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The Contrabandist;
One Life’s Secret!
CHAPTER II.
It was, perhaps, at the distance of halt
a league from the cottage of Hugh I.a-
lunnte that the Chateau Montauban
stood. It was situated on a rocky and
abrupt eminence, overlooking the valley
below, where a small village looked more
like the miniature group of dolls' houses
which children play with than the ordi
nary habitations of ordinary men, while
the stream that wound its way along at
the foot of the hills was nothing more
than a mere thread of silver.
On-the night of the attack on Count
Loui« there were two persons Heated in
the library of this chateau; the one a
lady, with beautiful and somewhat strik
ing features, a tall and graceful figure,
and a bearing at once haughty and capti
vating. Mademoiselle Montauban was
a person of strong feelings, of deep en
ergy. of quick yet firm resolves, aud de
cided action. She was pleasing to all;
yet with the very grace and noble lieauty
which captivated one, there was an air—
an expression of veiled haughtiness, of
lofty pride, of insinuating command. All
the world admired mademoiselle, but few
loved her.
Her father, monsieur le marquis, on the
other hand, was an extremely affable,
polite and agreeable gentleman. He was
universally kind and good to the peasant
ry around the country, and there was
no poor people who did not have cause to
thank hitn for many an act of generosity
He had been married twice; to a beauti
ful Frenchwoman, after the death of La
Marquise Giudette, and this wife died
also. He mourned her loss long and sin
cerely; for they say he loved her even
better than he lived Giudette, who was
very violent and passionate. There was
one child—a lovely, sunny-haired child,
with features like her fair mother’s, aud
eyes like fresh violets, by this second
marriage. But he has only Helen to com
fort his approaching old age now; and
there is a large portrait in the saloon—
the portrait of a smiling infant, painted
nearly sixteen years ago, which he looks
at and sighs.
The father and daughter sat in the li
brary; he by a large table iu the center
of the apartment, reading, as was his
custom in the evenings: she had drawn
her seat forward near one of the deep
windows overlooking the valley, and the
road by which Louis was expected to
come. Both were awaiting his arrival,
but it was with far different degrees of
feeling. The marquis, indeed, looked for
ward with pleasure to the meeting with
his nephew, whom he had not received at
the chateau for some years; but yet his
anticipation was moderated by calmness,
for he no longer possessed the hurry and
impatience of youth. With Helen Mon
tauban it was not thus. Deeper feelings
than were warranted by that calm and
haughty exterior were busy in her heart.
"Father,” ami her voice is calm and
silvery as usual, despite the beating of
her heart, that throbs more violently ev
ery moment—"father, it is already quite
late. My cousin. Monsieur Louis, must
surely remember that he may possibly ex
pose himself to some danger by travers
ing the lonely roads iu this neighborhood
by night."
The marquis closed his book, hose from
liis seat and approached the window.
"Yes; you are right—you are right,
Helen,” he returned; “but I hardly think
he will be so rash as to undertake to
reach the chateau to-night with that ter
rible storm gathering. As to the danger
from brigands, however, I do not fear;
for, without doubt, he will have his valet
with hint, and he will have also his weap
ons. And you must consider, Helen, that
our young relative has both strength of
limb and skill in arms, that might well
warrant him in getting st defiance a good
ly number of besiegers.”
"Yes—I know, father. And there are
none more brave than Louis.” A proud
smile shone in her splendid eye« as she
spoke, and then she sank back in her seat
again, and toyed with her fan. while the
marquis placed himself by her side, and
also watched for some sign of his nephew.
But the night deepened, and still Louis
did not come, while the storm, which had
lieen threatening, ere long broke over
the chateau, and raged with terrible fury.
“I do not think we shall see him to
night. Helen," said her father, as the old
clock in the hall sounded on eleven; “and
it grtfws late, my child. Perhaps you had
better retire.”
And Helen Montauban would not be
tray her anxiety and restlessness, even
to her father; so she obeyed his sugges
tion shortly. She did not seek her couch,
however, but, after having dismissed her
maid for the night, she wrapped a rich
shawl carelessly alsmt her stately figure,
and cast herself upon a pile of cushions
lieneath a window which commanded a
view of the valley lieneath. and. the light
within being shaded, drew the curtain
from the casement, and leaned forward
upon the sill, with her anxious glance
piercing the gloom for some glimpse of
the yet expected guest.
Still the moments crept on. and the
hour of midnight sounded sternly on the
now silent air. Her heart beat violently :
she trembled. "He said he should come,
she murmured; ’’why, then, this delay?
for Louis never yet broke his word. He
may have been murdered!
and she
buried her face in her trembling hand-.
