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me-" he said. a suggest that you discuss
it with me privately
AT present, Raymond, l would call
your attention to the fact that you are
discussing things with me-" said Tolle-
mache firmly. Mrs Carmac,' he went
on, kindly glance through your belong
ings, and tell me if there is anything miss
ing"
She obeyed, though in a pitable state
of nervousness. In the cold clear light of
a December day, diamonds and rubies,
sapphires and emeralds, winked at her
evily as her trembling fingers turned over
the contents of the eases. "Yes, she fall
tered, 81 believe every article is here.
NOW, said Tollemache, turning again
= to the ashen-faced Raymond, T've
proved my charge in the presence of wit
nesses. The stolen goods have been found
in your possession. The facts are simple.
You were with Mrs. Carmac in the deck
saloon of the Stella during the gale. When
MIR. Carmac shouted to his wife that the
yacht had broken down and would be
dashed ashore whiting ten minutes, Mrs.
Carmac tainted.
Being thief in heart, you remem-
bered that a small fortune was lying in
those two boxes, and you thought you
had plenty of time to open them. secure
the money and jewels, and trust to luck
for escape when the yacht was wrecked.
If either of your employers was saved and
inquiry seemed possible, you had the
plausible excuse that you We're safeguard
ing the most valuable part of their prop
erty. You might have found some diff
Guilty in explaining how you came to be
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coolly, exhibiting small square case,
covered with morocco leather
Mrs. Carmac, who had watched this
trying scene with manifest distress, cried
excitedly, THAT is the case which con-
tanned my pearls!"
Tollemache pressed spring, and a lid
flew open. There, coiled within, reposed
string of pearls. Mrs. Carmac gave
them one glance; then she turned on the
man who had been SO dramatically COM
PEELED to relinquish his booty.
"Oh, how could you do such thing?'
she walled brokenly "You knew how |
priced them-the one gift of my hus-
bands that l valued!'
"Your husband's!" snarled Raymond.
(Which husband? Carmac?'
She finched as if he had dealt her
blow; but her champion was in no mind
to permit a discounted rogue to vent his
spleen on a woman.
"Unless you're a bigger fool than you
are unquestionably knave. you'll hold
your tongue" he said, speaking with
vehemence that silenced Raymond for the
moment. "Now let us have no more hum
bug. don't want to hurt you. Where
are the other articles? Either give them
up yourself or tell me where to find
them"
Though quivering with passion, the de-
tected thief apparently realized that he
had nothing to gain by further pretense.
From the left-hand outer pocket of his
jacket he took two cases and gave them to
Mrs. Carmac. Even in that supreme
instant his brazen nerve did not fail
him.
"This dispute really affects you and
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fore servants! Vandam was up from his
seat in a moment, soothing, caressing, her.
Between her sobs she gave us all wig
ging How she hated our snobbery, our
GOODNESS, our ingrattude! New York
cared only for the tinsel glory of accumu-
lated wealth, and that frequently ill got
ten! And her husband agreed with her as
he tried to calm her. | felt as if Flora and
| had been serpents who had entered this
happy home. 1t was no place for me. The
servants had fled. babe my entertainers
a hasty adieu. The gray-haired butler
was waiting in the hall, and as he helped
me on with my topcoat heard Matte cry:
"Take me away from this cruel place.
Take me home to st. Mary!"
Vandam had won.
The next morning however, he tele-
phoned me. | knew | would hear from
him. He and his wife were to close the
house at once. She was going abroad,
and he would follow as soon as the reorgan-
ization of his railways was accomplished.
The scheme had been perfected.
81 have let you in" he added. "on the
ground floor. A transfer of block of the
stock has been made out to you. think
you will find it a pretty good thing. There
are also few shares made out in the name
of certain young lady. You must at
tend to this transfer, as these must appear
as if they came from YOU"
AT luncheon in the Ritz the day after
the ball Flora said to me, eff Susan
Delamer had known that the woman
whom she unconsciously snubbed was
Mrs. Charlton Vandam, she would have
had an uneasy hour. And as for my part
in the invitation matter What is that
piece the band is playing? 'Goodby,
Nurse! Well, that will do. | kept my
word. and you have anointed me with
Standard Oil, or something like it..
