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Show THE MISSING MAN Iarliamrutartj iCatit as a (Smt fur Unman a Sail urmprr By MARY R. p. HATCH Author of "The Bank Tragedy" OwrifUi By MRS. CORA WELLES TROW. President Post Parliament Club, New York. PI AKU AMENTAHY law is the logical antidote for bad temper. Angrj passions, however vivid, once subjeetcil to the Its first nline entailed hv its use in argument, are calmed. . of the thought proper ordering requirement ie people, vko counted ICO before they spoke, in moments of stress, were not far wrong. In this latter day no one can possibly consider the parliamentary points at issue and at the The two are absolutely same time give rein to wrath. ed The misconception that exists in the mind of the average clubwoman in regard to the use of parliamentary law would be amusing "We are a club of ladies." said one club president. Mere it not pathetic. "We create an atmosphere of courtesy, and parliamentary law would be a discordant note" Yet the pity of it is that this same club has provided countless stories for the papers on account of its unseemly wrangles. When parliamentary law reigns discord is unknown. Every club reweak and incapable, is flects the spirit of its presiding oflicer. When she If the president the club becomes lawless and the members be a strong character, the club becomes a tool for the carrying out of her individual will and loses all standing as a organization. '"I want such a matter passed," said a president recently, "passed without discussion," and it was. CHAPTER X Continued. "It is hard on you. if you were not to blame." "Yes, but no one else ought to suffer." Vane said bis wife, "will you tell us why you went away?" The children had now retired and the three sat alone together. "I went on business. Did I not tell you so?" "Yes, you told me so; but that does not explain why you went away every and Stayed May since our marriage two weeks. You know and I know that there was a secret reason for your going " "The same reasons for not telling you are still in force. The secret is would tell not my own. If it were yon. Hut the time will come when can tell you. For the present is It too much to ask thai a wife trust her has band'"" Constance turned away as if unsatisfied, but in a moment said in a low tone: "vOU recollected the children's commissions, but did you not forget mine?" "Did I? Was it not myself I was to bring?" She did not answer. "Was there anything else? If so, I have forgotten." "You have not brought the same sen that you took away." she cried, passionately. "You are not the same." He started to his feet as if stung bj her words, but was calm in a moment, and answered reasonably and kindly "Is not the defect in you. Constance'' I see none in myself. I feel the same toward you. It is you who are changed." He arose and looked for his hat anil gloves. "I will go to the hotel for the present. Is that your wish, Constance?" She bowed her head and murmurei to be something about "changes made." "What do you mean, Constance, by turning a man out of his own house in this way?" burst forth her uncle, as soon as he was gone. "Uncle Carter." said Constance, fae- 1 e. In clubs, and in clubs alone, woman has the best opportunity our age In many instances we see presents for developing her individuality. her following the example of the other sex and cheerfully submitting to boss rule, under which she becomes a machine lor the carrying out of a will not her o h. Parliamentary law teaches us. first, to discuss no question until it is logically stated; second, that only one person can speak at one time: third, that both sides must be heard before any conclusion can be reached. And this conclusion is the demonstration of the principle upon which our government is founded the carrying into execution of the will of the majority. Where procedure is enforced no one member is able to take up the time of the club by stating her views on a question not under consideration. And by thus sifting out extraneous matter and keeping to the subject in hand many pitfalls are avoided and emotions left unsounded. most T original writer is a pioneer only in the matter of expresHe simply voices sion. what is in the world about him. The secret of the success of "The Lion and By CHARLES KLEIN. the Mouse" lies in the fact that it presents a conof the the commercial instinct fighting the spiritual nature. dition times In his elemental state man is always lighting himself, his lower side in It is simply the underlying truth revolt, his higher in continual warfare. of humanity