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A TaU. of the A nglo-Indi/an SecretServic* YOUNG MiSTLEY Afwimcn. CHAPTER XXXIV. SO Continued. But t( the reto.'d of the work was lost, the frulta were well preserved, and among theue the colouel spent many a busy day. The news of Win yard's return soon spread among tho initiated, and the house in Seymour street was besieged by visitors. The results of the journey were, however, kept strictly secret, only the colonel and a few experts being allowed to assist the invalid in the work of put ting them in urder. Soon, however, the news loaked out, and questions were asked in Parliament, with the result of acquainting Russia with the fact that she had been beaten in her ?iwn favorito pastime of Eastern di plomacy. Article after article ap peared In the Moscow papers, calling for further investigation into the carelessness of the avowed Russian iijents iu Afghanistan, who could Kive no details of the passage of this dangerous traveler through their luldst These writiugs, hot from the brain of one who, even as thesa lines ere penned, is being mourned by the nation he served so well with pen find pies?, wero issued with the view of learning moro of the results of Winyard Mistley's observations; but In this object they failed. All that the world learned was that the jour ney had been accomplished, whether nlono or with companions, whether liasty and superficial, or slow And searching, never transpired. Day by day Winyard regained his strength, and the lines upon his face ? linos speaking of hardship, hunger, . ? hirst and anxiety? -began to disap pear They never quite left him, however, but regained there, signs of age up~;. a young face ? silent testimonials of forgotten sufferings, iiis appearance had at first been rather a shock to all who remem bered him as he was in former days. He was not pale, but the dull brown ness of his face seemed only to ac centuate the drawn and weary ex pression of hi3 features; through all, however, and even when he could not stand unsupported, the bravo, strong look never left his eyes. I "W h?ve been by sheer force bt will, but his boyish cheerfulness was as reliable as of old. He laughed at his own weakness and Incapacity to walk alone; yet his laughter failed to detract from the pathos of the pic ture afforded by the colonel assisting him to move about. He laughed at his own childish helplessness in the matter of cutting up his food, and audaciously handed his plate to Lena ior assistance. Altogether ho was the most unsat *!??-.. c t c ;? y convalescent Imaginable, ex cept that he mado visible and rapid strides toward health. There was bp demand for lowered tones and pMselcss movements in his presence. Inquiries after his welfare were treated jocosely, and unless the medi cine was administered with severity and regularity, he was only to ready to forget all about it. V CHAPTER XXXV. The Two Lone Ones. A few days after Winyard Mlut lcy'3 return to London, hlo brother Charlie went to Devonport. From there ho wrote that he had been of fered the White Swallow, a "gunboat, destined for service In the Pacific Ocean. "Of course I have accepted," he wrote; and gave no particulars as to when the White Swallow was llke ' ly to sail, and of what c uratlon her absence from England would prob ably be. "With all his assumed laziness," observed tho colonel gravely, "Char lie will push his way upward through the truck. He Is a fine sailor, I am sure." That same afternoon Mrs. Mistley and Mrs. Wright went out together, In order, they said, to have a quiet afternoon's shopping, as thero were many things to be purchased and sent on to Broomhaugh. The mother aud son had been nearly a week in Sey mour street, and there was now noth ing to delay their departure for the - -'.'-North. 