ri 3?a!5 n ; tia mJA IF ? - IS: THE PITTjSBTTKG BISPATCH. SATURDAY. ' , AUGUST 20. 1892. s&rsasi w$8mw&mmm8&i THE BUSINESS WORLD. Hercantila Agencies Show a Small Increase in General Trade. STRIKES AND MINE TROUBLES Bare Little Present J fleet on Either Kail or .ron Traffic TTE niliUEES A.D RAILWJIT HEWS ISrKriAt, TELtCTtOI TO THE DISPATCn.3 Kr.w York, An?, lfl. Special telegrams to Sradstred't indicate, oa the whole, a moderate increase in the volume of general trade, as larger orders for nearby delivery Lave been received by wholesale dealers in staple drygood, clothing, shoes, hats, millinery and light hardware at Chicago, Duluth. St. Paul, St. Louis, St. Joseph, Kansas City and Ouial.a. This, at a time when harvesting is not finished in the Northwest, i significant. An encouraginc feature is a report, based on interviews with leading members of Baltimore's wholesale trade, that business in the South has improved; that the South will buy more, and that more of its mer chants will come North to make purchases than for several years. Collections in the cotton regions however, will be slow until October L Hides arc firmer and leather is in good demand at Boston and St. Louis. Philadel phia wool spinners are ruuning to full capacity. Tobacco 'is held firmly at recent high prices, which checks free buying. Canned poods are stronger, but the Colum bia salmon puck, while slizhtlv smaller than last rear. Is Infelior m quality. The Mnteoftiie Iron MnrkftU. IiI.I.d. r.nm 11 VnHth.Mi inA Win....... I JlUU<J ..t.. .. .i.-.i..... . ... . Louisville, .!( 2, fill'! ktMb IIUDLIUl iiiQiuiiaiiis UIU Ul" halr of 1 per cent more than in the like week last year. Dun's Estimate of the Situation. It. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review says: Lara advices from the West promise rather better crops of wheat and corn, anil cotton pros pects are a littlo better, though neither yield will approach that of last year. With abundant supplies brought over, the outlook is ogood that business distinctly improves, and the prospect lor fall trade is everywhere considered bright. The great stiikes in New York, Pennsylva nia and Tennessee, which call into service troops in three groat States, appear to have scarcely an appreciable effect upon business as yet, and though interruption of traffic is threatened on many important railroads, rtockB are generally steady or stronj, clos ing but a sumil filiation lower than a week ajto. ilore gold has gone abroad, but money is abundant and easy, nnd collections in al most all quaiters aio'moie satisfactory than usual. Wheat has been weaker and declined Jc Heports of hat vesting In tpriiiK wheat le sions are not encouraging. Corn has ad vanced 1c, mainly because of possible inter ruption of trade, for Western icports are definitely more promising, especially as to Kansas and Illinois. Oais havo declined onlyjc. Oil is JJc lower, with some specu lative activity. lion mills at Pittsbmg will soon resume, but at present shipments of coke are the smallest lor soma time and business in win dow glass is not active Westnn iron mills have ikk Hilly resumed, but the present de mand lor bar, platts, sheet and structural iron is very active and mills ai full of orders. Pig is unchanged, but a sale of uray fores equal to $7 91 is 1 ecorded. Pittsburg SIM In Eighth Finer. The followinc tuble, compiled by JJrad street's, Rives the Cieaiing House returns for the weekending August 11, 1892, and the per centage oi iucie.ise or decrease as com pared with the corresponding week last jean New York i 53I.37I.GJ3 CMcaRO SW.6M,702 Unslon 84,1!!0,W8 l'hll&delplila ci.an,4 St. I.ouis 2iT85,462 Mm Francisco Jialtimure.. , rittblmrff ... Cincinnati.., Kansas lati. Detroit JIinnraDolis. pinning to select fall stocks earlier than tisml At the West pig iron is as weak as h. rrtnfnrc, but mannlactured iron still 6lus "-oiiio Pttrngth. The South is now rc Etiiciiiig pig iron production. Louisiana's rice crop will be twice as large as last j ear, but this, as well as sugar and cotton iu that S'ato, is late, which checks fn'I tr.ide in Xew Orleans. San Francisco lugsent to cargoes of redwood and barley . to ihe United Kingdom this week. Haw s iLar is l-16c higher on good demand. The Buffalo strike and interruption to railroad traffic have induced caution in the current speculation in railroad shares at 3"ew York. This does not interrupt the ad vance of industrial companies' shares,which have continued to climb, though manipula tive assistance is discernible. The