“You have ed the Wn Who trast: § od and befriended you. and have killed the git] w 0 Joved and believed in youl | "| What mercy do you bope from me? 1 What less than your vile Nfs could 1 demand “I did betray you,” Eivorley gasped. “Ff did betray you. I had to have the . money to save myself from ruin. 1 never thought-nover—that it would | taht on you, and to the very last 1 be Jieved you would got off. And when 1 found you were condemned I bad 28 | not courage to confess, becanse- be 88 | cause of Marle. Listen-Hsten to = | that? He held up 25 arm. anid looked im. ploringly at Hensel, who, stick by | bis words, and thinking sone one ight he sppraanching the bousy, bated his breath and Hetened. A low, strange coning sound Rrvek lon hix ears, snd glancing roemd the room he saw it proceeded fron a low oot whirl sfosd In he ghade of 4 | corner of the room. “1 married ber-your Marie” said Riverley, speaking excitedly and very rapidly. “Bbhe never doubted you TY | innocence or suspected muy guiit, and she was olmost happy. 1 434 pot trick | ber into Joving me; she was my love, {1 married her. 2nd there's our child ™ Henscott sald sothing for & minute, | the | He stood ned stared stupidly at River. hr wp fey rg Mss he ssid ina whisper. Fle tn dead” Not a muscle of Henscott's face tight. 2a ened or relaxed. After pansing a mo- ment, as if welphing the meaniog of | "| the word, he stole over to the corner, Land knelt down on one knoe, He drew | back the cot enrialng with a trembling “i hand, and Jooked down at the ttle «, | piok face into the blue eyus which , {Jooked up at him We call her Marie” sald Riverley, | : iy. “Marte™ renented Henseott, almost | oe nasgibly. M1 Heaseott's head BE lower over the eof, +1 touched the {nfant’s face sank Sowds and untd his Lair "atie, Marie, Marie!” Be whimp- a Hg stooped over Jower, and Kissed | “aa warm, velvet chook of the child, 4 who flung hersslf over on her side, ber ‘eaves Big beard was harsh : 1 enrtaing tenderly. ‘toward the window, “Hes watched her for a few seconds | moore, then rose. “Her chlld--his ebilA” he mtidtered. : “Better that I than be” He stooped down and resirrangped the | He moved slowly “Walt here” be sald, gents. and be {wont ont. Riveriey walied He waited till dar | break, tl] dusk sgaln, and through the d Bight. And thes be understood. » L » Eivatley and Nile Marie were still waiting when, more than thre years 3 | Jater, Henscott came back to them Fi after his release from the prison to Hi which be bad returned--New York » x A Monkey and an Opers Glare. eatch him. Well knowing the mits. tive habits of the animal his master bit on a curious plan to regain bis pet. He : ! bi at Ihe monkey shrough AR Oper me, 80d then be retired to a nite, Jeaving the ] | on the ground. The imitative Monkey | § | descended from the tree, nnd, taking; o | the opera glass, gazed after a simfar n | manner, at bis master, who sevied fo a r. | Ing out, secured the chain and led the | W you come from? Riv. . “But you need pot | n guess. You have ison, Jomre ‘being i i victim of an optical illusion back to his cnge, Photagraphers’ Wages. The ability to take pletures with a cameras in an amateurish way bas filled the land with peripatetic semi professional photographers. They live { In teuts or shacks on next to nothing ar all amd actually mapage ta lay up a little money. Posaildy { they bave done much to Mwer the $100 a» month is a fair and rewsonable compensation In this ¢ity for the serv: dees of a skilled photographer of the | highest grade. 1 pever knew one in a 101 small city or town that was not as poor 4 | as a church mouse.~Yictor Smith, in 1 | New York Press. Printing in Tarkey, ~All printing establishments In Tur || key, according to a new law just tr | passed, may have only ome door, and that opening on the street. Windows | wust be covered with closp-meshedt wire netting. BO that no BIDE ¢ oan be 19f being hollow all t woods." New I The pet monkey of & German profes | { sor, having made his escape. climbed 4 Into a tree snd defied all attelnpts to 8 yoted her Hife. Bhe talked about it to > Tas distant, when the Inter, reach. | ebia) Sometimes they marry | i and take thelr brides slong. | wages of professionals. 