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I THE FATAL REQUEST OR FOUND OUT By A. Lt. Harrla Author of "Mine Ovvn Familiar Friend,” etc. Copyright, 1 s 9 1 , by C a $ i e l l Pnblithing Company. Copyright, i 9 o i , bystreet <C j i» i I A, CHAPTER XXI.—Continued. One member of the household was soon to discover this. Miss Perkins camp upon him unexpectedly, as he was stooping, with his back toward her. and apparently engaged in close ly examining the keyhole of the door belonging to his master's private room. "What’s that you’re doing?" she cried sharply. The individual thus addressed start ed violently, and something fell to the ground with a chink—something which he immediately covered with iiis foot before lie turned and faced her without making any reply. "You've changed your ways lately," she said, seeing lie made no answer, "and always hanging about this door. What's your game, l should like to know. Anyhow, you aren't up to no good. People as gets into respectable houses under t'als” names very seldom is up to any good!” With this Parthian shaft she turned away and left him. looking hack once over her shoulder, with that same malicious smile, as she marked the effect it had produced. What did she mean by that remark of hers about a false name? How could she have found it out? The shot was too near the bull’s eye to have been fired at random, flood heavens! Was it pos sible she could have any suspicion of the real truth? There was no source whatever from which she might have obtained this in formation—Ah-! He flew upstairs at a tremendous rate, flight after flight, to the top of the house, to his own room, burst the door open and entered. There war, a modest looking box in the corner of the room—a box which contained his few belongings. Had lie remembered to relock this on the last time when he had occasion to resort to it? No, the lid offered no resistance to his hand. Ho began to turn over the articles which it contained, but could not hit ment she stood motionless, holding the magazine in one hand, while she look ed at the individual before her with a puzzled, searching expression ’’pon her countenance. Then a sudden light seemed to break in upon her—she gave a gasp—her expression changed from curiosity to amazement, and, ut tering a little cry, she turned sharply round and ran rapidly up the stair case, leaving the other a prey to the liveliest astonishment. What other remarkable Incidents was the day to bring forth? Meanwhile the young lady had re gained the stronghold of her own apartment, locked the door, and. throwing the now despised magazine into a corner, sat down to confide the state of her feelings to the keeping of her faithful diary: “A most extraordinary thing has happened,” she wrote. “My head is in a whirl and 1 hardly know what I am writing, or what to do, or think. To imagine that I have so often puz zled myself over that young man’s likeness to someone else, a likeness which I could never quite fix. though I have often seemed just on the joint of doing so. Very likely I should never have hit upon it but for that, apparently, utterly insignificant action of mine in dropping the book I was carrying. He rushed forward to pick it up and returned it to me and—ail at once it struck me like a flash where I had seen him before. It was the same circumstance—the same action—and the same young man! “it is a most extraordinary thing and takes my breath away even while I write: but there is no mistake about it. There could not possibly he two people so exactly alike and with pre cisely the same manner—unless—this is a twin brother of the ether. But, if so, how is it that one is a gentleman and the other only a servant? “Was there ever such a combination met with before, and what—oh. what is the reason for his extraordinary conduct, unless—unless he is the Prince in Disguise, after all! “What's that you’re doing?” upon the thing he was in search of. The little shabby prayer book, contain ing his real name in his father's own handwriting, was gone! Gone! Stolen! That hateful woman, with her sly, cat-like step and hypocritical ways, had taken advantage of his one act of ca-elessness, in leaving the box un locked, to pry into its contents and carry off the most compromising article of all. Well, the damage was done, and cou’.d not bo repaired. The only thing now, was to try and stave off the dis covery of the double part he had been playing a little while longer. After a time he rose from his grov eling attitude with his mind fully made up. There was only one course to pursue, and he would pursue it. He must appear totally ignorant of the theft, and receive every allusion or insinuation with an affected utter lack of comprehension. Let her suspect what she might, let her act and talk as she would, he must keep up the delusion and try to baffle her for at least one more day. Or else, if she seemed inclined to show her teeth if she appeared disposed to be danger ous. he