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“She has ,een the Julia, in the same ha.ky t " is convinced .he i. uu am! places of honor u[»n domestic hauna aay, the ,auie tv Ur**- K walls la a proof of a prevailing healthy ■ ♦ -——— I u»«*«avnabk and ..¡jJ Wl M k Je moral tone. CAMI'BKLL BICOM., Proprietors» you to the ** K-L? th« dreadfuTiZL dee. ««.., . “ “ la 1 “ at« •„ 4 * CHICAGO PARODY ON DOYLE S — • ■■ Aunt Dubroe a.ked aie'taT? 1 f**!- ?! WONDER DETECTIVE. is the housewife becoming extinct? EUGENE ........................ OREGON. right eye Just now. 1 mma uttt ky Madame Henri Scbmall detlares that It is something lik, th ' M rvf.^ she la. She gives reasons for her be As Example of His Marveloaa Power« promised to do it. 1 b,*‘ ! U«, The desplser of authority is an enemy lief. which Is a bo|»e as well as a be- of Dodactloa as The/ Htrike the Mod every promi.e yuu „„ * Da tr< of mankind. i lief. Madame S< hmall Is au English tin. t» •*. Xy ern Newapaper Writer— History of woman, the wife of a Frenchman, and “ Julia! ” I cried, cru*d n « « an Eachaiaged Umbrella. Brutus never licked a Roman [»stage bending over her with Lur??** has devoted herself largely to tbe In stamp behind Its back and Brutus was admiration than 1 had ,1ot‘ **1 terest of “woman’s rights" In France. Sherlock Holmes, Jr., was seated at an honorable man. ‘“N o ’T keneroi' According to this inde|H-udeut lady the his desk with bis back toward me as I »be said, bur»tina extinction of the housewife Is greatly entered. I should find her. It’s a very anxious am ho, CHAPTER XIII. neither noble Dur ¿-nil? 1 Edward VII. looks after the house like that disappears to be desire«!. Woman lias progressed thing when a girl Io one sense time seemed to be stand “Good morning,” he said, writing because I cannot help nij^7“¡J ’ hold In person now and makes the toa of again, all because and is never heard beyond tbe state of servitude to the away without turning his head, "that s ing still with me after my home return, whne face lookiag dies stand In line. with her she has a little difference borne, aud In tbe near future the wife a hue umbrella you’re carrying.” ao like were the days that followed tbe I do not give you up wlUin,|.^7{.M one to the other. But In another aenae friends. If you could help me to find her in Sark. I hope 1 »hall nevtr'**'*“1 “will have nothing whatever to do with A queer feeling came over me as he Education is the beat cure for crime. you would do her family a very great thoae days fled with awful swiftness, for her husband'« dinner except to partake spoke. Surely, I thought, this inuu or you for many, many ye.„ . It coats less to build additions to school- they were hurrying us both, my mother service.” you will have no chancs of m.t?' of It.” Of course husbands will con must be lu league with unseen powers. “Why do you fix upon me?” I inquired. houses than it does to enlarge our jails. and me, to a great gulf which would you are settled in . n»*?'1» * tinue to eat and to have dinners a« for I carried the umbrella under my arm, “Why did you not send for one of the till soon, far too soon, lie between us. where; but you are free to’a’k ? *On‘*' The Idea of an Island for anarenists merly. but Madame Bchrnull expects and even if I bad struck the floor with Every afternoon Julia came to »pend resident doctors? I left Guernsey some your wife. Aunt w.nuW an hour or two with my mother; but her time ago.” Is not a bad one. Why not buy Iceland the cook aud tbe kitchen to disappear It, bow could he have known that It somebody to love you and i," ’ from tbe household, and the dinner to "You were here laat winter," she said, arrival was always formally announced, was not an old, cheap one—or a cane? and let the king-killers till the soil after she I. gone, a, 1 ,0ould h be served by a “universal provider.” and It was an understood thing that I “and you're a young man, and would no “Sherlock,” I said, “you cause my there! But you are gvnerou, to tice her more. ” The Idea Is neither strictly origlual nor hair to rise. I suppose you will tell should immediately quit the room, to IL" I said again ° «• “ There are other young doctors in avoid meeting her. There was an eti There are now additional opportuni- even novel. It has been tried In sev me you know by dt^ductlou that 1 carry "No,” she answered, win|n, Guernsey, ” I remarked. quette in her resentment which I was ties for a young man in the Philippines, eral Instance In this country, and has a tine umbrella, but that will not Batía “Ah, but you’ve been in London,” she and lifting