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face and invariably face toward the north
The eyes are large and protrude from the
head.
1t has been virtually proved that the
fish are stone blind, for although they sinl,
out Of sight at the lightcSt jar or noise
they do not notice the waving Of poles or
leaves over the pond. The people here call
the fish white eyes.
If the pond is fed by subtcrrancan
streams of wat"r these fish, it is thought,
may be visitors from an underground lake
or from distant river. There uro only
about two months in which to study their
habits. At the opening of August the
strange visitants disappear as suddenly as
they come Henry Tuttlc, the exprcssman,
was the first person TO see them this year,
and he says they look the same as ever
but arc rather bigger than last year. a
dozen or more persons have visited tho
pond since Sunday and have seen the fish
New York Sun.
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Outran the Marshal.

Marshal Griffith Of Lawrcnccburg. Ind.
had funny experience in capturing a
prisoner the other day. He set out to ar,
rest Minnie Whitman. When the woman
saw him coming, She ran The marshal
set out in hot pursuit, but after few
blocks he became windcd, while the wom-
an was far in the lead.
The painting marshal spicd Jack Mon
tooth, a Sprintcr of local fame.
Rushing brrathlcSsIy over to Montooth,
the marshal sworc him in as deputy ON
the spot and sent him after the fleeing
prisoner. Montooth caught up to her in a
few minutes. The woman turned on him
and knocked him down with LuwIdrr.
Just then the marshal came bowliuguloug
and arrested hcr.-Cincinnau Commercial
GaZrttn.
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A Game Of BluT

The mercury simply "mt-cd' wheat I'M.
til the latter had to drop out Of the game
Chicago Post.
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sEMEWEEKLY BANNER FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1885.
----Ou KNOW" he said.
Yes; I know" replied Digby.

/ EOu Know, nc said,
Eyes; know" replied Digby.
81 am sor.y''- began lie Breton.
Digby raised his hand and waved the
words away
"Let us understand each other" he
said "This was the first timer"
Eyes" said lie Breton.
"And you intend"-
He advanced little rs did lie Breton.
The two men were within a few inches of
each other.
81 intend, " said lie Breton deliberately,
ito take your wife from you if | can"
Digby drew sharp breath lie Breton's
audacity paralyzed him. He tried to speak,
but his tongue chung to the roof Of his
mouth.
Before you tell me that am q das-
tard " continued lie Breton, 'lct me re-
call your words when 1 first entered this
house. Morality is inclination, you said
When we act in opposition to our inclina-
tions, we are immoral You remember
this?"
Digby gave gesture of assent.
II intend to act upon your theory
intend to act in fulnllment Of my inclina-
ton"
Digbys eyes, which were rapidly becom-
Ing bloodshot, were fixed upon his face.
You further said continued lie Bro
ton, with pitilcss insistancc, chat you
could stand by and see your wife mako
love to another man if she were so inclin-
ed You have thrown us together for
months, while you sat here alone. You
have stood by. There is always an if,
you said. The if of woman's desire On
that if hangs my fate and yours. 1 intend
to put it to the test"
'At onCc?" asked Digby, and his voice
sounded strange in his own cars.
. AT once, said lie Breton, and he turn
ed to go.
Digby felt for his chair like a blind man.
AS lie Breton reached the door he Stun
blod Something in the droop Of Digby's
figure recalled their old days together
"I've played fair, " he said. ''You can't
deny that2''
And he waited for the reply.
After pause Digby answered mechan-
ically, without looking up, ono, l can't
deny that"
He sat on for what might have been
minutes or hours, with his hand resting
on the page Of his MS marked "Finis"
and his eyes yacantly gazing into tho dy.
ing fire
Then he heard Norah's voice.
"Nlajor lie Breton has asked me if we
can put him up. What shall 1 say"
Digby faced her with eyes ablaze and
nshen lips
"Ho loves you"
"He tells me So What shall I say?"
You understand what this implies to
you and to mcf"
Il understand. 1t is for you to decide.
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lie Breton glanced at Norah. Their eyes
met. She grew visibly palcr and soon aft
erward retired for the night.
Dgby and Lc Breton talked over old
times far into the small hours
you We drawn a prize anyhow, old
chap, said lie Breton us they parted at
the gate.
"Ycs, sale Digby simply.
But above. in the pretty chint2 hung
| bed, tossed a dream tormcntcd head and
parchcd lips, which cried "No, no, no,
not" in pitcous rcitcratio'
The leaves had changed to rcd and gold.
The chill autumn air braccd and revived
after an Indian summer Of exceptional
glory. Digby'S book ncarcd its closing
| chapters. Tho catastrophe was at hand.
Jim lc Breton had succeeded in ovcrcom-
ing what he considered Norah's aversion
| by sheer force of devotion.
He had soon found out that Digby was
too much immersed in his work to devote
any time to analyzing his wife, and he had
himself appointed him as her cavalier in
attendance. lie Breton would have indig-
nantly rcpudiatcd the idea that he was fall
ing in love with his friends wife. He
thought he was only paying Digby out for
his COMPOUNDED conceit in thinking that he
could monopolizc a woman of Norah's
stamp without troubling his head about
her.
There was also a touch Of the soldiers
latent contempt for the writer in his es-
timation of Digby.
brains never kept woman yet, " he
once said to Norah as they logged home
ward after n long iaunt.
you think not:' she replied, and her
tone was cnigmatic.
Nor1h never forgot that iaunt. 1t mark
ri an epoch in their acquaintance. They
had ridden farther than usual and missed
their way. She had got faint from want
Of fool and they dismJuntcd Mt little
waysidc inn. lie Breton took her into the
bar parlor and ordered all the rcfrcshmcnt
ayailablr-tea, bread and butter.
Without saying word he poured her
out a cup Of tea and held it to her lips, and
when she began to revive cut and spread
little pieces Of bread and butter, giving
thcm to her one by one, as if she were
child, until her hunger was satisfied
Then, without thinking Of his own needs,
he Went ont to look after the horses, and
Norah laid her head down on the wooden
table and sobbcd as if her heart would
break.
If it had only been Dghy!
Her tears washed away the last remnants
Of her reserve. lie Breton had conquered
and was her friend. He had bound her to
him by u palpablc chain But her love
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DIR. Miles NerVine
Cures.