must hurry on the matter. A llttie later in the clay, as he was absently staring out of a window in the hall, he heard a faint, rustling sound, and, looking up, saw Miss Fer rers descending the staircase. He allowed his eyes to rest upon her for an instant, telling himself that his op portunities for doing so would soon be at an end no\N She must have felt his glance, for a certain air of embarrassment seem ed to fall upon her, and the color rose in her face. Then she gave herself an impatient twitch, as though she said to herself. "Stand upon your dignity and do not allow the impertinent gaze of a mere menial to discompose you!” The young man who had picked up my catalogue at the Royal Academy! One of the effects of the twitch was, that it caused her to drop a magazine which she was carrying, just as her foot was upon the last step. Before she could stoop to reclaim it, there was a hurried dart across the hall, on the part of the menial in question, and the article was retored to her with, what was not so much the respectful deference of an inferior, as the ordinary and natural courtesy of an equal. The effect of this simple act of politeness upon its recipient was as singular as unexpected. For a mo “How the girls at school would envy me! T am living in the same house with a real live Mystery!" CHAPTER XXII. Perkins' Revenge. Friday morning came, bringing with it, about eleven o'clock, a message which struck a feeling of chili fore boding to the heart of the individual whom it concerned. The master of the house desired to speak with the young man Edwards at once, in the dining-room. What did it mean? Was it merely some matter of small importance in connection with his household duties to which he wished to draw his attention person ally. or—? Mr. Ferrers was sitting in his place at the head of the table. There was something judicial looking in his at titude and expression, and, standing at a short distance from him, was the housemaid, Perkins. “Come in and shut the door," was the first sentence addressed to him. He obeyed noiselessly and care fully, more than ever mindful of his assumed position and grateful for each second’s delay, which allowed - him the opportunity of searching his I brain for some way out of the dilem ma. "Edwards."—it was the voice of his mr.ster and enemy addressing him— “I have one or two very serious ques tions to put to you.” The young man bent his head defer entially, and seemed to intimate his entire readiness to answer all inquir ies. “ft. has been brought to my notice— that is, I have reason to believe"—the voice continued, as its owner seemed to experience some difficulty in open ing up the subject—“that I have been deceived in you, and—in fact, that the name under which you are at present passing, is not your own. Is that so?” Ted answered respectfully, “Begging your pardon, sir. but the name I am going under is my own. Might I be allowed to ask who says anything to the contrary?” "You mean to maintain that your name is Edwards, after all?” he in quired, bending his brows upon Miss Perkins, whose—as he now thought fit to describe it—unwarrantable inter ference in the matter had subjected him to thl3 annoyance. “#!y name is Edward, sir. An ‘s' at the end makes it sound better, and I thought there was no objection to my adding the letter." "Then you. name. according to your own statement, is Edward, and you have merely added the final letter. If so, I am sorry—” 1 This was more than the woman could stand, and she broke in, uncere moniously upon her master's speech, Edward! Edward what, I should like to know? He's deceiving you, sir, in tryirg to make out as that’s his sur name. Ask him what the other is and why he’s had to drop it?” Mr. Ferrers turned toward him, wearily. “Is the woman right in as serting that the name you have given is only your Christian name? In which case it would seem that you have added the other letter for the purpose of making it do duty as a sur name?” There was a second’s hesitation, during which the housemaid nit her “P v ith impatience, be fore the answer came, slowly. "My Christian name is Edward; it did not seem to me to be of any Im portance which 1 gave.” Perkins sniffed triumphantly. “So you’re going to try and get out of it that way,” she thought, "bur it won't do." Somethin?; in this last answer had helped to raise him in his master's suspicions. "I must insist upon your giving me your right name,” he said, authorita tively. "Shall I answer him with a He?" was the thought which passed through the other's mind. "Surely, one more need rot weigh very heavily upon my conscience? And In si eh a cause!” But, in the same instant, the face of this man's daughter rose up before him. “How she would despise him. if she knew,” he thought, with a sud den reaction and a sense of self-con tempt, as he answered, still respect fully enough— T nUA.,i,l ___ li It . .'