VOL. XXXIV
MRS. J. E. ZIMMERMAN.
4-Days, 4-Days, 4-Days
EIGHTH SEHNANNUAL
SACRIFICE SALE.
THIS OUR REGULAR SEMI-ANNUAL SACRIFICE GALE
WILL TAKE PLACE ON
JANUARY 6, 7, 8, 9.
Immediately after this sale we invoice our entire stock. It is eas
ier to take stock of cash than it is of m rchandise, therefore you ca;i
see that our object in these sales is to reduce our stock, get in the
cash 'vhich we need, make room for our spring goods, and last but
not least to give our customers a ci.ance twice each year to buy up
to-date goods ur manufacturers' prices.
T( IOSC who have formerly attended our Sacrifice Sales we need
not say much—simply extend to them a cordial invitation to come
to this January Clearance Sale. They know in the past they have
been .nuine Sacrifice Sales. We never mislead the public or have
fake sales. Everything in this store will be sold regardless of cost
during this 4 days' Sacrifice Sale—Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and
Saturday, January 6, 7, 8 and 9.
Please remember the place and date of this Great Sacrifice Sale.
Remember also that during these four days SI.OO has the purchasing
of $2.00 at anv other time.
MRS. J. E. ZIMMERMAN
N*. B.—This sale for cash only. No c irds for goods
purchased at this Sacrifice Sale Mrs. Z.
'Tis
Never too Late
To give a friend a present. Now the rush of
Christmas is over and you have had yo.ir pres
ents and have given to your friends, you have
probabiy thought of so "ie one to whom you
should have given a present but forgot to do so.
To those of you who have done this we say it
is never too late to give a present. Now
that the Christmas rush is over, we find that we
have left about 160 pairs of Holiday Slippers,
made up of broken lots. These will be closed
out at cost price. Come early and get the size
you want,
A. RUFF & SON.
_ SPECIAL NOTICE- -To those holding our Premium Tickets for
photographs. By special arrangement with
the photographer these tickets will be good
up to February !, r 897. These tickets en
ables the holder to cet a full do/., n of r-abin/>t
photos, the regular price for which is $3, for
$1.60. If you havent a ticket call and get
one.
Before Yob Spend Your
Christmas money
Come and see the dainty assortment of kerchiefs,
chatelaine bags, purses and fascinators we have.
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General tinnktiiK bunlnefM transacted
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Chants farmera an<l otlier«.
All Bujlneoi en'ruvsl to u« >lll receive
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Interest pjlil on time lenoslts
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Capital paid In $100,000.00
Surplus and Profits $87,962.35
Jo*, liar tin mi. President; J. V. KitN.Viee
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Interest pal<l ->u tt'ii • il-ixisltn.
Money loaned »n appnuea . . Ity.
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The be it of horse* and first class
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Bent accommodations in town for
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Stable room for sixty-five horses
A good ciaaa of hcjrscn, botb driv
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and for sale under a full guarantee;
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LUTLKH. PA..THURHDAY. JANUARY 7, 1897.
THE H!,«RESS
of the©*.: |lMine.
ir AVV' c a Intervenes.
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lCo;*rlghl 1835, by Robert Harr I
CHAPTER X.
| After Edith Long-worth left her
: Jennie Brewster indulged in a ' rief
1 spasm of hysterics. Her good sens ,
however, speedily got her out of that,
tind as she became wore or less calm
Fhe began to wonder why she had not
assaulted the girl who had dared to im
prison her. She dimly remembered
j that she thought of a fierce onslaught
1 at the time, and she also remembered
that the fear of the lioat leav ing during
the row had stayed her hand. But now
that the boat had left, she bitterly re
gretted her inaction, and grieved un
availingly over the fact that she had
stopped to write the account of the. dis
aster which befell the Caloric. Had she
not done so, all might have been weil,
but her great ambition to be counted
tlie best newspaper woman in New-
York, and to show tho editor that she
■was equal to any emergency that might
arise, had undone her. While it would
have been possible for her to send away
one telegram, her desire to write the
second had resulted in her sending none
at /ill. Although she impugned her
own conduct in language that one
would not have expected to have heard
from tho lips of a daughter of a million
aire, her anger against Edith Long
worth became more intense, and n
fierce desire to have revenge toolc pos
session of the fair correspondent. She
resolved that she would go up on deck
and shame this woman liefore every
body. She would attract public atten
tion to the affair by tearing Edith
Longworth from her deck chair, and
in her present state of mind she had
no doubt the had the strength to do it.
With the yearning for revenge iierce
and strong upon her, the newspaper
w oman put on her hat and departed for
the deck. Like an enraged tigress she
passed up one side and down the other,
but her would-be victim was not vis
ible. The rage of Miss Ilrewster in
creased when she found her prey w aa
not where she expected. She had a
fear that w hen she calmed down her
own good sense would assert itself, and
her revenge would be lost. In goin g
to and fro along the deck she met Ken
yon and Fleming walking together.
Fleming had just that moment come up
to Kenyon, who was moodily pacing
the deck alone, and, slapping him on
the shoulder, asked Jiiin to- have a
drink.
