Evening Star Newspaper, November 26, 1895, Page 13

THE EVENING STAR, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1895—-SIXTEEN PAGES. 13 CORRECT SOLUTION OF THIS STORY, & BEFORE THEY Sj. WERE MARRIED: B A HENRYC.PARKER3 1 AUTHOR OF ‘ScoRNED TOTHE END? "ARBITRATION & C3 CONDITIONS OF THE STAR’S GREAT OFFER. 1. The Star will pay $250 in gold to the Teader from whom it receives by mail, at the publication office, Pennsylvania avenue and llth street, the complete and absolutely correct solution of “Before They Were Mar- ried," as it shall be disclosed in the final chapter of the story, to be published Satur- day, December 14, In The Star. If two or more complete and absolutely correct solu- tions are received the $250 in gold will be divided equally. 2. 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Guessers must be wo- men and girls and necessarily they must be readers of The Star, but they may read the story in The Star taken by any member of the family and need not be regular subserib- ers themselves in order to enter the competi- tion. While only women and girls may guess and win the prizes, they can recetve help as to their guess from any member of their family or from all the family. FIFTEENTH INSTALLMENT. CHAPTER XV—LOVE’S CROSS YPUR- POSES. Amelia slowly and painfully withdrew from the banister and stood erect, the pro- fessor towering In front of her, ready, it seemed, in the least provocation to let his fury loose again. She saw her traveling bag upon the floor and stooped mechanically to pick it up. “Take it with you!" snazled the prefesser, still keeping his voice down to a whisper. The unhappy girl looked and moved as If she were bewildered. “You have no right {o keep me here,” she said faintly. “I am not your daughter; you are no longer my legal suardian. I cannot stay here.” z “You can stay heré and you must,” retort- ed Prof. Drummond. “Do you think I shall let you go out and publish your calumnies against me? It is foul enough that you operate from within my own household.” Her eyes flashed a little at this, as if re- sentment were clearing the shadows from her mind. “Yes,” she answered, “I have done very wrong. That is why Iam going awoy.”” He Looked Vacantly at the Fragments The professor's face “It with savage tri- umph. “I knew it!” he exclaimed, re; voice with difficulty. Then he took her by the shoulders and pushed her into the room across the hall from the dining room. She was not enly incapable physically of resisting so powerful nas her uncle, but she was impelled by sing kis her profound regrets for what had occurred to refrain now from calling oyt or doing anything that might attract the attention of oth house. Prof. Drummond could ne dreamed, much less beleved, as as determined es he that ht should be shed upon the y by any act of hers. Once within the room and the dvor closed, he continued “Who else but vou could h: set the aquest, eh? | bable, calculating, ls familiar self, and Amelia knew that save for the possibility of physical violence when he was enraged, he was now most dangerous. His change of demeanor was but the outward sign of a Purpose conceived in the violence of his passion, that needed quiet and unbending resolution to accomplish. What that pur- pose was she could not guess, and she did fot try to. Her own purpose remained fixed in her mind, and she, too, had Drummond blood and Drummond will, perhaps also a trace of Drummond craft. Slowly, with her eyes fixed on his, as if to read any sudden change to active hos- tility there, she passed in front of him and went to the stairs. There she paused a moment. “You will let me go soon ‘ingly, ery soon, Amelia,”* he responded. “T un- derstand your feeling, and I approve of your decision to leave, but it would have been better to speak to me about it. Never mind. I shall not reproach you. Go to your room and wait. she said in- Amelia slowly and softly went upstairs. Foth could hear the rippling laughter of Louise, quickly recovered from the horrors of the inquest, as she William: fa i pottered about Mrs. room; from below stairs rose the ne of the serving women, as they nssed househuld affairs. The’ exciting scene had passed without attracting the slightest attention. At the top of the stairs Amelia turned, and saw her uncle watching her. Slowly she turned toward her room, and & moment later the professor heard the door open and close. He drew a long breath, went into the dining room, threw himself into a chair and Teaned his head on is hands. Louise and Mrs. Williams found him thus when they came down a few min- utes later. Mrs. Williams entered the din- ing room and Louise went to the front oor. “Why, the doi