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------------------- — as= -T “Tear A Political V en d etta WELDON J. COBB C H A P T E R V I. was conscientious to the point that, Gideon. Hope had said he had two 6b- though here for an ulterior purirase, she jet'ts to attain : to reach the man controll was loyal to'the exigencies of the business ing the patents on “ the Kane-Latimer regime of the Institution. One or two of the mill messenger boys metal process,” to revolutionise a political wore in sight, but they might dally; Mr. situatiop. There was a third motive he had in Kane might not understand from them view, but he did not state it to Michael how imperative was the necessity of the Delehanty, or to the Amalgamated mes moment. “ I will go and tell him myself,” decid senger : the crowning desire of hia life was to secure some positive proof that ed Claire. Percy Kane was the murderer of his She ran back to the ’ phone, ordered the wire held, and passed quickly out of the brother. He had profound faith in the exist quarters into the open air. She had to pass down a cindered road ence. somewhere, somehow, of an incrim inating clew. Sometime it would come to between two long shops, round the cast light. But if there was no such evidence, ing shop, and thus reach the spot where no witness, Hope determined to resort to she knew her employer to be. It was any means to finally urge the millionaire over a quarter of a mile away by this route, so she hurried along the deserted schemer to a confession. His— Hope's— was the task to reduce roan so rapidly that she did not notice a this man to poverty, to subvert every am figure steal from a shelter shed and pur sue her path. bition and joy of his life. But to follow that other trail, to bring This was Gideon Hope, awaiting an actually home to Kane his crime— that opportunity for a brief necessary word had been left for the deft hand of a wom with her. Since his whole facial presentment bad an— Claire Tremaine. Two days after the peculiar error been changed by that dip in the acid which had "disguised" Gideon Hope most trough, he had ventured more boldly in 'effectually, a beautiful young girl sat at and out among shops and workmen. a richly carved desk in the private office Claire sped on, full of her mission. As of the new iron magnate of the Kanawha she reached the middle of the long casting shop, she fancied she descried a way of district. It was a luxurious apartment, supplied encompassing her purpose with due econ with every model modern accessory known omy of time and distance. to progressive business. Handsome deco Broad doors cut the exact center of the rations covered the walls, soft velvet structure on two sides. She could look rugs were scattered about the polished across and through tbe width of the place. hardwood floors. The ornate in leather, By covering three hundred feet, cross oak and bronze supplied each corner and ing the gutters and troughs in soft black niche, and rich electric light chandeliers molding sand, tbe set “ pig iron” beds, supplied the place with constant illumina she could come speedily to the other side, and at once discover Kane. tion. Claire Tremaine had been in the em Her dainty feet disturbed the even, ploy of the company for three months. numerous rows of indentations sunk to Under Gideon Hope's tutelage she had receive the molten iron, but not sufficient been trained, steeled, for the part she was ly to destroy their utility, and she hur to play. Kane had never seen her during ried along in the semi-gloom of the cov his dealinga with her father, for the ered shed until about half way across the motherless girl had been away at school structure. over three years, spending her vacation Then a grewsome, a hurried, sound at the home of an aunt in Maryland, checked her; then a flare, sudden, blin'd- where her father went to visit her. So she had few acquaintances when ing, shot across both far ends of the ¿he came home finally to reign as queen building. It seemed as if the jargon, tbe foul- of the fair palace her father had erected for what he believed would be a rare, some blase of bell itself had let loose! Claire stood appalled. The overwhelm happy future. Here at Stanton there seemed no probability of ever meeting ing, the terrible, the soul-curdling had any old seminary friend. Still she had happened— all in a moment! This had occurred : considerably altered her appearance. But A t either end, on a signal, because the this had not detracted from her