Evening Star Newspaper, October 22, 1895, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1895-TWELVE PAG 8 — AND SONS, v MOSES Storage Warehouse, 22d near M. F Street f Corner Eleventh. | r 2 Choicest ORIENTAL RUGS will be broaght to a close next Monday. Mean- while the lower than auction prices will Honesty —To your interests—and our own— +demands that we give you the benefit of every advantageous purchase we make—and so we do. Seems, too, that there’s no end to our great fur- niture buying opportunities. Here are more of theginusual values we're accustomed to quoting: Solid Oak DOUBLE BED, with slats and castor $2.85 Solid Oak Combination Wardrobe, Desk, . _ Chiffonter and FOLDING BED, in oneg’. piece, value $46, for. . $32.00 Ladies’ Solid Oak WRITING DESK, carved bracket tcp, carved Id, one large lower shelf, neatly arranged interior, value .. $5.95 Solid Oak SIDEBOARD, carved top, polish finish, 1 drawer lned for silver, bev-@ oa eled plate mirror, value $15, for....10-70 BED ROOM COUCH, covered in striped eretenne, spring edge all around, pas ge Mifted seat amd head. Special at... $7.75 An unparalleled Reduction in prices. For this week only We will sell a Suit, [lade to order, From any goods In our stock, For $15. Former prices, $20, $25, $30, $35 and $40. A pair of Trousers, From any goods in Our house, Made to order, For $5. Former prices, $6.50, $7.50, $8.50 and $10. Black and blue Worsteds alone excepted. MORTON C. STOUT & CO., Merchant Tailors, 112 F St. N.W. ec2i-3t ROSES. * We have robbed our hothonses of their * choicest “bads” and “blossoms” to place be- * fore you on Monday and Tuesday, the largest f and “most exquisite variety of Cultivated Roses yet displayed. 8 8 specials Monday and Tuesday we : will Rees Roses 50¢. doz. A. Gude & Bro., 2 . ° . . . . nad, a a Q lo: 1224 F Bargains in Hair. Genuine, bona fide bargain prices are prevail- ing just now. And you can select from the finest stock of Hair and Toilet Goods ever shawn in Washington. Next Palas Royal— Zee uth Stes Poruerty 1224 Bway, ocl2-9m: F=-u=r-s. The Cholcest Furs in the world. The arctic seas and the wild forests of the great north have yielded up thelr finest specimens of Fur for the adornment of Washingtonians, “Queenly” Jackets, Capes, Neck Scarfs and Trimmings in the latest concelts—in skin, Persian Mink, Black Marten and Prices from $12°to $300. B. H. STINEMETZ & SON, Hatters and Furriers. 1237 Pa. Ave. oc21-20d Louis XVI Parlors’ yellow’” and ‘‘Jap"’ rooms. ¥. eooeecee esc000000 Cor These are our great specialties. Nearly all of the fine decoration work in the swell up-town houses is ours. TicC. Farr & Co., 1115 G St. @ate of Louis Dieter.) 019-16d ASASALAARHAARAARMARRARARRES {We'll Print Your 4 Favorite Negative: ¢¢ Ina way that will accent its best points 3 and we're skillful at retéuching, too, Tn fact, Developing and Printing for ama- teurs we make a spe ly of. Tl again, we carry in stock all the newest notions and wrinkles in the way of Pho- » tographte Supplies. > qHoughton & Delano, 1416 N.Y. Ave} 4 “Up-to-date Photographie People."* > 4 021-204 iq eee veer TY Veer Tre Tree d Wanted-=-At Once-=- READER "To join our Circulating Library. Font i to 1% cents @ day! 46 clubs we tankers marvelously cheap rate. sands of volumes, journals, magazines, &e.. to choose from. We're lo fated but half a block from F st.! Imperial Circulating Library, 515 11th Street, sons wuittington, Librarian, 021-161 1 Want All the Clocks in Washington That need repairing, and I'll put them in condi- tion to run ail right, and stay that way. My charges are about for American Clocks—a lit- tle higher for Fine lish or French ‘Timepieces. Hutterly, Timeptece Expert, 632 G St. e212 Lace Curtains That You Prize asenanaae. Our charges run 8 When we clean them, are given a ‘newness of appearance that will’ both astonish and delight. All our work is dene by hand—and we use the Parisian process. We make all small repairs gratis. Corson & Co., 518 10th St., $n Prop. Mme. Weber's Lace Cleaning Estab. 