Whet*® Electric Current Jam pa n Rock. The possibility of telegraphing through space, which was fully dem onstrated last years by W. H. Preece, has been turned to account in a most effecttve way for maintaining com munication between the mainland and the Fasnet lighthouse, on the south west coast of Ireland. Formerly the difficulties of carrying a telegraph cable up an exposed rock, where it was sub ject to constant chafing, were almost insurmountable. The non-continuous system is now used, and works admira bly. The cable terminates in the water sixty yards off, and the electric cur rents, sent from the shore, find their way through the distance to two bare wires they dip into the sea from the rock.—Chicago Record. A Cynic’. Opinion. Launter in the St. James’ Budget 6ays of woman: “The morbid craving for notoriety that women exhibit in their various spheres of life is a singular interesting study. They are ready to take up any fad that will put them in evidence. “I know women who would lead a dancing bear down Regent street for the sake of creating a sensation. “The striving after originality (in dress) has reached such an acute Btage that the real originality lies in being quite natural. “They want to be talked about,” says the author, “and create what the Yankees call a ‘splurge.’ ” It the Uaby Is Cutting Teeth. Be nr. and use that old and well-tried remedy, Ku. •ruiSLOW’e Sootuibo Strut tor Children Teething Tile Live Monkey. A dealer in stuffed animals, who also kept a few live creatures for sale, gave his shop boy, who was permitted to sell the stuffed specimens, orders to call him when any one asked for any of the living animals, says the Youth’s Companion. One day a gentleman called and de manded a monkey. “Any one of these?” asked the boy, who was in charge. He pointed to the stuffed specimens. ‘?>tp—I want a live monkey,” an swered the customer. 'fhe boy stepped to the door of the back shop and called to his master;— “You’re wanted, sir!” J Rrcycle Presidential Puzzle. Men and tfomen, boys and girls: readers of this paper if you neg lected to send in your . answer to the advertisement of the Pres idential Puzzle in last week’s is jZjje of this paper, do not neglect to do so now. Do not put it off. Oet your copy of last week’s paper, Cat The Advertisement Oat* it gives all the particulars which en ables you to get the best $100 Racycle; which, with the discount allowed by working the puzzle, makes it the cheapest as well as th6 best. We want at once a few Racycles in your locality as advertisements—now is your oppor tunity. Send Us your solution of puz zle, your name and address, model wanted and height of frame. Miami Cycle and Mfg. Co., Middletown, Ohio. Truth never blushes when you look it in t the face. 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If your dealer cannot supply you, send to fac tory, enclosing price and 36 cents to pay carriage. State kind, style of toe (cap or plain), size and width. Our Custom Dept, will fill your order. Send for new Illus trated Catalogue to Box K. W. L. DOUGLAS, Brooktrn, Mas*. BY CLARA AUGUSTA INTERNATIONAL PRESS ASSOCIATION. CHAPTER IIL—(Continuk'd.l He opened the door with one of a bunch of keys which he carried, and noiselessly entered. The gas was turned down low, but a mellow radiance filled the place. A bed stood in one corner, and Sharp advanced toward it. The noise he had made, slight though it was, aroused the occupant, and, as she Btarted up in affright, Arch met the soft, pleading eyes of Margia Harrison •son. She spoke to him, not to Sharp. “Do not let him kill me!” Sharp laid a rough hand on her shoul der, and put a knife at her throat. Simultaneously, Arch sprang upon him like a tiger. “Release that girt,’” he hissed. “Dare to touch her with the.tlps of your fingers, and by Heaven I will murder you.” Sharp sprang back with an oath, and at the same moment a pistol shot rang through the house, and Sharp, bathed in blood, fell to the floor. Old Mr. Trevlyn, travel stained and wet, strode into the room. “I’ve killed him,” he said, in a cracked voice of intense satisfaction. “He didn’t catch old Trevlyn napping. I knew well enough they’d be after my diamonds, and I gave up the Journey. Margie, child, are the Jewels safe?” She had fallen back on the pillows, pale as death, her white night dress spattered with the blood of the dead robber. Arch lifted a tiny glove from the carpet, thrust it into his bosom, and, before old Trevlyn could raise a hand to stop him, he had got clear of the premises. Such a relief as he felt when the cool, fresh air struck his