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Show -- a -v A STUDY OF ONE STAR. knee and to him. strangest romance. the little head close curtain falls te hide the gaudy seen try all rest the tired players. e Mrs. Howard went upstairs. They (By Maude D. V. Krake.) heard her bum a strain from a popular late POUOHT HER. THEN KILLED In waa summer a It day glad CHILD stood be-- song aa the went the corridor. Vane. Far up In a little w6oded spot along HIMSELF FOR HER. t,efn the lace nets A smart gown had Just arrived from oa the aide of the mountain sat a man A Zfl V l tbe wldow of the modiste, and she wished to try It and a girL They had met at the Sm4 Hla foe Bioe.ooo HUIIm-s- ir he atone house, on. Ts lrt looking Rule tun below a month previously, out at the "Am I not good? repeated the child, and he loved ber with all the ardor of Uagwortfey lacteMd THI He Had Mol Married shivering when the steps died away. wet, HH WUe man youth, and the strong heart ot a trees and the heavy Baed Mew. "You are very good. And ho knows he has found an Ideal rain dropping his heart ached tth the old dull pain, woman. From the first he had never the as he thought of thobe other down upon Mrs. Lanaworthy, aa ahe called herejes, so looked In surprise at her when she pressed t V (f Star-eye- s. beaten yellow grass and old leaves. The houses on the opposite tide of the street looked cold and forsaken, and the blinds were drawn. The child sighed; bhe did not know 11. Slie was tainklng, and a little, perplexed frown crept over her face. She spoke her thoughts, aa If to herself, forgetting the other occupant of t room, a pretty, daintily-cla- d woman, In a low wicker chair drawn close to the fire. The scene was far more cheerful than that without, but the child seemed attracted by the dreariness of the November day. "I am all alone, she said. What do you mean, Star? Inquired her stepmother, fretfully. "I am here, though you seem to have fc gottentbe fact Your father must have been blind when he said you were attractive and Interesting. You have been at that window all afternoon, and havent paid me the slightest attention, and now yotr are so rude as to Ignore my presence by such a remark. She bad evidently grown tired of ber novel. the room, but I am Yes, you are far away. See, as she came up to the aide of the chair, I am quite, quite close to you, mamma, byt I am far away In my mind. The woman did not stroke the little hand laid upon her. JThe child "tad not respect it. She had heard long before that she was ugly and bad a bad disposition. She really tried to be good, she bad told her father, the only one who kissed her and thought ber pretty. He had said that her eyes he had were like stars, and Star-eycalled her ever since the night she bad first opened them, and they had looked beyond them all, as if following the mother spirit to the skies. Yon are good, ber father had answered, but wishing that be underYou are good, Star-eye- s, stood ber. must not think so much. Play but you with your dolls. 1 do not like dolls, she had .said, slowly shaking her head. They stare at one as the ladies who come to see mamma Ho. They havent any eonla or hearts; they cannot talk to me, or love me. How do I know they have no souls, papa? Birds talk, tome of them, but mamma says they havent onls, and Marie said Brave bad a heart; that was why he loved me; but you said dogs- - have no souls. How does God know that the ladles have aouls, papa?" And then he had sent her to the plana; and he knew she would get a leu perplexed listener In the keys.biasThe child stood looking at the ing wood in the grate, ber band still, testing on the white, slender one, "4 "It is time your papa were hsre, Star. He has been later than Usual all week. See If tea la ready, and then run and tell Marie to brush your hair. Dear me. If you only h'al Vrelty curls you wouldnt look like ,jy terrible owl, as you do now, with pilose great eyes. Dont look at me, so, child! What 1 es maku you?' , "I was thinking, she aald, gs she slowly turned her head away, Well, dont think, was the sharp reply. Theichild passed out Into the ball turning into her andjbp the stairs, mamma's room aa she reached the -- ' landing. IT "Marie, she said to the maid, what will make my hair curly? 1 want to have curls. Will it hurt very much to burn them, ae mamma does? The maid laughed and brought out the Irons. No, Miss Star, It wont hurt you, and she lifted the child to a high chair before the dressing table. Star watched the maid In the mirror with solemn Interest When the crimson bow had been tied she viewed herself critically. It looks better, doesnt ltr Marie, but you dont think that it will make my eyes grow very much smaller, do you? I shouldnt like to have my eyes look different The maid assured her of the harm-lessneof her newly-acquirbeauty, and sent her down to the evenlhg meal which Mr, Howard would not give up for the more formal dinner. He and his wife were at the table when Star entered the room. She went np to her father, kissed -him gravely and then took her place.