Louis had been her playmate for weeks
together in childhooil. when she had b-t n
permitted to visit hi« family in Lyons,
and she had never been so happy as dur-
ing those periods, They were the crown
and glory of her sleeping and waking
dreams. She was never so happy when
she returned to the old, lonely chateau,
as in recounting the wonderful stories of
those happy times, and anticipating her
next visit. He was a fine, handsome,
graceful and independent boy, and she
thought there could be nobody in the
world like her cousin tauia. His firm,
proud, gallant bearing «nd manly spirit,
his noble intellect and his fine, thought
ful countenance, with the imi's'ent en
thusiasm of his boyish years, had always
exalted hint in her esteem. She had
learned to look upon him with the deep
est reverence of her nature, and to al
most adore in him those qualities of heart
and min i which, she observed with dis
dain. few others possessed.
He had never visited the chateau more
than twice, and those visits had 1~" n
white stones in her life. Rbe had nm .-m
her ci I and resiled them eeastsntly in the
i-i «Irvarr
as it a m
and n
of
after
Ing «
r-eeeeeeeex
• • he kissed her fair hand. "1 was just I
deceiving tuyself with the ides that you
were cheating me with a shadow; it was
only when you spoke that I was unde
ceived. I forgot that the goddess---- ”
Louis, no compliments!" uttered his < •
cousin, imperatively. "Iler* cornea my
father."
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CHAPTER III.
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I II I I H
SOUTH
It^ was on the night of the adventure j
OF
of < onnt Louis that two men might have My Lodging 1* on the Cold Ground.
been seen emerging from the forest «nd I
I.
FRANCE
directing their steps in the road to the I My lodging is on the aold ground.
x'TL - - - ---- —
cottage of Hugh tamoate, which Ix>uis | And hard, very hard, is my fare;
OLD
FAVORITES
EARLY
PYRAMIDS
IN
MEXICO.
An Archtrolouiat IWacrltx* Them sad
a City Antedating Columba*.
LAW OF FIFTY ANO SIXTY.
Hew a Sosthtr« Jud«* Rroba Up th*
Pistol-Carry I*« Habit.
any other woman In Europe. She died
j tn a peignoir, but Its beauty seems to
I have Impressed even her assassins;
and in life she Is Mid to bare never
uiiseer an effect or made an error In
the details of her drew. In a greater
country than that In which she rose
to the highest position. Queen Drag*
would bars txen an European power
with whom to reckon, for no woman
can dreM to absolute perfection and
•way men and women alike by her In
effable charm without txcomlng a dan
ger. Happily, the ability to do both
! !• given only to the very f«’*. but every
woman may well be couuselled to
make thia her ambition.
"Speaktug of pistol toter* In some
Great archaeological value is at
tached to the discovery of an aneleut >f the State* of the South." said a man
city In a remote portion of the state from Tennessee, "re ml nil* me of a
I of Puebla, and in order to ascertain jurist fametl in the history of the
ths exact Import of the find the federal western |xrt of my State txcause of
govarntueiit has cotnmlssL n< d the sub an arbitrary rule laid down by him.
director of the national museum. F. which ha* txen since accepted by all
Rodrigues, who Is one of the foremost the judges wlio followed him. It now
Mexican engineers, to visit the rulus has all the force of a law promulgated
and make luveetigatlons, says a «IX- by the supreme lawmaking power of
Dr. the State. 'Fifty and sixty,' as they
clal
to th* Philadelphia Press
had left some ten minute* previously.
But that which grieve* tus mor*, love,
Nicolas Iceon. the •rchaeol gist and call IL I* a law tn Weet Tennessee,
One of these, the elder, was a tall, | 1* th* coltili*** of my dear.
ethnologist of the Institution, accoui- and has txen a law In that region
true, waiting still, even till midnight; hut sturdy man. dressed in the coarse garb of Yet still he crisd. "Turn, lov*. to m*—
;>anles him.
1 pray the*. love, turn to m*.
a thousand fearful emotions struggled iu a peasant, and his features were by no
since the daya of John Harrtggn, who
her breast, of which she gave no outward means displeasing. At present, they wore For thou art th* only girl. lov*.
Dr. Leon reports that the ruin« have was for some time a judge on the
a
look
of
deep
thought,
an
air
almost
of
FAST MAN WITH A RAZOR.
sign, or, nt the most, but a faint one.
That is adored by me."
never been known to the world of ertmlnal court In Shalby County.
