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CONTINUED from yesterday

We regaiued the bedchamber appropriated
to myself and l then remarked that my
dog had not followed us when we had
left It. He was thrusting himself close to
the fire, and trembling. l was impatient to
examine the letters; and while l read them.
my servant opened little box In which he
had deposited the weapons l had ordered
him to bring; took them out, placed them
on a table close TO my bed-head, and then
occupied himself In soothing the dog, who,
however. seemed to heed him very little
The letters were short-they were date d.
the dates exactly thirty-fve years ago.
They were evidently from a lover to his
mistress, or husband TO some young wife.
Not only the terms of expression, but a
distinct reference to former voyage indi-
Gated, the writer to have been a seafarer.
The spelling and handwriting We're those of
q man imperfectly educated, but still the
language Itself was forcible In the ex-
pressions of endearment there was a kind
Of rough, wild love; but here and there
were dark. unintelligible hints at some
secret not of love-some secret that seemed
OF crime.
I'VE ought to love each other" was one
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OF the sentences l remember, "for how
every one else would execrate us If all was
known Again, Don't let any one be in
the same room with you at night-you talk
IN your sleep" And again, What's done
cant be undone and l tell you there's
hothlhg against us unless the dead could
come to life Here there was underlined
In better handwriting "a female's), They
do AT the end Of the letter latest In date
the same female hand had written these
words Lost at sea the 4th Of June, the
l put down the letters anu began to muse
over their contents. Fearing, however that
the train of thoughts into which / fell
might unseady my nerves 1 fully deter
mined 10 Keep my mind in a fit state to
cope with whatever of marvellous the ad-
vanclng night might bring forth I reused
| myself, laid the letters on the table, stirred
| up the nre, which was still bright and
| iay. read quietly enough until about
| half-past IL. j then threw myself dressed
upon the ped and told my servant he might
| self awake. | babe him leave open the
| door between the two rooms.
Ihus alone l kept two candles burning
| on the table by my bed-head. placed nv
| watch beside the weapons and calmly re,
| sumed my Macaulay. Opposite to me the
| fire burned clear, and on the hearth rug
| seemingly asleep, lay the dog. In about
| twenty minutes felt an exceedingly cold
air pass by my cheek like sudden
| draught. 1 fancied the door to my right,
communicating with the landing place,
! must have got open; but no, 1t was closed.
then turned my glance to my left and saw
the names of the candles violently swayed,
| as by wind. At the same moment the
/ watch beside the revolver softly slid from
| the table-softly, softly-no visible hand
| II was gone. / sprang up, seizing the re-
| Volver with one hand, the dagger with the
| other. l was not willing that my weapons
| should share the fate of the watch Thus
| armed looked round the fioor-no sign of
the watch. Three slow, loud distinct
knocks weso now heard at the bed-head; my
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Cuban immigration officials a contract
laborer and ordered deported When he ar
rived in New York yesterday Boarding Off
Ger Thompson ordered him to be detained at
Ellis Island, as he thinks that Gallinis first
citizenship papers do not entitled him to
re-enter this country.
At present Constantine Garcia, who was
the first to become a human shuttlecock
for the customs officials of Cuba and the
United States, is somewhere in Mexican
waters on the Monterey. He was sent to
Vera Cruz. but refused to land and Is now
being brought back Meanwhile he is doing
nothing but eat his three meals daily at
the expense of the Ward line.
A chum of Garcia, said an official of the
Ward line, Is working the same scheme for
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I now became aware that something in
terposed between the page and the light
the page was overshadowed. looked up,
and saw what shall find it very difficult,
perhaps impossible. to describe.
1t was a darkness shaping itself forth
from the air in very underlined outline.
cannot say 1t was of human FORM and yet
1t had more resemblance to a human form,
or rather shadow, than to anything else.
AS it stood wholly apart and distinct from
the air and the light around 1t, its dimen-
sions seemed gigantic the summit mint neariy
ing of intense cold seized me. An iceberg
before me could not more have chilled me;
nor could the cold OF an iceberg have been
more purely physical. / feel convinced that
it was not the cold caused by fear. AS I
continued to gaze thought-but this I cam
not say with Professionalism distinguished
two eyes looking down on me from the
height. One moment fancied that I dis
tinguished them clearly, the next they
seemed gone; but still two rays Of pale
blue light frequently shot through the dark
ness as from the height on which I half
believed, half doubted, that I had encoun-
tered the eyes,
I strove to speak-my voice utterly failed
