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Eugene Weekly Guard. CAMPBELL BBOI«. »’r»rrl»t«re. ♦ EUGENE............................ OREGON. only a fool man liellevea that a worn an believes everything lie tells her. Pos ferity isn’t likely to judge any woman by the style of her visiting cards. Contentment should be measured by the number of things you are willing to do without. Toadstools are often mistaken for mushrooms and gall is sometimes mia taken for genius. Mr. Carnegie Is right. Wealth (ÍO4MI not bring happiness. But Holomon aud others found It out before be did. Killing a man, no matter wbat the provocation, is unpleasant and danger ous business. It ought to l>e discour aged. Many n distracted man will he wont to congratulate himself on the thought that there will be no house cleaning In heaven. * ■ ' — '■ ' --- A Western man fell dead while look lug at hla wife's new hat. Must men stavs off the fatal attack until the bill Is presented. The difference between a good de- tcctlveand a good newspaper Istliatthe newspaper will tell all it knows ami the detective won't. New York is to have an eighteen story hotel without a piece of wo < m 1 In Its construction Yet they will hardly go so fur as to call It tireproof. In case King Ix-opold finds It neces wary to go about disguise«! It will only be necessary for him to let the barber operate on them for a few minutes. The persons who smoke the objec tlonable little things nmy as well uu derstand that Miss Lucy Page Gaaton will not give up the tight so long as life shall last. A London paper scoffs nt Kecretary Khaw, referring to his as a "ahlrt- sleeved diplomat.” It Isn't likely, bow ever, that tile Secretary will let this cause him to go bul k to Iowa and sit down. If the number of red corpuscles in the blissl can Is- doubled lu two hours In a balloon ascension, as Dr. Gaule, of Hwltxerland. has proved, the appar ent suggestion for sufferers from sus tain is to hurry to an aeronaut. “Labby" philosophically asks why Cecil Rhodes should not have used Ills wealth to send English Isiys to study abroad, their university education lie- Ing. lie says, "obsolete." it was only recently, moreover, that the king wished "the old country would wake up” All Hie English universities have to teach can be better learned on tlie confluent or In the United State». Tlie imslern nge has not yet penetrated Into the medieval dusk of Oxford and Cam bridge. The faadnutloiia of the setting sun are depleting Greece of her strong young men. liebelling agalnat the lax ity of some laws and rigidity of others, the dlshom-sty of officials and never ceasing depredations and exactions of outlaws, Young ............ with the glo rious memories of the past ages not yet obliterated, yearns for new life in the West. In the last week of March, 000 stalwart young men from Meawenla and 1st eon lea sailed for New York, and It is estimate«! that thia emigration Is at the rate of 1,000 a month. They are In a great part agriculturists, sick of the poverty ami hardships that are their lot. Moat of them ought to make good Amerh-an cltlxens, but what of Gre«ve? Thia movement. If long continued, means the Irreparable loss of brain and sinew for the land of Homer. It em phasis«»« the det-ay of the old time nils tress of the world. The cancer of Tur key la Infectious There will be no re pair In southeastern Europe till tlie Sul tan Is swept from power. A while back the lion of the Hellenes shook bls mane at the turbaned monster, and tlie na tion« wondered If tlie spirit of Leonidas had returned. But the lion's feet were clay, and his short lhed struggle was pitiful. Young Greece, buoyant for a moment tn the thought of a new regime, went back sick hearted to his fur rows And now. bad fast becoming worse, lie seems Inclined to take one last glance at Athens and try Ills for tune In a new world, leaving the Acrop olis to rust away without him. Peter Peterson, of Winsted. Ct., as serts that old age is a matter of opin ion. and uot years. He says that a mat»'» heart should contain as much sunshine at TO as at 40. He has no patience with the men who eeek slip pers sod i-oiuforts of an armchair just when eXperleuce and world knowledge have fitted tiieui for activity aud pleas ure Oil. yes! Ismes ache aud joluta creak at ”0. But that Is largely a mat ter of living and self care. It seems as If every day Increased the numlier of young old men. You may And them In "rooters' row” at the l>all game, or hunting. Ashing, traveling, on tlie g>-lf links, willing to wear out when time ghee the won!, but setting all their energies agaluat mating out. Tbe world admires three Hue ol<| fellows, and warms to them and their phll<s> op by Peter Peterson celebrated his 70tli birthday by purchasing au auto mobile He Ims wanted „ue for years, and uever had the time tn o|>erate It before. Now he takea a dally spin and Duda as keen enjoyment In the sport as a t"»y of 30. He has an ambition