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-nized, seemed more wonderful than sash an ~~_——m. Barbara Bret.ton’s' CHAPTER II.—Continued. One lightning gleam of hatred flashed from the French, woman's eyes; the little, white teeth met upon the lip until they drew a drop of blood. But, at that moment, the call boy an- nounced Miss Bretton’s cue, and, stooping, she adjusted her train as she ‘swept from the room on to the stage. For a few moments the actress seemed oblivious of the audience on her part; then again her eyes flashed in the direction of the box, and again met the impassioned glance of Travis Meredith, who now was seated where he could devour her every movement. His cheeks were flushed as if with wine. He had forgotten time, scene, place, in the ungovernable emotion which had conquered him. No word escaped his lips until the play was ended; then he turned abruptly to his friend. “Take me to her—you have prom- ised!” he said. Milton Lennox smiled, drew a slip of paper from his pocket, and, writ- ing a few words upon it, dispatched a messenger with it behind the scenes. Presently the messenger returned. “Miss Bretton’s compliments, and she would be happy to have any friends of Mr. Lennox join her at sup- per.” “Will you go, Dick? It is unneces- sary to ask Travis.” For a moment the surgeon hesitated, then accepted, and in another half hour the carriage containing the three young men stopped at Barbara Bret- ton’s door. For full five minutes they awaited ther entrance in the pretty little parlor 4nto which they had been ushered, but of the countless articles of taste and rarity scattered about the apartment Travis took no heed. His eyes were fixed expectantly upon the door until they rested once more upon her beauty —a beauty which, thus closely scruti- when she stood upon the boards. She had barely time to bid them -welcome, in her own gracious manner —a manner to which was added the charm of modesty and refinement— ere supper was anaounced, and the doors thrown open leading to the din- ing room. A small table, glittering with silver and glass, was set for four. The host- -ess, taking her place at the head, mo- tioned young Meredith to her right *hand—the same hand which ever re- plenished his glass ere its comtents were half drained. But tonight it was not the wine which intoxicated him. A deeper thought had gone to his brain. He ate little or nothing, but he quenched his thirst with the sparkling liquid, and his passion with the light from her eyes. From across the table Doctor Hayes’ glance follawed every motion curious- ay; but of this Travis heeded nothing, until, as the clock upon the mantel ‘chimed one, his friends rose to their feet. He was the last to bid his host- -ess adieu. For a moment he was alone with her. “I may come again?” he questioned abruptly. She darted a seemingly surprised look into his eager face. “You wish it so much?” she replied “My life hangs on your answer.” She smiled. “It is a young life to condemn so -easily. I cannot be so cruel. Yes, Mr. Meredith, you may come.” For answer he raised her hand to his burning lips, pressed a kiss upon it, then, with a great wrench, tore him- self away. Alone, she fell back in an easy chatr, toying with her fan, a dark perplexed -expremsion crossing the beautiful face. “And has my power all gone?” she questioned. “He left me to-night with- -out so much as a pressure of the hand —he who but a short month ago lived “put in my smile. He will warn this *boy, too, of that dark spot in my past, which has arisen, like a ghost from “its grave ,to haunt me. I thought it “buried forever, and lo! when my hand ‘was outstretched to grasp at happi- “ness, its bony fingers shook it from my grasp. But you do not yet know, “Milton Lennox, the woman whose love -you have dared throw back at her very feet. You have some interest in this ‘boy. You watched him closely to- night. Ah, if he can but. feed my am- pition, through him I will be avenged.” Then, with a sudden thought, she touched the silver bell at her hand. In a moment a man noiselessly en- ‘tered and stood awaiting her com- mands. It was the valet who had waited on them at supper. “Feline,” began his mistress, “the gentleman who sat at my right to- night is a stranger. By to-morrow at this time let me be fully apprised of all concerning him, and see to it that there is no mistake! If, in the medn- +time, he calls, I am not at home.” The valet bowed and withdrew. Barbara rose, and, crossing the room, regarded herself long and earnestly in the mirror. ‘Thirty years!” she murmured at dast. Have they left their impress? ‘Even my maid dared taunt me _ to- and already a beauty. CHAPTER