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The Secret By JAMES CHAPTER XIX. Aa exclamation of dismay and grief escaped Balgonie on beholding thi ap- ( ailing spectacle; the weird and ghastly error nt which waa enhanced by the un sertsin light in which it wag exhibited, tod which imparted a wavering aDd al toost life-like action to the corpse, as Irith it long hair floating, head and arm taodent, it swayed to and fro in the horning wind against the castle wall. "The Lord havs mercy upon ur cried Basil Mierowitz, covering bia face with lis hands, and permitting the musket with which he had armed himself to fall to the ground with a clash, which, to letlier with his most mournful exclama tion, alone broke the silence. "Behold." said Bernikoff. in cruel tri imph. "This is your emperor no let iim head your troops. Doubtless he will bake a fine, figure on the imperial ihrone." "Oh! Bernikoff." exclaimed Basil, "you ire like Judas, as we may see him at the Kazan Church one hand ou the Bouth denoting treachery, and the other n a bag of money." "Thou liest, lieutenant; my fingers know more of the grip of steel than of told," said the other furiously, as he Juried the hilt of hia broken aaber at the speaker. "goto this has been your work and lecision? Thou art a cruel judge; but teniember the law of Peter the Great " "Which makes the judge answerable for his decision. Then shall 1 content Be, traitor, and be answerable for my (ecisiou as well as for its execution. I save done my duty to the C-arina." "You have done a deed for which hell Bust blush and angels weep," was the forcible reply of Mierowitz, who seemed to overcome by grief and honor as to lose all Felf-posHossion; for he now or lered his men to disperse to the woods to sek safety in flight; and then calmly taking off his sword and belt and sash, ke threw them on the ground, saying: "Siii e my imperial muster is dead, further resistance would be va''n in me.' lie was nhiiost immediately afterward struck to the e:irt'.i and made prisoner by Lieut Tschekin, who. with a party of lismounted Cossacks, hud stolen through the casemates and galleries to a postern (pening on the rear of the drawbridge, ud these, after firing a confused roller with their pistols find ninxketoons. fell With their sharp crooked sabers upon the iow thoroughly disheartened adherents If Mierowitz. Lieut. Usakoff and Ja gouski alone made any vigorous resist ance, resolving not to be taken alive. Fighting desperately, almost back to sack, the former armed with the saber f Mazeppa and the latter with a mus ket, and both bleeding from many wounds, they were driven through the nter barrier toward the town. On the pathway Jagouski stumbled over a com rade and was taken; but Apollo UsakofI, With a shout in which triumph and de ipair were mingled, leaped into the Neva, the waters of which swept him away, nd he was seen no more by hia pur suers. When Tsehekiu's Cossacks joined in the melee with the fugitives, Balgonie nrnnir thrmiirh the wicket, sword in land, resolved to succor his friend at all kazards; and fortunately arrived just in time to save him from the bulky giant Nicholas Paulovitrh, who, with a club bed musket, was about to give him a blow that must inevitably have proved (atal. Paulovitoh he ran through the heart, and spurning him oft the blade with his foot, hurled the snorting ruffian to the ground, and raised his friend, with the assistance of a soldier and Lieut Tsche kin. "Made prisoner, and by yon, too, Carl!" said Basil, reproachfully and in t low voice, for he was faint with srounds and bruises. "By me, but to saTe you." "Seek ratner to save Natalie, if you tan. he wmcperea; sne is, sne is- "Where, where?" said Balgonie, im petuously and imploringly. But there was no reply. Basil had fainted, and was borne into the Castle Of Schlusselburg, a prisoner of state. Balgonie never saw the face of his ngntn go ended for a time a scheme, the im portance of which was only equaled by Its bold recklessness the scheme of two subaltern officers to revolutionize the vast empire of Hussia, and to subvert the Brm dominion of Catharine II.; and such was the terrible sequel to the "Secret Dispatch" of Balgonie. Day had completely broken when he was summoned by Bernikoff. Shudder ing as he passed through the court of the castle nad under the very window where the corpse waa yet swaying mournfully to and fro In the morning freeze. Charlie sought the presence of this detestable personage, the thunder of whose wrath be feared was about to de scend upon himself. He, found the colonel in his shirt ileeves and almost covered with blood, Which was flowing from a wound in his breast