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The Diamond Bracelet
By MRS HENRY WOOD
Author of East Lynn Etc
CHAPTER I
The afternoon of a hot June day was
drawing towards evening and the
groat world of London for it was the
height of the season was beginning to
think of dinner In a well furnished
dressing room the windows being open
for air the blinds drawn down to
stooda ladywhoso maid
was giving the touch to her rich attire
It was Lady Sarah Hope
What bracelets my lady asked
the maid taking a small bunch of
keys from her pocket
None now it is so very hot Alice
added Lady Sarah turning to a young
lady who was leaning back on the sofa
have them ready displayed for mo
when I come up and I will decide
then
I have them ready Lady Sarah
returned MIeb Seaton
If you will be so kind Hughes
give the key to Miss Seaton
Lady Sarah left the room and then
the maid Hughes began taking one
of the small keys off the ring I have
got leave to go out miss she explain
ed and am gojng directly My moth
er is not well and wants to see me
This is the key miss
As Miss Seaton took It Lady Sarah
reappeared at the door Alice you
may as well bring the jewel box down
to the back drawing room I shall not
care to come up here after dinner we
shall bo late as it is
Whats that about a jewel box in
quired a pretty looking girl who had
come from another apartment
Lady Sarah wishes me to bring her
bracelets down to the drawing room
that she may choose which to put on
It was too hot to dine In them
Are you not coming in to dinner to
day Alice
No I walked out and it has tired
me aB usual I have had some tea in
stead
I would not be you for all the
world Alice To possess so little capa
bility for enjoying life No not even
for you Alice
Yet if you were as I am weak in
health and strength your lot would
have been so smoothed to you that you
would not repine at or regret it
Ycu mean I should be content
laughed the young lady Well there
is nothing like contentment the sages
tell us One of my detestable school
room copies used to be Contentment
is happiness
I can hear the dinner being taken
in said Alice you will be late in the
dining room
As Lady Francis Chenevix turned
away to fly down the stairs her light
rounded form her elastic step all tell
ing of health and enjoyment presented
a marked contrast to that of Alice Sea
ton Alices face was indeed strangely
beautiful almost too refined and deli
cate for the wear and tear of common
life but her figure was weak and
stooping and her gait feeble Cf ex
ceedingly good family she had sud
denly been thrown from her natural
position of wealth and comfort to com
parative poverty and had found refuge
as companion to Lady Sarah Hope
Colonel Hope was a thin spare man
with sharp brown eyes and sharp fea
tures looking so shrunk and short
that he must have been smuggled into
the army under weightunJess he had
since been growing do ds No
stranger could have tf eved him at
ease in his circumstances any more
than they could have believed him a
colonel who had seen hard service in
India for his clothes were frequently
threadbare A black ribbon supplied
the place of gold chain as guard to his
watch and a blue tin looking thing
of a galvanized ring did duty for an
other ring on his finger Yet he was
rich of fabulous riches people said
but he was of a close disposition es
pecially as regarded his personal out
lay In his home and to his wife he
was liberal They had been married
several years but had no children and
his large property was not entailed
it was believed that his nephew Ger
ard Hope would inherit it but some
dispute had recently occurred and
Gerard had been turned from the
house Lady Francis Chenevix the
sister of Lady Sarah but considerably
younger had been paying them an
eight months visit in the couatry and
had now come up to town with them
Alice Seaton lay on the sofa for half
an hou and thenv taking the bracelet
box in her hands descended to the
drawing rooms It was intensely hot
a sultry breathless heat and Alice
threw open the back windows which
in truth made it hotter for the sun
gleamed right thwart the leads which
stretched themselves beyond the- win
dow over the out buildings at the
back of the row of houses
She sat down near the back window
and began to put out some of the
bracelets on the table before it They
were rare and rich of plain gold of
silver of pearl of precious stones One
of them was of gold links studded
with diamonds It was very valuable
and had been the present of Colonel
Hope to his wife on her recent birth
day Another diamond bracelet was
there but it was not so beautiful or so
costly as this When her task was
done Miss Seaton passed into the
front drawing room and threw up one
of its large windows Still there was
no air in the room As she stood at
it a handsome young man tall and