Ill. Impetuous Wooing. Alone in his apartments, Milfon Len- nox stood before the picture which, but a few short hours agone, ‘iad wrought such mischief. “Shall I warn him?” was the ques- tion which perplexed him; “or shall T let his passion run its course? He would not be so mad as to offer this woman his name! and yet—and yet, was I not guilty of just such madness until I learned the fatal truth regard- ing her? Truth? Rather should I say suspicion. If it were truth, I might tell him! As a suspicion, have I the right to blacken her fair fame? and would he believe me on what proofs I might offer? Yes, if neces- sary, I must tell him—must save him, at whatever cost!” Meantime, she whose lovely pic- tured face smiled down on him as though all unconsclous of the purport of his words, sat in her boudoir, with the bright noonday sun streaming in though defying even its rays to detect her thirty years. The robe of violet-colored cashmere the tiny cap, the exquisitely slippered foot, made a toilette worthy of a lov- | er’s admiration; but this morning Bar- bara Bretton had denied herself to all visitors. A score of cards already !ay | at her elbow, uppermost of which (and accompanied by a basket of choice flowers whose fragrance fflled the room) was that of Travis Mere- dith. “A good old name,” she murmured. “If—Ah, Feline!” looking up as the servant entered the room, “you are early. Is your report already made?” “IT found it no difficult matter, my lady. The young man is too well} known. He is not yet of age, and has | but just returned from a year’s tour abroad, after taking his degree here at college. He is the only son and heir of Henry Meredith, whose f )-) tune of several millions will be divid ed at death between this boy and h sister, a child of some fourteen years. A rumor exists that there is a hope the intimacy be- tween the families of Lennox and Meredith may be cemented by her be- trothal to young Milton Lennox, some half-playful ceremonial having taken place when she was in her cradio, though he is many years her senior. The mother has been long dead. mir. Meredith, Sr., is in Paris, where the daughter is being educated. Any fur- ther information, my lady?” “None; you may go.” While the man had been present, she had possessed her calmness, but | once the portiere had closed behind him, she started to her feet. “And it is this child who is to come between us, while I remain passive and resign my all—she, the sister of this man whom I must win! Little did I dream of the rich prize within my grasp. Several millions! What would be impossible for me, then? Hear me, all ye powers that be!” rais- ing aloft her arms. “Ere the sun sinks three times to his rest, I will register myself Travis Meredith’s wife! Then, Milton Lennox, I defy you!” A low murmur of admiration ran throught the crowded theater as Bar- bara Bretton, a few hours later entered in her assumed role. x Never had she looked more radiant. One lightning glance she darted into the box where to-night young Mere- dith sat alone. Was it his fancy that look betrayed the hope that she might find him there? He sat as ina dream. At the close of the third act a page brought him a note. It ran: “I am alone to-night. Will you not sup with me? My carriage will await us.” Had it been a summons from the angels it could have afforded him no greater bliss. He wrote back an im- passioned and grateful assent, then waited as paitently as he might for the curtain to fall. All day he had been in a feverish dream. His refusal of admittance at Barbara’s door had driven him to frenzy, her face had haunted him; and now for one, perhaps’ two hours, he was to live in her smile. What wonder that he betrayed something of this as for an instant he held her hand within his own? This time they were alone in the softly- lighted room Even the valet had withdrawn. Again she plied his glass with sparkling Moselle, again her eyes lured him. “You denied me this morning. Cruel!” he said. “I dared not see you!” she answered. “Dared not? Such words sound strangely from your lips. I can imag- ine nothing you would not do or dare.” “Ah, Iam not so bold as you deem me! I had seen you but a few short hours, and yet—must I confess :t?