up her head; "I thought ¡7* bound to observe. lie can go there and marry a school not l«een encouragingly successful. But fy me. There is nothing to deduce I thought 1 wa, « evu 7“ 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 Chrl.fl,^ perhaps the conditions were not favor from. I cannot account for it only on ma'am. tients again, for I was determined that Senior. When you are in a strange place is mortified, and humbled able, and Madame Scbmall may be Jus the theory that you have second sight everybody ,hould feel that my residence you catch at any chance of an acquaint one wounded. I am a great diMr,Du-n, *“'i It is reported that a lot of more or tified lu assuming that when she has or eyes In the back of your head.” at home was only temporary. But about ance.” to myaelf; quite a. great a, y£ less damaged American pugilists are the direction of th«- enterprise It will “Come, be candid with me," I aaid. In the Harvest Field. ten days after my return the following “My dear Whatson,” he said, smiling me. I fancied myself very iuoeria. 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 be J you here?" manly art of self-government. the most advanced woman. Whether are unusually dull this morning. Don’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 ” " “A lady from England, who Is only a tbe world will be better or humanity you see that 1 have the mirror over ing of hi« father and mother. Like all Her hand was lying on her lap ... , off her guard ami startled her. She heal- visitor in Guernsey, will be much oblig 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 kis.ed it suicide and failed, and right afterward wife. has disappeared, and whether still the ring I had given ¡>er ^7, 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 fill tbe "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-beautiful story of Ruth is suffering from a slight indisposition; riage, Tbl» allows bow advertising bill of "home cooking.” are questions ms or bid me good-bye. and I «,at ’ turned? I arranged that all myself. and Boaz. Mistral was born at Mall and knowing Dr. Senior by name and any such persons,” she answered. "I pays. which must !>e answered by experi Who but the greatest of all d«*ducers 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 vein, tiHgl|B. ,us ment am! not by pure reasoning. There dence in the skill of Dr. Senior's friend." mean. All I want is quite honeat. There shame am! gladness. I met Captain Car» The disappearance after an earth- Is every dls[M>«ltlon to gratify the la would ever have thought of It? Ah, He was the child of a second marriage, I wondered for an Instant who the Is a fortune waiting for that poor girl, coming up the street, with a basket 4 contracted when bls father was alsiut let me examine your umbrella. Yes, it quake of a high mountain in Japan Is dles, even the most progressive aud stranger could be, and how she knew the and I want to take her back to thoae who fine grapes in his hand. Re sdomp J 56, a marriage of pure romance. This very much amazed. ™ new evidence that the crust of this old most thoroughly emancipated ladles; is as I supposed. The man who ex Seniors; but as there could be no *a- love her. and are ready to forgive and “Why, Martin!" he exclaimed, '•«, earth of ours isn't so thick and solid all but when home cooking and industries changed with you Is blind. Poor fel was the meeting of the middle-aged ewer 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 bls wife. the lady, I reeolved to go. Rose \ Illa something 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 kee[>er« and servants Jobbing by the “Reconciled?” he said, arching kJ.ere Francois Mistral was In the midst of visitors during the season, and the Vau do with It.” Brooklyn has a ¡trencher who before hour, shall we still feel a thrill of emo him?” brows, which were still dark and buib “ Well, ” I said, rising to take my leave, his wheat, which a company of har vert Road was scarcely five minute»' Panting with excitement over the entering the ministry was a member of tion when we sing, “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 la though his hair was grizzled. the city police force. The Influence of Like Home?” “Not exactly,” 1 replied, with a K!f that I never saw such a peraon here, Into a chair aud stared helplessly at young girls, gleaning, followed the her daily visit to my mother, and I was either laat winter or since. It is quite smile exceedingly difficult to force; "noth habit, If nothing else, should cause him at a lose for something to do, so I