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Show prts, 3s fflnntmi Drtrrinratiug? Iran stamp and post It was dated rleans I passed hlin and went on into A whim seized me to the grounds Cruz. Mexico, De visit the eivpt of the chaiel and exhow ever. ; Ax eember l:i 01. and gave a t harac amine the to the tunnel terlsticaD.' c account of ills cffoits t l! tt d of school the p.i". o dodge o tl Il.sh delet tivjv lio a a man tune lnuitidlv from Imiltli 1 cl t He in lie; ltiraulnf . wtoie, lo one (if Ibt m a ,d turned toward the cross tW fcrdors into Texas hut tie chaie' t lared tbutkp should keep cl. u of in flis: thought it was S'oddajJ, but le was uiiat quammd will, diana, could not make him out in the mist the Indian language and in my mice' taint)' w ailed for him Bate are me i.n coffee in the to put 20 paces betwen us before I ! wished to settle down to followed library, He strode into the chapel Kirch an eveRlnfof reflection without delav Ctert of himself was not reas with an air of assurance aud I heard I him address some one who had been surlng, dipite its cheerful tone knew tfcatif he had any Idea of trjing waiting The mist v.as now so heavy to reach le he would not mention it that I could not see my hand before in a Wt which might fall into the my face, and 1 stole forward until I hands Rf ke authorities, and the hope heard the voices of two men dlsUJ ctly. sht join me grew I was that' b "Bates'" not, trups. entitled to a companion "Yes, sir." I heard feet scraping on the stone at Gl8 under the terms of my exile, kutas a matter of protection in fltxir of the Kirch the exlsthg condition of atTalrs there - "This is a devil of a place to talk could kio legal or moral reason why in, but It's the best we can do Did I should lot defend myself against niv the young man know 1 sent for you 1 was an worth "No, sir Larry kept him quite busy all) foes, with his books and papers having- "Humph! We can never be sure of My ndfhbor, the chaplain, had inadvertently given me a bit of iinpor him " tant er; and my mind kept revert "I suppose that is correct, sir Well, you and Morgan are a fine IBg Ut tte fact that Morgan was 1 Us Injury to the executor of thought he had pair, I must sav my grandfather's estate in New York some sense ana that you'd sje to it Everything else that had happened that he didn't make a mess of this and unlmpoitant compared whole thing was He's in bed now with a with thk. Why had John Marshall hole in his arm and youve got to go Glengra made Arthur Bickering the on alone "I'll do my, best, Mr Bickering " execltorof his estate' He knew that I detested him, that Bickering's noble "Don't call me by name, ou idiot. alms aid high ambitions had been We're uot advertising our business " jpraised by my family until his very from the housetops namS Uckened me, and yet my own "Certainly not," replied Bates hutn-b- l y. grandfather had thought it wise to In trust hh fortune and my future to the The blood was roaring through my man of all men who was most repug head, and my hauls clenched as I nanttome. I rose and paced the floor stood there listening to this colloquy. in as gw. Bickering's voice was anti Is unThere was alwa)s a purr- My age must fasten upon some one, mistakable. marked N NEWS SUMMARY anj Au English IjJimii ut Him 1 THE HOUSE OF By T. B. SHAW. ANN nnritls' hut. ala ' I nath tiar me that, as r'M-- ir.U tin- - iut-- t on, aH nun am of one niunl. Woman is h ti i ior ltme tin- - in tin unaniniouN enliit- and sadly and l'elin taut!'? we aujoU'it, rilmlanth, inded, for who would willmh he an iohioiI.m'' Who would willfulW shatter the Uautiful nh ul of womanhood, ui rounded with t lie halo of truth and tiinhini", smij'ltiu and 'intent v, piety and loe ami life, whn h Ini' tome down to U' through the a if'1' 'line "niotln r of mankind, from sleep awaketl M mi n, CANDLES uia it By MEREDITH - Atkr l.i. mu:''" Here we have the daui'il. 