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MY POOR WIPE. 14 III IB I I IX BY J. P. SMITH. V 1 1 CHAPTER XVIII. ( Continued. ) "I made cautious inquiries , and found to my- : surprise that my mlser- . ' able identity was 'quite lost. I had given no hint , uttered no name during my stay there , that would lead to dis covery. I learned that the clothes I ; wore when taken up by the police were mere rags of the coarsest , most loathsome kind , and a bit of soiled pa per bearing the name 'Elizabeth Thompson' found in the pocket of the dress served as my certificate of bap tism , and so Elizabeth Thompson I re mained to all who met me during those seven years. When and how my clothes were changed and stolen , as they undoubtedly were , I don't remem ber. After three years I was dis charged as cured , and , as I had shown some capability for nursing during an epidemic that visited the asylum , a kind nun who had charge of the Cath olic ward offered to get me a place as attendant in a hospital , where I re mained some time. " "And you never thought of me never longed to see me , to know how I " She laughed bitterly , as she waved the eager interruption aside , with a gesture of pain. "Never thought of you ! Ah , you ' will never know how you filled my life , can never understand what I felt and suffered ! I knew you must believe me dead , and I knew the best thing for your happiness , your peace of mind , was to let you remain in that belief. I struggled to keep away from -you , to learn nothing about you ; but , when nursing a patient whom I casually heard had lately been in do mestic service in the neighborhood of Colworth , I could not resist the temp tation of questioning her. From her I learned , Paul , that Mr. Dennys of Colworth was married to a Miss s'top- ford , with whom he Had inherited a large fortune , that he was very happy and prosperous and the father of three beautiful children. "This news allayed all my doubts , drove every lingering spark of hope and happiness from my future. I begged the reverend mother who had procured me the place in the hospital to accept jne as a novice ; but she hesi tated for some time , knowing of the taint in my blood. However , after a couple of years , seeing no sign of a relapse , and- , getting a very favorable opinion of my case t from the asylum doctors , I was received into the con vent , and on application allowed to join the mission going to New Zea land. - * "We were to have sailed next week , and as the time drew near a terrible restlessness came over me , a longing so intense to breathe the air you breathed once more , that I felt I could never be a useful and contented servant of Heaven unless my longing were gratified. I appealed to the rev erend mother , and she with her usual goodness gave her consent I arrived at dusk that that blessed night , in tending only to say a prayer for you and yours at the cross preserving my memory , and then steal away as I had come. "At the station I saw jrour brother accidentally , believing him to be you his features are wonderfully like what yours once were. I found to my utter bewilderment , and I think relief , that my love was dead completely dead , that Edith's husband was noth ing to me. "I wandered out , pondering the meaning of this discovery , and saw you stretched across my grave. At the first sound of your voice , at the first glance into your- worn altered face ah , beloved , I knew that I was not free , and could never be , no mat ter what gulf divided us. I tried to save you as I thought to leave you ; but but " f" " CHAPTER XIX. She stopped a little hysterically ; and he laid his hand on her lips. Presently she lifted it away , and said with eager wistfulness "But you loved her , Paul , sister-in- law or not ; you never can explain that -away. No no ; do not try ! You want- led to marry her before you met me. I am sure of it. You loved her you wanted to marry her once , " she re peated monotonously. "Yes , yes , I wanted to marry her once. Listen , listen to me Helen ! I was a mere boy , home from an outskirt - skirt station in India , where I never saw a woman's face. I was lonely and sad ; she was kind and beautiful , and did everything in her power to fasci nate and enslave me. How could I help falling in the trap ? I left her in a state of melodramatic despair , which I now know was only skin deep , though I believed at the time she had dealt me a life-wound. "I met you ; we were married and spent six months together abroad. Ah , Helen , I did 'not understand until long afterwards how happy those six months were , how thoroughly they had made you part of my life , the very essence of my content and hap piness. For I was happy ; but blind , conceited dolt that I was , I attributed my contented state of being to my own selfishness and generosity In marrying you and accepted as my due your de votion to me. Well , well , I was pun ished , cruelly punished for It all. I lived to linger over every day , every \ hour of those six months with a yearn ing passion , a sickening remorse that loft those lines you see on