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; UNDER TH TVrv ii T> stcop that way. papa, W; -t i; k - him that way?" "Th- th cares tlut weigh uyoa Ti.r ?v'ur Ki?.a cav by <iay." "Wh" -1 he cat Ic-v-e. p}pas V ly ii n-n't he cat loos??" the more he ret* the mora He wa: ts. you little goose." '".At! he strikes it rich, pa^a. Oh. <?o y.'.i think he'll ouitV The ''th rtcre!v sh-^k his lma?l AlJ vi.ivciy atisv.ercu, A i ^ -shshjkbskih&SHS siSMWisasaGJBsssaisS&^53; ! IN THE LIGH , ?$ ^{TK:H:^K:n:H^iKTHi<TK^^aKSHisiK^i Sill: \v,.s a little out of breath V;.vti the came into the ilrawit),-.\?otii. There was a faint, u:.v>ual dash en her ordinarily peatiy-.'air cluck. and her eyes locked large and restless. She had evidently dressed hurriedly. The laces cn her Ks. in looked as though hastily ' "" 1 nr lt/?T* 1 \/?l t aUjUSU'll. :.UU mt* uu?tr.5 ui .-v. , wo;xi piun.d awry. " I am late,*' she i apologia J. She had come up th? room j to her husband, and lifted her lips for , his customary evening salute. "I am j sorry to have kept dinner waiting. It ! is unpardonab.e. It shall not occur ' again." Ke murmured a few deprecating words, and they went into dinner together. All during dinner in the rich, old. dark-panelled room, where the golden sunset light poured la through softening draperies of thin crimson silk, she was very gay. very entertaining. She always was vivacious, especially when she had anything to conceal under a tide of clever talk or a sparkling shower of wit. And David Farnhain was a good listener?an en-celleat listener. When cue of his few friends, handsome, reckless, improvident Iloss Leuard. had ended his tit of remorse over disastrous mining speculations uy puitintr a Lulloi in Lis Lrain, a letter found Dear him asked that David Farnhaui would look after the "little girL" Farnbaui Lad accepted the trust with the quiet consciousness natural to L!:a iu matters great or unimportant. He had sent the girl to the best schools. He Lad arranged that Lor vacations should be safely and pleasurably spent, lie Lad acted precisely as though she were a Mood relative, legally entitled to his protection and assistance. But when she carno to him from school, a quite bewitchiugly fair .and accomplished young woman, lie was temporarily dismayed. Whatever was 1:? to do with such a charming encuiui rnnce? For a year she lived with a widowed sister of his. All her mother's people were across the ocean, asd bsing strangers to her she refused to go to them. Farnhain went I^fuctuaiiy at stated periods to see his ward, and was in every way solicitous for her comfort. But daily the realization grew en hint that she was not as well and carefully guarded as she should be. In his perplexity he asked her to marry him. Now, months after their marriage, strange emotions thrilled him when he recalled the manner of her reply. She had turned her head away for a moment. Then she had locked up at him. her face flaming scarlet. Her eyes met his full znd steadily. "Yes?if you are sure you want mc ?yes." she said. Life had been a good deal like a fairy story to him since then. He 1 v * - - ~ t was luru Ol U I iimtr, UUU lue rnrauir ful princess was his?only his! In all his uneventful, bard-workiug life l;e had never imagined what it might he to lire iu paradise; that its gates should ever swing wide for him had not entered into his imaginings. * "It was a delightful drama," she went on. apropos of the matinee of the .afternoon. "It is likely to have a long run. Almost every one who is left in town was there." "I pass J the theatre as the crowd was coming out." lie said. "I had an imperative business engagement, so could not cross over: but I think I saw you as you left. I'm almost sure it was you, out you know how near-sighted I am. You wore white, did you iiot?a white coat and hat?" "Yes." she said in a breathless sort <jt way. She laid down her roll and .looked over at him. Yes.'* He sipped slowly, almost retrospectively. "I thought I could not be mistaken. I was sorry I had not time to make sure?to meet you. Besides, you were not alone. You had the carriage. ^yAnd?there was some one with you coming out. was there not? A tall man. You were not alune. I was not positive, but it looked like Andrews. .Was it Andrews?" Her fork fell 0:1 her salad plate with a little tinkling clatter. "You?you are net so near-sighted, after all:" she laughed. "Then It was Andrews?" "Yt s." she answered. That sudden : rose color again sta.ned her t hoek. li?.r | bright, eager gaze never left his face. "It?it " . s Colonel Andrews." Then she was off in the sparkling ! narrntk n of The chief comedy scene in 1 the play, telling it with delicious hu- J mor, inimitable mimicry, and scintil lam th. ihes of original comment. And E STRAIN'. "'iV'r.v TV-ill be bear th* strain. rn-a, " Why will he bear the sttain?" "He and his wile see dizzy heights Tjf That they are wild to gain." "And when they cain them will