turning the ke: “I must have locked it myself,” sald the professor, rousing. “I was preoccupied, and must have thought that it was bedtime.” He smiled good-humoredly. “You are fatigued from pose,” suggested Mrs. Williams. Preoccupied! I should "say so,” cried Louise. “What do you think you've don now, papa? What is it you've forgotten?" “What a question, Lou!” he retorted gaily. “If I knew what I had forgotten how could I have forgotten it? Puzzle that out, young lad. “Oh, well,” said Louise, “I didn't ask a riddle, and I won't try to answer one; but what about that immediate return to the village? “Ay stars! TI did forget thatfdidn't I?" he answered. He went into the hall and put on his hat. “Have you seen Amelia, papa?" asked Louise. “Yes,” he replied. “I was just about to speak to her. I saw her while you and Mrs. Williams were busy. I advised her to lie down, for she had a terrific headache.” “She fainted at that horrid inquest,” said use. he did?” exclaimed Mrs. Williams, get- I will go up and see what I can Why didn’t you speak of it be- she exclaimed, ur journey, I uldn’t go up if I were you," inter- Starkweathers to investigate an / Tv hat “she responded. sor raised both hands, the fin- ded and quivering to close his lips were parted am a sayed to find words, but he could not go heyond the beg: Amelia faced him v th possession. Her strength was as nothi compared to his, and yet he trembled be fore her with the very excess of exci rgy. Presently he lowered his hands slowly. “I could kill you where you stand,” he muttered. “And add another murder to your "he b and again mounted to a fury, membe day with ot about, s ing up aw the fireplac it broke as his rage nd he yet re- y stood there in broad e at hand, he whirled » room, and cateh’ hat leanel agaln t in his hands until He fooked vacantly at 1 moment, and then drop- upon the bearth. misht have been he your body,” bar es, of course ome n: ‘m St you shall go away now. Wait a little if he y upon her. bal She would lay his With 1 ter- ared his kind- upon | a his ng. | despairing self- © at that r 1 he had be he w Cautiously Opened the Door. posed the professor. “She's probably asleep and it would be better not to disturb her for a whil YP four hours, Mrs. Will- or Drummond, “and r could be persu d that she lost a y out of her life. Howev 1 must be I'll step up myself and see how Amelia let you know.” up the stairs quietly y opened the door to Amelia's ras a large chamber with an al- co], About n from the door. the floor at on the bed ing out d was and hi » force of it. > looked at hi dis- Idenly body He ¢ ting kn rs “T shall have to start at once.” = i | Then with an impatient shake of the head he drew the key noiselessly from the door. “The other way Is better,” he muttered. He closed the door, locked it and put the key in his pocket. At the dining room he paused to say: “Amelia is sleeping from exhaustion. I wouldn't go to her room for two or three hours. I shall be back before then.” “No sudden depaz-ure this time I hope, papa,” called out Louise. “I’m home to stay,” he responded. Professor Drummond kept h's word. He returned to Fairview about half an hour before dinner time. Not long before his ar- rival Dr. Willams came. He entered the house as usual, without ringing, and paused at the door to the dining room, where his mother and Louise were busy with fancy rk. we Miss ik to you a moment, he said. Louise promptly laid down her work and went with him into the m on the opposite side of the hall. Mrs. Williams felt a sym- pathetic trepidation, well knowing that in- terview must be one of great importance to her son’s welfare and nappiness. She bent more intently over her work, wondering whether presently she would see two happy faces befcre her, two hands held out for her congratulation and blessing. The doctor had had ample time to pre- pare his speech, after the manner of young men who have affairs of the heart on their minds, and, quite contrary to custom, he remembered his speech and spoke it almost perfectly. “Miss Drummond,” he said, “I shall be neither foolish nor unfair enough to pre- tend that I did not understand you in the ccurt room this forenoon. I have no ex- cuse to make for what I have done, no ex- planation to offer, and none to demand. Some men, perhaps, might be content to let the matter pass without further allu- sion to it. I cannot do so. I cannot be at ease unless I know exactly where I stand. Let us have at least no more than one mis- understanding. I have called to ask wheth- er you have spoken or written to your father about my proposal to you “I haven't known where to write to pa- pa, you knew that,” responded Louise. lave you