The Eugene weekly guard., May 31, 1902, Image 2

Eugene Weekly Guard.
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( VMI’HXI.I. KKoa., Proprietor«.
EUGENE
OREGON,
It coats something to live these days,
but it is even more expensive to die.
If a man Is Inclined to lead a fast life
he should lead It to the ueurest hitch­
lug post and tie it.
When a woman beglus to have a dou­
ble chin she ceases to hate to recognise
her grandchildren In public.
An old bachelor says It Is evidently a
greater pleasure to die for some w orn
eu tbau It is to live with them.
money.” He started around the world
on a lecturing tour shortly after thia
and out of the proceeds of the lecture
and the book ho wrote telHng of his
experiences, he paid off the notes dol-
lar for dollar. Then he kept ou work-
lug. In order to have something laid
by for his old age. As he paid pretty
nearly (50.000 for this new borne. It
looks as if he bad accomplished his
purpose All thia would sound almost
like the tragedy a similar state of af­
fairs made out of Sir Walter Scott’s
life, were It not for the fact that Mark
Twain has accustoms«! the people to
expect him to look ou the humorous
side of things, and so they can hardly
take him seriously. 8lr Walter Scott
cleared himself of debt— and died, For-
tuuately it Is that Mark Twain bas
accomplished a similar task, and still
lives to make the world laugb.
King lipoid, of Belgium, would
There I h a certain feature of interna­
doubtless feel safer If he could take tional relations which has come Into
bls automobile to bed with blm.
existence almost Imperceptibly, but
has grown to great Importance, Io
If a man tries to stand on bls dignity somewhat the »arne way that town­
the < bam es are that some less dignified ships and counties pay taxes toward
chap will come along and alt ou blm.
the support of the States, the United
States government contributes to pro­
After a)l. Miss Stone might never jects In which the world is Interested.
hate been released If Major Pond had The diplomatic and cotiHiilar bill which
not thought It would pay to bring her this year pnssed Congres«, ns usual,
back.
with little debate and practically no
opposition, contained provision for
J. Pierpont Morgan, having secured
control of al>out everything on the sur­ several of these "world taxes." Hue
face, is going Into the underground rail was for our share of the expenses of
the “International Bureau of (lie Per­
wav business.
manent Court of Arbitration,” created
The siulness of a man who has loved by the convention concluded at The
and lost Is frequently exceeded by that Hague In 1800. Another was to meet
of the p<a»r unfortunate who loved and our annual dues as a member of an
International aHSoclatlou for measur­
fulled to lose.
ing the earth There Is also an Inter­
Prince Henry Hays the Americans are national bureau of weights and meas­
not a nation of mere dollar hunters. ures, one for the publication at Brus­
The swiftness of the Prince's percep sels of tlie customs tariffs of all na­
tions, and also at the same city a bu­
tlons Is simply amazing
reau for the suppression of tlie Afri­
After a girl lias been referred to In can Hlave trade. To all of these we
print ns “a beauty,” It Is pretty hard contribute, as we do nlHo to tlie Inter
to get her to return to the old belief national Prison t'omnilHslon and for
the support of the Red Cross Confer­
that life I h a dreary waste.
ence Congress granted In Hie same
There are people Inquisitive enough bill a sum for tlie maintenance of for­
to want to know how many times in eign hospitals at Cape Town and at
seventeen years, anyhow, the seven- Panama, and for our share of the coat
of a lighthouse on the coast of Moroc-
teen-year locusts may be expected.
co. Tlie Bureau of American Repub
The troubles which have fallen to the lies, although obviously confined to
lot of Queen Wilhelmina during the thia hemisphere, Is an important Inter
past few months show very conclusive national organization. The Postal Uu­
ly that the pathway of royalty may be Ion, which lias Its headquarters lu
Switzerland, Includes most of the na
anything but a rosy one.
tlons und colonies of nil continents.
Says Mr 1>. B. Hill: “It la perhaps Quick communication, lu bringing the
difficult to predict how Jeffersou, If he nations nearer together, makes It de
Were alive to day, would meet the dlftl airable for them to do many things tn
cutties which we encounter.” Hlmple common, they thus protit by a certain
old Jeff! lie'll have a sad time of It unity of plan and harmony of opera-
these days.
Joe Jefferson run throe-quarters of
mile the other day to escape from
crowd of women who wanted to kiss
him. Eye witnesses say the grand old
man put up a sprint that would have
been wonderful even for a profuasluual.
An Illinois
I
Justice Ims decided that a
man's i wife Is entitled to the motley
paid for the eggs laid by their liens. Oh,
wise Judge! I.et the old man and the
old rooster divide their profits; but the
lady Is surely entitled to the hen aud
the emoluments derived therefrom.