A dark form seemed to catch her eye, sternness, as he walked rapidly, aud in
science and that they are the meat
"Judge Harrigan mad* up hi* mind Kaatrrn Berber’* Uacard t* Seventeen
moving along rapidly through the path in silence, listening to bis companion, who
II.
primitive that have been discovered
•b*v** in Thirty Minute*.
the valley, coining nearer and nearer, was speaking in low. but bitter and an With ■ garland of »traw I will crow» In Mexico and are. In fact, so ancient to break up the habit of carrying pis
Rersnteen beards cut from the china
tol*. To do this be established the
thee, love;
while the clouds, passing still across the gry tones, and evidently on some exciting
that It will require a great deal of rule of fining every man caught with of as many longshoremen la Frank
1'11 marry thee with a rush ring.
moon, veiled it ever and anon in shadow. subject.
time and study to learu In what epoch a pistol on his person <50 aud »ending Hals'* record In the competition for
1 his man. whose dress was much the Thy frozen heart shall melt with love,
Drawing nearer, till the soft silver radi
they were built, aa well aa by what hlut to the county workhou»* for sixty the gold medal offered by a «porting
Ro merrily 1 will sing.
ance of the night sboue full upon both same as that of the first, had a less pre
people. Dr. Ixou has made the follow days. Hnrtng tits whole administra paper to the barber who should shave
horse aud rider, and then there was only possessing appearance than the other. Yet still he cried. "Turn. love, to nie—•
I pray thee, lov*, turn to me.
ing statement In reference to the dis tion he never departed from thia rule. the moat men In thirty minute«. Tha
a slight start—a quick, convulsive clasp Like that of his companion, hi« counte
of the fair hand that rested on the eold nance wa« unshorn and rude; but the ex For tbou lit the only girl, love,
coveries:
Every man caught with a pistol, no record was made In Bala's ahop at 3'23
That is adored by me."
stone sill—a faint yet eager «mile hover- pression of the features was sinister and
"In a range of small hills that ex matter who be was. was fined
aud Furman street. Brooklyn, txfore a
iug about her beautiful lipa, and flash forbidding. the features themselves,
tends from north to south from the high sent to the workhouse for sixty days notary public, an ofllcial timekeeper
III.
ing in those splendid eyes. as. softly mur apart from their expression, anything
neighboring mountains we found a
muring. “It is he!” she rose from the but kgreeable. You might have been But If rhou wilt harden thy heart, lor* very numerous s*rt*s of pyramidal He had to serve the sixty days at hard and threescore witnesses
And be deaf to my pitiful moan,
Alsjut seventy five men were crowd
labor, too. Harrigan would not turn
cushions on which she bad knelt «o long, assured a thousand times that he was
constructions guarded by elaborate
uothing more or les« than a simple and O, I must endure tha smart. love.
and closed the casement.
him out There was no power that ed into the «hop when the trial began
trenches
and
connected,
for
purposes
Ami tumble in straw all aloue.
•••••••
honest peasant, as he was generally un
could get him out. Aa a result of the and people wer« standing three deep
of comtquulcation, by wide avenues,
“My dear uncle!" cried Louis, warmly derstood to lie: but for all that, you Yet still be cried. ••Turn, love, to mi
this rule plstol-totlug before the windows
The subject a.
I pray thee, love, turn to me,
which were s*t off at intervals by enforcement of
embracing the good marquis, as they met would have disliked to meet this man on
tougheet.
sloping acclivities, platforms and stair showed a vast decrease iu that aac- naturally, ware about the
in the saloon, on the morning following the highway at midnight, or in tho For thou art the only girl, love,
from a tonsortal standpoint, that Fur-
That Is adored by me."
cases. AU the pyramids were found to tlon.
tha storm, "1 cannot express half the depths of the forest from wbielf he had
In fact.
"I recall one caie where a promt man street could product,
just emerged.
pleasure it gives me to meet you.”
be quadrangular aud to have txen
The Grave* of ■ Household.
I tell you,” he was saying, venge-
The marquis smiled at his nephew's
built with «special reference to th* nent. well to-do young man of Arkan- only those whose beards rasped with
They
grew
in
beauty,
side
by
side.
fully “I tell you. if I have but the pow
warmth.
cardinal points. Those Important mon «as was arrested for carrying a platol. a manly harshneM a* Bata ran hla
They filled one home with glee;
He was given 'fifty and sixty.’ The Angers over them were admitted.
"My dear boy. I also am delighted to er, I will make him pay dear for this; Their
grave* are severed, far and wide, uments were conetructed entirely of
see you. Let me welcome you to my old two of our best fellows disabled, and nty
Governor
of ArkatiMs. the two United
Andy Hsan was the first man tn
By mount, and stream, and a*.
rocks and sandstones cut and laid In
eyrie a thousand times. But sit down own brains nearly kuocked out by that
State« Senators, Congressmen and oth- the chair. He had about five days’
juxtaposition.
