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2 TRIAL FOR LIFE
"It is too horrible."
"Whet„ the dream?"
"To hear yea trifle so wilt such tre-
metidous guilt!"
"It was but a, dream, you knowl"
"Ahl" oho exclaimed, shuddering.
"You don't believe me?"
"'.Cut! Come, draw up the curtain!
let us see what this very dramatic
dream is," he said, disdainfully.
"Ohl do not thus play with your
crimes and their consequences. You pre-
tend not to credit me ,and you treat
ray words lightly; but you shall soon
know better. You shrill hear from my
lips; the dream in which each
night
you
re-enact the tragedy at Lester House,
revealing not only your acts, but your
paesione and emotions -your hatreds,
fears, hopes and purposes -speaking out
what then you only thought and felt!"
"Come, this is the prologue! let us
have the play," said Thugsen, ironically.
"Listen then, Robert Thugsen," con-
tinued Ruth, in the tone and manner of
one speaking under a powerful inward
impulse. "Each night, in dreams, again
tyou lurk around Lester House, hiding
in the deepest shadows, and from your
lair, like some wild beast crouching to
spring upon its prey, you watch t'hntil
it has passed; then swiftly and silently
you dart down the basement stairs; you
examine all the doors and windows, and
find one window carelessly left unfast-
ened; you raise it and creep into the
kitchen, closing it after you; you pause,
watching and listening for the slightest
sound or movement in that dark, still
house; but hearing nothing, and believ-
ing all the household to be buried in re-
pose, you draw from your pocket a bunch
of well -filed skeleton keys, and creep
up the stairs and along the passage
a single bolt or bar shot into its place
would have arrested youe progress, and
saved you from crime and him from
death, and you wonder as you steal
along on your fatal errand that neither
bolt nor bar obstructs your way; you do
nob know that the butler, whose last
duty it is to aware the house, has not
yet retired to bed, but is shut up in his
office, casting up his accounts; oh, fatal
carelessness! And so silently and so
breathlessly you glide like a serpent
from landing to landing, until you reach
the fatal chamber door.
"You pause again, and, standing
you sealed my lips."
"Fear for me?"
"Yes, fear for you. Laura Elmer, as I
told you, was my guest that night. Her
suspicions were already aroused against
you; she might have overheard any
words that passed between us. ;;o I hid
away the telltale sheath, and should
never have spoken of it again, had not
young Cassinove been convicted, Oh,
Robert, the guiltless must not die for
the guilty."
"flush!" exclaimed Thugsen, with din
in -silty controlling his emotions. "From
the accident of an empty dagger's sheath
and a disturbed dream, you think Lit
n
• u have made out a very stroah case
you i e
that
me; it is nonsense, but let that
pass for the present. You have also
charged me with the deception of the
young Duchess of Beresleigh; now, whet
have I to do with the Duchess of Beres-
leigh, or the Duchess of :Leres•leigli with
me?"
"You should have nothing to do with
her, more than a spirit of darkness has
to do with an angel of light; and yet
you have twice cruelly deceived her,"
Explain yourself, Ruth; by my soul,
I do not understand you."
"Thugsen, . you have buried me Isere,
in the obscurest part of London. Iam
as completely isolated in this crowded
quarter of the town as though I were in
the midst of the deserts of Asia, or the
forests of America, I speak to no per-
son -I see no paper -and you think
that I ail, therefore, ignorant of what
goes on in the great world, and so 1
am, to a great extent. But this morning
a piece of an old newspaper fell into my
hands. It came around a parcel that 1
had brought hem the draper's. Your
name attracted ma to a paragraph, and
there I read a short account of the
charge brought against the young Duen-
ess of Beresleigh."
She paused, and held her hand to her
side, as though in pain.
"Go on," said Thugsen.
"I discovered by that account that
you dead cruelly deceived her twice.
