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FALSELY ~~ CONDEMNED — BY— Mrs. E. Bagot Harte. CHAPTER 1|.—(Continued.) The next moment he was raising the woman's lifeless form from the ground. He must carry it away from the path! A short distance off, where the trees were thicker, there was a disused shallow pit. Few people, if any, went near it now. And close at hand there was an accumulation of dead leaves. It would be easy to throw them over the corpse, burying it deeply, tar away from ihe sight of mal Instantly be was wending his way amongst the trees, his burden in his How Keningly those arms ached!—not from the weight of her burden, but from the horror of it. Sometimes the tattered dress caught retched branch, and some- hawl. Hindrances and im- ents were tauntingly numerous, it seemed to him, in the agony of his -e as he struggled on, fighting thick under- way through the growth. “At last,” he murmured. fi he was standing at the edge of the pit at last!( Swiftly his arms re- laxed hold of their ghastly burden ind let it fall with a dull thud to the ground, the blue-white face looking straight at him out of the darkness of the pit. The next instant trembling hands were working with nervous’ speed hrowing dead leaves ovér that blue- white face, yearning to cover it quite, to hide it out of sight. With reckless i they worked, those trembling Never ceasing, never stop- always piling the leaves higher and higher, they worked with light- ning-like rapidity. Now the blue- white face was hidden. The silver light from the moon no longer illum- ined it. But the shabby, bloodstained and shaw! still remained ex- pos: and quicker and quicker the man’s crime-stained hands’ moved, pil- ing up the dead leaves—covering all, burying all! He himself heeded nothing, noticed nothing, in his mad excitement. Yet nowstorm was now raging, and a d windblown, feathery flakes were piling themselves up into forms f: stically beautiful. Already the a of blood across the path had od under a pall of exquisite dress disappr whiteness. Suddenly the silence of the night was broken. Startled and terrified, George instantly remained rigidly listening more intently ad ever listened before. was only the church clock motionle than ne But it striking Three o'clock!” gasped the wretch- man, “and I told Hilda that 1 vuld be home by one at the latest. at n she think of my absence? always nervous about me if ate. And the servants must ed my absence and been won- what has detained me. He need around, and that glance spoke growing despair. “Oh, it’s snowing hard, he added, with surprise. “But will hide that scarlet stream! t shall | do, though? What shall fl do? Go home I can’t, in these blood- stained clothes! If only—” Suddenly interrupted was the cur- rent of his thoughts! Suddenly pene- was the snow-laden air by voices—voices that were coming near- and nearer. There were people in the wood! They were searching for him! Talking anxiously and excitedly about him. Now he recognized Hilda’s voice. Quivering from head to foot, yet struggling to keep as still as a statue, » wretched murderer pressed him- rated |. knew anything madder than a-ordering self closer and closer against the ground. CHAPTER II. It had suddenly ceased to snow, find illumined was the white earth iwi the silvery rays of the moon, ‘Sir George cursed the brightness of {those silver rays, as he lay hidden mear h party slowly approaching. Now Hilda could clearly be heard ‘directing the men. She was keeping to the path, the shimmering brilliance of her long, white satin coat,standing out clearly against the dark shadows of the At this was passing the very spot where, be- neath the snow, there was a stream of bloodblood! The unhappy wretch, following her every movement with anxious, loving eyes, uttered a mental cry of horror at the ghastliness of it all. Yet for her sake he had committed the murder; for her sake his hands were stained with blood. “Those exposed roots are very dan- gerous,” she exclaimed. “I wish I had insisted on walking home with him.” “Would to heaven you had!” was the mental cry of the murderer as he pressed himself yet closer to the earth. Every moment his fear of discovery was growing greater and greater, so’ earefully was the woods being searched. : trees. moment she the shallow pit watching the |. Now two men with lanterns were walking straight toward him, as if they guessed he were there—even saw him already. Now only twenty yards separated him and them, now only fifteen, now only ten, and his heart was beating so thunderously loud. Thud! thud! thud! the