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About Bohemia nugget. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1899-1907 | View Entire Issue (June 13, 1902)
Bohemia Nugget 1IOWAUD III'.XIIV, I'tilitlshsrs. COTTAGE GROVE ...OREGON. tt li reported that ltimell Bage has become a vegetarian. Eventually no American town will be without a imiltnrluiu. When a wlrns man knows nnytblug worth telling ho keeps It to hltnaelf. Kvcu tho Cinr In thinking about re forms; but not till IiIj people are In revolt. Women not onlr want the last wort but tlier want tho last chanter. That U why tlioy rend the back of the book ftrt. Joseph was not a real captain of In dustry. He didn't twist the screw when the other fellows were calling for help. . . We very much doubt the success of the reported attempt to form a lobster trust The supply Is too large to be "cornered." If tho lion. James Hogg ever be comes Secretary of State, we are confi dent that he will not be referred to as "Little ltrecches." "He virtuous and you will be weal thy," says Uncle Itussell Sagewhich Is a rather severe reflection on some mighty good people. A Cleveland preacher has discovered that the recently developed love for sports here In America Is a sign of degeneracy. Down with the mud dled oafs! Miss Mary MacLane Is able to sym pathize to some extent with the man who committed suicide because he was "tired of the everlasting buttoning and unbuttoning." The fratricidal tragedy In New York by which one man eminent In letters aud one In athletics died premature deaths was caused by a father's Injus tice. No man should carry his hatreds to his grave. A Kansas editor has decided that when a man merely has a hook aud line In the river on Sunday and Isn't catching anything he Is not tlshlng. That may be true, but It he has a gun on his shoulder, aud Is merely wander ing around in search of game he Is hunting. "Pshaw, you're afraid!-' "Yes, I am! I'm afraid of being sorry and It's the only thing I'm afraid of In this world!" It was a scrap of a street conversation, and the two girls who spoke were out of sight before tho words bad died on the air. Uut one listener, at least, was stronger for having heard them. Years ago a man bearing the name of John Smith -had tt changed to Uaga dig Ulgadab, which name he selected because It was as unlike John Smith as he could possibly get tt. And now an Kngllshmau, otfe I'amllco Pickles, has had his iiauie changed to John Smith. There Is no accounting for tastes. The average American business man Is like a cat. Throw him up and be lights on his feet. They tell the story of a life Insurance agent In Chicago who was taken sick, and carried to u hospital. He employed his leisure hours In persuading his nurse to take out an Insurance policy and bis share of the premium paid his own bill for at tendance. Social Intercourse would less fre quently engender hard feeling If all would observe the rule, which the Sen ate adopted recently: "No Senator In debate shall, directly or Indirectly, by any form of words, Impute to another Senator, or to any other Senators, any conduct or motive unworthy or unbe coming a Senator; no Senator In de bate shall refer offensively to any State of the Union." This means simply that the Senators must behave as gentle men. It Is fair to them to say that most of them observed the rule before It was formally adopted. The latest maps of British East Af rica designate an arm of the great Victoria Nyauza as Ugowe Uay. The origin of the name was recently told by Sir Henry Stanley. When, twenty seven years ago, he was making a chart of the lake shores, he came upon a spacious bay. Calling to a native on shore, be asked the name of the place. After repeated Inquiries came a faint answer which sounded like "You go way." An attempt of the Interpreter met with the same response, aud Stan ley humorously accepted the answer to mark the spot. It continues In the mops as Ugowe. England Is being so rapidly despoil ed of her art treasures by American capital that the curator of one of the famous collections sounds a note of warning. The man who owns a fa mous picture Is In a certain sense a trusteo for England, he declares; be fore he sells the canvas to an Ameri can millionaire he should offer It to the llrltlsh nation, or to a local museum, or to "n collector permanently domiciled In England." Yet consideration for the "rights" of Continental nations does not teemtoharo withheld Englishmen from acquiring the very works of Titian, Itnplmel, Velasquez, Van Dyke and