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By J. 31 OOIHELLY. When he sang of love. Tradition has dealt somewhat roughly nth th e r?putation of the Barnegat folk rf half acentury ago; bot that is hardly JO be wondered at It is quite as much as a live man can do nowadays, even by -giving a good deal of attention to it, to protect bis good name, so what "show" ?au the necessarily silent dead be ex? pected to have? The fact is that the "wreckers of Barnegat" were not by any /riygyn? so black as they have been paint? ed. That modest claim in their behalf scarcely seems sufficient, for the same thing is proverbially said of the devil, so we may in strict justice go farther and affirm that among them were not a few very excellent men and women who never lighted false beacon fires or swung a ship's lantern from a cow's horns. Unhappily there were then many wrecks on that dangerous coast, for warning lights were not so numerous as they now are, and the loss of life in those disasters was great, since there was no such well organized and admirably equipped life saving corps as we at pres? ent have. When the wrecks occurred the dwellers on Barnegat beach assumed that all rights of flotsam and jetsam were theirs, and perhaps piously viewed the casting ashore of a rich cargo as a special providence in their behalf. But the cruel treachery of luring a vessel to destruction by means of false lights was an infrequent crime-whatever sensa? tional legend makers may say to the con? trary-and there were numbers of brave strong men there who many a time heroically risked their lives to save ship? wrecked persons from the terrible waves that in stormy weather thundered upon those sands. David Sang and his stalwart sons, Donald and Andrew, were among the foremost of those who habitually so dis? tinguished themselves. No one was more daring and indefatigable in captur? ing valuables from a wreck than were the Sings, but they would at any mo? ment abandon the most tempting piece of salvage to save a drowning sailor, and that could not be truthfully said of all their neighbors. There was those who averred that this eccentricity brought the family good luck, and this imagining had not a little good effect in encouraging others to emulate their hu? mane example, so that in time it came to be noted that wrecks were much less fatal in their neighborhood than upon other parts of the beach. Janet King, the only daughter of Da? vid, had almost as much strength and dexterity with the oars as had either of her brothers, and was quite their equal in courage, .which is equivalent to saying that in all the qualifications demanded for existence on Barnegat ! in those days she had no superiors in the community. And a consensus of the opinions of the young men in the vicin? ity would have unqualifiedly sustained the affirmation that in point of good looks she had no equals. Of course other j young women saw defects in her style of j beauty. They affirmed that her eyes J were too big and black, her wavy raven ; black'hair altogether too long and heavy, thc voluptuous rouncl?ngs of her finely d?veloppa form "quite-too pronounced. But that was to be expected. The girls of Barnegat were not radically different j from other girls. Janet was not simply "pretty" or "good looking," but actually beautiful to a degree that awed the young fellows about her, caused them to feel awkward in her presence and made them shy of attempting advances to her, however wistfully they looked upon her from a respectful distance. But one day there caine a big, blue eyed, flaxen haired young hunter from the distant city of New York who was not so easily abashed, but rather inspired by beaury, and who very promptly made his admiration for her quite apparent. S?lden Rangel y was, he said, his name. He had been duck shooting up about the mouth of Forked river until success became monotonous, and leaving bis; boat in the .bay he had wandered along the coast aimlessly until he reach? ed the hamlet where the Kings were leading citizens and found shelter in their house. There was in his mind a half formed purpose of strolling on as far as May's landing, or perhaps even farther, but it was quickly abandoned when He got one good look at Janet King. Where she was his journey, he felt, was ended. And why should he go farther and certainly fare worse? It was bitter, bad November weather, so in? clement that hardly one day out of three was fit to go ducking in, and the roads-in the few places where any ex? isted - were execrable. Only a fool would think of exploring the New Jer? sey coast at such a season when he had the alternative of settling down by a warm fireside and making love to Janet King. With some initial difficulty he per? suaded her father to accept him as a boarder, despite Mr. King*? protests that he knew nothing about keeping a hotel and did not wish to. "But it is the eminently correct thing that you should," argued Seiden Bange ly. "I always live in a hotel, and would have to pay board somewhere else if not here. I want to stop here a few weeks anyway,'and could not think of doing so at your expense. I would not be abie to rid myself of the idea that I was tres? passing' on your hospitality. So I insist upon being allowed to pay yea at the same rate I would pay st my hotel in New York." So he