"It seems to me," he said, "that I never
have had the pleasure of offering you
a drink since we came on board the ship.
T want to drink with everybody who is
here, and <-speciaJly now, when some
thing has happened to make it worth
while."
"I am very much obliged to you," said
John Kenyon, coldly, "but I never drink
with anyl»ody."
"W hat, never touch it at all ? Not even
ale?"
"Not even ale."
"Well, I am astonished to hear that.
1 thought every Englishman dunk ale."
" There is at least one Englishman
why does not."
"All right, then, no harm done, and
no offer I liObe. 1 uav
1:1 at. y-.u mi.a hit ",r ftiji ill
this world."
'1 presume I raisa a few headaches,
llso."
'"Ob, not necessarily. I have one fnrfat
recipe for not having a headache. YOTZ
this is the philosophy of head
aches," and t hen, much to John's cha
grin, be linked arms with him and
ch:ir<'i d his step to suit Kenyon's, talk-,
intf all the time n.s if tliey were the most
intimate friends in the wrold.
"1 have a *'ure plan for avoiding a
headache. You see, when you look into
the matter, it is this way. The head
ache only comes when you are sober.
Very well, then. It is as simple as A B
C. Never get sober; that's the way I
do. I simply keep on andnever get sober,
so I have no headaches. If j>eople who
drink would avoid the disagreeable
necessity of ever getting sober, they
would be all right. Don't you see what
I mean?"
"And how about their brains in the
mean time?"
"Oh, their brains are all rltfht. Good
liquor sharjtens a man's brains wonder
fully. Now you try it i onic time. T<et
me have them mix a cocktail for you. I
tell you, John, a oocktail is one of the
finest drinks that ever wns made, anil
this man at the bar, when 1 came on
board, he thought lie could make acock
tail, but lui didn't know even the rudi
ments. I have taught him how t/> do
it, and I tell you that secret will Is;
worth a fortune tohiiu, because if there
is anything Americana like it is to have
their cocktails mixed correctly. There's
ilo one man in all England can do it.,
and very few men on the Atlantic siirv
ice. Hut I'm gra<l uully educating them.
Been acrosssix times. They pretend to
give you American drinks over in Eng
land, but you must know how disap
pointing they are."
"I'm sure I don't see how I should
know, for I never taste any of them."
"Ah, true; I had forgotten that. Well,
I took this barkeeper hero in hand, and
he knows now how to make a reasonably
good cocktail; and, as t i ay, that secret
will be worth money to him from Amer
ican passengers."
John Kenyon was revolving in his
mind the problem of how to get rkl of
thl; loquacious and ffcncrou.n Individual,
when ho r.aw, sailing 1 down upon them,
the irate figure of Miss Jennie Brewster,
and he wondered what was the. cause of
the look of bitter indignation flashing
from her eyes. He thought that she in
tended to address the American
tician, buthe was mistaken. Shectime
directly at him, and, with her list
clenched, said In a loud voice:
"Well, John Kenyon, what do you
think of your work?"
"What work?" u*;ked the bewildered
inun.
"Vou know very well what work I
mean. A fine sjiecimen of a man you
urel Without tho courage yourself to
prevent my ».< tiding that telegram,you
Induced your dupe to • oine liown to my
stateroom and brn/.t nly keep ine. from
tending it."
Tho look of utt« r astonishment that
came. upon the face of honest John Ken
yon would have convinced any woman
In h. r sen . u that lie knew nothing at
all of what she was iipcaking. A dim
Idea of tliis, indeed, (lashed across the
young woman's heated brain. But be
fore she could i peak Fleming l aid:
"Tut, tut, my deur girl, you are talk
ing too loud altogether. Do you wont
to attract tho attention of everybody
ou tho deck? You mustn't make a
scandal in this way on board hip."
"Scandal!" she cried. "Wo will s<s>n
seo whether there will be a scandal or
not. Attract the attention of those on
deck! That is exactly what lam going
I to do, until I show up t lie villainy of t IIIH
I man you are talking to. He was th»i
1 concoct or of it, mid b' iiucivj it, rih«
never hod brains enough to think of it.
lie was too much of a coward to carry it
I ant. .iud ofc -t her to d» Li*
dastardly piece of work."
"Well, well," said Fleming, "even if
he lias done all that, whatever it is, it
will do no pood to attract the attention
to it liere on deck. Sec how everybody
is listening to what you are saying. My
dear girl, you are too argry to talk just
now; the best tiling you can do is to go
to your stateroom."
"You shut your silly mouth, will
you?" she cried, turning furiously upon
him. "I'll thank you to mind your own
business, mid let me attend to mine. I
should ha\e thought that you would
have found out before this that I am ca
pable of attending to my own affairs."
"Certainly, certr.'aily, my dear girl,"
answered the politician, soothingly.
"I'm sorry I can't tell you ail to come
and have a drink with me and talk the
matter over quietly. That's thecorrect
way to do things. Not to stand here
screeching on the deck with everybody
listening. Now, if you will quietly dis
cuss the matter with John here, I'm sure
everything will be all right."
