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Gold watch cases are sold by weight, and no one can see where this lead is se- d until the springs of the case are out and the lead will be found se- d behind them. nese cases are made by companies who profess to be honest but furnish the means dishonest to rob the public. It is asant for anyone to find that he has ged a lump of lead in his watch case. Another trick the makers of spurious i gold watch cases is to stamp the case Assay.” The United States does stamp any article made out of gold and silver except coin,and the fakir, by ig this stamp, wants to make the public lieve that the government had something to do with the stamping or guaranteeing the fineness of watch cases. Another trick of the watch fakir is to advertise a watch described as a solid gold filled watch with a twenty or twenty-five guarantee. These watches are gen- ly sent C. O. D.,and if the purchaser paid for the watch he finds that the Company which guaranteed the watch to wear is not in existence. The Dueber-Hampden Watch Company of Canton, Ohio, who are constantly ex- g these frauds, will furnish the mes of the manufacturers who are ip this questionable business. Always Out of Season. “Who is this man who is telling us that he has found a way of ey.termin- ating mosquitoes? He’s the same man who last July was exulting over the fact that he had found a cheap substitute for coal, —wWashington Star. The Editor of the Rural New Yorker Than whom there is no better Potato Expert in the Country, says: “Salzer’s Farliest Potato is the earliest of 38 eare liest sorts, tried by me, yielding 464 bu. per acre.” Salzer’s Early Wisconsin yielded for the Rural New Yorker 736 bu. per acre. Now Salzer has heavier yielding varieties than above. See Salzer’s catalog. sUST SEND 10c IN STAMPS and this notice to the John A. 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It looked as ff it was half off—Town Topics. sh FARMERS ORGANIZE. ‘What promises to become a most power- ful factor in the produce markets and from which farmers will reap immense benefit, took life in the organization of the Farmers’ Grain and Live Stock Commission Co., at Chicago, Il. This Company will handle shipments of grain and stock at all the pri- mary markets, will have feeding stations for stock, and will operate elevators, etc. The project has a strong backing from in- fiuential farmers and business men and will no doubt receive universal endorsement, To Be Disciplined. “What that young man needs is dis- cipline.” “Discipline?” “Tee. “How ought he to go about the task of getting it?” “Well, he might marry.”—Chicago Post. Make Money Speculating. If you are interested in the markets and desire to speculate occasionally, we can assist you. Write us for in- formation at once. We want a few reliable agents. —Union Exchange Co., 20 to 30 Corn Exchange Bldg., Minneapolis, Minn. Exceptions Possible. Bad Boy—Teacher, do you think we descended from monkeys? Teacher—I hope not, Rodney. I would rather think that most of us as- cended from them.—Chicago Tribune, cured. No fitsor nervousness after: F a gh onut eae er eee i. Boot RAVE oB'itcn Street, Philadelphia, Pa Doing good by example is a very slow way of instituting reforms, The « © « : Curs CHAPTER XLI. “Better | Than You!” “Laurie!” The dagger he held clattered down on the ouken floor. He flung out his arms with a hoarse sob: Once more he clasped her to his heart—once more a mighty love knit soul to soul. The servants, aroused by the girl’s wild cry, had hurried up and stood ina little knot at the further end of the aall; trembling with superstitious dread. y “Master Clive!” they whispered. The officers clustered about in blank amazement. Baby’s inquiring face was looking out of the breakfast room. For one moment, before Cynthia’s vis- on the place and the people danced in 1 black whirl. “Look!” Laurie cried suddenly— ‘look to Lady Carrington.” She had staggered to her feet and was tottering across the room to where her son stood: She would have fallen had he not sprung forward and caught her. “Mother!” he said, and bent and kissed her. She looked up at him feebly, bewil- deredly. Her face worked convulsive- ly, but no word came from between her pale lips. Her head fell heavily yack on his arm. “Quick!” he called in alarm. has fainted!” He was surrounded in an instant. Willing hands and tender bore her away. Among the faces bending over ier was Cynthia’s. She turned to hold out her hand to Clive. “Welcome home!” she whispered, and vanished with the rest. No one had thought to close the hall door. Without the snow had begun “She whirling in. Now that the first sharp confusion was over, Mr. Stack, accustomed to exciting scenes, had sufficiently re- covered himself to proceed with the official duty assigned to him. “Miss Lisle,” he suggested, “I am waiting. Are you ready?” The words struck Clive likt the thongs of a whip. He wheeled round quick as lightning. He flung one arm about the trembling girl, and _ out- stretched the other in defiant com- nand. “How dare you?” he cried. “Keep back!” Little Mr. Stack did nimbly fall back . pace. He lookei up, in meek terror, at the superb, lofty figure before him. “My duty, sir,” he began. “You are quite right. I respect your sense of duty, sir. In this case, how- ever, believe me, you are mistaken as to its proper fulfillment. You shall 1ot arrest her! She is innocent. You nust take me!” “You?” “Yes—I!” “But our warrant is for—” “You must have it revoked and a aew one made out. You have