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RECKONIN (i. mm with the grim prospect. that stared his hated cousin) so closely in the face: ht of this it was as the one sweet drop in the bitter’cup which Fate had premeu with such unrelenting fingers or these and comm xvm. was it in c Jules Picot had been carefully search- ed baton being lccked up in his cell. and it was winner puzzle to the jail urinals how he hadmrntrived toconc cue 3.me him even so insignificant an: “(to as the tiny phial of poison so as to evade detection. One of the wardens. however. of a more inquiring turn of mind than his fellows succeed- ed a day or two later, in solving the. namery. The mountebank wore very high-heeled shoes, as many of his coun- trymen make a practice of doing. The bell of one of his shoes had been so made that it could be unscrewed at will. while inside. it was a cavity just large enough to hold the phial. evidently prepared himself beforehand for a contingency the like. of that. whicl; ‘hnd at length befallen him. for written a few hours death was in French. and "Madame Bmuke." l5 a translation of it: Madameâ€"When their; lines reach you, the hand that writes them, will l.-e cold I am tired: of life. and life is tired of me; this night we part com- pany for ever. I take the liberty of addressng you because of your kind- ness to my little. Henri, wthom le bon Dieu has seen fit to take from me for my sins. and because you were. so much in his thoughts when he. was dying. I also address you. fur another reason. which I will explain pmsently. It was in the first week of the new year that Henri met with the accident which proved fatal to him. He lingered for two weeks. and then died. out little pain; life faded out of ’him Like a lump that slowly expires for As I said before, he often He. \Vhem he‘ to his lips. Wth be Sit brooding ov other matters. just as daylight was a warden un- "You're deepe into dusk, locked the door of his cell. wanted in the waitingâ€"rum." said the “Your uncle. Colonel Crofton. has called to see you. hour hing man. It's past the for visitors; out as he's brought magistrate's order. and as he says he's obliged to go back to London to- night. the governor has agreed to re- lax the rules for‘ once." Crofton stared at. this man in stupe- 'l'o the best. of his belief he had no such relative in the world as the one just named. pool. to (its: him. I duresay.” continued “A nice affable gent as ever I see; but I wouldn't keep him if I was Crofton followed the man without a and after through a coupl faction. Pivot had "Ah. you didn't ex- t'he warder. ’l‘he let- before his was ad- The waiting you. conducted e of corridors, was ush- ered into a. spausely furnished whiteâ€" where a. middle-aged- mnn of military carnage. who had been perusing through his eye- glass the printed rules and regulations framed over the mantel-piece, turned greet him. He hadcloseâ€"cutz grizzled hair and a thick drooping grizzled He wore a. Lightly but- trousers . boots highly {Hie carried his hat and a tasselled malacca in his, hand, and one corner of a bandana handkerchief proâ€" truded from his pocket behind. "My dear nephewâ€"m he exclaimed with muc advanced a step his hand. word ; being dressed I following “ ashed room, well-built in death. moustache. toned frockcoat, straps, polished. gray and and millitary dear George 1” effusion as he ‘ I or tub and held out . “'Ihis lS indeed a dreadful preihcametnt in which ' to find What, oh. you have been about that; should have to seek you in a place like this! Will be. bean-broken when she hears I must break the terrible news as gently as possxble; but really, really, up her delicate slate of health I dread the effect such _a disclosure. may have . His V0106 trembled with emotion, he brushed away a tear, or seemed to do so. ‘ George Grafton had undergone many surprises in his time, but never one Uhat left him more dumbfounded thanl this, for in his sobdisant uncle his qu-k eye recognized at a. see a you. what can EteIhad : Your poor aunt of it. want of OllI. talked about. his belle madame. could not remember