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J. A J, M. A, ill AA J, J. aX.Aa,L J TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTrTTTlTi 4 hi i r"Trrk rwi lUAainK ur inn mine By Robert Buchanan. IHHIII'IIIIIIIIHHHIt CHAPTER XXIIL 1 Thus it was that poor Annie returned to her home and was received onoe again a member of the little circle at St. tinrlitft's. But things were sadly changed for her, poor child; and some timea as I watched her patient endurance my heart rose in revolt, and I blamed tnyetf for having been the means of bringing her home again. But when people have poverty before them they cannot afford to exaggerate sentimental troubles, and I soon came to the conclusion that the best way to help Annie was to help myself to obtaiu situation, in fact. As all hope of ob taining employment in St. Gurlott'a was out of the question, I turned my atten tion to other quarters. After mauy heart rending disappointments and endless cor respondence, I obtained a situation as overseer of a dipper mine in Devon. 1 was in the midst of my preparations, half happy in the thought of being able tx inhabit a part of the globe w here my misfortunes could not find nie out, when I one day heard a piece of news which killed at one blow all my hopes of the future, and made my life mere Dead Sea fruit. A report spread over the village that Ceorge Hedruth was about to be married forthwith to Madeline Graham. When Annie heard the news, she cried bitterly; and I, blind as usual, believed she cried out of sympathy for me. "It is a shame, II ugh!" she said, "after having made you love her, that she should wile away another man." "Don't say a word against Miss Gra ham," I returned, "for she is an angel.' "las, hold your piece!" cried my aunt. Tia nawt to us, and why should you interfere? And, after all, 'tis better as it is. She could never have wed wi Hugh." There was sound sense in my aunt's 'words, though at the time, with the fiercest jealousy and hatred raging in any hear? against the man who had sup planted me, I could not listen to them. A few days' reflection, however, brought ne to a better atate of mind showed me that I was a fool, and that the news iwliich had wrought such an astounding effect upon me was only what I might have expected. It was a fine bright night, clear and till, though the shifting clouds in the eky predicted storm. I had strolled out, and found the sea as calm as a mill pond, fringed with white where the edge lapped the etonea upon the shore. The noon was shining radiantly upon it; also upon the boat .house, which I looked at tenderly, remembering how I had carried Madeline there. With a heavily drawn sigh I was about to move away, when . hand waa laid upon my shoulder, and turning, I found myself face to face with Madeline herself! Yes; there she stood, looking more like spirit than a thiug of flesh and blood her face was so white, her eyes so sad. She was wrapped from head to foot in costly furs, while a black hood was . thrown lightly over her head and tied .under her chin. "Madeline!" I said; "Miss Graham, yon here at this hour?" "Yes," she answered calmly, smiling a. little; "it is a strange place .to find tne, la It not? But then you know, Mr. "Trelawney, I am a strange creature. I may as well confess the truth. I followed you here to-night." After our dinner this evening, I came out with Anita, intending to pay you visit at the cottage. When we came within sight of the gate, 1 saw you standing there. I paused a moment be fore stepping forward to speak to you, end you moved away, striking across the marshes toward the sea. I sent Anita iback, and followed you here." I was not altogether glad that she had done so. It was torture to be near her, to look at her, and to know that she had come straight from the caressing arms of another man. However, I commanded myself sufficiently to say: "It is not right for you to be here, Miss Graham. Will you let me take yon home?" "You shall do so presently," she an swered, not looking at me, but keeping her eyes fixed apon the sea. "Now I want to talk to you. Is it true you are going away?" "Yes; It Is quite true." "And you will be glad to go," she con tinued "to leave your home?" "Yes," I replied; "I shall be glad to co. Aa to my home why, I have no home now, all is so sorely changed. There will never be happiness for me here again!" "You talk very bitterly," continued Madeline. "What do you mean, Mr. Tre lawney?" "I mean," I answered, utterly losing my self-control, "that, through all these fuonths of dnrkness and trouble, I have ieen sustained by one thought, one hope. Miss Graham, we are alone together to night; there Is no one but you to hear me. I may never see you again in this world, therefore I will say it. I love you. I have loved you all my life!" She put up her hand and said, hurried ly, "Mr. Trelawney, please say no more!" But It was too late; I took her hand and kissed it. "I loved you," I continued, "in those far-off days when we were boy and girl together. Then years afterward the sea save you back to my arms. Once again I had looked Into your face, my darling I had but one hope, one thought. I know I was a madman. 