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cost you, Nostsn sowerby, you wf1
and youssef compelled to share your
wealth With the still surviving accom-
plice who aided you to obtain It"
And presently she closed her eyes
and fell to deep musing.
That fatal night Of twenty years be.
she shuddered; and then she thought
Of her daughter, and said to herself
consolingly, that the poor girl would
never know at what fearful price
/! her title Of viscountess had been pur-
/ chased.
And then Mrs. Chesterton wondered
| why she was thinking thus; wherefore
It was that One Tree Square was so
! often and 20 plainly palpably before
/ her.
A slight stir In the apartment
aroused Mrs. Chestcrton from her
dreamy mood and caused her suddenly
| to unclose her eyes.
And then she wildly glared with
wonder and dismay.
But two waxen tapers were burning
in the bOudQir. and their soft, subdued
light left shadows here aud there abont
the apartment.
Aud rs Mrs. Chesteltor looked
straight before her she beiell emerg.
!, inR from out those shadows three fig
ures, cloaked and masked. as had been
those other three OH the night of the
fifth OF February. Eighteen hundred
and seven.
Had her senses suddenly forsakcn
her. was she mad? Mrs. Chesterton
asked herself.
1t was like to an apparition; those
three masks-how came they there;
what would they with her? Why stood
they thus dumb and motionless before
her?
She started from her couch and ap-
preached almost closely those three
masks.
who are you? What would your
she cried.
There was no reply; and the bold AMI
daring Eugenia was trembling vio-
lentiy.
But yet she spoke again although In
low and falterlng tones. and said,
questioning sinsly each one of those
three masks:
"YOur name?'
whence come you?"
what would you?"
And the first whom she had ques.
toned answered solemnly:
II come from One Tree Square,"
my name Is Lindsay"
The second:
And the third mask shouted forth:
Il nm waiting for the child I have
been hired to slay."
And Mrs. Chesterton, with loud,
terrified cry. recoiled and threw her.
self again upon her couch, burying her
face upon it's cushion.
1t was some minutes before she could
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'A.1Iaasas assalse 49, ,yIveass u1essAs
yvHeae svsssns llEsspss. 7,
IT has 800 oftsa said that peeAlpl.
t3o0 b Kansas failssto pcohibit, = -.
Married j. r. Jarvis oe Empogia 10 q
B. Louis Republlc man, "and while
this y 6ue, I have. neverthe1eoo, eeen
times in thAt state whea It WA mighty
hard TO obtain . drink q rsd llQnee.
The nf1t town i 1ncAte6 n when
came West was wichita. Things Wogo
pretty Wild In those days, and -
evening met sfustler in the Onloo
Of the principal tavern Of the toWn.
He was bent On getting q quantity q
boose In his system, having already
made Q good beginning, and demanded
. drink Of the clerk. The clerk 10
fused, saying that he could i've no one
whisky without the permission Of the
proprietor, who, by the way, was some
what Of d killer. himself having no
less than i've notcheS IN his gun bar.
rel. After roundly abuSing the clerk,
the rustler asked to have the propr1e.
tors room pointed out to him, saying,
with string Of oaths, that he'd get
some whisky In that house or there'd
be bl00dshed. The hotelkeeper's room
opened into the bar. The rustler went
to the door and commenced battering
on It and calling loudly for the man
inside to wake up The first thing
that rustler knew the bedroom door
was suddenly jerked open by half
clad man with a mean look in his eye
and a gun in his hand. You want q
drink, do you? You blankety blankl
Well, I'll get my pay first! Bangl
went the gun and Mr.. Rustler clapped
his hand to the side of his head and re-
treated to the other end of the office.
Now, Jim,' said the shooter to the
clerk, give that loud-mouthed fool all
he kin drink and don't charge him
nothin' for II. I guess that ri ght ear
Is pay enough for one drunk, and II he
ever comes around here wakin' me
ag'in I'll get the other one.' With that
he retired to bed again.
THE flow Of blood from the rustler's
ear was soon staunched, and when I
went to my room two hours later he
was in a perfectly good humor and
trying to get even with the proprietor
by drinking oil the liquor In the
house" g- r
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ANTIroxINE NOT INV.
Ejaculation by Poisone Dates :. "a,
Rack a. Mithriaatcs, Ikins Of Psn.