spoken to him?” It seems to me you ought to do that.” The doctor bit his lip to repress the re- tert that that had not been a part of their understanding. He had prepared other things to say, but Louise @id not give him the proper cue. Other men have had such experiences. The woman in the case sel- dom takes the view of it she was expected to take. “I am not here to argue,” said the doctor after a moment. “I put myself unreserv- edly in your hands. If you tell me to speak © your father I will do so tonight. Shall 1 Louise looked around her helplessly. You may if you wish to,’ she answered. “I shouldn't think you'd dare to face him*| if he knew what you said in that horrid court.” “You may tell him, if you like to, Miss Drummond.” “I want to forget it. “Does that mean,” asked the doctor “Don’t tell me that him. you have rejected earnestly, ‘that you love me, and that you wish to forget what was painful to both of us?” Louise could not raise her eyes to his, and for a long time she could not control her quivering lips to speak. The doctor walted with growing wonder, not at her, but at himself. A loyal man, who has or thinks he has reason to doubt his own loyalty, suffers an agony that [ think is not set down in therapeutics. It is not every- body who is capable of that peculiar sor- row. In days not so very remote, a few weeks at most, Dr. Williams had said to himself that his heart never could fail to glow more warmly at a glance from Louise, that her presence never could fall to charm and relieve him. He believed it, as all lovers do, and he had said to himself that his career thus far had justified his be- let. So, indeed it had, and yet, here he was, un- moved by the distress of her whom he had asked to love him. ter the misery of the inquest he had wrestled with himseif alone, and had pursued the task of self analysis to the extent of his powers. Reasoning as well a physician might, he had said th: nature was suffering from shock and s that dulled its sensibilities to fami all would be before, ic for his emotional disorder was a sight of Louise. Wth her, whether or not she repre: him with Ditterness, he felt that he sho find restored all that ardent love that had impelled him to do everything sh: tive crime in shielding her fathe again that intense, yearning aff the craving for her love, would be better to him, even with disappointment as its accom- paniment, than this dull indifference. Well, here he was, and there was she, and his heart seemed like a black cinder from which flame had long since passed away Fearful of committing the most disloyal ac possible, he yet held himself at her com- mand, prepared to carry out the program of love in form, even ff the spirit were lacking. “Miss Drummond,” he said at last, “I can- not go to yopr father unless you tell me you dave me. It would merely be postponing the end.” ‘hen don't go,” she answered. He bowed gravely and held the door, ashamed, mortally ashamed, to feel vellef instead of pain at his dismissal. Louise passed him with downcast eyes and aimost ran into her father, who had just entered the broad hall. “Ah, doctor,” cried the professor, “be sure not to go till I see you. I must have a talk with you. Louise, I want you for a minute. Excuse us, doctor. Regretting that his mother’s presence at Fairview made it advisable to remain there longer, the doctor bowed his assent and went to the dining room. Louise returned to the room she had just left, and the pro- fessor followed. “Lou,” he began, abruptly, Williams talked love to you?” She looked up at him, half in surprise, half in fright, for the question was unexpected, and her father’s tone was brusque. nswer me, Lou; y nothing to fear.” es,” she faltered, “he hz “What have you told him, ch? Never mind, dear, I won't press the question. Ali I can say is that nothing would give me greater pleasure than to have you accept him. If there’s any doubt in your mind, as there might be, for you are young, dismiss the doubt on your father's advice; make the doetor happy, and please me immensely.” Louise was thoroughly frightened now. She tried to frame the words “I can’t,” but no sound came from her parted lips. A black frown gathered now on the professor's row. “Don't tell me that you've rejected him,” he exclaimed, in a hoarse whisper. “If you have been so unwise go to him at once and take it back.” (To be continued tomorrow.) Billiger Protects His Home. Fiom the Chie “Billiger: Mr. McSwat awoke. “What is it, Lobelia?” “I hear a strange noise! body in the house!” Seizing the revolver that lay under his pillow Mr. McSwat sprang out of bed and moved toward the door. He stopped a moment to listen. Then he cocked his