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THE NEWS.
WOODWARD,
To hare ■ bad habit U to have a h rd
Our old clothe* have lo*t u lomo
rlend*. but not an many aa our opln-
ona about oar neighbors.
If the eastern hostilities could be re-
lured to a war of worda the Greek lan-
guage rrottld come In very bandy In-
Give aelf power to move a nioun-
aln, and II will put a bit algn out on
i to ahow who did It. aa the houae
uovera do.
Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria baa die-
appeared. and now It will be In order
to aearcb the Parisian muelr halls If
bla subjects wish to know Juat who
th* la
decent expression* by Cuban leadera
Indicate that they have lost hope of aa-
alatance from the I'nlted State*; but
they keep right on fighting, while we
persevere In doing police duly for
Spall).
Sir laaac liolden. the millionaire
member of Parliament from Yorkshire,
now nearly 90 years old. believe* with
John Wealey that phosphate* of lima,
In which flour I* *o rich, are good for
growing children, young people, nnd
young mother*, hut ahorlen tha life of
the elderly by making bone* den*e
nnd weighty muscle* rigid, "fnrrlng '
the large blood vessels like un old boll-
ir. and "choking the capillary arter-
l-a." So he eat* hardly any bread, hi*
favorite food being orange*, bananas
hi)J meat.
DAY
Such enormou* mimi are being paid
for houae* and window* in London
i.long the route of the royal procession
on June 22 next, and ao c ostly are the
preparation* made by the people of the
metropolia for the celebration of the
sixtieth anniversary of the Queen'* as-
cension to the throne that during the
last three month* her Majesty's life
has been Insured to the tune of nearly
15,000,000 by shopkeepers, window bro-
kers, house agent* and speculators,
who are anxious to protect themselves
against loaa in the possible event of
the venerable sovereign's death before
the date of the Jubilee.
By the last census It appears that
the population of Franco I* now 38,-
228,969, an Increase in Ave years of
only 133,819, and this mainly through
immigration. For several years past
the death rate has exceeded the birth
rate. These facts become still more
significant when a comparison is made
between France and her neighbors. In
Germany the increase of population
during the last five years has been
2,861,431, nearly 3,000,000, as against
134,000 In France. The contrast Is still
more striking when these figures are
compared with those of the past. At
the beginning of the century France
outnumbered Prussia three to one. To-
day Prussia contains almost an equal
population, and aa (pr the whole of
Germany, there are five Germans to
every four Frenchmen.
A cablegram from London says: In
consequence of the efforts of the gov-
ernment of Massachusetts, the Ameri-
can Antiquarian and Massachusetts
Historical societies, the Pilgrim So-
ciety of Plymouth and the New Eng-
land Society of New York, backed up
Kt the desires of the archbishop of
Canterbury and the bishop of London,
the conslBtory court of the diocese of
London assembled March 25 in the old
chapel of St. Paul's Cathedral in order
ta determine the question of the re-
storation of the log of the Mayflower to
the United States. After formal dis-
cussion the chancellor said: "I order
on the undertaking here given by Mr.
Bayard to place tbe log In a fit place,
where persons concerned can have ac-
cess thereto, and a proper certified copy-
being deposited at Fulham that tbe
original be given up to Mr. Bayard for
transmission to the President of the
United States."
Reports in regard to winter wheal
•re discouraging. The continuous rains,
followed by high water in tbe streams,
have flooded the low lands in many
portions of southern Illinois, so that
what wheat waB not winter killed has
been utterly ruined by water. Reports
from nearly half of the counties In the
state, including almost all of the win-
ter-wheat growing counties, are that
two-thirds of the wheat Beeded last fall
—1,749,000 acres was winter killed or
destroyed by floodB, and the condition
of the remaining third—589.000 acres—
is so poor that under the most favora-
ble conditions only one-third of an av-
erage crop may lie expected. The out-
look is that little more than enough
wheat for seed will be harveBted in
Illinois tbia season, and the people will
have to depend on other states for
wheat for consumption, a condition
that has occurred but once in the agri-
cultural history of the state.
Weyler Bays It Is all over, and the
Cuban rebellion is as meek as a whip-
ped child. Gomez says Spain is about
to give it up as the toughest Job she
ever contractod for. And between the
two are the trocha, yellow fever, small-
pox and a brand new bicycle track for
those on cither side who like to scorch.
The shameful charge is made in Bal-
timore that school commissioners and
politicians are selling appointments of
teachers. If there is any truth in it,
the offenders richly deserve to be fined
and Imprisoned.
Because she was sufficiently prompt
iu bringing him his morning coffee J.
Linker, a Chicago barber, called An-
nie Egan "a lobster." Annie had her
employer arrested and he was fined a
small sum and coats of court. Annie
would now like to call Mr. Linker "a
sausage." but the lesson of the law
serves as a bridle to her tongue.
The time will soon be here when the
gallant young man asks the delicate
girl at his side if she will have some
ice cream. And she modestly replies:
"Only a freecerful, please."
Mrs. Birdie Morgan of Denver aot
only wishes to be a soldier, but she
proposes to organize a company of
militia women. Birdie's company
would certainly draw crowds of admir-
ers on drill days. Whether they made
soldiers or not would make nc
f^BAR^W'S
M°NU/AENJ
HE man's name
vas Matt, and it
suited him. Great
the conjuring
power of names.