men must hear it! Even if they had not already seen him his uncontrollable heart must reveal his presence. “I say, Jim,” whispered one of the men, with arresting sharpness. “Yes,” queried the man addressed, speaking in an irritable voice. “Don’t let’s keep on any more along this way. Where’s the chance of his having come up here?) What'd he do dtcfery.. “Of course, it ain't likely he’d come away from the path and up here,” was the tired reply. “I only came to satisfy her ladyship. She’s in such a state of worry about him. I never of us all to hunt through the woods this time of night.” “These high-born ladies are that nervous,” said the first speaker; “al- ways gettin’ into frights when them as have to work for their livin’ would not take any heed, and—— Lor’! wasn’t that summat moving? 1 ain’t goin’ to stay here any longer! I'll go back to the others. It’s scaring work being up here, just you an’ me alone.” “I agrees witn you there; but, like as not, it was only a rabbit or a fox you heard just now. “Leastways, we won't say a word about it to the others; will you?” . “Not I!’ was the emphatie rejoin- der. | As Sir George heard the last word he uttered a mental cry of thankful- ness. Suddenly, unexpectedly, nearly all danger of detection had subsided. In a few minuies he might venture to lessen the pressure of his thorn- pierced limbs against the ground. Al- ready he was stealthily moving them a little, just enough to decrease the agony of his strained position. Now the two men were rejoining the rest of the search party, and Hilda was heard interrogating them. “You saw nothing or heard noth- ing?” she asked. “Nothing, my lady,” simultaneously. Then all moved on, slowly searcn- ing right and left. At last they passed out of sight, their voices grew indis- tinet, and the silence of night once more held its sway over the wood. As noiselessly as possible, for the sound of nis own movements terri- fied him, Sir George stood up and peered around. “l’m alone once more, thank Heay- en!” he whispered to himself. Then there rushed into his mind the bewildering question, “What is to be- come of me?” What, indeed? ‘The motionless form in the shallow pit still remained to be completely covered up; no fraction of the blood- stained clothes must be left exposed to view. Well concealed the body might remain undisturbed for years and years—until all trace of identity and a proof of the tragic end would be gone. Once more dead leaves and bracken were being quickly thrown into the shallow pit. At last, hidden quite from view was the lifeless form of Hilda's rival. Then Sir George staggered to his feet and moved away. “Would that every incident of this ghastly night could be as easily hid- den and the sin of murder as easily blotted out!” he said to himself, as bitter despair took possession of his mind. He glanced homewards; then shook his head. If he returned to Carlton Park he would have to explain why his clothes were bloodstained, and why he had so long delayed his return they answered home, and why his hands were toil- stained. All must be explained to the extent of entirely allaying apprehension. And were ever explanations more difficult to coin? Return home he could not! He had not the requisite courage! Then where should he go? Where could he go? He could not remain standing where he was. He must move away— go to the north, south, east or west. But it was to home that he yearned to go; Hilda that he yearned to see; their child that he longed to look at again. Yet he was no child worship- per; he had loved their boy because he had represented the completenss of their home life and was his heir, the being who was to carry down to another generation the time-honored name of Ellingham. This night’s crime had been committed in a frenzied at- tempt to prevent the completeness of that joyous home life being swept away. Yet already he was staggered by the difficulties of benefiting by his cruel crime. ° “But I can’t wait here forever!” he thought, with a groan, and his was the face of'a frantically desperate man now. “I'm a fool to stay so long as I have! But where shall I go?. If I’m seen on the high roads these red stains will be noticed. To get hold of another suit and throw these away ae s . impossibie. However, I can put a w hundred yards between this pit and myself. Heavens, how I wish I could forget what it contains! I won- der if she had many friends? People who will start inquiries being made about her? She didn’t look as if she had a decent friend in the world. The boy being weak in mind is certain not to be able to