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ft: >\ THE MAID OF THE INN.... A Story of English * Life. By JOSEPH HATTON. CHAPTER XIII. The witness glanced anxiously for a . moment at his mother, alftl noticed the * •deprecatory head shakings of his friends, who desired to convey by sig­ nal their desire that he should not get •himself into trouble. "I have done nothing that I know of to be threatened or to be ashamed <of," cald Jack defiantly, "and I say again, any lords and gentlemen, I am not afraid of Incriminating myself. Do yourworut." The judge sat up very straight In his throne of justice, the le&fhed counsel *|#or both prosecution and defense, stood The court was deadly still. All the tmincJiate iuterest of the trial was centered in Meadows. For the moment It was as if he were on trial, not the prisoner at the bar. The prisoner, Parker, flushed to the roots of his hair with excitement, and then brcatne'pale as^a ghost. He ad­ mired the courage, the bravado of the witn^s, and could not help a passing regret that this brave fellow had not beeu his companion instead of that •wretched Foster, who had so far saved bis neck, though he was a thousand times more guilty than he. As the judge was about to speak, the liigh sheriff, who was not only his lordship's host in York, but had been a friend of the judge at college, whis­ pered: "Forgive me; this young man was the girl's lover; he thinks he is serving her by his reticence; he is as honest and true a young fellow as there is in ail the country." The judg? listened to his friend with A sign of impatience; but the remark HO doubt had a good effect. "Witness," he said, "but for your very evident position here and what is due to the court 1 should at once com­ mit yon for contempt; but I am willing to postpone my decision in that direc­ tion until the close of the day; what •course I rhall then pursue will depend iias told us exactly the conl "'Has he?" said Meadows. Tlien-*tae tipGn your own conduct meanwhile." "Thank you, my lord," said the wit- ~x,7 ®ess. amidst a general sigh of relief. "Now, sir, listen to me. You went to Heather-bell tavern and warned W'i. *he prisoner that he was suspected of V-.' "the murder of Squire Bellingham?" ffj; "No, I did not." • \ "The landlord has sworn to the con­ trary. I have every desire to be gen­ erous to you, Mr. Meadows, consistent with my duty, and I have been remind­ ed that you are my witness. I there­ fore go out of my way to inform you that the landlord of the Heather-bell 'has not told the truth, "You persist in th^t?" "I do." :/•. J Then you may stand down." 'h|' ' "Stay a moment," said the counsel if.": for the defense, proceeding, to cross-ex­ amine the witness in the most friendly imanner. Meadows was not a man he would have called for the defense. "'You did not warn the prisoner that he - was suspected of the murder of Squire Bellingham "No, sir." "Why did you not?" "Because I did not know that he had Hbeen .murdered." "When was the first lime you knew officially of the murder and the name • of the victim?" i "On Oct. 25." -you remember that date distinctly,' sreznariied the judge. "Yes, ray lord." ' "Why?" "Because, my lord, it was Mary Lock- wood's birthday, and I had always Itoeen accustomed to take her a little ^present to the Star and Gftrter pn the 225th, and thinking about it, mother icame in to where I was smoking a pipe •"with her brother, and she said they had fbund Squire Bellingham's body, and ttyat he had been murdered." "K the learned counsel has finished Jlif cross-examination"---the learned -Counsel nodded to the judge to signify that he had--"you may stand down; I shall riot commit you for contempt J of court", Mai^f Lock wood was the next wit- ^ Bess. fe'" On her name being called, there was a general buzz of conversation through­ out the court, followed by a; dead si­ lence as the poor girl was assisted into the witness box. She wore a simple hat and cloak, the latter completely enveloping her figure, the hat tied with a black ribbon under her chin. She was very pale, but this heightened her beauty in the estima tlon of the ladies and gentlemen of the country, who were present in great cumbers. Instead of the strong, hearty, rural fceauty they had expected, they saw a ^ ' young woman of a refined and gentle fcji tearing, with soft blue eyes and long lashes that fell Jn dark lines upon her - cheeks. When she spoke they heard a *oft, sweet voice, the sorrowful tones ,y':, <»f which made many of the ladies weeP even before they had come to the mtost touching Incidents of her evl- deuce. % The prosecution having decided not ?