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Eugene Weekly Guard. <'A M 1* li KLI. lilCON., I*r«»pri«*tora* lar as to be deemed worthy of fiatn<*s and places of honor upon domestic walls Is a proof of a prevailing healthy moral tone. SHERLOCK HOLMES, JR Tbe click of steel at tbe same time warned the Intruder that the sentry's eyes were upon him- at least, that bls quick hearing bad detected the stealthy steps on the wet sod. Then came out In a half muffled voice: "Who goes there?” This was tbe moment tbe officer of the guard bad fixed In his mind for a test of the cadet's soldierly quali ties. The answer came quickly to the sentry’s challenge: “Nobody.” To the amazement of tbe officer, ths cadet came to a "right shoulder shift," as it was called in those days, paced by him and said: "All right, my orders are to let nobody pass, major.” Tbe cadet has recognized the officer. His answer, even if not regular In a military sense, was correct, but It was a tough one on tbe major. The story was so good it could not keep, and 1t went to Washington. “To make a lung story abort," aald the West Pointer, "that answer, un- der the circumstances, won Influence enough for that cadet not to leave the academy as ‘deficient,* but mere ly to be put back for another year's diauce. Result? He graduated with high honors In the following June and was my commander In tbe Philippines six months ago.”—New York Journal. I 111111 ! 11111 it .................. ......... y I'V* *♦♦♦♦♦♦ fbe Doetor’$ flilemroa "She has seen the L » ' Julia, in the same husky^’ is convinced .he i. Uu W* hauna say, the .auie *d,e«'ur«. * unreasonable and »elfi.h ’ letl ' •» it . you to the dreadful “is CHICAGO PARODY ON DOYLE'S Aunt Dobree asked me „ 1 ** L' WONDER DETECTIVE. Is the housewife becoming extinct? rirtt eye just now. t?*“' 'k Ht EUGENE ....................... OREGON. Madame ileurl Kchmull declare* that i ** »owething Rke th.“4?’' By Hesba Stretton she Is. Hlie gives reasons for her be As Example of His Marvelowo Powers promised to do it. I ZS bB‘ « U,, The despfser of authority la an enemy lief, which Is a ho[>e as well as a be of beUuctlon as They Htrlks the Mod -erypromi»e you ever of mankind. lief. Madame H< hmall Is au English ern Newspaper Writer—History of "Julia!” I „led, cf0- woman, the wife of a Frenchman, and llllllllltf............... .. ............................. ........................... ............... an Eacharxated Umbrella. Brutus never licked a Roman postage has devoted herself largely to the In stamp behind Ita back and Brutua was terest of "woman's rights" In France. Sherlock Holmes. Jr., was seated at an honorable man. According to this Independent lady the his desk with bls back toward me as 1 extinction of the housewife Is greatly entered. I I should find her. It's a very anxious am’neither noble nor*gi-Mm£"t CHAPTER XIII. Edwani VII. looks after the house to be desired. Woman lias progressed In one sense time seemed to be stand thing when a girl like that disappears because I cannot help myself ti.«1 “ “Good morning,” he said, writing hold In person now and makes the toa because white face looking ,0 implir’ Ju *"*• beyond the state of servitude to the away without turning his head, “that a lag still with me after my home return, and is never heard of again, all dies stand in line. with her home, aud in the near future the wife a hue umbrella you're carrying.” so like were the days that followed the she has a little difference I do not give you up willin»|v , »’■ one to the other. But in another sense friends. If you could help me to find her In Sark. I hope I lbll!1 Crt A queer feeling came over me as he Eilucatlon I« the beat cure for crime. “will have nothing whatever to do w 1th you would do her family a very great those days fled with awful swiftness, for or you for many, many ye.™ I * It coats lesa to build addltlona to school her husband's dinner except to partake spoke. Surely, 1 thought, this wuu service. ” they were hurrying us both, n>y mother you will have no chance of of it.” Of course husbands will con must be lu league with unseen powers. "Why do you fix u">on me?" I inquired. houses than It doea to enlarge our Jabs. and me, to a great gulf which would tinue to eat and to have dinners as for I carried the umbrella under my arm, "Why did you not send for one of the till you are settled in . toon, far too soon, lie between ui. where; but you are free to merly. but Madame Hchinall expects and even if I bad struck tbe floor with Every afternoon Julia came to apend resident doctors? I left Guernsey some your wife. The idea of an Island for anarquista Aunt w.at, yoV"* the cook and the kitchen to disappear time ago. ” an hour or two with my mother; but her It, bow could he have known that It bail one. Why not buy Iceland is not a somebody to love you «nd csr. * **’’ •'You were here laat winter,” she said, arrival was always formally announced, after ,he 1, gone, a» I ,0ouid h.