'houhler to shouhlet- with man, and tin eifoit to wro't from man tliose eager for tin lra, lor th tii'-land whith to hi' pht'iom and hi' ipialiln atnuw enmutations pursuits title him, and on whn h, pi iiLauu, ll.t lot-- , uf aide and faimU dejtend manly proh"ioii' and pursuits to whnh the t urrent of his being has been set suite the when Adam dihed and live Forgetful 'pan is she that woman is not uinhvijopid man. hut diverse, forgetful, also, that she who make' man s laiise lit rs is Lalde to the loss of his res pet t. his allegiain t , that In r net i lies' ontai with the t oarsest side of human it v de'trovs m In r the sweet wouianliin ", t lit daintmt's, the nut ness whith, in das gone In , fornud trrr stmts r hn f (harm, llow tan it he otlierw we ? Her in ii' is taint w tlavored with the objectionami In r oum able slang, the (leap ivimi'in of the le lit rat tire, her moral h are t o.i r hlunted and the in in u r- - easing effort to atperieptioiis - up-to-d- e, da' ! I 1 i et tract mans attintnm (whuh In r watped imagination fieipiently for admiration), to out Hi rod Ihiod and to view all human nature through an atmosphere of tolun t o 'inoke. The woman m nothing if not She professes to despise those vvonianlv wiles, ihose feminine gfates, hv means of which our grandmuthi rs held the'r swav. And vet. this verv week have I seen, in a sotn tv journal, a legend running thus: Waists this season are becoming small by degrees and beautifully less. Paraphrased thus: Brains among women are becoming small' by degrees and beautifully less. It contains ninth food for thought, hut how tan we bring ourselves to believe in the superior and female until she, with a strong hand, and b an mt rvvhelinmg majoritv, puts down this ahoimnahlu cuskSun whuh tends neitlu r to wisdom nor to beauty, and which makes the female interior a thing of tortuie to hefstlf and a perpetual puzzle, wonder and tli light to that profession whnli wields the knife in 'earth of mi'-tak- strong-minde- es d. stiotig-ininde- ti knowhafoe ami sen met) One glance at what is mi'taktnlv tailed the sentimental side of the : question h r as th man. Swot lovo is slain" 1 And without love. boldly U"ert that life is empty to anv true woman. sympathy, tenderness, tact, these go to form the true woman, whose husband has proudly consecrated to her his manhood, his lifes al legiance, and whose children shall surely rise up and call her blessed. hut mike Could , rv f rtxn l,,'"nrn.'11 y " In France we are American jElonctarjt Jstrnt lUcah dig- - trustful of your financial methods chiefly for the reason that there is no governmental control of your banking system. We also believe your moneBy M. ALEXANDRE ULAR, tary system is entirely French Financial Editor, Now In America. wrong. At the root the government is to blame. of course, for it rests with that hotly to enact such legislation as Will bring banks and similar institutions under absolute control of the government As conditions now exist, what is there to prevent a recurrence ol what has taken plate? Your financial institutions are under no more greater legal restrictions than was the ease last year, nor does there seem to be any indication, so far as I can discover, that any will Ik established Wliat guarantee, therefore, is there for the future? Absolutely none, s far as can now be seen. Is it not possible, not to say probable, that the same serious and alarming conditions may again be brought into existence at any tune? For myself, I am an adherent of the central bank plan, but it is very doubtful if such a system could Is placed in operation in this country because of the opposition that would he encountered from the large financial interests. The central bank system is a safeguard to the financial interests of the country the value of which cannot 1k overestimated. In France we have had practical evidence of its worth, one result being the absolute faith of the people in its practicability and soundness. The decrease in the number of men sentenced to imprisonment, without a eorresHnding decrease in the number of crimes committed, may be partially due to the MOSBV. SPEED THOMAS By extension of the parole Miourl' Pardon Attorney. system for first offenders. We are by no means to code of a the number of persons senthe merely by efficiency penal judge tenced to imprisonment. In my opinion our penitentiary system, upon the whole, has made quite as many criminals as it has cured. Reeidnation, or professional criminalism, exists more extensively in Europe than in America, although in some respects criminality has lately increased in the United States. The high nervous tension common among us is responsible for a growing neuropathic condition which is most favorable to cjume. The general lack of industrial condition is developing thousands every year who have