had his way, and the sum thus fixed by himself was so liberal that it fairly took away ther beach roan's breath. Large as it was. David King accepted it at first with reluctance*, bu* very soon began to find it ?rai?r pleasant tc receive weekly the bright gold pieces that his guest drew from an evidently abundant v gtpck in a heavy l?acnem inonej WJIC Gold was at no time so abundant on Barnegat beach as to be viewed with in? diff?rence even by thc Kings, who were . "-well to do folks" there. But, incred? ible as the fact was, the stranger did not seem to care for it They concluded that . "he must haye slathers of money," and an estimation of that sort at least does not generally tend to render its subject unpopular. Janet was fascinated by the handsome ; stranger himself, quite independently of his wealth. He was really the first edu? cated, gentlemanly man of the world she had ever met, and, by contrast with the young men she had known, seemed to her quite a superior sort of being. The wonders of the big, active world far outside the stagnant pool of Barnegat beach life, concerning which she had only vaguely dreamed, his conversation brought vividly before her, and she list? ened to him as if in an enchanted dream. Sometimes, in the solitude of her little room, tiie thought rushed upon and over? whelmed her that she knew so little and he so much that he must despise her for her ignorance, and she cried herself to sleep. So unsophisticated was she that she did not yet know beauty to be more than wisdom or strength or even wealth. An old guitar hung upon the sitting room wail. It was a r^lic of some wreck and simply decorative, for nobody upon the beach could even tune it. But Sei? den Rangely's skillful fingers evoked from it the most entrancing melodies and witching chords that, blending with his strong yet mellow voice, thrilled her strangely when he sang of love. Love! Not until now had any one ever sung or said aught about love to her. But he did both. He told her that he loved her with all his soul, and vowed to do so for? ever, and "a new heaven and a new earth" seemed to open before her. No question of his sincerity disturbed her happiness, for her love for him was as perfect as that which he professed. Her parents looked dubiously upon the fine gentleman's attentions to their daughter, but he had captivated the brothers, and they with Janet made a majority in the family council, so there was hardly a shadow of opposition on the part of the old folks to the mar? riage of Seiden and Janet, which took place in the month of February. About the middle of April Seiden Itangely announced that it would be j necessary for him to go to New Yoi ic on business, but his trip would be brief. His programme had been fully dis? cussed with his wife. He would draw some money from the bank, buy some things he deemed his wife should have, replenish his wardrobe, order HU agent to buy an?Lfuraish a house, and within a fortnight he would return with the j great surprise for Janet's father. David Bang's cherished dreani of the unattainable, as he frankly admitted it, was the ownership of a big first class schooner, on which he should be the master and his two sons the mates. That dream Janett husband vowed to her should be realized. Nothing would be easier for him. Had he not more than sufficient money for it lying idle in the bank for lack of opportunity for profit? able investment? He would simply draw out the necessary sum, bring it home, and put it in the old man's hands as a great surprise. Secretly Janet felt that she would have liked dearly well to accompany her husband and see the great city, but as s he did not propose that she should do so she was too proud to seem to force her company upon him when he did not ap? pear to want it. And her love readily found excuse for him. His business would demand his attention, she said to herself; naturally he would find it in? convenient to be bothered with a wom? an-one who knew nothing of the ways of city life, and would be wholly depen? dent upon him for direction and com? panionship. If he went alone he would come back all the sooner-within a fort? night, he said. So, assuming a cheer? fulness that she was far from feeling, she kissed him good-by and he departed. The fortnight passed, and more fort? nights after rt, yet he returned not. And no letter came from him. He certainly should have written. Even if none of the King family could read writing he might have known they could get some friend to tell them what was in his let? ter. That was what Da vid King said. Bat Janet excused him. "He would not," she said, ''write a letter to me for somebody else to read, and so long as he might not write to his wife he would write to nobody." But her heart was sore; she felt very lonely and an indefinable anxiety dis? tressed her. CHAPTER H. In the latter part of May, during a violent and protracted northeast storm, the hermaphrodite brig Fannie B., of Liverpool, was cast upon the Barnegat sands, not an eighth of a mile from the home of the Kings. She had aboard a number of passengers, several of whom were drowned, but among the saved i were two, a young mother and her child, who were rescued by Janet King, or, to give her the name that properly was hers, Mrs. Janet Rangely. The woman, with her little daughter clasped