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Show A BARTEDAJFE. Why Nations j- "- y 'vr-ir? PRESS ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL CHAPTER XII. ILL you have the kindness to ring that bell again, Harriet, and Inquire whether Mrs. Withers has returnfretted the ed? convalescent. It is after six oclock, and I am faint for want of nourish- nient. The duteous dependent obeyed, then slipped from the room to push Investigations upon a plan of he wn. In a quarter of an hour she reappeared with an agitated, yet important countenance, that arrested her cousin's re- gards. What is it? Where Is she?" he deYou have heard manded, impaicntly. something. Tell me at once what it Is'" Harriet collapsed as gracefully as her unpllant sinews and stays would allow Into a kneeling heap upon the floor at his feed. My beloved cousin! My dear, deceived angel! I have heard nothing that surprised me. I dared not speak of it to you before now, agonizing as was my solicitude. You would have driven me from you in anger had I whispered a word of what has been the town gossip for months, to which you only were blinded by your noble, your generous, your superhuman confidence In your betrayers. I see that you are partially prepared for the blow," as he grew pale and tried without success Ilrace yourself for to Interrupt her. what you must know, my poor, ill used darling! Your brother and your wife have eloped to Europe in company!" Fy one second the husband staggered under the shock. His eyes closed suddenly, as at a flash of lightning, and his features were distorted, aB in a wrench of mortal pain. Then all that was true and dignified In the man rallied to repel the Insult to the two he I do not behad trusted and loved. lieve it," he said distinctly and with deliberate emphasis. "You are the dupe of some mischievous slanderer, my good woman. Edward Withers is the soul f Integrity, and my wifes virtue la incorruptible. Who told you this ab- words in her ear. He kissed her at the very moment of my silent entrance, with this remark: Wo have too much to live and to hope for, to nurse unhealthy surmises and fears.' I could testify to' tho language in a court of Justice, and am positive that his reference was to your possible recovery. No more! The mischief-makwas scared out of her gloomy exultation by the altered face turned toward her. "Please excuse me from going down to dinner today. I am very weary, and shall spend the evening alone," pursued Mr. Withers, with a pitiful show of his old and pompous style. He arose as a further signal that Bho must go, when she threw herself before him and elasped his knees. "Elnatban! the beady eyes strained In exeruciating appeal, do not banish me from you In this your extremity! Who! Who should he near you to sustain and weep with you but your poor devoted Harriet she whose life has but one end the hope that she might serve antald you; but one reward, your smile, and so much of your love as you may see fit to bestow upon so worthless an object?" But in the honest sorrow that bowed tho listeners proud spirit to breaking, her factitious transports met no response beyond weary impatience. The cajoh ry that had flattered the unworthy complacency of his prosperous days rang discordantly upon his present mood. He wanted pity from no one, he said to himself, and, In his rejection of hers, there was a touch of resentment, the consequence of her unsparof Constance. He ing denunciation might come to hate her himself soon. Just now he almost abhorred the one who had opened his eyes to his own shame. You mean well, I dare say, Harriet," he said. In his harshest tone, but you are Injudicious, and your offers of sympathy are unwelcome. I am sure that I shall shortly receive a satisfactory explanation of this mysterious afTalr. As to your gossiping friends, I can only regret that your associates have not been chosen more wisely. Now you can go." She made no further resistance, but hers was one of the chamber doors that unclosed stealthily when, at midsoundnight, the rattle of a latch-ke- y ed through the front hall, and was followed by the entrance of the two supThere were more posed voyagers. wakeful eyes under that roof that night than the master recked of, and a bevy of curious gazers peered from the obscurity of the third story Into the entry, where Mr. Withers had ordered the gas to be kept burning all er surd tale?" "Mrs Withers stated to you that she jwaB going to drive alone this did she