to ride In a flying machine aotno day Automobile* do not fall to the common lot. and there ere many pleoeuree tliat are not for tlmoe who have to atruggl* for a 11» Ing day by «lay But It la poealMe for all met to < nltlvate a aplr It of contentment a dr«lre to make the beet of life, to draw much of the good from It. to refuse to worry about mat tera that can not lie b»'lp««1. and tbeae things add years to Ilves, lurreesc hu man happiness. and keep alive the Are I of youth even when wrinkles haws placed the stamp of age on grand old faces. HOW TO CAN FRLITS In a recent interesting discourse on the question, "la the Pulpit Free?” Rev. Frederick C. Priest got at the root of the matter when he aald that tbe preacher should be a specialist and should attend to bis specialty. Within tbe limits of that sfieclalty and the creed that he professes lila freedom is as perfect as human freedom can be. He la always secure In tbe approval of his parishioners when be preaches a thoroughly Christian sermon, fouuded on the moralities and the promises of tbe foepel. and more than that. It is by such sermons alone that he can best help, comfort and Inspire his hearers. But tbe peculiar respect which be com- mantis as a specialist vanishes imme diately when he goes out of bls sphere to talk dogmatically upon questions ef secular controversy about which be may know much less tliau some of hla auditors There are preachers who seem to have a persistent Itching dur ing political campaigns to bring the pulpit Into politics and who deceive themselves by Imagining that their partnership comes of God, when It Is just the ordinary kind. They may con tent themselves with veiledallusions or they may go so far as to express eulogy or denunciation, but In either case they tire using the church as a campaign wlgwaui when they should hire a hall. It la a wonder that such aberrations are tolerated hs much as they are, and cer talnly there could be no blaming a pew- liolder for protesting when he believes that there Is more of the devil Ilian of God In the preacher's party. It Is bls right to protect and to demand that his temper shall not be ruffled by the dis ingenuous or over zealous pulpiteer, who Is taking him at a mean disad vantage and depending on him for financial support at tbe same time. Aside from the queatlon of authority, men are sated with such stuff anyway during tbe week, and If they go to church Sunday It la to be recalled to the spiritual side of life, which Is too much neglected There Is still enough I In It and In pure religiou for centuries upon centuries of sermons, as there has been In the past. The specialty Is still rightly considered the greatest of spe cialties, and when It Is properly ful filled it mlnlstera more to the higher aspirations of humanity than any other and commands a veneration that Is a very bulwark against those who would curtail Its just freedom. POINTS Where the Uluepot t ame In. There was the usual collection of commercial travelers lu the smoklug room of the hotel, and the Inevitable quiet man was one of them. They had been asking couundrums, many of which had been received with roars of laughter, as being particularly clever. Then the quiet uiau lit a fresh cigar and spoke: "It Is easy,” he said, "to thluk of such riddles as 'Why In your bat like a baby?" which contain one simile, but those with two are far more difficult. For Instance: ■'What are the differences between the son of a millionaire, an organ and a gluepot?” "1 give It up," said the mustard trav eler presently. "The son of a millionaire Is an heir to millions, while an organ has a mill ion airs! D'ye see?” "But what about the gluepot?" In quired the hosiery representative. "(Ill, that's where you stick!” return ed the quiet man. And the waiter smothered n guffaw behind'a tray lie was dusting, while the hosiery repre sentative howled for soda water. I ahi don Answers. Ancient City in Mexico. Leopold ltatres, conservator of arch aeologl< al monuments In Mexico, has exhumed an ancient city of the Zapo- tecaa In the State of Oaxaca. In Its ceuter Is a grand plasa. and rising to the uorth of the plaza are terraces, on which are founded two great temples, while lu the center of the plaza Itself are two massive mausoleums lu which the priests of the temples were burled. On op|M>slte sides of the public square there are also twelve smaller shrines, six on either hand, all supported by heavy columns of basalt covered with hieroglyphic Inscriptions In Las relief. In the temples the history of the peo- pie was found Inscrltied. In the lan- guage of the Zapoteeas, upon fifty taldets of stone So much of the sur- prlslngly rare historic Import has al ready t>eeii found that Mr Batres will ask the government for more men to tie put at the work of exhuming and restoring the buildings of tbs long burled city. Mtw Riga«' < ‘tioUle. “Cranford" spinsters, the must per- fest eiamplea. In Action at least, of elderly maidenhood. avol«l«»l danger by uie«»tlng It plump, after the formula of Sir Boyle Roche. Said they: “A man Is so lu the way In a house!" Mias I’boeba Riggs, an Amnion of the preaent day, of whom the New- York Tribune tells, was a little leas effective In defense, possltily tiecau»«» she «ltd not get In tlie flrst blow. For more than eighty years Mias Riggs has lived In the little New En gland town In which she was born. A r»»«'ent comer to that village, meeting Mlaa Riggs for the flrst time, salvl apol ogrtlcally after a while "You must excuse me. but 1 am not sure wheUu»r you are Miss or Mr* Rigg*. 