incubation by Poison Dates a. Ear
Rack ms Mithriiatcs, Ktng Of Psn.
tus.
There is nothing new III der the sun.
incubation with antitoxine, 1t appsaxs
according to a learned and insenieus
correspondent Of Munich medieal
journal. Is by no means new, nor Svon
modern, having been employed By 10
less a person than Mithridates. King
Of Pontus. The authority for thh
statement is the Roman naturaliss
Pliny, who relates that this monarch,
for reasons known to himself, Wa
afraid of being poisoned, and there
fore made himself proof against an
attempts by gradually accustomine
himself to all known poisons, pce.
ducing the state called mithriiaticun
He was accustomed to make. use of a
antidote called nlithridaticum,s whose
principal Ingredient was the blood G
the Pontlc duck, this creature having
been chosen because 1t had thu rspu.
tation OF living on poison HecS.
therefore, we have the cas-. OF the no06
OF an Immune animal being uSed N
make another animal immune. 6 -; -.
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To Prevent water Pipe. Pressing

To Prevent Water Pipes Freezing.
Down in the cellar you will find spig-
OTIS at the end Of each pipe, where the
water can be completely shut of. You
know that when a pipe bursts 1t ia
because the water in it has frozen and,
of course, expanded in the freezing
and broken the pipe at the weakest
point, 80 that IL the water Is shut of
altogether there is nothing t. freeze.
Only do that, however. when you
think the frost is going to be severe.
Ordinarily just let the water drip q
little, because running water is less
apt to freeze. and II it does the slightly
open faucet gives it room 20 expand.
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THE SUBJECT OF FEEDING.
Learn to Live ON AZ Little as You
Possibly Can.

Learn to Live ON a. Little rs You
Possibly Can.
The vast majority Of people are aD-
solutely wrong ON the subject Of feed
ing, writes Sir B. w. Richardson in
Longman's Magazine; they think that
rich and luxurious people. feeding on
the richest and most luxurious foods,
are the most fortunate and healthy
people. assure you it is just the re.
verse. am the director Of an insur-
ance company and am often obliged to
form an estimate of the commercial
value Of life. If. then, two persons of
the same age and constitutional build
come for calculation as to the none
tary value of their future lives, and If
one be rich and luxurious and the
other be competent and frugal. frugal
even to abstemiousness, would value
the life Of the frugal person as 70 per
cent Mt least better than that of the
rich and luxurious person.
Dives dies In plenty, Lazarus In pow
erty. Do not die like Lazarus II you
can help 1t. and do not die like Dives
II you have the opportunity, but tint
the happy condition. easy enough to
find IL You determine to learn how OF
least food you can do the most and
best work. Never eat until you are
satiated: never eat in the day one
heavy meal, but divide your food into
three light meals, equally distribu ed
rs to time and quantity; eat slowly,
take small mouthfuls; masticate. or
chew, your food we'll; touch your food
with your fingers us little as possible;
do not cry out for animal food more
than twice day at most; have all
animal food well cooked and do not
| forget fruit as food.
In Queen Ellzabeth's time the or
ange, the golden fruit of the Hesper-
ides, might find its way to the queens
table. but such fruit was indeed scarce.
Joints of meat were cut up with the
frill of paper round the end of the
joint to hold by, forks being unknown,
and her royal subjects, n short-lived
race, knowing little how to make the
| most of life in the matter of feeding
and drinking suffered from diseases
which were of the most avoidable as
! well as Objectionable character. we,
fortunately. live in different reign;
we have fruit galore and have clean
forks instead Of dirty fingers to raise
our food with. two advantages equally
sweet and wholesome, though SO dif.
ferent In kind.
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Curves IN Ancient MASONRY.

