.- Wj; .jfcWTi 1 4 - ?& w- PETROLEUM'S SOURCE. Another Plausible Theory Advanced As to How It Originated. LIMESTOKE ROCKS AND HYDROGEN Were 111 That Was Needed to Produce the Subterranean Supply. INCONCEIVABLE LIMITS TO THE SDPPLT Petroleum is one of the most widely dis tributed substances in nature, but tbe ques tion how it was originally produced has never yet been satisfactorily determined, and continues a problem lor philosophers. In 1889 the total production.says Light, Meal and Tower, exceeded 2.G00, 000,000 gallons, or about 10,000,000 tons, and at 4 pence per gallon, was worth about ,000,000, while the recognition of its superior utility as an economical source of light, heat and power steadily increases Notwithstanding its importance in in dustry, the increasing abundance of the foreign supply, and the ever widening area of production, practical men in .England continue to distrust its permanence, and owing to the mystery surrounding its origin, and the paucity of indications where and how to undertake the boring of wells, they hesitate to seek for it, or even to extend the use of it whenever that would involve alterations of existing machinery. The object of this paper is to suggest an explanation of the mystery which seems calculated to dissipate that distrust, since it points to verv abundant stores, both native and foreign, yet undis covered, and even in some localities to daily renovated provisions of this remarkable oiL now the Records Should Bo Read. The theories of its origin suggested by Reichenbach, Berthelot. jrendeleeff, Peck ham, and others, made no attempt to ac count for the exceeding variety in itschem ical composition, in its specific sravity, it boiling points, and are all fonnded on some hypothetical process which differs from aiiy with wnicn we are acquainted, mil moaern geologists are agreed that, as a rule, the records of the earth's history shouldbe read in accordance with those laws of nature which continue in force at the present day, e. c, the decomposition of fish and cetaceous animals could not now produce oil contain ing paraffin. Hence we can hardly believe it was possible thousands or millions of years ago, if it can be proved that any of the processes of nature with which we are iamiliar are calculated to produce it. The chief characteristics of of petroleum strata are enumerated as: First The existence of adjoing beds of limestone, gvpsum, eta Second The existence of volcanic action i close proximity to them. Third The presence of salt water in the wells. All writers have noticed the presence of limestone close to petroleum fields in the United States and Canada, in the Caucasus, in Burma, etc., but they have been most impressed by its being "fossiliferous," or shell limestone, and have drawn the err roneous inference that the animal matter once contained in thoe shells originated petroleum; but no fish oil ever contained paraffin. On the other hand, the fossil shells are carbonate of lime, and, as such, capable of producing petroleum under con ditions such as many limestone beds have been subjected to in all ages of the earth's history. Petroleum Is Composed of Carbon. All limestone rocks were formed under water, and are mainly composed of calcare ous shells, corals, encrinites, and foramini fera the latter similar to the foraminifera of "Atlantic ooze" and of English chalk beds. Everywhere, under the microscope, the original connection of limestone with organic matter its organic parentage, so to speak, and cousinship with the animal and vegetable kingdoms is conspicuous. When pure it contains 12 per cent of carbon. 2Jow petroleum consists largely of carbon, its average composition being 85 per cent, of carbon and 15 per cent of h vdrogen. and in the limestone rocks of the United King dom alone there is a far larger accumulation of carbon than in all the coal measures the world contains. A range of limestone rock 100 miles in length by 10 miles in width, and 1,000 yards in depth, would contain 743,000,0007000 tons of carbon, or sufficient to provide carbon for 875,000,000,000 tons of petroleum. Deposits of oil-bearing shale have also limestone close at hand; e. g., coral rag underlies Kimmeridge clay, as it also underlies the famous black shale in Kentucky, which is extraordinarily rich in oil. Volcanic Action Had a Hand In It. As evidence of volcanic action in close proximity to petroleum strata, the mud volcanoes at Baku and in Burma are de scribed, and a sulphur mine in Spain is mentioned (with which the writer is well acquainted), situated near an extinct vol cano, where a perpetual gas flame in a neighboring chapel and other symptoms in dicate that petroleum is not far off "While engaged in Btudymc the geological condi tions of this mine, the author observed that Dr. Christo'ffBischoff records in his writ ings that he had produced sulphur in his own laboratorv bv passing hot volcanic gases through chalk, which, when ex pressed in a chemical formula, leads at once to the postulate that, in addition to sulphur, ethylene and , all its homoloeuc:, which are the' oils pre dominating at Baku, would be produced by heating carbonate ot lime with sulphurous acid and sulphureted hydroeen. So that these and all their homologues, in fact pe troleum in all its varieties, would "be pro duced in nature by the action of volcanic gases on limestone. But much of the most abundant of the volcanic gases appear at the surface as steam, and petroleum