"You don't know what you are talk
ing about," replied the young lady. "Do
you know that I had an important dis
patch to send to the Argus, and that
this man's friend, doubtless at his in
stigation, came into my room and prac
tically held me prisoner there until the
boat "had left, so that 3 could not send
the dispatch? Think of the cheek and
villainy of that, and speak to me of talk
ing wildly!"
A look of relief and astonishment
came Into Kenyou's face that quite con
vinced the newspaper woman, more
than all his protestations would have
done, that he knew nothing of the es
capade whatever.
"And who kept you from coming
out?" asked Fleming.
"It is none of your business," she re
plied, tartly.
"If you will believe me," said Kenvon,
at last, "I knew nothing whatexer of all
this, so you see there is no use speaking
to me about it. I won't pretend I am
eorry, because I am not."
This added fuel to tki flame, and she
was about to blaze out again when Ken
yon turned on his heel and left her and
Fleming standing facing each other.
Then the young woman herself turned
and quickly departed, leaving the aston
ished politician entirely alone, so that
#here was nothing for him to do but to
go into the smoking-room and ask
somebody to have a drink with him,
which hi- promptly did.
Miss Brewster made her way to the
captain'.- room and rapped at tlie door.
On being told to enter she found that
officer seated at his table with some
charts before him, and a haggard look
upon his face, which might have
warned her that this w as not t he proj>er
time to air any personal grievances.
"Well?" he said briefly as she.
entered.
"I came to see you, captain," she be
gan, "because an outrageous thing has
been done on board this ship, and 1 de
sire reparation —what is more, I will
have it!"
"What is (lie 'outrageous thing?' "
asked the captain.
"I had . owe dispatches to send to
New York to the New York Argus, on
whose staff I anf."
"Yes," said the captain, with interest;
"dispatches relating to wins'- has hap
pened to the ship?"
"One of them did, the other did not."
i..r VMI "aift!xi,ggefafc<f account
of the condition we are, in."
"I have given nonccountut all, simply
because I was prevented from sending
the cablegrams."
"Ah, Indeed," said the ca.pta.in, a
look of relief coining over his face in
spite of his efforts to conceal it, "and
pray, what prevented you from sending
your cablegrams? The mate would
have taken any messages that were
given to him."
"I know that," cried, the young
woman; "and when I was in my room
writing the last of the dispatches, a
pcraon who is on board as a passenger
hero—Miss LougwortJi—came into my
room and held me prisoner there until
the boat had left the ship."
The captain arched his eyebrows in
astonishment.
"My dear madam," he said, "you
make a very serious charge. Miss Long
worth has eroEsed several times with
me, and I am Ifonnd to say that a more
well-ljeliaved young lndy I never hud
on board my ship."
"Kxtremely well-behaved she is!"
cried th • correspondent angrily. "She
stood against my door and prevented
me from going out. i screamed for
help, but my tcroums wi re drowned In
the cheers of the passengers when the
boat left."
"Why did you not ring your bell?"
"1 couldn't ring my bell ls-cause she
prevented me. Ilesid-vt, if I had reached
the l>ell, it Is not likely anybody would
have answered it; everybody seemed
to be gawking after tho boat that wan
leaving."
"You run hardly blame them for that.
A great deal depends* on tin- safety of
that boat. In fact, if you come to
think about it, you will sec that what
ever grievance, you may have, it is, after
all, a very trivial one compared to the
burden that weighs on me just now,
and 1 very much prefer not to have any
thing 1o do with dispute. 1 ! lietwecn the.
passengers until we nrcoutof ourpres
cnt predicament."
"The predicament has nothing what
ever to do with it. I tell you a fact. I
tell you that one of your passengers
camo and imprisoned me in my Mat
room. I cow to you for redress. Now
there must lie some law on shipl»oard
that takes the place "f ordinary law on
land. I mnkc. t his demand officially to
you. Tf you refuse to hear me, and re
fuse to redress my wrong, then I have a
large republic to which I can appeal
through my paper, and perhaps there
will also lx: a chauee of obtaining just
ice through the law of the land to which
I aiu going."
"My dear madam," ' aid the captain,
calmly, "you must. not. use. threats to
me. lam notaccu tomed to be talked
to in the way you have taken iq>oii
yourself to |>eak. Now t« -11 mevvhat.it
it. you wish in'' to do."
"It. is for you to say what you will
do. I am a pa senger oil l*> ird t his
ship, and am supj>oscd t«> be under the
protection of it . captain. 1 therefore
t< II yON I have. IH*CJI forcibly dctaini.i In
my stateroom, and I demand that the
person -A ho did this '.hall BE punished."
"You » y that Miss Jx>ng\vorth was
the [H'l ou who did this?"
"Yes, I do."
"Now do you know you make o very
serious charge against that young
lady? A charge that I find it very dif
ficult. to believe. May I ask you what
reason she had for doing what you say
she has done V"
"That Is a long story. lam quite pre
pared to show that, she tried to hrilie
ine not to send a dispatch, and, finding
herself unsuccessful, slic forcibly dc
tain d ine in my room until too late
to send the telegram."
