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Show Affirm That, BY gARY gEVEREUX tied i WITH Vota r CHAPTER XVIII. to Sthj a: the Db. t li mi r ILLUSTRATIONS ol us c V11- - hoy, replied Napole, all his old air of afTection, and tapping the shoulder upon which one of his hands still rested, when you have reached my years you will know better than to waste time and thoughts In useless regrets. Let the past go, Jean, my lad, and look only into the future. The emperor resumed his seat, and resting his hands upon the arms of the chair, stared straight before him, while Lafltte stood looking down at the seated form. And may I not do something for you? urged Lafltte, making a final appeal. No no. Go, you and Greloire; you must leave me, for I feel it unwise that you remain another moment. You can do nothing nothing, for me. But I am glad to have seen you both of you; and I thank you, Jean, my valiant ghost from the past, for your offer and your love. The emperor, as he spoke, leaned forward In his chair; and there was a caress in his smile and tone, as well as in his touch upon Laflttes hand. "If ever a time should come, Sire, when 1 can serve you, may I have the honor and happiness of receiving your commands? was asked longingl- many years longed to see, was that of pain. sensation jrst was gone, lost form' The slender middle-Ipersonality of the stout, d In a lounging who, man, chair, looked at Lafltte F as at an entire trelessly coldly, f d velvet--ushlone- Burroi Oi Ige, Dlt Forak s resolv d meant itor it to tit hat Sen by i nate fc 'or ttu 0 appearance and attitude bore that It was Greloires remark, was slid the emperor herent to everything." face and 0f the listless dicated R ed HIs rat affirm, Pettit, strangely InEvery line relaxed form this. approached and a faint smile lightened Nadu's repellent expression, and he I am Greloire, aaid graciously, and to know that pleased to see you, forgotten one who ,ou have not In more prospthought highly of you erous days. Who Is this you bring is the bowed low, you? Sire, Captain with bridge, Bailey itod by ilston ot on there were at Burrow, liver am ns. halrmai t whict r tone eting ot be dose ttee will expected the Fora form ot will be to voted t DON C. WILSON 7ut;, and Greloire were pt,en Lafltte hered Into Napoleons cabinet, and ie formers eyes fell upon him he i for go state BY Jean Lafltte, of Louianswered Greloire, after a siana, noments hesitancy; and Lafltte, coming forward, bowed respectfully. "Jean Lafltte," Napoleon repeated slowly, looking, not at the former, hut "I have heard the name at Greloire. before, but not to the wearers credit. and his voice ask you, Greloire," y- "And you would come to me? Come to you? said Lafltte, In a ook i yet Icier note, you, who are tone so emphatic that the emperor made a gesture of warning. kij sponsor, why Captain Jean Lafltte, Yes, dare present himself Sire, through all the ships England of Louisiana, before me? might seek to Interpose." If this be so, Jean, then perhaps I Jean Lafltte, will answer your Lafltte, of you may some day hear from me. question. Sire; I, Jean And I say to the man Meanwhile your adopted country (and Louisiana! and I hope I may some time see It) Is at (bom my boyish heart adored, war with England, my most implac whom my mans heart loves, that I able enemy; and the conflict may af lire present myself to him because I have ships, gold, men, at my com- ford you an opportunity for freeing the name of Lafltte from obloquy. mand, and all these, with my own for And, when this Is done, I would ask life, ire his, If he can find use of you to assume again your rightful yn. ifbere was a short silence, and one name the one belonging to your fa Under are queen simaP 1 d flash ?as like ttlefleli reckage the id, and ot a In the humadi her d idy was and was ing was palace ljutants er sent the vie-t- con-er- Jean Lafltte, will answer your question, Sire. seemed heavy, after the passion-it- s thers title and estates. voice had ceaBed. "My father's name and estates, Then an Icy tone made Sire? Surely these are but phantoms sharp contrast aa the said, These ships, men, and of the past, with which I, Jean flli. Captain lafltte how Is It that can have no connection." M come to have them? The speculative eyes turned a smilUfltte found It difficult to control ing glance upon him as the emperor klmself to make his voice and bear said, It Is scarcely a safe thing to I accord with the respect he felt, aver what may or may not lie In the of cl had but now expressed, for the future. You, who seem so desirous me whose sarcastic calm turned serving me cannot you promise ch the impetuous torrent of his this? feelings. But the tone In which he ' Indeed, yes, Sire, was the fervent to touch spiled was quiet, although husky answer as the speaker bent !th with his Ups the hand pressing his repressed emotion. 