seems to have been more usuallv produced without sulphurous acid, and w ith part of the sulphurcted hy drogen replaced by steam or peroxide of hv drogen, which is the product that results from the combination of sulphureted hy drogen ana suipnurous acia. The Same Forces Xoir at Work. It is explained that these effects must have occurred, not at periods of acute vol canic eruptions, but in conditions which may be, and have been, observed at the present time, wherever there are active lolfataras or mud volcanoes at work. De scriptions of the action of solfataras by the late Sir Itichard Burton and by a British eonsul in Iceland are quoted, "and also a paragraph from LyaU's "Principles of Geology," in which he remarks of the mud volcanoes at Girgenti, Sicily, that carbur eted hydrogen is discharged from them, sometimes with great violence, and that they are known to have been casting out water, mixed with mud and bitumen, with the same activity now as for the last 15 centuries. Probably at all these solfataras, if the gases traverse limestone, fresh deposits of oilbearing strata are accumulating, and the same volcanic action has been occurring during many successive geological 'periods and millions of yeirs; so that it is difficult to conceive limits to the magnitude of the stores of petroleum which may be awaiting discovery in the subterranean depths. Gypsum may also be an indication of oil bearing strata, for the substitution in lime stone of sulphuric for carbonic acid can only be accounted for by the action of these hot sulphurous gases. Gypsum is found exten sively in the petroleum districts of the United States, and it underlies the rock salt beds at Middlesboro, where, on being pierced, it has given passage to oil gas, which issues abundantly, mixed with brine, from a great depth. The normous Product TJp to Date. Besides the space occupied by natural gas, which is verv extensive, 17,000,000,000 gallons of petroleum have been raised in America since 18G0, and that quantity must have occupied more than 1QO,000,000 cubic yards, a space equal to a subterranean cav ern 100 yards wide by 20' deep and 82 miles a length, and it is suggested that beds of porous sandstone could hardly have con tained so much; while vast receptacles may exist, carved by volcanio water out of former beds of rock salt adjoining the lime stone, which would account for the brine that usually accompanies petroleum. It is further suggested that when no such vacant spaces were available, the hydrocarbon vapors would be absorbed into and con densed in contiguous clays and shales, and, perhaps, also in beds of coal, only partially consolidated at the time. There is an extensive bituminous lime stone formation in Persia, containing, 20 per cent ot bitumen, and the theory elab orated in the paper would account for bitu men and oil having been found in Canada and Tennessee embedded in limestone, which fact is cited by Mr. Peckham as fatoringhis belief that some petroleums are a "product of the decomposition of animal remains." 1 Above all, this theory accounts for the many varieties in the chemical composition of paraffin oils in accordance with ordinary operations of nature during successive geo logical periods. AMERICAN TIN FAVORED. The Pittsburj; Artlcl Is of a Higher Class Than the Imported and Sells Better Congressman Nledrlnjjlians Favors Reciprocity TYltli South American Coun tries. New York, Feb. 17. Special Phelps, Dodge & Co. received this morning a car load of roof tiu from the Apollo Iron and Steel Company, of Pittsburg, Pa. It is a high class tin, better, Mr. McLane, of Phelps, Dodge & Co., says, than any now imported. "As yet," said Mr. McLane, "little of the American article is received here in New York, but I understand that three or four Pittsburg firms are making it. There is no trouble in disposing of the tin even at a price above that of the foreign article. It is of better class. " "My mill is now turning out 24 tons of tin plate a day and the industry is an as sured fact in this country," said ex Coneressnian Niedringhaus, of St. Louis, at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. The Demo cratic papers have tried to belittle the quality ot the tin made by the ex-Congressman, but he has demonstrated that good tin can be manufactured here as well as in "Wales. He said this about the outlook for the industry: "We have carried out our promise to the Wa s and Means Com mittee of the Fiftieth Congress and shown beyond a doubt that we can make tin of the best quality in this country. It is now becoming a great industry. I pay about $1,800 a day for labor. Already about 20 men have signified their intention to start tin factories, and altogether tbe prospect is rosy." "What about reciprocity?" "I believe in it, especially with the South American countries. But we must be care ful not to exchange free of duty manufact ured goods .with England or any other coun try that pays labor one-third less than we do. That would mean ruination to the manufacturing industries here. A work man receives about three times the pay here as in Ensland or any part of Europe, and he can buy nearly three times as much as the foreigner. That is just the difference between free trade and protection countries. It is wise to have reciprocal relations with South American countries because they do not manufacture to any extent, and we can find a market there in exchange for their coffee and gen eral products." "ITIave