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RURAL DELIVERY A SUCCESS
Report Of Assistant Postmaster General on
the Subject.

Washington, Nov. 29.-First Assist
ant Postmaster General johnson, in
his annual report, says the yearly in
crease in the postal revenues has re-
suited in the free delivery service be-
coming self sustaining. OF the gross
postal revenues of the United States
for the past fiscal year, STA, 295, 1894
came from $3.50 free delivery cities.
The remaining 5000 presidential
offices yielded SIC, ,O63, 252, while the
72,479 fourth class postoffces- pro
duced SIS, ,913,519. Mr.. johnson says
that the fact that the postal service
in the largest cities is practically per-
tect is the explanation of why the
annual per centage of increases in the
revenue of the free delivery postoffices
should be three times as large as that
OF the fourth class offices. As rural
free delivery reaches out into the
country, giving equal facilities with
out regard to locality, he says, it in
creases the revenues at rate at least
equal to that maintained in the free
delivery cities, where, during the past
five years, it has averaged s per cent.
AT the end of the present fiscal year
$500 rural routes will be in successful
operation, 5000 being in effect by
December 2. The latter figure repre-
sents just 30 per cent of the applica-
tions for such service fled since its
Inauguration five years ago. The in
flexible policy is announced of here
after avoiding the maintenance of un-
necessary postoffices and superhuous
star routes contemporaneously with
rural free delivery routes. On July /
last the force of 4,301 rural carriers
was serving 2,S4O, ga people at
fraction of over 70 cents per capita.
and on December 2 next 1000 600 Of
the rural population will be enioying
free delivery. Every establishment
OF route, the report says, is followed
promptly by steady increase in the
volume of mail both delivered and
collected.
The city free delivery service now
embraces S66 cities and towns, in
cluding four in the new insular pos
sessions, all these employing an
army of I6, SS9 uniformed carriers,
who collect and carry the mails two
or more times each working day to
-, O0O, 900 patrons. The total cost to
the department. per annum for this
service is 90 cents per capita.
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o%asesseeeeResAaaAAsaesssseee

