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"Jfie ^paoi: a ?% A NC ISv flSrs*, gli^Qi (ISABELLA * "Copyright, 1392 and 1893, bj CHAPTER XVI. CONTINUED. 3'0h, Carlos! My Carlos!" sho exclaimed, snatching the photograph and pressing it to her hps. "And I have no picture of liim! I dnro not, for the baron would destroy it and kill me; but I must have a copy of thie one! My beautiful Carlos! /nd yet " She held the picture from her and then again closer than before, and an expression of disappointment slowly settled on her lovely features. "It is not Carlos," she said sadly. "Nol Looking at it carefully, now I can see that it is not Carlos." At these unerpected words, Olive could not have told whether she felt /Hanrmn-in+PrJ. and Tfit she |/4C(?OWt VA ? ~ ~ had, unconsciously, hoped to hear something of the sort. "In what does the difference consist?" she asked, taking the photograph and gazing intently at the pictured features. "The living faco seemed to you so very like that of your husband." "Yes; but I can see the difference more clearly in the picture. These are not the eyes of my Carlos. Ah, if y<ju had ever seen them, you could not fOKget them! Poor Henri used to say they were the real magnetic eyes, and he often tried to persuade him to try to mesmerize. But Carlos had no faith in it at all and always made sport of the whole thing. Then these eyebrows are not so heavy as those of Carlos; and, though it is difficult to tell in a picture, the face seems more blond, more fair. Of course, Carlos was blond and his mother was an Englishwoman; that is how ho came by his yellow hair and mustache; but thprfl was nlwnvs a touch of the Spaniard in bis pale-olive skin. But this is not a good picture of Mr. Stanley. " "It is thought very excellent by his family, but it was taken a good many years ago, and he has lived in this country since he left England. That ha3 changed him, and the sun, no doubt, has tanned his complexion. That -would make him all the more like your Carlos and less like his picture." "Ah, he is ro like, so very, very like," sighed Mrs. Helmholtz, "but the photograph?no, it is not like at all. I never could mistake the photograph ior Carlos, at least after the first glance." Olive returned the picture to its envelope and the envelope to the reticule. "I must go home, dear Celeste," she said, abruptly. "I have been so wrapt up in your story and so full of sympathy, that I quite forgot how tb/ time was flying. Well, what a fal evening I have given you, xmien I thought only how pleased yaf would have been to meet Polly^amilton. But you must send me Wine in your carriage, dear, it is quite too late for in a vttntnrA nnt nlrme." "Certai nly," and Celeatine hastened to order the cariiag/^ and, as Olive was troubled about Cue lateness of the hour, she hurrie'^away with the briefest parting wo^'ds and embraces. All the *vay home her thoughts were engaged about the photograph the Honorable Clarence Stanley- It had arrived at the verv moment she was leaving homo U> call for Bertha and Mrs. Helmholtz; and she had only taken time to tear open the envelope and to glance at the picture and a long, closely -written letter from "dear old Toddlekins." How slow that coachman drove! How the^horses seemed to crawl! But, at last, the carriage stopped at her uncle'* house, and she flew upstairs to lier own room; but before she took time to read the letter, she took the photograph from its cohering and her eyes, looking like two points of light, fixed their gleaming gaze upon it. "Yes," she breathed softly to her eelf, "I thought I saw -writing on it; it is very fine, and the ink bo faded, I can scarcely read it; but?ah, yes! The magnifying-glass." She snatched a reading-glass from her desk and held it oyer the fine and faintly traced words: "Clarence Stanley, to his dear friend, Milicent Fairfax." "And jetl" exclaimed Miss Gaye, her cheeks Unshed with triumph, "I remember distinctly that the Honorable Clarence Stanley said to me, on that first occasion ofonr meeting each other, that he had never seen and did not know - dear old Toddlekins.' " CHAPTER XVII. an interesting letter. For what seemed qnite along lime, Miss Gaye continued to gaze upon the photograph held so tightly between her two small white hands. Then she locked it carefully away in a drawer of her writing-desk, and she said to herself, with a smile: "I am inclined to thisk, v/ith Celes tine Hemholtz, that Mr. Stanley's photograph does not do him jnstice. He is very much handsomer; and however remarkable may have been the wonderful, magnetic eyes of her dear Carlo*, they could not have excelled in that respect the wonderful, dark, magnetic eyes of our Honorable Clarence Stanley." She drew her letter from its envelope; but interesting as she knew it would be nod anxious as she was to know its contents, sue held it for some moments unfolded, while her thoughts strayed away thousands of miles across the Atlantic, and she murmured with a unnle: "Dear old Toddlekins!'' Miaa Gaye's ;coiresp?ndent wr* Miss Milicent Fairfix, "the old-maid Bister" of Lady Appleby. Milicent Fairfax was an old maid who had never been young; she had not the past to look back upon. From her earliest recollections, she had felt old and looked old, and even at seven years of age she had heard iemlf called "that little old maid.", >fl '[reasOre, 5)-C ? D* )VEL. beth ?. ?infer, CASTELAR.) r RoiEIiT EONNIl't SCNf.) | It -was the source of indescribable bitterness to her; arid wh?n Clarence Stanley, a young collegian, had called on her sister Bess to deliver some slight message from his brother, Lord Appleby,'and had either purposely or accidently