DR.. Miles Nervine is sold on a positive
guarantee that the first bottle will benefit.
All druggists sell it at 81, 6 bottles for S. or
It will be sent, prepaid on receipt OF price
by the DR.. Miles Medical Co.. Elkhart, Ind.
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Fozzlcton-Maric, that boy Of ours takes
after you.
Mrs. Fozzlcton with great sati,taction)
What makes you think so dear?
Fozzlcton--I caught him this morning
rummaging through my pockcts.-BrOOk.
lyu Eagle
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THE BOOMERANG.


they met In the hot days of youth he hat
committed the blunder of marrying a no
toriOus Lais of Oxford and for two misera
bic years had suffered the penalty of
crime. Death had then in tender mere,
cut the Gordian knot of his bondage, and
free of an incubus which at one time haC
threatened to drag him below the verge, h,
had commenced to climb the long Ladder
of literature. He had reached what may
be termed its upper midway rungs whcr
he met NOrah, who was at that time Mrs
Ridley.
She had married when still in her teens
handsome Mat Ridley Of the til ORA
COON Guards, a well meaning, somewhat
obtusc modern Hercules Before she was
20 he was killed in the hunting field.
After she had recovered the first shock
it began to dawn upon her that the world
was large, that there was u great deal in
it, and that she was free. She began tc
think it was time she grew up. Being a
woman of considerable mental and phys.
zeal energy Cher physique had improved
enormously in the sharing of Mat Ridley S
passionate devotion to all out of door
sports), she determined to see the world
and to educate herself.
When Norah returned to England, she
inscnsibly driftcd into the quasiartistic,
quasilitGrary set which has its hcadUuar-
tcrs in upper Bohemia. She was popular,
and welcomed as Bohemia is wont to wei
come an attractive, sympathetic and
wealthy widow who desires no greater
privilege than to beat tho drum and sound
the loud timbrcl of genius on her own
hcarthstOnC. Her fOrtnightly gatherings
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Right farm ParaIyzed!
Saved from St. Vitus Dance.

"Our daughter, Blanche, now flf-
teen years of age, had been terribly
afflicted with nervousness, and had
lost the entire use of her right arm.
We feared St. Vitus dance, and tried
the best physicians, with no benefit.
She has taken three bottles of DR..
Miles Nervine and has gained 81
pounds. Her nervousness and symp-
toms Of St. VituS dance are entirely
gone, she attends school regularly,
and has recovered complete use Of
her arm, her appetite is splendid"
MRS. II. II. BULLOCK, Brighton NY
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JOHN BULLS DOMAINS.