give any information that can lead to his mother being traced, But, hang it all, I'm a fool to waste time on wondering if they’ll try to trace her or not. What I've got to decide is where to go now, and how to get home again and allay Hilda’s an- xiety. Poor girl! That word ‘poor’ does not represent one hundredth part of the pity I ought to feel fo her and do. How she dotes on her boy! If she ever learns the truth, heaven help her! “But she shall not know! She shall not know! Have I stained my hands with blood to no purpose? No, indeed. It shall not be for no purpose! Then why am I still here within a stone’s throw of her dead rival? Why can’t I pull myself together and decide as to what I shall do? [ll risk all! I'll —Ti—”’ y He was walking quickly now, nois- ily, carelessly. Another five minutes and he would have reached the road. But he was walking away from home. What, could he be thinking of? He stood still and turned his haggard face in the direction whence he had just come. Indecision, vacilotion, ag- ony, misery—all were written on that haggard face. “Confound it,” he muttered “Hilda must be growing more anxious every moment. She is certain to have called at. the Pennant’s and ascertained when I left, and has returned home by the high road. I begin to feel as if I were a doomed man. If I could only get into communication with her and tell her a number of reassuring lies. To think that three short hours ago I thought myself an immaculately honorable man. Now But what’s that noise? Footsteps? Someone coming? Yes! Which way shall I go? ~How escape being seen? Hide here? Yes! Amongst these trees. My limbs! Why do they shake so? But already the man had noticed him. Already he was making straight towards him. Just a passing wish to dart off and run his hardest away flashed across Sir George’s mind, to be dismissed the next instant as being an act of incriminating madness. Each instant he was growing more sick- eningly limp and cold; each instant the man was coming nearer and near- er. Quickly, unhesitatingly, he was walking straight toward Sir George, as if intent on speaking to him. And he was intent on so doing. “Ellingham!” he exclaimed, in a low voice, when only about ten feet di- vided them. “Halloa, Erskine! What's brought you up here?” was the reply, spoken with well-feigned carlessness. “J have been close at hand and in this wood watching you for hours. I was near you when you killed that woman. I have seen all!” There followed dead silence for a few moments, during which Sir George lost and regained self-command; then, huskily, tremulously, he stammered: “You—you—won’t inform? You'll keep it all secret?” “Yes, for the sake of your wife and child, I'll not hand you over to the police to be tried and hung. But if it were not for Hilda you would have no merey at my hands. From the moment I saw you strike the woman I have been thinking the matter over. It’s fortunate for you that you did not walk off immediately after committing the crime, when I was in a white heat of passion with you, and had not had an opportunity of cooley debating the whole matter with myself. If you had, you would have enjoyed no mercy at my hands. Now—— But first tell me what you have to say for yourself.” “Nothing! You heard all that she, the woman, had come to say?” (To Be Continued.) Thought the Pillow Small. A Cincinnati man recently return- ing from the East was about to get into his berth on a sleeping car, when he heard the voice of a huge -Kentuck- ian, who was holding up a pillow between his thumb and finger while he roared out to the porter: “I say, you boy, come back and take this away!” “Wha’ for, sah?” “Because I’m afraid the derned thing will get into my ear!” None other, however, was to be had, so, placing his head on the feather or two inserted in the tick, he was soon asleep—Philadelphia Public Ledger. Charm of Feminine Mystery. Does any sane woman want to be understood? Does she not, on the contrary, prefer to remain an enigma, a mystery, knowing that perfect com- prehension of anyone means the cessa- tion of all interest in that individual? A woman who once felt herself thor- oughly understood would never raise her head again.—Ladies’ Field. Knowledge Already Acquired, Farmer Korntop—Ain’t ye goin’ tew send yer son t’ college? Farmer Rich—No; tain’t necessory now. ; Farmer Korntop—But ye sed ye wuz goin’ tew. Farmer Rich—I know, but he has learned to smoke cigarettes without it—Philadelphia Press, Nature’s Heart, “Is it lively out here?” “Sure; the old residents won't as- sociate with the summer cottagers; the cottagers detest the campers; the campers loathe the excursionists.” “And the excursionists?” : “They hate each other.”