021-10 Per $ Onez. Photo- gravures ‘These P had. only.....+ o21-16d SPECIAL SALE AT GREATLY RELUCED PRICES, “ Oi £9- S.S.SHEDD & Bi 432 oth St. N.W. ecl9 21d AMI AND O., ‘Women's Shoes Only. o——___________» | We Can Fit Any Feot. | Langlois’ ‘aultiess itting om SHOES. ;#* orm The foot has a better shape and ap- Pears to much better advantage when clothed in a well-cut and thoroughly # ‘ell-made boot—and you'll find that Foot Form stock and make ere Irre- proacbable. Philadelphia manufacturers do the work, and the process used makes the skin soft and pliable, thereby conform- ing to the foot in a manner not usual in many other makes. ‘Special Sale From: 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. VFoot Forms for $2.65. Wednesday and Thursday. In one-half our F street window will displayed the Nos. 405 and 309 ‘OOT FORMS," showing every point of toe, heel und arch of instep. The special price between these hours will be $2.65. And it’s for Soes made on positively the best-fitting lusts shoemaker ever drew leather over. For women who find putting on high stoes after wearing low ‘ones 6 or 9 months, there is no shoe as comfortable as this “Faultless-fit- ting’ Cloth Top. Langlois, “Home of Foot Form,"* W. D. Clark & Co., 811 Market Space. Hosiery and Underwear. ‘Timely advice ts always acceptable. Do not Wear your summer underwear and risk your health for the sake of a paltry sum. @ur stock 1s full of the best selected goods of warmth and comfort, the best makes at remarkably low prices. The following are a few of our leaders: Were Now Gents’ Medlum-welght Shirts and Drawers. =.$1.50 $1.00 Gents’ Australian Wool Shirts ‘and Drawers... ++. ~ 175 1.25 Gents’ Nat rowers. 501 pecial Vali 1244, 5) 35 und 50 cents. Were Now Ladies’ Ribbed Vests (extra weight). 35e. — 25e. and Misses’ It will sur- We make a specialty of Ladies’ Hosiery. Ask to see our 25c. Hose. prise you. W. D. CLARK & CO., 811 Market Space. J. H. Chesley & Co., 1004 F st. and 522 10th st. ‘Cold as a barn.” ‘A great many people pile the coal on in plain that their house is Tt isn't the fault of the stov few yards of felt weather strips under the doors and windows and shut out the cold air. If you wisn we will send @ man up, who will give you an esti In weather we advise you to use the felt strips, because th bard gas 16 ft. by 16 ft. in the coldest ‘They only consume ubout 20 cubic fect of gas per hour (cost , and the an hou price Is the most i. Chesley & 1004 F St. & 522 1oth St. it “Laundry” & Borax es lock as white and as it to? If they don't, find to one it is the fault of you are using. ‘Try Weaver, Kengla & Co.’s pet postal. TOL ESS BROS. PAYER é'cc: DOUBLE STORES, 987-939 F ST. A Superb Showing Of Coats And Capes —Is ours—one not surpassed by any in America as to style, fit, workman- ship and price—such an admirable stock that it meets with praise from every one who inspects it. —We want more ladies to know it— so we have made this a SPECIAL WEEK in this department, and shall continue our SPECIAL LOW PRICES throughout the week. No greater values anywhere than these: Another lot of the inch PLUSH SILK CAPES, which created such a stir in our Cloak Department, just arrlved. Full sweep, trimmed around collar and front with full Thibet. Special price as long a8 they last....... CEE sen MORO 22inch ASTRAKHAN CAPE, trimmed cn front and collar, full sweep, Rhadame silk lined. . $6.69 One 28-inch ELECTRIC SILK JACKET, large sleeves, ripple back, rolling collar, two buttons, box, satin lined throughout 5 24-inch SILK PLUSH CAPE, handsome Jet and braid embroideryg. all over, full sweep. Special price. 