and another on the head, from whence it was trickling to the ends of bis long and snaky-gray mustaches. To both of these cuts the barber was about to apply dressings, while the patient so laced himelf by scheming out some dreadful punishment for Jagouskl, who. with several others, had fallen into his gentle hands. Balgonie, whose thoughts ran chiefly opon how to discover and succor Natalie, was roused to attention by Bernikoff saying grimly: "Carl Ivanovitch Balgonie, for aiding la the capture of the rebel Mierowitz, I thank yon; suspicions I had, bat they are gone. Ton are now, perhaps, to re Jota the Regiment of Smolensk, and shall bear dispatch from me to Lieut. Qeau Weymarn and Lieut Cot. Casch fcla, 4a ting the affair of the last twelve tear. . VhusWf shall prepare It, and I ataA atf Kb Place a feather la the naL ke the cantata linger aa be dM at tmzt NT. kwfc art at aw thai, See. Ll Ood It that Mat Ira sfcoaM be Dispatch GRANT me to destroy bira. Whst is done Is done, and is the will of God; and you know, or ought to know, our Muscovite proverb the Czar is high, and God is every where!" "Three times has this old reprobate mentioned that terrible name, and each time lowing his sinful head!" thought Charlie, with disgust and wonder. Hah!" resumed Bernikoff, pursuing his own thoughts, and clenching his teeth in rage and pain, "did that suckling of a lieutenant think to deceive me 1. who have been forty years in the Russian army, and have to deal with the most cunning scoundrels between the Black Pea and the Baltic! Jagouski, too, 111 fill his mouth with gunpowder, put a fuse between his teeth and blow his head off." He gnashed his teeth with pain, and added, "Be ready to ride in an hour, capiaiu; till then, leave me!" CHAPTER XX. The empress' court of Secret Chancery sou decided on the fate of Basil Mie rowitz, bis father, and his cousin, Mario lizza, who had been passive, though sus pected in the matter, bad their case tak en into future consideration, so they were kept close prisoners while their property and possessions were given up to pillsge and military execution. Basil was con demned to be broken alive upon the wheel; but the empress, who bad a par ticular tenderness for handsome men. "mitigated his punishment to the less severs one of being beheaded." A brief paragraph in the London Ga zette of the ld of O' tober records this brave fellow's death, just fourteen dsys after his rash affair at Schluielburg: "M. Mierowitz, in pursuance of bis sentence, was publicly beheaded on Wednesday last; he behaved at his exe cution as he had done throughout the whole transaction with the greatest res ignation. Six of the soldiers and under officers who wee engaged with him were so severely whipped that it is said three of them are since dead. Many more are to be punished. One, t'sakoff. a lieuten ant, who was privy to the design, was accidentally drowned." Notwithstanding his rank and years, Mierowitz was retained in a dungeon among a number of miserable Bussian rogues and Polish prisoners, clad In filthy sheepskin, many of them being i'.fflii ted with the terrible disease known as matted hair, which hung over their necks in clotted lumps, every tube be ing swollen and dilated with globules of blood, and there he died. The lower vaults of Schlusselburg were those built by Ivnn the Terrible for the reception of a few of the revoluters of Novgorod, after he had put twenty fire thousand of her citizens to the sword. They were prisons like (he fright ful cells of the Bastile; those of the In quisition, or of old castles of the Middle Ages a rival to that Chillon to which Byron's genius has given a greater name than ever its terrors won it. One of the lower vaults of Schlusselburg was a den, the floor of which was below the rocks whereon the seals of Ladoga basked In the sunshine, and which was consequent ly liable to be flooded during those inun dations that, at certain seasons, overflow all the country for a great way north, so that no crops will grow upon the emi nences. Vaulted with stone, It wns nearly square, and measured twelve feet each way, with a floor that sloped down at one end, having been unevenly hewn out when the rock was pierced; and from a portion of this rock sprang the solid arch of granite blocks which formed the roof, A narrow slit, six inches broad by twelve high, and having even in that small space a thick iron bar, admitted to the interior a feeble ray of light. This slit was partly built of stone, but ita sill was the living rock of Schlusselburg. It opened toward the lake, but 'gave no prospect save the clouds. The prisoner, when seated on the stone bench which formed a bed or seat