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The Diamond Bracelet By MRS. HENRY WOOD. Author of Em) Lynn. Etc. CHAPTER III. lice left her slater standing in the room and went upstairs. But she was more than one minute away; she was three or four, for she could not at flrst lay her hand upon the letter. When ahe returned her sister advanced to her from the back drawing room, the fold ing doors between the two roomB be ing as before, wide open. "What a One collection of bracelets, Alice!" she exclaimed, as she took the letter. "Are they spread out for ehow?" "No," laughed Alice; "Lady Sarah is going to the opera, and will be in a hurry when she comes up from dinner. She asked me to bring them all down, as she had not decided which to wear." "I like to dress before dinner on my opera nights." "Oh. so of course does Lady Sarah," returned Alice, as her sister descend ed the stairs, "but she said it was too hot to dine in bracelets." "It is fearfully hot. Good-by, Alice. Don't ring; I will let myself out." Alien returned to the front room and looked from the window, wonder ing whether her sister had come in her carriage. No. A trifling evening breeze was arising and beginning to move the curtains about. Gentle as It was. it was grateful, and Alice sat down in It. In a very few minutes the ladies came up from dinner. "Him vnti the bracelets. Alice? Oh I see." Lady So rah went to the back room as she spoke, and stood before the table looking at the bracelets. Alice rose to follow her, when Lady Frances Chenevix caught her by the arm and beran to speak In a covert whisper "Who was that at the door Just now? It was a visitor's knock. Do you know. Aiice. every hour since we cam to town I have fancied Gfrard might bA calling. In the country he could int irnl In lis. but here . Wai it Gerard?" "It It was my sister." carelessly an swered Alice. It was not a true an swer, for her sister had not Knocneu but it was the readiest that rose to her lips, and she wiHhed to escape the questioning. "Only your sister," sighed Frances, turning to the window with a gesture of disappointment. "Which have you put on?" inquired Alice, going toward Lady Sarah. "These loose fancy things; they are the coolest. I really am so hot; the cup was that favorite soup of the colo nel's, all ojsieums and cayenne, and the wine was hot; there had been gome mistake about the ice. Hill trusted the new man, and he did not understand It; it was all hot together. What the bouse will be tonight I dread to think of." Lady Sarah, whilst she spoke, had been putting the bracelets into the Jewel box, with very little care. "I had better put them straight," re marked Alice, when she reached the table. " "Do not trouble," returned Lady Sarah, shutting down the lid. "You are looking flushed and feverish, Alice; you were wrong to walk so far today; Husshea will set them to rights tomor row morning; they will do till then. Lock them up and take possession of the key." i Alice did as he was bid. She locked the case and put the key into her pocket. "Here Is the carriage." exclaimed Lady Frances. "Are we to wait for coffee?" "Coffee in this heat," retorted Lady Sarah, "it would be adding fuel to Are. We will have some tea wnen we return. Alice, you must make tea for the colonel; he will not come out without It. He thinks this weather Just what It ought to be; rather cold, If anything." Alice had taken the bracelet box In her hands as Lady Sarah spoke, and when they departed carried it upstairs to Its place in Lady Sarah's bdroom. The colonel speedily rose from the table, for his wife had laid her com mands on him to Join them early. Alice helped him to his tea, and as soon as he was gone, she went up stairs to bed. To bed, but not to sleep. Tired as he was, and exhausted in frame, sleep would not come to her. She was Kvin over asaln her Intel view with Oerard Hope. She could not in her pnnsclous heart affect to misunder Stand his implied meaning that she had been the cause of his rejecting the union proposed to him. It diffused . m ranee rapture within her, and hmieh she had not perhaps been unconscious auring strange rapture within her as one lay there at night, and she may be ex cused if, for a brief pnnofl, sue gave range to the sweet fantasies it con jured up. For a brief period only; too soon the depressing consciousness returned to her that these thoughts of earthly happiness must be subdued, for she, with her confirmed ailments and conspicuous weakness, must nev er hope to marry as did other women. She had long known her mother had prepared her for it that one so af flicted and frail as she, whose tenure of existence was likely to be short, ought not to become a wife, and It had been her earnest hope to pass througn life unloving and unloved. She had striven