1 didn't quite understand when we were Introduced " The bent little spinster drew berwrlf up as straight a« possible "Miss lUggs. from choice!"" ■ be re piled. In a fr«»eslng voice Time En«»ugh. Mias Kostlquc She says you have a habit of telling all you know Cholly The Ides! Why, she nevah met me till lawat evening aud then only for live minutes Koetlquc Welt? Catholic Mias Stands rd and Times Hall Muirs in Mwiiserland Ss Itarrlaad baa at Ilex salt m nes which have t>evn worked for '-’48 years The galleries are twenty-five miles I« length and the profit i'XOUO a year. Movable Ncenery I sed. Movable scenery was flrst used in Italy In the year t3»Mt. It was the IB vent ion of an Italian architect named 1‘erunL FOR THE UP-TO-DATE HOUSEWIFE. If Cooked In Cans None of the Deli cate Flavor Loot How Thio May Moat Conveni of Fre.h Fruit io ently Be Done. It would certainly aeem that tbe very general u»e of the canned vegetables of tbe market and the wboleaome, nat ural flavor that charucterlxes even tbe cheaper grades would have made tbe prlrue cause of tbelr excellence, nauie ly. cooking In the can» so that noue of their delicate flavor la lost in escaping steam —an open secret to the majority of housewives before now. If It bus. there never wa» u more forcible Illus tration of tbe truth of the old adage that "None are ho uimu as those who w ill not Ht-e" than tbe persistency with which housewives cling to the inferior metiusl of cooking fruit I d an open ves eel aud afterward» dipping It into Jars (nd sealing. Probably the Incorrect nellef that It 1» more work to cook fruit In the jars than out, and that the latter are very lluble to break during the ope ration, bus done much to keep tbe old methiMl In favor. Away with these and all other bug bears! O iid method 1» uot harder or more difficult and risky than the other, and other things being equal, fruit that 1» cooked In the Jars is greatly superior In appearance anti flavor. In other words, canning fruit 1» sticky, bard and disagreeable work at best, and only that which at laast comes within night of it» i>o»albllltieH ever puys any divi dends on the investment. Every step of the work from A to Z, from selecting tbe fresh fruit to opening it for use, must be properly done. All fruit should be well grown, fresh ly picked, and a little under, rather than over. ripe. All berries except strawberries should be film and large. With these, the smaller fruit towards the la»t yield Is beat. t'urrantH and blacklHTrles are never satlHfactory canned. Making tbe syrup one-third currant juice gives an appetizing tartness to canned re<l raspberries, and adds rich tie»» to cherries. The pita of cherries aud peaches and the cores and seeds of pears Improve the flavor of their respective frultH. If removeil, distribute Ave or slit peach pit» through every quart jar. and put e little net or muslin bag tilled with pita or cores In the center of cherry or pear jars. Brunei» and moat varieties of plums should have tbe skill» removed. Scald only h few at one time, and put these In a wire basket or sieve first, mid be careful not to over scald them. Pears should lie pared and halved with a sliver knife and dropped into cold water, to prevent their turning dark. . Prepare peaches In tlie same way, rather than risk softening them by scalding. Lemon, green ginger or other flavor ing ahouhl only be ni!d<*d to insipid ¡»ears, watermelon rinds, citron and the like. Granulated sugar should always be used. It costs tint a trifle more than coffee sugar, and has a far more dell cate flavor. Cleanse and sweeten old Jnrw with boiling water, to which soda. iMirax or ammonia has been nddisl. Test with water to be sure they are airtight be fore tilling But tlie fruit Into the jars as fast as It Is prepared, and till the jars to the neck with syrup. Adjust the rubber and cover, but do not screw down the latter. Wire racks to flt different sized kettles, or a wash boiler, can be bail at the shops, lint one of narrow wood alate answers th«» purpose nearly as well, und can be easily made nt home. Fill th«' vessel with warm water to th«* necks of the Jars, and boll until the fruit can be easily plerc«! with a fork. Berries will «-ook In ten mlnntew. cher ries in flfte«"n or tWeuty, and larger fruits projHirtlonatcly longer. No defl nite rule can I h > given, but