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Jealousy The homage paid by fail
ure to success
Wise man One who is and doesnt
show it
a o
1 the same secret hiding place as before
and laid it out before him without a
word There was silence for some
moments which was only broken by
the sound of the doctors voice as he
repeated the words to himself as he
succeeded in deciphering them At
the end of five minutes he gave it up
Its of no use puzzling my brains
rocsnagmE
THE FATAL REQUEST
OR FOUND OUT
By A L Harris Author of Mine Own Familiar Friond etc
vopyrigit 189 l by O ass ell Publish in a O omnanv
p y r i g h t l o o S by Street cfi Smith
CHAPTER XVIII Continued
Wait a bit was the impetuous
answer there is more to come still
He told him about the visit to the
detective and the detectives opinion
of the matter Then with a little hesi
tation in his manner he related his
strange experience on the night of his
return the voice which hq heard tell
ing him where to look andthe discov
ery of the photograph in the very
place indicated Having reached this
point in his narrative he paused to
judge of the effect it had produced
upon his hearer
Dr Cartwright said nothing and
Ted went on to tell how the imperfect
copy of the letter which he had made
himself from the remains of the
original had been completed and filled
up in another hand
The doctor withdrew himself into
ambush as it were behind his spec
tacles Then he opened his mouth
A remarkable co
No hang it all was the interrup
tion dont let us have any more
coincidences Im sick of the very
sound of the word Call it anything
you like but that
Dr Cartwright shook his head But
what else could it be My profession
al opinion in quite another tone of
voice is that the sooner you hand
this room over to the housemaid the
better Meanwhile suppose you show
me the original document that was
burnt
The young man produced it from
EgsaByrea
time there is an explanation pos
sible
And that is
That in your sleep this arrange
ment suggested itself to your mind so
forcibly that you were able to retain
the impression on waking and what
you thought you read with your out-
ward eyes was in actual fact only
visible to those of your imagination
The young man gave an impatient
sigh Have it your- own way Of
course I cant expect you to accept my
statement as the truth
My dear fellow said the doctor
Let us both agree to maintain our own
without seeking to disturb the others
opinion But for all that I should
like if you have no objection to sub
mit the origin of this discussion to
two tests and if you have a micro
scope anywhere about the premises
and can also procure a lamp as there
is no fire in the grate we can pro
ceed with the investigation at once
Both articles were forthcoming
with very little delay
The doctor examined the blank
spaces on the paper carefully through
the microscope then shook his head
There is no sign of any writing but
your own I suppose you will stick
to your original opinion in spite of
this
I do was the answer given most
emphatically
I thought you would answered his
frifmd I suppose that now you have
told me all there is to be told He
rose from his chair
Keep your seat said the young
man I have not done with you yet
First give me your pledge of secrecy
The doctor somewhat puzzled gave
his promise
Now said Ted where is the
morning paper
I left it in the other room Do
No sign of any writing but your own
and injuring my eyesight over this
any longer Let me see your copy
of the letter that mysterious copy
which the ghostly hand filled in for
you I suppose you have kept it under
lock and key ever since
I have done better than that was
the answer I have carried it about
my person ever since
I suppose you have some specimens
of your late fathers handwriting that
I may compare it with
His friend put his hand to his breast
pocket and produced an envelope
This is it he said As to com
paring it with any other writing it
happens that without noticing it I
made the copy upon the back of a
sheet of paper upon which my father
had written the first words of a letter
a letter which for some reason or
another was never finished
The doctor took the envelope which
was fastened down opened it and
drew out the inclosure As he held it
the other man could see on the outer
page the date April 23d and the
words My dear He watched the
doctors face He saw its expression
change from interest to bewilderment
and felt that he was triumphing over
the scepticism which had possessed
his friend at the outset You notice
the difference in the two handwritings
