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Show Talked of in New York m truly a ash a inan of iron. P. h told bpou him. he was many poun lace w and his moon-lik:igtu Mistress Rosemary Allyn By 19i4, by LLVAS LINCOLN CHAPTER XVI Continued. I dropped lightly to the floor again, sat upon the Btool and resumed my thoughts. Time tis said passeth as quickly as a weaver's shuttle. Under some circumstances I could mention no doubt, but that day after receiving the message time crawled. I watched the fading away of those last faint rays of light with intense satisfaction. Then again mounted the stool and again looked abroad Nig.'jt had drawn her mantle over the land not even a star gleamed in the sky. I listened to hear sounds outside my door, know ing my jailor must soon come with my evening meal. Yes, I bad not long to wait ere I heard the shuffling footsteps of the man. He clanked bis keys and gave out an apologetic sniff, the usual thing, as he neared the door of my cell. The key moved hardly in the rusty hole, was turned with a doleful sound, half shriek half groan, the door moved back. "A little oil on the hinges, sirrah." said, "would render it not so grating on the nerves. Faugh! Is this the food to serve a gentleman?" I added as I picked up the loaf of bread from the floor where he had set it together with a Jug of water. I ordered him to take My supper! it away. ' 'Tis the usual prison fare," he sniffled; "if you want better you can pay for it." Then he backed toward the door. Now the old rascal had drained me as dry as any goblet of sparkling wine was ever drained by horseman, and, as I had bought and paid most liberally for every meal I had eaten since had entered the doors of this beastly place, this was adding insult to injury. Knowing this, he dared place before me bread and water. It hroke the camel's back. "Out of my sight, you miserable renegade." I cried starting up. 1 1 In than in did 00 waited for the cue from him. "His Majesty demands an audience with vou. gracious sir," he said, bowing low before me. "He grieves that through some mistake you have been put to such dire distress." "Say no more." I replied. "I am as ever at his service." Again he bowed, and I that knew bis every expression caught the flicker of amusement in his eye. "The horses are waiting, sir," he continued. "His Majesty expects you He does not like to at Whitehall. wait." "My cloak and sword, sirrah," I "1 am all of a muck commanded. from your filthy cell." "Here they are, sir," the jailor answered as he took them from the boy. "Tis not my fault," he whined; "I only obey orders." "Fault or no fault, out of the way, scullion," ordered Gil. So without any ado we passed the humbly bowing apologetic fool and went down the corridor and steep flight of stairs of the prison to the street door, which he opened. In a circle at the entrance to the prison, bending in their saddles sat our men of Long Haut. It was dark I saw Torraine, few links about. who held Bunco, my horse, by the bridle, lean back and with his sword strike a link out of the hand of a man who would be too curious. Before it I recognized the was extinguished man on the horse next to him. It was Pat, my linkman. On the outskirts of our circle another circle had formed. It was composed of the common lag of the town, the usual rabble that congregate when there was anything1 out of the ordinary going on. It was dark in our immediate ring, but light enough in the outer one. In its midst I saw, heard, and recognized our oid friend, the petit constable of the White Swan inn, and so did Gil. It did not need his whispered word. I its entrance stood Rosemary Allyn. saw man make quicker "Haste," to make me leap getting through a doorway saddle. The constable was trying that jailor, although I was never time vv MILLICENT E. MANN Copyright, unarmed and he knew It, since my "word had been taken away the night of my arrest. "You won't be so high and mighty in a few weeks," he said, retreating down the hall. could not bear the looks of this bloated old hypocrite. In Cromwell's time he had been one of those to persecute any Cavalier who happened from various reasons to come under his care. To save his neck he now paid the same considerate attention to his old friends who stood to their reHe was intensely convictions. stiff lank His me. to hair, pulsive which no doubt was slick enough when slick hair was the fashion, now stood up about his head as if in pro-- , est against its new arrangement. I could afford to scoff at the prison fare since I now lived on hope. Gil " It might mean had said. to me It meant but but many things, one that it would bring my release; how I knew not and cared less. I was haff dozing on my cot, where I had thrown myself after the exit of my jailor, when there again resounded through the corridor the noise of footsteps coming toward my cell, but accompanying those irritating ones were others. I sat up and A firm ;. nod heavy