, . . : .r--- , - - t . . a. s.--- „ - - - - -A 1. + w . . 1cowaro'of Olntmont for Catarrh That Contain Mercury , As mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and completely derange the whole system when entering it through the mucous surfaces. Such articles - ticles should never be used except on prescriptions from reputable physl- clans , as the damage they will do is tenfold - fold to the good you can possibly derive ' from them. Ilal : ) s Catarrh Cure , manufactured - 'P factured by F. J , Cheney & Co „ Toledo , 0. , I ontalns no mercury , and is taken internally , acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the sys- tem. In buying Hall's Catarrh Cure , be sure you get the genuine. It is taken internally - ternally , and made in Toledo , Ohio , by F. J. Cheney & Co. Testimonials free. Sold by druggists ; price , 75c per bot- jie. Hall's Family P111s , 25c. . \o Equivocatlon. Lord Tenterden one day at his own table , asiced a country magistrate if lie would take venison. "Thank you , my lord , boiled chicken , " was the reply. Ills lordship had contracted an inveter- ttte habit of keeping himself and eycry- bodv else to the precise matter in hand. " 't'hat sir " said the "is , , judge , no answer to my question. I now ask you again if you will take venison , and I n ill trouble you to say yes or no without - out further prevarication. " I never used so quick a euro a5 Piso's Cure for Consumption.-J. 33. Palmer , Box I 1171 , Seattie,1 rash. , Nov. ° 5,1895. Russia had net profits last year 'of $51- - I 0cc0 , from her railroads. The untimely death of I'rofessor Tut- tie , of Cornell University , prevented his completing "The History of Prus- : ; ia" which was his magnus opus. However - ever , he left nearly finished the fourth volume , covering the first part of the great Seven Years' War. The volume is complete as far as it goes , and is an i important addition to a work which has gained the hearty favor of the foremost - -most German , English , and American historical authorities. It will soon be issued by Houghton , Mifflin & Co. The Pligrlin-Easter Number. iVill be ready the early part of April. I Everything in it will be new and orig- inal. It will contain articles by Capt. Chas. King , U. S. A. , et-Gov. Geo. W. Peck , of Wisconsin , and other noted writers. An entertaining number , well illustrated. Send ten (10) ( ) cents to Geo. 11. IIeafford , publisher , 415 Old Colony building , Chicago , Ill. , for a copy. , 'more is too much say it , and too little provo.itin this world. I Half Fare Excursions via the Wabash , I The short line to St. Louis , and quick route East or South , April 7th , 21st and May 5th. Excursions to i all points south at one fare for the round trip with $2.00 added. JUNE 10th , National Republican Convention at St. Louis. 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Brockton , Mass , A a A N r * t . . , t. a w . , f - -r-- - - - ' * ' - - _ : TTr , ' 1 , , L n'c : , o + 0CG Cj U p Yr G , Sir 1 t / ® Q. r CLAUUW , isdrtr' Y A1J 7U Ubilo , a d c i ily ly i CHAPTER XVII.-CONTINUED ) . "From the very first moment I saw Imogene Trenholme , I was repelled ! I had suspicions of her before I had been here a week , and her conduct in this chamber , somnolent though she was , confirmed me. This afternoon I saw her put a slip of paper in the hollow of the old tree at the end of the garden , and I took the liberty to examine it. I found it was an appointment to meet some one in this room at eleven o'clock. I kept the tryst. So did the others. I did not intend to kill this Rudolph , but he made me , or rather , he saved me the trouble , he killed himself. And five days ago , anticipating a denouement of some kind , I sent for my father. He will be here to-day , I think. " Ralph's mother crept timidly to his side. "My son , what will you do with her ? " she said , looking at Imogene. "The law shall take its course ! " he answered sternly. "But remember , 0 Ralph ! remember - ber she is a woman ! " "And Marina whom she murdered was a woman , also ! Mother , do not talk to me ! My heart is changed to stone ! " He took Imogene by the arm as he spoke , and led her up stairs to a room on the third story , which had once been used as a chemical laboratory , but which had long since been given up to the rats and spiders. Into this he thrust her , and drew the bolt on the outside. CHAPTER XVIII. 