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SAF RBM 6 AMAL AL ERIP ONO AD EDA ENA IE LL AD FORE ATT vlished by the Proas P Entered at the Post-Othce at ? VOLL four years, as It may, approximate $20,000, For the tr Officers by check is a simple matt for it already exists. B t to co rt of company finance, The machine: when the time comes for its repayment an immense increase of clerical labor will be re Multitudes of small individual unts must be proved, interes and vouchers examined. Who i pany or the consumer? If should offer more than 2 p interest belong in tt t Some very i the novel cond the excess payments f sumers will die, remove to o bills be kept for years as vouct show hundreds of accounts ¥ of depositors. When this h T to a rebate is the trust to enjoy a the kind it now derives from lost or f The fact that the Consolic after year of deposi th fai s of t whenever they lapse ind ,0CO and profits A SUGGESTION FROM PITTSBURG! | They are cleaning the Pi authorities are proceeding agai : for immoral purposes and are ma in in a radical way. The ts of property rented and arresti nates only | against landlords who rec SSS rentals from the prer ing have been prose This is the most effe a vice district. It is proceedings have heen instituted against owners and agents lett erty for pool-rooms. If with every arraignment of a keeper of derly house the ow ; for rental for such uses would become OANAAVASARALENANAAALESEEAAASANAASSESEAA ERIN ELIA SR AOOAOR NCTE ECOG, er also i A AADALSANAADATAEANA TIES UN AED URS ARESTORAAS ATES UDESEREURSURAAAGAL A ALTERTUAGALGSUEAEATABA TADS AAASSADAREAASA SEA DARE OSA UR TE DERA AURAL FF red between t ave confusion, were to be crc The rest, f 1903, 1904, CHAPT ULL thate “Pp “Whats the ordeal of § The man was drew back the c the small ¢ o'clock, sir. S$ anxious for nd greater tests “ /imM FEELING | PRETTY COMFORTABLE \ MYSELF By ps a J: Campbell The Evening World’s Daily Magazine, Wednesday; May 23, 1900. aturally. Cory. party and adiness t ded he said. laughed. “We met at lunch, a i to say I hadn't to h both laughed, certainly. He had tion of F At the sound of his | him. | night,” sb explained, turning to | most courageousl, from him to Fraide. | self- tion. | “I had an excellent n She had sh quite unconscious made the admission tened and v 3 e sald, quiet got a new henchman. said. “And you might go h of knowledge we can get in e're much old I'll see you n a reasburing nod he crossed club, and a ter, with Fraide at his 1 with him to W h were both memc 1 been ye Terr d through the door. among mj sabd, grave The seem e. In that) you—more close before looked so bright ¥, how fully,| But Loder pated suddenly, and his glance turned | y tof day with one of t 1 s known. wore being when he and Fraid the open door, ise fresh al santest i “I can't explain the touched been a the action and responsibil “Will rea the old ma he said yo! shown always disbelieve in me?” ipileity thar not was John , cote ent and the st 8! over House, he asked. » look secret. Uncon- the illusion. It w here; it w 1 his position, his consti f extricated his arm, but Fraide to happen to the Then almost wistful | if regr: | he said ; I really | ‘The change of tone s his wife held it she went on, "No," he “Don't draw away from me. You have al been too re Jo that. It Is not ofte pleasant truth to tell. I won't be deprived of the enjoyment.” “Can the truth ever be pleasant, sir?” 1 rily Loder echoed Chilcote, ralde looked up. He was half a head shorter than his companion, thou the fact. ‘Chilcote,” he said, seriously, “give up m! It is trade-mark of failure, and I] be friends,” | At last sho looked up n't count too much on me, sir,” he sald, | “IT might disappoint you again.” Hik| asked, in a quiet voice. broke off on the last word, for the sound other voices and of laughter came to them| subdued incredulity net! across the Terrace as a group of two women and| Prompted to a furth nen passed throt Without answering, laid her hand on the st she looked out across t nen was Eve, 4 : [wait and see,” Seeing them, she disengaged hers datherime Wecil ial ; then he responded “Turning the Terrace into) someti rden of Eden in Janu lame Lady i c aide and his w jest in their particular set I hope I didn't rob you of all sleep last id. “I caught h I believe we talked till two,"| Again Loder noticed how quickly she looked look as if I hadn't slept?” slowly and reluctantly Eve looked own regarding him. nk I ever saw you look so well." |coloring of hair and eyes gained by daylight— er and sombre stone, ing to me. I must have a word with her before ure of apology; then smiled at Bye. re) iy ta ed after him as he moved away. “I! gteered a smetimes wonder what I should do 4f anything of 5 ng her impulsiveness. “You he to congratulate you “Will you always disbelleve in me?” he asked, | gt the deserted Terrace and, pausing by the parapet, | the open door. At a! ‘Patience 1s necessary with every person and dition {nto the new country. and {t lay with fate ce he renjized that the slighter of the two| every circumstance,” he safd. “We've all got to) to say ‘er to eerve :. aindle= sof th 1 RAVADADAVARAEAEAA AA EATAREA TERE TAAEA NSA TEN SSAA TASER TURES EERIE hums ion. 1 She did not lower her gaze as he spoke; and rd. He saw her] there seemed to him something disconcerting in ly_as| the clear, candid blue of h With a sudden moved forward