been afflicted with an affection of the throat from childhood, caused by dlptheria, and have used various remedies, but hare never found anything equal to Brown's Bronchial Troches." Kev. G. M. 1 Hampton, Fiketon, Ky. bold only in boxes. A THURSDAY BARGAIN SALE That Will Make a Clean Sweep of AH the Damaged Clothing That's Left P. C. C. C, Clothiers. The following bargains are for to-day's sale only. The sale starts at 8:30 in the morning and ends at 5:30 this evening. It is a terrific sacrifice of all clothing left from onr late fire. Some of the goods are merely slightly damaged. The bulk of the suits are perfect. The prices we mention make other reduction sales appear ridicu lous. Ours is the giant sale. Others are simply dwarfs. Bemember, to-day. These are the prices for goods placed in our basement bargain department: A complete line of men's fine pants, worsteds and cassimeres, wide and narrow stripes, checks and plaids, 18 styles, at 51 32 A lot of boys' three-piece suits, sizes 8 to 16 (coats and vests with knee pants), made of Scotch cheviot, at only j 2 66 Boys' chinchilla reefers, with plaid cassimere lining, sizes o to IS. at 1 95 Men's English whipcord suits, sacks and cutaways, narrow and wide wales, blue black color, all sizes; nobody can beat our price of. 5 90 Men's double-breasted velour cheviot suits, retail at $18 per suit; we sell em to-day at... 6 80 Four shades of lightweight melton overcoats, sold at regular sale for $15; our price to-day is 4 85 On our main floor you will find men's fine black cheviot suits, sacks or cutaways, bound or plain, sold al ways at $22; to-day's price 9 90 Men's fine melton overcoats at 7 50 Men's dress pants, all the $5, $6 and $7 goods go for 2 75 A great line of boys' suits, sizes 4 to 14, neat and fancy patterns 1 70 Sixteen styles of bovs' long pants suits at..... ". 5 00 P. C C. C, Clothiers, corner Grant and Diamond streets. Arrival and Departure of Trains on the iMttsburc Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Hallway. Commencing Wednesday, February 17, through express trains Nos. 2, 6. 10 and 20, eastbound, and Nos. 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 and 21, westbound, over the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway, will, until further notice, arrive at and depart from PitUburg Union Station via the Ohio connecting bridge and over the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicajro Railway. Ac commodation trains will arrive at and de part from Point Bridge station. Use Twenty Carloads a Day. Since occupying their new mill the Mar shall Kennedy Milliner Company's capacity has so increased that it takes 20 carloads of the finest wheat a day to supply the de mand. Such a large consumption puts them along-side of the largest mills in the-orld. However, no mill is as finely equipped as this local mill, whose most popnlar brand is "Camellia," the queen of flour. Spjxiat, offerings to-day in long cloth cloaks, plain and fur trimmed, at greatly reduced prices. Jos. Hokne & Co.'s Penn Avenue Stores. Don't fail to come and see that magnifi cent 30-inch frieze, the Ejyptian Lotus de sign. One of the most effective wall decor ations ever brought out. John S. ItOBErrrs, 719-721 Liberty street, head of Wood. irrh Holmes' Best Monongahela Pure Rye Whisky was first introduced in this market in 1858. It has held its own as one of the leaders ever since. Always uniform in quality and purity. " tts Special Kent Advertisements To-day in The Dispatch. See third page. Mondays and Thursdays are special rent days. Bread made, from Minnehaha flour does not dry out quickly, so that one baking a week for a small family is sufficient. Ths New black jackets in all new materials and new shapes, at very attractive prices. Jos. Hokne & Co. 's Penn Avenue Stores. PICTURES OF HADES: How Some Christians Exercised Their Vivid Imaginations. THE TORTURES OP THE DAMNED Described "Witli Words That Caused Terror Among the Sinners. INEFFABLE HISEEY WAS PORTRAYED In one of his moral 'essays Pope speaks of a "soft Dean," who never mentioned hell to "ears polite' and adds, in a note, "This is a fact." The "soft Dean" appears from the Guardian of the 31st of March, 1713, o have been -an eminent divine, "most exactly well bred," who told his congregation at White hall that if they did not "vouchsafe to give their lives a new trn they must certainly go to a place which he did not think fit to name in that Courtly audience." Many Christian writers, says the Fall Mall Budget, have been less delicate than Swift's Dean, and have condescended to details with both definiteness and unction. From the pictures whieh these amiable divines have drawn of the tortures of the damned Mr. .Tames Mew makes an effective mosaic in the Nineteenth Century: It has been proved over and over again (Mr. Mew remarks) by others besides Je rome and Tertullian that the fire of hell is a terrible reality; that it is corporeal material: that its constituents are probably sulphur and fluid pitch. iThe sulphur stinks. This is satisfactorily shown by quite a swarm of learned authorities. Infidel quibblings have been easily quashed. How can incorporeal spirits be burnt? Answer: By incorporeal fire. How can material bodies be burnt for ever? Answer: By the analogues of the as bestos and the salamander, oragain by a cer tain salting antiseptic virtue, or again by an Omnipotent implanting in the fire of a cer tain force which burns