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The Diamond Bracelet
By MRS HENRY WOOD
Author of Eixst Lynne Etc
CHAPTER IV Continued
It cannot bo lost returned Lady
Barah You are sure you put It out
Alice
I am quite sure of that It was
lying first in the case and
Yes it was Interrupted Hughes
That was Its place
And consequently the first that I
took out continued Alice I put It
on the table and the others around
It near to me Why as a proof that
it lay there
What was Alice going to add Was
she going to adduce as a proof that
Gerard Hope had taken it up and it
had been a subject of conversation be
tween them If so recollection came
to her In time and she faltered and
abruptly broke off But a faint hor
rible dread to which she would not
give shape came stealing over her
and her face turnd whits and she
sank on a chair trembling visibly
Now look at Alice uttered Fran
ces Chenevix she Is going into one
of her agitation fits
Dont allow you Silf to bo agi
tated Alice cried Lady Sarah that
will do no good Besides I feel sure
the bracelet is all safe in the case
where else can it be Fetch the case
Hughes and I will look for it myself
I Hughes whisked out of the room in
wardly resenting the doubt castpon
her eyesight
It is so strange mused Alice
that vou did not S2e the bracelet
when you came up
It was certainly not there re
sumed Lady Sarah
Perhaps you will look for yourself
now my lady cried Hughes return
ing with the jewel box in her hands
The box was well searched The
bracelet was not there
This Is very strange Hughes ut
tered Lady Sarah
Its very ugly as well my lady
answered Hughes In a lofty tone
and Im thankful to the presiding
geniuses which rule such things that
I was not In charge when it never
would have taken place for I can give
a guess how it was
Then you had better said her
ladyship curtly
If I do returned Hughes I shall
offend Miss Seaton
No you will not Hughes cried
s Alice Say what you please I have
need to wish this cleared up
Then miss if I may speak my
thoughts I think you must have left
the key about And there are strange
servants in the house you know my
lady theres that kitchens maid only
came in it when we did and theres
the new under butler
Hughes you are wrong interrupt
ed AJice The servants could not
have touched the box for the key nev
er was out of my possession and you
know the lock is a Bramah I locked
the box last night in Lady Sarahs
presence and the key was not out of
my pocket afterwards until you took
it from thence this morning
The key seems to have had nothing
to do with it interposed trances
Chenevix Alice says she put the dia
mond bracelet on the table with the
rest Lady Sarah says when she went
to the table after dinner it was not
there so it must have been in the
intervening period that the the dis
appearance took place
And only a few minutes to do it
in ejaculated Lady Sarah What
a mystery
It beats conjuring my lady said
Hughes Could any visitor have come
upstairs
I did hear a visitors knock while
we were at dinner said Lady Sarah
Dont you remember Fanny You
looked up as if you noticed it
Did I answered Lady Frances in
a careless tone
And that moment Thomas happened
to enter with a letter and the ques
tion was put to him Who knocked
His answer was ready
Sir George Danvers my lady When
I said the Colonel was at dinner Sir
George began to apologize for calling
but I explained that you were dining
earlier than usual because of the
opera
Nobody else called
Nobody knocked but Sir George
my lady
A covert answer thought Alice
but I am glad he is true to Gerard
What an untruth thought Lady
Frances as she remembered the visit
of Alices sister Thomas memory
must be short
All the talk and it was much pro
longeddid not tend to throw any
light upon the matter and Alice un
happy and ill retired to her own room
The agitation hod brought on a ner
vous and violent haadache and she
sat down in a low chair and bent her
forehed on to her hands One belief
alone possessed her that the unfor
tunate Gerard Hope had stolen the
bracelet Do as she would she could
not put it from her she kept repeat
ing that he was a gentleman that he
was honorable that he would never
place her in so painful a position Com
mon sense replied that the temptation
was laid before him and he had con
fessed his pecuniary difficulties to be
great nay had he not wished for this
very bracelet that he might make
money
CHAPTER V
A knock at the door Alice lifted
her sickly countenance and bade the
Intruder enter It was Lady Frances
Chenevix
I came to Alice how wretched you
look You will torment yourself into
a fever
Can you wonder at my looking
wretched returned Alice Place