The
surface
dressing
.
arm
of
his.
Who
would
think
it
had
so
sit down, Louis; I must take a leisurely
The same fond mother bent at night
of the pyramids Is small stones work ’ | er Influential men tried to get the growth of beard, which shaded almost
look at you. Why, you have grown a much strength?"
O'er each fair sleeping brow;
“
Chut.
Gasparde!
”
said
the
other,
a
ed Into cubical forms of very orna judge to temper the judgment, but be Imperceptibly on each aide Into a short,
full inch since we met last, and all the
She had each folded flower in sight
little
sternly;
“
do
you
want
to
«how
your
mental appearsuc* and laid cloa* to would not do it ‘Breaking a rule de briefly, black mustache. Bata laid out
handsomer, too, for your wanderings!"
Where are those dreamer* now!
•troy* It,' he Mid. and he «tuck to It. •lx raaore that had been prepared
"Oh. uncle, I appreciate your flattery, claw«? Better «peak a little lower, if
gether.
"Rome time afterward a you: ng man eepeclally for the slaughter, tucked
believe me," laughed his nephew; “I con you don't want to put your neck in dan One 'midst the forest of the West,
"As a rule, every four of the pyra
walked
up to Judge Harrigan In the a few towel* under hie belt and picked
fess I had rather have it from you than ger. One can never tell bow many ears
mid«
surround
a
court.
All
of
them
Ry a dark stream is laid—
any other, almost. But, now. ho«' have there may be in these bushes along here." The Indian knows hie place of rest
rotunda
of a Memphis hotel. ‘Isn't up the loaded lather brush.
are so grouped that each and every
“I can shut them up. unless they be
things been going on here since I ■aw
“Are you ready?” called out Jim
one of them guards the entrance to the thia. Judge Ilarrigau t' Mid th* young
Far In the cedar shade.
long
to
another
like
the
one
that
dealt
V
you? and how is my fair cousin?"
courts
Bnt If In any case ths eu- ®*u. ‘No. air,' Mid ths Judge. T am take, the timekeeper.
with
me
to-nighta.
I
shall
feel
his
fist
"For the first," answered the marquis,
.. 1 John Harrigan. ‘But you ar* tits orlm-
Th» sea. the blue lone »ea. hath one—•
trances
are
not
protected,
great
walls
“
Yes."
said
Bala.
for
a
little
while
to
come."
“I can give a very satisfactory reply. My
He lie» where pearls lie deep.
with bases much wider than their sum I Inal court judge, aren't you? persisted
"Do you want to put yourself in the
“Go!" roared ths timekeeper. • nd
affairs are in a state of prosperity, and
He was the loved of all, yet non*
the young man. 'I am when on the Bala made a downward Jab with the
inlts
re-enforce
the
pyramids
These
except, possibly, that Helen and I are a way of feeling it again?”
O'er hl* low bed may weep.
"Wait till I get on his track the next
walls are of such sizes that tbelr sum bench,' said the judge, ‘but here and brush that scattered lather from one
little lonely at times for want of com
elsewhere out of tha courtroom I am ear to the other. Two quick swipes
pany, we do very well. I need scarcely time. I'll cure bint of his impudence!”
■ re uilts are really streets.
One
sleeps
where
southern
vines
"Better hold your tongue, comrade.
say that I ant sure we shall be all the
“They are well |mv<*l with flat John Harrlgnn.' He had recognised with the brush on each cheek, a hur
dressed
happier for your presence. For your oth Why didn’t you cure him to-night?—three
Above the noble slain;
stones and have platforms, staircases the young man from tha beginning. ried chasing of fingers over the raspy
er question. Helen herself must tie ap to one. slid lieaten at that! A fine story He wrapt his colors round his breast,
and sloping acclivities like th* aven ‘By the way, judge,' said the young mat and the longshoreman was ready
plied to when yon see her this morning. to tell the men!”
On a blood-red field of Spain.
ues. On one of the highest of the man directly, while they were talking for the raaor. Two strokes finished
"Who knew he had his pistols? He
She was in excellent health yesterday,
platforms and at the bases of all acroas a table, ‘that “fifty and sixty’’ the left aide of the face, two more
at all events, and we watched together must have foiiud out before he started And one—o’er her the myrtle shower»
that
somebody
hud
drawn
his
teeth.