..VM.U IUVilll.711 11. ‘ Oh. you would prefer not to men tion it, would you? And what have you done to make you ashamed to own it?" exclaimed Perkins, the house maid. who was carried away by her feelings at this point, in a tone of triumph. She had better have remained silent. “Hold your tongue, woman,” was the angry reprimand she brought upon herself. “This is no business of yours.” Woman, indeed! A crowning insult! And to be told to bold her tongue! Her master, turning again to the young man. repeated his question, with the addition of the inquiry sug gested by the last remark of the woman Perkins. “What have you done that you are ashamed of your name?” “Nothing,” was the proud reply, given with head erect and defiant; and there was something about the manner and tone by which the other was obviously impressed. "Why, then, do you refuse to answer the question I have put to you?” ha asked In a milder voice. “There are family reasons,” was the answer. Family reasons! A man servant with family reasons, just as though he were anyone else, instead of being a useful sort of machine, hired out at so much a year, with board and lodging! No wonder there was something incongru ous in the sound! “I have nothing to do with your reasons,” was the answer, “and I must absolutely decline to retain any one in my service under a false name.” He knew' now that it was coming— notice to leave on the spot. Or might there not be a reprieve? He was entitled to a month's notice In the ordinary course of things. Oh. why had he procrastinated so long and wasted such gotaen opportunities? A month's warning—that was all he prayed for. A month?-—another day was all he asked. "Then you refuse to give me your proper name? I ask for the last time.” (To be continued.) EXPENSE OF COLLEGE MUSCLE. Vast Sums Spent by Leading Ameri can Universities. The impressive totals of university funds invested in athletic equipment during the present year make the outlay for developing the “sound body” rival for endowment of classi cal chairs and foundations, says Col lier's Weekly. The University of Pennsylvania is completing an ath letic field and a gymnasium in one magnificent quadrangle at a cost of nearly half a million dollars. Har vard has just thrown open a new field called the "Stadium," at a cost of $250,000. A movement is under way at the University of Chicago to endow ath letics in order to remove certain ob jectionable features of an admission fee system to struggles for college honors, ami a half million dollars is the Amount needed to provide suffi cient capital to maintain the varied sporting interests of the institution. Columbia has recently purchased real estate valued at $2,000,000, a part of which will be used for an athletic field, according to present plans. Princeton is building a gymnasium which will rival in cost and elaborate equipment any of her collegiate halls. There are several preparatory schools whose gymnasiums and fields added within the last three years represent an outlay of $50,000 each. He Knew Him. Hicks—Cayman seems to be very happy to-night. He must have money. Wicks—Why do you think so? Hicks—Because of the way he's cracking jokes. Wicks—Nonsense! If he had money he wouldn't be happy unless he was cracking bottles.—Catholic Standard | Times. VAy ASHI INGTON. BV JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. ! Fwm “T'nH»r th« K.m" i>mi] on mibrldgc, July 3. on the bun ireilih innii •! w»*M»rto» ■kkIo ic co mu in d of ib»* A ui erica a army. Haughty they said he was. at first, severe: Ittit owi'.'d. as All men owned, the steady hand 1 'pen the bridle, patient to command, Pr'zed, as all prize, tie pisth-e pure from fear. And learned to honor first, then love him. tlier r-vcre. So di power there is in clear eyed self restraint. And purpose clean as light from every seltlsf taint *••••* O man of silent mood. A stranger among strangers then. How art thou since renowned the Great, the flood Familiar .as the day in all the homes of men: The winged years, that winnow praise and blame Blow many names out; they hut fan to llame The self renewing splendors of the fame. ♦ * * • • Soldier and statesman, rarest unison; High poised example of great duti ‘s done Sltnplv as breathing, a worlds honors worn As life’s Indifferent gifts to all men horn; Bomb for himself, tinier* it were to God, But for Itls barefoot soldiers eloquent. Tramping the snow to coral where they trod. Held by his awe In hollow eyed content; Modest, yet firm as Nature's self, unblatned Save by the men his nobler temper shamed; Not honored then or now because he wooed The popular voice, but that lie still withstood; Broad mind-d. higher sou led, there Is but one Who was all this, and Dili's, and all men's— Washington. i THE IMMORTALITY OF [ ] WASHINGTON’S NAME £ On every hand in this land and in the uttermost parts of the earth, is shown the respect in whicli the great name of Washington is held. There is no name in all the. world so honored by Its geographical use. At the ex treme north of Greenland is Washing