Our stock went on the jump. will not
tell you the figure at which Vandam let
me in; but after reorganization the line
was sold to wizard, and-well, got out
at top notch, before the hour of Congress
sional Investigating committees. 1t paid
me handsomely.
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even if she was brusk. | saw Vandam's
eyelids culver. 1t was more than he could
stand. The punishment did not fit the
crime, and the lesson was hard one.
WE three were silent during our drive
w to the house. No alluson was made
to the incident.
To man the cut direct as admins
tered by Mrs. Delamer would have been
solar plexus blow; but | was sure that
even then Matte would swallow her out
ragged pride and go to the ball, if she could
get the card by hook or by crook. Ger
tainly Flora McMasters could smuggle it
to her in some way. In answer to her in
quiry footman on our arrival brought
the evenings mail on the customary sal
yer. There We're only few letters. |
knew the shape of the Delamer envelops.
The invitation was not there.
Supper was dreary performance.
Matte pleaded headache, and she re-
fused champagne. There was ring at
the door. could hear from the hall out
side the murmuring voice of one of the
footmen mingling with another of softer
and unquestionably feminine tone. l
recognized it. 1t was Flora McMasters'
maid. What genius my rival promoter
had for choosing the psychological mo-
ment! Here was the footman with the
salver again. This time could place the
stiff, angular handwriting on the envelop
as gave half glance at it.
The letter was from Flora. Matte
read it rapidly. Vandam tried to be COM
posed and hum tune. found my wan
dering gaze impaled on the ruddy nose of
the Dutch ancestor glaring from his frame
on the wall. Matte did not tell me what
the note contained; but read it in her
face. Flora was a brick! She had kept
her word to me!
THE strain had been too much. Matte
was only human after all, a foolish wo-
man, more sinned against than SHINING.
She did just what | should have expected
of her. The dignity of the Vandams,
New York Society, its veneer, its conven-
tons, were forgotten. She went to pieces
and sobbed as if her heart would break.
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IlluI IittSe.
"This bargain is between you and me-.
Mrs. Carmac herself is not party to it..
return her jewels, and she asks no ques-
TORS. So long as you hold your tongue,
and leave her in peace, she will ignore the
facts have made known this morning.
Breathe one syllable affecting her private
affairs. whether today, or next year, or in
twenty years, and your signed confession
of the theft is handed over to the proper
authorities. You need not hope to extri-
cate yourself by appeals or threats. Your
fate doesn't rest with Mrs. Carmac, but
with me, and if the occasion arises I'll
crush you as would scorpion.
ITS now or never for you. You either
agree or go to Jail, and, if you choose the
latter course, you'll find French law devil
ish unpleasant to any scoundrel who
tries to bolster up his offenses by trading
on woman's bygone history!'
To be concluded merit Sunday
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even if she was brusk. saw Vandam's
eyelids culver. 1t was more than he could
stand. The punishment did not fit the
crime, and the lesson was hard one.
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voice was heard very distinctly here.
The distance between the Philadel-
phia station and the Tyler at this
time was about $50 miles, a greater
distance than DR.. McCaa has been
able to get results from before. The
station at Sea Gate also telegraphed
to the Herald station describing the
clearness with which the voice on
the Tyler's bridge was to be heard.
Heard by Steamships.
The Hamilton, of the Old Domin-
ion line, which left New York earlier
than the Tyler and is faster than the
little freight vessel, reported back to
the Herald station that her wireless
operator was able to hear Captain
Gibbs. She was about 100 miles
south of the Tyler at that time.
Numerous amateur stations could
be heard calling the Herald. "WHB,"
and trying to reach the Tyler asking
all manner of questions and radlat-
ing congratulations to the best Of
their ability.
The tests on board the Tyler were
made throughout the night at inter-
walls of half an hour, and every half
hour that passed added to the marve-
lousness of the accomplishment. Dur
ing each such period the little Tyler
put another half a dozen miles be-
tween herself and the Herald station,
without apparently diminishing the
strength with which the voices of
CAPTAIN Gibbs of w. G. Wode and Mr..