expertenre soon enables one to Jiutgi* closely. Be fore screwing down tli«> cover, till to overflowing with ladling water. Rnsplierrles. whortleberries and p«'ach<*» require flv«» ouncea of sugar for a pint tar, strawberries, cherries and pears seien minces, mid qulnc»»» nine ouni'es. If tIUs n«*ems too rich less can be used. Tlie color of canne«l fruit Is qtilckl.v Injure«! by the action of light. No mat ter if It Is kept In a dark closet, every jar shout«! tie wrapped tn paper. If fruit Is <ipen«xl an hour or two be fore tt ts neo«l<s! to restore the oxvge i the flavor Is much Improv «1 Albanr Cultivator. DOG’S TRIP THROUGH SEWER. She Took Three Week* to Kmerge, met Nearly Starved. Neill»-, the well bred, highly valutwl f»»x terrier of Colonel James llagnn. deputy wharf conitulasioner of tb»> port, tins experienced a touch of strenuous lift* that puts most dogs' records to shame. Tbe pup got lost In th«» city's new and rnmiAetl drainage culverta. an! after waiideclng atnmt nnd<>rground for a verbal of three weeks eatue to th* aurface again still alive, but In a de plorable ptiyalcal condition. If N.-lll,» I'ouhl talk abe could unquestionably tell one of the most thrilling stories of the day. A» she cannot s|sak. |»eop|e must look upon her wastad form aud draw their own »'«»nclualoiia fluffier It to aay. thia Intelligent terrier is not chasing any more rats Into the curb openings "We had two terrien» N Jack we thought all the world of. re marked Col«mel Hagan at the ottici of the port commiaaieaers "They had been around the plai-e alnco they wets- puppleo When any of as went for s walk Jack and Nellie formml a part of the company They were smart, ami especially Nellie, always alert, s • woutd tackle anything, ami aremed to like tbe Idea of learning new th:tigw when we w, re ont on ear stroll» I never went for a walk wit Lout the dog* "!»o it was quite natural for them to be with me when I starte»! out one FuutUy afternoon now more than three weeks ago It was about < o'dock a the afternoon. " I had walked to the corner of Tole dano and St. Charles avenue from my bouse, on Pleasant street. The new drain stsrts down the svenue from there and follows tbe riverside to 3d street The dogs started a rat. and I saw them chase It luto one of tbe open lugs. but I dfdu't think anything of that, for they were always doing It. When I got home, however, and Nell.e wa» missing. I knew something must have happened to ter. Taking a crow bar, we went over to tbe Toledano cor ner and lifted up some of the plates to see If she might be under them, but no trace of the terrier was secured. "Time passed, and no word came from the lost Nellie. Advertisements brought no r«*tunui. and the days pass ed Into weeks, when one night my son came home and told me a friend of his living out In the Fourth District bad seen a fox terrier wearing a collar bear ing the name, ‘James Hagan. 1307 Bleasant street.’ aud that the dog was emaciated and In a horrible condition, appearing to have been starved almost to death. Inquiry was liastlly made, and, to my delight, I found Nellie in the possession of an old woman near tlie corner of Clall>ome avenue and 3d street. She told me the terrier had come out of tbe drain the day before. The collar saved her. If It had not lie«»n for the name and address on It we would never have beard of tbe lost pet. and but for the collar I would hardly have known her myself. Tbe feet were cut and the toes scratched raw Th« body was eniaeiatvsd and bad evidently gone through the suffering of starva tion. "There Is but one explanation to Nel lie's disappearance. She ran the rat Into th«* dralu'a entrance and then gut lost, traveling In an endless dlrev.-tlon, working her way through the blinding refuse. How the dog ever lived 1» more than we can tell. She entered the passugeway nt Toledano, evidently came down the avenue mains to 3d stre« t. then through that sewer to Clai borne avenue, where she crawled out. it was three weeks almost to a day.” — New Orleans Picayune. STAGE PRESENCE OF MIND. The Part It Plays In Averting Catas trophes. "I am thankful to say that I have never been called upon to face a dlsas ter on tbe stage,” writes John Drew. although I have been near to It. "Miss Rehan and I were one night playing In a piece, the name of which 1 do uot remember - but that is uelther lu re nor there and were lu the midst of a little conjugal quarrel. She look ed past me with a change of expression eutlrely apart from the purpose of the scene. Following her eyes. 1 saw that tlie gas logs used In the stage setting had set tire to the scenery. To give uny evidence of knowledge of It would create a panic. We walked slowly to ft a rd the tire. Improvising as we went to tit the situation. When we got there I stopped, threw a rug over the blaze aud smothered It. The alarm of the audience was averted. ■ ttnee. In a ’Night off.’ In tlie scene I played with Otis Skinner, and which hinges on a pocket book, the call boy forgot to give It to me. and we came near to upsetting things generally. The uiau who Is ambitious to have a past, but who lias none, was waiting for the pocket t>ook which I was to lend him, and which contained a lock of hair and some other little mementos to prove his gallantries, I put my hand into my pocket to get it. It was mlss- Ing. 'llie w hole scene depended upon It. "I tore madly off the stage, leaving him to face the situation, and he proved the liero of It. There he was. Improvising: ‘Dear old Jack as erratic ns ever. Forgotten something, perhaps likely his pocket handkerchief——•’ And so kept If up until I rushed back w ith the missing property.1 The audi- iiiee knew nothing, for he was very alert, lint I was fearfully upset. We were all so strenuous In those days at Daly’s.” concluded Mr. Drew, according to tbe Saturday Evening Post. "that I fe I had done hint some wrong, but he took It delightedly, as be carried the day.” by I. MA CL AF EN COBBAN. i ^/IViVIVh ......................... CHAPTER X—Continued. “’Manuel,” said he, “ia a double- dved villain, if he doe. aught to harm Paul’s girl! 1 can see «hat he s up to. though; he baa given no account ot Paul’s affairs vet. and if be can g«' Louise to marry Frank he needn t. He may want all the n oner he can get bold of soon; the plaintiffs in ‘hat pat ent case have appealed, and he ll b* to appear again and fight at th nex sitting of the court But he sharin' t plunder tbe lass. I niun find if she s with mv sister, and if he’s frightening her—aiid if be be, by th’ L-d! I mun get a writ of mandamua or sumniat, and tak’ th’ lass whoam wi' nie. I ni guardian as niurh as him, and >■ the lass would rather bide wi' me he can not take her. Yea; I shall set about it.” I drew his attention back to the ur gent nei’essitv of doing something m her father’s case; had he anything to suggest ? "Well, now .let me think,” said he, "We'll suppose Paul came home that night—late, you think, very late— wi’ bis little portmanteau carried in his hand; be pulls out his handkerchief to blow his nose, or his repeater watch to know the time, as he comes down the lane, and so he drops that ticket. It s near one o’clock, may be, and there’s not a light anywhere burning; yea, by the 1__ d’ but there ia!” he exclaimed, turning and catching hold of my arm. “Kight in th’ road, as it were, as he comes by the pond, he sees th', light that burns all night in old Jaques's cot tage! ( Birley always pronounced the name ‘Jakes.’) ‘ Th’ owd chap seldom is put to bed; he usually sits or lies up in that chair of his all night and all day. 1'aul was aye fond o’ th’ old chap: now does he lift latch and go in, just to say ‘how-de-do,’ or does he think it is U m late, and he’d best go on and *e what Steinhardt’» up to* If we could only get th’ ol«i chap to speak and tell ua!” k’J kJ k land but snrelv no other to whom the impliration. which 1 read between the luma of this advertisement, of broken faith with a woman would so well ap ply And she seemed in urgent dis- ireM; »he begged him to go to her. It was scarcely probable, I thought, that Steinhardt would see it; he read little of newspaper literature, I knew, and A.1_ JollV his usual pajier * was the local dally. What, then? In spite of my ab horrence of him, an«l my wish to avoid him. should I not. f .r the woman s sake, inform him of this? I ]smdered this idea all the rest of the day, until the evening, w hen I t«w>k it to Birley. “Certainly,” said he; “the scamp. Ia;t him know of it. I suppose lie only married my sister because she had a bit of brass.” So I called on Steinhardt that very evening. “Thank you, Mr. Unwin,” saul lie, when I had told him my errand; “but Kime kind friend has already sent me the paper” (taking up a copy of The Times). “Yes," he continued, reading it over and chuckling at its composi tion. “I suppoee»she thought she must write English for an English papei.” (He laid the pajiei down.) “Poor Emilie, she wants me; but I can t go, you know. I must go to London about my lawsuit again. 1 might send Frank, but I really want him here.” He paused and looked at me, meditatively. "You are doing nothing, Mr. Unwin. Would you go for me? You would, really and truly, do better than 1 should. She thinks she would like to see me and speak to me, but she wouldn’t. She -eems to be very ill— dying, 1 suppose she thinks herself, poor woman—and to speak to people sick and dying is more an your way than mine. She will like to hear you; she always liked clergymen; she liked me a little when we thought 1 was go ing to be a—a clergyman.” He turned .lowly to the fire, took up the poker, and carefully raked out the ashes from the bottom of the grate. Was memory leading him back reluct antly to those days of his youth, and comjielliiig him to ask himself whether for ail he bad gained since then he had not paid too great a price? “Well,” said he, manifestly shaking something