beauty; the assumption of the character of a time had come for the usual operation, the poor young girl compelled to earn her two immense blast furnaces had been daily bread— it had rather heightened openened up. Instantly their gushed forth tons of graces and loveliness that had at once won her a position as copy clerk, a pro molten metal, cascades, a torrent of i t ! Quick as lightning, swift, lurid steam, motion to the stenographer desk, and finally that of especial private secretary it splotched Into the central gutter, and spread. to Percy Kane himself. Out, in— filling a score o f feeder arter Claire was alone in the private office. Her eyes were sadly fixed upon the busy ies, distributing veins, channels, in one minute tbe long, scene of labor without. In memory she throbbing, setient went back over the past few weeks. Her speeding rivulets of red hot metal dash lip trembled, her bosom rose and fell with ed down, along, across. Claire was environed— shut in ! varied stirring emotions. Only now, in the vivid illumination, did T k m a sudden determination nerved her. and she drove from soul and face the workers on the end platforms discover the flitting tenderer sentiments that had the human victim penned in. But now no hand could stay the de Intruded. 8he drew a letter from a drawer to stroying stream; now no saving arm which she alone had the key. She open could reach her. “ She’s lost!" ed and read it over. “ It ’s reached h er!’ “ Dear Mr. Hope: I have for you the “ No, not yet, but----- ” . Information you desired of the metal pro A roar of many voices went up— a cess patentee. “ O f the other information I bare found groan of hope It was, half cheer of hope. Claire had sunk to her kneeg. She nothing. I f he has in bis possession any document or record incriminating him. or thought her doom had come, and was even linking him with the Consolidated praying. With closed eyes she felt the hot, Silver Company, he carefully conceals the scorching breath fly nearer, closer. same in some place elsewhere. The spell-bound workers were glaring “ I am at my post. »1 serve, I wait, as you desire, but I must see you. The or at one sudden, heroic figure. A man had abruptly appeared at the deal is too severe! Something has hap pened. He— but I will not write what side doorway Claire had recently entered. It was Gideon Hope. I must tell you. In an Instant he saw the frightful peril “ You must take me away from here— something has happened, as I tell you, of tbe woman whose life had become so strongly bound up with his own. and I must see you I” A spring, and he was on the planking She arose quickly, bestowing the letter at her belt. A man entered the room— spanning the upper arches of tbe grimy massive, overfed, overdressed— one of the structure. A keen run and he was nearly over “ big four” who had engineered the deal that made a rascally quartette censors of her head. There was a rattle. He had sprung to the metal markets of the world. He had the grace to remove from his the side of a derrick, released its gearing. Its hooked chain dropped, tangled, di mouth the cigar he was smoking as he rectly over the head of the fire-environed asked: Claire. “ Kane In?” It rattled, swung, vibrated. Those peer “ No, sir.” She shivered at the leering, sensuous ing through spitting sparke of flame and glance of this man. a figure-bead at the foamy fits of steam witnessed him slide champagne supper directors’ meeting, a the chain like some apt sailor. “ Cling to me!” being who would have been a fixture in Hoarsely, breathlessly, Hope shouted some tannery or digging sewers but for the word, lifting Claire as he spoke. bis usefulness to Kane. Her dress had caught ablaze. He dash He passed out. She caught bis chuck ling remark to tbe clerk in the next room ed out tbe flaming cloth. Her eyes opened in wild hope— in wild as he went out of sight: “ I f U wasn’t for Kane, I ’d taka some er surprise. “ Y o u !” she cried in a love of Joy, and pains to cultivate Miss Rockford my unhesitatingly clasped her arms about his self !” Claire stood erect, flushing, smarting neck— for to cling there was her only to the soul— contact with these men sul safety. A strange, weird emotion played across lied every womanly Instinct. “ I can not endure i t ! ” she said. Just Gideon Hope’s strong soul. “ You know m e!” he uttered. then the telephone bell In an adjoining “ Anywhere!” closet rang. She went to the instru He lifted hand over hand— they got ment. Claire forgot everything