The captain jxinderecl ovef'.vhui hud
been said to Mill
Have vou any proof of thi . chai "e V"
"Pro. f! What do you mean? Do
you doubt my word?"
"I menu exactly what I say. Have ,
vou anything to piove the very jyui*
charge you bring?"
"Certainly not. I have no proof. If
there had been a witness there the
thing would not have happened. If I
could have called for help it would not
have happened. How could I have any
proof of iucli an outrag. ■?"
"Well, do you not sec that it is im
po -ible for me to tsiku action on your
in: ipport i "word'. 1 Do you not see
th.it if you take further steps in this
extraordinary affair, Miss Loagworth
will ask you for proof of what you
| utate? If she denies acting as you say
, the did, and you fail to prove your al
! legation, it seems to me that you' will
be in rather a bad predicament. You
| would lie liable to a suit for slander.
: Just think the matter over calmly for
I the rest of the day before you take any
furl her action upon it, and I would
! strongly advise you to mention this to
nobody on board. Then, if to-morrow
I you arc stiil in the same frame of mind,
come to me."
Thus dismissed, the young woman
left the captain's room, and met Mr.
Fleming just outside, who said:
"l.ool; here. Miss Brewster, 1 want to
titve a word with you. You were very
curt with me just, now."
"Mr. Fleming, I do not wish to speak
V.> you."
"Oh, that's all right, that's all right;
but let me tell you this; Y'ou're a
pretty smart young woman, and you
liave done me one or two very evil turns
iu your life. I have found o*t all about
this affair, and it's one of the funniest
things I ever heard of."
"Very funny, isn't it?" snapped the
young woman.
"Of course it's very funny; but when
it appears iu full in the opposition pa
pers to tlic Argus, perhaps you won't
see the humor of it, though everybody
else in New York will, that's one conso
lation."
"What do you mean?"
"I mean to say, Jennie Brewster, that
unless you are a fool you will drop
this thing. Don't for heaven's sake
Jet anybody know you were treated
by an ICnglisli girl in the way you were.
Take my advice, say no more about it."
"And what business is it of yours?"
"It isn't mine at all; that is why I
am meddling with it. Aren't you well
enough acquainted with me to know
that nothing in the world please*; me
so much as to interfere with other
people's business? I have found out
till al>out the girl who kept you in, and
u mighty plucky action it was, too. I
have seen that girl on the deck, and 1
like the rut of her jib. I like the way
she walks. Her independence suits me.
She is a girl who wouldn't give a man
any trouble, now I tell you, if he were
iU
"Mr. I do not wieh to apr>uk to you."
lucky enough to win her. And lam not
going to see that girl put to any trouble
by you, understand that?"
"And h<>w are you going to prevent
It, may I ask?"
"May you ask! Why, of course you
limy. 1 will tell you how lam going to
prevent it. Simply by restraining you
irom doing another thing in the mat
ter."
"If you think you can do that you
are very much mistaken. I am going
to have that girl put in prison. If there
is a law In the land."
"Well, in tin', first place, wo are not
on land, ami, iu the second place, you
lire going to do nothing of the kind;
because, if you do, X Khali go to the
London correspondents of the other
New York papers and give the whole
blessed snap away. I'll tell them how
the smart and cute Miss Dolly Dimple,
w ho has bamboozled so many persoimln
her life, was onco caught in her own
trap; and I shall inform them how It
took place. And they'll be glad to get
It, you bet! It will make quite inter
esting reading in the New York opposi
tion pajters some fine Sunday morning
- about a column and a half,say. Won't
there be some swearing in the Argun
when that ap|M-nrs? It won't be your
losing the disput'-h you were, going to
send, but. it will be your utter idioey
In making the thing public, and letting
the other papers onto it* Why, the
ls'st tiling in the world for you to do,
and the only thing, is to keep IUI quiet
about it as possible. lam astonished
at it girl of your sense, Dolly, making
a public fuss like this, when you should
be the very one. trying to keep it quiet."
The newspaper correspondent pon
dered on these words.
"And if I keep quiet about it, will you
do the same?"
"Certainly; but you must remember
that if ever you attempt any of your
tricks of Interviewing on me ngaln,
outcomes this whole thing, don't forget
Mint."
"I won't,"snlil Miss Jennie Brewster.
And next morning, when the captain
was anxiously awaiting her arrival In
his room, f.lie di«l not np[>cur.
CHAPTER XI.
