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h I li ItV in v I V An End to WHT5N they parted lie had fallen nt her fort mtil kissed the hem of her dross. How ridiculous a demonstration It appeared to htm to-day, and et he dreaded to meet her again. Blio had treated him atro ciously ho had considered at the time. Ungllshcd, she hnd amucd hernelf with him, nnd then Riven him his congee. Sho wnx a married woman and he had tcon a boy. He recalled every Inrldent of the fare well A youthful passion It may have heen, hut he rould not dispute It even nowIt wim a passion that left Its mark. There hnd been n conicrvatory opening out ot the loom she occupied It wax In the conservatory that he hail m.ulo him self the moat absurd there, and for a moment at the plnno, at which alio had iteated herself Indifferently, nnd where ho had knell to her like n lover In "The London Journal." Hhe had strolled along, smiling nt the flower. Haying cruel things to him In her new und en re Ions voice, nnd he had followed her wist fully tike .1 whipped dog, pleading to he readmitted to favor. A spray of fern that he had dropped had been captured by hint passionately she had touched It In their hint moments together, She shrugged her shoulders with a sneer, and hi oyeei filled at her cruelty. "What do you rtippoK' there was In a boy like you to hold n woman like me?" he had asked. It wns the handiest thing she could have mild, and he remembered that at that he had broken down altogether. Onod henvens, how preposterous he had been how wrongly he had gone to work, alwiiys being pathetic nnd reproachful! rii li Jeunwre snvult, si la vlclllcsse pou alt However. It wns mer. He had not "found Unlin "Jor his wound In nix months" an she had prophesied, hut In nine years ho had iimrrli-d, anil forgotten her exist-, ence cutlrol) until It wax recalled to him by tho night nt her name In the visitors' list Now the rccollectlonM rushed back at Mm. nnd while he laughed at his former self an a fool, he was cuusclnus of a Htrange tremor at the prospect of peeing her unco more He loved hid wife Klneerely. Twelve moutlui ago he could have contemplated mooting Mr Jernynghnm without mis giving, Hut he had been married twelve montlm. The tlmo had not lew tied tiljs love, but It had naturally dispelled thu romance. After all. to bo "In love." with a woman Is a greater safeguard against others linn to "love her." Ho was hound to acknowledge to himself that he wns frightened at the, thought of s-clng Mis. Jernynghnm ngaln. He had, iim a matter of fact, avoided the Cailuo kIiico he knew he was In Dieppe. He put down his jiaper nnd looked across, at Nellie reading a Tiiuehnltz nov el. How pretty ahe wns, and how trust full What would hu Hay, could she di vine his ptcnent mood? Blntcy us It was, It would cut her to tho heart. Hah, he wtu a fool why tihould that make h'm afraid to venture out of doom! tlu was not fond of her still of course he was ttot. Tho Tauchnllz novel dropped to Mrs. Maxwell's In p. "What-uro you thinking nbout daillng?" ho askedi "I was thinking how charming you look In that frock, my dear," he nnswered. Ho profcrvrd the habit of making graceful speeches to his wife. Cynical b.ichelor friends s.ild ho forgot who she wiui that It was the force of habit. She xhoak her hnd doubtfully. "There wuh a nasty black wrinkle be Iween your eyebrows. Jack, and you were lugging your mustache, as you always do when you're 'put out.' I do look charm ing In this frock, I admit but you weren't thinking ho." Ho obeyed a sudden Impulse. "Nellie, come here. Do you remember, soon after we worn married, you asked mo a question. You naked mo If 1 had ever cared deeply for nnolher girl than yourself." "I remember." said Nellie. "Yon." "I told you what an Infernal Idiot 1 hnd onco made of myself over a married woman. I asked you. too, never to use n certain scent because It reminded me of Jier. You know all that?" "I know: I know: go on!" "Well, sho'n here, that's, all. nnd con found It I'm rathor sorry." "Oh!" said Nellie. And then there wns a pause between them. She was the one to break It. "It's If quite nil ot, Jack7 Hhe couldn't, she daren't, attempt to? You're married you would simply have to bow and pass on. Huskies, by your own ac count she was well, she didn't en re for you nuy moro. Why should you mind seeing her?" "I don't know," he muttered Irresolute ly; I'd rathor not, thut's ull. Anyhow, let's; talk of something else. We nre leaving ploppc the end of the week; as a matter of fact. I dare say I hIiiiII never ooiiifl ucross her!" Mrs, Maxwell, however, wuh not satis fied. For ouo thing, stic wanted to remain longer In Dieppe than they had nt first proposes, and for