Does tlie higher education of women
tend to increase their power of self-con­
trol J A remark la-arlng upon the ques
tlon Is credited to President Thomas of
Bryn Mawr College. A hr»' recently de­
stroyed a building In which a number
of the young women students lived.
The president said that If tlie tire had
occurred twenty the years ago there
would hate been seventy live girls lu
tears, but at tlie time of the disaster
she did not see one girl weeping.
One of the most Interesting features
of the recent military tournament In
Madison Square Garden, New York,
was the bareback hurdling and gen­
eral rough riding exhibition of tho de­
tachment of the Second Cavalry from
Fort Meyer. These men h I iow to
what a remarkable degree of profi­
ciency Uncle Sam's troopers are de­
veloped In rough riding, One of the
moat hazardous feats of the soldiers
Is the vaulting over olio Imrso and
landing on the back of a second horse
Just as the hurdle la cleared. While
this feat had been seen nt previous
tournaments. It never was done so well
ns by this detachment. and tlie hearty
applause of the crowd each night man
ifested tile patriotic pride taken In tho
work of the soldiers, says a New York
paper.
You may go about among nine tenths
of the cumfortalde homes In almost any
civilised country Htid find the sun Is
counted by the typical housewife her
es|HH lal f<s*. She does not allow him
eveu to peep Into her parlor, that lioly
of holies, where her Is'st furniture and
her finest carpets mid costliest hang
lugs are oh. no! Science has clearly
shown that sunlight properly used <le
creases mortality Both physically mid
morally we should let tin* sunlight have AllIOMOBII I I OR
free right of way Into our Ilves. If we
INI SHUN 01 MOROCCO.
let It Into the physical sphere It will
And Its own way Into the moral. There
Is Ito such thing as loo much sunlight.
Two forest reM-rveH will shortly l>e
estiibllidi«! by Presidential proclama
tlon In the sand hill district of N elira»
ka; one, tlie Dismal Itlver reserve, be
tween the Dismal aud Middle Loup
Rivera, containing N.IIW acres; the
other, the Niobrara reserve, between
the Niobrara aud Snake Rivera. UM,.
000 acres. Neither of these reserves
contains mining or agricultural laud,
ami but little private land. Home of
the area Is now or has l»een covered
by forests, ami the reserves are easily
accessible from tlie settled country.
In this unique work of converting what
Is really a »and plain Into a forest re­
gion the government forester» will co­
operate with the forestry department
of the I nlveralty of Netawaka. It liaa
for some time lieen the conviction of
thoee who should know that these long
stretches of sand bills can be forested,
and Hint some portions of them are
more valuable for forestry than for
any other purpose, aud can be gtveu
Increased value In the meantime the
reserves will, as the Secretary of Ag­
riculture says, improve the general
condition of that country by growing
timber to check the winds, retain the
soil moisture, ami provide fuel, posts,
and other supplies for settlers
Mark Twatu has I »ought a house.
This may seem nothing unusual for a
man to do. but It nteaus a good deal
In this particular case Mark Twain,
as probably yon know, was a partner In
a publishing house that failed for a
large aunt illite years ago It not only
sw allow t-d tip all of the money lie had
earn«! by his Isstka, but he also found
himself with unpaid mitee to the
amount of several hundred thousand
doll are Mark Iw aln w as M years old
at the time, an age when a man natur­
ally begins to think of lying back on
his oars aud taking life easier. Many a
man would have let thia reverse end
hie usefulness Not so. Mark Twsln.
"Never mlud." he said, ''I'll bare to
gv to work again and make some more
An elegant and sumptuously a|>
pointed automobile coupe has recently
beeu complete«! by a French tlrm for
th« Sultan of Morocco. It Is finished
lu gr<*en, with gold tracery, and the In­
terior Is luxuriantly tilted with silk
linings and curtains. There Is a double
set inside for the conductor anj pas
settger. and In the rear the place fur
the footman.
Knilllivg as ■ Medicine.
Knitting Is declared by specialists In
the treatment of rheumatism to lie a
moat helpful eiervlse for hands liable
to become stiff from the complaint, anil
It Is tielng pTeaerlbed by physicians
because of Its efficacy lu lliulx-rlng up
the hands of such sufferers For per
sons liable to crauip. paralysis or any
other affection of the finger« of that
character knitting Is regarded as a
moat beneficial exercise. Besides the
simple work Is said to be an excellent
diversion for the nerves and Is reconi
mended to women suffering from In­
somnia and depression. In certain san­
itariums patients are encouraged to
make use of the bright steels, and the
work la so pleasant that it Is much en
joyed by them.
now KEEP THE BOYS?
GIRLS.
ALSO. ARE PRONE
LEAVE THE FARM.