fall of silver maintains an unpleasan t feeling abroad about American securities and cheap foreign interest in this market. Silver rallied early in tho week, but declined again to the lower fic-urc, 47Jd, on reports tliat an Asiatic bank was embarrassed. Ex. chance is strong on the sufficient supply of commercial bills and tho absence of draw ings against cotton and grain lutures. Gold shipments tins week aggregate $1.950 000. a noticeable feature being that the sub-Treasury paid out the specie against Treasury uo.es. Hallway Earnings on the Ipcrens-. Kailway companies which report net earn ings, including the moro important in all portions of the country, announce $16,000,000 oggregate net earnings in June 1 per cent more than in June,lE9L In May they showed a deciease or 3 per cent from the total in May, 1S9L For six months net earnings aggregate $100,000,000, or more than 5 per cent in excess of the total for a like portion of 1891. Por five months the gain over last year was only 4 per cent. The demand lor bleached cottons is equal to the pi oductiou and prices aie expected to advance. Print cloths maintain their extraordinary activity, and mills will havo no stock unsold for two months to come at least. Mills are securing larger profits than for a number of jears. All-wool dress fabrics are in active demand. Mills are very buy on heavy-welifht men's wear woolens. Wool it selling less freely than a year ago, with free receipts and neavy stocks, which prevent an advance. Eaw cotton is l-16c lower on better crop repoits heie and dull foreign demand. Grain Movement!., Fallnres and Clearings. Txports or wheat, including flour as wheat, both coasts, this week, equal S,75J,000 1 ushels. asainst 4,H000 bushels last week and 3,)"iC0O bushels week belore last. In f ho w cek one year ago like shipments aggre gated 5,701,000 bushels; in 1S90, 3,4S9.0C0 bushel-: in lssa. 2,703,000 bushels, while in the Reek iu ltS similar exports equaled 2,336,000 onhels. The heavy movement of the pre ceding lortmglit has declined. The advance in prices of wheat is largely due to inter mixed transportation via Buffalo. The number ot business tailurcs has in cieused throughout the United States this week, the toul being 187, against 138 last week; 181 in the wek one year ago and 160 two yenrs ago. The percentage of those failing with capital above $5,000 but less than $20,000 has jumped nom an average or about 8 per cent weekly to 13 per cent this week. Bank clearings at all cities this week ag piegate about $1,009,000 000, not quite 1 per cent moic than lat week and about one- -Ncw Orleans.. 3111uaukcti.... Ulnalia , t'rotidence. .. Denver ('let eland ..... fct. l'aul , Houston Indianapolis .. Memphis Columbus. O... Kk'lnnond.... Dallas , Hartford Duluth Nashville H afihlngton.. I7.sni.ici 14.015. 271 IS. 333.241 12. 444, IM.0 10. 200. 03 J 8, '.SS. 181 J.5M.449 7.47.!, SCO 7.153.858 0 507,04 6.4W.840 5.25S,8.tO 5,:iS.llO 3.S04.24S 4.H4S.124 3. 189, 419 3,S7,534 1.1&8 50S 3.322.50O 2.4411,817 !,&. 282 t.72h.2D2 1.49UW2 1.49.780 1.740. WS M. Joseph 1,704.610 1'eona 1,71 rortland. tire., t&iclieiter. Salt Lake-Citr... New Haven Portland, Me.... Worcester. ... . Springfield aco Sioux City Kort Worth Norfolk Wlhniugtoii Lowell Grand KaDlrts.. Seatue..." Svrapnse Dcs Moines Tacoma Lob Angeles Linroln Wichita Lexington Itlrmlngham .... New Uedford..., Topeka Galveston Savannah.. Atlanta lllnghamtnn...., Helena .... f rent Kails Spokane Toul 19. 800 2.31X1UU 1,796,417 1..W7.103 l.tSi-Mu 1.249,274 l.H'4.413 81.1. 52) 778.858 1,302,1117 823.741 708,719 931.791 1.05S CM 831,000 791,132 8341 691.490 5:3. 3rJ 508.749 445,626 4ja57I 4,3. 135 413,100 2,883,417 1.I3S, 231 C6I.275 214.7(10 835,587 Si.347 878,667 Inc. Dec. S.8 11. 1 .... 5.4 .... 10.4 .... 4 0 K.Z 6.9 1S.0 11.4 31.0 21.1 14.1 aoli '.'.'.'. 28.4 .... 5.b 50.2 ...., 5,4 .... 89.7 47.3 14.4 .... 12.0 7.8 .... JS.2 3 .4 4.4 27.7 .... 24.3 25.3 1.0 24.5 .... 31.2 7.8 .... 25.7 .... 7.0 27.0 25 3 19.3 11.2 .... 13 4 31 C .... J5 "" 10.8 8.7 .... 4.4 .... 22.8 52.5 4.2 .... '.'.'.'. n.i 19.8 17.5 7.8 .... 26.2 2 4 .... 11.8 .... 