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CHAPTER XII.—fCowTiNusn.) Constance looked up eagerly. “He bas done nothing and said nothing In consistent with honor and what he owes you. The weakness Is all mine; the folly, the madness and the suffer ing. He never thought of me except as a sister. Surely his engagement proves this.” "What should your marriage have proved?" asked her husband, sarcas tically. "It may be as you say. If I believe It, It Is not because you swear It Is the truth. Hut I did not come here to waste time In reproaches There Is but one way to put this scan dal down; namely, to conduct, ourselves as If we bad never heard of It. Of course, as soon as can be done without exciting remark, Kdward must seek another home. Our removal to the country will afford a convenient op portunity for effecting this change. As to your reputation, I charge myself with the care of It from this hour. My error has been undue Indulgence.” ( onstance lifted her leaden eyes with a look of utter wretchedness. “If you would but suffer me to go away and hide myself from all who know my miserable story I would ask nothing else at your hands. You would the sooner forget the unhappiness brought upon you by the sad farce of marriage nave neen the actors. On my part It haa been no farce,” replied the stem metallic voice. I have conscientiously fulfilled the du ties made, obligatory upon me by our contract. You entered Into this volun tarily. For what you have termed fol ly. you have only yourself to blame. You seem to have been tempted to your unhappy passion by an Inherent love of wrong doing. As to your pro posal of flight and concealment, it is simply absurd. In the first place, y0u leave out of view the fact that my fair name would be tarnished by an open separation, the infamy you would hide be laid bare to the general gaze. Sec ondly, you have no decent place of refuge. I know your brother sufficient ly well to affirm that his doors would be closed against you were you to apply to him for shelter as a repudiated wife And you have no private fortune. I shall never again of ray own accord, allude to this disagreeable subject. We understand each other and our mutual . v position.” He kept his word to the letter. But henceforward his every action and look when she was by, reminded her she was In bonds, and lie was her jailer. Too broken-spirited to resist his will, or to cavil at the demands made upon her time and self-denial by his cold Im periousness, she marched at his chariot wheel, a slave in queenly attire, whose dreams were no more of freedom, to whom love meant remorse, and mar riage pollution, the more hopeless and hateful that the law and the Gospel pronounced It honorable in all. (The End.) A SECRET OF THE SEA. N THE year 1819 the Honorable East India company’s ship the Star of In dia set sail from Madra* for London, having on board over 200 paasen ^ gers, and r.mong them Lord Gl?n ham, Gen. Swift, Lady Artwell and her two daughters, and other men und women of note at home and abroad. Aside from her general cargo, the ship carried treasure to the amount of 1250,000. The bauk rrs at Madras figured out that the na.-t aengera must have had at least *100,00. among them, while an Indian potentate on his way to be received as a guts: of j ' "irong t>ox of jewelry nnd gems valued at ko great a sum inat no one dared apeak it. it waa intended that the ship should be con 'oyed aa far us the Cape of Good Hop. n.v a nmn-of war. aa there w,-re p| nly ««r pirate craft still afloat. but the gov ernntent vessel met with a mtahap at sea and waa detained somt'Where und the Star finally decided to sail wlth °«t her. aa then- waa Utile fear but that ahe could take care „f herself , ° day* out of Madras ahe waa aight **' “,,J ^Ported, hut that waa the last wet. or heard of her until the tear The let* of ihe Htar made a great tenanting lot several reason., and when it waa filially concluded that ahe had been loaf vat too. uri< were .rut |B **arrh tf her and every effort war made to ascertain her fnte. In late, » Malay aatlur who died ghoaru of hugii.h te« whip told her captain that fie Htar war attached and captured b> pirates to the south of Ceiion. and that be Waa ehe of Ihe wen engaged in th attach lie aiid there were hve na ilea emit. and that they .