1 T WAS DECIDED to await the arrival of Governor Fulton before taking any further steps in the sad affair at the Rock , and they did not have long to wait. The Governor - nor arrived before noon , full of terri- ble anxiety , for he felt sure that something must have happened - pened to Helen , or she would not have sent for him in such hot 'haste. He was reassured almost immediately by the sight of her face. She put her arms around his neck and kissed him cor- dially. "You are a nice papa to come ! she said , "and I've lots and iota to tell you. The real criminal is discovered , and it turns out that no less a person than Mrs. Imogene Trenholme did the horrible - rible deed ! Papa , it makes me shudder to think of it. A woman's hand stained with blood ! " "Helen , I do not credit you. Go out and bring me somebody that knows. " She slipped away and returned with the magistrate and Mr. St Cyril. They gave the Governor a full statement of affairs , and last of all displayed to him the confession of John Rudolph. "Now , papa , for the pardon ! " cried Helen , "We can't wait for any long legal process to set Lynde Graham free -we want it done at once ! " Governor Fulton compliea. He wrote first an order to the jailer , commanding him to let Lynde Graham go free ; and then he made out the pardon in due form. Helen kissed him rapturously ; and with the papers in her hand , bounded away. She found Agnes weeping softly - ly , alone in her chamber. "I've got it ! " she exclaimed , gleefully , "and you shall carry it to him yourself , you dear old darling ! " And she held up the papers. ' Agnes threw her arms around the girl's neck , but Helen shook her off with a pretty petulance. "There , don't ! You'll muss my collar , and get my curls all in a snarl ! Take the papers and don't let the grass grow under your feet. " Agnes reached the jail , and gave to the old warden the order for the prison- er's release. He read it over carefully , his hard old face softening with a smile of genuine delight. "Thank the Lord ! " he ejaculated. "I'se allers thought it would come ! I'se never had an idee that that man was made to be hung ! " Agnes entered the cell softly , her heart beating almost to suffocation. Lynde was lying across the foot of his cot asleep. How very worn and haggard - gard he looked ! The tears came into the eyes of Agnes as she gazed at him , and dropped upon his face. He stirred uneasily , and muttered : uAh , so ft is time ? Well , I am ready. " Agnes touched his cheek lightly. He sprang up , and on seeing her , smiled brightly. "I thought my time had come , " he said. "I dreamed they came to call me. But what is it , Agnes ? Your face is a perfect glory ! " " 0 , Lynde , 'Lynde ! " she cried , her voice broken with sobs. "You have borne bravely the prospect of death ; can you bear the thought' . of life as well ? " He looked at her wonderingly , but no flush of hope mounted to his pale s e J' r1 t forehead. The sadness did not go out of his eyes , "I have ceased to think of that as among the possibilities. " But I tell you it is possible" she answered , radiant with the words-"O , Lynde , they have discovered the real murderer ! " "It cannot be ! Agnes tell me ! " "Lynde , there was an eye-witness of that murder ! He died last night at the Rock , and with his last breath he made a confession which clears you from all stain , and fixes the guilt upon the wife of my brother ! " "God's ways are not our ways ! " he said reverently. "I would have spared her. When she did this deed I loved her. Her beauty had intoxicated me. I would have died for her , and counted it bliss. And then she asked me to keep her secret. Worlds would not have tempted me to betray her. But Agnes , the moment I knew what she had done , all the absorbing passion I felt for her melted away-I shuddered at the thought of her ! But she was a nobly born , beautiful woman , and I had loved her. And because of this , I could not speak the words that would free me and bind her. When I knew that your brother married her , then for the first time I was convinced that I had done wrong ; but it was then too late to remedy my error , and I would go silently to the grave , carrying her dreadful secret with me ! " "Will you not read the pardon ? It is written in the governor's own hand. Helen would not let them wait to go through with a formal process of releasing - leasing you , but she must have the pardon - don at once. " She held it up before him. He took it , but the letters swam before his eyes. He could not read a single line. He dropped his forehead on the