my face , and streaking my hair with gray be fore I had reached the prime of life. "When we returned she came across my path again , and necessity compell ed her to confide a secret to me ; When I learned by It how shamefully she had been treated , I believed I had mis judged her cruelly , and was only eager to offer reparation in my power. I felt that no sacrifice or exertion I could make would atone for the irre parable wrong done her by one of my name , and " "Your brother Arthur , you mean ; he had , " "He had forced her an ignorant thoughtless girl of sixteen to marry him secretly when she was staying with an invalid aunt in London. " "Of sixteen ! " she exclaimed eager ly. "You mean that she she was your brother's wife before I left you all all that time she was with us , your brother's wife ? " "Yes , yes. At first the excitement and adventure had pleased her , but ' later on'when she came to know Ar thur's true character and mode of his life how he had squandered his for tune , was shunned by honest men and respectable women when her uncle , who had heard some rumor of a child ish attachment between the pair , in formed her that , If she exchanged an other word with Arthur , he would not only alter 'his will and leave her pen niless , but would expel her from his home , her complacency changed to a state of misery and almost unbearable suspense , which by degrees taught her to hate the cause of her selfish ter ror , and made his existence a posi tive nightmare to her. "At last , after a stormy interview Arthur consented to emigrate to Aus tralia , pledging his word to , remain there until the General should die , and Edith's inheritance be quite safe. "He sailed , but after a time tiring of Colonial life , broke his solemn promise , and a month after our arriv al at Colworth he turned up at South ampton , and Edith in her terror of discovery confided her secret to me , implored me to help her and induce my brother to return to Australia at once. "I promised to .help her by every means in my power , wrote at once to my brother , begging him to le'ave ; but he refused point blank until he had had at least one interview with his wife , whom , with all his faults , I be lieve he truly loved , as his conduct within the last seven years has amply proved. Seeing he was not to be shak en , we arranged that the meeting should take place at Colworth , where there would be less chance of detec tion. It was in vain. I begged Edith to let you share the secret ; she was inflexible on that point. Her motive for that reserve at the time I thought trivial and unreasonable ; but I have since fathomed the terrible overween ing vanity and heartlessness of the woman , and can now understand it perfectly. She was jealous of you , my darling ; that I should have so quick ly recovered from her wanton attack was a stab her vanity resented bit terly ; she saw more clearly than I could see myself dull fool ! how thoroughly happy I was , how dear you were to me ; and so % she set about , with a thousand nameless , almost in tangible wiles and artifices , to wreck the happiness of a man who was shel tering and protecting her , fighting to preserve her fortune and honor. With broken , half-stifled hints and inun- does , she gave me to understand that I would have been her choice had I spoken long ago , before my brother tried by every means in power to wean me from your influence , to force on me the fact that I had made a tremendous deus sacrifice in marrying you , that my chivalrous and tender bearing to wards you awoke in her feelings that made her own wretched fate almost unbearable , and at the same time , I presume , from what I've heard , that j you , my poor darling , did not escape her " "Paul , that time when you left me don " "To meet her husband yes ? " "She told me not at once , you know , but by degrees it it took three days , Paul that you you had loved , her passionately for years , that you had proposed to her a few days before you met me , that , even after her first refusal , you had followed her about London , trying to make her change her mind , and that , failing that , you you had rushed back to Ire land In wrath and despair , and and married me " "She told you that the jade ? " "Not boldly , as I tell you now , but with little hints and jokes , half laugh ing sighs that were almost worse. " "My poor brother ! Well , my darl ing , the end came. You followed us that night , and saw the meeting be- tweeji husband and wife. " "Paul , Paul ! You mean it was not you I saw holding her in your arms , Imploring her to fly ? " " "No if was Arthur. We were more alike then than now , love , and I had lent him my big gray ulster , for he complained of the cold. The the mis take was natural ; but , oh , how awiul in its consequences to you and rue ! " "Go on oh , go'on ! " she cried breathlessly. "When convinced of your ' .errible death , brain fever s'et In , and for some months I was u'nconsclous of my loss. I recovered , rose from my sick bed wretched In heart and body , the love , hope , happiness of my life buried in your grave. I