never learned to make an honest living, and who, sooner or later, find their way into the paths of crime. Such improvements as are needed in the penal codes of this country are not in the direction of increased severity. The certainty of punishment is of far more avail iu the proven nun of crime man-- its severity, and laxity of administration cannot be corrected by amendment of the laws. Empti?a prisons ! TUI NICHOLSON MAIN CHANCE." DAMEIOM," Etc. ZELDA t opy right IMt Of BoiHMfrrili Co piti-fulne- ", in in IkiWomh 1 THOUSAND A CHAPTER XII. Continued. "But I suppose the Sisters are awfully strict." They're hideous, perfectly hideous." "Where Is your home" I demanded "Chicago, IxHiisville, Indianapolis. Cincinnati, perhaps? "Humph, you are dull' You ought (o know fmm my accent that Im not from Chicago And hope I havent a Kentucky girl's air of waiting to be flattered to death And no Indianapolis girl would talk to a strange man at the edge of a dee)) wood In the gray twilight of a winter day, that's from a book; and the Cincinnati girl Is without my elan, esprit, whatever you please to call It. She has more Teutonic reisise, more Gretchen of the Rhine valley about her. Don't you adore French, Squire Glenarm? she concluded, breathlessly, and with no pause In her quick step. I "1 adore yours. Miss Armstrong, asserted, jieldlng mvself further to the joy of Idiocy, and delighting in the mockery and whimsical moods of her talk. I did not make tier out. Indeed, I was not then, I preferred not to! and I am not now, thank God! of an analytical turn of mind. And as I grow older I prefer, even after many a blow, to take my fellow human beings as 1 find them And as for women, old or young, I envy no man his gift of reAs well solving them Into elements carry a spray of arbutus to the laboratory or subject the ent huntment of moonlight upon running watt r to the flame and blow: pipe as try to analyze the heart of a gitl, paiticulariy a girl who paddles a canoe with a sure stroke and puts up a good tate with a rabbit. A lamp shone ahead of us at the en trance of one of the houses, and lights appeared In all the buildings. "If I knew jour window 1 should certhat tainly sing under youre going home! You didn't tell me why they were deporting you. Im really ashamed to! You would 1 please!" She grasped the knob of the door and paused an Instant as though pondering. I make It three times, without that one, and not counting once In the road and other times when you didnt know, Im a foolish .little Squire Glenarm' girl to have remembered the first. I see now how I have been. Good by! She opened and closed the door soft ly, and I heard her running up the steps within. I ran back to the chapel, roundly abusing myself for having neglected my more serious affairs for a bit of silly talk with a school girl, fearful lest the openings I had left at both ends of the passage should have been discovered. Near the chapel I narrowly escaped running into Stoddard, but I slipped past him, found my lantern, pulled the hidden door into place, and, traversing the tunnel without Incident, soon climbed through the hatchway and slammed the false block securely into the opening. CHAPTER XIII. A Pair of Eavesdroppers. j When I came down after dressing for dinner, Bates called my attention to a belated mail. I pounced eagerly upon a letter In Laurance Donovans hand, bearing, to my sur-- t. VJce-Preslde- ' x anti-Asiat- ic f "Oh, yes, I would; Im really an old friend! I Insisted, feeling more Tike an idiot every minute. Well, dont tell! But they caught me flirting with the grocery boy! K jw arent you disgusted! Thoroughly ! I cant believe It! Why, you'd a lot better flirt with me, I suggested boldly. Well, I'm to be sent away for good at Christmas. I may come back then if I can square myself. My! Thats slang, isnt It adorable? The Sisters dont like slang, I suppose? They loathe It! Miss Devereux, you know who she Is! she spies on tts and tells. You dont say so; but Im not surprised at her! Ive heard about her! I declared bitterly. We had reached the door, and I expected her to fly; but she lingered. Oh, If you know her! Perhaps jou're a spy, too! Its just as well we should never meet again, Mr. Glenarm, she declared haughtily, The memory of these few meetings will always linger with me, Miss Arm strong, I returned In an Imitation of her own tone. I