shoulder of Agnes in sheer weakness. " 0 , Agnes ! Agnes ! " he said , in a choked voice , "God is too good ! " She stroked his hair tenderly. "We want you up at the Rock , Lynde. My mother and brother both sent for you. Will you not come ? " His joyous face grew sad. "Not today , Agnes. I will wait a lit- tle. I cannot forget that your brother is smitten by the blow which opens my prison doors. I will go to my desolate home first. By-and-by I will come to the Rock. You understand me , Agnes ? " "I think I do. 0 , my poor Ralph ! My heart aches for him ! " They passed out of the prison to- gether. The warden shook Ly nde's hand heartily. "God bless you , lad ! " he cried , with a suspicious moisture in his gray eye. "I never thought you did it , and I'm glad it's all found out. There be bright days in store for you yet' " Lynde wrung the honest hand , but he was too full for speech. He walked on with Agnes until they reached the great pine by the shore. There their paths diverged. He took her hands in his and looked into her eyes. No word was spoken. He stood thus a moment - ment , then he stooped and touched the shining hair above her forehead with his lips. And then turning his back upon her , he walked in the direction of the deserted cottage he had' once called home. CHAPTER XI % . wc , y ; HEN the proper authorities w e r e informed of the guilt of Imogene ' P1 Trenholme , t h e y sent up a sheriff and a couple of constables to take her in charge. Ralph had expected them. His face had undergone a terrible - ble change within the past twenty-four hours. He had aged a score of years , and there were white hairs mingling with the brown on his temples. He received them with sad , stern gravity , and led the way up to the apartment where he had left Imogene. He opened the door and they entered. Crouched in the further corner of the room was the object of their search , but she looked more like a wild beast than a beautiful woman. One glance was sufficient to show them that reason had fled from her brain. Her face was livid , save a purple line beneath each eye , her long , glossy hair had been torn from her head in handfuls , and lay scattered on the floor. Her dress was fearfully disordered , and her delicate hands were bloody where she had beat against-the door in trying to escape. The sheriff advanced toward her , and spoke gently , but the sound of his voice filled her with new madness. With a wild , fearful cry , she sprang upon him , hurling him to the floor , while her slender fingers tightened so closely round his throat , that in a moment he would have been strangled , had not Ralph and one of the constables inter- fered. She snapped at them fiercely with her glittering white teeth , and brandished her arms high above her head. "Off ! off ! every fiend of you ( " sht tried. "I am empress of the world ! I reign queen and king ! The nations are glad to bow down in the dust and worship - ship me ! What ho , there ! Guards , bring hither my crowh and sceptre and hurry these base varlets to the chopping block ! " The scene was terrible. These men , hardened as they were by. . the sight of suffering , turned away from this with errowfuI faces. The law did not med- (110 with insanity. They had no power to arrest a raving maniac. So they left her and went their way. TO BE CONTINUED. ) RETURNED JUST IN TIME , Man Supposed to have Been Murdered Stops sr Hanging. From the Washington Star : Ex-Sher- iff Blakeslee of Comanche county , Nebraska - I braska , told a story of his experience in office to a Star writer the other day. " 1 never hanged a man , he said. "The vigilance committee usually settled hanging offenses outside of the courts. Then we were not fixed for taking care of many prisoners. When I was sheriff - iff there were only three rooms to the jail , and all of them smell. One I slept in , another I used for an office and the other I kept my prisoners in when I had any. "One time I received a man charged with murdering hIs partner. There was a little doubt about his guilt , so the vigilance committee turned him over to me. The prisoner and the murdered man had left together , and somebody found the partner's body in the bushes. A few miles farther on they caught the prisoner , who had a gun and other property - erty known to have belonged to the murdered man. It was a bad case , the body being mutilated as to be almost unrecognizable , but the prisoner said he was innocent , and I never had a more sociable fellow or better card player in the jail. He was the only one there and after I really got acquainted with him we would play old sledge until - til late at night and then bunk together. "He was tried and convicted , but it made no difference with him. It was my first hanging , and we got the gallows - lows built the prisoner watching the work and making comments on it. The rope came and he saw it. 