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. I . , . . . . ' -t'- ' : igty " . - , i r , . ' " ) Y F , : if ' l MU-NYON'S . . I ! z Eminent Doctors at - r Your Service Free . ) , I " . , , , I' ' 1 : r Not a Penny to Pay for the Fullest , . } . a 1 , : Medical Examination. .1 . . , , " . . . i l r , . : If you are in doubt as to the cause i of your disease , mail us a postal re- ; ' \ " questing a medical examination blank. ffr 4 Our doctors will carefully diagnose ' your case , and if you can be cured ; ' . you will be told so ; if you annot be - z e 1 cured you will be told so. You are , , : .1 , f . not obligated to us in any way , for this advice is absolutely free. You are at liberty to take our advice or not , . ( ! as you see fit. Munyon's , 53d and Jefferson streets , Philadelphia. Pa. FASHION > HINTS " J ; I ' { t4 . II I I I . M . I I I I , t t . / \ f i . 5wr-1 , - , ! i I ' I , I' I i ; : i/ . / ) tf " . I , . , - - - 1 ! ; 1 I ' I' _ I . L4 Ii I i - d II i { I Crepe de Chene , or a soft silk that drapes i ' rrell ' ! , should be used for this attractive 1 tfternoon gown. A touch of contrasting ! tolor is introduced in the lower sleeve and t llso in the vest. "The cuffs and waist are ( Embroidered in a dainty flower design. I / + I "WAGNER'S : STORMY BEGINNING. I' ! \ Comfort Came to Composer from Fat ronage of Mad : Monarch. ' A. fugitive for debt and refused a job " In a chorus , a despised and' ab j horred and unheard composer , a politi E cal exile , then a stormy crusadei against the widest and wildest cam ' paign of abuse and ridicule in the his ' tory of art , then the most successful I composer that ever lived , and finallj again a political exile because he had become so powerful that he was called the pope of music-this is a scenaric of the life of Wagner " says Rupert Hughes in Smith's. "Though he chose music as his ca- - xeer and music is ordinarily the most aloof from reality of all the arts , he brought it into intimate contact with Jiearly every phase of human activ ity. Through his music he invaded , the drama , fiction , essay poetry , myth ology , religion , legend , history , poli tics , revolution finance architecture , painting. "In the last article we followed Wagner's life to the peak he reached with his overpoweringly beautiful ro mance , "Tristan and Isolde. " This opera was composed when Wagner was , 46 , but he was 51 before it was pro ' I I I duced. I I "Meanwhile , when his financial af I I fairs were in most desperate straits ! and he had borrowed nearly all that men like Liszt could scrape up to lend : him , he was visited by on © of those I fairy-story happenings that brighten I real life once or twice a century. The king of Bavaria , Ludwig II. , a madman with streaks of genius , became inter I ested in his music and sent for him. So obscure was Wagner that the mes- senger was six months in finding him , I ' and had almost despaired when he dIs- ; , covered him in Stuttgart and informed , I him that he had been put upon the E II pension list with a yearly stipend of I about $500. In Wagner's words : 'My { ' I I creditors were quieted and I could go ] ' " on with my work. ] , I - Standard time in Belgium , Holland : I - and Spain is the same as in Great ' ? + Britain. It is one hour faster in Ger- ] f : , many , Italy , Austria , Denmark , Swe- ] den and Servia. 1 , i : . ( ( & ! IIJ1FW ) - . . . 1 : I I , 1 \ D 1 . I j. \J t . , ' ' r' I 1 i t , , S ; , _ roll : " . i' : i " , < .Ii sf ; . .1 . , ; ' J \ ' { ' ! , , P.I LfS ' PAY IF CURED t p : 'J' . 5 ' 'nll : pottage and lend FREE : cen CBOSS Fll * ) ' ' a " - 'I and FHtoIn Care. i ; 4I .REA CO. . DEPT. ' B5 , MINNEAPOLIS MINI. 0 : i 1 IftHIIdedwIlfc [ T ' ( IIP . - J , . ' ' I OLlLlllLfi d + 1- ; ; ? r0 Eyes , isc . . . ' . . j - 'f J ' - , t 'J . ; . . . . ; . I j I " , n 1 t . . I . , . . . . . . ' i 'ii : ' " \ , c : II , i v , , , , , ' ' " I - - ; 'r I . . ' .t'i 1 . . t _ r - : ' . - - ' : s - : r ; . . -.1 / . , . . ' . " . . .i . .o- ' ' . , ' I , - . . . . I I I The Ifcdemptiot . : . Qavid I ! t ) eorsoti I i , By CHARLES FREDERIC GOSS , Copyright , 1900 by The Bowen-Merrill Company. All Rights Reserved I i i - - i I - - - - - - , . CHAPTER VIII.-Continued. ) The doctor rattled on with an un- ceasing flow of talk , while the mind of the Quaker plunged into a serious of violent efforts to adjust itself to this new situation. He tried to force him- self to be glad that he had been mis- taken. He for the first time fully ad- mitted the significance of the qualms which he felt at permitting himself to regard this strolling gypsy with such feelings as had been in his heart. "But now , " he said to himself , "I can go forward with less compunction. I can gratify my desire for excitement and adventure with perfect safety. I will stay with them for a while , and when I am tired can leave then with- out any entanglements. " When the situation had been regarded for a little while from this point of view , he felt happier and more