except being too many Of 'em praps, and
my old woman won't own 10 that. But
there's something Ia the wind aA con.
cerns DR. Dobry, 30 | Thought I'd better
come aud give you hint OF H."
Very good. Slmnions.' said Jack.
"fou recollect taking my cab TO Gray's
lnn Road about this time last year, when
! showed mp 50 green. don't your he
asked.
TO be sure" said.
well, doctors" he continued, "the very
last Monday as ever was, lady walks
slowly along the stand, cycling us all very
hard, but taking no heed OF any OF 'em,
till she catches sight OF me. The lady
comes along very slowly she looks hard
AZ me--she mods her head. as much as 10
say, You, aud your cab, and your horse
are what I'm on the lookout for:' and
gets down, opens the door, and sees her
In quite comfortable. Says she. Drive
me to Messrs. Scott and Brown, Ia Gray's
Inn Road"
Nor calculated.
"Yes, Doctors replied Simmons.
Drive me- she says, TO Messrs. Scott
e"s NAN""f NA"g h~Anh AkOaus VI course
l knew the name again; l was yexed
enough the last time I were there, at
showing myself so green. looks hard
at her A very fine make OF woman,
with hair and eyes as black rs Goals, and
impudent look on her face somehow.
She told me TO wait for her Ia the street:
and directly after she goes In there comes
down the gent ! had seen before, with
pen behind his ear. lie looks very hard
at me, and me at him. Says he, L think
! have seen your face before. my man.
Very civil; as civil as orange, as folks
say. i think you have says. Could
you step upstairs for minute or twor
says he, very polite; TN find boy to
take charge Of your horse And he slips
a arf-crown into my hand. quite pleas
ant"
80 you went In, of coursey' said aJck.
Doctors" he answered solemnly, "I
did 20 In. There's nothing to be said
against that. The lady Is sitting In
ortice upstairs. talking to another gent,
with hair and eyes like hers, as black as
Goals, and the same look OF brass on his
face. All three OF 'em looked a little
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upon him now Stop, he says, na
were going away; they keep q carriage
OF courseT or course | says; whats
the good OF doctor that hasn't a car.
riage and palrY DO they use II al
nlghtT says he. Not often. says L
they take a cab mine IL it's on the
stand Very good, he says; good morn.
Ing my friend SO I come away, and
drives back again to the standv
"And sou left the lady therer ! ask
cd. with no donbt In my mind that II was
Mrs. Foster.
"Yes, Doctor" he answered, talking
away Ike poll.parrot With the black
haired gent That were last Monday
to.day's Friday, and this morning there
comes this biz Of note to me at our
house. That's what's brought me here
az this time. Doctors
lie gave the note into Jacks haads;
and he, after glaneing at II. passed II on
TO me. The contents were simply these
words: James Simmons Is requested 10
call at Gray'a Inn Road, nj $50 Friday
evening" The handwriting struck me
as one ! had seen AMI noticed before. ]
scanned II more closely for o minute or
two; then a glimmering OF light began
70 dawn upon my memory. Could II be?
! felt almost sure II was. In another
minute | was persuaded that II was the
same hand as that which had written the
letter announcing Olivia's death. Proba-
bly, II | could sec the penmanship OF the
other partner, | should find II 20 be iden-
teal with that OF the medical certificate
which had accompanied the letter.
Leave this note with me, Simmons" I"
! said, giving him half crown IN cx-
change for IL. | was sansGed now that
the papers had been forged, but not with
0livia's connIyance. Was Foster him
self party 10 II? Or had Mrs. Foster
alone. with the aid Of these friends or
relatives of hers, plotted and carried out
the scheme. leaving him In ignorance and
doubt like my own?
crossed In the mail steamer 10 Gnern-
sey, on Monday night, as the wedding
was TO take place at an early hour on
Wednesday morning, In time for Captain
Carey and Julia TO catch the boat to Eng
land The ceremony was to be solemn
lied at seven. Under these circumstances
there could be no formal wedding break
fast, a matter not much 70 be regretted.
Captain Carey and were standing at
the altar of the old church some minutes
before the bridal procession appeared.
He looked pale, but wound up to a high
pitch OF resolute courage. The church
was nearly full OF eager spectators, all
OF whom had known from my childhood.
4 4. = n IL
saw the white head aud handsome face
of my father, with Kate Daltrey by his
side. At length Julia appeared. pale like
the bridegroom, but diguided and prepos-
sessing. She did not glance at me; she
evidently gave no thought to me. That
was well. and as Il should he.
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Yet there was pang in it--reason aS
| would, there was a pang in 1t for me.
should have liked her to glance once M
me, with a troubled and dimmed eve.
should have liked q shade upon her face
as | wrote my name below hers in the
register But there was nothing of the
kind. She gave me the kiss, which I
demanded as her cousin Martin, with
out embarrassment, and after that she
put her hand again upon the bridegroom's $
arm and marched off with him to the car
riage.
A whole host of us accompanied the
bridal pair to the pier, and saw them
start off on their wedding trip. with a
pyramid of bouquets before them on the
deck of the steamer. We ran round to
the lighthouse, and waved out hats and
handkerchiefs as long as they were in
sight. That duty done, the rest Of the
day was cur own.
1t was almost midnight the next day
when | reached Brook street, where |
found Jack expecting my return. A let
ter was waiting for me, directed in queer,
Grabbed handwriting, and posted in Jer-
sey a week before.
1t had been so long on the road in con
sequence of the bad penmanship Of the
address. | opened It carelessly as | am
swered Jacks first inquiries; but the in
stant | saw the signature l held up my
hand to silence him. 1t was from Tar
diff. This is tfanslation:
Dear Doctor and Friend-This day
received a letter from mann zelle;auite a
little letter with only a few lines in it.
She says, Come to be. My husband has
found me; he iszhere. have no friends
but you and one other and cannot send
for him. You said you would come to me
whenever wanted you. / have not TINA
to write more. | am in "A little village
called Ville-en-bois, between Granville
and Noireau. Come to the house of the
cure; am there
Behold, am gone, dear monsieur. |
write this in my boat, for we are. crossing
to Jersey to catch the steamboat to Gran
vile. Tomorrow evening | shall be in
Ville-en-bois, viii you learn the law of
France about this affair? They say the
code binds a woman to follow her hus-
band wherever be goes. At London you
can learn anything. Believe me, will
protect mamzelle, or should say mad
anne, at the loss of my life. Your de-
voted TARDIF.n
II must go!" l exclaimed, about to rush
out OF the house.
''Where~ cried Jack.
TITO Olivia" ! answered; chat villain.
that scoundrel has hunted her.out in Nor
mandy. Read that, Jack. Let me go.
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under the weather. What's your name,
my manY asked the black gent. Waller,
/ says. And where do you liyeY he
says, taking me serious. In Queer
street. says, with little wink to show
'em were up to a trick or two. They
all three larfed little among themselves,
but not in pleasant sort of way, Then
the gent begins again. My good fellow,
he says, we want you to give us a little
information that 'ud be of use to us, and
we are willing to pay you handsome for
1t. 1t can't do you any harm, nor no.
body else, for it's only matter of busi-
ness. You're not above taking ten shil-
llngs for a bit OF useful informationr
Not by no manner of means,' says"
"Go on" | said impatiently.
"Jest so, doetors,' he continued, but
this time was minding my P's and Q's,
You know DIR. Senior, of Brook street?
he says. The old doctorT | says; he's
retired out of town. No. he says, nor
the young doctor neither; but there's an
other OF 'em, isn't therep DIR. Dobry?
says. Yes he says. he often takes
your cab, my friendY First one ana
then the other says, sometimes DIR,
John and sometimes DIR. Dobry. They're
as thick as brothers, and thicker Good
friends of yoursT he says. 'Well,' says
|, they take my cab when they can have
1t; but there's not much friendship, as
see, in that. It's the best cab and horse
on the stand. DR.. Johns pretty fair,
but the others no great favorite of nine
'Ahv he says"
Simmons face was illuminated with de-
light, aud he winked sportively at us.
''It were all hummery, doctors," he
said. 81 jest see them setting trap,
and | wanted to have finger In 1t. 'Ah!
he says, all we want to know, but we do
want to know that very particular, is
where you drive DR.. Dobry to the often
est. He's going to borrow money from
us, and we'd like to find out something
about his habits. You know where he
goes in your cab OF course / do
says; i drove him and DIR. John here
nigh twelvemonth ago. The otheE gent
took my number down, and knew where
to look for me when you wanted me-
You're a clever fellow he says. so my
old woman thinks l says. And you'd
be glad to earn little more for your
old womanT he says. Try me- l says
Well, then, says he, here's offer for
you. If you'll bring us word where he
spends his spare time, Wen give you
ten shillings; and IL 1t turns out of any
use to us, we'll make 1t FIVE pound
Very good says You've not got any
to tell us at once2' he says. |
Well, no. l says, but I'll keep my eye
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CHAPTER XIII.