12.50 1 lot of Best Quality MELTON COATS, face lined, raw seams, latest round Iupel and collar, ripple, back. Special price... ‘$12.98 1 lot Best Quality Blue and Black BOUCLS CLOTH COATS, Rhadame silk lived, velvet collar. Special 1 lot @ponged Beaver 3-button BOX COATS, face lined, ripple back, velvet collar. Special price.. Best Quality BOUCLE 3-button Clerical Cut’ MELTON COATS, strapped seams,’ storm collar, Rha- f dame silk facing. Special price... $9.75 Ostrich Feather Boas. 1 lot 45-inch Genuine Ostrich Feather Boas. (Tomorrow only) special price. $5.98 $3.98 1 lot 45-inch Ge Ostrich Boas, very full, pered. Special price. Ladies’ Silk Waists. 1 lot Changeabie Silk Waists, yoke front and back, crushed col- lar, extra large sleeves. Special @ price 2... » 93-25 1 lot Chameleon Taffeta Silk Waists in blue, gray and green, French back, crushed collar, box pleat front. Spectal pric sae MAYER Bros. & Co., 937-939 F St. $7.49 Ladies’ Shoes, made on men’s lasts, in kid, cordo- van and the new argenta kid. 4.00 quality, 3.35; 5.00 quality, 3.85; 6.00 qual- ity, 5.85. Burt's Factory Sale. We have mored to 1411 F St. “Buy Best at Ballantyne’s.”” «Dictionary Special Sale. of DICTIONARY ¢ sort Up-to-Date VEST ET DICTIONARY 1s the t and cheapest good Die- tionary that’s printed. — Contains many thousand words. Is “just for school use, and for busy people. In cloth binding, 10 CTS.; in flexible leather binding, 25 CIs. volume. We have Dictionaries these prices up to -the c “CENTURY DICTIONARY. Webster's New International Dictionary In a single volume is 4 one of the best. We have ong 4 lnrge vol- umes. of the “ENCYCLOPAEDIC DICTIONARY” to sell at a bar- gain. Bound in half leather. Price, $11—more than double this anywhere else. A good Dictionary needs a good stand. It will treble the useful- ness of it. We sell the best stand that's made. | Ballantyne’s, 428 Seventh. from nplete ret, “The Cook's Delight.” Cream Blend y other. = B. B. EARNSHAW & BI E 105-9 11TH ., WHOLES, AND’ 1000- ' i i H 5 Cake 2 5 uy -. Exquisite Becoming ‘ ; Dress and Calling Hats, * * Embracing the newest and most fashion- % * able ideas in French and English mil- 5 * linery. Besides the imported models—I > am showing very many Bonnets and Hats of my own designing. I reqaest an early t inspection. iss Gussie, 515 uth st La deo Fill Y | 5 s e—our work the tinless extraction, are the mo: most satisfirctory. 50 cents. $50.00 —is the kind that NEVER Fats, conditions, to make ul. ve fi Hols, Biscuits, Aire elaine fone Those who try it once Se hee inuteeh 4 he . Al “live’? grocers sell It, Ask wa, copectal boxe IEP for It next timer and’ you won't “use faunot be had eleowitere, Colds, 2 Coughs and Bronchitis a Cured by Taking i YER’S Cherry Pectoral Awarded °'' Medal and Diploma At World’s Fair. USE AYER'S HAIR VIGOR FOR COLOR, If THE BABY I§ CUTTING TEETH BE SURE and use that ol] and well-tried remedy, Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup, for ebildren tee! It soothes the child, softens the gum, alla pain, cures wind colic and is the Dest ‘remedy for larrhoea. 25 ceuts a bottle. wel0-ly _ TLLERE ARE MANY FORMS OF NERVOUS D) Eility in men that yleld to the use of Carter's ils. ‘Those who are troubled with_nervous night sweats, etc., should try t r a AREA Craig & Harding, Cor. 13th and F sii A thousand tharks for your at- tendance and patronage st our “Open- ing."’ Now for serfous business! Since a quarter of your life is efent in bed let that bed be a good one. It will be if picked from this stock, for we carry no poor beds. We have just added an enormcus stock of Chamber Suites in every proper wood. Here is one of Solid Oak, which we think the greatest value for the money ever constructed. Three large, handsome ud substantially built pieces, the wushstand itself being three feet. The dresser kas 24 by 30 beveled-edged mirror, large, solid Post cases, plano polished and ex- quisitively carved. ‘This Suite will equal any sold else- I i H i i E Where at $30 or $35. Our price is but ..... Hundreds~ of different kinds and sizes of Chamber Sultes—up to the finest Solid Mahogany Chamber Suite ever brought to Washington—being 5 one of the finest suites in America e today—and only $450.00. E SE iCRAIG & : : HARDING, Cor. 13th & F Sts. ‘se5-3m,80 1 Louvre