1 he colonel, being left in charge of ?? * the Invalid, proposed a drive In the park, as the air was lovely aud the sun not loo warm. But Winyard ? languidly expressed a fear that he was not quite up to It, Innocently Ig noring tho fact that he had walked downstairs alono th^t morning. Then be lay bank on his sofa and gently closed his eyes, as If composing him self to peaceful slumber. Presently the colonel left the room, treading noiselessly to as to avoid waking the sleeper. Shortly after ward the street door closed with a ?mothered bang. Lena was seated on a low chair near the window, the regular click of her needle acting as a lullaby to the sufferer. Soon, however, Win yard slowly unclosed ono eye, then the other. Tho click of the needle continued. He turned slightly, and lay thejjo watching her. fie co.ild scarcely bave wished for a plcasanier plctiye to look upon than that fair English maiden, sitting with daintily oowed head and busy fingers ? "on duty," as It were ? Quietly fulfilling her woman's mission. Like his. brother, he noticed then that Lena was no longer the thoughtless, merry girl whom he knew two years be fore. The same brave cheerlness was there, but Jt was less liable to the Influence of circumstances; the rame healthy power of enjoyment, but It was temperegl by a greater thoughtfulness. Something In the curve of her closed Up, something perhaps In a newly acquired droop of the eyelids, reminded him of the br&vest woman he had ever Lnown; 5T one wXto.wIdowecT, anil tHe mothe? of wandering sons, had yet made her life a bright one, and by seeking to make others happy had acquired the aabit of happiness herself. What pen could hope to follow the thoughts passing through a man's brain? Wln fard Mlstley lay watching Lena for 4bout five minutes, but five pages of mine could not tell a tithe of what was passing In hlB mind. Presently he rose gravely from the sofa, and stood for a moment by the mantle-piece, supporting himself with Doth hands. HJp back was turned toward Lena, and on the lean brown face reflected in the mirror ? at whlcli, however, he-never glanced ? there was a strange, restless expres sion. . . v ; *>. Contrary to her custom, Lena failed to look up. She did not even isk him If there was anything he might redhire. Then he slowly turned and made his laborious way across the room, assisting himself with one piece of furniture after an >ther. Somehow she forgot to offer nim her help; somehow ho had no jlttle pleasantry ready to make her imile, and yet neither seemed to no tice tho difference. She continued ter work ? the stitches Were unpicked later on, being of very peculiar con struction ? and Mlstley stood close it hand, looking down upon her bent head. There was an humble chair at her jlde, and into this he lowered him self cautiously, after the manner of in old man. "Lena," he said, turning towards aer with a hungering look In his syes ? "Lyia, do you think that a man cau be sure of his own mind If [he same thought has never left It for nearly two years?" She bowed her head lower over aer work, still striving to make the needle perform its right and proper function, but answered him no word. Ho leaned forward and took the work from her hands, allowing It to fall to the ground. Then he quietly .ook possession of those busy Angers. "Answer me," he whispered ? "an swer me!" "Yes, I think so," ohe replied at tongth. "Through It all," he said eagerly, 'through danger and hope, through jvork, through sleep, through hun ger, sickness and success, there has >een one thought In my brain. That -.hought was Lena ? Lena ? Lena!" Still bending over her imprisoned lands, she swayed unconsciously to ward him. Then, somehow, he found lis arms were round her, though he lad no recollection of placing them :here. Three weeks later, ono afternoon &s tho sun began to throw a golden -ay from west to east, up the English Channel, a gunboat moved out Into Plymouth Sound, and cast her an jhor there. The White Swallow was ready for sea ? "ready for anything," her young commander said. Deeply laden with coal for her long voyage, the was as taut and trim and spark* ling as paint and polished brass could make her. Already th? strong Individuality of the stalwart ruler was beginning to make itself discernible among the members of her company. The White Swallow was eminently a "quiet" ship. There was no shouting, no un necessary blowing of boatswain's whistles. Everything seemed to fit Into Its place ? every man Into his duties. And yet she was not a gloomy ship, for every man looked forward to his six years' absence with serenity. About an hour before she was due to Ball a boat put off from the dock yard, and in a few minutes was alongside the gunboa'. Seated In tho stern of this small craft was Lau ranco Lowe. He climbed up the white ladder, and made his way aft with slow but assured steps. Charles Mlstley came forward to meet him, and they turned toward tho quarter deck together. "It Is very good of you to come," said the young sailor. The old man did not appear to consider that this required an an swer. lie looked nroun<l him criti cally with a practiced oye. It was not the flrst time that he had trod den the deck c i a man-of-war, though his recollection of such dated back to the dav<j o i the Crimea, lie loosened tho old silk comforter that took the place of a top-coat on his spare I frame, and said: . ^ Tou in mdjT" " w? Mil In half an hour.