mistaken the old-maid sister for his brother's pretty sweetheart, he had, in one moment and forever, won the heart of Miss Fairfax. She had never before really loved any one and never expected to give her heart a second time. When Clarence Stanley had said good-bye forever to his native lanrl, and had called to see Milicent and ' actually kissed her faded cheek, the joy and sorrow combined of that parting moment had nearly killed her. But she didn't die. She lived that she might remember, during every moment of her futuie life, that this brilliant young man had really kissed her, and that she might, the first thing when dhe awoke in the morning and the last when her eves closed at night, look at his face, that held for her the glory of the -world. She had never seen him again; she had almost ceased to hope that she ever might;and -when Olive Gaye came to Windermere House as a guest, Miss Fairfax gave to her a love as peculiar and as deep as she had flung at the feet of Clarence. It began by Olive Gaye treating the old maid with a playful freedom and' lack of ceremony, such as is only observed toward young people; %nd having thus won Milicent's heart, she followed up the conquest by listening to the stofry of her-' admiration for young Clarence Stanley and declaring his picture "just too handsome for anything." From that moment Miss Fairfax would have died for her; and when she called her "Toddlekins," in playful allusion to her duck-like walk, deolaring t^at Milicent was to call her "Noilikens" in return, as a synonym for "Olive," the old maid was reaay to yieia up her soul to follow where her heart had gone before. "She loves Clarence," thought Olive, bringing her long reverie to a close. "She loves Clarence, and to the eye of love there is no disguise. But stop! She loves me, too, and for me she will do anything?anything 1 She would even throw dnst in the eyes of love itself. Yes?if there should even be the disguise T suspect, rad her eyes should penetrate it, I can<yet manage that tough knot! And now to read her letter:" . . v j " wlndermeee house, ' \ "jtertb, enolakd, May ?, 1892. "dr^pist nolluuchs: I. fend. you^he pbottgrapb; a copy would not be the same, beftues wbicb, I could not let It .out otjay ^ssession to aDy one but yourself ldfcg > "enough t? have it copied. .. <& "Sending it is like passing It from my left hand to my right?I still feel that it Is with me. And I am glad, dear, that 90a should have it for a while, beoaase we are in such trouble here, and yoa may he the means of helping us. Lord Appleby is (loomed?the doctor says his 'days are numbered?aodthe little heir must go, too. Who could have thought It? One short year ago, both of them the picture of health as they then looked? The mysterious malady that is killing them they inherit from Lord Appleby's mother, the late countess. She had it from her mother, and so on, I don't Know bow many generations bask; and no physician has ever been able to understand the malady, or even to give it a name. They say it te no disease nt all, but a curse. The countess came of a Spanish family named Mendoza, and an old ancestor centuries ago wronged some Indian princess in America. That Mendoza had two wives, a Spanish wife and an Indian wife, and both left descendants. It is said that the Indian woman left her curse on every Mendoza who didn't law luuy marry one 01 ner own uegcenaaniB? and though that is a mere superstition? and I don't believe a word of if?there is something peculiar about it, for as,far as I can find out anything about it?and sincte I got your letter, dearest, I have taken pains to find out everything I could about, tho Countess of "Windermere's family, and it is certainly remarkable bow many of them have died mysteriously from somS unknown malady or else by accident or violence. "Tho case of poor Lbrd Appleby and his little boy brings it home very close to us, and although I wouldn't let myself believe in this superstition I oan't but think thiH malady that is killing Lord Appleby and the child very awful and mysterious. That brings me to the old earl. He is still as much in love with you, Noliio, as everl Ah, what a thousand pities be isn't his own son, and then you could marry him and be Countess of Windermere. He is in despair at the condition of his son and grandson? such despair that even the return of our Clarence (though his father has always hated him) would be weleQiped. The earl, who married his wife from a bitter feeling of revenge because she had twice refused him, grow at last to hate her bitterly; and this feeling was increased by the fact of hot- hnnnlnuo to ft Miuln of hor own, who was also the heir-at-law of the Windermere estates If the present earl should die childless. It appears to be a law of nature that men always hate the heir-at-law; and in the ease of the earl, his hate wns increased by knowing the heir-at Jaw to be his rival, for whose sake he had been twice refused, and when his second 9on wns born, tho imacre of his mother and bearing the fatal Mendoza birthmark on bis temple, the old earl transferred hi9 hate of the heir-at-law to his own son; and poor Clarence thus became the pet and darllug of. his mother. "From the time when ClareDoe left us until now no one nas ever dared to name him to the earl; bat now, as I have already said, I think the earl would oven w*sJcorao this detested son a9an heir to Windermere. The original heir-ut-law, his rival and the fnrnrrr* slnco dead; but hJThas l?ic two one n son, Harold, and a daughter, CobS*!111015, The son is, of course, tho present bei*"'1*" law, and it was his sister to whom ClarPn'!? was engaged; another reason for the earl's