>—• After knowing dozen* of
. men whose characters flat-
rf'i I )y contradict the Idea wo
associate with the names
jZjZL-' given them by undlacern-
Ing sponsors in baptism,
we still cling to those ideas,
and to us Tom i* a waver-
ing, weak-kneed Individual, Joe
suggests a reckless, pranksome
fellow whose heart is In the right
; place and his tongue hung loose at both
ends, and John suggests the picture of
I a steady, solid, sober personage, who
seems a bit of a prig until we think of
I Henry, who creates about him an ab-
| anlntelv -1—-"1111" UI
| moral and spiritual snobbishness.
; He whose name of Matt fitted him
better than the shabby, shoddy gar-
ments which hung about him in dispir-
ited folds was short and square set and
stooping.
Yet he was not bo old as age goes—
] Yet be was not so old as age goes—
1 only 35, and as he told the man who
j occupied the same bench, he had only
been on the road for ten years.
"I've been trampln' it for nigh on to
fifteen." said his companion, a man of
about hiB own age, but whose dress
and person presented an appearance of
even more acute forlornlty. Surely, no
two more unsightly human blots ever
disfigured a landscape than these, who
lounged untidily on the benches of
Washington square, blind to tbe blue
and gold brightness of the early morn-
ing of one of the first Memorial Days
this city ever celebrated. Now and
then smart blue coated soldiers, with
pinks in their button holes, either sing
ly or In groups of two or three, stepped
rapidly through the square, too intent
on reaching the rendezvous where tbey
were to assemble for the grand parade
to waste a glance on the two vagabonds
who had met,fraternized and exchanged
experiences and confidences within the
space of the last half hour.
"Fifteen years at trampln' is as good
as a hundred." continued the first
speaker, meditatively. "Seems as If
man gits it inter his bones by then,
an' It wouldn't be any good fer bis own
self to want ter stop it. let alone other
folks. Now, I'd been on the road fer
five years when this war business broke
out. Directly It came I went to Cana-
dy. 1 wasn't goln' ter take no chances.
I didn't see notbln' of it. nor care noth-
ln' fer it, an' wen it was over I come
back and bummed about the country
ever sence, without findin' things much
changcd anyways from what they was
before. That's why I don't take no in-
terest In this here racket over Decora-
tion Day."
At thnt moment the thrilling music
of the fife and drum, a* it small de-
tachment of soldiers wended their way
down Walnut street, flashing tbe Stars
and Stripes In tbe eyes of the specta-
tors who Instantly collected at doors
and windows, sounded in vivid contrast
to his Bpeech, and in Matt Barlow's
dull face there flickered a faint sparkle
of surprise. "I don't feel that way,"
he said, hesitatingly; "I'm kinder glad
there's braver men than—you an' me"
something had gotten Into his voice
and made it almost Inaudible—"to fight
for the country we're bummin' round
in; an' I'm goln' out to the cemeterlcs
to do honor to the soldiers, dead an'
llvln', who did It—If there's any honor
to anybody in a feller like me bein"
round anywheres. You see, It's differ-
1 don't exp<ct ter go nowhere elso if
tbor cops leave* me alone."
"Maybe wc will and maybe not. I've
got folks hero In MUMMffcta. an' !l i
half likely I may look 'em up."
unaccountable trembling had come in-
to Barlow'* voice aa ho answered an
Into his feet a* he shuffled oft with an
air remotely Imitating energy, aud In-
to his flngeru as he ran them down In-
to his coat pocket and drew out a dingy
pocketbook, besides as flat as a pres
autumn leaf. He took out an equally
dingy piece of newspaper and studied
the words printed on It as thoughtfully
as though he had not known them by
heart for a month or more:
"If John Barlow, of Northumberland
county, Pa., sometime a resident of
Philadelphia, will communicate with
the undersigned he will hear something
to his advantage. The name and ad-
dress of the American representative
of a well known English law Arm fol-
lowed.
"It means some o' them English re-
lations o' course," mused Matt Barlow
as he had used a dozen time* before.
"I uster hear Grandfather Harlow talk
of money that had oughter come to us
from the other side by rights, but never
expected nothln' to come of It. Won
der If Lucv seen It? Wonder if—" anil
then the thoughts which gathered
round that nume became of a character
not to be uttered aloud to a drink
sodden, frowsy tramp, even If he hap
-JvsM
food soldb
difference.
"To the memory of one who was sac-
rificed by a so-called friend" Is to be
•osraved on tbe tombstone of a Wash-
ington woman. A good many tomb-
stones might truthfully bear that in-
"WAS IN THE ARMY MYSELF."
ent with me; I used to be in—in ther
army myself." He hurried out the
words half In fear, half bravado, as
though flinging a challenge, and then,
with a sharp indrawing of his breath,
narrowly watched his companion as
though dreading their effect.
But bis hearer was a man without
curioBlty. "TbasBO?" he asked, indif-
ferently, and returned, as though ha
had no Interruption to tiie subject of
his former monologue: "Yes, It's as
I say, be throwln' about the country
for a few years an' you ain't good fer
nothin' else an' you don't ask fer noth-
ln' else. Man looked like a minister
come along this here square Just yes-
t'dy 'n Jawed me 'bout 'bracin' up an'
bein' some use In ther communerty an'
all that. 'Here,' be says. Til give you
the address of a burer of charity in this
city where they're anxious to put able-
bodied fellers like you on farms In the
west.' Laws, he might as well uaved
his breath to cool bis puddln'. I've got
ther card, but ther burer'll never git
*.•«. Golu' a'ready? Well, s'long; we
nay moot torulgh' nn tht bench wtn:
to the glory of the fallen members of
the —th Pennsylvania Volunteers.
