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— - ^TTTVnTiTTl 11 «*A. T. 1 ,i:yWITOT^”^,,T^L,,fr:^ f ■ ”1 '. ;£3*jP .TT ^TlMj| Batal request 111 O V H P OUT | Author of ".'i.no O .vrj Familiar Frlond.” gtc. H 9 1, by C a i t 0 it l' u t, I l I h i * 9 Company. H , 1 !> 0 ‘J , by-Strtet 'C- Smith. H ^ g.„ .assartsixracagi tr. stc! CHAPTER IV.—Cd,timed. “My dear James.” interruj t \1 Mr. Burritt, hastily. ‘pe«j must krow v«**y -,v 11 that It isn’t that. But the truth of the matter fs. I've a ,rre2V aversion to firearms. Still, if yen will assure me that the weapon isn’t loaded, I’ll-” "I'll assurn you c’’ that or anything else that will add to your peace of mind,’’ was the somewhat oqu'voeal reply. “At any rate, It isn’t loaded now; and, wliat is more, I will also give you my word that I will not at tempt to blow out my brains during the journey—or,” lie added, as a sort of afterthought, “anyone else’s.” When Mr. Burritt and his friend ar rived at the station, the latter took a considerable amount < f trouble to insure a separate compartment to themselves—in tact, Mr. Burritt rather landed lie saw him give something to the guard, who thereupon locked tin1 dcor upon them, and consigned them to solitude. The carriage in question, it may bo worth remembering, was the fourth from the engine. “I wonder,” thought Mr. Burritt to himself as the train steamed out of the station, "which is the pocket ho carries the revolver in?” Then his thoughts wandered away from the actual present. "I suppose I shall find them ail right at homo. Dear, dear, anyone would think I had been away a month. What an old fogey I'm get ting. By-the-by, I wonder what James is thinking about? he looks uncom monly gloomy. 1 wish he'd say some thing instead of staring out of the window in stony silence. Somehow, one doesn’t like the notion of riding alone with a man who has shed another man's blood, especially when he carries a revolver. I wonder whether he's thinking of that, or what?” If Mr. Burritt could have road what was passing In his companion’s mind, he would have been amazed to find pealing to tier son, "1 suppose there a 1 no mill take about the day? Your dear father didn't mean to-raorr >w ?" Her son produced the telegram, which ?11 he 1 about him. and repeated the contents aloud: "Am returning to-day by the 4:30 train. 1 .all be homo to dinner. Friend aecor.ipaaics me.” "Well, I'm su!-’ I don't know what to do about exclaimed the poor lady, almost wringing her hands. “Hadn’t von bettor go and speak to cook yourself?' said her son, making the propoia without the slightest comprehension of what it involved. "I auprmo T had," murmured his mother: "ve*y well. Jane, you can say I'm coming.’' and she 1< ft tin room, leaving the poling people together. “Aren't you tired of standing, May?” asked her bro her addressing the girl, who had sear .ely varied her attitude an inch in thf last half hour. “Tired!" sin exclaimed, half turn ing round. “VYhat has that got to do with it? I wan! to b? the first to see them.” Then .she aided, "Tell me what you meant to say, a little while ago, when you began ’I wish,’ and stopped.” "Why,” he answered gloomily, ”1 was going to say I wish the governor had never started on tills journey: though,” he addon, in a hurry, “of course Im's all right -missed the train or else there's a blo:k on the line, or something—only—" He b.oke off without bringing hH sentence to a conclusion, and asked, "YYras that what you wished, too?” "1!” she exclaimed, "1 wish that and more. 1 wish he had never had that letter. 1 wish his friend, who ever he is had never come back from where he was.” "Oh, come, now.” was the would-be comforting response, “now you’re go ing ahead too far. Of cours.i, it’s vex iug and all that; but, after all, the only thing that will really suffer will be the dinner, and that won’t be fit Started to his feet with a cry. Chat, instead of dwelling upon the past, he wa3 merely repeating over and over to himself the words which the former had spoken only a few hours before—“The secret lies be tween us two' The secret lies be tween us two!” CHAP1EB V. The 4:30 Train. Dinner at Magnolia Lodge had been ordered for a quarter to eight, in or der to suit the convenience of the trav elers, who were expected to arrive at about that hour. As the time drew on. Mrs. Burritt suddenly became troubled aga..i in her mind concerning the soap dish. “I do wish, after all, I had ordered the best spare bedroom to be got