face. He had been saved from overt criminality. Ood had not permitted him to thus debase himself. Now that his excitement was gone, he saw the heinousness of the sin he had been about to commit in all its deformity. Let old Trevlyn go! Let him gloat over his diamonds while yet he had the opportunity. He would not despoil him of his treasures, but he could not give up his scheme of vengeance. It should be brought about some other way. A large reward was offered by Mr. Trevlyn for the apprehension of Sharp’s accomplice, but, as no description of his person could be given by any one except Margie, who could not or would not be explicit on that point, he was not secured. Trevlyn recognized and appreciated her noble generosity in suffering him to go free, for in the one look she had given him on that disgraceful occasion he had felt that she recognized him. But she pitied him enough to let him go free. Well, he would show her that her con fidence was not misplaced. He would deserve her forbearance. He was re solved upon a new life. He left the saloon, and after many rebuffs succeeded in getting employ ment as errand boy in a large import ing house. The salary was a mere pit tance, but it kept him in clothes and coarse food, until one day, about a year after his apprenticeship there, he chanced to save the life of Mr. Belgrade, the senior partner. A gas pipe in the private office of the firm exploded, and the place took fire, and Mr. Belgrade, smothered and helpless, would have perished In the flames, bad not Arch, with a bravery few would have expect ed in a bashful, retiring boy, plunged through the smoke and flame, and bore him to a place of safety. Mr. Belgrade was a man with a con science, and, grateful for his life, he re warded his preserver by a clerkship of Importance. The duties of this of fice he discharged faithfully for three years, when the death of the head clerk left a vacancy, and when Arch was nineteen he received the situation. Through these three yeare he had been a close student. Far into the night he pored over his books, and, too proud to go to school, he hired a teacher and was taught privately. At twenty he was quite as well educated as nine tenths of the young men now turned out by our fashionable colleges. Rumors of Margie Harrison’s tri umphs reached him constantly, for Margie was a belle and a beauty now. Her parents were dead, and she had been left to the guardianship of Mr. Trevlyn, at whose house she made her home, and where she reigned a very queen. Old Trevlyn’s heart at last found something beside his diamonds to worship, and Margie had it all her own way. She came into the store of Belgrade & Co. one day, and asked to look at some laces. Trevlyn was the only clerk dis engaged, and with a very changeable face he came forward to attend to her. He felt that she would recognize him at once—that she would remember where she had seen him the last time—a house breaker! She held his reputation in her keeping. His hand trembled as he took down the laces—she glanced at his face. A start of surprise—a conscious, painful blush swept over her face. He dropped the box, and the rich laces fell over his feet. "Pardon me,” he said, hurriedly, and, stooping to pick them up, the little glove he had stolen on that night, and which he always wore in his bosom, fell out, and dropped among the laces. She picked it up with a little cry. "The very glove that I lost four years u-SrK.tT-* ago! And you are—” She stopped suddenly. He paled to the lips, but, lifting his head proudly, said: “Go on. Finish the sentence. I can bear it.” “No, I will not go on. Let the mem ory die. I knew you then, but you were so young, and had to bear so much among temptations. And the other was a villain. No, I am silent. You are safe.” He stooped and, lifting the border of her shawl, kissed it reverently. “If I live,” he said solemnly, "you will be glad you have been so merciful. Some time I shall hear you say so.” She did not purchase any laces. She went out forgetful of her errand, and Arch was so awkward for the remain der of the day, and Committed so many blunders, that his fellow clerks laughed at him unrebuked, and Mr. Belgrade seriously wondered if Trevlyn had not been taking too much champagne. CHAPTER IV. ARGIB HARRI son and her guar dian sat at break fast. Mr. Trevlyn showed his years very plainly. He was nearly seven ty-five—he looked eighty. Margie looked very lovely this morning and it was of this the old man was thinking as he glanced at her across the table. She had more than fulfilled the promise of her childhood. The golden hair was chestnut now, and pushed behind her ears in heavy, rippling masses of light and shadow. Her eyes had taken a deeper tone—they were like wells whose depth you could not guess at. Her features were delicately irregular, the forehead low, broad and white; her chin was dimpled as an infant’s, and her mouth still ripe and red u a dam ask rosebud. She wore a' pink- muslin wrapper, tied with white" ribbons, sand in her hair drooped a cluster'd! 