After all, it must be admitted that
(ieorge Wcntworth wns u man of some
what changeable character. For t-ho
1,. ■ i. two or t hrcc days lie had been mop
ing around like one who meditated sul
cide; now he suddenly became the
brightest Individual aboard, when
every one else was wondering what was
going to happen to t.lie ship. For a man
to be moody and distraught while dan
ger vva Impending wa not at all surpris
ing; but that a M HI, right in tie- midst
oi gloom, should suddenly bios: out out
Into a smiling countenance anil a. gen
eral hilarity of manner, wns something
cxtinordinary, l'eople thought Itmust
!»• a ease of bruin trouble. They
Hittclii d the young man with iiiU-re/it
in lie walked with a springy step up
and down deck. Kvery now mid then
it bright sialic illuminated Ids face,
mid then he neeuitd to be ashamed that,
pi iph) should notice lie was feeling
hilarious. When he was alone with
him elf he had u habit of smiting his
thigh and bursting out into a laugh
that was long a nil low, rat her tlt mi id
and bo I leroui No one was more as
tonished at. this change than Filming,
'L • politician Oeorgei met him on
iTtek, and, t'> tin Kieat surprise of that
worthy gentleman, «moto Mm on the
back ur.d Mild:
"My dear sir, I am afraid the other
dav, when you S|>oke to me, I answered
a little gruffly. I beg to apologize.
('dini l and have a drink il h rue."
"Ol:,*doii't. mention it," aid l l' luing.
joyously; "we all of us have our little
down turns now and then. Why, I
have myself, when liquor is bad or
scarce. You mightn't believe it, but
some days I feel away down in the
ipouth. It is true, I have a receipt
for getting up again, which I always
"id that reminds me. Do you re
roembv. • * * the governor of North
Carolina «uu , „ . n-crnor of South
Carolina?"
"I'm sure I don't," said Wei.t .
"you Jiee I'm not very well versed in
United States polities."
"Well, there wasn't much politics
about his remark. He merely said:
'lt's a long time between drinks; come
in and have something with me.' It.
feems to mo you haven't tasted any
thing- in tny company since the voyage
began."
"I believe," said Wentworth, "that, is
a true statement. Let us amen.l it as
i soon as ]>ossible, only in this case let me
! pay for the drinks. I invited you to
! drink with me."
"Not at all, not at all," cried Fleming;
| "not while I'm here. This is my treat,
and it is funny to think that- a man
should spend a week with another man
without knowing him. Really, you
see. I haven't known you t ill now."
And so the two worthy gentlemen
disappeared into the smoking-room and
I rang the electric l>ell.
But it was in his own stateroom that
j George Wentworth's jocularity came
out nt. its best.. He would grasp John
Kenyon by the shoulder and shake that
solemn man, over whose face a qrim
smile would appear w hen he noticed the
i exuberant jollity of his comrade.
"John," Wentworth cried, "why
don't you laugh?"
"Well, it seems to me," replied his
comrade, "that, you are doing laughing
enough for us liot h. It is necessary to
have one member of the tirm solid and
substantial. I'm trying to keep the aver
age about right. When you w ere in the
dumps I had to be cheerful for two.
Now that you feel so funny, I take a
kind of melancholy vacation, to rest mo
after my luird efforts at cheerfulness."
"Well, John, it seems to me too good
to be true. What a plucky girl she was
to do such a thing! llow did she
know but that the little vixen had a re
volver with her, and might have shot
her?"
"I Bii(>]>ose she didn't think about the
matter at all."
"Have you seen her since that dra
matic incident?"
"Seen whom? Miss Brewster?"
"No, no; I mean Miss Longworth."
"No; she hasn't apjieared yet. I sup
pose she fears there will be a scene, mi l
she. is anxious to avoid it."
"Very likely that is the case," said
Wentworth. "Well, if you pet to see
her, you can tell her there is 110 dan
ger. Our genial friend Fleming has
had a talk with that newspaper woman,
so ho tells me, and the way he describes
it is exceedingly picturesque. He has
threatened her with giving away the
'snap,' as he calls it, to the other New-
York papers, and it seems that the
only thing on mirth that Miss Brews
ter is ufraid of is the opposition press.
So she. has promised to say nothing
more whatever al>out the incident."
"Then you have been talking with
Fleming?"
"Certainly I have; a jovial good fel
low he Is, too. 1 have been doing some
thing more than talking with him; I
havo been drinking with him."
stand, you threatened (o strike him."
"A day or two ago, John! It was
ages and ages ngo. A day or two isn't
in it. Thut was years and centuries
since, but not by time. I was an old
man then; now 1 have become young
ugain, and all on account of the plucky
action of that angel of a girl of yours."
"Not of mine," said Kcnyon, serious
ly; "I wish she were."
"Well, cheer up. Everything will
come out right ; you see, it always does.
Nothing looked blacker th&n this mat
ter about the telegram a few days ago,
ami M-e how IK-aiitifully it hus turned
out."
Kenyon said nothing. lie did not
desire to discuss the matter, even with
his best friend. The two went up on
deck together and took a few turns
along the promenade, during which
promenade the eyes of Kenyon were
directed to the occupants of the deck
chairs, but he did not see the person
whom he sought. Telling Wentworth
that he was going below for a moment
he left him to continue his walk n'otie,
nr. 1 on reaching the saloon Kenyon
s|K>ke to the stewardess.
"Do you know if .Miss Wentworth Is
in her stateroom?"
"Yes; I think she is," was the an
swer.
"Will you take this note to her?"
"Certainly."
John wit down to wait for an answer.
The answer did not come by the hand
of the stewardess. Edith herself tim
orously glanced into the saloon, Dad,
seeing Kenyon alone, ventured in. He
sprang to meet her.