care-free than for weeks. He solaced his disappoint- ment with the reflection that he should still be near Pepeeta , but no longer in any danger. At this profound reflection of the young moth hovering about the flame , let the satirist dip his pen in acid , and the pessimist in gall ! There is enough folly and stupidity in the operations of the human mind to provoke the one to contempt and the other to despair. CHAPTER , IX. The spring and summer had passed , I autumn had attained the fullness of I its golden beauty , and the inevitable I had happened. David and Pepeeta had passed swiftly though not unresisting- ly through all the intervening stages between a chance acquaintance and an impassioned love. Any other husband than the quack would have foreseen this catastrophe ; but there is one thing blinder than love , and that is egotism such as his. His colossal vanity had not even sus- pected that a woman who possessed him for her husband could for a single instant bestow a thought of interest on any other man. David had abandoned the Quaker idiom for the speech of ordinary men , and discarded his former habiliments for the most conventional and stylish clothes. Contact with , the world had sharpened his native wit , and given him a freedom among men and women that was fast descending into aban- don. Success had stimulated his self- confidence and made him prize those gifts by which he had once aroused the devotion of adoring worshipers in the Quaker meeting house ; he soon found that they could be Aised to vic- Simize the crowds whicTi gathered wound the flare of the torch in the public square. A transformation had been taking place in Pepeeta. Under the sunshine ef David's love , and the dew of those spiritual conceptions which had fallen upon her thirsty spirit , the seeds of a beautiful nature , implanted at her birth , germinated and J'p Wtonishing rapidity. Walking stead- ily in such light as fell upon her path- way and ever looking for more , her spiritual vision became clearer and clearer eVery day ; and while this af- fection for God purified her soul , her love for David expanded and trans- formed her heart. Her unbounded ad- miration for him blinded her to that process of deterioration in his charac- ter which even the quack perceived. To her partial eye a halo still sur- rounded the head of the young apos- .ate. But while these two new affec- tions wrought this sudden transforma- tion in the gypsy and filled her with a new and exquisite happiness , the circumstances of her life were such that this illumination could not but be attended with pain , for it brought ever new revelations of those ethical incon- sistencies in which she discovered her- self to be deeply if not hopelessly in- volved. David had chosen an old plan to compel Pepeeta to abandon her hus- band. For its execution he had al- roady made a partial preparation in an engagement to meet the justice of the peace who had performed her mar- riage ceremony. The engagement was conditioned upon his failure to per- suade the gypsy to accompany him of her own free will. Immediately after , supper he took her to the place appointed for the meeting. This vivil officer had been a companion of the quack's for many years. His natural capacity , which was of the highest order , had secured , him one place of honor after another ; but he had lost them through the prac- tice of many vices , and had at last sunk to that depth of degradation in which he was willing to barter his honor for : almost any price. The place at which he had agreed to : meet David was a log saloon in one of the most disreputable parts of the city , and to this spot the infatuated youth made his way. Now that he was alone with his thoughts , he could not contemplate his purpose without a feeling : of dread , and , yet he did not pause nor seriously consider its aban- donment. His movements , as he el- - * jowed his way among the outcasts who infested this degraded region , were those of a man totally oblivious to his surroundings. Having reached the door of the sa- oon , David cast a glance about him , is if ashamed of being observed , and entered. It was a fitting place to hatch in evil deed. The floor was covered svith \ filthy sawdust ; the air was rank ivith the fumes of sour beer and adul- erated whisky ; the lamps were not fet lighted , and his eyes blinked as he ntered the Sirty dusk of the interior. Che door which he pushed open ad- nitted him to " a parlor scarcely less llrty and disgusting . ' than the saloon , , _ . . , . ' . ' . , J' . . , . . ' , , ' . \ . . " . . . . . - - ' " - . -p * itself at the opposite end of which 'he beheld the object of his search. "Well , I see you are here , " he said , drawing a chair to the table. "And waiting , " a deep and rich but melancholy voice replied. "Can't we have a couple of can- dles ? These shadows seem to crawl up my legs and take me by the throat. I feel as if some one were blindfold- ing and gagging me , " said David , look- ing uneasily about. The