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Show lngs sacred to the ancestral founder i of the house of Burt 1 Continued. come at this to good very are you the sufferer said. "I spoke to 1 ! thla evening of my dear friend Miss Carden, allow California. W God bless you to present him. .lH And thus they met, after the weary Tenderly laying of years. neht back on the pillows, John lasted Jessies bands and 'looked In CHAPTER XXXIII -- her face. John! Jessie! her In your arms, John! mind me. She loves voice died with a whisper, and, Take Don't Hla vltb a sigh, he closed his long-draw- n net. Hes dying! Call the doctor! exclaimed Jessie, fear and pity chasing He love light from her eyes. Don't send for him, Im all right pleaded Blake, opening his tjei Let me lie here and talk to too. The eight of you two Is better I than all the drugs or instruments. Mlss-Car- have something to tell you I den. promised not to talk, InterrJohn Burt, with a look at which had all the effect of a You upted Blake command. Let me laimed. , say just a word! he excTo see you two together, and to hold your bands in mine after all that has happened, gives me and renewed ambition. new courage The subdued sound of conversation came from the adjoining room. All of faculties seemed Blake's abnorm- ally acute. not 'Is uked. She Is that Ediths ! fn voice? he the other room, said 1 Jessie. her come in, pleaded Blake. a gesture of disapproval. I like to see her, but you tnow best, I suppose, John, he said. Dr. Harkness entered the room and '.paled to John that the Interview 'Let John made should JJQJ) ERN CAPT. in the long summer days Jessies children play about Peter Burts knejs. Nearly five score years have passed over his head. His shoulders are bent, and the voice falters at times, but Ills eyes preserve the spark of their wonted fires. Watched and cared for by those who loVe him, he calmly awaits the of the reaper, Into whose garextending his hand, but any friend coming of my grandson's is welcome to such ner long since have been gathered the atoms of his generation. hospitality as a Burt can ofTer." A few miles away another mansion Aye, aye. sir; Captain Burt! My names Hawkins John Hawkins, and fronts the ocean, James Blake and fair Edith have been blessed with Im coming ashore, said the gentle- his two children and with each others man, stepping from the carriage. love. A boy bears the name Peter Burt grasped him by the of John, roguish and a dainty little miss reshoulders and stared Into his face. sponds to the name of Jessie. James Jack Hawkins! Jack Hawkins, of Blake Is now In fact as well as In the Segregansett! The dead ha come name thd head of the great firm so to life, and God Is good to hi serv- conspicuous in this narrative. In a ant! Forgive me, Hawkins, as He thousand ways he has merited the has forgiven me! confidence reposed in him by John Nothing to forgive, Captain Burt!" Burt. Generous as yet, almost to a exclaimed John Hawkins, heartily, as fault, he has acquired With responsihe grasped the patriarchs hand. You bility that breadth of view and poise dropped me off the Segregansett In of judgment which found its highest the right place and at the right time. expression in the man who made his Destiny orders all these things, and success possible. Retiring from active business when old destiny and I are chums. I'll tell you all about It, Captain Burt, when most men are making a start, John Burt has devoted his time to the we have lots of time.. of statesmanship In Its purest Linked arm in arm the old captain study sense. Political honors have crowded and his first mate entered the wide upon him. There are thousands who door of the Burt farmhouse. share the confident faith of his lov Never had the great oaken table up- Ing wife that the highest place In the held such a dinner. Mrs. Jasper was gift of the shall some day people temporarily supplanted by a chef from crown his career. Boston. Rare old plate came, for the There are frequent reunions In the first time in Johns recollection, from old farmhouse or on the spacious mysterious chests stored away in the lawns surrounding John Burts reel attic. Those who surrcainded the deuce. Once a year Sam Rounds suboard never will forget the invocation perintends a clambake, and John offered by Peter Burt when he blessed Hawkins always manages to be presthe food. The shadows which dark- ent. To the latter's Inquiries conened his life had all been lifted, and cerning the future Mrs. Rounds, Sam the austere cloud passed from hla turns a grinning, untroubled face. features as fog before a quickening No man In Rocky Woods Is a bachgale. elor until he is way past sixty, Sum declares, an Im spry yet as a eolt Glistening In a new coat of paint, In clover. Sometimes Ma Rounds is the Blandish bobbed at the landing a bit doubtful erbout my matrimonial when John