in her arms, essayed to reach the shore on a hatch, in company with a conple of sail? ors who launched it after both the brig's boats had been swamped and lost. In the surf the great unwieldy hatch was tumbled over aud over, whirled and tossed about like a feather in a cyclone, so that all who were upon it were swept off and engulfed in the roaring breakers. One of the sailors never reappeared, and the other was hurled ashore more dead than alive seemingly. As for the woman, the tiger of the surf seemed to play with her like a cat does with a mouse, one moment bearing lier in as if to leave her on the sand, tho next carry? ing her out again in a w:;ld swirl of the white spume and froth of the angry sea. Courageous Janet, standing on the beach, saw her so bei ig done to death, and without a moment's hesitation plunged into the waves after her, seized her by ?he hair and dragged her to land, uncon? scious but alive. In all her struggles with death the mother h:id nor. loosened her hold upon the child, a pretty little golden blonde maid of two years or there- ? about. Both were resuscitated with ! little difficulty and sheltered in the house of David Kins. That evening the woman, fully recov- ] *.vf)? but snugly ensconced in warm ! blankets, told her story to Janet, who ? sat by the bed to keep her company, j She said: **I came from Manchester, England, j to join my husband, who has been Jiving j in Philadelphia for a year past, and is | now expecting our arrival, little imagiu- j ing how near a thiug it has beon to his j never seeing either of us-again. He had to ? flee from England, Imt for nothing that ? he need he ashamed of. A man with whom he was associated ia business robbed hrm outrageouslyr and they fought about it. In self defense again.c;t a murderous knife he cracked the rascal's skull *->ih _ - -"^TN. Jnnct seized her by the hair. B bar Oi irfsrl una thought Me nad tillie him. He would have beert justified i doing so, but they were alone: he knei that he could not prove the deed done i self defense, and in fear of arrest ' h fled that same night to Liverpool, wit! out waiting even to say farewell to me. .'From Liverpool he managed to escap to this country. Until last October h deemed himself a murderer, and Wa haunted always by the fear of the gal lows, Lat in that month he met face t face the man he thought he had mut dered. The wretch's skull had heale* up as good as new, and, having a whole some fear of the consequences of invil ing the police to make any inquiries int his affairs, he had never even complainer of having been assaulted. When m; husband learned that, and not unti then, he ventured to write to me, tellinj me the story and directing me to com over with Edith as soon this spring a ocean travel should be safe and pleas ant." "Well," replied Janet smilingly, "yoi did not find it either safe or pleasant but you are all right now, and in a fev days will be with your husband again.1 "Yes, thanks to you, brave, noble gir that you are. And j*ou shall see that hi will be grateful to you for saving bi wife and child. He is no poor chap, abl< for nothing more than a 'thank you ma'am.' He has done right well in thii country. His firm is well known. N< doubt 3*ou have hean! of him." "What is his name?" "Seiden Rangely." Janet stared at lier in horrified amaze ment, speechless, feeling a strange wild whirling in her brain, vaguely wondering if she were really awake and had indeed heard that name or if a nightmare pos? sessed her. The light ia the room was dim, and the woman failed to see th? deathly pallor that spread over the girl's face, did not notice her silence and un? nerved sinking back in her low rocking chair, but just prattled on heedlessly and unsuspectingly about hor husband, her baby and herself, the narrow confines of her world. At length Janet spoke. Her throat seemed dry, her white lip* hard and stift, and she shivered as if with cold, but she forced her voice to ask: "Does your little girl look much like her father?" "Oh! she is the very image of him. The same blue *?yes and light hair lighter than his, of course, because she is only a baby yet, you know-but as much like him as-well, you will see for yourself when he come3 in person to thank you for saving his little Edith's life." Janet went out and walked on the beach in the darkness alone. She could not see where she was going, but that did not matter. The rain was falling, but she was not conscious of it. With her arms folded tightly across her breast, her fingers clinched in her flesh, her ja** set hard, and her wide eyes fixed upjn vacancy she moved slowly, mechanical? ly, trying to think. So that woman was his wife! What, then, was she? A wreck. Love had come into her life with the suddenness of a storm and .stranded her hopelessly. His blue eyes had been false beacons for her. Ah! how cruel had been his treach? ery! He swore that he loved her, would love her always, and she-poor, weak, credulous, ignorant fool that she was had believed him. Oh, how she had trusted him! how she had loved him! And all the while he was simply amusing himself with her betrayal, laughing in his sleeve at her foolish faith and fond? ness. And when the time had come for him to go and receive his wife he had gone, lightly leaving tier to her blighted life of loneliness, sorrow and