«ut* upon the liter tn a calm and carried het by hoarding t he ship made a tang .u t •takbrne I,, .uu. but w .. %n. I aptured and the pirate# had .offer- t wn*h heavy lna« that tn terengw tbe« htlb>d even bod* le the last thlkl Th ** lien tunicd the abtp and scuttled her and the plunder aa# eube*aweadl> u|. v bled un an taiend in the China a a Ifttate pewptv bettered thta atuty ant stun# mi I It was «heard The gen Oil Meg wa» list the dial fwundsrvd at «e« during a idsv) gut. rb« a •tng . • •rent el lb* poet- HI h- v«, tolls teellgaled tor e«»» rt*aia dr. fa, .. tie InveeUgeUwo ernt It a*. pTUred In ha a Inti Th* pirates bad long been scattered, many were doubtless dead, and the Idea of bringing the gang to Justice was given up as impossible. In the year 1863 I was one of the crew of the English brig iswlftsure, which was making a survey of the Islands to the northeast of Madagascar. At the Chagos group, as we were pull ing Into land one day. with seven men In the boat, we were upset In the surf and only two of us escaped death. My companion was a sailor named Wallace and while In a half drowned state we were swept along the coast of the island by a current and Anally thrown on shore In a bit of a cove. A boat put off from the brig as soon as the disas ter was noticed, but only two bodies were recovered. The three others were pulled down by the sharks before the boat go: to them. Hellevlng this to have been the sad fate of all Ave no search sac made for the pair of us cast ashore, and before we had recov ered from our exhaustion and prepared a signal the brig had departed for an other Held. The island on which we were cast ic one of a group of nine and the innermost one of all. It is likely the same today as then, having plenty of fresh water most, of it covered with verdure nnd wild fruits, shrimps and shellAsh so plentiful that a shipwrecked crew of twenty men could get along there for months. Wallace and I were Inclined to look upon tbe affair as a lark. Wo erected a hut in the woods, procured lire by rubbing two dry sticks together and after a thorough explor ation of our domain, which was not over two miles across in any direction, we slept, ate and talked and had a pretty easy time of it. We had been on the island about three months when we awoke one morning to find the sea like a sheet of glass and the air as still as death. The sky was overcast, and yet of a cop pery color, and the birds on the island appeared to be in great alarm. Great flocks of them came in from the sea, anil all along shore the fish were leap ing out of the water as If it were pol luted. Alter surveying tilings for a while Wallace gave it as his opinion that we were in for a typhoon or an earthquake. The sulphury smell in tho air inclined him to the latter, and as soon as we had eaten we started for the center of the Island. There was a high hill in the center, hare of every thing but a couple of trees and a few huslns, and we sought it on account of the tidal wave we knew would sure ly follow an earthquake. There was more than one shock, lint the first was the most violent and lust ed fongest. The three or four which succeeded were thrills rather than shocks. The; ran through the island from east to west and out to sea, and we heard a chorus of what may he called the shrieks of distress from the birds with each vibration. Two or three minutes after the fourth or fifth shock W'ailace stood up and looked out upon the sea to the east and shout ed to me: “Look! Look! The tidal wave is coming in and there’s a big ship on the crest of it.” I sprang up and followed his gaEe. Ten miles away there was a wall of water which seemed to lift its great white crest almost to the sky and to i reach north am! south its far as 1 could ! see. Killing on the crest was a great I ship, with her three masts standing 1 erect aiul some of the yards across. For the first ten seconds the wall seemed to stand still. Then it rame rolling on like a railroad train, and al , most before I could have counted twen 1 ty it struck tin shore of our island and swept across it. The Island was j a good thirty let t above water in ev< : y win « t»:i . i.t mu »\w*n* ill J* . l(» . but all portion* save the hill were covered by at least ten fee.. 1 had my j rye on the ship alone. It eante straight for the bill, but u.- the wave divided it '•'iis swept to the left and struck the 'aith and was turned full about. While it hung tin ,e th. waters pass d on. a cl, la’ at our fret, resting almost on a 1 level keel, was us strange a sight us the ">*'■ of a sat.or ever beheld. It was u ship, to be suri. but one bad to rub his • yes and look again and again to be • erialn of It. There was the great hull thiie the three masts, up aloft the yards, and th«r« were scores of ropes trailing .limit like slimy serpents | b’nm stem to stern and from k.