Eugene Weekly Guard.
CAMPBELL BBOI«. »’r»rrl»t«re.
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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.
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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.
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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