in which the copy is made he asked
You observe that part of a sentence
is written in one and the rest in an
other
Well I cant quite say that I do
was the unexpected reply
What do you mean
Why its plain enough Look
here The doctor held the sheet
of paper out toward him
He saw the broken incoherent sen
tences which he had himself written
He saw and recognized his own hand
writing The other had disappeared
CHAPTER XIX
Dr Jeremiah Is Astonished
For a moment there was a dead
silence Then the young man still
holding the sheet of paper in his hand
dropped into the nearest chair and the
same words fell from his lips which
he had uttered before under somewhat
similar circumstances Am I going
mad
Not at all was the cheerful re
sponse Dont you see he went on
clapping him on the back You
dreamt it that was all
The other raised a haggard face
toward him But how about the writ
ing which I saw and of which even
though it has now mysteriously disap
peared I can recall every word
It certainly is very strange said
Dr Cartwright But at the same
you want it
Yes Ill get it he replied and
quitted the room
Read that advertisement doctor
he said when he returned and he
handed the paper to the physician
Dr Cartwright read blindly through
a small announcement among the
Situations Vacant and then looked
wonderingly up at the young man
Im going to apply said Ted
What gasped the doctor You
mean to say that youre going to trick
yourself out as a servant on the off
chance of locating your fathers mur
derer Why youre mad sir mad
Here let me read the thing again
Man servant wanted at once Apply
personally J Ferrers Belmont
House Hampstead
Ferrers broke in Ted impulsive
ly That name of all names There
can be no mistake I tell you Im
going to apply for that situation and
so get a chance to study the man
Very well said Dr Cartwright
after a pause Go ahead with your
plan and Ill help you all I can Ill
explain that business has made it nec
essary for you to leave home for a
time
With Ted to think was to act and
he wasted no time in shaving off his
mustache and repairing to Belmont
House He created such a favorable
impression that he was at once in 1
stalled in his new position under the
assumed name of Edwards He was
not able to discover anything for
many days Mr Ferrers kept his
room for the most part and was care
ful to lock the door when he left for
even the shortest time With great
difficulty Ted or Edwards as we
must now call him got an impression
of the lock and had a key made but
could yet find no opportunity to use it
But one tremendous discovery Ed
wards the man servant made and
one which he had not anticipated
When his eyes fell on Agnes Ferrers
the pretty daughter of the man he
was tracking down his heart was no
longer in his keeping He had first
seen pretty Agnes Ferrers in the
Royal Academy and the smile she had
then given him for returning a drop
ped program had set his pulses throb
bing and stamped her image on his
soyl Now by a strange caprice of
fate he was brought into touch with
her again but they were not on equal
footing now She was mistress he
was a servant nay more a spy
Eesides had he not sworn to avenge
his fathers murder The situation
was torture
It cannot be he groaned I may
not I must not love her I have my
mission
But try as he would he could not
altogether hide his affection Ills
eyes followed Agnes about and if she
did not notice it there was one other
who did This was Perkins tho house
keeper who had ever been suspicious
of the young man Not for a mo
ment did she allow him to escape her
pert scrutiny and he was often handi
capped in his task by her prying eyes
He dared not make any prolonged
search for Perkins would have had
him denounced as a thief and he
should probably have been dismissed
Then came a break in his attempt to
unravel the mystery His mother was
taken seriously ill and he hastened
home only in time to hear her dying
message When the funeral had con
cluded he returned to his task leav
ing his sister in Dr Cartwrights care
CHAPTER XX
Extracts from a Young Mans Diary
I find my self imposed task harder
and more torturing to my feeling3
than ever Heaven knows how I am
to muster strength and determination
to carry it through As it is I am
torn by conflicting feelings my reso
lution varies a hundred times a day
I only returned to my situation two
days ago I had fully determined in
my own mind before doing so that
the only way in which to remain mas
ter of myself was to put myself as
far as possible beyond the reach of