'apple blossoms. "Margie, dear,” said Mr. Trevlyn, pausing'in his work of buttering a muf fin. “I want you to look your prettiest tonight. I am going to bring home a friend of mine—one who was also your father’s friend—Mr. Llnmere. He ar rived from Europe today.” Margie’s cheek lost a trifle of Its peachy bloom. She toyed with her spoon, but did not reply to his remark, “Did you understand me, child? Mr. Llnmere has returned.” “Yes, sir.” “And is coming here tonight. Re member to take extra pains with your self, Margy, for he has seen all the European beauties, and I do not want my little American flower to be cast in the shade. Will you remember it?” "Certainly, if you wish it, Mr. Trev lyn.” “Margie!” “Sir!” “You are aware that Mr. Linmere is your affianced husband, are you not?” “I have been told so.” “And yet in the face of that fact well, of all things, girls do beat me! Thank heaven, I have none of my own,’’ be added testily. "Girls are better let alone, sir. It is very hard to feel one’s self bound to fulfil a contract of this kind.” "Hard! Well, now, I should think it easy. Mr. Linmere is all that any rea sonable woman could wish. Not too old, nor yet too young; about forty five, which is just the age for a man to marry; good looking, intelligent and wealthy—what more could you ask?” “You forget that I do not love him —that he does not love me.” “Love! tush! Don’t let me hear any thing about that.. I loathe the name. Margie, love ruined my only son! For love ho disobeyed me and I disowned him. I have not spoken his name for years! Your , father approved of Mr. Linmere, and while you were yet a child you were betrothed. And when your father died, what did you prom ise him on his deathbed?” Margie grew wnite as the ribbons at her throat. ' “I promised him that I would try and fulfil his requirements/' "That you would try! Yes. And that was equal to giving an unqualified assent. You know the conditions of the will, I believe?” “I do. If I marry without your con sent under the age of twenty-one, I forfeit my patrimony. And am nine teen now. And I shall not marry with out your consent.” “Margie, you must marry Mr. Lln mere. Do not hope US do differently. It Is your duty. He has lived single all these years waiting for you. He will be kind to you, and you will be happy. Prepare to receive him with becoming respect" Mr. Trevlyn considered his duty performed and went out for his cus tomary walk. At dinner Mr. Linmere arrived. Mar-' gie met him with cold composure. He. scanned her fair face and almost fault-, less form with the eye of a connoisseur ‘and congratulated himself on the for* tune which was to give him suoh a bride without the perplexity of a wooing, ghe was beautiful and attractive, and he had* feared she might be ugly, which would have been a dampener on bis satisfaction. True, her wealth would have counterbalanced any degree of personal deformity; but Mr. Paul Lilt mere admired beauty, and liked to have pretty things around him. To tell the truth, he was sadly la need of money. It was fortunate that his old friend, Mr. Harrison, Margie’s dead father, had taken it Into his head to plight his daughter’s troth to him while she was yet a child. Mr. Harrison had been an eccentric man, and from the fact that In many points of reli gious belief he and Mr. Paul Linmere agreed (for both were miserable skep tics), he valued him above all other men, and thought his daughter's hap piness would be secured by the union he had planned. Linmere had been abroad several years, and he had led a very reckless, dissipated life. Luxurious by nature, lacking In moral rectitude, and having wealth at his command, he indulged himself unrestrained, and when at last he left the gay French capital and re turned to America, his whole fortune, with the exception of a few thousands, was dissipated. So he needed a rich wife sorely, and was not disposed to defer his happiness. He met Margie with empressement, and bowed his tall head to kiss the White hand she extended to him. She drew It away coldly—something about the man made her shrink from him. “I am so happy to meet you again, Margie, and