powerful who was walking on the op
posite side of the street caught her
eye He nodded hesitated and
then
crossed the street as if to enter
It Is Gerard uttered Alice under
her breath Can he be coming here
She -walked away from the window
hastily and sat down by the bedecked
table in the other room
Just as I supposed exclaimed
Gerard Hope -entering randvadvanclng
to Alice with stealthy steps When
I saw you at the window the thought
struck me that you were alone here
and they at dinner Thomas happened
to be airing himself at the door so I
crossed and asked him and came up
How are you Alice
Have you come to dinner inquir
ed Alice speaking at random and
angry at her own agitation
I come to dinner repeated Mr
Hope Why you know theyd as soon
sit down with the hangman
Indeed I know nothing about it I
was in hopes you and the Colonel
might be reconciled Why did you
come in Thomas will tell
No he wont I told him not Alice
the idea of your never coming up till
June Some whim of Lady Sarahs
I suppose- Two or three times a week
for the last month have I been march
ing past this house wondering when
it was going to show signs of life Is
Francis here still
Oh yes she is going to remain here
some time
To make up for Alice was it not
a shame to turn me out
I was extremely sorry for what
happened Mr Hope but I knew noth
ing of the details Lady Sarah said
you had displeased the Colonel and
after that she never mentioned your
name
What a show of smart things you
have got here Alice Are you going
to set up a bazaar
They are Lady Sarahs bracelets
So they are I see This is a gem
added Mr Hope taking up the fine
diamond bracelet already mentioned
I dont remember this one1
It is new The Colonel has just
given it to her
What did it cost
Do you think I am likely to know
I question if Lady Sarah heard it her
self
It never cost a farthing less than
200 guineas mused Mr Hope turning
the bracelet in various directions that
its rich diamonds might give out their
gleaming light I wish it was mine
What should you do with It
laughed Alice
Spout it
I do not understand returned
Alice She really did not
I beg your pardon Alice I was
thinking of the colloquial lingo famil
iarly applied to such transactions in
stead of to whom I was talking I
meant to raise money upon it
Oh Mr Hope
Alice thats twice you have called
me Mr Hope I thought I was Ger
ard to you before I went away
Time has elapsed since and you
seem like a stranger again returned
Alice a flush rising to her sensitive
face But you spoke of raising
money I hope you are not in tempo
rary embarrassment
A jolly good thing for me if it
turns out only temporary he rejoin
ed Look at my position Debts
hanging over my head for you may
be sure Alice all young men with a
limited allowance and large expecta
tions contract them and thrust out
of my uncles home with the loose cash
I had in my pockets and my clothes
sent after met
Has the Colonel stopped your alj
lowance
CHAPTER II
Mr Hope laid down the bracelet
from whence he had taken it before
he replied
He stopped it then and I have not
had a shilling since except from my
own resources I first went upon tick
then I disposed of my watch and chain
and all my other little matters of
value and now I am upon tick again
Upon what uttered Aliee
You dont understand these free
terms Alice he said looking fondly
at her and I hope you may never
have occasion Frances would she
has lived in their atmosphere
Yes I know what an embarrassed
man the Earl is if you allude to that
But I anf grleved to hearabout your
self Is the ColoneF Implacable What
was the cause of the quarrel
You know I was to be his heir
Even if children had come to Jhlm ho
had undertaken amply to provide for
me Last Christmas he suddenly sent
for me and told me it was his pleasure
and Lady Sarahs that I should take
up my abode with them So I did
glad to get into such good quarters
and stopped there like an innocent
unsuspicious lamb till when was it
Alice April Then the plot came
out They had fixed upon a wife for
me and I was to hold myself in readi
ness to marry her at any given mo
ment
Who was it inquired Alice in a
low tone as she bent her head over
the bracelets
Never mind said Mr Hope ii
wasnt you I said I would not have
her and they both he and Lady Sa
rah pulled me and my taste to pieces
and assured me I was a monster of in
gratitude It provoked me into con
fessing thatI liked somebody else bet
ter and the Colonel turned me out
Alice looked her sorrow but sho did
not express it
And since then I have been having
a fight with my creditors putting them
off with fair words and promises But
they have grown incredulous and it
has come to dodging In favor with
my uncle and his acknowledged heir
they would have given me unlimited
time and credit but the breach is