1 am told that A NARROW ESCAPE. : N PEAKING of boars ro minds me of an experietice | & J) 1 had on Cat Island a * small chunk of land in | Arkansas, and on the Bt. Francis River, in 1578," said an old resent of Are thrilling ox: I ever had In the | woods. I wus farming on Cat Island that your. It fs no dense, wild section, the underbrush made up of bamboo | and other matted and tangiing vides | was almost impenetrable, and alto man to get through the woods without entting Me way through, and he had to crawl pearly all the time at that. | In 15738 bears were ginsost as thick as wild cane fu that section, They made | B® BRYAge ATIACK on mY corn Crop, and 1 had resorted to all sorts of expedients to get rid GF them, but withont any sort of success. Every night they | would invade my cornfield, get an arm ful of corn, 8s nach as 8 bear could carry in bis arms. whieh is po seal amount, and woold take it on to the den. When they first begin the attack [ spent many nights In the pertain | trees at the back fence ine of the place | watching for thems, 1 had a soul) seafllold built in every persiinmon tree slang the fence Hine, but I heileve a boar can sroell a Inean being ten miles i the wind happens to be favorable Drring the nights I watehod from the Cpevalmiinon tree tha wind was blowing back toward the woods, and nol a benr | eutered the cornfield. Pat this Is not the point 1 had Ia mind, Oue drizalitig afternoon | went ont Into the wootls | several miles back of the place bunt. | ing for one of my ples, and just took fey un slong to be on the safe side | { of an emergency, for in addition to the | great namber of Dears that season catamonnts sad penthers were plentd | “I was alone, With the exception of 8 couple of green, untreined hound pups, who wouldn't lesve my heels j under any circumstances until the little | experience 1 an about to relate. After | winding around for some tite I cane upon a ratber large, hollow tive the | base of which aroused the suspiclon in my mind that it was the alods of some kind of sn ann). The bound pups strengthened this belle by whin- ing and scamperitg sround sgh the undergrowth In a bait frizhtened sort of way. The opening at the hose of the tied was about as large around | 8% A whiskey Barrel 1 concluded that I would estch 8 plopee of daylight At the tap for the tree Bad the eviderus ve wey on bi ened my shotgun against the tree and phoved my head through the opening | the side of the treo » head and too Were literally covered br & shower | of (ust. Thewd Bh 4 LaF deep Folr In the body of the tree and | 1 quick ax a flask a big, black, ponder ous something dropped to the ground, ‘and lo an fgmnt 1 found myst face to, face with 8 bear. Fle shot his head t through the bole, stowed we bis sthteeth which seetied to me tp te a sharp as daggers, and they weme mot short either. 1 found oy bound pups at home. They didn't return with me, and if they had 1 couldnt have told just how they got back. 1 eft a fine breech-loading sbotiin lean ing against the tree, and It's there yet, iso far av 1 am aware. The bear an toally blew his breath in my face, and I became pantie stricken, and to save ty life I can’t toll whether 1 went over or under the cane in getting out of the Orleans Times-Detio HIS LAST MESSAGE. When Mrs Johnson, the prisoner's friend, was dying. ber thoughts were ii of the cause to which she had dn the Bishop of Rochester, who was with ber, declaring that the Inspiration of Der life had been her anwavering faith 1 fg an accessible spot In every soul mo BE bow sunk in sin that soul might | Yo 1 Jou betiere at ft 1s there | a hesitated. ho work. hg To Bi of our prism old the story of the nian t him the faith that Mrs Te ciate necessar He was a man who bail od of rotting a bank and sent to prison for a long term. After be had boon there a while another man was aconsnd of complicity. The second man bad a wealthy father: if the son could be con victed, the father would indemnify the bank for its loss One day two ooseropalons lawrers went to the peison to see the conviit They sat on the edge of his bed and talked to him for & long thoe both eould and would procure 8 pore don for him, they declared, if be would enly testify that the second man wus gulity, As soon as they were gone the pris ener sent for