ton Land, and a little east of it is Cape Washington. Then there is a Washington in Oxford county, Ontario. In the mid-Paciflc, south of Hawaii, is Washington Island, and further south, on one of the Fiji islands, is Mount Washington. In Paris is the Rue Washington, opening into the Avenue des Champs Elysees. Turn to the United States and you will find 29fi Washingtons, which means more than five for each state. District, territory and each of the for eign possessions. Of these, the first that comes to mind is the national capital, then the great northwest state, and after these the numerous subdivisions of the various states. In Alabama there is a Washington coun ty; in Arkansas, a county and a town; in California, a county, two towns, three townships, and to these are add ed Washingtontown and Washington Corners; in Connecticut there is a town and a Washington Depot; in Flor ida a town; Georgia, a county and town; Idaho, a town: Illinois a coun ty, a town, two townships, and to these are added Washington Heights. In this list the word “town” is used in its broadest sense so as to embrace everything from a hamlet to a city. Indiana has a county, two towns, and forty-three townships; Iowa, a county, a town, forty-one townships, and to these are added Washington Mills and Washington Prairie; Kan sas, a county, two towns, six town ships, and a Washington Creek; Ken tucky, a county, a town and Mount Washington: Louisiana, a parish and a town; Massaenusetts, a town and Mount Washington; Maine, a county, a town and Washington Plantation; Maryland, a county, a town, Washing ton Junction, and also Mount Wash ington, Michigan, a town, two town ships. Washington Island and Wash ington Harbor; Minnesota, a county, a town, a township, and Washington l^ake; Mississippi, a county and a town. In Missouri is a great nest of Wash ingtons; a county, a town, twenty-one townships, Washington Centre and Mount Washington; Montana. Wash ington Bar. Washington Gulch and Mount Washington; Nebraska, a county; North Dakota, a North and bouth Washington lake; New Hamp shire a town, a township and Mount Washington; New Jersey, a town, five townships, Washington crossing, Washingtonville. Washington Corners and Washington Place; New York, a county, two towns. Washingtonville, Washington Mills. Washington Hollow and Washington Four Corners; North t arollna. a county and two townships. Then comes Ohio, with a remark able display, a county, four towns, forty townships. Washingtonville. Washington Station and Mount Washington; Oregon, a county; Pennsylvania, a county. three towns, twenty-one townships and Mount Washington; Rhode Island, a county and a town; Vermont, a coun ty and a town; Virginia, a county, a town and “Washington's Birth Place.” in Westmorland county, Washington, Washington lake; Wisconsin, a coun ty, six townships. Washington Island and Washington Harbor; Wyoming. Mount Washington. When one thinks of the monuments to Washington, the first that comes to mind is the mighty shaft in the capi tal. Then there is the celebrated marble statue in the central hall of the Capitol at Richmond, by Jean An toine Houdon, and not far awav the imposing monument in Baltimore, sur mounted by a colossal statue of the patriot. There is no state, in fact there is no city of any considerable size, where Washington is not con tinually kept in mind by ti.e same tab let to his memory, and they are in creasing now more rapidly than ever before, since the Sons and Daughters of the Revolution, the Colonial Dames and the various other patri ot Ic* organizations have begun their work. These are seen in the granite tablet under the Washington Elm, in Cambridge, commemorating that event of July 3, 1775. when the great general took command of the first American — 'M army, anti in some statue or tablet in nearly every town known to the thir teen colonies, nntt in the hundred* of towns and great cities (hat are now the centers of prosperous communities in what were then unknown lands. Here are some answers from little school children when they were asked the question "Who was George Wash ington?" “He was a great general who whipped the British,” "He was the first president,” "He was a good man, who fought for his country,” "He was tlte father of his country,” "He was a brave man who said that this country should lie free.” "He was the greatest man, and Lincoln conies next.” So it went, as the question was put to a score oC children, and from not one came an answer that j showed ignorance. EARL OF BUCHAN S TRIBUTE. Sent Washington a Box from the Wal lace Oak. The New York Times published an article in reference to the disposal of the box made from the oak that shel tered Sir William Wallace after the battle at Falkirk, and giving the let ter of presentation in which the Earl of Huchan presented the box to Wash ington. It seems that, the Earl of Buchan, friend and patron of Robert Burns, was so delighted with the heroic part that Gen. Washington