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much oblige me by not mixing up Miss
| Carnaway's name with yours in this bus.
| mess, or in any other. We have to SETTLE
| this question here for ourselves, alone
you and l.
"This question? What question:
"Ihe question of Sir Joseph S release. u
81 have offered to settle it; l have I'M
to get the money by ten o'clock tomor'
row.
''Stuff," Lawrence said contemptuous-
ly. Sir Jospeh is coming out tomorrow
alive and well without paying a farth1ng
of money to you or to anyone else."
mef''
Eyes. didn't say SOP Without paying
any money to you. See here, Mr. Mas
call, 1 mean to bring this thing to a very
| speedy conclusion. The game is up tell
you? You are in cart-do you under
stand what that means-do your rowdy
pals in London teach you slang enough
for that? You are up tree p
| Never in Lawrence's life had he
! watched the face of man or woman as he
watched Mascall's face while he spoke
| deliberately these audacious sentences.
He had made them purposely audacious
| They were meant to convey secure and
! utter contempt for Mascall-the secure
and utter contempt with which police
! officer awaits the whine or the swagger of
a rundown culprit on whom he is just
about to put the handouts. One glance
OF genuine wonder, OF true and innocent
indignation, from Masoall eyes would
have shaken all his calculations. But
Mascall's pale face turned into q sickly
yellow, and drops of perspiration stood
on his forehead, and his tell-tale mouth
tell-tale even while it refused to speak
quivered and trembled and gasped. Law
renee saw it all. The rest would be easy
work. He had played his game of bluff,
| and he had won
Mascall recovered himself-at least he
pulled himself together-after second
or two of terrible intensity.
| 81 want to know what you mean" he
was beginning, when Tryon cut him
short:
| "You don't want to know anything
of the kind. You know what l mean
have found out the whole of your game.
What are you fumbling for? A revolverf
1t is? You fool! Do you think I have a
meeting of this kind with desperate
wretch like you and don't make proper
preparations against every possibility
Don't you see have my hand on the bell
handle?''
ST could kill you," Macsall said, with
all the livid fire of hatred in his eyes,
"before that bell could sound"
81 know that Lawrence replied.
coolly. 81 knew I was going to have to
deal with an assassin, and I took my
precautions accordingly. l left sealed
paper in the hands of my good old friend,
the landlord of this hotel. telling exactly
all know about you. 1t is to be opened
at once in the event of anything happen
ing to me, and anyhow within twenty
four hours # 1 do not take it back mean
time. Now then, fire away, and see what
good 1t will do in the eyes of the criminal
law, or in the eyes of Miss Carnaway %
| Ito be continued.)
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Chapter III


If Lawrence's mind had been pertrubed
while he was in Clarissa's house, 1t was
tempest tossed now. He had committed
himself to an almost desperate issue. He
had boldly and bIuntly accused Mascall
to Miss Carnaway-accused her father S
confidential secretary and friend. What
evidence had he to make good his charger
Monochrome whatever. He had acted
merely upon his instinct-on what might
be called his artistic instinct. He had
found out that Mascall was leading a sort
of double lite, such as many men lead
whom the world never thinks of con-
demning severely, even If it finds them
out. On the strength of that-of that,
and a few conjectures and instructive pre-.
sumptions-he had made this terrible
charge. Lawrence, to do him justice, did
not believe that by prevailing on ClarisSa
not to act with Mascall no was trifiing
with Sir Joseph's life. He did not be-
lieve that Sir Joseph life was in any
danger. He did not believe in the brig
ands-ths Red Rovers." He was in
olined to assume that the whole bus ness
was bit of play acting, got up by Mas
| call either to obtain money or to win the
character of great heroism and energy in
the eyes of Sir Joseph and Clarissa; to
figure as the rescuer and saviour out of
some danger which he had himself in
vented and arranged.
81 see the man through and through, -
Lawrence kept telling himself. ST see
| the whole thing as story-and him in
it,
Still, he had made charge, and how
| it lightly-he was instinctively convinced
of its justice-every word, every look OF
Mascall's, had only confirmed him more
and more. But where was his proof;
where was even his evidence? What
scrap of producible evidence had he, but
the one little fact that Mascall had
jumped to the conclusion about Sir JOS
him anything of the story? Suppose Mas.
call were to insist upon it that he had
arrived at the CONCLUSION by instinct
how would that be different from Law
rence's arriving by instinct at the con-
viction of Mascall's guilt?
''This must be a game of bluff" Law
renee said to himself, firmly. "There' e
nocent he cannot be blufed by me or by
anybody. If he is guilty, we'll, there Is
no other way of finding him OUT"
Mr.. Mascall, the waiter announced
"Show him in" Lawrence said. To
himself he murmured-s.A game of bluff
"a game of bluff
Mascall entered the room slowly and de.
llilberately, and closed the door behind
him. lis face was pale, his lips set, his
eyes glittered.
'This is to be duel to the death, u
Lawrence, the romancist, felt as he saw
him. He rose with formal politeness to
receive his visitor.
The visitor came to the point at once
and defiantly.
"Now, Mr.. Tryon, have you anything
to suggest? 1 have consented to put off
any action of my own or of Miss Carna-
ways
Look here, Mr.. Mascall. you will
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THE BATTLE OF CHICKAMA17aA