shame! How was it possible that one who looked so noble could be so base? How could his lying Ups promise a lifelong love to her when in his heart he knew that his wife, the woman he really loved, was coming across the sea to him? And what a mocking fate it was that it must needs be she, herself, and no other, who should drag that woman out of the waves, back io life-for him! Oh, had she but known-no, no! Not that She would do it over again. But, O God! how hard it was to think of and to bear! She did not take any heed to where she was going until she walked into an arm that the rising tide had flung across the beach, and was almost carried off her feet by a strong and stealthy wave. Then she turned and went home, tread? ing more firmly, as if her agonized and turbulent thoughts had settled them? selves in a formulated purpose of action. Outside the door, standing in the dark with his tarpaulins on, she encountered her father. "I got sort of anxious about you and j started ont to look for you," he said. "Where have you l>een?*' "Taking a walk. My head was hot and ? wanted to cool it."' "Woman and her baby all right, 1 . suppose?" "Yes." "Has she told you }*et who she "Yes." " What's her name?" "Mrs. Seiden Rangely." "What! not" "Yes, his wife; from England/* She spoke in a hoarse whisper, aud passing him entered ?be house without another word. Mr. Dnvid King re? niai ned outside fi loni- ?i.tn?, freeing h. s \ mind in phrases that doubtless made the recording angel pigh. The next day Mrs. Rangely and ber ! child started in a beach wagon for Tom's river, where they would be enabled to take the regular stagcrfor Philadelphia. : Not only did Janet suppress the hid? eous discovery she had made and nerve herself to reply smilingly to thc woman's untiring itef?itions f>f effusive gratitude, and bid ivr "good-by and godspeed" ! when she took her leave, but the poor girl even found argxrroents to restrain her f.-iilu-r from executing a design that he h.-el formed the night before. He wished to ???ompany the worner? on her journey that she might unconsciously lead him to his vengeance u;*^ the be- > 1 trayer bf his t5hild. But Janet said to him: "You shall not do so. Leave him to his conscience and to G"d. I have the Hght to demand this, ta say wh?t shall be done to him. 1 am the one most deeply wronged, and I forbid your seek? ing to avenge me upon him;" "Po you mea? to tell me you forgive him?1 hotly demanded the old man, with the fierce fire of his Scotch blood blazing in his eyes. "No, I cannot say that," she replied huskily; "that is too much, but ? bide my time. I witt not have your deed bruit my shame abroad to the world;* "There's something in that," assented her father grimly, "so we'll bide a bit Waiting is not forgetting. He'll be main glad to greet his wife, no doubt.** It was a keen thrust, and she felt it as he meant she should, but she answered with stony calm: "She is innocent She has harmed me not For why should I break her heart with the knowledge that he is as false to her as to me?" CHAPTER Ht She quickly cut away the sailor knots. At dusk one evening ten days later. Janet, ch/\j?*ing to go to the door and look out toward the ' beach, noticed a scuffle among three men at such a dis? tance from her that in the indistinct light then prevailing she could not de? termine positively who they were or ex? actly what they were doing. Two of them she fancied were her brothers, Donald and Andrew, but of the identity of the third she had not even a suspicion. No outcry came from the straggling group, and taking it for granted that they were simply indulging in the rough wrestling and horseplay common among the younger beachmen she turned back to her household duties. But after a few minutes a -strong impression flashed upon her that she should go out there and ascertain what had been going on. Without knowing why she found herself running at full speed to the place. Dark? ness had fallen very suddenly, owing not only to the setting of the sun but the rising in the moonless sky of heavy clouds, precursors of a coming storm. Close down by the water, however, the frothy whiteness of the breaking surf seemed to a little dispel the obscur? ity, making not exactly light but rather the ghost of light for a small space on the sand, and there she stumbled over the prostrate body of a man. She drop? ped upon one knee and laid a hand upon him, in so doing sensing by intuition that it was he whom she had called "husband." It was too dark to see his face, but she felt the thick, soft curls of his hair and knew him. Yes, it was Seld>.