except the safe above the blistering heat, the spite business of tbe moment as she received ful sparks of fire, shooting up like disap pointed serpents. ‘ he message coming over tbs wires. He was forced to rest the weight, the It was a long-distance snnouncement from Pittsburg, and it told of the con tension was horrible. Their eyes met. A summation of one of tbs largest foreign startling, thrilling rapture filled him. Almost could he wish to cling there a contracts ever awarded an American firm, but consequent upon tbe Immediate moment thus, with that sweet face so near to hia own, and drop deliriously to presence of Mr. Kane in New York. It was so important that Claire knew the lurking death beneath— obliteration She must lose no time in getting her of a broken life after one rapture-laden employer to the 'phone to answer in per moment of ecstasy! But be struggled anew. They reached son. She hastened into the outer office and the platform safe. She still clung to him. He had saved addressed the inquiry clerk: her life. A shout aroused both. “ Where is Mr. Kane?” A white-faced man, followed by others, “ He has just gone over with tha super intendent beyond the casting shed, to see was dashing down the planking towards about tbs erection of a new hoisting them. It was Percy Kane. “ He Is coming!” said Claire, “ I most crane,” was the response. Clairs glanced about the office. She tell yet' something.” SULTAN’S FIRST APPEARANCE IN PUBICO. I I * was unnerved, in strangs enaction — and trusted not to words. “ That man! He— he has asked— * Her gas* dropped. Then the continued family : “ He hae asked me to be hia wife.“ Gideoo Hope started aa though stung. Then the old sternnee came to hia hard, iron face. “ You have found no clews— no papers? Nothing of hie paet?” “ Nothing," she said, weakly. A void of agony was in the man’s heart. But Kane was nearing them. He thought of his purpose, o f hia mur dered brother. 11is soul grew sick within him, his face was ashen, hut justice nrged. As though probouncing his own doom, in a liars’» , hollow tone, Gideon Hepe said decisively; “ You must marry this man!" to th e U n re d e e m e d . There Is no to m orrow In God's caleudar. Th e worst o f all failures la to suc ceed in doing wrong. In killing snakes It Is better to cut off an Inch o f head than a foot o f tall. Covetousness la the m otb.r o f many «Ina. Even the devil w ill behave himself when chnlued. C H A P T E R V II. White as marble, the president of the greatest iron and steel combine on earth staggered liack from the ticker standing in one corner of his privste office, and gasped a wild, frantic word "Incredible!" Around him was tbe busy hum of In dustry, tbe air clouded with constant steam and smoke, the jar of giant ham mers, tbe whirr and whistle of wheel and valve. A t one corner of this vast industrial city was his own nest of luxury, one of a suite of offices magnificent enough for a prince; there he stood. A man 'sud denly transfixed, the white paper atrip playing out from the ticker dropped from hia grasp, a queer rattle sounded in his throat,, and then be felt something givs way, and the plate glass windows danced da axled, and he fell in a senseleas heap across the rich velvet tufted rug. It was two months after the thrilling events that hed culminated in the strange | peril of beautiful Claire Tremaine in her stranger rescue by the man who was at once her master and her minion. Little had tbe i>owerful confederation of millionaries, who directed and misdi rected the doings of the great metal trust, recked of the insidious power that, in visible but potent, was slowly undermin ing the bold, strong work of years— they A B D U L H A M ID , S U L T A N O F T U R K E Y . knew not, for they feared not. Perhaps the moat astonishing recent change In Turkey is that which la And now a blow lad fallen— one! And represented by the spectacle o f the Sultan taking a drive. Until the threat they dreamed not it> source, not even its import. ened advance o f two arm y corps upon Stamboul forced Abdul Ham id to revive For some minute* the great magnate the constitution o f 1870 the commander o f the faithful never had dared to lay stretched, a lump of clay. Then the show himself outside the precincts o f Ylldlx kiosk, except fo r the Friday door opened. Jauntily smoking a cigar, d rive to the Selamlk in the Hamldleh mosque, which Is practically within the Percy Kane entered the apartment. grounds o f the palace. By thus showing himself freely to his