;^4 wraan C iRA AUGtiSTAJ CHAPTER VII.—fCoxTiict-Kn | She left an Icy kiss on his lips and -vavlahed. Ralph awoke with a start. It was an so real It was very difficult to auka It appear a simple dream. But it teak hold of this sensitive man. It ■gamed to him, in his excited state, like m Menage from heaven. He rose, dress «< himself, and went down to the house ■atUr. Hudson. Perhaps his mother had aspected him, for she met him at the and led him In to Agnes. All Ralph’s pride and anger broke *t sight of that poor stricken He could have cursed himself that 'ha had ever been angry with her for a 'moment He went to the bedside and lifted her head to his bosom, and put ■Ads face down to bars. “My darling! my sister!" he cried, “Agnes, look up at me! I love you still!” She seemed dimly to comprehend, for .■aha smiled and pat her weak arms his neck, and lying there on his she fell asleep. From that time she rallied, and by i and by the old doctor said she would Xive. But she came back to life weak -sod feeble as a babe; it was weeks be fore her memory returned to her fully, and the spring opened with many a and blossom before they thought It t» remove her to the Rock. Aad then, as the warm weather ad - vanned, and Agnes grew stronger, she was changed from her old self: She • eared so more for the old charms of so .!**•*?, she sought no companionship, lat, wfNjtd wander for hours down on Aha beafeb where she had played with Xernde Graham In childhood, with no -oesspanlw save the great dog Quito, which had been Marina’s. She liked, too, to take long rides on 'Ammeimck—In fact, she seemed to give - mat ell the love she bad to give on Jove, the faithful horse had not died, but 1 Bred and throve under th<£ care ten&rnesa of his mistress; and Ag ■* «»Hld never forget that Jove had lengthened out his life—the llfo of the mew she loved. CHAPTER VIII. HE return of Agnes to the Rock gave Igjogene Iroton an excuse lor visiting there. During the hummer she came over quite frequent ly, always making gome errand the plea. She was as beau y, % v. ;■ t tlful and faselnat ‘•Mt m-mkr, and it was not long be Dm ope \ tried her power on Ralph Ttaeskolme. It was Impossible to be in Ear woelety without feeling her magnet and then the sympathy gave him was so very delicate, so suited to his needs. He won Me, had not before discovered » refinement of feeling she pos *«pased. She made him understand wlth ■ost gelling him that she pitied him; ipafia him feel that hts sufferings were - anas* than the whole world. Xfisftj Trenholme looked on In secret - ftaottatlon, Agnes with a hatf defined - SssMajutf dt;ead for which she could not OMfiH professed to be terribly -ssneeraUtloua and could not be prevall >«• upon to spend the night at the Rock -ww nay occasion. But one day a storm vet In while she was there and It raged --«n Sear fully that It was unsafe to at* Owist reaching home, and she was ■Mtgud to remain. She was strangely : war eons sad restless all the evening. .'Bhe forgot to smile when Ralph spoke "to her, and played chess so badly that ' he pot away the board In disgust. Imo .-gpwe begged to be allowed to sleep with Ames*. It was such a fearful night, she smd the old house was so lonely. Te reach the chamber of Agnes they ' led to pass the door of the room where * Jfartaa had been murdered. Imogene . gpew ashen pale as they approached aad clutched the arm or her com* pestew with something like terror. Ag aes stopped and looked at her with **Vkalia it, Isiogene? Are you ill r* -' *; Bs question acted on Imogene like a 'xsbsqk of electricity. 8he laughed loudly. "Bl? Not L Only a little nervous. Thts ■elt be use Is enough to give one the tor r.wers, with Its gloomy corridors and Its .rjpwsmfhle dark closets.” did/pot know but you might be -qbkahlng of the murder which was done :tbs that room,” said Agnes; “but I never ? tour pons Merlna. The dead never come ;.T.‘ they? I tell you, Agnes Tren* they do!** There wee something fearful In the voice in which #fho. but the nest moment she to her own clear tones, “At least people think so.” bad elapsed since the murdhr when Mrs. Trenholme ven ftokpeak to her son of whst lay her heart Ralph had been very to her that day, more like h|s self than ho had !