helped JeBsie on board. chances, but I has hopes; I still has They had accepted Sam Rounds in- hopes. Edith, may I help you to some vitation to a clambake at Churchill's more of them clams? Jessie, please Grove, and Sam asked all bis old pass young Master Burts plate; its friends and neighbors. For the first empty already. How that boy grows! time In the memory of the living gen- He's coming up like sparrowgrass aferation Peter Burt attended an out- ter a rain. ing. Under the giant pines he sat Mrs. Rounds bustles around, her eyes bright with the Joy of being busy. You set down, Ma Rounds, com mands Sam in a hopeless tone. "You set right down and let us young folks wait on the table. I can't break her of workln, John; I I wan, I Just cant do nothin with her. Well," raising a glass of sparkling cider, heres God bless all good people, an happy days tew all of ye! (The End.) HARD "John!" amt end. Blake gallantly Jessies hand to his lips. Good-bye- , 'Jeaaie! raised until Im better," he said, You And John have !most gaily. ttved my life. with John Hawkins and told and listened to tales of the sea. The Standlsh pointed iur bow out towards Minor's Light, and picked her way between threatening rocks. Under the shadow of Black Reef John dropped the anchor and watched the line until It became taut as the Incom lng tide swept them near the rocks. Above his head he could see the spot where he had knelt as a boy and listened to Peter Burt while he prayed to the God who ruled the storm. For John escorted Jessie to the door, Wpered a few words and returned to Blake's aide. You're a god, John! said Blake, h a low tone. You are the only nn In the world worthy the love of web a woman." It Is merciful to draw the curtain wer the two hours which followed. some minutes no words were spoken. M last a moment Do you remember the last time we come when the Pave face of Dr. Ilarkness was were here, JeBsie?" he asked. touched with a smile of professional Yes, John," , without raising her Pride, as he drew from an Incision a eyes. Do you remember what I said to fattened, jagged piece of lead. The Ntlent glanced at It with paln-dl- s you that day. Jessie?" toted eyes, and then sank Into a I I think I do, John." It may top, the awakening from which have been the reflection of the sun, nt so much In deciding for life but a touch of crimson came to her w death. It was a long time ago, cheeks. John, and perhaps I've forgotten just CHAPTER XXXIV. what you said. Can you repeat it? An arm reached out and the little The End. hand was firmly clasped. Peter Burt stood by the gateway I told you that I loved you, Jessie," d shaded his eyes with his hand he said. The Imprisoned hand made he gaxed down the road. Two no I told you attempt to escape. ,eks before that day he had that love was my Inspiration; that his first letter from John. It that no woman on earth should share falefly and modestly recited the story that no matter whatever befell his struggles and of his success, It; sunshine or rain, happiness or you id ended with an account of the sorrow that my ambition was to see togedy which resulted In the death you showered with all the blessings of Arthur Morris and the wounding God can grant to a good woman; I of Blake. said that If a day came when I had The old fashioned clock had sound-th- e a right to ask your love In return that midday hour, and Peter Burt I should do so, making no claim on toked beyond the turn of the road, our old friendship. And then you here the yellow-browof dust had said something, Jessie do you re failed the green of foliage. Respond- member what you said, darling? to the touch of a whip a spirited I said that 1 wanted you to love tom of horses dashed ahead as they hut not to speak of It again me, toched the summit of the hill. 8m Rounds was driving, and a until I said you could, said Jessie, You can tonger to Peter Burt was beside lifting her laughing eyes. John Burt and Jessie were In say it again if you wish to, John. Two soft arms were around his rear seat. neck and two sweet lips met hts. "God Is very good to us, John," said You knew I would wait for you, 'or Burt, as he took Ms grandson's . , 4 nl looked, through glad tears, John, didn't you? face. His stern old face grew . 