tread, that could belong to Gil, but did it? A shuffling lighter one, that would he illorj aid a still lighter shuffling me the jailor's help. The next thing ! I hoard was Gil's deep voice. door. at were the They "Be quick, man." he Bald. "the King knows not well how to wait upon o'bers. while he does know how to punish Insolence; such Insolence, and to a favorite too, albeit a new one. O, of course, of course." he went him on. as the fellow Interrupted with muttered words of protest, "you did not know; orders and so forth. Do you think the King publishes to to the town every' time he takes a new favorite? Haste, haste man, one would think your fingers were all 'hnmbs." The key at last turned In It Rocket and the door helped by Oil's foot opened 1 "To-night- Ah-h-h- Into haggard. While away be had lef- Pat to ke guanl at be prison and find out whi Thia the man cell I occupied. able to do with a little judicious qu tioning. He was also to watch th movements of the arch fiend, Chi .lust ice Ixird Jeffreys; not an arduoti task, for thai lord delighted in ha ing his movements chronicled. Every thing favored him. When the Un man met the party coming from Long Haut at the edge of Drury Iane a meeting place previously decided 'jp-ohe told them that Iord Jeffreys was to pass through Kpping Forest in a few hours. Thay posted there in hot haste to await him. while Pat tvae left to try and acquaint me with the fact that they hoped to effect my release. How successful he was in this you know. My lord came all unconscious of the plot on foot. His attendants were with little effort overpowered Then my lord, who deemed the men of Long Haut highwaymen (and surely a fiercer Jooking lot one would travel far to And), was soon compelled to sign the paper for my If he felt any of that terror release with which he was wont to inspire poor creatures hauled before him, it wiped out some one's debt. They carried him some distance away from his irn, and left him bound and tied in a lodge, knowing it would be hours before h? would be It seems In that pardiscovered. ticular their plans had miscarried, else the constable had not appeared upon the scene. laughed heartily, but I noticed that Oil did not echo It. Moreover all through our talk he seemed preoccupied something was wrong for Gil loved to be pitted against obstaclesit was as the very breath of his nostrils and this little episode had been too satisfactory for him not Had to feel elated at its outcome. he not met his old friend the petit constable and had he not gone down before him? "What is it, Gil," said I. "Bad news, my lord," he replied. "What?" I cried. "Yes, your father is dead," he soft"Lie I had hardly bely answered. gun my journey I met a man coming from Long Haut with the sad news." "When did he die?" I asked "The night you were arrested," he replied. "Did you see him?" I questioned. "Yes," he said. "God rest his soul. I stopped long enough for that and only that. He lies in state in the chapel. Master Basil prays over him day and night. Your father left with him his last messages for you." I said. "We will go on "But you are tired will you not drop back and rest." "Not I," he replied. I saw as he stretched out his legs and could scarce forbear a groan at the pain, how sore and weary he was, but I knew better than to insist. I sat with my hack to the door. I had been intent upon my supper and the tale of my release, In both of which I had taken an equal relish until hearing of my father's death 1 had lost both. I pushed back my chair from the table and leaning back sat thinking sadly. The men had stopped their chaffering, knowing the cause of my depression. Too late, he In the land had died unknowing! where he had gone. I wondered, if all things were made clear to him. I was aroused from my reverie by an exclamation from Gil. I turned toward the door at which he was staring. In its entrance stood Rosemary Allvn. Lady of Felton. Her eyes wyere wide and dark with excitement. Her hair was blown into wet tendrils about her face. She was flushed from exertion. "I am come to tell you, sir," she said, "that before twenty minutes shall have passed the King's Blues will be here." (To be continued.) my to force his way through the crowd, who had begun to suspect that all was not right. While some laughingly helped him on his way, others, while not seeming to do so, did much to impede his progress. We could hear his voice above the roar of the ever larger growing crowd, which was pushing us hard. cryiDg, "An escape to the rescue." "Cut through them," ordered Gil. Turning we charged the crowd with drawn weapons, slapping them back with the flat of the sword, while he headed down Cheap Side. I missed Gil from my side. I looked around. He had wheeled his horse in the direction of the constable. I saw him reach down and grasp the fellow by the nape of the neck, then swing ing him high in the air, fling him over the heads of the crowd on to a mound of muck