to him represents several cents pound over what he naid no to ten days ago. .r-:, .":- f;,,j: -; Swift & ' Co.. .' Armour And Nelson Morris state that no beef has been sup plied to the retail markets of Chicago or to ahv other market in the nniintrv during the last month and a half ex cept at a loss. This, it is declared, has been partially due to the fact that oreeaers oi stock and the handlers of range cattle have been holding back on supply until the grass of the range be comes.nourishing. Swift & Co., speak ing for the packing interests, this after noon, issued the following statement: "During the last six weeks the pro ducers of beef cattle have been receiv ing about $1 advance over past prices for choice cattle. This simply means that the advance to the consumer in prices would be about $2 on the one half of choice cattle that can be used for food purposes. The range cattle producer is the master of the situa tion." ATTEMPT TO WRECK WARSHIP. Caution Saves Connecticut from Being Ruined in Drydock. ..... New York, April 14." During the process of placing the new battleship Connecticut in drydock at the navy yard here today, what might have proved a serious accident was avoided by the officer in charge sending down a diver .to' make thorough examination of the hull before the water should be pumped but and the vessel lowered into the keel blocks. The diver discovered a heavy timber stuck fast to the hull on the port side of the keel, where it had adhered to the rough plating while the vessel was on the ways and had not been released in launching. A failure to discover the timber, it is said, would have resulted in the buckling or crimpms of the keel and lower frames when the vessel set led on the blocks. Several days previous to the launch ing of the Connecticut last fall divers were sent down to examine the ways and found a large spike placed where it would have pierced the hull, had it not been found. Later, an official investi gation disclosed holes bored in one of the plates. LOW GRADES FOR SANTA FE Will Spend Ten Millions on New Road Through Mountains. Chicago, April 13. The Record- Herald says : Official announcement is made that the Santa Fe has decided to build a f 10,000,000 cut-off to the Pa cific coast with a view to getting rid of the mountain grades which now are en countered in the trans-continental travel. Orders have been given for the purchase of all the material necessary, and work will begin in 30 days. The work will be pushed to completion rap idly, and the new transcontinental low- grade line will be ready for opening within a year or 15 months. The Western end of the cut-off will be at Belen, N. M., 27 miles south of Albuquerque, on the El Paso line, and the Eastern will be at Texico, 250 miles away on the Pecos valley lines of the! Santa Fe. The new load will cross the Sierra Nevada mountains at Aho Pass, at an elevation of 6,491 feet, but at a maximum grade east-bound of 1 per cent and west-bound of 6-10ths of 1 per cent. The line will cross the Santa Fe Central near Willard and the El Paso & Northwestern at Llano, N. M Ready to Fight Once More. Paris, April 14. Captain Rode tele graphs to the Matin that he has. been the guest of Kaulbars, commander of the second Manchurian army at the Russian front. The captain s observa tions showed that the Russian army had been reinforced and is prepared to renew the battle. The troops maneuv er daily in battle formation. The Jap anese cavalry advance guard, the dis patch adds, is barely 10 miles away, and frequent cavalry skirmishes take place. The prisoners captured have sabre cuts on their heads, showing hand-to-hand skirmishes. Flood Damages Arizona Railroad, , Phoenix, Ariz., April 14. For two or three days it has been raining heav ily in .Ariozna.,. Early this .morning 300 feet of the pile structure built to repair the Phoenix & Eastern railway bridge over Salt river at Tempe was washed away. Salt river is still high tonight and some fear is expressed for the Maricopa & Phoenix railway bridge at Tempe. Reports from the Roosevelt dam site is that the river is higher than at any time this year and is fully as high at the Arizona canal dam as at any previous time. Invite Taft to Australia. Manila, April 14. Governor Gene ral Northcote, of the commonwealth of Australia, will, it is understood, invite Secretary of War Taft and party to visit Australia during the party's lortncoming visit to the Philippines The commonwealth of Australia will defray (he entire expense, it is "said The American chamber of commerce of Manila is preparing to entertain Mr Taft and party on an extensive scale during their stay in Manila. 