First, when she was a young girl, and
you were hiding in her foster -mother's
house, you passed pourself off as a sin-
gle man, and attempted to consummate a
bruin off m ]lip, tltt9 the l+nwder diatiehe,
anct then immediately went alto the
adjoining bedroom to destroy the vial,
Ile Joked around, and seeing a hole in
the plastering, dropped it through, where
it felt into some inaccessible depth of
the wall,
Meanwhile he heard her moving about
the dinning -room, end arranging the dish-
es upon the table. Ile paused a moment
to compose himself, and the returned
to the table.
"Your dinner is quite ready, Robert,"
said Ruth, sitting down et the table.
He took Isis seat and cotruueneed. eat-
ing has soup. Presently he looked up
at Ruth.
Ruth was looking down upon hers, and
delicately skimming it, and dropping the
scum into a waste plate.
"What is that?" he inquired, uneas-
iIy.
"Only a Iittle soot falicu upon the
soup," she replied. beginning to eat.
He was reassured. Soot was black;
the powder lie had poured into the soup
was white, and, besides, he bad aeon it
dissolve, He watched her eating. Poor
creature; notwithstanding her troubles,
she ate rather eagerly, for she was faint
and hungry from long fasting.
"She he rnJa s her lastmeal without out a
I
thought that she partakes of it in her
last hour. Well, after all, how much
easier her death will be than if she
should live to die what is called, a natur-
al death -a long, painful illness, slowly
wearing out her life, It will soon be
over; I hope, even in that little time,
she will not suffer much,' -thought Thug-
son, as he watched her.
"You de not eat your soup; there is
no soot fallen into yours?" inquired
Ruth,
"No; there is none in mine," replied
Thugsen, with it hidden significance, as
he fell to and rapidly ffniehed his soup.
Ruth removed the empty basins, and
began to carve the roasted fowl that
formed the next course. Thugsen watch-
er her for some sign of approaching ill-
ness.
There was none as yet. Ruth finish-
ed carving, and set hie favorite pieces
before him.
"Are you not going to take any?" in-
quired. Tlurgsen.
"No; the soup was quite enough for
me; I felt faint and hungry when I sat
down, but my appetite has gone off with
the soup."
"You are not well," said Thugsen.
"I am as well as I can be, with
the anxiety that oppresses my mind,
Robert."
"Ah! you are still resolved to inform
the pollee of what you suspect to -mor-
row?"
"Alas! yes, Robert! but not until you
escape."
"I think you will not," said Thugsen,
marriage with her, a crime the corilple- laughing, defiantly; but in the midst of
tion of which was prevented only by the that ,laugh his face turned pale, and a
timely arrival of the conetabie in search. shaver passed over his frame.
of you. And now, when years have "What is the matter?" said Ruth.
breathless, there you watch and lister; paased,� and she is the tuneful wife of one "A sudden qualm;youupset me with
all is dark and still without and with- of England's proudest peers, you, know- your diabolical nonsense; it is over now
in. You insert the key, silently turn mug that you have not the smallest sba- -bring in the pudding." .
the lock and enter.dew of a claim upon her notice, dare to Ruth cleared the table, and went out
"How still the room -the only sound demand her as your wife, and threaten into the kitchen to fetch the pudding.
the ticking of the ormolu clock upon the her 'with a criminal prosecution if she When she returned she found Thugsen
mantiepiece. By rue dim light of the repulses you. Of course you are aware white and convulsed in his chair. She
that that high-born lady can know noth- sat down the dish and ran to him, ex -
taper burning on the hearth, you see the
Ing of the poor, obscure woman, who claiming:
closely -drawn curtains of your victim's
bed. You creep toward it, and stand- owns the position into which you would "Robert! Robers! what is the mat-
ing beside it, bend your head and listen; force her, nor could you suppose that ter?"
by the regular breathing of the sleep,'r any accident would reveal the'rvawngs of "Ill, ill, ill ti death!" gasped the suf-
you know that he is sound asleep; you the Duchess of Beresleigh to me." ferer, while a cold sweat bathed his pal -
push aside the curtain and look upon. Thugsen started, end walked once or lid forehead.
his face; it is a face full of twice up and down the floor; then pans- Ruth poured out, a glass of brandy,
care and sorrow even in its mg before her, and speakingwith as much and held it to his lips.