*,^ and let the king killers till the soil from the household, and the dinner to was not an old, cheap one—or a cane? “and you’re a young man, and would no and it was an understood thing that I be served by a “ universal provider. ” “Sherlock,” I said, "you cause my But you are generous to enn there? should immediately quit the room, to tice her more.” The Idea is neither strictly original nor balr to rise. I suppose you will tell lon*« ts “There are other young doctors in it.” I said again. avoid meeting her. There was an eti There are now additional opportuni even novel. It has been tried lu sev me you know by deduction that 1 carry “No," she answered, win|n. k.. Guernsey," I remarked. quette in her resentment which I was ties for a young man In the Philippines, eral Instance In this country, and lias a tine umbrella, but that will uot satis "Ah. but you’ve been in London,” she and lifting up her head; "I thought l’w? bound to observe. I thought I wa. » oL , “ lie can go there and marry a school not lieen encouragingly successful. But fy me. There is nothing to deduce answered, "and I know something of Dr. generous; I had not taken up any of my old pa but It is not easy to be a Chrisflin^ perhaps the conditions were not favor from. I cannot account for It only on ma'am. Senior. When you are in a strange place tients again, for I was determined that one is mortified, iQj hjnib‘ “ ”s able. and Madame Hchinall may Is- Jus- the theory that you have second sight everybody should feel that my residence you catch at any chance of an acquaint wounded. I am a great di.appoint It Is reported that a lot of more or tilled lu assuming that when she has or eyes in tbe back of your head.” ance. ” at home was only temporary. But about “Come, be candid with me," I said. to myself; quite a. great a, yoa lesa damaged American pugllista are the direction of the enterprise It will In the Harvest Field. ten days after my return the following "My dear Whatson," he said, smiling me. I fancied myself very .uper'o* going to Cuba to teach the natives the result in a perfection satisfactory to and swinging around In his chair, “you Frederic Mistral, the Provencal poet, note was brought to me, directed in full "Did not Messrs. Scott and Brown send what I am. I hope you may not ¿V you here?" manly art of self-government. the most advanced woman. Whether are unusually dull this morning. Dou't tells a charming story of the first meet to Dr. Martin Dobree: The suddenness of my question took her appointed in that girl in Sark ” ” U “A lady from England, who is only a the world will tie better or humanity you see that I have the mirror over ing of his father and mother. Like all Her hand was lying 0D her lap, ud. visitor in Guernsey, will be much oblig off her guard aud startled her. She hesi A Western woman tried to commit the happier when madam, the house there hung so that no one can enter the romances it has Its like In a more an ed by Dr, Martin Dobree calling upon tated, stammered, and finally denied it stooped down and kissed it. seeiaz . still the ring I had given it er Xa \ suicide and fulled, and right afterward wife. has disappeared, and whether door without passing within the range cient legend, suggesting, even to the her at Rose Villa, Vauvert Road. She with more than natural emphasis. she received a number of offers of mar the “universal provider” will till the "I could take my oath I don’t know were first engaged. She did not look , of my vision, even though my back Is scene, the ever-tieautlful story of Ruth is suffering from a slight indisposition; ms or bid me good-bye, and I ww‘* rlage. Tlila shows bow advertising bill of “home cooking," are questions turned? I arranged that all myself. and Boaz. Mistral was born at Mail and knowing Dr. Senior by name and any such persons," she answered. “I pays. which must lie answered by expert* Who but the greatest of all deducers lane, a village at the foot of the Alps. reputation, she would feel great confi don’t know who you mean, or what you of the house, my veina tinglhg vie, ment and not by pure reasoning. There He was the child of a second marriage, dence in the skill of Dr. Senior’s friend.” mean. All I want is quite honeat. There shame and gladness. I met Captain Car., The disappearance after an earth- Is every disposition to gratify the la would ever have thought of It? Ah. I wondered for an instant who the Is a fortune waiting for that poor girl, coming up the street, with a basket J contracted when his father was aliout let me examine your umbrella. Yes, It quake of a high mountain In Japan la dles, even the most progressive and stranger could be, and how she knew the and I want to take her back to those who fine grapes in his hand, lie 55, a marriage of pure romance. This new evidence that the crust of this old most thoroughly emancipated ladles; Is as I supposed. Tbe man who ex Seniors; but as there could be no an love her, and are ready to forgive and very much amazed. was the meeting of the middle-aged "Why, Martin!” he exclaimed, earth of ours Isn't