left Europe traveler ! aimlessly in Asia and America for six years. In the meantime the old Gen eral had died suddenly a few weeks after your disappearance , leaving his niece sixty thousand pounds in hard cash , but the Hall and surrounding property to a male relative. "Edith married Arthur publicly al most at once , and they settled down at Cohvorth , renting the place from me. A few months ago my 'brother , who is now a most exemplary member of so ciety , wrote asking me if I would &oll my interest In it , and let them ontall It on their eldest son , as It was my avowed intention not to marry again. I could not make up my mind , and came home to settle the business. "A few days ago at the Langham I met my brother and his wife for the first time since their second marriage , and he persuaded me to try to visit the old place again. I came down with them , and walked across the fields to the cross which bore your name. When I saw the familiar spot , the house among the trees , the cruel mill , heard the mournful rustle of the leaves and the ripple of the water , all the old pain broke out as fiercely as on the day I lost you. I threw myself upon your grave , callIng - Ing out your name. Your voice an swered me. I looked up , and caw you , Helen , standing in the moonlight before me. " Two months after her installation at Colworth , Mrs. Arthur Dennys , her lord and master , nursery , horses , car riages , lackeys , and maids were storming the sleepy country station again , enroute for a Sydenham villa residence , where she still bemoans the ill luck of her eldest born , who will never now inherit Colworth. ( THE END. ) A GREAT FRENCH ETCHER. Would Have Bean a Fine fainter bat for Color Blludness. Charles Meryon born In 1821 was brought up to the navy , going first in 1837 to the naval school at Brest , says Pall Mall Gazette. As a youth , he sailed round the world. He touched at Athens ; touched at the then savage coasts of New Zealand ; made sketches , a few of which , in days when most of his greater work was done , he used as material for some of his etchings. Art even then occupied him , and deep ly interested as he soon got to be in it , he seems to have had a notion that It was less dlgnmed than the profes sion of the navy , and after awhile he chose deliberately the less dignified because it was the less dignified. He would have us believe so , at any rate ; he wished his father to believe so. And in 1845 , having served creditably and become a lieutenant , he resigned his commission. A painter he could not be. The gods , who had given him , even in his youth , a poetic vision and a firmness of hand , had denied him the true sight of color ; and I remember seeing hanging up in the salon of M. Burty , who knew him , a large , impres sive pastel of a ship cleaving her way through wide , deep waters , and the sea was red and the sunset sky was green , for Meryon was color blind. He would have to be an engraver. He entered the workroom of one M. Blery , to whom in after times , as his wont was , he engraved some verses of his writing appreciative verses , sincere and unfinished "a toi , Blery , mon maitre. " The etchings of Zeeman.the Dutchman , gave him the desire to etch. He copied with freedom and Interest several of Zeeman's neat little plates , and addressed him with praises , on another little copper , like the one to Blery "a Zeeman , polntre des mate- lots. " AFRAID OF THE GLASS EYE. Japanese Coolies Would Not Serve th Owner of It. A year or two ago an artist from San Francisco who wore a glass eye came "to Yokohama and established himself in a little bungalow on the out skirts of the city , says the Yorkvllle" Yeoman. The weather was extremely warm , and before the stranger had be come settled he was besieged by a number of coolies who wanted to get the job of fanning him at night. The artists looked over the applicants and finally selected an old man who brought excellent recommendations from his last employer. When it was time to retire the artist took out his glass eye , laid it on the stand at his bedside and went to bed. The old man picked up his fan and the San Fran cisco man was soon asleep. He slept peacefully for an hour or two , when he was awakened by a chorus of buzz ing insects about his head. He looked about him and found that the man whom he had hired to fan him was gone. The next morning when he went : in search of another coolie he was amazed to discover that no one would work for him. He Avas looked upon as a wizard and worker of miracles with ; whom it was unsafe to be alone. The old man had gone among his friends : ind told how the Califoruian had tnken out his eye at night and laid it on a stand in order that he might watch his servant at night and see that he kept his fan in motion. The old coolie's story created such excitement that the San Francisco man was never able to get another Japanese to fan him after that. Pessimist I tell you the world Is going to the devil. Optimist Well , I see you are going the way of the world. MRE THAN A BILLION EXPORT TRADE THE LARGEST IN OUR HISTORY. The