repose; he is lying on his right side, calmness as lie could assume, he said: "No! water! water! water! my throat
fronting you; his left arm is thrown To 'whom have you gossiped of these is burning up!" whispered Thugsen,
up over his head.; his motion has slight- matters? hoarsely.
ly disordered the bedclothes, os that his ""To no one on earth."„ Ruth hastily poured out a glass of woe
left side is entirely exposed; there is ,`,So help you Heavers? ter, and held it to him.
nothing to shield his heart from your So help me Heaven, in my 'dying He drank it eagerly, swallowing with
dagger's point; if the fiend had prepared }sour•” difficulty. • It seemed to revive him for
his victim for the sacrifice, he could not It 3s well;. I believe you,"said Thug- an instant; he sat up, wiped his brow,
have been readier for your hand. sen, taking his sent near her, and con- stared at Ruth with that confusion of
"One blow and all will be over! But tinning; You seem to have taken the mind that 'extreme pain and exhaustion
one or all will be lost! You clutch your
dagger with a firmer grasu, and bend
until you can hear the monotonous beat-
ing of that heart you mean to stop for-
ever! You direct your dagger's point -
one firm plunge, and the dead of death
is done."
"But the blow that kills first awakens!
The wounded man' bounds up! glares up-
on you with his dying and affrighted
eyes -shrieks forth that alarm of 'mur-
her,' that arouses the household! You
fly! With the swiftness and silentness
of the serpent you slip through the halls,
glide down the stairs and so effect your
escape. Satan favors you, for as you
emerge again from the kitchen window,
the watch has just passed; they have
not heard. that smothered cry of mina j is ordered for execution on Monday, ten
der; nor through the thick walls and Monday, also, the •trial of the Duchess or
closed shutters can they hear the hurry- Beresleigh conies on. I will give you
Ing footsteps of the aroused household until to -morrow evening to make your
pours
as it pours on toward the chamber of escape. You will have plenty of time
murder!
demon into your counsel, else I do not produces, and exclaimed:
see how you ever contrived to amine "Woman! what is the meaning of
such an amount 'of evidence against an this? You are not ill!"
innocent man, and that man your own eNo, Robert, only anxious."
husband. And now, what do you mean ""But I am. How is that?"
to do with it?"
"Nothing, Robert, until you have fled "I do not know, Robert. iaou talk, and
the country" act, and look so strangely. Come into
"And if I do not choose to fly from a your room, and lie down, and perhaps
false charge?" you will be better,"said Ruth, gently
"Il will not be a false charge." taking his arm to assist him.
But a third, and more violent fit of
"But if I do not cheese to try'?"
"Then your blued be upon your own pain and shivering seized the man; his ]tea of ua
youfly " t features were blackened and distorted; do not expect to set the river on lire much most expansive than those stat,}e
head; for whether or not, Itob- p of time best quality of wood. They are
ert 'Thugsen, I insist do my duty. it his limbs drawn up and convulsed. with my future career. I am glad that practically indestructible, a.nd, in the
will break my heart, out I most do it." Ruth was dreadfully frightened; she I have a good education, but I am not
"What duty? How will you do ft?e supported his head, and wiped away the going to misuse it by writing pantry or end, aro much cheaper than shingles
icysweat from his brow. As soon as the essays on the future woman, made of any other material. They are
inquired the man an a row, stifled voice mnde in a, variety of designs and aro re -
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The starchthatneedn't
be cooked..that won't
stick ..that gives a brit.,
Rant gloss with almost
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use on your clothes?
.Buy it by name.,
your dealer 8e115 it,
Babel in Northern Michigan.
This upper corner of the staunch Am-
erican state of Michigan is a show
peoplethirty
' t u of !hof nations
not d on n
the
inpeace oun-
ut work,side by and s
an
side,
fort, The nativborn is outnumbered on
a basis of one American to a hundred
foreigners, The Cornwall anti Finnish
miners lead in numbers, followed by the
Irish, Scotch, Welsh, German, Polish,
French, Danish, Nor^wegian,, Swedish,
Polanders, Russians Hollanders Greek,
Swiss Austrians„ Belgians, muerte,
Slays, Bohemians, with a sprinkling
above gl'ound of Chinese, Arabians, Per-
sians and one family of Laplander's.