not?" Harriet forget the pathetic In the malicious triumph as she proceeded to prove her rival's guilt. You heard her say It, laconically, and still on the defensive. "Yet John says she called by the office to take up Mr. Edward Withers, and that they drove in company to night. You see we are expected, said Edthe wharf, where lay an ocean steamer. H saw them go on board, arm in ward to his companion. Mr. Withers met them at the head arm, and, although he waited on tho pier as long as the vessel was In sight, of the staircase, clad In dressing-gowand slippers. Ah. here you are. How they did not return. "I will see the man myself. did you get back?" "The obliging captain hailed a AshCrossing the room with a firmer step than bad been his since his illness. Mr. ing yacht and put us on board, Withers rang the hell and summoned answered his brother. Have you been the coachman. His evidence tallied ex- uneasy about us?" actly with Harriets rpport, and she flatOnly lest you might be carried tered herself that the Inquisitors man- some distance out before you fell In ner was a shade less confident when the with a returning vessel. You look very witness was dismissed. tired, Constance. I shall not let her You have said that this disappeargo with you again. Edward, unless ance was no matter of surprise to you, you promise to take better care of her." "Tell him Just how it happened, and added something about vulgar gossip. I wish a full explanation, he said, Connie," laughed Edward, and the conference was over. still magisterially. Thus bidden, Harriet told her tn!e. "They played their parts well all of T.pfore their return to the city In the them," muttered Harriet, sealing back autumn, she had seasons of anxiety to her sleepless pillow. But they need relative to the Intimacy between Mr. not hope to gag people now that the Edward Withers and his beautiful scandal has taken wind; murder will Not, the unsuspecting vir- out. " Her sagacity was proved by the apgin was careful to affirm, that she doubted then the good faith and right pearance In the next days Issue of an .Intentions of either, but she fenred lest extensively circulated Journal of a Mrs. Withers part'ality fir the younger article headed Scandal In brother might render her negligent of High Life!" setting forth the t, irr husband's happiness and comfort. per steamer to Europe, of the fThe winter festivities had brought the Junior partner In a banktwo Into a peculiarly unfortunate po- ing bouse with the beautiful wife of sition for the growth of domestlo vir- bis brother, the senior partner of the tues, and eminently conducive to the aforesaid firm. The Intimacy of the progress of the fatal attachment which fugitives, the chronicle went on to ;waa now beyond the possibility of a say, had been much talked of all win(doubt Although one of the family, ter In the brilliant circle to which known to be wedded to their they belonged. The deserted husband End she had not been able to deter was a citizen whom all delighted to from sly and overt mention honor for his business talents, his nt the scandal In her hearing. She had, probity in public life, and his private This affliction falls upon ion such occasions, taken the liberty of virtues. rebuking the offender, and maintain- - him with the more crushing severity In her humble way, the honor of from the circumstance that he has Ing, benefactors' name. Dut she could been for some months an Invalid. Hs not silence a city full of tongues, and has the sincere sympathy of the entire they had wagged fast and loudly of community." husbands indiscreet confidence in The editor of the humane sheet, alfhe to eating his own guilty parties, and their ah&melcrs beit not unused . words, never penned a more humble jtreachery. 1 He checked her when she would have and explicit retraction of the "unlucky dilated upon this division of her sub- error into which, through p fault of ject. 1 will have no hearsay evldenco. ours, we have fallen, than graced his VVhat have you aeon?" columns the following morning. He Harriet demurred, blushlngly, not. as could hardly have expressed himself pt presently appeared, because she had more forcibly had Edward Withers peen so little but ao much. Dueta, really horsewhipped him. Instead of vocal and Instrumental, had been the threatening to do It, and to bring an ivehlclea of living Intercourse action for libel as well. Constance breakfasted In bed. at her meaning sighs and whisper. Jlcr blood had often