Ireland's Gaelic league has just held
it's first public meeting in Dublin.
The British isles comprise one thou
sand separate islands and islets, with
out counting the jutting rocks or iso-
lated pinnacles.
Praed's bank in Fleet street, the
smallest bank in the city of London
has closed its doors, having been swal
lowed up by another bank, with larger
premises. Winthrop Mackworth Praed
the poet, was a partner in the bank.
One man in Chester, Eng, has been
before police justices one hundred and
thirty times for drunkenness or as.
saults; his father was up thirty-five
times; one sister sfxty-seven, and an.
other twenty-nine. The cost of prose
cutting the family and keeping it in
prison has been over ten thousand dol.
lars.
A ton and a quarter of bar silver was
stolen in the London streets the Other
day while being transported in van
from the railroad station to a bank. The
men in charge stepped into tavern
for a few minutes for breakfast, wher
the van was driven off and was found
In street not far off soon after with
the silver gone.
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PEOPLE OF ALL CLASSES.

The engagement of Miss Leonora Van
Marter, q Tacoma girl, to Lord Ben
nett, son of the earl of Tankerville, is
announced.
Lewis Humphrey, of Usage county,
Mo-, pays q personal property tax of
nineteen hundred dollars and hires fifty
men in harvesting, though he's just a
plain farmer.
according to Philadelphia man who
sa~ Anna Gould and her husband in
Paris, the count is ungallant enough to
chamber into his carriage first and leave
his wife to crawl in unassisted.
Gov. Culberson, of Texas, is only thir-
ty-two years old. He is the youngest
man that ever held the Office in that
state.
Prof. Dyche, the Kansas man who
brought back>such collection of stuff
from the north pole, was poor lad and
has taught himself most of what he
knows.
Miss Mary B. Harris, of Warner. N
H., has one of the largest and most val.
liable collections of autographs in this
country. There are over one thousand
in all, including all the presidents Of the
United States.
One of the most intimate personal
friendships among senators is that be
tween Blackburn, of Kentucky, and Al
lison, of Iowa. The two men are unlike
in politics, antecedents and associa
tions, but they hold the most devoted
relations with each other.
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NAVAL NOTES.

Yarrow & Co., British shipbuilders,
have constructed a torpedo destroyer
for the Russian government that has
a speed of 1925 knots per hour.
Thirty lone knots were made by the
Forban, the latest French sea-going tor
pedo boat, in her trial trip at Havre re-
Gently.
Goa, the last relic of Portugals do
minion in India, is in revolt, and three
men-of-war have been sent to put down
the mutiny of the garrison. The men
objected to going to Africa, where they
might have to fight.
A satisfactory test has just beer
made of the second section of the boom
that is to defend the Chatham navy
yard and the Midway from attack by
torpedo boats. It consists of great
balks of timber with a network of wire
hawsers, five gunboate being used a.
supports for the boom.
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SPORTS AND PAsrlMEs.

Nine. Sarah Grand is the latest ne
cruit among foreign bioyclists.
After golf comes revival of croquet;
the game has become fashionable agar
in England.
A Hungarian, named Won Milos, ha.
started ON as;wim from Vienna to thu
mouth of the Danube.
The maharajah of Patiala, in India
has engaged Hearne, the English bowl
er, to teach his sons cricket this winter
1t is reported that the German EN-
peror has been seized with the bicycling
fever, and is building private track a
Potsdam.
Lord Dunraven has not always beer
an enthusiastic yachtsman. Thirty
years ago when he was dashing Lift
Guardsman steeplechasing was his ia
vorite sport, and he had the reputation
of being one of the most fearless rider
in the army.
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yew boughs were covered IN curious
profusion by the handiwork of ener-
getic spiders, who had woven their
glistening webs In every variety of
barbaric pattern In shape some re-
sembled hammocks. others purses
others deep bags, in the middle OF
which a large yellow insect remained
motionless and watchful.
"Shall we sit for little while in the
summer house?" said Rosalys at last, in
fat accents, for tete-a-tete with Jim
had long ceased to give her any really
strong beats of pleasure. II want to
talk to you further about plans; how
often we had better write, and so on. -
They sat down in an arbor made of
rustic logs which overlooked the mere.
The woodwork had been left rough
within, and dusty spider webs hung in
the crevices; here and there the bark
had fallen away in strips; above, on
the roof, there We're clumps of fungi,
looking like tufts of white fur.
''This is a sunless, sad sort of place
you have chosen" he said, looking
round critically.
The boughs had grown SO thickly in
the foreground that the glittering
margin of water was hardly percepti-
BILE between their interlacing twigs,
and no visible hint of human habita-
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BY THOs. HARDY.
lcoPYRIGHT. 1e94.1