so thick aud solid all but when home ccsiklng and Industries changed with you Is blind. Poor fel swer to these queries without visiting forget everything. I feel sure you know low! He hasn't been that way long, man and the girl who became his wife. ths lady, I resolved to go. Rose Villa aomething of her. But nobody except me you have been to see Julia?” over as It might be. have been turned over to restaurant- though. Are you going to return it to "Yes," I answered. One year, on St. John's day. Maltre was a house where the rooms were let to and her other friends have anything to keepers and servants Jobbing by the “Reconciled ?" he said, arching hla h » Francois Mistral was in the midst of visitors during the season, and the Vau do with it.” Brooklyn has a preacher who before hour, shall we still feel a thrill of emo him?” “Well,” I said, rising to take my leave, brows, which were still dark and bu^, Panting with excitement over the his wheat, which a company of har vert Road was scarcely five minutes' entering the ministry was a member of tion when we slug, “There's No Place man's wonderful powers, I dropped vesters were reaping. A through of walk from our house. Julia was paying "all the Information I can give you Is though his hair was grizzled. the city pollca force. The Influence of Like Home?” “Not exactly,” 1 replied, with a «¡f her daily visit to my mother, and I was that I never saw such a person here, into a cbair aud stared helplessly at young girls, gleaning, followed the habit. If nothing else, should cause him either last winter or since. It is quite stnlle exceedingly difficult to force; at a loss for something to do, so I went liim for a moment. When I was able reapers, and raked up tbe ears that at once. to arrest the attention of bls congrega possible she went on to Jersey, or to Ing of the sort Indeed. Captain, »be. The American abroad, or In England to speak again 1 asked: fell. Maltre Francois, my father, no tion. I found a very handsome, fine-looking Granville, when the storm was over. will you take me across to Sark?” at least, is no louger tbe easily plucked ticed a beautiful girl who remained be “Come, come! none of that, Martin,' "How do you know he Is blind and woman; dark, with hair and eyes as black That she did not stay in Guernsey I am he said; “you're on honor, you kuov A horrid man has planted himself bird be was once. As a consequence be that he lias been so but a short time?” hind, as If she were ashamed to glean as a gypsy's, and a clear olive complexion quite sure.” I went away lu a fever of anxiety. 'I he You are pledged to poor Julia not to rUt "Pardon me, my dear Whatson, If I like the others. He drew near, and said to match. Her forehead was low, but firmly In the pathway of civilization has lost tin- popularity be once enjoyed Sark again." and progress and Is demanding that his with London cabmen and porters. He decline to answer those questions Just to her, "My child, whose daughter are smooth and well shaped: and the lower woman, who was certainly not a lady, “She has just set me free,” 1 answered part of her face, handsome as it was, had Inspired me with a repugnance that wife, who has become a missionary, may be held In higher respect than be now. You haven't said whether you you? What is your name?” was far more developed than the upper. I could not describe. Surely this person and out of the fullness of my heart I told was, for the tourist who allows himself The young girl replied, “ I am the Intend to return the umbrella or not. ” come home and look after her four chil There was not a trace of refinement 1 could not be related to Olivia! I tried him all that had Just passed between u “How am 1 to return it," 1 asked, daughter of Etienne Poulinet, Maire of about her features; yet the coarseness of to guess in what relationship to her she Hi» eyes glistened, though a film can» dren. Tlie brutality of man contluuea to be plundered Is not respected by those who do the plundering, but he Is Malllane. My name Is Delalde.” “when I don't know whose It is.” to assert Itself. them was but slightly apparent as yet. could possibly stand. I felt more chafed across them which he had to win« (Tlr no longer so much sought after. The "What! the daughter of tbe Maire of My new patient did not inspire me with than I had ever done about Olivia’s se “She is a noble girl,” he ejaculated; “a "That should be easy.” he said, reach much sympathy; but she attracted my j cret. I tried to satisfy myself with the fine, generous, noble girl. I really thought A man in a New York hospital has hotel servants say that the Americans ing for It, and unbuttoning the strap Maillane gleaning?" "Maltre.” she replied, “our family Is curiosity, and interested me by the bold reflection that I had put Tardif on hie she’d break her heart over you at firet. had Ills head opened and a clot of blood are now the least profitable of their that held It neatly folded. Then be 1 guard, and that he would protect her, but she will come round again now. W, removed from the bruin, so that be is customers. It Is well that the Ameri half opened ft, exclaiming: “As I guess large, six girls and two boys, and al style of her beauty. —1 - -- not set my mind . . at ease, j will have a run over to Sark to morrow.'’ "You Guernsey people are very stiff But that did cans should lose their reputation for though our father Is pretty well-to-do, on the high roud to recovery from total ed. Here Is a little silver plate with bls I felt my self lifted Into a third hearea with strangers, ” she remarked, as I sat never knew a mother yet who believed silly prodigality. They got it partly as you know, when we ask him for paralysis. We seem to be nearing the name on It.” opposite to her, regarding her with that i that any other woman could nurse her of delight all that evening. My mother point where a human living can be through Ignorance. They did not know 1 w as dumfounded at the man's clev clothes he replies, 'Girls, If you want close observation which is permitted to a sick child as well as herself; and I could and I talked of no one but Olivia. Th, finery, earn It.’ And that Is why I came doctor. taken entirely apart and put toget her the legitimate charges or tips In foreign erness. not be persuaded that even Tardif would present rapture so completely eclipsed ths countries, were unwilling to ask about again as good as new. "Holmes," I said, "there Is only one to glean.” "Ho the world says,” I answered. “Of shield Olivia from danger and trouble coming sorrow that I forgot how soon it them, and preferred to run the risk of man in the world who would ever have Six months after this meeting, Maltre ! course I am no good judge, for we Guern- as I could, if I were only allowed the would be upon me. I remember now that Our l’resldeiits are offener attacked giving t<H> much rather than of giving thought of doing what you have done, Francois asked Maltre Poulinet for the , sey people believe ourselves as perfect privilege. Yet my promise to Julia my mother neither by word nor sign suf bound me to hold no communication with fered me to be reminded of her iilnew. because they oftener expose themselves too little. Even when they have thought oh, If I could only deduce as you can. hand of Delalde, and of that marriage as any class of the human family." She listened to my rhapsodies, Kinldng “I have been here a week," she replied, her. to uttack. Assassination Is commoner they were being Imposed on they have But his name alone Is there, you see. I w as born. I pouting her full crimson lips, "and have I had strolled down some of the quieter with her divine, pathetic smile. There among them than among any other often felt that It would not be dignified It seems to me that we are as far away I not had a chance ot speaking a word, ex streets of the town whilst I was turning Is no love, no love at all, like that of a Catching Tigers. chiefs of state because It Is easier. All to make a fuss about It. Ignorance ami from him as ever. How are we to find cept to strangers like myself who don't this affair over in my mind, and now as I mother! Capturing tigers by a novel method false pride have cost them a great deni. the customs of their office Invite It ami him among the hundreds of thousands know a soul.” Swiftly we ran across the next day, crossed the end of the Rue Haute, I Is now being adopted In Sumatra, and That Ignorance Is passing away. The throw wide open the door of opportuni of men In this great city?” I That, then, was the cause of the little caught Bight of Kate Daltrey turning with a soft wind drifting over the set Is proving almost Invariably success ty to every maulac or fanatic who may numla-r of Americans who make fre Indisposition which had obtained me the Into a milliner's shop. There was every and playing upon our faces, and a long "Walt a moment," he replied, ns he quent trips abroad, especially to Eng put on his hat and left tbe room. In a ful. As soon as a tiger's lair has been honor of attending her. I Indulged my reasonable probability that she would ftirroiv lying in the wake of our boat. " be seized with a murderous Impulse. found, natives are employed to con self in a mild sarcasm to that effect, but not come out again soon, for I saw a bon It was almost low tide when we reached land and France, Is Increasing. Little few minutes he relumed, saying: struct a wooden fence nine feet long it was lost upon her. She gazed at me net reached out of the window. If she the Island. I found Tardif's house com Because a man la born Into the world by little these tourists have learned “He lives at 7643 Paradise road; tele and four feet wide a short distance solemnly with her large black eyes, which were gone to buy a bonnet she was safe pletely deserted. The ouly sign ot life with thia mental distortion, which per the ropes. They have found out the phone, West 11309.” shone like beads. for half an hour, aud Julia would be was a family of hens clucking about th. I had risen as he entered, l>ut 1 