yourself in my position Frances it
must appear to Lady Sarah as if I
I had made away with the bracelet
I am sure Hughes thinks so
Dont say unorthodox things Alice
They would rather think that I had
done it of the two for I have more
use for diamond bracelets than you
It is kind of you to try and cheer
me sighed Alice
Just the thing I came to do And
to have a bit of a chat with yon as
well if you will let me
Of course I will let you
I wish to tell you I will not men
tion that your sister was here last
evening I promise you I will not
Alice did not immediately reply
The words and their hushed tone
caused a new trouble to arise within
her one which she had not glanced
at Was it possible that Lady Fran
ces could Imagine her sister to be
the
Lady Frances Chenevix burst
forth Alice you cannot think it She
my sister guilty of a despicable
theft Have you forgotten that she
moves in your own position in the
world that our family is scarcely in
ferior to yours
Alice I forgive you so misjudging
me because you are not yourself just
now Of course your sister cannot
be suspected I know that But as
you did not mention her when they
were talking of who had been here I
supposed you did not wish her name
dragged into so unpleasant an affair
and I hastened up to say there was no
danger from me that it would be
Believe me she is not the guilty
party returned Alice and I have
more cause to say so than you think
for i
What do you mean by that brisk
ly cried Lady Frances You surely
have no clue
Alice shook her head and her com
panions eagerness was lulled again
It is well that Thomas was forget
ful remarked Lady Frances Was
it really forgetfulness Alice or did
you contrive to telegraph him to be
silent
Thomas only spoke the truth At
least as regards my sister she hastily
added for he did not let her in
Then it is all quite easy and you
and I can keep our own counsel
Quite easy possibly to the mind of
Frances Chenevix tout anything but
easy to Alice for the words of Lady
Frances had introduced an idea more
repulsive and terrifying even than the
one which cast the guilt to the door
of Gerard Hope Her sister acknowl
edged that she was in need of money
a hundred pounds or so and Alice
had seen her coming from the back
room where the jewels lay Still she
take a bracelet It was preposterous
Preposterous or not Alices torment
was doubled Which of the two had
been the black sheep One of them it
must have been Instinct sisterly re
lationship reason and common sense
all combined to turn the scale against
Gerard But that there should be- a
doubt at all was not pleasant and
Alice started up impulsively and put
her bonnet on
Where now cried Lady Frances
I will go to my sisters and ask her
and ask her if she saw any stran
ger here any suspicions person in the
hall or on the stairs stammered
Alice making the best excuse she
could
But you know you were in the
drawing rooms all the time and no
one came into them suspicious or un
suspicious so how will that aid you
True murmured Alice but it
will be a relief to go somewhere or do
something
Alice found her sister at home The
latter instantly detected that some
thing was wrong for her suspense ilk
ness and agitation had taken every
vestige of color from her cheeks and
lips
Whatever is the matter Alice
was her greeting you look just like a
walking ghost
I felt that I did breathed poor
Alice and I kept my veil down in the
street lest I might be taken for one
and scare the people A great mis
fortune has befallen upon me You
saw those bracelets last night spread
out on the table
Yes
They were in my charge and one
of them has been abstracted It was
of great value gold links holding dia
monds
Abstracted uttered the eldest
sister in both concern and surprise
but certainly without the smallest in
dications of a guilty knowledge
How
It is a mystery I only left the
room when I met you on the stair
case and when I went upstairs to
fetch the letter for you Directly after
you left Lady Sarah came up from
dinner and the bracelet was not
there
It is incredible Alice And no
one else entered the room at all you
say No servants no
Not any one Interrupted Alice
determined not to speak of Gerard
Hope
Then child it is simply impossi
ble was the calm rejoinder It
must have fallen on the ground or
been mislaid in some way
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It Is hopelessly gone Do yoa re
member seeing it
I do remember seeing amidst the
rest a bracelet sot witn diamonds but
only ori the clasp I think It
That was another that Is all safe
This was of fine gold links inter
spersed with brilliants Did you ee
it
Not that I remember I was there
scarcely a minute for I had only