/(to call old Morley, the ostler's evidence * . toeing ifeehied sufficient as to the ar- *. rival and identification of the stranger % guest*, and Morley, being like N^adow3 . a very unwilling witness, the old man came into court with Mary, and when she entered the box room was made for him to sit with Mrs. Meadows and CV * ®*er brother, and other friends, who ife/r/irere pow joined by Jack. ,, Th«- witness, who had bearded the court and still retained bis freedom, p; : * divided for a moment or two the pub- §§k'V\ lie interest with Mary, w^ho glanced in the direction where he/was sitting, and then rested her e^es upon the rail of the box in which she stood--a martyr for lore. "Tm." » - •' "Tdu live at the Star and Garter Inn, Rirk stall?" Ym." • , ; r V r * • ; \ "Is the landlord your uncle?" "Yes.r . "And do you assist him in his busi­ ness?" , , tea.!' j "Do you know the prisoner at the bar?" "I do." "Do you remember tlio. night when you first saw him?" "Yes." "When was It?" "On Oc*. 15." > "Where did you see him?" "In the bar." "In the bar of the Star anil Garter Inn?" "Yes." "Was there another man with him?" <. "Yes." "I think the court needs no further evidence as to Foster, who is not be­ fore us, unless the learned counsel has any new facts in regard to him which he conceives to be of importance." "Thanks, your lordship," said the counsel, who WHS quite ready to take a hint of the growin^aproach of supper timo. ;>n<l the determination of his lordship to finish the case without ris­ ing. "D!d the prisoner remain at the inn until Oct. 19?" "Yes." "What did he say when he leit?" "I don't remember." "Did he say he was going to Lon­ don?' "I think so." "Yon are not sure?" / "No," "I will only ask you one question upon a matter that cannot fail t» De more or less painful to^ygu, and you may answer it simply yes or no, and I will refer to it no further. Were you pledged to marry the prisoner?" "Yes." The answer came softly and slowly, but much in the same tone as Mary had answered the other questions, only that she seemed to struggle with herself against a desire to turn and look at the prisoner, the lawyer's clerk having ad­ vised her to try and resist any desire to look at him, but simply to attend to the questions of counsel and keep her eye3 on the juds*, or straight before her. Presently, when the counsel came to the events of the fatal night of the wager, much of the calmness of her de­ meanor left her. The story of the wager had already been told by Taylor, and what she did and said on her return had been vouched for by several witnesses. The court was, nevertheless, breath­ less to hear an account of Mary's ad­ ventures from her own lips. r She took them along with her In im­ agination to the abbey bent on win­ ning the wager for Mr. Barnsley, and the learned counsel elicited the facts from her with a gentleness of manner and questioning that was marked in contrast with the treatment which Jack Meadows had received at his hands. / W hen the crucial part jot her story was reached, so far as it concerned the prisoner, Mary glanced at the dock with anxious and tearful eyes. "When you were picking a bunch of elder, the hat blew from one of the men's heads and rolled to your feet?" "A hat rolled close to me." "Yea, so you have told us--you saw the two men?" "Yes." • "They had hats on their heads when they passed by you?" "I suppose so." "Don't you know so?" "No." "Was there a moon?" "Yes." "It was shining clear and bright?" "No, it was fitful." "It was fitful; but you saw two men carrying something between them which aDpeared to you to be the body of a dead person?" "Yes," said Mary, with a deep sigh. "And when they were a short dis­ tance from where you had hidden, you saw the hat of one of them fall off?" •" "No, I did not see it fall off." "Very well, you did not see it fall off, but you heard one of them make a remark about a hat?" "Yes." "What was the remark?" "Curse the hat!" "Was that all?" "No." "What else?" "You can get it when the job is done." "You had no doubt at the time that the remark referred 10 one of them losing his hat in the wind, and that the hat you picked up was Wie hat so lost?" She hesitated. The question was repeated. "I thought so." she replied, "but 1 might have been mistaken." "Yes," said the learned counsel, "quite so; but when you got back to the inn you said 'Murder has been done and this is one of their hats,' and you recognized the hat?" "I looked at it." "Yes, you looked at it; you had seen it before?" No answer. "You thought you. knew to whom it belonged?" No answer. "I will give you time; I am sorrv to have to press these questions." The prisoner looked at the girl, who glanced at him in an appealing vay. The tears stood in her eyes as he no;ed her deep distress. The silence in court was awful. You had picked up the hftt, you know, and had run home with it in your hand." , "1 did not know what I was doing." sr.