me. I could only think to myself: us this
fear? 1t is not fear" I strove to rise-in
sistible force indeed. My impression was
that of an immense and overwhelming
power opposed to my volition; that sense of
utter inadequacy to cope with force be-
yond mans, which one may feel physically
in storm at sea, in a confagration or
when confronting some terrible wild beast,
or rather perhaps, the shark of the ocean,
I felt morally. Opposed to my will was an
other will as far superior to its strength as
storm, fire and shark are superior in mate
rial force to the force Of man.
And now, as this impression grew on me
row came at least, horror-horror to a
degree that no words can convey. St'n I
retained PRIDE II not courage, and in my
own mind said, This is horror, but it is
not fear. Unless fear cannot be harmed.
My reason rejects this thing, 1T is an illu-
sion I do not fear" With Violent effort
I succeeded at last in stretching out my
hand toward the weapon on the table. AS
1 did so on the arm and shoulder I re-
ceived a strange shock, and my arm fell to
my side powerless. And now, to add to my
horror the light began slowly to wane
from the candles. They were not. as 1t
WERE extinguished, but their flames seemed
very gradually withdrawn. 1t was the
same with the fire-the light was extracted
from the fuel, and in a few minutes the
room was in utter darkness. The dread
that came over me- to be thus in the dark
with that Dark Thing, whose power was so
In fact, terror had reached that climax
that either my sense must have deserted
me, or 1 must have burst through the
spell. I did burst through It. I found
voice, though the voice was shrek
remember that I broke forth with words
like these, II do not fear; my soul does
not fear and at the same time / found
the strength to rise. Still, in that profound
gloom / rushed to one of the windows,
tore aside the curtain. flung open the shut
tiers. My first thought was light. And
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lowed them up-they were gone. And again
the bubbles of light shot and sailed and I'M
dulated, growing thicker and thicker and
more wildly confused in their movements.
Inc closet door to the right of the fire.
place now opened, and from the aperture
there came the form of an aged woman
In her hand she held letters-the very let
tiers over which had seen the hand close:
and behind her I heard a footstep. She
turned round as If to listen, and then she
opened the letters and seemed to read; and
over her shoulder 1 saw livid face, the
face as Of a man long drowned-bloated,
bleached-seaweed tangled in its dripping
hair; and at her feet lay a form as of a
corpse, and beside the corpse there cow
cred child, miserable. squalid child, with
Famine In Its cheeks and fear in its eyes.
And as l looked in the old woman's face
the wrinkles and lines vanished, and it be-
came face Of youth-hard-eyed, stony,
but still youth; and the Shadow darted
forth, and darkened over these phantoms
as 1t had darkened over the last.
Nothing now was left but the Shadow,
and on that my eyes were intently fixed,
till again eyes grew out of the Shadow
malignant, serpent eyes. And the bubbles
Of light again rose and fell, and in their
dfscolored, irregular, turbulent maze, min
gled with the wan moonlight. And now
from these globules themselves, from
the shell of an egg. monstrous things burst
out; the air grew filled with them; larvae
so bloodless and so bideous that 1 can in
no way describe them except to remind the
reader of the swarming life which the solar
microscope brings before the eyes in drop
of water-things transparent, supple, agile,
chasing each other devouring each other
forms like nought ever beheld by the naked
eye AS the shapes were without symme-
try, SO their movements were without order
their very vagrancies there was no
sport They came around me and around
thicker and faster and swifter, swarming
over my head, crawling over my right
arm, which was outstretched in Involuntary
command against all evil beings. Some
times / felt myself touched, but not by
them; invisible hands touched me. Once I
throat. / was still equally conscious that il
l gave way to fear l should be in bodily
peril, and l concentrated all my faculties
In the single focus of resisting, stubborn
will. And 1 turned my sight from the
Shadow; above all, from those strange, SER
pent eyes-eves that had now become dis
tinctly visible. For there, though In
nought else around me, was aware that
there was a will, and will of intense,
down my own.
The pale atmosphere in the room began
now to redden as If in the air OF some near
conflagration. The larvae grew lurid as
Things that live on fire. Again the room
vibrated; again were heard the three meas
ured knocks, and again al things were
swallowed up In the darkness of the dark
Shadow. as II cut of that darkness all had
come, into that darkness all turned
AS the gloom receded the Shadow was
wholly gone. Slowly as It had been with
dies on the table, again into the fuel in the
crate.
(Concludeu tomorrow.)
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there was violin solo by Mr.. S. T. Klaw-
ans, accompanied on the piano by Prof
Hart, after which Mr. Huff presented
greetings and offered congratulation to the