- Mrs. Howard glanced np from the cups and noticed the pretty little head which formed so striking a contrast to the elfin face. She went into raptures over the effect, and called her husband's attention to the Improvement. The child seemed deaf to the praises, and soon the conversation turned to another subject At the close of the meal Mr. Howard glanced up to see Star looking at the wall beyond It and be called to the child as though she were far away from them,. JStar-eye- s, where are you? ' ? wae I thinking, she' turned her eyes to his, if God Is sorry that we do not like the way he makes ns look,- - and if he likes to have us makt ourselves over. And then she slipped from her chair and went hack to her place of the afternoon. When the others entered the library she was standing looking out at the dark. There waa nothing to he seen save the reflection of the firelight in the glass. If she were only like other children,' murmured the wife, thinking her words unheard by the child. Btar came from the window to her father! i - aide. Am I not good? she naked, wist, . fully. He sighed as he lifted her to his ed ed - like these looking Into his; and with of that other face cfcme shreds of comersatious, a confession of lo-- e. promises, and la sw if t succession the happy scenes of one short year and then a tiny, motherless creature ljlrg in hi3 arms. Star felt herself being drawn in a closer embrace, -- and, as if by a quick impulse, put her slender arms about hla neck and buried bar face In his shoulder, go the child and the father at by the fire, thinking. She was so quiet that he thougut her asleep. Star-eye- s, be whispered, half to himself, and Instantly the little face waa lifted to his. "of what are you the memory thinking? Papa, people talk when they do not fcpeak sometimes I have heard peoples minds when they were still. Now listen, I am going to tell you something. Se ran to the piano, and with one hand vouched a few notes over and over, and they aald, with perfect clear ness, Come to me, papa, come to me. He rose and went over to the piano. A rare, sweet smile transfigured her odd, little face, and as he lifted her up In his arms she said, I knew you would come, papa. Mamma wont let me cell her so. She says It drives her half crazy, but I knew you would come l ' Them as if afraid of her own power, she cried out piteously, Oh, what la It, a hat Is it! A girl looked out of a window on Fourth street It was a chilly February day, but the afternoon sun threw the pictures of the leafless trees upon the pavement. A few chU- ed spoke her thoughts. He had been eo mind. careful not to hurt He had gently put aside ber perplexing Ideas with a practical suggestion, and had not laughed at her childish speeches. Day after day she became merrier and more contented, and whan at last he could still his heart no longer, he told her of his love, and she Knew that she might give ber life Into the keeping of Wynne Lawrence, and never fear that he would misunderstand and wound her tender heart A week of glad days had passed, and then they had met May and her husband, and Star received her own little speech from her friend's lips. This June day a party from the village were bent on climbing the mountain. Oh stinately refusing to go farther, these two lingered half way up the ascent The voices of the rest of the party grew fainter and fainter. The girl looked away to the souio, her hieautlful eyes glowing with a strange, new light A little troubled expression shadowed them for a moment, and tbs seen eyes of the lover aw It Star, you know that 'I love yon. Surely you cannot doubt if! bne glanced at the strong, 'loving face and answered tremulously: No, I dont understand It at all; but I da pot doubt" you. I could not do that, because I love you. It seems as though bad been wandering all these years and had, at last, found rest Wynne, dare I be so happy . fie did not In words. There Js yet a more " ' expressive way. It was long after when a merry laugh floated down 'to, tell them that the others were returning. That Is Mays voice, aald 8tar. She And my father were the only ones who cared for me. Her eyes grew questioning. What is it, sweetheart? he asked, tenderly. I waa thinking, she said, aa they went to meet the returning touristy that though many hearts break because of loving too muen, one might almost break from loving too little.' The man turned and took her in hla f arms. - - - s. well-round- ed y. - am glad, glad, said her friend, Oh. Star, learn to he happy! God teach