'Despite, Sire, the tales which have own. Be It so. Now" and the clasping Started my name and acta, and released Its hold "you must klch I hand perceive have reached your me; and be sure to remember leave to prejudice you I against roe, that you remain with Murler wish that what 1 have of property my hear from me. Good night, until you Personally gained by legitimate Good night. Jean. Greloire. fns-- ln trading, and also by warThe gray eyes and dark ones ex hlch was perfectly honorable of part Its way. I have come with the changed a last fleeting glance Greloire from I, iS. tbsl Not uld em-W- La-fltt- it the Friday t fired id with omnilt- - ie Met-m- bad left liich h i ob- mill my is re- he th in ). fitr'b- - r erlcani inane. here, copper Th r. ed that authoP uslnl i great th j iroo i of th wage re V owi heart for whose love you once to pray that you let me serve K I J1 roy. and die happy. In win--icback the peace of mind a reck-bothrew away. new light swept like a softening crosB Napoleon's austere face. 7 Captain Lafltte, you are right," he w with an entire change of voice J Banner. He extended his hand; Unite, with a rush of new emo-- . bowed deeply, and pressed It h 1 fl y HpS, he Kra raised his head, the emperor's tightened their clasp, and he to his feet. Asian whose heart can treasure 7 ulltti w ury. t ator rreeted oghia fODld , denf n, during all these Is surely one who should "r misjudged. he said, looking t1 younger man's face; y., surely not by me, and at such aft the present." ttcred the Anal words he ls "mi around 'k,ii nnd embraced him. I during nionef word. s uto f"r tinder fhnrgloratuf ite J e, d slon oo es, Ivory-painte- y Mayor m open the pucket Then I must you something that has escaped myj mind until now." Breakfast was soon despatched; and,., after thanking Madame Teche for her hospitality, her guests took their leave, pursued, until out of hearing, by voluble farewells aud urging to come again. Murler walked with them tq the beach, which they found deserted, with the full tide rolling In over the pebbled sand In a hushed way, as If Its mood were depressed. Lafltte, drawing a scarlet handkerchief from his pocket, waved It above his head; and the master of the replied with a speedy hul-lo- a that came faintly across the water. The fisherman beached his boat near Greloire, who now called to them, and stood watting as they strolled along to Join him. The captain of the smack was easily Induced to land his passengers on the French coast; and they were scarcely under way before the former, asking Greloire to accompany him, went below, to open the package. It was somewhat bulky, and as his fingers broke the last wrapping, a collection of papers, some of them discolored by years, others evidently of more recent date, fell upon the cabin table. And In their midst shone the dull gold frame of an d miniature. For a second Lafltte stared at this; then, picking It up, he looked Intently at the gypsy-llk- e face of the portrait. "Ah, mon Dleu! How came the emperor by this?" he cried chokingly, the sight of the beautiful face, which Margot had taught him to love as the mother whom he had never known, making the past more real than the present, Greloire, who was lighting a cigar, said dryly, "Examine the papers, and if they do not tell you, perhaps I can' do so. Lafltte glanced at them hurriedly. They comprised his parents' marriage-certificatand all the other papers, together with the jewels, that had been in the small iron box so many years ago. There were also more recent papers, showing that the property in Languedoc had been released from sequestration, and held in trust by Napoleon, emperor of France, for Jean, son and heir of the Baron , and sometimes known as Jean Lafltte, of Louisiana, In North America." All the documents were there, showing in detail the legal proceedings, In--, stltuted and perfected under the Con-- 1 sulate, and confirmed under the Empire. As the last paper fell from his. hand, Lafltte burled his face In his crossed arms amid the heap of precious things upon the table. All the past was rolling in upon him, a sea of living reality, so distinct; and intense that the present appeared' dim and vaporous. What had, but last night, seemed, to him legitimate In the light of hig every-daworld, as he met its events, when con-- ) now looked honor-stainefronted with the appealing sweetness of the pictured face that had represented to his boyhood all that was best and purest, and the present sight of which had brought so vividly before his mental vision the dimmed face of faithful Margot, and that proud, stately man he had known as father, of whom be could recall no word or act dictated by other than a sense of the highest honor toward his fellows. And Bonaparte, the idol of his youthful heart, but for so many years doubted and mistrusted, be had obtained and treasured these proofs of the wayward boys position as that father's son and heir, while the son himself was risking In alien lands the sacrifice of his rightful