brought up to date. All drama is conflict. People love that more than anything else. Bmtt nf &mttB8 will draw when a play will not. Just now it is especially to to watch man adjust himself quickly changing conditions; interesting in them is material for many dramas. There is no one who applauds the hero on the stage so much as the In proportion as you lack a quality do you adcoward in the audience. mire its representation in another. In my opinion the great plays and the great books will be written When our plutocracy forms an when the leisure class is a certain unit. aristocracy, as it surely will, there will always be a submerged tenth, there The man who is representative of will always be the laboring masses. our commercial classes is neither a thinking nor an unthinking man. He is essentially the man of action, and acts from impulse. He obevs an intuitive power; he doesn't stop to reason and come to logical deductions : he has no time. Socialism means to him anarchy, which it is not, and he does not want it. There are two classes who do want socialism the and the masses thinkers, students, writers, unthinking who want anything that will change their lot: but these two classes have nothing to say about it. It is the commercial man who decides, and he it is in time will form Rixin the leisure class. in.1 Mi. parti you shall live your own life until such a time as you can truly feel that you love me as you once did. I want to be near the children. want to be near you. Constance. May 1? May I have the rootu next to your uncle's?" "Yes." "And will you try to love me again?" he aked gently, yet with an eagerness he could noi quite conceal. "I.ove cannot he foned." 6he an swered. "Bui it will come in time if yon will let it." But suddenly, evidently recollecting some resolution he had made, ne cheeked himself and said no more, while Constance sat idly turning over the leaves of a book until she saw the bank officers coining up the street. Then she arose to go. President Hart well and eight trustees with Tony Osborn. soon entered. The new cashier, or treasurer, was not present. Mr. Hamilton's manner was very cordial and easy. Well as the several gentlemen thought they knew him. they were not prepared for so much composure and freedom from nervousness. A rumor of lost identity as the sequel of his mysterious absence had already reached them, early as it was in the. day; and they were, therefore, prepared to listen without interruptions or exclamations, until he had finished the tale up to the awakening of his dormant perceptive faculties, which had occurred, he said, but a short time previous to his return. There was a silence of many seconds ere any one spoke. At last Mr. Hart-wel- l said, cautiously: "Did you say your memory had returned to you?" remember all of my "Not fully. past life, I think, now, with the exception of the brief lime when the suspension in my ordinary faculties took place." "You came to yourself in Seattle, you say?" "Yes." "Can you give us addresses there where we may be able to learn corrob-ativ- e facts. Mr. Hamilton?" "1 can give you addresses of the 1 4A in piagiurtttng A ISWS, I,j prize-fig- ht ' Amrrtran (Sirl in Okanit ($jirra By MARIE LUKSCH, of Vienna Conservatory of Music. In the American girl students at the Vienna Conservatory ways found I have reason al- to take particular delight. I find a tendency in New York to deprecate the achievements of your women in music, but we have no such feelineThe American girl is different from her sisters of any other land abroad. and the difference is greatly in her favor. We have young women pupils from Bohemia. Hungary, Croatia, Italy, and. of course, from all over my own fJcrniany. Many of the girls of European countries have exquisite natural voices and most graceful carriage, but none of them is as quick in catching a thought or as ready to take hold of a suggestion as the American girl. She seldom has to lie told twice, her mind is wonderfully alert, and she And withal she has the temis always seeking and finding the short way. soul. the perament, - am firm in the belief that the American girl will some day lead in opera if and there is an important if she will but cultivate the patience to delve deeply, and the immortal dissatisfaction with everything but the best. For that is the one fault of the average AmerShe reaches results with great rapidity, and thus is too ican student. soon satisfied with them, while her more plodding sisters of the old world go on in travail to finer heights of feling and beauty. I the world your American skyscrapers