8.9 .... .3I.O0O.774.S83 0.5 OutshleKewYork $ Dominion of Canada Montreal Halifax. Toronto Hamilton 455,903,27 9 3 11,504,273 1.327 465 4, SO, 35? C93.222 15.0 6 1 ToUl $ 18,429.822 BUSINESS BREVITIES. The American Bankers' Association meets in San Franclsoo on the 7th and 8th pi ox. The St. Loui? S-jmb'tc predicts that the cotton yield will bo close to that of last year. Vehicle manufacturers have been in ses sion in Cincinnati for the purpose of raisiu prices. The directors or the Xatioual Iead Com pany have declared a quartet lv dividend of 1 per cent on the preteri ed stock. TheKe is no foundation for the rumors of the instability of banks in India. All well managed banks there have regularly allowed lor losses flora depreciation ot silver. The Pennsylvania lion Works at Lan caster closed Juno 1, owing to a disagree ment about; the Amalgamated scale, will begin operations noxt week under the old wages. Trade statistics for the first seven months of 1S92 show that Fmnce during that time exported to the United States goods valued at 142,738,000 francs, and imported goods valued at 466,522,001 francs. The piodigious ore movement of the past six weeks will show a cuitailment by tho opening of fall. It has been apparent for some time that it was not In harmony with conditions that have ruled in the pig iron market The large carriage house belonging to William N. Shroeder, or Carlisle, has been levied upon by the Sheriff. 1 The Sugar Trust again advanced the price of refined sugar i$ cent on high grades and 1-16 cent on low giades yesteiday. At the International Grain and Seed Mar ket in Vienna on the 29th and 30th instant, reports will bo presented giving estimates of the harvest of 1892 in the United States, Canada, Russia, India and other grain-producing countries. It is estimated that within ten miles of Cincinnati, counting the amount in yards and stored, there are 12,000,000 bushels of coal. There are 630 barges and 126 boats of it. It wa exnected that the price would be advanced 25 cents per ton next Monday, bntw the raise will not occur loruoout one montu now. RAILWAY INTERESTS. The Richmond Terminal Committee of Seventeen yosterday passed resolutions re citing that in the past the company's funds had been diverted and that steps should be taken to secure their restoration. The directors of the proposed San Fran cisco and Great Salt Lake Railroad are mak ing rapid piozrcss toward perfecting'a finan cial organization. The original plan of hav ing stock subscription books open Instead of a canvass is being made. The differences between the Chicago and Xurthwestern Railway and its freight handlers in Milwaukee have been amicably settled by the company agreeing to the men's demands for an advance from $1 40 to $1 50 per day with pay and half for over time. John Goapos has been appointed general manager of the Lehigh Valley Transporta tion Company, with office at Buffalo, vice W. H. Henry, assigned to other duty. The Lehl-'h Valley Transportation line, which is in tno Rending combine, is oomposed or five steel and six wooden steamers. Ciiaiihas Caldwell has requested the members of the Western Passenger Associa tion to send in their votes on a proposition to make a into of one faro for the round tilp for the N ational Convention of the Keeley Associate d Bi-Chloride of Gold Clubs, to be held at Dwigiit. IU., September IS to 16. an agreement has been reached by whloh tho Winona and Southwestern Railroad will use the Nebraska Central tracks and bridge to reach Omaha. The Lackawanna and Western backs to an extent the Winona and Southwestern, which has been extended a step at a time fioin Green Bay Into Northern and Central Iowa with a view to completing a great rail and water route from New York. Thus far the strike at Buffalo has not had the effect of materially reduolng the volume or east-bound shipments from Chicago. The Michigan Central was notified by the New York Central yesterday that it need not hes itate to forward all the live-stock and per ishablo freight that was offered, as there would be no trouble in handling it east of Buffalo Some or the roads, however, will only accept shipments of perishable freight where the shipper is illi' g to run tho risk of delay. To avoid such risk many or the shippers are turning over their business to the Pennsylvania, Chicago and Grand Trunk nnd Baltimore and Ohio, and these roads' are experiencing some difficulty in providing cars enough to meet the increase in their business. The Nickel Plate will ac cept no moro 'perishable freight until fur ther oideis. Countless cases of female com plaints, such asleucorrhcea, ovarian troubles, organic diseases of the .uterus or womb, displacements, Bearing-down Feeling, causing pain, weight, and back ache, inflammation, nervousness, have been permanently cured by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound thq only truly reliable and harmless remedy for