hatred toward his younger son. This younp: lady, Constance Moruy, is a lovely Kin, x ucjioyit, biiuu^a j. uu.u ncvm her. But I am ready to love, any cue wlie oarod for Clarence and for whombe cared. Only the serious thing in this matter is that from the day when our Clureneo left us till tho preseut hour not one<f us has ever received a line or word or message from our dearly loved boy. Or rourne, ho would not have written to his fa! her, and there was little sympathy between him and i.ord Appleby; so there has never been any tfre.it cause of surprise that neither of them should have received any letters Irom him. "Though he knew very well that 3 wnaM always be a member of the family whoreever my sister was, it was hardly to be expected that he would have written to me. Not but what I hoped and prayed to get at occasional remembrance from him. but nothing lias ever come. I wot;hi so gladly have kept him informed of all tne news of the family: but I can't feel a bit surprised that he should have preferred to forget tbem all at once and forever as soon as the ocean had parted them. What I was not prepared for, however, was the fact I have just learned, and It is ibis: From tlie iao / ment of partiDg with him till now Ludj. Constance Moray hns not received line 01 message from her lover. Not oven thesigbl of bis handwriting on a newpaper wrapper has reached her. This is so unlike ouj Olarance, Nollle, darling, what cau it mean.? Does it foreshadow the fearful calamity] have never dared to think of. That calamity which now I cannot keep out o' my thoughts. Is Clarence no longer liv> in>;7 Has the Indian woman's curse pur< sued him to the death, also? But, nol j am ashamed to let such superstitious fan cies into my mind! For if there if truth In it, Clarence was the on# to be safe. for he loved tb? descendant of the Mendoza; but, perhaps I not a descendant or toe inuiau woamm Oh, what utter nonsense! I would be a: I superstitious as anyone if I allowed mi mind to dwell on these follies. No, no, 1 will not, I dare not believe that any hara has come to my Clarence. Perhaps he die not really love Lady Constance; there maj not have beoE any engagement betweei them, but something there was, I know, foj when Lord Harold came to make persona; inquiries after Lord Appleby, I ever plucked up courage to a9k him boldlj whether he or his sister had, in ull thesJ yoars, beard constant tidings of Clarence And it was then, to my dismay and terror, that I learned all I have now told you o! that dear boy's inexplicable and fearful silence. Oh, ray Nollie, I can never beai it! And though yours is such a largf country, the world itself sometimes seem? very small, and perhaps you, whom I Iov< even more, if that could be, than Clarence, may be the means of finding him for mei Learn his face by heart, dear one, and then, if you should meet him, you' will recognize him for me. He may have oast aside his name; that name he had no cause to love; but you will study his face, my darling, and you will recognize Jiim for my sake whenever you may-meet hka; "We are counting days, now, for our poor invalids; a little while ago it was months, then weeks, Alas! who knows u~ Haum tnaf-aari nf MUW 3UUU IL i-UUjr MO UVWA0 Lord Harold Moray has left us already. The old earl insulted him openly to his face, asking him if be had oome for dead men's shoes before the,feet the? belonged to were cold; and oven my sister, Lady Appleby, seemed to think it was bad taste on the part of Lord Harold to come to Windermere House. But they all misundnrstood him. He, does-not wish at all to Inherit the eari/Jom or the estates. It was to inquire about Clarence that he oame. B}s sister motjrns our dear boy as dead, fend it is..plata to me that Lord Harold shares her belief. But he- deal ares that if Lord Appleby dies, he will go in person to America and hever return till he finds Clarence or ptoofs of bis death. The-Bar! oPWlndermere sneers at this, but I Believe in&ord Harold. He loves Clarence and he doves his Ulster Constance, and by my own heart I kflow"him to be true. I am wtftlnR you a very long letter, denr Nollikens. Reward me by one as long or longer: it will bo all too short for me if it should be twic# the length of mine. If the worst should 'come suddenly, I will let you know .at once; for who knows? It may be yours give the news ;to Clarenco that, in face a all impossibilities, be is the future Earl pf Windermere. Ever your devoted ^J| "Toddlekiim." j Olive Gaye's eyes were glitteri^F with excitement when she finished this letter, and she could have hogged her correspondent to her heart for the news she had sent. She even forcrave the rambling style of Miss Fair fax, which would have made it difficult for anyone lees interested to follow the thread of her story. A smile of triumph lit up her sparkling face; then, seating herself at her desk, she slowly read over her letter again, pausing from time to time to jot down pecial points, or else to follow out some line of thought suggested by rrases here and there. "The old earl still in love with me? Ah, yes, Toddlekins! It is easier for sn old man to fall in love with a young girl than it is to fall out again. last letter showed no such desjBic.,about Lord Appleby, no such for the return of Clarence. Perhaps he even dreams of another heiiT*one nncontaminated with the Mendqza taint, free from the curse of that ghostly,avenging Indian princess. But. for me, I never did admire the oM Sir Pitt Crawleys, of London society, especially while there was a choice among their youthful heirs. But this Clarence Stanley? Ah, Toddlekins, he isn't a bit like your Clarence, and I prefer him as