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i _ rising, approached Travis, laying one ~me it has hot gone quite So far as that. CHAPTER VII.—Continued. “Tell me, ‘then, that I may prove them false—nay, show you how you wrong her!” exclaimed Meredith, re- suming his seat, and refolding his arms across his breast. “Six months ago i,entered my box at the theater. It was the first night of Barbara Bretton’s engagement. Some of the fame of her beauty had preceded her, but as my eyes fell on her that night all praise paled in the reality. Night after night I feasted on her loveliness. Each night some out- ward evidence of homage fell at her feet. Weeks passed before I could obtain an introduction to her. I sought it in vain. At last she granted my re- quest, and permitted me to be brought into her presence. From that hour I thought I loved her. She fascinated me as no other woman had ever done. I was even mad enough to dream of asking her to become my wife—I, who all my life had put the child for wnom I was waiting before all other women: Then—how, it matters not—was taid before me the story of her past. And such a past! I shrink back horrified, appalled! Travis, will you force me into telling more! Will you not spare me and yourself? You will forget tiis siren when the ocean rolls between you.” “Speak on! Iam waiting!” Travis answered sternly. “As you will, then. Listen! At sixteen Barbara Bretton left her quiet country home in England, stealing from the old farm house in the night. At the same time there disappeared from the neighborhood a young mao who had been spending there in idle- ness the summer months. “Doubtless her beauty had attracted him and he had found her a too easy victim to his wily tongue. The sequel of their sudden flight was but too plain. They had gone together. This was proven later by the fact that they had been seen together in Paris, she calling herself his wife. “Her mother, bowed with shame, sank into the grave. Her father cursed her and swore that, though she starved at his very doors, they should not open to receive her. Months passed on. her child was born. She concealed the fact from every one until, when it was three months old, she deter mined to make the stage her profes- sion—to leave her native land aud come here where she was unknowz. “To do this she must bury every trace of the past. The young man had long deserted her—was soon to he married to another, a woman io his | own rank of life. The child! This was the stumbling block. “With such a woman there cogil he ! no hesitation. With her own hands she administered a drug to the sieep- ing babe, then, at night, carried it to die on the steps of ‘La Madelaine,” fan- eying her secret secure. The chi was found—dead. Inquiry was It was traced to her door. She wa: rested. Witnesses were found proved that she had purchased ti poison; others who had scen ber steal from the house with the infant in her erms. “Fortunately for her no trace of| poison was found in the child’s stom- | ach, amd the verdict rendered was); death from exposure; so she escaped the felon’s cell. Since then her life has been without hope as without re- morse—ambition and greed her gods Many a man has gone from her ‘fatal loveliness to send a bullet through tis brain, anid shé has read his death sen- tence with'a laugh—aye, as she would | read mine or yours! “Travis, my eyes were opened in time to the abyss on, whose flower- strewn brink I stood. From such a fate I would saye you. What have you to say now?” “To say? To such calumny there can be but one answer, come it from | friend or foe!” shouted Travis, is voice hoarse with passion, springing to his feet. and darting forward one swift blow. “But ere it descended Milton Len- nox caught and held the uplifted arm in his own strong grasp, while the two men, each white as marble, looked un- flinchingly into each other's eyes. CHAPTER VIII. The Struggle. ‘Thus»sixty seconds dragged their slow length along, the hard, labored breathing of each the only sound to “break ‘the death-like and, oppressive stillness. “Do you know of whom you speak?” burst at last, in harsh, changed tones, from the lips of the younger man, ais face livid and transformed with pas- sion. “That woman is my wife! Dare to repeat your fcul assertions, and, though I swung for it to-morrow, your life should answer to me for them.” With one deep groan Lennox re- Jeased his hold as he sank back into his chair and buried his face in his hands. Then, witha mighty effort, he regained his self-control, and, slowly hand almost tenderly on the young man’s shoulder: z “Unsay those words, my boy. Tell To have thus’ marred your life would be a weight-stone about all my future ' And now, sir, since the'mask of friend- years.” < “Impatiently Travis shook off his ouch, and said: “Enough! I care to hear no more, Miss Bretton, as she is'still known to the world, is my honored wife. You have enforced the sharing of our se- cret, but all honor compels that it should be no less sternly respected. ship has fallen from both our faces, I have the honor to bid you good even: ing.” “Not yet, Travis! There is a harder duty yet in store for me. What I know you must know, and you shall then decide whether I malign her. It is too late to repair the evil, thouga God knows I would gladly lay down ten years of my life to undo my share in this night’s work. With what can- dor has this yoman treated you? ilave