0 dor as he John Burt's modest mansion stands turned to Jessie Carden. old mans blessing on your on the crest of tho hill which slopes toad." he said, gently touching down to the old farmhouse. It comifc. folds of her hair with his hugo mands a superb view of the crescent "Tou are very beautiful, my sweep of oeean beach, and also of tbs . , 7- be - nd It la Gods will that you more quiet beauties of Illnghsm hay. happy, i am glad to see Verdant terraces and winding paths and roads come to the edge of the Samuel." searchlngly at the silent yard surrounding the old homestead, the front seat, but no gardeners hand has been pep do not know you, sir," he said, mltted to touch the quaint surround , J' .hod WORK TO KILL BEAR. North Carolina Men Evidently Not the Marksmen Their Fathers Were. Some of the citizens of the Ashland section had a novel experience In killing a big black bear recently. He was discovered passing across the bottoms of the Bushnell plantation about noon, by Alfred Jones, a color cd tenant on the place, who notified all the farmers in the neighborhood. A number of men came with their dogs and their guns and proceeded to locate the beast. The dogs soon struck the track and several of the hunters got within close range at 2 o'clock. Five or six loads were fired Into him before he had apparently noticed any onslaught Firing continued for several hours with slight effect, and several fierce fights between the dogs and the bear occurred, but he apparently made no effort to attack any of the huntsmen. Late In the afternoon, after considerable dodging In a thick swamp, he climbed a large tree. Several Bhots were fired at him from below, and be went out on a limb which was so small it broke under his weight. When he fell to the ground Mr. Ed Harrlll was at very close range and got a good aim at a point Just below th6 heart, which ended the conflict Mr. Summers, who Bent for hts wagon, carried the bear to the nearest scales and found that he weighed 267 pounds. Charlotte Observer. Scientific English Farming. At Farlngdon, Berkshire, farming has been raised to a science. Mr. George Adams, of the royal prize farm, Wadlcy house, farm some 4,000 seres, of which about half Is arable and half pasture. He employs from 2)0 to 250 laborers, milks 500 cows dally, keeps about forty Shire brood mares, a score of breeding sows, and from 2,000 to 4.000 laying hens, grows about 1.000 acres of grain, besides attending to other multifarious Items In the ordinary course of farm practice. About 1.000 acres of meadow bay are harvested annually. All the work, cutting, rarrylng and ricking, Is done by piecework. Tld-Blt- Lind Resembles Lincoln. Representattve John Lind of Minnesota, who has twice been governor of that state and has been nominated for Justice of the Supreme Court, I said to hear a marked resemblance to Lincoln. In fact, he seems a per feet doublo of the martyred President; even the expression of hi fare Is similar, a well as Its contour. He Is extremely tall and gaunt and baa a shambling gait. The Woman of It I hod a splendid halt hour's chat with young Sltnpkln last evenShe ing. He Indeed! Why, everybody saye he I stupid and never says anything. She True; hut he' an excellent listener SEEMED PURSUED BY FAT!. KIDD ABOUT THE FRAGRANT WEE& , Fallacies Have Strong Hold1 Upon User of Tobacco. White ash upon a cigar has been popularly supposed to Indicate the excellence of the weed, but, as a matter of fact, Its only Indication Is of the presence of potash In the leaf. , Tobacco rich In chloride of sodium burns with imperfect combustion and with a dark ash. As the value of a cigar is dependent upon the freedom with which it burns, a white ash may be a rough test of excellence, but a cigar with a dark ash, properly rolled, may burn more evenly than one rich In potash but Imperfectly made, and at beBt the white ash" Is but a rudi' mentary teat. A cigar which burns freely Is a bet ter cigar, no matter what the grade of the leaf, than one which Is rolled so tightly as to prevent free combustion, but the question of fragrance is quite another matter. Another cigar fallacy is that a cigar In a black wrapper is necessarily a strong cigar. The wrapper weighs but of the whole, and a cigar with a wrapper almost black may be a mild and delicious smoke, while one with a pale wrapper filled with imperfectly cured tobacco is often rank and Cosmopolitan European Cities. There are many quarter of central unpleasant. London in which almost every word Could Get No Rett. heard spoken In the streets Is French, Freeborn, Minn., Sept. 18th (SpeGerman or Italian. But it Is said, on the authority of statistics quoted by cial) Mr. R. E. Coward, a a French newspaper, that the number man here Is rejoicing In the relief has obtained of foreigners In Ixmdon Is not half so from suffering he using Dodds Kidney Pills. great as the total of those residing In through His experience Is well worth repeatPails, where there are said to be There Is no other capital nearly ing, as it should point the road to health to many another In a similar so cosmopolitan, St. Petersburg comcondition. an esti ing next after London wlth "I had an aggravating case of Kidmated total of 23,000. The Germans ney Trouble, says Mr. Goward, "that In numerous most are the foreigners me no rest day or night but using Paris, and their numbers have of late gave been largely Increasing. The number a few boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills put of French In Berlin, on the other hand new life In me and I feel like a new Is small, though an important part In man. I am happy to state I have receivthe life of the Prussian capital was benefit from played for many generations by the ed great and wonderful families encouraged to settle by the Dodd's Kidney Pills. 