stag away from It, and in this Inclosure is mita him under the Influence of others foreign scale of remuneration for cer "I am really ill,” she said, “but it has alone. I had felt a strong desire to seo fold. then placed as a bait a dog, which Is to become a murderer, society requires tain services and they stick rigidly to gered back and fell Into a chair again, The door was not fastened, and I en- tied to one of the fence posts. A nar nothing to do with not seeing anybody, Julia ever since I returned home. My for Its reasonable protection that he that scale. They do so all the more overcome. though that’s dull. There'» nothing for mind was made up on the spot. If I tered, but there was nobody there. I rigidly when they recall past occasions row entrance leads Into the lndosure, me to do bqt take a bath in the morning found her lu a gentle mood she would stood in the middle of the kitchen all shall not have the incentive to murder “How do you know all this?” 1 anil there, deftly concealed under and a drive in the afternoon, and go to release me from the promise she had ex called, but there was no answer. Olivia'a put upon him through tlie words of when they have been Imposed on. Hut gasped. every year Americans are going to Eu Good gracious! it’s torted from me when she was in the door was ajar, and I pushed it a little others, and if he Indicates the least dis "There Is a city directory In the drug earth, leaves and Isiughs of trees. Is I bed very early. first heat of her anger and disappoint more open. There lay books I had lent position In that direction thnt he shall rope for the first time, full of Inexpe store across the street,” he calmly re place I a strong steel trap, which is so enough to drive me mad!" ment. It was a chance worth trying. If her on the table, an.l her velvet slippere "Try Jersey,” I suggested. be securely confined as one whose In rience and full of the notion thnt It Is plied. “Do you wish to call him up and designed that any animal that places “No, I'll uot try Jersey," she said. “I I were free to declare to Olivia my love were on the floor, as if they ha 1 only capacity for orderly reasoning was like a mark of gentility to lie open handed tell him that you have his umbrella? Its foot on It is certain to be held cap- mean to make my way here. Don’t you for her, I should establish a claim upon just been taken off. Very worn anl brewa l.v to lead hliu to take the life of an and not to make a row when over You can at the same time ask abuiU tlve. know anybody, doctor, that would take her full confidence, aud we could laugh were the little slippers, but they re**- charged The man who at home will This trap Is of recent invention, and ot her. his blindness.” at further difficulties. She was of age, sured me she had been wearing them 1 pity on a poor stranger?” argue for half an hour with a street car Almost overcome by the man's un consists of strong steel plates and and therefore mistress of herself. Her short time ago. "I am sorry to say no," I answered. An advocate of the metric system ar conductor over a question of 5 cents canny air I permitted him I returned through the fold. All ths She frowned at that and looked disap friends, represented by this odious »Om to conduct equally strong springs. When It is set gues that our present weights and refrains from similar controversies me across the hall Into an office where the plates form a sort of platform, and pointed. I was about to ask her how she an, could have no legal authority over place seemed left to Itself. Tardif* measures put us out of touch with the abroad, even when he knows the lan there was a telephone that he was per ns soon as the tiger which has been knew the Seniors, when she spoke again. her. sheep were browsing along tlie cliff*, anl guage of the country. Therefore for commerce of the world, except that of I turned shortly up a side street and his cows were tethered here ami there. “Do you have many visitors come to mitted to use. It was as he had said. lured thither by the dog sets his foot Guernsey late in the autumn, as late as walked as fast as I could towards the At last I caught sight of a head rising England, and even there be discovers eigners who live by plucking Ameri The man who owned the umbrella had thereon the springs are released, ami October?” she inquired. house which was to have been our home. front behind a crag, the rough shock some amusing discrepancies. The artl cana will not altogether lose their suddenly gone blind a little while be the cruel steel grips the leg and holds “Not many," I answered; ** a few may By a bold stroke I might reach Julia's head of a boy, and I shouted to him, cl os we send her, he notes, are mainly American harvest. It fast. fore, but the doctors were going to presence. I rang, and the maid who an making a trumpet with my baud*. arrive who intend to winter here.” gralu, sold by the bushel, which differs Powerful as a tiger Is. he cannot free operate on him and hoped to restore bls “A dear young