**l to masthead the fabric was covered with mini and slime uad barnacle ami sea gn si and si ells and as she tested the.,. | the water poured off her decks slid out of h< r hold in such a sobbing, choking , *ay as to bring the shivers Not a » 'll! had {Nt-scd between the pa r of tl > i while the wave raced 'n and across the Island 1.1.4 Hie ground below us was jilear of .he last water before Wallace ' wild: I ' .1 * III t a It 4. d !« w til | thank tiod* Thte ship was heave.1 up front the bottom if lh* ana, where she •non! have tasted for a gtevd rtianv tears, but we u have to watt a day or ; I*** hefor* we Investigate " Xm*i a coup., o hours, to let the I * un«l 4r> out . hit, we 4. *c od th bit! l« sew what d tO age ha I hoe* doge thou* «M hail ihs tr«(M ao the t*i in I baf been Sprout* 1 slid car tied out to *»r and of «mr h <« tug a vestige to* Maloe l There wwa ssarvoit * stofio a* n hew'.- egg on the loUnd prov ». . to k* wavs, hut vs* w* f uu.l that hundre ds of tor bn t>sd been u»« tribal ad s round whtlr the dead IU.v •** a ,n.t.>,is that wo were hoars In gathering them up and giving them iv» ih* ltd* iw tear swot Two boors sftor the hast shack the skv cloured ths son >*n# sot, sod by night th* Island was fair!) drj In all parts. We, however, gave the ship all next day to get rid of her water and harden in the hot sun. You are prepared to hear, of course, that she proved to be the long lost Star of India. We found that out before we had been aboard of her a quarter of an hour, and later on we had a dozen reasous fo> believing that the dying Malay had spoken the truth. I tell you that ship wai, a queer sight. Her ocean bed had been hundreds of feet deep and the mud covered every thing to tho depth of a foot—In some places two or three. Neither one of us had heard of the Star or her loss, but we knew this wreck to be that of an Indianman, and we went at It to clear away the stuff and get into her.. We were a full week doing this, and at every turn we came actoss evidences to prove the siory of the Malay. Three or four of her guns were yet In place, and from the way she had been knocked about by eannon shot It was easy to figure that she had made a hard fight and suffered great loss of life before she gave In. Even before we began work we found the augur holes bored In her bottom to scuttle her. The great cabin and every state room had two feet of mud on the floor, and I may tell you that we worked hard for four weeks before wo got the hulk cleaned out. In the mud and among the mold and rot we found rusty muskets, pistols, swords, pieces of Jewelry, cutlery, crockery, glassware and whut not, but In actual money we found only 5 sovereigns. A part of the cargo hail been wool, but we got nothing whatever of value out of It. Indeed, when our work had been fin ished, we simply had a big hulk rest ing on land a mile from the beach and were only five gold pieces better off than before. The pirates had swept her clean or treasure, plundering the passengers before murdering them, and we did not tind in cabin or state room so much as a single bone of hu man anatomy. We made the ship our home for six months and were then taken off by a whaler, and our story was the first news received of the long lost ship. The Kngllsh government sent a man-of-war to the island to over haul the hulk, and mementoes of her have long been on exhibition in the British museum. Nothing could be more queer than the way we found her or rather the way she was heaved up by the sea to be discovered. From soundings made to the east of the island in lSfl7-6S it was estimated that the great, ship rose from a depth of over 2,000 feet. Nothing but an earth quake could have lifted her from that depth- nothing but a tidal wave held her up and swept her to our feet. HERD OF IRISH BULLS. *'nme Metitpliorn (.'redltnrl to Son* of th«» Ktn«r»l<l A collection of Irish bulls was pub lished recently by a contemporary. Here are some of them, from House hold Words: A certain politician, late ly condemning the government for its recent policy concerning the income tax, is reported to have said: “They'll keep cutting the wool off the sheep that lays the golden eggs until they pump it dry.” "The glorious work will never be accomplished until the good ship Temperance shall sail from one end of the land to the other, and with a cry of ‘Victory!’ at each step she takes shall plant her banner in every city, town and village In the united kingdom.” An Irishman, in the midst of a tirade against landlords and capitalists, de clared that "if these men were landed on an uninhabited island they wouldn’t be there half an hour before they would have their hands in the pockets ! of the naked savages." Only a few j i wicks ago a lecturer at a big meeting gave utterance to the following: "All along the untrodden paths of the future j we can see the footprints of an un ; seen hand." An orator at one of the ! university unions bore off the palm of ’ merit when he declared that "the llrlt Islt lion, whether it Is roaming the des erts of India or climbing the forests of t'anada. will not draw In it: horns or retire into Its sht 11." Tl»«* rrl*i» r«»«tf>r Once upon a time a green eat sat under a blue rose-bush devouring a led mouse. ThlH cat did business In the southeast corner of a poster, while tat the upper left gr«w a vague,laven der-faced maiden against a lemon sky. Her hair and e>e* were the color of the cat: ulso the shirt front of the dfm featitfed, nilgaiIn faced youth beside her. The purple grass In dilated drift i ily alsiut them In lie dislum e a ver* | tuition sail was cutting a wide swath against a tuauvi moon Something akin to Intelltgi nee aiured the rettc (ton of thi far-faced j Itoy. 'The washing Is uu the line," he j gi laved. Tip lav ruder rvellds fell. "Out of the tntetur comes " site hesitated, and the rest was lost lit the : cream-colored silence. The cat sped a golM-lla blue venal jsiuh as tbiiv* out) tu 1‘osirr latud The iragedv was hnuhed ljo> pi Is poster was read) for the | tto llOt WUv»4 «b4i M .Vt’i* » iiCMMk tlM* Hull (ktNM1 »Uv« It*** ioia (hr t*f Hntm« «ki Mh **1**4 l Hi rii4iV* (nr Hr*« tif ttrutltim 41**1 » lU Ihl'U ) tie* I lt» » « HI u•§*!*■ I #t4N 1 . r Hike %*M>4 Mi I i'wtii t S* ’ til 1*4*f4> iM*‘l U4tP4*| ! **p «* gajbl Putt#*'* MM t|t» l4f CP 4 Cm) k ** 1 • * I*%.* ttftta* t f4i* < * • * » p» U » fv*f H-t * & 4f*’ W*41 !,*•****» I «••*»# I‘*|#t*i** I* 4* 14 «l % 4 - *w ip i&* It HU < U »f d( ;*t« | ‘ *§-*'MlMi*# pIptHiP# 4d»aP4g j *li» p4f f Mp4- Im Iw 4 k«»P M« ! «4t * »*«* If* ll* « i**4 I CRISTO NOT IN IT. HOOLEY DISCOUNTS ANY MO NEYMAKER EVER KNOWN. Ten Million Dollars Made In a Tear Something About Ills Hnslness Methods Owns Sheep. Horses. Cattle, Fatales, and Yarhls. NO I.AND has a new millionaire. Mr, Ernest Terah methods of making money are s o unique and orig inal that all Eng land Is sitting up to watch him. The most remarkable fact about Mr. llooley's operations he Is a promoter Is that he doesn't swindle. He buys a big concern for $10,000,000 or so and announces that he is going to make a good thing out of It. Then he sells It for $20,000,000 and smiles at the awed faces of his circle of admirers. He first attracted public attention less than a year ago, when he floated a pneumatic tire company and made $10,000,000 out of the deal. Making that amount of money in a year has not astonished him In the least and people are wondering where he will end. In his short career he has bought up every lunded estate offered for sale that he could lay hands on. Is a breeder of horses and cattle and owns three yachts. There Is nothing on earth he wants to buy that he doesn’t get. When In Ia>ndon he occupies the whole first flnftr Of n IfMfiinir liofol nturltiir tf OOO a week, and his rooms are crowded with promoters, capitalists and in ventors, all anxious to help him make money or make it themselves. Mr. Ilooley poses as a country gentleman and professes to dislike the city, say ing if it were not for his business af fairs he would never come to town. He says he is the largest sheep farmer in England and knows each of his SuO odd horsemen by sight. He has told how he became rich, and his story Is interesting. Said Mr, Hooley: "I cannot say that i was ever what you would call a poor man. Some peo ple, I know, have an idea that I was one month in a back street and the next In a palace. That, is altogether wrong. I came from a family of Not tingham lace manufacturers and when I was 22 my mother left me $175,000. Since then I have lived at the rate of not less than $15,000 a year, which could hardly he called poverty. 