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“Do you wish to consult my partner or me?” asked the keenest looking man. “I am Mr. Scott.” "Either will do,” I answered. "My business will be soon dispatched. Some I months ago you inserted an advertise v Lift» ><_ to the meet fsvesed >• average twseoe* « ment in the Times.” fttll Of .uaatMsa, kistjej*^ »hli^d industrial Development That Indicates Steady Forward "To what purport?” inquired Mr. Scott. A""««»« gwl *rp<.rbA1)e "You offered fifty pounds reward,” I By Hesba Stretton Progress in Oregon, Idaho, Washington to w<,ri is often a replied, "for information concerning a young lady.” and California. i A gleam of intelligence and gratifica Woseen wao ar» i tion flickered upon both their faces, but ++++++++-H-+++-9-i--i--5-4-4-+6-+++-i-4-*M-+++-F++-F++++-5-+4-++ ++ <•*++++-♦ de^op-n. 1 quickly faded away into a sober and blank gravity. Mr. Scott waited for me Pacific Cable Axjured. Harveited While You Wait. I to speak again, and bowed silently, as if hood Ue last The Pacific coast was agreeably The department of agriculture at Geularly sash as baakaxee, puuui is Use lo"'r I to intimate he was all attention. Washington has issued a report of startled last month by the announce CHAPTER XI.—(Continued.) me in charge, when I received the fol “I came,” I added, "to ask you for the ment from Albany, N. Y.. that a com the general agricultural conditions in lkmbs and lower part of the stomach, That was my sentence of banishment. lowing letter from Johanna Carey: irregular and painful monthly periods name and address of that young lady’s pany ha<i been incorporated there for the Pacific coast region. It says She had only addressed me once during "Dear Martin—Your father and Julia friends, as 1 should prefer communicat that although the tendency for the ' laying a cable across the Pacific the conversation. It was curious to see have been here this afternoon, and have ing directly with them, with a view to co- last twenty-live years has been to how there was no resentment in her confided to me a very sad and very pain j operation iu the discovery of her biding I ocean. The route will be from San Fran ward a gradual reduction of the manner towards my father, who had sys ful secret, which they ask me to break I place. 1 need scarcely say 1 have no cisco to Honolulu, thence to the Mid area of individual farms and ranches, tematically robbed her, whilst she treat gently to you. You must come home wish to receive any reward. 1 entirely ed me with profound wrath and bitter again for a season. Even Julia wishes waive any claim to that, if you will way islands, to Guam and to the they are still of a size much larger ness. it, though she cannot stay in the same oblige me by putting me into connection I east coast of Luzon. The cable will than the average farm of the East, be 6.912 miles long, completing the or even of the Middle West. This is The report of my father's illness had house with you, and will go to her own J with the family.” telegraphic system of the entire particularly true in California. spread before I reached home, and suf with her friend Kate Daltrey. Your "Have you no information you can im Transportation of the enormous globe, and making a total of 164,586 ficiently accounted for our visit to Jer father cried like a child. He takes it j miles, all of which, excepting 16.171 quantity of Pacific coast wheat has sey, and the temporary postponement of more to heart than I should have expect part to us?" asked Mr. Scott. "None, ” I answered decisively. "It is i miles. Is controlled by private indi been reduced to a science. A large my last trip to England before our mar ed. Yet there is no immediate danger; saving is made by loading ships di riage. My mother, Johanna and I kept she may live for some months yet. My some months since I saw the advertise viduals. At the coming session of congress rectly from the cars, trains being run our own counsel, and answered the many poor Martin, you will have a mother only ment, and it must be nine mouths since questions asked us as vaguely as the a few months longer. Three weeks ago you put it into the Times. I believe it a bill will be introduced to push from the wheat fields to tidewater at Delphic oracle. she and I went to Sark, at her own ur is nine months since the young lady was thvough the construction work of the a very few hours’ notice. In Wash ington and Oregon, however, the | cable. I wrote to Tardif, telling him I was gent wish, to see your Olivia. I did not missing.” “About that time,” he said. The estimate of cost by Rear-Ad wheat is run through an elevator, going for an indefinite period to London, then know why. She had a great longing “Her friends must have suffered great miral