-i. Bangely, with hi? feet tied to? gether, his arms aecnrelr hound behind his back, and a twisted handkerchief forced between his jaws as a gag and knotted tightly at the brck of his head. She tore the handkerchief away and iemanded: "Who did this?" "Donald and Andrew," he replied raspingly. "Are you hurt?" "Somewhat bruised and strained, that is alL They pounced upon mo so sud? denly and unexpectedly that there was no chance for much of a fight" He spoke slowly, breathing hard. For a moment she hesitated. Had not her brothers a right te vengeance on their own account? Had he not brought shame upon them, too, through her? She might bc willing to leave his punish? ment to a higher power, but if they were not should she presume to interfere? Then in an instant the true nature of the temptation flashed upon her, and her thoughts returned to harmony with her nobler self. But her voice was cold and hard as she asked him: "Have you a knife?" "There is one in my right vest pocket." She found it and quickly cut away the elaborate sailor knots with which they had made him fast While she was bnsy doing so he asked in a bewildered way: "Why the mischief should Donald and Andrew have jumped on me?" "You should know," she answered dryly. "I should! Well, Til be shot if I do!" "You'll be shct anyway, if father comes here before I get yon out of this. Andrew has gone to bring him." "Ah! Then there is no time to be lost" "And Donald has gone to get a boat. What is all this you have about you in? side yonr clothing?" "Gravel. They stuffed my clothing with it in order to, as Donald was good enough to explain, 'anchor me out se? curely ia deep water.' It really seems to mo the most extraordinary reception ever tendered by a family to one of its members. I wish you would explain it if you can." ..There is no time for that now. A minute's delay may cost you your life. Follow me closely and shake that gravel out when you get into water toodeep for it t:> make a splash." She led the way straight into the surf, wading out so far that only uer head was above tho surface, he ol>ediently fol? lowing close. Then, standing near him, she whispered: "Do not raise your voice. Sound trav? els on the water. We are safe here from being seen, but ftot from being heard. Why did you dare t-rcorae back here?" "I came to my wife." "From your wife, you mean." "No. I don't mean anything of ?he sort. What do you mean?" "Hush!" They stood still, listening fo the low grinding sound of an oar rapidly plied as a scull which passed within ten yards of them, and could just discern, dimly ontlined against the murky sky, the fig? ure of a man standing m the boat. It was Donald King, going to the beach for the man he proposed to "anchor out" When he had gone by they waded on along the beach parallel with the shore, still keeping only their heads out of water. "This is- terribly hard work," com? plained Seiden. 'It would much easier to swim, if we must stay in the water. " "In this darkness we would lose direc? tion and might go out to sea. The depth guides us." Thev straggle:! on, but tho man's ira patience coulJ not iong* bc feSfcrnined. "For Heaven's sake, Janet," ne* ap" pealed to her, "tell nae what all this means!" "It means that I am not going to let my father and brothers stain their souls with murder for the righting of my wrong upon a wretch liku you." "A wretch like me! Why, are you crazy.- Janet? I know I've been away a good deal lorigef than I expected to bo, but I cari explain" ''There is no time for explanations now, and they are needless anyway. Facts explain themselves. Your wife and child have been here. That is enough." "My wife and child! Oh, but this is maddening! I swear to you that I" "Take no more oaths, Seiden Rangely. Here we have reached a boat and-yes, thank God! the oars are in it. Climb into it and row for your life! Get away from here as fast and as far as you can. Listen! They have met and found the severed ropes. You hear thens cursing. They are in deadly earnest. If they catch you they will kill you like a dog. And you "deserve it. I do not save you for you* sake, but for theirs. Go back to Philadelphia to your wife, and may God in his justice deal with you as you have deserved by your dealing with me!" Seiden Rangely was momentarily too intensely petrified by astonishment to speak or move. When he had recov? ered himself Janet had altogether dis? appeared. Instantly upon the utter? ance of hef last word she had dived and swam away under water, he could not tell in what direction. There was man? ifestly nothing for him to do but take her advice, for the present at least? so he clambered into the boat, took Hp the oars and set himself energetically to the putting of as much spaco as possible be? tween himself and his inexplicable brothers-in-law. Janet succeeded in nnobservedly re? entering the house and changing her wet clothing for dry long before her father and brothers came in. Indeed she had retired to her own room and was pre? paring for bed when she heard them en? ter, but at the sound of their steps came out again to see that they got the sup? per left standing in the kitchen for them, and to lightly chide them for their un? wonted neglect of the evening meal. They looked at her sharply, but there was nothing in her manner to betray that she knew aught of the contemplated tragedy or had any share in thc frustra? tion of their plans. "Well," she said, having taken np the food before the fire and placed it on the kitchen table, "everj-thing is either cold or dried up now, but you will have to make out with it as you best can. Mother went to bed an hou% ago. When you are done throw this cloth over the table. I will clear up the dishes in the morning." She retired again to her room. "She had nothing to do with it," af? firmed Donald in a low but positive tone, as if in answer to a previously offered suggestion. "Hadn't we better tell her?" asked An? drew in a whisper. "No," replied his father. "You can never know beforehand how women will take things; never be sure when they cease