—I could not forget you. You were a stranger. I knew nothing beyond your name. I fancied your friend, Mr. Len- nox, looked upon me with coldness. I did not know but perhaps he might might! Can she suspect? or were her ~words but a blind to hide another se- «eret her preying eyes may have dis- eovered? Truth, hope, love, have gone. Now naught: is left me but ambition and revenge!” DEFECTIVE PAGE have poisoned your mind against me; and I know not why—it was of course weakness and folly,” a suspicion of tears shimmering in the violet eyes— “the thought brought a sadness I could scarce understand. I determin- ed to see no more, until to-night I met your reproachful glance, and my resolution faltered. In a moment of impulse I wrote you'the note bidding you ‘come here. Already I repent!” “Repent?” he cried, springing to. his feet and crossing to her side. “Miss Bretton—Barbara—never again use a word so foreign to your nature. Lis- ten! Erel ever looked upon your face, I said, gazing upon its pictured sem- blance, that I would stake my life upon its purity. In my heart I vowed to know you, win you. You say you know of me nothing but my name! Let me tell you more. I am the last representative of a noble race—I can give you a kingdom worthy of my queen, with no more loyal subject than myself. My name is unsullied, Miss Bretton. Will you accept it?” One instant’s glance of triumph flashed in the azure-tinted eyes, then the long lashes veiled them, as the beautiful head drooped low. “How can I answer you? You offer me an old and noble name? Can I, think you, accept it? You open to me the gates of heaven, and with my own hands I must close them against my- self. For in return for all this, what have I to give you in exchange? What has my life been? Men’s ad- miration or insult, as it pleased them; a serpent lurking in every flower, a sting in every honeyed word. What would your friends, your father say?” “My father would, perhaps at first rebel, until once he saw the woman of my choice, then I fear not his ver- dict. As for my friends, envy only could dictate malice, atid such I would treat it as it deserved. But, dearest, we Lave not to deal with these. I will write my father, wil get his consent at once; until then, you must forego your engagement. To see your loveli- ness, now, a feast for the eyes of other men, would be too cruel. My own, my darling, give me the right to shield it, to protect it as it deserves—aye, at the c f my life!” The valrous words of the young heart thrilled the woman like memory of some forgotten dream. For a mom- ent something like remorse awakenei within her, as she thought how differ- ent life might have been, had such been uttered long years before. Then the dazzling alluring present rose once more before her, and she gently laid her hand in his. “Give me until to-morrow to think of this. It is for your sake I ask de- lay. rather than for mine.” “Tell me I may hope—tell me my passicn heg awakened some re- sponse?” A moment’s pause, then slowly the long lashes lifted, the red lips quiv- ered, the bosom heaved, the eyes meli- ed iv the fullness of their glance. If this were acting, richly did the actress deserve her nighgly plaudits. “Can you doubt it?” The low rich, musical voice quiv- ercd. “Then you are mine—mine only, mine alone.” And drawing her to him, close to kis beating heart, he rained hot, burn- ing kisses upen check, lip and brow. With a tremulous sigh she disen- gaged herself from his embrace. AS if with a mighty effort she rose to her feet, supporting herself on the arm of her chair. - “Mr. Meredith,” she said, with dig- nity, “this must not be! I canrgt bear it. Go to your friend, Milton Lennox, and ask him of my past. Then come to me, if you still care to come, and I will give you my answer.” From under her long lashes she watched the effect of her words. She understood but too well the character of the man who stood beside her. “Go to Milton Lennox to question him concerning the past of the woman I would make my wife? I would hurl pack the first lying word he might dare utter down his throat! Barbara, a truce to this. In the first moment my eyes met yours my fate was sealed. My darling, do not keep me longer in this torturing suspense.” (To Be Continued.) ae Saved by Bad Grammar. Oliver Sumner Teale has a friend ot impressionable age who recently at- tended a child’s party principally ve cause the child’s inamorata was to 06 among the grown-ups present. As the story goes the smitten ones took occa- sion to slip off to a quiet spot for a little quiet conversation. There were plenty of other adults to watch the In- fantile revelers, and the desertion was not noticed except by the niece of the young lady who was abandoning duty for pleasure. The tiny maiden saw her aunt and her escort settling them- selves in a cozy corner, and reached it at a critical moment, so critical, that every one in the place was startled by a piping voice, exclaiming: “Kiss me, too, aunty!” But aunty was equal to the occasion. Before the knowing smiles had time t> vanish from the faces of those in the secret she was heard