he is, muoh as he resembles Madame Celestine's Carlos!" Olive paused suddenly in ner reflections and in the broken phrases she had been writing on the paper before her, and she shivered slightly, as if with cold. "If he is not Clarence," she thought, "then Celestine was right; and if my Clarence is her Carlos, who was the dead man they brought home to her, and who3e hand drove Carlos Mendoza's dagger through his heart?" A livid pallor overspread Olive's keen bright face. She enjoyed dramatic effect; she had a taste for highclass melodrama, and the dark tragedies of the world in a strong sensational novel had a certain charm; but in life?in every-day life, mingled with her own existence?ah! It had suddenly come home to her, and she drew back appalled. Then catching up the paper she had been scribbling on, she tore it into shreds, lighted it at the gf,s, and watched it burn to ashes on the hearth before her. TO BE CONTINUED. The Uie> of Zinc. The largest consumers of zinc are the manufacturers of galvanized iron work. Then come the brass founders, for zino is an important element in brass alloys, and large quantities are used in the sheet form and as an element in galvanio batteries. Zinc is pat under stoves and is used to line bathtubs. Great quantities of the ore are used also to make zinc white, or zino oxide, for paint, but this is made direct from the ores and is not materially affected by the present rise cf values, the zino oxide having gone up only about half a cent a pound in price. Of this the United States imported at one time about 30,000 barrels a year. Now we can export it as we do the metal and ore. Our exports of the ore were only 48,000 pounds in 3895, but iaet year rose to 21,040,000 pounds, while our exports of pig rose in the same period from about 3,000,000 pounds ^^21,000,000.?New York Sun. N A Shrewd Idea. A wealthy .engineer had a fine placi in the country", vbero he carried out many pet constructive projects. He was visited there by an old friend, who had great difficulty ra. pusning open the front pate. "Yon ought to see to that gate!'" said lie. *^irffc?oj jour genius should not have a ?ate that, is hard to open." "?6u doa'i understand,"' responded the engineer. "The gate communicates with th? water-tank ou the roof, and every per non who comes through'it pumps uj four gallons of water from the well icto the tank!" . High cheekbones afteayB indicate great force of character in some direction. HOUSEHOLD MATTERS. Let!ore-Leaf Salad Sets. Beautiful salad sets in lettuce-leaf design have, some of them, large rcurd platters instead of dishes in which to dress the salad; others show the curled lettuce head for the saladdish, and on the round platter beI nentb a very small head to hold tho l mayonnaise. Accompanying the dozen plates are two small olive-boats and tiny individual radish-dishes. The ' ' 1 rtroon ni I entire sei i? J" me iieucuic -the lettuce heart. The radish-dishes rest on a small standard which is a hall radish with its familiar leaves opening to hold the oval bowl. Important Point in Ventilation. A significant Hint in behalf of the I nse of lamps is fonnd in the fact that in florists' greenhouses they are used exclusively. Gas is deadly to plant life, while burning kerosene is not. | Where one is boarding and must sleep in the same room in which one sits during the evening, a lamp .should.invariable be used. The same.rule holde good for the family sitting-room and for the rooms i^ which children are studying; An experiment involuntarily tried by a mother recently demonstrated the effect of the ordinary illuminating gas on the air of an apartment. In a hall bedroom a single jet was'left burning unnoticed, for an hour or more, the door and window being shut. When the rbom was entered suddenly the air, or the want of it, was so overpowering that the person recoiled and could not cross the room, either to open the window or wit tW .eras ont. until the door had been lei^open for a minute or two. The Care of Caparie*. "In the caring for canary birds," says a woman who hos made a special study oi birds andtheir. diseases and is famoas as a bird doctor, "do n?t , allow them to hang in a draught, and never hang the cage out of doors, dither in summer or winter. The temporafcnre should not be allowed to fall below sixty-five degrees in the room where the bird is kept, and if necessary a covering should be put t over the cage, excepting a small por/ tion at aigiht Lettuce, water cress or celery topi flhjmld be fed to them frequently. t.riJfhen these are nnt 1 easily pro curate }an er.cel lent substiktnte is foujij 'by planting German black rape see3 in a pot. The canary r is extremely fond of the little plants that soon spring up. Oranges, apples and spilt figs are good occasionally. Gravel mnst be supplied in abundance. Hempseed is objectionable, as it tends to fatten the bird and thus spoil its'song. If feed on proper food, kept in clean cages and given shelter from draughts, disease rarely makes its appearance." Marketinc For tlie Family* Firstly, d^n't be tempted by very low prices, for as a rule the joints thus marked have a great deal of fat and bone,^'and consequently arc extravagant. When buying mutton, choose the leg. It will cost a good deal in the first place, but then remember how small an amount of bone ther^ is in it. The shoulder and neck, though both good, are verj extravagant on account of the large proportion of bone. The breast is sheap in price and can be bought, foi if boned, stuffed and rolled it will make a delicious and inexpensive dish. xIf yon have a family to provide for, choose the top side of the round of beef for Sunday's