temptation by allowing myself to see
as little of and by holding no sort of
communication whatever with the en
chantress who has made havoc of my
sternest and most justifiable resolu
tions and taken my heart and brain
captive
I returned to this house full of the
resolution of keeping my plan and pur
pose constantly before me of remem
bering whose son I was and whose
daughter she is And how long did I
keep faith with myself How long
did I preserve this precious resolve
inviolate Only until she encountered
me quite unavoidably on my part
and animated by some celestial sym-
pathy and divine impulse spoke to
me of my mother pitied my
sad bereavement wished she
could have done something and
even went so far as to say that she
could sympathize with me because
she was half orphaned herself
Poor fellow I heard her murmur
to herself as she turned away
Poor fellow What title would
she bestow upon me if she knew the
truth the truth which must out
sooner or later Villain Spy Be
trayer
But I must not allow myself to
think of this for if I do I am lost
Let me employ my pen on some other
and less distracting subject
I have made a discovery since my
iieturn or rather it has been made
for me One of the first items of in
formation worthy of notice which I
received from cook who was appar
ently bursting with that and a sense
of her own added importance in hav
ing played such a prominent part in
the affair was Lor now whatever do
you think young man Masters been
and made is will which I was the
chief witness
This was a piece of news worth
having Why has he suddenly taken
thisstep What does he anticipate
Does he begin to fear mans vengeance
or Gods Is he menaced by sone
mortal illness the chances of which
I have before contemplated or does
he mean to commit suicide and thus
elude the just punishment which
might await the discovery of his
crime
To be continued
Wonderful Human Hand
The human hand is so beautifully
formed it has so fine a sensibility
that sensibility governs its motion so
correctly every effort of the will is
answered so instantly as if the hand
itself were the seat of that will its
actions are so free so powerful and
yet so delicate that it seems to pos
sess a quality instinct in itself and
we use it as Ave draw our breath each
moment unconsciously and have lost
all recollection of the feeble and ill
directed efforts of its first exercise
by which it has been perfected In
the hand are twenty nine bones from
the mechanism of which result
strength mobility and elasticity On
the length strength motion and mo
bility of the thumb depends the
power of the hand Without the
fleshy ball of the thumb the power of
the fingers would avail nothing and
accordingly the large ball formed by
the muscles of the thumb is the dis
tinguishing character of the human
hand
Italys King as a Sportsman
The King of Italy is devoted to all
outdoor sports more especially ten-
nis shooting yachting motoring and
fishing There is a story that once
on returning from a very bad days
fishing the King met a poor manwho
had been very much more successful
The King stopped the man and asked
for a light The man noticed that the
fish the King was carrying were few
in number and small and not recog
nizing the King chaffed him on his
bad luck You might be the King
said the man with that little lot
Why asked the King slightly em
barrassed Well said the man
everyone knows that hes all right as
a King but hes no sportsman
Spain Is Waking Up
A recent report from Bilbao state
that there is a very strong possibility
of the import trade in nitrate of soda
and sulphate of ammonia for agricul
ture purposes being considerably in
creased owing to the efforts to
nrnvp tho merhnrlR nf milrivnrinTi In
PANAMA 13 THE CUDJECT
A Talk by Simmonri of Ncrih Caro
lina
WASHINGTON The senate pro
ceedings Wednesday included a
speech by Mr Simmons of North
Carolina In support of the Panama
canal treaty and the passage of a
number of bills and resolutions Mr
Simmons was the nrst democratic
senator to favor the measure on tho
floor of the senate He announced his
disapproval of the intervention of
tho United Satos in the Panrnm re
volt but said tnat as the revolution
was an accomplished fact and was
such before the treaty was made ho
could not accept the theory that the
treaty itseir was invalid
Mr Simmons said he believed tho
president and the secretary of state
should be relieved of all charges of
complicity in the Panama revolt He
added that he did not believe the pos
session of information concerning an
approaclyng revolution should be ac