known and it makes all the difference
With tho value of that at my disposal
nodding at the bracelet I should
stop some pressing trifles and go on
again for awhile So you see Alice a
diamond bracelet may be of use even
to a gentleman should some genial
fortune drop such into his hands
I sympathize with you very much
said Alice and I wish I had it in my
power- to aid you
Thank you for your kind wishes I
know they are genuine When my
uncle sees the name of Gerard Hope
figuring in the insolvent list or among
the outlays he Hark can they be
coming up from dinner
Scarcely yet said Alice starting
up simultaneously with himself and
listening But they will not sit long
today because they are going to the
opera Gerard they must not find you
here
And get you turned out as well as
myself No not if I can help it
Alice suddenly laying his hands
upon her shoulders and gazing down
into her eyes do you know who it
was I had learned to love instead of
of the other
She gasped for breath and her color
went and came
No no do not tell me Gerard
Why no I had better not under
present circumstances but when the
good time comes for all their high
roped indignation must and will blow
over then I will and heres the
pledge of it He bent his head took
one long earnest kls from her lips
and was gone
Agitated almost to sickness tremb
ling and confused Alice stole to look
after him terrified lest he might not
escape unseen She crept partly down
stairs so as to obtain sight of the
hall door and make sure that he got
out in safety As he drew it open
there stood a lady just about to knock
She said something to him and he
waved his hand toward the staircase
Alice saw that the visitor was her sis
ter a lady well married and moving
in the fashionable world She met her
and took her into the front drawing
room
I cannot stay to sit down Alice I
must make haste back to dress for I
am engaged to three or four places to
night Neither do I wish to horrify
Lady Sarah with a visit at this unto
ward hour I had a request to make
to you and thought to catch you be
fore you went in to dinner
They are alone and are dining
earlier than usual I was too tired to
appear What can I do for you
In one word I am in pressing need
for a little money Can you lend it
me
I wish I could returned Alice I
am so very sorry I sent all I had to
poor mamma the day before we came
to town It was only 25
That would have been of no use to
me I want more I thought if you
had been misering up your salary you
might have had a hundred pounds or
so by you
Alice shook her head
I should be a long while saving Tip
a hundred pounds even if dear mam
ma had no wants But I send to her
what I can spare Do not be in such
a hurry continued Alice as her sis
ter was moving to the door At least
wait one minute till I fetch you a let
ter I received from mamma this morn
ing in answer to mine You will like
to read it for it is full of news about
the old place You can take it home
with you
To be continued
TRIMMED HAT FOR MERIKY
America Too Big for an English Woman
and Sho Returned
One day a stout person penetrated
from the laundry to the drawing room
door hastily pulling down the sleeves
over her scarlet muscular arms If
you please Missus she said doosta
think th young lady as is so clever at
FREE TBADE SPIBIT
DESPICABLE FALSEHOODS RESORTED
TO BY COBDEN1TES
Tkelr Industrious Effort to Mako It
Appear That President MoKlnloy Had
Deoldod to Abandon thn Policy of
Protection
On the day that President McKinley
was shot the Toledo O Bee published
the following in reference to the Presi
dents speech at Buffalo The down
right falsehoods of it are well matched
by the detestably mean spirit of it
To advocate reciprocity is to admit
everything that was ever claimed for
free trade It simply means an appli
cation of the principle on the install
ment plan And we are glad to see
this deathbed repentance of the man
who played his way to the Presidency
on one string and that sting Protec
tion He can no longer make intelli
gent people believe that we can build
a stone wall around this country and
live isolated from the remainder of the
world Besides that his patrons the
trusts need the foreign as well as the
domestic market now and McKinley
must hedge
Reciprocity is not free trade by in
stallments unless reciprocity is to de
part from what the Republican party
has officially described it to be and
what has been wrought into treaties
during the last dozen years The
Blaine McKinley and Dlngley recip
rocity as expressed in the acts of 1890
and 1897 indorsed by Republican na
tional conventions and confirmed by
Republican senates does not remove
duties from articles on which Protec
tion is needed The duties given up
are those previously levied on non
competitive products and not re
quired for revenue
The term free trade as generally