This is an amazing medley of races, in
which the American seems fairly lone-
soane,-Outing.
At the Yarmouth Y. M. 0, A. Boys'
Camp, held at Tuimket Falls in August, I
found MINAED'S LINIMENT most ben-
eficial for sun burn, an immediate relief
for colic and t000theehe,
ALFRED StrOKES.
General Secretary.
Change of Scene for Holiday.
(Cleveland Plain Dealer.)
Too man people bear their tiring burden
with them when they go away for rest.
There must be a change of thought as iv
as scene. For the fernier there's nothing
bettor than a glimpse of city life. But the
city man should shun the summer resort. Aul
that Is where be is usually found. 'He has
no Alen about his vacation, Get away from
the crowd. Get back to nature. Live in the
open. Sleep in the open if you can. Make
friends with the birds and trees and flowers.
Rub up against rural nature and see what
erlightenment will spring from it. Get the
views of people who look at life clearly and
frankly and at now angles. Get sunburned.
get freckled, gat tired and then get rested
again,
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I GIRL'S AMBITION NOT HIGH.
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Milano and lkfexicans Pear Animal Mote
Than a Rattlesnake.
Of the bite of the gibe monster, that
little-known creature of time southwest.
i N i verities: I
ern deserts tt sari x>ntent
have hall some expen crlee with the gila
monsters and can state that no matter
what scientists may claim the },"Ila mien-
ster is a good thing to shun,
"Indfane and Mexicans have a horror
of them and fear thein more than a rat-
tlesnake. I believe that the bite of time
elle monster is dangerous because of the
creatures' habit of eating lizards, hugs
anal rodents and then lying on sand so
trot that it blisters the hands and fent
of Inca,
"'Taw heat causes the food to putrefy
in time stomach, evidenced by the fact
that the teeth are often covered with a
fermented, putrefied froth from the food.
A bite has the same effect as time cut
of a dissecting knife used on a cadaver.
In other words, the inoculation of a
deadly poison;"
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Our officers in Russia, among other
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Deserted Iowa Towns. •
Our State is so young that many are {
still in active life who assisted in Iaying
its foundations, and yet we have many
deserted villages. There are probably
few of the older counties in the State
that have not their deserted villages.
Des Moines county has several, the
most important of which was Kossuth, ,
a town of souse pretensions in the north -1
ern part of the county. It boasted of a
fine academy, where the higher branches
were taught. It was a place of some conn- !
rnoreial importance.
'When the iron horse sought its way
northward from Burlington it passed
two mike to the eastward of Kossuth. ;
Mediatiolis began, and it soon became
apparent to Mediapolis that it was most I
important that Kossuth be wiped out. 1
Many of time houses were gradually nnov-
ed from Kossuth to the railroad town, !
and to -day practically nothing remains
of Kossuth.-From the Burlington Hawk -
eye.
dei
Ask for 17finard's and take no other.
A Kansas girl graduate who had been es -
given the theme "Beyond the Alpe Lime Shingles Made of Concrete.
Hely" promulfrnted the following: Ohinglee manufactured of concrete are
"I don't circ a cent whether Maly but little heavier than slate, and: not
beyondtheAlpsMissouri.I
`•Listen. This is Thnrsduy. Cassinove fit passed, and he regained the power of "It will enable ane to correct the gram -
ore ch lwvc1, anct false the roost for p q Y
Calais. To -morrow evening I will place you don't know what you are saying- ambitions do nothflycsoahig}t�t. But. pn Minard s Liniment used by, Physicians.
