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Co.) ▼ 444444444444444444444444444444444 44444444444444444444 Paul and Philip Payson were cousins as dissimilar in character as they were alike in appearance. In features, coloring and physique they were al most identical. It was only when side by side that the difference between them became noticeable. Apart it. would have taken the closest scrutiny to tell which was which, save for the strict clerical grab of the one and the ultra fashionable habiliments of the other. The —th Regiment was the only tie they had in common, both be ing on Colonel Howgate’s staff, the one was as chaplain and the other as paymaster. Paul was rector of a west-end church and among his small flock was Alice Southcote, a devout girl, of sterling qualities, the only daughter of a wealthy shipowner. Paul had always admired this beautiful creature at a distance, but now church work brought them frequently together and Paul’s attentions grew more and more pro nounced until on a glorious June night a year later he plead for and ob tained her hand. During the month following their engagement the Maryland Brigade was ordered into camp near Frederick. Upon arriving at the grounds it was found that an insufficient number of tents had been provided for the staff, and the Rev. Paul, hoping to exert a beneficial influence over his wayward cousin, insisted upon Philip sharing his tent. Philip showed himself respectfully indifferent to the interest displayed in his spiritual welfare and pursued his old course with unswerving though polite persistency. Paul soon became convinced that as an instrument for his cousin’s salvation he was a dis mal failure. After a futile struggle he sorrowfully resigned himself to defeat and then they got along swimmingly. Late in the afternoon on the day be fore camp was struck Rev. IJaul went to his tent to exchange his white duck uniform for the warmer blue one. In the uncertain twilight he inadvertent ly nut on hit, cousin’s blouse and sal lied forth to dine with a parishoner who had rented a country residence near by. Fifteen minutes later Cap tain Payson, perspiring and dusty from regimental parade, came in and throwing off his hot dress coat and heavy boots hastily refreshed himself with a sponge-bath and slipped on his fatigue uniform. Not waiting for mess, he hurried to the station in or der to reach Frederick in time for an engagement, blissfully ignorant that on each shoulder reposed an embroid ered shepherd's crook, the insignia of an army chaplain. Arriving in the city Captain Payson repaired to a hotel and ordered sup per. His friends disappointing him, he walked over to the - Club, hop ing to meet them there. He sauntered through the various rooms without meeting any one he knew, winding up at the bar, where he called for whisky, tossing it down in the most approved style, while several officers from an other regiment stood by. The officers seemed highly amused over something. Philip heard their suppressed laughter, little dreaming that he was the victim, and heartily tired of his own society he approached them. “Gentlemen, will you not join me? My name is Payson,” he said, adress ing them; and reaching into his blouse, he passed a card to each: •.* : Rev. Paul Payson. : : Chaplain, : : —th I.,M. N. G. Balto., Md. : *.• “Now, gentlemen, what will you have?” he added, after warmly shak ing hands all around. That in some way he was a source of merriment became apparent, but the discomfiting thought soon gave place to more congenial ones under the cheerful influence of convivial com panionship. “There is no fun in a three-handed game," said Capt. Sauer, impatiently. “I wish we could get some one to take Audrey's place, confound him!” “I will help you out, if you wili allow me,” Payson rejoined. "But—er—your calling will scarcely —er—permit that,” said Lieutenant Southcote, glancing keenly at the Shepard's crooks. “Calling! What has that to do with It? I'm no religious prude,” replied the surprised officer. The three eyed him a moment lr astonishment, but made no audibit comment. The chaplain having passed the evening with friends, little versed in military technicalities, returned with out being apprised of his irregularity in uniform. “Well, boys, this beats my record,” said Capt. Sauer, with a laugh, after leaving Philip at his tent. "Rev. Pay son is the sportiest individual I ever ran across in the preaching line. Why, he out-drank, out-swore and out played us from the very start and, dear knows, we are no infants. The discussion following was any thing but complimentary to the chap lain of the —th, nor did its' rehash at their mess tend to help matters. Un fortunately the story did not reach Colonel Howgate. He would have sifted the affair at once and beyond a good joke on the parson it would have gone no farther. Upon arriving home Southcote lost no time questioning his sister about the Rev. Payson. He suspected that Alice cared for the new pastor, but when she blushingly acknowledged her engagement he was dismayed. The same evening, Paul received the following note: "Mr. Paul Payson: “Your behavior during camp is known to me and ns a matter of course our engagement, is at an end. "Alice Southcote.” “The ring 13 enclosed.” The distracted lover read and re read this several times. Naturally he could not realize what had occasioned I II n such an action on her part. That there was a horrible mistake some where he was confident, but his pride forbade him asking for an explana tion. Two days later, on Howard street, Captain Payson accidentally encoun tered Bert Southcote, who failed to recognize him. “I say there! Don’t you intend to shake hands with a fellow?” Payson called. “Perhaps a nip of Wangeman’s whisky will aid your memory,” con tinued Phil, as he literally pushed the perplexed Southcote Into a convenient restaurant. “When do you and your friends want revenge for the drubbing I gave you the other night? Ah! I Bee you remember now.” "Then you are the Reverend Paul Payson, after all,” Bert replied stern ly “Reverend fiddlesticks! What are you talking about, anyway? Did my saintly conduct at the club give you that impression?" Phil answered, laughingly. “Most decidedly not, but the uni form you wore and the cards you handed around certainly stated that fact;” and his temper rising, he add ed, “and for two pins I’d wipe up the floor with you.” “You arc laboring under some de lusion,” said Payson, calmly, “and be for you try to use me for a floor-mop I wish to state that I am Philip Pay son, Captain and Paymaster of the —th, and