dinner. There is I nn linna onr> lifflo fnf on (1 rnn will find the cold joint useful for Monday's dinner, wheo much cooking is undesirable in those houses where some of the washing is done at home. For a change ribs of beef may be had. They should be boned and rolled carefully, the bones being used for soup. A dish useful for a family is a beefI eteak pie with a baked suet crust. Cut up the steak and prepare it as foi i pie; then make the crust of three junces of chopped suet, half a pound jf flour, one teaspoonfnl baking powier, one egg and sufficient milk to make the mixture jest slack enough ;o pour. Put into a quick oven till ;he crust has well risen and then keep it a moderate heat till cooked. Pounded spinach leaves give a fine jreen color to soup. Parsley or the rrfiftn leaves of eelerv cut in soud will D" ? vs. * jerve instead of spinach.?Washington Star. Revipeg. Sugar Cookies?One cupful of sugar, four ounces of butter, two-thirds of a cupful of milk, three teaspoonfuls of baking-powder thoroughly mixed with three cupfuls of flour. Add enough flour to roll out. Before cutting sift the dough lightly with granulated sugar. Fruit Pudding?Cook a cup of tapi3?a in three cups of boiling water until it is transparent. Put in salt to ;aste and half a cup of sugar. When ;he mixture is cold add two oranges, Dne banana and the half of a mediumlized pineapple and cut into dice. Serve with sweetened whipped cream. Poached Eggs a la Chartres?Make French toaai of five slices of bread, then drop the same number of poached eggo on. Have ready a sauce made of two hard-boiled egg yolks rubbed to a powder; stir in two tablespoonfnls of melted butter, a saltspoonfulof ..?!* n annnV r\f pftVOnriA and 1 ftfit.lv. OUJV, <. , the juice of half a lemon. Spread this over the eggs, theu surround them with a stiff tomato nance. Serve. Forcemeat For Fisb.?One-half pint crumbs, two ounces-beef suet finely chopped, two tablespoonfuls- parsley, also finely chopped; half-teaspoonfnl salt, dash of cayenne anc?grate of nutmeg. Moisten with a beaten egg. Take up the'fish and -,'ro ?auce by putting one cup of mi 'lalf-cuj of water in pan; add one stiuspoonfn' of salt, a dash of pepper; thicken witlone tablespoonful of flour. Garnish flsh with sliced lemon aud cress. Figs With Baked Milk?Wash the figs carefully; cover with warm watei and stand over night. Place them 01 the fire in the same water and ste\> -until tender; then lift them out anc "btfil the liquor to a sirup. Th( amount of sugar used will dapenc upon ihe taste of the cook; otfe-lialJ pound of sugar to oach pound of ?gt will makff^eriirather twtot.,; "Kg* or prunes witT^beteui^itichert soaked for several hours anTT^fteWSf' in the same water. ' 9 / V THE GREAT DESTROYER. 50ME STARTLINC FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. IVait Till We Are Men?How a Doctor Wan Aroused to the Fact That Liquor Unfitted Hiii) For Bin Work? Aim* tbetic Effect* of Alcohol. Some say teetotalers go too far, And ne'er will gain their end, Although they labor hard and long, Much time and money speud. 'Tls folly e'er to hope to see A day in this land when The liquor shGps shall all be closed? Eat wait till we are men. With drunkenness'our land is filled, ! Our homes with grief and pain, The only free are those who from AH poison drinks abstain. The wise and good are praying for That glorious season when The demon drink shall be o'erthown? But wait till we are men. The founders of our glorious cause Were earnest, true, and brave. And labored bard midst many foes, The slaves of drink to save. Oar noble leaders boldly dare Propose to close each den Where drink is sold; we'll be as braveJust wait tilhwe are men. A noble army, brave and strong, lncrettblUK every u Is now iu training for the fight, Make ready?clear the way! Boldly defying all the powers Of alcohol, sir, then We'll show the world whafwe can doJust wait till we are men! Palsy t roui Alcohol. A physician was iDvlted to dine at the club with the dispatcher of a railroad. After dinner the dispatcher remarked that he must go lo his room and lie down. The physician inquired the reason. He answered: "The wine I have nsed, although in small quantity, has bewildered my brain for accurate work, and I must rest. I would not dare to go on duty now. I should make mistakes and not know it at the time, and the mortification of having them corrected by my associates would confuse me still more/' The physician thought: *'I am going to make some very important calls in the homes of friends who trust me impliclty, nud at the hospital where my i?s..onA cL-fll nrp rwrmlrtfd. Is it UC31 J UU^LUDUi. nuu onix ?_ __ possible that tbe wine I have used lias made me unfit for tbis work?" Later be' met tbe dispatcher and said: 'You were right, und I nave been taught a lesson I never will forget. That afternoon's work after tbe dinner cost me tbe loss of one of my beat families by my indiscretion and anger. 