Bradford, of the Naval Bureau where it is re-cleaned and mixed with and that if any difficulty or danger to see the unfortunate girl who had been of equipment, is $16,000,000. other grades of wheat to bring ft. threatened Olivia, I begged of him to the cause of so much sorrow to us all, anxiety,” I remarked. "Very great indeed,” he admitted. The special demands by the gov- to the tequired standard grade, after communicate with my mother, who had but especially to her, for she has pined Miss E lla B sbxxsb , E. B ocsbstsb , Onio. “If I could render them any service I ernment on this cable will be re which it is re-sacked and loaded on promised me to befriend her as far as it sorely after you. We did not find her lijy in her power. My poor mother in Tardif’s house, but Suzanne directed it would be a great pleasure to me,” I duced rates and absolute control over the vessels, or cars, for final ship faintness, weakness, loss of appetite ment. thought of her without bitterness, though us to the little graveyard half a mile continued; “cannot you tell me where to I the line in time of war. sleep. About 27,450.000 bushels of wheat and in deep regret. To Olivia herself I wrote away. We followed her there, and rec find them?” The young lady whose portrait we “ We are authorized to receive any in are exported annually on the Pacific Washington Coal at Honolulu. a line or two, finding myself too weak ognized her, of course, at the first glance. publish herewith had all these symp- to resist the temptatiou. I said: She is a charming creature, that I allow, formation,” he replied. "You must al The purchase of the Sandwich coast, with a total value of about Uvnt aad in addition leucorrhoea, low me to ask if you know anything $20,000,000. “My Dear Olivia—I told you I was though I wish none of us had ever seen and was cured by Lydia E. Fiakhams Islands has opened up the coal trade Vegetable Compound. First, she about to be married to my cousin Julia her. Your mother told her who she was, about the young lady in question?” in Honolulu. Large shipments are “ My object is to combine with her Useful, Beautiful and Valuable. wrote a letter to Mrs. Pinkham's lab Dobree; that engagement is at an end. and the sweetest flush and smile came made there each week from Puget friends in seeking her. ’ I said evasively. I am obliged to leave Guernsey, and seek across her face! They sat down side by The chief attraction at the inter oratory at Lynn. Mass., describing her Sound ports. The trade is increasing my fortune elsewhere. It will be a long side on one of the graves, and I strolled “I really cannot give you any informa j and the present demand may be state fair held at Spokane last month trouble, received in reply accurate in tion; but if you will put me into commu time before I can see you again, if I ever away, so I do not know what they said ! doubled the next twelve months. New ' was the magnificant display of pol structions what to do to get well, and have that great happiness. Whenever to one another. Olivia walked down nication with them, 1 may be useful to interest is being infused into coal ished marble and onyx from the now wishes her name u*ei to convince you feel the want of a true and tender with us to the Havre Gosselin, and your them.” mining and many new locations are nuarries in Stevens county. Wash. others that they may be cured as she “Well,” he said, with an air of candor, being made. Several hundred acres There were five different districts was. friend, my mother is prepared to love you mother held hor in her arms and kissed The same helping hand, free of as if you were her own daughter. Think her tenderly. Even I could uot help kiss “of course the young lady's friends are have recently been covered by coal represented. These exhibits speak anxious to keep in the background. It land applications in Stevens county, volumes for the possibilities of Wash charge or obligatiou, is extended, to ing her. of me also as your friend. “MARTIN DOBREE.” "Now I understand why your mother is not a pleasant circumstance to occur Washington, and the Washington 1 ington as a producer of the finest every ailing woman in America. If longed to see Olivia. She knew then— in a family. Of course, if you coula owners of fine deposits in British j marble and onyx known. The extent you are sick yon are foolish not to get she has known for months that her days give us an ydefinite information it would Columbia near the boundary line are j of the deposits is very large, and this valuable advice, it eosta you noth CHAPTER XII. ing. and she is sure to help you. Don’t I left Guernsey the day before my are numbered. When she was In London be quite another thing. The young lady’s getting in readiness for the extensive sufficient