they have Contentment?" asked the hi. "Xo, there will still he other thin-s That thev will wish thev had." v "Hmv will it be at last, para. How will ir be f.t last?" "He'll seareb. for pleasure when the time Tor happiness is past." ' " ' TI??1 ?i. Illvilo'J XU.CO* it-Ale* u?u. iSSBBBS' R-:t j T OF A LIE. ! cvl: nil was made mesmeric by the gleam- j iug laughter of |>uri>le-blue eyes, the I little airy gestures of white, perfect j hands. And David rarnham. eating his fruit aud cracking his walnuts, listened and looked, his slow, sweet smile deepening around his lirin lips. And she was his?his, David Farnham's?his wife! this exquisite girl, with the snowdrifts of her stainless life behind, and the wild rose garden of her beautiful life before. He put his hand to his throat at the thought. For an instant something hot under his eyelids blurred the flowers, the damask, the glittering silver of the table, even the radiant, glowing, gra cious young vision beyonu. "Coiue," she cried, "I shall play for you." And play she did. while he smoked and listened, wild, merry, capricious music that gradually merged into a little sobbing minor strain. Slower it grew and fainter. Suddenly it ended In a fJ.se chord. Then there was silence. David Farnham rose?crossed the room. He laid his hand on his wife's shoulder. She looked up at him. "Evelyn!" he said. "Evelyn!" The pang of bitter prescience cut him to the heart. He was too old. too grave, too sad for her. It had been all a terrible mistake. And she?she was finding it out! For in that long, penetrative look he saw that she was weak, and white, and spent. All the light and bloom of her beauty had been blown out as though by au extinguishing breath. A passion of sorrow slumbered in her eyes, and on her lashes the tears stood large and bright. uaviu. SMie siuuu up. ox;e pui her arms around his neck and hid hor face against his breast. "I wonder how?how well you love me, David!" "How well!" he repeated, hoarsely. "God?Evelyn! How well!" The answer seemed to satisfy her, for although she did not offer to kiss him. the clasp around his neci tightened. Then she turned away and went out of the room, and up the stairs, the rustle of her silken gown coming back to him with a murmuring sound that grew momentarily more indistinct. He heard the door of her room close. Ten hours later, opening his paper alone at the breakfast table, he started to his feet, aghast, dismayed. "Andrews!" he cried. "Andrews!" i, iiril* 11 n ?i."? l UUllULlUUg UiUi iU UViU Mack and white. -DEATH OF COLONEL FOREST ANDREWS." "Unexpected Demise of a Well-known Citizen at Noon Yesterday." . So?his friend was dead! But?what was that? At noon?yesterday! At noon? Why. he had been at the matinee. lie had come out with Evelyn. She had seen and spoken with him. She ?she had said sc?that it was he who was with her. Oh. there must be an yjror?somewhere! lie pushed away his plate; he could not eat. He drank his 'coffee and went into the library. Evelyn paused on the threshold at sight of his bent head, his agitated countenance. He turned at sound of her exclamation. She was just from her sleep?her bath. nit* pruiust* ioius ui uft ? uhv ^uvtii wore gathered by Muo ribbons at her throat. The bright hair was braided ia girlish fashion and hung loose. She had never looked to him so youthful? so innocent. Cunningham's couplet of his sweetheart came to hini: "Beauteous she looks like a tall garden lily, Fresh from the night, and perfect for the day!" "David," she cried. "What is it?" In silence he held out the paper to her. "At uoou, yesterday," he said. She read the paragraph. She went white as her gown. He thought she was going to fain:; but she laid the paper down, turned to the opou door, closed It. came back aud stood before him. "If you will not look at me," she said, in a low voice, "perhaps?perhaps 1 can tell youi" The grim silence was for a space unbroken. Then she spoke: "i uid not meet Colonel Andrews yesterday. 1 did not see him yesterday, but I was glad you should thiuk it was he whom 1 was with. I went to lie matinee to meet?another man. lie is the height and general appearance of. your friend, but younger?much younger. That is how you were mistaken. You may have heard his uame ?net that i: matters now. I met him % during the last year at school. lie made me thluk I cared lor hlu; ho made love n> me. :.:id 1?I wrote him some foolish letters. They are no* letters it would hurt you to read?even now; they were only the siliy letters of a l'colish and inexperienced girl. When later I came to know you better, to know you well. 1 knew that I could never be quite happy as the wife of any other man. I was hoping. I was praying lor months before you spoke, that you would ask me?what you did. lour money ur.u notning to uo v.ltn ilils desire; be is wealthy, too. It was only that I wanted you?you! And I knew, too, thai when you said at last the words I bad been longing to hear