--5C2 ,STSaid- -fVi J uiutil txctinu and disturbed, we know; but' when your eyes fell upon the hat in the light of the fire and the candles in the bar of the inn you were struck wi^h the re- • » ' •>» ' . ' '• semDlance of the h»t to on* yott baa Heen before?". I\To answer. ' * ° "You must answer the question," aald the judge in kindly, but firm tones. "Yes," murmured the witness. "What was there peculiar about th? hat that made you think you had seen it before?" No answer. "Was it a ribbon?" Still no reply. "I can quito unde- ^tand that these questions distress you; would to God it were not my duty to put them! I never found my duty so hard to per­ form, I assure you." The prisoner burst into tears; they filled his eyes and blinded him; they coursed down his pale cheeks, but he did not move a muscle; he seemed to be more or less unconscious. (To be continued.) ~] Porto Rico's Emblem.: mtwHimnemima The coat of arms adopted for Porto Rico Is a departure from the style fol- LONG-DISTANCE WEEPING. COftty Connotation fop Foster 81stors Lon* Separated. A very affecting incident occurred in this city a few days ago, relates the Portland. Oregonian, which incident­ ally proved expensive to the man who brought It about. A number of years ago two little girls in this city were left orphans, and though in no way re­ lated, were cared for by the same person. A strong affec­ tion grew up between the two girls, which was warmed from the fact that neither had any parents or brothers or sisters to lavish their af­ fections upon, and their love grew and strengthened ^s they came to woman­ hood. Finally some turn of the wheel of fortune separated them. One re­ mained in Portland, and in due time was happily married. The other went away ^ipp country" and finally was also happily married. An intimate correspondence was kept up between the two for a few years, but was final­ ly dropped owing to changes of loca­ tion. and years passed without either seeiagf or hearing of the other. A short time ago the one living in Port­ land heard that the other, with her husband, had taken up her residence in a town only 100 miles or so from this city. A great desire to see the old and dear friend came over her, and she could not eat or sleep on account of it. Circumstances rendered it im­ practicable that she should go on a journey at the time, and her husband suggested she should have a talk with her friend over the long-distance tele­ phone. He rang up the distant city and call­ ed for his wife's friend, and after a reasonable time was notified that she was at the 'phone. He then called his wife to talk to her, and the following conversation took place: "Is that you, Sadie?" "Yes, it that you, Susie?" "Yes." Then they both began crying for joy and kept it up for half an hour or more, without being able to say a word. The unfortunate man who had arranged the interview, seeing that his. bill was mounting into the hundreds and bid fair to continue to mount in­ definitely, called it off for the time and the two friends continued to cry without expense. A meeting between the two friends has been arranged for, as neither of their husbands is willing to take the chances of financial ruin by allowing them to tackle the long­ distance telephone again. CARE OF WOUNDED SAILORS. Their Position in Battle Is Matter o| tirave Consideration. The British Medical association is sitting at Cheltenham, and on Wed­ nesday some very interesting facts were brought forward ag to the posi­ tion of the wounded in naval battles. Owing to the alterations in the struc­ ture of the ships, the o'.d arrangements under .which the wounded were at once carried down to the cockpit cannot be continued, and, on the opinion of Fleet Surgeon C. Kirker, the most humane course now adopted both by the French and Japanese, is to leave the wounded sailors lie where they are »mil the action is over and men can be spared to carry them down In ambulances, which will take some me­ chanical skill to devise. A light sleigh on runners of his own device Is now being tested previous to approval. The wounded are as safe on deck for a short time as elsewhere, and modern wounds do not cause dangerous loss of blood. It is essential, however, that each ship should have an operating room, which at present is not included in the accepted designs. It appears that the general health of sailors in warships is good, iron being much better than wood for sanitation, but some Improvements are greatly requir­ ed. and should be attended to by the admiralty at once.