1 knew there was a gulf between us broader than the sea from wblch I snatched you. and yet, fool that I was. I lived In my paradise, and refused to see the pitfalls which were looming ahead. It was enough to know that I loved you, and that some times I was gladdened by a sight of four face." I paused, and dropped her hand; she was crying. "Miss Graham," I cried, "don't cry, for heaven's rake! You have a right to bate me for what I have said. She quickly brushed away her tears, nd turned to me, smiling sadly. "Don't say so, please. I honor and respect you mors than I can say more tlran I can confess, even to myself, hall pray always for your welfare and bappiness, and I shall never forget you as long as I liver Tun iimiivtt rr r t HllllllltlKHtXtH OQO 3- Suddenly I said, "Miss Graham, when are you to be married?" She started, hesitated for a moment, and thou re plied: "1 don t quite know. I am going up to London shortly. We are to be married there." Every word she uttered seemed to stab me to the heart. Vp to this 1 had clung to a wild hope that the reports I had heard might have had no fouudatiou now that hope waa gone. "Why," I asked desperately, "are you going to marry your cousin?" She started again, and trembled slight ly. "Why do people generally marry one another?" she answered. "Still, there is a very grave reason why this should be. My cousin is comparatively poor, while 1 am rich: he has grave dilllculties before him which I can relieve if I am his wife." "Did he put all this before you?" "Xo; he does not even know that I am aware of it. Ah! Mr. Trelawney, we have all our troubles, and my poor aunt is breaking her heart over hers. Things have been going -wrong ever siuce my uncle died." "And you are to be sacrificed to set them right again!" "Where does the sacrifice come in?" "Did she ask you if you loved her son?" "No! She asked me if there was any one else whom I wished to marry, and I answered her truthfully: I said there was not." We walked back over the marshes, Madeline leaning lightly on my arm; but we never spoke a word. Having reached the road, we walked on toward Redruth House, and paused at the gate. "Good-by, MUa Graham;" I said, hold ing forth my hand. Before I knew what she was doing, she had seized it and raised it to her lips. "Good-by, dear friend," she murmured, "and may God bless you!" then, with a sob, she turned and was gone. I stood petrified, watching in a dazed kind of wonder the figure as it moved up the moonlit avenue and disappeared among the trees; then, with a sigh, I turned away. Bitterly as I had suffered through my love for Madeline, I did not for one moment wish that the episode in my life had never been. CHAPTER XXIV. Soon after daybreak the next morning I took the road. All I carried was my staff and a small knapsack on my back; my other worldly possessions had gone on, days before. My aunt and Annie watched me from the door; my uncle walked with me through the village, and a short distance cp the highway. At daybreak next morning I reached my destination a mining settlement on the very borders of Cornwall and De von. I found it to be a lonesome place, situated on the banks of a small river, and surrounded on every side by the wild blocks snd tors of the moor. I reported myself in due course, and was forthwith installed In my position. The miners were a wild lot, and the last overseer, an elderly man, had more than once gone in danger of his life. As a person still suspected of violent proclivities, I had been chosen to take his place. The truth was, the place bore the worst of names, and few men would have accepted the situation, at any price. The agent, during our first interview, hinted that the miners needed an iron hand to rule them. That very afternoon I Inspected the place, and found myself inspected in turn by as villainous a set of faces as I had ever encountered. There was much muttering and murmuring, for the fellows wanted to be under the di rection of one of their own