TO
_
A
Judicious
btudx
of
Natural Inclinations
the
Child's
Muy Ci I ve the
Parent an Idea of the Hight Counts
to Pursue.
Much has been said and I written
aud
I
about the teudeucy of the boys,
1
aud
the girls, too, to leave the farm
seek some other occupatiofi, which will
prove more remunerative, or which
they expect will be so. We do not
blame them, for ambition is the right
of every one, and the young person
who does not have it can scarcely ex­
pect to be more prosperous, ami may
not lie booetevl into a higher place eveu
by the efforts of others.
It is jMiasllde, however, to so direct
that ambition and encourage It as to
confine it to the farm, iustead of send­
ing it behind tiie counter, or on an elec­
tric or steam car, or on board a steam­
ship. We knew Iliat tlie natural talent
and the Inclination of some boys, and
girls also, is for a mechanical occupu
tlon. They can scarcely be kept from
it. They want to be making some­
thing with hummer and nails or needle
ami thread h II of the tliue. Others have
other tastes which lead them away
from Hie farm, and to force tbeui to
remain there would Im almost as bad
ax Imprisonment to them.
There are others whose Ideas of life
off tin- farm is largely influenced by
their reading. Certain books may
arouse an Idea that they would like to
go in search of adventure among the
lmliaiis. or ax bandits to bold up rail­
road trains, or as sailors visiting for­
eign countries or w locked and living
as Robinson t'rusoe did on an unlnhab
Ited Island. A few more years and a
little more experience usually gives dis­
cretion enough to show them the folly
of such dreams ua these.
But the farmer who desires to keep
some one or more of his children at
home with hint, to take up tlie busi­
ness there when he shall give It up.
has no one but himself to blame If lie
does not succeed in doing so. Setting
aside those who have a decided me­
chanical or mercantile turn, ami they
“A MUD FALL.”
are not many when the parent is not a
"born" me< lianlc or trader, the others Singular Spectacle Seen in tha Thibe­
tan Mountain«.
cun be made to feel an interest In tlie
farm work
Waterfalls are plentiful, but a “mud
There are few boys who do not love fall" is less common. Iu “Mount Oml
animals, nt least such as they can pet, and Beyond, A Record of Travel ou
and they like them none the less if the Thibetan Border," Archibald Little
they can see n profit coming directly describee such a fall, upon which he
to themselves for tlielr care of them. came and under which he had to pas*
Most of them also like to see the crops In bls travels.
grow ; fruit more often than vegetables,
A sort of recess In tlie mouutalusi<!<\
because they can enjoy tlie proceeds of apparently scooped out by the river,
their hi I str.
was tilled by n huge whirlpool, luto
If a boy is given a cslf or a colt, ami w lih'ti from alsiwe came a steady fall
is allowed to feel that It la his own, of ris ks. For at the back of the rece««
and that It will be ho when old enough a mud full tumbled over the cliff, here,
to be profitable or useful, ami that be perhaps, a tlmusand feet high, bring­
will receive the profits of it. not. as lx ing down with It a constant stream of
too often tlie case, the boy's calf and rocks, which bounded over the narrow
the father's cow when It coines to be footway and tlience down the lower
sold, lie will care for it well enough slots* with a splash Into the boiling
to probably make It tlie I lest animal river.
of its kind on the place. He may he
We sat down on the rock at the bot­
made to pity tor Its feed, and to care tom and watched the ape«*tacle. W«
for it himself as lie grows older, but Itntf been told beforehaud of all sort«
If it I h a good one to liegin with, he r ! of Impossible dangers, especially siuce
will find It a profit in that. A cosset the heavy rains, but we were uot pre­
lamb or a bleeding sow
pared for running the gauntlet of such
the snuie purpose.
a i-aniionade as this. Never having
Even better may I h - a little flock of s«'i*n anything of th«* kind In our pre-
poultry, because the cure of them tuny v lous ex|H*rlence of mountain countries,
tie taken by either ls>v or girl, and with we should much have liked to climb up
tlie petting care given by i one who the mountainside, had thnt beeu p«>«-
loves them, they are almost t sure to slble, anil Investigate the source of this
yield a profit. Possibly the ' Belgian extraordinary stream, which flowed on
bare might suit some others uh well, with a steady persistency that fasci­
But whatever the stock might be, let It nated our gaze. But unfortunately we
be gisal of ItM kind, and pure tired, that could not afford to loiter by the way
the young owner may feel proud of It, mid miss our dally stages.
and love It, us he could not love a lean,
Presently some coolies came along,
misshapen mongrel that would lie the mid ««•■ watched with Intense lnter«'«t
laughing stock of his companions.