alter nately, could only see the changing hues of the sky, and know by the darkness which gradually obscured this mere shot hole that day was passing away, and that another night, chill, dark, dreary and hopeless, was at band. s ths floe:, sio?ed dotvn seme, twelve inches or more, the lower end waa al ways full of water, into which the slime that gathered on the vault of the arch fell at intervals with a regular splash that, to the silent and apparently forgot ten prisoner, became maddening in it monotony of aound, by day and night, by morning and evening, by dawn and sun set. Then, as the tides rose and fell, or as the waters of the vast Inland lake of Ladoga are affected by the Baltic stop ping the downward flow of the Neva, or by rains flooding the many tributaries that join them, so did this dark pool In the dungeon rise and fall, when the cur rent oozed through secret and unknown channels or crannies In the granite rocks. It waa in this vault, or one of those adjoining such a den as that In which Dante placed his demon that the wife of Count Orloff, the beautiful daughter of the Empress Elizabeth, was drowned, ten years after the date of this history, when the waters of the Neva rose ten feet; and, as they subsided, bore her body to the Gulf of Finland. No one could live very long In such a plae low, damp, cold and horrible. And well did Bernikoff know this, when, in the blind transports of rage aod ag ony resulting from hia double wonnds, he barbarously consigned Natalie Mie- rowna to such a place ay, even Natalie. the soft and delicate, the high-bred and tenderly nurtured daughter of Mierowitz and ahe had now been la the under ground vault for three days and nights seventy two hours which to her bad re sembled a horrible and protracted night mare. She waa Ignorant aa yet of her broth er's ataentloa, a week before Betrayed by one of their most trusted adherents, aa the mice of hia own liberty, aha and Katiaka had beea token. Of the fata of the latter aha kanw aottlag. For her- asif, the aoar girl ooly kaaw aha waa Haraa tarn to await the bar eaaataa aai tha grand Hope was dead, completely, la, tier heart; and though the desire to !iv was strong, her former life seemed aul a dream; or something that bad happviird lotig. lung ago! Crouching on a damp pallet that on the com h of stone, ber Lair dishev eled, her dress more than ever torn, die colored and disordered, her snowy hands and arms stripped of every ornament and riug, her tender feet well nigh shoeless, her eves fcalf closed and surrounded by dark inflamed circles, her cheeks sunk and haggard it would be dinVult to rec ognize in her the once beautiful and brilliant Natalie, whose coquetry had ex cited the ready Jealousy of Catharine; the Natalie of the imperial salons at Moscow, at Oranienbaunx, or the palace of Turky Selo; or the Natalie of that primely old chateau near the Ixiugi the proud, bright ejed and beautiful girl whom Charlie Balgonie had loved and worshiped as a goddess. She was pale as white marble cold as death a prey to utter eomusion rath er than profound grief. When she did rouse herself to calm reflection and the realities of her position, thought well nigh drove her mad. Her old father his sturdy figure, hia vegetable beard and white eyebrows, hia ailter hair queued by a simple ribbon, his quaint, old-fashioned costume of the fcrst Peter's time, rose vividly before ber, and with a gush of memory came all the peculiarities of disposition, his warmth of hert and temper, his kindness and irri tability, his pride of race and family. Where were all these now? Her lover, too his voice, and eyes, and gentle manner came next, to add to ber pangs for him, too, must she relin quish forever. No shelter was there now for her save the cold grave, which waa perhaps to receive them all Basil, Usa koff and Mariolizza. Suddenly a scream escaped her; ahe was in total darkness. Amid her sleep or stupor a fourth night had come on- a night of storm, too, for she heard the roar of the autumn rain as it descended like a vast sheet upon the lake without Cold and slimp things had often crossed her slender ankles, making her shriek and shudder; but now she became sensi ble that ber feet were completely im mersed in water; that the wind was bel lowing without and rolling the waves against the rocks, and that the current of the lake was flooding the floor of her vault and rising fast within it. It rose with appalling rapidity, and now the terror of a dreadful death made Natalie utter a succession of piercing shrieks, mingled with prayers to heaven. But her cries were unheard, for the same cold, iy tide that flooded her cell filled all the corridors