but consumes not. Satan Had Horns tike a Goat. Csesarius, a Cistercian of Heisterbach, says that in a town called Enthcnich, in Bonn, a certain Walter when sick saw satan, with a face like a monkey and goat's horns. Walter asked him about the fate of his late master, Count William of Juliers. "You know," replied the demon, "the dis trict between Wolkenburg and Drachenfels. In faith ,1 tell you that if that district and those mountains were both made of iron, and set in that place where the soul of your master now is, they would be molten antequam supercilium superius inferiori jungi posset in a word, before you could wink." The color of hell fire is probably a lurid green, no light but rather darkness visible. There is cold in hell, but no water. It is not improbable that there are corporeal worms, in the sense ot serpents, and im mortal, of which some say they are as thick as tbe rushes on the floor. There is no clock in hell. Bridaine represents a tortured be ing rising from his bed of appalling agony, and asking, What is the time? And a dull voice out of the darkness answers, Eternity! In the very entrance and gate of Dante's hell (quite a characteristic fourteenth cen tury one) are placed the apathetic, the in different in spiritual things, a neutral soci ety, while on earth, in the matter of religious good and evil, which now fills the air with aiehs and lamentations, an air stained bv solid darkness and unpierced by the light of any star. Then in the first circle or limbo the unbaptized, among whom is Virgil him self, desire without hope. Scenes That Dante Pictured. In the second are carnal sinners tossed by warring winds where light fs silent. In the third gluttons bitten by Cerberus are exposed in a stinking land to storms of hail. In the fourth are the prodigal and the miser, each pushing a heavy weight up a hill with his breast. In the fifth are the irascible under the foul and fepid slime of the Stygian Lake. In the sixth arch heretics smart and agonize in tombs of flame. In the seventh the violent swim in rivers of blood, Buicides are changed into gnarled trees, and blasphemers writhe under a rain of fire. In the eighth, orMalebolge, are. simonists with their heads downward in eqiial and circular uuies, prupncis wiui lueir laces re versed Doth of these punishments are prob ably new and originals-public peculators in a lake of boiling pitch, hypocrites under gilded hoods of lead, sacreligists stung by serpents, schismatics, among whom is Mu hammad, with maimed limbs, alchemists, forgers and impostors, among them Ulysses, the hero of the Homeric poem, the' victims of varied disease. In the ninth circle, which corresponds to the seventh or nether most Muslim hell, Al Hawiyah, which, being interpreted, is the place ot precipitous descent, the hell of hypocrites, the last, the worst, the frozen, traitors are fitly placed; and among these, blue-pinched, shrouded in ice, and chattering like storks, are to be found the most famous of that crafty crew, liuciter and Judas. At the Bottom of Chaos. Milton's hell is situated at the bottom of Chaos. Its description is, in short, an antarctic region of fire and ice, of dire hail and ever-burning sulphur. Its distance from heaven is three semi-diameters of our mundane system. The stature of Satan reaches the sky. Four infernal rivers are introduced from the pagan theology. In this geographical view Lethe is also in cluded. On the other side of the flood of oblivion is a frozen continent. Hither all the damned are haled by harpy-footed Furies from beds of fire to pine in ice. The gates of hell are guarded by Death and Sin, in forms too well known to need description. By these ideal architects a long bridge is built from hell to the "ut most orbs of this frail world," which, be ing interpreted by Masson, is the uttermost circle of the starry sphere. Milton's tor ments are more poetic, but less painful, we may suppose, than those of the Christian fathers. An original idea of hell was the result of the speculative inquiries of Jean Hardouin. This most learned fool, as he has been some what impolitely called by Peignot, among the Jesuits, was a contemporary of Pina monti. He maintained that the rotation of the earth was due to the efforts of the damned to escape from their central fire. Climbing up the walls of hell, they caused the earth to revolve as a squirrel its cage,' or a dog the spit. Bodies Bnrned, bnt NotvConftunied.a From the description of hell by Jona than Edwards, that, sturdy theologian, one sentence will probably be found more than sufficient: "Your bodies, which shall have been burning all this while in those glow ing flames, shall not have been consumed, but will remain to roast through eternity!" But still, even according to this amiable ecclesiastic, the damned will have one satis faction. It is an ill wind that blows no body good, and theirs will be the unselfish consolation of reflecting that the sight of the hell torments which they suffer will exalt the happiness of the saints for ever; for it will make them "more sensible of it, it will give then a more lively relish of it. Parents will see their children, children their parents, wives their husbands, and husbands their wives, in ineffable agony, and prize their own felicity the more "a sense of the opposite misery in all cases greatly increases the relish of any joy." Of devils, Gulielmus Parisiensis has found on an exact computation that there are 44,435,556, but