In referring to the dedication of monu.
ments to Pennsylvania regiments on the
battlefield of Chickamauga, the Pbiladel-
phia Record recalls the verdict of Gener-
al Fl. v Boynton upon this famous
fight. In his historical work on the mill
tary park at Chattanooga he says:
The battle of Chiokamauga was one of
the best illustrations of the pluck, endur-
ance and prowess of the American soldier
which the war afforded. Measured by
| the percentages of losses, and the dura-
ton of the fighting for the various Dor.
tons of each army, 1t was the deadIiest
battle of modern times. Its strategy will
always be notable in the history of wars
So far as the occupation of the field is
concerned it was Confederate victory,
considering the objects OF the Campaign
1t was Union triumph.
The battle of Chattanooga was the
grandest spectacular engagement of the
war. Its features appear in as bold relief
as do Lookout Mountain and Missionary
Ridge upon the fields which they domin-
ate.
General Boynton insisted in his orig
inal speech on the park project that Chic
amauga was the most stubbornly contest
ed battle of the war, and added:
Not only lis, but the percentage of its
casualty lists are found to exceed those
of Napoleon's most noted battles as well
as those of all the later fields of modern
Europe. The marvel of German fighting
in the great battle of Mars la Tour was
performed by the Third Westphalisn Reg
iment. 1t suffered the heaviest loss in
the German army during the Franco
Prussian war. 1t went into battle 5000
strong, and it's loss was 49.4 per cent.
There was nothing in the campaigns of
which this formed part which exceeded
these figures, and they became famous
throughout the German army. And yet
in our war there were over sixty regi-
ments whose losses exceeded this. Seven
teen of them lost above sixty per cent,
and quite number ranged from seventy
to eighty. There were over a score of reg
iments on each side at Chickamauga
whose loss exceeded that Of the Westpha-
liam Regiment. The percentage of loss
in the charge of the Light Brigade at
Balaklava, of worldwide celebrity, was
only 36.7.
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RocHEFoRT's VARYING MOODS.
Two Anecdotes Which CIeverIy Illustrat
Both His Natures.

Two Anecdotes Which Cleverly illustrate
Both His Natures.
have heard, writes Paris correspond
ent, couple of stories showing that terri
BILE pamphleteer Henri Rochefort in his
varying moods. The day after his wedding
he went down to ST. Cloud with his bride
and enjoyed himself at the local fair as
though he were on the brighter side of 30.
StroIllng toward the park, he met priest,
who was accompanying a party OF boys
from the Catholic school One of them
was the possessor of a small hand camera,
and on seeing Rochefort he stopped with
amazement Then, hurrying toward the
priest, he demanded permission to ask
Rochefort to pose for him. The priest
smiled, but consented. The idea of the
famous atheist rendering a service such
as this to little Catholic boy was ludi-
crous, but Henri accepted with a laugh
and allowed himself to be moved from one
spot to another and finally deferred to the
order to take his hat Off
But when it came to lola the sterner
stuff in the man was seen. For years
there has been bitter feud between the
two. Recently at Cabourg Rochefort was
invited to the house of literary friend,
and 1t was only at the last moment that
the hostess saw the mistake she had made
in securing the attendance of lola on the
same occasion. She begged Rochefort to
meet lola, and for her sake he agreed to
do SO. lola for his part was delighted at
the opportunity of a reconciliation. He
approached Rochefort and said, I've have
been on bad terms so long and"- Then
Rochefort frowned and turning on his
heel remarked, II see no reason why we
should not continue on the same terms. u
London Sketch
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TALES OF MARK TWAIN.
The Belated Wedding Present and the
Rumor of Twain's Death.