other masters that are at the bottom of the present pother; and If the argu ment of locality applies lu the oue In stance, It should apply In the others. The logical truth, however, Is that a great work of art belongs to the world. So long as It Is properly taken care of nnd Is made accessible to persons who wish to study It, tho place where It Is kept Is only a detail. Moreover, it Is as easy for an Englishman to come over hero to seo It as It Is for an Ameri can to go to England for the same pur pose. A scientific writer lu American Medi ci 11 a pays a glowlug tribute to the hair pin, lie finds that It Is of almost In rstlmablo value to the surgeon, who cttu use It "to pin bandages, to remove i foreign bodies from any natural pass age, as tt curette for scraping nway sort tnnterlal, to compress a blood vessel In controlling a hemorrhage, nnd to closo a wound." In. addition to these uses, the gentleman has used the hairpin to probe wounds and to wire bones to gether In cases of fracture. Hut It Is not In surgery only that the hairpin Is useful. It mny take the place of n suspender button or help out when an automobile breaks down. Perhaps If the truth were known many n loeoino live has been held together, at n pinch, by a hairpin, and we arc not surprised that the writer for American Medlclno suggests that It would always be well for man to carry a supply of hairpins In his pocket. Such a practice would un doubtedly have Important advantages, but there Is a better and more pleasant plan. If It could be so arranged that a man might nlwajs have at least one companionable lady near him the hlgu i est usefulness nf the hairpin might be developed. Men are, after all, but bunglers when they endeavor to use this delicate Instrument. Tor the best results from the hairpin, therefore. It is cheerfully recommended that the lady be taken along. More than usual interest has lately j ben directed to the matter of pure food. The action of tlermany in excluding foreign meals on which boric acid has j been licd Is economically Important because of the large quantity of meat which the I'nlted Stales now ships to , that country. These, the American packers say. must be treated with a small quantity of boric acid, or else b much more heavily salted. The .itnounr of boric acid Used Is mi hi by Ainerleau chemists to lx harmless, and eminent Herman chemists have expressed ,iu same opinion. -To the Herman govern ment, however, it makes a difference whose ox Is treated with boric acid. The government prohibits the use of this preservative In food prepared for home consumption, yet penults It In potted meats put up for export, on the theory, apparently, that It Is danger ous to the Herman stomach, but safe enough for foreigners. Kraneo takes a similar view In regard to vegetables, permitting the export without restric tion of canned vegetables colored green by the use of copper, but forbid ding Uielr sale at home except when the fact of the ue of copper and the quantity of It are stated on the label. . The action of Hermauy has naturally set the authorities at Washington to thinking about measures of self-protec- 1 Hon. The I'nlted States Is now the only civilized nation without adequate pure food laws, aud has therefore become the dumping-ground for uilsbranded and adulterated articles. The Secretary , of Agriculture has authority to forbid the Importation of articles of food which are Injurious to health, but tie has hitherto hesitated to set up dog matic standards upon points open to controversy. It seems simple enougn. however, to decline to receive from other countries the things which they will not let their own people cat. THE PAPER TOP. BS9 Who can make a top that will set It self In motion? Nobody? Wo will show you bow it Is done. Take a cork. a sewing needle ana a square piece of writing paper. Place the cork on the table and fasten the needle In It. point up, find the center of the piece of paper by drawing the dlagonnl lines. and balance It on the needle after bend ing two opposite corners of the paper. one upward, the other down. Now we .are ready ror tue tries, uoiu your band close to the paper as shown In figure. Before long the paper will set itself In motion, and will stop ns soon as you remove your hand. This sim ple mechanical effect Is produced by the warmth of the hand catching the corner of the paper that we have bent downward, which sets the paper top In motion. Involuntary Stage Humor. Robert Edeson, the actor, tells this story of the stage: "I ve seen nnd beard a