used does not mean the absence of all
duties on imports but the absence of
protection Reciprocity is not hostile
to Protection but is as the Iowa Re
publicans recently put it the com
plement to Protection In advocating
reciprocity therefore the President
was not pulishlng a deathbed repent
ance as the Bee so delicately puts it
but was enforcing a method which was
incorporated in the law of 1890 which
bears his name
The effort of the Bee was to de
grade and besmirch the President by
making it appear that he had changed
his politics and that he had done so
because he could no longer deceive the
people -with protection ideas Some
what similar is the strain piped forth
in many other Democratic or anti-protection
papers in respect to the speech
though none other so far noted is so
vulgar in its misrepresentation It is
such lying and coarse vituperation of
men bearing the great burdens of the
state that nerve the arm of ignorance
to the point of assassination
PROTECTION AND PRICES
Fifty years ago 90 per cent of all the
carpets consumed in this country were
imported from abroad Today accord
ing to Mr George McNeir secretary for
W J Sloane 90 per cent of the car
pets consumed in this country are
made in the United States The
amount of capital invested in the car
pet industry has increased from 4
000000 in 1850 to 50000000 in 1901
and the yearly output of carpets has
increased from 5000000 to 75000000
Some 45000 persons are now employed
in the carpet mills According to Mr
McNeir too the wonderful growth in
this industry is due more largely to
the protection afforded by tariff legis
lation than to all other causes com
bined The growth of the industry
furthermore has been accompanied by
a material reduction in prices Twenty-five
years ago Wilton carpets sold
for 325 per yard now they sell for
less than two thirds of that amount
Twenty five years ago Moquette car
pets sold for 2 per yard now they sell
for less than half of that amount The
history of the carpet industry affords
a very good illustration of what the
protective tariff policy has done for
this country Through it both produc
er and consumer have been benefited
Capital has found opportunity for in
vestment with good returns labor has
trimmin thats ad be so kind as to found employment at good wages and
trim me OOP one A ardly like to of fhA enmo mf fhfi rnnMimpr Imb
ask but hoos that kind a thowt ad
try The young lady a visitor in the
house was greatly taken with the
Idea and the dolly tub was left to it
self for a time while Eliza expounded
her views which were definite as to
choice among the prevailing fashions
When the work of art was completed
she expressed high satisfaction A
wanted to luik well wen a goes over
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there to my son and is family dyo
see Over where Eliza Why
over at Merlky Missus am going to
see un jUBt now A meant to las
year but a couldna save quite enough
for th passage money now wi yo
washin all winter thats a right so
am goin over in th Teutonic week
after next to ave a look round at them
aw Theres my sisters usband out
too since last Barnaby and my
as well While works been slack
in town folks thowt theyd try th
other side So Eliza tried the other
side too but not finding it to her
liking returned to Milltown and reap
peared at the washtub with as little in
the way of travelers tales as any one
who ever left her native land Nine
teenth Century
Reforms in Old Mexico
President Diaz is said to be consid
ering plans to check the trusts in Mex
ico One of the greatest of these is
the great Mexican lottery with draw
ings once a month in the City of Mex
ico Does Diaz contemplate any inter
ference with that St Louis Star
had the advantage of decreased cost
of production and a consequent lower
ing of prices
UNITED STATES AND RUSSIA
There Is every indication officially
and unofficially that Russia is not
seeking a commercial war with the
United States and that so far from
combining with Germany or other Eu
ropean governments in a itariff war
against us she wishes to beon terms
of the best commercial amity with us
i We know this has been her policy for
three quarters of a century and there
i ia no reason that a trifling sugar tariff
- question should disturb it There is
no hostility either on the part of the
Russian government or the Russian
people against tne American govern
ment or people
Gen F D Grant just home from
a trip through Russia provides some
facts that will probably astonish many
whose opinions have been carelessly
formed and will serve to confirm the
more conscientious judgment of others
So far from finding in the czars do
main any sentiment favorable to Euro
pean commercial combination against
the United States General Grant found
a distinctly friendly feeling among the