At the joint meeting of archaeology
cal societies held in Philadelphia De-
cembcr 27-29, Prof. William H. Good
year announced his discovery Of Greek
horizontal curves In the Maison Carrec
at Mines. This is the first observation
ever made Of thi, optical refinement
in u temple Of the Roman art. The
measurements, facts and theories con-
nected with them will appear in the
next issue of the american Journal
Of Anaeology." 1t is Prof Goodyear's
view that all curves in architectural
surfaces, whether concave or convex
to the point Of vision, produce an eff
feet of dimension conditioned by the
laws of curvilinear perspective and
that the curves Of the Maison Carree
have been hitherto overlooked for this
reason. At all events the measure
meats proving the curves to exist in
tho masonry construction are attestet)
by the official architect of the City nj
Mines with whose cooperation and
assistance the measurements were
+, made. Tie curves differ from those
Of the Parthenon. being curves in plan
mot in elcvation), and are convex ii
the point of vision. The measurements
also attest perspective scheme In the
intercolumnar spacings.
1t is said the big crops Of Texas Will
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Shattered Cups and sapsrsaiss
A friend who often stayed with \ .
I4esseps family says that the conn -
er seemed to lose sight Of the - !.
ton OF Ills children, even In the. ~.
est detail; One morning at breakfi5l
Deautifml Dresden teacup was Nor.
en-. "Ahy' cried the countess: a ;dfe.
aster! Two more Of that SCI WIN noi
be broken. 1t always happens q. q
Are you 80 superstit lous, Z, asked IL
count, "as to really believe that I've
more will brokenY s g :,
I know it."
ssThen let us get II. OF our minda =
And, taking two Of the cups b III
handles, he dashed them together: o.
anger and dismay Of the countess NOV.
cd conclusively that she had not ~
iously held to her superstition. it -
loosed any hold the absurd idea my
have had on the minds Of the children.
I-Katc Fields Washington. -.
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It is an interesting fact, not eeuerall,

1t is an interesting fact. not generally
known. that the criminal code of the
United States prescribes the penalty of
death for nearly seventy ofrenses. Most
Of these, however, pertain to the army
and navy, the principal exceptions be-
ing treason, murder, rape and arson.
The federal laws containing such pen.
alties have stood for over 100 years,
and an effort is now being made to re.
wise and modify them.
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Why 1t was.

Editor-Smith, what do you mean
by saying that De Smudge was the Ia
dies lion at the reception last night?
I was there and did not see single
woman near him.
Society Reporter-Of course not; Ia.
dies are afraid of lions,
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Enjoyed the 1nfOfmntl0n.
visitor-I hope your teacher is nj.
ways willing to answer questions and
give Information outside the regular
lessons?
Little Boy--Yes, sir.
II am glad to hear that. You enjoy
1t, don't you?''
Eyes, sir; specially when she In
forms me that can go out."-Street 4
Smiths Good News.
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WALTER sAxERs co. DORCHESTER, MASS.
So She HAD.
SOLD sy oRocERs EVERYWHERE.

sister-in-Law-Well, John. how DID
you like mothers visit!
John (ruefully)-Oh, don't mention it!
She started house cleaning, got us in
a row with the neighbors, made OUR
girl leave and had the wife aud me 80
we didn't speak for week.
Sister-in-Law-Why. that's strange.
She told me she had such q pleasant
time and had enjoyed her visit 80
much. ~
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Plenty Of Chance At Ho,

Plenty of Chance at Home.
"What do you hear from Hiram?"
said Mrs. Sunup. "How's he dom at
college," 4a9
81 amt heard nothin' direct was tho
reply, ''but it come ter nc In q round
about sort o. way tibet he 10 s0win' O
good deal of wild OATS"
What air We goin' ter dog
"Hev i'm come home. I wrote I'm
today tibet Of he was so dead sot on
agriculture he might ex well stick to
the farm."-Detroit Free Press.
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Has tastes incidentally, In keening with
other luxurics. A remedy must be pleas.
antly acceptable in form, purely whole
some In composition, truly beneficial in
effect and entirely free from every objec-
tionable quality. II really Ill he cansults
q physician; II constipated he uses the gen.
tie laxative. Syrup Of Figs.
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How me Wina ao...,