to love. I'm afraid the poor girl thinks too much of him even yet. Be? sides, we've made a poor fist of this night's job, and there's no call to talk about it now or any other time. We had him in our hands and let him get away. The more shame to us!" "He may have been dazed when he got himself loose and floundered into the surf," suggested Andrew. "There's some little hope of that," as? sented the old man, "since he is not on the beach, and we are pretty sure of that. But if he should still bo alive, and we get another chance to lay hands on him, there must be no second failure to kill him." Within a week they had another chance. It was on a hot afternoon, when the whole King family were gathered in the shade before the honse. Mrs. King sat on the door step knitting; the old man, perched on one end of a water butt, smoked and watched his sons mending a seine that had been torn by a shark: while Janet, standing beside her mother, seemed lost in reverie, her gaze fixed dreamily upon tho ocean's lazily heaving waves of green and gold. A broad wheeled beach wagon, drawn by a couple of tough, shaggy little ponies, came creaking from the highway, rounded the comer of the house, and as it drew up before the family group Janet's husband sprang down from be? side the driver. At tnc same moment, from thc back seat of thc vehicle, leaped a dvplicate Seiden Rangely-tall, well built, frank faced, flaxen haired and blue eyed as the original-who aided in her descent to the ground a plump little lady with a child in her arms, Mrs. Rangely and Edith. "Oh, you poor dear!" exclaimed the impulsive Englishwoman', precipitating* herself and baby into Janet's arms. "What a lot of trouble I have inno? cently caused you! Bnt how was ? ?o suppose that Sel had a cousin rn this country when they dir! not themselves know it? How was I to know that there was any other Se! in the- world but my Sel?" Janet's husband took up the bnrden of explanation. "I think you will ?istefl fo me now, Janet," he said, with a merry twinkle in his eyes. "At all events, you cannot, get away from me by diving this time." David King and his sons looked sig? nificantly at each other,- and Donald uttered a half suppressed '"Gosh!*' foi" those few words maxie the*** nnd.>rstarid Janet's share in that mysterious escape. "When 1 went to the'city ? found my father very ill. He was a hard, austere man. who had planned my life for me in the way he wanted it, and not I, so we did not get along, very well together. But so long as he did no"; know of my marrying without his consent he soften- ? t ed a great deal txrwaril the last and took ; 1 me into favor again completely before ? f lie died. When he passed away I came ! ( back here for my wife, and at her sng- j ( gestion went to look up any possible ? j Mrs. Rangelys Philadelphia might har- j ? bor. Yeo see I have fonnd one, her hus-1 " band,- too; ami in so doing discovered a . 1 cousi? } nev*T dreamed of haviug. It j ? appears that my father and his brother . * ?juaireled m boyhood, and thereafter i ignored each other's existence all their . J lives. But each having a sou. gave to r him. as it happened, the same old name a of Seiden, which is historic in our fain- j ily, and I do not think any one, looking at the resemblance between ns, can question our relationship. Now,. Jan*"*?,- ' ^ my own dear wife, what is my desert?" j "My love and unquestioning trust for- ? evermore." she replied, yielding- to his ) fond embrace. THE- F.N1V. Thc best p?a? of" supplying charcoal to tho poultry is fo burn corn, not black 2 bnt nicely browned; give them all that f they* -t-cil! eat np clean. Tbe Fate of Theodosia Si [From tb?' New York World ] BALTIMORE, April 20 - Frank Redwood tells in the American a 8 relating to the mysterious fate of rons Burr's daughter, Theod< who is believed to have been drow in 1813 off the coast of SIM th Carol This Story, he declares, was toi him by a man from Elizabet h City, C., who said that some Lime be the war Dr. Poole, a idative of was called to altend a very old won living near Nag's Head, on North Carolina coast, and who thot; that alie wa?? very ill. In going it.to her hou^e he had ticed a small oil painting of a rem; ably beautiful woman, i xecuied some artist of no mean ability, v*l was hanging on the smoke grir wall. He took tlie pictuie down, s finding that ti ie woman attached special value to it, I e asked it of in lieu of his fe e, and she readily g it to him. lier story of 1 ow it came into possession wa? as follows: A gi many yea?? before, when her 1 band wan quit? a young man, wreck of" a small schooner h*d c?; ashore at Nags Head and her hush* had shared with ethers what pinn ther? was aboard. Among his sh wa* the pictuie she had given ! Poole and a silk dress of the Iii waisted style of the Empire, wh she still had and showed him lier husband told her that in 1 cabin of the wreck there wereevid ces ;?fits having been occupied lr lady, and specially fut? d up for h but rm bodies td crew or pa*sengi were discovered, and as the recedi tide left the hull bare on thc beach became apparent that the seht ot had been scuttled. Several gr? auger holes iiad been bored thron her planking and al! the small bo; were missing. This was all the ( woman could tell about the portra which had been in her posessioii e* since. Dr Poole took the pictn baek to Elizabeth City with hi: where possibly it still may be. The man from Elizab? th City we on to say, that he had seen the p ture in Dr. Poole's possession, a he further declared that some tit bt fore the discovery of the poi tri by Dr. Poole, probably in the thirl ii or forties, a dilapidated wreck of sailor was brought to one of the Nt York hospitals suffering from acu delirium tremens, and m his ravin; before death he said he had been ot of the crew of the ves.