Tear 1808 Beats All Frevlonn Record ! la Bales Abroad of Domestic Products , While Imports Are the Smallest Since 1885. The. manner In which our national wealth Is b'elng increased as the re sult of an economic policy which stim ulates the use of domestic products while at the same time enabling the producers of the United States to reach out after foreign markets is set forth In the figures furnished by the Treasury Department Bureau of Sta tistics. From these figures It Is cer tain that the calendar year 1898 will be a record breaking year in the mat ter of export trade. Only twice in our history have the exports in a calendar year passed the billion dollar line ; in 1898 they will be a billion and a quar ter. During the eleven months of 1898 ending with November they are great er than In any full calendar year pre ceding , the total for the 11 months being $1,117,681,199 , and It Is apparent that the December statement will bring the grand total for the year above $1,250,000,000. The November exports were $129,783,512 , the largest in any month In the history of our commerce. Of breadstuffs the exports for the eleven months ending with November , 1898 , are the largest in our history , being $277,135,341 , against $223,211,6.17 in the great exporting year of 1892 ; provisions are for the eleven months $148,417,850 , against $125,297,007 in the eleven months of 1892. Cotton for the eleven months amounts to $192,323,391 , a figure slightly below that of 1896 , though the total number of pounds ex ported by far exceeds that of the cor responding months in any preceding year , being for the eleven months 3,436,032,504 , or. measured in bales , C,722,283t a larger total In bales or pounds than that of any full calendar year preceding. Equally gratifying is that portion of the showing which relates to the largely diminished purchase of articles of foreign production and the corresponding spending increased consumption of domestic products. It Is herein that the American policy becomes effective In piling up national wealth to figures so vast as to startle the financiers of Europe , who are growing more and more solicitous as to the enormous credit balances which are being accu mulated by- this country. The Import record of the year 1898 will be as remarkable as that relating to its exports , but for opposite reasons , the total imports for the year being less than those of any calendar year since 1885. For the month of Novem ber they were $52,109,560 only , which was slightly less than those of Novem ber , 1897 , and less , with three excep tions , than those ® of any November since 1885. For the eleven months ending with November they were $579- 844,153 only , while those of the corresponding spending months of 1897 were $691- 089,266 and those of the eleven months of 1896 $622,598,896. It is thus appa rent that the imports for the full cal endar year 1898 will not exceed $640- 000,000 , a sum less than that of any calendar year since 1885 and fully a hundred million dollars less than that of the calendar year 1897. The year 1898 will naturally show the largest balance of trade in our favor ever presented In any calendar year. The figures for the eleven months show an excess of exports over imports amounting to $537,837,046 , and the December figures will bring the to tal excess of exports for the calendar year above the $600,000,000 line , mak ing an average excess of exports for s the year more than $50,000,000 a e month. The highest excess of exports in any preceding calendar year was $357,090,914 in 1897 , and $324,263,685 in 1896. The gold imports for the eleven months ending with November are $149,396,370. No full calendar year , save 1896 , ever reached the hundred- million dollar line , and in that year the total for the twelve months was $104,731,259. The effect of this large importation of gold , In conjunction with the increased production from our own mines , is plainly visible in the increased circulation of that met al. The gold in circulation on Decem ber 1 , 1898 , was $658,986,513 , against $544,494,748 on December 1,1897 ; $516- 729,882 on December 1 , 1896 , and $456- fi 128,483 on July 1 , 1896. The total cir culation on December 1 , 1898 , was $1- 886,879,504 , against $1,721,084,538 on December 1 , 1897 ; $1,650,223,400 on De cember 1 , 1896 , and $1,509,725,200 on July 1 , 1896. t < tlei STRICTLY JEFFERSONIAN. ei eisi si rho Patron Saint of Democracy Advocated sic c ; cated Marino Protection. tl In the early days of the Republic at- IE ention was directed to the building of S1 ships to strengthen the commercial en- erprise of the country. A develop- . . nent of ship-building and ship-owning followed that rapidly increased the tonnage of American shipping in for- lgn trade. When Thomas Jefferson sras Secretary of State in the adminisf1 ratlon of President Washington he , it the request of Congress , made dur- ng the third session of the First Con- jress , prepared a "report on the prlvi- eges and restrictions of com- yri < nerce of the United States , " which ria ivas written after careful study of the