it has been said that they vastly exceed that number. Their external forms and internal, characteristics have been minutely described. Their bodies are not terrestrial, but, accprdfng to the Church scholastics, something analogous. John Wier, a physician of Cleves, tonvinced that this world is peopled by crowds of devils, wrote in 1576 a book of some thousand folio paces, which is one of our chief sources of information on the subject. He makes 72 princes of devils with 7,405,926 subjects. By Europeans the devil is commonly painted black. The Africans prefer a white devil ft f WIN - - EDITH STEWAItT DBEWBY IX "GBAVU."' Concluded Prom Yesterday. How and when had she got in? Had the om nibus stopped or even slackened, unnoticed by me, in my strange absorption? No, no, hbw could it? Yet there the stranger sat. And what a singular face it was! What deathly pallor and painful melancholy in every line! What rsad, wiBtful eyes, that seemed full of unshed tears, and kept look ing, looking at me, through me, into my soul, with an intense strained gaze that never wavered, and seemed every moment to grow deeper in Its dumb agony of appeal as of one struggling for the speech of which God had bereft her tongue. I looked away, aside, ont of the doorway, conscious that my'blood was creeping dull and heavily, like" half-frozen water, through my veins; but a strange, weird fascination compelled me to again meet that gaze. Did she know me? Impossible! I had certainly never seen her before. My heart throbbed up into my throat, my blood began to beat fast and warm again, and as we rolled onward I was aware of a curious subtle change in my sensations. Every nerve, every fiber was still strung up to a painful tension; but there Btole over me, into "me, body and spirit, a sense of steel-like strength a strange settling down of my faculties into cool, steadfast power, and more than that, a sense that crew slowly to impelling convic tion that that fellow passenger knew what I did not whosoever or whatsoever she was, and that my movements must follow hers, blindly. As that odd feeling deep ened and possessed me, my eyes again went to the woman's face to meet a look of in tense res(fulness and content that dom inated all other expression of anguish or strained eagerness, as if after something un reached. Did she or it read my soul and find there all its tortured, trammelled spirit sought? It gave me almost a shock to suddenly see the stalwart, prosaic conductor at the doorway, asking for "fares to Tottenham Court Road," which I had named when I got in. I noticed at once that he did not even glance at my strange neighbor seemed not to see her but I saw her shake her bead to me. "No," I said to the man, "I am going further. I'll stop you when I want to get ont." Under this curious falm that had settled on me, I was not at all surprised at the man's evident obliviousness of that passen ger. I should have been surprised if he had evinced any knowledge of her presence, and it seemed to me quite in the order of things when, on reaching Gray's Inn road, she raised her white hand to me, and glided out on to the pavement unnoticed by the con ductor. I paid him and stepped to the stranger's side, 'thrilled right through with a weird feeling that should ordinarily un nerve one; vet I had never felt more strong, cool, ready for tbe most desperate danger or emergency; and as my guide I following moved swiftly northwards I drew off my gloves and felt in my bosom to be sure the revolver was ready to hand. There was grim work, I knew. She led, on straight up past the shops, still ablaze at past 11 in that neighborhood on this eve, and -at last turned down a street which I knew to be mostly filled with third-rate, shady lodging houses, where doors are on the latch all night, and never a question is asked of "whence, whither or what?" This class of houses have the commonest latch locks that are easily fitted, and, of course, I was well provided with such appliances of noiseless entrance. Before one of these houses my mysterious guide stopped. Save a light in the first floor window all was darkness either the inmates were asleep or out. To that win dow my guide eagerly pointed, with a look and gesture that vehemently urged instant action, as if a minute's delay were fatal; so I drew out and fitted a key. She was close, her lips moved, but there was no sound, not a whisper; yet into my mind, as if I had heard it, came a name Louis Saumarez and at that moment I opened the door and entered, leaving the door just ajar for her to follow. But she did not. What I meant to do or felt I never could put into words. My mind was concentrated on one great fact that the murderer was ialhat lighted room, about to escape, and that I a woman, alone must stop him and arrest him. Terror, danger, were not present to me then I was too strung up grimly cool. It was I who was dangerous. I stole up quietly, easily, as,, if I had a right there, opened the 'door and paused. One glance took in the mise-en-scene. A shabby room, scantiiy furnished, a fire nearly out, wine and food on the table, a valise packed up, and iust drinking a class of wine, using the left hand, was a rather tall, good-looking, but sallow-faced man. Mon Dieul I must see that other hand by some ruse. "Que Diable," said I, with a bitter but abandoned manner, "but you are a cruel enough lover to me, M. Saumarez. He swung round, so startled that he stag gered and caught at a