boiled furiously husband's request, on the day succeedn beholding the outrageous maneuving the Pynaents' departure. The popers practiced In the very sight of their ular dally, above referred to, lay as (rusting victim. Her eyes, in passing usual by Mr. Withers plat when he from their smiles of evil Import, their went folded with what languishing and caressea to the serene was known to Its constant readers as or the naughty corner outermost Harface bent over the wrapt In Innocent slumber, had alter- - riet was engaged in concocting her overflowed with tear and cousin's cup of foaming chocolate Eatoly when he opened his sheet, but she both Indignation. But all this was as nothing com- saw and heard the paper rustle like a pared with my aensatlon on the morn- paper bough before a storm, then ing of the day in which yon made your grow suddenly and unnaturally atilt. will. Chancing to enter your When Mr. Withers lowered It there was room, on my way to your bedside, nothing In voice or expression to to his brother that ought waa p surprised Mrs. Withers and Mr. Edward Wither standing together, her amiss. When the meal was over he fiead upon his1 bosom, his arms upholdrepaired to his wife's room, taking ing her, while be' whispered loving with him th newspaper which ho had after-moo- n, ; n ! sister-- in-law. us elope-men- well-know- ttsy-bodl- n cs hand-Squeezin- g, down-statr- Foil. Historians Neglect the Scientific Explanation. Y MAROON . A conductor In not, as was his custom, offered to pass the following ad vies JJLSj to Edward. Have n SQrs : Without a word he spread It before to a the pale woman whose haggard counbargeman, tenance should have moved him to de'on h,VPn'tk8t amj cold brick isn't any,Wghti itence. One lay her accusation and swift glance took In the Imrort of tb Don't get Brelthut. cruel article, and she burled hpr face By Frederick rJd Hit philosopher. in motion. When a leader In the pillow with a cry that destroyed jh NCIENT Greece was the flrchltects are mill mar, aks you if you Her v the what faint remnant of hope might greatest. of were sons shines forth lockutbook tell him of her ? have lingered In his bosom. My Bin unsurpassed. The genius J The whole atmosphere of one. Don t feel f0- - - Rev, has found me out! Wrens Have your Dcket ing IhT Iwnplcs, ! reaj A heavy hand was laid upon her arm. the conductor This ts childish, Constance, and you of art, drama, , USE t; OR have shown yourself to be no child which the world has yet reduced. In craft. No'hlng short of your own Now all ia pbansPd the of kMt and most unprogressive Wife Exchanged Them Greece Is one of t confession would have persuaded me for e. of u . TTr leadership Is gone, makers no that much contained In this paragraph nations. She has no philosophers, tIo Article is true, that you have abused my con-- onae and forever. peor!e are so aeivi fidence, sullied my name, and made brown that they render Why this change? the out upon was poured plebeian me the object of universal contempt Because the rich youn, blood of Greece a h" Hon?8 you and and my brother! soil In warfare. a creators ofbeautflnd searchers tnantelpicfft Old Greece, with Its art and philosophy its (To a tovriTca . formed. That? Oh ye3 for truth, was robbed of Its strength and depl R tUe flelJa 0f battle. three suits of my old 0U8 their clothe, ptee to shed forth sent were ,, sons of ber a venison steak hat jf t;K.y bad gone Tame Catamount. flush of full the jsperien i, . in off killed Those young minds, some chafing dish he Probably it is true that some men in the He says, of their fathers. but paths is a nke dish; cost me have by nature a peculiar power over taken w she small desolate That wild animals, and it is a matter of compants.' survivors, coffee Pot for her .j , ' kidneys. iormer place among the nations of a coat and vest. It mon ex erRo'- th-- t enima s sometime to keep from laughing u. ,t first, t' strike up sudden friendships wl'h per- of the earth. instead ; . ,! One sons they have never teen before. An day my wife got a ho, is orse an So much for Greece. streak on her and CAi.eu.e iuB.aule in uno k.uu la defound tV, ered thr scribed by a m .11, ary coriepondent of Rome'wns Hornier f all rid. Her empire stretched from sea to clothes hanging up in acres : had grown a little too stem ,, the New Yo.k Sun: "Perh,pj of all the sea. The Romans were a practical lot. They had no art, P osoj leis malic and she wild animals tlkit may be at least par- few. Tho Greeks