good many funny things lu the way of playa and play actors lu my time, but the greatest thing I ever saw or liearu was in .MiiwuiiKce. ruis was several mouths ago. It was in one of the museums there. The mu seum had a stock company In Its the ater, and Its great spcclulty was bor der drama. Every week they gave a new drama of the wild and woolly I West, This play that I saw wus a blood-curdler of that character, and nt the time I dropped In at the theater f the pirates who continually plundered the stage was pitch dark and two men Cuba nnd the neighboring Islands, mnk were fighting a duel. I could hear the ' lug that region the headquarters of a knives clash together and hear the men ! stumble around the stage, but I could only faintly distinguish the forms of the actors. After a wniie mere was n thump on the floor, and the villain (1 1 knew It was tho villain by his accent) people to arm themselves In self-do-hissed: 'Ah, ha! Hudolph Tegherlng-1 fense. ton, I have you now and no oue nigh to see trie do the deed!' Then the drum-, mer hit the buss drum a belt and the calcium man turned on the light, and away up on rra, ,. .. ( (the heroine) was seen standing. 'Cow. ard: sue snoutea; 'me aim n cut en is here!' " Appropriately Pleased. Our amateur minstrel show will be great. We've got two professional end men." ovn. .Inn't sar? Whn urn rhpv? "One's a plireuologlst and the other's a chiropodist." iT,,riil? Now. nil von neeit Is n ho t manufacturer for middleman." Phila delphia Tress. Cabmen for Parliament. Several cabmen are to bo run as can didates nt the forthcoming parliament ary elections In Belgium by the men's trade union at Hrusscls. BLOOD-SOAKED CUBA. ISLAND HAS AT LA8T BECOME HER OWN MISTRE88. History of the Island Is One of Con tinual Illeodsheil -Liberty Achieved After a Mmcsle Laatlun r'onr Centuries- A I'rtse Dearly llouuht. I'U.V. aftrr four centuries of almost continual struggle through starvation, misery, torture aud death, has at last reached Its cher ished goal of lib erty. With t h e casting off of the old fetters aud the establishment of a democratic form of government, renewed hope and ambi tion have Hooded tho hearts of the Cubans, and If they promote their fu ture advancement with the same de gree of unfaltering persistency that has marked their strife for freedom, the ultimate success of the Island republic Is assured. Since the departure of Columbus, the history of Cuba has been one of luces- TYPICAL SCENE IN CI sant bloodshed. Her natlres were of mild disposition, happy temperament and easily satlstled. They did not re sent the coming of the Spaniards, but extended to them a hand of generous hospitality. The Invaders abused this good feeling, however, and began at once an unparalleled system of op pression, which continued for centuries Itaplne. pillage, torture and butchery fellupontheunfortunate Islanders. Th Cubans had only bows and arrows, pointed with fish bones, and clubs hard ened by fire, with which to resist the Spanish hordes, armed with muskets aud cannon. Their defense was Inade quate, and an endless stream of their life-blood poured over the fertile land of their birth. Hefore the attacks of their powerful antagonists they gradually faded away and each day liecnme less nhle to carry on the fight. Their lands were wrested from them and parceled out to the in vaders: the captured nailves being rn slaved as tillers of the soli. Unused to hard labor In the fields, the captives weakened and died, until at the end of fifty years' persecution It Is estimated that WIO.000 of the original imputation had disappeared. All the horrors of STItEET SCENE - Spanish rule in Italy aud the Dutch countries were repented In Cuba with used zest nnd enlarged systems of Illl'll-ill-,-., v w. oppression and cruelly. The aborigines being practically exterminated, the ' same cruel treatment was visited on, the Spanish colonists themselves and upon the negroes who had been Import ed ns slaves. In the course of 200 yean the population was again reduced until only about 50,000 persons remained. l'ructlcally prisoners of war, the Cubans had little knowledge of the outside world, except that gained from vast fleet of buccaneers that ravaged Cuhau wuters for two centuries. The pirates burned the towns and made des- oiaio ine con sis, nui npain woum neither protect her colony nor allow the TJle Turnlmt I'olnt. Tlle nlntllro of nnVnna by the Eng. .,, umIolli.,Plly ,, i,nDOrtunt nolnt lu the fu of CllblJ i)rine the short period of English government the Cuban ports