Ab,
the
pyramids we found pieces of pot rule of your» is all right, for it broke cleaned the right side and a few quick
a long time last night by the library win
It leaves by soft winds fanned;
tery which were certainly mad* before me of a very had habit, that of car ones scraped the chin and neck bare.
dow, for your appearauee. Ami now he bit with them. I can tell you! If we She faded 'midst Italian flower«—
the time of Columbus and which were rying a platol everywhere I went.’ The
tell me, nty dear Louis, something more had a dozen like him in the band, it
Andy never murmured,
The last of that bright baud.
evidently the remains of a civilization same thing might have been Mid by
concerning that adventure of yours in th» would be worth something, captain. As
“ltone,” cried Bala.
it
is.
I
’
ll
take
care
be
doesn't
do
us
any
forest; for your sketch of it last night
relatively more advanced than that of many young men who hart txen broken
And parted thus they rest, who played
"One minute and forty seconds,"
harm, now that he has got off. If you
Beneath the same green tree;
the builders of the pyramids.
of the same habit tn the same way."— Mng out the timekeeper, aud then
had lieen there to-night, instead of mind Whose voices mingled as they prayed
“We found alao many sculptured New Orleans Time« Democrat.
ing something else, we might have sung
there was loud applause.
Around one parent knee!
aceties In baa relief of prehistoric
a different tune; but now all the way to
John Neaping, whose beard Is red,
times. Figures of human beluga and
CORN AS FUEL.
mend matters is to give him a little mu They that with smiles lit up the hall,
was the next man up, and he also was
animals In stone and iron were quite
sic to dance to.”
And cheered with song and hearth—
Acre of Corn Kqusls over Two Tons of turned out In one minute and forty
"Blockhead!" muttered the elder, with Alas! for love, if thou were all.
numerous. Domestic utensils of stone
CosL
seconds, bleeding only slightly from a
a frowt).
painted
ma*
color
wer*
scattered
over
And naught beyond, oh, Earth!
Substitutes for eoul have for many gash on the chin.
"What do you say, then, captain?” —Mrs. Hernans.
the ground.
years commanded attention and espe
John Cowan's capillary adornment
asked his companion.
"Stone knives and arrow heeds of cially ao during the last eight or nine
was easier and It went down in one
"Nothing. Gasparde. But here we arc,
the
obsidian
epoch
were
encountered
SURGERY IN GERMANY.
months In the United States, with
and the light is burning in the window,"
»•>« nsrk-
fl fte
tu great abundance. League* of the prices at abuorutal figures as a r-
as they reached the cottage.
Q M
w
American Practitioner Would He Ont mountainous country are covered with
“And Mademoiselle Rose waiting for
of the authraclte miners' strike
>’
i
ll
of Place Over There.
ruins.”
her father, no doubt,” added the other.
year, l’eat (tnd briquetted saw
A young surgeon who went to Ger
(To be continued.)
wood, oil, and many other aubati
tvn fi t h
many four years ago to complete hla
MEASURES SMALE
have Ixen under consideration,
11; i g bi
studies
In
pathology,
recently
returned
SAYS HE WAS NOT EXCITED.
among them also corn, this last p
i oberln
to this country. He makes thia inter
ularly having txen spoken of as
I
Why Mr. Blenkinson Paid th* Cost* In esting comment on national differences
thing quite new, though, aa a n
u Hull lie Won.
L’i'
In the profession, says the World's
of fact, coni has for a long time
“I never could understand,” »aid Mr. Work:
«I
used as fuel In the faruiuig (llstr
Blenkinson, “why people should get so
COUNT MONTAUBAN AND HELIX
“It's science over there; here's It’s
the western sections of the I mien mvti uiuiui^
-• h - ü I'L
AW AITINO LOUIS.
excited over a lawsuit"
the business of healing, Here one
States, and thaL too, with very m tie ly one minute, the txst time made.
hhiMtìr
"Don’t you?” asked Mrs. Blenkinson. gets the elementary things In college,
was somewhat hasty. You were never
factory results.
"Never,” said Blenkinson. "It takes learns more In hospital and In general
!?;; ' ' j
Jimmy bail ron*lderkblc blood on h»m
too much given to talking of yourself. I
"'•""J
1
In a general way, It was recognised at the finish An u^!'nnwvt man then
more
than
the
threats
of
a
lawyer
or
hate an egotist as heartily as you can;
practice, and turns the knowledge Into
there that when com ws* abundant took the chair.
but 1 desire to hear something relative the frowns of a Judge to upset me. So money. The average American prac
and cheap and coal was expensive, the
to your journey and your general wel long as a man has justice on his side titioner would be out of place over
"One minute and sixteen seconds,"
former made a chea|>er fuel titan ths Mid the timekeeper as thia one got
fare; so let me hear it before our coffee is he need have no more fear at tb'e hands tfiere. With them ft's study, study,
iL"-'! ;j
ready.”
