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ha*** a it 11 til wl.*.*r *alllr-1 an> a
naan Nawt from « distant boat. Hr na
a ! f ib-m tin U Cxamrl Applevard.
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*» *a-'» l~»t <t <*<aa( Marl, out to <•*
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■*•*( I .. tat* Hr Mrnim a man
dr-ad CfMO (unlin and ■jip nai ll
”*e a k*w * - *ma Ktliorltir Thaater.
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w-js*- of ll.ara. t*» lament the Inland.
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a ata.urs there
CHAPTCR IKr—(Cc-.tlnueiS.)
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fc- id her *s*w«r, ijthft.tj j
• US tend afa-B That be >bouUl J
<*n ' Ye! (hare net* two thing, la
t »-• ad, to calm |.r: an lu.i»er
■•a net*-, puts -eg. tad a eitnpie dig
mUf that left Ilf lie toothed tor re
MBhBSM
A* Ur Coast, rtcrnet'atlly while
- did cut t<ply, the itiur hung In
ih. ! a lance. whether he should speak |
*r mo: whether enlighten her font
atth or lea re her iwere she happy to j
cer aum.j!| is her fool's Paradise
lie tedt kUB»r'.l a prey to discordant
tsapniaea pride and generosity conn
•■•••a* hi*, each with a double
”1 hold yoar happiness above all i
-1*0." he msntwed as the pause leug’b- '
» d—'far above my own. Karherlne !
That is a by 1 ask yon: nr* you bap- j
Vt~
k»«* •» r»trHi,- rhe told him
'That do-sn't answer aw"
ller eyes ■>(([«! beneath bis
••'•rebuts giant*. 8b* tamed away
*»d stared off into :b« vacancy of the
•<*
How I* o»t to t*:i?" she said pres
'» ~U»‘t happiness difficult to
A Uuag Oi < uraparative val
I am content. that tmiefi 1
*■ ■ "* • has* discovered something
*» w* **eber thaa the gratification oi
*<ff. I have Ira rued that to serve
tz-ana ibm* d ta ta be served.
I married the man I loved: b« needs
a* amt. could hardly do without me.
« am a help to bin la bta work: He
•«aa!d pr. bally be unable to ccatinue
t without ay assistance I
1 *** L-!f rarwa. a* be baa hts. aa you
ta** y«n Who baa I not?
Hwt a year is a lone time; I have
teamed mu-b siace . . " she took
****** I'eath "Tea." she concluded
cwmly “I think 1 may aay 1 am hap
py Garrett "
Bwt ah* kept her face averted
Aad tbu • be asked, stepping to
her aide and lightly touching her bare
fare-arm with bta Dicer
Juat below her left elbow lour
*"*»■ bke blwlab strtpea aet close lo
»* ’b-r. aaciod owl like weals upon her
deUcate skin, where the flesh bad
haea braised by the cruel pressure or
a mac s strong fingers
At Us touch she recoiled with a
halt s'ftb l cry her (ace blazing
•‘At'—don't—!" she gasped, trying
with (al -ring Ungers to pull down
’*>- slews" But realizing that It was
taw late, ‘hat be had already sten. she
recoetred. sullenly leaving (be sleeve
aa It was
**■ ,crT) wJd Coil soberly; “I j
tf.iB'l ta- an to touch you. I didn't \
'b.-k—fend Icigutin •> hat—W ha! |
•aff •°* *»K« ><hi in forget Only
tfen* la bis mark. Ka theme "
»>!! • Ik* !U>bcd defiantly. “Slid
• fent if H U* W he or am I. answer
»**• to you* Can he not touch me
(list feta nadeefniing and pene
trating *a*e dUv rted her; her an
«*r ran* unconvincing even to her
•aif “It was an accident.” she lin
efeed tamely. One of the servants
argered faun—they are Chinese end
stapid—end t* fau blindness he mis
tonfe m Itrr the man and caught my
arts *
It mast have hurt.* said Coast, try
«Mf K» believe her
fefae nas silent, racing him with a
•race at bravado lie booed
“I leg your iiardoa. it was. as you
suggest. none of toy affair | merely
happened to notice, and tt Mart Jed me
Will yon be good enough to tell me
the tray to the beach*”
Silently the woman indicated a path
leading nnay f:om the gate.
Still he lingered, leftirg his eyes
drink their BU of her. and knew, tn
n swift flash of certitude, that sever
kad Che fame mere dear 'o him than
W this moment of renunciation. that
never would fals heart's allegiance
waver from her. whatever her mood
or arcumstBi.ee Whether she suf
fered bun or as cow sedulously dts
cowrtenwnced him. hts queen could do
ae wrung
With a ugh inaudible, he went to
the gate
"There * Latbi-.g I can serve you In.