after ten years of separa tion! I have thought so much and so often of you." manic you, Mr. tanmere. “Will you not call me Paul?” he asked, In a subdued voice, letting his dangerous eyes, lull of light and soft ness, rest on her. An expression of haughty surprise swept her face. She drew b=?fc a pace. “I am not accustomed to address gen tlemen—mere acquaintances—by their Christian names, sir.” “But In this case, Margie? Surely the relations existing between us will 'admit of such a familiarity," he said, seating himself, while she remained standing coldly by. “There are no relations existing be tween us at present, Mr. Linmere,” she answered haughtily; “and If, in obe dience to the wishes of the dead, we should ever become connected in name, I beg leave to assure you In the begin ning that you will always be Mr.'Lin mere to me,” A flush of anger mounted to his cheek; he set his teeth, but outwardly be was calm and subdued. Anger, just at present, was Impolitic. “I hope to win your love, Margie; I trust I shall,” he answered, sadly enough to have aroused almost any woman's pity; but some subtle Instinct told Margie he was false to the core. But all through the evening he waa affable and complaisant and forbearing. She made no attempt to conceal her dislike for him. Concealments were not familiar to Margie's nature. She was frank and open as the day. Mr. Linmere’s fascinations were many and varied. He had a great deal of adaptation, and made himself agree able to every one. He had traveled ex tensively, was a close observer, and had a retentive memory. Mr. Trevlyn was charmed with him. So wsb Alex andrine Lee, a friend of Margie’s, a rlvai belle, who accidentally (?) dropped In to spend the evening. Mr. Linmere played and sang with exquisite taste and skill—he was a com plete master of the art, and. In spite of herself, Margie listened to him with a delight that was almost fascination, but which subsided the moment the melody ceased. (TO SB COXT1KUBD.) THIEVES AT THE OPERA. Immaculately Dressed and Attended by Beautiful Women. "Strange as it may seem," said one of Chief O’Brien'a new detectives, as he lounged against a pillar In front of the Metropolitan opera house, talking to a New York Herald man, "New York thieves of the higher class have a weak ness for grand opera, both for business and pleasure. You doubtless remember when Inspector McLaughlin walked down the aisle two yearB ago and tapped a woman on the shoulder. She was a notorious thief and she followed him without a word. Since then sev eral thieves have been arrested in the lobby and around the entrance and sev eral have even got past us and have sat out the performance. Look at this. It is a sample of the work done by the opera house thieves.” The detective pulled from his pocket a crumpled advertisement. It was as follows: “If blue kersey overcoat taken from dress circle of Metropolitan opera house Monday night is returned, $25 will be paid and no questions asked.” “I was one of the men detailed here on the opening night,” continued the detective. “Personally, I hustled sev eral thieves away; but as there was no charge against them beyond their gen eral bad character they could not be arrested. "After the opera was over, I stood just at the door to watch the crowd coming out. What was my surprise to see one of the best-known thieves in New York come out with a beautifully dressed woman on his arm. She wore a long pink and ermine opera cloak and big diamonds and his crush hat was simply immense. He looked at me coolly, handed the woman into a car riage and whirled away. "I saw him next day in Sixth avenue and called to him. ‘What do you want?’ he inquired. ‘There is nothing against me. Hasn’t a man a right to enjoy himself?* I warned him against enjoy ing himself around the Metropolitan opera house, and let him go. There are very many diamonds around the Met ropolitan,and they are a great tempta tion to the average thief.” Criticism is an effective form of vice. The United States and Spain* It is twenty-three years ajro since we had serious trouble with Spain over Cuba, where then, as now, a revolution was in progress. An American steamer, the Vlrginius, was seized and her crew, many of whom were American citizens, were tried and condemned by a court martial and summarily shot. When the news reached this country the gov ernment at Washington demanded the immediate release of the Virginlus, and as Spain was at first dilatory in com plying with the demand there was serious talk of war between the two countries. 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