went reapers, and raked up the enrs that him for a moment. When I was able to arrest the attention of his congrega possible she went on to Jersey, or to ing of the sort indeed. Captain, wbva The American abroad, or In England to speak again I asked: fell. Maltre Francois, my father, no at I once. tion. found a very handsome, fine-looking Granville, when the atorm was over. will you take me across to Sark?" nt least, Is no louger the enslly plucked “Come, come! none of that, Martin,’ "How do you know he Is blind and ticed a beautiful girl who remained be woman; dark, with hair and eyes as black That ahe did not stay in Guernsey I am he said; "you're on honor, you kno< A horrid man has planted himself bird he w as once. As a consequence he that he has 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 in a fever of anxiety. The You are pledged to poor Julia not to «lit "Pardon me. my dear Whatson, if I like the others. He drew near, and said to match. Her forehead was low, but firmly in tlie pathway of civilisation Uns lost the popularity he 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 ahaped; aud the lower woman, who was certainly not a lady, "She has Just set me free," I answerel part of her face, handsome as It was, had inspired me with a repugnance that wife, who bus become a missionary, may tie held In higher respect than he 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 could not be related to Olivia! 1 tried him all that had just passed between u “How am 1 to return IL” I asked, daughter of Etienne Poullnet, Malre of about her features; yet the coarseness of to guess In what relationship to her she His eyes glistened, though a film clni, dren. The brutality of man continues to be plundered Is not respected by those who do the plundering, hut he Is "when 1 don't know whose it Is.” Malllane. My name is Delalde.” to assert itself. them was but slightly apparent as yet. could possibly stand. I felt more chafed across them which he had to wipe nwtr no longer so much sought after. The "What! the daughter of the Malre 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; ", “That should be easy.” he said, reach A man in a New York hospital has hotel servants say that the Americans ing for it, and unbuttoning the strap Malllane gleaning?” much sympathy; but she attracted my cret. I tried to satisfy myself with the fine, generous, noble girl. I really thought "Maltre,” ’•.te replied, “our family Is curiosity, and interested me by tbe bold reflection that I had put Tardif on his she'd break her heart over you at firot, had Ills bead opened and a clot of blood are now the least profitable of their that held It neatly folded. Then he guard, and that he would protect h«r. but she will come round again now. tv« removed from tlie brain, so that lie Is customers. It Is well that the Ameri half opened It, exclaiming: “As I guess large, si.« girls and two boys, and al style of her beauty. “You Guernsey people are very stiff But that did not set my mind at ease. 1 will have a run over to Sark to-morrow." on the high road to recovery from total cans should lose their reputation for ed. Here is a little sliver plate w ith his though our father is pretty well-to-do, I felt myself lifted into a third heaven as you know, when we ask him for with strangers," she remarked, aa 1 sat never knew a mother yet who believed paralysis. We seem to lie nearing the silly prodigality. They got It ¡tartly name on It.” opposite to her, regarding her with that that any other woman could nurse her of delight all that evening. My mother point where a human being can be through ignorance. They did not know 1 was dumfounded at the man's clev clothes he replies, ‘Girls, If you want cloae observation which is permitted to a sick child as well as herself; and I could and 1 talked of no one but Olivia. Th, finery, earn It.’ And that Is why I came doctor. taken entirely apart and put t<iget her the legitimate charges or tips lu foreign erness. not be persuaded that even Tardif would present rapture bo completely eclipied tb, countries, were unwilling to ask alsiut again as good ns new. "Holmes,” 1 said, "there is only one to gl«*an.” “So the world says,” I answered. “Of shield Olivia from danger and trouble coining sorrow that 1 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 rrexIdeiitH are ottener uttacked giving too much rather than of giving thought of doing what you have done. Francois asked Maltre Poullnet 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 bold no communication with fere«! me to lie remin-h-d of her iilneu. 