Katherine?"
"Xotfathg—only go away.”
•Then goed-hy* He shrugged
sightly. Sited his cap and put himself
outside the door yard.
Cut. Uarreti
He stopped SLe moved down to
thr Jcnce
•iarr-tt." nhc begged, breathless
with the aaxiet> roused by an unsus
pected talent fear, promise me sotnt
thtBS
lie looked down Into her sweet (ace.
plaintive with appeal "Name It.” said
Tf by any chance you should meet
him—Douglas—I’m not sure w^iere be
1'U he careful." he assured her.
"Don't worry; I ahant let him know
whn 1 am. If possible. 1’U keep out of
Me way."
Hot eyes were eloquent of tnex
preedhlr relief “Thank you." she fal
tered. keenly alive to the trite Inad
equacy of the words. “And. Garrett,
you're net—not angry with ir.e?"
“Angry? With you!”
She was twisting her hands togeth
er. “1 can't seem to forget." she said
in a tremor. “I've tried—I only wish
I might—but I can't, I can't. Remem
ber that, if I seen unkind."
“You haven't been unkind to the
man who shot Van Tuyl." he said, in
spite of hitr.self.
She did not seem to hear, or. if she
beard, to read the riddle in his enig
matic answer, “it isn't that alone."
she protested; "that, perhaps. I could
forget in time You weren't yourself;
Douglas has always Insisted you were
rot But. O Garrett. Garrett; it was
’•manly, it was unworthy of you to
try to shield yourself by accusing
him! That I can't forget, that I'm
afraid I shall never learn to forgive.
Why. Garrett, why did you permit
that man Warburton to do it?"
!:• ht ard her out in pitiful patience.
t'Xi (i ■ i !y moved for anger or resent
:r.--nt to have any place in the conflict
ol his thoughts
“As to that." he said, his tone col
or!. >?. I would ask you to suspend
judgment if vou hadn't already pro
nounced it But I leave you this to
onslder: one of two men only could
cave kilit d Van Tuyl Dundas we ex
dreamed that man could be ao low, so
vile!" she said; and he wished him
self beneath the foot she stamped. "I
hate you!” she told him; and beneath
his breath he whispered over and
over: “1 love you, I love you!”
“I ask nothing.” he said, when she
had to stop, as much for lack of words
as breath, “more than that you think
it over. You've told me what you
think of me—and 1 daresay you’re
somewhat justfied. But think it over;
you owe me and you owe yourself
that. Weigh the worst you knew of
me before Van Tuyl was shof against
what you have learned of Blackstock
since you married him; then judge be
tween us. Try to think which would
be the more likely to lose his temper
because of a drunken man's maudlin
i insolence. At best you'll admit it's
! his word against mine, Dundas’s word
I deciding. And one way or another
Uur.das was a perjurer: first bis tes
timony convicted me. then his testi
mony set me free."
"What do you mean by that?” she
demanded, impressed in spite of her
self.
"Dundas,” he explained patiently,
"committed suicide in the Tombs a
lew days ago. alter signing a confes
sion that he had testified ialsly at my
trial. On the strength of that con
fession ! was pardoned by the Gov
ernor. You understand.?”
Her face was ghastly. “You bought
that confession." she asserted between
I set teeth
He smiled painfully. “I presume 1
might have anticipated that. . .
“You daren’t deny you bought it!”
“From a . man contemplating sui
cide?”
That silenced her. Her poor, dis
traught wits would frame n<Tretort to
his inexorable logic. Pulled this way
and that by doubts, each more ter
rible than Its fellow, she could no
She Kept Her Face Averted.
cept iy mutual consent; Blackstock
admits and I admit be didn't do it.
There remain Blackstock and myself,
neither of whom could have been con
ricked on the other's unsupported evi
dence."
You are cowardly to say this to me,
r.hen he's not here!”
But he had a level and emotionless
look with which to meet the irnpas
-toned scorn she showed him.
"Perhaps; but don't forget I asked
only th< opportunty to say as much to
him. . . . Has It ever occurred to
ycu that Dundas. not your husband,
sent tue to Sing Sing—that, had Dun
das been in nty pay. Blackstock would
now be occupying the cell I occupied?"
He had himself well in hand. Other
wise she must have seen how deeply
moved he was. Simply to watch her
and not give way was almost more
than he could endure. His eyes
kindled and bis face blazed, and nis
heart ached—with bis love for her.
the longing that he must never voice.