darkness hid forever from the world; }, th t:t t. th vI i } 1 t o !!. C l t
utterance, he glared at Ruth, and shriek. mer of "any lover I may have should he fuforced with n:ethyl s e sign, w}tfch ter-
minate in loops nt the edge3 for nailing
ed; (speak of `dorgs' in my promisee or 'seen to the roof. Shingles of concrete are
"You have poisoned me, you have poi. a man? It will also mime handy when ' rect•icnli everlasting as they are roof
coned me. Murderess, you shall swing T want to figure out liow many pounds against decay, and, i,i'faet become ,nano
for it I" of soap a woman can got for throe dozen , durable with exnd,m•e to tine wconmee her,
"I -I --Robert? I poison you? But eggs at the grocery. So Ido not begrudges
3 R 1 R res Rin 1tC"jn.an21 - y n are ae 1 owe, C m0 help you t0
but, Robert Thugsen, I repeat, each night ea in the hands of tato paws i bed, and I will run to the apothecary "I just want to marry a man who can
when sleep has closed your eyes and elle! ha! ha! Why, even if the eve over the 'Nat'l" exclaimed the terrified lick anybody of his weight inthe town,
seals your senses, conscience awakes and denseship, who can run an enrhty-acro farm
were'worth anything, it could not wife,
re-enacts Peery minute scene of that be taken morn you. You are my wife,' "Traitress! murderess! you have poi- ' aitoriwho
w n.hasno female relatives to come
try to boss the ranch. I will
tragedy, e eakfn out,'whoa then you
. "I know, and my evidence against you sorted me, and you know it!" 1
only thought and felt, as well as what could not be received in court, but I "Oh,Robert!" agree to cook dinners for him thaand on't
you saw and did!" concluded Ruth, shad- valid give what information I pssess to "Aswer me, woman! what, did you I send him to an early grave and lavish
y'
deupon him a wholesome affection and to
mo ld you have seen his face as she the laand let them follow it up as do to the soup visile I was in the bed- see that Isle razor has not been used to
they pl eas ase, I must do this; it will kill
finished her narrative, she had not or craze me' bat I must."
trusted her own life in life hands for an- "Aird. thisis your final resolution"
other hour; but the gathering shadows , "It is; oh, Robert, fly and stave your -
of night concealed it from her; but Itis self I I •have still a little money left;
tones were light and bantering, as he you came take it all."
said:
"Come, I have had no diner to -day,
"A singular psychological phenomenon! light the lamps and see to the soup."
What else? That cannot be all upon With a deep sigh at his apparent in -
which you found your opinion of my sensibility, Truth lighted a lamp and at
guilt?",s i it upon the table, and then went out to
It is enough, yet it is not, all. attend to tam dinner.
"What more?' the Chat time, that a tittle soot had fall- ,age.l
c� I'intn;arrt sande a turn or two around ,,u into yours. and knowing you to be with the clergyman of the other denom-
"The dagger the room, muttering to himself:
" dagger?" +very dainty with your eating, I changed mations, so far as lately heard from.
"The Robert ThUH6en, the dagger er illat' "She 1snaws too much ; nhC iinett'H too the baelne-.»giving you mine, and taking bon tfuse seems
to
over unto dnbe no ground forllo e
ryas found in Mr. t`nssinovc'a hrgtnd. but much; hrr awn lips have spniten her awn yours. You saw Ise afterward, at din. F;
"„ doom; it tan be delayed no longer, Yet,gsn • ton Herald,
with which you had done the murder. l,c;or Itntht but Rite iii so very wretched, nh While she spolte,ohe tsat listening, with -
"II`Iiat the fiend are you driving at that it would be a mercy to put her out a face blanched by bodily pain, horror,
nowt What about the dagger? Coinr, of her misery, by mann quick and ear:y and despair.
what alma:. it. process, especially ns it BMA be dune if
"It was preaueed tc•clay in court; I I would have spared her to tau i Ituth gazed At him in consternation,
ONE OT' A u EVEN -OAR CREW.
Death of a Clergyman Who Took Part
in a remove Victory.