to arm herself against the dan ger, against being thrown . Into the perils of temptation. Alas! it naa come insidiously upon her; all Her care had been set at naught, and she knew that she loved Gerard Hope with a deep and fervent love. "It is but an other cross," she sighed, "another burden to surmount and subdue, and I will set myself, from this night, to the task. I have been a cowaru shrinking from self-examination; but now that Gerard has spoken out, i can deceive myself no longer. I wish be had spoken more freely that I might have told him it was useless. miss? What's, gone Tit CHAPTER IV. tt was only towards morning that Alice dropped asleep; the consequence was, that long after her usual hour for rising she was still sleeping. The opening of her door by some one awoke her; it was Lady Sarah's maid. "Why, miss! are you not up? Well, I never! I wanted the key of the Jewel box, but I'd have waited If I had known." "What do you say you want?" re turned Alice, whose ideas were con fused, as Is often the case on being suddenly awakened. "The key of the bracelet box. If you please." "The key?" repeated Alice. "Oh, I rpmpmhpr." she added, her recollec- I. . - . I n - r- "MO t 7 I III. I I lilt- i lou miuiumA .0 "-.. - ----- ble, will you, Hughes, to take it out of my pocket; It Is on that chair under my clothes." The servant came to the pocket and speedily found the key. "Are you worse than usual, miss, th.s morn ing?" asked she, "or have you over slept yourself?" "I have overslept myself. Is it late?" "Between nine and ten. My lady Is up, and at breakfast with master and Lady Frances." Alice rose the Instant the maid had left the room, and made haste to dress, vexed with herself for sleeping so long. She was nearly ready when Hughes came in again. "If ever I saw such a confusion as that Jewel box was in!" cried she, in as pert and grumbling a tone as she dared to use. "The bracelets were thrown together without law or order iust aa if they had been so much crlnRR and tinsel from the Lowther Arcale." "It was Lady Sarah did it," replied Alice. "I would have put them straight, but she said leave it for you." I thought she might prefer that you should do it, so did not press it "Of course her ladyship is aware there's nobody but myself knowB how they are plr.ced in it," returned Huirhes. conHequently. . "I could go to that or to the other Jewel box, in the dark, and take out any one thing mv birlv wanted without disturbing the rest." "I have observed that you have t nvrlap " miYinrkerf Alif.e. W ith S Ki.i. U.-'-'l i--.: ,r,u "it Is verv useful to those who possess it, and saves them from trouble and confusion." 'So it do, miss," said Hughes. Hut I came to ask you for the diamond bracelet." "The diamond bracelet! echoed Alice. "What diamond bracelet? What do you mean?" "It is not in the box, miss." "The diamond bracelets are both in the box," rejoined Alice. "The old one Is there, not the new one. I thought you might have taken tt out to show some one, or to look at yourself, miss, for I'm sure it's a sight for pleasant eyes." "I can assure you It is in the case," said Alice. "All are there except what Lady Sarah had on. You must have overlooked it." "I must be a great donkey If I have." grumbled the girl. "It must bo at the very bottom, amongst the cot ton.' she soliloquized, aa ehe returned in Ladv Sarah's apartments, "and I have just got to take every Individual nlrln out to get at it. This cornea hellere me, it?" Alice Seaton looked at Hughes with puzzled look. She was thinking matters over. It eooned cleared again. Then Lady Sarah must have kept it out when she put In the rest tt was she who returned tbemto the case; did not. Perhaps she wore tt last night." No, miss, that she didn't. She wore only those two " "1 saw what she had on." interrupt ed Alice. "But Bhe might also hava put on the other without my noticing. Then she must have kept it out for some purpose. I will ask her. Walt here an instant, Hughes, for, oi course, you will like to be at a certainty." That's cool," thought Hughes, as Alice went into the breakfast room, and the colonel came out of It with the newspaper. "I should have said it was somebody else who would like. to be at a certainty, instead of me. Thank goodness it wasn't in my charge last night, if anything dread ful, has came to pass. My lady don t keep out her bracelets for sport Miss Seaton has left the key about, that s what she has done, and it's hard to say who hasn't been at it; I knew the box had been ransacked over, "Lady Sarah," said Alice, "did you wear your new diamond bracelet last night?" "No." "Then did you put it Into the box with the others?" "No," languidly repeated . Ladr Sarah, attaching no Importance to the question. "After you had chosen the bracelets you wished