by which it and others on the same floor were approached. Rapidly it rose, this dark, silent and terrible tide rapidly and without a sound. She sprang upon her stone couch, but already the palb-t was floated away. Up yet rose the invading water, and it was soon nearly to her waist, and gasping and shuddering cries were mingled with her prayers. A little more and the nar row slit through which she could hear the bellowing wind and see the black clouds careering past one red and fiery northern star the last gleam of life and of the outer world would vanish from her eyes, as she perished in that misera ble tomb, even as the Princess Orloff and many others have done, helpless and un heeded in their dying agony, drowned miserably like the prison rate that swarmed around them. In the last energies of her despair ahe made her way to the enormously thick door which closed this trap of stone, and. applying her lips to the Joints, shrieked loudly again and again for suc cor, and beat wildly and fruitlessly with with her tender hands upon its massive plenks and Iron bolts. Her brain seemed bursting, for she was suffocating as the air lessened. She thought she saw a red light shining through the crannies of the doorway, but whether this were fancy or reality It waa impossible to say, aa a faintneaa came over her, and she sank down chok ing and drowning In the flood that rose within the walls and against the door of the prison. (To be een tinned.) BEARS ARE BAD IN ALASKA. Their Savages Among Cattle and Sheep Are Moat Destructive. From Alaska comes a Macedonian cry for help to put a stop to the rav ages of the big bear In that peninsula. Senator Foster, of Washington, has re ceived the plea and In mentioning It says that If President Roosevelt wants a glorious hunt for bruin be can tell when the great game is plentiful. The Alaska variety of bear la said to weigh . 1 KAA n V QftO nnnnil. A recent letter In Mr. Foster's mall from Seattle tells the story. "Wa shipped 3X head of cattle and 9,100 breeding ewes to Kodlac, Alaska, last spring," writes a firm of packers from that city. "The bears have been get ting Into the bunch and have killed 608 up to date. During the rolxup about twelve bears were slain. About thirty days ago two bears got Into the sheep and after killing twenty-one abeep and tearing the coat off one man the bears were killed. The United States mar shal on hearing of this bad all our men arrested for killing the bears. FIT of our men were compelled to stand trial at considerable expense to us. "T'le bears are very numerous on the island," concludes this letter, 'and since they have tasted sheep the sheep are badly scared and are continually piling up. Unless something la dona with the bears they will put us out of bust-: ness." Senator Foster la puzzled as to Just how be can help bis constituents In their plight They assert that boun ty of at least 15 a bead should be placed on bears for a year or two In order to clean them out" Not What Ke HaldU The man wbo can neither hear cor rectly nor quote accurately la the vic tim of a little Joka In the Philadelphia Ledger. , "I think you must be mistaken, air," ho Mid. "What abontr asked hia nalghbor In the crowd. "Didn't I Just bear yon say yon wart glad the war ia Bulgaria waa orarr "Not exactly. I r-Ud I was glad tfea war waa oror la Badfrla," VARIETY IN SLEEVES ALL SORTS ARE NOW STYLISH AND TO BE SEEN. Great Deal of Ornamental lou la Per missible, bat Many Women Are Bather Overdoing; It In This Regard Home of the New Hats. N--W York correspondence: . -J BOlT everything la. I I that ever was heard I lot in sleeves now A S sfr appears in the styl )j(W '"h showing of l M I them, this last be f4 1 ing taken to include J-'sN both what women JT- V making ready for sfSl .. ir? I them to wear. Even the leg-o-muttou outlines appear now and then, and there are many sleeves in which the point of greatest fu!!r.ss has crept aliove the elbow. These last present so pleasing an apesra!ice that it would seem as if they must multiply. The upper, full portion of these sleeves is plain, but froni the point nhere the fullness is first caught in, to the wrist Is enough of elaboration to please any one. In strong contrast witn this type is a i-Ieeve from shoulder to elliow and be- J' il I tl UiI'LE WAISTS AND . . 