took in the American War of Independence that he showed his appreciation in the, manner described. The letter and box were intrusted to the care of a Mr. Robertson, a Scottish artist. Robertson arrived In New York In October, and in Decem ber went to Philadelphia to fulfill his mission. This was in 1791. On Friday, Dec. 13, of that year he presented the box to the president. "He was much embarrassed,” he said, "on being introduced to the American hero, but was soon relieved by Wash ington. who entered into familiar con versation with him. and introduced him to Mrs. Washington." The Earl of Huchan expressed the wish that he might have a portrait of Washington and that Robertson might be the artist. Washington sat. to Robertson for the portrait, in miniature, and when that was finished the artist painted a larger picture from it in oil for Lord Buchan. This picture was painted at the close of May. 1792, when Washington wrote to Icrd Buchan thanking him for the present of the box, and saying of the portrait: "The manner of the execution of it does no discredit, I am told, to the artist..” The picture was sent to Europe by Col. I„ear, and Rob ertson received the thanks of the Earl of Buchan. In his letter of thanks to Buchan, Washington said: "I will, however, ask that you will exempt me from compliance with the request relating to its eventual destination. In an at tempt to execute your wish in this particular I should feel embarrassed trom a just comparison of relative pre tensions and fear to risk Injustice by so marked a preference.” The box was taken to Mount Ver non at the close of the session, where it remained until Washington's death, when he committed it to the Earl by the following clause In his will: "To the Earl of Buchan I commit the box made of the oak that shelter ed the great Sir William Wallace, after the battle of Falkirk, presented to mo by his lordship in terms too flat | terlng for me to repeat, with a request ; to pass it, on the event of my decease, to the man in my country who should appear to merit it best, upon the same conditions that have induced him to send it to me. Whether easy or not to select the man who might comport with his lordship's opinion in this respect, it is not for me to say; bnt, conceiving that no disposition of the valuable curiosity can be more eligible than the recommitment of it to its own cabinet, agreeably to the original design of the "Goldsmiths Company" of Edinburgh, who presented it to him, and at his request consented that it should be transferred to me, I do give and bequeath the same to his lordship and in case of his decease, to his heir, with my grateful thanks for the distinguished honor of presenting it to me, and more especially for the fav orable sentiments with which he ac companied it.” $100 Reward, $100. The reader* of thl# paper will ho pleaaed to lean ftaat there f* at leaaf fine dreaded dlaeaee that telenet haa been able to cure In all It# a.agea, and that l» Catarrh. 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Any informa tion desired by the public relative to those cheap excursions will he cheen fully furnished upon application to S. G. Warner, G. P. and T. A., Kanswi City, Mo. Heavenly bread Is never blessed until it is broken. FRAUDS IN A BALE OF HAY. Frauds in Watch Cases. According to an article In the Cincinnati Commercial, a fifty-one pound stone was recently found in that city secreted in a bale of bay of eighty pounds. This is not us had as finding a lump of lead of nearly one-hulf the weight of the solid gold watch case secreted in the cen ter of the case. Gold watch cases are sold by weight, and no one can see where this lead is se creted until the springs of the case aro taken out and the lead will bo found se creted behind them. These cases are made hv companies who profess to bo honest but furnish the means to the dishonest to rob the public. It is not pleasant for anyone to fine that he has lugged a lump of loud in his wutch ease. Another trick the makers of spurious solid gold watch cases is to stump the case ”U. S. Assay.” The United States does not stamp any article made out of gold and silver e::cept coin, and the fakir, by using this stamp, wants to make the public believe that thegovernmeut had something to dowitli tile stamping or guaranteeing the fineness of watch cases. Another trick of the watch fakir is to advertise a watch described as a solid gold filled watch with a twenty or twenty-five year guarantee. These watches are gen erally sent C. O. I)., and if the purchaser has paid for the watch he finds that the Company which guaranteed the watch to wear is hot In existence. Tho Dueber-Hamnden Watch Company of Canton, Ohio, who are constantly ex posing these frauds, will furnish the names of the muuufueturers who aro m this questionable business. A man’s greatness is seen In his •ecognltlon of goodness. To Wash China Bilk Dresses. 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