nnolher, she objected on principle to her husband being nervous of n rencontre with any woman In tho wide, wide world "Como for a walk," she said, "and don't be such a stupid boy. One would think you woro In love with her now, to hear you talk. You'll make mo Jealousl" And she made a mirthless pictence at a laugh which would have deceived no living soul but a husband, "del ready, I'm going to put on my lint and If ou're very good you shall come and watch me live all ur monoy In the Casino,'' She had never been more bewitcldng or coquettish In their courtxhlp than she was during that evening. Far more plain ly than the man himself she realized that she luid a rival though It might be only a memory and nlie put forth nil her forces to unnlhllate her. Beautiful, doubtless? Jack would never have been captured by n woman who wa not good looking. And a woman of the world also? Jnck hated Hchool girls! "Never theless," mused Mrs. Maxwell, contem plating her rellectlon complacently In one of the mirrors of the gaming room, "I tblnk I ouglit to be capable of hold ing my own against the lady, I really do!" The wrong home came In again, nnd ?aln; undeterred by III fortune, uno drew Icket from tho bowl. sho lltted mr head she felt her yvid beside her give a galvanic start, 'text Instant, follow Ing tho direction ttaxe. she. knew the woman. V she meditated; "ov'Jently fal Now. I w inder If she his charm enough to make him lose night All Things of that, or If I dare venturo on an heroic course'" "My darling, don't you think wo've played this Idiotic game long enough?" nld Jack In it drained voice. "Let us go Into tho terrace," So ho could not oven trust hlmnclf In tho s.ime room wllh her, couldn't ho7 It was too had; really, It was humiliating, "You go, dearest," replied Mrs. Max well, sweetly, "I know you hate to bo here, and I am much too Infatuated to leave off yet ni)self. (Jo nnd smoke your cigar In peace nnd the fresh air, and come buck for me when you've finished It. I shall he perfectly safe, und I mean to "break the b.tiikl' " Jack departed obediently, and out of the tail of her oye his wife watched the other woman lake note of It. "Now, will she follow him or not?" she asked herself "Not Just et. I suppose It would he too marked, Pntlenzal" It was ten minutes later when Mrs. Jernyiighnm sauntered carelessly from her place at the table out through the glass door, and Mrs. Maxwell cjasped her hnnds In her hip with sudden nervoiiM necs. After all It was an heroic course. Had she been rush and foolhardy? There was moonlight outside, and the lapping of waves. Fatal adjuncts to such a mat ter! In the moonlight, too, the creature's appearance would he softtnrd and re fined. She had made u mistake, perhaps clip hnd placed him In a temptation she would have avoided. Should she Join him - rescue him, while there wits still time? No! She would not, she would stand her chance. Moonlight or no moonlight, sho would risk It, . . . Two francs more and the devil take the hlnd-mnstl They came face to face .the hud plan ned It so -nnd her slight gesture of sur prise was perfect. "Mr. Mnxwell-ynu? Is It possible?" "How do you do, Mrs. Jernynzh.im. I" He wan going to say he was peuFed to meet her, but decided not to. "1 did not know you were In Dieppe, Have you boon here long?" "I have boon hero, with my wife, about a month," he answered. "With jour wife? Itcnl'y!" She gave a faint smile a smile ho remembered very well. "8 you aro married- am 1 to con gratulate you7" "Tluink you," he sa!d; ")ou are very kind. Your husband Is" "He's diTidj so don't Inqiilic about his. health. You woo always making blunders of that sort." Sho laughed. "I used to corieel you In that fashion l"ng ao, didn't I? You fee, I haven't changed. Well, well, will, and so you're married? I told you you'd marry you didn't believe mo then!" "Ah, but- you were right." "Of com re. 1 was right. Shan't we sit down? or won't your wife let you7 I pay, are you henpecked? You used to be the sort of boy who'd bo henpecked. Per haps you've Improved since those days." "I'orli.iM 1 have. There uro two chairs" "Thanks. Do you know tills Is very funny to me, to moot you In the capacity of a mairlcd man? Do you remember how you used to vow that never, never, novor" She. broke off and burst Into laughter again. "And shall I own some thing? After you were gone sometimes when I was Inclined to be sentimental I used to half believe you." Sho leanetl forward, anil llxed her eyes on him In Just the m.innner ho used to llml ho Irresistible, Somehow It seemed less distracting now. The eyw had not altered perhaps, but her face was older, and that expression looked out of place on It. . There was even a 