class of 1904, on behalf Of the freshmen
The POSTMASTER read letter of regret
from Mr.. Ben l.. Rich of the class of 1903
who was unable to be present.
r, Latta Parish Of South Carolina spoke
briefly on the subject Of athletics, and
urged the members of the class to stand by
that feature of the institution. William j.
Fritchie of Ohio spoke on class relations
and Daniel w. Knapp made an address on
'lnspratfonal Surroundings" He spoke of
the advantages enjoyed by residence in
Washington, where the laws Of the land
are made, and where the highest tribunal
In the country interprets them.
The presiding officer then read several
kilograms, purportng to be letters of re-
greet from distinguished men and members
of the class who were unable to attend the
smoker. The regular program being con-
Guided, a number Of the students were
called upon for extemporaneous speeches.
Among those who responded were Messrs
Railey, SHIRLEY, Fuller and others Mr.
w. H Nelson, proprietor of the Barton,
was also called upon for a speech, and he
responded in a happy vein. 1t was a late
hour when the merry crowd Of students de-
parted for their homes, but all left with
expressions of having enjoyed the evening
The officers Of the class Of 1904 are: Presi-
dent, Carney Milton Layne, Ohio; vice pres
ident, Fred Hodges Benson, New York; Sec
rotary, William Russell Graham, District of
Columbia; treasurer, William Clyde Hack
ney, Ohio; press representative, Charles
Franklin Fuller, New York; sergeant-at-
arms. NJ. Ray Yarberry, Kentucky; execu-
tive committee, James George SHIRLEY, Kan
sas; Lee Frost Farmer, Minnesota; Andrew
Gray Pollock, Virginia; Eiwood S. Pratt,
District of Columbia, and Samuel Thomas
Klawans, Maryland
To Mr.. SHIRLEY of the executive commit
tee the members Of the class ascribe
large share of the credit for the success Of
the affair, and he was given a hearty ova-
ton at the smoker.
President Layne.
Mr.. Carney Milton Layne, president Of
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pernatural agencies. Now, my theory is
that the supernatural is the impossible, and
that what Is called supernatural is only
something in the laws Of nature Of which
we have been hitherto ignorant. Therefore,
If ghost rise before me, / have not the
right to say, so. then, the supernatural is
ton Of ghost is, contrary to received
opinion, within the laws Of nature-i e.,
not supernatural
Now, in all that I have hitherto wit
which the amateurs of mystery in our age
record as facts, a material, living agency Is
always required: On the continent you will
find still magicians who assert that they
can raise spirits. Assume for the moment
that they assert truly, still the living, ma
teral form Of the magician Is present, and
he is the material agency by which, from
some constitutional peculiarities, certain
strange phenomena are represented to your
natural senses.
Accept, again, as truthful the tales of
spirit manifestation in America-musical
or other sounds. writings on paper produced
by no discernible hand, articles of furni-
ture moved without apparent human agency,
or the actual sight and touch Of hands to
must be found the medium or living being
with constitutional peculiarities capable of
obtaining these signs. IN fine, in all such
marvels, surprising even that there is no
imposture, there must be human being
like ourselves, Seby whom or through whom
the effects presented to human beings are
produced. u
1t is so withsthe now familiar phenomena
of mesmerism or electro-biology; the mind
of the person. operated on Is affected
through a material living agent Nor sup
posing 1t trueothatb a mesmerized patient
can respond tolthe will or passes of a mes
merizer a hundred miles distant, is the re-
Spouse less accustomed by a material being;
1t may be through d material fuid-call 1t
electric, call 1t odicr call 1t what you will
which has thef power of traversing space
and passing obstacles, that the material
effect is communicated from one to the
other Hence all that I had hitherto wit
messed or expected to Witness In this
strange houseaI believed to be occasoned
through some agency medium as NOR
tai as myself, and this idea necessarily pre-
vented the awe with which those who re-
gard as supernatural things that are not
within the ordinary operation of nature
might have been impressed by the advent
ures of that memorable night.
AS then. 1t was my conjecture that all
that was presented. or would be presented
to my senses, must originate in some hui
man being gifted by constitution with the
power so to present them, and hang some
motive SO to do. | felt an interest in my
theory which. in its way, was rather phi
losophical than superstitious. and I can
sincerely say that was in as TRANQUIL
temper for observation as any practical
experimentalist could be in awaiting the. eff
fects Of some rare. though perhaps perilous
chemical combination. OF course, the more
I kept my mnd detached from fancy. the
more the temper fitted for observation
would be obtained: and therefore riyeted
eye and thought On the strong daylight
sense In the page Of my Macaulay.
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HUMAN sHUTTLECoCK.
italian Waiter Went to Havana as
Stowaway, Can't Land.