How the vessel tesses at sea! Reader;
Will bet good cigar you were sea sick
Don't deny the soft Impeachment. II you
had Hostetter's Stomach Bitters with Won,
you were all right, otherwise not. This
Of the stomach. liver and bowels, malaria.
rheumatism and kidney trouble, and q
highly commended by tourists and CONNER.
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again find courage to raise her head,
and then she was again alone; the
three mnsks were no longer before
her.
And leaping from the couch she rang
violently, and two or three of her
servants came flying into her presence.
Call Howard bring him to me in
stantly," she cried.
And the words were scarcely spoken
ere Noel Darlington was beside her.
What has happened?" he asked.
And Mrs. Chesterton demanded of
him II he had observed In the ball
room. or had seen within the lust few
minutes and quitting her boudoir, three
persons who. were cloaked and masked.
Two OF them were men," she said,
1.-THE third woman"
And Noel Darlington, his looks ex-
pressing surprise, answered that he
had seen no persons such as she had
described.
Nor had any Of the servants.
And having dismissed them Mrs.
Chesterton asked herself If all had
! been illusion that she had seen and
! heard.
Suddenly she heard a noise in her
sleeping chamber, which adjoined the
boudoir in which she then was.
Desperately she hurried thither, and
there was no illusion, she too well
knew. in what she then there beheld.
She was confronted by n man who
was standing near her secretary which
had been forced; and lying on the car
pet was an empty pocket-book which
had contained her last resources-it
bad held, too. her last hope, for in It
mad been Norton Sowerby's letters.
She darted madly toward the robber.
ana Rrasped and struggled with him.
the while she sent forth scream after
scream, each one louder. wilder than
the former.
Aud after awhile the man with
whom she was contending shook him.
self free Of her and then, placing his
hand over her mouth to stifle her cries.
shouted:
II have but paid myself am Mich.
olas Shearman."
And n cry more terrible than all be-
fore did Mrs. Chesterton then peal
forth.
Guests and servants, drawn thither
by her shrieks. came crowding into
the chamber. and saw Mrs .Chesterton
standing alone, as IL petrified, gazing
down upon the empty pocket-book.
In moment 1t was understood by
all that a robbery had been commit.
ted; there was ample evidence Of that:
and many urged an instant search and
pursuit: but Mrs. Chesterton stayed
them-the theft was trifie, she said
absolutely nothing indeed-she hoped
that no one would sRnak of It, for,
really. 1t WINS not worth mentioning:
entreated that her guests would return
to the ball.r00m-and then fell like q
stone senseless at their feet.
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Hard Lines.

Judge Ito witness on the stana)-uan
you writer
Witness ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS why.
am one Of the charter members Of
the Authors club.
Judge-very well, make your mark
then. It holds In law Just a. wen a.
f you could:
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e of the sas sex ae'1 wSy IS &
% many women owe their beauty 10 DR..
Pierce's Favorite Prescription Because
beauty of form aud face radiate from the
common center-healtl,. The best bodily
condition results from good food. fresh air
and exercise coupled with tile judicious use
Of the Prescription"
If there be headache, pain in the back,
bearing down sensations, or general de.
bility, or If there be nervous disturbance,
nervous .prostration, aud sleeplessness. the
Prescription reaches the origin of the
trouble and corrccts it. It dispels aches
and pains, corrects displacements and cures
catarrhal inflammation of the lining men,
branes, falling of the womb liberation, d.
regularities and kindred maladies.
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On the Avenue.
Hattie-Who was that you bowed so
coolly toP
Marie-Ihat's my, ex-fiance.
Hatie-To what does the Tex" re-
fer?
Marie-To the $40 he borrowed of me
and never paid back.
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You Name the Price Yourself.

All dining cars on the Chicago Great
Western Railway IRE now run on the
cafe plan. passengers paying moderate
prices only for what Is ordered. This
applies to cars attached to Chicago
limited express as well as to all others
and will doubtless be appreciated by
patrons Of this line.
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Miss Perique-ln New York do the
prominent social lights smoke?
Miss Caustique-Yes. particularly
after they have been turned down.
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No Use for, Theua.

Col Julep-There were two dishes on
the table l didn't touch. -.
Col. Nipper-Which were those1
Col. Julip-The olives aud water; I've
acquired taste.
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Pnrndoxical.