Glove Co., 919 F st. One day. bargain N GLOVES ‘Tomorrow only—ou 3 $1.35 Gloves go at $1.12! see*" Heavy English Dogskin Walking esieis Pique’ sewed—4 large pearl buttons—and in Seal aud Gi zi Ox Blood, iglish_ Red, e embroidery. Every ul fitted by experts. gig F St. STYLES OF OUR EDITH SHOES —Everyone of them dressy —comfortable and durable; these shoes are made for US exclusively—the leather is of our own, selection—the styles are molded upon the most fashionably shaped lasts—and they are equal— IN EVERY DETAIL—to the finest $4 shoes sold in any other store. $2.98 ; For Choice. f i XXXXEEXEXEREEEREEA MME EERIE RAK EMER REE EERE EERE EERE EER ER EE MERE EEE MERE EEE RE RY XXKEREERKMKERARE RE ERE EKER E RES | | Broad Toes, Medium ‘Toes, Razor Toes, Kid or Cloth Tops, In Button and Laced, FAMILY HOE TORE, 310-312 SEVENTH ST., | 313 EIGHTH ST. At SIO EOE ROE oward a sound dig ‘eerUs Angostura Bit- Emperer Frederick Memorint. The Emperor Frederick Memorial Church in Herlin was consecrated yesterday in the presence of the emperor and empress, who subsequently attended the unveiling of the monument erected to the memory of tae late Empress Augusta. 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Come on, I’m in a hurry. Newcomb walked rapidly away with Gold- ing, leaving Turner and King upon the log. “He's going to have Nick arrested,” re- marked King. “Serve him right,” returned Turner, who smarted somewhat under Warren's con- temptuous defiance; “If he’s innocent he'll prove it, and if he isn’t he ought to be taken up.”” “I'm not so sure,” said King, doubtfui “I ain't got much to say when this Golding’s round, but somehow I kind feel as if we'd ought to give Nick the tip.” They Found Golding Talking. “And give him the chance to run away? Pooh! Besides, didn’t he say that if an officer of the law was to come to him he'd go along peaceable and answer questions? P’raps that’s what he wants as the best way out of it. I tell you, Jim, the best we can do is to keep out of {t as much as possible. Let’s go down to the stor “Yes, and I tell you what 'tis, Seth, if it hadn't been that Golding heard what Nick said 'twould have been just as well for you and me to keep our mouths shet. I’ve got no fancy to go to court as a witnes “No, nor I. I don’t think I should «are much ff the whole thing blowed over.” They went_down to Sam Springer’s store and found Golding standing on the steps talking to three or four villagers. “I've felt awful,” he was saying earnestly, “about coming into this peaceful settlement nnd making trouble for one of your Leigh- bors, but you see how ‘tis. I've got great interests at stake, and there’s my friend and partner dying at Mr. Warren’s and they forbid me the house. I've got to do come- thing about it, you see, disagreeable as tis, It’s just as certain as sunrise that a great crime was attempted, and it was only Mrs. Warren's pluck that made the crime a par- tial failure. I'm simply going to see if the Jaw can do anything about it, that’s all.” “Does Nick know what you're up to?” asked Sam. = “Mr. Warren? Oh, yes, he understands me. I've given him every opportunity eo “That's about the way ’twas with us,” remarked Turner. “What did he say, Seth?” inquired one of the villagers. “Why, we went up there in just a neigh- borly way, as Alvah told him, and he got all fired hot and swore he’d turn his house into a fcrt and shoot the first man that crossed the line onto his land. Didn't he, Jit S at’s about it, “He was pcwerful mad.” “Well, well,” remarked Golding, “that’s rather more than he said to me.”” He had heard a report of Warren's defi- ance from the committee of three before he { went in to see the priest, but he was now talking for the benefit of the other resi- dents. “He assented King. id he'd surrender to an officer of the law,” suggested King. “Well, may get just that chance,” Golding, “before the day’s much olde: Newcomb came up at this moment with Golding’s rig. “Ll tell you how ‘tis, friends,” said