the chaplain , fellow was weak and {iI and terriliy excited. “Don't lot me soo those men again” be oried. “They offer me pardon, and God knows I'd like to be free; hak 1 can't do it. Arnold wasn't with os He wanted to go, but 1 said, "Arnold, you have gn father and mother, Don't He svasn't with ue” The chaplain quieted him and prom. | again, end alter a while went awy ‘A few nizhts Inter there came an urgent call: hemarshare. When kansas, “and it was one of the met | gether it was simply impossible for «| i ville rendered useleas, treated to the mouniaing whl springs tarps Bdeed? What's {he general idea™ tima trappers were descending with | balf-moroets, Scott asd his | fanushing men said Dot Te sees | | Outteg tn Scanviet. | | They | The poor) got and be didn’t. Do you vinderstansly . caught bis rubber coat and pulled him | CAUGHT IN po COON. TRAP. Stine Remey, who lives on Congime | River, ln Mercer County. Io 8 famoos trapyer. son spent all the afternces last cme Just of nightfall This ‘Was one of Siiae's own loves | thon and most effective In catching coomn visit, and here Silas set his trap. An augur hole was bored In the Jog. a seedlos, wore driven In af SO Af | mk withdraw it. because the points of the nails are like barbs that thevet into 14s paw, and the harder he pulls | i the deeper the barbs stick fate the | Newly, was now almost dark, he thrast in his finger to feel the polnta They wore set mo nicely that when he tried to withdraw his Unger he was In My. Coots plight exactly. One of the barbs entered his finger snd almost Before be knew it all Bad him tight The picre Be » the deeper bart sank : food. Ihe Was make any besdway in cutting he nails, so after thinking the matter over he started his lrtle boy home with § Hghte! Iante.n to pot the pincers fo poll ont the nalle. The boy mads Bis WAY up fhe oul, lost kis way, tell over rocks and logs and e ; the lantern. Unatie to get his bearing. the tay sot un pedir a ledge of rock an came bear (ricsing Mesnwhile Silas sat mtrids the log In 8 pouring ma The piver beman rising apidly. was floating. Higher ind Bigher roms the wivler. death was coriain ho pulled Bis dali barlow apd Dteraly saved Ms finger off above tie middls Sve mimes aflerward another ears along and fourd Btn. He wns bore alone. ~Laouteville Evening Pout. HOW SCOTT MET PEATE. Platte that poer Scoitt’s canoes was averigreal, his powder lost and his Game bad res advance. Berries were not ripe by the their winter's bunt There was 1 1 ) stretgih to 2 wo tart thouglit that fo any case be could not tive, What ought they to do? Hang | back nnd starve with hima, or Basten the party whose tracks they espled! On pretense of seeking roots, they deserted the helpless mar. The next spring. when these sama Duniers skeleton of poor Scott sixty miles from ‘the plice where they bad left bin. | Tha terror that spurred the emaciated man to drag distance can barely be convetved: but such were the fearful odds taken by avery free trapDor who wont un the Platte, across the parched plalva or to the headwaters of the Musour! AR BEAR ATTACKS A A strePER At Hilton City, Mich, T. Calvwell, night aperator for the Pers Marquette, had a lmadto-hand Aight with 4 dear gle. 2 deloek a. om, and was awalensd be the ben. which entered shen 0 a. face. town 10 Dleces Calrwell got free and fumped through the window. corrring the sash with hin asd enttiog bimsal! In many places. Calvwell routed out some secs on men, sud a shotgun was obtained. Brain vas found asleep fn the office of which he had disvossessed Calvwell and the party opoped 8fe on Bir, wight was over M0 pogsuds. A LIFESAVING NAIL. Diamond Mize, Leadville, Col, in a men, was going down the shaft 800 feet In a bucket, when be disappeared. The bucket continued down to the lows = to be crushed by Nelson's body. gshowel a large mall in the shaft had | out of the hueket, and he hung Sus {ised that he should not be troubled pesdsl for ten minutes. Io kept pers} | tectly still, for if he had moved he would have fallen S00 feet and been the convict was dying of | killed and probably killed bs con ’ the ‘shaglata ton—hiengn 3 Tribune. La wl Sout en nity of ie ct Morred it lo true, | © but Rist destrared, the pet of a hate, Monday Silas and bis Netle | On the