revolver, assumed an attitude of defiance and waited A moment later, with fron olution, he closed the door of the room, locked 1t, rolled the bureau against it, replaced the revolver under his pillow and crept back into bed. “If there are any thieves down s' he said, ‘they'll have a sweet time zet into this room. You can go to sleep, lia, You're not in any danger. r didn't have a man about the how added grumblingly, “I reckon you yourself to death some night!” “has Doctor [ 30 Tribune, There's some- \2 grains tRey w HOW ORES ARE TESTED. Various Stages of the Process and the Results Renched. Helena Dispatch to the Boston Transcript. To the uninitiated but observant stranger who wanders up and down in the labyrinth of shafts and tunnels, diggirigs and dumps of a genuine mining camp, perhaps there is no subject more full of interest than the process by which a lump of brown .ore, which, to his inexperienced eye, looks-not in the least attractive, is made to yield its share of silver and gold; or the means and methods by which the mining man at his side so confidently assures him that a ton of that ore will go 82.33 ounces in sil- ver and $1 in gold. Even the eastern mining expert, or gradu- ate from some mining school, will wonder how, in the log cabin or pine shanty, desti- tute of all the elaborate paraphernalia to which he has been accustomed, these re- sults are so readily and accurately ob- tained. As a general rule the majority of the ores, except those containing the precious metals, for purposes of purchase and sale, are valued according to the cost of mining and shipping, so that, except for metallur- gical purposes, it is unnecessary to seek to determine with much accuracy the con- tents and value of such ores. In the case of ores rich in the precious metals, however, it 's entirely different, as in their purchase and sale, both parties, the buyer as well as the seller, want to as- certain accurately and to a certainty the value of the entire lot. The methods by which this knowledge is obtained are so simple as to be easily understood and prac- tiecd by many a man who does not know the technical symbols of the metals he is determining. or could not give a scientific exposition of the process; but, nevertheless, in his line, he is an accurate and successful assayer. When a quantity of ore is to be sampled for assaying it is first broken by an ordin- ary rock crusher into pleces the size of an English walnut, after which it is shoveled tack into the car, but in such a manner that every fifth shovelful is thrown aside by itself, the remaining four-fifths being final- ly taken away. This fifth portion, known as the “sample,” is then reduced to a much greater degree of fineness by means of Cor- nish roils. It is then piled on the floor in a cone, flattened out, and divided into four equal portions; and two opposite quarters are then removed. The remaining quarters are again thoroughly mixed, and again piled in a cone, flattened and quartered; this operation being repeated until the sam ple is reduced to 100 pounds. It is then weighed repeatedly, for the purpose of de- termining the amount of moisture contained in the ore, which in some ores, especially those of the concentrates, is so considera- ble as to make a very appreciable difference in the weight. The moisture is then ex- pelled, and the ore is crushed to such a de- gree of fineness that {t can be passed through a sieve containing 100 holes to the linear inch. The sample is next put up in small glass bottles, which are sealed with sealing wax, and then stamped, for the purpose of preventing the possibility of their being opened or tampered with with- out detection. The above is the process of sampling used among the mines, and the sample is now | Teady to be assayed, but only a small, por- tion of it will be used for that purpose, and the quantity generally taken is what is known us an “assay ton,” which weighs 2,168 milligrams, or a little more than 450 ht. This detinite amount is taken, partly as a matter of convenienge, and also because the assayer wishes to, certain, as quickly as possible, how many ounces of the precidus metals to the ton are contained in this ore. The method used ‘pends upon the following principle: The avoirdupois grams ton of 2,000 pounds con- tains 20,166 ounces troy weight; hence,when 29,166 milligrams of the unassayed ore are taken, the weights of the resulting “‘but- ton” of gold or silver, in the milligrams, represents an ounce, without any further calculation, the number of troy ounces of wold or silver in the avoirdupois ton of the ore. This method was invented in the Colum- bia School of Mines, in New York city, and is