number, one Michael Looe, a red-haired giant. The next day, the first after my in stallation, I found out the sort of oppo sition with which I had to reckon. As I stood by the open mine, giving some directions, Looe ran upngainst me, with pick-ax on bis shoulder, and almost capsized me. , A hoarse laugh greted this performance. Oan t ee look where you'm gaun. Measter?" cried the fellow, grinning sav agely. I loked him steadily In the face, as one looks in the eye of a furious bull. What I saw there did not daunt me. The fol low was a bully, and I had dealt with bullies before. If I was to retain my authority in the place, I must bring him to his senses. What's your name?" I said, quietly. My name?" be repeated, leering round at the others. "Mike Looe, if you maun knaw. As good a name as yourn, I'll wager." "My name is Hugh Trelawney; and, I am master here, I'll trouble you to remember it. If you don't, my man, I'll find a way to impress it on your mem ory." "You will, will 'ee?" said the giant And so you be measter? Mates," he added, looking round, "d'ye hear 'un? Take off your hats to 'un!" And suiting the action to the word, he bowed mockingly before nie. My blood was now up, and I faced him reso lutely. "Go back to your work," I said. No more words. Do as I bid you." "Who'l make me?" he said, brandish ing his pick-ax. Before he knew what I was about, I wrenched the weapon from his hand, and flung It on the ground. He clenched his fist and made a rush at me. I waited for him, and landed him a blow which made him stagger back, dazed. The men flocked round us, murmuring and threatening. But Michael Looe had confidence In his own prowess. He weighed fifteen stone, end had the firta of Anak; so that I, though a tall, strong man, loked no match for such a giant. He uttered fierce oath, and bade the men stand back. "Fair play, lads!" he cried, grinning again. "Iea the new chap to me. Don't "ee see, he means flghtln'?" With that the men made a ring, while their champion stripped off his waistcoat and began quietly turning up his sleeves, showing an arm with muscles like Iron bands. At this juncture, an old man, one of their number, but superior in manner to the rest, whispered In my ear: "You'd best bolt, Measter. He'll smash 'ee like aa egg, as he did chap aiore es. My answer was decisive. 0 . .ut my rest, down went my hat on the ground, and, clenching my tiata, I faced the giant. This rather turned the tide of feeling in my favor; at any rate, It elicited a feeble cheer. The men prepared themselves for enjoyment; a real "stand-up" fight waa Imminent. Mike Iiooe came at me like Goliath, but at the first encounter I discovered that he had no science, I myself had a little, and though far his Inferior In weight, possessed muscles and sinews of steel, due to my healthy life and con stant exercise, from boyhood upward. lit the open air. The result is easily pre dicted. In matters of fistiana, science, combined with pluck. Is everything. Be fore many minutes had pa?ed, Michael Ixme had received as sound a thrashing as man could desire. He lay on the ground, his head supported on the knee of one of his comrades, and looking stu pidly up into my face. I turned to the men. with as much good humor as I could assume under the ornaments of a black eye and a bleeding forehead. 'Well, my lads," 1 cried, "you see I've paid my footing. If any of you think I haven't paid enough, let him stand up. and I'll give him a little more." This speech, quite In the humorous manner of my late opponent, completed my victory. It was greeted with an up roarious laugh and a cheer. To my as tonishment, the men crowded round nie, and began shaking hands. Then Miko Loop, rising slowly, held out his enor mous fist. "Shake hands, Measter." he said. "If you can lick me. you can lick any two o' un. You may sack me to-neet anil will ing, but I'll go bail you'm the right sort to be meater here!" So we shook hands, and from that mo ment my physical supremacy w.n undis puted. Instead of dismissing my late opponent, I kept him in his place, and he afterwards became my right-hand man. After that day, I had very little trouble In retaining my due authority as overseer of the Gwendovey mine. (To be continued. TRAFFIC OF THE PACIFIC Some Ad-vantages of Paget Sound at the Oatewsy to the Orient. Puget Sound, according to a writer in the Review of Reviews, Is the logic al gateway of the United States to the Pacific orient, by reason of the fact of Its geographical position. The short cut from the United States to the orient, as one will see when he con sults his