how they would pass the fall. The
There are others who have been re­ luith was not a foot wide and In fact
tained on the farm and made to love was only retained as a path at all by
farm life and farm work by a little the truffle over It, by which a way was
tract of ground, ou which they could trodden iu the shaly slope as fast as It
have a garden, a strawberry bed or a dribbletl away. A big rock Hued the
fruit tree, the products of which were Inside of the track on one able of the
their own. They learned to care for full, mid tinder the It*«- of this the men
them, and were anxious to learn from crouched. They watch«*d for au ex­
the exiH-rlenee of others They studied ceptionally heavy shower, and when
the details of earing for the crops, as this was over made a bolt for it. This
older farmers do not often study, and maneuver was repeated by each Indi-
we have seen the boy's garden and the viduni, and It«* was greeted by the
boy's animals g«sl enough to put to laughter of his companions an h«* sue-
shame the ls*st thnt the father, with cessfuily ran the gauntlet. The stones
greater experience, could produce.
were all angular, and varied In size
To make tills more effectual tlie from that of a walnut to that of a
younger student should lie provided putnpklu, while the great height from
with such books and papers ns treat which they fell rendered them doubly
U|H>n the care of that to which he may dangerous.
have devoted himself. If he reads a
YV«* sat for nearly an hour watching
gisxl agricultural paper every week lie before we made up our tninds to ven­
may become Interest«*«! In some other ture. a nd 1 should certainly not then
branch of agriculture than that he has Its«*' bud the courage to do so had we
started In as a beginning If lie* does not seen th«* natives pass with Impuni­
let him branch out. but discourage that ty. We went on at last, and sto«>d
fickleness that wants to swap the calf under th«* nlielterlug risk
at the very
for sheep, the sheep for liens and the edge of this novel cascade,
The muddy,
hens for rabbits each year, especially
stone laden stream made a loud, rnt-
If the desire for trading Is bused on an
tllng. grating noise as It carrfod the
Idea that the new acquisition will not
smaller stones along with It; the larger
ueed as much care or latter as the other
fragments came bounding down In
needed.
Not all lioya are industrious or enter­ ting«» leaps as they crashe«l by. Wait­
prising. but many might l»e uiadv* so. ing for a bigger mass than usual to go
If w hen young they were taught that by. we made the run, and all got safely
to work, to try to Improve on eilstlng over.
It was literally a rock cascade, for
■uetlxsls ami to eeonomike were neces
Mry to success To try to drive them there was very little water In the
on a road that they do not like Is worse stream, and that quite shallow.
Our pony jumped acmes without any
than useless, but they can often tie led
along pleasant paths. American Culti­ difficulty, but «it Invaluable watch-dog
got panic stricken when he felt the
vator
ground moving beneath his feet, and
cmut-hed down. I was tiehind. and
BERMUDA S NEW DOCK.
was able tn catch him up and savs
It Will Replace the <»l.l One Hiiilt
him from death.
In I **««*».
Tlie great floating disk which has
Jnst lu-en lanm b«*«i from the yard of
Meaara Swan A Hunter, of Wallseml
en r.vne, was built by the order of the
admiralty and Is to l*e placed in bls
Majesty s dock,aril at Bermuda, where
It will replace th«* old floating dock
that tas ts-en there since l*«Si. which
Is both obsolete and lusnfllclent lu Its
dimensions It Is Interesting to <*om
pare tlie old and the present dis ks, for
Hr L«t
they show very clearly the great In
"1 suppoee you vl«lt«l beautiful Mon crease that there has been in tlie sue
te Carlo when you were abroad, dldu t of shipa of the English fleet «Ince the
you!"
•Ivl dock was built, for It. like the
' Beautiful? lluh! ‘Twas the most present one. w vs «|e«lgn<*d with a view
ungainly place I ever struck
Phils to a«s <*mni<slatlna the largest vessels
del ph la Bulletin.
that were then built or building The
length of the old dvvek was 381 feet an«l
Its lifting (toner was <<•«> tons, which
was suiflcleul for the sb ¡w of ibeBeller I
I
ophon class, although It was capable of
bringing tho keel out of the water of
Vessels up to 10,JOO tons, such as the
long, fully rigged llus-of-battle ships
Agincourt and Minotaur.
The present dock Is 545 feet long end
Its lifting power up to the pontoon deck
level is 15.000 tons, which can bo in­
creased up to 17,500 tons. It is the In­
vention of Messrs Clark & Stanfield,
from whose plans It was built. This
type, of w hich many examples already
exist, notably the large ld,OtX>-ton dock
for the American navy which has Just
successfully lifted the battleship Illi­
nois, was specially Introduced by that
tlrm with a view to producing a struc­
ture having a large amount of longi­
tudinal rigidity.