that you did not love we as a man should love the woman whom be does the honor to ark to be his wife.' If I hesitated in that moment, you know the reason now. Then 1 said to myself. "You can make him love you! It may take years, but you can wake him love yon!' I have tried?my best; and daily I have been happier and happier as I fancied 1 was succeeding. I could not tell you about that first absurd romance of wine. I thought you would deem me trivial?that it would lower we in your sight, and I could not bear that. But still it seemed to me disloyalty to you that any other man should have letters of mine in liis possession, so I wrote to him when I heard lie had come back to Europe, and asked him to send them to me. lie said he would give them to nie if I would meet him and tell him with my own lips tlm. I was mistaken In once thinking 1 had cared for him, and that I had married you for no other reason than that I loved you. This I did yesterday. Even he could no longer doubt why I had become your wife. The letters are on the cabinet in my n r.t vnr^j tr\ rnoil at /Ti>_ stroy. Now I have told you all!" Sounds of busy life ramc from without; of rolling wheels, of speeding hoof, of children laughing at their play. liut DavW Farnham only knew with great and gbu rejoicing that the one cloud had faded from his sunlight, that the roses were redder than ever in his way. that the iuusie of his life rang strong and true. Ho breathed the fragrance of the mignonette she wore as he caught her to him. "David, are you sure you understand? I?I lied to you!" "Dear," in his voice an infinite thankfulness, an infinite content. "You love me! For that I did not dare to hope?beloved. I did not dare!"?Kate M. Cleary, in the Household. FULLS TEETH WITH HIS FINCERS. The Chinese Finn I'ar Superior to tli? | Forceps, Says a Dentist. Dr. Charles E. Coughlin, of Indianapolis, has discarded the forceps in pulling teeth and has adopted the primitive rules of the Chinese by using nothing except his thumb and iudex linger for the purpose. He believes that the sight of the forceps constitutes the harrowing part of tooth pulling and that many nervous persons art almost as shocked at the sight of the instrument as they would be if a cocked revolver were presented at their heads,. He can take out the most flrmly-rooted double tooth in a few ( secouds. and that without causing pain, comparatively speaking. "It is all done with the thumb and forefinger of the right hand," he said to-day. "and docs not require any great strength, for it is not performed by main force. "In pulling a tooth by hand, it is first worked around with a gentle motion and there is absolutely no violent wrenching or tugging. In a surprisingly short time the largest and most firmly-rooted ' molar will show evidences of being loosened. The motion is then continued with increased press- ! uro outward from the pivot of the ; tooth, as it were, until it seems actually to come out of its own accord. It is brought out with a final circular twist, not more violent than the gentle working which is required to loosen It, and it is all over before the patient re- j alizes that his tooth is being extracted, i "It is ridiculously easy when you j have got the hang of it. The tooth al- ! ways comes out. and my patients testify that it is a comparatively painless process, the movement of the tooth being so gradual as not to produce any shock even to the most nervous person. "I learned the process from a Chinese practitioner. It has been practiced by the Chinese from time Immemorial. Our method seems as crude and as barbarous to them as their seems antiquated to us. "In many eases we are getting too far away from nature with our complicated apparatus and highly scientific way of going at things, and I have found that extracting teeth by hand is ' not only better for the patient, but | also for the practitioner, for a man of sympathy must necessarily feel some of the horror caused by the forceps in an extremely nervous person, and just; to the extent that he is unnerved he is ! incompetent to perform his duty well." ?New York Sun. England's prison population is ninety per l'V).oOO of her inhabitants, that of Ireland sixty-six per 100.000, of Scotland cuiy flfty-llve in the same numL er. [TWO BLOODY CRIMES A Crazy Man Assaults and Mutilates a Young Girl. AN OLD WOMAN IS MURDERED. The Culprit Confesses After Being Arrested ? Bloody Knife Found On His Person. Denver, Col., Spenal.-^-Jeesie Kingport. the 14-year-oIii daughter of Mrs. Carrie Kingport. who resides at 119 IVest Ninth avenue, was assaulted and aorriblv mutilated in her rconi during the absence of her mother Tuesday night. Mrs. Kingport. upon returning home, found the uoors open in her daughter's room, the bedclothes strewn about and blood sputtered over the room. She aroused the neighbors who about midnight found the girl in a valr?