replying, calmly, but reproachfully: “Certainly I will. ly you speak, Mamie! ‘Kiss me two;’ say ‘Kiss me twice. Philadelphia Public Ledger. But how careless- Do not say 0, Not Too Healthy. Shopkeepers in old Greenwich vil- lage have a quaint way of taking their customers into their confidence tn the signs they put in their windows. On the window of a little cook-shop in that region is inscribed in green paint the following legend: “Good things to eat; healthy; but not too all fired healthy.” Advantage of Riches. Physician—The truth can no longer be hidden, madam. I am obliged to tell you that your little son is —er— weak-minded; that is—well, it must be said—he is an idiot. “Mandy, whar’s Innocence Jinkins?” “No one will ever notice it.”—New York Weekly. A Trackless Trofley Car. Probably not half as much objection has been raised to the setting of poles to support the trolley wires as to the laying of tracks over which the cars are to run, farmers especially seem- ing to have a grudge against the tear- ing up of the roads for this purpose. Now a Boston man has come to the conclusion that if he can get the right of way to set the poles over which to transmit the electric current he can manage to do without the rails; in fact, he will put a motor on any old wagon and turn the horses out to grass or ship him abroad to be eaten. One use of the rails in a trolley system is Car Travels Over Ordinary Road. to convey the return current, after it leaves the motors of the car, but by using a double wire the inventor does away with this need for the rails, drawing the power from one wire and returning it through the other after it has served its purpose on his wagon or car. The usual trolley pole supports the contact devices, which in this case comprise a pair of wheels mounted on a lazy-tongs mechanism, with a spring to maintain the pressure on both wires. It is an easy thing to provide for the steering of the ve hicle, and with good roads what is to hinder the farmer from coming to town by trolley with his load of pro- duce, instead of making his team haul the heavy load? New Penmanship Chart. It is universally conceded that the small letters, w, m, n, x, V, i, u, ¢, e, o and a, should all be of the same height for the base line, and serve as a unit of measure in forming the other letters of the alphabet, which extend two or more units above or below the base line. In what is called “slant writing” there are in the perfect copy but two angles, which, with their modifications, form the basis of all small letters, the main slant, which lies at about fifty degrees, and the connective slant, at about twenty-five degrees from the base line. Taking ‘advantage of eee E FETA AL EEA A PE LILIA these principles, the inventor has formed a chart which not only has the horizontal lines usualy found in copy books, but has, in addition, a set of oblique lines placed at such an angle that the curved lines of the let- ters will extend irom the crossing point of the horizontal and oblique lines to the crossing above or below. The student soon learns the correct movement of the pen to form ac- curate curves, both ascending and descending, as his pen must start at a certain point and end at a second point, either above or below, follow- ing the general angle of the oblique line which connects the same points. For vertical writing the guide lines are drawn vertically instead of slant- ing, but the principle remains the same as in oblique writing. Future of the Yukon Country. The agricultural possibilities of Alaska are pointed out by F. T. Con- don, the new Canadian Yukon com- missioner, who states that when the moss is removed from the soil that it is found to be very fertile. He is reported as saying: “I want to im- press upon the public mind that the future of the Yukon does not depend upon minerals of any kind. The dis- trict is destined to be one of the greatest agricultural spots in the world.” New Electrical Radiator. A new electrical radiator, intended to supersede the steam heater, is formed by enameled iron plates, the space between being filled with pow- dered carbon, kept in position by asbestos cardboard: Into this radia- tor are led three copper strips, one at each end and one in the center, and a continuous current of electric- ity is passed from the center to the end strips. With current of eight amperes, at 200 volts, a heating sur- face of twenty-five square feet can be kept at a temperature of 190 degrees Fahrenheit. Commercial Sales of Liquid Air. Liquid air is delivered in Berlin, two titers (0.528 gallon) at a time for about 35 cents. In a recent issue of Energie, of that city, it is stated that the receptacles