Gold- ing after he had climbed into the buggy and taken the reins, “I’m not revengeful, though I sometimes talk pretty loud when my temper’s up, and if Freeman should get well, I wouldn't be disposed to push Mr. Warren very hard. He's doing me a because there's property involved in t affair. I should take it very kindly of any cf ycu if you should persuade him to stop cpposing my interests. Do as you like, of course. I can’t ask you to take up with said ne, his me against one of your own neighbors. but i assure you there’s the possibility of se- rious trouble ahead for Mr. Warren. : With this he drove leisurely away, satis- fied that the atmosphere of distrust that he had stirred up would endure until he could accomplish the step that he had undertak- en. Once out of sight and hearing of the villagers assembled at Springer’s store, he urged his horse to the utmost and gave him no rest until he had arrived at Denby. In Dr. Nason’s opinion there was nothing further for him to do at Mr. Warren’s, and accordingly, after some unimportant con- versation, he went his way. Then Mr.War- ren suggested that perhaps Dutton would speak to him. “You've tried him and failed, Martha,” he said, “and so did Golding, but he spoke to Father Reardon. Perhaps he'll talk with me. Hadn't I better try it?” Mrs. Warren assented, and he accordingly went into the spare chamber. Dutton had evidently been trying to rise, for his head fell to the pillow as the door opened. Mr. Warren noticed the move- ment. “Dut, old comrade,” he said as he came to the side of the bed, “I made sure you'd speak to me. You'll forgive my quick tem- per of last night, won't you, comrade? I acted before I thought, and besides I felt kind of guilty myself. Won't you speak?” Dutton’s eyes were obstinately closed. “The doctor says you're shamming, Dut,” continued Warren, patiently. “You can’t fool him, and you don’t fool the rest of us, for Martha said she could hear you talking to the priest.” The patient opened his eyes at this, and gazed steadily at Mr. Warren. “That's right,” said the latter, encour- agingly. “Martha didn’t hear what you said, and I’m not going to ask you what *twas, but you'll tell me, won't you, why you cams back, why you haunted me and Martha up?” “ Dutton closed his eyes, and his brows corrected! slightly as if he were suffering pain ‘ou won't speak, then?” Not a muscle quivered. “Isn't there something that you want to tell us, Dut?” The ey2s opened slightly, quickly closed again, and Mr. Warren gave it up. He turned away, and noticed then, for the first time, that Dution’s clothing had been taken from the chair and placed in a closet. Mr. Warren went to the closet and opened the door. He looked back, and seeing that Dutton still lay with his eyes closed, he took the pebble from his pocket and re- Placed it in the garment from which he had taken it. It was with"a much lighter heart that he rejoined his wife and reported his failure with the patient. Mrs. Warren then went to Dutton, and when he opened his eyes, she said: “Freeman, I sha’n’t ask you again to speak to me. When you are ready to do so I know that you will. I shall be within call all the time, and if you want anything you have only to speak.” She waited a moment for a possible reply, and as none came, she went to the kitchen, leaving the door ajar, and busied herself with household duties. Mr. Warren also took up the routine work of the farm, which kept him near the house. The morning was not far advance1 before neighbors began to arrive. The men sought Mr. Warren in the garden, the women planted themselves in the kitchen before Mrs. Warren and Elsie. They were kind- ly, well-meaning people, most of them, but they had but the vaguest conception of what it means to have consideration for others’ feelings. The general motive seem- ed to be, so far as Mrs. Warren was con- cerned, that her most imperative need was a willing ear in which to pour the history of her trouble. It had gone