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." Sh«> listened to my rhapsodies, smiling “I have been here a week," ahe replied, her. to uttai'k. Assassination Is commoner they were being Imposed on they have But Ills name alone Is there, you see. 1 was born. pouting her full crimson lips, “and have I had strolled down some of the quieter with her divine, pathetic smile. Ther, among them than among any other often felt that It would not be dignified It seems to me that we are as far away not had a chance of 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 alsiut It. Ignorance and 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 deal. the customs of their office Invite It and 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 throw wide open the d<s>r of opportuni That Ignorance Is passing away. The of men in this great city?” That, then, was the cause of the little caught sight of Kate Dal trey turning with a soft wind drifting over the wt la proving almost Invariably success ty to every maniac or fanatic who may number 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, as he quent trips abroad, especially to Eng put on his hat and left the room. In a ful. As soon as a tiger’s lair has been honor of attending her. 1 indulged my reasonable probability that she would furrow lying in the wake of our boat. ” be seized with u murderous Impulse. found, natives are employed to con aelf in a mild sarcasm to that effect, but not come out again soon, for I saw a bon It was almost low tble when we retched land and France, is Increasing. Little few minutes he returned, 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 houre «-om- "He lives at 7'143 Paradise road; tele Because a man Is born Into the world by little these tourists have learned 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 of life with tlila mental distortion, which per the ropes. They have found out the phone, West 11300.” shone like beads. for halt an hour, and Julia would be was a family of hens clucking about the mltn him under tlie Influence of others foreign scale of remuneration for cer 1 had risen as he entered, but 1 stag away from It, and in this inclosure is "I am really ill," she said, “but It has alone. I had felt a strong desire to see fold. to become a murderer, ««wlety requires tain services and they stick rigidly to gered buck and fell Into a chair again, then placed as a bait a dog, which is nothing to do with not seeing anybody, Julia ever since I returned home. My The door was not fastened, and I en- tied to one of the fence posts. A nar for Its reasonable protection that In* that scale. They do so all the more overcome. though that's dull. There’s nothing for mind was made up on the spot. If I tered, but there was nobody tliere. 1 rigidly when they recall past occasions row entrance lends Into the Inclosure. shall not have the Incentive to murder me to do bqt take a bath in the morning found her in a gentle mood she would st «rod in the middle of the kitchen ani “How do you know all this?” 1 : and 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. Olivix'a put upon him through the words of when they have been ltiqs>se<l on. But gasped. Good gracious! it's torted from me when she wus in the door was ajar, and I pushed it a little others, and If he Indicate« tin* least dis every year Americans are going to Eu “There Is a city directory In the drug I earth, leaves and boughs of trees, is bed very early. first beat of her anger and disappoint more open. There lay books I had lent position In thnt direction that he shall rope for the first time, full of inexpe store across the street,” be calmly re- place 1 a strong steel trap, which Is so enough to drive me mad!” ment. It was a chance worth trying. If Iler on the table, an.I her velvet slippen "Try Jersey,” I suggested. be securely confined a« one whose In rience and full of the notion thnt It Is ¡died. “l»o you wish to call 1dm iqi and designed that any animal that places “No, I'll uot try Jersey," she said. “I I w«-re free to declare to Olivia my love were on the Hour, as if they ba 1 only capacity for orderly reasoning wan like a mark of gentility to is- opeu handed tell him that you have his umbrella? Its foot on It Is certain to be held caje mean to make my way here. Don't you for her, I should establish a claim upon just Iwen tak« n off. Very woru an I brow, and not to make a row when over tlve. ly to lead him to take the life of an You can at the same time ask about her full confidence, and we could laugh were the little