'sadness to him In boholdlug the change that tlmo hud wrought In her. The woman whose mem ory had thrlliled him so was gone. He bad thought about her so much, and now he did not exist. It war pathetic, and what wan more painful still this wreck of Nora Jernynghnm could not Join with him In mourning for her. He wept alone. "You aro not glad to see me!" she Mild. He was not; he wan sorry. Ills very soul was full of regret, of sympathy. Hut ho could not tell her so, und ho listened for ten minute courteously to her dis tressing provocations, her disheartening pleasantries. Then he roe. She would not make a continent of him ngaln. She knew It perfectly; he had rsruped from her chariot wheels for all lime. "Then I suppose this is the last time you will be likely to see mo?" ahe said .shaking bauds In goodby. "I supK)so so," ho answered. Hut to himself he raid that the last time he had over seen hir had been nine years ago. Mrs. Maxwell looked up Inquiringly ax ho returned to her. "Amused yourself, dearest?'' she wild Innocently, "I shall be amused to-morrow," replied Maxwell, "when 1 can laugh at myself! To-night, somehow, 1 cannot," And Mrs. Maxwell, understanding, was content. Hlaek nnd White. Grren Hyp nn n Potato Fortlllsrr. Some of tho most successful potato growers In Minnesota have found It profit able to sow winter rye In the fall on land to bo planted to potatoes next spring. They plow It under between May 20 and June 1, pulverlxe the ground thoroughly and plant the potatoes Immediately In tho iimi.i1 way. If preferred, the potatoes may be plowed In, dropping them Into every tlrd furrow, The result Is almost Invariably a good, smooth, handsome potato. If tho hind Is poor, requiring the application of manure, It la bet to apply It to tho previous crop, or nt luast to the rye ufter seeding It In the fall. This will Insure smooth pota toes free from scab or rot. which Is liable to affect potatoc when manure Is applied directly to the Und In spring. By sowing ryo and plowing It under before planting potatoes, tho Innd will be as freo from weeds as It I poslblo to make It with any nthr niuthod of culture. Tho green ryo plowed under will also add to the soil a largo amount of humus, enabling It to re tain moisture better In case of prolonged drouth. Orange Judd Farmer. Wife" In the Word. A f Irrio irwn who recently ntrrrd upon cer tain work In Maine says he 'MM thli nftrr cnnnultnllnn with hit companion In th home," It mlKht nil lull'- tn quite po mlnlftxrlnl. but tl unulit have sounded btltir If he li4 raid "h did this nfter tnlklng with his wlfr." The wold "wlfn" l much Ix'ttiT for dally lire than "comianlon In tho home." Kennebec Journal, A number of rloe olicrers have como to the cnncltwlon that the UNrac heltilit of a male American la urtatir than it Is Mlerrd to l Tliii think It la now r. feet Bi Inehr. In Hie . llrltlrh lal au I'elaluin the average ti ., feel lili Inohe, the Irishman vtar-dlng higher Hull a I uutibof any other nationality In the nurlJ, The Wildcat That Stole Three Traps. HKllH had come a tinow that fall, and rather n deep nnd an eirly one. too, for tho I'lnoy Wood co jntry, nnd Col. Hill wns turnln? tho Interior of his cabin bluo on account of It, for It hnd Interfered seriously with a grand 'possum hunt he had planned, and which was to hivo com i off over In Oum warnp that night, ills anguagc, In fact, was so extremely warm thnt Sam Mc nny remarked! , "Kf you'd Jos' turn tin take a sally from hyer to tho twamp, i unnel, tin keep yer w'ar talk hot up to the p'lnt whnr It's hot to now. I reckon you'd melt all thnt ar snow like lire In the woods, un wo'd hunt thnt 'poum, whether or no." Heforo Col. Hill could re ily to Sam, In camo Angus Duff, from 'w.iy on the east sido of the swamp, and Cot. Dili said: "Wal, boyn, cf wo caln't go out arter any gutne, hyor's Angus, un you kin bet that he'll set right hyer a-l.eepln'Jils foot hot. un ilnightfr enough fer us In the next quarter'n hour to rise our ha'r, even cf wo don't git none on It to eat.' Angus hnd a reputation In tho Plney woods, and he had hardly drawn up to the flrepl.ic.' before he started In to keep that reputation good. "If a mighty good thing fer me, I want tor tell you. sah, ut I didn't have four traps," said he, "fer ef I had I'd ft lost 'em all, un the wllecat, too. Un It'd a ben slanchwayn luck fer me ef I'd n lost that ar wllecnt. I want tor tell you, sah. Any wilecats on this hyer ldo o' the wamp?" "Hadn't see none not till you come over," replied Col. Bill. "Stng'lar," continued Angus, Ignoring Cll. Hills pleasant Inslnuitlon. "Dunno's 'tis, ntlther. They've ben mighty skeerco over on t'ollier side, too, but tlmr nkeercer now, though, than