must have large and solid foundaso must the musician build with care and infinite pains a foundations, tion of profound understanding. As 'I am a most unhappy woman," she sobbed, ing anout and setting down her lamp, for she had started to retire, "1 don't feel quite sure that it is Vane." "Are you crazy, Constance?" "I say have a doubt. At all events he will have to prove his identity, and he will have to tell me why he went away before I receive him. About that I am determined." "What folly is this? Constance, you are a changed woman." To his vexation she burst into an uncontrollable fit of weeping. "1 am a most unhappy woman," she sobbed, "I know that." "Unhappy when your husband, for whom you mourned, has just come back?" She did not answer, but took up her lam) and went to her room, her form shaking with emotion. When there, she sat down, still and quiet now. and thought deeply. Then the sounds of a violin stole across the fields and reached her. though faintly. But she did not raise her window for a moment, as she had sometimes done. She sat still and listened till the sound died away and then she retired. Hut she did not sleep. She lay all night thinking, pondering, wondering, fearing what? 1 CHAPTER XI. A Meeting of the Bank Officers. Mr. Hamilton, for so I shall call him despite the doubts of Constance, evidently had no Intention of deserting his own fireside for hotel precincts. He returned early and breakfasted with the family, much to Mr. Carter's delight and not to the He still redispleasure of his wife mained after Mr. Carter went to his office and the children to school, for a meeting of the bank directors had been called at ten o'clock at his own residence In the hour of waiting there was much serious conversation between husband and wife. At last he said. I have "I can se you doubt me. been gone s long; so many troubles nve intervened they have tended U) vou apart trom rne. Is not that o?" "Perhaps so." The;. I would not have you do to your feelings I will stay here I' is better so for mam reasons; tint vio-nc- e "I know that.' workmen and of the men who owned & Co.; that Is all." The president took down four or five addresses given him by Mr. Hamilton. "No doubt," said Mr Cowdrey, one of the trustees. "You have heard something of the grave charges made against you. Indeed, there is, 1 believe, a warrant out for your arrest." Mr. Cowdrey knew perfectly well that there was. but it was an awkward thing to say to a man in his own house. Mr. Hamilton gave a start. "I did not know that." he said; "but It Is as well, perhaps, that the Invest!, gat ion should be made public. I wish you would tell me exactly how matters stand at the bank." A succinct statement was made by the united accounts of the president and trustees, and by young Osborn, whose position at the bank was nominally that of teller. He was even shown the altered notes, the letter thrust under the president's door, and Mr. Simon Low's Idler in regard to Hamilton's having presented one of tnem to the National Hank in Boston. What could have been harder to bear than this If he were guilty? they thought, as fliey watched him gravely studying the notes and letlers. "The forgery was cleverly done." he "I could said, handing them back. never have detected it any more than jow did. and Low is above suspicion, of course. No doubt the matter Is just as he states It. A man resembling me, doubtless, presented the note." "But it was you who came to the bank, anyway." It. was Tony who spoke, at first, seemingly with a little doubt clinging to his mind. But the anyway he brought out boldly, aimost defiantly, as he looked at Mr. Hamilton, who for a moment lost his composure. He did not answer at once, and when he did the factory. Barnacle It whs in a hesitating way. "I cannot dispute you. Tony Would to Heaven I could. But consider this. If It was I who came there, should I not have come home? would not my footsteps have unconsciously brought M to my own door?" "Perhaps not." said Mr Taylor, a quiet man who had not before spoken. "I have read of Instance "f dual life Memwhere everything Is changed ory is a thing apart from consciousness. It Is said to be a function of matter to be impressed with its owr actions. When an action haa been repeated many times, or even once! strongly, the memory of it becomes stamped upon a little cell of the brain and the stamp dominates the cell. When the stimulant again conies. Ihe cell reacts as it formerly has done. Now here comes the point in question. When the stimulant falls, from overwork or worry or other powerful causes. Ihe