strolled into the back room just be
fore you came down To tell you the
truth Alice my mind was too fully
occupied with other things to take
much notice even of jewels Do not
look so perplexed it will be all right
Only you and I were in the room you
say and we could not take it
Oh exclaimed Alice clasping her
hands and lifting her white beseech
ing face to her sisters did you take
it In sport or in oh surely you
were not tempted to take it for any
thing else You said you had need
of money
Alice are we going to have one of
your old scenes of excitement Strive
for calmness I am sure you do not
know what you are implying My
poor child I would rather help you to
jewels than take them from you
But look at the mystery
It does appear to be a mystery b A
it will no doubt be cleared up AliS
what could you have been dreaming of
to suspect me Have we not grown
up together in our honorable home
You- ought to know
does
And you really know nothing of
it moaned Alice with a sobbing
catching of the breath
Indeed I do not In truth I do not
If I could help you out of your per
plexity I would thankfully do it Shall
I return with you and assist you to
search for the bracelet
No thank Vou Every search htcj
been made
A STRONG PEOPLE
Innults of Alaska Are Classed Among
Very Rugged People
It now seems probable that not all
the Innuits of Alaska are so smalll as
has been supposed Indeed if one is
to believe the tales of travelers who
visited an island south of Bering Sea
these Indians must be classed among
the tallest people in the world The
travelers story is given in Popular
Science News On Kings Island In
dians were found who by their phys
ical characteristics belong to the In
nuit or Eskimo family having small
black eyes high cheek bones and full
brown beards which conceal their lips
The majority of the men are over six
feet high andthe women are usuallly
as tall as and often taller than the
men These women are also wonder
fully strong One of them carried off
in her birch bark canoe an eight-hundred
pound stone for use as an an
chor to a whale boat When it reached
the deck of the vessel it required two
strong men to lift it but the Innuit
woman had managed it alone An
other woman carried on her head a
box containing two hundred and
eighty pounds of lead Both men and
women are also endowed with re
markable agility They will outrun
and outjump competitors of any other
race who may be pitted against them
Their strength is gained from very
poor food and they frequently travel
thirty or forty miles without eating
anything They live on carrion fish
and sea oil The fish generally sal
mon are buried when caught to be
kept through the winter and dug up
as consumption requires When
brought to the air they have the ap
pearance of sound fish but the stench
from them is unbearable In the mat
ter of dwellings these Eskimos are pe
culiar Their houses are excavated
in the sides of a hill the chambers be
ing pierced some feet into the rise
and walled up with stones on three
sides Across the top of the stone
walls poles of driftwood are laid and
covered with hides and grass and last
ly with a layer of earth These odd
dwellings rise one above another the
highest overlooking perhaps forty low
er ones Two hundred people live in
the village
Forget the good thou hast done and
do better
He who incurs no envy possesses
no happiness
A TRUST C0MP1KACY
HAVEMEYER STRIKES A BLOW
DOMESTIC SUGAR
AT
Crnst Mngnatos Kercnt Cut In Trices
an Kvldencn of Ills Determination to
Destroy If Posslulo an Agriculture
Industry of Great Magnitude
For the avowed purpose of injuring
and If possible destroying the beet su
gar industry In the United States Mr
H 0 Havemeyer president of the Su
gar trust has ordered a big reduction
In the selling price of refined cane
sugar The reduction thus arbitrarily
put in force for an avowed sinister ob
ject is from 503 cents to 3V6 cents per
pound for granulated sugar As stated
by the New York Journal of Com
merce
The reduction is a blow aimed di
rectly at the beet sugar interests of the
country It applies only to such sec
tions of the country in which beet su
gar competes and is so important that
It means that most of the beet facto
ries will be compelled to market their
product at a loss if they live up to the
contracts they have recently made
The cut in price affects only such
sugar as is shipped to Missouri river
points the eastern price remaining un
changed The blow is aimed at the beet
me if any one sugar refiners of Utah Colorado Cali
fornia and Nebraska where nineteen-
UVCllUtlUb ul tnu eiuuu UUUL sugui
product of the United States is manu
factured It is the practice of these