1 realize now that 1 cannot use wine and have full possession of myself." Tbis is a phase of tbe revolution of publle sentiment which is coming into prominence among active brain workers. At banquet tables this Is appar?nt in tbe abstemiousness of practical men. This is not from sentlineatlyytheory, bat from experience . They koe#the anaesthetic effects of alcohol Uterallyjfciand have felt its depressing action on tlk^Fbrain and nervous system. An old-time clergyman during pastoral visitation called on bis drinking members early in the week so that the disability from tbe spirits used on these occasions would pass away before the time for preparation fot Sunday service. A noted pnblic man refused to attend public dinners because of the win^s used. ! IJe gave as a reason that be could not J use wines without injuring himself. | Sconce is receiving a strong conflrma! tlon of its conclusions from the experience of practical brain workers and thinkers.? I Journal of Inebriety. Ruined Six Times. An excellent temperance lesson is taught by Sir Walter iJesant in The Queen. An acquaintance of Ills got drunk six times in bis life, was six times ruined anil ills ruin each time was complete. He was a man who thought he needed a bracer every time \ supreme moment arrived. It has beeu 3ald that "the" opportunity comes to a man out once in lite; to Besant's friend it came iix times. The first time was at school. He rtfes.captain; he was expected to be uomlnited to a scholarship. He took champagne, met the head master and lost the scholarship. On the night before tbe university examination he calmed his nerves with whisky and got only third instead of the expected first. In London came a time wben an editor was wanted for a paper; he whs montioned; he calmed his nerves wltby liquor, discussed the new office with the? proprietors and lost his chance. He nejS was engaged to be married, and to allaH the excitement of tbe welding da^ he tooH an overdose ot the fatal anodyne. Drue s papa cmcovereu uuu >u a wu>ui*3^h that admitted of no doubt, and JhH| eent to the Grand Canary, while sent to Coventry. Tbe fifth case he had to give evidence in lflWBQfg^dgj ice his own interests. He usual and made an object of the witness stiipd. On his siznM|^H^| day he drowned his sorrows at tbe.cl'jfwg went home with a cold and succamfrffi'.fqBj Mich is beiug suid of the-liealtbfalhfl^? of beer, and the' are "of. that drink ijS-S ! strongly advocated by 'fltnaln partieeifetftjj sauseit is pure an d genuine. Yet ILWoolfM i seem. from various advertisements, that"i ! there must be a Jot of stuff used JUflt 3 j hardly supports that view. HereaMKHBH :wo of sych advertiemsenta.anddflBHBHH the reader to form his own (kdttMBBfe :he value of the materialQfi't) these advertlsemeBjjf|^HH|lHHMHH Revenuo Year Book'-' "Caramellne, for fluvot&i{inQStjMB|Ktoi-1 polut in stout prodae^^^ni0pfil|t?a'. weight of thisartlel^ ing, lusclcus flima|j^RBj!^e fulness, ment appearing iSHSf; Brewers' Almunao* ^or 1898, includes;'.; :hroogh one^of tbe ?et t! e rn d1 some poor woman wlth'amall children teemed to need It tor e two monfcraSSip/ ind fresh air. Among those sent ap'wftfc-4 $ood looking and soft-spoken younitttrtffct-', in with tbreaqmall ehlldrea. Shehftajdst' ;onae from the'.hospital and bad's aoji'r. nearly all a^ddnd her neak wblek.'iwwfct-' healing up. Her husband, a carpenter, iy?d cut ber throatin.n druokbh spree;,nee^y severing the Jujjular .vein. She was ikfcea .0 the hospital and he was tried 'a^aje^ to prison. "Was he always ugljr I 3he wob aaK?a.'"O.J, no, sue zwu9B#K-n.c?<i was very good till he took to drink." ? ? . The1 Crnmulr in Mpl?r, To Rive license Is to give tb? lie to sens?. . The way to avp'ld; filling drunkards''" graves is to cease filling the drunkard. It 1b a self-evident fact, that the: mana* facture of liquor doet not add to tbe ma-, terliil growth of a community, and certainly tbe consumption of alcoholic stimulants does not enrich a people. . Tbe Rochester lMstrlot of tbe Now York Anti-Saloon League comprises the counties of Monroe, Genesee, Orleans, 'Livingston, I Ontario, Yates and Wayne, and the Super-, j lutendeut of the* district is Dr. G. W. Peofc, former pastor of tbe M. E. Cuarchof D&dsville. More and more in all athletic sports, in oil wnrfr raniiiriiic steadiness of eve. and I hand, and lu nil tbe common routine of ' business, the drinking man is at a'.discount. T. D Crotbers, M. D., from a careful investigation, estimates that there are- in this country from 100,000 to 150,000 regrilar users of opium,Including from six to ten per oent. of nil medical mon, and that rrpm thirty to sixty per cent, of Insanity ia due to the habit. The wide-reacbing curse of the liquor traffic Is strongly illustrated by tbe fact, " lately brought out, that- ttie milk from the cows fed with dtstilltfry sioips contaius Dearly six per cdnt. alcohol, and so is as Afl^xicatlng as some beers. Thus we may jng dr1111 l^ml* or oar i>?l^fore tiley catr/wulW' ^ i I \ TWO VIRGINIA LYNCHINGS. White Men Hang a Negro and Negroes Hang a White Man. Mob* Acted After Governor Tyler Had Ordered Soldier* Away at the Ke?jae?t or County Officials. Richmond, Ya. (Special).?The relcn o'. excitement in Greenesville County culminin n /innhlfl lvnnhinfT nt P.mnnrln Until Cotton, the negro who, according to bis own confession, killed Saunders and Welton, and O'Grady, the white man who was with him in the cabin wlien the shooting occurred, were hanged by a mob,variously estimated at from 1500 to 2000 strong. The Sheriff of the county hud discharged from duty thte military force that had been sent from this city nt his request, and Major Cutcbins, In command of the troops, Informed Governor Tyier, stating at the same time tbat he believed that if the prisoners were left unprotected by the troops they would "be lynched. The Governor then ordered the return of the troops. Accordingly, Major Cutcblns put bis men in a train and started for Richmond. This wae. about 11 o'olock. Hardly was the train out of sight when a mob entered ihe jail, took Cotton, banged him to the limb of a tree and fired several bullets into hls'body. Later, despite the protest of cooler heads, ffbo i olalq^Bd: tbat the guilt of the white ainnvhadrnOf;'been established, another orowdv oompbMd largely of negroes, entered the jail,''overcame the resistance of the few person* who tried to