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CHAPTER ".
THE LETTER

When Mr.. Barnes reached the road,
he started on a run, for he was anxious
to overtake Virginia Lewis before she
should discover that she was watched
by Burrows After what he had just
learned, he very much doubted whether
his young assistant would be able to
circumvent this shrewd girl. 1t is not
as easy to shadow person along a
lonely country road as it might be in a
city, where the crowded streets offer
ready opportunities for hiding.
As Virginia had only few minutes
start of the detective and walked at a
moderate gait, Mr.. Barnes caught sight
Of her just as she began to cross the
bridge. AS she passed over it he noted
that she was attracted by something,
for she stopped, looked over the rail
and then around her in every direction.
Mr.. Barnes was glad that he had found
chance to assume some sort of dis
guise, as there was no way of avoiding
her gaze. In a moment she went on,
and when he reached the bridge he saw
at once what had aroused her caution.
1t was the sight of her own boat, which
Burrows had used to reach the place.
AS she knew that she had left it up the
stream the night before, its presence at
this landing must have been sufficient
to indicate to her that she was being
followed, for she had evidently chosen
the time for her errand when she knew
the detectives had gone off exploring
near the river bank. 1t was easy for her
to guess that her departure from the
farm had been observed and that her
own boat had brought spy after her.
Mr.. Barnes was disappointed that she
should have thus been placed upon her
guard She would now almost certainly
not post her letter at the office. She
walked on about 100 yards beyond the
bridge, and from the alert chances
which she cast about her it was plain
that she was looking for the detective,
Of whose presence she felt assured. She
passed the postoffice, and going a little
farther entered house on the opposite
side of the road. Mr.. Barnes did not
follow, because there was nothing to be
gained. She was beyond his reach for
the present, and having seen him be-
hind her may have entered friend 8
house merely to observe him as he went
by, being suspicious of strangers. He
therefore went into the saloon where he
had met the squire that same morning.
If Virginia was watching him, it would
perhaps disarm her suspicion of him,
since it was a natural place whereat
one dressed as he was might stop. Fur
thermore, being near the postoffice, he
could watch that place and see il she
mailed her letter herself or by proxy.
sending some one from where she was
He was scarcely within the doorway be-
fore he became aware of the presence of
Tom Burrows, who was seated near the
] window and evidently. Watching the
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postoffice. Satisfied, therefore, that

postoffice. Satisfied, therefore, that
there was no immediate need for him
to do so also, and noticing that the
place was more than ordinarily crowd.
ed and that the inmates were in deep
conversation over some very absorbing
topic, which he at once guessed must
be the murder, Mr. Barnes moved to
the back of the store and mingled with
the loungers there.
Almost the first person whom he no
ticed was Will Everly, the young man
with whom he had had the brief con-
versation in the earlier part of the day.
He was still stanchly defending his
friend Marvel
II tell you, Harrison, he was say
ing, cit is wrong in you 10 accuse Wal
ter of this thing when you know very
well that he has not been in this neigh
borhood since the night of that party,
when he and Lewis had the spat"--
"Spat? That's mild way ter put it
when he tried ter shoot the old man. f"
The speaker was the man who had given
the information about the snow. But
| say, Everly, l don't exactly accuse
Marvel. l merely say IT'S bad business
for him, seein as how he threatened ter
do this very thing.
"Well, what if he did? A threat
when a man is mad is very different
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"Bio, oot ,nr 80.

AT Princeton 81 ,oGLg tLeo.cgue per
suaded fellow s,tGcnt 10 70 ilto tho
auditorium and listen 10 hlm while he
rehearsed q sermon Tie preacher in
embryo began Has subject WAS Light
With violent gesture With the right
arm, he said, Blot out the sum- With
similarly frantic movement of the left
arm, he roared. Blot out the moon'
linen with combined gesture made mp
of both arms, he beloved. blot out
the starsl" But it was enough. The
auditor arose to leave with hoarse,
cruel whisper, Turn off the gasr'-
New York Mail and Express.
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Easy on Murderers.