Rev. a:• C. Cox, who was the sole sur-
viving member of the famous "seem -
oar crew" of Oxford University, which
room Y" won the Grmnd Challenge (hip •at Henley
cl,f broom wire wizen he tyants to share• in 11143 died recently at Eastbourne
"Nothing, on my soul and honor!" f" '
f � Tn view of hit this do gat care �f T England a t the Wan
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little
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deaf-anti-dtuub boy.
The ides, struck him favorably, but the
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"I should think," ventured the mother,
"that a little deafsand-dumb boy would
not make any noise,"
"Oh, but ha would!" said Percy. "You
see, he couldn't hear it."
His mother sighed.
-"Dear mother!" his voice broke in on
Ther musings presently, "if the noise
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a little deaf-and-dumb boy yourself 1"
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himself the tremendous responsibility of
enforcing one of the largest and most
widespread thirsts in history. The
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♦e •
The Rooster,•
The rooster seen the light of dawn
And gives a clarloua call,
The needs of those who want to .Jeep
lie does not mind at all.
He flaps his wings, and crows again,
His voice is good and strong,
While echoes, sounding from afar,
His ringing notes prolong. •
The early crocus on the lawn,
Tho harbinger of spring,
Receives a -welcome from us all,
And makes the poets sing;
But oh! what wholly different thought
Rise in the hearts of men,
When they're aroused from slumber by
The crow -cuss in the nen,
-Somerville Journal.
Heep Minard's Liniment in the house.
♦01
Negro Mammy's Love for "Miss.'
:nay Stannard Balser tells the follow-
ing story div his Jame article on the negro
in The American Magazine;
"The mass of colored people still main-
tain, as I have said, a more or less lath
nate connection with white families -
frequently a very beautiful and sympa-
thetic relationship like that of the old
mammies or nurses. To one who has
heard so much of racial hatred as I have
since I have been down ]aero, a little in-
Cfdent that I observed the other day
conies with a eharnt hardly describable.
I saw a carriage stop in front of a home,
The expected daughter had arrived -a
very pretty girl indeed. She stepped out
eagerly. Iier father was half -way down'
to the gate; but ajaead of him was a
. very old negro woman in the cleanest of
clean starched dresses.
; " Toney!' she said, eagerly.
"'11lammy I' exclaimed the girl, and
the two rushed into each other's arms,
clasping and kissing -tire white girl and
the old black woman.
`I thought to myself: "There's no
negro problem there; that's just plain
t) . !O 7d. WAN']' `..a ~ INltailID,
a PIANO FOR $145?
end for free thuetratedih s Mt".
vsl
U. A. HL lith Oat
.
Only Half the Time,
"That is no defence at all," said Sena'
for Curtis, during a discussion of emo-
tional insanity at dinner. "What you
have just said, air, is as weak a defence.
cc" the young automobilist's.
"The young maxis father said to him:
"'I:,00k, here, I am ashamed of you.
You spend all your time shoo-chooing
around the country in a motor car.'
"'Not all my time, father,' said the
youth, gently. `Only, half of it'
"And the other half Y' asked the mol-
lified old man.
"'That is passed underneath, sir, with
a monkey wrench: "
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life, as you would answer on the last kindred things as the years go by."---
ayl what did you do to the soup?" I Topeka Capital.
"Nothing, as I hope for salvation! I I
changed the basins, but I never did any- All on the Same Level.
thing to the soup."
nig a member of the notocd crew, Cox
had long been noted as the most noted
oarematn in the world. But perhaps the
details of tide "seven -oar' race ,have
"You eh,anged the bassinet" cried Thing- llb
The Prt'sbyterian (aencral Assembly lneverationchOxford and Use d of the
]Pree s present
sr"Yrs horror.