protect O'Grally, took him out and "banged him also. The three ot&er prisoners, whom Cotton charged wltb-bavlng commuted the Bltck murder and robbery, *ere discharged by ihe Judge ahd left tojm. In a general statement Governor Tyler 4'I feel that I have^ohe all I can la th? matter. The clv^amborltlea stated thai they could hahdle ibe-mob without milli tary assistance, on&jrhen the 8herlff or dered Major Octchiatfto depart there wai nothing IjBft fox him to do but go. "I am greatly distressed at tbe result, but I could not keep the' soldiers there without declaring martial Jaw, audi did not feel that tbe prevailing conditions warranted tb?t." "jft; ' | * NEW CARNEGIE COMPANY. Incorporated ?t Xmjtao, K. J., ;With ? Capital of ti SO,000,000. Thehton, N. J.. (Special).?Th^. Carnegie Company was fiafl&rjforated in tbe State of New Jersey. The capital is 9160,000,009 and the stock, wWch Is divided into shares ol $1000 par valae eacbjie all subscribed. Tbe principal subscribes and the number ol shares of each folio we: Andrew Carnegie, New mWHH98,879; Henry Phlpps, Pittsburg, 17,flEjS3lfO. Frick, Pittsburg* 15,484; ChiirlM^EgScjbwRb, Braddock, Penn., 18,929; Fraaof X'P. Lovejoy, Plttar burg, 7024; Lawftteetlr. Pbipps, Pittsburg, 2653; William H. Sttger, Allegheny, 2829; Thomas Morrison, Braddock, 834; D. If. Clemson, Pittsburg, 884; James Gaytor; Pittsburg, 884; Andtt?lH.>Moreland, Pittsburg, 810, and Jobxt.'^alker, Allegheny^ The Oarnegie Cocajfaoy under its chartJea, is authorized tS promote, oonstrhct, phw vide, acquire, oarry oat, maintain, manago and develop an, lease or agreement f railroads, pipe MM. quays, 'wharves, docks, hydraulic rags, gas w'orkfc, gas wells, mills, dweUfifes lor employes and other works. Ttinlompanv bus exptese power to acquire,,tjie. existing Oarnegie Companies. The oompaoy Is also authorized to deal in tMMhandlze and personal P The fegBB t32,000 fee for filing $2JQp8^FOfl PORTO RICO. IHi Aboronrlatine |<m Indicates ,That n? Jailed Alive. T. if; (Special).- ""here is :bat, a six-year-old child burled a quarter or i e cemetery here, wns in family moved away from cr aod recently oommUr/Wf, of Matlloa 11111, fes'of aix of tlie family' Philadelphia. .,'v r disinterred a fow (food covering the Poatofflj* indicates that a?il through to tMe goto Tmbffijpref-iUeA Inskao.-r o tea are meeting WW^.jf*>?at;;$ticoe*9. "'Mail was recently >t*nirasrftw4iro'm .Skag^ay to Circle City ;iu Oln^Ceen days, whlcu broke all records. ThO'dlspnteh Of.' a; letter from Circle City ;t6 -Washington In thirty days, as waa re;.^Oygo^ would have been Impossible Qkaezta Wheeler on Waiting Orders. ^' ;Affoj^*eh?I conferences between Qeo* 'Wal^Jb^let' .and officers of the Admini*.trattm.it waa announced that the War DeflJ&ftfe#,.to'!Wasliiogton, had temporarily ^<Qjh|ai^df; ot-fois.'- case by placing . Jbim on r?*.';fe^enh^ia Gets * Chance or Venae. .- .'An order was entered uj the Supreme Court nt BafTalo, N. ^.. changing the place <>i trial forHoward C. Bejjhnm from^OeuOsoo.to Ontario County. Benham asked fox the change of venue, < contending that he eoald not get a fair trial in Batavla where he wns once convioted< of the murder of his wife by poisoning. Nebraska Hunk Unrglara Get 84030. The State Bank of Hardy, Neb., wiifiTis.ited by burglars a few days ago. Tliev bleW open tbe safe wltli dynamite and gol $4000. No trace of the robbers has been ?euured. Cycling Notes. Tbe fast men of this country are nntv making ready to start for France to ride the world's championships of 1900 at tht Paris Fuir. Charley Miller, the six-day cbamnion, said that he ha 1 d?cided not to go to Paris, but to remain here and engage in motorpaced race-. While England and Franco both have them on the roads in numbers, this countryhas been ridiculously backward iu turning out single bicycles propelled by a motor. L. A. \V. officials in St. Louis havo succeeded in getting tbe contract for streel sprinkling so phrased as to insure some comfort for wheelmen duriug the summer months. ? NEW YORK'S BIG TUNNEL. ] 'mposing Ceremonies Marked thi' |9 Beginning of the Undertaking j Tbe Tunnel Will Take Three Year* ti I Bolld. Will B? Tweihy-one MIIm Ijonfft J and Will Cost S3S,000,000. I - J i ?2a Nr.vr York Cm (8pecial).?In the pre?. ^41 ?nce of aa immense concourse of citizens j Mayor Van Wycfc^twned the spadeful .ol earth which marked the beginning of tta^ underground lapid transit road. It waJ ^ ihe most important bit of earth removed from tbe surfaceov Manhattan Island sino< :he turf was pierced for the foundation ot "* :he flrat civilized dwelling. John B. Moj J Donald, the contractor for the tannel, Bald it, aftw tho formalities were over, that bj {'.'3j would keep hie pledge to finish his under] i .. j taking in three yeara. 5 I An idea of the gigantic task before tbe y contractors In tho construction of the tun? v nel may be had from the following: ij J Two million cart loads of earth will be f taken from the excavations. I v More than sixty-five thousand tons ol steel beams will be used In constructing-,9 ' the tunnel. ' Almost twenty thousand cubic yards ol V j enamelled facing and common brick will <3 be set in arches, tunnels and stations. V ; Five hundred thousand iineai feet of onderground track and sixty thousand m feet of elevated-track will be laid. I * 'a Nearly fifteen miles of sewer will have tQ ' -'/j . be taken up and reluid. , v ^ Five hundred thousand square yards o( J granite blocks and asphalt will be neceaft/yM sarv to restore streets. A.-3B The tunnel will cost $35,090,000 and will i M be twenty-one miles long. ;'afl It will take three years to bulid. .Vjj COLLEGE CIRLS SENT HOME. JMj T&ey uaa forme a secret o?u?i| ??