latter, although no scientific determi up.
of the court than of his own family.
r;'i¡í
ff'
The young man gave his uncle a sketch Yet some people go all to pieces the study from the time they receive their
nation of their relative efficiency had
Ixtuls Bey. a Turk, came out In quick
degree
until
they
die
At
the
hospitals
of his haps and mishaps, to which the minute they step inside a court room.
been made until a short time ago. time with part of his promising young
ur meeting places, they talk nothing
good marquis listened very attentively,
when teats were made by the Depart mustache gone. The McNally brother*
and which occupied some few minutes, That was the way with Wilkins this but shop. 1 have known a group of
ment of Agriculture of the University were finished up In leas than three
when, just as he was finishing by men afternoon. He got so nervous he German doctors to leave their dinner
of Nebraska, nays I'usaler's Magazine. minutes anil two other men were done
tioning his application at the cottage for couldn't have told Ills own name if he half eaten to visit a case under dis-
These showed, among other thlngn. In Just alatut as good time.
shelter, Helen Montauban entered.
had been hanged for It.”
cusslon. They are the worst poaalble
that of com, which. If burned, will
She was beautiful and self-possessed
"Mr. Wilkins?” echoed Mrs. Blenkin- practitioners, for they are Interested
“One minute anil ten seconds more,”
as ever. A calm smile parted her lips sou. "Was he In court this afternoon?” oily In technique. 1 knew a man who
yield front 22,51’2,1X10 to 45,024,000 the timekeeper shouted. But Bala had
and lighted her fine eyes, as she ap
units, not counting the heat that could run out of subjects.
"Yes,” said Blenkinson. "lie got into went to a German physician with n
proached, and, saluting her father, gave
lie obtained from the stalk. HI nee
some
trouble
over
that
sidewalk
he
has
“Quick,” lie screamed, as he chang
pain
In
his
leg.
That
doctor
spent
an
to Louis, who advanced to meet her, her
a ton of good coal will give up from ed razors sod the timekeeper himself
lieen laying up at »2d street aud was hour each day for live days studying
hand.
about 20.IMMMXX) to 20,000,(N)0 units, an wss pushed Into the chair. Bala took
It. and after that time he knew all
"My charming cousin!" exclaimed the hauled up tor trial."
<cre of ground each year Is capable of the last bunch of hair off his chin just
young man. warmly, taking the offered
“Why," said Mrs. Blenkinson, “I there was to know about that pain,
producing fuel which Is equnl to from as the gong sounded.
hand and kissing with deferential affec thought you were Interested In that but he didn't atop It. In thia country
il k? or 1.28 to 1.74 or ‘2 50 tons of coal
tion. the fair cheek of the lady—“my dear sidewalk deal too."
He wns cheered to the echo. Then,
we would have treated It and thought
Helen, this is truly delightful I am very
"So 1 atu," admitted her husband. “I no more al»out It except to congru tu- Just why any one would want to The stalk will probably Increase this just to show that he wasn't down and
happy to behold you again. How do you
amount
by
one
fourth
or
one
third.
out, he cut a mail's hair In two min
late the patient tn a few day* on get- iteesure a millionth of au Inch la not
was at the trial too."
do?"
The experience gained from lioller utes mid fifteen seconds and shaved
ting well. They don't care for the |>a- plain to us, yet there Is a machine
“Oh,” said site, "how terrible!”
"Well, Monsieur Louis, I thank you.
"Nothing terrible about IL” corrected tlent. He Is only a specimen. I heard that will measure with accuracy that teats with corn fuel made It appear Buck Busteed, the man with the iron
And you?"
"Admirably, my dear friend.” And ha Blenkinson. "Our side bad such a cinch a doctor say perfectly mechanically tiny (Balance. A picture of It. taken doubtful whether corn would be a heard, who la barred out of all Furman
seated himself by her side.
that the whole business was over in that he hojied a certain patient would at the office of the United Htati-s Coast practical fuel for the generation of street leirtier shops. In just one mtnute
"You have, then, arrived at the chateau lea« tlxn an hour after the case was die so that he might learn some fact Survey In Washington, le presented power, unless It were burned In some and fifty-five second*. -New York Sun.
, herewith. The way in which It works ■pedal furnace that would Insure the
at length. Louis? It is some time since called. The judge soaked the other from the autopsy
we saw you." «be said, regarding him side gmal aud hard J1H0 and coals. They call American surgeons copy 1st* Is too technical to lx popularly Inter |>erfei't combustion of the volatile mat
Hpanlsti Armada Halloo.
with polite interest.