-e't' at broa? Theodosia Alston from Chaileston 1813, and that, their cupidity heit excited by the value of her jewel the crew haw robbed and murder? her, scuttled the vessel and eecapt in a small boat. His story got in the newspape and occasioned some comm< nt, bi was put down by most people to tl drunken ravings of an inebriate, au was soon forgotton. In connection, however, with tl finding of the picture at Nag's Ilea it took on a new atid ghastly cohe ? ney, and Dr. Poole was moved 1 wiite to the lepresenlatives of th Alston family in South Carolina i regard to the picture in his posessioi Letters were exchanged betwee them for some lime, and the pictur in Dr. Poole's posession was prove 10 his satisfaction to be that of th daughter of Aaron Burr. ??>- -? - Density of Population. The census c ffic? has issued a bulle tin on density of pojulation. R od Island has the most dense p pulauou o any of the S ates-32o to the squar mile of land. If Illinois were as dense Iv populated it would contain 17.60J. DOO population, and Texis 88.000.000 Tbe Cc OJ-us Office has divided tin acmntry into different sizes of seftlemen as follows : Two to G per square mile 11 to 18 per square mile ; 18 to 45 pei -quaie mile; 45 to 90 per M^iare mile, ??lid above 90 to I be square ?ile. 'fbi toral settled area in the couutry, two oi mote to the square mile, has increased From 1 200 .000 mi'rs in I860 td 1,947 000 miles in 1890 The *c t'cd jar nf thc country i* now peopled as follows : 2 *o 6 to tLc ?quare mile. 592,000; in 6 to 18 tc the mile, 393.000 miles ; IS to 45 to rhe square mile. 71'1.000 miles ; 45 to JO to the square mile, 235,000 miles ; io above 90 to the square m? e, 24,000 miles. Tbe population of the country bas multiplied 16 times sh.ee ?790, while the settled area has multiplied inly & times. All of Illinois is settled, md noue of its area more sparsely than 18 to the square mile. Forty-one rhousand square m i 1rs have from 18 to 15 population per mile, and li 000 tuiles f?ooi 45 to 90 It has no area more d :naely j ovulated tl aa 90 ? et tuile, except in cities, which are ei ;!ude? fro? this calculation Wiscon ?in, ott t&e other hand has 404 square wiles, containing a populatiou of 90 or iver, and 8,OOO square miles eontain ng less than 6 persons to the mile. Peofi*yl7?iia far exceeds all other States in extent of densely populated irea outside the ?tieii aatJ towns The bulletin says : The unsettled regions of the Dakotas lave been reduoed to half their former ? liiueosions Settlements iu Montana >ave spread uni il they now occupy otie h i rd of the State, lu New Mexico, idaho and Wyoming coio-iderabie ex- ' enfri?os of area are to be noted In j Colorado, iu spite of the decliue of the j Dining fever and the d?population of? fs mining regions, seulement, was ? prearl, and two-third* of th? Stat* is I low under thc domini?n of man. O'.c- ! ;ou and Washington slnw rqua'ly as apiti progress-, and California, although s rniniti<! legit ss kavc suffered,-1 as nade gieut inroad's upon its unsettled1 j riMtos. e?-p--cft!&y in the Souih. Of j LH file Western States and Territoii s ? devala alone iv at a sta nds HI in ti.i ? e^pesS, its* Sett led area remaining pr;ic '? ?cally the sanie as in 1880. Th? linn : >ering and tninirg interests of M ?chi t r'j& !Vav*e practically obliterated its j .nlcHcniesH, and hive reduced' thssC ot j iVisrnnsin t'o one Hs f.irittrr area. [ .n ??finnesofa ?he aiea of its -?'Ad ?Yoith- j ?rn forent* ha-ve bee? ?<??aci d' fren j J ?M9 tn 23 OtlO ^i#?s s-. I'jp to I md inoindii'if iSSty ttVs country had a j ronlier,. Hi:?- now the t. ou tier hub dis-j Mppctv.cd forcer. Ancestor? of the P?: vsicUrr. Disesses were supposed in ancien* times to be caused directly by the dis-' ?Measure of thc gods, a behtff that has tiot yet disappeared from the minds of savage tribes. Evil Spirits also played their part, the two beliefs being con? nected more or less intimately. Henee* the intervention of priests and kings, te* Vhom attached a sacred character, awi* the'idea that the latter could cure by rf touch which prevailed until a rece?? date. The faith in the healing gnincH'l*l presumed to emanate from tte roya? person was really part and parcel of the" belief in the divine tight of kings, thai is, their right to rule regardless *5f tb** wishes of their subjects. From all these causes came that mist? ure of superstition, metaphysics and medicine that characterized the prac? tice of the healing art in the middle' ages, when doctors wore gowns and. Ht special form of head covering and talked indiscriminately law, religion, astrology and medicine. Astrologers made heait> and longevity to depend on tho constel? lations, witches and sorcerers on occult tooses,- and both dealt to a certain ex? tent in remedies that depended rather on1 tradition than on ?xrlence. From all these' germs.