slippers, but they reas charged. The man who at home will This trap Is of recent invention, and know anybody, doctor, that would take at further difficulties. She was of age, ol her. his blindness.” pity on a poor stranger?” sured me she had been wearing them I argue for half an hour with a street car and therefore mistress of herself. Iler short timv ago. Almost overcome by the man's un consists of strong steel ¡dates ami “I am sorry to say no,” I answered. An advocate of the metric system ar conductor over a question of 5 cents equally strong springs. When It Is set friends, represented by this odious wom I returned through the fold. All the She frowned at that and looked disap canny air I permitted him to conduct gue« that our present weights and refrains from similar controversies Tardifs 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 seetne«! left to Itself. measures put ua out of touch with the abroad, even when he knows the lan sheep were browsing along the cliffs, an 1 there was a telephone that he was per as soon ns the tiger which has been knew the Seulors, when she spoke again. her. I turned shortly up a side street and his cows were tethered here and there. commerce of the world, except that of guage of the country. Therefore for "Do you have many visitors come to mitted to use. It was ns 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 ¡ducking Ameri The man who owned the umbrella had thereon the springs are released, and October?” »he inquired. house which was to have been our home. from behind a crag, the rough shock some amusing discrepancies. The arti cans will not altogether lose their suddenly gone blind a little while lie- the cruel steel grips the leg and holds “Not many," I answered; “ a few may By a bold stroke 1 might reach Julia's head of a boy, an-1 I shouted to him, cles 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 mv bauds. arrive who intend to winter here.” gralu, sold by the bushel, which dllTers 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 liondnge. and as here last autumn,” she said, "alone, as tonishment at seeing me there. I passed “Down l«elow there!” hi- »houted back sight. sold by the gallon, which differs from A writer nays that typical Southern again, pointing downwards to the Havre When we had returned to the great those who have set the trap are never l am, and I've been wondering ever since by quickly. tlie English gallon; and meat and cot ers very rarely have gout m their low "I wish to speak to Miss Dobree,” 1 Gosselin. I diil not wait for any further amateur detective's room I Bald, almost far away lie Is In a short time either I’ve been here however she would get said. “Is she in the drawing room?” ton. sold by the pound, which fortun er extremities, and he explains Ills information, but darted off down the l««ng, killed or securely caged. At the name along amongst such a set of stiff, formal, shuddering: “Yes, sir,” she answered, in a hesitat steep gulley to the little strund. where stand-offish folks. She had not money ately corresponds with the English statement an follows: “The moment time the dog Is released, and, Indeed, “Now, tell me how you knew he was enough for a dash, or that would make a ing tone. pound. the pebbles were being lapped lazily L’ one alts down he looks al-out for some blind and that he had lost his sight he could uot be removed from the in difference, I suppoee.” I waited for nothing more, but knock the ripple of the lowering tide, lardifj object upon will« h to elevate his feet, only recently.” closure as long as the trap was sot. ed at the drawing room door for myself, The enormous extent of the summer usually resting them on a chair or win boat was witbin a stone’s throw, «nd I "Not the least,” I replied, "if your lie smiled half wearily, half in pity, since this Instrument, strong as It Is. friend came without any introductions." and heard Julia call, “Come in.” saw Olivia sitting in the stern of it. hotel business lu this country la but dow sill If Indoors or the balustrade If nevertheless Is no delicate that the pres- , nh«>ut«*d ngnln with a vehemence wbl- “What a dreary winter she'd have!" little understood or appreciated. The on the porch or plnz.zn. Now. the loca ns he replied: CHAPTER XIV. madi* 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 S|M*nd tion of gout being simply a question of Julia looked very much the same as she “Come back, Tardif,” I cried, 'and IMMMMIO.OUO a year for summer vaca- «¡-eclfle gravity, it does not d<-s<-cml to you'll never become much of a deducer. the springs and cause the animal's leg tation. “She was quite young, and as ha-1 done that evening when I came re tlous. Upward of flee annu- the feet lie<-ause of this habitual eleva If he could have seen he would never to be crushed In a twinkling.