they was hirtt week. Not much, nuttier. Only by one. which nln't n heap, ef you go by count, but ef you calc'late 'cordln tor grit un cussednoss an'sltch, I reckon you mowt set It down as skeercer by about Tnlno than they was last week.' "It's rale nstnndln' what a cat that nr vli-cut was!" continued Angus. "It boats ol' Hickory Jackson. I want tor tell you, sah! I know a henp nbout wile cats, un the minute I seed this critter I know'd It win a critter sltch as had never sot foot niiywhur' around Hum Swamp In fore not In my day, i-ho'ly. The minute I seed It? Why, I winter tell yo sah, I Known that nr cat was a mighty wonder ii good many minutes afore I seed It nt a'l. You see, funnel, I wasn't lookln' fer wllecuts, not u mlto. My ol' woman she hain't boon totln' herse'f very peert fer nar funler than a week back, un' pears like her pone un bacon don't 'gree with her right smnrt, un t'other day sho de clared to me ut sho must sho'Iy have some ixittldge meat or rabbit, un' so I tuck my gun un went out along tho aldge o' the swamp to shy up a pattldgo or a rnbblt, t thnr I see the track o' that nr wilecat In tho snow. You never could a-know'd from thnt nr track, funnel nobody would n-kuew'd ut the critter ut sot It thar In the snow had ny more p'nts n-hangln' to It than mowt bo stlckln' to why I shnun't mako 3 sorty side show of It. not forgottln' tho ol' woomnn's pat tldge or rabbit, so I follered on the trail. I follered It a mile, un I wnnt tor toll you, sah. ut yer Uncle Angus waH tuck back n heap to see that nr trail come to an end Jos' ez seddon ex If there hadn't never been no trail In that ar snow. Yes, sah, gone like squeczln' a tetch-me-not-pod, sah. Sho'Iy! "I looked up. un I looked down, un 1 looked sideways, un I looked stanchwuys, tint thar wasn't no sign nowhar of any more wllecat track, un thar wasn't a hole nor a tree nowhar nigh thar whar tho witch of n cat cud n ntuffetl Itflelf; Jea' only a stretch o' snow, without a murk or a spot on ter It, nowhar round thar ut I could see. " 'This hor cat.' says I. 'pears like Is doin' miracles, un that ar ain't the kind o wilecat ut shud be runnln' loose In the plney wood.' says I. 'It behooves me.' 1 says, 'tor norty look n lectio furder Inter the doln's of It. I says. "While I wns cogltuterln' I looked a right smart wnys furder ahead than I had looked afore, un I seed n bunch o' somethln Mnyln on the snow. Heln' some- thin' cur'us to lam what thnt ar bunch mowt turn out to bo, I walked up th.r, un aa I drnwed nigh I seed ut wns a bunch o' feathers, un thar was a right much of a sprlnklln o blood around It, un the snow wns skectered about con sld'able. When I got clean agin tho spot I seed ut them ar feathers was pattldgo feathers, un nrguatln' from that ur pint I tlggered It out ut natch'ly that nr blood was pattldgo blood. I want ter toll you, snh, ut I was tuck back then a mighty sight furdci'n I was when I struck the end o that ar wllecat'a trail, un I'll bet my crnp o' turpentine ut thar alnt a man hyer, sah, but what'd ben tuck back ea fur ez I wan." "I alnt sei no sorty reason what fer a man shud bo tuck back a mighty sight Jes' by seeln a bunch o' feathers un a sprlnklln' o' blood on the snow, I caln't," said Col. Hill. "I caln't, r'alyl" "Sartln you caln't," admitted Angun. "Feathers un blood on the snow wasn't whut tuck me back, I want ter tell yuu, sah. Un what you reckon It wan what tuck mo back? Jos' only 'kase that ar wllocat's tracks started In agin right whar them ar feathers un blood laid In the snow. What did thnt mean? It didn't mean nothln" only ut from whar I come to an end o' that ar wllecat's trail to whar I found It agin was oa nigh to sixty foot ei I could paco It out, sah. Kin wileout fly? I haln' never heerd o' none doln' It. Thar wasn't no water twlxt the endln' o' that ar trail un its beginning agin, un so I declar' the wilecat couldn't a swum 'twlxt them two pints. How did It go fer to get thar, then? Jumped. Jes natch'ly Jumped. Coiuln' to the place whar I need the trail ndln' that ar wllecat seed tho pattldgo sottln' In the snow, dlggln' fer to git In outen the cold. Now thar wasn't no tracks In the snow 'twlxt thar un whar tho pnttldge hud been sottln', but that wns heaps o' tracks leadln' away from thorn nr feathers un blood, I cudn't say no more, cunnel, 'bout the pints o that nre wllocut. I want ter tell you, suh, not ef 1 talked fer hoqrs." "Angus," exclaimed Colonel Hill, "tho wllecat never done It." "You kin Jos' bet you, snh. ut thnt ar pattldgo wild like to think so," replied Angus. "I only wish that nr wilecat hadn't done It, 'ku-so then I'd a got that nr pnttldgo myself, un things wud a run glibber when I got back home, that