his mother, and it was your face that shone on him in his dreams. as it were the. face of an angel. After he was gone and I was alone world. I, too, began to have dreams such as I had never had before. Every night Hb-n‘ri came and stood by my bed. but it was always with an averted face; never wouild he turn and I used to try to cry out, to seize his hand; but I was dumb and motionless as a. corpse. a minute or two. line would slowly vanâ€" with bowed head and hands pressed to his face. as though he were weeping silently. Night after night it was ever Then a. great restlessness took possession of me. I see-med to be urged onward from place to place by amne. invisible power and without any :VVLhien I rose in the morning I knew not where I should sleep at night; onWard, ever onward, I was compelled to go. Last night I reached this place, and: this morning I rose thinking to resume my wander- ings; W a conversation I chanced to overhear led me to sleek the court of You. madame. upon ilnths 7 glance no personage than Lardy B'iLll. Ill at the moment his eyes fell on him ble- had been In the least doubt 0f the fact, that would have been dispelled by ‘ . wink with which his friend favored him an instant later. The man’s amlacilty fairly took Crof- tom's breath. away. "The first. question, my dear resumed the sham colonel. so as to give the other time to recover himself, "of course is whether anything can be done for you, and if so, what. I need not. say that‘my purse is at your service; for, shocked as I am to find you) cannot forget. that you are my brother‘s son. I leave. for.l_.on- don by the first train, and immediately will take the advice took at 1116- the expressive Then. after boy," the same. this place, I will of my own. . on my arrival l of my own lawyers in the which will, I thlnk, be the best thing that can be done under the painful cir- cumstances of the case.” "I suppose that‘s thing that can be Crofton, who was still utterly loss to divine the motive of the other’s VlSlL. 'l‘he wardcr, who had conducted Crof- ton from the cell, was present at the interview, mtensibly for the purpose of seeing that none of the jail regu- lations were infringed either by prisoner or his visitor; but. a sovereign having been pressed into luctant palm at the moment he usher- ed the latter into the waiting room, he now discreetly turned his back on the pair and stared persistently out of the window. A little further conversation passed between uncle and nephew, the chief part of it falling to the lot of former, then the colonel his watch and rose to take his leave. warder turned at. the same in- matter, about the only done," answered justice. know what took place there. Even before I had spoken a. word. 1 mew why my footsteps had been dit- rectcd to this place. and that. my wan- derings were at an end. This afterd noon. after all was over. I lay down on my pallet and fell asleep, and while I slmnbemd. Henri came to me; but this time his face was no longer averted; his eyes gazed into mine, and he smiled as he used to entitle at me out of his Ah, how shining and Then a soft cool the his unre- mother's arms. (mutiful he looked! hand was laid on my brow. that had burned and burned for months. amball and I knew nothing Ma- thc looked The slant. "As I remarked before, George," said the uncle, as he clasped both the nephew‘s bands in his, “how- ever painedâ€"most deeply may be, everything shall be done you that can be. done. all reproachwâ€"at present I can only But your poor aunt, Georgeâ€"- godson Ah incâ€"ab the pain went. more till I awoke. A word more and I have done. (lame. pray believe me when 1 say th never could a man be more surprised mud astonished than 1, Jules Picot, was to-duy when l foumd that it was your good husband who was accused of the death. of the Baron von Rosenberg. When Imade my way into the court after hearing that some one had been arrested for the murder, i. thought to see only a stranger. one whom I had never seen before. _ cam {should have dome as .I did to- day. and have confessed that it was by and mine- alonc. that You Conceive. my