you heard the story of her life? Do you know that she has not only been a wife and.a mother, but the murdress of her child?” “You lie!” Like a tiger at bay Lennox sprang forward, but his uplifted arm dropped nerveless, while on his livid lips trem- bled a drop of scarlet as he went on: “You know me too well to deem me a coward for not resenting those words, which, under any other provo- cation, would at least be challenged to eternal silence. Would to God that they weretrue—that it was a lie! Do you think I would speak thus, at such a time, without other proof than idie hearsay? Do you think it a pleasant task which I have appointed myself, or have.you known. me all these years as a slanderer and maligner of wom- an’s fair fame? You once laughingly accused me of dreading the fire as a burned child, and I acknowledged the truth of your assertion. The flame of Barbara Bretton’s beauty did not leave me unscorched. There were weeks when all my waking moments were filled with her image—she haunted my dreams—when to be with her was to taste of heaven and its joys. I loved her not with the pure love I have ever felt for Avice, which has stood a bar- rier between me and sin these many years, but with a mad fascination which swept away even the memory of the child whom heretofore I had held enshrined in my very heart. She intoxicated and enthralled. me, until T learned the awful blackness of a heart of which her beauty was the mask. You do not yet believe me; your lip curls in scorn. It is, perhaps, revenge I seek for my own blighted affection. No, Travis, I had reason to believe my love was returned; but read this, and perhaps then you will turn shudder- ingly away from the whited sepuichre which has entombed you.” It was a Parisian journal, dated back many years, and heading one of its columns, in flaring letters, was Bar- bara Bretton’s name. When Travis raised his head from its perusal, a gray shadow, as of death, had crossed its bright, boyish beauty, as he staggered to his feet and fell on his friend’s shoulder. “Merciful God!” he groaned. “Mil- ton, how long have you known this thing?” “fT had long suspected it, from ru- mors which were afloat and ‘which reached n:y ears, but which as rumors | I dared not repeat even to you. I was! warned on the eve of offering her ry name. To dare insult her by any prop- | osition less honoring never ounce crossed my mind. I held her but a iit- tle lower than the angels, and I had reason to believe that my love met with its return; but the friend who ‘came to me opened my eyes to tie flower-strewn abyss upon whose brink I stood. Only to-day this paper) reached me, by whom sent I know not, but giving confirmation as clear as Holy Writ to the story. Married for gold, deserted, forsaken; in turn de- serting and forsaking her child. The} notoriety of her careef since then, her success upon the stage, to which she turned for support, the many men whose young lives she has doomed— Oh, Travis, that ycur name should have been added to the fatal list!” “It cannot»be; it is some foul night- mare from which. I shall awake.( Milton, my father and sister must nev- er know of this. Take her this paper; tell her I know all, and only on con-} dition that she never make public her | claim to my honored name will we keep her secret. My life is blasted, yet this hour, this moment, should she enter here, I could not resist her. Yet now I see it all—the tool, the dupe, which I have been. Miserable fool! unhappy wretch! Tell her she will find each year a certain sum at my banker’s for her support, but that 1 will never look updn her fair, false face again. How shall I look into my father’s eyes, or receive his dying blessing, should he live to grant it, knowing I have brought dishonor on his heretofore unblemished name?” and Travis ended in a burst of bitter sobs. “Come, youngster, time is speed- ing!” interrupted Lennox, a half hour later, as, after long and earnest con- verse, they began their hasty prepara- tions for Meredith’s departure, “For- get her if you can, my boy, and re- member your. name is as sacred to me for Avice’s sake as your own. Teil Avice I-am. coming over .when she writes me,.but on her_ eighteenth birthday, whether I have received that summons ‘or not, she will see me and I will receive from her lips the breaking or renewal of her childhood’s pledge— co and Avice happy together » like/tearing cpen a wound scarcely healed. I. will get over it in time, maybe; but not yet—not yet. .My judgment sanctions all you say—all the proof this paper so artfully wee.ves together and piles mountain high upon that beautiful head—-but my heart re fuses to confirm it. Had she thrown herself at my feet to-night and told me even this, I should have raised her in my arms and kissed away her tears. But she never loved me; she won me with a lie!” “And a lie, Travis, is her life. It shall be as you say, my boy. But why not dissolve this mockery of a mar riage? The courts would not hesitate a moment in giving you back your freedom.” “That may be, but it entails public- ity, and at any cost my father and Avice must be kept in ignorance. Na Milton, my life is wrecked. It ra mains only for me-to bury with it the love that even the last hour has not killed,” A knock at the door announced that the carriage was waiting, and, with one last look at the scene of his mis- ery, Travis followed his friend from the room. As they reached the