were opened to foreign trade, and for the first time the people realized the extent of their resources, and the mer ciless manner lu which they had been robbed of their earnings. Hut the era of prosperity was short, as the English soon turned tho Island ovrr o Spain and the old system of f,c"c" " w" , un r, " . cr: v.uuuun mu uicuiueu mu nir oi comparative freedom, and they saw the possibilities of the Island under hon est government. Instilled with a new born ambition for freedom, the Cubans carried on secret arrangements for a general uprising, nnd the fifty years following the few months of English occUr;ancy witnessed n succession of I CfHAS COVSTUY ItWELLI.fO. revolutions, Thes came the Ten Years' War. from 1SIM to 1S78, followed by another uprising In ltvS.1, and then the tlnal struggle beginning Kelt. 1M, ISlKi, which resulted In the overthrow of Spanish rule In America by tho United Stales and Cuban forces. Culm uiay drink of tho cup of free dom now. but how dearly It was pur chased. The tlrst era of Spanish reign with Its system of slavery, cost Cuba no.IKH) lives and hundreds of millions of treasure collected In gold dust. In the Ten Years' War. 40,000 Cuban lives were sacrificed and more than n billion dollars spent, besides the coutlsrntlon of some 13,000 estates. In the same war Spain lost '-'00,000 men and a vast sum of money. The tlnal struggle cost Spain ino.000 men and more than a hundred millions In rash, whllo Cuba gave up half a million lives through starvation alone. VALUE OF BERMUDA ISLANDS. They Occupy fur Kimluii.l a Slnuularly Commanding- Position, Imperial England knows what she Is nhout. Titos. Miuul Itho IterintldiiMt besides being used as a garrison for tier trnmv. n,i .r.lniiil.tiwbml line- hor for her warships, are a link In the chain that connects her American prov inces In Canada ami Nova Scotia with her possessions In the West Indies The llermudas occupy for her, politically HA S INTEItlolt. and commercially, a singularly com manding and an unrivaled position, says a correspondent of the New York Mall and Express. Spain parted with Cuba because she was forced to, and she sold to the American nation the Philippine Islands for a mess of pottage. Denmark, fol lowing suit, for a few million kroner, made over to us her West India pus sessions. Catch England parting with the llermudas! She would no more let them go than she would give up her great strongholds In the Mediter ranean Sea. Malta and the Invincible, unyielding rock of lilhraltar. No pow er will ever wrest them from her net one foot of ground until she has lost every ship nnd her last drop of blood No: Instead of parting with any of her colonies her policy Is to Increase them. Nor will England permit emigration to or an Increase In the population of her garrison towns Itermuda. Clhrol tar and Malta. With some precaution ary measures she will allow sightseers aud tourists to enter (lllirnltar. but strangers may not settle there perma nently: nor may an alien own n foot of ground In the llermudas. She wants only llrltlsh subjects In these plnces, anil even Itrltlsli subjects are not al lowed to vote ill Ileruiilita unless they own real estate there. Concerning Mllllmislrcs. A writer who Is himself a multi millionaire. .iys It will lie n great mis tnke to sho.if 1'ies.- rntherers-ln of the yellow metal, .or. as he says, they are the bees that make the most honey, nnd contribute most to the hire even after they have gorged themselves full '1 In? remarkable fact Is stated, that the masses of the people In any country are prosperous and comfortable Just In proportion to the number of million aires In that land. IN HAVANA. -r;. - In Itussla. with Its population little better than serfs, living nt the point of starvation, upon the meanest possl- w. a.u. ...,.u.., U,.u.. ........ .vi hie fure. such ns none of our people could or would endure, you do not llnd scarcely one millionaire excepting the Emperor and a few nobles who own the land. It Is the same, to a great extent, In Uermnny. There are only about two millionaires In the whole Herman Empire. In I'rnuce, where the people are better off than In Her- many, you cannot count one-half dozen ' millionaires In the whole country. In i.n. s ii.ii.i.. i the old home of our race, llrltaln. which Is the richest country In nil Eu ropethe richest country In the world save one, our own there are more mil lionaires than In the whole of th o rest of Europe, ond Its people aro better off than In any other. In our laud, the same thing holds true; we