—Ixindon pretty as a picture. All the young men luctantly to tell her that my 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 my sudden appearance sffec.« mistaking It for Ills own. And men and seashore. There are between 20,<W> l>e obliged to climb. The smallness of who Isn't a fright g,'ts stared at enough other. She wore the same kind of fresh, Olivia. I >i«l she turn white or red at the What He Might Do. light muslin dress, with ribbons an-1 la.-e sound of my voice? By the time it neared mid 25,0«at summer hotel« lu the coun the Southern foot Is accounted for In who are long blind develop a delicate The custom of preserving the busi to be known again.” try and they employ about IMKklNtO peo the same way that In. of course, the sense of feeling that makes 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 kuee-deep 1 ple. New York State alone han about Southern man's foot. The women never for them to know their own by a mere founders have paseed away or disap Olivia? I looked at her more earnestly with a piece of needlework in her hands; meet it, her face was bright with ,n>li<* 4.000 summer hotels. The largest sin elevate. Englishmen have whopping touch. Bo It was plain that he was peared finds Its reproof In a story re and critically. She was not a person I yet «lie was not sewing, an I her bands and her hands were stretched out tobep lay listlessly on her lap. A mingled feel gle resort In the country Is at Atlantic big feet, which they keep plastered blind and that be had not beeu so long lated by the New York Evening Post. should like Olivia to have anything to ing of sorrow, pity and shame prevented me over the boat’s side. If Tardif had M b««n th«*» 1 ’b001 do with. A coarse, ill bred, bold woman, 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, an-1 did me from advancing into the room. She have kissed them bo h. As it ***' , about 200,000, and an nverage of 15,000 times, as If afraid of letting something them. Don't bother me any more this canvass leading lawyers In a certain not bliuk under my scrutiny. Could she looked tip to aee who was standing in the tucked up my wet feet out of reach o ' ■ employes. It Is estimated that |2O, get nway 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 appenrance there evi dress nnd took sn oar, unable to utter 000,000 la 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 "Where are you going to?" I asked, «■ “I should like to see Mr. M."—men "May I come in and apeak to you. Ju dressing neither of them in particular. her,” she said, laughing and showing sll I have been commissioned to And out tioning the first name of tlie firm. lia?" I asked. her white teeth. "A girl like her couldn't "Tardif was going to row me pa«t tn what's the matter with him."—Chicago There In an evolution lu small things The loot Flag. “Very sorry, sir, but Mr. M. has been go about a little poky place like thi» with "Is my aunt worse?" she Inquired hur- entrance to the Gouliot Care«. ,n’’T'.ye an well an In great onea, and ¡M-rha[>e It As IL M. 8. Ringdove was cruising Record-Herald. dead three years," was the answer. riedly. “ Are you out all the young men knowing her. Fer- come to fetch me to Olivia, “but we will put it off now. la the small things that tell which way past one of th« Solomon group of isl "Well, In that case. 1 should like to haps »he left the island in the apring. I her?" SAVED BY HIS WIT. will return to the shore and hear • • ' the winds of evolution blow. In th« ands lu the Paciflc, the lookout reported “No, no, Julia." I said; “my mother is adventures. Dr. Martin. You come up« sc«' Mr. N.”—the second name of the have asked at all the drapers' shops but days when cardl>oard air castles hung thkt the British flag was not flying An How On« West Point Cadet Avoid«.! firm. nobody recollects her. I've very good as well as usual, I hope. But surely you us like a phantom an-1 take *“ n»lna a “Oeflclent.” from chandeliers and decorated auow armed laaly of marines was promptly "Mr. N. retired from the firm over a news for her If I coaid find her—a slim will let me speak to you after all thia ghostly silence. Are you really, t™, "There was au officer in the regular year ago." said the clerk, with a smile. middle-size,! girl, with a clear, fair skin timer shovels leaned conspicuously against sent ashore to Inquire tbe