But she did not see.
She was answering him: her words
came in a torrent, stumbling over
one another: her voice vibrant with
unutterable contempt sounded in bis
bearing like the hymning of angels.
' Oh.” she cried In loathing—“insuffer
able!'* And the desire to catch uer
in bis arms and stop her lips «vitn
kisses was like a pain. ”1 never
more than sway and stare at him with
eyes blank in a face like parchment.
His heart bled for her in her mis
ery. If he could he would have un
said all that he had said, to ease her
suffering “1 feel like a dog." he told
her contritely: "to have told you this
. . . I meant not to. but . . .
I couldn’t help it. Think and . . .
and judge between us, Katherine."
"It is a lie!” she waiied. "You have
lied to me—everything you have said
was lies—all lies. I don't believe you.
. . Hut you have poisoned my
life for me! . . . Truth or lies:
what am I to believe? . . I am
the most wretched of women, and you
have made me so. Why couldn't you
leave me In peace? Why must you
have come to make me suffer so? How
am I to know what is true, what
false? . . . Oh, you are monstrous!
You are cruel, cruel! If only you
would go and let me forget! . . .
Go. go. and let me be!"
In his remorse, reluctant to leave
her so. he tried to comfort her wltn
broken protestations that even be
knew were rank with insincerity; nor
would be willingly have gone before
she grew more composed. But at
length, despairing, be yielded to her
unending importunity, and bowing bis
head, went his way in a daze of mis
ery as black and dense as the relent
less. sullen fog.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Work Bernhardt’s Recipe
Ravages of Old Father Time Meld
Back by Constant Activity and
Regular Habits.
It was Carlyle who. In his dogmatic
fashion, declared that the only true
happiness of a u;an was that of "clear,
decided activity in the sphere for which
by nature and circumstances he has
been fitted and appointed.” There is.
perhaps, little in common between lbs
grim old Scotchman and Mrae. Sarah
licrnhadt. and yet we find the vfvacl
; ous Frenchwoman still a mistress of
1 her art at sixty-seven, and Just about
| to sail for her native land after a tour
1 of America, during which in the course
of 35 weeks she has given 285 per
; formances. 90 of them at one-night
stands, netting for herself a round
| quarter of a million dollars and for
the theatrical managers probably
double as much, glvtng voice to much
the tune view.
“Can you.** a reporter for the New
York Sun asked her In English. “leave
behind you a recipe for youth and
beauty?” The question was interpret
ed and madame smiled and gave her
hand a deprecatory toss, the grace of
which was inimitable. "He is gallant,
this young man,” she said. “There is
no secret. But. yes. work! Always I
work. One grows old slowly who
works, for there is the satisfaction of
accomplishment. I could not be idle.
1 would be miserable. Always 1 must
be doing something. Plenty of sleep,
a sparing diet and not too much fresh
air. so!" Later madame voiced her
sentiments even more expressively.
"Health,” she said, “comes from the i
good God, but I work like the devlL"
More Than She Knows.
“The last time I saw your husband
he was trying to stop smoking. Has
he stopped?”
"I don't know. You, of course, know
that he is dead.”
plan suimer home
Colorado Citizens Would Provide
Mansion for President.
Drawings Have Been Finished for a
Veritable Palace of Picturesque
Design for Occupancy by'the
Chief Executive.
Denver, Colo.—The citizens or Colo
rado have started a campaign to pro
vide for the president or the United
States a summer home In this state.
The plans, which have already been
completed, call tor a veritable palace
of most original and picturesque de
sign, the like of which does not exist
in this country. It will take rank
with any of the existing palaces ot
European monarchs. The idea orig
inated with John Brisben Walker, and
a committee of prominent Colorado
men is now in charge of the move
ment.
The proposed home is on the Mount
Falcon, 15 miles from Denver, in the
front range of the Rockies. It is
planned to make the gift a token from
the people of Colorado, and contribu
tions are now coming in from all over
tho state. The fund was started by
subscriptions from leading bankers
and business men in Denver. Ground
has already been broken and it is be
lieved that the building will be con
structed in time for the next summer
j season.
During his recent visit to Denver,
President Taft was apprised of the
summer home plan, and expressed the
opinion that no locality could otter
finer natural attractions for such a
structure.
The proposed house will be unique
in many wavg and exceedingly at
tractive. The plans call for a noble
and massive structure of gray gran
ite. contrasting with the natural set
ting for the building. The house will
provide ample room for the presi
dent’s attendants and assistants. Au
tomobiles would bring the summer
home with forty minutes of Denver.