—Puck. FRU INTENSE HEAT PRODUCCS PRECIOUS STONES. Scientists Have Succeeded in Pluck- ing Real Diamonds and Rubies from the Crucible of the Furnace. Recent advices from France state that Prof. Moissan, the eminent sci- entist and inventor, has actually suc- ceeded in making genuine diamonds and rubies. He employs for this pur- pose the electric furnace, which has been so improved that a degree of heat can be produced, approaching the extreme temperatures, which were un- doubtedly a factor in the formation of minerals and gems in the interior of the earth. The rubies obtained are of large size, weighing 10 or 15 carats, and in quality and color equal and even sur- pass those found in the earth. The natural forces attending the formation of diamonds seem to have been more complicated, and so far the diamonds resulting from the efforts of the sci- entists have been very small, but still they are positively identified as the carbon crystal—the diamond. They are remarkably clear and bvight, and on a small scale as fine specimens as nature’s own product. The electric furnace has enriched chemistry with a whole series of new compounds. Probably the one of most value to mankind at large is Cal- cium Carbide. The simple applica- tion of water to Caleium Carbide gen- erates the gas Acetylene, which is now being commonly used for light- ing. The peculiar merits of Acetylene light are its brilliance and uigh can- dle power, ease of installation, eco- nomy and its adaptability for lighting buildings of every description, regard- less of their location. Howlers. In his “Comic School Tales” H. J. Barker gives some amusing answers by children technically known in Eng- land as “Howle: “A teacher was giving a lesson on the circulation cf the blood. Trying to make the matter clearer, he said: ‘Now boys, if I stood on my head, the blood, as yoy know, would run into it, and I should turn red in the face.’ ‘Yes, sir,’ said the boys. ‘Now,’ continued the teacher, ‘what I want to know is this: How is it that while I am standing upright in the ordinary position the blood doesn’t run into my feet?’ And a lit- tle fellow shouted:‘Why, sir, because your feet ain’t empty.’”—Technica! World. PATENTS. List of Patents Issued Last Week to Northwestern Inventors. Reported by Lothrop & Johnson, patent lawyers, 911 and 912 Pioneer Press building, St. Paul, Minn.:°Peter Caesar and E, Schell, St. Paul, Minn., wheel; Christopher Carli, Stillwater, Minn., animal blanket; Charles Chap- man, Berlin, N. D., wire stretcher; Fred Cooley, Minneapolis, Minn., pipe stem cleaner; Charles Jewett, Black- duck, Minn., fire box and grate; Au- gust Johnson, Alcester, S. D., hoof plane; Tolef Solberg, Crookston, Minn., manure spreader; Edwin M. Wheelock, Watertown, S. D., tender. MAN STILL HAS THE CIGAR. Woman Has Usurped Most of His Other Vices and Privileges. The advancement of woman by leaps and bounds continues. First, we had the women’s clubs; then the women’s hotel, with bell girls and “lady” por- ters, and later the Woman’s Down- town Lunching, club. There is one young woman living in the vicinity of Madison square who is still ages ahead the rest of her sex in the race for equality with man. She wear’s men’s shoes, a four-in-hand tie, and a dress that is as near an approach to a suit of clothes as the laws of dress- making will permit., She carries her umbrella as a man would his cane, and her walk is a close imitation of the Harvard strut. The other day one who passes constantly through the park on her way down town saw this concrete example of adyanced woman- hood sitting on a bench writing a letter instead of reading the paper, while she had her shoes shined. The passer-by looked by instinct, as it were, for the cigar in her left hand, put that, fortunately was reserved for a still more remote period of feminine development.—New York Post. Cure to Stay Cured. Wapello, Iowa, Sept. 11th (Special) —One of the most remarkable cures ever recorded in Louisa County is that of Mrs. Minnie Hart of this place. Mrs. Hart was in bed for eight months and when she was able to sit up she was all drawn up on one side and could not walk across the room. Dodd’s Kidney Pills cured her. Speak- ing of her cure, Mrs. Hart says: “Yes, Dodd’s Kidney Pills cured me after I was in bed for eight months and I know the cure was complete for that was three years ago and I have not been down since. In four weeks from the time I started taking them I was able to make my garden. No- body can know how thankful I am to be cured or how much I feel I owe co Dodd's Kidney Pills.” This case again points out how much the general health depends on the Kidneys. Cure the Kidneys with Dodd’s Kidney Pills and nine-tenths of the suffering the human family is heir to will disappear. i 3 ae Really a Good Mixer. Johnny—Pa, what is a good mixer? Pa—A man who can mingle the mint of the moneyed classes, the ice of the indifferent and the whisky of the majority into one grand julep.