globe, is northerly by way of the Aleutian Islands. The average map presents the coasts of North America and of Asia as If they faced each other and were almost parallel, whereas the spherical contour of the. globe In fact makes the Asiatic shore line almost a continuation or projec tion of the American shore line to the other side of the globe. Thus, the most direct route from either San Francisco or San Diego, Cal., to Japan or China, Instead of being westerly by way of the Sandwich islands, Is northerly past Puget sound and the Bering sea. It Is 1,230 miles farther from San Fran cisco westerly via Hawaii to Yoko hama, Shanghai or Hongkong than from Tugct sound northerly to the same destinations. In other words, the San Francisco round trip to the orient via Hawaii Is 2,500 mlla-J Linger than the Puget sound round trip via Bering sea, which Is equivalent to a week's voyage for a fifteen-knot ves sel and nearly nine days for a twelve knot vessel. This advantage of a week to ten days In the length of the voyage Is the logical basis for the faith In Puget sound as the gateway of oriental commerce. In the second place, the Puget sound route for American commerce with the orient is about one-half the length of the New York route via the ,Suez ca nal; the haul is 11,575 miles, as com pared with 5,830 miles from Si attic to Hongkong. From New York via the Suez cannl to Yokohama the distance Is over 13,000 miles, as compared with 4,240 miles from Puget sound to Yo kohama. Why should the United States circumnavigate the globe to reach the orient by way of Europe when It has a short cut of Its own with one-half the length of haul? Another definite and convincing ad vantage which American commerce will enjoy In taking the direct trade channel from Puget sound lo the orient Is the avoidance of $2 a ton charge levied upon It by the Suez ca naL In view of the facts that -within the past year steel rails have been car ried from the Mississippi valley to Yo kohama and that within the past six ty days flour has been transported from Minneapolis to Manila and Hong kong, In each case at the low rate of $8 a ton, It Is patent even to the lay man that the f2 a ton handicap via the Suez canal Is sufficient In Itself to transfer future American commerce to Puget sound. Joslah Allen's Wifo on Farmers. "And no oue," sez she In a tragic manner "no one that boasts of de- scendln' from en old genteel family wuz ever a farmer." Almost Insensibly to myself I men tioned the names of George Washing ton and my own Joslah, and sez I, "Adam, for Instance, Is from an old family." "Adam who?" sez shn. "Why, Jest plain Adam, Eve's hus band," sez I. "Oh, shaw!" sez she. And I didn't contend with her, but knowed faruiln' wuz a honorable occupation or the Lord wouldn't sot the first man be made at it Llpplncott'g. The Old Lady from Dover. There was an old lady of Dover Who baked a fine apple turnover. But the cat came that way, And she watched with dismay The overturn of her turnover. St. Nicholas. Of the Bams Family. ,The man who talks about his yacht when he owns a sailboat Is In the same family where hi wire calls the chore boy the ooaciman, T1U Bit. AFTER THE 4 1 .... j , , 't . ' a ix ' - - ...... V& mki 'lAi Every man who took part In the third attack on Nanshan Mill tell before the Russian lire and In the lull which preceded the advance of the next Japanese line, the Russians could be seen peering over their earthworks at the scene of awful stillness. London Illustrated News. THE SORROWING MOTHER. Last night I dreamed he came to me; I held him close and wept and aaid: "My little child, where have you been? I was afraid that you were dead." Then I awoke; It almost seemed Aa though my arms could feel him yet, I had been sobbing in my sleep; My tears had made the pillows wet. I cannot think of him at all As the bright angel he must be. But only as my little child Who may be needing me. Do not make him grow too wise. Angels ye who know; I am dull and slow to learn. Toiling here below. Do not fill his heart too full With your heavenly joy, Lest the mother's place be lost With her little boy. Those may dare to doubt who have Their loved ones here below; For me, I do not now believe, I do not hope I know. Katharine Tyle In Harper's Bazar. HAT Is your particular line of robbery?" he asked aa he ap proached her small, canopied table at the charity bazaar. "Palmistry," she returned smilingly. "Shall I read your hand? It costs half a crown." "I'm afraid you might discover my true Inwardness. Let me read yours. I'll pay you Just the same." "Very well," she