>cen since the f . ( tragedy. She put her hand on his and spoke a little timidly. “Ralph, you once intended to marry U please yourself; I wish you would raally marry to pi ease me!" He smiled a little sadly and touched her hair caressingly. “So you have not quite given up the o*d project, mother mine!,Well, I will think of it. I love no one. I shall not easily love again." "And Imogene loves you, my son; I think It no more than honorable that you should give her the bcneflt of your name. With such a woman for a wife, lovo will surely come. Trust mo for it.” , He kissed the lips that were so near bis own. "Mother, I will try to gratify you. 1 will ask Miss Ireton to be my wife.” Mrs. Trenholme’s face flushed rap turously. Her lifelong wish would be gratified. Her only son, the pride of her heart, would be the husband of the most beautiful and nobly-born woman in that part of the state. That night, Ralph sat by the side of Miss Ireton. He was pale and calm nothing of the nervous expectancy that characterizes the doubtful lover. He took her hand in his and spoke very fmtaHv “Miss Ireton, von know my sad his tory. You know of the blight that fell upon my life a little more than a year ago, and knowing what you do, will you be my wife?" She looked into his cool eyes, and saw that he did not love her. And she had given him so much! All the hom age of her Impassioned soul! Sho flush ed crimson and set her white teeth hard. It was cruel to be won in that cold way; but anything to be near him. Sho would have been happy as his dog. If she could have been no more to this man she loved so fervently. She put her hot hand into his. :» "I will be your wife," she said, as coolly as he had spoken. ' Ho touched the Jewelbd fingers with his lips and placed upon one of them a diamond—the betrothal ring. All that night Imogene Ireton tossed restlessly on her bead. Her ambition, at last, was to be satisfied—sho was to be Ralph Trenholme’s wife; but his love, for which ahe would have given her soul, wan not to be hers. “He shall love me!” she cried, pas sionately. “I will win him! Good heav ens! why Is he so much unlike other men that my beauty has no attraction for him? Can it be that I am hideous in his eyeB?" They were married In the first week of January. There was no parade—not even a bridesmaid, save Agnes Tren bolme. The old house at the Rock shook opposed all dUplay. She would have no wedding party, no bridal tour. Ar terrible storm swept over Portlea thejhlght after Ralph took home a wife. Its like had not been known on the coast since that fearful storm when the foreign ship had been wrecked outside the harbor, and the waves pad cast Marina up at the feet of Ralph Tren holme. The old house at the Rock shook with the force of the tempest, the very foundations trembled, the roar of the waves on the rocks below was perfectly deafening. Imogene paced her chamber all the night through; she could not sleep, ahe said—a storm like this al ways made her restless. . CHAPTER IX. HRBB weeks after her wedding, Imo gene Trenholme was missing. She had dined with the family, and was In her usual health and spirits. At tea the bell had failed to bring her down, and the girl that went to her room said she was not there. The family felt little uneasiness until night tell, and then as she did not return they became seriously alarmed. Search began, and was continued through the next day, and tar into the night; but no clue to the missing woman could be found. Ralph came home towards daybreak to fling himself upon the couch for an hour’s sleep, and when he awake his wife slept by his side. Ke started up and looked at her, almost doubting his own senses. How very beautiful she was, her mouth with the Just parted scarlet Ups, showing the pearls within, one exquisite arm under her head, and the long eyelashes curving upward from the glowing cheek. Ralph touched her hand and she awoke. “Imogene!’’ he said sternly, “will you explain this problem to me? Here have I been searching for you these four and-twenty hours and more, and now I find you aalmly asleep, without a single word to me to relieve my anxiety. Where have you been?" “I have been away. I was called away on business." "On business? Very well. What was the nature of that business!" “It was a private matter which con cerns no one but myself," she replied, a little haughtily. "Privets business! Imogene, a wife should have no secrets from her hus band! I do not wish to pry into your af fairs, but it will be better to confide this thing te me at once." "I have nothing that I can confide." "This Is very singular, Imogene. I warn you that the :tke of this must not occur again. If It does,1 shall be severe* Iy displeased. Mark you that! My wife must not subject herself to vulgar re mark." “We will pass the subject If you please," she said, in such a manner that he did not resume it. As the time passed Ralph Trenholme grew cold and reticent. All his old gen iality seemed to have died out of him. He was never cross, but he was not af fectionate. He did not kiss his mother and Agnes as he was