a lawyer by profession. I have had the pleasure of meeting you but once and outside of winning a few dollars from you, can't imagine what you have against me.” “If what you say is true,” and his unenviable position began to dawn upon him, “why did you wear a chap lain’s blouse? And moreover whv did you give me this card?” Captain Payson looked at the bit ot pasteboard doubtfully, then at the speaker, and after puzzling a moment burst out laughing. “Oh, what a joke! How the boys will roar when they hear of this. 1 see It all. I must have worn my cousin’s coat. You know, we tented together. That accounts for my strange reception that night.” Lieutenant Southcote did not laugh —far from it. He waited until Phil calmed down somewhat. “I fail to see anything to laug% at Whether you purposely masqueraded or not makes but little difference. By that night’s work you have done your cousin and my sister, who was his betrothed, probably an irreparable in jury. I expect you as a man to help me right, this wrong.” Phil’s face grew serious and he put down his glass untouched. ”1 will dc so most willingly,” he said gravely "if you will give me your word ol honor that I really wore a chaplain's blouse that, night, for believe me, 1 was unconscious of it. Paul mils' necessarily have worn mine, for he b“d dressed and left camp before 1 re turned from parade; yet strange tc say he has never referred to it.” That same night a rejected rinj played a loading P"*1! RUSSIAN POLICE METHOD?. Torture AbollMliml by Alexander I. Prae tlrcd Under McIioIaa II. The centenary of the abolition in Russia of the torture as an organized system of legal inquiry has provided the Russian press with a text for nu merous articles on the humanity and progress of their country. No doubt It was a great step to take, but it ban stiil to be ratified In practice before Russia has any particular occasion to rejoice. In the old days the torture was applied to all suspects as a first means of inquiry, and when the un happy wretch had been compelled to confess something—usually, as the Empress Catherine expressed it, any thing which was put into his mouth —he was subjected to a second "in quiry'’ by the same or more severe means, in order to secure confirma tion of his first confession. Occa sionally the whole process was re peated twlee more, with a view to extorting the names of accomplices. The tortures applied were much the same as in other countries, but could1 be added to by the ingenuity of indi vidual officials. Thus, during the reign of Anne, when the ex-table boy and favorite of tiie empress, Biron, was In power, it was a favorite form of torture to stanli a culprit naked in the snow during the severe northern fi03ts of midwinter, either Ice-cold or cold and hot alter nately, a form of “Inquiry" which had the disadvantage of too often killing the poor wretch before he had time to confess nnything. Thumbscrews, the clog and every form of whipping ami beating, with almost as many names for the various processes as a & to be found in the dialogues of the slaves of Roman comedy, were every day attributes nf tbe ribl Russian balls of justice. Just 100 years ago the Emperor Al exander I. abolished the torture as being a "shame and a reproaih to all mankind." But he forgot to ordsr the legal Instruments of torture to be des troyed. and these lingered on and were undoubtedly used for another quarter of a century. Officially the torture has, of course, actually disappeared— at any rate, those forms of it which require elaborate instruments for their application are no more to be found. It* actual fact, however, says the Lon don Standard's Moscow correspondent, and in secret, there is a great deal of torture going on in the most enlight ened centers of the Russian empire at the present day. and it is exercised by the police intrusted with the dis covery of crime, the "detective polici." TOLD ON MILWAUKEE. Social I’roceHA of Getting Acquainted In That City llliintrated. The teacher of an intermediate grade in a Milwaukee school the other day was “showing off” her pupils before a number of visitors. The spelling class was on the floor and one small, red-headed boy was given the word "introduction.” He paused, twisted his lips, stared and then, in a faltering way, spelled it correctly, and then seemed rather sur prised that he had done it. "Do you know what the word means?” asked the teacher. “N'm.” “What? You don’t know what ‘in troduction’ means? Well, now, I’ll ex plain it to you. Does your mother ever have callers?” "Yes’m.” “Well, now, suppose that two women came to call on your mother. Your mother knows one of the women, but doesn’t know the other. She has never seen the woman and doesn't even know her name. Now, how would she be come acquainted with this woman anil find out her name?” “She'd send me out for a can of beer.” As that was the correct answer, says the New York Tribune, the teacher had nothing further to say. Couldn’t Recognise Him. “Yes, I have a pretty big mouth, for a fact,” admitted the candid man, “but 1 have learned to keep it shut, and that counts for something when you take your levels. I received a lesson when I was a small boy that 1 have never for gotten. I was born and brought up on a farm and I had the country-boy habit of going around with my mouth wide open, especially if there was anything unusual going on. One day an uncle, whom I had not seen for a year, paid us a visit. “ ’Hullo, uncle,’ said I, looking up at him with my mouth opened like a barn, door. He looked at me for a moment with out answering, and then said: “ 'Close your mouth, sonny, so I caa see who you are.' “I took the lesson to my heart,” said) the candid man, according to the De troit Free Press, "and resolved that) from that day 1 would not allow my mouth to conceal my identity.” No Carpet Heating In New York. The health board has sent out or ders to all citizens of this and other boroughs that no rugs shall be beat en in the yard or on the roof. The reason therefor is that, germs and mi crobes are set loose in the operation of beating, much to the detriment of the general health. There are vacant lots in the city, wherein rugs and car pets may be beaten until they weep. It must he far more detrimental to the general health to beat them in vacant lots than on the housetops, for on the housetops there is a chance for the wind to carry off the gprms and drop them into the sea.—New York Press. -—-« A lady never swears—and the man who steps on the hem of her skirt and catches her eye can readily understand that she doesn't have to.—Cbicagc ! >IeV6