Austria is the country most lenient to
murderers. In ten years over 800 per.
sons were found guilty of murder, Of
whom only 28 were put TO death.
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He icent aboard schooner tying there.
him to attract attention, and then, be
fore Mr.. Barnes cculd say word, Mar
vel exclaimcd:
us it you? | am Clcd. will go back
with you. ="
"You viii go ta>'; VI lrc?" Mr..
Barnes N&7i uchfJt. ..sC,r 60 ,Ais sud
den chanec
ITD a., ,..
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A Useful Eater.

When a horde of hairy yellow cater
uillars infested the linden trees at the
Geological Gardens recently, Head
Keeper Manley, who is in charge dur
ing the absence of Superintendent
Brown, was sadly puzzled for a way to
get rid of the pests. Poisonous sprin-
Killing mixtures, tar and coal oil were
all applied TO the trees, but the results
fell far short of what had been hoped.
The caterpillars hourished in spite of
all, and seemed to increase in numbers.
Then the ingenious head keeper had a
happy idea. He took the South Ameri-
can ant-eater from its cage, and secur-
ing 1t with a collar and n long cord
started it up II of the trees. The way
the creature laid about with its long,
sticky tongue, scooping in caterpillars
by the dozen, more than realized Man.
ley's greatest expectations. 1t took to
them with as much relish as though
they were its natural food. and In the
course of half an hour completely
cleaned the tree. Manley put the ant
eater up another tree and it ate until it
was gorged. Since then 1t has been
turned out three times a day, and SO
great have been its industry and appe-
tite that the caterplllars are nearly ex-
Observation-Disclosures Record.
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WRITES JUVENILE FICTION.

Western Author Whose Stories Are
Popular with Young People.
Writing Juvenile stories so as to in
terest and hold al army of boys and
girls numbering not less than 1000
week after week and year after year,
is a task involving not only skill and
judgment, but positive genius. There
has come about n vast change in juven-
lie literature during the past decade.
Eastern publishers say that it is the
Western reading field that pays best
just now. A Western man holds the
palm for juvenile fiction. Weldon ].
Cobb has not been known in this line
under his own name until quite recent
ly, as the same was controlled by a
large Eastern publishing house for ex-
elusive use In the mature field, until
some three years since. AS DR.. VIII
lard Mckenzie, Ralph Hamilton, and
Paul Ingelow, however, Mr.. Cobb has
since 1885 been very prominently be-
fore the reading public. TO his Ready
Boys" was given the best reception At
tending any story of It's class. while
1.-The Tattooed Boy" which Won the
Munro prize after the casting Of 272.0O0
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Gould See Through His Nose

Several authors of tue sixteenth cen
tury mentioned the existence of a man
who, having lost his eyesight, could see
through his nose. The story, much
doubted at the time and pronounced
fabulous by physicians, is nevertheless
true If the researches of IL. DOuliot
prove correct. 1t seems that the vie
tim had lost his right eye early in life
and later on while climbing n cherry
tree fell upon e fence, the pickets hor-
ribly mutilating the left eye, the cheek
and the nose. The surgeon called In
considered the eye entirly destroyed,
sewed up the wound and 1t healed in
time, forming a large sea- where the
eye had been. A year later the man,
then considered stone blind, lay In the
grass when he surprised himself by dis
covering that he could perceive through
the cavity of the nose the sky and the
color Of the flowers on the meadow
around him. From that time on he
practiced for five or six years to see
with his nose, which to him became
practically the organ of vision. He
gradually become more proficient In
seeing in this way and could e every
thing beneath him. while he remained
quite insensible to the light from above.
The condition Of this man can be ex-
planned scientifically. Although the
lens of the eye had been torn from its
socket by the fall the optic membrane
and the nerves at the rear Of the cavity
Of the eye had retained some of the
seeing power. When the eye had healed
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sire of the young ladies to grow old,
that they may share the reverence Civ
en- to age.
The best rooms Of the house are In
the rear. A japanese entering 1t takes
off his shoes instead of his hat. If he
takes up a book to read, he opens 1t at
the back. He reads from right to left,
instead of from left to right. The let
ters are arranged vertically instead of
horizontally. The larger margin Of the
page is at the top instead of ut the bot.
tom, and the foot notes are at the top.
If he writes a letter, he will take a
roll instead of a sheet, write along the
curve of the roll n missiye which be-
gins exactly as one of ours would end,
and vice versa, and then putting 1t into
an envelope opening at the end, and ad-
dressing 1t to United States, Ohio, Gin
%cinnati, Smith, John, Mr., he will seal
1t, turn 1t over and put his postage
stamp on the back.
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SURE WAY TO SAVE THE SEALS.
Plan of President Jordan Appears to
BE nm EffectiYa Ono.