in themselves to supply a wait until it is too late — write to-day. family is highly connected. Have you last November she saw the most skillful considerable portion of the large de father and Julia returned from Jersey. development of their large holdings. mand for material of this kind. My immediate future was not as black physicians, and they ail agreed that her seen any one answering to the descrip An Exception. disease was incurable and fatal. Why tion?" as it might have been. I was going di California Fruits In Europe “It is a very common one.” I answered. rect to the house of my friend Jack Se did she conceal it from you? Ah, Mar Connects North and South Idaho. “ Politeness is never wasted, “re The latest American invasion of nior, who bad been my chum at college. tin, you must know a woman's heart, a “I have seen scores of young ladies who The commissioners representing marked the man with Chesterfield- Europe is the carrying of fresh Cali mother ’ s heart, before you can compre might answer to it. 1 am surprised that He, like myself, had been hitherto a the state in the construction of the inn manners. sort of partner to his father, the well- hend that. Your father knew, but no in London you could not trace her. Did fornia fruits to London and Paris in Little Salmon wagon road, in Idaho, “Well, mister,” answered the the face of the competition of the you apply to the police? ” known physician, Dr. Senior, of Brook one else. “The police are blockheads,” replied Spanish and Italian fruit growers. A have accepted ft from the contract roughly-clad, weather-beaten person, “Do not come before you have answer street. They lived together in a highly ors. The legislature last winter ap respectable but gloomy residence, kept ed this letter, that we may prepare her Mr. Scott. “Will you be so good as to Valencia, Spain, paper says: "Cali propriated $12,000 for the construc "that may be true in your part o’ bachelor fushion, for they had no wom for your return. Write by the next boat see if there is any one in the outer office. fornia oranges, peaches and pears tion of this road and this appropria town, but if you was in the canal boat reach Paris, after traversing six thou business you’d know that there ain't an-kind at all belonging to them. The sand miles, in a more appetizing con tion was supplemented by donations any use whatever of sayin’ ‘please’ father nnd son lived a good deal apart, of $3000 by the Oregon Short Line dition than ours, ” and adds that her though they were deeply attached to one to a mule.”—Washington Star. fruit growers can only compete with and an equal- amount by the Pacific another. Jack had his own apartments, & Idaho Northern railroads. The America by employing America ’ s Im An Avenue of Escape. and his own guests, in the spacious total amount of $16,000 was expended proved methods of cultivation. house, and Dr. Senior had his. "I’m thinking seriously of resum upon the 27 miles of road between The first night, as Jack and I sat np Goff and Round valley. ing busings.” Where They Do Things. together in the loug summer twilight, I "I thought vou had retired perma told him everything—as one tells a friend During 1900 several young men The Way of the West. nently. ” a hundred things one cannot put into f.'om Eastern states and some from “I thought so too but I need some Forty new houses are in course of words to any person who dwells under the fatherland, settled upon land in the same roof, and is witness of every Lincoln and Adams counties. Wash. construction in Pendleton, Or., a excuse for not attending my wife’s circumstance of one's career. Some had only a few cents left after town of 5000 population. One hun afternoon teas.”—Brooklyn Life. As I was talking to him, every emotion paying the government filing fee. dred and twenty-five have been built Badness. and perception of my brain, which hail $22, but by exchanging work with within the last year, and these are been in a wild state of confusion and con "Oh mamma, ’’cried Tommy, "Will neighbors, and by working for others, all occupied, meaning an Increase in flict, appeared to tall into its proper managed to get their land all broke population of 500. This is not a boom, ie's pulling the pussy’s tail!” rank. 1 was no longer doubtful as to and sown to wheat last fall, and on but merely a natural growth that is He’s a very bad boy to do that, ” whether I had been the fool my father these same claims the threshers are general throughout the West. said mamma. called me. My love for Olivia acquired turning out thirty to forty-five bush "Yes, and he’s selfish too; cause he force and decision. My judgment that Taps a Good Country. els per acre. won’t let me pull it at all.”