shall scorn to remember you!" and she folded her arms under the cloak tragically. Our meetings have been all to few. Miss Armstrong. Two, exactly, I believe! Then you prefer to Ignore the first time I ever saw you, she said, her hind on the door. "Out there In your canoe? Never! And you've forgiven me for overhearing you and the chaplain on the wall 't Ra-tin- never well-know- n Seven men were killed and a half injured by the explosion of a boiler in a rolling mill at Northumberland, Ba. Commander Beary declares that he sill make another attempt to reach the north pole, and h preparing to start next July Jack Long, accused of murdering John Sapp, was taken from the Jail at Newberry, Fla , by a mob of 200 men and lynched. The house has passed the Sulloway bill granting a flat pension of 912 monthly to all widows of honorably-discharge- d soldiers Ten thousand men have been laid off since December by the Baldwin Loco motive works of Philadelphia, because of a lack of orders for engines Fourteen sailors were wounded, five of them seriously, as the result of an accident to the boiler of the cruiser Jeanne d'Arc off Tangier A bill appropriating $3 963,000 for famine relief In addition to the sum voted by the duma has been submitted to the Russian cabinet and soon will be Introduced. At Grand Cascaplda, a Quebec border town, the four members of the family of Andrew Campbell wera burned to death by a Are which destroyed their hojpe. Captain John E. Deldlsh and four other firemen Injured, and a loss of 9120.000, was the result of a fire that e broke out In the club roms of the club, In Racine, WIs. One thousand men formerly employed by the Pennsylvania Steel company at Steelton, Pa., have beet) called back to work after an enforced Idleness of more than a month. Mrs. Elizabeth Stevens of Haverhill, Mass., killed her little daughter,, aged 8V and son, aged 3, cutting their throat with a razor. The woman was at one Time In an asylum for the Insane. Galllvan of the International Union of Boilermakers announces that the strike of boilermakers against the several railroads in Minnesota has been declared off. A band of outlaw recently waylaid two aergeanta of the rural police near the village of Cherorakhovo, Russia, and murdered them, chopping off the hands, feet and heads of their victims. Three foreigners were killed and plx others seriously Injured when the boilers In the Welch brick plant at It Is supMonaco. Pa., exploded. posed frozen water pipes caused the accident. A movement was lngugnratted at Johannesburg last week At a largely attended meeting to boycott Aalatte trader and all employers of Asiatics. the recent It Is an outcome-oagitation In the Transvaal. dozen ! 'tTTiredtoaeherfrthe'',WeBterB passenger train left the track a half mile north of German, Va., and rolled down hill Into the river. Express Messenger Charles Maryland rj v. s'H4 ft r Cochrane and Adam Relhl were killed. In spite of winter weather, work on the E. IE. Harriman residence, two miles east of Arden, N. Y., Is being kept up. ' A large force of men la on the work. The monthly pay roll during the winter reaches 919,000. Senator Galllnger has favorably reported from the committee on commerce a bill increasing the mail subsidies on steamship lines between the United States and ports Tn South and AusAmerica, the Philippine v m K Then You Prefer to Ignore the First Time and Bates was the nearest target for It, I went to the kitchen, where he usually spent his evenings, to vent my feelings npon him, only to And him gone. I climbed to his room and found it enpty. Very likely he was off condoling with his friend and fellow conspirator, the caretaker, and 1 fumed with rage and disappointment. I was thoroughly tired, as tired as on days whes I had beaten my way through tropical jungles without food or water; but I wished, In my Impotent anger agalsst 1 knew .not what agencies, lo punish myself, to Induce an utter weariness that would send me exhausted to bed. The snow In the highway was well beaten down and I swung off country-warpast St Agatha's. A gray mist hung over the fields in whirling clouds, breaking away occasionally and show lng flie throbbing winter stars. The walk. antL jnylnLercst in the alterna. and tlon of won me to a better state of mind, sad after tramping a couple of miles I set out for home. Several on my tramp I had caught