Plan of President Jordan Appears to
Be an Effective One.
Last year President Jordan of Leland
Stanford University was appointed by
President Cleveland to make a thor
ough and scientific investigation of the
habits of the herds, and the causes of
their rapid decline, and the results of
the study are unusually interesting, es-
pecially in the charmingly simple and
effective remedy which President Jor-
dan proposes. To insure immunity for
the mothers, President Jordan proposes
the striking plan of branding the fe-
males SO thoroughly that they will be
practically unavailable for skin hunt
ers' purposes. He and his staff made q
careful practical test of this method
and found that heavy and ineffaceable
brands could be burned across the back
of the mother seal, in the parts where
the skin is most valuable, without hurt
ing or seriously incommoding the ami
NAL. They branded more than $50 ami
mails in their experiments, and he calls
into evidence the practice of giving the
| Aleutian Indians 5000 seals each year
for food-a measure which involved the
herding of about 10000 animals in or
der that the quota of bachelors might
be separated and killed. So much for
the mothers and the more important
sex; but President Jordan is not in
clined to turn the noble army of bache-
lors over to the tender mercies Of the
seal hunters. He thinks that 1t would
be feasible to herd up, say, $4,000
bachelors in July, on st. Pauls or st.
Georges islands, and keep them fenced
In during August. Since the climate
conditions of Behring Sea confine ac-
tive operations in the open water to
these months the poacllers would be at
a loss for game sufficient to justify
their rather costly paraphernalia with
such a number of animals subtracted
from the field and with the females I'M
marketable-and the industry must die.
-Scribner'S Magazine.
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Derivation of Names of Dishes.

Gumbo is simply okra soup, gumbo
being the name by which okra Is often
known in the South. Chicken gumbo is
soup of okra and chicken.
Macaroni is taken from n Greek de-
rivation, which means "the blessed
Dead" In allusion to the ancient custom
of eating it at feasts for the dead.
Succotash is a dish borrowed from
the Narragansett Indians and called by
them m'sickquatash.
The sandwich Is called for the Earl
of Sandwich.
Mulligatawney is from an East India
word meaning pepper water.
Waffle is from wafel, n word of Teu,
tonic origin, meaning honeycomb.
Hominy is from auhuminea, the
North American Indian word for parch.
ed corn.
Gooseberry fool is a corruption Of
gooseberry foule, milled or pressed
gooseberries.
Forcemeat Is a corruption of farce
meat, from the French farce, stufting
|. e., meat for sinffing.
Blanc-mange e literally white
food; hence chocolate blanc-mange is
| something of a misnomer.
Charlotte is a corruption Of the ole
| English word charlyt, which means
| dish of custard. and chocolate russo Is
| Russian charlotte,
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by inmates is required Of them, to be
applied to the support of the Home.
There are at present sixty-four In
mates. some of them with remarkable
war records as army nurses. The old
est Is nearly 80, and is in excellent
health. Seventeen others are octogen-
arians.
Mrs. Glare Fl. Burleigh, the present
superintendent of the Home, has ex-
hibited marked ability and tact In car
ing for aged persons. Bright, cheerful,
affectionate, with gifts of speech and
n she has won all hearts, and holds
the reins of love and kindness gently,
hut firmly. She Is Il descendant OF
natriots, and Is a member or the
daughters of the American Revolution
nv right Of three ancestors-a great
oreat-grandfather, and two great
grandfathers who fought at Bunker
Hill.
Her brother, Mr.. George Hoyt, was a
recruiting officer for John Browns
company. He later attained a briga-
dier-general's rank in the Union army,
and after the war was appointed at
torney-general of Kansas. At the time
of her husbands death in 1894 he was
n distinguished lawyer and Judge of
Massachusetts, and judge advocate of
the G.. A. Il.
Mrs. Puma L. Cowles. the secretary
of the Home board, is also a Daughter
Of the Revolution and wife of Mr.. Ed
win II. Cowles, a member of the One
Hundred and Fifth Ohio Volunteer IN
fantry and a leading church worker
and business man Of Geneva. She was
appointed by the Governor of Ohio,
with six others, a member Of the Ohio
Cottage Building Committee, and has
been connected with the management
of the Home eve since.
The Board of Directors is composed
of Agnes Hit, national president, In
dianapolis, Ind; Ida s. Mcbride, ma
tional secretary, indianapolis, Ind. An
ME Wittenmyer, Saratoga, Pa; Char
ity Rush Craig, Viroqua, Wis; Emma
B. Lowd, Salem, Mass; Margaret Ray
Wichens, Evanston, ILL.,; Puma l..
Cowles, secretary. Geneva, o.
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Voyaging to Heathen Lands.