no evi- dJence against her.” “We have none against you.” “T give myself up to justice. I can orove that | arrived at Blackcastle be- fore the murder. Look here!” He stooped and picked up the weap- on which had fallen from his hand at sight of Laurie. t A servant had brought a great can- lelabra and placed it on a pedestal. They gathered around it, quite «a zroup. Mr. Stack took the proffered weap- on, and holding it full in the light ex- umined ‘it closely. A curious handle of beaten gold—a long, slim, shining blade, with dark olotches staining it at intervals from doint to socket. “The very dagger,” he cried—‘“the very dagger with which the deed was jone! The gash was peculiar—this dlade is peculiar. The very one!” He passed it over to his coHeague and looked up at his self-surrendered orisoner with alert interest. “Clive, what are you doing, dear? What are you saying?” But for answer he only bent and kissed the sweet, anxious face Laurie ifted to his. “Hallo!” came a rough voice from jown the hall, “ef that ain’t Clive Stuart! How do ye do, mate?—how i’ye do?” And the Sailor Mr. Bowers had brought down to Blackcastle ran up and shook Clive’s hand in fervent, if oxcrutiating friendship. For one minute the latter looked at tim blankly. Thena light broke over tis face. “Why. of course, T remember you iow. You were one of the crew of the Dolphin—Cicero Stubbs.” “That’s it!?.the salt cried, in hearty approval. “Why, we thought you’d zone to kingdom come!” “No, I certainly was not so fortunate ;is you. But a portion of the old hulk, which had escaped the fire, was shat- tered from the remainder in the gen- eral collapse, and floated—I with it. Next day a steamer—America bound, picked me up and carried me a free yassenger to New York.” “Say,” the other chuckled, in gleeful recollection, as a sudden thought itrock him, “d’ye remember that fel- ow Bracken—him as I understand was fone for lately? D’ye remember the ‘olly knock-dows blow ye gev him hat night on board the Dolphin?” to fall, and the feathery flakes were | o Carrington i | A quick cry broke from the listen- ers. So there had been a quarrel and bad blood between the men! An old debt had perhaps been paid in this mur- der. Mr. Stack turned hastily to his com- panion and whispered rapidly to him for several minutes, glancing now and then at Clive. “We see strong reasons for accept- ing your assertion and placing you un- der arrest,” he said to the latter, “but for you we have no warrant. Are you willing to come into the barrack and surrender yourself?” “Quite ready, on one condition.” “That?” “That Miss Lisle be no mare ap- proached in connection with this af- fair.” “Oh, no, no!” Laurie cried, frantic- ally. “I see what you are trying to do. No, No! Gentleman, you must not take him at his word—indeed, you must not! Don’t you see what he is doing—shielding me? I will not have it so—I will not!” At that instant Cynthia came swift- ly out of the small room where she had that day confided her suspicions to Mr. Lynn. “Clive,” she said, anxiously, “your mother is very ill. She is asking for you.” He turned quickly to the officers. “In half an hour I shall be at your service,” he said, quietly. Then he put his arm around Laurie, and together they went away across the polished floor, he smiling tenderly down on the sweet face upturned to his, love-glorified. “Dear,” she pleaded, “you must not let those people think you guilty of that awful crime—you must not!” A sudden blaze of rapture swept over his weary face and blotted out its haggard misery. “Better I than you, sweetheart,” he whispered—“better I than you!” CHAPTER XLII. “My Boy!” They found my lady lying on a low lounge beside the fire, propped up with cushions. She was white as paper, but her eyes were burning feverishly. She held out her arms as she saw them, in piteous entreaty. “Oh, my children,” she cried, “‘for- give me!” Of the minutes which through that firelit room fled with fairy feet, who shall tell? ry Cynthia came softly in and sat down among them, pale and silent. How they talked. The sad confes- sions, the sweet forgiveness,. the doubts and despair they had known, the vain regrets, the strange present! Clive listened in surprise to the story Cynthia told briefly at his moth- er’s request—the story of the wrong done, and by whom done, to Laurie Lisle. He turned to Laurie as she finished. “You little rebel!” he cried; “was that what you told me, on board the Dolphin, that death was preferable to life at my hands?” She nodded, and hid her rosy face, shame-smitten, against his shoulder. And all the time, even while she was speaking, Cynthia was listening—lis- tening intently, for any sound without. “T sold my commission,” Clive said, in answer to a question from his mother, “because I knew that in India I would: simply live on the small in- come accruing from my profession, whereas it was imperative that should make a home for the girl I left behind me. America is the Eldorado of impoverished Europeans. There I resolved to go, and when there to write to my darling and ask her to wait-for the good time coming. I had many a week in Northern seas worked as hard in nautical labor as any tar on board my yacht. I did it for pleas- ure then; I would do it through econ- omy now. I did not know that Laurie was on board till after the ship blazed. The rest you know.” “I was carried to America. There I was ill for weeks from exposure on the wreck. As soon as I was strong enough I made my way back to old England and began my search for her. I had a positive