reason. there ?” “It is not a long time," she answered. and grey eyes sad hair of a bright (To be continued.) marble mantels It was the fashion to The chief «lid 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. place mottoes worked by feminine ish Columbia paper, waste words In re miles away from Governor's Island, last name of the three. graph.” "It seems years to me. All life has Thread feed In Surgery- hands upon the walls of our Iniuioi. plying. He summoned his favorite this very day." said a West Pointer yes “Mr. O." replied the clerk, "salle,! last She put into my hands an exquisite changed for me. I had no ide* then of The modem surgeon employs In terday. “ who would never have gradu These mottoes were usually of a rellg wife, am! when she appeared, pointed week for Europe, and won't be back portrait of Olivia, taken in Florence. my mother's illness.” work dozens of «lifferont kin-ls « lous character and were In the nature to her. She was clothed from lies«! to ated at the academy hid It not been for for a month yet; Is there anything t T.ier* was an expression of quiet mourn Nor I, she said, sighing deeply. of a prayer to the I*efty to “bless our foot In the mlssiug Union Jack, the flag his cool nerve plus his quick wit on a can do for you?" fulnes. in the face, which touched me to "If I had known it," I continued, “«11 thread for sew ing up cuts and woti the core of my heart. I could not put It this might not have happened. Surely Among them are kangaroo ,e ’' home," or “feed our lamlia.” It la still having been cut and fashioned Into a trying occasion.” And the West Point "There Is," answered th«* canvasser, the custom to hang quotations upon lixise-flttlng blouse and skirt. er w ent on to tell of the cause and effect with the utmost suavity; “some day. down and apeak in differently 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!” prliate walla, but now they usually ex wire. Many of these threads are This, of course, does not settle the of that nerve ami quick wit. when you have time, you might bring to run off with the treasure and return "Yes, Martin." she answered; “ye* I tended to hold for a certain numt*r press the possessor's own theory of life question whether tra.le follows the flag Twenty odd yearn ago. when he was the firm name up to date." no more to this woman. 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» . sibilities. A favorite quotation that la cover,«,! advatH'e of empire, but It does who "flunked” In bls Anal examina If In Doabt, Work II Out- ed triumphantly. hand but without looking into my face. The short, tough tendons taken r uow winning the distinction of wnll prove conclusively that the ladles of the tion In his fourth year, lie was a pop A Cambridge university professor, “I never »aw such a person in Guern I saw that she had been crying, for her the kangaroo, which are used f r ** «¡sice la from Itol-ert Louts Stevenson Paciflc Islands, when tbey acquire civ ular fellow and his classmates felt sor who dreams In figures, has done the •ey, I »□«were-!, look in t steadily into *J«** were red. In * tone of formal po Ing severe wounds, will bold f-r " her face. A sullen and gloomy expres liteness she asked me if I would not sit four weeks before they break and runs as follow«: “To t-e honest, to ilisation. will not nee«! to take lessons of ry for him. They were all to doff the following atrocity. • sion came across iL and «he snatched down. I considered it best to remain Silk thread will remain mu. h lon^ lie kind to earn a little and to spend their Angle Saxon sisters In the art of gray for the blue In a few days and the 1 times 9 plus 2 equals 11. the portrait out of my hand. a little less, to make upon the whole a “making over." standing, a.« an intimation that I should sometimes six months, while poor fellow It had leaked out despite 12 times I* plus 3 equals 111. w’nt to *1 ■ she not trouble her with my presence for family happier for Ida presence, to re 123 times 9 plus 4 equals 1111. regulations would l*e declared on grad said, 'bot I defy you to do It I am come long I had no time to lose, lest Kats silver wire Is practically Ind- - ro< nounce when that shall l-e necessary 1234 tlmee 9 plus 5 equal« 11111 it la supposed that anybody la grxxl uation day “deflclent" the only one out here *» to find her. and find her I will. She Nyith the entire outfit » ‘ , 1234ft times 9 plus «1 equals 111111. am! not tie embittered, to keep a few enough to »¡>eak before school children, of a class of more than 00. hasn't drown«*«! herself, and the earth ! Daltrey «hould come In. and it was a able to select a tbroa.l that will _ ( very difficult subject to approach. 