Her heart swelled, and she had great
difficulty in keeping back her tears.
But she took refuge in sullenness.
UNFORTUNATELY we can't undo our
folly!" she murmured. "You will have
to make the best of it as well as I. ]
suppose the awakening to a sense OF
| idiocy was bound to come sooner or
later. Butt didn't think it would
come SO soon. Jim, look at me! Are
you really angry? Don't for Gods sake
| go and leave me like this!'
He was walking slowly towards the
great iron gate leading out of Kensing-
ton Gardens; logged cast on his hand
some countenance.
Don't make scene in public, for
heavens sake, Rosalys!"
Feeling that he had spoken toe
brutally, he suddenly paused, and
J changed:
II am sorry, little woman, if / was
cross! But things have combined to
harass me lately. Of course we won't
part from one another in anger"
Jim glanced at her straight profile
chin, at the lashes on either lid, and
| UQe GLOSSY UIOWu udlT CWloIcu III GUILE
under her hat. But the sight of this
loneliness, now all his own, failed to
arouse the old emotions. He simply
contemplated her approvingly from ar
artistic point of view.
They had reached the gateway, an6
she placed her hand on his arm.
"Good-by. When shall we next meet
To-day is Tuesday. Shall it be Fri
day?"
II am afraid must go out of Lon
don on Thursday for day or two. II
write, dear. Let me call a hanson"
She thanked him in a cold voic'
again, and with last handshak'
and smile that lowered on sor
row, left him and drove away toward
Belgravia.
Once or twice later on they met; tn
next interview being shorter and sad
der perhaps than the last. The one tina
followed it ended in bitterness.
"This had better be our long good
by, suppose?" said she.
perhaps it had. Yo1
seem to be always looking out TO
causes of reproach, Rosalays. l don
know what has come over you"
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IN HOT AND COLD LANDS.

Africa is to be triangulated from the
Cape OF Good Hope to Cairo. DR.. Gill,
astronomer royal Cape Town, has pre-
pared the plans and Cecil Rhodes is
backing him up.
Civilization is striking deep into At
RIGA. Prempeh, king of Coomassie, who
Is accused of violating his treaty obliga-
tons to England, and of continuing to
offer up human sacrifices, now employs
a London solicitor to present his side OF
the case, in the hope of averting an
other Ashantee war.
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KANSAS STATE NEWS.
Boy Brurnlly Murdered.