--Spectator. Rating Too Moch. Eating too much is a disease of civi­ lization. The uncivilized seldom get too much to eat, and their feastings are preceded or followed by so many days of famine that gourmandizing leaves no evil trade, says Good House­ keeping. Where food is abundant, oxygen scarce, muscles soft through inactivity, and the regular occupation a task upon the brain and nerves, the feeling that one has eaten too much or net eaten enough, is a frequent and troublesome intruder. At times there is a combined sense of becoming at once ill-nourished and overfed. This means simply that one has eaten too much of the improper foods and not enoqgh of the right ones. A famous rule\jr the cure of dyspepsia is sim­ ple and succinct: "Take on your plate all you mean to eat, and eat but twice a day." Nearness of Relntlonslilp. A little miss of five, living in Wash­ ington, conspired with her brother, age four, to save enough pennies tc buy papa and mamma presents. A friena o" the family noticed that mamma's piesent was much finer and iqpre ex­ pensive than papa's and was impelled by curiosity to inquire why the bulk of the savings nStf* been expended for the mother. The little miss replied: "Well, you see, papa is only related to we children by marriage, whll« mamma is qur relattYer.by bornation." Porto Rico's Coat of Arms. lowed by the different states of the United States, and was decided upon after long discussion by the committee. The old seal of Porto Rico, granted by Spain about the middle of the six tenth century, presented three leading features, a rock in the ocean, the lamb of St. John and design of the Spanish flag and castle. The shape of the shield was retained, and also the rock, after being remodeled as to copy, with some exaggeration, the contour of the island as it appears to the voyager be­ fore entering the harbor of £an Juan. Behind the rock is shown the rising sun. The choice of a crest presented a difliculty. No heraldic animat was sug­ gested as having a peculiar local sig­ nificance, except the gamecock, whose present popularity the government is trying to suppress. No suitable tree was suggested. The bust of Columbus was considered, but l£ was regarded as lacking in artistic effect. One of his caravels was found to make a striking effect above the shield, and it was adopted. Concerning a motto the committee decided that Spanish was out of the cuestlon, but English was such an un­ known tongue that Latin was chosen. Many mottoes were considered, but the successful suggestion came from a Washingtonian woman, and almost si­ multaneously from Dr. David J. Hill, assistant secretary of state. It Is from Ovid: "Prospers, iux oritur," which, translated, means "A happy day is dawning." Hero of Libby Prison. Gen. Harrison C. Hobart, the last survivor of the Wisconsin constitu­ tional convention and one of the last 6f the original five who planned and made the famous Ross tunnel and by it escaped from Libby prison, died at Milwaukee In the hospital of the Northwestern Home for Disabled Vol­ unteer Soldiers, aged 87 years. Few men in Wisconsin were better known than Gen. Hobart, both on ac­ count of his connection with the poli­ tics of the state and his remarkable war record. No history of the war of the rebellion was ever written that did not contain a chapter devoted to his remarkable escape from Libby prison together with others by tunnel­ ing, For this reason his reputation ex­ tended far outside the state, and there was a time some years ago when a Grand Army reunion was thought to be incomplete if he were not in attend­ ance to recount the exciting incidents of his capture at Chickamauga and im­ prisonment at Richmond. Before the war Gen. Hobart was a practicing attorney, and several times represented Sheboygan and other coun­ ties in the legislature, and after his G nt Haedlson C ttoBABT- return from the war he was a candi­ date for governor against Gen. Fair- child. Old Welsh Dresser. The oak dressers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries have a fine simplicity of their own. Those of Wales and Yorkshire are specially in request among the old furniture lov­ ers of to-day, and charmingly decora­ tive these old pieces are as a mounting for choice silver and china, while at the same time admirably serving the purpose of a sideboard. It Is possible that Hepplewhlte, by suggesting in one of his minutely drawn plans of a room, a large mirror hanging above the side­ board, foreshadowed the time when a mirror became a part, and often the salient part, of a piece of furniture cumbersome and heavy in proportion- to the unnecessary weight it had to support. At this stage, at any rate, we may leave it, with a mental sigh of relief that this style jyas only transient and that we are reverting to forms in which the "stately sideboard" is more worthy of its name. A Soldier's Memorial. A stump that marked the burlll place of a Wisconsin soldier, who was killed on the battlefield ot Shiloh. is on ex­ hibition at Depere, Wis:, and Is viewed with the greatest interest by the old soldiers who took part In that battle. John D. Putnam, of the Fourteenth Wisconsin regiment, was the first man in Company F to fall a victim to rebel bullets. He was killed April 14, 1862. Three comrades marked the spot where he was buried by an inscription on the trunk of *a tree. The comrades were Thomas Steele, Thomas Turriff and Richard Brighton, who still live here. Last October Thomas Steele, who ac­ companied the Wisconsin commission to locate the battle ground and the position of the different regiments, found the stump, with the inscription, although in a state of decay. Mr. Steele had the stump brought to De­ pere, and Intends to send it to Madi­ son. where it will become a part of Turquoises from Meant Slna'. The finest turquoises in the world come at present'from the Mount Sinai peninsula. Formerly the mines of Persia supplied them in abundance, but now these mines are becoming ex­ hausted and concessions have recently been obtained from the Egyptian gov­ ernment for working the ancient Sinai mines, which, as hieroglyphics carved on the rocks show, were originally opened by the Egyptians. Death Preferred to Batba. Jacob Baker was arrested in Pitts­ burg while trying to commit suicide, the reason for his attempt being that during a term in the workhouse, from which he had just been discharged, he had been "humiliated" by having to bathe once a week. When he told the magistrate this be was sent to the workhouse for more baths. Heaver Hunting in Siberia. The governor-general of eastern Si­ beria has forbidden beaver hunting in Kamschatka for • .period pC three the G. A. R. colleciiqn. The stump is two feet hight and 18 inches wide. What Could He Dot A traveler petting outside of St. Pe­ tersburg discovered when he tried to re-enter the city that he had left his passport In the bedroom of his hotel. The guards refused to let him pass; refused to send for the passpost. "Ac­ cording to you," said he, "the only thing for irfM^to throw myself in the Neva!" "No," said the sentry, "sui­ cide In Russia is strictly against the law." Quarantine at Manila. The Mani{a board of health has adopted plans for a detention camp as a safeguard against bubonic plague. The buildings will have accommoda­ tions for 2,000 persons. - Women In J*pan^se Offlees. The women of Japan are now largely employed in telephone and post offlbes, tili*b&iu Huvii" keepers. . « tftfaAPPEARANCE CF OUR GAME. Sections ot America Have Been D*m> tated of Beast and Bird. f Over vast sections of our land game of many kln'db . has been' altogether exterminated or sadly decimated. Yet it ia surprising to note the tenacity with which the beasts an£ birds still linger about the spots which were their favorite haunts before the wh{te man came to disturb th^m. When John Smith made his map of Virginia in 1607 he ornamented it with deer on the south side of the James river, about where the counties of Surrey and Sussex are now situated, and with turkey on the peninsula be­ tween the James an&the York rivers, to show where these were most abund­ ant. Three hundred years have passed since then, and a great many people have settled there, but deer and turkey most abound in Virginia still at the places designated by John Smith as their favorite haunts in his day. The Great South Bay and Barnegat were famous ducking grounds of old. One would think that the millions of people not collected about them would have frightened the wild fowl away. But with half a chance they still assemble there, in spite of the thousand sail that disturb them and the never-ending fusillade of the gun­ ners. When Frank Forrester wrote the Warwicic woodlands were the home of the ruffled grouse and the woodcock. To-day, notwithstanding the Or­ anges and Montclair and Tuxedo, and many other thickly populated com­ munities that have sprung up in the territory, population has not alto­ gether driven away the ancient occu­ pants, and a few still linger, reluctant to abandon their charming natural habitat.