river bank wes a loz | that every coon that passed would crawitsh was dropped Wand itil | lang steel nafls, ss sharp potted be that Mr. Coon conld thrust fo Be hand | for the crawfish enslly enough, but | So when Ras Bad set Me trap, ae it seed to be set about Mght-in fact, aud thought Bunday school words, But 2 3 Sanger Degen © Seaton Ma | unt Tp Fo econ ie owe ad the track, tosally Slopes Roper, : - le approached Rt began te | rock slighily and Silas ksew an ond | and Eilss knew that if he | washed nto tie current with the log | Ia his desperation = In tis Untied Staten. the free Bunt | ou. approach the mountains br three ain routes. It twas coming down the | Ead fosnd tracks of some other hone. | ing party far to the fore oe hlmsclf all this weary | 24d carries many marks of the strug | Hs wae asleep at his desk adopt | Belora he chald escape lite i : chest and arms were nearly | After a fight lasting five minutes | Killing Lim with one discharge. Bip} August Nelson escaped death at the | bery,” answered the witness, evasivaly. marvelous manger. He, with two other | : tawyer. “I will ask you again. Wem er level, the men expecting every mo-| But be 41 not fall. Investigation} TROUBLE Si MERT YOU. Oh, cher up!” sald the wympathis- settiog fog friend. “If you go around looking | traps siong the river cliffs snd ect that 1 o for K, trouble ls always sure to mest 700 more than balf way. ABOVE ALL HIS FRLLOWS “Is Jinks successful a8 o-ehauffenr?™ “Well. I aboold say so. Why, he's been arrested eight thnes fn the last two weeks. "—Chicago Post. WHERE B OBLIGATION. LAY. The Patimnt—~0f course, doetor, If my sppendix has #ot to cont out, that gettion 10° The Doetor—*No. New York Herald. Tou suttie ¥"— men of a primitive siek mitide of the antler pulex of a powerful {Be hung an exlisustsd i with a metallic ving at the top. AS Alternating current dischmryed throogh position pales carrying im desigtiend like a serow, Lf he plaevd in sexition withous digring. 1 Alling or tampene oe no dlerurbanee of the proond ix effected. and a re in samp tnoratat Ton wild herent : practised. Suioming op the results of the experipents wade during the Bouth African war, Dr. A. E. Wright | says thet In the aggregate the propor { tion of deaths to cases among the noes ulated | Is approximately hall raat among he umuseniated, An Interesting dieonvary in the stops 2 of an ancient fine mite las just been made nn the veighborhasd of High Wycombe, England, in connection with a railroad eutting. The mine Saw dine eoverad In escavitiog @ GL A speck : of a stag Wilh U8 points ‘worn perfectly sminolh. Many of the partially disintegrated misses stil bear tho marks made by Hore picks in the bade of thelr prehistorie : ] miners, Profesor Ramsay, of Londen re cently sibowad an experimental proet of the suroes bhoreslie. Belmoen ths clesirn-tnaenet wlaun globe the ring in the globe prodacad an so- aniar glow. amd when 5 current was sent thieugh the coils of the eleetoo. magnet the glow wan doefeciod downs ward {5 sireniners Yosoinbiin SE aoa j of the jurors. The spect of the natural sororas bows the prosencs of krypton. and in Professor Ranisay's experiment kryplon was produced in. the discharge thrangh the racaged ale within the globe, A forty of puy anchor fur holding in Sidi wires $0 that it enn } oo mendont loo} ean be pliced on the TAL lor. gut © oalls oot HR HAS TO BR, "They tell me your son ls a close but s dollar a month spendin’ money.” Cleveland Plata Dealnr. joint and the log ficmted away. In WILLING T TO 0 OBLIGE. “On you tell me the nearest way fio 2a chifiled (hat he was gnable to ais ie or Otrecortainly. 40 34-Just np he ththiy raas-auy, I can, 1 ean go with you mul show yom quicker than I can say "Cleveland Pain Dealer, A MAGNIFICENT WORK. “A omgnifcent walk Bis Intest stary, you say So “Magnificent. Why, it's the finest story that bas been published this cen “0h, gold or unent Sijen, Cath Santi: Suing un row In sense of the word” het | any “You don't quite enderstand me, Mr. Pedanele” sald Miss’ Flyppe. “He Sat cal Fou 8 ee au ; : you wern 8 lobater."