chair with the right hand, to which it was nearest. I saw it lull under the lamplight; a dark scar across it; the fourth finger gone ! The assassin at last! "Who the devil are you?" he demanded savagely( recovering himself a little. "I never saw you before, and you are too dueced handsome to be forgotten. Leave my room ! I have to catch a train, and my name isMercier." "Pardons, Monsieur," said I coolly, my right hand on the butt of my weapon, my eyes on his ready for his attack, "you are Louis Saumarez, and you are my prisoner for murder." I stood near the door, he at the far end of the large room. At the last awful words he snatched a knife from the table with a fierce "Sacre r," and sprang toward me; but at that sfceond I fired, and the fellow reeled back with a yell like a wounded wild beast, and fell heavily, partially stunned by the blow to his head, on the floor, the blood coming from his side. I knew where to hit safely. I was turning quickly to get police help be fore my prisoner regained consciousness, when men's steps came quickly along from (below, up the stairs, aud two constables came into the room, one exclaiming: "Hulloa! What's this murder? Are you hurt too, ma'am?" Shaken now a little, I had leaned against the wall, as the other man knelt beside Saumarez. "Non, non," I said. "I fired in self-defence. I am here to arrest that man for the murder of Madame Folcade. I am a French police agent. It is all right." One was a sergeant, and whilst the other bound up the slight wound, I briefly explained matters and gave my captive in charge. The sergeant sent for the divisional surgeon, who had Saumarez removed to the hospital in cus tody, of course and said in two or three days he would be able to be taken to Bow street for the necessary formalities of ex tradition. After we "had left him at the hospital, with the constable in charge, I asked the sergeant as we walked back west ward, how they arrived so opportunely nau tney neara tne snot and cry.' "Yes just "outside," he said; "but they had come from the station near at the sum mons of a lady iu black, who was as white as a ghost, and was dumb, for she could only beckon beckon like mad, and when we followed led us to that houses-just as the shot was fired and was gone before we could look round. Awful queer, ma'am," he added. "Who was she?f 'L do not know," I answered in a choked -voice. "Good night, I am dead tired now." I.was shaken to the center now that the terrible, long strain was so far over, and the murderer secured; but next day, Christmas Day, I wired to my chefi and received a re. ply that he would send over a responsible official with a mandat d'arret to receive tbe prisoner from tbe English authorities and bring him over to Paris. Meanwhile, I of course iad to obtain at Bow Street tt war IDENTITY. f s-p fp& r1! rant under the Extraditions Act, and two days later Saumarez was pronounced quite able to be removed. As a result well within five or six days of his arrest he was safely lodged in the Parisian prison. I had traveled with my French comrades (two of course) and their captive, who had maintained a sulky silence save once to savagely curse that "diablesse of an agent" I went the same day of our arrival to re port myself to my delighted chef, who asked how I had trapped the bird at last? I felt too shattered then to tell him the actual truth, I shrank in sensitive dread from the possible smile of incredulity, so I said that a person I met by chance had spoken of a Frenchman named Saumarez who had one finger gone, and this person had shown me his lodgings, which he was on the point of leaving when I entered. "So I had to be summary in my actions," I added, as I rose to go. "Quite right. Marie, you are in valuable and have well "redeemed my confidence in you. You have earned a rest truly, and a reward from M. Folcade. By the way, I have made a promise there for you." "Comment, -Monsieur?" I was surprised "my existence is unknown to him and his." "Individually, yes, but professionally, not so. I went siyself to tell M. Folcade of the daring arrest of the assassin by my clever agent a woman, I added, and he made me promise to send you4o his house here inTaris directly you arrived. He and his sister-in-law, the wife's twin sister, es pecially wish to see the lady of whom I spoke." I started, but said quietly: "The twin-sister, Monsieur, is she then over here?" For though outwardly not a muscle of mine moved, I "was startled right mrougn by his words, by the wildly ex traordinary fancy that flashed across me as I recalled all that had taken place on Christmas Eve. ' "Yes," Dupre replied, "Mademoiselle Clarice Grey came over here to her be reaved brother-in-law just before Christmas; she was too ill to bear the voyage earlier. Will you have a fiacre and go at once, mon agent?" "Yes, assuredly," I said. I felt that I must go at once and solve this mystery, which was, surely on the borderland "of the real and unreal, the seen and the wondrous unseen, of which our finite humanity, the soul's prison, knows so little and con jectures so much. I went then to- the banker's honse, but found that he himself was not yet returned from the bank, thongh momentarily ex pected. "Would I see Mademoiselle Clarice?" I said yes, gave my name, and was shown into an elegant salon. In three minutes a young lady came in, and in that moment as we faced each other we both stood transfixed, dazed as if pul sation itself were arrested