'Submarines at Vladivostok. - Tokio, April 14. It is reported here that the.. Russians at Vladivostok are conducting experiments with six sub marine vessels, and that these vessels are all of foreign manufacture, and in elude French, British and American types. : S00N:tET;0NTRACT lans for The Dalles-Celilo Canal Are Almost Complete. WILL BEGIN WORK AT UPPER END Enough Money Now on Hand to Build Upper Lock and Entrance -' to the Canal. Washington, April 13. Within two weeks, it is expected, Major Langfitt will be instructed to advertise for bids for the construction of the first lock of The Dallea-Celilo canal, thus launching a project that has been under consid eration in one shape or another for a generation. The chief of engineers has received Major Langfitt's plan for be ginning construction, but, owing to the fact - that several details are not quite clear, the papers are to be re turned for explanation. When they get back to Washington it is thought the .plans will be approved and author ity granted to invite proposals. Major Langfitt's plans, which have been carefully worked out in great de tail and with apparent care, contem plate beginning construction on the upper end of the canal and working down stream. This is done to enable contractors to make use of the canal as it is completed, section by section. Major Langfitt has prepared plans for approaches to the canal at its upper end, for the guard gates for the first lock near Cehlo, and for a considerable stretch of canal. It is impossible to tell now much work can be done with the money appropriated in the rivers and harbors law, but it is antic ipiated there are funds enough to complete the Celilo lock and canal entrance, and to do considerable blasting and straight canal work. Near the first lock it will be necessary to build an immense' em bankment as the north wall of the ca nal. This part of the canal, and in fact all other parts not cut through solid rock, will be lined with cement. All embankments will be solid of con struction and will be faced with im mense rocks to prevent washing in sea sons of high water. ONLY ONE FARE. Reduced Rate to Portland Fair from All Eastern Points. Chicago, April 13. The action of the Trunk Line association meeting held at New York yesterday was supplement ed in this city today by the Central Passenger association meeting, which decided to concur with the former asso ciation in granting a one-way rate plus $1 from all points east to Chicago for those desiring to attend the Lewis and Clark fair at Portland. ? The Trunk Line association at its meeting yesterday receded from its for mer demand for a rate of 80 per cent of the round-trip fare, and agreed to make a one-way rate plus $1 from all points in its territory on the Atlantic sea board west to Pittsburg and Buffalo. This was to be done, provided the Cen tral Passenger association would take the same rate from the two latter cities through to Chicago, where the rates could be joined with the same conces sions made by the transcontinental lines, giving a one-way round-trip rate from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The action of the Central Passenger associ ation ratified this agreement today, which makes the one-way rate from coast to coast certain. This action assures a large attend ance at the Lewis and Clark exposition from all of the territory lying east of Chicago, extending to the Atlantic coast, between the Canadian boundary and the Ohio river. The Central Pas senger association ! territory taken in all the cities of the east, and the rate of one fare will induce thousands of well-to-do persons to make Portland the ob jective point in their summer and fall vacations. : Illinois Will Show Lincoln's Home Springfield, 111., April 13. The commission which is; to have charge of the state exhibit at tiie Lewis and Clark exposition at Portland, Or., this summer,, elected Cyrus Thompson chairman and Reuben H. Tiffany, of ireeport, as secretary. ,The commis sion will hold a meeting at Springfield next Tuesday. Unless objections are raised the commission will make the state building a copy - of the Lincoln home. It was practically decided to exhibit all available Lincoln mementos n the building "during the fair. Peasants Seizing' the Land. . St. Petersburg, April 13. The peas ants at Orgeleff, near Odessa, recently seized the land of some of the - big es tates and proceeded to divide it. Troops have been dispatched to the scene. Near Byelostok the peasants demanded that the landlords cease to use agricultural machinery, and as their attitude became threatening, Cos sacks were required to disperse them. An additional force of Cossacks has been dispatched to keep order. . -British Steamer Captured Tokio, April 13. The British steamer- Henry. Bolckow . was seized by the Japanese guardships off the island of Hokkaido, April 7. The character of her cargo has . not been divulged and her 'destination is .not stated in ' the official announcement. 7 It is presumed,. Lhowever, that the vessel was bound for Vladivostok. . .- ' I V v "Wy SMS2fHj '44 Ijjf I I g oiifid by a Spel 1 I CPAPTEIt XXV. (Continued.) "One day he asked permission to take me with him to see - the horticultural show, at Bury. I did not wish to gp. I always had a strange feeling, almost amounting to a dread, of being left alone with him; but I would not have men tioned it for the world. Grandfather, however, thinking that it would please me, gave a ready assent. In the exhibition we met a very dis agreeable looking old lady, who was in troduced to me as Mrs. Humphries, and who invited us home to dine with her. She was accompanied by a young lady, with remarkably red hair, and strange looking eyes, whom she called Judith. We went. Cousin John and I, home with them to a large brick house in a retired part of the town. After dinner Cousin John and the young lady, whom he 'called Miss Porter, began to talk about mesmerism. I had never heard of it before did not know the meaning of the word. Suddenly she turned to me. and asked me how I should like to be mesmerized, I answered that I did not know what it was. 