-
The necessity for such rigidity will
t»e apparent when the different types of
vessel that the present dock will be
called on to lift are remembered. Pri­
marily It has to lift the llne-of-battlo
ships of 15.000 tons displacement, with
a length of bearing keel of 343 feet, but
In addition it has to deal with cruisers
of the Terrible class of about the same
displacement, but with 3X3 feet of bear
Ing keel, and, lastly, auxiliary cruisers
like the Campania, welghjng some IT,-
<»M) tons, with a bearing length of keel
of 502 feet. It Is evident, therefore,
that great longitudinal strength is nec­
essary, since while the dock has to be
long enough to deal with the 500-foot
Campauia, practically the whole dis­
placement of the 545-foot long pon­
toons have to be utilized tojlft a vessel
bearing only on some 384 feet of their
length. Apart from this, the fact that
the dock on Its voyage out to Bermuda
may lune to encounter the long rollers
of the Atlantic, also makes ft Impera­
tive that a very stiff form of structure
should be employed. Like the original
Bermuda dock the present one is a self­
docking dock—that Is. It can lift all
parts of Itself out of water—a moat nee-
essnry facility in the subtropical sea of
Bermuda.
The dock Itself, says the London
Graphic, consists of five portions, com­
prising three pontoons which form the
main lifting portion of the dock, and
two wide walls, which, while afford­
ing a certain amount of lifting power,
primarily serve to give the dock stabil­
ity and to regulate Its descent when the
IMintoons are submerged.
Writing HI« l ast Words.
Albert Bigelow Paine, the poet, who
wrote "You Ought to Be tn Kansas
When the Sunflowers Rlow,” has been
called the champion longdistance
stammerer of the earth.
One day.
when he had spent the greater pan of
a minute In asking a friend what time
It was. the friend, after telling him.
remarked
"If you ever intend to become famous
by yonr last wort!», you would better
write them out.”
\x w w w ii h-h h r F " asked Paine
• Because." repl led his friend. "If you
•
sey them you'd nev
er live long enough to flnlah the aeu
tenee." New York Times.
“There he goew.” a green German
Mid, "coming this way."
BY J. MACLAREN COBBAN.
which I could not shake off for some
duv8.
I looked in upon old Jacques, as
•’Oh," said she in a terrified voice,
“Mr. bteinhardt looked terrible'
>>•* usual. He had been recovering him­
asktsl me if I bad written telling some self since I had seen him Aral; at
one to ask such questions. I answerc least, regaining a cumwiousness of Ins
own existence, and of the existence of
at once, ‘No; but Mr. Unwin ha-
wish I had not said that; for he sai‘1 things about him. I thought that day
at once, ‘Oh; Unwin; I'll make short I could see a something in his eyes aud
work of him.' So, please! do be care­ in the twitching of his mouth, which
ful! I could see in hie eyes how cruel told that he missed the presence of his
he might be. I said, ‘r-urely there is niece. He gazed at me long and keen­
no harm in trying to find out what lia» ly till I felt rather disconcerted, looked
become of my poor ¡father? 'Ob, sai'i down at hia hands (the Angers of the
he, ‘no harm at all—none at all, a11' right hand trembled a little), and ut­
tered some guttural sounds, as if in an
went away.”
effort to articulate. I talked to him a
I could not but regret thi» very much.
little, though ! was not sure he could
It was, therefore, with some anxiety hear me; or, hearing, could under­
that I received and accept«*I an in« Ra­ stand; I told him his niece had gone
tion to an interview—I had almost away to the seaside; I hoped it would
said, a collision—with Steinhardt that do her good, for she had been in a very-
evening at seven o’clock in the labora­ anxious state of mind since her father s
tory of the Chemical Works.
I had loss. It gave myself some relief to
never yet been w ithin the mysterious, x|x»ak these things. When I rose to go
tainted precincts, and it was w ith some­ away, he looked me shrewdly up and
thing of a shudder that I asked myself down, and watched me to the door. A
why he should have invited me to call week or two passed before I saw him
upon him there, and at an hour when
again.
probably there would be no one in the
My time was taken up with attempts
place except ¡himself and the watch­ to provide a post for myself against the
man. I went, however, with the stern­ day when I should leave that at lim-
est courage I could summon.
perlev. Under ordinary circumstances
I cannot describe the laboratory, for I would have taken the opportunity of
I clearly saw only Steinhardt, red as a the season of the year, and such a junc­
Mephistopheles; all else was a jumble ture in my affairs, to spend a holiday
of retorts, Ups, tubs of raw color and among my friends; but I was now con­
what not. He was very civil.
vinced the mystery I was pledged to
“I asked you to come and see me here, clear up was in Timperley, and I was
Mr. Unwin,” he began, “because I am resolved to sit down and besiege it
watching an experiment which I cannot there—the more ’obstinately resolve«!,
leave, and I wanted to see you at once. since I knew Steinhardt so heartily
You have not taken my word for it that wished me away.