producers to contract for the sale of
their entire output at a discount of 10
points from the Sugar trusts figures
and at this discount the beet sugar
makers have been able to easily mar
ket all their snear If nnmnfilleri to en
10 points below the trusts cut price of
Not only was the denial of her sis- 3V cents the beet sugar refineries
ter fervent and calm but her manner
and countenance conveyed the im
pression of truth Alice left her in
expressibly relieved but the convic
tion that it must have been Gerarft
returned to her in full force
I wish I could see him was her
mental exclamation
And for once fortune favored her
wish As she was dragging her weary
limbs along he came right upon her
atthe corner of a street In her eager
ness she clasped his arms with both
her hands
I am so thankful she uttered I
wanted to see you
I think you most wanted to see
a doctor Alice How ill you look
I have cause she returned That
bracelet the diamond that you were
admiring last evening it has been
stolen it was taken from the room
Taken when echoed Mr Hope
looking her full in the face as a guil
ty man would scarcely dare to look
Then or within a few minutes
When Lady Sarah came up from din
ner it was not there
Who took it he repeated not yet
recovering his surprise
I dont know she faintly said
It was under my charge No one
else was there
You do not wish me to understand
that you are suspected he burst
forth with genuine feeling Their
unjust meanness cannot have gone to
that length
To be continued
would be subjected to a heavy loss and
would probably be forced to close their
refineries and cease production Inci
dentally of course the market for su
gar beets would be destroyed involv
ing tremendous losses to the farmers
who have undertaken beet culture on
a large scale
The complete destruction of an in
dustry which with a fair chance is cer
tain to supply the enthe amount of
sugar required for consumption in the
United States in value something over
100000000 a year is aimed at by
Havemeyer The Sugar King is alarm
ed at the prospective competition of
millions of acres devoted to the grow
ing of beets of high saccharine content
and of hundreds of beet sugar refin
eries scattered all over the country So
he decrees a 30 per cent reduction in
the price of cane sugar hoping thereby
to crush out this young industry before
it has the chance to grow to formid
able proportions For the same pur
pose Havemeyer and his lobby are
working tooth and nail to induce con
gress to place raw sugar on the free
list He will not succeed in either
scheme The American people will not
permit the destruction of the beet su
gar industry
The case of domestic beet sugar is
ably and convincingly presented in a
recent issue of the Oil Paint and Drug
Reporter in an interesting contribu
tion from the pen of Prof Ernest Mas
one of the foremost chemists and
chemical engineers of the world as
follows
Real American sugar is not cane
sugar and a great deal less glucose
that clandestine concoction of sulphur
ic acid and starch which might pos
sibly and with academic assistance be
a sugar in theory like for instance
certain derivatives of toluene a con
stituent of coal tar but is not and
never was sugar to the palate in spite
of its being called grape sugar Real
American sugar is not potato sugar
not even the fine saccharine product
found in sweet potatoes deserves that
denomination The real American su
gar the coming sugar which is fast
dethroning them all is beet sugar
The manufacturing process is so sim
ple the sugar beet so rich in saccha
rine matter nearly 15 per cent and
the finished product so free from the
objectionable features of so called
grape sugar that it is only a question 1
of a few years when nearly every west
ern state from Michigan to California
will have its quota of refineries
The changed conditions due to our
war with Spain will ultimately and
most fortunately cause us to grow our
own sugar save us 100000000 a year
which we now spend abroad give us
wholesome syrups and develop a home
industry equal to the requirements of
home consumption This of course
providing that no congressional inter
ference should prevent a development
so desirable Let the sugar tariff stand
as it is for several years and while
this may not exactly meet the views
of Mr H O Havemeyer it will surely
have for lational sequence permanent
cheap and wholesome sugar home
grown and home made sugar beyond
the control of dictation of the sugar
trust or its affiliations
Mr Havemeyer may embarrass the
domestic beet sugar industry by his
resort to arbitrary cuts in price and
to other unscrupulous methods but he
cannot destroy it Home made beet