'Oh, it's the strang est sensation in the world,' said John. This young lady is very clever at it.' After some little persuasion, I con sented, but very unwillingly. Then they took me Into a dark room. Miss Porter sat down in a chair. On the wall at the back was hung a black curtain, and around her shoulders was draped a black cloth. Upon the table in front of her was a lamp, In which was fixed a pow erful reflector, that threw a dazzling light upon her face. She seated me op posite to her, and bade me fix my eyes upon hers. I did so. Never can I for get the effect. I was once taken to a wild beast show. The glare of her wide ly distended eyes was exactly like that which 1 had seen there in the tigers. It fastened Upon mine, and held them fas cinated. I had no power to shift thrm; and as I gazed, spellbound, upon hers, they gradually dilated until they seemed to be two enormous globes of fire, sus pended in utter darkness. Then I lost all recollection. "It appears that while in this condi tion you are compelled to answer truth fully any question put to you, and to execute upon awaking any act you may have promised to perform while in the mesmeric state.. I believe that in my trance they extracted from me every- par ticular of my uncle's will. "When I awoke I found myself in the dining room, lying upon a sofa, and Mrs. Humphries holding a vinaigrette to my nose. I felt very weak, and strangely dazed. Cousin John made very light of the, matter said that I had got fright ened, and fainted away, and impress ed upon me that I must be sure not to speak of it to grandfather. And I did not I cannot dwell upon the dreadful story. After this he found ways and means to subject me again and again to this terrible influence. I grew pale and emaciated; my nerves were shat tered, my memory was almost destroy ed, and a kind of stupefaction seized up on my brain. Night and day, sleeping or waking, those awful globbes of fire glared at me out of the darkness. . It was killing me, as slowly and surely as the deadliest poison could have done. My grandfather was in a troubled state of mind. Physicians were brought; they pronounced my complaint to be a grad ual softening of the brain. "In the meantime, I was restrained from divulging the truth by threats from Cousin John threats not only against myself, but against my dear grandfath er. What torture could have exceeded what I then endured? .But I could not reason. I had not the power to make one effort to free myself from the. hide ous thraldom; and at last I became ut terly passive. "One day, I was seized with a resist less impulse to steal my grandfather's keys, go to the cabinet, seek for the se cret drawer, take eut the will and carry It to Cousin John. Then I knew that such an act had been imposed upon me by those terrible eyes in one of my trances. All day I fought against it; but an invisible power seemed driving me on. ' Suddenly, the thought flashed upon me that I would run away fly from all, everything. The instant It occurred, I acted upon it. I ran up into-my room, opened my desk, took out all L 2 money I had saved, and while my grandfather was taking his after dinner nap, stole out of the house not thinking, in my haste, even to put a hat on. It was quite dark, and no one observed me. I went on, taking no heed of my whereabouts, until I found myself in the' streets of Bury- t ' ..,.';.. ..,.-.:! "1 had crept under the old' Norman gateway, where vou saw me. T mcm. jbered that I had once chanced to see the city road pointed out from a spot very near to where I stood. - When you left me, I took that road. That nighti or. rather., towards morning, I slept in a wood. For a long time I dared not in quire my way, nor, until I was half dead with exhaustion, . did I venture to buy food. "After terrible hardships, I reached Ipswich., There. I purchased new clothes and took the train to the city. Although I had still money in my pocket when I arrived, I began to think of how I should get my living." "But did you not think of writing to your grandfather of telling him all you had suffered?" I interrupted. "Oh, no; I dared not. In the first place, I felt what a wicked creature they had made of me -how I had be trayed his confidence how I had almost become a thief! and I knew that if I went back to him to-morrow, the same thing would begin over again. For while they knew my whereabouts, no earthly power could protect me from the in flu nee of those awful eyes. My grand father would think me dead my cousin would Inherit all his wealth, and I should be safe; and so I resolved that hence forth I would live unknown, and that nut even my name should ever pass my I "PS." ' '- - "And how did yon obtain employ ment 7 I asked, i . I . "Well, people had always praised my drawings, and paintings, and needlework very much. Seeing such things exposed for sale, -suggested the idea of offering some of my own work. I found a ready sale, and so I have gone on ever since. And now you know my history." "Have you seen your cousin Jchn since you have been in this house?" I inquired. ; "Yes," she answered, shuddering. "This