pier, where the vessel lay at anchor, a woman, closely veiled, stepped in their path. Both started. One image was up- permost in both minds, but, throwing back her veil, the image of Marie, Miss Bretton’s maid, were disclosed. “My mistress desires me to hand you this, monsieur,” she said, address- ing the younger man, and holding out an envelope, on which was inscribed his name. Travis made a gesture, as though declining to receive it, but a a warn-/| ing glance from Lennox, silently ac- cepted it. The woman’s eagle eye flashed tri- umph at both glance and gesture, and when Mr. Lennox returned to her side, as the vessel steamed down the har- bor, with that white, young face, on which misery ‘had set its seal, turned wistfully to the shore of the city, he little dreamed he was aiding in the first chapter of a woman’s revenge. “Tell Miss Bretton I will call upon her at 12 o’clock to-day, and desire that we may have audience alone.” “TI will do so, monsieur” she an- swered demurely, but, as she turned to leave the pier with rapid steps, her thin lips, moved, as these words trem- bled on the chill morning air: “At last, madam, at last! The shaft I sent sped to its mark! The printed history of your crime, with some few embel- lishments, has done its work, ‘and I--” her voice suddenly softening. “Pierre! Pierre! Your Marie will yet redeem her vow, consecrated to the life she blasted!” (To Be Continued.) jis idl aes ta aaa NO DANGER THERE. South American Revolution Had No Terrors for This Woman. During a little flurry in the senate over an appointment some New York: ers approached Senator Depew and in- quired whether there was anything se- rious in it. “Hardly,” replied the senator. “It makes me think of an old woman who had a son in the railroad business. He left New York without Jetting her know and disappeared entirely. She was so very fond of him that she called every day to find out about him. Finally it aroused our sympathy and we traced him to South America, and found he had enlisted in a regiment and was taking part in a revolution. “*So he’s in a South Ameriky revo- Intion, is he? Thank God for that! 1 thought he might be rushing into some danger!’ "—New York Press. Sap ee ee) Prince Sapieke’s Story. Prince Sapieke, who has been the social lion of Lakewood, is very apt with repartee. In discussing the im- perialistic attitude of the United States he told this story? . “The saving of the Filipinos from governing themselves and giving them liberty through the use of maxims re- minds me of a missionary in India. It was during the famine season. One of the government officials called upon him. “Brother, he said, ‘I understand your people are not nursing the dying natives as much as they might. Didn't you come here to save souls?’ “Yes, brother,’ was the reply, ‘but it isn’t much use to begin when they are almost in transit!" ”—Philadelphia Ledger. bleach EL nln “All Round Crowns.” Mrs. Schwab is said to have bopught in Paris an “all round crown” of, pre cious stones, set after the fashion of royalty’s crowns. The price of a sim- ple “all round crown” is not less than $150,000, and the duty is no small item. The Schwab crown is set with great emeralds. It is a six-pronged affair, and cach prong is tipped with a ¢ia- mond of good size. Baronness von Meyer of London has the finest jew- eled crown outside of royalty, The groundwork is massive and pear- shaped pearls form the prongs. The crown has a cap within, composed of white velvet. Because she wears it, the baroness is criticised. It is said she apes nobility, and, not being a peeress, is not entitled to her cap and gown.—New York Press. “Yes, I explained the whole theory of the new discovery to my wife.” “And what did she say?” “She said, ‘George, can you remem: ber whom the Sourfield girl married? T’ve been trying all dav to think of his An English Carpet Cleaner. Years ago the housekeeper was con- tent to sweep the carpet with a broom, but with the invention of the carpet sweeper it was dicovered that hand- ling the broom was unhealthy, both for the woman who wielded it and for the unlucky individual who happened to be within reach when her ire was aroused. Soon it was found that the handle of the carpet sweeper could be unscrewed, and so man in his despair has cast about for another device Electricity Rotates the Brushes. which would clean the carpets with- out endangering his health. Hence the electric sweeper. This machine comes from England, and seems to be es- pecially designed for use in Jarge halis and public rooms having such great floor space as to make cleaning them even with the hand operated sweepers a laborious task. In this apparatus a small motor is mounted on the frame, with belting connecting the |shafting with two rotary brushes, | which are rapidly revolved as the sweeper is drawn over the floor. To of the sweeper at its lower edge, with a flexible edge piece bearing against the carpet on all sides. The inventor of this» apparatus is Frank J. Farrell, of London, England. A Wonderful Rule. H. M. Jones, an architect of this city, has produced a remarkable in- vention in the shape of a mechanic’s pocket measuring rule, on which he has been studying for several years. He has taken a cheap, common rule, and, without increasing or diminishing its original size, weight, appearance or original usefulness or convenience, has produced a rule that will give the length and levels of