people Abdul His eye was bright, bis step firm. There Ham id haa done a good stroke o f business for himself, because the Turk Is was joy in his face— a new emotion that a patient beast o f burden, absolutely loyal to his padlshah, and only asking somewhat toned down the hard, sordid not to be ridden to death by corrupt pashas and palace favorites. Hence the lines of his selfishness and avarice. He checked himself in surprise and then in public appearances o f the Sultan have been the occasion o f a series o f out dismay, and. rooted, stood staring blank bursts o f perfectly sincere loyalty. ly at the prostrate form at his feet. “ Worthington, man 1 what is this?” he trees as tbe native ones disappear. exclaimed. Eleven million larches, oaka, spruce«, A cold sneer began to play over bis lit. as the nstural thought came to him that Douglas firs and eucalypts have already the president had tarried too long at the been planted, and vast numbers o f seed elegant private buffet in the interior re lings are coming In all tbe time. The ception room. Just now, however, tbe reason fo r replacing tbs native trees figure stirred. There was a moan, then a with species from the United States, weird, convulsive ahudder. Europe and Australia Is that those o f The sufferer sat up, his hand voidly, By a recently patented movable mold, New Zealand are too slow o f growth, confusedly brushing bis brow. a well organized force o f laborers can although some o f them produce excel “ Something snapped!” he maundered. T b e Implantations thrive “ Snapped?” chalUnged Kane, with ir lay 2 feet o f cement sidewalk per min lent timber. ute. everywhere. ritation. A practically permanent paint, a “ Y e s !” Th e older countries having beeL rich brown In color, Is made by grind stripped o f their forests. In many cases “ Where?” “ In my head ! I was— I was----- ” ing tbs bones o f mummies with bitu to the danger-point, search is now be Laboriously the president struggled to men. ing made fo r valuable woods In newer his feet. He 'alN ied toward the neareot Although iron ore Is fonnd in almost lands. Among these Is Brazil, which (hair. Then as he sank into it his whit# every State and territory In the Union, is known to possess enormous wealth face grew still whit»»-. A sharp cry es caped hia lips, and ne pointed a trembling It Is mined profitably in only twenty- o f this kind. A lready tbe great Bra zilian forests are beginning to feed the finger at th* snake-like strip of ribbon, nine. A Pittsburg firm is making a special sawmills which are rapidly being erect unwinding— unwinding, from the ticker, remorseless as some gbonl of fate telling ty o f glaaa grave “ stones,” which show ed. It has been remarked that not off the fortunes made, unmade, at the portraits o f tbe deceased blown in tbe withstanding the vast Increase In tbs stroke of the pendulnm on the stock ex front. use o f metal all over the world, the change of New York City, five hundred Contracts have been awarded fo r a l demand for wood Is still growing. Many miles away. most 10,000 tons o f dynamite for use o f the forests o f Brazil are yet so fa r “ Look !” he shivered— ’’and read !” on the Panama canal within the next from the railroads that they remain “ O h ! you mean----- ” began Kane cool In comparative safety, but others are ly, passing toward the telegraph instra- tw elve months. feeling the ax. An Increasing quantity ment— then a sudden excitement made Th e Island o f Formosa exported hint go quicker, for he began to estimate 4,121.1560 pounds o f camphor last year, o f timber finds its w ay from the In terior to Rio de Janeiro, where it is the source of his confrere’s emotion. o f which 1,635,300 pounds came to the used for packing-boxes, match manu He snatched up the snake-like coil— United States. facture, and many other purposes, and deft, practiced finger and eye ran along A patent has been granted to an at a note o f alarm is sounded by those the narrow atrip indented with harsh dots tachment to a rocking chair to operate who have learned what It means to and dashes. "The deuce!" he mattered, and hi» fins a fan to cool the occupant w hile away- strip a country o f its forest resources white teeth clenched and met through the Ing to and fro. - without providing fo r their renewal. Havana. Th e United States produced 5,004 “ Destruction !” he almost shouted after long tons o f manganese last year, worth POINTING THE BONE. a second lightning-like scan of the rib 124.703, more than any previous