cepted as discrediting the president
and addeu
In reference to the views of others
on this side of the chamber who
may differ with me I think the state
ment of the president in this respect
should be accepted Undoubtedly the
president knew of the forthcoming re
volution in Panama It was his dlty
in vfew of imminent insurrection to
have on the ground sufficient forco to
protect the lives and property of Am
erican citizens This he did and if
he had done no more than tihis he
would have done no more than his
duty under the law
Mr Simmons announced his belief
that the change of recommendation
b the Isthmian Canal commission
from Nicaraguan to the Panama route
had been the result of honest convic
tion He also accepted the Spooner
act as a deliberate pronouncement by
congress in favor of Panama and a
direction to the president to construct
tne canal by that route if possible
to acquire title in a reasonable time
He continued
It is vehemently asserted by some
of the opponents of this treaty that a
vote for its ratification under the cir
cumstnees is tanamount to condon
ing the action of the administration
as to the resolution and the recogni
tion I thought that as favorably as
I considered this treaty as impor
tant to us as is the immediate con
struction of the canal I dont think
I can vote for it I join my colleagues
in condemning whatever is wrong the
president and administration may
have done in bringing about the Re
public of Panama but in my vote on
the treaty I propose to recognize and
act on the fact that Panama is an
independent state possessed of equal
rights and powers to make this
treaty as we ourselves possess rwt
only with our consent but the prac
tically unanimous consent of all the
civilized nations of the world
Considerable discussion followed of
a bill providing means for citizens of
Porto Rico and the Philippines to
become citizens of the United States
The fact was developed that citizens
of these and other countries similarly
situated to the United States have
no means of becoming naturalized as
citizens Mr rettus during the de
bate suggested that the island of
Porto Rico should be made a territory
and Mr Foraker said he had not as
much objection to that end as some
of his colleagues The bill passed
but Mr Spooner entered a motion to
reconsider which went over
DONT HAVE TO RAISE BRIDGES
Decision Affecting Pittsburg and
qheny City
WASHINGTON Secretary Roct
after many months consideration ha
decided a question involving several
million dollars growing out of the ap
rlication to oblige the elevation of
the six bridges over the Allegheny
river connecting Pittsburg and Alle
gheny City
The secretary denied these applica
tions In his decision the secretary
points out that to grant the applica
tions which were opposed by thn Tit
les of Pittsburg and Allegheny would
involve the practical rebuilding of
some of the bridges an extensive
change ol street grades and serious
injury to improved real estate n ar The
river and that the whole would ccst
several million dollars The bridges
he says for only a few dayo in the
year at times high water oiler
obstruction to the vast and important
traffic now carried on
Experimcnt8 With Radium
VIENNA Prof Gussenbauer one
of the leading surgeons of Austria has
conducted successful experiments
with radium for enlargement of the
gullet in cases o cancerous contrac
tion of the osophagus thereby obviat
ing the necessity of recourse to arti
ficial nourishment
Cruzen Wants Millards Job
SAN JUAN P R Alonzo Cruzen
formerly collector of customs of Porto
Rico and his family sailed Wednes
day for the United States He says
he will return direct to Nebraska
where his conversation indicated he
will open a campaign with the object
of succeeding Joseph H Milliard in
the United States senate
Kansas City Gets Reduction
KANSAS CITY The Chicago Great
Western has made a drastic cut in the
wheat freight rate from Kansas City
to Minneapolis The present discrim
inating rate of 14 cents will be re
duced to 9 cents effective January 30
The 9 cent rate from Omaha against
the Kansas City rate almost complete
ly shuts the Kansas City market out
of the Nebraska wheat business The
ChlfaS Great Western will also cut 2
Spain About 4000 tons of nitrate
eas the frra Kansas
rate Cit
are used every year at Bilbao in the from
fc ChlcaS to the
production of acids and cl emical Mississippi
river
manure
Tin Ore In tho Transvaal 1l
It is reported from Johannesburg
that a new and unexpected source of
wealth has been discovered In the ter
ritory of the late Boor republic Near