dear pained â€" . for l refrain from grieve. your aunt ! _ favourite ucphew. You are her and me!" He walked out of the room both hands outser and slofwlyshak- ing his head, like a man whose feelings were more than he could control. , _ The jail officials, at an early hour then. my astonishment when in the ac- he“ morning, in adding]; to making the discovery that in the course of the night their h‘rcuch prisoner had tak- |en leave. of them after an altogether iillcgal and unjustifiable fashiou,werc further astounded 'by finding that the inmate of cell No. 5 had also reliev- Butt even in that with my hand Rosenberg met his death. niscd 31. Broukc, whom I had known in London under the name of "M. Stewart!" _ _ in London he was in Il‘oulllcâ€"lp hidâ€" never did 1 dream of is laid: to Ihits chargel. 1Had I but known it, "on am \e. wou \ ong ; , A - . ago hnve been ignite happy by the cou- ' w “M” m hm fermion of him who new signs his name a Jules l’i.:ot.l cuscd l ret‘og‘ I knew that when. m“- llul Lha :mne that \ presence, but. mode altogether different from which had found favor with the mounte- bunk. Crofton, unheard by any one, contrived to file through the middle of his cell window squeeze himself through the aperture after which there Lug but a high wall between him- Beyond this that for the last tint». . > With what a host of conflicting etuoâ€" ; Lions this document. was read by ‘ to “flu-m it was addressed may be more readily imagined than descrilx-d. . George (‘nifton sat alone ll) his cell devouring hishmrt in a bitterness too deep for words. the brig ‘ surly manhood bad enuc home for yours to come would felon's cell. his only companions . lowest of the low, the vilest of the vi "Facilis est umttemd with a sneer. case the (latent has been in all nonsmeurei.” id 3'. and one on y, 3‘) cavernous depths~ like fallen spirits. v_conntva mlessly to and “'0. . t. Ger- . ith an deuce forthcoming . in natures . jail officials could affirm with certain- as ho , ty was that their nifton's. haud’whcre to be found. At as early her I bad hair and then to anus, made, was uoib self and liberty. were some market gardens, the ituatcd in the outskirts of the tbeuown, and then the open fields. (Jut- 1°,,_side the wall, a cod of rope be strong steel hook at each end of two if not All was over; ht prospects of his youth and d in this: his . be a, ', being 5 .wali jail with \verno." “'85 ("$95, in mndound; and the footsteps swift, and .of three men were plainly traceable for distance in the soft mould of the As to how Crofton bad in come possessed of the file, and by whose ’ ace and help he had been able to clinli- the wall and descend safely on the other side. there was no evi- The only fact. the desrensus One. i some . - 'vh easy (‘41ng garden‘ Mn of ltu‘ l the illum- be- black which his thoughts. winged their way at finding no swt wlmn'ou to tux dd Brooke. the man: he hate hitensdy of hatred lined only was a prisoner even me d \v prisoner was up- an hour as possible on in when he said than t the morning following his ‘ uld come '(‘roflon had obtained permissxon telegram to his wife, and be- speeding such as bili- . m and L: was 1:23. C that had brow of his {mange wo It “as here now, million. (“shun altogether ht him them! He had’ t “1 rap (.1). re, 2“ send a ' fore noon. Stephanie ‘50 hm} ellM'u‘r'J- northward by the express in IfSpgnse A \\ hen bin: n-ucin-d Willi bu" What ‘Cu'“.merl::tys, it was too l..'._- .n: 3...; :u at last. ‘ it had Hum alts-r a cutter-em from “hit more“) m ~ “mm W an “'38 his fully. his own outlooki lo his summons. visit her husband that night; so, oar- tying her little handbag, she walked from the station to the inn nearest to it and asked to be accommodated With Supper and a bed. She had as- certained from a. constable in the street that the earliest hour at .whtch visitors were admitted to the 33.11 was ten o‘clock. . Next morning, wh'mh was that_ of Saturday. Stephanie rose betunes. While she was eating her breakfast the landlady hustled in, carrying an open newspaper. "Here’s_the weekly pa- per. ma‘am,” she Bald. "The boy