my- whistling the air of a majestic old limn, and smiled, remembering young friend Olivia, and her play Ing t the chapel. She was an am os-lng child; the thought of her further lifted my spirit; and I turned Into the school "park when I reached the outer wish to gate with a pass near the barracks where she spent her days. At the school gate the lamps of a carriage Suddenly blurred In the mist. Carriages are not common In pH re" d I not surprised to find gfon, that thla was the familiar village hackAnthjrt Bief trains day and night at nasals. Some parent, 1 conjectured, visit to St Agatha's; posslme Ithe thought gdv Miss Olivia the father of to come ?iad carry 'rmstrong xfor a stricter discipline than wresas school afforded. sat asleep on his box, star-lighte- d :r mist-wrappe- d I Ever Saw You?" ing softness In It. He used to remind me at school of a sleek, complacent cat, and I hate cats with particular loathing. "Is Morgan lying or not when ha says he shot himself accidentally?" demanded Bickering petulantly. "I only know what I heard from the gardener here at the school. Youll understand, I hope.- - that I can't ha seen going to Morgan's house. "Of course not. But he says you haven't played fair with hrm, that you even attacked him a few days after Glenarm came. (TO BE CONTINUED.) KEEN A INTELLIGENCE WANTEa Story That Illustrates What Banks Are Looking For. Pierce Jay, the commissioner ol banl" of Massachusetts, at the AmerW Hankers association's convention , can in st Louis, advocated a better counting s)stem. "Hut above all, said Mr. Jay, In a discussion of his Idea, we want Intel-timHgcuce, If embezzlement Is to be thor-sel- f ughy Put down- - Systems are good, Intelllg- ,ice Is better, and tn cash-m- y lers and tellers and bookkeepers and note clerks we want the same keen, quick Intelligence that characterized old Capt. Hiram Cack of Gloucester. "Cack lay very 111. One day he got feeling that his case was hopeless., "I fear, doctor, he said, there Isn't much hope for me. 'Oh, yes, there Is, the doctor answered. Three years ago 1 was In your condition precisely, and look at me now. Cack, Intelligent and alert, said i bt - j down-hearte- j d Mc He man. , doctor dlUyou haver" Driven To It. She married a worthless noble- She How did that happen? He Despondency. She was jilted by her father'll onacbman. Puck, tralia. In the midst of a wild blizzard the steamer St. Cuthbert was burned to the waters edge off the Nova 8e tlan coast Fifteen member of the crew were drowned by the swamping of a small boat In whlch they attempted to leave the vessel. The American Railway association, at an executive session tn Chicago, decided to submit to the various roads of the country a proposition to reduce the per diem charge on freight car to 25 cents, effective March 1, instead of 50 cents as at present A vote of sympathy with tbrfamtTy of the late King Carlos of Portugal, moved by the Hungarian cabinet In the diet, had to be withdrawn because the Independents opposed It on the ground that King Carlos had violated the constitution of bis country. Because the girl to whom John Mol-let- t has been engaged refused to talk to him, Mollett fatally shot himsell a tlpbon in at while standing Chicago. Ine shot was heard ovei the telephone by the girls mother who had Just telephoned the girls re fusal. The body of Dr. F H. Moss of Palo Alto was found on the railroad track near the station at Morgan Hill, Cal., completely cut In two. Dr. Moss recently had been residing on a farm at Madrone. It Is presumed that he was killed by the eariy north bound coast train. Death from shock, was the verdict of physicians who examined into the sudden death of Mrs. Claudine Abry of Nyack, N. Y. Mrs. Abry was on Friday watching a number of boys and girls skating on the Hudson when the Ice broke and three of the boya were drowned. Choking with smok from a lire That crackled In the rafters directly above and In front of her in Kerche-- 1 avenue M. E. church, at Detroit, Mich., Miss Eva Ludgate. young woman evangelist from Chicago, sang Glory for Me while her nudience filed out to safety. ' A bttter Attack on the rules and power of the speaker was made tn the house of representatives lsrst week by Mr. Nelson of Wlsconsin, Republican. who said the power of , the house was merged in the speaker. 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