They formed a eircle around Judge | Bermutier, who was giving his opinion | of a mysterious affair that had hap- | pened at Saint-Cloud. For a month this inexplicable crime had been the | talk of Parls, M. Bermutier, the dominant figure | of the group, standing with his back) to the fireplace, talked about It, dis cussed the various opinions, but came to no definite conclusions about the matter, Many women had risen and nearer, remaining standing, with fixed upon the smooth-shaven face of the magistrate. They shivered and vibrated, through their curlous fear, which tortured them like a hunger. One of them, paler than the others, after a silence, said: “3% 4s frightful. It pernatural. We shall never know any thing about it.” The magistrate gaying: “It is probable, mada:ie, that we never shall know anything about it] but for the word ‘supernatural, when | you come to use that, it has no place | here, We are in the presence of a | crime skillfully conceived, very skill fully executed, and so well enveloped In mystery that we can not separate which sur in my life, I had seemed truly ing very us necessary to come | eyes touches the su turned toward her, | ances to follow an to be mixed up with unusual. However, it re WW re w gometh Ww Many of the ladis game time, so quid sounded as one: “OL! tell us ab M. Bermutier Judges should, ane “You must not gtant, that 1 anything belies Wis vepture, | And ipernatu Causes word we ean not com simply use the would be much the surroundir affair 1 will fected we much, The Vendetta. of Instruction at on the fer Judge little “T was Ajaccio, a border of a beautli rounded sides tains.” “Yes “What YAS SU on all by moun echoed the listeners. I particularly bad to » was tl | if the ven letta. Some of remark able; as dramati cious and herole. most wonderful subjects of vengeance that one could dream of, | century old, appeased for but never plots, assassination ores and two years 1 he price of blood Of mn gxgible, [ero We found there the iired 8 moment nlhinost othe eq «x! for an ho puted a dead sh “Some lege n ihroad ;: that fled from his own and tl after rifle } he reasons: himself Rowell, “I contented him closely; myself with AL although, In reality, JOHN D, ROCKEFELLER, JR. The World's Billionaire Knows Well the Value of the Dollar. his 20th year helr vastest fortune the world has His health has never been good, being a sufferer from a stomach trouble, no doubt inherited from his Coming Thi man, In Is to the ever seen, JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, JR. father, the Standard OI magnste, who though 06 yeurs of age, has a tore ruddy complexion and really more vigor than the sou. The young man has recently returned from half t's health seeking stay in Hurope, t was little benefited, Lik¢ many another rich man, he has lar i meet him. lend } » passing by his door, | respot | ’ : : there seemed] nothing to suspect re garding him. “1 walted long for an occasion to It finally eame in the form of a partridge which I shot and killed before the very nose of the English man, My dog brought it to me; but immediately taking it I went and begged Sir John Rowell to aceept the dead bird, excusing wyself for intru- sion, “Ile was a tall, powerful man red halr and red beard, very large, a sort of placid, pelite Hercules. He had nome of the so-called British haughtiness, and heartily thanked me French for the delleacy. At the of a month we had chatted to gether five or six times, “Finally, one with 3] ns 1 was reelved him smoking ked | evening, 1 pe a chair in the garden, pipe. 1 saluted him and n to have a glass of beer, ride hi he an His me | { him. with the fastidious With great f 5 : EVERY “He received me of we English, precaution in the for terest, I put questions about hi ded wit he courtesy no in ne to hin me that Africa, in He added, | 1g I have hb A Great Hunter. hawt hunting + tall began to } } oe) look | il if wl that sew ¢ bones si ly cut off at about the middle of the fore-arm, as with a blow of a cutlass, About the wrist was an ’ ’ fe » . : CnOr 1 el JUS iron Cin, ris 1 to this unclean mom i C1 ching it to wr. a the wall M 1 to hold an “© thkedl nn nnnle hing | riendly r the violin ar i class in the pifth Avent Lurch. and for the latter two voek are spent an early reer, sp ls igh 1} . 1 das desk In the Standard Ol Bullding, 26 roadway His tastes and manner of living would meet the demands of Pas ’ tar Wagner's “Simple Life A Large Bible Class, Mr. Rockefeller's Bible Class has a membership of over 300 persons, but hi | cqunection with constituting i { esds In the church is sald that he Hid a keen observer of men and knows whether they to his Class for spiritual comfort or to “get next” to Hm and it has now come to be well rreognized that the Rockefeller class i not an institution for the dissemina tion of Wall Street tips nor an employ fient agency for the Standard Ol Com pany. If he has given other than spir- tual help to his pupils it is not pablie Iv known, He Is a ready talker and maker of eplgrams and sald In a late address that character, friends, health nnd success are the four things to strive for in life Is Expected to Take His Father's Place. With the gradual and systematic withdrawal from business participation In bis