built temples; the Romans built aqueducts, proposed to sell th got $3 for the lot nearly tially civilized or tamed, the Rocky wrote philosophy; the Romans wrote laws. new. I raised such a Mountain lion or catamount offers tha racket Where are those Romans who swayed the world, now trades for least promise; and yet in the writer's their their power? has culinary What dissipated strength? parlor decorations, its all jt experience one specimen was as gentle Rome went down for the same reason that Greece did, an extra suit of clothe and docile aa human klndnesB could Generation after generation, the young men who were the representatives keep make him. He followed his master of her sent forth to die. Her weakest house. were endurance and courage strength, around like a dog, obeying every wish thrived while her best went out to paint the soil with their red blood. Ask You Druggist for Allens or nod, but would allow no other perThese suicidal wars worked their inevitable result "The Roman Empire, I tried ALLENS FOOT-Ka-I sons to approach him with offers of says Seeley, perished for want of men." i Rome and Greece of kindness or anything elee. This creathe experience hasc.'nedzuycornH.andTh,'; Spain's history shows a repetition of she makes men and wastes and itching sensation in ture was a full grown mountain lion, This is Castile. said a Spanish knight; 1 that for some strange reason had taken them. There you have it! Pieclous life, in a world where the best Is none almostunbearable.andlwouWnml out it now. Mrs. W. J. W&i; pAyj a fancy to a Cheyenne Indian. Wheth- too good, ruthlessly cast away. N. J. Sold by all DroggUts, 2k er in camp, on the prairie, or in the Is thpre any wonder that our young, strong, bloodful America should have NOVEL USE FOR GUlUc ' post, the brute could always be seen so handdy disposed of poor, weak, bloodless Spain? Her real blood Is gone; quietly following the Indian, but he she no longer breeds the Spaniards that lived of old. Spains wars were her Chickens Humanely Put to c would never leave his masters heels doom. Blood which is spilled can never be replaced. New York American. for any reason except at his masters Gothenburg, Sweden, Who would have supposed bidding. Often would he accompany the buck Into the poet traders store, the Reign of Terror that where his entrance waa the signal for would come when the guillotit. all dogs to get out and for bipeds not be used for a laudable has just happened In Sv acquainted with the situation to lose no time In taking to the counters. The a guillotine has been erected officers of the post finally persuaded market place at Gothenbuq the Indian to part wi h his pet for a It is used dally for the purpu consideration, and the lion, after being capitatlng chickens, ducks u domestic animals. securely caged, was sh'pped as a presBy Herbert N. Carson. ent to the National Museum at The local Society for the OW It may be In the other nations of the world I do not know, tlon of Cruelty to Anlmali ii but It certainly is a fact that there Is nothing more lacking siblo for this novel step, i in the United States than Independence. It claims, may legitimately b Tha Wlacltim of tha Crow. In spite of the Declaration of Independence, which is be' food, but there is no ret A naturalist who Is much Interested encoming mythical, the average American has become an they should suffer while dr: In birds says that the crow Is the wistirely dependent and sycophantic creature, who not only con the surest way to avoid such est of all feathered animals. He has forms In every respect to the opinions of the stupid majority, Is to employ a guillotine i made a number of exp r menta recentbut deliberately tides to make himself the chattel of his ing of death. strunent declares and an that well ly, ordinar.ly neighbors. educated crow can count to twenty, and There are seven political parties In France and a dozen In Rates Vie that he has found a sentinel crow, very Germany, but In this country there is practically no difference of opiulon on Cheap Passenger Fe Route" old and very wise, that can count to political questions. There are two parties, It Is true, but the only difference To Boston, Baltimore, Mfc He made the e discoveries between them Is that while the one Is In power the other Is out. twenty-siAtlanta and other pc Detroit, In a very Interesting way. Recently There are many religious sects In the United States, but no one ever hears he spent some time in the mountains