sugar is here to stay and its triumph
will involve the downfall of one of the
most obnoxious of all trusts a trust
which curiously in contradiction of
Mr Havemeyer himself is in no sense
the offispring of a protective tariff but
which on the contrary clamors for the
removal of the tariff in order that it
may the more effectively injure and
destroy domestic competition Its days
are numbered
A CRUSHING INDICTMENT
The development of the beet sugar
Industry has been so rapid that we
are near to the time when the whole
of the hundred million dollars wo ined
to spend abroad for sugar will go intc
the pockets of our own people This
nation consumes at least one fourth
of the worlds total product and ol
the worlds product two thirds are
made from beets and only one third
from cane If the counsel and the
protests of American Frce Traders
had been heeded we should now not
grow a pound of sugar outside the
cane fields of Louisiana Because the
Protectionist principle was received
and approved by the people we are
about to become independent of out
side sources for a necessity of exist
ence and to keep huge profits at homo
We made the machinery for the sugar
mills from iron from our own fur
naces we have diverted from excess
ive cereal production land and human
being to a more profitable occupation
and we have moved this nation one
huge stepfurther toward industrial
independence It would be difficult to
frame an indictment against the
American Free Trade propagandists
more crushing than to quote their own
declarations and arguments against
the tin plate duties and the beet sugar
bounties The Manufacturer
AN UNHOLY ALLIANCE
In view of the intention of Con
gressman Babcock to force his Tariff
repeal bill through the Committee on
Ways and Means by the aid bf the
Democratic minority of that commit
tee and to work for its passage the
Kansas City Journal says
It may be that under existing ar
rangements this is possible for there
are ten Republicans and seven Demo
crats on the committee A change of
two votes which is one in addition to
his own would enable the Democrats
on the committee to report the bill
Speaker Henderson will be re elected
speaker and there will be very few
changes either in committee or em
ployes but the speaker should reduce
the number of Democrats on the Com
mittee on Ways and Means The Dem
ocrats cannot object to this because
they increased the Democratic mem
bership of the committees the last
time they had control of the House
If this committee had twelve Repub
licans and five democrats it would be
more difficult to form an unholy alli
ance
There is a much simpler and more
direct way to prevent an unholy alli
ance between the Democratic Free-
Traders and wavering Republicans of
the Ways and Means Committee That
is for the speaker of the Fifty seventh
house to reconstruct that committee
on safe Republican lines by dropping
off the waverers and filling their
places with positive men The ma
jority side of the Ways and Means
Committee is no place for waverers
Out with them
THE BELT KEEPS THE MILL GOING
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JOLLYING THE FARMERS
The Louisville Courier Journal says
that the Protective Tariff has been
used to jolly the farmer That is
exactly where the Courier Journal is
right If the farmers of this country
have ever had occasion to feel jolly it
is now when under Dingley law Pro
tection money has come rolling in to
pay off mortgages to buy new equip
ment including the latest and most
improved brands of agricultural ma
chinery and to roll up the account at
the savings bank Yes the farmers of
the country as a general thing feel
pretty jolly just now and it is the
Protective Tariff which is responsible
for it There is no doubt about that
And the best of it is that the farmers1
are not the only people who are feel
ing jolly but the jolly effects of Pro
tection prosperity have been felt by
people in all walks of life everywhere
throughout the country As a pro
ducer of jollity the Protective Tariff
has few if any equals and we are
glad to see that the Louisvillle Courier-Journal
is at lat begining to rec
ognize the fact
Sound
The Boston Herald speaks approv
ingly of the Portland Oregonian as a
Republican newspaper that has al
ways had sound ideas upon the tariff
and then goes on to quote the Or
gonian as saying that enough hus
been done for the manufacturers and
wholesome reform would consider the
interests of the consumers especially
those of the farming class It will
now be in order for the Herald to
refer to Tom Paine as a distinguished
exponent of orthodox Christianity
Helping the Masses
When factories are prosperous farm