to wear, you put the oth ers into the box yourself," exclaimed Alice. "Did you put in the new one the diamond, or keep it out?" "The diamond was not there Alice stood confounded. "It was oi the table at the back of all. Lady SAmh " she. oresently said: "next the window." "I tell you, Alice, it was not there, I don't know that I should have worn it If it had been, but I certainly looked for it. Not seeing it, I supposed you had not put it out, and" did not care sufficiently to ask for It, Alice felt in a mesh of perplexity curious thoughts, and very unpleas ing ones, were beginning to come over her. "But, Lady Sarah, the bracele was Indeed there when you went to tne tame, su uigeu. t iut 'I can assure you that you labor under a mistake as to its being there when I came up from dinner, an swered Lady" Sarah. "wny ao you ask?" Hughes has come to say It Is not in the case. She is outside, waiting. Outside now? Hughes," called out her ladyship; and Hughes came in. What's this about my bracelet. I don't know, my lady. The brace let is not in Its place, so I asked Miss Seaton. She thought your ladyship might have kept it out yesterday even ing." I have neither touched it nor see it," said Lady Saran. Then we have had tnieves ai wou, It must be in the box, Hughes," spoke up Alice. "I laid it out on mo table, and it is impossible that thieves as you phrase it coum nave come there." , "Oh, yes, it Is in the box, no doubt, said her ladyship, somewhat crossly, for she disliked to be troubled espe cially in hot weather. "You have not searched properly Hughes." "My lady," answered Hughes, I can trust my hands, and I can trust my eyes, and they have all four been into every hole and crevice of the box." , , Chenevix laid down the Morning Post and advanced the bracelet really lost?" (To be continued.) NOTES ON SCIENCE.1 CURRENT NOTES OF DISCOVERY AND INVENTION. Danger to Health tu School Booms A Wire Fence Convenience Curved Rule Invented by a Buulan The Smallest Watch. DANGER TO HEALTH IN SCHOOLS. XM nnr.nl whn aPO Cfni 111 I 1 1 1 1 1 N I V areful of the health of their children n the home are strangely indifferent to the conditions prevailing in the achool. Hygiene in the public schools a subject that is yearly receiving more and more attention, with the re sult that new school buildings in the larger towns ana me ciues tuuiui generally to sanitary standards, dui this is not true of many oi tne oiu nuildlngs and of many schoo'.houses in mall places. It is the duty ot all .... jn parents to know how rar mey im jhort.- and why, and what is needed to make them healthy. The rules as to contagious diseases hould be more strict, or rather more trictly enforced, and parents should remember that danger may lurk in complaints often considered of slight mportance. Whooping-cough, lor in stance, is thought by many people to be an unimportant and necessary trou ble of childhood which it is better to get over and have out of the way They do not know, or they forget, that while whooping-cough is not a dan gerous disease for older children, it is dangerous and often fatal to very young children, and is easily carried by the children attending school to the babies in the nursery. Too much attention cannot be paid to the question of light In the school room. Many children are made pre mature wrecks from unrecognized eye strain, and school visitors may often see small, helpless cnildren sitting blinking in the sunlight which streams through a large window in front of them, making frowning efforts through the blare to read from a blackboard, and using up in a few hours the nerve force of a week. Light should be abundant and should come from the left side, so that no shadow is thrown on slate or book, as is the case when the 'light comes from behind or from the right. Another most Important matter is the properly constructed desk, which will prevent undue stooping, contor tions, or impediment to correct breath ing. In considering the subject of ventil ation, there should, of course, be some system In every schoolroom by which air can be introduced from outside und then allowed to escape without using the windows, which cannot al ways be depended upon on account of drafts and storms. These and many other points should be insisted upon by parents. days of vast increase in the employ ment oi irrigation, the solution of th problem of congestion appears. This tremendous expanse of terri tory U capable of supporting a popu lation of 50,000,000 people. At the in crease rate of only 5,000,000 or 6,000,- 000 in a decade, it will be a long timi before the population of the countrj has reached 125,000,000. But th preparations must be made to accom modate a population roughly estimat ed by these figures. CURVE RILE INVENTED. In the picture is shown an