ready, though I've generally consid ered the second best good enough for a single gentleman, and I suppose he is a single gentleman. But for all that-” “Here they are!” suddenly cried her daughter May, who was watching from the window. “Well, it’s too late to make any change now,” sighed her parent, half relieved at having the matter sum marily settled; “and perhaps he won't notice the crack. I do hope my cap is on straight!” The said cap was. as usual, consid erably out of the perpendicular: but as it happened, its lack of rectitude was, in this instance, of no particular consequence, for the alarm proved false, and the cab, which had at first appeared as though about to draw up before the house, resumed its snail like crawl and gradually disappeared. Then came another spell of waiting. “They must have missed their train at London 3ridge,” said Ted Burritt. “Perhaps the other one was late. I’ve looked in ‘Bradshaw,’ and see that it’s due in town at seven o’clock. If so, they ought to be here by this time.” The next half-hour slowly ticked itself away without bringing any change in the position of affairs. They were all vacantly conscious of an increasing sense of anxiety and de pression within. Why u!d they not come? Surely, if they had missed one train, there had been plenty of time to catch the next? Then the clock chimed the half-hour, and, at the same moment, an interruption lock place. The message ran: “If you please, 'm, cook wants to know what she is to do about dinner!” Mrs. Burritt started nervously. “I’m cure, I don't know. Jane.” Then, ap to cat. if they don’t come directly.” As if in answer to this remark, Mrs. I Burritt at that moment re-entered the room. She was flushed ar.d agitated, and, as was apparent to the most ob tuse observer, on the verge of tears. “Really, cook has been most trying,” she sighed, as she sank into the near est chair. “She almost intimated that I had done it on purpose. She says, she has never been used to such ways, and that flesh and blood won't stand it. let alone legs of mutton. She says she can give us another ten min utes, but no more.” The ten minutes passed, as the pre vious thirty had done, and at the end ot that time three very dispirited peo ple sat down to their spoilt dinner. May soon noticed that her brother, whose attention had been obviously wandering for some time past, appear ed to be listening to sometning from without. At first her heart hounded. Could it be that they had arrived at last? Was it the click of the gate that he was straining his ear to catch? or the sound of footsteps upon the gravel drive without? So she, too, listened in her turn, hoping to lie able to distinguish one or the other of these welcome but long delayed sig nals. But the only thing she could hear was the faint sound of a voice which seemed to be shouting something iu the distance. May also perceived tnat the voice was drawing gradually nearer, and resolving itself into that of a peripatetic newsboy, who was vending his wares and shouting out the most sensational headings at the top of his voice. Was that all? Still, ho was not yet near enou~h for her to distinguish the sense of the Sounds which caught her ear from time to time, as she absently crumbled her bread, and thought to herself over and over again, "If only father would coine home!” Idr.«. Hurritt. as though the thought had set in motion some electric cur rent which connected the two brains, remarked at this juncture, “I sup pose they are Quite certain to bo here some time tonight?" Almost before the words were out of her lips, her son. who was sitting on her right, started to his feet with a cry. "What is it? Oh. what is it?" ask ed his sister, as a sense of something terrible about to happen fell upon her. He made no reply, but, with dilat ing eyes, stood there with every facul ty absorbed in the one effort. Then ne raised one hand—the other oiutehed the edge of the table. 'Ll* Km!" he gasped. An! tho voice without, now close to ?h-:ir very gates, made itself plainly heard, as it shouted out the latest bul letin— ■‘Spochul hodlshun! Hevenin’ Stand ard! ’Orrible railway haciddent! Over twenty killed and hlnjured. The four thirty from Dover wrecked by a down train carryin’ petroleum barrels! Tuo line on (ire. Horful scenes! ’Artrend in’ details!’’ CHAPTER VI. The Search fo" a Tether. Yv’hat happened after this no one ever know exactly. Before Mrs. Bur ritt bad begun to grasp the idea that something was wrong, her son had rushed from the room. After what seemed an age of wait ing. but was really a very short time, ho returned. In his hand he held a copy of the newspaper which ho had just bought. “Mother,” he srid, put ting a strong restraint upon himself, "I am afraid there has been an acci dent on the line. You mustn’t be alarmed, for though some people have been injured, there is uo reason why my father should not have es caped, ami very likely tho affair has boon greatly exaggerated.’’ “Ted,” said his sister, in a voice almost as calm as his own, though her face had lost every particle of color, and seemed to have suddenly become years older, “Let us know tho worst!” And she held out her hand for tho paper. “The worst!” ho answered, with a sound like a strangled sob in his voice, “Why should there lie any worst? And as for the paper,” crump ling it up in his hand, “you can’t place the slightest dependence upon that. I’m—I’m gofng up to town by the next train, so as to be on the spot, and— “Ho may bo hurt in some way. you know," lie added, slowly, by way of preparing their minds for whatever might be the result. “He may have come off with a broken leg, or some thing of that sort. You can hardly expect him to have got off scot free. But whatever it is, Tin going to find him out and bring him back home. Take care of mother”—this to his sis ter—and he was gone. But before he could leave the house, while his hand was yet upon the latch, he found himself confronted by the girl. “Good-bye,” she said, slowly and sadly. "You will do your best—but 1 have no hope—none!” He caught a train which was on the very point of starting, and leaped into the first carriage he came to. Then he took out the paper which he had kept so carefully from the sight of those others at home, and began to study more earnestly the brief but terrible announcement which it con tained. (To bo continued.) As She Understood It. He was telling a poker story, but she only caught this sentence: “And then, of course, I called, and She interrupted him reproachfully and also with some asperity. “I've caught you, John Henry,” she exclaimed. "Here I've been trying to get you to call on the Joneses for the last three months, and you wouldn’t do it—said you didn't like to make calls, then you go out and make one by yourself, or else you go calling with someone else. Yes; that must be it? What is she, John Henry? Who is this person who can get you to make calls when you won’t make them with your wife?” John Henry looked at his masculine friends and winked slyly. "Shall 1 tell her?” he asked. “Might as well,” they said. “In this case,” he then told her. “three ladies induced me to call. ’ “Three?” “Yes; but,” he hastened to add, “if you came across them in the pack you would probably call them queens.” It was a great joke—his masculine friends assured him of that—but lie hasn't succeeded in explaining the matter to his wife’s satisfaction yet, —Chicago Post. St. Peter Remembered. A poor son of Erin died and was lauded as a very good man by all his neighbors. Arriving at The Gate he found his way barred by Saint Peter. "Before ye can enter,” says Saint Peter, "will ye tell me ye are not guilty of any great sin?" “I am not,” said Paddy. "Think again,” said Saint Peter. “Well,” says Paddy, thinking hard. "I remember once using had language over an ouhl rooster we had.” "That was a great, sin,” said Saint Peter, “and yez can't come in.” Paddy turned sorrowfully away, but before he had gone for Saint Peter recalled him. “I’ve been thinking,” said Saint Peter, “and I think ye must have had great provocation, and that your lan guage was perhaps excusable. Ye can come in. I remember, I once had trouble with the same sort of bird myself.” The Kitchen Range. A fine housekeeper says since paint ing her kitchen range she lias never blackened it with stovs polish. Every spring when cleaning house she buy* a can of enamel from a druggist and palr.ts her stove with it. • The stove looks like new, does not rust and needs no cleaning except dusting and wiping off. French People in Britain. There are 26,6<)0 French in Great Britain and Ireland, more than three fourths of the number being In Lon don. The business most followed among these is cookery. As English laundresses are prized in France, sn FVench cooks are valued In England DEATH FOE INDUSTRY ————— j DANCER INVOLVED IN INCREAS ED FOREIGN COMPETITION. . i Fcr Every Day's Work Droucht i r» from Abroad There Must Be an Equivalent Day's Work Lost to the W,-.