of controversies between them on matters of belief. The only struggle In particulars address &C. S.F.F'. of Wales, wh re a company of boys which they take any Interest is that for more members, more money and General Agent. A. T. Dooly Block, Salt Lake City,' was camping out. One day he found more property. a flock of crows gathered round the There are many colleges, but not one has ever dared to hold an exhibition IMMENSE OUTPUT OF U' body of p.'beep that had died, and of Its finished products. At all the large colleges it is the Independent prowhich r a bain. They flew fessor who Is In danger of being discharged. It is the timid and Pacific Coast Forests Will So away as U approached, so he hid him- professor who has a life job. The ideal of all our universities Is not the dehausted. self in the aarn and waited; but they velopment of a nobler brand of men and women, but the manufacture of a Unofficial estimates put tht would not come back. Then be went greater number of the present Inferior sort. of and shingle! cut lumber out and walked up the mountain, and In fact. In this Mutual Slavery Association which we call society. If a man states at 4,6' they all s'tlled down again to the feast. appears who Is truly independent, who swings on his own pivot and cares three ofPacific sup;' California which feet, That af ernoon he took four boys from uothlng for the crowd, every one at once believes that his course of action Is a ' 000,000 feet, Oregon 740.000 the camp with him and they marched scheme out of which more money can be made than by conformity. ! 000 Washington 2,300, 000, Into the little bu Id ng and wal'el. No It is becoming my strongest conviction that all the plans of social reform, and this rate It Is calculated thatcj crows came back. Two of the bovs nil the of would do less to establish Industrial went out. Still no crows. Then the Justice and to promote moral and intellectual improvement than would a ests of the Pacific coast SL, otheMwo wert out, and only the natu- few score of independent and fearless men or women who would stand out hausted in forty years. ralist rema red. But the old sentinel like giants amid the 80,000,000 human grasshoppers that populate this country. by water alone at SeattleIn 15'.' 472, SOI feet of lumber crow had evidently counted them as New York Evening Journal COfi, 904,749 feet In 1901. InT went knew and he In, had they they shipments to the Interior r j come a'.l out. At last the naturalnot 5C2.17C.0C0 feet, and In 1901 it ist left the building and straightway 000 leet. Portland, Ore., sh n 1 all the crows returned. This exprl-mefle toward the interior byrt j was repeated a numler of times next to Seattle In Imports:?. with vaiyirg rumbcr3 of boys, but the calendar year 1900 ll,9S6ono' crows kept count, and wou'd not come ber were shipped from that pc' j down until the building was entirely 517 In 1901 and 15.87C cars in empty. All creameries use butter OMEBODY has recently raised the question as to whether the Fa'ti A boat nm ra at on. not do as they do lby doctor, with his queer, curt, stern manner, has really TINT BUTTER COLOR. rum ice, as is well known, is of voldisappeared, or Is merely superseded by a spirit of the same canic origin, being a trachytlc lava type who has learned to be politic among those of his patients As, Others See Ua d which has leen rendered light by the from whom he may expect a good consideration for his services there are popular Whenever of a when in molten state. escape gases Without too anoes in the great 4 Into Europe going deeply It is found on most of the shores of particularities, it seems to us that Is the ethics of the profession have not merely improved but republic prompt in putting k the Tyrrhenian sea and elsewhere, but have been actually regenerated. The artistic for the better ln: n suggestions is at present almost exclusively obtemperament can belong to a man of genius, but this is exceptionally the case, of the people concerned. l ; tained from the little island of Llpari and nowhere more so than In the medical profession. for this attention Europe Is Most of the volcanoes of Llpari have , internal Of true geniuses in medicine there have been not a few estlng Itself In tbo The decay ejected pumacoous rocks, but the best and by no means have all of these attained the distinction and received the the United States. stone la all the product of one moun- honor of a a Harvey or a Jenner, however worthy; but, like great men