Jack-I don't think l care for the
New Woman.
Jess-Why not?
Jack-She is usually too old.
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$50 you are married, MaryT
yes"
"And you're your own mistress now"
MY own mistress with sigh. I'm
more of n slave than q mistress"
what! L. your husband tyrant?"
"No. I've got hired glrl."-New
York Press.
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Hallum-Mould you call this IN open
winter so far?
Billson-Yes. indeed. Even the book
agents haven't learned to shut tho
doors behind them yet. IS
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1900 nus POTATOES PER Ao.n

Wonderful yields in potatoes, oats,
corn, farm and vegetable seeds. Cut
this out and send sc postage to the
John 1. Salxer Seed Co, La Crosse,
Wis, for their great seed book and
sample Of Giant Spurry. wnu
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CHAPTER Z.
A New Compact,

viscount Dareleigh was alone in his
library, aud ,gloomily rejecting.
1t was the day after the grand party
at Mrs. Chesterton's;. an evening from
which she had hoped SO much, but
which had ended SO miserably for her.
The visconnt had not again seen Eu.
genta; he had said he would be with
her at 'il9ph Of that day, and It was
now long past that hollF. u
And the more the viec0unt reflected
tho more No felt, to his great lage,
that he was powerless now against his
former acc0mplice.
She had 20 wsli schemed that all his
Efforts would be useless; to struggle
with her openly, impossible.
Especially .pw, when he knew that
Emmeline Lindsay was in London,
aud. aided M Neel harrington. e4fsi,
cstiy aed sacSasinGly striving to elu.
cidate the truth.
He Ind deliroyed the indication OF
which they d WISHED to avail them
selves: but trembled lest that let
ter. written ~ Eugenia, and which
had so strangely fallen into Barring
toms hands. ND not been the only
weapon which thsy had hoped to en-
ploy against n.s
rrAhn,fson<in,,odN
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Very Naturally,

"Hsnson's Magic corn salvs."
Warranted " cure or money refunded. Ask your
druggist. for 1t. Price IS cents
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II the Baby IL Quitting Teeth.
Be sure and use that old and welltried remedy Ma
WnsLow's SOOTHING srsur sar @lhildSsa Tssthine.
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Not Unuaual.

Friend-You must make allowances
for your husbands shortcomings.
Nine. the Countess, nee Gotrox-But
the more l allow him the shorter he
comes, -
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lnp0Ftant to KnOw.
Club Man (rather FULL wish you'd
(hic) take me home. Do you know
where (hic) I live3
Policeman-What's the name of you,
cook?'
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She read and then smiled with sa6S
faction.
And well satisfied smile was also
on Barrington's face. for now, at last
one Of those three guilty wretches wal
about to be fairly unmasked.
And Emmeline left. alone to await
the return of Darlington, had said t.
herself:
"At last is approaching that houl
which 80 anxiously and impatiently
have awaited"'
And then she entreated pardon of hel
mothers spirit, that at such a moment
she should permit a thought Of Edwin
to trouble her soul; but she would
strive to drive him from her memory.
AS thus she resolved the door was
opened and Edwin Forester looked
into the apartment.
Emmeline had not heard the opening
Of the door. and seated with her bach
towards 1t, knew not yet that hel
lover was again so near her.
When Forester had caught that one
glance of Emmeline's face he could not
bring himself entirely to believe that
it was indeed she whom he had looked
upon-his heart must have deceived
him-Emmcline could not be there, In
a ballroom, and thus dressed-it was
impossible.
But yet he could not quite convince
himself that he had but beheld some
one no resembled the woman whom
still he doated on.
He had been SO astounded that Noe
harrington had borne the fainting gir
from the ballroom before Edwin had
had time to recover from his stIpOr.
Afterwards, amidst the labyrinth OF
passages, he sought in vain to discover
the way which the master of the cere
monies had pursued with his inanimatt
burden.
He sought and songht every way
about the house; and after very long
time it happened that he should SET
Noel Darlington as he was quitting the
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The name Munich Is derived from the
fact that the Monks owned the property on
which the town now stands.
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Shattered Cup. ana s.p,,

I cannot speak too mighty Of pisos CT
w. 22d st.. New York. oct. a. iSIx 81
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Enjoyed the Information

Hegeman's Canphof lee with olycsrine.
The original and only genuine. Cures Chapped Hands
and Faes. Cold Sores %. G. q. Clark Co., y. haven q
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ON THE ROAD

to recovery, the
young woman
who 10 taking
Doctor Pierce's
Favorite Pre-
scription. In
niaidenliood, wo.
manhood, wife
hood and moth
erhood the I" Pre-.
scription - is .
supporting tonic
and nervine
that's peculiarly
adapted to her
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In England the tax on farming lands ex.
eeeds 10 per cent Of the value Of crops; iil
Egypt 1t Is IA per cent.