The view that the sue of the build
ing commands is its strongest feature
and it Is this that was strongly urged
in making a choice of sites. Among
The Proposed House.
all the wonderful and beautiful scenk
spots within a short distance of Den
ver, Mount Falcon, perhaps, stands
pre-eminent. From the north terrace
of the mountain, upon which the
drawing-room and library will open
the steep mountain side, wooded with
pines, drops down 2,000 feet into the
rushing waters of Bear creek; to the
south, 75 miles away, is Pike's peak
Denver lies 14 miles away to th;
northeast. When a passing cloud
covers the city with its shadow, the
plains seem barren of houses. Thee
suddenly the sunlight pierces through
and a great city stands revealed.
MAN CAPTURES SKUNKS ALIVE
Michigan Youth Has Trapping Beaten
to Frazzle—Makes Pets of
Prizes.
Grant, Mich.—Much interest is man
ifest in this vicinity over the work
of Amiel Sodestrom, a young man liv
ing six miles west of this place, whe
has discovered new work for his fen
ret. which he uses in capturing skunkt
instead of rabbits.
Amiel discovered that his ferret had
no fear of an encounter with any
skunk on entering the underground
home of the latter. Soon after learn
ing of this power of the ferret, the
young man contrived a plan to capture
the skunk in a manner more conveni
ent than digging or trapping. As the
ferret enters the home of the skunk
a large bag is placed over the hole and
soon the skunk is quietly reposing on
the inside of the bag.
One peculiar feature of the whole
affair is the fact that the young hunt
er, upon arival at home, seldom ex
periences any inconvenience In fondl
ing the prize after it is in capltivity
one day and often can pick it up In
his hands.
PLACES MONEY IN SHOE BOX
Woman Mistake* Receptacle in a New
York Hotel for Safety De
' posit Vault.
New York.—Mistaking a small wood
en box built into the wall of her room
t the Waldorf-Astoria for a safe-depos
it box, a woman of Georgetown, S. C.
who arrived in New York, deposited
$900 in cash and jewelry valued at
$6,000 in the box that night, and re
tired with the satisfaction that her val
uables would be secure. When she
awoke next morning the gems anc
money were missing.
Soon afterward William Peterson, a
hotel valet, turned up with the $90(
and the missing jewelry.
“While making my rounds for the
shoes at 2 a. m." said he. "I fount
this money and jewelry in the box
where the shoes are placed.”
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LAW’S INJUSTICE MADE PLAIN
Farmer’* Grievance Was That Story
Once Accepted Should Not
Remain Good.
A story is being told at the expense
of an old English farmer who was
recently called upon to explain why
he had failed to take out a license fot
a favorite fox terrier dog. “ 'E’s nob
but a puppy," the defendant remarked,
in response to a question as to the
animal's age. “Yes. yes! So you say.
But how old is he?" “Oh, weel. 1
couldn’ tell to a bit,” was the reply.
“I never was much good at remember
ing dates, but 'e's nobbut a puppy."
On the other hand, it was maintained
that the animal in question was a
very, very old-fashioned puppy, and
the magistrate Inflicted the usual fine.
Shortly afterward the farmer was met
by a friend who wanted to know how
he had fared at the police court.
“Nobbut middlin’,” was the reply.
“Did they fine you?" “Yes," respond
ed the victim; "an’ 'ang me if I can
understand it! Last year an' the year
afore that I told the same tale about
the same dog. an' it wor alius good
enough afore! Who's been tamperin’
wi' the law sin' last year?"
His Exact Sort.
“What kind of a glass of fashion
did Ophelia consider Hamlet?" “As
long as she called him Lord Hamlet.
1 suppose she considered him a peer
glass."
Man and Meter Both Unique.
A Kansas City man notified the gas
company that his meter was running
slow. Greater honesty hath no man
than this.
LEISURE PROVIDED FOR.
“‘Marry in haste and repent at leis
ure,’ you know.”
‘‘Yes; but my fiancee is rich enough,
so I'll have the leisure all right."
Swallowing Glory.
The litle daughter of a well-known
: Baltimore clergyman recently startled
' the family while at breakfast by sud
■ denlv exclaiming:
Tm full of glory!"
"What on Nearth do you mean,
child?” the father hastened to ask.
"Why,” exclaimed the youngster, "a
sunbeam just got on my spoon, and
I've swallowed it."
Most of life’s so-called tragedies
are merely comedies.
The fellow who shoots off his mouth
i doesn’t always hit the mark.
Eager to See.