each had seen the other, each knew where, but not how not how; my strange, "silent fellow-passenger and guide of Christmas Eve, no flesh and blood, as this was who now came slowly forward and held my hands tightly but, the same identity only that other was in the spirit. "We know each other," she said, in a hushed, awed way, "not in the flesh but in the soul, and yet a reality, not a dream, though they say I lay like one dead asleep, and when 1 came back to sentiment life knew nothing of where we she and I had been." "We you and she!" I repeated, feeling my flesh creep and my heart stan'd still. "There there were not two but one guide with me." "We, twain but always one," Clarice said in the same way, her wistf nl eyes looking into mine "dead and living, our twin born souls are one identity for ever, and so the dread secret with which her soul was oppressed, passed with it into mine,' but densely trammelled by my mortality till your despair and strensth of Tjrfrnose and desire drew us from our mortal prison to your aid. I felt the mighty spell of your agony enfolding itself with my own mad dened thirst for justice, felt a strange ob livion stealing my physical senses, and knew no more, save when I awoke, a deep joy, gratitude, triumph a restfhl ness. I knew before your chef spoke that the murderer was arrested by the agent he named, it all came back to me then, and I we twain knew all." I stood looking at her as her mystic pres ence that night had looked at me. What awesome secret of the unknown was indeed half unfolded it seemed, in these twin-born sisters whom even the mystery of death could not part from their entwined co existence? Had, in truth, the dead sis ter's soul passed as it were into its twin soul yet encompassed by its mortal body, and so through its own beyond death, knowledge, God-given yet only "through a glass darkly," had a mystic power as the one spirit of the Twin-Identity to cuide me, the mortal agent who was the mate rial instrument of God's justice? It might be so. Could I could any mortal in his bounded finiteness say it could not be? So there must it rest "as mystery till all mysteries shall be seen face "to face. You ask me "What was the end of that grim tragedy?" Well I traced ont Saumarez's antecedents and my suspicions Jf his motive proved to be true. His guilt was undeniable by the proofs we had the ring, the finger and knife and many other collateral links of evidence, and Louis Sau marez was condemned and guillotined. It was months before I could work again, and indeed M. Folcade and Clarice Grey would have bad me retire on the compe tence they insisted on settling on me, but I could not settle.to a ouiet. useless life while I was young and strong. So I am still agent-de-pohce, and I am going to visit Clarice in London, where she is married to an Englishman. Ah, see, the train is going on again and we shall soon reach London. Clarice likes her chere Marie Lacroix "to be with her on Christmas Eve." Foe neuralgia we Oil. recommend Salvation Mr line of hand printed wall decorations has never been equaled in the city. Come and see them, f John S. Roberts, 719-721 Liberty street, head of Wood. MTh Special Bent Advertisements To-day in The Dispatch. See third page. Mondays and Thursdays are special rent days. A sweet, firm, light body, a crisp deli cious crust that tastes of wheat that is a loaf of bread made from Minnehaha flour. Ths BMMh 7iqjfoiTi?fliTsj 'WTONFREE rlllHN I. ; 3 v aHHYP.r-7rfr r.'liy tJOS'C' -"- f1 -mo DESKS. OFFICE OUTFITTERS. Office Specialty Co, HUXbirdftT. loa- TAILORING. Correct Winter Suitings ana Overcoating J H. 4 C i AHLEKS, Merchant Tailors, 120 Smithfield St. i. no2S4.TT8S JBwLi t O.D.LEVIS SOLICITOR. I JLl3l STrUVLNEXriEADEB. PITISBURGHJA. 1 f ICEW ADVERTISEMENTS. BARGAINS BARGAINS i?ore iB( 1H) -for- Im&mm Houseteepers A KUNDSOME FAIRY LUMP, WORTH Will Be Given Free of Charge With Every Purchase of $3 and Over. CENTS. Genuine Fiber Pail, indestruc tible, warranted to last for years, worth 55c, Coffee Mills, good steel grind ers, large size, worth 45c... French Shoe Blacking, large box, worth 8c Shoe Brushes, with dauber, good bristles, worth 35c Wire Broom Holders, very useful Wire Picture, or Cup and Saucer Easel, worth 10c Egg Beater, the latest improve ments, worth 25c ." Hair Curling Irons, superior make, nickel plated, worth 34 21 3 10 4 5 12 8 7 73 6 28 10 7 4 10 2 10 15 98 53 15c ' Bird Cage Bracket, nicely bronzed, worth 15c Lap Boards, folding, with yard measure, worth $1 ,.. Dust Pans, extra heavy, nicely Japannedr worth 10c Curtain Poles and wooden trimmings complete, worth 40c , Plate Holders, useful and or namental, extra fine finish.. Soap Powder, a labor saving article, 1 lb package, war ranted as good as any in the market, worth 15c Best Laundry Soap, in 1 lb bars, wrapped, per pound.. Self-Closing Clothes'Pin Bags, with clothes pins, worth 25c Crystal Glass Nappies, latest designs, worth double Butcher or Kitchen Knives, good.steel, worth 25c a. Oil or Vinegar Cruets, thin blown, engraved, worth 30c Parlor Lamp, with brass ped estal, hand painted bowl and shade to match, with large burner Hall & Elton's celebrated Ger man Silver Tea Spoons, per set, 6 in set, worth 95c Genuine Acme Curtain Stretcher, every one warranted $2.95 Household Paints, Paint Brushes, Varnish Brushes, Whitewash Brushes, Kalsomining Brushes, Wall Brushes, in all sizes and qualities. FLEI5HMAN&C P. S. Mail orders receive especial