'Bill , " said he , 'yo' ain't no good as a sheriff. Don't yo' know that 'ere rope ought ter be soaked ? I don't want this affair of ours to go off any other way than smooth. Yo' go soak that rope. ' So I soaked the rope , the prisoner helping me , and the night before the hanging we sat down to play old sledge. He said : 'Bill , I ain't gain' to interfere none , an' I don't blame yo' , an' no man kin say that I tried ter run or didn't die game , but I want yo' to promise me , if yo' ever meet that partner of mine , yo' will shorely shoot 'im far gettin' me hung. He's alive all right , and it's shore mean fer 'im to vamoose an' git me in trouble. ' "I promised him , and we went on with the game. About 10 o'clock a man came to the window and shouted for me , then he tried the door of the office , and it wasn't locked. He walked right in and said : 'Hello , Jim ! Hello , Bill ! ' It was the man we thought was murdered. Jim stood up and said : 'You're a party pardner to leave me hyar to be hanged. They don't allow no shootin' irons by ar , so we kain't settle but one way. Shuck ! ' Then there was the prettiest fight 1 ever saw , Jfm pounding his partner until - til he called for quits. We all went to see the judge that night and called off the hanging , knowing the man who we thought had been murdered. Then the two men went away and we never saw them again , neither did we ever find out who the corpse was that we picked up in the bushes. " BICYCLE BUILT FOR THREE. It Traverses tits Water and Is Pronounced - nounced an ingenious Conveyance. While in Paris inventors concentrate their energy on rapid locomotion on terra firma in the shape of horseless carriages , their colleagues in Germany devote their best efforts to reaching the acme of speed in navigation. On the lakes and rivers of the Spreewald may now be seen what the Germans call a tretmotor boat , of which "treadmill boat" and "bicycle boat" are equally imperfect translations. In this case neither steam , electricity , petroleum nor naptha is the factor of speed , but muscle aided by ingeniously contrived machinery. The tretmotor can be set in motion by one , two or three riders. The more riders , of course , the greater the speed. The wheel back of the last rider conveys the power to the screw. At the rate of sixty treads per minute the screw makes 500 revolutions in the same time. The last rider can also steer the boat. One advantage of this craft is that it can also be propelled with oars and sails. As the simple machine can be adjusted in any other wide boat , it is not necessary to build a specially shaped vessel for it. In order - der to maintain the equilibrium , which seems difficult , as the riders are seated very high , a counterweight of 200 pounds is adjusted to the stern. A Memorial to Girard. When the yellow fever epidemic swept over Philadelphia in 1793 , carrying - ing off 4,031 people out of a population of 5,000 , Stephen Girard offered his services to the public and was appointed overseer at the Bush Hill hospital. He devoted his time to visiting the sick at the peril of his life. His heroism has just been commemorated by the unveiling - ing of a marble tablet to his memory in the chapel of Girard college. It is proposed - posed also to erect a statue of him in the plaza in front of the Philadelphia city hall on the one hundred and forty- sixth anniversary of his birth in 1897. The alumni of Girard college will attempt - tempt to raise $10,000 for this object. Ho Took One. Timothy McShane had been arrested on the charge of stealing a costly gilt s chair from the residence of Ms. High- tone. On being arraigned before the T judge , his honor asked Tim what he had to say for himself , to which Tim replied - plied : "Shure , yer honor , Of will ix- i plain th' hull t'ing to yez. I wint to say Mrs. Hoightone on business fer me boss ; Oi rung th' bell an' a sarvint kim to th' dure and whin Of axed to say + firs. Hoightone , the sarvint towId me ! to go into the parlor an' tale a chair. , "Well ? " said the judge. 11 t . . , Ci tllli tax wan. 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