evening, as I was sitting at the window watching the sunset, I heard my door open, and there, standing upon the threshold, I turned and saw him and that awful woman. I screamed with terror, and then the room seemed to swim round, and I almost fainted." "And what did they want of you?" "Cousin John pretended to be very much in love with me, and proposed that we should marry. He said that he had come from my grandfather, who was very angry at my flight, and who would never forgive me but upon those terms; but that if I consented, we should at once return to Rose Cottage, and all would be forgiven." . . The door was suddenly burst open. Judith appeared! . CHAPTER XXYI. With a faint cry' Clara shrank back, shuddering, whilst I stood motionless for a moment, transfixed with dismay, gaz ing upon our mutual enemy. "My appearance seems a pleasure more startling than agreeable," said Judith, with that stinging irony that was to me worse than her most fiendish mood. "One would suppose you were about to leave the house without one word of adieu to your host or hostess. But we do not part with our guests so easily." Instinctively I had drawn near - to Clara, as though I would protect her. She had sunk into a chair, trembling, not daring to cast a glance at Judith, who had now advanced into the room. "You do not seem to be aware. Miss Clara, that this gentleman and I are well acquainted. He has not told you of our connection, I presume?" "No, no; for heaven's sake, do not tell her, if you have any mercy, I implore you!" I interrupted, throwing myself up on my knees before her. I might as well have pleaded to a hungry tigress. Without deigning to no tice my supplication, she still went on, in the same strain of cold-blooded mock ery. "Perhaps you are not aware that this lover of yours is my husband!" For a moment Clara looked stunned, bewildered, unable to realize the idea those words contained; but as I made a movement towards her, she uttered a low cry, and shrank cowering into a corner. . "No, no!" I exclaimed, in a voice of anguish. "I dare you to deny It!" cried Judith. "Deny It if you can!" I slunk out of the room like a beaten dog. I dared not cast even a look upon her. The last blow had fallen; and, most agonizing thought of all, I felt that I had bitterly deserved it Judith led the way downstairs Into my own room, and I , mechanically fol lowed. She reprimanded the nurse, who awoke in a fright at our entrance, for her negligence in suffering me to leave the chamber; would not listen for a mo ment to her protestations, but ordered her to quit the room. I had listlessly sat myself upon the side of the bed. "Oh, If I could but die!" I thought Judith gazed at me intently for a mo ment and something almost akin to pity came into her face at the sight of my despair. "Silas," she said, in a tone different to any one she had ever nsed to me. were it not for your conduct to that girl, I could pity you; but you have behaved to her like a dishonorable cur; you have gained her affections without giving her the. shadow of a hint of your position." She paused for a moment, and then said, in a low voice: ''There has been a curse upon me from my birth. ' My childhood was passed in squalor and degradation, but my soul loathed my condition. I was exquisite ly sensitive to ridicule, and brimming over with self-love; and I was hooted at for my red hair, and awkward figure, and strange eyes. - Oh,, if I had known the 'power there was in those eyes, what a revenge I would have had upon the mockers! iWhen my condition was Bet tered, I tried hard to cast away the past I read, I studied, I cultivated my mind, but my associates were changed only from vagabonds to hypocrites. Then I began to love him!- Oh, how I loved him! :His love was to carry me away from all this to regenerate' me. And then he left me, and Satan : filled his place in my soul. There was only one thing more wanted to complete my de gradation to be despised by you. You loathe me, and yet you would lay down your life for that girl! In what is she so much my superior? Were you an emperor, and did you 'love me with your wbole heart and soul, I could never feel for you the shadow- of love. But still I am a woman. ' You are my husband in name, at 'least, and I cannot forgive your hatred of me." v "Wreak what vengeance you please upon me; there is no suffering that I cannot endure for her Bake to save her!" I pleaded, . "How fortunate It is that I have a soul above jealousy, or your passionate pray ers might have quite an opposite effect upon me," she said, sarcastically. Then, with a change of tone, "Acknowledge me as your wife before this woman, who will be here in the morning, and I will save this girl, and thus be revenged. I would have informed her grandfather of her whereabouts, and a great deal more, the moment I heard of it, had it not suited me to keep her ljere as an in strument against you. ; Render her use less to me by consenting to my wishes. and it will suit my purpose to release her. You know that I could force you to do this or anything I pleased,"1 she added, imperiously, "without any such aid, if I chose. Now, will you do what I require, or will yon notr '-. ; . I Willi': I answered, firmly,; What 'Waslt-tor'nnr-now'-'who knew "that she-; was my wife?, Had she desired