cell In useless, the memorj is gone, while other cells continue active, perhaps more so than formerly." Science as applied to a bank robbery was something new and startling to the others. What might not a man dO under these conditions? Atavism was less strange to consider. And yet was it not true that human reason was often Insufficient to sit against the commonest delinquency? The gentlemen sitting about ihe table were non- plussed, all but Mr. Taylor, who had faith in his theory. He. evidently, be- lieved Mr. Hamilton's statement. "But," said he, "in the present state of society there are no provisions made for this sort of lapse, outside of insanity, and a man so afflicted can do no less than suffer the consequences of his acts, however they may have occurred. At least it is not fair for others to suffer. The money, if taken by your own hand, should be refund- NEWS SUMMARY Emilio Dubois of Santlaeo. Chile, wno Is known to have murdered Zva j persons, has been condemned td death. The Torreon branch of the Bank of Coahuils at Torreon. Mexico, was robbed last week of $:'Amhi In gold and bills. The Japanese Buddhists of Southern California have decided to raisd $25,000 for the building of a temple in Los Angeles. has ratified The French Senate the Algeciras convention, which on Dec. 6 was approved by the chamber of deputies. Fair-chilAmerican Vice Consul-fienera- l shot and killed himself at Mukden. It Is believed that the shootaccidental. was ing The shipment of coffee from the port of Bio de JanoJro Is at a standstill, owing to the fact that the stevedores have gone on Btrike. A merger of the loading woolen mills of the south, Involving a capitalization of one and a quarter mil Hon dollars, has been effected. of Hardwick, bill a requirGeorgia, has Introduced ed and" "Mr. Taylor." interrupted the presi- ing all railways to Install the block dent, frowning a little, "are you not a system and providing that every telelittle fast? The matter as il now grapher shall be licensed. stands is of serious import. It will According to a bulletin Issued by A warrant have to be investigated. the Census bureau there had been or was made out for arrest, and was, ginned up to December 13, of this is now, in the hands of Bruce, Ihe detective. It was made out by Justice year's cotton crop 11.099,001 bales, Bailey. Sheriff Gray is away on busi- against 9,297,819 tit this time last year. ness, and Bruce acts as his deputy. Secretary Kent and Sir Mortimer telegraphed Bruce last night, and it is Dtirand have signed a supplementary nearly time," looking at his watch, article to the existing extradition "for him to arrive. You must see that all this naturally follows, Mr. Hamil- treaty between the United States and Great Britain, including bribery In ton." "I see." he replied, a little pale, but the list of extraditable crimes. otherwise composed. "As said, I A dispatch from Tien Tsin decourt the closest inquiry. Points may scribes the situation as critical, owbe evolved which may make it clearer of the South thank Mr. Taylor for his ing to the agitation to myself. owners of and dealers China opium confidence in me, or, rather, for his gambling houses, who are discontented belief in my statement." "Yon must not think we doubt It," as a result of various recent reforms said tin' president, more mildly, "be- and the suppression of the opium cause we say less. There is no other traffic. course open but to let the matter go A bill empowering an Anglo-Frencinto a natural issue. Too much has to construct a tunnel under company already transpired." "You are right, without doubt." said the British channel has been depositIt is estimated Hamilton. "But you must see that to ed with parliament. one, who has been ignorant of any stir, that this scheme will involve the exwho returns to his home, imagining penditure of X 80,000,000. It is proeverything to lie in its normal condiposed to build two parallel tunnels 24 tion, and who is first confronted by his miles long. own monument, then these suspicions John Wllkls, a capitalist of Albia, it is sufficiently confusing." "Certainly it is," said Mr. Taylor; Iowa, Is dead as the result of drink"though, undoubtedly. Mr. Hastings is ing from a bottle of carbolic acid right." mentally thinking that a spe- Which he had mistaken for a bottle cialist on mental derangements would of whisky. He had a bottle of whismost likely he summoned, and the inhidden in the barn, where he also ky and vestigation he no less interesting kept carbolic acid. Wilkle emptied profitable than necessary.; the acid bottle. be