upper and middle classes and a sense
of genuine regret that any tariff dis
pute with its possibility of damaging
consequences should have arisen be
tween the two countries He reports
also the visible evidences of remark-
able material and social program thero
since his last visit to Russia in 1872
Chicago 111 Journal
BARLEY AS AN ILLUSTRATION
A free trade organ says General
Grosvenor Is still talking aboutbarley
if there were no tariff to exclude this
grain our barley growers he says
would starve to death That is a fair
specimen of freo trade argument
General Grosvenor never said a word
about our barley growers starving to
death under any circumstances
But he did say that bafore the pas
SOMETHING DOING
Something doing becomes more
than a mere slang phrase under Ding
ley law conditions There is some
thing doing for the hundreds of thou
sands of workmen who have continu
ous employment in place of idleness
something doing for the manufactur
ers who see a balance on the right
side of the ledger something doing
for the railroads and the employes of
the railroads in the handling
of many more tons of freight daily
than ever before in their history
something doing for the farmers in
performing the task of feeding the mil
lions of prosperous happy clamorous
Industrial workers In short there is
not only something doing in con
trast to tJe nothing doing in Wilson
law days but there Is more than some
thing there is a very great deal doing
all along the industrial line
FEELING QUITE COMFORTABLE
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WHY HE WORRIES NOW
The position of secretary of the
treasury is no sinecure Under Demo
cratic free trade the secretary isnt
able to sleep nights for thinking about
the deficit which In those circum
stances is sure to grow bigger and big
ger as the months go by Under Re
publican protection the secretary has
his worries too for he has to worry
about the increasing surplus which the
protection policy always piles up In
the national treasury That is what
Is said to be troubling Secretary Gage
now There is a choice between the
two situations though and whenever
Secretary Gage feels more than ordi
narily troubled about the sucplus
which is accumulating he has only to
think of the days of Cleveland free
trade and the condition of the treasury
under the Wilson law and it will make
him thankful for his mercies
Do You Want It
In the campaign of 1892 one of the
Democratic wails was that some Amer
ican manufacturers soldi goods cheaper
In Europe than at home Then the
Democrats got in How did they cure
the discrimination referred to By re
ducing the tariff so that foreign man
ufacturers could undersell our own in
this market Then American factories
closed and hundreds of thousands of
men -went without work The Demo
crats make the same wail now and
want to repeat the remedy What do
the workers say to it
TVhy Not
It the country were suffering today
for lack of work and money the anti
tariff men would hold the Dingley act
responsible for it wouldnt they As
the opposite is the case why not give
the Dingley act some of the credit for
it Be fair about it
Conundrum
How much better off would a work
man be if he could save 570 a year by
the removal of the duty on raw sugar
and by similar changes in his own
business find himself obliged to work
for 175 a day instead of 250
TARANTULAS BIG JUMP
Pierce Battle Waged by Hag e Spider
Against Dog
There are strange sights to bo seen
In Porto Rico said a young civil en
gineer whose swarthy skin was sooak
ing evidence of the year ho had spent
In Uncle Sams newest possession
Tarantulas are one of them he con
lnued and you should see a taran
tula jump One of them went thtough
i marvelous performance with myself
and a dog for spectators The dogs
barking awoke me early one morning
and I slipped into my shoes and ran
sage of the McKinley bill in 1890 over out Spot thatB tho dogs name was
11000000 bushels of barley worth makine frantic nlunees at an enormous
nearly 7000000 were imported from
Canada in one year while in recont
years the imports have not exceeded
200000 bushels As the price of bar
ley has been lower since the exclusion
of the Canadian product no one was
harmed by the tariff on barley If the
tariff were removed the Imports from
Canada would be much larger now
than before owing to greater area
available for cultivation General
Grosvenor says that it would be su
preme folly to remove the tariff and
put millions of dollars in the pockets
of Canadian farmers at the expense of
our farmers and any sensible
man who understands the question
will agree with him
Gen Grosvenor merely used the bar
ley question to illustrate the beneficent
effects of the protective tariff As we
exported in the fiscal year 1900 barley
to the extent of 23661662 bushels and