wont, and though he treated his wife with the most punc ! tllious respect, she was to him no dear ! er than any other woman. Strange stories were afloat among the servants and at last they reached the ears of the master. At first they excited only his indignation. He regarded them merely as silly inventions of the elder ly butler, who was of Celtic origin, and most ridiculously superstitious. They said that at nights the doors of the chamber where Marina had died were heard to open and shut; that ghostly feet paced back and forth across the floor, and that sometimes late at night pale, spectral lights gleamed from the dusky windows, far out through the gloom. . Mrs. Trenholme was greatly dis tressed by these tales, and Ralph posi-. tively forbade the discussion of the sub ject at any time in the house. He would not encourage such foolish supersti tion, he said, indignantly. But soon he! was forced to acknowledge that there was something at work beside imagin ation. He was detained until late one night in his study, which was in the east wing of the house, and only a little distance from the chamber of blood. Through the dead silence came dis-. tlnctly to his ear the sound of a door being opened, a door which creaked upon its hinges, like one long disused. He remembered, with a half-suppress ed shudder, that the door of that chain-; ber creaked. He sprang up, seized the lamp and hurried to the place. The door, which had always been kept locked since the tragedy, was ajar. He entered the chamber and stood appalled by what he saw. In the center of the room, stand ing just where the dark spot on the carpet showed that there the crime had been done, waB a tall, white figure, its head enveloped in something misty and white, its right arm extended toward the empty chair where she last sat! For a moment Ralph stood still with amazement, but only for a moment. He was a man of nerve, and he reached forward to seise upon tho apparition— to determine whether It belonged to the world of shadows or of flesh and blood. But at the first step a rush of air, cold as that from an inclosed tomb, swept over him, extinguishing his light. The place was dark as Erebus. He heard a faint, shivering sigh at his very elbow, then the soft closing of a dis tant door, and all was still. He groped his way out of the dreadful place, got another light, and went up to his wife's chamber. She was sleeping soundly, and he did not disturb her, but sat down to think over the strange thing he bad witnessed. But the more he thought the more clouded his mind be came. He could find no reasonable solu tion of the mystery, and by-and-by he fell asleep. When he awoke Imogene was gone. He knew at onc% that she had left the house, for a note directed in her hand to himself lay on the table. He tore It open and read: “Mr. Trenholme—Again I am called away. Business may keep me absent a couple of days. You need make no search." (TO II COXTIXOBD.) PRACTICAL ANARCHISM; Michael Braun Destroys Property to 8pl{p tho Rich. Practical anarchism could be seen at work In the house of Mrs. Mary M. Bryson of New York recently. Mrs. Bryson engaged a man named Michael Braun to varnish the furniture, and she agreed to pay him $4 a day. Ac cording to the story which Mrs. Bry son told the magistrate of the York vllle police court Braun destroyed property In her house to the value of over $1,000 and he had no other appar ent motive but hls hatred of the rich and hls principles of anarchism. He is charged with mutilating a valuable oil painting entitled “The Holy Fami ly.” It Is alleged that he cut off the arm of the Virgin, represented in'the painting, and slashed the figure of the child Christ in a way that suggested his desire to show his hatred of things re ligious. He Is a small man, with low forehead. Mrs. Bryson told the magis trate that she and her sister lived alone 1n the house, and became alarmed at the presence of the man, who continued | his work of polishing. She said that > when they addressed a remark to him he would reply in vile language, and they would be obliged to seek the se clusion of their rooms. He had com plete run of the house. When spoken i to on Aug. 6 he answered with an oath. A few moments later they saw him leave the house, and, going upstairs, | discovered the mutilation of the pic | ture. He has been arrested. Hard to Balt. "I guess you didn’t sell no pants to that man that just went out, did you? That’s the hardest feller to suit I most ever see. Him an’ me boards at the same place. He wouldn’t eat his alga this mornln’ ’cause they was both fried on one side; he wanted one fried on one side an' one on the other. Why wouldn’t he take the pauis?” “Stripes all run the same way. Said he wanted 'em to run down one leg and up the other.’’ Little alligators are admired as draw ingroom pets in some of the fashion able houses of Paris. LAWRENCE APPEALS. ABSTRACT OF WOOL-GROWERS' MEMORIAL TO CONGRESS. The Progress of Wool Industries from the Protective Tariff of 181B to the "Culminating Atrocity" of the Demo cratic Congress of 1804. From the tariff act of congress of 1819 to that of August 28,1894, in num erous acta the recognized policy of the government was to encourage sheep husbandry by duties more or less pro tective. The wool tariff act of March 2, 1867* gave adequate protection to our chief wool product under conditions then existing. Under it the prices of I wool were fairly remunerative, t Sheep Increased from 28,477,951 in 1S70, pro ducing 100,102,387 pounds of wool, to 50,626,026 in 1884, producing 308,000,000 pounds. In four years, from January, 1880, to January, 1884, sheep increased in number 24 per cent. But unfoVtunately the duties on wools were reduced by the tariff act of March 3, 1883. Under it sheep declined in number from 50,626,626 in 1884, with a wool clip of 308,000,000 pounds, to only 43,431,136 in 1891, producing 285,000,000 pounds. In view of the Injury resulting from the reduction, th6 tariff act of October 1, 1890, known as the McKinley law, was passed, Intended by congress to give “full and adequate protection to the wool Industry.” The bill as origi nally reported from the committee on ways and means by its chairman, Mr. McKinley, was much more protective than the bill as finally passed into the act of 1890. One of the modifications of the origi nal bill was made at the urgent de mand of a few, and only a few, of the carpet manufacturers of Philadelphia. But the bill and the taw as enacted contained three fatal and ruinous de fects: 1. The first" was the provision known as “the skirting clause,” the effect of which was, in practice, to reduce the protective benefits of the prescribed duties by nearly one-half, i But the real purpose of the wool tariff provision of the McKinley act, and the protective benefits intended thereby to be given, alike by Mr. McKinley and by those generally who voted for the bill, were in a large measure defeated by another defect—the ad valorem dut ies on class 3 Wools. > The original bill asf reported pro vided for specific duties; the change to ad valorem duties was secured by some carpet manufacturers, as stated. This feature of the law operated ruinously to wool growers by increasing immensely the imports of class 3 wools, which to a large extent were used in the manu facture of clothing goods, thus sup planting the use of merino wools and the long wools of the mutton breeds of •sheep. The ruin of the ad valorem Told VfaliM of, WOOLEN GOOOS manufactured in Bradford England and Shipped tt the United States (falewUrywn.lfleMtijliraS) £ 6.000.000 Shipped Ji S. 000.0.10 fihipMd 10^ '0^s s Si7«4U First Gorman tor f q,oaa,ooo Shipped £ 3,000,000 Shipput *. 1,000,000 SllippeA Average ^ tin jour Slurs, HfitlfH Its. Si;-'' 11,000,000 Shipped Kouidotitthmuie employed in (and laid off from) oar - Qmerican tiloolen mills)like Ihfll VjM5Hiffimitarl duties was Immensely aggravated by the unforeseen, unexpected vast Im ports of China wools—a source of very recent supply. There was a third defect in the law not generally understood by wool-grow ers—probably not generally, if at all, by members of congress who voted for the bill—the failure to make a provis ion to meet the light shrinkage . in scouring of Australasian wools, as com pared with other merino wools of all or pearly all other countries, including our own. The real purpose of the wool tariff provisions of the McKinley act was in large measure defeated by a fourth cause—unforeseen when the law was passed—unexpected—which no human foresight could anticipate—which arose alter it was passed. i This was the decline in the prices of wools all over the world since that act was passed, caused (1) in part by a vast increase in sheep, and (2) in less de gree by the general decline in nearly , —— all values as a result of the gold stand ard of values. Another one of the conditions aris ing since the McKinley bill became a law was: Improved methods of manufacture, by which third-class or so-called caf pet wools were, aB they now are, used in the manufacture of clothing goods, thuc supplanting the use of merino wools and the long wools of the mutton breeds of sheep. And the immense increased imports of those third-class wools exceeding in quantity those of both other classes combined at unprecedentedly low prices. And China