various business enterprises, the father has endeavored to seclude him self from the public eye, and colnet dental with this subsidence Is the greater projection of his son and namesake the world’s prospective billionaire, The sont hax been taught the value of pennies than many a man is of the dol those It Cote I joined | I it his | other things and admired the guns, “Nevertheless, T noticed three loaded revolvers on the pleces of furniture, as th n lived in constant dread of if this ma attack. “I went to Sir John Rowell many thoes after that; then for some | thine I did not We had become ace customed to his presence: he had be- come Indifferent to us, Killed in the Night. “A whole year slipped away, one morning, toward the end of No vember, my servant awoke me with | the announcement that Sir John Rowell | had been assassinated in the nigin | “A half hour later 1 entered the! 4 house, with the central and the eaptaln of police ant, lost in despair, was weep the door. 1 suspected him at afterward found that he was | RO or gir, Then, v guilty one was never found Win Rir John's dr entering awing- ulenn RESTORING THE TREASURY, Government Strong Box Wiil Resem- ble Building in Time of Andrew Jackson, While a number of the Government departments have been having a gen eral washing of their “dirty linen,” the United Suates Treasury building 1s having its outer walls cleaned by a new system fonvented by a Marylander, James I, Bruce, Several weeks ago Mr. Bruce explained to the officials a method whicly he had discovered of cleaning granite and sandstone which gave results much better than accom plished by either brushes or sand blasts. Ie showed them what could he done with a small granite block. Dip ping a large brush into a bucket of murky lHquid he covered the stone's surface, after which, by the aid of a Jet of water from looking fn garden hose, THE U., 8. TREASURY BUILDING, he washed the mysterious off, leaving the stone as bright Hguid and « a body ad in | at! NALS “Ie } self In arms, with Qiten in the nizh out on . ®« 1 2 ' ROT q ng ever g vller househ { the 4 3 ot daily IMI Y in mn parsimony Hookefeller Is the same an, ming and Iw Hh Purpose has ad i —_— “Bob'' Evans’ Japanese Servant, Cdmiral “ol : eh” Evans, In a reeent fn group of officers, Hghit nversation with threw white at least, by which the attained that splendid European and Ameri 0 great et hos, have to { Lier lapan “e nd 1ptabiiity ] nn Wis When 1 eormamded the New York some years ago” be sald, “1 had a Jap servant with whom 1 was especially well pleased. He was prompt, remark. ably quick to learn, and took such a deep interest In everything, that some times, to amuse myself, 1 devoted not a little attention to explaining things that he appeared not to understand A good walter, too, he was, Well, finally he disappeared, “Some time inter, European station, | Jap battleship lying In the harbor of Marseilles, The eaptaln met us at the when on the Ax we were seated, he suddenly turned, threw off his hat, and whipped a nap kin over his arm, “The eaptain would deink he said, in a tone | remembers “ Kato!" | erted, Jumping to my feet “The same, he sald, bowing. ‘Cap tala Kato of the Mikado's navy," Hs 1» upon one of made a eall on al gangway and escorted us to his cabin, | when It came from thu The Jooked result 0 Irpris quarry and the as Process BO Camy that the ald his ing foundatl wd, Mr, Mn Bruce is entire A Secret Discovery. What the process adopts “urs good gar 1« "| by I Freon s pking are » ich thirty five ong diamete Any and ol ngie stones columns nl blast not at all ' 4 thw dark ost its waring te the particles of the alr Withal plwave retained v grand, If somewhat gloomy appear ! embodying great strength and | solidity, a fit repository of the world's | gre itest Loancial Institution. | -— | Good, Useful, Old Age. The pessimists to the contrary not standing, there I8 a man In yeoln Nebraska, who feels himself | 10 bw a useful member of his com Hey Although ninety-two years gs | nt ry i f =! etain all fioke In I any eyes n nnd it has 1 : : —— — ne, ty treasurer, He puts in a full day's \ K Six days of each week and acts As Spry as a youth of fifty not use a cane, and only seldom needs the nid of glasses, Another man, who has Just died age Of clghty-five years, leaves the wond record of never having owed [anybody an account. That trinmph | sutices, whether or not he Inted a fortune, financial genius, | Marvel,” rocontly celebrated his elghty-thicd birthday at his farm home, He was a young man In point of enlendar years so long ago that It Is no «hock to the maltitudes who know him 0% the bachelor whe indulged In peveries to be told that the birthday party Wis attended by his numerous grondchildren and great grandehildren, depart- | he Is today serving actively as | He will | in Forest, Ohio, at the accumu | to stamp him as a In this connection It Is luteresting | to know that Donald G. Mitchell, whom | {an world of readers love to call “Ik! Edgewood, New Haven, Connecticut, | NO OTHER WAGONS APPROACH In Perfect Adaptability Under all Conditions to Strong Old Hick WEP i SRN gre TRH The ny Pr ro MANUFACTURED BY Kentucky Wagon Manufacturing Co. LOUISVILLE, KY. 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