heln' tho only sign o' pattldgo I seed all day, un the ol' woman had to go to bed agin on pone un bacon. I mowt a seed ome mo' ef I hadn't ben tuck so with tho jiln'ts 'o thnt aro wllecat un kep' a fol lerln' It, 'kale I wuh bound to git It. Hut I didn't git It that day. So I sot a, trap fer It. Next mo'nln' I says, 'I'll go out un look at that nr trap.' 1 want ter ray to you, sah, I was a liar! I didn't look nt that ar trap at ull. Why? Kase It wasn't thar. That are wildcat had ben thar, but It hnd gone oft agin, Un It had tuck my trap 'long with It. I want ter say to you, snh, that ar riled me. When I git riled right smart It takes a heap to hold me back, un I want to tell you, sah. ut thnt ar Jes' mo' than riled me. Un cf I hadn't a mude up my mind nlrendy ut I was boun' to nuccumnnry that or wllecat I'd a made It up then, Khoiy. Kaze I don' never ca'ciate to let no wllecat nor no other soty wile beas'cs come un sally off with m' be longing, sah. So, cunnol, I sot out two mo' traps, tin I sot 'em with two miles botwlxt 'cni, " 'One o' them trnp.s Is boun' to hold that ar wllocut. sho'ly,' I says. 'Kf It don't t other un will," I navs. "Nx mo'nln,' I wont to one o' them traps. Didn't do nothln' o' the otc! I went to whar one o' them traps was the lust time I seed It, un I wunt ter tell you, snh, It wasn't thar! Now, tunnel, I aln' much on the sw'ar, ez you mowt know, but f net you my crap o turpen tine, mih, ut ef thnr had nny plney woods man been goln' through that way Jos' that minute, he'd a stopped un stuffed his lingers In his enrs. un said." " '1 do declar! Jes, hark to ol funnel Hill! What fer over cud rise up un rile him like that ar?" " Col. Bill's vocabulary of expletives Is comprehensive nnd robust nnd he drew latgely upon It In expressing his opinion of Angus after that rrmark of Angus's. The wildcat hunter waited patiently and unmoved until Col. Hill wuh through, and then said: "Thar, boys! That's somethln' nigh to the aw'nr talk I cut loose when I seed ut thnt ar wilecat had sallied off with- that ar other trap o' mine, un I want to tolc you, sub, 1 Jes' sorty mndo a right smart of u double-quick todes that nr tlitriT trap o' mine. Todcn whar I lert It. I better ueclar, I reckon, 'kase that ar trap was gone, Jes like t'other unsl "'This hyer wllecat Is doln" miracles, shoiy' I says "The plney woods mils' be got shot o' this hyer wilecat 1 says, 'or Uubr'cl il be u tootln' next.' "Hut thar I was. I didn't have no- more traps to put out to ketch that ur wllecat. tin thar I was. I want ter tell you. mill, ut I sholiy got ez wile ez that ar cat was. " 'Unity wipe nim!' I did declar. Til lay ter that ar wllecat with a gun. un lay him tow!' "I reckon T laid fer thnt ar cat three days un nlgtits, un Ins' night 1 cotehed sight, or him sallyln' todes my chicken P"n. He walked like ho wan totln' a loud, but Jes' about three minutes arter T eeod him he'd a walked a heap heavier, ef he could a walked at all. 'use he had a big load o' ray buckshot In him, un It topped him In tho snow. That he Inld. un I sallied up to feus' my eyes on him. now ut ho had quit beln' a wonder. I want ter tell you. sah, he hadn't quit! No. suh! I do ileclur' he wu.s a heap sight mightier a wonder jit thun I had sot him down to be. ihar on one fore leg he had one o' my traps; on t'other fore leg thar hung unothor o my trups, an' stlckln' to one o' his hind legs thar was that t'other un last trap o' mine! Un In his hide no had u hnn'ful o' buckshot. Hut he rlz up In the anow an" come rushln fer me. I Ueclar, I had to put my second load o' buckshot In that ar' cat un then squjmh Ills head with a club afore the plney woods wub shot of him. " 'Hickory Jackson!' I says, 'It's a a mighty good thing fer mo ut I didn't have four traps, fer If I had I'd a lost em all tin tho wilecat. too, un that'd been slanchways luck fer me, shoiy!' I says. " ' Knse I want ter toll you, sah, un I'll bet my crap o' turpentine on It, ut that ar wllecnt hud 'Jes' set In to clean m out o' tmps, un was only hangln' roun' for me to git a fourth one, he havlu' room fer one mo'. Then he'd a cone off with 'im all un never como back. Cunnel. that wllecat was a mighty wonder! Don't you reckon so?" Hut all thnt Col. Bill said was: "What'd I tell you, boys? What'n the use o' goln' out un follerln' ft pore peace ful 'possum when we kin set hyer un see this hyer amazln' Angus slaughter wtlecnu setch as them un him nor us never gltttn our feet wet?" The boys said there wasn't any use. Angus smiled, and would have gone right on nnd slaughtered a bear or two, doubtless, If Col. Hill had set out' nny Inducement, which Col. Bill didn't New York Press. Simple I'usteurlainir. Tho work being