"I have a poem here entitled ‘Alone
with Nature,’ ” said the sallow young
man with the long hair and the frayed
trousers. “It is a personal impres
sion.”
“Is it?” replied the editor of the
Chicago Record-Herald, as he hastily
glanced at the opening lines. “Have
you ever been alone with nature?"
“I have, and, oh, it is glorious—glo
rious!”
.* “Here's a dime. Get on a trolley
car and ride as far as you can. Go
back to nature and spend another
hour or two alone with her. You say
you plucked the hazel blossoms by
the stream. If you are able to find
any place where you can do that let
me know. I want to watch you while
you do it."
Walking for Nerves.
The nerves suffer from want of
pure oxygen. They run like a net
work all through the skin and when
they are overwrought the skin is apt
to be dry and colorless. Walking is
; an excellent tonic for the nerves. It
! gives them strength to control them
I selves.
If one has means or leisure, there
are plenty of other more enjoyable ex
ercises. But few forms are so bene
ficial as the regular daily jaunt of
j four or five miles for obtaining a good
j complexion.
Too Much Reclining.
“How as it that Gamps failed in
' his bed-manufacturing business?” "He
got too much in sympathy with the
j business.” “How could he do that?”
j “He lay down on the job.”
It is the common lot of man not to
I get an uncommon lot.
A Hold-Up
An Oppressive Trust.
Before the Coffee Roasters’ Association, in ses
sion at Chicago on Thursday, Thomas J. Webb,
of Chicago, charged that there is in existence a
coffee combine which is “the most monstrous im
position in the history of human commerce.”
There is very slight exaggeration about this
statement. It cornea very close to being literally
true. There is a coffee combine in Brazil, from
which country comes the bulk of the coffee used
in the United States, which is backed by the gov
ernment of Brazil and financed by it, which com
pels American consumers, as Mr. Webb said, “to
pay famine prices for coffee when no famine
exists.”
The worst thing about this is that the consum
ers of the United States have been compelled to
put up the money through which this combine,
to further cinch them, has been made effective.
There were formerly revenue duties imposed upon
all coffce entering the United States. Those taxes
were denounced as an imposition Upon the people;
as taxing the poor man’s breakfast table, arid the
like. The taxes were removed. Immediately
thereafter Brazil imposed an export duty upon,
coffee up to the full amount of theformercustoms
taxes in this country. The revenue which for
merly went into the treasury of the United States
was diverted to the treasury of Brazil. The poor
man’s breakfast coffee continued to cost him the
same old price.
But this was only the commencement. The
“valorization” plan was evolved in Brazil.
Through this plan the government, using the rev
enues derived from the export duties for the pur
poses, takes all of the surplus crop in a season of
large yields and holds it off the market, thus
keeping the supply down to the demands of the
market and permitting the planters to receive a
moeh higher price than they would otherwise
have done.
The United States consumes more Brazilian cof
fee than does the rest of the world. We are the
best customers of Brazil, and Brazil buys little
from.us. Now Brazil is promoting, financing and
maintaining a trust designed, and working effect
ively for the purpose, to compel American con
sumers to pay an exorbitant price for the coffee
they use. What is the remedy 1—Seattle- Port-In
teiligeneer—Xov, 19,1911.
1&
Standard statistics of the coffee trade
show a falling off in sales during the last
two vears of over two hundred million
pounds. Authenticated reports from the
Postum factories in this city show a
tremendous increase in the sale of Postum
in a like period of time.
While the sales of Po6tum invariably
show marked increase year over year, the
extraordinary demand for that well
known breakfast beverage during 1911 is
very likely due to a public awakening to
the oppression of the coffee trust.
Such an awakening naturally disposes
the multitude who suffer from the ill
effects of coffee drinking to be more re
ceptive to knowledge o? harm which so
often conies as a result of the use of
the drug-beverage, coffee.—Batilt Creek
Evening Naef—Ike. 19,1911.
POSTUM
is a pure food-drinK made of the field grains, with
a pleasing flavour not unliKe high grade Java.
A Big' PacKag'e
About 1; lbs. Costs 25 cts.
At Grocers
\
Economy to one’s purse is not the main reason
for using Postum.
It is absolutely free from any harmful substance,
such as “caffeine” (the drug in coffee), to which so
much of the nervousness, biliousness and indiges
tion of today are due. Thousands of former coffee
drinKers now use Postum because they Know from
experience the harm that coffe^ drinKing causes.
Boil it according to directions (that’s easy) and
it will become clear to you why—
“There’s a Reason” .
Postum Cereal Company, Limited, Battle CreeK, Michigan.