name and heritage! silence kept him An anguished mute; and Greloire. as If understand ing this, said nothing. (To be continued.) "Sire. lhe0m3r km"' k0 lng as Lafltte, following the room, paused an Instant In the doorway to look back. lafltte, quartered In one of Madame chambers, slept Teche's dlmity-hunmtle that night. He reviewed again and again the meeting with Napoleon, of until his brain was In a turmoil banished sleep. that thought If the emperor would go to Amerbe the ica, might not he, lafltte. In safoty there him of means getting went to It was late when Greloire of the footsleep, still half conscious to his own, next steps In the room standing and he awoke to see lafltte hr h! bedside. sun It Is scarcely an hour after disturb to I regret and rise, Greloire, has Just left a you. But a messenger me. with package emP wr. written message from the the is I leav and you that as possible. tnnd now as speedily his So? said Greloire, rubbing I leave that best U Then It eves g emotions spoke la that grateful tirt confidence snd ne can realise better wyiHf how grave was the mis-no. man would make d scrlflcrg to undo It." can What do you suppose this? meaning of t nu "Walt, mon ami: 1H1ENKY 0HN Q$ BY HUGH McHUGH (George Y, Hobart) IN THE BEANERY. HAND-PAINTE- Of course If a fellow has a lady friend that's a dead ewell looker he's always anxious to grab her by the elbow and leau her in among the rest of the promenaders. I'm out to wager two or more seven-doil&- r bills that when it comes to face and form my lady friend has the rest of the bunch looking like the wallflowers ai a Choctaw cotillion. She's the tag from the starter. Shes the only mirror on the mantle-piece believe me! 1 took her down the lane to one of those swell grub station! the other night and since then every time I thins about It I feel like getting up and ordering myself out of the room. Being somewhat of a money hater myself, of course Im' wise to enough pikers to fill a ploughed field. Just as sure as I stride into a fancy feed-storwith nothing on my mind but a desire to act like a gentleman and buy hot cookieB for the Best and Only Im doomed to meet a bunch of sawdust sports who want to leave their own tables and associate with me. Of course they only do it Just because they have elastic In their necks. They expect an Introduction to the Beautiful Girl and after getting it theyve figured It out to hand her a line of conversation that will charm her to a standstill and make the Man shes With look like a dried apple. And every mother'! son of them talks like hed been struck In the grammar by a ferryboat. Anyway, I took my lady friend to a the other evensumptuous ing for dinner. Ive just ordered worth off the card and we're e soup-hous- e four-dollar- 's beansitting there .n the ery chatting pleasantly and waiting for the 'longshoreman to Journey back with the oysters. Up to our tarna comes Able hand-painte- d Sluice-berge- r. Able hae a great pull all along the line because the picture of an uncle of his nung In the Hall of Fame for nearly an hour before the janitor got on to it and threw It out. Able puts a hand on each corner of the table and leans over with all the grace peculiar to a soft shell crab. Hello, John Henry!" says Able. I bow and give him a Klondike grin, but he ducks and comes up happy. Eatln'? Inquires Able. No, Able," I answered, Just to put him wise to the fact that a swift walkaway would do us all good. No; were not eating We just dropped In to play a few hands of bridge whist with the waiter and hes gone to get a deck of cards. We never come Into a restaurant to eat. Usually we drop lo during the rush hours and help the HATCHERY WORK - Nearly a Million Young Fry Turned Out This Season in New fork Hatchery, ON BUTTING IN SOME PRANKS OF LIGHTNING. Fantastic Tricks Played Upon Unfoe-tunat- e Victims. One of the fantastic tricks which lightning plays upon its unfortunate victims Is a kind of flashlight photography. There are numerous in stanres of this which are more or lesa authenticated." hut they seem almost too wonderful to he believed. One of these Is of a young man In New Jersey who was struck by lightning and was taken In an ambulance to the to be hospital at once. There seemed no wound except a small mark on the back, hut while the doctors and nurses were examining him a picture Soon began to develop on the skin. before the wondering eyes of the watchers appeared a perfect picture of the figure of Christ nailed to the eross. The explanation Is that on the wall opposite the bed on which the which young man lay was the picture skin. his on was reproduced Another instance Is of a man who was atruck by lightning, and on his chest were red marks resembling the tree with all Us branches under which was the man was standing when he killed. From France comes the story of a peasant girl who was driving I. wal cow from the pasture when she overtaken by a storm, and she and A