The recent voyage of a certain brig
from Boston to the gold coast of Africa,
as described for publication by her cap
tain, Is interesting reading.
1t will doubtless interest the temper
ice and missionary societies to know
that the brig left Boston last fall, laden
with 10 hogsheads of rum for the lit
tle-known gold coast. Although she
took some other articles, most of the
profits of the voyage were to come from
the rum.
So utterly p%rimeyal Is this isolated
part of the African coast that the cargo
hod to be landed through the surf from
the vessel. Through some remarkable
aboriginal instinct the natives scented
the cargo almost before the brig was In
sight, and as soon as she was at anchor
dove through the waters like hungry
sharks.
Among the interesting facts about
the African natives related by the cap
tain is that since there are no beasts of
burden and no conyeyances on the gold
coast the barrels of rum are rolled in
land by hand, so that liquor has been
thus rolled hundreds of miles into the
country.
1t Is further related that the natives
have become so infatuated with rum
carried from various countries to their
coast that a vessel which proposes to
have its cargo landed must carry it as
currency, or no business can be done.
Gold Is a deprecated currency, as
against rum on this lonely coast.
The wonderful 4,000-mile voyage of
this brig to the gold coast with ITO
hogsheads of New England rum offers
some most interesting suggestions for
missionaries and temperance reformers
to ponder.-Boston Globe.
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HER LIFELlKE STATUE.
It Signalized Her Departure From the
World Of Artists.

~ SAkubllLeu bFE GNVnENuAO EHOnh ~
World OF Artists.
Before her marriage she had been q
famous sculptures. She had made sew
eral portrait statues CT well knowL
men, and every one predicted for her {
still more brilliant future, when she
suddenly set all predictions at naught
by marrying a wealthy man who dis
approved of her keeping mp her profes
sional work. She was very quiet under
this restriction, but was supposed tC
rebel inwardly. Therefore when at t
dinner party Il evening she asked hen
old friend General Bashar TO como tC
see her on the following evening and
inspect her last piece Of work, which
she thought the best and NEST lifelikt
she had ever executed, he supposed hi
was expected t. use his influence to pre-.
vail upon her husband to permit her to
resume her place among the working
fraternity Of artists.
81 am sure you will like it. general, '
she said, with a winning smile. at
fairly lives and breathCs, confess J
am in love with it myself"
On the appointed evening Tic gen
eral, with some misgivings over the
delicacy Of the task intrusted to him.
presented himself. Instead Of inviting
him to the studio his h~cstess, TO biz
surprise, offered to bring her last bit tc
him.
"Oh, it's q s~tatuette, is it?' he asked
well, yes, you might call it So,
she answered, as she went cut Of III,
room. In Il few minutes she returned.
bearing in her arms-a habyl-C Chicago
Times Herald.
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There is more Catarrh in this section of
the country than all other diseases put to-
gether, and until the last few years was sup
posed to be incurable. For a great many
years doctors pronounced 1t a local disease,
and prescribed local remedies, and by con-
stantly failing to cure with local treatment,
pronounced it in%curable. Science has
proven catarrh to be a constitutional dis
ease, and therefore requires constitutional
treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure, manufac-
tured by f. J. Cheney Il Co., Toledo, Ohio,
is the only constitutional cure on the mar
ket. 1t is taken internally i'll doses from 10
drops to a teaspoonful. 1t acts directly on
the blood and mucous surfaces of the sys-
tenn. They offer one hundred dollars for
any case it fails to cure. Send for circulars
and testimonials. Address,
l. j. CHENEY Il CO., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, Zoe.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
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votes, was the work of the same au'
thor. He is a busy writer, one New
York publisher putting out nine books
from his pen in a single year.
Mr.. Cobb proceeds on the basis thai
the average boy of to-day Is ten times
better informed and more critical than
the youth of the last generation. One
of the best signs of the time is the get
ting away from the trashy and improb-
able, and in this work Mr.. Cobb Ias
been n crusader. In complete harmony
with his readers, he gets very close to
their predictions and preferences-in
such lei touch, indeed, that among
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Legislature at n cost of $4,000. 1t Is
known as the 'Ohio cottage" and is a
model of perfection. 1t was dedicated
on July II, 1890, with elaborate cere-
monies, and turned over to the Wom-
ans Relief Corps. The two original
buildings were used for a seminary. OF
these one is now fitted up for a hospl-
tai. The Home is maintained by a per
capita tax assessed Oh every member
Of the w. r. c., and by contributions
from friends, either cash or supplies.
Also a percentage Of pensions received
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The Hercules Gas Engine Works of San
gasoline and oil engines on the Coast, are
making extensive preparations for the
seasons business.
They are filling several orders for large
irrigating plants and as this line of their
business increases each season, it is safe to
say the farmers throughout the State are APP
preciating the advantages OF irrigation with
The Hercules Works are at present build
ing an 80 FL. P. engine for Geo. f. Packer,
Colusa, which will raise 5000 gallons per
minute from the river and distribute it over
his land. This will be the largest gasoline
pumping plant in existence.
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Strange Mistake.