conviction that she had survived, but I could not afford to employ efficient aid. 4 “Well, I will not weary you longer. I heard strange rumors in the village which induced me to suspect, however improbable it might appear, that the strange young lady at Blackcasile was no stranger to me,- I approached the house one night, a la Enoch Arden. I did not wait to inquire what queer fate had brought together the two women I saw within. I would not en- ter. I was too proud for that, after— what had happened. It was enough for me to know that she was safe— happy. “So I cleared off to London, my brain all on fire with a wild scheme of making a fortune before I came to claim her. But the Quixotic resolu- tion burned out. I must see Laurie at any cost, face to face. I came back to Blackcastle. My train passed her on Christmas day. I arrived here as the ywere drawing away the engines from the eastern tower. I knew Lau- re had seen me. I hoped she world come’ back: I went into the lodge and scared them aH out of their wits. They became convinced aftg@r awhile that I. was real flesh and blood. I swore them to secrecy as to my return. They concealed me. Yesterday she came back. I restrained my impatience un- til to-day. To-day—to-night—I learned for the first time of the infamous accu- sation of my darling. Blindly I rushed up through the demesne. In the small hollow of a cedar where it evidently had been flung, I saw the glistening handle of a dagger. A quick thought came tome. At any cost—at any cost she must not be subjected to the in- dignity I.had heard spoken of—ar- rest!” A low knock startled them. “Come!” Cynthia called. The door opened to admit old Guie- letta. < She ran across the room and fell on her knees before Clive. She caught his hands in her withered fingers and kissed them. “You have come back—you have come back, my dear boy—my dear Master Clive! But it isn’t true—say it isn’t true—that they are going to take you—you, the master of Black- castle—to jail! Oh, my lad, say it isn’t true!” “Only for a little while, Guieletta,” he answered; “just to satisfy them— for a little while.” i She rose suddenly to her feet. “I know it; it is to save her!” point- ing to Laurie. “The name of Black- castle is steeped in blood. You are fulfilling the prophecy which asserts that a crimson crime can only be cleansed vy a mighty love. You love her, Master Clive?” “Dearly. She is my promised wife, nurse.” “Aye, aye, is it so? well at you, carissima.” She took the girl’s velvety face in sher hard, brown hands, and turned it so the lamplight fell on it fully. She searched it with her piercing eyes. “A fair face—a fair face! She'll be the sweetest bride that ever came to Blackcastle except—except my lady!” Clive, sitting by the head of the lounge, one arm flung lovingly around his mother, bent over her with a laugh at the positive assertion. a “How’s that for loyalty, mother? did you—why, mother—good heav- ens!” Her eyes were closed and she was breathing with difficulty. She looked up languidly at the sound of his voice. There was a faint smile on her lips. She put out her hand gropingly. He caught it in his strong hold. “Mother!” he cried again, in alarm. Her breath came more pantingly. The smile on her lips deepened. Her eyes, fixed on her son in tender ado- ration, for just one moment flashed with the glorious luster of their youth. “My boy!” she whispered. Then the lids drooped wearily, a ghastly grayness crept across her overkoyi j—yO.. roafkTE ‘(tD do face, the hand he held grew icy. Ah, the proud spirit was proud no Let me look longer, the strong will was impotent, the hot love silent! Old Guieletta rushed to the lounge and flung herself beside the quiet form of her mistress with a wailing cry: “Oh, my lady—my lady!” “Hark!” Cynthia Lennox cried, sud- denly, and sprang erect. They listened. They could hear the massive entrance doors flung wide, a hoarse din of voices, the trampling of many feet, a wild commotion in the hall beyond. (To Be Continued.) A FRENCH DEPUTY’S PAY. His $1,800 a Year and Unlimited Priv- eleges Not Sufficient. A French deputy receives a salary of 9,000 frances .$1,800); he also re- ceives,3 free railway transportation and free luncheons at the bar of the Palais Bourbon, where many a law- maker spends more time‘than he does in the Salle des Senaces. Some are accused of taking all their meals at the free lunch counter. A deputy even gets, at reduced rates, a special brand of cigar which is called “cigare de deputies;” with these cigars he treats his influential constituents. In spite of all these privileges, there have been many complaints that, unless he has a larger personal income, a deputy cannot live decently; therefore many members of parliament, when they are not well-to-do, have to make up for the insufficiency: of their pay by con- tributing to newspapers or pleading in the courts. Spirit Photography. An Irish woman. wrote to a photog- rapher and, after stating that her hus- band was dead, requested a picture of him. On being asked for a likepess, she said: “ “Shure, if I had wan picture of him, wat wud I come here for?” The photographer, always ready for fun, replied: “If you give me $5 and a description of your husband I think I can accom- modate you.” “Well,” answered the woman, “he had red hair, gray eyes, was tall an’ thin, an’ rather narvus.” On receiving the picture, and with tears streaming from her eyes, she said: if “Oh, Dennis, how you have changed.”—Philadelphia Public Led- ger. 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