Some distract ion from the I noughts
of the moment wss absolute 'v neces-
sary. He picked up tbe 10 year-old
boy, aaylng to his sister, "dub hern
can't see, way down on tbe ground,"
and swung him to his shoulder. Ths
boy smiled friendly wine luto the rough
face and remarked with a wavering
sweep of his forefinger:
"That * my father's monument."
"Your fsther's, hey?"
"Yea. He was the bravest Man It
th Penneylvanla. My mother j rate_ (t h|ul my turn anj 1 |,uve
the
tells us so often. He died for his coun-
try."
"Who was your fsther?" Struck
again by that dim resemblance to
Fellow Laborer,!
ly I. RIDER HAGGARD. j
**•
L'HAITKR V —(CoimiasD.)
"Tbe work must take care of Itself,
(leoffrey. You must discover the Se-
cret of Ufe yourself; or perhaps you
had better put the whole thing In the
fire and go back to practice. At any
done with It!"
"1 don't understand you!" t
ed, alnking into a chair. "Perhaps If
you are not In too great a hurry you
.omeone he had known, he asked the , w||| !
question, half shrinking from the re- .mi. . v 1
1 Of course I will, when I have poured
out your tea. Thero now, listen, and
I will give you a lesson In human
"Matthew Barlow, an' my name's
Matlhew Harlow, hut her* " indicat-
ing the girl—"ain't. She's Dora Ma-
tilda. after her aunt."
Well, and wherein lay the horror ol
It? Had he not wlahed and Intended
to hunt up Ills family and bo reunited
to the children who had been babies
when he saw tliern Isst? And here he
had stumbled across them without ths
least trouble. Across them—and
acroe* hi* own monument!
"Where's your mother?" be asked In
a whisper, not daring to look behind
him.
"Out working. She cleans offices,
mother does, an' she couldn't afford to
nature, which, with all your brains, you
very much want, Geoffrey. I have been
In this house for fourteen years, and
t will begin by telling you that from
the day that 1 came In till to-day. when
1 go out, you have never understood mo
In the least. You have always looked
upon me a* a simple-minded woman of
intellectual caparity, and with a genius
for mathematics and no alms beyond
Ihc discovery of scientific secrets. Now,
I will toll you. When I flr t came to
this house as a girl of fourteen, 1 fell
In love with you. You need not look
astonished -young girls sometimes do
thut sort of thing. You were good
looking In those days, and very clever,
take to-day off. cause It's dc.perate ■ ttre no": "•' ,hen y°u ,were
bard to get along anyhow, sho says,
and—"
"Matty!" In the girl's toils of gen-
tle rebuks there was s familiar cadence
ho wondered at himself for not no-
ticing before. Rousing himself, bo
said to her tentatively:
"How do you know your father's
dead? Maybe he'll come hack some
really and truly a gentleman, and one
soee so few gentlemen—I always think
they are the scarcest people in the
world!
"Well. I nursed my secret paasion
and held It so tight that uclther you
nor your wife even guessed it. Even
iu Uiose days I could form a clear opin-
ion, and I saw that she would not live
day with a lot of money mi,I make you lonK. and that tho time would come
all rich."
Dora Matilda shook her head. "He'd
have ccme back to us before this," she
said confidently. "He was reporte
when I should step Into her shoes. So
I played upon her weak points, to
strengthen my bold over her. and wait-
ed. In due course the time came. You
missing after tho battle of Bull Run were 11 long time before you proposed
sml mother says she's sure he's dead.
She nays, too, that she'd rather he'd
left us what he did—an example of
being brave and willing to die for the
Union—than hundreds of gold and sil-
ver dollars."
"Your mother ain't married again,
then?"
Surely It was Lucy's own self In tbe
haughty flinging back of the bead and
the answer which rung proudly out,
"Certainly not!"
The deserter suddenly set tbe boy
down. Something bore too heavily on
his shoulders. It was that great shaft
of stone, bis monument. The band
kept on pretending to play patriotic
songs, but really beating the air with
the refrain, "Honor gone, all's gone!"
Had he dreamed of something he was
to me after her death, and your hea<
was so full of your work that I believe
yould would have been longer, had I
not. by means thnt were imperceptible
to you. kept continually turning your
mind Into that channel. Even then you
did not love me as I wanted to be
loved; but I knew that this would come
after marriage. And then came tbe
crash, and the sudden appearance of an
obstacle against which no scheme of
m'no could prevail, overwhelmed and
confused me. filling me with a sense of
impotence that I have never experi-
enced before or since. If you could
know. Geoffrey, what a flood of un-
utterable contempt rushed into my
mind, as I beard you maundering on
about your scruples and posterity! It
drowned my passion. I felt that I was
to bring to these children, by answer- well rid of a man who could in cold
ing tho advertisement which was to blood glvo me up to satisfy what he
lead him. perhaps, to unlimited wealth was pleased to call his conscience! But
and comfort? What wealth, what com-
fort could replace to them—or to bim
—the heroic image which hi* return ;
would blot out from their young mind?
Tbe ten years of poverty which had
been bitter to him had been sweet to
them with a sweetness he could never
know again. Let them work and toll
on, and even if they taBted the bitter-
ness of starvation or death, It would
perhaps you will never quite know or
understand how near I went to killing
you that night!"