attention. SILVERWARE REGARDLESS OF COST. For one week only we will ofFer the best quality Triple-Plate BUTTER DISHES, SPOON HOLDERS, CREAM PITCHERS. SUGAR BOWLS PICKLE CASTORS, CAKE BASKETS, CARD RECEIVERS, BERRY DISHES and CHILDREN'S SETS at $1 OO'each. Every piece warranted for ten years' wear. Q M I T' Q Sole Agentfor Chemical Diamonds, Ol VI I I O, Cor. Liberty and Smithfield and 311 Smithfield & 525. We offer you great bargains for a few days; business suits in Cutaways or Sacks vand in all the latest styles. PLAIDS, STRIPES, MIXED AND FANCY CHEVIOTS AND CASSIMERES. Best value ever offered. See our window display. A complete assortment of Trouser ings at $6 and $8. ffMAMAm & mm, 39 SIXTH ST. Hotel Anderson Block. Ja28 DRUNKENNESS Or the ZJqnor Habit Positively Cored by Administering Dr. Haines' Golden Specific It Is mannrsctured as a powder, which can T flyen in x glass of beer, a, cup of coffee or tes, or la ood, without the knowledge of the patient. It Is absolutely .harmless, and will effect a permanent and speedy care, -whether the patient Is a moderate drinker or an alcoholic wreck. It dm been Hires la thousands of cases, and In every Instance a per fect core has followed. It never falls. The system once Impregnated wjth the Specific It becomes an etter Impossibility for the llqnor appetite to exist. ta.pace book of partlcnlars free. To be had of A. J. BANKIN, Sixth and Penn ay.. Pittsburg-. Trade supplied by GEO. A. KELLY CO. Alle cheny stents, E. HOLDEN A CO.. 63 Federal st. CANCEK -ojlous cured. K knife. Send for testimon ial. O.U.McMlchaeL M.D.. S3 Nlirtra st. Buffalo. JJ. Y. "IH9-n-TTSuTVlC TT1UTARIAN PUBLICATIONS FRE U Address Hiss Mary Lyman, 19 Oakland Square, l'ittsbarjr. , 1&I24A CENTS. Imported Salt Boxes, large size, with nickel trimming, worth 35c Clothes Lines, warranted 90 feet long, worth 30c.. Washboards, extra strong, worth 30c Genuine German Putz Pomade, cleans everything Pot Chains, for cleaning all kinds of kitchen utensils.... Genuine Le Page Glue, for mending china, glass or any thing else, with brush. Lemon Squeezer, does its work quickly and thoroughly, worth 15c Nail Brushes, a very conveni ent toilet article Bird Gravel, per box, large size, sold elsewhere 8c Bird Food, per box, large size, sold elsewhere 12c..., Window Blinds, with fringes, complete and ready to hang, worth 50c. Feather Dusters, extra large size, worth 50c Cuspidors, extra large, Ja panned and decorated, with gold band, worth 40c Carpet Beaters, extra strong made out of one piece of steel wire, worth 25c Furniture Polish, best in the world, worth 25c Toilet Paper, perforated roll, large package Casters, with 3 bottles, in nickel frame, worth 75c China Cuspidors, decorated with flowers and sprays French China Decorated Plates, odds and ends off the counters, worth 50c and U Plain White Vegetable Dishes, with cover, worth 65c. 2 4 8 8 4 4 6 27 28 23 7 48 25 15 25. Fenders for grates, with brass or nickel railing, worth 2.25. Toilet Set, with Jar, 12 pieces, complete, dec orated with .flowers, in all colors, worth 25... Hall & Elton's celebrated German Silver Table Spoons, per set, 6 in set, worth 2.50 $1.48 $3.75 $1.10 504, 506 and 503 ST. felS St iel4-TTSsu WHY IS THE W. L. DOUGLAS S3 SHOE CENTegflEN . THE BEST SHOE IN THE WORLD FOR TriE M0NE7 ? It Is a seamless shoe, with no tacks or wax thread to hurt the feet; made of the best fins calf, stylish and easy, and because we make more ehoea of thia erode than any other manufacturer, Iteqoalsnand sewed shoes costing from tiAO to $5 00. t&S OO Genuine Hand-sewed, the finest calf PJa shoe ever offered for J5.00! equals Frencn Imported shoes which cost from J3.0O to 41Z0O. tA OO Hand-Mewed Welt Shoe, line calf. ?" stylish, comfortable and durable. The best shoe ever offered at this price ; same grade u custom-mode shoes costlne from $S 00 to tSM. CQ 30 Police Shoe! Farmers. Railroad Men ? andLetterCarrtersallweartbem:nnecair, seamless, smooth inside, heavy three coles, exten Joojdee. One pair will wear a year. . . O 30 flue calf no better shoe ever offered al & this price; one trial will convince those wuowani a snoe ror comfort and service. . CO 35 and S'2.00 Workina-raan'a noei Psfie are very strong and durable. Those wna nave given them a trial will wear no othermake. DnucI 82.00 and 81.75 school shoes ars DWJS worn bytheboyseverywbere: theyseU on their merits, as the Increasing sales show. LsHlS3'00 Hnnd-sewed shoe, JJMt lidUICS Dongo!a.verystjll3h:eqnal3Frencli Imported shoes coatlnsfrom 4 to 6JW. -Xadlea' 2.50, 82.00 and 81.75 shoo for Hisses are the best fine Dongola. Stylish and durable. Caution. See that W. L. Douglas' name and file are stamped on the bottom ot each shoe. INTAKE NO SUBSTITUTE! Insist on local advertised dealers supplylat; ypo. "W.L. DOUGLAS, Ilrockton. Mass. Sold by D. Carter, 71 Fifth avenue: J. N. Froh'rlnr.339 Fifth avenue; H. J. & G. M. Lang, 01 Butler street. PitUburg. Henry Koser. Xo. 108 Federal street; E. G. Hollman. No. 73 Rebecca street, Allegheny. JsJ-si-tts JAS. M'NEIL & BR0., BOILERS, PLATE AXD SHEETIKOX PLATE AXD WORK. SHEET-IRON PATENT AKSEALEiG BOXE3. With an increased capacity and hydraulic " machinery, we are prepared to famish all i work in onr line cheaper and better than nj j the old methods. Repairing and (renerft.' M Tnnchlnn wnrlc Twenty-ninth street and f I Allegheny Valley.Eailroad. , . felG-60-rrs M t mm 1 9 15 5 8 5 1 ,-
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