judge ordered the candles , and while they were waiting observed : "You had better accustom yourself to shadows , young man , for you will find plenty of them on the road you are traveling. They deepen with the pass- ing years , along every pathway ; but the one which you are about to set . . your feet leads into the hopeless dark. " "What I want is help. " "And so you have appealed to me ? You wish me to go to this woman and tell her that her marriage was a fraud ? " "I do. " "Young man , have you no compunc- tions about this business ? " said the judge , leaning forward and looking earnestly into the blue eyes. "Compunctions ? " said Davidin a dry echo of the question. "Oh ! some. But for every compunction I have a thou- sand desperate determinations. " "I will help you. There is no use trying to save you. You are only an' ' other moth ! You want the fire , and you will have it ! You will burn your wings off as millions have done before you and as millions will do after you. What then ? Wings are made to be burned ! I burned mine. Probably if I had another pair I would burn them also. It is as useless to moralize to a lover as to a tiger. I am a fool to waste my breath on you. Let us get down to business. You say that she loves you , and that she will be glad to learn that she is free ? " I "I do ! her heart is on our side. She will l believe you , easily ! " "Yes , she will believe me easily ! She will believe me too easily ! For six thousand years desire has been a syno- nym for credulity. All men believe what they want to , except myself. I believe everything that I do not want to , and nothing that I do ! But no matter. How . much am I to get for this job ? " They haggled a while over the price , struck a bargain and shook hands-the same symbol being used among men to seal a compact of love or hate , vir tue or vice. "Be at the Spencer House at 11 o'clock , " said David , rising. ' . 'You will find us on the balcony. The doctor is to spend the night in a revel with the captain of the Mary Ann , and we shall be uninterrupted. Be an actor. Be a great actor , Judge. You are to deal with a soul which possesses unusual powers of penetration. " "Do not fear ! She will be no match for me , for she is innocent-and when was virtue ever a match for vice ? She is predestined to her doom ! Fare- well ! Fare-ill , I mean , " he muttered under his breath , as David passed from the room. Having regained his calmness by a long walk , David hurried back and reached the open space along the river front where peddlers , mountebanks and street venders plied their crafts just in time to meet the doctor as he drove up with his horses. . CHAPTER X. After the doctor had vanished that evening , David and Pepeeta passed down the long corridor and out upon the balcony of the old Spencer House , to the place appointed for the inter- view of the judge. The night was bright ; a refreshing breeze was blow- ing up from the river and the fre quent intermissions in the gusts of wind that swept over the sleeping city gave the impression that Nature was holding her breath to listen to the tales of love that were being told on city balconies and in country lanes. Under the mysterious influence of the full moon , and of the silence , for the noises of the city had died away , their imaginations were aroused their emo- tions quickened , their sensibilities stirred. It seemed impossible that life could be seriously real. Their concep- tions of duty and responsibility were sublimated into vague and misty dreams and the enjoyment of the mo- ment's fleeting pleasure's seemed the only reality and end of life. "Pepeeta , you have long promised to tell me all you knew of your early life ; will you do it now ? " asked Da vid. "Of what possible Interest can it be to you ? " she answered. ; "It seems to me , " he replied , "that I could linger fo-rever over the slight- I es.t detail. It is not enough to know what you are. I wish to know how you came to be what you are. " "You must reconcile youi'self to ig- norance ; the origin of my evistence is lost in night. It is too sad ! I do not want to think of anything that : happened before I met you. My life began from that moment. Before , I had only dreamed. " They ceased to speak , tnd sat silent- ly gazing into each other's faces the heart of the woman rent with a con- flict between desire and duty , and that I of the man by a tempest of evil pas- sions. At that moment , a slow and heavy step was heard in the hallway. They looked toward the door and in the shadows saw a man who contemJ J plated them silently for a moment and then advanced. David rose to meet him. him."I beg your pardon , " he said , feign- ] ing embarrassment , "I had an errand I . I " > . . . . . , - " . . . ' ; : ( ' " : " , . . . . \ I with the lady and hoped I should flnA her alone. " "You may speak , for the gentleman IB the friend of my husband and my- self , " Pepeeta said. "I will begin , then , " he responded , "by asking if you recognize me ? " And at