I wrote letters; I made journeys to
Miss Lacroix is not for you; you have
been s««eing her at times and places this vicar and that rector in the neigh­
when you should not.” He paused and boyhood, who then needed, or soon
looked at me, as if expecting me tx? |say would need, a curate, with the same
something. I was silent, and he went result in all cases. I would not do; I
on, “Miss Lacroix is not a girl to Is* was not just the kind of man they
the w ife of a clergyman w ho has his wanted; they were not sure that my
way to make; she is beautiful, I know, opinions were quite as they would wish
but she has no money—nothing to the opinions of their curate to be. It
s|>eak of. Your time here will be up became plain to me that I was to be
in another week or so; you have been ' “boycotted:” the won! had been passed
trying to get a place near here, but you | round, apparently—and by whom.Jf
cannot; it will not do to stay about in not by Steinhardt?
this neighborhood. I will help you to I Again and again I tried, though with
get a good place in the south—a living little hope now, to And a curacy even
of your own—I know where I can, and in the neighboring large town; but
you must go away tomorrow. There is nothing came of my efforts except dis­
a cheque I have written for your quar­ appointment, and weariness, and dis­
ter's salary.”
gust. My time was up in Timperley,
“I am sorry, Mr. Steinhardt," said I but I still retained my lodgings there
I, “I cannot go away tomorrow ; and I (they were cheap and comfortable);
cannot promise to leave the neighbor­ I held them like an outwork advanced
against the enemy’s position. The
hood."
“Oh; you cannot. Think again: if situation was, indeed, becoming like a
you do not go, I must send away my duel between Steinhardt ami me, in
which, for the time, he certainly had
family.”
"My mind isquitemade up,” said I. the best of it.
My anxiety was not lessened by the
“It is? Very well.” He rose, as if
to end the interview, and I rose also. fact that in the three weeks which had
You had better take the cheque,” said passed I had not heard a word from
he, pushing it toward me; “it is al­ Louise, and did not know what had
most due, and I shall not want to s«*e happens! to her, or even w her«* she
was. I Anally went to the girl whom I
you again.”
I took it, and was going. Involun­ had seen Frank with, and from her I
tarily I glanced about for any vat or found out that he had written from an
vessel which I could think of as that address (which she gave me) in Doug­
which had figured in Dick’s confession. las in the Isle of Man. At the end of
He seemed to notice my CTirious another week, not having recieved any
reply to a note I had written to Louise,
glances.
“Y’ou have never been in here be­ I «-onfess I was tempted with weak
fore,” said he. “That is the most in­ thoughts of giving the whole matter
teresting place”—pointing to a small up, of surrendering my jiosition to
door—“would you like to look in? I Steinhardt, and going away. I was
earning no money, and my quarter's
call it the Experiment Bath.”
I said I would; and my heart beat stipend of 22 pounds 10 shillings was
rapidly disappearing. What could I
wildly.
“You must let me tie up your mouth do, when it was all gone, but surren­
and nose then,” he said, taking some der? I am not ashamed to confess
that, oftener than once, I was lietraved
kind of muttler from a drawer.
I wondered whether this were the into an unmanly prostration of disap­
place, and whether he was going to pointment—of despair, I may even say
show it me out of bravado, or whether —ami grief. But remember that I was
he was quite umxmscious of my suspi­ desperately in love (I suppose a clergy­
cion. I determin«*d to go through with man may be as desperately in love as
it. I was muffled, and he muffled him­ another man) with a young lady, who
self. He open«*d the door; and I saw might lie dead, or diyng, or mairied,
a small chamber, filled with purplish- for aught I knew; that I was sojourn­
ied vapor, in which a gas jet burned ing, so to say, in a strange land, whose
chief was bitterly hostile to me; that
dullv, and with an unwonted tint.
the affair upon which I had staked my
“Enter,” said he.
succeel in love had not advanced an
I entered, and he followed.
“Thi»,” said he, raising a lid by inch during those long and lonely
some arrangement, “is my experi­ weeks.
ment.”
1 do verily believe that, in spite of
Vapor rose more densely from the the conviction which tiHuallv sustained
vessel, whose outlines I could not dis­ me of the final revealation of the truth
cern.