Here I started—the wholo thing was
like a nightmare. Fanny laughed.
"Don't be frightened." Fanny went
on; "there's nothing more melodramat-
ic to come. I am glad to say that pru-
dential considerations prevailed! Well,
after that fiasco, I reviewed the posi-
he better than anything he could give tlon and determined to stay on—partly
tbem, who. as the martial music kept from habit, partly on account of John
reminding him, had better never havt
been born!
"Sister works too." the boy prattled
on, "in a factory, and she saves money
through the year to buy flowers for
Decoration Day. Then when all tha
rivalry over Washington squar
man who had been sleeping heavily on
one of its benches opened his eyes in
responso to a Blight shake. Instlnc-
I • m ■
AM DEAD.'
"DIED FOR HIS COUNTRY."
pened to be oneself. As he waited on
the corner for the crawling horse-car
which amply met Philadelphia's de-
mand for rapid transit In 1874, he lid
mutter a few words audibly:
"She'll act queer at first—if she ain't
married again—yes, there ain't no
doubt but she'll act queer. But I kin
make her understand that at first It
was as much as my life was worth to
turn up anywheres, and then, when the
war was over, 'twas too late; iibc
wouldn't have had me. Lucy wouldn't!
But now that I kin bring something to
her an' the children, as well as my elf,
by comin' back, it ain't so much of a
prodigal son business."
"A deserter! A deserter!"
The vagabond woke from an uneasy
dream in which all the people. In the
car seemed pointing scornful fingers nt
him and hissing that title of reproach
In his ear. He started as the blue-
uniformed conductor laid a hand on
his shoulder, to Bay sternly. "Wake up,
you, or I'll put you off the car. You
disturb everybody with your muttcr-
ings."
It had been a good many years since
Matt Barlow had allowed himself to re-
call exactly why It was that he was
wandering homeless about ?he country
Indifferent to the fact that his family
must mourn him as dead, or why it was
that he half hoped that they did so
mourn him. But to-day it was all wak-
ing. waking within him under the influ-
ence of the day, together with the new
desire he had vaguely formed to take a
fresh start in life. When, a half hour
later, he stood in the densely parked
crowd in the cemetery and waited for
the ceremonies of Decoration day to be- j uvely hc ml ln llls p°<-ket for bis pip
gin, he strained his eye to see tbe in-1 wh.1.1® he- inquired laconically
scrlptlon on the huge obelisk, half bur-
ied in floral tokens, around which th
guard of honor stood, but tbe Bun was
in bis eyes. Of course it
sun.
"What soldiers is that monument
raised to, sissy?" he asked, huskily, of
a tall girl it 12 or 13, who stood be
side him, holding a smaller boy by the
hand.
" 'To the imperishable memory of the
heroes of the —th Pennsylvania Volun
teers, who fell In defense of their conn
try, this shaft is erected,' " read the
girl ln a clear voice. "Them's the sur-
vivors," she added in kindly explana-
tion. as the sound of the band and the
flutter of the red. white and blue ban-
ner was dimly discerned In the dis-
tance, "coming to lay flowers on It and
make speeches."
Matt Barlow shook so that he was
forced to steady himself by graspnig
tbe shoulder of the small boy, who
gazed up at hlai with* a wondering
face which Btruck some faint chord of
recognition within him. "They won't
know me," he muttered to himself in
quavering accents. "Lucy herself, nor
my own mother wouldn't know me its
I look now. An', anyhow, they could-
n't do nothln' to me.
The tun* played was, to him, not
Marching Through Georgia," but
"Honor gone, all's gone;
Better never have been born."
over and over. The Uttered battle flags
carried with reverent hands above the
heads of th* marching ranks, almost as
la carried in Old World relig-
ious proceatlons, made his heart first
bum wRhin him, then sicken at the
thought that his place should not have
among tbos* who watched It
from afar off.
Either with them—or them!" he
thought fiercely, first glancing at the
—partly, Indeed chiefly, because I was
still foolish enough to believe ln the
Secret of Life business, and foresaw
that when it did succeed my name
would be made, and that I should then,
backed as I am by my personal ap-
pearance nnd capacities, be able
folks have gone away we put tbem on marry whom 1 liked, or. If I preferred
father's monument." it, not to marry, but to follow any ca-
Matt Barlow reached out bis hands reer ln life that might recommend iU-
toward the bunch of limp roses and elf to me.
fndfng mignonette which the girl held, "At last, however, the end came. I
then as suddenly withdrew it. Keep lost all faith In our work, and saw that
•em." he said gruffly, almost violently. you and I had only been making fools
"I thought I wanted one, but I don't." 0f ourselves; and consequently I de-
That evening, as the stars and the termined to sever a connection that
gas lamps began to twinkle in unequal could not bring me credit or profit,eith-
^ you
er now or in the future, and, being a
woman, the only way that I could pos-
sibly sever it with advantage was by
marriage. For u long time 1 could
not fall In with anybody rich enougb;
when at last a happy accident brought
the man within my reach—by the way,
I bad thought of him for several years
—and. of course, I took my chance, and
married him before anybody could In'
terfere. What is more. I actually per
suaded him to enter into an engage-
ment to settle four thousand a year to
my Beparate use; bo you see I shall in
reality be totally independent of the
man!"
And what do you mean to do with
yourself now?" I asked, feebly.