that he stepped out into the moon- light. Pepeeta gave him a searching glance and exclaimed in surprise , "You are the judge who married me. " He let his head fall upon his breast with well-assumed humility , remained a moment in silence , looked up mourn- fully and said , "I would that I had really married you , for then I should . not have been bearing this load of guilt that has been crushing me for . months. " At these words , Pepeeta sprang from her seat and stood before him with her hands clasped upon her breast. "Be quick ! go on ! " she cried , when she had waited in vain .for him to . pro- ceed. . "Prepare yourself for a revelation of treachery and dishonor. I can conceal my crime no longer. If I hold my peace the very stones in the street will cry out against me. " "Make haste ! " Pepeeta exclaimed , imperatively. "Madam , " continued the strange man. "You are not married to your husband. I deceived you as' I was bribed to do. I was not a justice. I had no right to perform that ceremony. It was a solemn farce. " These words , spoken : slowly , solemn- ly , and with a simulation of candor which would have deceived her even if she had not desired to believe them , produced the most profound impres sion upon the mind of Pepeeta. She approached the judge and cried : "Sir , I beg you not to trifle with me ! Is what you have told me true ? " "Alas , too true. " "Oh ! sir , " she cried , "you cannot un- derstand' ; but this is the happiest mo- ment of my life ! " "Madam ? " he exclaimed , interroga- tively and with consummate art. "It -is not necessary for you to know why , " she answered ; "but I thank' , , " you. "What can it mean ? I implore you ' to tell me , " he said. "Do not ask me ! " she replied. "I cannot tell you now ! My heart is too full. " "But does this mean that I havo nothing to regret and that you have forgiven me ? " "It does. I bless you from the bot- tom of my heart ! " She gave him her hand. He took it in his own and held it , looking first at her and then at David with an ex- pression of such surprise as to deceive his accomplice scarcely less than his victim. Young , inexperienced , inno- cent ! in this sin at least , she stood be- tween them-helpless. It isone thing for a woman delib- erately to renounce her marriage voks , but quite another for. a heart so loyal to duty , to be be betrayed into crime by an ingenuity worthy of demons. Child if misfortune that she was , victi mof a series of untoward and fa tal circumstances , she had reason all her life to regret her credulity } but never to reproach herself for wrong in- tentions. Her heart often betrayed her , but her soul was never corrupt- ed. She ought to have been more care- ful - alas , yes , she ought-but she she meant no sin. ( To be continued. ) I "Ways of Women in Tunnels. Father Knickerbocker is 283 year 1 old , but he is still learning things 1 about women. His latest experience 1 may be of value to younger and calj j lower cities , so declares a writer in j Success. Some time ago William G. McAdoo , who has built up a thriving little business under the Hudson river , run ning trains between New York and the United States set aside a special car for the exclusive use of women. a The people hailed the innovation with joy. Here at last women could ride , safe from jostling , seat-grabbing , to bacco-scented men. True some fun 3 was poked at the "Jane Crow" cars , and there were sly suggestions about mirrors and perfumery and powder boxes , but nevertheless Mr. McAdoo : was hailed as a public-spirited busi- ness man and a perfectly lovely , -gen' 8 tleman. Polite uniformed attendants fc at the stations informed ladies of the special car and everything went beau ; tifully. There was only one drawback to the scheme. The vv/omen would not use the car. Giving the uniformed attend ants , oh , such a look , the ladies crowd- ed into the co-educational department , leaving their special car half empty. After three months' trial the gallant Mr. lIcAdoohas ordered the ladies' discontinued. car c ct A Sidewalk Conversation. \ . "How's your garden coming on ? " "Why do you ask that question ? " demanded the suburbanite suspicious ly. "Just dut of politeness. " "Glad to hear that. I thought may- be I had promised you some vegeta bles. Had One of Her Own. Rector-I did not see you at our so cial gathering last week , 'Lisbeth. Why ' was that ? 'Lisbeth-Well , I had a little gather ing o' my own last week , sir. Rector-Dear me ! Where was that ? 'Lisbeth-On the back of me neck sir. - Ally Sloper's Half-Holiday. A Great Advantage. 