Representative Babcock advocates the
removal of the tariff on all articles ex
ported under his proposition barley
would go on the free list solely to the
benefit of the Canadians Gen Gros
venor pointed out the extreme folly of
such a course and his argument to
that effect is sound and unimpeach
able Philadelphia Press
tarantula as big as my palm and Its
legs covering as much ground as a
soup plate Its wicked black eyes
made me creep All of a sudden the
thing shrank up like a sponge and
jumped for the dog I give you my
word it jumped fifteen feet if it was
an inch Twice the dog ran under
the spiders jump fact Others were
watching by this time and they all
saw it Usually though he just side
stepped a bit I broke up little pieces
of a branch of a tree and hurled them
at tho tarantula My aim was just
good enough to stir him up at first ho
kept jumping away from us but Spot
always herded him back again then
he jumped straight for us At last a
lucky shot keeled him over and a few
strokes with a convenient club finished
him Drinking water would have been
a puzzle to us had It not been for the
cocoanuts When near the coast wo
gathered these ourselves or sent
peons after them but inland we
bought them of carriers who would
sell you cocoanut for one cent would
chop off the ends with their machete
and bore a hole like a ten cent piece
for you Then you drink the cocoa
water as they call it and throw the
nut away
The natives are many of them
a queer lot The Spanish census mado
the population 85 per cent white and
15 per cent negro I rather think the
American figures will just trans
pose those figures Cleveland Plain
Dealer
WHERE THE OOIN WAS MADE
Location of the Stint Can Be Deter
mined by Certain Murks
Coins and coons look alike to most
men but it Is easy to tell where any
coin of twenty five cents or over was
made There are four places of coin
age in the country Philadelphia San
Francisco New Orleans and Carson
City The first mint was established
at Philadelphia and as the founding
of other places of coinage was then
unforeseen there was no necessity of
putting a mark on coins which came
from that city But as the country
grew In territory population and
wealth and as the mines in the west
were developed more and more each
year It became necessary to establish
other mints whereby the government
could keep track of the output from
each place and if an error should
occur in the coinage could at once lo
cate the mint from which the defective
coin had come All coins are supposed
to weigh exactly the same as others of
the same denomination Silver coin
age may be pretty well worn before It
is liable to rejection but that is not
the case with gold pieces and a slight
decrease in weight necessitates recoin
age It was for thesa reasons that
marks are put on coins made elEewhere
than in the Quaker City These marks
are placed below the eagle or the
bunch of arrows If there be a letter
In the place designated it will be either
a small s o or the two double letters
cc Those bearing the letter s are
from the mint at San Francisco Others
having the letter o are from New Or
leans while those bearing the letters
cc are from Carson City If you do
not find any letter on the coin at all
it is an indication that the coin came
from Philadelphia Chicago Chron
icle
English Farmers Maxim
There has been much written about
the indifference of the harvest through
England this year It is true enough
that in many parts the crops are thin
and the straw extraordinarily short
but there are exceptions Anyone who
has visited the fen country must be
astonished at the luxuriance of the
crops There has not been such a har
vest of wheat and barley for many
years and the crops of rpots are enor
mous Whether or no this is alto
gether to the financial good of the
farmer is another question for in re
spect at any rate of potatoes In Ireland
America and the continent the crops
are equally plentiful and prices will
be low There is a proverb among fen
farmers that a bad year is better than
a good and a good worse than a bad
London Globe
Making Water Build Dams
Many readers who do not follow the
literature of engineering will be inter
ested in the statement that one of the
methods employed by American en
gineers in forming reservoir dams is
to call in the services of a powerful
jet of water as in hydraulic mining
By directing such a jet against the
upper slopes of a valley the sand
soil and gravel scoured from the hill
sides can be carried by the force of
the stream to the site of the dam in
the lower part of the valley By suit
able management the water not only
conveys the materials but consolidates
them in position dropping the larger
stones at the sides and carrying the
finer material to the center of the
dam
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