adjusta ble curved ruler invented oy rrince Anareaa Gagarin of St. Petersburg Russia, which will be found very con venient In drawing schools, architects offices and for designers' use gener ally. With the aid of this ruler it is not only possible to draw a curve ol any radius, but also to measure curves accurately, a gauge being provided tc indicate the circumference or diametei of the eircle formed by a continuation of the arc. The frame of the ruler consists of a series of pivoted levers connected with each other in such a manner that when the adjusting screw is turned the arc of the circle is varied accordingly. The face of the ruler which maintains KJ THE MINISTER DID NOT GO. Money Had Been HaUed for HI cation bat He Didn't Get It. "Our minister did not go on his va cation this summer as he expected," aid' Brown with an amused smile. Tully intended to and had made h'.s arrangements to that effect. But cir cumstances over which he had no con trol were such that he decided at the last minute to remain at home. My wife and several other enthusiastic women members of the church hit up on the happy idea of raising a fund sufficient to defray the good man's ex penses, as he has a large family and finds it difficult to make both ends meet. With this end in view they held several 'affairs' and at last were the yroud possessors of something over m. Then they decided to make the presentation a gala event and give ine members of the churcli a chance to nend the Rev. Mr. Blank away with the best wishes of the whole congregation, it occurred to my wife that a little rnu&ic would add to the happy occa sion and she saw that some musicians were engaged. Another member or tne ommittee thought that a light luncn would be a happy idea and toon u upon herself to see that it was or dered. Another one conceived tne pian of having the church decorated for the auspicious occasion, and hired a man to do the work. Early in the evening when they met to compare notes they discovered to their horror that their expenses had not only eaten up the amount they had raised, but had left them a matter of $2 or 3 in debt; so the presentation had to be omitted. I asked my wife who she expected was going to make this amount good," con tinued Brown, according to the Detroit Free Press, "and she snapped: 'The Rev. Mr. Blank, of course! It was all done in his interest!'" the curve is a steel strip suspended from the levers in such a manner as to allow free play between the ends. The adjusting gauge has a sliding in dicator attached to the end of the steel strip, and as the levers are moved in either direction this indicator moves correspondingly to show the size ot the arc. Is WHY SILVER TARNISnES. Although every housekeeper is pain fully aware of the tendency of silver ware to part with its brilliancy and become tarnished when exposed to or dinary atmospheric influences, many do not know that the cause of the tarnishing is the action of sulphur in the air. Unless frequently cleaned, the surface of silver will become black in the course of a few months. Tho best way to keep silver bright, without the necessity of cleaning, is said to be to coat the Burfane with a thin solution of collodion varnish di luted with spirits of wine. After be ing applied with a soft brush the spir it evaporates, leaving a thin, glossy, transparent film on the polished sur face. Warm water removes the var nish. Tarnished silver may be re stored by careful rubbing with a soft cloth wet with dilute .solution o potas sium cyanide, one ounce to a quart of water followed by rinsing. HI IIIJKR FOREHTS IN VENEZUELA. Along the river Orinoco the caout chouc, or rubber, trees are scattered about In families, in forests composed of many other valuable woods. The men engaged in the collection of the raw rubber make entrances into the thick forest on the banks of the stream, and then open tracks penetrat ing the leafy wilderness. They find from 100 to 200 rubber trees along the course of each of these tracks, al though the distance seldom exceeds two-thirds of a mile. The milk, which is white when it issues from the tree, is coagulated with smoke into dark balls, weighing about 44 pounds apiece. Recently the planting of rubber trees has become a considerable industry in Venezuela. arhollv blind and , . n7'the w ! of giving up one s keys to other folks. un iiow " i' - - "Can it be? can it be?" It certainly was so. Love plays 1 range pranks. Thus wai Gerard Hope, heir to fabulous wealth, con sciously proud of his handsome per son, his herculean strength, his tow ering form, called horns and planted down by the side of a pretty and noble lady, on purpose that he might fall in lore with herLair Frances Chenevix. And yet the well-laid project failed; (ailed because there happened to be