yon. dear! Ooed-hy-.' ' One long alienee, while Star held her to her heart, and then the girl fled to her room and cried until the darkness dropped down oer the city, as the I earnestly, Btv She Hoops Lang-worth- y Wan. , The Princes of Wales possesses fur garments to the value of 12,000. Aa expert furrier Is charged with the duty of overhauling these periodically,' and great care has to he taken Ur keep them free from moths. r -- commissary Lang worthy Aald that : he was disgusted with Ufa. 4 , FMghS PLUCKY FA STOW. Uknr) His MS fro Pastor H. . . . VnU Sat BM! caKfc. . C. Schleuter of Immansel German Reformed church of BaUimoro and bis whole congregation are' fightStreet Railway' ing, company to prevent the laying of a, curve on Its new line In front of the! church. Early the other morning that preacher, wrapped In a waterproof' coat, sat in a pouring rain oa the dor- nsr to prevent the workmen, httohjagi ground at that point When he refused to remove his chair, tb A stfpUrtn- -, Undent ordered a workmn. fa fwyjve it There waa a hot struggle between a big negro laborer and the predaffssv the latter putting up a hard fllht be- fore surrendering. The chair was broken to pieces an he was struck cn the hand by One of4 the legs. A gsng of men then picked up a heavy rail and moved It over Bt$ such a way that the preacher's leg was scraped and bruised, and V waa forced backward. Charles Zlet, secretary of the congregation, went toe th police station and applied fort warrant for th .negros street, (hn Justice - Robert declined to Issue fffj except upon application of Rv, Mr. Schleuter himself, end th Rev.t'Mh; Schleuter was too busy to appear. If, and several of hla friends held lb fortj all day,' Rev. Schleuter will sue D. M, Evans, the contractor, for , personal , damages. lfj , A Slcrvt (Mr Story. Once I spent a night with two PoM tuguese ihephards, who were greatly troubled wUb bears, from two to four and five visiting them nearly everyl night, says John Muir In th November! On evening, before tunv Atlantic. down, a hear, followed by two eubaL cam for an early supper, as the floem waa being slowly driven toward camp4 Joe, th elder ot the shepherd, waro-d by many exciting experknaan promptly climbed a tall tamarack pltLq and left the freebooters to help tham- -, elves, while Anton, calling him in coward and declaring ba was not goto to let hears eat np his aheap before, his face, set the dogs on them an&j rushed toward them with a great aolsto and a stick. The frightened euba raa up a tree and the mother ran to meeti the shepherd and the dog., Antonaj stood astonished for a moment, eyln th oncoming bear, then fled tsstevj than Joe had, closely pursued. Ha scrambled to the roof rot their llttlew cabin, th only refuge quickly avalW able, and fortunately the bear, anx-lou about her young, did not dlroM after him, only held him In mortal terror a few mlnutee, glaring ank threatening, then hastened back to hw cubs, calling them down, went to thw frightened, huddled flock, killed M sheep .and fa!ed. In peace As moo, as the hear le.'t them, foarlug s.. would return, Anton called piteously! for cautious Joe to show him a good safe tree, up which he climbed Ilk m sailor climbing a mast, and held on a long aa he could with legs crossed, tha 11m pine recommended by Joe being nearly branchless. "So, you, too, are a bear coward, as well aa Joe," 1 said, Oh, I toll after hearing th story, you," aald he, with grand solemnity, htear face close by look awful; she Jus! as soon eat me as not. She do so aa eef all my sheeps blong every one to I run to hear this kind na herself, more. I take tree every time." 4 - . t - Lang-umrth- for her assistance flowed In. Her attorneys tried a new tack. They sued Langworthy tor $100,000 for breach ot premise. TTie ease came on tour years after the first suit had been begun. She wae awarded the full amount of her claim, with 12,500 a year allowance for her child. Thle Langworthy paid. Mrs Langworthy never denied her love for her husband. She always said that nothing would please her so much as to he reconciled to him. When they were opponente In court the .wrote this extraordinary letter to him: , ' Dear Edward My many letters tb you have been unanswered Mr lawyer showed me your paper writing of July, JSSS. All this should deter me from writing, but 1 have a strong motive. You once said, It we have a child 1 should like It to he a girL" It Is ot this little girt I would write. Before this wretched suit advances further come and see our little one. a child of whom any father might he proud so lovable, winning and Intelligent Oh, Edward, would not we he happier with come one "to love? 1 an-aw- er Do you mtnd my thinking? she asked in a childish tone. 1 love your thoughts, he answered, gravely. Mora than me?she