all forms of female com plaints. Itssuccessis world-famed. AH Drnggliti nil it, or teat by mall, lit form of PlUi ot Lueniti, on receipt of 81. OO Liver FIlli, S5e. Correipoadrace freely answered. Addreii In confidence LYDIA E. ZINK.HAM MED. CO , LTHH, Perhaps you think you know a "Yale" Key when you see it, but don't be too sure. HEW ADYERTISEMENTS. I & PERIL GREAT AUGUST TRADE SALE -OF- Furniture and $ Carpets This sale has proved the greatest, the most astonishing, the most sweeping in price Special Trade Sale ever attempted in Pittsburg or anywhere else. We quote Prices That Take no Account of Costs and Values. There's no old, unsalable goods. They're 'all new and come piling in on us every day from all the best factories in the country. This is our Annual Great Bargain-Making and your Bargain-Getting Month. Every wideawake buyer should yes, will jump at such a chance as this. BEDROOM SUITES. I PARLOR SUITES. NERVOUS DEBILITY cured by the use of AVER'S Sarsaparilla Tones the system, makes the weak strong. Cures Others will cure you. THE MAN WITHOUT A STOMACH Stay exist as n museum freak, but most of us recognize the stomach as necessary to life and comfort. Most of us experience a little trouble fiom this source occasionally, wiouK action of the -stomach causinr ilys pepsta, etc., and oiten the trouble extends, involving the liver and bowels, -whence wo llnd biliousness and constipation. We find alo that tho bowels and kidneys (natuie's sewage system) become clogged with effete matter. Mom which comes impure blood, bolls, blotches, pimples, scrofula, scrofulous swellings and cancerous complaints. The Burdock Blood Bitters taken at the begin nine, or at any later stage, arrests the trouble, restoies the disordered organ to activity, thereby removing every vestige of disease, li. B. B. is an absolutely pure ex tract of roots and herbs, which can not injure even the most delicate constitution, and as a cure for dyspepsia, biliousnesi. constipation, bad blood, etc, succeeds in 99 cases out of 100. aul-rrssu It looks just like this, and always bears the word "YALE." It's easy to tell the true from the false. B. &B. SATIN 120 OF THESE SUITS AT $18.25. REDUCED FROM $29. xoo Suites cut from 30 to 22. 70 Suites cut from 37 to $28. 1 20 Suites cut from J45 to 35. 50 Suites cut from 65 to 50. 45 Suites cut from 120 to 85. 35 Suites cut Irom 175 to I125. The prices start at $32.50 for a pretty 6-piece Suite consisting of Sofa, Divan, Rocker, Arm Chair and 2 Small Chairs. The next is a Tapestry Suite at $30. Then $40, $50, $5S, $60 in either Plushes or Tapestries. Each one a distinct new design. Then on up to the finer Satin Damasks, Brocatelles, Wilton Rugs, etc., at $90, 100, $125, $150. Each one a gem and worth many $ $ $ more than we now ask for them. SIDEBOARDS. H FEW GO AT 510. THEY'RE WDHTH 51B. IK?S fjllll Another lot in Solid Oak at $18. The next $25. More at $35, $rr, $40 and $45. Any price you may want to buy. BUT DON'T FORGET s That the $4$ board is worth $63. You save $i&. FINER GOODS Go at 75 to $100. They're the artist's perfection. That's the nartie on the tick et New and fine, Dark Print ings, the handsomest goods ever made of cotton look like India Silks, but they're not 40 pieces, 1,800 yards, 31 inches wide, 20 CENTS. On sale at the Colored Cash mere Department, just through the archway past the cashier's desk; there will be a "picnic" for these handsome goods while they last extra good, extra fine and handsome for so low a price 20 CENTS. Carpels Cheap, It tap Kamets. It is almost like a cool, shady forest to go thro our Carpet rooms these sizzling hot days. There's nothing warm here excepting the Pat terns, Qualities and Prices. Do you realize the Carpet Price-Range here? 20c to 2.50. The lower grades start at 20c, 30c, 35c, 40c. S Special lines of Wool Extra Super Ingrains at 58c. They're the 85c kind, but they're yours for 58c. How do we do it ? Well, that's a secret. TABLES. 500 Oak Parlor Tables go at 75c. 210 Fine Parlor Tables go at 1.85. 120 Fine Parlor Tables go at 3.25. 150 Fine Parlor Tables go at $6.50. 350 Large Extension Tables J2.90. 175 Good Extension Tables 6. BOGGS & BUHL, ALLEGHENY. &U19-41 TAILORING. Correct Spring Suitings and Orercoattnri H. & C. K .aHLERS. Merchant Tailors. 