--Review of Reviews. Hoxley's AcrirressiTeness. Before Huxley's untiring energy there was found no peace for hum­ bugs, dissemblers or those who wished nothing better than to be left in lazy satisfaction with the accepted order of things. In these controversies he was sometimes too bitter, too fierce, and made use of a sarcasm which, though delicious, was frequently little short of cruel. He was a firebrand, warm enough to his friends, but ready to consume any opponent--nay, more, looking out for opponents with the keenest scrutiny, lest one might per­ chance appear upon the far horizon of the world of thought without being favored by his disastrous notice. More­ over, he was hot-tempered, and when roused sometimes harsh and illiberal; but his nature was of the impulsive kind that apologizes as quickly as it errs, while through his life at all times ran the redeeming vein of humor. It is not an uproarious laugh, hut a keen, irresistible little twinkle that comes Into the corner of his eyes over the foibles of his neighbors and of him­ self.--The Century. Hadn't Heard of Niagara. Dr. White, the American ambassa­ dor, tells an Interesting anecdote of the German empress. He was minis­ ter to Germany during the Arthur ad­ ministration, and when he returned as ambassador after McKinley's election and was presented to her majesty, he said: "I don't suppose you will remem­ ber me, but I attended your wedding." "I do remember you," replied the Kaiserin, "and I can tell you what you said to me on that occasion." "Then you have a better memory than I," re- markethDr. White, "for I certainly do not recall anything further than a most onarmtng occasion. "You told me,'l!~salcr the empress, "when you came to congratulate me, that if I was an American bride I would soon be setting out for Niagara Falls. I did not understand what you meant, but it made such an impression upon me that I immediately looked on the map and found where Niagara Falls was, and read everything I could find in books about it."--Chicago Record-Her­ ald. B«»uty of a lilii. The sound of a kiss is not loud as that ot a cannon, but its echo lasts a good deal longer.--Holmes. ' 11 » , ; . '.\yV Oae Pipes Wear Overcoats. Many New Yorkers have stopped to Winder at the long boxes packed with straw which may be seen in the Rap­ id Transit excavations. They are over­ coats of straw for all the pipes laid bare by the tunnel workers In cold weather. As fast as they are uncov­ ered by one set of workmen another comes along and wraps the pipes in a covering of straw, which is a poor conductor of either heat or cold. This precaution Is as necessary with gas as with water conduits. Where the wa­ ter will freeze in cold weather, except in mains where it Is running constant­ ly, the danger of Interruption to the gas mains is equally great where the mains are open and subject to wide changes in temperature. These changes cause condensation within the pipes, as many householders know when told that they have been troubled with water in the meter."--New York Press. Peopl* W«ar Thamielve* Out > Many people wear themselves dut needlessly, says the London Doctor; their conscience is a tyrant. An ex­ aggerated sense of duty leads many a person to anxious, ceaseless activity, to be constantly doing something, overpunctual, never idle a second of time, scorn to rest; such are In un­ conscious nerve tension. They say they have so much to do, not thinking they are rapidly unfitting themselves for probably what would have been their best and greatest work in after yearsN-Self-control of nerve force is the great lesson of health and there­ fore of life itself. To understand how to relax Is to understand how to strengthen nerves. Hearty laughter is a source of relaxation, as are also high thoughts, as those of hope, beauty, trust or lose. Relaxation Ls found in diversion. Thought it -fMore Wrtots. EmplOye--Sir, I would like to speak to you a moment upon a vory serious matter. Merchant--Don't bother me. 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