off, and turning to me, “what do you say, Mr. Unwin? I will, of course, pay your expenses, and yon will take Emilie a letter from me, and money—I daresay she means she needs it.” "I am much obliged to you, Mr. Steinhardt,” said I, “but—” “Oh,” said he, “it is I will be obliged, but of course that does not matter.” “It is so unexpected,” I continued; I might have added, “and extraordi nary.” “Well, yes; I daresay it is. But you know what the Frenchman says about the unexpect«»d.” “lA*t me consider it for a day: and if I decide to go I shall be ready to set out at once.” “Oh, yes; consider it, and consult your friends. But if you do not go, nobody will go.” I went immediately from him t<> Birley, and stated at once the extraor- dinary offer I had received. "Go, lad,” said he; “it will be a pleasant holiday for you, and the poor woman, of course, would rather see somebody from 'Manuel than only get a letter from him.” I hesitated; I did not desire a holi day then, even on the Continent wheie I had never been, but at the same time some change wa» becoming necessary considering the low condition to which my finances had sunk. “But,” said I, “I believe he has asked me only to get me out of the way for some purjsise. I think he suspects I have been finding out something more.” “And what doe* that matter?” asked Birley. “I-ook here, my lad; I know you’re in a way about Louise. Now it strikes me if you go away for a little while (and you may as well go at 'Manuel’s expense), things will turn ont better for you than you may think. You s«*e, at the same time as you are awav, he is away, too. Frank must come back to the works, and there will lie no reason for keeping famine at Bla< kpoi>l. Take my word for it, he'll bring her home; I shall manage to see her, and if she claims my protec tion as her other guardian, I ishall tak’ her home with me, and when he comes back he can’t ta’ her from me. Don’t you se«-. lad?” I admitted the force of the reasons he urged, and all next day (which was Sunday) turne«l them over. Jlv going might certainly lie to Louise’s advant age and to my own. Even if Stein hardt brought her back to Timpterly only for a visit of a few days, there would lie sufficient opportunity for Bir ley to take her home to himself. On the other hand, my refusal to go would bring no advantage nor prospect of ad vantage And might not, indeed, Steinhardt a off -r be a suggestion of Providence? ^o on Monday morning I called on Steinhaisit and said I wa» readv to set ont at once, and in the afternoon I «a» whirling through lieaiitiful Derby shire on mv way to London und the Ci ntinei t. I could n-t forbear feeling something like delight at the change fr ni terrible Timperley to these bright scene—although I scarcely knew where I wa« journeying, or for what. Could I then haveguess«d what strange things I wonl.1 hear when I reache«! the to me nnkrxiwn city of Basel on the Rhine, could I have gues»ed that I was lemg hurrici along by the Divine Vengeance, that I «». not so much deputed by Meinhardt to see Emilie Haas a. by hAtOwrmling Power who «as im- l*llin* that man .<n to bis liocm, what. I have often « .ndered «in.e, would mv feelings have l«.n as I was borne along with rush and r ar in the railway train? The first night of my journey I rest- e«l tn London. I went to that hotel " ■) tn Great Queen street. wl>ere Lacroix had commonly stayed on his visit, to London, but I found noth ing of consequence. CHATPER XI. It is not necessary to detail how we finally sin-cee-le-l, after five days of hard labor, under the direction of a physician, in getting ol«i Jaques to un- ■lerstand what we wanted to know, namely, whether his nephew, Paul I a - croix, had visited him on the night of the l»’th of March, 1882. We did suc ceed, however, in not only getting him to understand, but in obtaining indis putable evidence. Mr. I-acroix had stop|>ed at the cottage that night and hail left for the Jaques a package of Paris papers bearing dates from the 10th to the 16th of the month and a staten.ent to thia effect was signed by the old man, w ho had sufficiently recov ered the use of his right arm to sign hie name legibly. The anxiety and excitement of those five days had been so great for me that for some little time I was almost pros trated. I need scarce say that I was much encouraged by our success with Jaques: ¡I had the papers with hie signed declaration, witnessed, of course, by Birley and myself, securely locked away in my desk. This should have stimuluted me to immediate further action, and, I have no doubt, would have, hail I not l>een still eaten up with anxiety about, Louise. What if the i hope I cherished as the end of all this —the hope of taking her from the fears and dangers that hung alont her, of having her as my very own, my wife! —whta if this hope was being baulked while I was thus busy? The mere thought of sin h a contingency was enough to bring my fabric of careful evidence regarding the Lacroix mystery to nought. If I could only discover where she was!