1 would heartily great elector, who long preserved recommend all sufferers from Kidney their Independent national character. Trouble to give Dodds Kidney Pills a fair trial as I have every reason to believe It would never be regretted." Full Dress. Dodd's Kidney Pills make you fee! like a new man or woman because they cure the Kidneys. Cured kidneys mean pure blood and pure blood means hounding health and energy la ( every part of the body. Killed by Cars After Having Three Times Escaped Terrible Death. After having passed through three accidents, In each one of which he escaped a terrible death, Stephen settled down to live the rest of his life quietly at Phllllpsport, Sullivan vounty, N. Y. Fate still pursued him and he Is dead from Injuries received by being struck by the cars near his home. He was 86 years old. Callewell was In the rush to California gold fields in 1849. He made a fortune and was returning by sea when the vessel burned. Though many were lost he was picked up. He was In a room on the fourth floor of the United States hotel at Newburg when it burned and clung by bis fingers to the window sill until rescued. Later he returned to California and was badly Injured In a mine disaster, lying between life and death a long time. Having no desire to die with his boots on" he returned home to live In quiet. He was killed while walking on the railroad track on his way home after visiting a comrade who had been In the burning ship with him. Some Cal-lewe- ll one-tent- h well-kno- 200,-000- NICHOLAS J. WEAVER this remarkable freebooter lived by virtual piracy when he circumnavigated the earth with his yacht Norua five or six years ago. Starting originally with the novel Idea of taking Buch writers as Kipling and Frank R. Stock ton on a visit to remote corners of the world and having them write a month ly magazine of travel, six months after sailing the New York company got weary of meeting his drafts and went out of existence. Weaver kept Nothing daunted, bravely on his way, and for three years managed to keep not only him self afloat, but a yacht, a sailing master, a mate, eight sailors, a steward and a cook. Quite a goodly company to be supported by the wits of one man! For Weaver had nothing else to draw on, and yet contrived to con tlnue as far as New Zealand, via Europe and Asia, simply by means of the depredations bogus drafts and so on be committed at various ports along the way. Reaching England, the Noma an nexed another gentleman adventurer, named Frank Tarbaux, who had risen from comparative commonplaceness to the upper regions of society and finance. Tarbaux, who was seen In New York a few months ago and fled to 8outh Africa before his arrest could be negotiated, was a sort of buccaneer even before meeting with Commodore Weaver. Nice, Monte Carlo, Indeed the entire Rlvleran coast, are strewn with wrecks In the wake of this marine soldier In marching Madagascar highwayman. Having for several sea sons, a handsome yacht In the Med- equipment. iterranean, to which gaming lambs were lured and shorn, Tarbaux and Seek Buried Treaeure. his accomplices plied their piratical For some months past a number of craft so profitably that no Spanish laborers have been digging In the disMain ever yielded a richer booty than trict of the. Black River mountain on the Mediterranean to them. Only the Island of Mauritius, for a treasure valued at from twenty to thirty million pounds, supposed to have been buried at the time of the British con quest or some time before by the French officials. Laborers are work lng under the direction of an overseer, who Is himself the employe of a comdispany formed for the purpose of The treasure. pirates the covering who at one time Infested Mauritius and made It their headquarters burled their treasures In various parts of the Island. Some of these have been found by the Islanders from time to time. It Is, however, believed that many people at the time of the British conquest burled whatever money or valuable goods they possessed. Part of the treasure which was burled at Black River was placed there by some Documents exist French officials. showing that It was burled. Work Is on TRANK TARBAUX proceeding with feverish despatch the spot. when the field was exhausted did he Join forces with Weaver on that memA Beetle. $50 orable cruise. In Central America the most regold beetles In the world are markable Experience With an Umbrslla. head and wing esses are Tho One stormy day last winter I was found. with a luster as of polished