has just brought it; and as it contains a long account of the doings at the JUS- ticeâ€"room yesterdu , about which you may have heard, thought that per- haps you would like to read it over your breakfast." "Thank you very much; 1- shall be glad to do so,” said Stephanie quietly. She had given no name at the inn, and the landlady had not. the slightest sus- picion that her guest had any reason for being more interested than ~ any stranger might be supposed to be.Y in the news contained in the paper. hor, in fact, had Stephanie any knowledge of what had happened. Her hus- band’s telegram had been of the brief- est; it had merely said: ‘_‘I am in trouble. Come at once.‘Brmg money. inquire for me at the jail." But from what. she knew already, she guessed, and rightly, that the enterprise on which Crofton was bent when he left home had failed, and that by some mischance he himself had come to grief. , The moment she was left. alone Ste- phanie opened the paper With eager fingers. Her quick eyes were notiong in finding the particular news of which they were in search. She read the story of the attempted robbery, as detailed in the evidence, wrth ever- growing wonderâ€"a wonder that. was intensified twenty-fold when she read how Gerald Brooke had been arrested at the same time as her husband, and by what strange chance the two cou- sins had once more been brought face to face. But when, a. few_ lines low- er down, her eyes caught Sight. of an- other wellâ€"kmown name, all_the. colâ€" or ebbed from her face, leavmg it as white as the face of u. dead woman. She read to the end, to the“ last word of Picot‘s strange confessmn before the magistrates, and then the paper drop- ped from her hands. tr "My father the murderer of \on Rosenberg, and 1â€"1 the cause of it! she murmured in horror stricken ac.- ccnts. For a. little while she sat like a. woman stunned, stupclted, her‘cyes staring into vacancyhner mind a whirling chaos, in which thoughts and fancies the most bizarre and moonâ€" gruous came and went, mixing and mingling with each other in a sort of mad Brocken dance, all the ele- ments of which were lurid, vague, and elusive. ‘ 'How long she sat thus she never knew; but she was roused by the enâ€" trance of the landlady, who had come to reclaim] the newspaper, there be- ing three or four people in the ' tap- room who were anxious to obtain a glimpse of it. Fortunately, the good woman was somewhat short-Sighted, and perceived nothing out of the or- dinary in her guest’s demeanor. But her entrance broke the spell and servâ€" ed 'to recall Stephanie to the realities of her osition. For little‘ while all thought of her husband had vanished from _ her mind. This second blow had smitten her so much more sharply than the first that the pain caused by the for- mer seemed deadened thereby. But now that her waking trance was brokâ€" en, the double nature of her calamity forced itself upon her mind. . My father and my h-quzmd shut up in one prison!" she said to herself; and it was all she could do to refrain from bursting into laughter. bar are there not some kinds of laughter the sources of which lie deeper than the deepest fountain of tears! Suddenly she started to her feet and pressed both hands to her forehead. "But whyâ€"why should my father have gone to Von llpsenberg to demand from him tidings of me, when wrotv to him from .London telling him all that had happened to me and where l was? Can it be possible that my letâ€" ter never reached him? Had he re- ceived it there would havebeen no need for him to seek Von Rosenberg. Even after so long a tune I could n1- most. repeat my letter word for word. in it I told my father howl had left home with You Rosenberg, but; oniy after he had given me _his solemn promise to make me his Wife the mp- iuent we set foot in England. I to.d how, within an hour after our arrival in .London, I had claimed the fulfil- ment of his promise, andhowhe had laughed me to scorn, thinking‘ that he had now got. me completely in .IllS power. I told how I flung all \ on Rosenberg’s presents at his feet and left him there and then, and gomg out into the rainy streets of the great: city, fled as for my life. L told how 1 bid for weeks in a gurret, living on little more than bread and milk; and how at last, when my money was all gone, I found my way toilie neur- est cirque, and there obtained an engagement. All this I told my father in my letter, and then I, pray- ed him to forgive me, and told. hun how I longed to get back to him and my mother. Weeks and months 1 ive me. I shall'never see him or {Signiot’her again." But ‘the letter never reached him. Haul it done so he would not be where he LS lo-day. 