done at the Wisconsin experiment stutton In pasteurizing :rtllk and cream for public use and sending the sama to patrons as far away as Chicago suggests a new and prolltable occupation for women, as It Is by no means a dllllcult process, says Mury Wnger-Klshcr In tho American Agriculturist. It can bo done by Independent' householders, providing the temperature Is maintained at the right point nr.d Ice can be had for rapid cool ing. The process consist of heating the milk in closed Jars to a temperature ot 150 dgrces Fahrenheit, holding It there for twenty minutes, nnd quickly cooling The milk vhould be less than twelve hours old; the fresher the better presumably, Every houskeeper knows how to cook the contents In closod glaaa Jars by standing them on a board In tho bottom of a ves sel partly tilled with water and closely covering tho same. This method Is claimed to kill nt least l!i per cent of the bacteria. Being done In close vessels, there Is no marked escape of guses. Milk that Is separated, and the crenm as well, Is purer than when set to rise tho cream In the old-time way, because the centrifu gal force of tho sup.irator drives Impuri ties, Including microbes, to the walls of tho separator, where they ndh?ro. As the sterilization of mill; Is found to be so unsatisfactory for continued use, this method of pastcrulzatlon is very Important. Sun Yat Sen, China's Patriot Reformer. His Checkered Career UN YAT SKN Is a name that may become Immortal In Chi nese history. He is a patriot who ulms at nothing short of I 1 ' a revolution. He would over throw the Tartar dynasy which has so long overridden nnd over borne thiee hundred millions of fhlneie. He would abolish agp-long abuses. He would Institute reforms that might place China on a level with the civilized na tions of the world. If he succeeds, the China of tho future will call him blessed. If he falls he will die tho death of a traitor. What says the old poet? Treoron doth never proitr. What'i the rea son? For when It pro-pern none dare call It Ireaeon. lo Americans Bun Yat Sen Is especially Interesting, because ho lived among Amorlcnns of tho l'ucillc coaat for five years, nnd because he hits enlisted the purse and the nr-n of many Americans In his service. Sun Yat Sen In a native ot Canton. ll. ! studied medicine in that city under an English physician, nnd later practised his pro' .slon In Honolulu. While there his attention was drawn to the doctrines of the "Young China" party, whose aim was , to overthrow the Munchu dynasty and give n constitution to China. He become nn enthusiastic convert to these doc trines Iteturulng to China, he soon rote to be it lender nmong the revolutionaries. His headquartfru were at Hongkong. Hither ho drew u number or (.'hlne-o from tho province of Canton with the object of organizing a conspiracy. The viceroy of Canton wan first to be captured. The entire province was to be overrun, fen. ton freed, it was to be used as a base of operations to cltnr the whole of China fmm its conquerors and raUe a new .tnd frfc country on the ruins of the old des potism. Before he could strike a blow the plot I was discovered by tho viceroy. Sun Yat Sen and some thlrt.r or forty of tho con- splrators were arretted while traveling thiough tho province secretly enlisting patriots. Fifteen were summarily put to death. In sonui manner never yet known ' Bun escaped and made hh way to- Sun Francisco. This was live years ago. In San Francisco ho made the acquaint ance of a brilliant youngs Chinese, tho ' editor und publisher of a Cblnos.. nnm.r j Sun converted him to hl way of thinking. i no p.tper nt once hecume u. power in1 Hpreudlng nrguments in favor of tho emancipation or China. Sun Yat Son went on to other cities In the United States. Kverywiio-eI.e stir-d thcChli.ew to aid his cause. Among his converts wore muny Chinese gruduutes of Yulo and Harvard. At lust he went to England. It la supposed hU purpose wns to inter est the Kngllsh foreign ofllce In his scheme, in order that they might thus combat the Influence which the Russians exercised In China through tho closeness of their relations with the Tailor n'ers. Thero hnd been a price upon his head ever since the discovery of tho plot i ngulnst the viceroy of Canton. Ono day whllo passing tho Chinese embassy in ' London he was accosted by two China men. They lured him into tho legation building, with which he was unfamiliar. I Thero nn elderly Kngllshman. who, he afterwards learned, was Sir Hullldny Macnrtney. the long-time English secre- i tury of the Chinese legation, placed hi. ' bund upon him and suld, "You are now In China." He nddetl that Sun would be detained nnd sent secretly to China. Sun hnd already made many friends, who had In- nuenco with the British foro'gn ofllce. I As soon as he disappeared they suspected . the cause, and set a watch upon the peo I pie of tho Chlneae mlnUter and the people of the legation. Tho premises meanwhile were carefully guarded so that no one could be removed surreptitiously. Under International usages the British govern i ment was powerless to search the cm . bassy. Not until It was discovered that the Chinee minister was chartering n ship for China were the friends of Sun positive ns to his whorenbouts. Ah he hud become a British subject dur ing his residence at Hunitkmii.;. nls re t lease wan readily effected. 