1.... I. low of the tight coat order, but it ends Iu a deep and dressy cuff, so it is harby severe. All these are striking type, mid most numerous of all are the sleet cs whoe greatest fullness is at or close to the elbow. Whatever the outline, there is orna mentation at the wrists, and if the bod Ice be of at all dressy character, this embellishment is likely to be very fanci ful. In many examples the excruciations gotten in on sleeves between wrists and elbows arc extrnordiuary. Frequently this portion is the most highly wrought of the entire gown, even when that Is of elaliorate nature. This tendency Is re flected even iu walking suits, where in stead of the splendid frills of lace are pleating of silk, these sometimes finish ed with stitching, again ornate with em broidery. In the increasing diversity of sleeves, too, they have become more In dependent of the gown. Only a few months ago the sleeves must match the rest of the dress in every detail. Now re seeu models In which some of the n m iff m mm mp ' " m mm MA Mm mm&tJ INCONSPICUOUS HAT TYPES. complexity Is In bsnnony, while the rest stands without echo or reflection In the general scheme. Black silk skirts are no longer service able with fsney bodices owing to the de mand for harmony of color, but a black silk suit will be a very pleasing item of the summer wardrobe, one that will give dressy not without great outlay, and that should hats tilie wearing vusi'l'- 1 quality, of course, is ihu newer soft t rt, Mhk'li is found iu tuauy grade, at i'-ft some of whMii should wiihalauj unicti wear and tear. While this uiiteri..l i often made up with much elator::oii. this is not necessary, for the silk has a certsin dresiues of itself. A tailor suit of it is sketched in the initial illustration, a bite buttons and black silk bauds giving it trimming. Iremaker employ deli cate touches of gold or color to net off their black taffeta drease. A little red is ery stylish. Self bandings and rord iugs are much uwl, accompanied or not by tucking. Since the fancy bodice must harmon ize in color with the skirt worn with it, it would seem as if makers should con st nt to simple faahious in these agist, but the tendency is strongly toward high ly wrought effects. Three faucy silk waists appear in the accompanying pic tures. The first of these was v. hit teffeta self-banded and embroidered in gold cord. Below this is shown a waist of pale blue crepe de chine, w ith a hits cord and pearl buttons for trimmings, and at the right of the picture Is red silk waist trimmed with red and white passementerie. Buttons enter iuto the embellishment of such waists, aud are to be had iu grest variety. Much braid is used on them, too. and they are a splendid field for th dip"l of laces. Handsome white dresses are trimmed in military fashion with gilt, and are worn by older women than usually don such get-ups. The dress goods often Is some wool stuff. White set off with gold appears also in silks, and without sol dierly suggestion. A sketch is gives among these waists of a white silk pon gee gown embroidered in flower design with white and gold thread. Such dresses are new this season aud mske a tine appearance. In all the array o A NEW I l.it.. , nhite tli at is usual during the warm months there will lie very little of the black and white combination. Hifci'bl the relief of gold, there will be the touch of color, either being thought preferable to black. Never was the matter of so buying summer millinery as to have something! to show for the outlay after the siiii.iiier is over so hopeless. In dressy hats every thing is extremely perishable; feathers, flowers, the hats themselves. Iu simpler' headwear the esse is not much better. Women of ample means should make record milliner's bills this summer. Com' psratively simple hats of moderate siie are much trimmed with flowers In the greatest profusion, or with a single rich plume or with a pair less fine. Lace Is put on hats in quantities, such use being as characteristic of the new millinery as is bauklng of bloom aud the mingling of blossoms and feathers. Some moderate types are shown here by the artist. Tie upper two in the picture were a red chif fon hat trimmed with white feathers and white rosea, and a coarse white strsw trimmed with white silk and pink rosea. The lower were fancy soft white straw, with black velvat fold, lilacs and blsck ribbon pompons for trimmings, rnd a plain white straw with coarser tsa straw and white silk for embellishment Fortuno bof rlaada tha bold. Drydea. warn: gown. IV0 URS IS SOIIII'OC X . . ,. ,.t v.a foiimliaiid lies; II llie iwi . ,n,a!l Island known as the Isiff of i. -mons. which holds within Ha ro. ny ii. ore a romance as thrilling aud a r igedv as real as any told iu fi' tloru Vliut 1M0 Marguerite de Iorval, .. ti. trr,.ii, ti vbvrov. fell iu love ilt--- LFI lit7 ,...--- . ,ib a young ovaller aud promised ,:m ber heart aud band. Her uncle, i. viceroy, oiisldered the youtn ui . . . ..ol.. ivorthy of bis niece promt . .l angered by ber refuel to give jp ber lover, be passed a seiiteti ol !le uimui both of tbera. A vessel car--l.