—Phila it would have been a folly and a crime Articles of incorporation of ths delphia Press. to tuurry Julia became confirmed. University of Southern California. Tacoma Southern Railway & Naviga "Old fellow,” said Jack, when I had The University of Southern Califor tion Company were filed last week, finished, "you are in no end of a mess.” nia has been opened under favorable with a capital stock of $4,000,000. "Well, I ant," 1 admitted; "but what auspices. The $100,000 endowment The new company announces as its am I to do?" fund, to which Mrs. Anna Hough, a object the construction of lines of "First of all, how much money have sister of the late Jay Gould, sub railway from Tacoma to The Dalles, you?” he asked. scribed $25,000, subject to the condi Oregon, on the Columbia river. I "I'd rather not any," I answered. tion that the university raise the re “Como, old friend,” ho said, in his Harney Coming to the Front mainder by November 1, is now com most persuasive tones, "have you fifty plete. Mrs. Hough has now an Harney county. Oregon, is steadily pounds lu hand?” nounced that she will give $10,000 gaining in wealth and population. Bright eyes, rosy cheeks, an elastic "No,” I replied. toward a second $100,000, subject to The cattle sales from that county step and a good appetite are the birth "That's bad!” he said; "but it might “KISSED HER TENDERLY.” the same condition as the first. will amount to $1,000,000, this year, right of every American girl. These be worse. I've lots of tin, and we al as against $800,000 last year, and the are the conditions that denote perfect ways weut shares.” Big Sawmill Starts. agricultural products are about health. “I must look out for something to do and come by the one after. Julia will Mr. Brown, or on the stairs? I believe 1 But, unfortunately, every to-morrow,” I remarked. have to move down to the new house, heard a uoise outside." The Simpson Lumber Company's double whal they were last season. day are seen girls with pale, sallow "Ah, yea!" he answered dryly, "you and that will be excitement enough for Mr. Brown disappeared for a few min new mill at South Bend, Wash.,. complexions, languid, round-shoul To Build a Big Refinery. utes; but Ilia almenee did not interrupt! which has been for several months might go as assistant to a parish doctor, one day. Y'our faithful, loving cousin, dered and listless, and the question "JOHANNA CAREY.” or get a berth on board an emigrant the conversation. There was not much in course of construction, began op The Standard Oil Company will is often asked whether the woman of I read this letter twice, with a singing to be made out of it on either side, for eration Sept. 28. This is a first-class erect the third largest refinery in ship. There are lots of chances for a young fellow. I tell you what,” he said, in my ears and a whirling of my brain, we were only fencing with one another. modern mill and one of the best on the United States at Point Richmond, today has lost the healthy beauty “I've a good mind to marry Julia myself. before I could realize the meaning. Then I learned nothing about Olivia’s friends, the Pacific coast, having a capacity Cal., near Frisco. Over three million which was once a national character istic. One of the most common aftlic- I've always likeil her, and we want a I refused to believe it. No one knows and 1 was satisfied he had learned noth of 125,000 feet per day. dollars will be spent on the new plant. tions of womankind is anaemia, woman in the house. That would put better than a doctor how the most clever ing about hor. a watery condition of the blood. head among us may be at fault. My At last we parted with mutual dissat things straighter, wouldn't it?” A Juvenile Bunko Man. "She would never consent to leave mother dying of an incurable disease! isfaction; and I went moodily downtsairs, This causes untold misery and often Music Hath Strange Charms. Tommy had been quiet for fully five Guernsey,” I answered, laughing, ‘'That Impossible! 1 would go over at once and followed by Jack. We drove back to “It requires tact and diplomacy to leads to other and even more serious was one reason why sliu was so glad to save her. She ought to have told me Brook street, to spend the few hours minutes. He seemed to be engaged collect little outstanding accounts these diseases. It can be cured, how first. Who could have attended her so that remaiued before the train started with some deep problem. marry me.” ever, as the following interview in the days, especially when dealing with city "Well, then." he said, “would you skillfully and devotedly ss her only son? for Southampton. “Papa," be said. Star-Indejiendent will employes,” said a Manayunk business Harrisburg My mother had consulted Dr. Senior "Doctor,” said Simmons, as Jack paid mind me