I v * D * ) ) * ! ' i > IN MY POOR WIFE , T : BY J. P. SMITH. CHAPTER VIII. ( Continued. ) By degrees it began to pleasantly dawn upon mo that I was getting some return for the great sacrifice I had certainly made In marrying her , and the eenso of irritation at being duped that had at first pursued me wore away until I forgot its very existence. Helen made ine comfortable , and her happy smiling face and gradually im proving looks brought me a feeling of self-approbation that I thoroughly enJoyed - Joyed and that certainly smoothed my temper , so sorely tried during my first unfortunate love affair. I accepted her attention , her cheerful devotion as my due , now and then rewarding her with a kind word or a loving caress. "Clever child ! " I remember murmur ing one day , when , erratically putting forth my hand , It alighted on the cigar case and the newspaper for wiiich I had been wishing. "How do you always guess ? " "Love teaches me , I suppose , " she replied , with a rosy smile. "You remember I had a great quantity of that article In stock when you ap peared , and you asked me for all I had In a lump , Paul. " How mitfk love she received from mo In return I did not try to find out , never troubling myself with senti mental analysis of the kind after my marriage until wo returned to Col- Tvorth , and I found Edith still un- vvcdded and unwon , more beautiful than ever , the hand of friendship gracefully outstretched to my wife and little glances of semi-sarcastic , semi- wistful reproach for mo whenever our eyes met unobserved. CHAPTER IX. This evening , when Edith had called upon my wife was the first time she had ever suggested or seemed to wish for a private interview , and the cir cumstance disturbed and excited me more than I liked. When at last , after a long delay , she came down the walk , I rose instinctively to meet her , and tried to give to the interview as cold and business-like a tone as I could command. "What must you think of me , Paul ? " she began impulsively. "But I had no resource left to me but to ask you to meet me here. You you are the only friend look about me as anx iously as I can to whom I dare turn for pity and help in a great danger that threatens mo , to whom I dare trust a secret that weighs oh , so heavily ! upon my life. You once here , on this spot , told me you loved me dearly that that love is , of course , dead now ; but to its memory how dear and precious to me , you will never know ! I now appeal when I implore you to share my secret and give me the help without which I shall sink. Ah , you will pity and forgive me when you know all ! Hear me , dear Paul , friend of my youth , I beseech you ! " Prudence , loyalty to poor Helen , who believed in me so implicitly , distrust of myself , twenty other considerations urged me to refuse her request ; but her little hot hands were grasping mine , her lovely blue eyes full of entreaty fixed upon my face. I had bent my head , she whispered her secret into my ear. It was a secret that startled and pained me , more than I could have believed possible , .that filled me with indignation and pity , made me prom ise her my most devoted unconditional allegiance , and , kneeling by her side , beg forgivenness for my harsh judg ment and cruel words to her a year before. . Poor , poor child , if I only could have guessed ! Up and down the walk I paced for fully ten minutes battling with my wrath and agitation , until her anxious face recalled me to the necessity for prompt and cautious action ; and tak ing my place beside her we talked to gether for fully half an hour in earnest whispers and discussed the most available measures for averting the threatened danger. When wo rose to part at last , she laid her hand on my arm with a piteous gesture. "I have trusted you ; you will not betray me ? You will give me your solemn word of honor to tell no one , not even your wife , for she does netlike like me ? " "What an idea ! " I burst out Im pulsively. "How could you imagine such a thing , Edie ? Why , she is al ways praising you , admiring your beauty , your grace , your cleverness , wondering how I escaped falling in love with " . I stopped abruptly , coloring furious ly , whilst a lovely wave of carmine brightened her cheek. After a pain fully conscious pause , during which we did not dare look at one another , she said softly , withdrawing her hand , which I had been unwittingly holdIng - Ing"You "You will , find I'm right ; she does not like me , Paul , indeed. " "Why , Edie ? " "How should I know ? " twisting her rings slowly round and looking down. "I I have tried to bo nice to her , to make a friend of her ; but ' of no use. she will never like me. \it's sure I can't guess why can you , JPaul ? " with a swift upward glance ikjto my uneasy face. 9 Csf course I knew then she was and alwWs had been an unblemished angelv-an innocent and shamefully in jured girl , that she had never wilful- ly meant to make sport of my affec tions or of any other man's. But , lacking this knowledge , I must con fess that glance and that appeal in the circumstances would have savored to me of coquetry of a spirited and dan gerous kind. Poor child , how little I understood her how coarse and merciless had been my judgment ! "I've never done her any harm that I know of , I'm sure ; and people don't as a rule find it so v.ery hard to like me , Paul , " she added , with a childish wistful sigh. "Theydon't , heaven knows they don't ! " I muttered , moving hastily away. " Paul brother. I "Qood-by , good-by , may call you that ? " she whispered , laying her hand