I felt stifled; I gas)>e<l for — in spite, too, of the obstinacy of my
breath. I tugged at the muffler; I nature, and the high reward of success
could not help it. I reeled; I felt his which I had hop«*d to gain, I would,
hand on me—whether to snatch or to indeed, have soon beat a retreat, if it
push me I cannot now »ay—but I had not been for a visit I had from my
thought then the former; with a vio­ old friend Birley, and the results that
lent effort I recovered myself an«! imm«*diately followed upon that.
turne«! at once to look at him, and saw
One evening I heard a loud, cheery
—great heavens!—the very counterpart voice there was no mistaking ask my
on the wall behind him of that shadow , landlady, “Is th’ parson at whoam,
with head and hands outstretched, Betty”—a question which I answered
which Dick’s'delirious figure had cast, myself by calling, “Come upstairs.”
only vaguer, because of the vapor!
“Well,” said he, “you haven't come
“What! Again!” I involuntarily
to see me since I've come back’’ (he
cried, an«! dashed ftom the chamber
I had to »it down to recover myself; had been ill. ami absent from home for
I trembled violently. I thought, when some weeks) “so I ha’ look«-d you up.”
I said I was very pleased indeed to
he undid his muttler, he looked paler,
and more open-eye«!. Did he suspect see him (he looked much older and
greyer than when I had seen him last,
now my suspicion?
“It is very risky, you see,” he »aid, poor old gentleman).
calmly enough, but with a very keen
“Now I’ve come,” he continued, “to
look, that longed, no doubt, to read ha’ a bit of serious talk with y<fu, my
me, “very lisky to enter my bath!”
friend. Yon know I wish you well
I said not a word, but after a moment lad, and that I'd do all for you that a
or two rose with a “Good-night," ami broken old chap can do; but there’s no
wnet out into the sir.
sense, tha knows, and no policy in
Had he intend«*«! to suffocate me" sticking hert* wi’ nought to do—not
Thinking calmly of the ad venture now even courting You love a lass, and, of
I do not think so. I f think
"
the danger course, naturally, hang about her; but
I escaped was altogether ow ing to my deuce take it. lad, what do you expect
own rashness and folly.
to get by hanging about the place when
•lie’» miles and miles away? Is it that
the ground whereon her gentle feet
CffAPTF.R X.
have trod—eh? Come now, lad, let's
I was scarcely surprised
Hext talk the thing out ; we cant’ ha’ the
day I received a hurried
from f"lk about here that used to think so
Louise. They were all going away at much of you getting to look at you as a
once, she said—all except .Mr. Mein­ sort o’ harmless luney.”
hardt. He had come home late, and
“There is at
— person in the
one
told them they must pack that night Tillage," said east
I,
sc-
1
'.
vomewhat
nettled,
to be ready to set off in the morning_
that d«ies not believe me harmless,
to the seaside somewhere—where «he whether he thinks me a I
lunatic or
did not know yet. but »he would write not.”
to me as soon as she had an address to
’•Well.” .aid he. ”you t munna be
give, so that I might send her any offends! at my saving that.”
news. How I treasured that little
“ . Xo.
certainly,"
’o. certainly.
” «id
«aid I,
I. “If there
note' It was th«* flrat bit of writing!
I* one man who could never offend me.
had Is.l fr-m her; and I r.a
rhl’* 5’0"' î*r'
B-t. When I
ami’again that day, and for many days, 2L V'k ‘ I*.
nOt *urprise«i that
and tried to conjure a hidden meaning*
people should tegln to look upou me as
a lurking toaeh f ten iwrness or n a-
manier, «mee nobody but mvuelf
cern out of its ordinary words. A fX
LÎ
’h‘’ 1 ke*p •Uvin«
strange feeling of being alone, and for-
aahau. «iawd ms-a foolish Ming.
"Ah. well, of ooum,” aid be, took-
CHAPTER IX—Continued.
ing mystifled, “but Ulkin.
venture, according to hi» / '*«»
know your own affair»
'”'*
think nobody else know
1 *.
getter. Well, i d«re»;n_'o‘
“I daresay,” said j, ,
him, “I am a monomai la,. •
4
pulse siezed me to take him l!*:
«■onAden«»; 1 felt it Woul i
'
cheer me to talk to him «I,,/,1’ •
tore that occupied my II
he must know them gtamer /
anti, by knowing them at that
he might give me a useful I ,tJ ’
haps,” said 1, “you will thi,,/.
if 1 tell you what really k«
1
It is not, as you imaigne, that"i ’
love with your ward, ur‘
ground she has walked on; J j,r ’■A
that I am in that conditio_. ' ’'
not ttmt keeps me here. |
4 It :T *
you what it is, but you nm»t
‘
me to keep it locked up in V11. ,
•
“Nay, lad, if it’» some
affair of your own, do not teli a *
“But.” tMit! I, “tt isnop,,^
of my ow n ; indeed, it comern» *'
least quite as much as me; and | ■ ‘
perhaps, you might help me » llt. "
I then related my it- rv,
,
point, not even omitting 'menti', '
Louise's repeat«! dream, or <,f h ’
recent adventure m the ,1,»,.
works. The effect my »tory •, ‘
him caused me great anxiety.
by nature, more of a talker than a "
ener, lie could not refrain, at t •
breaking in now and then with 4
be sure,” a “Just so,” or an "(h
—there you are;” but a» the , ?,
the story took hold of him, hi» ta
instinct took vent in occa»i..i al
while he Itecame paler and ;.aer
more and more moved, lie djj ti •
a moment doubt that nty ««.. .
pointe«! to the truth ; he adopt«,j t *
at once, and w as enraged that he "2
not formed them for hint-elf K i r.