* Tha young sailor looked across the ?mooth wator to where tk? land rose green ^ tres clad, toward b,M heights of Dartmoor. Thero **? no shadow of (ear la his clear *w,? ?o ?!*** of llnchlng trom tho dreary years he knew he was facing And thos they stood aide by side, tho old man whose voyage across the troubled sea was nearly over? he had made bad weather of It. beating up * head wind all the way ? and the young sailor? tall, stalwart, and almoat painfully self-contained? who. like his companion, had met tho stress at the very beginning of his journey. They talked a little In their usual scrappy, unsatisfactory maaner. and then Laurance Lowe beckoned to his boatman to haul up to the ladder. ?He turned, and looked round the vessel once more; then he raised his solemn eyes to his companion's face. They were unusually wide open, and Charile noted the pale blueaess of the iris as he returned their gaze. S1?J. 8lUd th0 0,d ?an. slowly ? i suppose" ? and with a we of his lean hand he designated ? ',that you hay? the oplSft of your ambition now." He finished his sentence with the shadow of a smile which could only be seen in his eyes, for It did not Sard WhUe mu8tache or narrow Charlie did not reply at once. He #tQ Uke Bome ,etter fron? the tin fh * qu*rter-m*?ter. and waited till the man had left the quarter-dcck before answering his companion's vague question. y 8 "I think." he said at last, "that a man has two objects in his life. At least it Is ? it was ? so with me." Laurance Lowe waited silently for him to continue. Charlie looted round his vcsssl al most critically. "This is one," he said. 'Yes," murmured Lowe, standinr In front of him. and looking up into his mojionless face with lifeless eyes. And the other." continued the *ihl?rn\Z y meet,n* hl* g&zo ? "and thf rtfi 1 ^ink you know wfcat the other was. . . ,Ye8' ' sa,d Lowe, softly, as he ou* hls hand to ?ay farewell. JS >l."aov- mih me- " ber the end. Necessary Hours of deep.* ah b,ellef that the hours of sle?p should bo artificially restricted U prevalent. Yet It is contrary to or dinary g0od senss. if tho human ,n.0t n0ed "lee?> for th? up building of its tissues It will :.ot call for it. A rule rf health rhlch can u! ,Wr?ng 18 to 8,ecp' ,f p?*?? bie. as long a u any Inclination for It 6Xl8tB? <oJh?e ?rr?n?OU8 view on this sub ject Is undoubtedly due to the fact that when the mind and body are thoroughly rested it is often difficult ? ?ro.uf? tho m,nd from its comfort able lethargy. On the other hand. itrainmanrtWhi0 'S Und?r * mentaI strain and sleeps only five or six hourB ,t night is keen and alert soon after awakening. But it is an un healthy activity. His nerves are at a high tension. He is on edge, so to speak. Such a strain, long con tinued, results inevitably in a nerv ous breakdown.? Cleveland Leader. Half Truths A small brain that works Is of that?balks * masslve intellect Rest assured that most of your ?tray Ideas have com: over a neigh bor's fence. A naked truth offends the most sacred prejudices of society. #KTh! d0"1*58110 service problem Is the pig in the clover problem ? first to get the domestics into the circle, then to keep them there. The family is a despotism gov erned by the meanest member, it is not the strongest, but the worst-tem Louise Herrick Wall, in Lighter Vein" in the Cen tury, For Nervousness. If you are nervous remember ?nls almple rule. Nothing is so effective as taking a drink of water avery hour or two. Medical men declare that we should be helped In various ways if we were more thoughtful and per sistent in this respect. It Is certainly a simple rule, and one that Is within the roacli of tho bus'est among us. "Trousers Optional." " The dispatch that tells- us that London society men will wear blue evening coats this season goes on to ?ay: "Trousers or knee breeches will be optional." It seems as if one or the other were essential. ? Bostoo 0,Ob#' ???