120 Smlthfleld st TTBsr Several lots of fine Brussels 50c, 60c and 65c You'd guess one third to one-half more. ' Finer and richer grades in Body Brussels, Velvets, Moquettes, Wil tons and Axminsters 95c, $1 $125, $1.50, $167, $175 BARGAINS. Cms. Bob First We have about 200 odd lots of Chairs 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 of a kind. They go at your price not ours. Second A pile of 50 doz. 600 Chairs made to sell at 1.50, but a "cart wheel" ($1) will buy them. They're Solid Antinue Diners. Prettv. I inviting and comfortable. Terms Cash or Credit to Suit You, 635-637 SMITHFIELD ST. 635-637 anSKSVrua THE HAUNTED SCREEN. WBITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH BY SARAH DOITDXEY, Author of "When We Two Parted," "Under False Colors," "Stepping Stones," Etc., Etc. "Manson, von are a dear old tiring; but .tou are perfectly absurd, you know!" It wasMarcia Cadell who said these words, hall angrily and hall affectionately; and the person addressed was housekeeper at Wood acre Hall, an old dame of 75, with a portly figure and a kind but anxious face. The time was 4 o'clock on a bright Janu ry afternoon, and the place wa3 a vast garret, full of all sorts of lumber. Frames without pictures, and pictures without frames; Chippendale chairs and tables, with backs or legs wanting; two queer old cradles; a tpinning-wheel, and abattered spinet were among the odd things that were heaped up around us. I, Katherine Huntley, stood holding my skirts out of the dust, and looking about with inquisitive eye that tried to peer into all the gloomy corners. For, in "the sum mer, I was to be the mistress of this ram bling old mansion; and the garrets might contain hoards of unsuspected treasures for aught I knew. But it was not for the sake ol "Woodacre Hall and its broad lands that I had promised to marry Marcia's brother, Giles Cadell. "When Captain CadeH had proposed to me six months ago in the Isle of Wight, no one had even supposed that he was soon to be Sir Giles Cadell, and master of "Woodacre. There had been sudden deaths and swift changes; and the friends who had sneered or smiled patronisingly over my engage ment, were now busily congratulating little Katherine on the fine match she was about to make. After traveling to the hall with mother and sister and myself, Giles had gone away to London to see his lawyers; and we three were left to entertain "our selves as best we could. It must be contessed that we did not begin our visit cheerfully. Poor Mrs. Cadell, the gentlest of widows and kindest of mothers, missed the warmth of her own little rooms, ank caught cold in the great house. We had installed her in the most home-like bed chamber that we could find, and had tried to make ourselves comfortable in the library, which was a shade leu dreary than the other apartments downstairs. But surely there was never such a place or draughts as this mansion of the Cadclls! It wav, as JIarcia said, a perfect Cavern 9 the Winds. Sit where you would, thev came puffing into your face or stinging your ears; and they were the sharpest and iciest blasts that I have ever felt in mv life. The late master of the hall had lived the life of a solitary widower for years, and must have been utterly callous to the dis comforts of his dwelling. Nothing had ever been done to keep out these abominable draughts. There were no curtains over the doors, and unnp nf tlina .. i;,.t .. . geras which women employ when they try to drive winter away from the fireside. In despair we had flown to old Manson's room, and found that she had taken better care ol herself than poor lonely Sir Thomas had ever done. "He never seemed to feel the cold," she said, in answer to our questions and excla mations. "And be hated to see anything touched or altered; so he just went on in the same way always." "But we won't go on in the same way al ways," Karcia declared. "Why, there isn t even a screen in any of the rooms. Come. Jlanson, tell us isn't there a screen anywhere? Doesn't anyone know where to find such a thing!" "There's a screen put away in one of tbe garrets, miss." said a voice issuing from behind a cupboard door. The voice be longed to Rachel, a young housemaid, who was arranging some of the housekeeper's stores. Dear old Manson looked angrv reallv and truly angry for a moment and I in stantly set her down as a lazv old woman who did not want to take any trouble for the new owners of the halL "Oh. thank yon!" said Marcia, quicklv, I suppose you had lorgotten that screen in the garret, Manson. We will go up there - oa.,. Jul Ah M UUCC The housekeeper's cheeks were m rn .. a russet pippin, bnt I fancied that "the healthy glow suddenly faded, ..u"Eic?seme' mi,6S."sne said, respectively, but I do earnestly advise you not