and hay which littered one side of the court yard. In a second he was hack at my side, while the crowd cheered and halloed like mad. That was an act that they could un derstand without any words. We galloped into South wark. There had been no time for explanations We stopped before the Tabard and entered the tap room. Immediately a good meal was served, of which I felt in need. From the way the men also did justice to It. one would have thought that they had not eaten since leaving Long limit. Torraine was a hard master when there was worl: on hand, and he and his men had not frolicked on the way. I soon satisfied my curiosity. f.iund that my linkrflan had not been so remiss as I had thought. He had sneaked back on tho'nlcht of the arrest and following the coach in which I was confined learned where I was to be Incarcerated. Hastening to Oil he had acquainted him with the news i or this he had won his horse, and a prouder man. although a mora execrable rider. I never saw. Having no oi.e to send to Lppg Hant for Torraine and his men whom he felt be would need, Oil had gom' Thus while I had spet himself. four davs and a mnr.y nights In Ja'l Oil '"d spent them in the sad" 1 I Preaching to the Deaf. He that hath ears, let him hear, and he that is deaf can now hear by telephone, and has no excuse for staying away from church. A clergyman in Stratford, Conn., has a number of He deaf persons in his congregation. found that, curiously enough, they could understand what was said to them by telephone. So he set up a telephon e apparatus on his pulpit-desand ran wires to a pew near the front of the church. There sit the deaf, holding receivers with a light handle like that of a lorgnette. This deaf pew, however, Is not necessary. Telephone connection will be made between the pulpit and any pew. A great boon to the really deaf, but rather vexatious, perhaps, to the persons who are so deaf that they can hear all the Jokes at a theater perfectly well, hut cannot follow the sermon. "With the Procession," Everybody's Magazine. To the Point. For miny years a traveling pedler named Luce has been a well known character In the country towns of His route lies mostly New England. within Maine nrd New Hampshire where he sells, needles, pins, soap extracts, etc., and Is alwsvs a Welcome guest at the isolnt' d farmhouse whert, he calls. Unlike most Itinerant ped. lrrs he is a man of few words. Last winter while driving down one of the long hills of North Conway his horse becoming frightened, ran. finally bringing up at the foot of the hill with nn overturned cart, beneath which lay the unfortunate owner, unable to extricate himself from he wree!c. A mountaineer approaching astred. with typical brevity. No." responded the Yar-"Tight?" "Liter " Harper's Weekly. '$ KNOCKED IBC LABOR 111 OUT 81 COURT Sport of Ballooning The Farmer Given New Cause to Dislike the Motor FolkMoney Made in Performing Seals to Be Applied to Judge Declares Effort to Restrict Hours of Labor of Women and ChilSaving Men's Souls Politics in New York. dren is Unconstitutional. Balloon ascensions are beconv NEW YORK ing so frequent in New York as to have ceased to he a novelty, yet they are by no means so com-- : I.ast week onplace as not to excite interest. revealed the spectacle of a whole stock exchange of eager, if somewhat overheated, speculators aiming into the street to see a balloon sailing southward as if to Invade the financial section. Wall street has scarcely ever been so excited by anything short of a teal money crisis. The balloon in question was on an interesting mission. It appear! that the balloon men on getting down to the fine points of the science and I Am Stevens has been experimenting, like Dr. Thomas and others, on "sea anchors." The purpose of the sea anchor is to diminish the slanger which every balloonist in or near New York has occasion to fear-th- e danger of being carried out to aea by a wind unforeseen at the lime of the state law of New the latnir of women and children to ten hours a day and sixty hours a week in a factory was declared on Friday by Justice Olmsted la a decision handed down in the court of special sessions to be an unwarrano ed invasion of constitutional right The ruling was concurred In by Justices MrKean and Deuel. Judge Olmsted declared that the law was class legislation Justice Olmsted said in his decision! "To labor and employ labor are inascent or by the failure of the valve rope. herent and inalienable rights of our The sea anchor is a conical canvas bucket which hangs at the ends of two ropes, one of which supports it from a handle and the and cannot be taken away in citizens which ojher dumps" it by attachment to the bottom. W ith the bucket filled the flight of whole or in part unless upon the the balloon is checked, if the balloonist desires to be freed he lias but to of public good, which pull his dumping rope to empty the bucket which then leaves the water freely. broad ground