“Stupid old idiot,” he exebit.
“that I was, not to ha’ gneneil
that 'Manuel would stick at noti ■
get Paul eaten completely tip!
Paul was a hot teuqier, and, ifbe^
words wi’ ’Manuel, there w .uh| b,
devil to settle! And, of cours- r,
was likely to come home unex;erJ
to catch 'Manuel on th’ hop,
wi’ that confounded patent a,- ,
Ixtrd, Lord! if I bad only though; t
all that a year ago, it might ha' ..
easier to clean it up! Well,
,..
can we do—eh? w hat can we do'
1 answered that I had been ,t-;
for weeks to discover what next t<. _
but I had not yet discovered it. I«-
anxious, too, new, I xaid.altoig [.,> .
“Oh,” said he, “I expect ehe'«
right with my sister, in th' 1-, .
Man.”
“I think,” said I, “it’s ra*h e «*»!
expect that anything is altigetliet ria
that Steinhardt is c-.iic.-rned in.
“True for you, lad,” said lie.
“Besides,”! continued, "she prJ
iee«l to write to me, and she ha- »
written; a week or more ago. «b
found out the Douglas adilri ss, I « J
and asked her to send me only» ,
allay my anxiety—but 1 lair
none.”
H«* looked very grave.
(To be continued.)
THE CAPITOL’S
Regulated by Strict
Rules
FLAGS
Wien flyat
Rail-Mast.
" The flying of flags over the ctpiti t
half-ma.-t, Bays the Washibgt n *i'
is regulated by the strictest rca
Whenever these flag« arc -een i! «'.i(
half wav down the mast it is a -i:«»
dication that a vice president, «•...'
or representative is lying ilrH'l, r::i
the action is taken in respin-« t i
presidential proclamation onle'ioi! )
flags on public buildings at hi.:
in respect to the memory of » i epi»
inent official of the government >
has passed away. When tiie»frpi:i
at-arms of the senate or houee"t e
resentatives learns of the death !
memlter of either of those Itodiw t*
at oni'e order that the flag« w *
senate chamlter or hall of repre«»
fives Io half-maxte<l. Thi« te s
done Itefore the houses of wnr*
themselves are officially notified°i •
death. A good deal of dinret it
exercised in the manner of pl»' r.'»
news of a d *ath of this kind
■*'
Itefore the senate or the hottsr l|
such announcement it is cost ">ir
the houses to adjourn in respet t
deceased senator or represented 1
in order that current buxines» re:
be stopped early in the day the i
nouncen'ent is generally ni»d»; ■'
fore the houses are ready to o1’
their day's work. Officers of fl**
ate and house, when they fly tl.ej5
at half-mast in reap >nse to a pr 11
tion by the president, regard tf i'
tion as one of courtesy, a« the«
recognize the jsiwer of the pri>’;
order congress to do anything ' «'
assemble in extraordinary
“
For Her Special
Benefit-
Lady Butler is probably th ”'
English artist for whose »ole'-n-
cavalry charge was ordered "
was painting her s'irrirg I
“Scotland Forever.”-he "i* 1
pie-.«cd a regret that •''
seen a body of cavalry in
charging, with the result that •
eral in who*e hearing »he '••'>' '■ ,
arranged that a ibarge
place for her .special lienefit —’
Magazine.
Rebbi«.
Men who ri.le hobbies w '
nearly so objectionable if
'
want all the road totl «niseh«'
and Country. Canada h*« “ ■
young sculptors of w h m r '■
,
pected. One of them H*n
Cartliy, of Ottawa. 1- ntak ' •' ' \
statue which the govern".'
Beotia will erect in Halits*^ _
memorate the services ■! ■
tian« in the South African "•
Chickens' Tails Twelve
A new breed of chi' ken» "■ *
in New York fr
feet long. They are kept ir *•
when’thev are taken out f”r 'l .
attendant goes ai ng *'
feather». The hen»
■’ **
which are hatches! by otter
Senator Kara» Outd*«i >>*’
üatil Senator Kearns of
rived Senator Depew's
'.t
costliest *atcb in the
(
Mr. Do pew a.ks Senator A* ”
uoM it i*.