*? Airships For the French Frontier. Two airships of the Labaudy type fw ,?. atatloned by the French au thorities on the German frontier, and It is believed that ultimately overy Ir^li ^mt w,n be Prov,ded with similar ships.? -I^njon Express. France and Her Sailors. Franco owes the greater part of ner past glory and her present power to her sailors. There has been no ?? -hZ!7 ?00*?Ph???l Importance h*. J f k namo of * Frenehman not been attached.? Paris Eclair. Rubber trees are being planted and developed in various parts of Africa India Samoa, Mexico, Centrnl Amer' icn, tho West Indies and tlie rSilUr?. pines. The Abyssinian peasant Is bathed but thrice In his life ? at birth, at marriage and at death. USEFUL EDUCATION Includes Training of the Hand, the Head and tee Heart PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S VIEWS They Waste Their Time, He Declar es, Who Ask Him to Withhold His Hand Against Rottenness and Cor ruption. Washington. Special. ? That there ff.ll be no let-up in President Roose velt's policy of warring against "rot tenness and corruption" was emphat ically declared by Iho President Wed nesday in an address to the delegates to the department of superintendents of the National Educational Associa ition during their reception at the White House. Continuing, the Pres ident gave bis views on educational mothods at considerable length and with characteristic catholicity of thought and vigor of expression. The President's Remarks. President Roosevelt said! in part : "It is idle foe any man to talk of despairing of the future of th\s coun try or feeling unduly alarmed about, it, if be will come in contact with you here and with tho forces that you represent. Fundamentally this country is sound; morally no less than physically. Fundamentally, iu its family life aud iu the outside ac tivities of its individuals the country is better and not worse than it for merly was. This docs not mean that we are to be excused if we fail to ?.rnr agaibst rottenness and corrup tion, if we fail to contend effectively with the forces of evil; and they waste their time who ask me to with hold my hand from dealing there with. But it is worth while to smito the wrong for the reason that we are confident (thc right will ultimate ly prevail. Yon who arc training the next generation are training this country as it is to be a decade or two hence; and while your work in training the intellect is great, it is not as great as your work in training character. More than anything else I want to sec the public school turn out the boy and girl who when man and woman will add to the sum of good citizenship of the nation. "I trust that, more and more of our people will see to it that tho schools train toward and not away from the farm and the workshop. We have spokeir a great deal about the dignity of labor in this country; but we have not itetcd up to our spoken ward; for in our education we have tended to proceed npon the assumption that the educated roan was to be educated away from and not townrd labor. "One thing that I worrld like to have you teach yotrr pupils is that whether you call the money gained salary or wages does trot make any real difference, and that if by work ing hard with your hands you get more than if you work with your head only, it does not atooe for it to rail the smaller amount salary. The term 'dignity of labor'" implies that manual labor is as dignified as men tal labor; as of course it is. Indeed (he highest kind of labor U that which makes demands upon tho quantities of both head and hand, of heart, brain and body. "We have alt of us often heard some good but nnwise woman say 'I have worked hard; my daughter shan't work;* the poor woman not realizing that great though the curse mere drudgera, of overwork is, that it is not as great as tho curse of vapid idleness; and it does not make any difference whether the idleness is that of the hobo at one end of the scale or the gilded youth at the other. Do not waste him in onvying tho idler at either end of the social scale. "So my ploa is not that homely duties are all sufficient but that they aro a necessary base upon which to build the superstructure of tho high er life; our children should He train ed to do tho homely duties in the first place and then in addition to have it in them to carry themselves that collectively we may well and fitly perform the great and responsi ble tasks of American citizenship. Is 103 Tears of Age. Easton, Conn.? Mrs. Deborah Still man, said to be tho oldest woman in New England, is receiving the con gratulations of her friends upon pass ing her 108th birthday. She has been ? chureh member for ninety-five years, a record, it is