and dread of her neat wor beside the parapet. from her fo) n pled ; but he noti glance she ay is lke a Dit of wreck- » stronger than him- ps him.” He looked ly knew what he was that he was a man in aw » position, trying stupidly to jus- tify himself, ‘Don’t you lieve that flotsam cam hed ash he asked. High above th Big Ben chimed the hour, Eve raised her hea It almost seemed to him that he could see her answer trembling on her i them, Fraide drew away oO gree and ain words We cannot al- arah!" she she carried me off. then the voice of Lady Sarah Fralde came ask where. a] behind them and Lod ve!” she called ! We must fly. Its joined, a little to learn that the deyc e was a long-standing ree o'clock?” CHAPTER X, N the days that followed Fraide’s marked adop tion of him Loder behaved with a discretion that spoke well for his qualities. Many a man placed in the same responsible, and yet strangely irresponsible, position might have been excused {f, for the time at le: he gave himself a loose rein. But Loder kept free of the temptation, Lake other experiments, his showed un- looked-for features when put to a working test, difficulties smoothed themselves away, W others, scarcely anticipated, cama into prominenc Most notable of all, the phya{- ). 1 Sal likeness between himself and Chilcote, the She bedrock of the whole écheme, which had been counted upon to offer most danger, worked with. out a hitch. He stood literally amazed before the eping credulity that met him on every hand, Men yants who had been in his employment for years, joined Issue in the unquestioning acceptance. At times the ease of the deception bewtldered him; there were moments when he realized that, should cumstances force him to a declaration of the truth, he would not be believed. Human nature prefers its own eyesight to the testimony of any, man, laugh Eve turned to tard * she | ued it} 2 in his de: “and inv The knowledge roused his night,” he sald. ‘Do I thfully, and with a faint and very charming as she It struck Loder that her ivified by thelr setting of then looked ase of nerves, “And I—belleve—I have But I see my wife beckon- affectionate! be excused?” He made a of this tuoishine snecess he eady course. In the first exhilarat favor, in the first egotistical wish te ld, a ttle | yreak down Eve's scepticism, he might possibly, ughed, 28 have plunged into the vortex of action, let it be S. rd what jn what direction it might; but fortunately for in a differont voice. “Am) pimself, for Chilcote, and for their scheme, he oo” }was Hable to strenuons second thoughts—those tung Loder unaccountadly.| wise and necessary curbs that go further to the adying of the universe than the universe gue: Sitting in the quiet of the House, on the me day that he 1 spoken with Eve on tha Shed possibilities slowly and ed to the full by the atmoge Fraides,” she s: t at once she she walked slowly acri one-work. Still in silence | he river. | cautiously. Impre h his dignity concealed! oder had followed closely. Again her aloof-| phere of tho place that in his eyes could never ness seemed a challenge, “Will you always dis-) jack character, however dull its momentary busi- ve in me?” he repeated. ness, however prosy the volce that filled {t, he had sifted impulse from expedlence, as only ® at him, slowly. “Have you ever given me cause to belleve?” she, man. who has lived within himself can sift and distinguish. And at the close of that first day To this truth he found no answer, though the his programme had been formed. There must ba tled him afresh, no rush, no headlong plunge, he had decided; er effort, he spoke again.) things must work round. It was his first’ expe. hether It would be his last. (To Be Continued.) one,” he repeated,* ho had known Chilcote from his youth, ser= Why the United States Ts What Tt Ts Co-Day'g | FOOTSTLPS OF OUR ANCESTORS IN A SERIES OF THUMBNAIL SKETCH93, \ ' What They Did; , Why They Did 1t- What Came Of It. By Albert Payson Terhune, | No. 25—AARON BURR; the Man Who Wented to Be an Emperom ‘ 73 IS IMPERIAL MAJF To-day that reads | But lesa than a ce it was w ue Whispered. not spoken aloud. For open speech was deemed high treason against the United States. | The man who but for accident might have borne the title was, in his way, jthe most remarkable character Am; has pro Undersized, but of. une | Usual physical beauty and grace; at ve, Ww ynotic fasctnation, | brave and resourceful, with a brain second t was one of those phe- nomenal products of a phenomenal age. . as has been claimed, @ of bad morals. He was simp! all. Such fn Aaron Burr, 8 ne of clerevmen and erand- son of the bh han Edwards J. in 1788, was re @ Drepar eleven, entered on a eton, and at elghteen Ghee ect was an red 2 nd man of the world; taking as Seni en, model tn r pect the somewhat doubtful and Hamilton. { maxims of Lom Chester: At nineteen, on news ofa? ® Lexington and Con stened to join the Revolu- n; took active part in Benedic dian campaign and returned from {s own personal staff, but the sober rectitude -Chief bored k Major and in six weeks he ston, which the returned, He also met, on the staf, young Alexander Hamilton. death then had ita the army, with je rank of L was twve r Hamilton was dalled bis, In Senator 1g new fuel 1800 he ran In a te, he s for years, fatter willingly ¢ and Hamilton day) had been a ts from the u to flee for his n had been the peo- ra } ) 4