£e Earners of the United States. An important anil enduring contri bution to economic and political lit< ra ture is to be found in the speech of Lafayette Young b fore the Polk County Republican Club In lies Idolnes, Cct. 20, 1903. It is a speech that will live, and if we are not mis taken, will do duty in more than one campaign. In vigor of style, in clear cut 11 igramrnatic expression, in viril ity and in uncompromising stalwart lam it deserves, and will have, a place among the greatest speeches of the greatest advocates of Republicanism and Protectionism. Iowa was essential ly the proper place for its origin— Iowa, the home of “progressives" the breeding ground of backsliders, the culture field of the “re form" bacillus, the state where a premium Is paid for the be trayal of party principle. We have long been of the opinion that I,afo Young was needed in that section of the country. Now we know it. The speech of Oct. 20 demonstrates the fact. With swift strokes the editor of the Daily Capital sketches political his to v for the past twenty-seven years. Coming down to the time when the ■’reformers” and the "progressive” in side the Republican party made their first successful attack upon the policy of protection, when, as now, they were saying "The tariff is too high; it must be reformed,” Mr. Young tell3 what happened to prosp< ity in 1SD2 and the four years following; ‘‘But the country was startled, after calm was restored, after the election of 1S!)2, when it was discovered that the grand aggregation of disagreement and discontent had captured the gov ernment. Fear was in the land. Men who voted for Cleveland trembled anti regretted it. Then followed the strug gle upon the part of Cleveland and his was because some ‘progressive’ citi zen bad probably insisted that the dike was a little too high and that it would do no harm to let the water run over a little. A tariff low euoug'a to bring in ‘foreign competition' to destroy so-called American monopoly would fail of its purpose if it wore not low enough to briDc in Immense quan tities of goods from abroad. If it did not increase importations it would bo a failare, and if it increased importa tions it would close the American fac tory. “Men who talk about 'competition' deal with the subject glibly, as if mar kets were abundant. They think that largo importations would not throw any American out of a job. But l say for every day’s work performed in Europe for the benefit of American some American loses a day's work, whether he is employed by a trust or some heartless individual operating singly nnd alone. Some men say that competition can be let in from Eu rope long enough to destroy the trusts and combines and then be thrown out again by the readoption of protection." Easily and unanswerably Mr. Young shows that upon the high wages paid in tho mills and factories which for eign competition would close depends the prosperity of Iowa farmers. When men are out of work, he says “the farmer does not sell them spring chickens and potatoes.” No; and neither does the doctor, the lawyer, the clergyman, nor anybody else thrive as well—always excepting tho pawnbroker. As to the proposition that the tariff be revised by the "friends of protec tion.” Rnfe Young dees not like it. He is of the opinion that when an in dustry has been killed by tariff re duction it is none the less dead be cause Republicans brought about the reduction: “I say to-night, that if the Aineri rnr Congress, in Republican hands, in the year 1904 or the year 1905, under takes a general reform of the tariff, ripping it here and there, and enters upon a general debate and discussion of this great subject, so vitally con nected with our commerce, every in dustry will be killed Just as dead as if the Democratic party were in power fmiFF% iSHELTERLPj Ugouj followers to keep the party pledges. Then ensued the long debate on the tariff question and the factories closed, banks collapsed, and the great republic was iu the throes of business disaster, the like of which had not been since 1837. The American peo ple repented and felt educated in political economy. They swore if they ever had another chance they would luiry Democracy and free trade fo deep that Gabriel's trumpet would never reach any of them.” | And they did it in 1896, with that result the world already knows so well that Great Britain is now on the point of discarding free trade and : profiting by