_ Were Canfbt HitIdx a Meeting:. Y'jSM Oxford,Ohio (Special).?It baa been rnad? * public that tbreo girl students of tb? jm "Western." a college for women, have been expelled and ten others suspended, as th< 14 upshot of a faculty raid on an Initiation bj j a secret society, tbnt was In progress at 3 midnight. The society hod existed ae- '? eretly in the sohool about seven years, al? though the rules of the college strictly for? - J bade organzatlons of that kind. j - President Leila T. McKee and her assistants burst into the room wheri<tfte society .a was in tbe midst of its ceremonial, and o?p< - J lured not only the conspirntow? but th? ' J complete membership roll of the society] ' and its archives nnd secret ritual. ? The members, It Is said, wer# locked us j over night, and the followlogfeornlog th< faculty held court in their oans. Judgment J wappronounced In the collam chapel In thi presence of 150 sohoolmotis, and when 1 r was made public thAt.^hMenalty was to b V?xpalalon, the whole school burst Int , 'I a tat Ions. -v. jtf ^ Vjj ? Tiro of the yonng w6men who wore ex-4 va 1 Spelled outright Were members of the eeoloz , .class, and would have been graduated 14 -g me. Two were the daughters of trustees j ' fy-the college, and their fathers interceded ) In'thelrbehaif without accomplishing any* 3 thing. Several of the suspended girls are' ;sjj the danghtere jl- clergymen who often- J ;- preach in the coO^|e.ohape]. i MARKETS IN THE ORllENT. j Senate Pnmi the Bill to Appoint an ln< -.4 TMtiealinK Coramliilon, Wabhiwgtox.D.C. (Special).?The Senatj 1 passed a bill authorizing the Presiden t o, this United States to appoint a commission { to study and make full report upon' th< 1 commercial and industrial conditions 0 % -3 China and Japan and for other purposes. ) j , The bill provides for the appointment o] 1 five commissioners, one each from th< ' Eastern, Middle, Southern and Western an< I Pacific Coast States, who shall spend a| least one your in China, Japan and adjacen * countries investigating their commercia conditions and needs, with a view to pro ' moting the expansion, of American com I ; . merce by the enlargement of the market^ Ji there for raw and manufactured product! jj of the United States. The bill carries 01 -jB appropriations of 475,000 to defray theexS penses of the commission. LAWYER'S FEES EXORBIT^^^ Cbaree ot 113,1100 For One Month's Worlt M Not Allowed^; a Federal Court. ! 39 Chicago (Special).?The noted caee of |9 Jarndyce vs. Jarndyae in Dicken's "Bleak 9 House" was referred to by Judg'j Jenkin< in the United States Circuit Court of Ap- 9 peals as analogous to the bankruptcy cast ja of Theodore Curtis and others, In whlob im the court has set aside an order allowing 9 $12,500 for attorney's fees after a long jl lawsuit. ,j 'fl Judges Wood and Bunn concur In the de? cision and hold this allowance for profes- ! I sion'al services exorbitant. The Judges de? <1 clare that such an allowance challenges .9 scrutiny, as it is made for servloe extending J over a period of only one,monthand equal] J tbreo months' salary of the President ol <9 the United States. O ' ,v DREAM KILLED A CHILD. Servant Had Told Hei How They 8tn| . Babies For llakln;, ,9 t BbaXchvii-le, Ind. (Special).?Little Maa ^ .Oorbln's death here is attributed to a zet mark of ber mother's servant and a subs* m 1 -fluent dream. , I V.;ihe servant soveral weeks ago was pre? * paring a turkey for roasting. "This is thei ' way tbey stuff babies to bake tliem in New j Yorlc," she sold to May, who was seven i yenw old. ' 1 i That night the HUle girl awoke with > scream. VMary to cooking baby brother,7 she cried. Ahi bscrtrnft hysterical, then Lzv ?. sane, and died a few day* ago. . Sa.OOO Cwefl of Grip in/Tenueaiee. 'Over a month ago grip made its usaal appearance in Tennessee and has reached an alarmed stage. Tliere, ara more that one thonsond cases in MemJMs, Nashville. } Knoxvlile and CbattauSflF eucb, aDi>scores of cnsee in eHOhJHnty, in ?om^ communities every meinoH of a family being down. Reports shdw over 35,OM cases jn the State.-. Aid Vdr Ifldla'i Famine finfferer*. 9 The Secretary of 8tate at. Jfcshington H "3| informed by the Viceroy <5P5ndla, wit* 9 reference to offers of aid to the sufferer* 1 from famine In India which have been communicated to bim by charitably disposed persons In this country, that oootributioxu .9 from any, American friends of India will tx ~M t haofefolly received'and will be' devoted to -? the material relief of sufferln g. 3 i .General Wood rate Dead. 9 General Sir Edwnrd Woodgate, Comman* S dezjpf the Eleventh Brigade of the Fiftb \ j Division. w'.io was wounded at Spion Kop jfl onJanuary 24, died in the Mool hospital 1p tfntal, South Africa. Bank Bobbers Secure *3000 In IllinolS^H The safe In the bank of* Alexander Bate. /I nt Wellington. II:., was blown open and jfl ! robbed of 43000 and $300 in drafts un<* j school orders. . ?jj Paiia/la flat n Snrnlin. . I The Canadian budget shows a surplus t ] ; for the year of $4,837,749. 1 Peraonul Mention. ; /i jj Thomas Dunn English says that bt 3 ' heartily regrets that be ever wrote Ben M | Boit. I m Gonerr.l Leonard Wood Is mentioned ai S a Vice-Presldeutial possibility oa the R? J] publican ticket. I ? The name of Colonel Kekewich, the hero ,9 of Kironerley, is mucli mUpronounned. It j should be pronounced "Culcewicb." J < Brigadier-General Wheeler has brought 9 | home with hici it collection of Philippine jH | curios valued at :i considerable sum. j- 39| At present Admiral Dewey has the honor of haviug more postoffices asking to be named ufter hisi thau any other mania Wk | the country.