1 started in business as a stock broker in Nottingham and for some time made $100,000 a year. As stock broker I got into touch with a large connec tion of very rich people. I secured their confidence and they have been the great actors in the success of the big schemes I have since carried through. When I issue a company I do not rely altogether on the outside public. My own circle controls between $75,000,000 and $100,000,000 and its sup port insures a thing going. It is a fact of which I make no secret that these friends get a share of my profits. "While in Nottingham I had to do with the initial steps of starting some companies and I saw that the promo ters made great profits. I asked my self why I should not do this work. Then a friend brought to my notice some bicycle shares,, which at that time were despised at 5%. I looked into them, was satisfied that they had a future and bought largely until the shares went up to 21%. Then I re eonstructed the company, making $1,825,000 out of the deal. Other cy cling schemes followed, the biggest being a tire deal. I bought the tire stocks outright for $15,000.0(H) and .sol I them to the present company for $25,000,000, and now they are worth $35,000,000.” “On what principles do you go In financing'.'” asked tlie interviewer, "In the first place, I have no secrets; if 1 had I should want a staff of 2011 clerks to keep my books. I have never yet been al.lc to keep n secret and never will. I say that the promoter Is as much entitled to Ids profit ami his money Is as homstly earned as that of any other man. When a farmer buys a cow of me, cuts It up and re sells It at a higher rate than lie bought, he is entitled to make what he can; so am I when I buy and sell a company. I buy, sa>, for two millions ami sell It for two amt a half, and I tell the pub lic straight out that I am going in make »utm thing fo* myself out of the deal. I make It an Absolute rule only to take up one concern at a time ami never to leave It till It Is really on Its legs. I am able to point Iso k to all the things I have been associated with ami »a> that th> re la not one of them but to day Is III a healthy state.” % liUO Mull May* the editor of the Millville |t*n Iter We leave fur coAfeteUct tntlsof row to report ou the minister's salary I Hiring the year he got one black be 4 v • tr. one pound party and to rents tn change thir duly tr to ascertain hurt { muck of the tatter should gu to the ■ heathen abroad It stints l*t»» |*r**tlut In* stales. t mil lfi« lb* greater part of the pm, mstiufw! lured in the kinert an tubule* •»* produced tn Musaa* l*U" I sett*, tn llkt Ivnnsyivunta became the < ItS' tug i 1 on■ p*«*lut tag stole and tiitil’ Pitned tbs * i;tremac y nnnt t to* 4 f tr a h Irik time the bad WO* lobeu bit MU btgan t kiHiid lie* let V V\ IsutUtS gill recent iv refused to it >ity t* t |,u> hast b o»bl of ttshbuoA ,i,U«a be amputated nil of bis name t ovfit lb* * t.*o b this be did by g t nt«*t*<u nf tn- mi» -cut. SPURIOUS SEALSKINS. Mh<I« of Tunif Krt>ni'h ttabblt P«ltt That Dfrflvp the Very Klrrl. There was no mistaking the old plush Imitation sealskin, and many who could not afford the real declined the counterfeit; but it is stated that among the coming winter's fashions will be skins so cleverly dressed to Imitate the covering of the seal that detection will be possible only to the expert, says the Cincinnati Enquirer. It Is expected that this innovation will be one of the most remarkable developments the fur trade has ever known. The new fur Is called "electric seal," and con sists of the skin of the ordinary French tame rabbit electrically treated. The process Involves a careful first dressing to obtain softness and pliability, the coat afterward passing under a ma chine of extraordinary delicacy, which catches and shears down the stronger and coarser hairs, giving at the same time a softness and "flow” to what is left. The dyeing Is skillfully managed to give artificial gradations of golden brown under the surface. The final stage of manipulation before the skins go to the manufacturer is reached through the operation of a really mar velous electrical mechanism which re moves any undesirable stiff hairs that might have been left by the first ma chine. 