Julia's marriage arrangements were GO
Ing on speedily. There was something
ironical to me in the chance that made
me so often the witness of them. We
were so merely cousins again, that she
discussed her purchases and displayed
them before me, as II there had never
been any notion between us OF keeping
house together. Once more assisted
in the choice of wedding dress, for the
one made year before was said to. be
yellow and old-fashioned But this time
Julia did not insist upon having white
satin. A dainty tint of grey was con
sidered more suitable. Captain Carey en-
joyed the purchase with the rapture !
had failed to experience.
The wedding was fixed to take place
the last week In July, fortnight earlier
than the time proposed; 1t was also a
fortnight earlier than the-date was look
ing forward to most anxiously, when. if
ever, news would reach Tardif from
Olivia.
DIR. Senior had agreed with me that
Foster was sufficiently advanced ON the
road to recovery to be removed from Full
ham to the better air Of the south coast.
We required Mrs. Foster to write us
fully, three times week, every varia-
tion she might observe in his health.
After that We started them off to quiet
village In Sussex. | breathed more free
ly when they were out of my daily sphere
of duty.
But before they went hint Of treach-
cry reached me, which put me doubly on
my guard. One morning, when Jack and
were at breakfast Simmons, the cabby,
was announced. He was n favorite with
Jack, who bade the servant show him in.
Nothing amiss with your wife or the
brats, hopeT' said Jack.
"No, DR.. John, mo-" he answered,
''there amt anything amiss with them,
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"stayw be said; ~tbere Is no chance
whatever Of going 30 late as this. Let
us think for few lpilutes."
But at that momenf furious peal Of
the bell rang throngh the house. We
both ran into the bali. The servant had
just opened the door mn telegraph
clerk stood on the slets with a feie-
gram, which he tlf9es hto his hands.
II was directed 10 me- tore IL open.
"From Jean Grimohs Granville, 10 DIR.
Dobree, Brook stfss iSbdon.' | did
not know any Jean eflnght Of Granville;
IL was the name Of eiraDger to me. A
message was written unaerneath In Nor
man patois, but 50 Nlitspelt and garbled
10 lis transmission nstl ] could not make
out the sense OF Il 1he only words
was sure about weFe nIsm'zrile," ''Fos-
ter" sTardif,1 and gagonie.. Who
was on the point of death could not ten.
ITO be continuedI
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EVENTSOF THE DAY
FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS or
THE WORLD.
4 Comprehensive Review Of the Importsn.
Happenings Of the Past Week Presented
In q Condensed Form Which Is Most
Likely to Prove cf Interest to Our MANY
Readers.