brilliantly an upraised umbrella struggling with and touch they To Itself. sight against the wind In one of our down gold all the seeming of metal. Oddly have a town streets, says Chicago writer, another species from the same when a sudden gust snapped the han- enough, the appearance of being has dle close to my hand and the um- region In solid silver, freshly wrought brella went soaring up and out of These gold and silver beetles sight over the adjoining buildings. value. They are worth market have I cast away the With an Imprecation 30 each. to 125 from part of the handle that remained In my grasp, turned up my collar and went my way. Three minutes later, having passed Into the next street and being half way down the cross block, 1 saw my umbrella gently descending toward me. It dropped lightly at my feet. I picked It up, and when later I tried to tell of its adventures I was jeered at. burn-Ished- Nevada Town Obliterated. Files of the Nevada Transcript of I860 tell of the visit of a theatrical company to the mining town of Rod Dog. Th company, headed by Mo Kean Buchanan. Virginia Buchanan, Frank Mayo, Charles WhrstlelKh and Elizabeth Saunders, all of whim occupy prominent places In the history of the American stage, played throe nights In Red Dog to an average business of $1,200 a night. The plays pro-dueed were Camille," The Robbers" and "The Octoroon." Today not a vestige of a house I to be found on the former site of Rod Dog, which was about nine miles from Nevada City. 1 Charms of this sort are used oa the doorways of Tibet. They are said to keep evil spirits sway. Wags War on Snails. The scholars of tho upper standards of the National School. Princes Rlsbor ough, Eng, have been engaged In a novel competition, that of killing slugs and snail In their parents' gardens. In a week 23,281 of these pests wrere children, one killed by twenty-fou4,392. for boy accounting r CALLED THE VAINEST PEOPLE. Distinction Accorded a Tribe Living In West Africa. A French explorer claims to have discovered the vainest peopio In the world. They happen to be also the ugliest They are the Pahoulns, a savage West African tribe. As the Pahou- in's clothing Is of so light a character as not to Incommode him, he bestows a good share of hla thought upon the adornment of his body, which he tattoos In elaborate designs done In red or blue. Both men and women take Immense pains in dressing their hair. Their Ingenuity, which is shown In the construction of scores of different s of bone and metal for the men of the tribe, chiefly the war rlors, is Illustrated In a far greater degree by the coiffures of the women. The extreme of simplicity In the Pa bouin womens methods of making themselves beautiful Is to shave the head until It Is smooth and round as a ball, and then to color It with a dye. head-dresse- Judge and Court House, Shortly after the court house at Alfred, Me., was remodeled. Judge Derby of Saco wasittiDg In the old Central House with a young fel low who bad recently been admitted to practice, when the latter suggested that they go up to the court ht&ise and look It over. All right. said the judge; let's view the ground where we shall shortly He." HONEST PHYSICtAN. Works with Himself First. It Is a mistake to assume that physicians ore always skeptical as to the curative properties of anything else than drugs. Indeed, the best doctors are those who seek to heal with as little use of drugs as possible and by the use of correct food and drink. A physl clan writes from Calif, to tell bow be made a well man of himself with Nature's remedy: Before I came from Europe, where I was born," he says, It was my custom to take coffee with milk (cafe au latt) with my morning meal, a small cup (cafe nolr) after my dinner and two or three additional small cups at my club during the evening. "In time nervous symptoms developed, with pains In the cardiac region, and accompanied by great depression of spirits, despondency In brief, the blues!" 1 at first tried medicines, but got no relief and at last realized that all my troubles were caused by coffee. I thereupon quit Its use forthwith, substituting English Breakfast Tea. "Tbe tea seemed to help me at first, but In time the old distressing symptoms returned, and I quit It also, and tried to use milk for my table beverage. ThI 1 was compelled however to abandon speedily, for, whllo It relieved the nervousness somewnat. It Then by a brought on constipation. to try th j I wa led Inspiration happy Dostum, Food Coffee. This was some months ago and I still use It. 1 am no longer nervous, nor do I suffer from the pains about the heart, while my 'blues have left me and life U bright to me onre more. I know that leaving off coffee and UHlng Dostum healed me, and I make It a rule to advise my patients to use It" Name given by rostum Co., Battle Creek Mich. 'a heres a reason. |