opened up a new supply of those, so that in the fiscal year 1895 the enormous quantity of 26,089,418 pounds were imported, at an import price of only 5.15 cents per pound. And these, by reason of their light shrinkage of less than 40 per cent in scouring, were equal to and displaced 46,800,000 pounds of ordinary unwashed merino. In the memorial presented to con gress at tfie close of last year will be found the draft, of three bills for the consideration of congress: , une intended to embody the tariff provisions understood to be asked for in the memorial as those‘deemed ah* I solutely necessary to secure fair prices for wool, and secure success for sheep husbandry. One in aid of instruction in textile industries. One intended as a temporary expedi ent in case the bill deemed necessary should be met with a veto. Wool growers scattered all over the country, unable fully to present in or ganized action their real wishes, are profoundly impressed with the belief that they have suffered a great wrong by inadequate protection and by free wool. Though they cannot appear in person in large numbers, they are not the less earnest—emphatically earnest —in their appeal for adequate protec tion, and their purpose by political action to use all Just, and honorable means to secure their objects. It cannot be supposed they will quietly acquiesce in any measure short of this. Wool manufacturers, few in numbers, have great advantages over wool growers in the capacity to con centrate their efforts and present their views to congress. A majority of the senate is under stood to favor adequate protection for the wool industry. With too many persons who endeavor to create the Impression that no wool tariff bill will be passed “the wish is father to the thought.” Of course those members of the sen ate who are opposed to the protective policy or those who professto favor it but deem delay advisable, if any such there be, may throw obstacles in the way of the speedy passage of a protec tive tariff bill. But with profound respect for all such, and with great deference, it is now earnestly urged that the need of speedy action to secure protective legis lation, especially for sheep husbandry, is urgent, and a failure to secure it will work irretrievable injury to vast inter ests all over the country. Wool growers will not falter in their purpose by unexpected obstacles thrown in their way, but will in all proper methods urge the justice of their requests. The following is from the proceedings of the house of repre sentatives, December 9, 1895, as found in the Congressional Record, page 97: Mr. Danford. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to present a memo rial from the National Wool Growers’ Association of the United States and others asking the passage of an act providing for protective duties ou wool, and for other purposes. I ask that the same may be printed, and referred to the committee on ways and means when appointed. Mr. McMillin. Does the gentleman propose to have simply the memorial printed, or the accompanying bundle of papers which we see in front of us? Mr. Danford. Just the memorial, and the papers accompanying it. ' Mr. McMillin. It is a pretty volumin ous document, it seems to me, to go into the Record. Mr. Danford. I do not ask that it go into the Record. The Speaker. It is subject to the ob jection of any member of the house. ! • Mr. Crisp. I object. The Speaker. The gentleman from Tennessee objects. Mr. Richardson. No; I do not object. The Speaker. The gentleman from Tennessee Mr. McMHiin. me gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Crisp) objects. Mr. Danford. It is not my purpose to have it printed in the Record. The Speaker.' Objection is made. Mr. Danford. Then I withdraw the memorial. The following is from the Congres sional Record, proceedings of the sen ate, December 10, 1895: Mr. Sherman. I present a petition of the National Wool Growers’ Associa tion and others, with accompanying pa pery, praying for protective legislation for the sheep industry. As it is the peti tion of an association of great national importance, I move that it be printed and referred to the committee on finance. \ The motion was agreed to. For the convenience of those who may have occasion to examine the vol ume, a table of contents, with synopsis of the memorial and chapters, are sub joined thereto, and an index will be found in the appropriate place. WILLIAM LAWRENCE, President of the National Wool Grow ers’ Association. Having straightened out the Bible, the emancipated women might now do something for the cookbook. — New York Press. 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