the ends of all kinds of braces or rafters. It will square off a board or square and lay out a cellar, make an octagon or square mitre. It will tell the height of any building or elevation, the depth of any valley or chasm, the width of any street or stream, or both. An- chor a boat in the middle of a river, and the rule will tell how far it is from the shore; a roofer can tell the dimensions of any roof while standing on the ground; it will measure any- thing in sight, whether in reach or not; it will give the length of any straight or slanting line, it solves all the problems in geometry and trigon- ometry the mechanic is ever called upon to solve. The improvement can be attached.to all kinds of rules in use, whether of the French or English systems, and ‘to a new rule while making. One cent per rule will pay the cost of the improvements; to a tule already made it will cost two cents a rule—Meridian Journal. A New Percolating Coffee Pot. Wiile the coffee pot which makes the beverage by percolating hot water through the finely ground coffee is finding great favor, there is some com- plaint that one infusion does not make the drink strong enough. necessitating the pouring of the coffee from the pot and passing it again through the Pumps Water Over the Ground Coffee. grounds. The occompany illustration shows a coffee pot recently designed by a Massachusetts inventor, with the idea of removing the necessity for pouring the liquid from the pot pre- paratory to passing it through the percolator the second time. Instead of pouring the hot water directly on the ground coffee in the percolator, the bottom portion of the pot is filled with the required quantity of water previous to inserting the percolator. In the center of the latter and extend- ing down to the bottom of the pot will be seen a cylinder containing a piston, and by raising and lowering this piston the water is pumped from the pot to the top of the cylinder, fall- ‘ng thence on the coffee and perco- ‘ating through into the lower chamber ,gain. When the liquid has gained ne desired strength the percolator nd pump can be removed and the lear coffee is then ready for serving. Pressure Test of Smail Tubes. An experiment tried by an English naval engineer to test the strength of the small tubes in water tube boilers showed that they resisted the pressure effectually prevent the spread of dust ! an auxiliary frame surrounds the body | far beyond any that they could be sub jected: to-in actual-use, A copper tube of one inch outside diameter was plug- ged on both ends and a gauge fastened She dwelt among the untrodden ways on. It was set over a blacksmith’s forge and steam raised to 2,000 pounds) per square inch, when it burst, This tube was 0.07 inch thick, the tensile stren; of the mete] being only six and @ half tons per square inch, A steel tube of’one and a quarter inches diameter coiled into a circle of six inches diameter and 0.704 inch thick stood 4788 pounds per square inch be- fore bursting. Through defects in the material they sometimes give way at 300 pounds per square inch.—Iron Age. New Safety Lamp. At a recent meeting of the Academy of Sciences of Vienna, Prof. Molisch of Prague communicated a paper upon phosphorescent bacteria. He has been able to photograph the colonies of a phosprorescent micrococcus by means of its own light. By inoculating large glass flasks of half-litre capacity con- taining a suitable culture medium with the organisms, a “bacterial lamp” is obtained with which it is quite pos- sible for an observer at a distance of one or two metres to read a_ thor- mometer or to see the time of a watch. On a dark night the “bacterial lamp” is visible at a distance of more than sixty paces. Improved Stock Waterer. No matter how pure a source of sup- ply may be at hand for watering stock, if it is pumped into an open trough and left exposed for any length of time it soon becomes polluted and un- fit for the animals to drink. This will not be the case, acccording to the inventor, if the stock watering ap- paratus here shown is put into use. It pure water is furnished to the tank or barrel to which this fountain is attached, it is claimed that there is no way by which the animal that is drinking can make it foul. The waterer consists of a double drinking it aN Animals ‘Cannot Befoul the Supply. bowl, made of cast iron, which is at- tached to the outside of a tank or barrel. On the inside is another cham- ber, inclosed in which is a brass float and lever, controlling the flow of‘water to the outside bowl. The fountain is automatic in its action, as the float rises with the water in the bow! and cuts. off. the supply when the proper height has been reached. As the valve is always closed, except when water is flowing from the tank to the drink- ing bowl, there is no opportunity for foreign matter to find its way to the interior of the storage reservoir. Locomotive Fuel. Inventions, new uses and adaptations are the results of the wants and neéces- sities of the time. The adoption of fuel ofl on the locomotives employed on the railroads traversing the interior valleys of some sections of the West has removed one of the chief sources of danger from fire in the ripening grain fields. Locomotives using it do not emit any sparks or eject red-hot cinders to ignite the withered grass along the right of way or the parched grain in the neighboring fields. Hence- forth grain field fires will probably pass out of the future history of the wheat-growing valleys; the railroad claim agent’s occupation will practi- cally disappear, a big leak in the cor- poration’s treasury will drop to corre- spond with the diminished risk the use of fuel oil on locomotives has caused. We believe that fuel oils is destined to play no small part in the economics of the future.