said readily. He sat down opposite her at the little ta ble and she placed her band on the small velvet cushion. "A dark gentleman loves you," he began promptly. "Which one?" she Inquired demure ly. Several. They are all villains. Avoid them." Thanks. That Is very Important. What else?" A blonde gentleman also loves you. He Is about my height and color." "I shouldn't call you a blonde, ex actly." "Well, then, I shouldn't call him a blonde, exactly." "Is he a villain, too?" "Not at ail. You will be very happy If you marry blm." "He hasn't asked me," she said. "No; but he's going to." Rhe studied her 4wn hand. "I see him." she cried. "How wise you are! He Is now far from here." "He isn't " Indignantly, "lie la very near." "Oh, then it can't be the same one "The one I mean is the one you should marry," he said. "Oh, yes, now I see the one you mean." she said. "There, on that cross line. But he Is very attentive to a short, blue-eyed lady." "Not at all. She's only a " "Sister to him?" "No; not even that Just a calling acquaintance." "But he calls her by her first name." "That's what I meant by a calling acquaintance. But bow do you know he does?" "I've heard him," she said with posl tiveness. "I thought this was palmistry?" "Oh, so it Is. Well, I find it In the line under this finger." "Well, they're old friends, you see.' "But you said she was only a call lng acquaintance," "I was looking at the wrong line," he said hastily. "Let's go on. This not exactly blonde gentleman Is going to be very wealthy. He will give you every luxury." "How about all the dark gentle men?" she Inquired. "Home of them are wealthy already." "They will lose It all last winter you were quite 111." "You know that, anyway," she re marked. "I am Judging by a small break In MMMM A Little Palmistry THIRD ATTACK ON NANSIIAN HILL . ' the life line. The not -exactly-blonde. gentleman sent you flowers." "Yes. It waa very kind of him. So did the dark gentlemen." "Theirs meant nothing." "What did his mean?" she qulerled. "Undying devotion." "How nicel That must be the blonde gentleman who Is so far away." "It Isn't either! It Is the one who la very near." "You seem to read a good deal about other people In my hand," she ob served. "Maybe I wasn't looking at It aa al together your band," she said au daciously. "Whose would It be, pray?" "Suppose we call It mine. One ought to be able to rend one's own hand pretty well, you know." She withdrew her hand. "It's possible that you rend more In It than I do," she said. "In my hand?" "In mine." "Is It the same thing?" he begged. "How about the blue-eyed lady's hand?" "She ran give It to one of the dark gentlemen." "Well, that might be good arrange ment. But as to giving mine to the blonde gentleman " "Yes?" eagerly. "That" she said mischievously, as she arose, "Isn't a question of palmls try. Besides, you ve had your money's worth already. Here conies one of the dark gentlemen." Home Monthly. RIVER MONSTER IN AFRICA, Amphibious Animal Is Iletween an Klepliant und Hippopotamus In Hixe. If Sir Harry Johnston had not re cently returned from Uganda with the first skins of the okapl there would be more reason for receiving with Incred ulity the story of a L'rcncu traveler, says M. Trllles, writing from NJole, that while exploring the northern Con go three years ago he heard from the natives of "an enormous amphibious animal something between the ele phant and the blppopotuuiu in size, and In nature very ferocious toward man.' 'Unbelieving, he paid little at tention to what bad been told him. "However, later, when In the neigh borhood of DJall, near the Great falls, the accounts were given with more de tail. The animal In (mention, or at least one of Its species, lived near the source of the Mourk; it lay in wait for the canoes, upset them, and In prefer ence attacked the women and children. Twice the natives fetched me to see It as it slept on the sandbank. But on each occasion it bad disappeared when I got there. "On returning from my travels I asked many questions about this ani mal, but It was unknown. On the coast I never heard It spoken of. But since my arrival here I have had re peated descriptions of It. The people of the upper Ogue give It the name of the nzemedzln (the water tiger). Her geant Sans of the NJole tirailleurs shot one recently at less than twenty me ters, but, unfortunately, the wounded animal escaped him. "The people here make out that the nzemedzin Is smaller than the descrip tion given by those of the Interior. Its color Is a light tawny gray, dotted with black spots; the hair rough, In