Pearce, DR.. McCaas assistants on
board the freighter.
PULPIT REPARTEE IN 174O-42.
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er at the end Of that wire heard:
Hear Inventors Voice.

First came a small army of dots
and dashes, in companies of twos or
threes, and the faint rumble of fer
ry whistle at the battery. Then the
voice of DR.. McCaa:
Are you ready? He's working y
After a moment the dots and dash
es' died away in faint buzzing,
which gradually died out as the vi
brations of a human voice began.
At first they were little less than vi
brations, but as the straining ear be-
came accustomed to them, the letters
of the alphabet could be heard.
ID. E, F, G, H." and so on, ever
growing stronger, and more distinct
they came. Then, family again, Cap
tain Gibbs said:
81 will count" And he did, up to
20. The final numbers were heard
as distinctly as though the command
er of the Tyler were at the Herald
wireless station instead of on his
bridge we'll down the coast. No an
swer could be made to him because
so far DR.. McCaa has not installed a
transmitting station at the Herald
wireless station.
The test to Brooklyn was not so
successful. DR.. McCaa was far from
being satisfied with the working of
his relays and the added interfer-
ence and resistance of the several
switchboards through which the Cap
tain's words had to pass to reach
Mr.. Walker was too much to be over
come by the intensity of the electric
al waves that carried them. Added
to this the wireless station at Fort
Worth. actuated by curiosity that
was common along the coast, was
frantically calling the Tyler to ascer-
tain Just what was going on.
Mr.. Walker Enthusiastic.
Il could hear his voice. said Mr..
Walker later, but there were too
many other noises for me to catch
what he said" Mr.. Walker is en-
thusiastic about the possibilities of
bridge to bridge transmission by
wireless telephone as is demonstrat-
ed by the whole-hearted manner in
which he has placed the Tyler at DR..
McCaa's disposal.
In. time of danger, fog or any Of
the other perils that beset steam
ships, the wireless telephone would
be a wonder" he said. Il am glad
to hear that the experiments of DR..
McCaa are making such fine head
way"
Other qualification than the sue
cessful working of the bridge COM
munication awaited DR.. McCaa last
night. Hardly had Captain Gibbs
finished talking with the main office
of the Herald before the station at
Philadelphia began to call the Tyler.
She is known along the coast as the
wireless telephone boat
What are you doing tonight"
Philadelphia asked, and then went
on to explain that Captain Gibbs
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WIRELESS PHONING 100 MILES.
Relayed From Steamer to Herald
Square via Wireless Station.

This is the story Of the first wire
less telephone communication from
the bridge of steamship, 100 miles
at sea, to a. land station some dis
tance from the coast, as recounted
by the New York Herald.
1t occurred, says the Herald, when
Capt. Gibbs, on board the little
freight vessel Tyler, of the Old Do
minion line, fitted an ordinary tele-
phone to his lips and called:
Hello Herald, is that you?'
When he did that the Tyler had
passed the Roamer shoal, and was
about 100 miles from the Herald
wireless station at the battery, where
the messages were received and re-
layd to several points about New
York city.
DR.. D. G. McCaa, inventor of the
system employed, was at the Herald
station to hear the first success ful
test of this epoch-maKing step in the
science OF wireless communication.
The flood of wireless questions that
rained in on the Tyler from every
ship and shore station along the
coast was such as to make him be-
lieve that the years he has spent in
nerfectine his system have not been
spent in vain.
Made Tests Last Year.
In June he succeeded in talking
from the Tyler to the Herald station,
but at that time the operator on
board the steamship spoke directly
into the instrument and his voice
carried only as far as the battery.
Several days later, by simply placing
the wireless receivers at the Herald
station against the transmitter of an
ordinary telephone, voice from the
Tyler was heard at the Herald otflce,
in Herald square, but the sound was
indiStinct.