1'nfortunately, experiments which have been made with both the common wild rabbit and the Imported Australian skins have been attended with scant success, and only the fur of the domestic variety appears to be available for the process. The Idea Is not new. It has been considered for many years, but it Is only through re cent modifications and improvements In mechanism rendered possible by electricity that It has become a factor to be seriously reckoned with In the wholesale fur business. HER NEME NEVER PRINTED. IfrrttiJN* Mi* In Nnl IVrNoftully Known to th* ft*|iort«’rN. It looks as though social notoriety is not to be the fate of one Washing ton woman whose name for some in scrutable reason for the last half-dozen years has been omitted from ail pub lished accounts of gatherings in which she lias taken purl, says the Washing ton Post. An overmastering curiosity finally prompted her to institute an In vestigation Into the matter. She then found out, so far from the omission having been Intentional on the part of the correspondents. It arose from the fact that she was personally unknown even by sight to them. Having satis fied herself on this score, the incognito shortly afterward ordered her carriage and, calling for a friend, took her for a drive. The little excursion, planned for pleasure, had a moHt disastrous ter mination. as the horses, taking fright, run away, and, getting beyond the con trol of the coachman, the vehicle was overturned and both ladies injured, the owner of the carriage quite seriously. In the midst of her pain as she was being carried home there flashed through her mind the thought that the runaway would be given space in the newspapers. Then, as the turnout was her property, her name would of necessity figure in the account. Th& following morning a detailed account1 of the accident appeared in the paper, but by a strange fatality that has for so long ruled her elimination from print, her name was not mentioned. That of her companion was several times repeated in the article, which wound up by stating that “a friend who was in the carriage at the time was also injured.” fliTint 11144 iiiul \o 'iVrror*. And it came to puss, says ilie Balti more News, that the meek-eyed youth looked upon the glorious girl while her cheeks w< re red and h<- spake unto her, saying: “Fairest creature upon earth, wilt tlion be my beauteous bride?" And the glorious girl made swift answer, saying: "Not. t) Reginald! not until you have given me positive proof that you love me!” And the fact of the glorious girl was even as the wild lily of the untrodden forest for coyness, but her voice was like unto the tax collector'* for firm 11 -,s. Ami the meek eyed youth looked lmn tar away Into the henceforth, for a great fear wa with hint, and in his wailing woe he. war fa n to end It all. And It came to pass that in that darkest moment a great light dawned upon him and he spake unto the gloiious fill, saying last. peralventure thou misunder stands! me. again do 1 say. be my I beauteous bride. As for proof that I love thee, fair one. let me draw your i attention to the fact that Christ mas Is scarce two weeks hence dost want more proof'*" And straightaway the glorious girl nestled close to his mure or lese maul) breast, and even as she nestled, she spake, saving "Thou art indeed brave Most men would have waited till afte r Christmas, but you ouch' Vow musta’t m>i» my hair d« ur*'* % •Mtnhfrti Hnl«Nl4(M It bit* li***ii r t #4 ib*i in tb# uf gnat um«4 uf uuhiu* Inin# ib* fu« * uf irttitiy U ibiin tl##nb*t#* «tii<l tb# ■ »iiVlr»(r I t* tb«il lb# rfUAl uf lb# rdf lb I# 1**4# cicn««* l#r «it 4tu ib# * h* r« it b«l# Ihu* br- A h*tft%#«l 'lj* V^ cHilMg tbt« in b# * i* bvrii Uw II t*ull#i. »? ib* uf l#r#ddbl#, immuu wit |b#l Ml U |*i#dlbb* Id 4ftiM'ui#f a b#r# 414 U'At IIMHlMldia* H«*A IHUI 4*1) db4 tvifb4 by tb# a* tfdd **f lb# #1#* litv A11 |Mtf t %!•!» >1 tytfc.dil#*'1 lb* vi> ||4 Uf uf tb* Ad*l#ffty hm tut i* itM nd4 >bt»g#«l II Cd'ldl limb* uA" df fl^dd *mU)>f 4 4 4An*• tMMfttltf ii#lt| Ib# |NftfttM*l df IKn • •I* •**%. tdf Ad ibdi lln# 'b*t* i* a I***# 2 Id# lut*# <4 V nUAiii*. j t»H*««dd**n*A diMt* #n lb fUtlt df i'uAJbdfd Ma4»4a ——■ggl WAS TURNING WHITE. Strange Case of a Kunaw Ctty Negreaa, Wbote Shin Changed Color*. A negress who has gradually been turning white and who excited the wonder of the medical profession has Just died at the Jackson county poor farm, near Kansas City. Her name was Jane Plase. blit she was commonly called "Spotted Jane," because her skin, Instead of turning white uniform ly, changed In spots from the deepest black to a milky whiteness. Several times In the first few years of her stay at the poorhouse Jane complained of an Itching of the skin. About two years ago this became severe, and then, when an examination of her body was made by the phyaician in attendance, it was found that large spots on her