the eastern border of the Transvaal
op the ledge of the lcty South African
plMeau three valuable lodo3 of tin
ore have been found and tho deposita
apparently so extensive that pre
dictions are heard that the new colony
may prove to bo ns rich in tin and cop
per as it Is already known to bo in
geld
No chromos or cheap premiums
but a better quality and one third
more of Defiance Starch for the samo
price of other starches
American Apples in Germany
Last year witnessed a groat in
crease in the imports of American ap
ples into Germany For the first
eight months of 1903 the imports
were 3G9G metric tons of 2201 pounds
each against 211 tons and 5 13 tons
during the crmo months in 1902 and
1901 Of American dried fruit baked
and simply preserved the German im
ports for the same period were 252 L
tons against 11981 and 12060 tons
respectively in 1902 and 1901
PUTNAM FADELESS DYES color
Silk Wool and Cotton at one boiling
Fatal British Climate and Cooking
The climate of England kills half
the oppulation according to London
Truth the cooking kills the rest
Throughout the world wherever thero
is the sun or a spring there are Eng
lish men and women endeavoring to
repair their constitutions The medi
cine bill of the English people to
gether with its accompanying ex
penses is sufficiently large to support
a second rate power and does mainly
support many large and small towns
on the Continent and elsewhere
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The easiest way to outwit a liar i3
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Story cf a Missionary
A capital story has been told by
an American missionary who has just
arrived in London from Korea The
difficulty in learning the language of
that country is increased enormously
owing to the large number of words
which with a slight inflection of the
voice are used over and over again
with an entirely different meaning
The missionary in question was
preaching to some natives and assur
ing them that unless they repented
they would go to a place of punish
ment Amazement rather than terror
was written on the faces of his ori
ental listeners Why on earth if
they rejected his advice and refused
to repent should they be dispatched
to the local postoffice On another
occasion a lecture was delivered in
the course of which a beautiful moral
was being drawn from the gay ca
reer of the tiny butterfly which was
suddenly cut short in the clutches of
the spider The smile however fell
somewhat short of its intended mean
ing an it was not until the laughter
had subsided that the lecturer be
came aware that the victim which
had been floundering amid the dainty
silken threads of the web was a
donkey which in the Korean language
it appears is synonymous with butter
fly
Even the silk covered umbrella has
its ups and downs
DIDNT BELIEVE
That Coffee Was the Real Trouble
Some people flounder around and
take everything thats recommended
to them but Anally find out that cof
fee is the real cause of their troubles
An Oregon man says
For 25 years I was troubled with
my stomach I was a steady coffee
drinker but didnt suspect that as
the cause I doctored with gool doc
tors and got no help then I took
almost anything which someone else
had been cured with but to no good I
was very bad last summer and could
not work at times
On December 2 1902 I was tcken
so bad the Doctor said I could not livo
over twenty four hours at the most
and I made all preparations to die I
could hardly eat anything everything
distressed me and I was weak and sick
all over When in that condition cof
fee was abandoned and I was put on
Postum the change in my feeling3
came quickly after the drink that was
poisoning me was removed
The pain and sickness fell away
from me and I began to get well day
by day so I stuck to it until now I am
well and strong again can eat heartily
with no headache heart trouble or the
awful sickness of the old coffee days
I drink all I wish of Postum without
any harm and enjoy it immensely
This seems lke a wonderfully
strong story but I would refer you to
the First National Bank The Trust
Banking Co or any merchant of
Grants Pass Ore in regard to my
standing and I will serd a sworn state
ment of this if you wish You can
also use my name Name given by
Postum Co Battle Creek Mich
Still there are many who persistent
ly fool themselves by saying Coffee
dont hurt me a vm days trial of
Postum in its plae will tell the truth
and many times sao life
Theres a reason
Look for the little Icok The Roai
to Wellville in each package