— FUL FURNACES | NS OONGRRAAT CA IN FAR NORTHLAND Tid-Bity ef News for Scandinavians. AMERICAN EXPORTS WANTED. Consul General Bordewich at Chris- tiania Points the Way. Consul General Henry Bordewich of Christiania furnishes an interesting report on Norway’s crops and the im- portation of farming products into that country. The consul general says: During the five-year period, 1900- 1904, inclusive, Norway had only two fairly satisfactory crop returns. The years 1900, 1902 and 1904 were failures to such an extent that the loss to the country for the three years has been estimated at no less than $27,000,000. The present season gives promise of a much needed change for the better. An early spring, high temperature and frequent rainfall, which is essential to the generally light and sandy soil, have been the main factors in bring- ing about these favorable conditions. The hay crop is already secured in many tracts, and other crops will soon become ready for the reaper. The average annual yield of the more important products in Norway are estimated as follows, stated in hectoliters: Wheat, 118,000; rye, 315,- 000; barley, 1,188,500; oats, 3,475,000; potatoes, 8,000,000; peas, 63,000; mix- ed grain, 264,400; hay (tons), 2,567,- 000. There is reason to believe that this year’s crops will reach these fig- ures. The aggregate value of the above-mentioned crops is estimated at $52,000,000. The annual import of grain, flour even in the most propitious seasons, and feedstuffs exceeds $12,000,000, Pork, beef, oleomargarine and vegeta- ble oils for margarine factories are also largely imported, and the larger portion of these importations are of American origin. American wheat and flour would find a better market in hat country if the import duty im- posed on them could be reduced to correspond with the duty on other breadstufts. American exporters of cereals and flours are otherwise well represented in this country, several of the largest flour mills having well established connections, Favorable weather conditions have improved the prospects for increased yield of vegetable and root crops. Small fruits have been plenty and cheap, and other fruits, such as ap- ples, pears and plums, promise well. Norwegian small fruits and berries are of excellent quality, but the apples are much inferior to the better grades of American apples, of which the annual importations are quite large. The va- riety best known is the Baldwin. American exporters of green, as well as dried and canned fruits, should be ‘able to increase their sales in this country. The shipping facilities are good from New York to Chrisiania, and the time is only nine or ten days. WOMEN WANT TO VOTE. Norway Urged to Extend Franchise to the Other Sex. One of the curious features of the movement for independence from Sweden in Norway is the active, per- sistent and intelligent agitation by the women of Norway, says the New York Times. There is not any vote for the Norwegian women except in local af- fairs, but there seems to be an intense and quite general desire for it, and the agitation in favor of separation has probably been taken up so vigor- ously and systematically in order to establish a claim for participation in the management of the new order of things. Among the documents with which not only Norway and Sweden, but many foreign countries, were flooded during the discussion of the action of Norway, those published by the women’s organization were notable for their earnestness and the care and skill with which they were prepared. It is generally conceded that the standard of education*as well as that of social conduct is very high among Norwegians of either sex, and the movement for “equal rights for wom- en” has not there been associated with those extreme notions that have unfortunately prevailed in live move- ments in other lands. Vacancy in the Navy. Sweden is short of naval officers, for one reason or another, and the sit- uation has caused-some inconvenience to the higher officers and impairment of the service. Councillor Lindman recently stated that there