'l‘earless sobs shook her from head to f‘ t. , 034 this juncture in burst the land- lady with an air of much importance. "As you have read the paper. I thought (limo maybe you would like to hear the news that one of the warders Just. off duty has brought us from. the "ll. Such times as we live in. to befisure . “News-What news?" asked btephanie " tl . mglolln Myles has brought wordâ€"and he ought to kuow._tf anybody doesâ€" thnt one of the prisoners-Crime or Crofton by tuneâ€"managed to break out. of his 0311 in the night. and has got clear away. But that's not .all thy any means. The foreignerâ€"hun- as accused himself in. open court of.tho murderâ€"was found dead this morning. poisoned by his own' hand. 'lhe. news will be all over England before nigng- fall.â€"-Gracimm me. ma'am. whatever IS the nutter! â€"- Mary. Elamâ€"quick, * ~ ~kl" q“ To Be Continued. ITEMS OF INTEREST ABOUT THE BUSY YANKEE. Helghborly Interest in ills Doingsâ€"Matters of Moment and nlrth Gathered from I'll: Daily Record. Oats six feet high in the stalk are re- ported in Lane county. Or. At Clinton. Ky.. an acre of wheat yielded 108 two-bushel sacks. A resident of Skidmore. Mo.. boasts of having put up twenty-two thrwton stacks of hay in one day. Near Brunswick, Md. a cow which last summer dropped “(win calves has done the same thing again. It took half an hour for a mother in Bristol, Tenn" to recover a watch wheel which her small boy had swallowed. One of the lazy farmers of Utica, Neb.. has a rocking-chair attachment con- nected with his harvesting machinery. Only the would-be. saloon keeper and one non-resident. signed a petition for the establishment. of a saloon at. Mon- roe, Neb. Manhattan. Kan... with three wom- en's clubs in a population of 3.500. is said to have more culture. than any oth- er town of its stze in that State. What is known as the young mar- ried set of (nrlhage. Mo, society en- tertains itself in these hot times with wading parties in the Spring River. J. 1. Taylor, living near Grove, Or., touched a. match to scum over a stagnant pool on his place. and the whole surface- of the pool ignited gm blazed as a kerosene pond might aze. ' That there are vigor and hardihood in Brooks. Or., can hardly be doubled after publication of that Brooks is“ the. home of John Stutâ€" hnmmer. the Slugger twins. and Bud Weddle. Portland. Or., is expecting the arri- 4-mu.sl.ed British bark. the Sprin-gburn. the largest sail~ mg vessel but. one ever in that She is 296 feet. long, 45.6 feet broad. and 25.7 feet. deep. Five million bushels is the expected harvest yield of the \Valla \Valla Val- ley, “lush, and at. present prices on the crops the farmers will realize enâ€" ough to lift a number of mortgages on their places this fall. It does not necessarily take gold to arouse people to energetic activity in a. new country. The. people who made. up the. first rush to Oklahoma coun- y only a short time ago gathered in one day 1,000 bushels of plums. In the neighborhood of Jamestown. N.D., the barley crop has increased 18.3 per cent. in acreage over that of last. year. the. corn crop 13‘.) per. cc-nt., the wheat crop 27.3 per cent” the out crop 9.8 Lper cent... and the flux crop Bper cen . The Rev. Dr. Hancher of the Grand Avequc Methodist lipizcopal Church of Kansas City has established not only a bicycle check room in the basement of his church but also in mothers may check their babies while they attend divrnc service. _ tist who was at first harth C tx‘amp atSt. Jmeph Mo. askedhim to pull out two of his