another at that young lady's side, a d, quiet, feebleframed girl, whose ery weaknesi may have seemed to place her beyond the pale of mans love. But lore thrives by contrasts and It was the feeble girl who won the lore of the strong man. Alive hastened down, begging par don for her late appearance. It was ralllv nrenrded. Alice's office in tne house was nearly a sinecure; when she had flrst entered upon it Lady Sarah was 111, and required some one to sit with and read to her, but now that she was well again Alice had in tin to do. Breakfast was scarcely over when alina was called Into the room Mnt-hes stood outside. "Miss." said she, with a long face "h diamond braccletls not In the box. I thought I could not be mis taken." nt It must be In the box," said Alice. "But It Is NOT," persisted Hughes NAPLES BREAKFAST VENDORS. They Make the Mornlnt" Air Vorat with Their Calls. The air of Naples becomes vocal with the characteristic calls ot tne breakfast vendors. "'Hot, not, ana Dig as apples!" shout the sellers of peeled chestnuts. These are boiled in nuge caldrons in a reddish broth of their own making, which Is further sea soned with laurel leaves and caraway seed, A cent's worth ot tne sicaming kernels, each of which is as big as a large English walnut, is a nourishing diet that warms the fingers and com forts the stomach of troops of children on their way to school, or rather to the co-operative creches, or nurseries, where one poor woman, for a cent, a day each, takes care of the babies of a score of others who must leave m ui behind to earn the day's living. Meantime dignified cows pass oy, with measured tread and slow," shak ing their heavy bells and followed by tholr beeulled offspring, wnose ousi npss it Is to make them "give down" their milk at the opportune moment, and to let the milkman take It ISotn Ing can be funnier than this struggle between the legitimate owner, the calf, and the wily subtractor of the lacteal treasure. Although lied to nil mnthi.r'i horns with a rope Ion enoush to reach, and even lick hei bag, but not to get satisfaction out of It. his bovine wit is often snarp enouKh to give the slip to tho noose and elndo the vigilance of the keep er, occupied, perhaps, for the moment, In oiiarreling with some saucy maid servant over the quantity of milk to bo paid for. The scene which ensues Is worthy of the cinematograph. As a sequel calfy's tall Is nearly pulle off, but he has spoiled the oppressor game for One day, anyhow. The Cen tury. . Call a man a donkey and he la apt to kick. A WIRK FENCE CONVENIENCE. A wire fence always presents to those who understand the "power" of its barbs a formidable appearance, and, n truth, Is an unpleasant affair to cross, eitner uy cumuing over or crawling under, or between the strands. Happily, however, the ac- onipauying illustration shows a con venient and safe arrangement where by snch barriers may be crossed aa often as desired, and that without any CAKE DISH A NO CANDLE HOLDER. Mrs. Julia Alice Earl of Cincinnati has invented a combined dish and ("Pi n (1 1 c holder for use in connection with birthday cakes. It has a central vertical tube, with a second tube coupled to the first one at its upper end in such a way as to be easily re moved. The second tube supports a series of branches, which in their turn are provided with sockets to hold the candles. One advantage of the ar rangement is that any one of the sets of candles may e removed at a mo ment's notice, and thus one may have as many tapers as are wanted, or as few. KNOTTS' RABBIT STORY. rold to lUuntrate One View of Sampson-Schley Affair. Since the Sampson-Schley controver sy has grown acute again there has been considerable reference to Proctor Knott's "rabbit story" in connection . with the credit for the victory at San tiago. It Is here reproduced: Bx-Gov. Proctor Knott and John Yerkes were discussing the claims of Sampson and Schley to the credit of smashing Cer vera at Santiago. Mr. Yerkes . took the ground that all the honor of that memorable conflict belonged to Ad miral Sampson, and was inclined to ntirely ignore Commodore Schley s part in the affair. The governor lis tened until his companion had nn Ished, and then with that characteris tic twinkle in his eye said: "My dear sir, it is exceedingly gratifying to me io hear you take the position you have in the matter. It is like a balm to my conscience and settles a point that has worried me many a day. I was walking through the woods once wltn ?, boy friend of mine when we saw a rabbit run into a sinkhole. We stood around the hole awhile; then I told the boy to keep watch while I went to et some fire to smoke the rabbit out. When I returned the boy had the rab bit. I took it away from him, claiming hat it belonged to me because I told Mm to