every-wher- thorlty In the republic I Monte tain, Chlrlca, nearly 2,000 feet were chaacterlzed by that unobtruslveness, to all frlenos of g r f they alarming in height, with its two accessory cra- lack of that ment With a condition PPrj 4 pretense, which demands no praise and ha. need of Lne. ters. The district in which the pumice their nwM by modesty and sympathy for the weaknesses of mankind, have anarchy In two states and Is excavated covers an area of three the t functions bamal1 Pl0Ce d where usurping thi Wt tt, nob,a Weafor square miles. It has been calculated it Is plain that the proffj courts, that about 1,000 hands are engaged la States False geniuses, like false prophets In general, have ever been plentiful ernment of the Un.tod I this industry, 600 of whom are em- among doctors, but it is needless a world problem. to say that the rrofesalnn . coming 6 ha! u ployed in extricating the mineral decried them and refused them indeed, be not Of surprised, Pumice le brought to the surface in pretentious quacks who demand recognition. for themselves hnd?8!r?edhencomiurarandiJ sands of people flock to CsnM large blocks or In baskets, and is car- matter, involving standards of taste are the dangers of the absolutely for art! cape ried thus either to the neighboring vil- sake forms no part of their Toronto creed, while selfishness and Empire. lage or to the seashore to be taken Inevitable result-vi- z., a perfect lack of sympathy for the fin i C00 p. Uui'e Is there in boats. The supply is said to and that disobedience to every mandate of conscience ftxiaiilty rtaoi Curs for Consumption " colda- -t. Mhkh medicine on,y and tor th ab8 bo practically Inexhaustible. cough Pumice lutely bigoted and unscrupulous can show. W. Ooaaa Fob. N. Grove, J.. is used not merely for scouring and The eccentric may bo defined as an Individual of . . rives bis chief Inspiration from his own self cleansing purposes, but also for polishcSISStini ! Talking Album. ing In numerous trades, hence the fact tlrely a person whose love of the conanicun..1 The talking photograph ji llin"If08t that the powdered pumice exported ex- long, shaggy bnlr nnd English trousers of the creat.it Promised that Is. the pbo,r' j in ceeds in weight the block pumice. Beannex l ? n with a phonographic tween twenty and thirty merchants are ment, as it wi re, to go on t j eagaged In the pumice trade in the ",oui!'' 4 . as In life, with only arbitrary Island. London News. casionnl intermissions. R The Old School seldom produced the wearisome prospect for Ps,'r . nPVer Produced the refined gentleman, and In this lies Its chief dtaHnMi'n!) Whal llaraa Caw Draw. have the family portrait album thnt 0f tCHlay It. disciple, were bnmque. wmc o On metal rails In the most favorable pictures, all going in- - t r0bnirt ,t0 the PlDt ct talking am time, with the united tc condition and smooth from use, a horse insult, yet beneath It nil iny the Ilf spent In tho service of mankind. ReD,'rosl,Jr I'Wt by a Some of can draw one and two-thir- d of all the originals bunrbfd times as doctor rpnwmbcr of nonev long country gether. The ago who, summoned , at much as on the best asphalt pavement; ta midnight 1 let us say. would rid a dozen mile, of pnru d time as muoh as monla. three and oyster, the as even tlonnl, j bis patient most unceremoniously, and then d. BDi8lu811 upbraid kind to live with, and bids flr t on wood paving In good condition; five th rn,nutC8t dl to the ration, with a attendants, esteom fr It times as much as on wood paving In parting in place popular worse. But times have chsnged. The Nei B' ,Rnln ,f ! bad condlton; seven times ts much as gets t any rate. men liberally educated in our unlvcnitieswh eTn hm ,0?1 dlnnn,,, 11,8 on good cobblestone; thirteen tlmee as H absuhl, Armnese with Dogs rellow much as on bad cobblestone; twenty rsnkA unequivocal politeness. The end there ia less occasion for th SriS? ! 11 comln ,n, of . burial At the tlmee ae much as on earth road, and than ever before. The entire Dlp,,pam'nt la medicine man his six dogs. draP1 as on as much sand. tlmoe forty 10 followed the cortege. Idiosyncrasy, and of Ignorance In mattue of s, chess-boar- dressing-- bo-tr- ay J v-r- y J 1 Z SmlJgS Ldtraiam - , b , ar ? j TSe Value of an Independent Man. purpos-thi- s ! x. la. j. world-mender- nt iho Artistic Temperament in Medicine. 1 w old-styl- e ; a- -J e, - Sh So ZnnLT rcftn incomSt2rt 1 self-centre- d gW - ( i'Sn" 1 old-style- one-thir- proStn rTXcn?? Jr y |