ers are equally so This is what is
now so materially aiding the tillers of
the soil in the west and especially in
Iowa where a surplus is produced
The policies of the Republican party
are helping the masses Davenport
Iowa Republicar
AT ST LOUIS IN 1903
Likely that Nebraska Will Have Suitable
Representation There
WHAT GOVERNOR SAVAGE WILL DO
Ue Will Appeal to the Frlde and Patriot
ism of too Citizens of the State for
Necosgary Funds to Make an Exhibit
Other Nebraska Matter
LINCOLN Nov CIf the plans of
Governor Savage do not miscarry Ne
braska will take a prominent position
in the field of exhibitors at the Louis
iana Purchase exposition at St Louis
in 1903 The governor proposes to ap
point an extraordinary commission of
five persons who shall serve without
compensation and provide the neces
sary funds for making the exhibit
This plan contemplates the raising of
funds by voluntary subscription and
the promise is made that in his bien
nial message Governor Savage will ask
the legislature to reimburse those who
may have advanced money to the com
mission
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I cannot consent to Nebraska not
being represented at the Louisiana
Purchase exposition said the gov
ernor The state is part of the terri
tory purchased from Franco in 1803
and it would reflect on our pride our
enterprise and our patriotism should
we fail to join with our sister states
in promoting this great undertaking
The last legislature having failed to
make an appropriation for an exhibit
continued the governor and it being
impossible to secure an appropriation
before most of the money required
should be expended I have decided to
appeal to the pride and patriotism of
the citizens of the state with a view to
securing the necessary funds My plan
is to appoint a commission of five to
be composed of citizens whose patriot
ism and loyalty are unquestioned who
shall serve without compensation and
who shall have charge of the exhibit
and provide the funds required to com
plete and maintain It In my biennial
message to the legislature I shall ask
that money be appropriated to reim
burse those who have advanced funds
for this purpose
It is estimated that 12000000 will
be invested in this enterprise aside
from the amount invested by individ
ual exhibitors and by the different
states which insures an exposition of
mammoth proportions and one likely
to attract visitors on a broader and
more modern plan than was the Co
lumbian and in a general sense to
Nebraska at least it rises above that
one in importance Nebraska is the
garden spot of the territory purchased
at that time and being yet a young
state and rich in natural resources af
fording opportunities for the profitable
Investment of capital to be found no
where else on this continent it can
enter as an exhibitor with assurances
of ample reward
We have thousands of acres of un
developed land we have opportunities
for the investment of capital in com
mercial and manufacturing industries
and we have an abundance of oppor
tunities for the investment of capital
on large and small scales Nowhere
else in the world is capital or labor
more certain of reward
Graders Plow Up Skeletons
COLUMBUS Neb Nov G Street
graders at Lindsay plowed up four
skeletons said by Dr D G Walker to
be those of white males fully grown
Nothing in the known history of the
place throws any light on the discov
ery and it is thought the skeletons
still in a good state of preservation
must have lain there as long as sixty
years There is a mound at the side of
the village and It was here the skele
tons were found
Gage County Mortgages
BEATRICE Neb Nov
October Gage county released 10738
more in mortgages than was filed
Twenty four farm mortgages were
filed amounting to 25934 forty three
were released amounting to 49287
thirty one city moigages amounting
to 12G04 were filed and twenty four
amounting to 9989 were released
Postage Stamps to Barn
OMAHA Nov 6 Postmaster Crow
has made up a package of unused Pan
Amorican exposition postage stamps
whch he will forward to Washington
where it is understood they will be
burned The package contains 650000
ones 50000 twos 20000 eights and 10
000 tens
Attempt to Rob a Bank
ADAMS Neb Nov 6 An unsuc
cessful attempt was made to rob the
Adams State bank The glass in the
rear door was broken and entrance ef
fected thereby No further damage
was done and no other evidence of the
presence of thieves was found save
an iron bar left just inside the door
A railway velocipede was stolen from
the handcar house on which it is sup
posed the burglars took their depar
ture
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