12345*1 times 9 plus 7 equals 1111111. *o beai aaJ hasn't friends but these without capitulation and advise them to tnlnd th« teacher, swallowe«l her np. I've traced I It no happened that a night or two " e were talking of you to-day," she long as the wound tak«*s R 12345H7 time« 9 plu< 9 equal« 11111111. her as far as here, and that I tell you. ! —above all, on the same grim condi ami ts'bave, anil study, and become before graduation «lay Mr X let him ‘ / said at length, in a hurried and thick will then disappear complete? She cnn 12345878 times 9 plus 9 «-qua .« tion, to keep friends with himself— great turn and women, but school chil be calle«! that was obllg«sl to be on ”•■>1 in the Southampton boat one voi<* gMortment << Aunt is In great sorrow about a<v-oninio«late this 111111111. dreadful illy stormy night last WWW Octobero- you. It preys upon her day and night . * “ ■»«» «nsi here la a task for all that a man has of dren are Herve critics. A little man sentry duty. The officer of the guard of need'* I times «* plus 1 equals 9. the only lady passenger and the stew- that you will be dreadfully alone when threads special varieties tbe n**01* fortitude and delicacy." Of course, to recently appeared before the children that night got a sudden Idea Into bls 12 tinte« S plus 2 equals 1*9 arde«, recollect« recollects her well. She landed Be«fdes ar!e«s she is gone, an 1—an«! Martin, she wishee are required. bang a quotation upon the walla of of an Atchison school, with an addtv«« h«-ad. th«« <*adet might l*e no disheart 123 time, 9 plus 3 equal« 1*97 her*” ' "U ,na*, kn>w something about to know before she dies that the girl in craned In different tegmen its of • one's own house Is a different thing he had learned by heart, and th« chil en«-«! that he would be neglectful of his shaped BW 1234 tinn-s 9 pine 4 equals ',<97'1. cle. surgeons nse nee«!l«* • from hanging It upon the w alla of one's dren are still “mockln<” him. 12345 time, 9 pin« 5 «-qua!« 987*ift. onet I*dn* k 3 1 never saw jbat girl Sark will become your wife.” duty He would t«-st him see .f he had’ The words struck like a shot upon my spears, javelins and t«a? i In a pela* heart, and It la quite possible to stare 123458 tini«Mi 9 plus 8 equal« 9R78ft4. bere. I repli«*d evaaively. "What la "soldier stuff*' In him. even though the Some are as long as bodktna ear and brain. What! had Julia and mv 1234587 til haT* ? "a maJ* •?’»* herf every day at a hand painted motto When a woman bums the steak she «aids were against bls future. been arranging between them my like a miniature knife blade. 1 12145*179 "I ve tnqulred bere and there and ev- mother without once making an effort to make thinks that a flower laid beetle It on happiness and Olivia', that TFfy bav« tbe sharpened ent! tr ' • It wan a dark, rainy night. The of 997«t,W2 •JT ’ bere. «he «aid 'T'v* don« nothing It a thing of practice, but that such the plate is apology enough fur any fleer of the guard smklcnly came a« ross 1234AK788 tuneo 8 plus 9 equal« elee ever «lnce I carne lt i« «f gr»,t afternoon Such g< ner >sity was in- re 1- sentiments should be sufficiently p»pu man. Don't say you work Ike * ibl«. 1 conld not believe I had heard the cade's po«L importa*«-« tu ber, ae w«il „ tu mv tbat aright. M7864S24. 1 Eugene Weekly Guard. lar as to be deemed worthy of flames SHERLOCK HOLMES, JR The click of steel at the same time warned the Intruder that the sentry's eyes were upon him at least, that bls quick bearing bad detected the stealthy steps on the wet sod. Then came out In a half muffled voice: “Who goes there?” This was the moment the officer of the guard had fixed In bls 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 the officer, ths cadet came to a “right shoulder shift,” as It was called In those days, paced by him and said: “AU right, my orders are to let nobody pass, major.” The cadet has recognized the officer. Ills answer, even If not regular In a military sense, was correct, but It was a tough one on the major. The story was so good It could not keep, and It went to Washington. “To make a long story short,” said the West Pointer, "that answer, un- der the circumstances, won Influence enough for that cadet not to leave the academy as 'deflclent,’ but mere ly to be put back for another year's cliauce. Result? lie graduated with high honors In the following June and was my commander In the Philippines six months ago.”—New York Journal. •to**« slaves do not work very Lar i