"I was afraid," he said, "that you hod
been 111."
"No; not cjtactly, but almost," who
answered. "Oh, Mr. Kenyon, I have
done the most terrible thing! You
could not imagine that I was so bold
and wicked," and tears gathered into
the eyes of the girl.
Kenyon stretched out his hand to
her, and she took It* "1 am afraid to
stay here with you," slio said, "for
fear—"
"Oil, 1 know nil about It," said Ken
yon.
"You cannot know about lt| you
surely do not know what I have done?"
"Yes, I know exactly what you've
done, and we all very much odtnlro
your pluck."
"It hasn't, surely, l>oen the talk of
the ship?"
"No, It has iwjt; but Miss Brewster
cluiri'< <1 me with boiug an accomplice."
"And you told her you were not, of
course?"
"1 couldn't tell her anythlrg for the
simple reason T hadn't the faintest idea
what tbo waa talking about; but that's
hew I came to know w hat hod happened,
end 1 come, down to thank you, Mlsn
Lungwort li, for w 1 it you have done. I
really believe you have saved the sanity
of my friend Wentworth. He is a
different man since the incident wo arc
speaking of occurred."
"And huvo you seen Miss Brewster
since?"
"< Hi, yes, as I was tolling you, she met
me on the deck. Bear me, how thought
less of nie, I had forgotten you were*
standing. Won't you sit,down?"
"No, no, I have been In my room bo
long thut I am ghal to !<Uuid any
wise re."
"Then won't you come on deck with
mo?"
"Oh, J'ni afraid," she said. "I am
i#iaid <it a public soojio, and 1 am sure,
by the last look I e iught of that girl's
<y , lie will stop at lioscundal to havo
her rev<mge. I am sorry to say that 1
11111 too much of a coward to moot her.
Of course, from her jiolnt of view, I
huvo done her eternal wrong. Perhaps
it, w at wrong from anybody's jiolnt of
view."
"Miss fiongwort li." sal*l John Kenyon,
cordially, "you need lm 00 fear what
ever of meeting In 1 ' will Sft'y
1 > U/oUiinif."
"llow do you know that ?"
"Oh, It is a long storv. She wmt to
the captain with I > r complaint, and rc- j
ctlvol \< ry little comfort there. I will
tell you nil aljoutt it on deck. Get a!
w rap and come with me.**
As Kenyon gave this peremptory ,
order he realized that he wm taking- u
liberty lie had no right to take, and his
face flushed us he wondered if Kdith
would resent the familiarity of hi-j
tones; but she merely looked up at him
with a bright smile and said:
I shall do, sir, ns you command."
"N'o, no," said Kenyon. "it was not a
command. although it sounded like one.
It was a ver_\ humble request; at least,
I intended it tobesuch."
"Well, I w ill get my » rap."
As sh<j left for her stateroom a rous
i: g cheer wsus heard from up on deck.
She stopped and lo* ked at Kenyon.
"What iloes that mean?" she said.
"I don't know," was the answer.
< "Please get your things on and we will
go up and see."
When they reached the deck they saw
everybody at the forward part of the
ship. Just becoming visible in the east
ern hori/on were three trails of black
smoke, ajipn'rently coming tov.ard
them.
The word was whispered from ono
to the other: "It. is the tugl>oat. It is
relief."
Few people on board the steamer
knew that their very existence de
pended entirely on the good weather.
The incessant pumping showed every
body w ho gave a thought to tlx- matter
that the leak had birn serious, but an
the subsidence of the veaael was Im
perceptible to ull save experts, no one
but the oliicers really knew the danger
they were In. Glad as the paaaengera
were to sec these three boats approach,
the one who most, rejoiced w as the one
who knew most about, the disaster and
its effects—the captain.
Edith Longworth and John Kenyon
paced the deck together, and did not
form two of the crowd who could noti
tear themselves awav from the front
of the ship watching the gradually ap
proaching tugboats. Purposely John
Kenyon brought the girl who w us with
him past Miss Jennie Brewster, and al
though that jierson glared with a good
deal of anger at Edith, who blushed to
her temples with feur and confusion,
jet nothing was said; and Kenyon
knew that afterward his companion
would feel easier in her mind about
meeting the woman with whom she hod
had such a stormy live minutes. The
tugboats speedily took the big steam
er In tow, and slowly the four of them
made progress toward Queenstown, It
having been resolved to land all the pas
sengers there and to allow the disabled
vessel to lie towed to Liverpool, if nil
examination of the hull showed such a
course to lie a safe one. The passen
gers bade each other good-by after they
left the tender, and many that were
on board that ship never saw e<u-ii
other again. One, at. least, had few re
grets and no good-bys to make.
fTO BE CONTIKfID.)
u Scoop.
A well-known .Dublin journalist tell"
the following anecdote:
One night as a messenger from the
oflivy; of an evening paper was passing
along the quays on the banks of the
Liffey he heard the sound of some one
struggling in the water.