I came in I noticed for xeparts t than at
its premehers are getting j Srri "tion repine were time opponents in
pep paytluut hnd carriers on the aver- ! I
' 'flus rots them about on a level the situ al heat for the "Chanel," but I''let-
p t' as pos.exc}afmiu(;t
recognized it; it was yours."chile ;spared her forever, if I could have •
":tupon my word, you are trying to get s:mmim Bled her off somewhere, Allows,a "lucre was no ill in what I did, Rob-
up quite a case against ate. Anything willful unman menet have her way; it ert, wits 'there? I did ft for your sake.
more?" ie her fault, mrd not mine." i (ti), Robert, what it the meaning of all
"Alai, yes!" - i IIere he :area from his pocket is very ftlalS5"
"Out nvide it, then? Let ;us have the anal! 'sial filled with it grayish -slum i 1 Ycthave pni•roned ale! that is inn
1•owder, and urntter int'": lea -
"I Lame hail this quietus about me for' Ills words, nrreated by a spasm, were
the laet ten layc t It�, of , thin f iIlrn^e
d cc
alveisinnn (so violent lent t t
tamisa to nt,niu,Ler it to the only tree ; it'll from the chair, and writhed upon
,
4,11 c„rtlh that hem' me. but now teat, the floor.
t t-; one, ti:'side..; horn* the vn'oatei••t oee m iae,e i p ray
1 7ut
dared delay
no
longer. She e
morally adnneeneot, ie, rushed from the holism, and ran across
also the nnsttaretonsalv tont,tIe vay, Into the ap t ectrY ashop• r
s "fete'. He • life or mine must frill, SS'elf, `c.a}ming:
self nrest.rvation f. the first law of mt. { "oht Mr. Jones, for heaven's salmi,
tore. It will soon l:e of or; she will net , come immediately: I cb, fear may iMa•
cuffs much, and then -why, theta I td,oll b.untl, is dying in a CO"
I c at peace --•--' - [Ie st:d,lei:ly e,"a''r-,i I "Your 1inc;iend? Who is ate? Ras he
I.nutteli:hr, snrl caned his hard upon time , been drinking?" inmlnire:l tithe tlrui^gist.
little vial as ho Leaner the mpproael:nng. "No, no to roars it i:i pi;ismi! but it
footsteps of his. dmmoameb wife. . eannot be that, nal I do not know what
Ruth '
• is ... h
T1s mar f
h n .t t ]r
t C n nn e t. n
each alit 1
l � .ln tis! t ,p
)h d t' • sira 'r
,
pray l c un t.l It
T 5
1
::earn of e`pTrt+. She sot 'rsr ilorvn ben& 1 is jest over the tray, cried Ruth, taf:a•
her our. plate at tine c•f the :lisle, t tisett,dly,
anti the other beside his. at the foot, i Mr. ,Tones took his hat, and immedl'
'!hen anter ,•triad to tirec, kitr''.eu f--er1ately attended Ruth.
something c l -o. 1 They found Thugsen extended on the
As ‘,..,on as tIre 1.s1 r;,ft the "mmi'm. (!•freer, itith,vl in a cold sweet, and neer.
Tlauasss ere'rt to the teb'.e sed po:'red ly speechless thr:,urh exhaustion,
the *entente of the lit'.1e vial tato her ('1Ss be semhttied.).
whole at on:e. `Never rnul.e two 1)itee
at at cherry.' Yen. I think, have. mangle
ten at this, awl have not £tnielsed it
yet. Come, imat more?"
"The sheath."
"Oh, i i, Ta, i,a! this tensa will tor-
tsinly In Wie clean of mire! ha, ha, Lt.!
Well. what t.lboutthe qt ,cat
?
"
"The night upon tvnicls yea mime to
Ise at tl:e cermet. at C1relsea, you ihroty
intt your cert talon the bedroom floor, I
teak it up to hemp; i', • "
"As you u nal him to hang its owner,"
Interposed 'i'hmmr e^ it, with a !aril:mill
laugh.
to
,.
As I raised it 1.:).s ." c ituif :t'r}
front the peetmel; I st i ]sal to see what
it was, and i i1:rd tie the empty sl:t.,th
o flour Sntl.i..e Toted l.udpimsmd; it was
emoted t1•:{ t. iv ei"i ,r:e-d ir'ao1 -
"it l: y tt ' t*c I,: ,t ,i ,i y mr u -t speak
it It at the tit,:P. then!" interrupted
Tbu�acn.