in general use throughout the world wherever there is assaying to be done. =e IC ROBBERY. An Old Detective's Story of the Strang- est Experience of His Career. From the Cincinnati Tribune. “The strangest experience I ever had,” said a well-known detective, “‘was in locat- ing a sneak thief who systematically rob- bed a business man's residence. There had been a number of robberies, extending over a considerable space of time. The servants of the house had been changed several times, and yet the thefts continued. About once a week some one entered the man's sleeping apartments and took what money he bad, if any, and, if not, succeeded in obtairing some of his wife’s jewel's or val- i verware. I was employed in the 1 made a thorough examination of P S. “At first I thought the work was done by scme one inside the house, but my client toli me that he had surprised the man one night, and that he went out the window and down the perch, which was undoubted- ly the way he had come in. He described the man as being small, thin ard pale, and wearing a peculiar mask. The description did not suit any one in the house or any one Whom the business man knew. My :lient slept in the front room and his wife in cne adjoining, there being double docrs between them. I searched the pawn shops thoroushly, and could find no trace of the missing jewels or silverware, and after watching the house from the outside for several nights, during which time there was ancther robbery, I prepared to steep tn con- The first night I slept there my client’s belongings were undisturbed, but several dollars in loose change had been ab- stracteé from my own pockets, although usually I am a very light sleeper and awake at once at any unusual sound. I said nothing about my own loss, but con- cluded to rerain awake thereafter. “For several nights nothing occurred, when one morring about 2 o'clock a form creme through the folding doors that con- rected the room where I was with that occupied by the wife of my client. I pre- tended to be asleep, and awaited the thief’s appreach. It looked like a pale-faced boy. Over its head was thrown a dark shawl that gave the appearance of a mask and a ccat, but the form was barefooted and had cn nothing besides the shawl but a night gown. Ne:selessly It glided to the widow, unlocked it and passed out on the porch. I krew in a moment that the person was the wife of my client, and I followed at once. As she climbed down the porch the moon shone directly in her face, and I saw that she was asleep. The woman went directly to an arbor that had once been a spring house, and, lifting a loose board, dropped something, and returned the way she came to her own apartments. “I immediately investigated, and found that in the place formerly used for the storage of milk and butter the missing jewels, silver and money were piled. The next morning I told my client and showed him where the missing articles were. He stated that his wife was possessed of an almost insane fear that at some time he weuld fail, and would be reduced to want, elthough entirely rational upon all other subjects. This probably took possession of her mind while she slept, and, being of a scmnambulistic tendency, her hoarding of the valuables was explained. When awake she had no recollection whatever of her nightly depredations.” ——-— ee Cheaper and Better Th From the Detrolt Free Press. Dewn near Goldshoro, North Carolina, I turned in from the dusty highway and ask- ed a native sitting in front of his cabin if I could get a drink of water. He sald I could, and I walked with him to a hole in the ground a few yards away. He didn’t have to go down over fifteen feet, and chere was water to the cepth of five feet in the hole. It was neither stoned up, ner was there a curb around it, and as there were several children arcund and the well was near the door, I said: “I should think you would have a curb around this well.’ “What fur?” he asked. Jon’t the children run a risk of falling in? mn a Curb, { reckon.” nd wouldn’t a curb lessen the chances?” t mought, but ‘twould take a lumber and time, I've gota echoaper way. Leok at that.” He pointed to a pole stuck on end in the weil, and while I was trying to make out what it was for, he Us fur them to climb out on when mbie in, and it beats a curb all hol- 1 grayness of t Hall's but apply Hair Renew WASHINGTON TREES. The Conditions and Methods of Plant- ing Here. _Wm. R. Smith, a member of the parking commission of this city and the superintend- ent of the botanic gardens, read a paper Tuesday evening before the Florists’ Club of Philadelphia on ‘shade trees. In the course of his address he'said: “We have set out 80,000 trees