to go J? tnoe. n4sty. dirty garrets now; later on, the whole house must be turned inside out for Sir Giles will be wanting to make many improvements, but till he comes back, do, pray, let me beg of you, miss, not to go." "But we have a wish to go," returned Marcia, -with a little backward movement of the head. "If the .stairs are too much for you, Manson, you can let Rachel show us the ." "It's not tbe stairs, miss," replied the old woman with an air of quiet resignation, "lam ready, if you please," she added. So we followed her through long corri dors, up a queer winding staircase to the vast garret, now illuminated with the rays of the wintry sun. Ttfe light came stream ing in through little diamond-paned win dows, and I noticed that some of the panes were broken, and that cobwebs clung to them here and there, but there was enough sunshine to touch up the tarnished gilding of a folded screen which leaned against the whitewashed walk "Oh, it's Chinese!" cried Marcia, "and in excellent preservation, Manson. Kow.whv on earth did Sir Thomas leave it to molde'r away up here, when it might have been so usetul downstairs?" "Because he couldn't abide it, miss," the housekeeper admitted reluctantly. "But why couldn't he abide it?" de manded the girl, stamping a pretty foot, and speaking impatiently. "On, miss, it's bard on an old woman to answer questions," said Manson in despair. "You'll only laugh when I tell you that Sir Thomas used to say there was something evil about that old screen." And Marcia did laugh, and I joined her till we woke the sleeping echoes in the old garrets, and our peals of merriment seemed to be repeated in a ghostly fashion in for gotten corners of the dreary house. "Manson, you are a dear old thing, but you are perfectly absurd, you know," said Luarvio, reuuTcnug ueraoii ai lasu Dome thing evil about a screen! Now if I had wanted to seize on some ot those unframed portraits and carry them downstairs, von might have objected with reason. There is an evil lookiBbout tbem I admit. I think the Cadells must have improved greatly during the last century." Manson was meekly silent. The screen was carefully cleansed from dust br her orders, and when we sat down to dinner in the library we found it standing between the table and the door. It was a large, four leaved screen, covered with gilded figures on a black ground just such figures as one sees every day on an ordinary tea-chest It was clearly impossible to connect su;h a common-looking object withauvthing super natural, and we had another laugh at the housekeeper's expense. For the first lime since our coming to Woodacre we were fairly comfortable, and got through onr din ner without a shiver. ptill it must be confessed that those January days hung heavily on our hands. Mrs. CadeH was atill oonfined to her bed room; and Marcia and I had to depend en tirely on each other for amusement. We walked out in the morning; but although the weather was bright and clear we grew weary of long lanes and lonely hills. It was a sunshiny world out of doors, but hard and stern under ifs ailver coat of frost Wood acre might be a delightful place in summer, but we came to the conclusion that it would be impossible to live in the house unless It was well filled with agreeable people. "It's a eood thine that Bessie IsviMnn i. coming to-morrow. Mid Marcia, one day when we were feeling duller than usual. "She is a bright little thing, and very amus ing. We were always great friends'in our school days, and Giles used to like her." "Is she pretty?" I asked languidly. "Yes; haven't you seen her photograph? Giles had a portrait of her in a contadina's dress, which used to fascinate everybody. Hasn't he ever shown it to yon?" "No," I answered. "He has not even spoken of her." "Justlikeaman," said Marcia, with a smile full of meaning. "Men never talk of the old love when they are on with the new. And it's surprising how their tastes change. I can remember the time when Giles could only admire girls who were small and dark." Now as I, Katherine, was tall and fair, this little speech produced a decidedly unpleasant impression on my mind. It did not occur to me that Marcia, having reached that stage of boredom which is never free from ill-humor, was saying the first dis agreeable thing that she could think of. I went home to luncheon in a gloomy mood, prepared to take a dislike to Bessie, and maintain a haughty demeanor as long as she stayed in the house. All through the rest of the day did Mar cia talk persistently