abroad that Mr. Warren Went to the Closct and Opened the Door. Dutton was no strang2r to the Warrens, and the women folk would have it that Mrs. Warren waa anxious to tell all she knew about him. ‘They asked the most pointed questions and sadly put out at Mrs. Warren’s direct ing with them. ‘I cannot talk about Mr. Dutton, M Newcomb,” she sald, “We think he is <o- ing to get well, and if he does and sees [it to talk, that ffair.” Weil, M ‘weomb couldn't understand it; she should think anybod want the truth known unless there was something dreadful back of it all. This rejection of neighborly sympathy was bound to cause ill feeling, not in her own case, of course, but there were people, yes, indeed! who aj- ways would take pains to see the worst ids of things. “I shall have to put up with what such people think and say,” responded Mrs. War- ren, “for,1 cannot do anything to satisfy e Mr. Warren came in from the garden to get a drink of water. “Morning, Mrs. Newcomb,” he said, in his ally quiet way. the caller shrank perceptibly into her chair, looked at him askance and made ro reply. Mr. Warren noticed the cut, and smiled contemptuously. He drained a dipper lcis~ urely and went out again. “I declare, I don't see how’ you can stand exclaimed Mrs. Newcomb. tand what?” asked Mrs. Warren. whose gentle soul was quivering with indignation. He Grasped the Storekeeper’s Hand. “Why! having him around after what he’s supposed to have done. He acts just as if nothing had happened.” Mrs. Warren went to the door. “Nicholas,” she called. He came slowly back to the house and asked what she wanted, standing at the moment just outside the door in full view of Mrs. Newcomb. “This, dear,” answered his wife, and she put her arms around his neck and kissed him. “That was all.” “It's a great deal, Martha,” h® whispered, giving her an affectionate hug. “I under- stand,” and he contentedly returned to his work,almost rejoicing in the trouble that had so demonstrated his wife's loyalty. | Mrs. Newcomb was not so thick-skinned that she failed to have some comprehension of this scene, and she guessed she'd have to get back to her baking. Not all the visits were as disagreeable as this, but they were sufficiently so to wear mother and daughter sadly. Out in ‘he garden Mr. Warren had frequently to pause in his weeding operations to assert that he had done nothing for which he was not pre- pared to answer to the law. No one excited his temper as the committee of three had, but they kept him in a @artially resenzful state that was very annoying to his neigh- bors. Shortly before noon Sam Springer came. “See here, Nick,” he said,’“you needn’t tell me a thing. I’ve heard nothing all day but your trouble, and forty-leven accounts of it, too. I've just left the store long enough to tell you that I don’t care a durn what you've done; I’m ready to help you out. You know I've got the fastest horse in the township. If you want to light out, she’s yours. Shall I send her up to your barn?” Mr. Warren stepped ferward and grasped the storekeeper by the hand. “You meant that as a kindness, Sam,” he responded, “and I’m much obliged, but I’m pot going to run away.” “All right, Nick, only remember that scmetimes what's this, eh? oh, discretion, ain't it? is the better part of valor.” And so the foreicon dragged along. At Ginner Gran’pa Kirk was the only one who did any talking. Something had stirred his reminiscences of half-century-old politics, and he related garrulously something about a great pole raising in an adjoining county. He was still running on about it when he went for his after-dinner nap in the orchard. “I'll do the dishes, Elsie,” said Mrs. War- ren. “J nesd the exercise, I guess. Seems as if I'd feel better for having my hands in hot water. it was 12:30, a long half hour before it would be time to go to meet Will. Elsie couldn’t wait. “Will is coming pretty soon,” she ex- plained, nd I'm going to cross the mead- ows to meet him at the edge of Newcomb’ woods.” “That's good,” said her mother, along and be happy, dear.” Elsie tried not to hurry. That half hour must be passed somehow, and she preferred to pass it in the open air, strolling across the intervale, to sitting idle in the house and watching the clock. The beginning of the meadows was of un- even ground, and, in fact, hillocks were scattered all over their extent, with here and there a few clumps of trees and young willows. She had not gone more than a few rods before the house and the road were completely hidden from view by a series of knolls. She went sauntering along a faintly marked path, swinging her hat in her hand, for the sky was now overcast, and there was little wind stirring, and her heart seemed to grow lighter until of a sudden, as she rounded the base of a low mound, it seemed to stop beating as completely as her feet ceased to move. Seated on the ground, not twenty feet in front of her, in the shade of a small tree, was Wanga, the black man, upon whom she and Will had come in their walk down the mountain the evening previous. His white companion was not in sight, but he was not alene. He was playing with a snake, that coiled and uncoiled itself around his waist, and rubbed its head against his sleeve, while Wanga crooned to it in inarticulate but musical accents. He did not look up until Elsie had <tood for at least a second, too horrified to scream, her blood chilling and her limbs quivering, but her eyes fastened unshak- ably on the strange spectacle. When he saw her a fierce gleam came into his eyes, He slowly uncolled the snake from his wrist and put it in an inside pocket of his jacket, all the time keeping his eyes fast- ened upon Elsie’s. She wanted to run, to scream, but her limbs failed her and her lips grew heavy. It was as if she were suffering a night- mare, and articulation were impossible. The black man cautiously arose and came toward her, slipping his fect along the grass without raising them, his body undulating, his outstretched fingers trem- bling slightly. Not once did his eyelids fall and so for an instant shut off the steely glitter that told of a deadly purpose quickly formed, and upon which he was concen- trating all the forces of his being. Elsie shrank as he drew near, and a light sob escaped her, but she could not cry out, she could not offer resistance. All the evils pictured by her apprehension and all the vague fears awakened by the events of the past eighteen hours were embodied in this black man, who seemed, indeed, the fit companion for reptiles. 5 He was close upon her now, and he reached forth one of his hands, never abat- ing the steady gaze that pierced through her eyes to her brain and paralyzed her will. She felt him take her hand, and, numb with terror, not more than half con- scious of what he was doing, she followed as he pulled her gently along. Her hat fell to the ground, but Wanga did not notice it and Elsie did not know it. As he realized that he had control of her he quickened his pace gradually until the girl was almost on the run. They were near a thin line of trees that extended along the bank of a stream until they merged in the mountain forest. Here Wanga suddenly dropped her hand, threw both arms around her, picked her up and van like a saddie horse, unmindful of the burden. (To be continued tomorrow.) ——— Two Divorces. Judge Hagner has granted Martha Pumphrey a divorce from Wm. H. Pum- phrey. Mrs. Pumphrey filed her petition July 12th last, the papers in the case being withheld from publication. The divorce was granted, however, because of the hus- band’s desertion of his wife. Judge Hagner has also granted I ten a divorce from Arthur W, I because of the husband's desertior wife. The parties were married December 27, 1801, and the complainant filed her petl- tion the 224 of March, 184, alleging that the defendant deserted her March 13, 1892. “run Notary Public Reappointed. Randolph D. 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