the example of the United States in restoring prosperity through protection. But there has been too much prosperity in the last six years, and the "reformers” are at work again, as they were in 1892. To them Mr. Young devotes attention, and though he calls nobody by name, it will be strange indeed if tl.r-e be not some burning in the ears ..7 some people In high places out there in Iowa. His chapter on “competition” is a superb I specimen of logic and sarcasm. Says he: “There never is competition when every man has more tnan he can do. There will not be competition until half the men have less than they can do. There is never any competi tion so long as a man cannot make a thing as rapidly as he can sell it. There wll', be competition when it takes a man two dayB to find a cus tomer for the thing that he made In one day. * * * Some people like to be coaxed to buy. They like to be chased by the man who has something to sell. They like to get cut rates. They have not been getting cut rates lately. There are never any cut rates in good times. • * • “They say they do not want to tear down the tariff wall; they only want to lower it a couple of inches. Usually when a dam Is high enough to keep the water out, lowering it two inches j would be as fatal as its entire re- 1 niovak “When t ho floods swept down through Kant Dos Moines last May it i ! and the investigation were being made by the Democrats.” With truth and force Mr. Young urges that when McKinley made his famous Buffalo speech in 1901 he had in mind the reciprocity of Blaine, and only that, and "never contemplated ad justing a reciprocity treaty to kill one industry which wc hail promised to protect to build up another already protected.” Mr. McKinley did not believe in reciprocity in competitive products, in reciprocity that "would take from a singlo American worker his job,” be lie a worker in a factory or on a farm. lie did not believe that the cheapest products of any foreign country should be permitted to enter into competition with the products of the Americans who grow augur can in Louisiana and Texas, who grow sugar beets in Colorado and Califor nia. who g-ow tobacco in Connecticut and Wisconsin, who grow fruits and vegetables in Florida, who grow wool in Ohio and Montana, who grow grain in all the Northern states. Ho would never have urged such a policy upon Congress. Much less would he have called an extra session as a means of forcing it through. in one of the concluding paragraphs of Mr. Young's speech the situation is thus summed up: "If any of these schemes of tariff ripping are to be seriously considered the best thing any man can do is to convert his present property into money and then wait until the crash comes and buy other people's property at 25 cents on tho dollar. It seems strange that Republicans have been found giving ear to doctrines so re cently denounced. Not so strange, pos sibly, when we remember that Repub lican farmers and Republican working men in 1592 elected Grover Cleveland, and with him a tariff ripping Con gress.” And unless this craze among Repub licans for tariff ripping is checked by Republicans we shall be found travel ing tho same road as in 1892, with another tariff ripping Democratic president in the White House and an other tariff ripping Congress at tha other end of Pennsylvania avenue. A WEIRL TALE FROM JAPAN. "Sfngnlnary Haltle IMumi Hostile Forces of Winged Creatures." The llocbl of Tokio prints the fol lowing wonderful tale: "On the 23d ult., at 4 p. in., that part of airy spare that over-ennopies a slope commonly called Notoyazaka, which forms part of IJbzagamhnaehi in Yesashl, Hok kaido. became the scene of a sanguin ary battle between hostile forces of winged creatures. The combatants were 100 swallows on the one side and millions of dragon flies on the other. If inferior in number, the swal lows were certainly superior in in tellectual and physical powers to their opponents on the occasion in question, as one would believe, and everybody had but one opinion as to the end of the mid-air contest. "But the unexpected happened, and ,after charges and counter-charges, and other aeronautic movements, ending in ‘at close quarter’ lighting of some du ration. the swallows beat a hasty re treat. or, rather, disgraced themselves bv the most confused flight ever in dulged in by a vanquished enemy. Then the victorious dragon flies flow about that particular portion of the sky with the unmistakable ‘air’ of liable conquerors, performing all sorts of ‘assertive’ unties, which included airy caracoling, evolutions, soaring, lunging, etc., all sufficiently signifi cant and all tending to proclaim the fact of their undisputed occupation ol the atmospheric superficies over the Xoloyazaka."