continued, (To Joseph Skerns, the former Chicago EGG MEMBRANE A HEALER. dry goods clerk and newspaper man, at Great Bend, Kans., reValuable When Used in Cases of Burn captured after holding up a local bank cently, ing or Ulceration. In broad pleaded guilty and daylight, the of session At a recent Therapen tlcal association of Paris Dr. Amat lec- was sentenced to the state penitentured on the use of the membrane of tiary for a term of from ten to eggs in the treatment of wounds. He twenty-on- e years. has observed for some time the good of sheriff Elliott John Walker, results of placing these membraues committed Arizona, county, reMaricopa upon the surface of wounds and himports two new cases, that of a young suicide at Phoenix by shooting while on the temporher head, a foot, self burn from through girl suffering He had been broodand a man. 4U years old, with a large arily deranged. ulcer on his leg. Both wounds were in ing over financial reverses and over process of healing and were covered his defeat for renomination at the with healthy granulations. 'ast democratic convention. The surgeon overspread them with Habeas corpus proceedings have of the membrane six or eight pieces of eggs, which was covered witli tin been brought in the federal court at foil and fastened with dry antiseptic Kansas City in behalf of Mix. Agnes bandages. After four days the ban- Myers, now confined in jail at Liberdages and tin foil were removed and ty, Mo., under sentence to be hanged it was shown that the membrane of on January 10 for the murder of her the egg had partly grown Into the tisThe United States supreme husband. sues and had caused the growing of a to reopen her case. refused court membrane good skin. That the egg had contributed much to the healing The San Diego chamber of comprocess was demonstrated in the fur- merce is making efforts to secure an ther course of treatment. appropriation of 12,500,000 for the It seems, however, that the mem- purpose of controlling the waters of brane does not always adhere. The the Colorado river and preventing process of cicatrization is not only has them from overflowing Imperial tened, but the wound heals exceptionvalley ally well and leaves hut few pereepti Jjie traces. Fight votes are lacking to place the Prohibition party upon the reguIf He Could. lar ballot at the next New HampIt was the opening day of the sesshire state election, as a result of sion, when everyone was at his Sun the conclusion of the inspection of day best. The Senator, who always wears a short coat and carries his ballots In the recent gubernatorial right hand In his trousers' pocket, contest. wilh his left ready to emphasize his About 2,000 Chinese soldiers from words, by shaking his forefinger, armed with modern weapdoor, Nanking, leaned against the cloak-rootrained ons, by Furnpean officers and meditatively rolling a cigar between accompanied by batteries of field ar-t- j US lipsery, nave proceeded to the front to One of the three best dressed men iti eel the rebels in the Ping Giang the Senate approached. The forefindistrict. ger rose, and the Senator remarked "I have a friend who would give you An Imperial ukase issued by the a hundred dollars for that vest, If he Czar DzeS February 19 as the date for could only set eyeR on It." elections. This the parliamentary "Take me to him at once," said the other. "He shall set eyes on it forth' dOM not apply to the Caucasus, Central Asia and Siberia, wltn and have It C. O. D." "I wish he could." said the Senator the dates for which have not been sadly; "but he's been stone blind for announced. twenty years. "The Sunday Mats John W. Connor, one of the earli zlne. est citizens In Laramie. Wyo , and a veteran of the Civil and Indian wars, Ventilating the Shoes. lask "One thing that most persons with died at his home In Laramie tender feet who Insist upon wearing week from a paralytic stroke, folpatent leather shoes In warm weather lowing a nervous shock during the don't know," said a salesman In a San Francisco eHtthqiiake. Broadway store, "Is that a small hole During a heay fog on the British bored on either side of the shoe, aliom the British steamer Arlingchannel, the to from antl close the sole inch one 1986 tons, collided with and ton, instep, will give them more comfort than all the foot esse powders ever tank the Belgian steamer Cap Juby, The holes pump In the (02 tons, from Antwerp for Newport, manufactured air whib the wearer is walking and off Dungeness Twelve of the 01 W COOl " New York Times of the Cati lubj were drowned. the Representative 1 1 I Trans-Caucasus- . t , |