in Washing- ton, and in these sixty kinds are represented, but not more than a half dozen kinds would have been used if we had not been desirous of the larger representation from the bo- tanical standpoint. ~ “One mistake erdinarily made is in plant- ing either too close or not close enough to admit of every other tree being taken out as they increased in size. “The demand of ‘Woodman, spare that tree,” people, and women especially, make it one of the greatest hindrances to tree cul- ture. Trees must be trimmed. Roots decay, and the top must be cut to correspond. Trees in Washington are not trimmed enongh, and I, for one, have given up fight- ing for it. “The Norway maple and Oriental plane are two of the six trees that do well in Washington. The Carolina poplar has many faults, but where will you find a perfect tree? It bears trimming, and if destroyed is easily renewed. Some of the best trim- med that I know are around Girard College. These are trimmed as trees should be. #fhe American linden is by far better than the European. The yew is not a curbstone tree, but is ngt to be surpassed for parks. The tulip tree at the curbstone is not good, but for parking is excellent. Sixteenth street, lead- ing to the White House, has Norway maple at the curb and tulip for inside. “The Athenian poplar is excellent for nar- row streets. The horsechestnut will not do in Washington. In our dry season it stops growing; then; when moisture comes, it be- gins a secdhd growth. We have them now in full bloora. As a lawn tree they are ele- gant, but it must be further north than the capital, The sugar maple and the sycamore also have their southern limits, and this must be remembered. “The ginkgo, or maidenhair tree, is one of the very best; is first class. The only objec- ticn is the bad odor the fruit has when ma- tured. My first handling of it cost me three hours’ time and a bar of soap to be rid of it. This tree is not known in a wild state, and is considered a relic of prehistoric ages; a sole remnant of a race. In Japan there are trees of it about the temples that are several feet in diameter and a hundred feet high. It is excellert for a city, as it stands the smoke and dust well, hoids its foliage late, is a healthy tree and insects avoid it, as they also do the winged elm. “In Washington I insist upon large spaces being left unpaved between the trees to give them the chance to eat, drink and breathe. Trees in leaf reduce the temperature five to ten degrees; the leaves absorb the heat and hoid it. “Aside from «their value as ornaments trees should be grown in cities for sanitary reasons, and for the comfort of the people, and their demands for existence and healt ful growth should be respecte “One of the worst sins against nature is burning leaves about the roots of the trees. I never see it done that I don’t think swear words, and feel like saying them. iladciphia ha splendid streets, and her impervious sidewalks come right down to the curb, but it all means death to the trees, and an uninhabitable city in summer time. In a few years more her street trees will all be gone.”” a STAGE PEOPLE ON A LARK. Diszuined an Street Musicians, They Went About Singing for Pennies. Paris Letter to London Telegraph. A small band of musical artists—the part including three lacies and a composer, whose names are well known to the worlt hus instituted a singular tour of t They set out every mcrning with the in- tention of earning money by singing in the court yards of houses to which they are successful in obtaining admission. Por- ters at the gate, however, have stony hearts, and the average concierge, when he chooses to be nasty, is an up; indi- vidual and a petty tyrant on the slightest chance. “Is any one allowed to sing in your court, Mr. Porter?” is ihe opening question put by the advance agent of the concert pérty, and when the reply is in the affirmative some excellent vocal music is rendered, the singers putting up with the discomforts of having mats shaken in their faces and ignoring the rival performances of young ladies practicing scales at the Some singular experiences have rew these lovers of adventure. They wei ting one court yard, somewhat ered by a meager collection, when a young girl ran after them, and, addressing one of the party, said Mile. Eugenie Buffet?” the answer. cried the is i you “how so low? I am not siselle, but if I could onl: With some trouble it was exp! to the girl that the erUst was singing for charity and uot bec es sities. “Who is sh ber of the party. replied the singer. Some trouble to the musiciar ‘She was my maid caused by an irate concierge who indulged in the free us of expletives when the conee! r