are made of glass with double walls, the space between the walls being filled with an insulating material, the walls being silvered to Prevent radiation of heat, and the whole enveloped in an insulating ma- terial. They retain their temperature for fourteen days. Several drops in a glass of water produce freezing, and it is intended for such uses as refresh- | ing drinks and improving the condi- tion of the air in sick rooms. Safety Brooch Fastening. A little study of the “Lost and Found” columns of the daily papers will show that one of the articles most likely to turn up missing is the brooch, and for every one advertised as lost there are probably many more which receive no public notice. The most probable cause for these losses is the liability of the end of 4 Mrs. Laura L. Barnes, Wash- | ington, D.C., Ladies Auxiliary to | Burnside’ Post, No. 4, G. A. R., | recommends Lydia E. Pinkham’s | Vegetable Compound. | * In diseases that come to womenonly, | as a rule, the doctor is called in, some- | times several doctors, but still matters go from bad to worse; but I have never known of a ease of female weak- | mess which was net helped when | Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable | Compound was used faithfully. For the pin to become unfastened, when | young women who are subject to the brooch can work loose and fall | headaches, backaehe, irregular or pain- out without the wearer being aware | of the fact, unless some one chances | to call attention to it. companying illustrations we show a device which has been invented to prevent the end of the pin from com- ing loose. One drawing shows the the descending pin; another shows the pin in place and securely fasten- ed by the hook closing over it, while the third indicates the position of the | In the ac-| of advanced years in the most trying ‘ul periods, and nervous attacks due to the severe strain on the system by | some organie trouble, and for women time of life, it serves. to correct every trouble and restore a healthy action of | all organs of the body. | “Lydia E.Pinkham’sVegetable Compound is a household reliance in my home, and I would not be with- out it. In all my experience with this medicine, which covers. years, I have found nothing to equal it and al- fastener in place on the brooch. The | ways recommend it.”—Mrs. Laura L. pin is so mounted that it has a con: | stant tendency to spring open, and is | thus pulling on the under side of! the hook member, and the latter, be: | ing under this tension, has no oppor. tunity to fall back and release the pin. Self-Closing Guard Holds the Pin. must be depressed and the hook member pulled open by the finger. while to close it the pin has only tc be pressed in the slot, as the guard | is automatically thrown over the pir by the pressure. Origin of Petroleum. E. Coste, the president of the Cana dian Mining Institute, recently read an interesting paper before that body. setting forth his reasons for believ- ing that petroleum deposits of the world are of volcanic origin, says the New York Commercial Advertiser. He | | When Lafayette visited Bangs, 607 Second St., N. E., Wash- ington, D. €.— $5000 forfeit if ortginat of above letter proving genuineness cannot be produced. Such testimony should be ac- cepted by all women as convinc- ling evidence that Lydia E. | Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound To remove the brooch the piv | stands without a peer as a rem- | edy for all the distressing ills of | women. TOAST OF JOHN ADAMS. Inspiration for a Charming Sentiment Found in a Picture. London county he was entertained with other | eminent guests by President Monroe | at Oak Hill. Leesburg, too, the his- torie town nine miles from Monroe's | country seat, accorded him honors on that oecasion, and at a dinner at that town John Quincy Adams delivered a | famous toast to the surviving patriots of the Revolution, who, he said, were like the Sybilline leaves—the fewer they became the more precious they were, On the return to Oal: Hill, another | of Monroe’s guests said to Mr. Adams: “Excuse the impertinence, but would you not tell me what inspired the beau- | tiful sentiment of your toast to-day?” “Why,” replied Mr. Adams, “it was suggested this morning by the picture of the Sybil that hangs in the hall of the Oak Hilt mansion.” “How strange,” remarked the less brilliant guest. “I have looked at that picture many times during the past years, and that thought never oceusred points out a number of facts which | to me.”