- with something of the druggist and the barber--who were in those oki times more or less connoted with medi? cine-thrown in- came the full fledged physician of today. -^San Francisco* Chronicle. A Good Place to Heep Flowers. ""Men really have more gumption than* we" give them credit for," commented a young woman the other day, with tho* air ot having made a remark: "yesterday afternoon a man I know asked me to* stop with bim at ii florist's, and select aa ofe'hid for a boutonni?re to wea? ?t# dance last evening. I did, and whet* one was chosen I was surprised to see* him reject the paper which thc florist put over it, take off his hat, and care-' fully tuck the delicate blossom in the lin? ing band. *I always carry my coat flowers there,' he explained, and I thought it quite a clever device/'-Sa* Francisco Argonaut. Beeswax? The question is often asked by ama* teurs "DJ be?? make wax?*' The an? swer is Yes. \Va*<c io a natural secre? tion of the heney bees, formed in deli? cate scales on the under side of the abdomen. Whils it is formed to some extent in activity, ir is formed in laxgsst* quantities in repose, while the bees are quietly clustering inside tho hive. Wax is used by the bees for comb building. Thc production of each pound requires in the neighborhood of twenty pounds of honey. Another thing that puzzles beginners* is how to render old com?3 without aa extractor. We give a plan recommended by Boot in his work on bee culture. It is simply a large honey barrel having a basket made of perforated zinc suspended in it by a hoop that rests on the top of the barrel A steam pips throws a strong jet of steam into this basket, and all one has to do is to shovel on the old comb in any quantity. The wax ia found in the basket. A Ministerial Conductor. "We have had some curious men on this line," said a Third avenue car con? ductor, "but I think about as strange aa any was one who had formerly been a Methodist minister. How he came to get on a street car I don't know, but he was a wholesome, manly sort of man, and he aid his work well, though hetesd at first a singular way of doing tbibgs. He had been on the front platform one day collecting some fares, and when be got back to thc rear platform a passen? ger told him a man had got on at Hous? ton street and was sitting inside. The conductor stood in the doorway and looked in, but he couldn't locate him. Then he said with perfect calmness, 'Will the gentleman who got on art Houston street please riser The gentle? man who got on at Houston street stool np like a maa and paid his fare."-New York Sun. They Can't Do lt. There are two things a full bloode?i Indian cannot learn to do-box or wrestle. He i.i all right as a runner, jumper and rough and tumble, but any? thing like science puts him out. His way ?3 to bite and kick and pull hair, and ho can't bc brokex in to stand up and tako ono on thc nose.-Detroit Free Press._ It is said that Daniel Webster was tb* first editor of the first college paper pub? lished ia this country, thc initial *acm bcr appearing at Dartmouth ia 1800. These journals now number IC'* in the CTnited States, while bat 1 is issued ia England. Wife CAX AND Off (tit .rnntoe \.-ker's Bio?*" Elixir for ii has been' fully liein- iiftr.-ifeil t? the people of thin cotrn? ?ry titat it ii superior to ail ot???r pr?-"*?T S on ? .or i?!.i ii i seas?.?. It ik rf pivifSe cur? f?r syphilitic j'oisonitnj. otcer*. ?ruption? ?m# "'imples. Pt purities tho who'e Mfiem ?(it 4 thoroujiMy hu dd? up tlie coh?tit?fiou. Sol? by J. k\ IV. Di-Lorin*. 7 - - mi - -? ? . -iii'iT - - - - Xot ii" you go th rough tue world H ?ly -|WffpM<*. Acker's 2*V<p*'*t*ij* ?**'Mt?t? nre a positive cut-it* for the vMrsf fi'/ilir*- of Dy?pepsia. iA'd?'j^rt'on. Flui ii lein* v an" I Constipation. Guar HU tied uni} Sold by J. F. W. Del.orme 6* .? .?N'T NIGHTS Ih? com pla i ut of thousands suffern*/^ frouff Ast h tun. C< nsu<usptio?i, CoU*jhs. ?rc- ftiM yotf ever try Dr. Acker's "inglis". Keittedy ? ?t i* the best preparation known tor all Lu?g l'ioubies. Sold on a po.-i'ive pu.-irantee ?6 26c ami Mle., bv J5. F. W. DeLorntti. & f. -Ss S-?i'rtment,' Is one wilier /..HfjiHeed to l>ri*?g" vf***' nttf isl.ictoty re.-ul! ? in case of failure a return' .>f purchase ; >:i 'hts safe pian you cnn1 inly fr-Hii <-ur : ...;st.. Druggisi il bottle <n4 Dr XMntri's >" ?r l;i-?-.iverj tor <Jor^?*yr>K>,s^ It is guarantee,: :o britt',* r>6[&i in if vf y chs>? wheti u>e?l i'<r ai>v alb cl ion ??f Thr???T. !,un^< .r Ches-t. sift? as Consutupiion. IufbtmHiiou <f Lunga, lii^onchiti?. A-ihuia, W|j.,.,pmg Cough' i"r< up. eic, ere ?( if pleasant au?i agreea-ide to1 rust?, per? t?ilv s.?tV. nthi* can always- be dte peiKied upon. Tria" bottles tree at J. F. Wv De Lonnie's, Drug Store. V "?Chen Baby was sick, wc par? h??r Ct?t*?6. When she ? as a Child. she cSPd-for Castori* When ehe bec-am* Wis*-.-she clung'to Castomfc Whcn she had Chj"r*5>s?\ (she g-r^tVni Castor? ****OR DYSPEPSIA, \ ?idigeRtion, and Stomach <"jsorde:*"4 *3S*"f '? BROWN'S IRON HVttP?M%r All dealers keep it. fl per ?t*<rin* h& tiade-maric and-crossed **d- *?-?cawmpper^ _ ll?- ..4' .* ? t*> - ? ftecsoraf. Our friends and pntrons r<Mfflmi*b>r" t!tat the Wntexmnn aitd' SoutRrort ik im* od' its own' jzroilnd, on Liticrty street1, oppoaitS" ihe Fir? Sugioe Houee. J