-d the couple to the Isle of IN-Uions, caving tliein there alone, with an oU mrse who bad attended the lady Mar-fiH-rit.' from her childhood, and wbe Khed to sbarv ber exile. At first the banishment did not setn tit dreadful a thing; the young man's itrfiigth stood Iwtween his wife and -i .Teriiig. and for two years all went .veil. A child born, and the pa cuts liegiui to plan for the establish- ,,-nt of a i-olony which might thrive. this Win ml home. Then came trou i!e. swift and terrible. Iiisease smiite the little family, and f'u vnnuir w ife and mother saw lief Uishi'ii.l. child and faithful nurse all ticken and die. With her own liHlnlt ;!,e dug their graves and Imriiil all tliiit was dear to her; and then li.-g:m a life nlolie. a life 111 which the mere mottlon of existence became a proln l-'in bard IikIiihI for a frail woman til 1'itre. Ilv weans of the gut) Hint Hud ii lu-r husband's, she kept herself iiovliltd with food and with skltis for her clotllll,. I'or two yen rt she lived n Ho1i1iim'! Crusoe life, ibis gently nurtured, high' !y bred gill, (line a boat filled wllll Lillians rutuc near the shore, but th Hinted f. ! mid tierce asjioci of th Mviigos frightened her, so that she bhi llisteiid of hulling them. She speiifj weeks of labor li making a crude in' roe, but ber hlllnW were unskilled, mid when sh" launched her craft II vmild only tiji over. At last she wits reviled bv soinU Jti.riitiMi w ho ventured on the island, balf-frlchteiicd at first by what they thought was nil evil Mpparit Inn. Marguerite was s'-nt t" France, bill tier uncle ilivm ered her w hetealKUlU ml continued to persecute- her. Mil imlly found a refuge in a sninl) 'reiicli vllliige, where she bid until tlitj i icerny's death. After that Mie came! Into the world once more ntxl lived It 0 good old ace. STORY OF THE MUFF. Once Ita Color lictokcnt-d the Hnnk ol the Wearer. "Do you know that the color of a onilT once betokened the rank of the Rearer?" said a furrier to a rhlladel t hin nceord man as he stroked a ,t nu ll fnl sealskin muff. 'In the days of Charles IX. no ludy could have worn Ibis fur. for black was decreed by the King to be the badge of the common I motile and the court followers were 1 natrt.ta'l tt tlm r.l.ti "Muffs have gone throtiiili u,orj Mylex than It would seem possible tii ji tent for sitcli n simple article of eon. lenience. It has been long and nur !ow, like a sheaf, and, again, large Hid round. At the beginning of last n ntury the test of !.. tviu to try tbij iiuff In a flour barrel. If It went In jvithoiit much trouble then that muff, r as too small to be really fashionable. At the present day almost nnytiiing I roper, but those enormous cyllnd t (vould certainly draw much attentiou. One of the most curious style wail lliat of Ixiuls XIV.. called the villous HinuchoiiB,' because they were made to tonvey little dogs In. "The muff when first introduced was (he exclusive property of the nobility hid originated In Venice. These tntiffi were very sinnii ami consisted or a ngle piece of velvet, brocmle or silk, lined with fur and the openings fas ti lied with rich jewels. Su'di ttrninga- fcients came in during the early part til the seventeenth century, but In the previous century llie Indie freU-'iit y fiirrled n piece of rich fur, w hich they Used either ns a muff or n neck piece. "The muff reached Its highest point tu the reign of LonU XV., when tl;t jrodtictlons were exquisite. Then L:shloti declared for a cloth muff In- M'-ad of fur, and the furriers made a ureal uproar. They petitioned the l ops to excommunicate the wearer of a loth mtilT, but to no purpose. Family. some ingenious merchant bribed the iiditniin to carry a cloth mud" on I sedition day. The women shrank rom such association and the fur worj lie day. We now associate the inuf nly with cold weather, but In (he old. flays It was a regular part of woman'i 'ics and was carried In all weather, ls late ns 18.10 a muff and a ntraw onnet were not deemed Ini otigruotH." L'lCHttng the Ouilly Idint. Jones waltzed out of the bnthroon In u gorgeous and purpling fury. "rUimfj iu.ot has been using my razor," hi bowled, "I know It," responded Mrs. Jonea She looked Jones right square In Hit eye. "Who was It?" demanded Jonea Ills voice shook wllh emotion. "I say who was It?" "John Henry," remarked his wlf dispassionately, "I'll have you kno that nobody uses that razor but ysur. self." New York Evening Sun. AUssii. "What la Bllgglns practicing on th. violin?" 1 don't know," answered the mai who has no ear for music. "But il wunda Ilka TlviacUoti." Wasbtaitoa 4tar.