having Olivia?” "Well?” man the other day, according to the show. Miss Annie L. Reel, of No. "Don’t jest about such a thing,” I re himself when she had lieen in Iain Ion. him his fare, with a small coin added to "'Do unto others as you would have plied; "it is too serious a question with He did not positively cut off all hope it, “I'm half afeared I've done some mis others do unto you’—that's the golden Philadelphia Record. "It’s no UBe mak 910 Green street,Harrisburg, Pa., who from me, though I knew well he was chief. I've been turning it over and over me.” ing a biuff or pleadiug poverty when has been a sufferer from this trouble, "You are really in love!" he answered. giving me encouragement in spite of his In my head, and can t exactly see the rule. Isn't It, papa?” dealing with policemen. Tlielr hearts in answer to a reporters’ question, “Yes, my son.” said: "I will not jest at it. But I am ready own carefully formed opinion. He as rights of it. A gent, with a pen behind are like adamant. You must go gently “And It's pufflckly right to follow the sorted emphatically that it was possible his ear, come« down, at that orfice in to do anything to help you, old boy.” "Yes, I am entirely well now but — kind of size them up, as it were. So it proved, for he and Dr. Senior did to alleviate her sufferings and prolong Gray's Inn Road, and takes my number. golden rule, isn't It, papa?" I was a very sick girl. About five Strike them about pay day before their their beat during the next few weeks to her life, especially if her mind was kept ! But after that he says a civil thing or "Yes. Indeed." years ago I had an unnatural craving find a suitable opening for me. I made at rest. There was not a question as to I two. 'Fine young gents.' he says, point- j Tommy rose, went to the cupboard wives get at the wallet; for. of course, for highly seasoned food and after their house my home, and was treated as the necessity for my immediate return ing up the staircase. 'Very much so,’ and returned with a knife and a large if their better halves get it first you that I was afflicted with headache are left, and the poor copper lias hardly a moat wel. ome guest iu it. Still the to her. Hut there was still a day for me says 1. 'Youug doctors?’ he says. 'You're right.' I says. 'I guessed so,' he says; apple pie. The latter he placed before enough let to buy his tobacco until the and my heart would beat about twice time was Irksome. They were busy to tarry in Ixindou. as fast as it should. My limbs got "Martin," said Jack, "why have you 'and pretty well up the tree, eh?’ 'Ay,' bis astonished sire with great solemni next month. whilst I was unoccupied. so weak that I had to rest on every My mother's letters did not tend to never followed up the clue almut your | I says; 'the light-haireil gent is sou to ty- "You see, I have an advantage be step when going up stairs. The color "Eat It. papa!" be said.—San Fran raise my spirits. The tone of them was Olivia the advertisement, you know? Dr. Senior, the great pheeseeeian; and cause I am a sort of musician. When of my skin was like that of a dead uniformly sad. She told me the flood of Shall we go to those folks in Gray’s Inn the other he conies from Guernsey, which cisco Bulletin. the officer gets his money he will re is an island in the sea.' 'Just so,' he sympathy tor Julia had risen very high Road this afternoon?” person. My limbs, and. in fact, my Shrewd. turn to the sitting room of the station, It had Iss u in my mind all along to do says; 'I've heard as much.' I hope I've indeed; from which I concluded that the "I insist that my daughter shall play take an account of stock and confer whole body, would swell at times. so, but the liatlcea procrastination of done no mischief, doctor?" public indignation against myself must The doctor who treated me said my “I hope not, Simmons.” answered Jack; nothing but classical music,” said Mr. with the other fellows about how to complaint was anaemia. have risen to the same tide mark. Julia idleness had caused me to put it off from Sirius Barker. had resumed her old occupations, but her 1 time to time. Besides, whilst I was ab "but your tongue hangs too loose, my make the pile reach out until the next “The doctor told me if I had let “For what reason?” spirit was quite broken. Johanna Carey ' sent from the Channel Islands my curi man. Look out for a squall on the Olivia pay day. the disease go a few weeks longer I "None of the neighbors know a thing had offered to go abroad with her, but ! osity appeared to sleep. It was enough coast, Martin," he added. "I enter the room with a cheery would have had dropsy. I was under to picture Olivia in her lowly home iu she had declined. My anxiety would have been very great about it. and she can murder a piece all gentlemen,' Inquire his care for several weeks, but with Now that I was returning to if I had not been returning immediately she wants to without their daring to 'Good-morning, A friend of Julia's, said my mother in | Sark. Into their various healths, tali quietly little change for the better.” another letter, had come to stay with Guernsey, and the opportunity was about to Guernsey. But on<e there, and in say a word."