—~Chlengo Tribune. went 4p the Platte, they found the | A SUBTLE DISTINCTION. *1 pnderstund she proposed 10 him.” “Nowa, not exactly; but she dictated his proposal to her"—New York Jour wal CONVICTEIN “Were you ever engaged In a train robbery 7* ashed the prosecuting attr ger. looking ut him severely. “1 was never indicted for train rod | “That is not the question ™ sald the you ever a train robber?” “Judge.” sald the witness, turning tmploringly to the dignitary on the bench, “must I answer that gnestion remember, you are under oath” The witniss turned pale apd lis! knees trembled Depeath him. “1 suppose i's got to come out 1 sold books and bananas on the onrs for a whale year when 1 was a bop” faltered the misragie Nhe Yor § anchor ws bests with a f panchor showed Bat a pull of SMO pounds wis decessary lo din it from Ata posilan grees OU pincer slowly at much wir tempera. Proviopoes of Palermo and “Yon must,” replied the judge. “and | thous Gispineing W, Aowmal redreh (disk digaseren 8 a threedoot hole In sandy ofl: wileh pull is 3050 poonds greater ihn the breaing Wain of the Ee ates of puv wsnally sitwehed fo this sige of uyhor. A fwelvedneh anchor {withstood a nail of sae Ho paiinds wien bored inte five feat “He bas to be 1 don't allow Bim | af VARY. A patent. wax recently granted to Alonze Ramwmlell, a eonducsir of sn elevator in the €liy Hall «ff Chicage, for a metal which be elaine will pat rast ander any cong ns He owas at pie tie a westal worker and fa ae gquainted. with the properties of viel ouE metus, aud he avs he hos made au alloy, the vompositian of whieh be means 19 Reep a sorrst. wihleh lina many of the gquailties of ron and i» abmoet nw cheap. hin? which haw 4 peste repelling fenture which will makes it very valuable for the sonsiraction of pipes ef various Kinds and building purposes. fe ssvs bie eldime have beent vindicated by experiments and that conclusive fests have hwen made by a nminber of disinterssted foundry. men of that city. and in every ease the simple of metal was found ro resist the action of dampness ¢Tectoally, During the recent turtinlent times in the anthracite regions certain indivi 0 | duals tumed to the huge piles of mine ner I teke some interest In poli ties, of eonrne. but I am not a lobbyist forward while they had no . mn walled culm, which Hitter the Crecovorad from these heaps which had Leen exposed to the elements for & | great miiny vears, and the onal taken from rivier Dads where {* had been subs merged for perhutpe a decade. found 8 ready sale. expecially ts manuincroriag eoncerns. When the purchasers under toak to ars 8 muler their hallers IE was found practically valselvus. The sclentifie explanation why this eonl was really. after all not coal is lms trated Br a recent communication 1 the Parte Acnlenie des Nolegess by M. Molman Coal ls amorphous ones bon, and the French savant found that while the temperatirs of the somhsthm or amorphous carbon fs be between three and five hundred de Sitigrade. vet oxidation takes tures, elther {n dry or moist air, Now combusthim, of burning ss only rept oxidation, and it i= plainly obrioas why i the fne eal which bad been exposed in piles or under water far a long tine had so naterially deteriorated. OF conse, the oxyzea of the air and water had gradaally combined with #1. snd sinwly, but surely. burned it ap with gut either heat or five. Eomly's New Nvigand, Yarsalota, the iciliag brigand whose notertety has overshadowed that of Muosoling, is sill at large, nots withstanding the nureniiiting efforts of the Goveromwnt for his capture. Two torpedo beats are conising off the Ricillag coast ww prevent his escape to the Itnllan mainland. A prise of £1000 is offered for his arrest; the Trapani, where be i supposed to be, are con= tinually patrolled. Hig father and one of his beothers, potorious miscreants, died In wilson: another lrother was mplicated] in a esse of burglary, and a thind yeas Killed In a strect brawl To avenge his brother's death Varsa- Jona conpmitied his frst murder In 1508, Biiee then twelve other victhns have fallen under hls uvoerring alm, The man is rich, and the source of his wealth Is Blackmall, He regularly cob fects lnwlowners’ contribuiions. which vary actording to the Importasee of their estates, and when the mooey is Bot forthcoming the eatrle and crops the dud i = are sare to suffer, ad was form),
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