friend of mine camo swered the bell opened wide eyes of as "Where is neighbor Tardif?' I called. from the English bushel; petroleum, Why They Don't Have Gout. himself from such Itondage, and' as here last autumn,” she said, "alone, as tonishment at seeing me there. I passed sight. "Dovn below there!" he shouted back sold by the gallon, which differs from A writer says that typical Southern again, pointing downwards to the Havre When we had returned to the great those who have set the trap are never I am, and I ve been wondering ever since by quickly. the English gallon; and meat and cot er» very rarely have gout In their low "I wish to speak to Miss Dobree,” 1 Gosselin. I did not wait for any further amateur detective's room 1 said, almost far away he Is lu a short time either I’ve been here however she would get ton. sold by the pound, which fortun er extremities, and he explains his information, but darted off down tbe long, killed or securely caged. At the same | along amongst such a set of stiff, formal, said. "Is she in the drawing room?” shuddering: "Yes. sir,” she answered, in a hesitat steep gulley to the little strand, »here ately corresponds with the English statement ns follows: "The moment time the dog Is released, and, Indeed, i stand-offish folks. She had not money ing tone. “ Now, tell me how you knew he was enough for a dash, or that would make a pound. the pebbles were being lapped lazily bf one Hits down he looks altout for some blind and that lie bad lost Ills sight he could not be removed from the In difference, I suppose.” I waited for nothing more, but knock the ripple of the lowering tide. larfiri object upon w hh h to elevate Ills feet, only recently.” closure as long as the trap was set. I The enormous extent of tlie summer usually resting them on a chair or win “Not the least," I replied, “if your ed at the drawing room door for myself, Isiat was within a stone's throw, «ad I He smiled half wearily, half In pity, since this Instrument, strong as It Is, friend came without any introduction».” and heard Julia call, "Come in.” saw Olivia sitting in the stern of it- I hotel business In this country Is but dow sill If Indoors or the balustrade If nevertheless Is so delicate that the pres- | "What a dreary winter »he’d have!" shouted again with a vehemence whirl little understood or appreciated. The on the porch or piazza. Now, the loca as he replied: CHAPTER XIV. made them both start. “Ah. my dear Whatson, I'm afraid sure even of a dog's foot would release pursued my patient, with a tone of exul- Hotel Gazette estimates that we spend tion of gout being simply a question of Julia looked very much the same ns she "Come back, Tardif,” I cried, "*M 1500,990,090 a year for summer vaca- specific gravity. It does uot descend to you'll never become much of a deducer. the springs and enuse the animal's leg tation. “She was quite young, and as ha-l done that evening when 1 came re tlooa. Upward of 10,000,000 flee annu- the feet lieesiise of thia habitual eleva If he could have seen he would never to be crushed in a twinkling.—London pretty as a picture. All the young men luctantly to tell her that n>y heart was take me with you!” The boat was too far off for me to •*• would know her, I'll be bound, and you ally from the cities to the mountains tion. If It should get there It would have taken the old umbrella you carry, Telegraph. amongst them. Dr. Martin. Any woman not in her keeping, but belonged to an how niy sudden appearance nffec.e and Seashore. There are between 20,000 )>e obliged to climb. The smallness of mistaking It for Ills own. And tuen What Hr Might Do. who isn't a fright gets stared at enough other. She wore the same kiud of fresh, Olivia. Did she turn white or red at the and 25.0«») summer hotels In the coun the Southern foot Is accounted for In who are long blind develop a delicate light muslin dress, with ribbons and lace sound of niy voice? By the time it neared The custom of preserving the busl- to be known again.” try ami they employ about 900,000 peo the same way that la, of course, the sense of feeling that «lakes It possible ness name of a firm years after the Could this woman know anything of about It. and she sat near the window, the shore and I plunged in knee deep to ple. New York Htste alone has about flout hern man's foot. The women never for them to know their own by a mere founders have passed away or disap Olivia? I looked at her more earnestly with a piece of needlework in her hands; meet it, her face was blight with «mile*, 4,000 summer hotels. The largest sin elevate. Englishmen have whopping touch. Ho It was plain that he was peared finds Its reproof In a story re and critically. Hhe was not a person I yet she was not sewing, anl her hands and her hands were stretched out to hr P gle resort In the country Is at Atlantic big feet, which they keep plastered blind and that he had not been so long lated by the New York Evening Post. should like Olivia to have anything to lay listlessly on her