The Belated Wedding Present and the
Rumor of Twain's Death.
Two good stories on Mark Twain were
told the other afternoon by Rev. Robert
Collyer to a coterie of clubwomen. The
facetious man had related the peculiar ex-
periences to the fun loving divine during
an outing in the mountains several sum-
mers ago.
On one i'll fated occasion, it seems, Mark
Twain was derelict in d. patching a we'd
ding gift to some titled people abroad in
whose family a notable marriage was
About to take place. The present was en-
tirely forgotten until the day set for the
ceremony, and then, of course, it was ever
lastingly too late. There came sudden
happy thought, however, and the omissive
man rushed off to send a compensating
cable to the prospective brides mother,
Baroness Somebody or other, which read
somewhat after this flattering fashion:
Allow me to present my heartiest congratu-
lations on this most suspicious occasion.
The wedding in the meantime had been
unexpectedly postponed; but that, as Rud
yard Kipling is constantly quoted as say
ing, is another story.
The forgetful pen pusher, though prop
erly sorry for the blunder, consoled him
self that he had made amends by sending
the congratulatory message. That after
noon a man whom he CHANGED to meet on
the street hopelessly shattered his happi-
ness by saying:
Of course you saw the sad news in yes
terday's paper about the baron," men
tioning the family name of the foreign
friends
"News? What news?" asked Mark Twain
nervously
Why, the sudden death of the baron,"
was the crushing rejoinder.
Just imagine my feelings, desperately
declared Mark Twain in telling the story
on himself, ''as I pictured the bereaved
baroness weeping bitterly by the side of
her dead husband and being handed that
awful congratulatory cable of mine"
The second story told by the reverend
gentleman, who loves jokes, was to the
effect that one day an overzealous newspa-
per correspondent in England telegraphed
to this country the sudden death of Mark
Twain in an English town. 1t happened
the we'll known writer was at that time at
his home in Hartford and in a happy state
of health.
A solicitous friend in London, however,
seeing the same erroneous dispatch, imme
diately cabled to Hartford for particulars.
The message of inquiry came to the much
alive dead man, who sent back this anus
ing answer:
The reports of my death are greatly exag-
gerated. TWAIN.
Chicago Times Herald.
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wAsHINGToN's SNUFF BOX.

| Sir Walter Besant, in recent number
of the Queen, has the following para
graph: ''In the year 1892 the goldsmiths
of Edinburgh presented the Earl OF
Buchan silver mounted snuff box made
of the oak which sheltered Sir William
Wallace after his defeat at Falkirk. The
Earl presented it to the President of the
United States, requesting him at his de-
cease to bestow 1t upon that American
his country. 70 whom was that box pre-
sented? Where is it now?"
| In an endeavor to answer this question
the kindly services of Mr.. Andrew II.
Allen, librarian of the State Department,
were enlisted. and search of the govern
ment archives made to ascertain if there
was record of the presentation of the box
to the President of the United States.
None was found Reference was then
made to the donors history. There was
an Earl of Buchan, a Scottish noble of
the period referred to, who was conspicu-
Gus by being far in advance of his peers
in love of liberty and admiration for all
liberty loving peoples.
| His family history was, therefore, con-
suited, and in the Ifs of David Erskine,
eleventh Earl of Buchan, paragraph
was found stating that he had sent
George Washington can elegantly mount
ed snuff-.box, made from the tree wh.ch
| sheltered Wallace" That was all there
was to it, DO mention being made of the
| further disposition of the box.
The lists of the George Washington rel
| les were then scanned for notice of the
missing snuffbox, but it did not appear
among the many precious mementos
| The search was not abandoned, and the
next move uncovered the whereab bouts of
the box.
| In George Washington's will there is
the following: Whether easy or not to
select the man who might comport with
his lordship's opinion in this respect it is
not for me to say, but conceiving that
no disposition of this valuable curiosity
can be more eligible than tbs recommit-
ment of it to his cabinet, agreeable to
the original design of the goldsmith q
company at Edinburgh, who presented it
to him, and at his request consented that
| it should be transported to me, I do give
and bequeath the same to his lordship,
and in case of his decease to his heir,
with my grateful thanks for the distin
guished honor of presenting it to me, and
more especially for the favorable senti-
ments which accompanied it." Doubt
| less the snuffbox now is in the hands of
the Earl of Buchan.-Buffalo CONNER
| oial.
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800 NEWsBOYs WANTED in Portland
wv and Cumberland Co. to sell on the
streets and at homes. Price ! cent UnsoId
papers bought back. First papers to ticket
holders. Apply now in person or by letter.
THE DAILY NEWS, IA Free street, Portland.
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The Falling Leaf.