have more millionaires than nil the rest of the world put together. Sim Hail "Hired" Illm lip. There Is an Institution In Dtiltith that employs about fifty people, and among other, Is n genial Jolly good fellow, who long ago lost faith lu lu.lr restoratives, and Is the possessor of a waisi measurcmcnt or mnny incl.es. ' An Last End lady dropped Into the store a day or two ago. uccompaiiled by her pretty llttlo 4-year-old daughter. The big man was somewhat nttent- iveio iiiecuiiu, nun wiieu uiumiiy nail finished tho business she had come to 1 transact the llttlo girl said, In n clear voice, as they left tho office: "Who Is the man bigger 'round 'tin our rain barrel, with tho awful shiny heart?" Dululh News Tribune. Aged Criminal (who has Just got a life sentcnce)-0h, mo lud, 1 shall never llvo to do HI Judge (sweetly)-Never mind. Do as much of It as you caul" I'unch. I IIERR STEINIIARDTS NEMESIS 1 j5 BY I. MACLARKN COHUAN. CUAHT.U XII Continued. "It Is not fur me, Krnuloin," 1 answered, "to say how wicked Ito Is. Hut I have told you lie Is hohavlug very harshly to tho dead man's daugh ter more than harshly, for lie has oven hid her nwny In n strange town, to try every means to make her marry Ids son, in order that ho mav not have to give an account ol tho dead man's ptopvrty. And here is a letter which I hao re ceived this morning from hor other guardian, who was llotr Stolnhanlt'a lHst friend when ho tlrst ramo to Lug land, ami whom lie has almost ruined. Ho has (omul tho young lady, and taken her to his own house; but ho (ears ho cannot keep her, for llerr Stclnhunlt may now ruin him outtight. i must meroioro return-; ami mi Vrauloin, is my only Ih)h of offcctiial Iv hindering llerr Stelnliardt from do ing what lie will by frlgtcning him with my know ledge. Hut I do not yet know enough to do that. It will thus lo fcen that I told Trail letn Haas just enough of tho case to convince her of Its urgency; but she gucscd something hud not told her. "I uiiilerstutul now, llerr Pastor," she said, "why you aro so Interested in Emmanuel Stclithardt's crime; it is more love tliuii vengeance that pushes you on. And that, ton, Horr Pastor, will make ton hotter understand why I am Interested in Emmanuel Steln liardt," sho said, simply, looking mt at me, hut nt her thin rlosissl hands. "He wus many years ago not the llerr Stolnhnnll he teems to l now; he was good and gentle, though his heart uud mind were sot on being rich. Hut I detain you, ' she added, ghinelng up suddenly. Her hands tightened their clasp on each other. "II," sho said, with rapidly growing vehemence, "1 tell you what I have seen, in order that you may 1st able to deliver the dis tressed young l'rauleiu, promi-o me, llerr Pastor, for the sake of my past, mil as you hnpo to bo happy and peace ful In tho future promise mo that you will uso what I tell you only for the purpo-o you say, and that you will keep It, so far as ever you can, from becom ing public!" I gave tho promise nt once without reserve. "And," she said, "you will leave Emmanuel Steinhardt's punishment in the hands of Almighty Hod?" I answered I would though It was a strange question to nave 10 answer Khe then turned almost away from me, partly, I thought, that shu might bo less concions of my presence, but more that she might concentrate her attention on her recollections. Her hands clasped and unclasped several times before they settled, the one in tho other, nnd she began : "It was, I think, in the March month of a year ago. I had slept a loi.g tinio very soundly, (or I had been very tired, when suddenly I felt as II I were taken up and carried away fur away: and I was made to look nt Em manuel Steinlmrdt. He looked nt me as If ho wi-hed mo to help him; at his feet was a largo woaslcn box, the lid of which, 1 was made to understand, would not cioso. l'rntii tho owning protruded a. human hand, strangely di-colored. I awoke all trembling. I put out my own hand to mr.ku mm 1 was in my own lied; my mother was sleeping quietly I cside me. I tried tn dismiss tho vision from my mind fmd-i-h dream, 1 thought it. Hut 1 could sleep no more. In two or three hours it was daylight, ami I arose. I went alioiit my duties all tho ihiy us usual: 1 was busy, and had the impression ol i In- vision miuli worn nway when I went to bed ill the evening rattier early, becnuto I was very tired. I hud slept not o y long, when again I was us if soircd up anil whirled away, again to sco Emmanuel Steinlmrdt, with something ut his feet again not now the wooden box, whirh was