—and that she still thought of me. as I fondly believed she had done a little while she was vet in Timperley!—still refused to yield to the cajoleries and threats of Steinhaidt, and hoped I would deliver her! But I bail no news, and I was devoured with anxiety. No news—except the lonfirmation Crowning of liietiard III. from Birley that she was not with Mrs. While men's minds as well as wom- Steinhardt. He had written to his en'a are turned on coronatlon robes sister inquiring alsxit Louise, and had and klndnal splendors, It Is Interest- been an*wert*l to that effect; Mrs. Ing to compare the old wl’.li the uew Steinhardt had reason for supposing fashions. she was in Blaek]Hsil, but at what ad The description of the costume worn dress she could not say. by Richard 111. at his crowning and I entreated Birley to go to Blackpool ordered by himself was. according to t-i endeavor to find out, if he could a list, still extant, composed of a dou spare the time But he needed no en blet made of two yards and a quarter treaty, for he himself was also becom and a half of blue clothe of gold, ing anxious atiout her. “I num spare the time,’ said he; wrought with nett» ajid pyne apples, It's, of with a stomacher of the same, lined “and I mnn go and find her. oon ell of Holland clothe, and oon ell course, no use asking 'Manuel where of busk, inatede of green clothe of gold, she is.” But before he had arranged to set and a longs gown for to ride lu, made of eight yards of p'pul velvet furred out, something Oivurted which obviated with tymbres and a half and thirteen the necessity of going, and produced re bakks of ermyn, and four tymbres. sults of a more remarkable sort; and seventeen coonibes of ermyns powder this I must proceed to relate. As I have already indicated, mv ex- ed with 3,:kk> powdering« made of bog gy shanks, ami a payre of short spurs jierience of the way in which such evi dence as I bad regarding Ijicroix's fate with gilt.” To give the exact meaning of the had tather come to me than been found old wording, says the London Chron by me tendevl to make me what I may ide. would make a pretty task for call “a waiter upon Providence." I scholars the day la-fore King Edward conceived—I may say, I was convinced —I should best attain further result, ill s anointing But the "longe gown by keeping myself open to evidence for the cycle In” la an obvious bint for more than by ranging about and rack to-day. ing my brain in search of it. AU fear .-lightly Mixed. leing at rest that our exferiment up< n Ex Judge Miles IL ffiuan, formerly of oki Jaqut-e might have fatal or un Arkansas, who was at the Waldorf toward results (he was now more alert Astoria a few days ago. told this story than ever, and frequently a»ked, in writing, for "the girl">, I had betaken of a personal experience: \l>out two weeks ago I woke up In myself to a f rmer habit, and every the night slek. weak ami nearly faint <iay almost went into town to the free Ing My wife became somewhat ex library to read. Sometime« I read a cited am! slept no more that night. book, and sometimes the new*|ia|>er«. Next day. when she was telling of the I was thus occupied one afternoon OC. urrence to a friend, alie pnt It In with The Times I turned withs curi this way. Mr Hoffman soon got l>et osity which was half listless to tlie ter. but lie became so quiet I thought "agi-ny column.” and my attention he was dead, and I was afraid to touch was at once arrested by this _ him for fear he would wake up' "TO EMMANl'EI. STEINHARDT in England —Emile Has* in Basel send New York Times thia. Th -igh you me have forg -tten I l as» Censa» of Caesils. not yon. I am in very much trouble Vho «-eusua of the sesea In Canada and fear from you. n anv times sin«« »iuvws that there are fling!« males. first, now anain. Come to me. come, t.747.*W; female«. l.!M8.43l>; marred before the "Too late’ must he gewrit- mab «. lW.913: female«. ISK'S.iWl. ten (A Basel a-1 dress «as ap- There la only one mess of peas dur pended.) ■ M i’ no« natural that I should at ing au entire season that Is exactly right After you have eaten that, stop or e th i ’ th « wa« ad ire—e.I to ti e 0014 *nd hl>ngrv. Emmanuel Steinhardt 1 knew’ There trying to fin«! another. ° C‘.OCk *" the ®‘”'tllng might be other« of tbe name In Eng- of tbe third day, 1 left u»a al Rase!. I permitted myest? to b. to a hotel, where I ordered b- Alter partaking of which I revivJa **'’ began to think of tbe errand on I had coma. ,t‘kk Since my arrival I had be«B tainly using French and <iertl I had been answer»! in either (I found later that in th« 1-, r'*'1*** least, I might as well use m, ¡¡” *’ English); but on inquiring m» ” from the LudwigstrasH» to th» ni street I sought, I had to draw „ ” ively upon my stock of tiernun r' covered that Fraulein Emilj, u * lived in one of a row of old tall |„, *** (not unlike aome of those in the cd* Edinburgh), with little window, steep grey roofs, which gave the i pression of eyes with sleepy j a’ lids, t'p and up the bare stair’, o( tu house I stepped, till I think I was , the fourth tiuor—at any rate, I WM a high as I c«iuld climb. I knocke<i ** the door of a humble “apartment" two rooms, and an old wrinkled aon ° appeared. I inquired in German Fraulein Haas, ami was informed was from home, “giving her daily J? sons.” She was not, then, ill?'