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I I 1 _ 'LI ! t9 , Y"f'M' C , j . - - - - - - - - . The view shows the last of a series of remarkable dives recently made from the Saddle Rock , Torbay , fifty feet high. The man in mid-flight is B. T. Verry of the Torquay Leander Club , who was captain of the Cam- bridge team in 1905. The second man is F. G. Colllngs member of the- same club. Owing to the extreme narrowness of the peak , which is reached ; by crawling on all fours , the men are unable to stand abreast. One , there . I fore , stands behind the other , and directly the first goes over , the second" . , springs from the edge , clearing the rocks below , in the direct line of his ! I leader. . . OSTA INDIANS WERE DESTROYED. White Man' Coveted Their Land for Sheep and Used Treachery. _ In his article on his adventures among the Ona Indians of Tierra del Fuego in Harper's , Charles F. Furlong charges the white colonists with hav- ing wantonly destroyed this once strong race. "Less than three decadts ago the primitive inhabitants , the Ona Indians , r lived , hunted and fought from Ana- garda point in Magellan strait to Beagle channel. "Had the whole island been like the southern half , to-day the Onas in all probability , would be in control of practically all of their original domain. Had it been like the northern half , the world would undoubtedly look upon the hunting grounds of an ex- tinct race. As it is , within less than thirty years the Onas have shrunk from [ perhaps 3,000 to 300 , and all be- cause they possessed land the white man coveted for his sheep , and had an inborn courage and ferocity strong enough to oppose . him. "With the establishment of the first sheep range , in the early 80s , began i cruel and persistent warfare on the part of the white man. In reprisal for the : land from which he was driven the ; Ona raided the range at night for the : 'white guanaco , ' as he called the strange animal , the sheep , which he found : not only easily captured , but sweeter ! and more tender to the taste than : the wild guanacos of his island. "These raids were so _ persistent and issumed \ such magnitude that it really became a case of Indian or sheep and the : scattered settlers with their rang- srs began , a warfare of extermination . n which hirelings were engaged and the : 'chunkies' shot on sIght. Occa sionally ; a large number with their svomen ; and children were rounded up and shipped to Dawson island , where tuberculosis-infected : quarters soon ac- complished their work. It being a case primarily of bullets against ar rows In an open country , the result svas obvious. In treachery the white man outdid the Indian. He invariably took : him at a disadvantage and played false : with his truce , even resorting to poisoning one of the Onas' main food supplies , the blubber of stranded whale. ; " I Individuality. Individuality is the only real life. " It is breathing the ozone of mental moral , spiritual freedom. All other ' " living is i an excuse , a substitute , a ' near thing. Nature put her stamp of individuality on every man. Some people seem to spend most of the time trying to soak off the stamp. . They wear a uniform opinion , they seek to keep in step with the line , , . . ,1 , they march In solid sameness along : the comfortably paved road of other people's thinking. Nature intended , life as an Individual problem , differ- ent for each man ; she wants an indi- vidual solution. Individuality means self-knowl " [ edge self-confidence self-reliance , , ' rf . . , r ' self-poise , self-control , self-conquest. ' t' r It means the fullest , freest expression / of our finest self , as the most perfect rose best represents the plant It is- the complete , self-acting unity of man's whole mind , nature , heart and , life. It is moved ever within ; not - from without. The automobile is a. type of indivIduality-it is neither pulled , pushed nor propelled by out- side forces ; it is self-inspired ; self- ' directed and self-moving.-The Circle. Richard "Wasrner. ; " "Every one finds some fault with o Wagner , but that is because he is a. mountain , a huge bulk of a soul with black caverns , scarred edges , barren wastes and empty craters. He has been weather stained , mud-spattered lightning-struck dynamite-blasted , but still he Is a mountain ; his thrust is upward , the peak Is snow and sun- i shine , and he commands the horizon. I He belongs with the master 'heights : l of human glory , with Homer , Dante , ; i I Shakespeare , Milton , Michael Angelo ] i 41 Beethoven ; and he is of a bigness 1 , I with the biggest" - Rupert Hughes m. . i , Smith's Magazine. I Foolish Question. .J > . "Hello ! " cried the neighbor. , "What are you building a new chicke'n house- I for ? " "Why , " replied Nettles , "for a flock I ' of pink elephants of course. You ; didn't suppose I'd put chickens in It , i , " did you 1" ; , It's some satisfaction to the wi d 0'\11' t ' to realize that she looks well In black , . I "SAY WHEN , MY OWN. " . " , 4 r . l I 1 - . , . - " ' , , ' : ' > . , - - . - , i - t --a- ' _ ' _ . . . ; 4'.4 _ f IH , . . . . . ! : ' ' - - :1' ; ' , , . , f , , . ; 'j/ " ! " . ' , > , . o q } : : .t1i" ' " > _ , . . ' ; . . . "J 1 ; 'J : - ? . , : , \ ' " . 'tt.- . . . . \ : / ; : . . ' , . > , , . " } ' . - . - - - . . - , .K . , . . . . . ' : ; , ' : : . . " , . < . f ' , < , . . . I r ' w , . 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