I "Do! 1 mean to bask in the sunshine
; and drink.the wino of life—to know
what pleasure and power mean, to live
and become rich and great, and avenge
| myself upon everybody who has ever
slighted or injured me! Oh, yes,
' shall do it. too! I shall use even that
miserable little Joseph, whom I Just
now had the pleasure of promising to
love, honor and obey, as a means to
advance myself. He is a poor crea-
Back?" ture, but sharp enough to be a member
"Yes." said Barlow, closing his lips of Parliament, you know
tightly. But as has been said tho oth- j "That reminds me, he la waiting for
er was a man without curiosity, and he mo at his club; he was afraid to come
asked no other question than: back and face you, so I must be going.
"Haven't got a bit of paper I could | Well, good-hye. Geoffrey; I hope that
light my pipo with, have you?" you will think kindly of me sometimes,
"Yes, I have." A crumpled news- ' notwithstanding It all, and although
paper slip was taken from his pocket- T have for the flrst time In my life ln-
book. twisted up and tossed to the man dulged in the luxury of telling you
on the bench, and then Matt asked; everything that is In my mind. Ah,
"Say, if you ain't going to use that you don't know what a luxury It la to
card, could I have It?" , he able to speak the truth Just for once!
"What card? Oh, the charily burer Do you know now that I am going to
thing! Ye ain't goin' out west on a leave you—It Is very odd—but I almost
farm, are you? Might as well be dead feel as though I loved you again, as
as workln'. an' burled as on a farm." 1 ,18ed to do so many years ago! At
"I an; dead an' hurled," said Matt lea8t 1 am slad to have spent all this
Barlow, slowly. "An' got a monument time with you, though I was often
raised over me."
w
-Philadelphia Press.
Tha Future.
Those who are to come after u —
those who know the war only as a sad
and awful tradition—the day and its
meaning must be made plain. They
cannot know the sorrow, the pain, the
tlrelesB anxiety and the ever-present
watchfulness that filled those weari-
some year* of struggle, and that had,
by the greatness of lMvine power,
dreary enough, because I know that
| shall never meet a man like you again,
; and my mind leaves you hardened and
braced and polished by contact with
1 your bright Intellect, and by the con-
stant study and application you have
insisted 011 till It has become a second
nature to me. I shall miss you, Geoff-
rey, but not so much as you will miss
me. You will be miserable without me,
and no other woman can ever fill my
place, because I do not believe that
you can find any who Is my equal in
Intellectual resource. You see what
strength and courage to wait for the „ '
fullness of time, that bright and shin- 80ruples, Are yo„ „ot m yo„
bright
ing and glorious time wh^n the young-
est nation of the earth would shake off
the burdens and unloose the shackles
of discord, and rise in 'her might
did not marry me now?'
"Fanny," I answered, solemnly, for
by this time I comprehended tho whole
horror oT the position, "I thank the
daughter of the gods, divinely fair, dl- Provl(lenr„ whlch ^ryed me from
vlnely strong, and royal y gracious In jrining my |lfe to that of a woman ^
her supreme and conscious strength
and stand once more, clothed and In
her right mind, In ber own proud po-
sition as the grandest and moat to be
envied of all tbe nations of the earth
New York J/edger.
ranks of bottle-scarrea soldiers, th«-n | nt Moscow, Russia, which weigh* 432.-
at the tall gray shaft, which seemed a 000 pounds. That ln the city hail, New
to writ* 00 tbe skies it* witness York, weighs 22,300
wicked as yourself!"
"Really, Geoffrey, you are quite en-
ergetic! I suppose that you are piqued
at my going. Well, I must be going,
but before I go 1 will lay down a little
axiom for your future guidance; I fear
...... ,. . . you will think it cynical, but the truth
W„°r,'iU Hi?' • ""en cynical. Never trust a woman
again. Remember that she always has
a motive. If she is under twenty-five,
seek for It In her panlons; after that
In her aelf Interest.' "
At this moment her face changed,
and as It did I heard the tap! tap! of
poor John'* crutches as he cwme down
tho passage. The door opened and the
boy entered- a feeble, undersized lad,
with a pinched-up white face and a pair
of beautiful blue eyes.
"Cousin Fanny." he *ald Ih* al-
ways called her cousin), as he entered,
"where are you? 1 hsvs been looking
for you everywhere. Why have they
been taking sway your big box? You
are not going away to stay without me,
are you?"
"Your comin is going away for good,
John," 1 said; and next moment I re-
gretted It, for It was dreadful to *ee
the look of ngony that came upon tbe
poor lad's face. He loved Fanny with
all tbu strength of his sensitive and
exaggerated nature, and for years had
scarcely been able to bear her absence,
even for a day.
"Oh, no! no!" ho screamed, hobbling
up to her and catching hold of her
dress In his hands. "Don't ny you're
going, couiln! You can't go and leave
me behind."
"Geoffrey." she said In a choked
voice, "let me take th* boy with me.
He Is my weak point. 1 love him as
though he were my own. Let me take
him. He shall be looked after!"
"I had rather see him doad!" I an-
swered. sternly, llttlo guessing how
soon I should be taken at my word.
She stooped down and kissed tho Ind.
and then turned and went swiftly—al-
most at a run. He seized his crutches
and limped down the passage after her
at an astonishing pace, calling ber by
name as he went, till preseutly oue of
the crutches slipped, snd he fell help-
leas upon tbe stone flooring, snd lay
there, still screaming to her through
the bail door, which alio slammed be-
hind her. When 1 reached him he Wujs
in a fit!