(j* no, she was not ill—ehe was well J a-ked when she would be at borne, and was told “at five o’clo«k in the after noon.” So I departed till then, win about six hours in w hich to tax my ia gynuity in guessing why Fnuki, Haas's demand to see St< iohardt I ad been so urgent, since she was net dr. ing, nor even ill. At five o’clock I called again, lnd found Fraulein Haas at home, I »M aske«i to come in. I looked curioud, at the Fraulein. She was a tniddh aged woman, of the thin, nervous tvw of German (or, perhaps, Swiss), with bright, keen, grey eyes. She rote smiling, but perplexed, to receive me’ and waited for me to state my businea “I come front England," I said i, German. “Then you do not want me to gire lessons,” said she, pushing aWlv , “prospectus” evidently laid ria.|y'(ol presentation; “my mother thought you ha«i come for that.” “No,” said I—“I come from Eng land to see you, and then to go bad again.” She looked liewildered. I took from my pocket a copy of tlie Times adv«, tisement, and handed it to her. At once the expression of her face changed; pale before, it became paler now, and her eyes swnied to dilate, a» with fear. “But yon,” fai«l she, “are not Em- manuel Steinhardt? Perhap«, hos- ever,” she made haste to add. “vou irx hie son? He married, I know.” I shook my head. “I am no relation at all to Herr Steinhardt. Very likely that will ex plain who I am”—anil 1 gave her Steinhardt’a letter. She was moved when she >»« th« handwriting. She read the letter through eagerly. It was short, I «-ouid see. “He thinks I am ill, and in want of money—if his money! Ach! Thii will not do! You must go away sir' ’ (To oe continued) Nimn, the Child. Now, neessarily, when tlie new girl baby arrived there was milch discurnot among the memliers of the family as to what her name should be. “We will call her ‘Geraldin*,’" said the fond mother. “Why not call her ‘Esmeralda?’" asked the first grandmother. “1 mw that name in a story once, ami alway« wanted to try it on a baby.” “Oh,” murmured the second grand mother, that “would never do. Let us call her ‘Fanchon.’ ” “But don’t you think ‘Eltessa’ is a pretty name and so odd, too?” put in one of the aunts. “Excuse me, ladies,” ventured tha poor father, who eat near by, but vox seem to forget that we are trying to find a name for a human being, and not for a 5-cent cigar.” Wirxleix Telegraphy. It seems that as vet the speed il which the Hertzian currents of wire less telegraphy move has not been de terrained. Marconi says he think« they travel about the same speed »• light, 186,000 miles u second. Ther« fore, should Marconi lie able, as he pro fesses to believe lie w ill be, to send • message around the world, it wold occupy in transmission approximate!? one-eighth of a second, and the click« of the sending and receiving in-tru- ments would be almost simultanleout. Knew How to Take Froud«. The late hiatorian, Samuel Rs»*’* Gardiner, used to say of Frood«: “Whenever I find myself particular!? perplexed on any point I look to*« what Fronde ha* to say about it. I“' ways find his help invaluale, for I trust implicitly in his unfailing I f st i net at arriving at fal-e ronclasieM; and the more positive lie beconi«« t’’ safer I feel in adopting a diametrical!? oppoiste view.” About “Max O R«!!.” That most genial of philoaoplies. “Max O Hell,” celebrated hi» "I1“ birthday un March 2. This yeari««4 interesting one in his life, for it i« "■ 30th anniversary of his going to FrC land as the correaponfient "I reftzi* French papers. It is an inten-' T chara-teric of his career that «11 ’ works, which were first publii'h’l ■ France, have been translat«»! into Eof lish by hia wife. Tolitoi Not Afraid of Denth- A Russian journalist relate« r'T ing Tolstoi and his recent il : •■*’ ' * w hen the doctor told him that h* ’** out of danger, be replied: ‘ It ” pitv to give up the r< a gnati< n *' thought of death.” What him particularly during hi* ill' * that hie physician wou!«i not ail*.’’ ” windows to lie kept open. For Coronat on Prtwnti. King Edwani ha* ordered timx of 100 medallion portrait* « 11 ~ •elf. These, richly mountel. ,rri|X tended for presents!ien t" di«t>>»' ? guests at the «or*.nation, in iu'ittd leading representative* tbe r"** and India. Hia majesty i* !*"■! ' cially photographed for the purp®* Arsa Occupied by lad'«««- In 1890 the area of the r atiM* main occupied bv Indian« 118.000,000 acres; today it 85.000.000 scree, which »• much land as we have in the •* Ohio, Lxelb^a «uad