aside, but three packages of canvas. Again Em manuel Stelnhurdt looked at me, iih if ao wlt-hed mo to go to him, and again I nwoko, all trembling." Shu pautod in her story of tho vis ion!!, took her handkerchief ami wiped her damp brow witli trembling hand. I watched her intently, a sedation of creeping excltemont and mystery hold me bound to her quiet but intense recital. Sho resumed suddenly, with- out looking at mo. ''"I't "iru tlmt night fr thinking of what I had scon, and sol '' f.mmanuei Bin unarm no niori , i .... , , .1.1 ...1.1, KUM I1 "IBr ""y 1 h, , but I could not. A terrible, night to 100 11 WUS. JHIl UUAl UIKI" 1 nits sleeping u light, ilisturlied sleep, when I was taken away again to Emmanuel Stolnliarilt; this tlmo I knew I was not in a room; there was no light. Ho looked at me across a newly dug spot of t! round, and then turned awny. I "ot, rt'nll' ",,k"' "'"i"8!' """I w.,ou" 1 wraH ,n ,n,y n I 1 iTf? tlmo us I was held where ho had left inn, closo to n wall. After sometime, how long I cannot toll, he camu buck with a ropo. I know at onco what ho was going to do beforo ho had dono it faten t10 ropo in an Iron nrmnth!ng oa the other side of tho wall and pull It over. I do not know why" I did not think It impossible for a single man to pull a wall down with n ropo, hut I did not. In a little while ho pulled, and tho wall fell flat, and, curiously, un broken, covoilng over tho newly dug Biot and all urouund it. Then I awoke, as with thu nolso, and slept no more. , , , t j , j MVOr,, ,or B .jj,,, I110ln(lllt for ,... at "iUo ' tamo pIace. Ticy Wnro or t)llt" Rmp,M wi,ch, as tho nights pa,Bca onbecame dimmer and diinii.er, , Ul0I1 coased ultogothor until somo wcc)S ng0 W)1C UKaln I wus Btimmonod to aco him nt that same place with tho fallen wall. Ho looked at mo earnestly, and then ovor his shotildor at some one whom l did not feo, mil who I knew ho foaroil wuh watching him. This liapponod throe, four times, and than no more. There lias been no more yet, but what may bo, God only knows. That Is all," she said, with a sigh ns of rollof, turning to mo. "And now, Horr Pastor, you know what I hnve had to toll, nnd you will not forget your promise to mo you will not sot yourself to bring pun- Isliiucnt mi Emmanuel Steinlmrdt." "I shall hold my promts' to you, l'rauloln," said I, "as sacred." Possessed us I was with tho oxrltlng thought engendered by her story, I was almost forgetting that I had no result oftny mission which I could show or tell to Steinlmrdt, and tho tlmo nt my dis posal must bo very short. 'I looked at my watch; I hud half an hour tu spare. Thorn was no tlmo for the oxpiostloii of wonder or of any kind of fitting com ment upon what I had heard. Seeing me look at my watch, sh rose. "And now," ho said, "you must go quickly, I suppose, to your hotel, and then to the station." "Yes," I said. "Hut (hero Is one thing, rrntiloln, I had ilmust forgotten; not of a painful sort," 1 made Jiusto to ndil, (or sho had reassuined her exptos slon of closo endinanco and resignation. "I ramo as llerr Stolnhardt's messen ger, and 1 have no message 1 can carry buck to him." Sho sat down again, took a sheet of paper from u drawer, aud wmto In the middle of the page, in a small (leruiati hand, a few wonts, which she signed. When she had written she handed tho paper to me, paying, "You may rend." I read (the words were lu Herman) - "Itovont, and turn away from jour evil, before It Is too late." This, enclosed In an envelope, slid addressed, 1 put in my pocket for Stelnhurdt. There remained now hut one thing for me to do to say farewell to l'rauleiu Unas, the poor, lonely lady, who still with fond regret cherished her memory of a man who wss to me tho greatest villain on earth. Howl hinged 1 could do something to cheer her life, ay even some proper word of comfort slid hope1 Hut I felt liei spirit dwelt on heiglitstoogre.il for any rotnmoiiplaco words of consolation (rum no to roach. I therefore Hade her a silent farewell, she held my hand a moment. "If anything hapi-ons to Mm," she said, "you will send me word?" 1 answered 1 would: Mini tho next moment she was turned awar from me, and tho next I was out of the room, and had seen my last of I'rnulciu Haas. When I was lu the train, rushing back toward England, 1 unexpectedly found that I was lioarlng away with mo a pathetic memento ol her, and that j I had left her a memento of myself. I ' put my hand into my sicket to find Hirley's letter, but could find only the loitowing iiiiiograpiitoi 10 in, tnsioaii. I suppose 