asked, saucily. They are you, he replied, and you must always give them to me, for, with I All Jtll. ALONE." dren wereraclng up and down, laughyou, they are mine.", ing shrilly.' The teens contrasted un- . They ..slowly followed the others favorably with the one within. From down the trail; so slowly, Indeed, that before they arrived out' the' adjoining room came the the atars cams out ' ? Hnkl attending the serving of after-moo- n at the inn. They are telling me to hurry, said tea, and the medley of voices characteristic of the gathering of so- the girt. Who? asked Wynne.' ciety women over the cups. The girl had felt out of place and had stolen My sisters up there the other star-eyeaway from the unbearable gossip. She felt that curious sense of loneliness, at They are Jealous, he aald; that la such times, a feeling of being absent why. from ones own land, a longing for I used to envy them, she murmured, and now they are envying me," something undeflnable. No one understands me, she had and she laughed a little, soft, contented said once to a girl, "and I do not un- laugh. derstand myself. I have such strange Wynne, do you think there are none Ideas sometimes that I grow frightin heaven but the good?" ened and wonder why I am different Yes, Star-eye- s. Why such a quesfrom other girls. Is this the way peo- tion? ha asked, wondering If she was nearer the skies than those other stars, ple feel, I wonder, when they go med? And her companion had left with the I. wondered if I had been good, Impression that Star Howard was, if the said in the old, childish way. 1 not slightly mad, the strangest per know it now. ton she had ever known. The girl looked up at the blue, blue Collarettes an B aky and noticed a tiny white cloud In The array of novel collarettes and motionless. It seemed boa now to be seen In leading city it, aaemingly as lonely as If It were lost The poor tores Is unusually attractive. And little baby cloud! She wanted to go these are Just the days for them this and comfort and to It. the wish it, crisp, autumnal weather, when teemed to draw her away from the breezy, too cool for promenading withIts far earth. out more protection than the Jacket A familiar voice brought her hack gives at the throat and neck, yet hardagain. She turned to see the heavy winterlsh enough for storm collars curtains parted, and, a slender, gray ly or heavy furs. Some ot the newest . in the opening. The conceits In boas gowned figure and collarettes are sweet, smiling face held a world of tenderness for the girl hastening to made of coarse net and mousssllns de sole, thickly dotted with chenille her. These styles are full at the "May, she cried, I wanted you, pompons. and did not know It! Tbgt la why I neck, and hare long, tabs, which can he caught In gracehave felt eo strangely alone today. fully at the waist or allowed to fall I have come to may good-bStar, aald the young woman. I go to Annt free, at the wearers wllL While InIsabels tomorrow, and the wedding expensive, the effect of these dainty takes place In June, and then we go mufflers la very pleasing, particularly where worn by a slender, willowy woabroad. Star tightened the grasp of the little man, hut there are other collarettes handB'wlthin her own. pnd her eyes, thousands of them. Many are pretty, her wonderful, eyes, shone with what and a few otherwise.- - Every taste can be satis fled, and it is not necessary to must have been tears. Then you are aure that yon will he empty the pocketbook la order to posHash, sess oneself of a dainty and artistic happy? she began, earnestly. Starr and a soft kiss enforced the throat protector. light command. Yon have gone over that dame speech a dozen time before, The Dlviag Spider. and it hasn't had the Slightest effect is nothing new in the diving There So you had better wish me Joy. Some bell. Long before man thought he inday, when your prince cornea, I shall vented it, the water spider knew all that very punlsit yon by repeating about it . speech of yours. I have heard It so The water spider shins down reed, often that I cannot forget" his diving hell with him, and dragging Oh, May, it hurts me so to have yon under water on a levelkeel, it anchors say such things! I know only too so that the sir It contains keeps the well bow odd end unlovable I am. I think God as given me my levy talents water out When this air becomes foul, th spito take the place of. those .other things swim to the top, captures a bubble der will wish I So a to heart dear girl's of Its tall and carries It yon Joy, my dear, sweet friend. We with A flirt for future reference. may meet in some antiquated spot in down to the hell livea la snug com the spider There I have papa World. Old the promised to drop my studies and take up the fort and no storm disturbs his lowly role of society girl abroad this sum- home. mer.