the cow took refuge under the tree. holt killed the cow and stunned the consciousgirl. When she recovered a picture ness she found on her ehest of tho cow she had been driving. ol. The chatelaine of the castle llenatonnalre was sitting In a chair chateau was In her salon when the struck bv lightning. She was quite back of her uninjured, but on the of the dress was found perrert copy nittliifc born hlch on ehnlr ornament. These down to Mi minutest strange prnnki the many of few sre r"n ua- which lightning play AQUARIUM and fork and gave me the etatled gaze. I never whimpered. Oh, scold me! scold me! "Lord Hope! saye she. "Why, John Henry, you never told me you knew Lord Hope!" "Didn't I? 1 eays; "my! my! how thoughtless! Well! that's Ills Lordship all right, all right! Clara Jane thought a while and 1 carved my initials on a silver of celery. "But you called him Able! aaya she, after a pause. "Sure thing!" I says; "what else? Want me to call him Mose or Rosey or Meyer or Ikey? He's not Irish." 'I cant Imagine an English nobleman being called Able, aays my lady friend, for ahes a first rate Believer by nature, but a Doubter when the dice roll her to feel just about I was begi-ui- ng aa happy as a egg, but 1 was In up to my neck and I couldnt holler for help. "Englishmen have queer names, esSay! won't you pecially noblemen. have a charlotte russe or an apple fritter? It'll do you good! I says, hoping to swing the conversation close enough to the shore so that I could jump off aud take to the timber. My finish was ringing tne door belL Just then Mike McGuire etrolled Into the neighborhood and wanted to hang up his hat on my hook. Once In a while Mike breaks into a theater and tries to act till some one catches him with the goods. Then he apologizes, backs out of hie harness and is up and away to the swamps. "Good evening! aays Mike, pushing out the familiar list I'm right back at him with a short-arnod of recognition, and In a minute I'm busy with my beans. "Feedln, I see! says Mike, wishing to show my lady friend that his powers of observation are strictly hard-boile- Very nearly 100,000 little fishes their number computed at 998,000, to be exact have been batched out In the Aquarium's model hatchery thus far In the present seasou, the last to be turned out to date being a big lot of yellow perch, some of these from eggs of specimens In the Aquarium, and some fron, eggs received from the state fish hatchery at Cold Spring Harbor, says the New York Sun. These yellow perch will be used for restocking with this species the waters in the city parks, and many have already been placed In the lake iu Prospect Park. Next before the yellow perch hatched out here In the present season, were a large lot of salt water smelts, these also from eggs received from the Cold Spring hatchery. The salt water smelt goes up Into Inlets In the spawning season, and like the shad, for Instance, up streams to spawn. The young smelts hatched out In the Aquarium's hatchery were put over the Battery sea wall immediately back of the building Into the Hudson. Before the liberation of the young smelts there had been sent out from here for planting in various state waters, all hatched In the Aquariums hatchery, young whlteflsh, rainbow trout, lake trout and hump-backsalmon. Among eggs yet to be plared In the hatchery in the present seasoii are pike perch eggs from Vermont, black spotted trout eggs from South Dakota, and the eggs of grayling trout from . Montana. The Aquariums hatchery, with its eggs seen in hatching troughs and Jars, and Its hatched out young fishes In various stages of development In troughs and banks, is an object of unfailing Interest to visitors. el BODY WIRELESS VEHICLE. The Human Anatomy Used aa a Transmitter of Electrical Waves. The body as a wireless telegraph transmitter and receiver was recently displayed by Prof. Ovlngton, of Bos- ton. He performed a number of experiments with high potential and high asfrequency currents, substituting hie sistant's body for the usual vertical conductor. The current from the machine passed through the body, whence the energy was radiated as waves in the ether. The potential and frequency of tne oscillations were much in excees of those employed commercially, and hence the waves radiated were exceedingly short It was Prof. Tommaalnl, of Geneva, who first dem- onstrated that the human body could successfully for an be substituted home-made- . aerial of the Bams length and caI gave him a look that I figured It Is not so good a conwould comb hie hair, but hes out to pacity. ductor as are the metals, hut this Is make a deep Impression on Clara Jane offset by the fact that a current of so my haughty expression didnt finish penetrates the skin by frequency high one, two, three. M. small fraction of a millimeter. a Before I can get back from the Emile Guarlnl, of Brussels, actually breakaway I find him reciting the sad sent messages through space