1 had taken it from her table when I meant to taku up Hie letter which I had laid down. Tho smr lad) might have been looking at it beforo I entered her room. This was tho form: "Meino Verlohung mil I'muleln Einllio Haas von l.lestul reigo ich hleinlt ergelieust an llastd, NovemtsT, 1HRI. "Emmanuel Stelnhurdt." (My engagement nltli Krnulelu Emilia Mass of l.lestal I herewith make public in ltaol) CHAPTER XIII. Ill what a fever of excitement, snx lety, and hoio I made tho Journey home, I need not stay to describe Thu story of Ijicroix's fate I could now fill in to its last detail ; I knew where his mutilated remains lay buried, or nl least I knew a spot which colnrldod with that desciiliod by Kraulelii Haas, so wlut remained for mo to do wus to bring tho fact of tny knowledge lionio to Steliihardt in u manner no (orclblu that ho eon Id not refuse to uiuku terms to mi iiimi' than this I could not ac complish, even if I would, consolering my prouiiiu to Kraulelii Haas. Hut in tho sequel I had my conviction re impressed that I was III this business hut tho agent of u Higher Power. I reached Tlmperloy very late on Sat urday niglrt, hut In splto of thu late iiojs of tho hour and my weariness I went at oucu to Hirley's; I hud warned him of my mining by telegram from l-onilon. I found him waiting fur mo, and with him, as I had liod, hut scarcely expected, his ward Loulso. I four his cheerful greeting passed (or alum-d nothing with mu In comparison with hers. Her iiiHiinur was iiudunion strativo, but there was, I felt, a cordial sincerity in It which camu from her trim heart, and I was fluttered with hopo. Thoru wuro, however, things more serious and Immrdiutu to be talked of than matters of lovo could then ho considered. I Inquired concerning Stolnliarilt, aud was told that they had not yet seen him. What, I asked lllrley, did ho propose to do If Stolnliarilt came and demanded tho surrender of his ward? would he admit him? "Admit him?" ho exclaimed. "Of course. There is no uso In shutting him out. Ho can sell mo up lu this house and then turn mo out, he has a hill of sale on everything, and lie lias lieen holding It back for some time, to uo it now, I expect, but Louisa shan't go hack to him, Unless sho likes; I'll find point) roof to shelter mo and hor. Yea," said ho, turning his bright fuco iijioii her, "we'll get thro' It all right." "You aro both very good to mo," raid she, going to hlui, and shedding some tears on Ills shoulder. "Thoro now thero," raid he, pat ting her. Then turning to me, "Sho means you, too, my lad." "Yes," said alio, resuming hor peat, and looking down, "Mr. lllrley has told mo all you have dono for mu to find out about my poor father and nil that he and you suspect, too. And I cannot oh, I cannotl" sho crlod, shuddering and pressing her hands to her eyes "look at that torrlblo, cruel man again!" "I could not help tolling her, my lad;" snld flirloy, in answer to a look of roproach from me. "The old chap wrote questions to her about th' papers you found, and 1 had to explain." "But," snld I, in soino alarm, "you know, Miss Lacrolx, we must not, wo cannot denounco him wo must not, X doubt, suy anything till wo havo some ovidouco that ho is really tho man. I think, I am sure, I soon shun havo that evldonco, but even then wo must bo careful what wo say." This, I was glad to find, was not re garded as more than a generul, though ronlldiMili expression of liopo, so I was not asked nwkard questions. Now that my anxiety concerning Loulso was for tho tlmo allajhd, I felt exceedingly tired. I promised to cull next day tn toll tliem nhmit my Journey, and ion) to go to my lodgings, whom my land lady, I know, or her herculean son, would still bo sitting up for mo. Itlrley accompanied mo to tho door, talking in-cording tn Ills wont. Ho put on a cap which hung In tho hull, audi leaving tho door ailjar, walked witli mo to the gate. Tho air refieshcd me, and, full us 1 was of Kriuiloln Haas's revelation, 1 felt Impelled to tell lllrluy something of It. Mills, almost uncon sciously, wowakled away from the gate down tho In no leading to tho high road, uud I was lol into tolling lilm all, tho more so that ho did not seem sceptical of tho value ol her visions. Wo hud thus left tho house soiun minutes, how many 1 cannot tell, when several sounds like scrouins In rapid succession rose ImiIiIuiI us Into tho still night. Wo stopped together and looked nt ouch other. "Ily the I. ill" nietulmctl ltliley, "t loft tho door open!" Wo worn hurried hack by a common Impulse. Wo