stead of smooth, as In the otter; the tall long and powerful, the paws short nd webbed and fitted with very sharp nails six or eight centimeters in length. The nail Is horny, as In the tiger. The animal only lives near wa terfall and I carnlverous. It srintrh es women and children as they bathe and defies even the crocodile." ATHLETIC QAME8 IN 8YRIA. Custom of the Orientals Undergoing; Gradual Transformation. Oriental peoples are very averse to physical exercise of any kind, says the World To-Day. Their Idea of enjoy ment Is to alt under an awning and play backgammon. That a man should go out and run around a track In shameless nakedness and this with a hope of gain, only confirms them In the belief that all American are mad. But they are imitative people, and year ago the Influence and example of the '-Jiff;, younger teachers got a few of the pre paratory boys out for footraces, That day, for Beirut at least, the death blow was struck to the picturesque dress of the Orient. You can't run a 100-yard clash with long, baggy drawers and a silk gumbei that Hops around your ankles. K.ven If you "gird up the loins," by tucking your skirts Into the sash, the effect Is more startling than speedy. Ho, one by one, the students ordered trousers from the city tailors. At first they were poorly cut and viewed with suspicion; but to-day there are not three men In the col legiate department who wear the old costume, and many of the students dress with taste and au elegance that their professors cannot afford to emu late. Tennis and basketball soon won their place In the students' favor; and now we have gymnastic apparatus and a regular graduated athletic director, who has learned physical culture and boy nature through a long experience In the gymnasiums of America. But It was football that did the most to ward unification. The value of team work Is a new Idea to eastern college men. The old Ideal was that of "every man for himself." It has been so since the time of Alclhlndes and Absa lom. If It had not been so the history of the world might have been different. It was comimratlvely easy to see the Joy of winning a footrace or a tennis match; but to play an untbeatrlcal part in a football game, obeying a captain and working for the good of the side. that was a very different thing. We always play the "association" game, and It used to be the Ideal of every player to get the ball and carry It down the field all by himself, while the audience cheered "Bravo, Jurjy!" Ho we arranged matches with the crewa of visiting British frigates, and from snd experience our boys learned the value of bHck plnys and frequent pass es, and began to see dimly the truth that good football Is played, not with the legs or the mouth, but with the bend, and that bard teamwork Is far better than grandstand plays. That lesson may change the map of Asia some dny. The Advantage or lining 111. One of the greatest dilllculties In life Is Illness when the bands are full of work, and of business requiring atten tion. In many cases the strain and anxiety, which causes resistance to the illness. Is even 'more severe, and makes more trouble than the Illness Itself. Suppose, for Instance, that a man la taken down with the measles, when he feels that he ought to be at his office, and that his absence may result In se rious loss to himself and ouiers. If he begins by letting go, In his body and In his mind, and realizing that the ill ness Is beyond bis own power. It will soon occur to blm that he might aa well turn his Illness to account by get ting a good rest out of It. In this frame of mind his chances of early re covery will be Increased, and ho may even get up from his Illness with so much new life and with his mind ao much refreshed as to make up, In part, for his temporary absence from busi ness. But, on the other hand, If be resists, worries, complains and get Ir ritable, he Irritate his nervous system and, by so doing, Is likely to bring on any one of the disagreeable trouble known to follow measles; and thu he may keep himself housed for weeks, perhaps months, Instead of day. Lea lie' Monthly. Confidential, Little Willie Hay, pa, what I a re mote period? Pa A remote period, my son, I the period due at the end of your mother remark. Remember, however, I am giving you thi explanation In strict confidence. In aa Assured Position. Mr. Oohwlgger Bo your husband think his position In society 1 now secure? Mr. Newrlcb Yea, He I so aura about It that be baa (topped hiring a dress suit and 1 having one mad ta order. Judge, He who serve his friend la a buax ma a.