were forty- five vacant places among the commis- sioned officers and thirteen among the non-commisisoned. In order to meet the situation extra cadets have been appointed and given a course extend- ing nearly three years and a half, after which they may take the exami- nation as officers. All the graduates of the present senior class, some thirty in number, will go into service imme- diately on graduation. Famous Artist Gone. Albert Edelfelt, th e noted artist, died on Aug. 18 at his villa at Haiko, Finland. He was modern and led this art cult into Finland in the early ’80s. He painted Finland so that all under- stood, from the Finnish peasant to the Parisian critic. He was fully as well known in Sweden as in Finland, and the former will mourn the talented artist as one of her own children, for his Franrik Stal drawings, his last great work, appeal as strongly to the people of Sweden as to those across the Baltic. Baking Powder A wonderful powder of rare Merit and unrivaled strength. Addition or Subtraction. “Ifyou can’t get along better with your work I will have to get another girl.” “Shure, mom, an’ I wish that you would; there is enough work here for two.”—Technical World. Important to Mothers. Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, ‘a safe and eure remedy for infants and children, and see that it : Bears the Signature of a A In Use For Over 30 Ye ‘The Kind You Have Always Bought, (fee es APPENDICITIS FROM RUBBER. Moral, Says Dr. Pond, Is Don’t Chew a Lot of Things. Don't chew lead pencils. Don’t teeth on rubber rings. Don’t drink beer out of bottles cork- ed with rubber-washer stoppers. If you do you are likely to be picked up and hustled off to a hospital and cut open for appendicitis. This you may learn by reading Lon- dcn Lancet. But, of course, you won't read it, for it is a purely medical pub- lication. Dr. Pond writes for it. He has discovered that in most cases of appendicitis, including those in which the operation is successful put the patient dies, antimonial poi- soning is found. This he traces large- ly to the general use these latter days of bottles corked with , rubber-wash- ered stappers and fruit cans sealed with rubber rings. DISFIGURED BY ECZEMA. Wonderful Change in a Night—In a Month Face Was Clear as Ever— Another Cure by Cuticura. “I had eczema on the face for five months, during which time I was in the care of physicians. My face was so disfigured I could not go out, and it was going from bad to worse. A friend recommended Cuticura. The first night after I washed my face with Cuticura Soap, and used Cuticura Ointment and Resolvent, it changed wonderfully. From that day I was able to go out, and in a month the treatment had removed all scales and scabs, and my face was as clear as ever. (Signed) T. J. Soth, 317 Stagg Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.” The Tie That Binds. “We are all bound to earth by the law of gravitation,” observed the sci- entist. “That—or matrimony,” corrected the man to whom he was talking.—Grand Rapids Press. PAINFUL PERIODS AMERICAN WOMEN FIND RELIEF The Case of Miss Irene Crosby Is One of Thousands of Cures Made by Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. How many women realize that men- struation is the balance wheel of a woman’s life, and while no woman is entirely free from periodical suffering, itis not the plan of nature that women should suffer so severely. Thousands of American women, how- ever, have found relief from all monthly searing By taking Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, as it is the most thorough female regulator known to medical science. It cures the condition which causes so much discomfort and robs menstruation of its terrors. Miss Irene Crosby, of 313 Charlton Street East Savannah, Ga., writes: “ Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound grant Deuell $0 tom Curing ine. of regains great bene: me, me o' and painful Katia rh glans pale Su else-had failed, and‘I gladly recommend it to other suffering women.” Women who are troubled with pain- ful or irregular menstruation, back- ache, bloating (or flatulence), leucor- rhoea, falling, inflammation or ulcera- tion of the uterus, ovarian troubles, that ‘“bearing-down” feeling, dizzi- ness, faintness, indigestion, nervous| rostration or the blues, should take mediate action to ward off the seri- ous consequences, and be restored to eset health and strength by taking ydia E. Pinktham’s Vegetable Com- und, and then write to Mrs. Pink- am, Lynn, Mass., for further free ad- vice. ‘Thousands have been cured by so doing. =