of Bessie and her charms, perversely returning to the subfect when I tried to introduce another. She en tertained me with vivid descriptions of the tableaux in which Giles and Bessie posed as lovers; of the duets thev had sung together; of the remarks that had been made about them. . And yet, alter all, there was noth ing in all this airy talk to offend a sensible girl, engaged to a man who truly loved her. But I was not sensible just then; the gloom of the old house had settled on my spirit, and made me morbid and cross. Bessie Lvd- don arrived next day, and I am bound to confess that I gave her a cool reception. It did not mend matters when I found that she was even prettier than Marcia had led me to expect A little slender thing, graceful as a sylph, with soft dark eyes that seemed to plead for love and sympathy; she won my admiration against my wilL Of course, Giles had been in love with her nav, was it not more likely that he was in love" with her still? Tormenting myself with thoughts like these, I left Marcia and Bessie a good deal to their own devices, and shut ravself up alone. Our. guest had been;in' the house three days, and my jealousy was gaining strength with every hour. It had'got such full pos session of me now that I resolved to sit down and write a letter to Giles demanding to know the truth about Jiia past inter course with MissLyddon. I -was alone in the library; it was now 6 o'clock in the afternoon and the two girls were npstairs turning over thelrdresses together. One of the servants had just entered to place a shaded lamp on the table, and, had desired him to light the candles on" Sir Thomas old-fashioned dayenporf. which stood on one side of the fire. My .seat at the daven port brought me close to.,the screen whioh was placed, as irs-nav already said, between the center table and the door. Once or twice when I paused in my writing I looked up absently to watch the fire light flickering over the quaint Chinese figures on the black ground, and then I fell to my task again with renewed vigor, xne more wrote tne more passionately angry I became; bitter words flowed fast from my pen words which, if they had ever reached their desti nation, would have turned all the sweetness of a life's love into wormwood and gall. My cheeks were burning, my hands trem bled, my very handwriting "was changed, and took twists and twirls that were un familiar to my own eyes. The overmas-, tering passion of the hour bad made me an other creature. 1 was no longer Kather ine, but some strange excited being on whom I look back now with a -shudder of horror and disgust In one of my pauses I drew a long breath, and sank back" in my chair, spent with my own misery. It was then that I became conscious -that a face was peeping round tbe the corner of the screen, and was watching me with an intent gaze. Such a face! I think it was all the more horrible because the features were unusu ally perfect Even at this moment I can recall the fine 'chiseling of the nose and lips, the delicate penciling of the eyebrows but the eyes were dreadlul., I" hardly know .whether they were gray or blue, but they seemed absolutely to blaze with bale ful light They were the eyes of a fiend, gloating over human anguish, rejoicing in human wickedness. Only the lace was vis ble; no portion of the figure could he seen, and it was a woman's face, young, and dead ly pale. I cannot tell how long I endured that awful gaze, but it is possible that some sec onds passed before my wild scream of terror went ringing through' the old house. A mist arose, the face and all the surrounding objects wavered and faded and then I knew no more. The recollection of my return to con sciousness is very dim in my mind. I found myself lying on tbe bed in my own room, which was, only divided from Mrs. Cadell's by a door. This door was open, and Mrs. Cadell herself was bending over the pillow, bathing my head with her gen tle bands. .Voices speaking in a subdued' tone faintly reached my ears, then a stranger came to the bedside, and I feebly comprehended that ho was a doctor. After spending tw o days in the seclusion of that quiet room I went down stairs with Mrs. Cadell and.the girls, but we did not go to the library. Another room, on the other side of the bouse, had been hastily go't ready for our ose, and, now too, we had a good many pleasant callers. The doctor sent his wife tp tee ns; the gray-haired rector (who had been Sir Thomas Cadell's most intimate friend) brought his daughters, and quite won my