teeth which were filled with gold: for. he asked. of what Iiiâ€"filled teeth if one had on which to use them i This up- so to the dentist that he gave drawing ‘WH Ml limp mic“ some money instead of his teeth. Dr. W. A. Roberts. of Minneapolis. in the interest of a society which side oonsumptives to find a locality when they lun' get relief or be cured. has g about. in .Klllllafl mun- f)‘. Washington, for a. Site for ahome. It does not appear that the people of that section have as , courage hopelem invalids. from coming there. to raise the mortality figures. ills some Western places have recently one. At Torre Baum. Ind.. there is a Meth- odist church. on Maple avenue, of which the Rev. Frank Gee is pastor. where it ins been the practice for the min- ister to announce on each Sunday the midweek run of theehurch bicycle club. Deacon James A. Dixon. who objects to this practice and had protested in vain, one Sunday sent up that the parson read a notice 0 meeting of a card club to be held on a coating week day evening. The par- son refused to read it. and the demon forsook the church. The matter is not yet settled. - By the last: steamer in July from J a- pan 8. Japanese‘resident of Los Angeâ€" les. Cal., received a. circular from the Japanese State Department telling him that he was directed by the imperial Government to collect forth-with the in- formation asked for in some pinying questions. The circular naked for information as to this number of Japanese in the county, the number of them who were American citizens. . the number of the women. the nearest sea» port. and. the various means of reachiu it, together with the time. in which i might be reached, and the cost of tran- sporfation to it. and the names and addresses of the chief Japanese in the county. .___â€"___._â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"- FREE KS OF FORTUNE. Some “'lmll‘ulls That (fume lluexpccleclly Io Those. Who Needed 'l‘hcm. \Vhile most people find it. very hard to acquire even a modest competency. others are more lucky, and to them fortunes come without even the ask- Several such instances have oc- curred of late years. some of llmm of an hitcresting character. a short while since that. a poor ragpick- er in Birmingham suddenly found him- self a man of working from dawn till late at. night he had been in the habit of making the not very exorbitant income. of 82.5(13101‘ One morning he heard from a firn of solicitors in London. quested him to call learn something (.0 his advantage. He found that along lost brother, who had made morcy in' Australia. had re.- cently died there, leaving him a. sum of £8,000. At. Tamworth. nist has unexpectedly found himself the heir to a larolnuzicy. past: he has bcenv iin receipt of 256. 6d. a week, having served: as if serganl. in llrc Suffolk Regiment; but finding this sum inadequate he look a loi-arconist shop at Tamworth. and, was :Im'nl‘cnf- with his lot. awoke to imd hi-msie’lf a buronot of the Lmted ngdonl. A schooner which went ashore. off the American roast coal, boxing abandoan by her owners. Home «Hill tons of real bad beem got Gull. of the hull. when smddenly the vessel slid off the rock deep water, ever, to float agamttiic next morning. and drift Willi tho lulu right into port. it seems flint SUIIIllHClli; (-0111 had rot,- Hnd through llle hole; in her bottom to let the. hull come again to the. sur- face With some 300 [was of ('(Jill still Lhcn stool she was worth. $3.01“) or more. In HALL-.1- who bought it for $76. A couple of lucky domestics have Jalo- ly come into possrssaon of; a ionsiiicr- a tile aura of money through lh" dmth of tlunr mistress, an old lady of eighty- fivc, who left. them. her entire. fortune. 1| he. sum to be divulcl Is 8120,0190, and it. is l.(*(1llr:':ll.lll“:!l to them im recognition of their long and faithful H‘l'l'lt‘u‘i. one of thmn halvmg been twenty-five and the. other cightecn yo; with llm lmly ill question. 'l'h<:~¢-ffe..