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