Tho whole thing formed the most
horrible, and In It* way the moat traglc
scehe that I ever saw: and I often
dream of It even now. And here I muy
add that my poor boy never recovered
from the shock. He lingered three
months and then died In his sleep, ap-
parently from pure Inanition. Well, It
was a merciful release from a life of
almost constant pain!
That wus the last time that I ever
saw Fanny Denelly, or rather Fanny
Hide-Thompson.
CHAPTER VI.
HEN John had
temporarily recov-
ered under the
treatment that I
had applied, seeing
that I could do
nothing else for
him, I gave him a
sleeping draught,
and as soon ss It
had taken effect. I
went down stairs
Into tbe study in a very strange state
of mind. I felt as though 1 had re-
ceived some dreadful physical shock.
I bad believed in and trusted Fanny
as 1 had trusted no other woman on
earth, except my dear wife, and the
lurid light In which she now suddenly
revealed herBelf after these long years
positively staggered and blinded me!
And yet. after It all, I was astonished
to find that I remained fond of the wo-
man and missed her dreadfully. In-
deed, It was a year or more before I
got over the feeling, and then 1 only
did It by the exercise of great self-con-
trol. I had grown to depend upon her
so entirely that her help and society
seemed a necessity to me, quite alone
as I was ln the world. Indeed, had It
not been for my own rather well-de-
veloped pride. I do not think I should
ever have got over It. But this came
to the rescue. I could not bear to re-
flect that I was intellectual and so-
cially bound to the chariot wheels of a
woman who had for years been making
a tool of me, and who was. after all.
my Inferior. And so by degrees 1 did
got over it; but it has left Its mark
on me—yes, It haH left Its mark!
And then it was on that same disas-
trous morning that a wonder happened,
so strangely and opportunely, that I
have at times been almost inclined to
attribute it to the direct Interference
of Providential Power. When I was
worn out with thinking, I turned to my
work, more from habit than anything
else, I think, only to be once more ov-
ercome by the reflection that there too
I was helpless. The work could not go
on without the calculations, and who
was to do them now that Fanny had
deserted me? I could not, and It would
be the task of years to teach anybody
else, however clever, for the under-
standing of them had grown with the
experience. Besides. thlB I could never
afford to pay a man of the necessary
ability. It appeared, therefore, that
there was an end of my search for the
Secret of Life, to which I had devoted
the best years of my precarious exist-
ence. It was all but labor lost, and
would benefit neither myself nor man-
kind. This conviction rushed upon
me as I stood there by the pile of pa-
pers, then for the first time I quite
broke down under the accumulated
weight of sorrows, and, putting my
hands before my face, 1 sobbed like a
child! Tho paroxysm passed, and with
it passed, too, all my high ambitions.
I must give It up, and go back a fail-
ure to what little practice I could get,
until such time as the end came,
CHAPTER VII.
S I stooped to gath-
er up the various
papers, I noticed
that on the table
before me lay a
great sheet of Fan-
ny's calculations,
which she had been
employed upon the
previous night. The
top of the sheet
was covered with
two dense armies of figures and sym-
bols, marching this way and that, but
toward the bottom they thinned out
wonderfully, till there remained two
little lines only of those that had sur-
vived the crooked ways of mathemati-
cal war. Evidently she had laid down
her pen (as she sometimes would) JiiBt
before the termination of the prob-
lem, which I was aware she bad been
engaged on for several days. I knew
but little of the higher mathematics,
but I could see If the left-hand line
were subtracted from the right, the
difference would be the result sought
for, provided the problem had been
worked out without error. I took a
pencil and did this Idly enough. The
flrst time I made a mistake, but even
with the mistake tho result was suf-
ficiently startling to make me rub my
eyes. I did It again, and then Bank
back Into tho cbair behind me with a
gasp, and trembling as though I had <
unwittingly raised a ghoat!
And no wonder. For there before j
1110 was the Key to the great Secret I
for which we had been wearily seeking
so many years! There was no mistake j
about It! I knew what It ought to be. 1
and what conditions It must fulfill: '
•ad ther* It was, the last product of
•cores of sheet* of abilruse calculation"
baaed upon laws that could not* lie.
There It was! She had slopped Juat
short of It, anil at length I had tri-
umphed!-the fast obstacle to success,
complete, absolute success, was gone!
1 had wrung th* answer to th* great
question which torments the world
from the stony heart of the almighty
law that governs It!
"If she had known this, Fanny would
not have gone!" 1 said aloud, aud then,
what between one thing and another, I
fainted!
(To ns coXTiavsn.)
THE CARLISTS IN SPAIN.
A lllatarjr of Ih* a*v«rsl I'prlalng* of
tli* (>ntury.
From the time of I'hlllp V., In 1713,
the succasalon to tho Spanish throne
had been according to the Salic law,
from father to son, or to the nearest
male relative, says the Great Round
World. The Salic law Is a very old
law, which provides that no woman
cm Inherit lands or occupy the throne.