Last night Capt. Gibbs spoke from
the bridge The relays that DR.. Nc
Caa has been perfecting, carried his
voice into the wireless transmission
apparatus on board the Tyler, whence
the electrical waves bore it to the
Herald wireless station. From there
they were again relayed first to Mr..
w. D. Terrell, the United States
wireless inspector, then to the main
office of the Herald, and later to the
Brooklyn residence of Mr.. H. B.
Walker, president of the Old Do
minion line.
The Tyler cleared the hook at half
past seven o'clock. Long before she
began her voyage, everything was
made ready in her wireless room,
and from that time on until morning,
tests we're made every half hour. It
was about quarter to eleven o'clock
when word was passed from the
wireless station to the main Office Of
the Herald that Capt. Gibbs was go
ing to talk. This is what the report
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Ministers Like Josiah Dwight Had a
Remarkably Keen Sense of Humor.

Ministers Like Josiah Dwight Had a
Remarkably Keen Sense of Humor.
Jonathan Edwards, the younger,
was pastor in New Haven for 25
years and had a decided influence in
forming the New England theology.
1t is not easy to characterize the
theology of these sons of the Great
Awakening G740-42); they were all
decided Calvinists, modified accord
ing to their individual ways of think
ing, but they were men Of power, and
every one contributed to the develop
ment of the people in their ideas Of
personal liberty.
The impression that the sermons
were uniformly long and dry is an ex-
aggeration, and there were men of
originality and humor in the minis
try, like Josiah Dwight, of Wood
stock, who said: IF unconverted
men ever get to heaven they would
feel as uneasy as shad up the
crotch of a white oak
There was some disagreement be-
tween this man and neighboring min
listers, and when they met him in the
interests of harmony, he prayed that
they might so hitch their horses to-
gether on earth that they should
never kick in the stables Of everlast-
ing salvation" Keen wit and sharp
repartee characterized the conversa-
ton of many.-From "a History of
Connecticut" by George L. Clark.
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Chief of Ordnance, to- purchase ma
terials aggregating millions of dollars
in value. ', =,
1t was also pointed out that If his
disappearing gun carriage should be
O. KID by this government and in
stalled in large numbers by our gov
ernment for defense purposes it would
tend to make it more attractive to
foreign nations, and thus create! de-
mand for it abroad, which would
mean royalties to Gems. Crozier and
Burlington. -. = ~, e,~
The propriety of an officer of the
United States army offering for sale
and seeking to profit by the sale Of
foreign nations of a weapon Of de-
fense perfected at the expense Of the
American people was also raised. -: E.
When in the debate on the Army
bill ventured to call attention to the
fact that Gen. sCrozier had formerly
been in partnership With the Bethle-
hem company, and that ever since
his confirmation as Chief of Ordnance
he had been awarding that concern
contracts running into the millions
annually, generously paying the Beth
lehem company from 20 to go per
cent more than it would have cost
to manufacture such supplies. III the
government arsenals. the General was
eulogized as. q, Soldier without fear''
and. q halo was placed upon his head.
But let us see whether Gen. Cro-
zier's clearance papers were "abso.
lutelyD' clear, as stated to the House.
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HARRISBURG: Pa Dec. 2.-The
state insurance fund, which manages
the state workmen's compensation In
surance, has officially announced that
rates will be 10 per cent less than the
Insurance rate manual. -.
The manual, which will be the
standard for private concerns, has not
been published, but the state declares
that regardless Of these figures, it will
cut them 10 per. cent. -
Officers of the state insurance fund
say they can reduce. rates 10 per cent
below: those charged by private con-
Germs because tie state will not have
to figure on agents. commissions or
dividends for stockholders.