body had already turned white. The case excited much attention among the physicians of Kansas City, many of whom visited the poorhouse to examine the woman. Doctors who make a spe cialty of skin diseases came from vari ous parts of the United States to ex amine her. None could explain the phenomenon. The change in her col or seemed to cause Jane no pain or worry and she took it philosophically, rather pleased than otherwise at her newly-found Importance. When she died a week ago she was nearly white. The only explanation given by physi cians of the phenomenon is that the disease or humor of the blood brought on what is known as lucorytbenla. The corpuscles of the blood which under lie the pigments of the skin had been so thinned that the latter was "wash ed out” in places, leaving it of its un natural hue. The pigments cause the only difference in color of the negro and while races. In the former, the pigments are very dark, which makes the black ime show through the skin. It is supposed that the “washing away” of these pigments caused the strange change of color in Jane's case. ' NEW BED FOR A RIVER. IfHiilCer uf it Ki'pi'l Itlon nf (fin VI it null el<l Mini* Horror. There Ik immediate danger of a repetition of the heartrending Mans field mine disaster in which twenty seven men lost their lives at the Hem lock mine, says the Detroit Free Press. The mine extends under the Hemlock river, with a shaft on tidier side. Water from the river i-; working through the sandstone into the mine, and the danger will have to he reme died at once or the valuable property abandoned. It la now proposed not to attempt to divert the channel of the river.as waH done at Mansfield mine re cently, hut to lift the Hemlock river from Its native bed anil let it run through an Immense wooden sluiceway. This sluice will extend over th“ ground under which the mine tunnel runs, and will thus relieve the river bed of its water and the mine of any danger from the river. A dam will he built some distance up the river, and this will en able the work to go on this winter and also chain the water so that it can be run into its artificial channel next spring. The sluiceway will be 1,500 feet long, and will rest on tw o immense arches whose foundations will be in the bed of the river. The arches will be wide apart at the base and will not threaten the mine tunnel in the least. After the sluice is built the dam will be opened and the water will be run into the new elevated bed. Work in the mine tunnel under the river will continue, and it Is expected that the miners will gradually pick their way toward the old river l ed and in time . the bed will cave in and ,i rich find of ore is then expected. INbW W U IYI fc. A ! \V n K. Can Itt'ttt I In* >Ihi ( ho] pint; Wood Th*y Tak«* a ( oi;tra< t. Away up in the hills bao!: of Morris town, .Sullivan county N Y.. l-’red W. Halting has purcliasi I a large tract of standing timber, sat ; the New York World. In a log cabin or. Hie place live Mrs. Jacob Brown and M'.s. Si.rah Ed wards, widow. Harting ci tii acted to furnish 100 cords of . fur a wood acid factory recently and a; once en gugf d Mrs. Brown and .'/:■■> Kdwards to do the chopping faring says these two women are ’he iiest wood clioppcts in the cuiinty ml .-an put the men to shame with the dexterity with which they can wi Id at ax. The women take their dinners with them to the wool Is and work ail day, and their endurance is r- m trkabb Mrs. Brown is a woman of tin - physique, v< vi ry Intelligent and about 1*1 years old Mrs. Kdwards Is slender but very strong tfhc Is 82. Both wear felt bt ota at work with overshoes and short skirts. They chop hare-handed unless the weather Is very rohl. >• k* I *r fur \ * It in **1*1 ihut thr X*rayt 114*1* Im^ii nines.fully applied In Frame to the (election of adulterailous of food. *heie I he adulterants cuuslst of sum* kind of tnlneial matter. The food to He rkantlDed is reduced to powder and dread thinly upon glass \u X-ray photograph of the gis*a reveal* the preeeni• of the mineral particle* hy the fallme of the rot to penetrate hew a* they p«n«trai» the toh«r cog. diluents of the powdered food Shuwo* M fc*« III It It- to 4 U IMmm editor h** hewn r« ,nd *ho l» *Oti.i> * ltd k**>; »| He hlng* his sign «n kt* ofhco ,|.«u il.»n« wot it Irk— g drunk will he hack ston a* on ,** kott lit* UIm viti|* 1 ** t»o* whig I *a* mi aUo* ug a dark night, | mi a nan and eh tny goodn*** hots | rag* knd tltd ytwt i nil hint M,« kta««> * *