—Leslie’s Monthly. | render the theory at present generally | held by geologists—that it has arisen | directly from the decomposition of | organic remains, animal and vegetable | —untenable. He calls attention to the | fact that no such process is at present | under way; that all organic decompo- sition of animal material is so rapid and complete that there is no oppor tunity for the entombment of anything | but bones in sedimentary rocks; that as the cil deposits of the lower Si lurian limestone of Ohio and of other fields are below the carboniferous| beds, and as it is generally admitted by geologists that previous to the lat: A Maryland Wonder. Upper Cross Roads, Md., June T5th. —Never im the history of medicine in this state has anything ereated such a sensation by its marvelous cures of the most extreme cases as Dodd’s Kidney Pills. This wonderful medicine seems to know no limit to its wonder working power. Long - standing cases that have defied the most expert medical treatment seem to yield easily to this new conqueror of disease. Hundreds have testified to the vir- tue of Dodd’s Kidney Pills. They tell ter age there was very little vegetable | of severe cases of Rheumatism, Lum- life on the earth, these enormous de-| bago, Backache, Female Trouble, Ner- posits could not have arisen from or- ganic remains, because there were vous Diseases and even Dropsy, Dia- betes and Bright’s Disease cured by few organisms at that time, and, final-| this medicine. ly, that if petroleum was due to the destructive distillation of coal, there would now be no coal beds, all having long ago been transformed into pe | troleum and a cokelike residue. Rapid Field Analyses of Water. Under a system perfected by the officers of the Hydrographic Division | of the United States Geological Sur. | vey a rapid analysis of water can be made, the object being to make a number of approximate determina- tions, sufficiently accurate for practi-} cal purposes, rather than a few very | complete determinations. A _ special | equipment has been designed which | will be issued shortly, and can be} carried without inconvenience by the men engaged in the held work of in-| vestigating quality of water. The| railway companies and railway chem- ists are interested in the matter, as Among those who have been bene- fited may be mentioned Mrs. John Cooney of this place. Mrs. Cooney says: | “I believe Dodd’s Kidney Pills the best remedy ever known for Kidney Trouble and weak back. “They are without exception the best medicine I have ever used. “I will always praise them high!y, for I know that they are good.” Mrs. Cooney is only one of many who say of Dodd’s Kidney Pills: “The most wonderful remedy we ever heard of.” Willing to Do It, Anyhow. Host (pairing off his guests)—Mr, Makinbrakes, you will please take Miss | Gumwell out to dinner. Mr. Makinbrakes—Certainly. But, great Scott, where? Don’t you have dinner here in the house?—Chicago by the new system as many as sixty | determinations of sulphate in water | can be made in one day, thus greatly | facilitating the work of investigating | the quality of boiler waters. | Disposal .of Smoke. At a recent congress of the Sani | tary institute, held in Manchester, England, W. N. Shaw discussed the question of smoke abatement. He drew an interesting parallel between the treatment of smoke and the dis- posal of sewage, and stated that in London nearly a million tons of sew- age were removed day by day from about 600,000 houses, averaging about a ton and one-half for each house. At the same time, each day in winter each house.throws into the atmosphere on the average, perhaps, ten tons of smoke laden air, or a total of 5,000,- 000 tons of smoke laden air for the inhabited houses of London per day. That was his estimate of the amount of refuse which is thrown into the London atmosphere. Tripune. Do Your Feet Ache and Burn? Shake into your shoes, Allen’s Foot- “fase, a powder for the feet. It makes tight or New Shoes feel Easy. Cures | Swollen, Hot, Sweating Feet, Corns ' and Bunions. Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE, a w At all Druggists and Address Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y." ep hh ES Cause of the Mirth. “Bridget,” said Mrs. Hyflyte, “your lady friend musn’t stay so late here- after. Her uproarious laughter woke me up at 1 o’clock this morning.” “Yis mum; I was tellin’ her about you tried to make a cake wan day,”—. Indianapolis Sun. — Worst Ever. “Hear about, the terrible affliction that befell our friend Blank — last night?” asked Enpeck, as he boarded a downtown car. “No,” said Meeker. “What was it?” “My wife eloped with him,” replica Enpeck, with a-suppressed chuckle, — Chicago News, ‘2 : sitogan —+t >. XG _——e t +8 a ! | =e j}— = | | teal aan | 4 | | Ae ' { 4 t { j | | i \ i — iy . { iA ! ian —_