a luestlon and when his mental powers vere In their very prime. His com- nand of the English language was mch as to enable him to express him self with precision and felicity , which pi s a delight to study. In that mem- pim irable report he said , In part : di "If particular nations grasp at un due shares of our commerce , and more especially If they seize on th'e means of the United States to convert them into aliment for their own strength and withdraw them entirely from the support of these to whom they be long , defensive and protective meas ures become necessary on the part of the nation whose marine resources are thus invaded , or it will be dis armed of its defense ; Its productions will be at the mercy of the nation which has possessed itself exclusively of the means of carrying them , and Its policies will be Influenced by those who command its commerce. If we lose the seamen and artists whom it now employs we lose the present means of marine defense.and time will be requi site to raise up others , when disgrace and losses shall bring home to our feelings the disgrace of having aban doned them. " It is thus clearly shown that the question of being able to build and own our own ships was not with Jef ferson a purely economic one ; indeed. It was especially a national , a defen sive , a military one. These consider ations were of value in Jefferson's day ; they are even more so today , when the present commerce of the United States has become of wonderful importance and the future presents a view that is encouraging in the ex treme. Buffalo Express. A Sensible The Los Angeles Times thinks it would be easy to resent French hostil ity to American fruits and other prod ucts by setting up the tariff on French wines and Parisian gewgaws. The sug gestion is sound and practicable. For example , if the duty on French wines were double the present rate it would Increase customs receipts from this source , for a large proportion of wine drinkers would doubtless continue to let the foreign label and not the real question of quality and merit control their palates , but the largely Increased selling price necessitated by the higher duty would set sensible people to thinking whether It was worth while to pay for French wines three or four times the money for which an equally good article of American wine could be bought. And It onlyneeds that sensi ble people should give the question of relative quality and merit a fair amount of consideration in order to reach the conclusion that American wines of standard brands are good enough for anybody ; in fact , are a great deal better than the bulk of im ported wines. Protection. Jack "That's an awfully big build ing your father is putting up over there. " Grace "Yes ; papa says they haven't room enough in the old place , the business has grown so rapidly since protection came. " The Explanation. In a report to the state department , Commercial Agent Stern , at Bamberg , jredicts that the United States will ; eon surpass England in the value of ixports of machinery to Germany. The present year shows even a fall- ng off In the case of England , while : he imports of American machines > ihow an increase of 75 per cent over ast year's figures. In 1895 the imports ) f the United States of these goods nto Germany did not amount to the ) iixth part of the amount of the En- jllsh imports , while today they are : iqual to 60 per cent of the latter. This increase is due not so much to irice as to quality. An American- nade machine Is recognized as the best he world over. The explanation is eady and simple. It is found in what he London Times calls "Intelligent la- u or highly paid. " In other words , the ruits of protection. h Value of Experience. Soon after the enactment of the Hngley tariff bill was completed it ras attacked from Democratic quar- srs because of its assumed favor for . lie sugar trust. Experience has prov- n that the Dingley bill contained no uch favor. Since the Dingley bill be- ame a law two great competitors to re ie sugar trust have appeared in the reT ' larket , and the home manufacture of iigar from beets will soon destroy the ciP ewer of all the trusts and combina- ons in the sugar market. There is lore value in one year of experience gi nder a Republican tariff law than in ai [ 1 the Democratic free trade and free el Iver theories ever formulated. Cad- elA lac ( Mich. ) News and Express. e Pi Not Always Silly. cr Americans are not silly on all off cr ears. Protection and gold , and ter- teat > lorlal expansion , and the building of mercantile navy have been indorsed. -Hillsboro ( Ore. ) Independent. at Commerce and Indnstry. ca caWi Republican management , with its Wi rotective tariff , builds up the com- dtc icrce of the nation , as well as Its in- : c ustries. Erie ( Pa. ) Dispatch. ! o REWARD FOR FRIENDSHIP. What iincland. Expects In Return for IIor Amicable Disposition. Great hopes from the present estab lished community of Interests between- this country and Great Britain fill the English mind as well as the minds of those in this country whose handi work Is to