on my arm , detaining me. "Oh , if you had not sone away if you had not left me left me " "Hush , hush ! " I broke in thickly , covering her hot hand with kisses. "We we must not think of these things now' . Edie. " Half way across the lawn I met my wife strolling languidly towards me. "Where have you been ? " she asked , with a slight frown. "I have "been looking for you everywhere round by the paddock , stables , garden. " "Not around by the cedar walk , my love. " "Oh , you were there ? " "Yes ; smoking a couple of cigars for the last hour or so since I left the drawing-room. " "Then you must have met Miss Stop- ford going home ; she left me nearly an hour ago. " "Miss Stopford Edie ? Let me see. Yes , of course I met her ! What a lovely evening it is ! Suppose we take a turn by the river before din ner ? " I suggested hastily ; and , she as senting , we turned towards the wood that bordered my property south and west , watered by the briskest , clearest trout stream in Yorkshire , fringed with fern , forget-me-not and moss- covered boulders , against which the water fretted musically , and break ing into bubbling cascades drowning the voice of wood pigeon , blackbird , and thrush that haunted the hazel thicket through which Helen was du tifully breaking a way for me. "What a hurry it is in this even ing worse than ever ! " she remarked , when we stood arm in arm by the wa ter. "You stupid , stupid little stream to be in such a fume to reach that foul , smoky town ! Don't you feel you're well off , hemmed in by these fragrant banks , serenaded by thrush and black bird , bedded with sparkling pebbles ? " About a mile further down the lit tle Col , swelled by some tributary streams of baser origin , lost its crys tal identity and , after being merciless ly scourged and threshed by the spokes of mighty machinery , passed through the manuacturing town of Shorten and , flowing eastward in a porter-colored flood , emptied itself in to the German ocean. "Yes , " I assented , languidly throw ing myself upon the grass and lighting a cigar. "It does seem In a confounded hurry ; look , Nell , at that beech leaf , what a rate it's traveling at , by Jove ! " "I wonder if it will reach the sea tonight heigho ! " mused Helen , whenever never could look at the fairest streak of fresh water without longing for salt. "Reach the sea tonight that leaf ! You silly girl ! Nell , would you like to hear a story ? " "Yes , if it's a pretty one. " "It's all In a minor key , like most true tales. Sit down beside me and I'll begin. Once upon a time there lived up in that red house where you and I , I trust , my dear , will grow gray together , a young lady named Cecily Dennys. " "Oh , it's a family legend ? " "Yes ; Miss Cecily was my great- grand-aunt , and a famous beauty in her time. I have a miniature of her somewhere" I must show it to you. She had a score or so of lovers and suitors of all ages and degrees , among them some of the most eligible bach elors in the county. The eldest son of the duke , a most gallant and pol ished gentleman , proposed to her ; but she would have no one but young Ron ald Hernshaw of the Grange below that stone house among the trees , where we called the other day a man whom her parents and friends most sensibly disapproved of , for young Ronald had an evil reputation , and i.ad squandered a large slice of the property after he came of age. CHAPTER X. "Cecily , however , would listen to no advice , and after a couple of years' stormy engagement the marriage day was fixed , the guests invited , and one evening the poor girl was trying on her wedding- dress that had come from London , when her mother came in and tlod her to take it off at once , for her worthless lover had the morning before privately married a famous actress , with whom he had been ac quainted some short time. Cecily , in all appearance , took it quietly enough , put her dres out of sight and then asked to be left to bear her sorrow alone. In a few days she appeared again in the family circle , much the same as usual , and her mother was congratulating herself on the issue of events. "About a week after the return of the bride and bridegroom to the Grange , one bright June evening , Just like this , Eho put on her wedding dress and veil , slipped down to the river unpercelved and flung herself in , hoping , I dare say , that the flood would carry her fair body to the sea as gracefully and smoothly as that leaf you " "Well well and it didn't ? " inter rupted my wife. "It carried her .as far as the Red Mill 3lo\v the second bridge , where poor , foolish wench ! she and all her bridal finery were ground to pieces. " "Oh , what a horrible story ! " cried Helen , with a shudder. "Poor Cecily ! I I hope she was dead before she reached the machinery. " "History does not say , but I pre sume she was. Her idea was poetical enough , and would have been very ef fective but for the interference of fate in her case. You know the river pass es under the Grange terrace , where every fine evening in summer it was Master Ronald's habit to sit drink ing and smoking far into the night , and Cecily meant to float downi shrouded in her wedding veil , like Elaine of old , under her faithless lov er's eyes. " "Then he saw her , " broke In my wife eagerly "he must have seen her , Paul ; for you know the Grange is about half a mile above the mill. Don't spoU the story by saying ho was not there when she passed ! " "I'm afraid , my dear , I shall have to spoil it by a most disenchanting de nouement , if you want the truth and nothing but the truth. However , if you wish , I'll turn the story. " "No , no ; keep to the text. " "Well , the text is , that when Miss Cecily passed Henshaw unfortunately had just opened his third bottle and his sight in consequence was a trifle misty ; he just turned to his wife , who , report said clung to the de canters almost as devotedly as her lord , and hiccoughed drowsily " 'I say , Betty , there goes another car case of Thompson's. That is fo fourth sheep he's lost this season by _ er flood unlucky beggar ! ' to which Mistress Betty nodded acquies cence with closed eyes. The body of the young lady was carried unchecked to the mill , where , next morning , there was not enough of her found to fill even a corner of the coffin her afflict ed relatives laid in the family vault , not enough to fashion the faintest outline of a ghost wherein to haunt the Grange and hurry Mr. Hernshaw to remorseful self-destruction. " "Then he lived ? " "Lived rather ! Lived to marry two other wives and die at the patri archal age of ninety-three. " "It had no effect on him the poor girl's awful death ? " "Oh , deal- , yes ; it had a certain effect ! He left the Grange the day after the funeral , -had a fortnight's heavy spree in London , which seemed to have steadied his nerves and drowned his remorse , for before the end of the month he was home again , as hale as ever and indulging in his usual pastimes. " "How could a woman love and die for such a a man he must have been half an animal ! " muttered Helen , her eyes gleaming. "That's the very remark my poor father used to make when telling me the story. Old Ronald was alive , you know , when he was a boy , and my father has often remarked to me that of all the hideous bloated disrep utable looking old boys he had ever eeen Hernshaw of the Grange was the worst.and that if poor Cecily could have looked on her lover in his latter days she would have bitterly rued the fatal plunge that robbed her per haps of a happy useful life and a quiet deathbed surrounded by her children's faces. " ( To be Continued. ) CHOATE'S CAREER AS LAWYER There is one notable feature of Rufus Choate's career as a lawyer that his distinguished nephew omitted to dwell upon in his oration , doubtless for rea sons of propriety. This was his in sidious power over a jury , which was something that the jurors themselves never quite understood. This power was well illustrated by the remark of a hard-headed old farmer who was one of a jury that gave five verdicts in succession for Choate's clients once upon a time. "I understand , sir , that you are a relative of Lawyer Choate , " said this juror subsequently to one of Chcate's nephews , "and I want to tell you that I was not swayed or influ enced in the least by his flights of fancy , but I consider him a very lucky lawyer , for there was not one of those cases that came before us where he wasn't on the right side. " Revenue. Clearly it was advisable to go to war. 'But how about revenue ? " ventured the courtly Sir Godfrey. "Revenue ? " repeated the queen , lightly. "I have but to stamp my foot and abundant revenue will be forthcoming ! " Itwill be observed that in those days there was no stamping of bank checks , vac cination certificates or chewing gum , to say nothing of cigarettes and kes pilsener. Hnrd on Jones. They met in a cafe. "Ever take anything ? " queried Smith. "Oh , yes , occasionally , " replied Jones with the happy air usually worn by a man who accepts an invitation. "Well , " pur sued Smith , as he 'tossed off a cocktail while Jones looked on , "you ought to quit it. It's a bad habit , and will be ; he death of you. So long. " New York World. Don't drop insinuating remarks. A bigger man may pick them up. RESULTS IMPRESSIVE STATISTICS AS TO THE AMERICAN POLICY. For the First Nine Sleuths of the Cur rent Year Oar Exports Hnvu Increased 8100,000.000 aud the Imports Hhinv a Falling Off of 8100,000,000. Protection works a double benefit and produces some surprising results. An increase of over $100,000,000 in ex ports and a decrease of over $100,000- 000 in imports is the record of our ior- elgn commerce for the nine months ending September 30 , 1898 , compared with the corresponding nine months of the preceding year. No corresponding period in any year of the country's his tory has shown such a record. No other country in the world has ever equaled this record. The total exports of the nine months ending September 30 , 1898 , are prac tically twice as great as those of the corresponding nine months of 1SSS , while the imports show a reduction of 12 % per cent. , as compared with 18SS , despite the growth of our population in the meantime. The imports of mer chandise in the nine months just ended are less than in any corresponding period since 1885 , when the consuming capacity of the country was but little more than half what it now is. The gains in all classes of production have been enormous during the past decade. The exports of the product of the mines which for the nine months end ing September 30 , 1898 , are in round numbers § 20,000,000 , have increased more than 33 per cent since 18SS. Ex ports of the productions of the forests , which were § 18,775,141 in the corresponding spending nine months of 1SSS , are in the nine months just ended § 30,775,578. Agricultural products , which in nine months of 1888 were § 304,717,302 , are in the nine months just ended $371- 294,955. Exports of domestic manufactures , which in the nine months of 1888 were but § 99,842,972 , are in the nine mouths of 189S § 227,822,045. It thus appears WHAT AMERICAN SHIPS WOULD DO. IJonefltn to He Derlrert from a Restored Merchant Marine. If we were shipping out our wheat cotton , corn , petroleum , provisions , lo comotives , steel rails , iron pipe , etc. , on American bottoms Instead of in foreign ships , we would benefit in many ways : 1. By building and supplying the materials for the construction of the ships. 