lap. A mingled feel me over the boat’s side. do with. A coarse, Ill-bred, bold woman, ing of sorrow, pity and shame prevented If Tardif had not been •here I »bcall City, with a summer population of down on the ground or floor at all enough to recognise things by feeling A young man who was sent out to whose eyes met mine unabashed, and did me from advancing into the room. She have kissed them bo - h. AS it WSS. I slioiit 2»»),000, and an average of 15.000 times, as If afmld of letting something them. Don't bother me any more this canvass leading lawyers In a certain not blink under my scrutiny. Could she looked up to see who was standing in the tucked up my wet feet out of reach of &•- employes. It la estimated that >20,- get away from them. They have gout morning, please. I am working on a Interest entered the office of a firm of be Olivia's step mother, who had been doorway, and my appearance there evi dress nnd took an oar, unable to utter 000,000 Is spent at Atlantic City every In their feet In consequence.”—New very abstruse problem. An Ohio man great prominence and said: dently alarmed and distressed her. the ruin of her life? word of the gladness I felt. ■'.Martin!'* she cried. resigned a public office the other day. season for this form of entertainment. York Press. "I'd bet a hundred to one you know “Whc’e are you going to?' I »’»* • ’ “I should like to see Mr. M.”- men "May I come in and speak to you, Ju 1 have been commissioned to find out tioning the first name of the firm. her.” she said, laughing and showing all dressing neither of them in partlculsr. lia?" I asked. her white teeth. “A girl like her couldn’t "Tardif was going to row me pa’- what's the matter with him."—Chicago There Is au evolution In small tilings The I .oat Flag. “Very sorry, sir. but Mr. M. has been go about a little poky place like this with “J" niy aunt worse?" she Inquired hur- entrance to the Gouliot Cares, an.”* as well as In great onea. and |>ertia|Mi It As H. M 8. Ringdove was cruising Record Herald. dead three years." was the answer. riedly. "Are you out all the young men knowing her. Per come to fetch me to Olivia, “but we will put it off now. la the small things that tell which way past one of the Holomon group of Isl "Well. In that case. I should like to haps she left the island In the spring. I her?” SAVED BY MIS WIT. will return to the shore and hear al. y the winds of evolution blow. In the amis lu the Pacific, the lookout reported "No, no, Julia," see Mr. N.”- the second name of the hare asked at all the drapers' shops, but I .aid; “my mother la adventures, Dr. Martin. I on come 'P day« when cardboard air castles hung thkt the British flag was not flying An How Dae West Point Cadet Avoided firm. nobody recollects her. I've very good as well as usual, I hope. But aurely you us like a phantom and take *“ oi , Helag a •‘Delclent,” from chandeliers and decorated snow armed Ixely of marines was promptly "Mr. N. retired from the firm over a news for her If I could find her—a slim will let me speak to you after all thia ghostly silence. Are you really, "There was au officer In the regular year ago." said the clerk, with a smile. middle-sited girl, with a clear, fair skin time?” shovels leaned conspicuously against sent ashore to Inquire the reason. there?” “It is not a long time," she answered. and grey eyes and hair of a bright marble mantels It was the fashion to (To be continued.) The chief did not. according to a Brit army who la stationed not a hundred “Indeed; then may I see Mr. O."—the brown. Stay, I can show you her photo "Has It not been long to you?" I asked. miles away from Governor's Island, place mottoes worked by feminine ish Columbia paper, waste words In re last name of the three. graph.” "It seems years to me. All life has bands upon the walls of our homes. plying. He summoned his favorite thia very day." aald a West Pointer yes Thread Used In Surgery. "Mr. O." replied the clerk, "sailed last She put Into my hands an exquisite changed for me. I had no idea then of These mottoes were usually of a rellg The modern surgeon employs In wife, and when she appeared. pointed terday. "who would never have gradu week for Europe, and won't be back portrait of Olivia, taken in Florence. my mother's illness.” loua character and were In the nature to her. She was clothed from head to ated at the academy hid It not been for for a month yet; Is there anything I There wag «n expression of quiet mourn- work dozens of different kli® .Nor I. she said, sighing deeply. of a prayer to the l»elty to “bless our foot In the missing Union Jack, the flag hla cool nerve plua his quick wit on a can do for you?” fulness in the face, which touched me to "If I bad known it,” I continued, "all thread for sewing up cuts and home." or "feed our lainba.” It la still having been cut and fashioned Into a trying occasion." And the West Point "Then- Is," answered the canvasser, the core of my heart. I could not put It this might not have happened. Surely Among them are