There is also the advantage to the
subscribers in the state fund.-" say
officers, that there will be no con-
tingent liability to assessments. The
purpose Of the act was to make the
payment OF the premium the sole
liability to subscribers, and no assess
ment will be ieved in any case, as
there Is not one word in the act
creating the state fund that directly
gives or by implication suggests the
right of assessments. -
The 10 per cent. reduction means
that the state fund will not remain
inactive while hostile manufacturers
and private insurance companies war
against the compensation act. In
stead, the state officials propose show.
ing manufacturers it is safer and more
economical to insure with the fund
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ton ring, and that instruments of war
perfected as a result of the expendi-
ture Of money raised by taxing the
American people should be even Of
fered to. foreign governments by. an
American army officer. = "
Is It this nation should engage in
war with nations equipped with such
weapons. American sailors and SOL
diers would be moved down with en-
gines of death perfected with the
American peoples money. - s@...<. 4.
What is the use OF this government
spending huge sums TO perfect guns
If after they: are perfected the are to
be offered for sale to- foreign nations,
any one Of which may possibly be-
come our enemy s75tIs = I.
When a political party Is in power
too long. it becomes careless Of the
peoples rights. An Organization
grows up that is. not for the .best in
terests Of the public. 4. + .s
Occasionally, however, political
parties are taken out of power. and
the organization is thus broken up.
But in the army and navy the ms
chime goes on building forever II
has $24O, 900, 600 to spend every year,
Army and navy officers never have
to 60 before the people and answer
Tor their acts. There has never been
q real investigation OF the business
methods Of the War and Navy de-
.paFtn1ents, and Y no doubt those ii
charge figure that because there neves
has been there never WIN be. N &,
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indicate that powerful pressure, -
reaching even to the president Of the
United. States, was being used to
bring about the confirmation of, the
then Capt. Crozier as Chief Of Ord
nance. @~. ~ = -.
In, spite Of the fact that effort was
made to cause the members Of the
Senate Military Affairs committee to
change their votes and vote for con-
firmation., they refused, and the best
compromise that could be obtained
was an agreement: to refer the matter
back to the senate without recon-
mendation: -: -; - ~ ! A.
> Capt. Crozier was confirmed by The
senate in executive secret session
June 20, 1902 s~z.:z: -. = ~. n
= In the meantime the War Depart
n1ent has installed 80, ,OOO, 900 worth oi
the Buffington-C Croxier carriages.
/, do not desire to do Gen. Crozier
the slightest injustice, and, on the
other hans;1I am equally anxious that
he do no injustice to the taxpayers Of
this country, 80 per cent Of whom are
the poor, and 80 per cent Of whom are
kept too busy looking after their pri-
vate affairs to give personal attention
! to the manner in which their money
is being expended in Washington, and
who rely upon their paid Represen4
tatives in congress to look after their
interests. The sBufting gton-C Crozier dis!
appearing carriages may be as deadly
In warfare as Gen. Crozier claims. and
their purchase and manufacture by
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QUIT PROSECUTING . !.
LAWSON LAWYERS Y
Judge Wiley Dismisses Charges
Of Perjury Against Counsel :
For Mine Leader.

TRINIDAD, Col, Dee. 2.-Judge
Wiley of Alamosa has dismissed the
charges of perjury against H. N.
Hawkins and F. w. Clarke, counsel
for the United Mine Workers union,
growing out of an affidavit Of Grover
Hall, a juror in the trial Of John R.
Lawson.
In his affidavit Hall declared that
he stood for the acquittal of Lawson
until coercive measures were taken
by the court bailiff. who told him
him his (Hall's) wife was sick. The
juror swore that he was not permitted
to visit his home, and that he, to-
gether with the other jurors, were not
given food during one entire day.
Under these circumstances. Hall
swore his mental condition was such
that he voted for conviction that he
might see his wife. Hall also declared
the bailiff told the jurors Judge Hill
yer gave orders that they could not
eat until they had reached decision.
This affidavit was used by counsel
for the mine workers in their fight to
secure the supreme court order pro-
hibiting Judge Hillyer from presiding
in future cases growing out Of the
coal miners. strike.
State Attorney General Farrar, who
is conducting the fight against the
mine workers, realizes the harmful
effect the Hall affidavit has had on
his case, and in his attempt to dis
credit it, filed charges against the
workers attorneys.
When Judge Wiley dismissed these
attorneys from the charge of i'm
proper conduct. Farrar filed a sim.
liar complaint along different lines.