8lr Hulllday lilmself shaking handt) with the reformer when they parted. For the next two years be spent the greater part of his time In the larger cities of the United 8tutcs aud Canuda, In the Pacific Islands, In Singapore, Ma cao and Japan wherever. In short. Chl i nose were to be found In any number. In the meantime Kwung-Yu-Wet. the great reformer, had reached the ear of the emperor, who. though a Tartar hlnwelf, saw that the continuance of his dynasty 1 depended on his ylelldlng to the demands I ot the more progressive Chinese and put I tins China on a footing of equality with . other nations by developing schools, free I 1 papers, commerce and mechanlcul In- , dustrles. i Kwang Su Immediately began to put thehe Ideas In operutlou. The Chlneuo people were delighted. The reformers I had gained their first victory. Then tho ruling Tartars und the "literati," who 1 governed China, seeing that their offices would soon be at an end, planned the great coup whereby the empress dowager dethroned the emeror, assumed supreme control and bunlshed all reformers. Straightway the reform movement, which before hud been unorganized, wus solidi fied into one 'great society, with head- I quarters at Singapore and branches at i Sun Francisco nnd other important cities I with large Chinese populations. Millions of dollurs p money were freely sub- scribed for the cause. The purchaso of arms and supplies of war was arranged for. Now that the ull led forces have drivon the Tartars from Pekln, the reformers have pluced their men In the field, Over I twenty thousand of them are under anna ut the city of Wel-Chaou, near Canton, In such a position ns to practically control the situation there. The viceroy can do- i pend with certainty only on the few Mnn , chu and Tartar guards whom he has with ( him. The bulk of his provincial forces ) are Cantonese, who huto him as much as tho reformers do, anJ who will In all probability flock to tho standards of Sun Yut Sen. . In tho valley of Iho Ynng-tse-Klung, nt I and near Tu-Tung, the reformers have 1 nearly HO.ono men. They nre preparing to murch northward to meet with others, who will rescuo the emperor, and, plac- lug him at their hoad, return cither to X'ckirt or Nanking, there to found a gov ernment. There ate among the reform forces many Amerienns, ono of whom, Homir Lea, left Snn Francisco some months ngo for tho purpose of recruiting nnd di tiling soldiers. I-ea wns a student -it Stanford university, nnd said bofire he 'eft there that ho would practically beom cam-mnnficr-ln-chlcf of the Chinese revolu tionary forces, nnd thnt he had 'tumlredi of Americans, ninny of them sol Hers, ofll cenr, university students n'.d ptofcrrnrs, who were willing to follow him to China. He sailed for Slngipore. illurnlly sup plied with money for cxo"it-s. A tew wks ago he wrote f ro n Shuumjl, sny Ing that he wits, ubout to tirt fit Can ton, nnd that he took hta ' fe If his hands. Tho opening of hotlllMos polnbly fol lowed Immcdntrly upjn his arrival nt Canton. The Chinese Km'r l'dVuiu ns sociatlon In Sun Frunclsro -ive a big din ner In one of the leading restaurants In Chinatown to celebrate the commence ment of their struggle for Independence. The manag.ng director of the assoclullon, In nn lnlcrl,v with .. Now York Hrr;Jd reporter, stated that ubovo all things the soldiers of the reform movement In China would respect the lives of foreigners; that thtir war wns only against the Tartar Invaders who had held the throne for two and n half centuries, and their only acts at tho present time would be to re store the progressive- and liberal Emp.'ror Kwnng Su to tho throne from which ho had been deposed by the Ignorant nd vicious dowager empress. ciiuva'.m cntui, i-m.iuio.y. Supposed OrlKln of Itlndlnir (be Fort of Children. All who have tho slightest knowledge of Chln-t have heard of the custom of bind ing the feet of Chinese girls, but few nre nrqualntKt with the painful process adopted to secure the diminutive feet which the Chinese prize no highly. It Is not known how