kangaroo ten <* the custom to hang quotations upon loose-fitting blouse and skirt. er w ent on to tell of the cause and effect with the utmost suavity; “some day. down and speak indifferently about it the troubles I shall have to bear must horsehair, silk and very fine » My heart beat wildly, and I felt tempted plead with you for me!” private walla, but now they usunlly ex This, of course, doea not settle the of that nerve and quick wit. wire. Many of these threads are ' when you have time, you might bring to run off with the treasure and return les, Martin," she answered; “yea I tended to hold for a certain number press the poaaeaaor's own theory of life question whether trade follows the flag Twenty mid yeara ago. when he was the firm name up to date.” no more to this woruiin. am very sorry for you. ” and serve as reminders of his respon or the flag follows tra<le In the cannon at West Point, there was a cadet there "Ah! you recognize her!" she exclaim She came forward ami offered me her days and then naturally break a’a- sibilities. A favorite quotation that Is covered Sill a nee of empire, but It does who "flunked" In his final examina If In Donbt, Woek II Out. ed triumphantly. band but without looking into my face. The short, tough tendons taken ’ uow winning the distinction of wall prove conclusively that the ladles of the tion In his fourth year. He was a pop A Cambridge university professor, “I never saw such a person in Guern I saw that she had been crying, for her the kangaroo, which are used 'or se •puce la from Rot>ert I.ouls Stevenson Pacific Islands, when they acquire civ ular fellow and his classmates felt sor who dreams In figures, has done the sey." I answered, looking steadily into eyes were red. In a tone of formal po Ing severe wounds, will hold r * .«- her face. A aulleu and gloomy ex pres- liteness she asked me if I would not »ft and rune as follows: "To l>e honeat, to ilisation. will not need to take less, ns of ry for him. They were all to doff the follow ing atrocity. four weeks before they break ■ •Ion came across it. and she snatched down. 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I've traced I It ao happened that a night or two "We were talking of you to-day," she long as the wound takes to 12345*17 t lines 9 plus 9 equals 11111111. her as far aa here, and that I tell you —above all, on tbe same grim condi ami behave, and study, and become before graduat tlon day Mr. X let him 1234.M78 times 9 plus 9 equals Sh* crowed in the Southampton boat on® said at length, in a harried and thick will then disappear completely- tion, to keep friends with himself— great nteu and women, but school Chil be called that I was obliged to be on voice. "Aunt is In great sorrow about accommodate this assort u dreadfully atormy night la«t October- here la a task for all that a man has of dren are tierce critics. A little man •entry duty. ' The officer of the guani 111111111. you. It preys upon her day and night threads special varieties 1 times H plus 1 equals 9 ' the only lady passenger and the stew- fortitude and delicacy." Of course, to recently appeared before the children that night got a » uditeli liles into Ills 12 times 9 plus 2 equals 1*9 ardess rucollscta her well. She landed that you will be dreadfully ab.ne when are required Besides the .he is gone, snd-and Martin, she wishes bang a quotation upon the walla of of an Atchison s-hool, with an address bead . I he cadet might tie so dlaheart- 123 times 9 plus 3 equals 99?. here You must know something about t know before she dies that the girl m craned tn different segments one's own house Is a different thing he had learned by heart, and the chil etked Ihat he would be neglectful of his her.” 1234 times 9 plus 4 equal* 997)1. cle. surgeons ns^needle« Hark will become your wife." from hanging It upon the walla of one's dren are still “mocking" him. 12345 tim.« 9 plus 5 equals 99765. "I assure you duty. He would test him see If he had I never saw that girl The words struck like a shot upon my spear». Javelins and bayon-- heart, and It la quite possible to stars 1. ’ ■»'■• . « 9 c, eq i.< w '-4 here." I replied evasively. “What ia- "soldier stuff" In him. even though tbe ear and brain. What! had Julia and mv Some are as long y bodkins. ' _ after her?" , 1234567 times 9 plus 7 equals 997(1543. qulries have you___ every day at a hand painted motto made When a woman burns ths steak ah. odds were against hla future. ‘ Tvs Inquired hers and there cad tr mother been arranging between them my like a miniature Wife bl"'1' illar* 12345*179 times 9 plus 9 equals without once making an effort to make thinks that a flower laid baalda it on It was a dark, rainy night. The of •rywhere," she said ‘ Tv. done nothing happme.s and Olivia . .,fefc th,t very hav« the sharpened end trie » ft a thing of practice, hut that ouch the plate la a;s>k<y enugh fur any liret of the guard smldeoly came across 99763432. else .ver since I cams. 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