believed which has not bean equaled in this ccantry. Last year nfn?. Stillman's grand children gave a party on her birth day anniversary, but this year she was too feeble. Her memory has be gun to fail, but she talks entcitain ingly with her frionds. Tobacco Men In Session. Janesville, Wis., Special. ? Under the auspices of the Wisconsin Tobac co Growers' and Dealers' Associa tion and the State Department of Farmers' Instituto:>, a joint conven tion of tobacco growers was opened here Tuesday. Several hundred deli gates arc in attendance and papers and addresses on tobacco vulture by experts. A tobneo cxljilijt was open ed in connection with the convention. AGED LADY KILLED FouKy Butdiered Willi an Axe 2n Hands of a Tramp NEAR THE TOWN OF CAYCE, S. C. While Sitting at Her Work. Mr*. Paul D. Ellisor, an A|ed Woman living Not Far From Colombia, la Killed by a Burglar, the Weapon Used Being an Axe. Columbia, S. C., Special. ? Sitting quietly at her patchwork in her homo two miles west of Ca.vee, in Lt;xing ton county, Wednesday morning, "rrMte-haired Mrs. Paul E. Ellisor was suddenly struck down from behind by a negro burglar armed with her hus band's axe. The point of the heavy weapon ?ank deep into the skull and death was probably instantaneous. Catching up the pitiful, wasted body, the assassin forced it into a clothe 's basket near at hand and tossed over it the quilts from tho bc.d Then 1 catching up Mr. Ellisor's shotgun and on? of his coats the murderer fled. The crime was not discovered until an hour or more afterwards. Mr. El lisor had gone to New Brookland at an early lour to sell vegetables, leav ing Mrs. Ellisor alone in the lit! la three-room house. He returned to th? house at about 9 o'clock ami found his daughter and several friends sit ting upon the, doorstep, waiting his return. The house was locked up, and all supposed that Mrs. Ellisor had closed it to run over to a neighbor's After waiting around tho premises for some time, they becamo alarmed and forced the door to And the real ity far worse than anything ?.hey could have feared. The alarm was uickly given and within the hour grim-faced men were gathering to the s^ene along all roads, armed with shotguns, Winchesters, revolvers and any other weapons that came handiest. Bloodhounds from the penitentiary were secured, but got no satisfaetory results. Within an hour after the murdct' must have been eommitteed, two ne groes brought to Brookland the stol en gun and sold it to Mr. M. L. Fox, of New Brookland. for one dollar. No adequate description of theso men are to be had up to this hour. Mr. Fox is enpaged in the search for tho criminal or criminals. It is believed the murderer ramo direct to Columbia, hoping to elude pursuit in the criminal quarters oi the city. Mrs. Eilisor leaves six children, four married daughters and two grown sons. Two negroes are being searched foe and a lynching can scarcely be avert ed if they are caught, but if the ac cused once become the prisoners of Constable Swygert i lynching is ex ceedingly unlikely. "If they take them away from mo T will bs dead, that's all,'*'' said Sir. Swygert . A significant, fact about th# posse i9 that with several of them are thw | better negroes of the community, ar-n ed and as anxious for capture ami summary punishment of' the guilty as are their white neighbors. The Lexington authorities are sat isfied that the murder was committed by negro tramps, entire strangers to this section, who camped near the scene Tuesday night. Word comes from Newberry that* Sheriff Buford has arrested two suspects there. Small parties arc going out to search the railroad tracks leading out of Colum bia. The Jap School Question Again. San Francisco, C'al., Special. ? The Japanese school question is expected to break out afresh when Sung II. Cho, a Corean, 21 years old, applies for reinstatement in the fifth grade of the Central school in Sauslite. The school board says Cho will be denied and they will fight tho case. Cho will appeal to the courts. Anober Barn Bnrned in Kentucky. Mayficld, Ky., Special. ? News was received hero that 50 night riders went to the farm of Brandon Hnrt, near Kirks Eye, and burned his barn. He had received a warning notice a few weeks ago and had hauled his last load of tobacco from the bam last week. The night riders entered tho neighborhood between midnight Saturday and Sunday morning and after cutting the telephone wires, burned the barn. Tried to Steal a