catch it if it came out. That was over fifty years ago, and you are ihe first man who ever agreed with me that I was right in taking it and con science is at rest." Mr. Yerkes looked solemn for a few moments, then smiled a feeble smile and changed the subject Kentucky Journal (Frankfort). A STEP-LADDER. .ension on the wires being ioki Dy utting a gateway. It is Bimply a double stepladder, and :an be constructed by any one at ttl) landy with tools In a short time, the ailing consisting of gaH pipe, trie ower ends of which should be deeply nRerted Into the ground. Where a jvlre fence has to be crossed frequcnt- y In some out of the way locality tBis levlce is of great value. THE SMALLEST WATCH. What is said to be the smallest watch in the world has recently been made. It is so small that you could get four watches of its size on an area enual to that covered by a 2u-cent piece. The watch was made at Geneva, where special tools were constructed for the purpose. It contains 100 sepa rate parts and weighs one-thirtieth of an ounce, avoirdupois. The hands are, respectively, one-eleventh of an inch and one-twentieth of an inch in length. The watch has been valued at $1,250. ROOM IN THE WEST. It Is not generally known that there ire In the United States unutilized iroas of land to the extent of 600,000, 100 acres. There are times when one M apt to think that the country la gct ;lng a trifle crowded, and one wel- :omes the opening of little tracts or a ,'ew hundred thousand acres as afford ing opportune relief to a condition of tlmost dangerous congestion. But all Suropo does not possess tne area which Is Included in the arid region west ot tho Mississippi. There's the ul It Is an arid region. But In these HCIENTIKIC NOT EM. improvement In UlaM-Blowlns.. Bv employing compressed air, a Dresden manufacturer has lately suc ceeded In producing glass vessels of extraordinary size. Heretofore, it Is said, concave glass could be blown into vessels having a capacity not exceed ing about 26 gallons, but by the new process glass bath tubs and large gluss kettles can be blown, llronrn I'owilrr. The bhlning metallic dust that Is used to produce tho effect of gilt and bronze in wall-papers, printing, lith ography, mirror and picture frames, fresco painting, and so on, has Its prin cipal source In the bronze-powder fac. torlos at Furth, in Bavaria, where this industry has been highly specialized. The material Is "Dutch metal," an al loy of copper and spelter. The larger the percentage of spelter the more yel lowish the alloy. Seven principal tints are produced, varying from golden yel tow to bright copper ied. The alloy is flrst prepared In the form of leaf metal which Is afterwara ground into pow der, Fire Among- the Redwoods. Perhaps the most startling phenom enon of the fire was the quick death of child-like Sequoias only a century or two of age. In the midst of tne other comparatively slow and steady firework, one of these tall, beautiful saplings, leafy and branchy, would be cen blazing up suddenly ail in one weaving, Dooming, pasaiuuaLB eaching from the ground to tne lop if the tree, and fifty to a hundred leet r more above it, with a smoke col umn bending forward and streaming ",way on the upper free-tiowing wina. ?o burn these green trees a strong ire of dry wood beneath them is re quired to send up a current ot air not enough to distill lnnammaoie gases .torn the leaves and sprays; then, in stead of the lower limbs gradually catching fire and igniting the next and jext in succession, the whole tree eems to explode almost simultaneous ly, and with awful roaring and throb bing a round, tapering name snoots jp two or three hundred feet, and in a Becond or two is quenched, leaving tne green spire a black, dead mast, bris tled and roughened with down-curling boughs. John Muir in Atlantic. Bread Made of Mom, In some parts of the world bread is made of bark or moss. This occurs more than one place in the far north, and bread is made ot vastly different materials in different coun tries. In Lapland, oats with the In ner bark of the pine are used. The two together, well ground and mixed, are made into large flat cakes and cooked in a pan over the Are. In Kamchatka, In Asiatic Russia, pine or birch bark by itself, well macerated, pounded and baked, frequently consti tutes the whole of the natire bread food. The Icelander scrapes the Ice land moss oft the rocks and grinds It into line flour, which serves both for bread and puddings. In parts of Italy ihestnuts are cooked, ground Into saeal, and used for making bread. Dur :, a variety of millet, Is much used in India, Egypt, Arabia and Asia Minor tor mi"B u "" v"--w The cost-of painting the ToWer Bridge, London, Is 5,000. v... k knowledge diffused a emphasising the negative; "can t you