2. By manning the ships. 3. By getting the freights which would go to our own ship owners and investors In shipping enterprises as profits to bo distributed again , putting vigor into various branches of our na tional life. 4. By securing a more direct and a speedier service to foreign markets. 5. By obtaining a large postal fleet. G. By developing a large merchant navy from which to draw auxiliary cruisers and transports in time of war. There are other considerations which enter into this shipping problem , but these are enough , it would appear , to move a mountain. It is in such a be half that the real patriotism of the American people is afforded an oppor tunity to manifest itself. There are patriots who go to war and others who remain at home" If it be true that to attain ends in democracies and to arouse public opinion it ia necessary to wage wars and annex islands in order to get object lessons in the mat ter of the American ship and an Isth mian canal , then what we have just passed through and are passing through now will not be in vain. The true destiny and glory of this coun try , however , will bo attained not by maintaining garrisons In Cuba or in the Philippines , or in the increase of our-armament , though it may be need ful to involve ourselves in much that docs not directly concern our growth as we go along. The ever present duty is to build up these United States to commercial greatness and economic supremacy so that the whole world will look hither for what it needs to buy. This , of course , is a practical MOTHER AND CHILD ARE DOING V/ELL. that the manufacturers have In the pe riod 1SSS-98 enjoyed a larger growth in exports of their productions than any other class of our great producers. The great gain in the ratio of ex ports to imports that has taken place in the first three quarters of the cur rent fiscal year under the operation of the Dingley tariff is apparent In the following table showing the total im ports and total exports for nine months ending September 30 in each year from 1SS8 to 1898 : Nine months of year ending SepTotal Total tember 30. imports. exports. 1888 § 544,511,634 § 445,355,256 1SS9 582,879,612 529,558,161 3890 625,821,959 563,468,545 1891 627,145,819 627,670,414 1892 636,106,00 ! ) 653,836,620 1S93 625,231,972 587,040,111 1891 503,589,571 562,278,557 1895 G00.981.98S 546,424,359 1SD6 522,088.289 630,956,354 1897 588,743,315 732,508,865 1893 475,360,893 854,203,502 What I * Expected of Congress. The Republican party will undoubt edly be in control of the next con gress , the sanguinary hopes of the Democrats to the contrary notwith standing , and upon the shoulders of Its statesmen will fall the mantle of responsibility. The ability of the Re publicans to satisfactorily decide great public questions has already been am ply attested , and the country will have no fear of the result in this case. Shipbuilding and ocean commerce are more important at this time to na tional prosperity and Independence than anything else we know of. There fore , the measure of protection which congress "will give with the object of promoting American shipbuilding in terests and restoring the American merchant marine will be of such a character as to be entirely effective ia its purpose and give the assurance ot being maintained for a long period of years. New Orleans Item. The Higher Stnnclird. The policy of the United States be ing to maintain a higher standard of comfort and happiness in the United States , through higher wages than ob tain abroad , that standard must be maintained under the American flag afloat as well , and it is for this reason that protection is needed in order to equalize the conditions- under which American ships may compete with for eign ships in the foreign trade with out lowering the American standard of wages and of living. New York Commercial. question. There is no romance or sen timent In it , and as a means to the end the Americau ship must be regarded as one of the principal factors. Until we have this and can haul more than 9.2 per cent of our imports and ex ports in cur own bottoms , we will be a nation thriving , if we thrive at all , beyond our just deserts. "Manufactur er. A Jfttltcr oT 1'iUrlotIsm and Good Sense. The United States stands sixteenth on the list of twenty-five wine produc ing countries , with a production of 30,303,740 gallons in 1897. This country will stand better than that just as soon as the American people are cured of the delusion that the grade and value of a wine are determined by a foreign label. American wiues , like many other articles of domestic production , which are unfairly handicapped by popular ignorance of their true value , must fight their way to the front by sheer force of merit. They are doing this very rapidly , and the time is not far distant when a large proportion of the millions of dollars now sent abroad to pay for foreign wines will be kept at home , and when Americans will spend their money on American wines be cause they are the cheapest , the most wholesome , the purest , the most palat able , and in every way the best. Pa triotism and good sense are on the side of the American wine growers. Sentiment vs. Common Sense. 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