The falling of leaf is brought about by
tae formation OF thin layer of vegetable
tissue at the point where the leaf stem
J2.1s the branch Of the tree. After the
ieaf ceases to make starch and sugar for
the tree this tissue begins to grow and ac-
rpally cuts the leaf off 1t is therefore not
q mere breaking away on account of the
wind bending the dried stems, but an au-
tomato seVeripg Of the member no longer
useful The falling of ripe fruit is depend
ent upon the same process.-Philadelp
Ledger.
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A Polite Thief,

An American lady lost her purse the
other day. The next morning she received
by mail several samples of silk, her card
to q circulating library, key, memo
randum Of dressmakers' addresses and
several other articles that had been in her
purse They were inclosed with note,
which read as follows:
Dear madame, I return all of the con-
tents OF the purse which you lost yester-
day with the exception Of l5 francs which
l need more than you. and hope you will
pardon poor devil for keeping the purse
TO carry it in"
The note was written in excellent
French and with good penmanship, which
indicated that the thief was an educated
lnan.-Paris Letter in China Record.
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fonCr or ioAOoTooLs.
they Are Fragile Things Wherein Might,
Power Resides.

Power Resides.
Not long ago portion of the pavement
In street in Paris was heaved out of its
place in some mysterious manner Before
1t could be replaced numerous toadstools
made their appearance in the gaping spaces
between the stones When the stones were
removed, it was found that they rested
over an immense spongy mass Of toadstool
growth, which had gone on increasing
until it made way through which tcould
push its head into the air
One of the stones raised by it measured
4 feet 2 inches by 2 feet and weighed 200
pounds.
A more extensive injury was done in
the same way years ago at Basingstoke.
Not many months after the town had
been paved the pavement was noticed to
exhibit an uneyenness which could not be
accounted for.
AS soon, however as the unevenness
was sufficient to make openings between
the stones the hidden enemy made it's ap-
pearance in the shape of innumerable toad
stools So completely had the spores or
spawn got possession of the material on
which the pavements was laid that it had
to be completely taken up and the whole
iowa had to be repaved
The toadstool and its kind seem to flour
ISL in places where the light is excluded,
as in dark cellars, under flagstones and in
hollow trees. They require, however, the
air, and certain, though it may be small,
amount of light, that they may reach their
perfect condition.
Every enc has heard Of the enormous
growths of fungi in some wine cellars.
A case is on record in which cask Of
wine, having been left without attention
for three years in a dark cellar, was at the
end of that period found to have been
borne on the surface of mushroom
growth until it was forced against the
roof The fungus, moreover, had got &C.
cess to the wine and had drunk it all, liy.
ing upon its sugar, and SO the more easily
raising the gradually emptying cask from
the ground.
Fungi have sometimes taken possession
of worked out mines and occupied enor-
nous spaces.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
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THE VILLAGE ORACLE.