—Washington Star. of the weather, and then aft down at her, and endeavor to rouse her It was to slip by. I felt more anxious to seise it. communication with Tardif, I could not "How, then, werevousocompletely evident she did uot like this Kate Dal I would learn all I could about Olivia's believe any danger would threaten Olivia A cabinetmaker is one of the circum the organ and sing that beautiful song, restored to health,” asked the re trey, herself, for the dislike crept out family and friends, without betraying front which I could not protect or res. us stances that alter cases. 'Then You'll Remember Me.' By-and porter. unav. ,< ea through all the gentlenesa of any part of her secret. her. She wks of age, and had a right to, by they pony up and I hurry off to the "I had been sick for two months A woman may love flattery and yet her phrases. “She says she is the same ! Of course then* was not the smallest act for herself. With two such frien is next station and play the same old n- u J,,b7an ‘akinS Dr- Gillams’ age as Julia," she wrote, "bnt she is difficulty in finding the office of Messrs. as Tardif and me. no one could force her despise an awkward flatterer. tune." Pink Pills for Pale People. In al»out a probably some years older; for as she Scott and Brown. There dll not seem away from her chosen home. week I was feeling better. The head does not belong to Guernsey we have no much busmens going on. and our appear (To be continued.) Iron and Steel Export. Different Sorts of Baldness. opportunity of knowing.” I laughed ance was hailed with undisguised satis America last year exported $120,000,- I ache left me and I began to get He — You don't mean to tell me you A Good Story, stronger I took the pills for when 1 read that. “Your father admires faction. The solicitors were two info are going to marry that old bald-bead OOO worth of Iron and steel, au amount her very much," she added. rior, common-looking men, but sharp Tommy—Tell me a story, uncle. weeks and became thoroughly cured ” ed professor? greater In value than her entire ex There was not a word about Olivia. , enough to l*e a match for either of us Uncle—A story! Hilt I don't know Dr. Wiliams’ Pink Pills’for Tale She— He Is rather bald, but think how ports of all kinds In 1800. Hark itself was never mentioned, and it ■ We both felt it. as if we bad detected a what to tell you a story about. People are an unfailing specific for lo many young men of to-day are bald on might have aunk into the sea. My eya | snake in the grass by Its rattle. I grew Tommy Oh. tell me a story about a When a boy begins to wash his face comotor ataxia, partial paralysis St the inside qf tbelr heads!—Stray Sto ran over every letter first with the hope wary by instinct, though I had not come sciatica, neuralgia’ without being told be la passing through yitus dance. of catching that name, but I could not with any intention to t»ii them what 1 little boy who had a good uncle who ne«. rheumatism, nefvou. headache the the ordeal of hfs first love nffair. find it. This persistent silence on my knew of Olivia. My sole idea had been | gave him a quarter.—Mirth. after effect, of the grip, palpiution to learn something myself, not to impart mother’s part was very trying. As a rule the more a man wants the China « Kerosene Imports. Almost every girl of sixteen has her of the heart.pale and sallow complex- I had been away from Guernsey two any information. But when I was face less he gets—and the rule isn't too mind made up that some day she will Before issti little was known In ions and all forms of weakness At ill months, and Jack was making arrange- | to face with these men my business, and stuck up to work rear eud forward, have a son named De Mountville, « a dealers or direct from Dr. William.5 nicnts for a long absence from London the management of It. did not **eni quits China of kerosene. In 1800 more than either. 100,000.000 gallons were Imported. so simple as it had done uutU ih»a. daughter named * ’ * « )-M ♦fr+++*+4--4++++»+ l-»4--»+4*+4- M *fr++-M"» si ACTIVITY IN THE COAST STATES. The Doctor's dilemma Our WorhtnO airi». i THE AMERICAN GIRL. Is She Losing the Beauty That Was Once a National Boast? as soon as the season was over, les ring Medicine Co,. Schenectadv, N V 50 cent, per box ; six boxe< $2.50. ’’