The New York Tribune of today says:
The Ward line again finds itself burdened
with q stowaway who cannot be landed
either In Cuba or the United States.
Yesterday the MORO Castle brought back
Angelo Gallini. an Italian walter who had
slowed himself away when the steamer left
port on her last trip south. Gallni has
taken out his first citizenship papers.
Recently he obtained position as waiter
at the Hotel Ingleterra, Havana. On his
arrival at that port he was held up by the
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There Is No Beauty Like the
Beauty of Health.

Nothing encourages beauty of face
and form SO much as healthy body.
Very much depends on the condition
of the organs peculiar to women.
These should perform their functions
regularly and be free from those
weakening influences so often con-
nected with life in the city.
DR.. R. v. Pierce, after making a
specially of wonan's diseases, finally
found prescription, whose ingre-
dents were entirely of vegetable orr
gin, which had a marvellous effect on
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Synopsis.

DE narrator learning Of house in London which
Is reputed to be haunted so that no tenant
can be found to occupy it, obtains permission
from the owner to remain in II to discover, II
possible, the OF the phenomena which
affect the occupants. Accompanied by faith
ful servant and dog he takes possession. The
first night many unaccOuntable things happen,
footprints forming in the damp the floor,
doors tightly closing, chairs moving and spec
trail presences making themselves visible. The
narrator finds a packet OF letters in one Of the
rooms and takes possession of them, thinking
they will throw light on the mystery.
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the organs peculiar to women. He
found it also had a good tonic effect
on the whole system; this he used
in his private practice with such
favorable results that he finally de-
cided to put it up in rpatent medi-
cine" form some thirty-fve years
ago, and since that time il has en-
joyed the largest sale of any medi-
cine put up for women only. 1t is
entirely vegetable, and DR.. Pierce
gives his absolute guarantee that it
contains no alcohol, opium or other
harmful narcotics. The trouble with
many tonics put up for the public is
that they depend upon alcohol for
their stimulating effect; this is some
thing DR.. Pierce has always felt was
bad practice, harmful and poor bus
iness policy, if not absolutely wrong.
The Sisters of the Good Shepherd,
at their convent, rOur Lady of the
Woods" Carthage, O., use a great
deal of DR.. Pierce's medicines they
say, In recent letter to DIR. Pierce:
1--WE beg to assure you of the great
benefit these medicines give our all
ing ones. We cannot sufficiently
recommend their excellence
vFavorite Prescription cures the
womanly diseases which undermine
the general health, which make the
eyes and cheeks hollow and the BODY
thin. Weak and sick women are
invited to consult DR.. Pierce. by
letter, in strict confidence. Address
DIR. R. V. PIERCE, Buffalo, NY.
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Postmaster Under Arrest.