year bon, and the cigar dropped from between lir e r a tlllo a o f tk o N a tlv * except 1902 and 1000. . his lips, and a gray color began to creep B lo c k * o f A u s t r a l i a . Over $225,000 has been subscribed to from the brow downward over bis star Th e native blacks o f Australia a n the Koch endowment to be applied to a tled, hia’appalled face. steeped In superstition. A black fellow crusade against tuberculosis, under the (T o be continued.) w ill on no account go near the spot direction o f Dr. Koch. where another black has been burled. A company Is being form ed at St. B o l i v i a n I n d ia n s . He has a deep rooted averalon to one Th e Indian women o f Bolivia are Louis with $2,000,000 capital to oper particular bird— the wagtail— because, usually superior to their lords In actual ate a 11ns o f steel barges between that he says, “ him all day talk, talk along city and New Orleans. , Intelligence; also in age, as a rule. a white feller, tellum all about black A Philadelphia foundry makes a spe They earn the larger share of their feller,” and no opportunity Is lost of mutual “ living” and take the lead in cia lty o f breaking up old steel cannon killing these little birds. , and remeltlng the metal fo r more than most things. Mamy tribes “ bury” their dead b> As recognized head o f the house tbe h alf a hundred purposes. sticking them up Into the forks o f trees A compressed a ir buffer has been and there leaving them till the flesh Bolivian Indian w ife is much more likely to thrash her comparatively timid patented for locomotives which. It is has either dropped or been taken, leav claimed, w ill prevent a serious wreck ing the bones clean. These bones are spouse than he is to 111 use her. In tbe markets, when produce haa to In the event o f a collision. then taken down, the larger ones burled Wlk^cience ^^pTVention be disposed of, she can drive a far bet ter bargain than he could ; she can car ry as heavy burdens, endure ns much privation and physical toll, labor, chew as much cocoa and drink ns much strong drink. L ittle or no money passes among the Bolivian Indians, their mediums of ex change being whatever they may raise or the labor o f their hands. They w ill eat when not »hungry, drink when not thirsty, sleep when not sleepy, any where and any time when opixirtunlty offers, “ against the time o f need,” as they say. Th e m ajority are In a state o f semi-intoxication from bnhyhood to the grave, alcohol being used on every pretext, freely as their means will al low, on occasions o f births, deaths and feast days— the last named being re markably frequent.— Boston Globe. He H aa to B ay. “ You know,” said the soulful youth, “ music Is the food o f love----- ” “ Nonsense!” replied the practical fellow , “ my love prefers lobster salad, terrapin and other expensive fodder." — Philadelphia Press TRUMPET CALLS. W ax obtained by boiling crude ozo cerite, obtained from the bituminous shales o f central Poland and Hungary, Is used fo r candles by the peasants. T b s result o f observations o f doable stars mads from 1839 to 1907 at the observatory at Cambridge, England, soon w ill be published In book form. More than 100,000,000 lobsters were propagated and set free by the fish commission last year, with the result that tbs pries was cut almost in half. A Russian Inventor haa brought to the United States a motor boat which he claims w ill make a speed o f thirty- one miles an hour with a 12-horse power engine. Mors rapid changes In animal and vegetable life, says Science, are taking place in New Zealand than almost any where else in tbs world. T b e native Polynesian race Is disappearing before the European; the native w ild animals amount to little In contest with Im ported species, many o f which now run w ild ; tbs streams are full o f Am eri can and European trout, which attain an enormous size; and even tbe forests to be replaced by planting foreign God honors the man a fra id o f a hard place. who Is not Putting ball bearings on the church doors Is a poor w ay to fill the pews. Denouncing sin with a club In the hand is not the way Jesus did It. The man God calls has to make a move o f some kind. H e can’t stand still. A boy generally gets bis best from hia mother and hia worst from bla father. The book o f Jonah was written to show that God ia in favor o f foreign missions. Tbe man who leads a prayer-meeting should neither exhaust his subject nor his congregation. The preacher who does not get much out o f the Bible