According to this law, If a king dlea
leaving several daughters but no son
the throne pa**e* away from the
daughters anil gnca to the nearest
male relative, bo he nephew, uncle or
coualn. In 1829 Ferdinand III. of
A MOB'S BLOODY WORK.
ijr, anwan
Moustaiw Gaovr, Mo., May ti.— A
Uw miles uorth of this city, last
night, a mob of about twenty persona
visited th* home of Lige Mayfield Md,
not finding the party there whom tbey
sought, set th* honae afire. Mayfiald
saved his hous* by hard work. Th*
aame mob then visited th* house of
John MitchelL Finding th* house
securely fastened, they commenced
firing at the outside. This aroueed
Mitchell, his brother Dave and Jafek
Coffman, their step-brother.
Mitchell, knowing th* Intention* «f
th* mob, started to get bla pistols, but
was rhldlod with bullets before h*
could reach them. Coffman waa also
jihot to death before he eould get oat
of bed Dave Mltehell waa shot
through the head and arm, and es-
caped death only by having his broth-
er John's lifeless body between him
and the window through whleh th*
mob was firing.
That John Mitchell's wife and ohll-
dren escaped death 1* almoct miracu-
lous, aa the wall behind the bed upon
which they wer* lying waa filled with
shot of all klnda.
It is alleged that the Mitchell
brothers and Coffman belonged to a
band of thieves, and the mob t
Spain, having no sons, rendered the method „f siting rid of thero. Tha
Salh- law of no effect In Spain by a do- , community I* highly excited
ere* granting the right of succession
to 1 he daughter* anil granddaughters
of tbe king. When Ferdinand died in
1S33 hi* daughter. I«abella Maria II.,
was declared queen, and the brother
of Ferdinand, who under the old law
*hould have been king, was passed
ovor. The brother was named Don
Carlos. Don Carlo* refused to recog-
nize his brother's decree nnd declared
himself king of Spain. Many of the
nobles who did not like the Idea of
being ruled by a woman flocked to his
standard and war was declared against
the party of the queen by the people
of Don Carlos' party, or Carlists, as
they were callcd. For six years a civil
war raged, then Don Carlos was forced
to give in. This war was from 1833
to 1839. In 18«0 Don Carlos It, the
son of Don Carlos I. (Ferdinand's
brother), declared himself king of
Spain and headed a new Carllst upris-
ing, which was again unsuccessful.
There have been several successive up-
risings since then. Prom 1873 to 187G
Don C'arloB III. headed a rising which
bid fair to be successful. Don Carlos
III. Is the direct descendant of Don
Carlos I. and is the present pretender
to the Spanish throne, to whleh, ac-
cording to the Salic law, he Ib the
rightful heir. In January, 1876, he was
forced to give up the light, and noth-
ing more has been heard of him til
the present time.
affair and it I* thought there will be
more trouble.
Dave Mitchell acknowledged that he
and hi* brother had been taken out
snd severely whipped by a band of
White Cups only a few nights sgo and
that they had been warned to leav*
the country. Last night's work waa
the result of their not taking thla ad
vibe.
REVIEW OF TRADE.
THE CAMEL'S EXPERIENCE.
Thla Ship of the Onm Looked Woeful
far a Time.
A large camel which was landed at
lloboken a few days ago from the
Bremen line Bteamer Dresden had an
experience which probably never be-
Dun Bms C
Improvement.
Nicw Yohk, May S3.—B. G. Dun *
Co.'a weekly review of trade say a:
"I'nmlstukable evidence of Improve-
ment comes in tbe general Increase
of commercial loan*, mostly for
Eastern merchants or companies,
though *ome well known houses
in the middle West appear with
considerable rediscounts from the
South. Not for a long time have com-
mercial loan* been fully half the whole.
The distinct change gives proof that
new business lias been larger than
many have supposed. Receipts of
money from tbe interior exceed ship-
ments Si. 500,000, mostly from the
Middle West Exports of gold have
no influence and only signify the will-
ingness of Russia to pay a price for
the gold needed."
RIOT IN A LEGISLATURE.
llll,o,l, states men Have Mere ran then
Rival root nail Teama.
SpBUtoFlKt-D, IIL, May 22. —The af-
ternoon session of the lower house of
the Legislature yesterday was marked
by 11 riot among the legislators. Waste
baskets, books and other articles were
hurled back and forth, and Represen-
tative Novak of Chicago made an at-
tack on the Speaker. Novak was
fore fell to the lot of a "ship of the hurlei1 ,rom tho pl «orm and roughly
desert," says the New York Press. Hc th« Republican members
made the voyage In a large box, and , ,Th.e 'U9U,rban<* " as finally quelled
' . , ' . before anyone was seriously injured,
as there wasn t room enough In It for Th(. troub{e wa, tfaused by the
j any self-respecting animal the camel er s refusal to recognize Novak.
, sat down in sheer disgust. He aat I
that way for days and days while tbe
i ship rolled and made all sorts of heavy
weather. When the dejected animal
I was finally landed and tried to stand
| up he couldn't use his rear props at all.
I They had become paralyzed with their
, long stay ln a cramped position. *nie
: camel wasn't any good, it seemed, and,
1 as a big price had been paid for him,
^ there was general lamentation. Such
a picture of woo was never seen in
J lloboken. At last a genius.suggested trust has bought outright the tube
Blcyol* Tab® Trust.
PiTTsiitno, Pa., May 2.—For th*
past month or so representatives of
the fnur largest bioycle tube manufac-
tories it, England have been negotiat-
ing with the tube plants in this coun-
try looking to the formation of an In-
ternational bicycle tub* trust Last
night It was announced (hat their mis-
sion to this country had been success-
ful, and tho flrst international trust
of the kind hus been formed. The
a radical cure. The camel, by his ad-
vice. was placed in a sling and hoisted
,ip until bis toes touched the ground.