Roma time ago Captain Burna, of
Wherever the charge Is true.lt la mere esting, but It depends upon half a ter which forms so large a jxrcentage
Wilkins
acted
like
a
crazy
man
when
"Yes; it is a long time. I think, since
dozen small mirrors reflecting Into of the whole corn, and which Is driven Glasgow, obtained permission from the
we met, and I could not deny myself the the verdict was rendered. I couldn't ly that Americans turn to practical each other and casting a resultant off at a comparatively low heat. Some Huke of Argyle to prosecute a aearch
service
the
theories
they
study.
But
do
a
thing
with
him.
'One
dollar
more
pleasure of a visit to the chateau."
ray of light upon a fine scale.
form of automatic stoker woeld also for tha wreck of the Admiral of Flor-
"Your journey, I trust, was a favora of coats here,' said the Judge, and Wil undoubtedly the Germans are doing
tw desirable, since the corn burn* rap en<*e, one of the vessel* of the Rpan-
work
It
Is
reckoned.
a
flying
a
great
work.
One
man.
it
is
recaoneo,
|
ble one.”
kins danced around like
Hr Cansol Ixxe.
Idly and must be frequently fired, mak l*h armada which was blown up In
' said
the
has added thirty thousand years to hu-,
"A few drawbacks, such as travelers dervish, •One dollar more,'
----- —
-- -----------
' ‘s. There Is ■ The conversation happened to turn Ing the work of the firemen very ardu- l&HH In Tobermory bay. A diver had
must meet with at times, but nothing
time.
'I've
got
it,
your
man
life
by
his
dlscoverlei
judge a second
very serious.”
no commercial end for them to gain, sit ( on an eccentric capitalist, who had re ous. and at the same time tendliig to not Ixen long at work when he found
"My dear boy," said the marquis, Honor.' sli<l I. anti I tried to make nty that their work for their eclence. must; tired from buslnrss with a fortune i suae Incomplete combustion by the a pistol, heavily Incrusted with lime,
“what, then, do you call serious? „An way up to the twnch. but Wilkins was
large enough to .atlsfy the average excess of cold air entering through a hedge anchor and a sword blade.
| so excited that lie caught me r l»y the be their only alm
attack from robbers, in my time-----”
ambition, but not ao large aa popular the fire door. Undoubtedly com may, But the moat Inqiortant discovery, tha
The
difference
aptly
illustrates
the
back
with
|
'_!” interrupted Mademoiselle I coat tails and pulled me
"An attack!"
at times, lx a cheap and economical Glasgow Herald reports, was a bronxe
general difference between our "prac report credited him with having
Montanban, , turning a shade paler, as her might and main. . I was positively
"What Is lie doing with hla money?” fuel for domestic use. It le cleaner cannon In perfect preservation.
It
glance rested nnquietly on the face of ashamed of him. He had everybody In tical" ways and the ways of German was asked.
• nd more easily handled than cixl and tneesitres about four feet six Inches In
"an
attack! how. Monsieur tauis?
learning
Ixmis—"i
-----------
the court room laughing at him. He
"The only thing I have heard of his contains but a very small amount of length and about eight Inches In diam
You have lieen in actnal danger?"
doing with It.” was the reply, “la buy ash. It burns rapidly with au lutsnae eter at tha breech, and t>eara the date
One Virtue I.«« kin*.
“No. mv dear Helen—no.” the count clung to me like grim death, and It was
h««tened to say. "I was merely request- fully five minutes before I could break
"We have had oar troubles over the mg up mortgage* on little one or two beat, and thia la apt to be destructive 15R3. Several pieces of oak. much de
ed to deliver my purse, a simple affair, away from hint and go up and pay the servant girl problem, the same ns the story houses owned by widows or or to the cast Iron linings of tlx stove rayed and worm eaten, supposed to lx
phans. "
•nd, perhaps, one with which 1 may meet judge that other dollar he waa calling rest of
Here, again, therefore, some special planka of the Admiral of Florence,
Pitt»-
twenty times in my life."
"I should call that pretty poor btial- form of fire box, that will not be In were alao found.
for.”
burger.
whenever
a
new
one
At that moment, however, the coffee
“Before you could pay him?'
jured by the beat, and that will util
conies *o us we hope for a week or neea for a man of his means "
was brought in. and the snbject was rogated Mrs. Blenkinson.
Trying Not to Grieve Papa.