Old Dan'l Hanks, he SEE this town
Is jest the best on earth.
He seq there hain't one, up nor down,
That's got one-half her worth.
He SEE there hain't no other state
That's good as ourn, nor near,
And all the folks that's good or great
Is settled right round here.
See l, &c D. jer ever travel, Dan?"
"You bet hahn to- SEE he.
81 tell you what, the place I've got
Is good enough for me-
He seq the other party IS fools,
Cause they don't vote his way.
He SEE the E'feeble minded schools"
Is where they ought to stay.
If he was law, their mouths he'd shut,
Or blow EN- all to smash
He SEE their platforms nothin but
A great big mess of trash.
SEE l, {" ID ;.er ever read it, Damp
''You bet hain't," seq he,
"And when l do-well, 1 tell you,
I'll let you know, by geel'
He seq that all religions wrong
'Cept jest what he believes.
He SEE them ministers belong
In JAIL the same as thieves.
He seq they take the blessed word
And tear it all to shreds.
He seq their preachin' S jest absurd;
They're simply leather heads.
Sez I, " ID jer ever hear EN-, Danf"
"You bet I haint,'' seq he.
81 wouldn't go to hear 'em, mol
They make me sick to see."
Some fellers reckon, more or less,
Before they speak their mind,
And sometimes calkerlate or guess,
But them hain't Dan'l's kind.
The Lord Knows all things, great or small
With doubt he's never vexed.
he, in his wisdom, knows it all,
But Danl Hanks comes next.
SEE I, Chow do yer know yer right?"
Chow do I know p seq he.
"Well, now, yum! I know, by gum.
I'm right, because be!''
Joe Lincoln in L. A. W. Bulletin.
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Too Soon.

81 have been thinking observed Bru-
tus as he slowly kept time by kicking his
sandal heel against the dry goods box on
which he was sitting, "what an elegant
bicycle path that Appian way would
make"
"But you seem to forget" sneeringly
replied Cassius, 'that bicycles haven't
been invented yet" That was too true
Brutus was in advance of his time, and
drawing his toga about him, the noblest
Roman of them all relapsed into his Gus
tomary pessimistic breeding on Cesar
ambition. New York Truth.
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rooms, centrally located; newly painted
and papered throughout. Price SIG per month.
j. G. WOODMAN, SO Exchange street. 23-1
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WANTED-To exchange for good farm or
w other real estate a new iwo-fiat house in
best part of Deering lot is 50x100, very slightly
house rents for $500 per year centrally located.
modern conveniences DALTON s. CO, 478 10
Congress street. 23-1
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on Glenwood avenue. All will be sold low or
exchange for other real estate or personal
property. Let us know what you have to offer
Quick exchanges our speciality Cash paid for
equities. If your property is heavily mortgaged
we we viii buy your equity and pay the mortgage
DALTON & CO., 478 IL Congress street. 23-1
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WANTED.

Ferry words inserted undor sEis head
ole week fer 35 cents cash in advance
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FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE for farm or
other real estate, new two fat house on
per year: new two fiat house in city of Deering,
rents for $500 per year; TWO fiat house in Deer
ing Highlands. rents for $500 year. Also cot
tage house on Alba street, Deering two story
h0uSa game Straat- n1aIant modern raSidapoa
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Then He Vent.

She-HaYe you ever tried to figure out
what Shakespeare meant by the words,
Stand not upon the order of your goingY"
He-No. Have you?
She-Yes The definition is, Don't
wait for house 70 fall on you. "-Cleve-
land Leader.
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Johnsons Anodyne >irirnent
BUSINESS ANNOUNCEMENT

CHANGED Misunderstanding bought the
v restaurant at s8 Exchange Street, known as
Ford's Cafe, l would respectfully say to the
public that we propose maintaining a strictly
first class eating house for ladies and gentle
men, and trust that by strict attention to the
people we shall merit a liberal share of public
patronage. Respectfully yours, D. w. CHICK,
Prop. 24-1
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Portland Benevolent Society.

The annual meeting of this society for the
choice Of officers and other business (adjourned
from Oct. 13), will be held on Wednesday, De-
cember /, 1897, at O'Clock p nl, in the Office of
Hon. James P. Baxter, Post Office avenue.
Il. II. HINKLEY, Secretary.
nov25dId
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WIT AND WISDOM
Natural Pillows.

"They say sleeping on hair pillow will
cure asthma"
''Then these first class football players
must be mighty free from it. Chicago
Plain Dealer.
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FsFty words Inserted under Eats head
one week for rs cents caaIl il, advance
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Eczema of the scalp or Scald Head
even in it's most severe form, is never
faIlingiy cured by Doan's Ointment, the
suEes6 specific for all itohiness Of the skin
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ITO LET-Rent at 1872 Cumberland street, up-
T. stairs, six rooms and bath room. hot and
cold water. Inquire of W ii. SARGENT. cor
ner Cumberland and Washington streets. 25-1