Both Stevens and Dr. Thomas seem satisfied with their sea anchor ex- must be apparent and cannot be preperiments though not unaware, it may be sure, that there is "many a slip." dicted upon legislative dictum." Attorney General Mayer announced that he would appeal from the deTHE MOTH AND THE AUTOMOBILE. cision of the court. Speaking of automobiles reminds me that the N a "I will earry the case, if need be," ha York state entomologist has just made a rather sensational announcement that the desaid, "to the supreme cofcrt ef the vastating gypsy moth is being brought into the United States, so long as the question state by automobiles. of the statute Df the constlutlonality At the first reading this sounds as if the aas been raised." dainty creatures were being imported in a fashionable way like so many pampered guests. Hut the real purpose of the announcement is to reRUSHED TO UPPER FLOOR. mind the farmers of the state that the dreaded auto has a new power to annoy in that gypsy People of Hamburg, Penn., Narrowly moth caterpillers ride uninvited into our domain by becoming, like so many human creatures, "atEscape Death in Flood. tached" to motor cars. Reading. Pa. A terrific cloudburst The gypsy moth is set forth as a ravenous the borough of Hamburg, this struck leaf feeder that has been particularly destructive in eastern Massachusetts. county, late Friday. A tenfoot flood It feeds, when present in large numbers, on almost every tree and swept through the main portion of ths shrub besides herbaceous plants. Its operations town, leaving In Its wake ruin and deare particularly fatal to pine, hemlocks and other There are washouts in ths vastation evergreens, since one defoliation of these trees is streets to the depth of ten feet. Allan Invariably followed by death. The more recently imported brown tail moth is said to be especially J. Romig, who was working in a tin, destructive of fruit trees. was drowned. The shoo "Danger is spreading in New York," cries the entomologist. By Infer-Mic- e smith shop, More than fifty it is spreading westward. Whether by automobile or otherwise it will was swept away. find Its way westward unless something radical is done to fight the cater- dwellings were damaged. Many per pillers, which are declared to be particularly hard to dislodge and kill. t Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been spent by New England fight' sons escaped drowning by rushing resldencea of their floors the upper who the came to Massachusetts in IStlx. ing pests, The birds most useful In Hie fight are the yellow and black billed cuckoo, The total loss will amount to more the Baltimore oriole, the cat bird, chickadee, blue jay, chipping sparrow and than $50,000. robin. SITUATION GROWS WORSE. em 4k SHOWMAN FROM TO PREACHER. This city has just witnessed the extraordinary spectacle of a man, for years devoted to the show business, a master of his craft, turning his whole time and fortune to the salvation of souls. Everybody, I suppose, has beard of Capt Joseph George Woodward, master of the perform' ing seals. Capt. Woodward's trained seals werS real wonders. They played in a band. They jug" gled, counted, performed all manner of curiouj and singularly intelligent tricks. They did everyi tiling, one might say, but speak. It was no exag geration to speak of them as the most Intelligent animals on earth. The seal is notoriously Intel ligent, but it was under Woodward's astonishinglj successful training that these seals made theil hit. These seals, for exploiting which Woodward received $7."0 a week, have been sold for $10,000, If this figure is correct Woodward I am told. The whole of this sum the showman 11 now has a fortune of about $70,000. to devote to his llfevvork, the conversion of his fellowmen to the paths of religion. Every showman, every circus player or vaudeville artist who has ever been associated with Woodward has known of his religious trend, and not When one of these people will be found to say a word against his sincerity. Woodward held a religious meeting between the sessions of a show nobody scoffed or if he did he remained to pray. That a man could follow the life Woodward has here In New York and in other parts of the country without ridicule and without rebuff is a curloul and striking tribute to his sincerity and to his tact. He is now going to England to pursue there the work of an evangelist A WAITING GAME IN POLITICS. Politics is playing a waiting game. New York is very hot, of course, and "everybody is away." But there is some very hard thinking The Democrats see t heir way clearer than the Republicans, though no man seems to know how tickets Democratic and are to be in the field. Mr. Hearst will run for governor and support Mr. Bryan for the presibargain is pretty well ventidency the lated by this time. But then there is Mr. Jerome. And there are others many others. The Republicans are getting together, but they are getting together in