heart with his fatherly kindness. It was from him that I heard, later on, tbe story of the haunted screen. Marcia told me afterward, with many ears, that ihe had found my scrawled lettar, lying unfinished on the davenport, and real ized all the mischief that her idle words had done. There had never been anything but simple, frank liking between Giles and Bessie, and she could not forgive herself for the hints that she had dropped. But I for gave her, and from that day to this we have been sisters in heart Giles returned from London and took me back to my old home, and I did not see Woodacre again till more than a year had passed. There were so many changes and alterations to be made in the old mansion that It was not ready for habitation till some time afteruur marriage. One bright morning, when I was quite settled down into my position as a matron, and had grown used to my title, I chanced to be walking alone with our good rector. It was summer, and the lanes, which had looked so desolate when I first came to Woodacre. were now eav with wild roses. I do not remember how I was drawn into telling my terrible experience to my companion, but I did tell it, and he listened attentively. "The screen was burned to ashes soon after your fright," he said; and Manson al ways rezretted that it had not been de stroyed long before. It is supposed that it was once used by a woman who committed a fearful crime; but, be assured the deed was never done in Woodacre Hall. It was at Meadow House, which used to stand abont a mile away from the hall, that Hugh Cadell was murdered by his wife." "Oh, I have . seen his portrait," I ex claimed. "But I did not know that he was murdered. And Meadow House was pulled down long ago?" "Long ago," the rector replied. "Hugh, poor fellow, -was the eldest son of Sir Ed ward Cadell, and married, without his father's consent, a beautiful girl, of whom very little was known.. The young couple were, however, soon taken into favor, and Meadow House was given to them for their home. And there they might have lived happily enough it it had not been for Mis tress Hugh's furious jealousy. It had been rumored that there was a taint of insanity in her blood; and i is certain that she gave her husband no peace. The chief object of her susDicion was a prettr orphan cousin. living at the hall, with whom Hugh was once thought to have been in love." Although the sun was shining and the air was warm, I shivered. The rector con tinued: "It is said that Eleanor Cadell hid herself behind a scieen when her husband entered his library, and watched him while he wrote a letter to his cousin. From her' hiding place she stepped out to the back of his chair and stabbed him. You are look ing pale, Lady Cadell, tbe story is a very horrible one." "But I can bear it now," I answered. "And the screen, I suppose, must have been carried to the hall with other things when Meadow House was palled down?" "Sir Thomas thought so. He told me that, when he was a younger man, he had an experience like yours. He was sitting alone, brooding oyer certain wretched sus picions which had crept into his mind; and he chanced to look up, and saw a woman's face, beautiful and wicked, peering round the corner of the Chinese screen. The screen was banished to the garret after that; and there it might have remained if Marcia had not discovered it But I must tell you that Sir Thomas had a curious theory of his own about the matter." "What was that?" I asked. "He fancied that no evil spirit could have revealed Itself if his own passion had not broken down some invisible barrier. He thought that if we give way toviolent, unreasoning rage we may see things that we should never behold In a calmer mood. I do not know whether I have made his idea clear. He was rather a dreamy man, yon know." "Do yoa think he was right?" I said, eagerly. "I can hardly go as far as he did." re turned the rector in a musing tone. "But I think that there are no end to the tricks a heated imagination can play, and I believe that there is no passion which brings us so close to fiends as jealousy. Now, Lady Cadell, we will not discuss this subject any more. the Era. J Safety and Comfort. Among the many improvements made by Mr. Haynes In his reconstruction of tho Broadway Central Hotel, Sew York, Is an entire double system of fire, patrol and electric gongs throughout the building. In addition to this, extra bells are being placed over the head of every bed in the house. 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