"Rammer trm..+f:: r ; re. When I tec my -
e nd, the pie of oty faculties, 'feet bet
Products
Libby's Corned Heel
fttlsIa
is motile with tt.e enact satisfying Savor
you enjoy so sits it.
I'me "red Gat.] Its lana select Deed
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A Delicious lush f•ce alulck Cw
(r i' Ree iash w pilr
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Ainsistnna n Kort sad
Libby, & Libby
Chicago
char Menzies stroke of the Oxford boat,
was taken 311 immediately 'before the
race.
When it was e•cetr that Menzies could
not possibly ross', Oxford asked permits -
Mon to put lit a substitute. Cambridge
positively refined, giving its a reason
that it e. ;ablished it had precedent,
which would, afterward be en excuse for
the wholesale drafting of igen. 'I'hrn
Oxford decided to row with moven mcg,
To this the Cantata objeoteed, and ap.
pealed to Lord (bsmmrys, who woe that re•
force, to know if they were compelled .
to rorty against revert ]nen. Me lordship
derided there was no ruling on the mat.
ter, mud promptly ordered tutu rare to be
rowed, !I"hcrcupon Oxford .pluckily
hashed to the startin; line with seven
oars,
Never ranee at, Ttculoy ways there drain
cxcitelncamt and Oxford won by a length.
the ..r
After t r race the souvenir 3ntntern
literally tore the clothes rn
fF the oarsmen
and in many ports or T'in„i!-rad today
bits of the raps end shirt - are lrllgbly
treasured, The lu•raident'o rhfir at the
Oxford Ilidrerrity Boat tllub is metre ;
out of rt Seetiott of the otownie s et!at,
while the two raid 'of the heart and lit
flirt
o.Nn dolt Of Lady1
V
4
ire
r, llfr.
tr 1r
„.
t"n•e watt f 1 t t{ ty y(vara vicar ttl 1't 1
RIM], in 1"a.+.rx. earth f it t.erm years chatp•
lain of the Tititialr Ttns"biterey at Paris.
just Whit $he Wanted,
Mr. fiabpealdr When we are ima rtie
yen shall want for nothing.
Miss flotroir- Put I want nothin- new•,
Mr, f'tnph.',l,ie Then take ms. dire•
dalpiaie TAtterd.
a•♦
Always There is a Green Bug.
(Ottawa, Kan., Herald.)
The shrewdest observers of erawraining
have noticed that something happen about
every so often to retard the success of every
given crap. And those who have applied
their observations to larger fields have dis-
covered that lean years and fat years rum
with unvarying regularity, measured in cycles
of fifty years or so. Success Is largely a
matter of averaging. No crop is always .•ue-
cessfully grown, no Judgment is always, co: -
met on a business deal -no business meet
continually a brisk market and a fair margin
of profit. There is always a green bug to
cut down results and to Instill by hie in-
dustrious gnawing an admonition on the on -
wisdom of getting gay.
♦r►
Miftard's Liniment Lumberman's Friend.
a-•
Compensation in City Life.
Life in the city is often hard, and who
does not yearn for the sylvan dells and
the lowing of the ox -eyed kine and to
pick the oxeye daisies? But there are
compensations. The farm well is some-
times more deadly than the imperfect
water supply of the city. The stagna-
tion of a country life is often the cause
of as much carking care as the activity
that wears and grinds. The country
dweller, too, frequently neglects his den-
tist and physician and the sanitary pre-
cautions which the urbanite must take.
The city dweller is adjusting himself to
his ]habitat Intelligent and we predict
that he will survive. --Philadelphia Led-
ger.
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Ancient and Modern Builders.
Work on the restoration of the Cam-
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year 'because critics 'charged that the
methods adopted were inartistic and the
material used was inferior. One wonders
after reading of the exhaustive inquiry
which consumed a twelvemonth whether
the precautions taken will result in as
durable a job as the original, concerning
whish there probably never was a ques-
tion raised owing to the foot that the
men who bossed things in the middle
ages were disposed to look upon slgiimt-
ing work in public buildings as a crimin-
al offense. San Francisco Republic.
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