fo r hlmaelf w ill get less fo r his people. There Is something about a real man that makes him shun a w ay that Is carpeted with v e lv e t » H - H - 1-M - kk k H I t ! » » ♦ ♦ HOW ABOUT YOUR D0OÎ I Some facts which every lover o f dogs should know are printed In Our Four- footed Friends. The w riter o f tbe ar ticle believes that nine dogs out o f ten which their owners have to get rid o f are simply tbe victims o f careless or unkind treatment. Overfeeding and lack o f exercise are the cause o f Ills In tbe canine race as well as among human beings. Nothing Is so certain to make a dog sullen or cross as chaining him up. He suffers so much from confinement that It Inevitably changes his disposi tion. I t Is not only a wrong and a cruel w ay to treat a dog, but It Is fool ish, fo r a chained dog can be o f no service to his owner excepting to bark. A tramp or burglar knows the dog cannot reach him to harm him. A chained dog Is likely to bark at a friend as well as at a foe, or at a dog ruunlng by or a passing team. Th e fam ily gets used to his barking, and no one Is likely to get up In the night and Investigate every time the chained dog barluu A dog that Is well treated and has hia freedom stays about the place and guards I t O f course there are excep tions— “ tramp dogs,” we call them ; but the fam ily wanting • watch dog can find one that w ill discriminate between friend and foe, and strike terror to tbe heart o f evil-doers by tbe very fact that he is loose. I have beard it said, and I believe It to be true, that burglars dread a little house dog Inside tbe house more than a dog outside the bouse, as they have ways o f quieting the latter. A dog that sleeps Inside the barn Is a greater safeguard .to tbe barn than one out side and chained up. I f a dog Is kept outside to guard a place be should not be chained, but should have a goodsized, comfortable dog house, facing south, raised at least six inches from the grouud, ns other wise the floor w ill be cold and damp, and cause rheumatism. There should be a bed o f loose straw o r excelsior, changed frequently enough to keep it clean and dry, and always a dish full o f fresh, clean water. A dog Is a living, sensitive creature, not a machine, yet he frequently gets less careful attention than the machi nery men use. I t Is seldom a boy or even à man w ill take as good care o f his dog as he does o f his bicycle or his automobile. A chained dog is wretched, and ns one has a right to cause any creature constant suffering, even to serve what one may call a useful purpose. S »(ln * l* ( E a r ly . “ PHpa,” said little libllo, whose fath* er was shaving himself, “ didn't you tell me once that a man was a benefactor who made tw o blades o f grass grow »»here only one grew before?” “ Yes, my son.” "Then a man who makes safety razors Is a benefactor. Isn't be?” "W h y so?” asked hia father. “ Because he makes ten blades grow where there wasn’t any before,” an swered little Hollo. ’A lvlra ," groaned the sad father, “ that boy Is going to be a hum orist” and tbe smallest handed round as keep sakes to those nearly related to tbs de ceased. Should one black fellow wish the death o f a rival or enemy he points the bone at him. This means that he takes one o f his late relation’s bones from his dllly bag and points It, In the presence o f witnesses, at the man he wishes to get rid of, all the time pour ing forth threats and curses. Strange as It may seem, tbs on* pointed at w ill often languish and even tually die, perhaps In a month, perhaps in a year, for no sooner i t the hone B it t e r ly D is a p p o in t e d . pointed than he makes up his mind to Inquisitive— If, as you say, you knew die, and there is no saving him.— Lon this man to be a rake, why did you In* don Standard. vlte him to your house? D l f f e r e a t O p in io n s . Henpeck— Heavens, mnn, I never he would elope with my “ I see a man Intends to let a rattle dreamed snake bite him and depend on prayer daughter; I thought he would carry off my w ife.— La Rlre. fo r a cure. I call that faith.” “ I call It cruelty to animate unless H e , la d e r d . somebody's going to pray for the snake “ Jinx la going to Honduras to en after It’s bitten such a fool aa th a t” — list in tbs army o f that governm ent1* Philadelphia Ledger. “ H e’s a soldier o f fortune, e h r ’ “ No, he’s a soldier o f no fortune | I f women are talking machines, men I f he bad a fortune he would stay who sow w ild oats ahoukl he cl lag menhlnea \sra.”—Houston Post