it, I," weuld $krv. led ner : through the public ' streets., and bate proclaimed the fact to f every passer by. If I could save Clara by such a now trifling sacrifice, it would be at least some reparation for my cruel conduct to her. " ., When our bargain was concluded, she lay down upon the, soft; I still sat in the same .position upon the bed, with my elbows resting upon my knees and my face buried in my hands; and thus the broad daylight saw me as it tried to struggle through the curtained window. CHAPTER XXVIL . Utterly worn out . I was just sinking into a dozing sleep, when I was roused by the hateful tones of Mr. Porter's voice greeting his daughter, as she sat at breakfast in my room. Another enemy added to the number that encompassed me! He quickly turned to me and began. in his usual hypocritical snuffle, "I hear that it hath pleased Providence to put you in a fair way of recovery. So you thought to get off. Master Silas, did you?" he said, with a satyr-like leer up on his face; "hut Judith has laid her run-away husband safely by the heels this time." About 12 o'clock that same morning there came a knock at the door. It was the nurse; there was a whispered con-. versation, and then Judith came up to me I was sitting before the fire in an ' easy chair1 and Baid, quietly, "Madame Berne, the woman whom I told you was coming to-day, is here; remember your promise, and I will remember mine." In a few moments there came into the room a tall, iron-looking woman. Judith's father cringed, and fawned, and leered, and snuffled. But Judith stood with her hand resting upon the table, cold and defiant never deigning to her visitor even a salutation. "And you are Silas - Careton?" she . said, fixing upon me a strangely intense look. "That is the name I am known by," I answered. "And is this woman your wife?" she asked, pointing to Judith. I paused for one moment I could feel Judith's fierce eyes were upon me; then I answered quietly, "She is." Madame Berne paused again, and turned her cold glance upon her; it was met by one as fearless as her own. "The sum of $2,600 a year is settled upon you as an annuity," she said, again turning to me as the door closed upou Mr. Porter. "It will be paid you quar terly, on personal application, by Messrs. Fogle & Quick. Your wife" there was a siraxige empnasis upon we worn v "communicated with me through those lawyers; and as I was informed that you were too ill to attend at their office, I have come here to judge, as far as I am able, whether you are the man yon pre-' tend to be." 1 "Have you no wish to inquire int your parentage, Silas 7 said Judith, speaking for the first time. "It will be useless if he has," answered Madame Berne, freezingly; "he will nev er know it As she turned to leave the room, an other figure appeared upon the scene r Montgomery was standing in the door way. She started back, with a look and gesture of loathing; but the next mo ment drew herself up, with the same frigid, passionless look upon her face as before. For a moment Montgomery stood look ing at her with an exultant grin. "You see, we have met again," he said. "It seems that you and I cannot help get ting mixed up with one another. Your protege has married a very old friend of mine, Mile. Zenobia, clairvoyante, as the bills nsed to say. Her father, too, an old boon companion." ' Then, suddenly changing his tone from mockery to malignancy, he added, hiss ing out his words, "This is my work; but it is only the beginning of my ven geance. You shall feel it yet!" (To be continued.1 Gem from the German. Sophron, a wise teacher, did not al low his grown-up sons and daughters to associate with those whose conduct "Dear father,' said the gentle Eula Ue to him one day when he forbade her going in company with her brother to see the light-minded 'Lncinda, "yon must take us to be very childish If you think she can do us any ham)!" But the father quietly took an ex tinguished coal from the fireplace and reached it to his daughter. "It does not burn," said he; "take it, child!" Eulalie did so, and. behold:! her deli cate hand and pure white dress were sonea at once. "One cannot be too careful in touch ing coals!" said she impatiently. "Certainly!" replied her father. "You see, my child, that coal blackens even where it does not burn; so docs the society of the Immoral." . . . . . .. . Good Title. Poet The editor didn't pay the least attention to my last verses. Now, I have written a comic poem entitled "The Alarm Clock." Friend Do you think he will take any notice of it? Poet Oh, yes; it'll make him open his eyes. Tip that Failed. Waiter (In restaurantH-Pardon me, but gentleman usually remember the waiter here, sir. ' Guest Do they? Well, I have a. poor memory for faces, so if I fail to recognize you when we meet again, kindly call my attention to the over sight Might Be Trne. Wife This paper tells about a man who says he never made love to .a woman in his life. Do yon believe It? Husband Well, I have no reason to doubt it Perhaps he didn't have to. Wife Didn't have to?' Husband That's what I said. He probably made a specialty of widows. Might Have Been Worse. "Truly," said the disappointed fe male, "marriage Is a lottery." ; "What did you draw?" asked the Inquisitive person. , "Less than half the alimony I ex