"He seems to lie satisfied with the Ize as much of the beat as poMlhle,
I t
two that we have found the lost jewel.
abandoned. After the mornings repast
“There, tieorgls. you not only broke
A ntouth ago. when w* made a Investment, lie never foreclose* the should be used
was concluded, Louis drew bis fair cous yon said you wotT the case?"
mamma's pretty Oleh but you told her
••Ro we did," »aid Blenkluson
change, the new girl took hold ao well mortgage*, and never collects any In
in out upon the paved terrace before the
to pay
llasgerous < harms in Women.
a story about It, which la much more
terest
on
them."
“
And
that
the
other
side
had
windows of th* saloon, where they could
»0 W||V that them was not on* single fault to
Experience teaches that charm In a naughty. Papa will bo ao grieved
Perhaps
th* eccentric capitalist
sit conversing, while the early sunshine the roetar she persisted. "The faying be f'Mind. My wife was naturally
know* what be Is doing and will get woman I* of *v*n greater worth than when I tell him."
gilded the lovely landscape far and nesr, In the world did you Insist upon |
more
enthusiastic
than
I
was.
and
at
“Will ho feol awful bad can** I did
• nd resting sweetest of all in the charm that additional dollar No <■ n<< 1er Mr the end of a fortnight abe wanted me large returns on hla “Investment" some Ixauty The world's history furnishes
Is and
Innumerable Instances of thia, and In It. mamma?"
ing valley that lay beneath the height *avis»-t_— xwlsawisv f«» Votl!” i'(Vli
day.
to admit that the prize had been dis
"Yeo"
of the chateau. It was certainly a beau
I tfc nk
the lurid light of the ghastly Rervlan
covered at last. Rite said that the
Hebaked.
tifnl morning, and Extols d’Artois enjoy
“I'm on sorry. I know what I'll do.
tragedy Queen Drags stands forth as
girl
was
tidy,
resjx-'
tful,
truthful
and
A burglar recrat ly broke Into the tlx latest example of tlx wondrous mamtna. I'll tell him you did It"—
ed it thoroughly, it was s moat sincere
pleasure thus to meet with hi« old play
to Industrious, and the only thing I hone«- of one of the moat matter of-fa t power of fascination, Like the poet, Cleveland Plain Healer
If
b
<
mate and companion, after so
Id. could think of In reply wss to hope I men In Ixmdon. He was busily re unhappily, »be must be born. not
J
A Proverbial Beauty.
that she wouldn't turn out to tie a moving the sliver plate when the own
ration Ixmis regarded her
tí
made, who pim«eases this dangerous
for
at
€
Towne—I didn't see you at Mrs.
affection, and
er appeared. The thief turned like a and subtle quality Hut to a certain
thief
1
Ilansotn'e tea thia afternoon, Rhe was
though with t
" That le a shame and a slander!* flash and levelled a pistol at the oth-
exte ent It on lx cultivated. and yurro superb. the mo*t beautiful woman
T
me*nor still o
exclaimed my wife. *1’11 test her to •*r
Drags
made
a
cult
of
charm
and
Its
morrow, and I'll wager any niom-y
there.
twin sister, tact, from the cradle to
Brown—O, »be'a a reigning belle.
•he'll come out pure gold.’
th* grave Rbe was not strictly beau- yon know.
-Rhe
tested
by
leaving
four
diamond
mr
pardon."
answered
the
Nr
tifnl. ehe bad no a nee* try. she wa*
Townw—WeU. on thia occaston she
rings oo the drewr while she went
move. It will be good pr«>f
«
very much the nenlor of the young not only reigned, but ehe poured.—*
ri
shopping, and when I came home at
alive. You should lx more
King wb» risked hla throne and final Philadelphia Pre*«.
night my wife was In tears. The girl
to the meaning of your
ly gave hla life for her; hut le fax
had taken the rings aud s*op<d. I re
tlx
Oat In the Weather.
■e««ed to A ma rv<*llo<Mi
marked that the test could have tx-ra
Church—They *ay the new moon la
Gambling Among Workmen.
power So sway, to fascinate and to
made jest as well with one ring, or
Gambling among American workmen Itold thoee with whom ahe came in con a "wet" one.
even a dollar bill. Imt up to the pres
Gotham—Well, I don't see bow It
•
nlrn'xt unknown aa compared with tart, say* the Ixirwlon World
*nt time the word* have not given her
f
And. furthermore, she understood can t>e anything else If It haa been left
any comfort, and we hav* had ao he Mtn* evil in Great Britain, says
be M'Xelcy comm ¡eeloners.
'lis art of dressing almost better than I outdoor». — Yostkere Btateaman.
trace of th* glrL"
JM