One Of the convicts who ESCAPED
from Leagenworth, Kan, has been
captured st Tuscumbia, ala.
At st. Paul, Walter Bourne, ex-
deputy county auditor, was convicted
on a charge Of false auditing and
fraud.
While quelling a row in the gallery
OF Chicago theater, George Harden,
a special officer, was shot and fatally
wounded.
A New York man has been arrested
on a charge of having set fire to a ten
ement house in which 62 persons
we're asleep.
The coroner's jury found the off,
GERS OF the Smuggler Union mine at
Telluride, Colo, were not responsible
for the recent disaster.
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Tnlkinghorn,s House q Disappeal

Tulkinghorn's House to Disappear.
Yet another famous house has to
make way for street Improvements. II
is the mansion in Lincoln s-inn-fields
adjoining Sardinia street, and was
built from the designs Of lingo Jones
for the Earl Of Lindsey. The right
hand room on the first floor of the
house was chosen by Dickens for the
scene Of the assassination of Mr. Tulk-
inghorn, Sir leicester Dedlock's law
yer, in "Bleak House" Already, how
ever, the painted ceiling, with the Ro-
man soldier pointing his truncheon to
the body of the dead solicitor, has dis
appeared under coat of whltewash,
wickedly applied a few years ago.
London Globe. - -
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NEW WARsHIPs.
Extensive Recommendations by Naval Board
Of Construction.


Washington, Dec. g. The naval
board of construction has completed
the recommendations called for BY
congress relative to the two new battle
ships and two armored cruisers. and
also covering many technical ques-
tions which have arisen as to naval
architecture, armor, batteries, tur-
rets, etc. The recommendations as
to battle ships call for two ships of
$4,000 tons each, and two armored
cruisers of IA, 500 tons each. The
battle ships are to be heavily ar
mored, and carry the following bat
teries; Four, IL inch guns in two
turrets forward and aft, s s inch guns
in four separate turrets, IL 7 inch
guns, 20 10 Founders and large
number of auxiliary machine guns.
The armored cruisers are to have
an armament making them in effect
battle ships as follows: Four 10 inch
guns, with two turIets forward and
aft; l6 inch guns, 20 IA Founders
and the usual complement of small
guns in the secondary battery.
Neither the battle ships not cruisers
have superpoised turrets. Torpedo
tubes also are entirely eliminated
from these plans, and the recon-
mendations of the board favor an
abandonment of torpedoes on heavy
armored ships, leaving the torpedo
warfare to be carried on by torpedo
boats and the smaller cruisers. Rec
concentrations are made against the
sheathing of ships and upon other
technical questions.
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Transport Overdue.