advance British Interests. The style of advantage we are ex pected to receive from the British co-operation was outlined In a re peatedly false rumor that we were to lease Socotra from England for a naval coaling station , without power to in terfere with British trade by aoallng our own merchant ships there. The fact that the rumor was promptly de nied has no bearing on the pro-British Idea of the commercial advantages we will be allowed to derive from the cor dial relations established between the two countries. .There seems nothing that England is not claiming as a reward for her friendship. On one hand wo find thaC our law allowing us to print our own books , as well as some for the English , Is objectionable to British publishers , and they think it is a good time to have it altered. On another we find that the extension of our coasting trade to Porto "Rico is inimical to Brit ish maritime interests , and immediate ly the demand is made that our nav igation laws shall be so amended aa to still further increase the tolls we - pay to England for the privilege of getting our goods to an oversea mar ket ( This seems a particularly un kind claim , as they propose to pas * a free ship bill. ) i - , But the great claim , the claim for * * which every one who expects British recognition or free dinners and other ; flattering attentions when in England , ! must work , is for an open door in thej Philippines. The British trade route , ' between Hongkong and Australia Hesj through the Philippines , and they wish ; to do all the coasting trade of those' Islands and maintain a center of Srt ish Influence in every llttfe porf ; aj center that will discriminate againstl " * . the use of American goods ; and there are some inhabitants of this countryi that would be proud and happy to ! travel through American possessions , under the British flag. We are asked to efface all opportunities - f ties for employment on the sea , and ! to minimize the consumption of our goods in Porto Rico , Hawaii and thes Philippines by extending to those Isl ands the lack of competent wages and' ' the want of free trade countries be cause Great Britain is said to have * refused to enter a European combi nation to prevent our freeing Cuba. ; f The fact Is that Great Britain found ! herself "without a chance of friends in ) this world unless she made friends ! with the United States. But she ap parently insisted on payments in advance - " K vance for any friendly act. Before * anything was done by her it seemed necessary to neglect and virtually ? ' abrogate the declaration in the Re publican platform , of two years ago. in favor of a discriminating duty on all goods , wares or merchandise which shall be imported in vessels not of the United States ; and she positively pro hibited a tonnage tax of 20 cents per ton on all vessels , American and Brit ish alike , entering our ports. Every one knows that without the strength given to her by the recog nized mutual good understanding be tween the two countries the lately made arrangements with the emperor of Germany could not have been ob tained. And for all of this we are to extend a Wilson-Gorman tariff over aur new acquisitions despite their present poverty and sore need of de velopment This is too much. A Natural -Result. "How far the present small purchase jf goods by America has ben due to he Dingley tariff we have no means f ascertaining , but is It not remark- ible that a country which sells us produce in one year of the value of 124,000,000 should buy British goods f the value of only 14,500,000 ? " says he London Statist. The people of this ountry are better Informed than Is he Statist , and are convinced that the avored conditions are very largely due ' o the Dingley bill. If nothing else r U vere at hand , the record of the post " ' ' vould show that under a protective ariff our imports have decreased and inusual prosperity and activity ob- / ' " " ained in our manufactures , while un- s , er free trade or low tariff the reverse las resulted. The great reduction in he sales of British products to this ountry is but the natural result of rotection , for the demands of our peo- le have been supplied with American ustead of foreign products. Tacoma .edger. They Have > "ot Changed. Will the people of this country ever eturn to Democratic party policies ? 'hey will If they ever vote the Demo- ratlc party Into power again. The eople thought when they elected rover Cleveland that the Democratic , arty had changed ; that It had pro- ressed , and a Democratic president nd a Democratic congress could be- iected without bringing national ruin. fair supposition is that Democratic laders believe In Democratic prlncl- les , and just as often as theDemo- atlc party is voted Into power , Demo- atic policies will prevail. Bingham- n ( X. Y. ) Republican. Not For Foroljjners. We must own our own ships. We re making ten times as much as we. in carry , and there is no reason why , e should give one of the most pro active lines of business in which any untry can engage Into the hands oP ireigners. El Paso ( Texas ) Herald. .