the particular benefit of a bevy When the porte: 0 his box and slammed its coor a practical joker turned the key spon him and The prisoner thereupon escaped the window, and raa for a man, with the resu!t that all the me: of the troupe w brought before the rate. At the police station the po ter was reprimanded for his want of pol ress, and the singers were dismissed, fi having obtained permission to troll a dit in the street. ‘ordingly the on duty in the station house w to enjoy a popular air or tw equivalent of “When the burglar ts burgling.” Apart altcgether from their re- ceptions at various newspaper offices, which have led to handsome donations, the five singers collected In one day 58 frances, at the rate of 11 francs apiece, and by the end of the week they will have rece waich they in- the poor and the victims of the Rue Rochechouart confia- gration. some hundreds of fr te —~+ e+ —____ BY A CABLE WHISKER. A Peculinr Accident to a Man Who Put His Foot in the Slot. From the Kansas City Times, Mr. Edward E. Nield, a bookkeeper for the Fowler Packing Company, net with a peculiar and painful accident whil2 coming home from work about 6 o’clock Monday night. Nield was coming to his home at 1511 Woodland avenue, and got off at the St. Louis avenue station of the elevated road to catch a 9th street car. A large crowd got off at the station to transfer, as is gen- erally the case at that time of the evening, and most of the passengers boarded the train nearest the north entrance, which had not yet been switched. Mr. Nield says that as every one started to get on the cars at once he thought he would wait until ihe train got cown to the further end of the depot before getting on, and as the train started down he followed, walking on the track in a rather fast walk, when suddenly his right foot went through the cable slot, and almost instantly he felt a sharp twinge in his foot. He made g great effort to get his foot out, but could not. The pain be- came Intense and he cried out, but he says the employes of the road, of whom there were several about, made no effort :o help him, Finally, almost fainting, he got his foot out. It had been in contact with the cable, and a straggling piece of wire stick- ing out from it, which street railway men call a “whiske a ed clear through the em- ployes did not even tak . but he vent home, assisted by another of Fowler's ployes. He was in great pain, but it was not until he got home that he di ered the full gravity of the injury. Dr. Iuen, the Metropolitan surgeon, was sent for ard dressed the wound. He found it necessary to make a hole through the foot in order to mash it out and to more ily get at the small pieces of iron and rust which had got into the foot. Dr. Iuen probed two hours before it was all out. There is some danger of blood poisonin. but with careful treatment Dr. Iuen think it can be avoided. Mr. Nield will be laid up for abcut six week: tee ‘The Common Verdict. From Pick Me Up. She—“I really don’t think I shall take part again in theatrica though I was making a fool of myself. He—"Oh, everybody thinks that. 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I wired Mr. Blaire at Augusta, and waited in vain for a reply. I then started for Maine, leaving word that were a reply to my dispatch re- ceived, it should be reforwarded to me. I stopped at Auburn, but no dispatch reached me there, Then I went to Augusta. 1 had never met Mr. Blaine, and I called with some forebodings, and sent up my card. Mr. Blaine received me cordiaily in_ his libvury and at once put me at ease. ‘Have you received a dispatch from me? I asked. ‘Very likely,” said Mr. Blaine, pointing io a big pile of unopened mail, ‘but you see it takes time t» get to the bottom of the pile. May I ask what your proposal is?” “Then I unfolded my plan. I said: “There’s no man in this country who could write so effective a biography of Mr. Garfield as you, Mr. Blaine—and that for obvious reasons. You have beer intimately associated with Garfield; he was shot down at your side; you can have access to original documents, no doubt. The book would be a great suc- cess. I believe our company could sell a million volumes.’ Then I outlined the royal- ty that I would be glad to pay, ‘which in my judgment,’ I said to Blaine, ‘would net you a quarter million dollars for writing the book. Blaine instantly replied: ‘L want every dollar of the profit from this book to 0 to Mollie Garfield. I should not accept a cent.’ “After further conference a dispatch was sent to Mrs. Garfield suggesting the plan. I went back to Norwich, but no word of reply was received from Mrs. Garfield. I got ready my prospectus, but of course could put out nothing until matters were settled with her. After waiting ull I was unable longer to delay, I went to Mentor, Ohio, where she at that time resided, and had an interview. The interview amazed Mrs. Garfield had intrusted the bio- eal issue to two or three friends, und she hesitated. I saw those friends, ard put the case to them. The objection raised was not that Mr. Blaine would not write a good biography, but that it was thought the con- templated work should not be written by a personal friend. You know the results. Bi- ographies of eld we got, but we lost Blaine’s Garfield. “You may be sure I went back to Nor- wich with a heavy heart,” continued Mr. Haskell. “5 it occurred to me that there was a work which Blaine might write even of more enduring worth. ‘Twenty Years in Congress’ were t words that rung in my ears. I again visited Blaine and proached the subject to him. He was not in the best of health, and he was yet immer: in poli- ties, and he hesitated. I vi: m re- peatedly, and he agreed to write the book, but he was not ready to sign the contra Finally I met him in New York. Gail Ham- ilton advised him to sign the contract hasten to the exec ¢ he obviously pos in experience and in he signed the contract—a s him: work in his library, but hefore he had it he had been app: publisher, who sa se if Jone by a New York : tever you are offered for writing “Twenty Years in Con- gress” we'll double the pri That tempt- ing and strange offer, however, did not in the least change Mr. Blaine’s determination » the publication of the book to the that i suggested it. “When me set at work, he exe- cuted rapidly a ue in the vein I had contemplated. He changed the title of the work from ‘Twenty Years in Congress,’ 3 ted, to ‘Twenty Years of 't of the book so far-as its rned, but intensified his per- so far as the freedom of the pen erned. there many changes in the proof it cost us almost as much to correct the proof as to set up the type in the first instance. The proof was changed a great a The w rful part of it is that the changes were largely verbal and for better expression. Blaine had the book in bis h-ad when he sat down to write it. He occasion- ally referred to other books, but the hook was in his own brain. Hence the rapidity of its production marvelous. is hed 400,000 volumes of Blaine’s s of Congress.’ It was a great seller. After the book had been out three months I got a dispatch from Blaine saying he needed some money. I sat down and sent him a check for $ W—the first item of our account! My relations with Mr. Blaine were delightful. I had hard work to get him started, but once started he hecame absorbed in the work in hand. I don’t know as 1 ever should have got the work s but for the impor secretary, John Sh in Bucksport, and ¢ Blaine’s natural r work and ¢: come. Blaine’s It er heroes are conc sonality an, my old sch ail Hamilton. etance to begin the st the die that had to be over- book AIL the World Must Now Go to Her for Its Supply of Camphor. From the Indian Agr list. One of the unconsidered trifles that the mikado has picked up as the result of the Chinese war is the monopoly of camphor. That drug is produced only in Japan and Fo-mosa, and, though a variety known as Borneo camphor ts obtained from Borneo and Sumatra, it cannot compete with the product of the ern Asiatic islands. apart from its many and varied therapeu- lic uses, is an essential ingredient in the composition of nearly all the new explo- sives, the demand for it is very large. The Japanese are well aware uable monopoly they have bl rather than sought, gun to limit the export } As a natural con drug has risen rapidly to an end, and bids Happily, the comme Japanese statesmen political i et, a abuse the monopoly h val- ered upon The ernment v finding of mone’ munitions of war which o in the ssession of the s ready won. Properly handled wisely administered, camphor should pro: uable source of revenue, and contrib- ute a ydsome quota toward the cost ‘| the military prepa: : the peace of the dragon kingdom, THE EVENING STAR has a Larger Circulation \ in the 5 Homes of Washington than all the Other Papers of the City Added Together, because it Stands Up Always for. the Interests of ALL THE PEOPLE of WASHINGTON; does not Strive to Divide the Community into Classes, and ; Array one class Against the - others; Contains the Latest and Fullest Local and General News; and Surpasses all the Other Papers in the City in the Variety and Excellence of its Literary Features. i | ee Literally Goes Everywhere, Advertising Medium, and is Read by Everybody. It is, therefore, as an without a Peer, Whether Cost or Measure of Publicity be Considered.