He paddled the air for a spell with hit
forelegs, and finally the rear prop«
came to life and joined ln the exerciie.
They lowered him to the ground and,
after he had tested his rear legs some-
what gingerly, he was aB good as new.
But he doesn't sit down any more. Once
was enough for him.
A Sparrow's Klda In a Fly Wheel.
Birds have ail sorts of queer adven-
| lures, but perhaps what was the odd-
est one of recent days is that which be-
j fell a sparrow at Anderson, lnd. It
| flew Into a knife and bar manufactory,
j and, getting too near a Bmall wheel,
| was sucked In. The workmen noticed
it go Into the wheel, but knowing that
tho cylinder was revolving at a speed
of 130 revolutions a minute, took it
j for granted that the bird was killed,
j When the factory shut down at noon
I the men were astonished to hear a gen-
I tie chirp from the wheel, and lo, there
was the sparrow as well as ever. They
found that the bird hnd clung to the
strengthening rod of the wheel, and
was In a semi-dazed condition. They
picked him up nnd put him on a table,
and thence, after collecting his wits,
the little bird flew to freedom. The
wheel in which the bird rode made
I 31,000 revolutions while it wus upon It,
; and so the tiny feathered creature
traveled seventy-three and eight-
tenths miles in the embrace of a 11;
wheel.
plants at Ellwooil and Greenville, Pa.
The price paid for the two plants and
the privilege of using the Stlefel seam-
less tube process was close tc
•3,000,000,
Murderer a Suicide.
W11111TA, Kan., May '-2 —Wesley
Zelcbok, of Urant county, Okla., in a
fit of jealousy Saturday night killed
Joe llajek while he was visiting tho
girl for whose hand they were rival
suitors. Night before last the sheriff
found Zelebok and arrested him. On
their way to town Zelebok died In
A Qaeer-LiioklDR Word.
Supposing that you had been born
blind, and after living many years shut
out from the beautirul things of the
world, some skilled surgeon should give
to you your sight, wouldn't you have
some marvelous experiences? says the
Chicago Record. A11 old mnn who had
been born blind had his sight thus re-
stored to him. At Drat he started vio-
lently and was afraid of the strange
things around lilm, the hugeness of lit)
room anil Its contents. One of the first
things he saw at the window was a
tioek of sparrows. "What are they?"
usked the physician.
"I think they are teacups," was the
reply.
A watch was then shown to him and
hc knew what It was, probably because
bo heard It tick. Later, on seeing the
flame of a lamp, he tried to pick It tip,
not having the slightest Idea of it*
nature.
great agony beside the sheriff In the
buggy, after having first confessed
thnt he had swallowed strychnin^ with
suicidal intent Both dend men were
under 22 years of age and Bohemians.
Stole In Two Offices.
ctxcixirATi, Ohio., May 22.-Georgo
llobson, recorder of Hamilton county
for six years previous to entering on
his duties last September as clerk of
the courts, hos been found short about
850.000 as recorder and (123,401 as clerk,
although hc }iel<l that oflice only six
months. His trial will begin next
Monday on three indictments for for-
gery. embezzlement and obstructing
public records.
IlavU' Inauguration Spot Marked.
Mostoomekv, Ala., Slay 22.—The
spot on tho floor of the front balcony
of the eapitol upon which Jefferson
Davis stood when he was inaugurated
as president of tbe Southern Confed-
eracy bus Ix-cn marked with appropri-
ate ccrcmonlcs by a silver star given
by the Society of tho Daughters of the
Southern Confederacy.
Twent/-Two Thousand Tailors Idle.
Neiv Yoiik, May 22.—The leaders of
the tailors' strike estimate that 22,000
workmen are now out in Now York,
lirownsvillo, Brooklyn anil Newark.
The strikers are very confident of vic-
tory and public sympathy is with
thein. They liavo lieen very orderly.
A I'roteat From Germany.
Wasiiinotox, May 22.—The secre-
tary of state yesterday sent to the
Senate a protest from the German
Almost rucanny.
Yeast—We've got a new cook that's
a wonder. Crlmsonheak—What's the
matter with her? "She's been In the
house three weeks anil no one has
heard her say what make wheel she
rides."—Yonkers Statesman.
I'erformanee.
Mandy—Come on, Silas; It costs too
much to eat In thet place. Silas-
Yes, 60 cents Is a lot ter pay fer a din-
ner, but look how long we kin eat—
from 1:30 to 8 o'clock. Let's go In —
New York Tribune.
A Russel county (Kansas) farmer
killed ninety-nine rats In two hours.
They had turned his slack of corn Into
a boarding-house
A S3,000.000 Tohut-ro Contract.
N ash vim.k, Tcnn., May 21.—E. C.
Morrow & llro. of Clarksville, Tcnn.,
have closcd a contract by which they
will furnish the Italian government
5,000 hogsheuds of fine dark tobacco,
almost the entire crop in this section.
This contract is made direct with tli*
Italian government. The Mile amountl
to about S' .OOO.O'K).
I No Woman's Oegrae nt Cambridge.
Camiihiiigk, England, May 22—Cam-
I brldbe university to day, by 11 vote of
I 1,713 to Hi.'!, rejected the proposal to
confer defii-) s uxim wtmini
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