House. Birmingham, Ala., Special ?Charg ed with attempting to steal a house, six white men of Mote, Ala., have been arrested or. a Federal warrant. In the warrant it is alleged that the defendants went to the home of Alifv Jones, with three yoke ?.f oxen an ! thirty feet of wire I'ijio, for the pur ()ose of removing her hvuse from hoi lonicsiead by forcc. Late JVebus In "Brief ^ MINOR MATTERS OF INTEREST Five persons lost their lives by fir* in various places. The Ohio Democratic State Central Committee declared for Bryan. A shake-up in the Manila custom houso is said to be in contemplation. Dr, George S. West, of Gerrads town, died after leaving a sick bed to attend a patient. Three men were blown to pieces by an explosion in a powder works, at Wharton, New York. Officials of the Brooklyn Navy \ ard are stirred up over % threat to blow up the magazine. Bryan led in a straw vote taken by the Virginia Legislature, but many members declined to vote. A priest in Denver was killed by ac anarchist at the altar just as the lat ter had received the sacramcut. Frank Cant horn was found "not guilty, but insane," for the murder of Mrs. Ada Jones at Roanoke. 1 A coroner 's jury gavo a voto of praise for bravery to a Newport News policeman who shot a negro. The worst blizzard in years is re ported to be raging at Chicago and ?vcr a number of Western States. Negroes from l.> States in mass meeting in Washington indorsed Sen ator Foraker for Piesldent. ( abinct members will discontinue the practice of drafting bills at the request ot members of Congress. A Japanese steamer has aroused interest by hovering near the Chilean coast. Shenandoah has a curfew law which allows children to stay out later in ( winter than in summer. The North Carolina Society of school superintendents and principals held a conference in Washington last week. Protection of seed oysters is the ' chief provision in the Maryland-Vir ginia bill agreed on by commissioners from both States in Richmond. The factional fight in the State Re publican Executive Committee of Ala bama resulted in a victory for tha Taft forces. Twenty-seven of the 2S miners en tombed in a mine near Shamokin, Pa.f were rescued alive, the dead man having bqpn Rilled by a fall. In the House Speaker Cannon waf given a great ovation on the thirty fouth anniversary of his niaideu speech. Senator Stone advocated the Gov- "* eminent guarantee on bank deposits, while Senator Bacon strongly opposed tbo plan. Stuyvesant Fish issued a statement giving up 'the fight against liarrimau for the control of the Illinois Central Railroad. General Stoessel, at the close of th? taking of testimony, assumed com- < plete responsibility for the surrender of Port Arthur. The Russian police have established a very extensive system of espionage over emigrants as part of the cam paign against terrorists. A Congress subcommittee is ex* pected to recommend the Bacon law, giving States police power on, all liquor shipped: iirta thein. The Interstate- Commerce Commis sion will heaur Thursday railroad appeals for delay in enforcing the Telegraphers' Nine-llour law. Tbo battleship fleet will not make * any calls on other nations, according to present plans, but it expects to come right back by way of Sues. London woman suffragists tried to storm the House of Commons and 40 arrests were made. Senator Foraker has introduced a bill providing for the re-enlistmont of such dishonornblv discharged negro soldiers of the Twenty-fifth Infantry as were shown by the testimony in the investigation of the Brownsvillo affray not to have been connected with tbo affair. The dispute between the Southern railway and its operatives over the matter of wage reduction has been re ferred to the Interstate Commerce * Commission for investigation and set tlement. . ?l Five bishops of the Colored Metho dist church have made formal com plaint to the Interstate Comcrce Com- * mission against tliree Southern rail, ways, and the Pullman car company, claiming that the colored passengers who buy first-clnca tickets aro not given equal accommodations with whito people. E. H. Harriman, though 00 jr*ara old. says he has no idea of retiring, but will keep at Work until conditions ' becoma more settled. It tr ok 10 horses to pull one of the automobil e in the 20, 000-mile inter national i nee oiif of a snowdrift in Itidiniii). /!nvcu Speck von Sternburg, Ger man Ambassador 'it Washington made a iMron/ nn'of Mi ess at Tam pa, Fla.