- self the alleged Mrs. Langworthy, as the counsel for the defendant called y, her I dead In London. Mr, ho spent a fortune In opposing her claims, shot himself In th same hotel in which be had been staying. the day after she died. In grief over her death. Thus closed the final chapter of one of the most extraordinary matrimonial scandals that ever attracted public attention In Europe, which was settled in court by the payment of the largest sum for breach of promise ever awarded by an English court Edward Martin was the son of a Mexican trader. He Inherited sett, took np her case. SuheertpUona closed hut la the one to the pcee he was at the age ot graduated JL Later he inherited other sums which made him many times a millionaire. He studied at the Temple In London after hie graduation and was duly called to the bar; but he never practiced, preferring to spend his time His first wife g in was a sister of. the Earl of Limerick, hut she toon died, and he was a widower when he first met Mlsa Mildred Long, then a schoolmistress in Parts, In I88L fortune of when $500,000 from Oxford pleasure-seekin- After a few months acquaintance they became engaged. In September, 1882, they were married In a Roman Catholic church In the neighborhood of Caen, In Normandy. Miss Long, who was a Protestant, had some misgivings about the legality of the marriage ceremony. Out ot deference to her scruples, another ceremony wae performed by a Presbyterian clergyman la Antwerp. Langworthy, however, asked Mlsa Long to keep the marriage secret for a year for fear that his mother would disinherit him, and he kept th marriage certificate himself. Shortly afterward they went to South -- America on ihls own private yacht, the Meteor. ; On the voyage Langworthy learned that hla wife was to become s mother. Then, Mrs Langworthy said, he began a systhe tematic course of climax of which was that he gave her a little money and separated from her, after telling her that both' marriage ceremonies bad been shams. She returned to England, and after the birth of her child, began proceedings against her husband, who pleaded that there had never been a lawful marriage. Sir Charles Russell, the present Lord Chief Justice, was one of the distinguished lawyers whom Langworthy employed. My lord, we admit everything. We challenge only the legality of the marriage, said Sir Charles It seema that Langworthys relatives, from whom he wae yet to receive A great deal of money, egged him on in th triaL They could not hear the thought of having Mrs. Langworthy a legitimate member of the family. It wae proven that the Catholic marriage was - sot lawful The ceremony at Antwerp had been genuine enough, but the conditions did not comply with Belgian laws. The court concluded that" there fiadheen a marriage In fact, though not n legal marriage, and it awarded alimony at the rate of $6,000 a year to the plaintiff. Rather than pay it, Langworthy fled the country. At the time he oould say nothing too Wr against bis wtfA Mr. Langworthy, who was without funds, contemplated suicide. Then she appealed to every one she knew for help, hut without success. - On account of her notoriety, she. earned, some money by selling goods over the counter of exhibition stores Then Stead, nt the time editor of the Pall Mall Ga-- f X could never have borne all my troubles were It not for my little one, the dearest treasure on earth. God was good to give her to me. Dont misjudge me and attribute my writing now to a tear of appearing in court much as 1 shrank from the idea of such an ordeal n Year ago. I now feel that a public trial alone can vindicate me. Many, 1 know, will censure me for writing to you, hut I cannot reproach myself with omitting to do my best for our child. Your faithful wife, MILDRED LANGWORTHY. Like the others, this letter wst unanswered. After the trial both disappeared from public view and became ' X OpU Ara Bf. wanderers on the face of the earth. Opals will soon be considered luckyj They were heard of again after the stones it it la found that they arw which looks as If fl -tragedy last week at the Grand Hotel burglar-proo- f, In Parle. It la said that they had bemight be the case from the account come reconciled and bad lived together given of a recent robbery In Spokane. of late years. Wash. The burglars there broke Into? The day after her death he was a Jewelry shop and took a quantity off found In his room with a bullet wound Jewelry, but left the most v&luablai In his head. There were several letstones, a number of opals, which they ters on the table, one of them being ad- could have taken as easily as thar dressed to the police commissary. The cheaper and more telltale goods which! contents of the other were not die they carried away. 1 |