—Epworth Herald. Waste Available for Fuel. Commissioner John McGaw Wood- bury, of the Street Cleaning Depart- ment, New York City, has received the reports of experts as to the experi- ments made in the use of street and store sweepings as fuel. He has cal- culated that there would be 800,000 cubic yards a year which could be utilized by the new process in the making of briquettes for fuel. With this fuel it was estimated that power enough to light 7,272 lamps of 2,000 candle power each for a year could be obtained. Commissioner Woodbury will sell the fuel, and it is announced that some arrangement for the use of machinery of the city to generate and sell power for the pumping stations of the water supply department in the borough of Manhattan might be made. Weather Signals in India. Monsoon stations are to be estab- lished in India for the purpose of tak- ing observations by means of kites and kite balloons. The first station will be in the Himalayas at Simla, 7,000 feet above the level of the sea. Mapis Cream Candy. Two cups of medium brown sugar, half a cup of milk, butter size of wal- nut, boil five minutes, remove from fire, add two teaspoonfuls of vanilla and beat five minutes. Beside the springs of Dove; A maid whom there were none to praise, And very few to love. ? A violet by a mossy stone _ mat hidden from the eye; Fair as a star, when only ore Is shining in the sky. lived unin: and few could know SRined Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and oh, The difference to me! —William Wordsworth. An Ancient Burial Place. Ever since the advent of man upon the earth, the question of disposal of his remains after death has been one of vital importance. It is to man’s ever-present desire for a safe and suit- able repository for his dead that arch- aeologists owe much of their knowl- for the edge of prehistoric time; weapons, cooking utensils and other articles exhumed from these burial places of the ancients unfold many facts regarding their methods of living. Of the various places used bythe ancients in which to deposit their dead the rude stone chamber known as a cromlech was probably the most often adopted for any burial other than the very common ones. The picture shown is an accurate one~of a cromlech which was discovered in a barrow near Paradis, on the Island of Guern- sey. On digging into the mound the large flat top, or cap-stome, of the tomb was discovered, and when this was removed the upper part of two human skulls was exposed to view. The chamber was filled up with earth, and as this was gradually removed, exposing the bones of the entire fig- ures, the latter were found to be in a good state of preservation. The teeth and jaws denoted that they were the skéletons of adults, but not of old men. A singular feature in connec: tion, and one unexplained, is the fact that the bodies had been so placed at burial,that one faced north and the other south. Possibly they were pris- ohers or slayes, who were slain—per haps buried alive—at the funeral of some great tribal chieftain or great person whose body was placed in the ‘large chamber near by. House Over Two Centuries Old. Workmen have been kept busy ‘throughout the spring months on the ‘“Wingohocking meadow, surrounding ‘the “Rock house,” the “Shoemaker ‘house,” or the “Hendrick’s house,” as the historic building is variously ‘called, which is built on the huge rock at Wingohocking station, near Phil- adelphia, This rock is famous for being the pulpit, or the “preacher’s rock” used by Witliam Penn in pre- revolutionary days. In the famous old meadow through which, until re cent years, the beautiful Wingohock- ing creek flowed, and in which during the revolutionary war some of the British cavalry had their encampment, there are now huge flower beds and clumps of hardy flowering shrubbery. All underbrush has been cut from the stretch of woods on the hillside above the meadow and <:e trees are trimmed THE OD LOCK FOOSE to let in the sur.ight, making it pos- sible to grow a smooth, rich slope of velvety grass. , There is renewed interest in the historic house since Germantown res- idents have been attracted to the spot because of the improvements. It is claimed to be one of the oldest houses in Philadelphia limits. It is not known exactly when the house was built, al- though it is stated on good authority that it was previous to 1691. «Some historians declare that it was built by Shoemaker in 1699, others are equally confident that it was built by Gerhard Hendricks in 1682, - The Deepest Ocean Point. The greatest ocean depth ever dis- covered was sounded’ only g short time ago, during the recent cruise of the Albatross in the Pacific. Profes- sor Agassiz was in charge of the expe- dition, and near the island of Guam. There the beam trawl, attached to a steel cable, was lowered to the depth of 28,878 feet, five miles, almost as high as Mount Everest. By means of thermometers attached \to the trawl it was found that the water at this depth bore the ‘temperature of only, pattie) Just a little above freezing