Old Mrs. Jones entered the drawing
room Unexpectedly aud spoiled Il Very
pretty tableau.
~ vas just whispering Il secret i'll
Cousin jennie's car, explained Charlie,
"I'm sorry" sail the old lady gave.
~, "that your oyesight has tecome So
bad that you mistake Jernie's mouth
for her ear. "--London Tit Bits.
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We can afford to say:
"Get every sort Of SchA-
hng's Best tea of your
grocer, and get your money
back on what you don't
like"
Your tea trade for the
rest of your life is worth the
risk-and besides, there is
no risk.
A Schilling s. Company
San Francisco 47
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together a small hole In the bone over
the nose must have formed, which act
ed as a lens In the same way as a pin
hole "a be used to take a Photographic
picture. This also proves that the
retina of the eye acts like a camera
obscura where the objects from the out
side become visible when the rays of
light arrive there after passing through
a small opening.-Philadelphia Record.
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A swallow is considered IL Of the
fastest of flying birds, and it was
thought until recently that no insect
could escape it. A naturalist tells Of an
exciting chase he saw between q swal-
low and a dragon fly, which is among
the swiftest of insects, the latter finally
escaDiup.
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escaping.

It is stated that animal life appears
to be almost absent in the neighborhood
of the north pole. Beyond latitude SO
degrees the Fran met with neither
whales, seals, walrus nor bears, though
dog fishes were seen as high as So de-
grees.
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ern Railroad. There
are now twenty
acres of land, five
having been pur-
chased last year.
There are ine
drives, well-kept
lawns, with flow
ers in abundance,
b e s / d e S gardens
and orchards. The
main building was
erected and fur
nishnd NV fha nhio
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white haired econo-
mist outside of the
strong iron box in
which he kept the
residual treasures
of fifty years. Old
g and want, an
Unmatched pair,
made a piteous plea
for the shriveled
and starved body
of the b~ondholder,
but with all their
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CLARE II. BUKLEIaH half has never been
told, and you will never realize what a
grand institution it is until you visit
It,"
1t is located at Madison, Ohio, on the
famous Western Reserve on the line
of the Lake Shore and Michigan South
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Everything inverted.

In Japan-if the bull may be permit
ted-after-dinner speeches are made be-
fore dinner, thus insuring brevity, and
furnishing the topics for conversation.
In "feudal and Modern Japan" the au-
thor mates that 1t 10 the absorbing de-