"Are you drowning?" he shoutod.
a,l r Jj" a feeble vuicvliuui the
What' a pity, said tjte lad, cnnsol-
Jngly. "You are just, too lute for ths
last edition to-night; but cheer up,
you'll have a nice little, paragraph all
to yourself in the morning!"—Tit-Hits.
Tl»«» A|»|»rr«'lnt«Ml l'ntcut.
Jennie Chaftle lias a wuy of talking
that is liable to cause her to lose some
of her friends.
One of lu r friends, Hirdle McGLnnis,
who is not very well off in a worldly
way, brought her a simple Viut pretty
gift on her birthday.
"It is only a trifle," said ltirdle, when
Jennie interrupted her with:
"Oh, Unit's ull right. I shall value it
almost as much an some V the. presents
I got that were really worth some
thing."—Texas Sifter.
Ill<ln on tlie I*«tnt of View.
Jakle —What does it mean by "weeing
the humorous side of things?"
Father—Well, luy son, take a banana
i>eel, for Instance. How many sides baa
t? ;
Jakie—Why* two, of course.
Father—Exactly; and when some|
other man steps on that banana peel, ho 1
sees the serious side of It, and you hco
tho humorous side.—N. Y. Truth.
Tnn|itutloiia to Error.
"TJs not the man whose feet are litrtf*
Who makes tho swiftest sprinter;
"Jin not tho Klrl with temper hot
Who host endures the winter.
'lis not tho hen that cackles loufl
Who makes tho steadiest layer;
"lis not tho blcfust head of hair
That makes the football player.
Washington Htar.
( Imp I rlrmia Net Valu»d.
Mrs. Se.venup—Yes, I like this flat
very much, but, unfortunately, wo hai«|j
only taken it by the month, because Wt
will have to move out.
Caller—Why, what is the matter?
Mi s. Scveuup Home very dear friends
of ours have taken a flat in this sain**
building, and you know It's perfectly
horrid to have friends so clone. —Y.'
Weekly.
ltarrfd Out of
Sally Gay What has become of Mr, 1
Slick smith, that we never sen him any
Bio re?
Jack Swift—Sllc.kwmlth has done
something that lias completely barred
hiiu out of society.
"My g<«odnessl What was it?"
"He died last month." —N. Y. World.
Helping l» Out
"Li Hiuig Chang says Unit American
women ought to have more than ong
Husband."
"H'ml somebody has been }K.wtlng
him on the big dry goes is bills American
men have to pay."—Louisville Courier-
Journal.
Hon*e of Then Should 110.
Smith Vld you ever seo anyvmy
hung?
Koblnsott—Y«n, IIUW 12 men at one
tkpe.
Smith—Get out!
Kobiiison Fact—a hung jury.—Up-
U>Datc.
Nrii«* of Nhatn*.
Wicks—There la one thing I will say
for Ulaxter; ho never talks about his
own writing.
Hicks I'm glad to hear that. Where
there's u sense of shame there's always
tome hojie for reformation.- Ihjston
Transcript.
Would lla»r «iot I noogh.
Tim hard who wished to s« himself
As others saw 'tis plain
Had never baan a nomine®
An oWna for to Kiln.
"fun you extract teeth w itliout jsiln?"
tasked the groaning caller.
"Doe»n't Irurt me a bit- In fact, I
rather enjoy It," answered the stnilinff
dentist. —Detroit Freo Press.
F»lilenee. *
"Wasn't that dinner wo just had
great?"
"Elcgantl I don't know when I liav«
felt so uncomfortable." —Ilrooklyß
1 Life. I
ISTo.I
SUBSTITUTES FOR BULLETS.
Nugget!* oi t.old and Wooden 41q|» li«d
liy Hunter* In 'imeritcaclfc.
When a hunter ic the old days loaf
all hi.- bullets or hadn't any to shoot
w it h he usually dev!:,ed substitutes that
on oce <>n sen 1 -d the purpoae welL
All sort.-, of tilings have been tired at
game or Indians, as the ease, might be,
OM Hunk El' - n, livii g up in Jefferson
county. X. \ ~ told to his dying day how
he was coop 1 uj. by ImWucs out west
oi. e, with a little « ad. lott> of powder,
a belt full of gold nuggets, a tine rifle
and n bullet mold. It was on the top or
n knoll wU> re his log cabin had been
built, and he hud a barrx.4 of water and
a lot of wood for emergencies. The In
dian.- kept just out of runge, dashlug
in once in awhile to draw his flre. n«
soon used Ills bullets up, and then used
the gold. He fired nearly half his for
• r« at the redskins liefore thc3 - left
him.
Many a hunter has used a jiebblo In
the hope of getting a close deadly shot.
Jackknives and ramrods have ; . ved
their time ns missile. Forest and
Stream tells about a hunter \vl
only a single bullet, but lots of p< ler.
The bullet shot the horn of a hlg ' uck
off, and the buck charged the man. who
took to s tree top. He spent half an
hour whittling off two-inch lengths at
branches and putting them Into hla
rifle. Then he rammed them down oq
the powder And fired at the maddened
deer. His partner came along after
awhile with a belt full of bullets, and,
making a run for the tree, gave 9 bul
let to the shooter, who quickly killed
the deer.