- Xew York Times. Sea Devouring England* Hy experiences such as have fallen to the lot of the town of Duuwieli the attention is drawn from time to time tc the fact that the sea is making serious encroachments upon England's shores. But. beyond inspiring a vague con scion ness that they are submitting t > an unwarrantable invasion, tiie ques tion ho far lias aroused little more than local interest. The British Asso ciation. however, lias had the subject in hand, and five years ago appointed a committee to make full investiga tion. With tin* assistance of (lie coast guard the inquiry lias now been com pleted, and its results were communi cated in a very instructive paper which was read before the association at their concluding meeting. The report gives details of the distri bution of the sea's attack, and of the average rate at which its advance is made, and it is evident that encroach ment presents a very grave problem to dwellers upon coasts so seriously men aced. It is curious to note that though il is n part of the Wesh coast whieli suffers most, jjpr.erally speaking, ihe eastern shores are wasting most rapid ly. Nature lias provided the western coastline with rugged cliffs, whieli suc cessively defy the onslaughts of 'lie Atlantic. Even in Ireland tho chief losers arc found in the ear,tern comities of Down and Dublin. I.i many places there is a slight compensating gain. But the gist; of the report Is the im portance which il attaches to artificial structures and sea walls, which inis boon proved by inquiry and compari son to be a most valuable protection. Olil I’ubllc Libraries. Though it is tlie popular idea that public libraries are of modern origin, there is proof that the Anglo-Saxon kings of England were disposed to erect them, and works were brought from Ireland, where sciences had been much earlier cultivated than in Great Britain. But the Invasion of the Nor mans stopped the spread of libraries, and the first in England after the con quest was established at Oxford, in Durham (now Trinity) College, in tho thirteenth century by Itlehard de Bury, who purchased from thirty to forty volumes of the Abbot of St. Albans for fifty pounds’ weight of silver. Be for that time books were kept in chests and not in a room styled a library. At ithe end of the seventeenth century (there were only six public libraries in (Great Britain. Tlie first circulating 'library was founded by Allan Uamsay, in 17'Jo, whence lie diffused plays and (works of fiction among the people of (Edinburg. So successful were Ram say’s efforts that it is said that within seventy years nearly every town and large village possessed a library. The first in London was started by Botlio, a bookseller, ill 1740. Birmingham ob tained us first circulating library in 1751. The next step was the free li brary. Manchester possessing the first, in 1850. being quickly followed by Liv erpool, Birmingham niul other larg« towns.—Chicago News. 1 ' ___- l ExercUe For Ase<l Peraon*. Good Health says that in old ago both the aptitude lor exercise and the ability to execute muscular movements are very considerably diminished. The capacity and activity of the heart and lungs are lessened, also the ability to recuperate from exhaustion. There Is, moreover, a marked tendency to con secutive or secondary fatigue, a form of exhaustion which Is not experi enced at the time of exercise, but is felt to a marked degree a day or two subsequently. An old person feels the fatigue of an effort more than twenty-four or forty-eight hours af terward than he does at the time; con sequently he is likely to go beyond the proper limit in the expenditure of muscular energy before he is aware* of the fact that he has done so. El derly persons should always hear this in mind when engaging in physical ex ercise, especially those who have not all their lives been used to active mus. cular pursuits. -- Very Superstitious. Captain Pat. King Is very supersti tious. In bis engine he always carries a rabbit’s foot and a horseshoe, and it is a matter of record that he once re fused to take his engine out for a trip because a black cat crossed the track in front of the locomotive.—Charlotte (N, Cj Observer.