found tho door itillur, apparently as wo hud left It, but when wo entered and approached tho room In which wo had been silting wo heard Steltiliarl's olco. "Well, '.Manuel," said lllrley, whim wo were in the room, "so you've conio I oxertod jmi wouldn't lie long." Atolnhuidt tinned (l.oulso wutihud hint from the other side of the table, with fear III hor eyes); ho did nut answer his hrotlier-ln-lnw, hut stared ut me. "What Is the meaning of this?" ho asked. "Were do you como froni7" "From HiiHel," I answered, "whero I was not wanted. Kraululli Haas wised to see vou, nut me; sho la well, and It is for you she Is anxious, not for herself. Shu sent yon n lino by nnij" I handed him tho letter. Ho Impatiently torn the envolopn, and read w ith a frown. I knew tho words; ( tried to lead from his face how tlioy affected him. Their point, 1 thought, found a Joint in his hartiuM; lie oideutly winced; ho looked on tho ItiKir, on this side and on that, as If for once ho were made to ttnuso and I consider. Hut this wss only for a moment; lie hsikisl up at me and then at lllrley, the sumo insistent, master ful Steliihardt as before. (To 1 comma. l. 8IQNIFICANT NUM3ER SEVEN. Wovtn Into the MliKry ol th World In Miny Peculiar Wtyi, The nuiiils-r sewn is not only con sidercd a lurk v tiumlicr by the super stitious, but it wus a ryuilsilh-nl liuni Iht lu the Ullile, ai well as among na tions of antiqoily. In tin, (lid Testa ment o note that the Creator tisik sown days, and on the H'M-nth was a sacred day of rot. lively nuenth )ear was riicril, mid tho sewn times -eveiith yi ar urhiml in a eir of Jubi lee. There uro oen prlncipil virtues fulfil, hope, charity, prudence, torn ltraneo, ihatlty and fortitude and there aro also seven deadly sins pride, rovetoiisiiess, lust, auger, gluttony, cniy nnd sloth. Thero wero mven champions of Christendom St. (ieorge, Hi gland; St. Andrew, Scotland; St. Patrick, Ireland; St. David, Wales; it. Denis, I ruiue; SI, .lames, Spain, an I St. Anthony, Italy. Micro were to. en ages of man, also teviiii wife men of Hrceisi. Christ spoko seven times on the cro-H. Itomn was built on mven hills, and there uro Innumer able other traditions which go tn prove t at seven was a number to cling to. lu thesn modern times It is wonderful how often the tiniiils-r prevails. lor instance, vaccination must take plain very snveii ears, in order to escaH small six : lathions rhaiigo eery seven years, and seven years is always a mile stone In u Krson's sge. lit Wn In Need ot Pity. A pious lady ol Portsmouth hud a husband who wus u seuuiAii. Ho was ulHuit to start on a protract ed vo ane, nnd as his wife was anxious us to his welfare, si n n-iit the follow ing notice to the village preacher: "Mr. Illank, who is going to sea, his wife desires the, prayers of his con grenation." As the old holy was quite illiterate, the minister read tho following to tho congregation from thu slip handed him: "Mr. Illank , who is going to seo his wifu, desires thu prayers of the congre gation." Ixinilou Tit-Hits. Chtriclerlitice ol Gold. Many ieoilo siipno that all gold Is nlikn when re lined, hut this is mt ho. An nxtieriuiiceil man can toll at a glaiiio from what pint nf thu world agohl plico comes, mid in some casus from 'what particular gold district the metal hits lieen obtained. Australian Hold, for instance, is distinctly reih'er than that from Callfornh. The I'ral gold Is tho reddest found am where. Gcorie Wsihlnglon'i Map, The original map madu by (ienrgn Washington In 1775 of the lauds on tint Orcat Kanawha rher, West Virginia, granted to him by thu Ilritish govern ment in 171111, for Ms services In the Hradilock expedition, Is now in pontes slon of tho library of congress. Thu map is about two by live feet, uud is entirely lu the handwriting of Wash ington. No Hurry In Turkey, As mi instance nf thu lolsurolv man- nor in which tho nillllaiy authorities of Turkey move in time of puacu It Is said that n committee appointed lu 11)00 to prepare plans for tho construe- tlon of formications for tho defense of the strategically moit Important nolnts on th6 Turkish shores of tho 1'ornliui gulf has just completed (H labors, Hippy Recolleclloni, Visitor Wull, my nmu, wliut nro you lu for? Convict "llli, I'm In fur a good time, lady. Visitor I don't udorBtand you. Convict I'm in for llckln' mo mother-in-law, lady. Judge. Ulncd. "Tlioy sav," hogan Miss Twitters, "that theio is a fool In ovory family. "Well, cr I hardly know," stum, morod poor llttlo Saunders. "I am tho only member of our family,"