THE CORPSE DEFIED TIME.
Kept In a V.oo<l State of Preservation
Thirty Years.
The grave of Capt. Jacob King, at
Marietta, 0., who died In the army 3S
years ugo, was lately opened In order to
make room for his wile, who has just
passed away, says an exchange. Capt.
King w ius buried in a steel casket, sealed
and perfectly air-tight. In conae<juepoe
of this fact there was quite a crowd ot
relatives and friends of the family pres
ent when the coffin was exhumed to
view the (remains. When the plate over
the glass was removed and the muftint
exposed to view the whole of Capt,
King'R features were plainly visible.
His face had not even blackened to a
great extent, and one of his grandchil
dren who had never seen htm in life
declared that he could recognize him
from the picture he had left. Capt,
King was burled in full uniform, which
was as fresh-looking ns the day It waa
interred. The buttons had lost hone of
their brightness, nnd even the cotton
on which his head rested was not dis
colored in the least.
The only part of the fnee that showed
the ravages of time nnd decay were
his eyes, which were gone entirely.
The glass was broken and the offeet of
the air on the corpse wus not ascer
tained. Cnpt. King was n mason nnd hi«
badge was plainly visible, ne was ly
ing in Mound cemetery, whose soil ia
quite sandy, but whether this had any
thing to do with his pireservatlon ia
unknown.
GOLD IN THE RIVERS.
Europe's Stream* Are Filled with Pr»-
olous Metal.
in the HI vaf (Ma* a mmit aasatttv
tine as to be iuvislble to the unaided eye,
and it is said that when the sand of the
river near Paris Is used in making glass,
the crucibles in which It is melted are
frequently found to be gilded over at
the bottom. In former times. In fact,
says the New York Sun, a sort of mining
was In vogue on the Seine at Paris, car
ried on by men who would buy a franc's
worth of quicksilver, and, after passing
the sand of the river over It all day,
would sell It in the evening for six or
seven francs —a kind of work which,
however, for some retu>on waa discon
tinued. Almost all the rivers of Enropo
carry small quantities of gold In their
sands, such as the KhlnC, the Kelue,
the Aiur, the llcuse, the Danube and oth
ers; also the Clyde and ninny other
streams In Scotland, Ireland, Wales and
Cornwall; and, though one ton of sand
from the bed of the Tlliine, for Instance,
yields only oy a grains of gold, or ou«-
fifth of an ounce, yet the total axnount
of the yellow metal in that ono river
Is believed to be Immense. It has been
found, Indeed, by careful scientific ex
amination and calculation, that that
part of the River Ithlne alono which
flows through what was formerly a
portion of French territory contains no
less than 30,(KM) tons of pure gold.
A RAINES LAW SANDWIOH.
The AUsent-Mlnded Man Ate the Faata-
Ixwrit
The absent-minded man took his seat
ut the restaurant table and, as usual,
buriol his face at once In a new spaper,
says tlve Hotel Mall. A waiter plaiwsl a
bill of fare, a napkin and a knife and
fork In front of him and stood two or
three mlnnt<w unnoticed liefore ask
ing:
"What shall I bring you, sir?"
"What's that?" said the absent-mind
ed man, starting up suddenly, not re
membering what It was idl about.
"What do you want for lunch, sir?'*
the waiter asked again.
"Oh, >es," said the absent-mtndeil,
trying to collect his wits. "J&rlng niJ
a cup of cot Tee and a ham sandwich."
The waiter supplied the order anQ
put. a large |«asfc)ioard check for H
down «m the table, the tibaeot-mltuJ«<i
man continuing to read his jmper. The
waiter went away to attend to thft
wants (ft other people, and al>out IB mln«
ntcs later came back.
"Do you wish anything more?" ho
asked, bolltely.
"Yea. snapped the absent minded
man, nunewhul viciously. "Go nnd get
me a frush ham sandwich. The one
you brought me wio a* dry ns a Ixine,"
"Why, here lathe sandwich I brought,
■lr," said the wrdMrr. pushing the plate
iownrtl him. "You have eaten the
cheek 1" _____
llrllef I'nupprerlstod.
She —How long were you under treat
ment with Dr. btickum.
He—A year and a half.
She—Did ho relieve you?
lie—Yes, of all the money I had.—Up
to-Date.
A I'oMlhle Reason.
"I wonder what De ilroke wears such
fearfully loud clothes for?"
"Probably ho liojies to drown the Im
jsirtuulticn of his tailor." Chicago
Journal.
An t'nwrlllen Preserlptlon.
"Do you think I smoke too much,
doctor ?"
"Yes; If you have any cigars with you
you had better give them to me."—
Town Topics.
Home Kdnmtlon.
"Is It true, Gruffy, that you hare
taken your wm out of college?"
"Yen, *|r. He can l«>ard at lanne and
acquire footl«all." Detroit Free Presa
A Variable Weljbt.
Teacher — How many ounces lu a
pound? ,
Tommy—lt depend* on the grocer.—
Harlem Life.