James NJ. Lurvey. for two years in charge
of the fourth-class post office at COTS
Falls. N. H, has been placed under arrest.
He is suspected of being the masked rob-
Der who stole an express package contain
ing 81 10 at the COTS Falls depot, on Au-
gust "a last, using red pepper on the ex-
press clerk.
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free boarding and lodging, with the de-
llghts or a tropical voyage thrown in, on
the Mexico, of the same line.
Neither Of the men will work, this official
declares, and they are making the most OF
their opportunities for grating"
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1t is rumored that the Turkish council
has resolved to reject the application made
by Great Britain for permission to estab-
Ilsh coal station at Bussorah, the prin-
clpal Turkish port Of the Persian gulf
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HAVANA STRIKE ENDED,
Action of Gen. Gomez Brought Mat
ter to a Crisis.

A dispatch from Havana last night says
The Central Labor Union tonight decided
to call off the strike and committees were
appointed to. inform the various unions Of
this decision. There probably will be a
complete resumption of work tomorrow.
Much Of the credit for the settlement of
the strike is due to Gen. Gomez, who head
ed the committee which consulted today
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A SOUTHERN BELLE.

A beautiful Georgia Girl, Vice.
President of the East End Palmetto
Club, of Savannah, and prominent
socially there, relates the following
experience:
You certainly have pro-
duced the finest medicine for
suffering women that there
is to be had in the country.
l want to recommend it es-
pecially to mothers. I was
seventeen years old when my
darling boy was born. Felt
very exhausted and weak for
long time, and it seemed could
not get my strength back. My
sister-in-law bought me a bottle
of DR.. Pierce's Favorite Pre-
scription CATER l had tried sew
eral of the other remedies which
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German Military Attacha

The appointment Is announced of Mai.
Otto Won Etzel of the general staff to be
military attache of Germany at Washing
ton
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The Card for Tomorrow's Racing
at the Benning track calls for five races on
the fiat and two over the steeplechase
cOurSe.-AdVt.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-01-31
LITERATURE AND TRADE.
Some Writers in Roumania Are Also
Saloonkeepers.
From the Chicago Rccord.Herald.

From the Chicago Rccord.llerald.
Bad news, sad news, comes from
Bucharest. There, as in some other
parts of the habitable globe, the trade
of letters seems to be less remuner-
ative than could be wished by those
who have either from choice or through
stress of circumstances adopted it. Not
long ago, 1t seems a popular Roumani-
an playwright named Caragiale, hav-
ing been called before the curtain after
the presentation of his latest drama,
said:
Ladies and gentlemen. thank you
for your applause, but it won't keep
body and soul together. If you really
wish to do something for me, come
across the street TO my saloon and buy
drinks"
Another Roumanian man of letters
has been forced TO follow the example
set by Caragiale and open a saloon for
the purpose of warding off starvation.
Both of these talented gentlemen are
reported to be prospering as sellers of
fiery beverages, and here is where the
regrettable feature of the matter comes
in, 1t has always been popularity sup
posed that men possessing literary tall
ent must of necessity be devoid of the
business instinct 1t has never been
suspected that they could have i'm them
latent abilities, which, If put into op-
Grafton, might enable them to become
stock Spectators grocerykeepers or
purveyors of wet goods.