by constory of his life and watching my lady nection of one human body to the friend to see if she enjoys light literapositive side ot a spark gap, and anture. , human body to one terminal of other "Oh, yes," says McGuire, "I do so the coherer. love th stage. Ive been pitying the Provinces for eighteen weeks as HotIn Lazy Climates. spur, the Boy Hero, In Ben Hur, and and Northern American European I waa the hit of the show! la rather 'shy of California emigration Two to one he was out doing the and our eastern gulf states because potato plantations with a No. 3 Unc. they are lazy climates. With ell its Tom Cam. Co. to work, the human race About all that guy could mix with aversion the wants option of being able to la a parcel of Uncle Tommers. A country where In the growwork. four Finally, after writing about aeaaon a man la life lines ing and ripening chapters and getting his toll all through crossed with George ' Washington, forced to Intermit hie and where there of the middle the day Manny Friend, John McCullough and summer twilight to compenTod Sloan, he begins to notice that Is no long the wind is blowing chill across the sate for the noonday heat will never wild moor ao he signals the conductor attract' a large permanent Immigration. For the lazy climates are cliand hops off the wagon. "Who was that? inquiries my lady mates without a twilight There is a between twilight friend, as McGuire ambles back to bis distinct relation N. Y. Mall. racial and energy. hours own table. "That, I saye; "Oh! that wai the Hope of the Bald. Earl of Yarmouth." I can always tell a man this time Clara Jane handed me a swift Is losing his hair," said a glance, then she patted her hat pins of year who street car conductor. "They always and grabbed her gloves. "Cnie along, John Henry!" aays ride- with their hats off where the sun she, King Edward will be here In a will beat down on them and the wind minute and after what Ive read about blow their scanty locks about Every him I dont think I care to meet him. man that Is getting baldheaded Imagines If he could go bareheaded long Let's go home." In the open air the heal of enough In a whisper. She wins It'll take three weeks to square my- hair of his youth would come back." Kansas City Times. self. Hereafter, me to Dennetta! Me to Bcotts Works. the stack o' wheats symposium where modern writers Sir Walall the Of the rest of the entries stick to their stalls. Where the outside conversa- ter Scott has the largest place In that tion ie confined to Draw one! and gigantic work, the British Museum catalogue. Scott has a larger number "Boll two, meejuml" of entries under the name than any more Sandwich swell for Salons No me, where the grafters want to butt in other author save Shakespeare, who has two volumes devoted exclusively all the while. to him. Oh! scold me! scold me! m - LORD HOPE." proprietor peel the oysters. On this occasion, however, we're out for dickens of a spree so we ve decided to play bridge with the waiter." "Quit your joshln', John Henry! aya Able; "you're getting to be worse bidder than Bill McConnell! After a while Able notices that It's up to him to fondle a fierce frost, so he backs out Who's your friend?" Inquires Clara Jane, after Able had moseyed away. Now, you know, a fellow can't con feu to the Original Package ot Sweetness that hea entered In tho same race with a lot of IS goats. On tha level, now, can he? It was my cue to make a Big Play, 1 had to get gabby and make Clara Jaae believe 1 associated only with Torrid Tamatee. And did 1? Oh! ask me easy Just to tease met Who! that?' I says, after I fished for a few French fried potatoes; why that' Iird Hope." My lady friend dropped her knife (Copyright, 1901, by O. W. Dillingham Co.) Effect of Beer Drinking. It Is our observation that beer drinking In this country product the very lowest kind of Inebriety, closely allied to criminal Insanity. The most dangerous ruffians In our large cities are Recourse to beer as a beer drinkers. substitute for other forms of alcohol merely Increase, the dangers and fatality. Scientific American. Add Hominy Wafers. one-hal- f pint cooked hominy to a batter made of two cupfuls flour, , one teaspoonful one and one fourth cupfuls milk, one tahlepsoonful molted butter, onehalf tcaspoonful salt, three eggs beaten separately; run through a coarae sieve and bake la hut, greaaed waffle baking-powder- Iron. Big Bag. Eva Catharine used to he quite a nimrod. Edna Ah, Indeed! Did she ever hag any big game? "I should eay so. Her huaband weighs 318 pounds." Chicago Dully News. No Possibility of Mistake. Gladys 1 low did Flossie Skimmer-horn- s linen shower turn out? Maybelle It was a complete failure. A nasty little drizzle kept nearly everybody from going. Chicago Tribune. Not Neat Yeast lie hna a lot of rich relatives, 1 believe, but they are all distant relatives, 1 hear. Crlmsonhenk Yts, loo distant for, Yon kcre Sutvamu, him to touch. 5 , |