-ts produced by. suddenly ac- quired wmlth are sometimes startling I A suburban Parisian. u‘lb) lately Inherited £16.00“ from an elderly aant, at once about for some. outch for spending Ihc _ At lf‘flllolll the. «12.20. for Lullrhng sprwulatiun Ham-d him. and 1 he built, hmises wherever sites were obâ€" . IIl- polity”) in! this may for some time, when his mind let-attic un- avas found walking around his newly bum lamva firng shots from a navy n-anvn-r at imaginary l‘nl'nllui-l. I on arrostml :iml plmuzd in an asylum. been IOL 'LD yet tried to d-lS‘ a r uest the “(VOID- Cottage the information val of a (JO-ton, por t. ing. It was only wealth. By dint of week. who rcâ€" whcln he would England, a tobacco- h‘or some t. we room where Electricity in the operation of the farm is to become a factor presently on the far Pacific slope. Jesse Kilgore of \Veslon, Umatilla county, Or., has employed an electrician and is to inâ€" stall a 32â€"inch dynamo to supply light and power for harvest work. i y con ten led when he wi ('11 1.20;) inns Most Kansas counties pay a bounty “"1550” my $70“ Yeti wolves in that illcd 1,151) shccp, on wolves killed. State have in a year according to statistics collected by member of the State Board of Agra-ul- ture, while the. 1.35.570 dogs owned [here have killed, 1,294 sheep. \Vhile a and 5:1 nk only. how- business man of Newport News and his family were sitting at ta- ble wondering why long in getting breakfast. a who had come along just as it “as to the kitchen eating what. he wanted of it. and keeping the cook quiet with a revolver. in it. As this vessel. the cook was so trump, be served, sat The ever active desire of newspapers to give. the. public more than the Worth of the public's money, had a manifestaâ€" tion lately in the case of a paper :it Juniata, Nob. which put in so imulest 1a. bill for country printim.r that the. SuperVisors voluntarily increased amount of it and paid it. By the. tomb of Henry llidgely. who died in 1699. in Anne Arundcl (‘l,illlll_\'. MIL. lsanc C. Anderson. of the .N'wnnrl district of that. county recently found a coin of the date. 1695, marked on (he obverse "VllI. Skilling which is well Worn. capital C.. over which is the. figure. Scorn must be. felt by va York grip- Said to myself: "Mv father will not men and Brooklyn motormen for flu- motormen of Mei-lumicsvillc. 'l‘enn. cording to local newspaper plianis these actually stop ,in one. part. of the town because children are lhirk upon the "The cars have to be stopped," "to avoid an accid- the in the extreme. Logan to look mum-y quickly. The but rs .' llanske.“ t.:iiitiblc. reverse. and he hlnzzc'l. one, day \ II». was thereup- , o- i | _..... . 'llil'l RU]..le SP1“ The story is told of a llUll‘d‘K’vHIf‘. who was extremely neat. that she v.14“: one night :it the sound of gcrceping mitiy out of bed and toward lightâ€"stind. \Vhat's whispered Sill he whispered, there's a burglar coming up till: front stairs. and I’m getting my revolver. l was silt-Jun again. in H.4- midst of which “illiam crept Dolfl'l‘b'bly tc ithe head of the stairs. l’tcrecntiy then was a loud rt l'l‘. track. one. paper says, out i" 0n the spur of the moment Charles J. Knuf man of Newport News offered to bet with Mike Zolla M. Hendrick. of Fairville. lilo. that she would not marry him while they were in Norfolk on a visit wnh her cousin. She took him up and surprised him by not back- ing out during his quest for a license and a clergyman. Tom Morgan of Eureka. Ken. is of opinion that a hoarse shout at a steer ,scurU-im; of fattening for market has as had an ,came back, “glued a lamp, and effect on the animal as an impatient word may have on n vcr' ill which recalls a remark o Ran-y, the horse trainer. who said that he had known an angry . _ the pulse of a. high-spirited hone many , boats to the second. _ To work on the Bymxmzlz'ob n! :: (Ea-n- led up the stairs? her husbu nd l the the matter. William? she tort follow ed . bf; atom} (19!; llurn the lib-Jr! nd turned to the stairway. U \\'illi:un. William. :lili lieâ€"~â€" Yes, he got away, said Ilw husband 1 don't. turn so mw‘l. about that t \l'illium did boâ€" pinyin. Oh. the “'Olflilfl said. l‘u hid lie whatf. lid to v.-i;.e his feet before he etc rt word llf‘L’l- Ec-r': ~-