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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
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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
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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
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his sign «n kt* ofhco ,|.«u il.»n« wot
it Irk— g drunk will he hack ston a*
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