this cruel custom origi nated, and the Chinese themselves seem to be uncertain an to when It was adopted, but tradition relates that a certain em press of Chlnn, somewhere back In the twilight or Chinese history, was afTUcted with club foot, nnd xmpe!Ied all the Indie; of the court to bind their feet. In the attempt to secure artificially the samo deformity which nature had Inflicted nion her There are two dtstlnrt styles of binding the feet In vogue nmong the Chinese, but the process Is' thu sime In both cases, tho different results being seemed by the way in which the binding Is done. The !n sttuimnt used is a email roll of firm cot ton webbing ubout two and one-half lnclieis wide. This webbing must have no stretch or give tr It, and Is woven especially for such use. The process It tisuully begun when the girls havo reached tho age of six; or seven years, though. In some cases vhere-a particularly dainty pair of "golden lilies," a.s the Chi nese cull these poor de;'ormltlox, Is de sired, the binding Is begun as torly as the third or fourth yisirs. The toot Is taken and all the toea ex cept the great toe bent under the Instep, which Is thus forced up. When this husj continued for some time and the foot has become quite pointed In shape und the In step considerably arched, the binding Is extended und the heel und toe drawn to gether, thus preventing the growth of the foot in length. In the style of binding In North China greater imlns nre taken to preserve the pointed effect, while In Southern China the shortness of the foot Is so much desired that the pointed ef feet Is almost lost ami the feet become mere stumps. The excruciating pain endured by Chi nese girls In the process of foot binding Is Impossible to describe. Taken young, while the foot are growing, they are bound nnd wrapped so tightly with the webbing that circulation 1 alomst en tirely cut off. and the bandage Is left on Just n long as M.MIle, for It Is a saying that every dressing of the feet loses a mite of dnlntlness. But the worst of It Is that the torture is drawn out through a lifetime, for the binding can never cease. The teams und Assures cuimed tu tho feet by their distortion become sore and often gangrene sets In and carries off the suf ferer. In order to prevent this It Is cus tomary to powder tho Toot with saltpetre while binding them, thus literally putting thom In pickle to preserve them. Tho re sult of this binding is that all the weight of the body In standing l thrown on the heel and the foot loses the power to bal ance the body. A umall-footed woman cannot stand still, but like one on stilts she must constantly bo stepping back ward or forward to keep her balance. It Is fltrange how this cruol fashion, freak has fastened Itself on the Chinese women, to whom It has become the badge of respectability, and whoso elegance and distinction are measured by tho greatness, of their deformity. The moat advan tageous marriages uro mado by those whoso "golden llllr" nre tho most potlte. and those otherwise undesirable become prizes If possessed of tiny feet. Tho custom Is peculiar to the Chlnef-o for the Mongols and Manchus have never ndopted It; but so dear Is It to the Chinese that tho Greatest emperor of the preont dynasty, who successfully Imposed upon tho Chinese tho wearing of the queue as a badge of subjection, did not daro to risk his authority In nn attempt to atnmp out the custom of binding feet, though ho prohibited tho practice within tho limits of his capital nt Pekln. Tho work of missionaries is, however, beginning to make Itself felt, and nntlve societies aro at last pressing to abolish the cruel and ancient custom. The Odor of the Kiidsu Vine. The kudzu vine, which hns become so valunble In rapidly covering trellises, pll lars and building, has been esteemed mainly on this nccount. Its growth of over u hundred feet in a single season Is truly amnzlng. It wbh distributed as Dollchos Japonlca, though It la now said Its proper baptismal name In Pachyrhlzua Thunberglanus, derived from Its enor mous roots. It appears thut where the plant has become strongly established, nil the branches of the pant year do not dlo back to the ground. From these endur ing stenw, splkea of bright purplo, bean like flower Issue, They are so hidden by the foliage an to be unobserved, but soon mako themselves known by a de lightful odor that Is wnfted to long dis tances nround. Medians' Monthly. Fnme. " 'Opportunity comes onco to every man.' " "Thut'B right; nnd nny man in bound to become famous If ho only Uvea lonjr A enough." "Oh, I don't quite believe that," "You don't? Suppose n man lives to be JGO years old. 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