Washington, Dec. 2.-The trans
port Buford, en- route from the Philip.
pines to New York, with two bat,
talions of the Twenty-third infantry,
is several days overdue. No appre-
hension is felt at the war department,
however, as the severe northwest
gales which have prevailed for some
days past over the North Atlantic
naturally would retard her progress.
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Russia Honor, Ito.

st. Petersburg, Dec. 2.-The czal
granted an audience to the Marquis
Ito, the Japanese statesman, this
afternoon, and later Count Lamsdorff,
the Russian minister of foreign af-
tairs, gave gala dinner in honor oi
the visitor. An effective entente
between Russia and Japan is regarded
as the probable outcome of the audi
ence, although it is not anticipated
that permanent or binding obliga-
tions will be undertaken by either
government.
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Pan.AmsrIcan Congress.

City Of Mexico, Nov. 29.-The COM
mittees of the Pan-American confer
ence are rapidly completing their
work, with the exception Of, the arbi-
tration committee and the committee
on commerce and reciprocity. The
latter is Withholding action until 1t
learns the stand which President
Roosevelt will take on the subject OF
reciprocity in his forthcoming mes
sage to congress. The committee on
future Pan-American conferences
will recommend.the holding of con-
ference every FIVE years.
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Rogncs OF wan street.

The rogues Of Wall street flourish.
They are thieving brokers, promoters
of mining schemes and disreputable
spectators. Said a thieving broker on
one occasion: "If the Postottice Depart
ment would let me alone would have
to hire cart to carry down my money
laden mail. All you have TO do is TO
appeal to the cupfdity Of the public.
Promise 6 per cent dividends on first
class security and you can't do busi-
ness; but promise SO per cent on fake
and you can get rich.n Investigation
proved this statement to be true He
is of the same class as the tipster fraud
who adyertises that he knows exactly
which stocks will advance and these
that are going to decline.
For So week he win tell you pre-
cisely how to make a fortune. He ad-
vertises in strange ways, using ridic-
ulous code. For example: "Hit Kan
garoo for a jump of 20 points," etc.
This interpreted means buy a certain
stock for an advance OF $50 a share
Such men are swindlers. Quite as con-
temptible as the man with fake gold,
silver, zinc, copper or oil mining
scheme. He first buys a mining pros
.pect for say $500 and then organizes
a S5Oo,O0O or $1,OOO000 company under
the laws of New Jersey or West Nir-
ginia for say $500 more The shares
have an alleged par value of 81 each,
but he offers them for SIC each from
an deliberately furnished Office where
he poses as the fiscal agent, The
rogue, who selects the broker as his
victim is more plentiful than the brok-
ers are willing to confess.-World's
Work
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OpenIns Of charIeston Expo,ltIon.

Washington, Nov. 29.--Arrange.
ments have been made for the open,
ing of the South Carolina Interstate
and West Indian exposition by the
president next Wednesday, At the
close OF the address by Senator Depew
at Charleston, messages of greeting
will pass between the president and
managers of the exposition, and at
ESQ o'clock the president will press
the button which will set the machin-
cry of the exposition in motion.
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The New York Fir.

New York. Dec. 2.-The fire which
started yesterday afternoon in the
lumber yards of William E. Uptegrave
d Bros, at the foot of East Tenth
and Eleventh street, burned last
night, and this morning the firemen
were still fighting the flames in differ
ent parts of the large yards. The
fire on the Standard Oil property,
however, was extinguished late in
the night. The loss was estimated
today at $3.50, 900.
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What It Cost China.

Berlin, Dec. 2,-The estimates for
Germany's expenditure in China for
the year 1902 are 80, 500, 600 marks,
as against II, 500, 600 marks expended
in China in 1901 The pensions for
widows and orphans resulting from
the the China expedition amount to
49l 900 marks annually. - },
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s.Hia Words Inilorsed.

1t was the worst domestic storm they
had ever encountered.
"You don't deserve even hanging"
he said as he left the house.
81 deserve 1t better than you dor she
sent after him as parting shot.-Phil-
adelphia Times.
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A Monument for virgil.

Mantua, after nearly twenty CEN
turtles, has remembered that it is the
birthplace of Virgil, and set to work to
erect a monument to its great poet. The
sum Of $4,000 has been raised and
artists are called on to send in plans
in cnmnetitinn.