groups. Mr. Piatt, who has just been having a seventy third birthday, and who declares that he is all right except for his legs, is said to be relaxing in some of his hospitality toward the man who challenged his Odell. The talk leadership of the state nf Piatt, and Odell "getting together" to fight Gov. Higgins and any administration favorites is possibly far fetched, but there will be Instances of strange bed fellows before the fall campaign is over. New York has got to have a new governor or to reelect the present There are the usual hordes of asplrantH. Nothing has occasioned more talk in ami out of political circles than the Sun's mysterious declaration that "the next governor of New York will be a Democrat" and that "the next governor of New York will be the next president of the United States." What does this mean? Many thousands of answers have been offered. Meanwhile coraefe the preparation for a great reception to William Jennings Bryan Theodore Roosevelt is fishing and romping with his boys at Oyster Bay. many c THE VARIOUS INGENUITIES OF FASHION. Women me becoming more and more lngenl ouh. For Instance, they are doing without hata very largely at present and wearing feathers and otbi .1 vices in their hair. This may be because l halrdresslng is becoming increasingly elaborate and expensive. Also the high coiffure Is coming In. Higher and higher rises the "crowning glory," not in a simple pompadour aided by a single "rat" as heretofore, but in one terrace of hair after another into a final gorgeous tuft. It Is wonderful, Is It not! And then the elaborate French petticoat fash Ion is coining In. the fancy petticoat that puts a premium on the lifted skirt. It is no longer the fashion at the muddy place to lift both skirt and flif. rttit t l.i.u t lu ulwirf ii.nl hnontl. nn(ll,.nt LsiawNr V-- X I I boi . and iieie i This be in uie uew oiu on no oik i iuiinB Lastiy, olrtaln feminine costumers have devised a plan by which they can rent df sses for several weeka, long enough for a stay at a fashionable watering even If slightly Place, or at two or three for that matter. Dresses ilso rented, of You don't :' a new ren' l and M. jed pie" dress and vou have a more expensive outfit than you could otherwise yfuf alofd to wear. The owner gets a big profit out of a comparatively few and re using rdntals and gets the dress back with possibilities of of' costly .) ' . i ' OWEN LANGDOPf New York. York restricting Emperor May Order Rule of Military Dictator Soon. St. Petersburg. On the heels of the other bad news comes the startling statement that the emperor has flatly refused to accept the conditions to which Premier BtOlj pin agreed in hl3 , Alexnegotiations with Count Heydc-nander Ouohkoff, Prince Nicholas Lvoff, Paul Vlnogradoff and Senator Koni for the reorganization of the cabinet. There is an increasing apprehension that the emperor purposes to take the final step of turning the country over to the military dictatorship of Grand Duke Nicholas. The streets of St. Petersburg again are filled with VALET PLAYS COUNT. Polios Arrest Couple Who Worked a Smooth Scheme. Cherboug. Extensive frauds perpetrated upon tradesmen and hotel keepers here have led to the arrest of a man and a wjman who wer formerly In the service of Count Wittgenstein Count maid. as valet and parlor to Is at be said present Wittgenstein In the United States. The prisoners had in their possession the count's They had remarriage certificate. cently traveled on board the steamship Kaiserin Anguste Vlotorla. They registered in hotels hers as Count and Countess Wittgenstein. KILLED BIGAMOUS WIFE. William Marcus Executed for Awful Crime at Charleston, S. C. Charleston. 8. C William Marcus the first white man to be executed In Charleston county since the civil war. was hanged Friday for the murder of his bigamous wife on Sullivan' Island last April. The victim was stabbed forty times with an lee pick. It was not learned until within the last that Marcus hart a wife and five children living in Cincinnati. few-day- s Bad Fire at Milan. Milan, Italy. Fire which broke out bare Friday morning In the International exposition did $2,400,000 damage The sections devoted to the decorative arts of Italy and Hungary were totally destroyed, as also was the pavilion In nhich were Installed the exhibits of I'allan and Hungarian The origin of the fire Is to an electric short circuit The ftathorltles reject tho theory that the conflagration wai of Incendiary origin. arch!-t'jctnr- e. Rasr Admiral Train D?ad. Chefo. Rear Admiral Charley J. of the Train, commander! United States Asiatic fleet, died on Friday. As cotnmander-i- chief of the Asiatic station tho Impirtant duty of maintaining strict neutrality in Philippine waters during the Russlnn Japanese war devolved upon Admiral Train. He was 61 years dfj and would have retired from nctive- service In h. tvir May of next ye,, r of almost a icon ol reefs at ten ha aerved on many itatloaa, -- |