October II w. F. Illston, q Shawnee
county farmer. sent his 14-year-old son
to Topeka for a load of sand. The boy
got the sand and started home, when
all traces of him and the team were
lost. The whole country was vainly
searched. About two weeks after the
dead body of the lad was found in
some high grass six miles east of To
peka, with a handkerchief stuffed in
his mouth and two bullet holes in his
head. He was last seen in company
with an unknown young man, who
probably murdered him and took the
wagon and team. Abe Coulter, son of
farmer, was later arrested at Valley
Falls, charged with the crime. He
mad the wagon and team, but said he
purchased it from a stranger.
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ut is you who have changed!' she
cried, with little stamp. And you
are by far the most to blame of us two.
You forget that 1 should never have
contemplated marriage as a possibility!
You have made me lie to my mother,
do things of which 1 am desperately
ashamed, and now you don't attempt
to disguise your WEAKNESS Of me!'
1t was Jim's turn to lose his temper
now. You forget that you gave me
considerable encouragement! Most
girls would not have come out again
and again to surreptitious meetings
with a man who was in love with them
girls brought up as you have been.
She started as in spasm. A momen-
tary remorse seized him. He realized
that he had been betrayed in speaking
as no man of kindly good feeling could
speak. He made tardy, scarcely gra-
cious apology, and they parted. A few
days afterwards he wrote letter full
of penitence for having hurt her, and
she answered almost affectionately.
But each knew that their short-lived
romance was dead as the wind flowers
that had blossomed at its untimely
birth.
In August this pair Of disappointed
people met once more amid their old
surroundings. Perhaps their enforced
absence from one another gave at first
some zest to their reunion. Jim was
at times tender, and like his former
self; Rosalys, If sad and subdued, less
sullen and rcproachful than she had
been in London.
Mrs Ambrose had fallen into delicate
health, and her daughter was, in conse-
quence, able to dispose of her time out
side the house as she wished. The
moonlight meetings with Jim were dis
continued; but husband and wife went
for long strolls sometimes in the re-
moter hooks Of the park, through wind
ing walks IN the distant strawberries,
and down paths hidden by high yew
hedges from intruding eyes that might
look with suspicion on their being to.
gether.
On one especially beautiful An
gust day they paced side by side,
talking at moments with something OF
their old tenderness The sky above
the dark green barriers ON either hand
was , bottomless deep Of blue. The
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his square and uninteresting country
house. But Jim fingered on in town,
although conscious of some subtle
change in himself and his view Of
things. He and Rosalys met whenever
Il was possible, which was pretty fire.
quently. Often they contrived to do so
at hastily luncheons and teas
in the private rooms of hote-s; some
times, when Mrs. Ambrose was sud-
denly called away, at Jim's own rooms.
Sometimes they adventured to queer
suburban restaurants.
In the lapse of these weeks the twain
began somehow to lose little of their
self was conscious of it before he had
yet discovered that something of the
same disappointment was dulling her
heart too. On his own side it was the
usual lowering of the Are-the slack
ening of mans passion for a woman
when she becomes his property. On
hers it was a more mixed feeling. No
doubt her love for Jim had been Of but
little higher quality than his for her.
She had thoroughly abandoned herself
to his good looks, his recklessness,
his eagerness; and now that the
sensuous part of her character was
satisfied, her passion also had burnt
itself down. But beyond, above, this,
the concealment of her marriage was
repugnant to. Rosalys- When the
rapture of the early meetings had died
away she began to loathe the sordid
deceit which these involved; the
secretly dispatched letters, the UNI
avoidably brazen lies to her mother
who, if she attached overmuch impor-
lance to money and birth, yet loved her
slaughter in all good faith and SIM
plicity. Then once or twice Jim was
late at their interviews. He seemed
Indifferent and preoccupied- His
manner stung Rosalys into impatient
utterance at the end of q meeting in
which this mood was unduly prominent.
.sYou Forget al have given up for
yoni' sl1e c<3eit ssYou makea fool of
me in allGwinG ne to wait here for you.
1t is hum3llnfjnG and vulgar. hate
nyself Il 6SksnHIng rs / dor
1.-THE ~ IONS are not all on
your side = pswered canstically
ssYou fort that the loss Of his
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CHAPTER 1L-cosr1Nurp.


Rosalys glanced absently at the beau
tiful building, with its Norman apse
and transverse arches of horseshoe
form, and the massive curves and cush-
lon capitals that supported the tower
end; the whole impression left by the
shurch being one of singular harmony,
ioveliness, and above all, repose-which
struck even her by its great contrast
with her experiences just then. As the
clergyman emerged from the vestry a
shaft of sunlight smote the altar,
touched the quaint tomb where the
founder of the building lay in his
1reamless sleep, and quivered on the
harmed clothes of the consumptive
bridegroom.
Jim and Rosalys moved forward, and
the light shone for moment, too, upon
! his yellow hair and handsome face. To
the woman who loved him it seemed
that:."From the crown of his head even
to the sole of his foot there was no blem-
ish in him"
The curate looked sharply at the
four couples; angrily, Rosalys fancied,
at her. But it was only because the
east wind had given him an acute
toothache that his gaze was severe and
his reading spiritless.
The four couples having duly con-
tracted their inviolable unities, and
slowly gone their ways through the
porch, Jim and Rosalys adjourned to a
fashionable hotel on the Embankment,
where in room all to themselves they
had luncheon, over which Rosalys pre-
sided with quite housewifely air.
when shall see you again?" he
said, as he put her into cab two o,
three hours later on In the afternoon
"You must arrange all that, Jim
Somehow feel SO dreadfully sad and
sinful now, all of q sudden! Have
been wicked? don't know!''
Suddenly her tone changed as she
met his passionate gaze, and she said
very low, with lump in her throat:
20 my dear, darling! I care for moth
ing in the whole wide world, now thai
i belong to you!"