* nmr hv tinennecinus and with numerous cuts on her tody. The authorities were notified, but not before Chris Jensen had been brought to the station by Policeman Lambert, who had arrested him on the outskirts of the city. As Lambert approached Jensen whipped out a knife and shoeted tc the officer that he would not be taken to jail. Lambert disarmed the man and brought him to the station. On the way he repeatedly spoke of having been compelled to defend himself from a woman, saying that he had cut her up pretty badly. His knife was covered with blood. He is believed to be demented and to be the man who lately l as committed numerous assaults on women. Jensen confessed to the police that he assaulted Jessie Kingport and also said he stabbed another woman dur- i ing the night near the end of the University Park car line. Search was i it once begun and the dead body of I Mrs. Armenia A. Bullis, about GJ years J old, wh? conducted a uairy, was uuuu j at the place described by Jensen. She) had been stabbed in the breast and the ! blade of the knife had penetrated the heart, causing instant death. The body : lay i-n the roadway and there was no j evidence of struggle. Jensen said the | woman was "after him" and for that j reason he killed her. She lived on a j ranch near by. It has developed that a young man ; was at the Kingport home .falling cn the girl and remained until after 10 j o'clock. Jensen was arrested about 9:45 j o'clock In the evening, making it im-; possible for him to have committed the assault. A crowd of several hundred; gathered outside of the city jail and ' made threats of lynching Jensen. Hf, tr\ fnl/xro <1.-* Snr!n?s. wao laacu .-0.. A Darkey's Deadly Work. Douglas, Ga., Special.?Jake Dcvoss ; a negro laborer on James McKinnon's ' plantation, was v;orking a team of, mules Tuesday morning. The mules balked and the negro flew Into a rage, j He went to 6is house, got a Winchester rifle and shot both mules dead. Devoss' j wife expostulated with him, and he turned the rifle up her, inflicting a j wound which may prove fatal. James McKinnon. who owned the muie3, and | his brother. Charles, attracted by the -1 tr\r? V? o C/?OnP T*h P SilUUUUK. SIOI icu 1U1 k?v now wildly Infuriated negro saw them coming and began shooting at them. Charles McKinnon was instantly killed and James McKinnon was so badly wounded that he will probably die. Then Devoss escaped to the swamps. The county authorities were notified and started in pursuit of the murderer with blood-hounds. He has his rifle, j but it is not believed he has much am- i munition. More bloodshed is looked J for. New Express Company. Atlanta, Special.?An application J for a charter for the Brunswictc ana | Birmingham Express Company was filed In the office of the Secretary ?f J State Tuesday. The incorporator# are , E. C. Machen, general manager of the Brunswick and Birmingham Railroad, and others. The capital stock of the new company is $10,000. The principal office of the company will be In Brunswick. Booker Washington Speaks. Cincinnati, Special?The chief adflress before the Christian Endeavor society was that of Booker T. Washington, of Tuskegee. Ala. He took as his subject "The Power of a Xohle Life." He was the recipient of a tremendous <>'. atinn and had n >t proceeded for into his address until he had won a warm snot in *he h arts of his hearers. He traced his ovra oarcar fronj that of a slave through the bitter struggles he had to attain what he aow has. and told of what he had done for his race. He made an impassioned appeal for his people and asked that j they be judged by the best among them and not by the krwliest . li .'nn_ji f ^ ; i ? . 'a SOUTHERNINDUSTRIAL Comparison Of Different Sections In MM Cuildins:. Textile mill construction during the first six months cf the year 19C1, as complied from cur weekly bulletins, was considerably greater than the last half cf the preeeeding year. This may seem strange to manufacturers and mill men in general, by whom the depression in the manufacturing business, both cotton and woolen, which has taken place since the first of the year, will long be remembered. Yet this fact cannot be disputed, when cur list of new mills constructed ot proposed, given below.is carefully studied. It may be easily seen that the number of Southern mills constructed during that time has shown little change, compared with the number built during the last half of last year. In the North, however, the increase in tae number of new mlll3 built or proposed has been remarkable, and particular nctice should be given this point. During the first half of the year 1901 we find that the number of new mills constructed or that are Intended to be constructed amount to 261, a gain of 37 . over the ?24 reported for the last six months of 1900. Of the 261 mills, 143 are devoted to the manufacture of cotton, 35 to wool, 5S to knit goods, hosiery, etc., and 25 to miscellaneous purposes, such as sill-:, linen and jute manufacturing and bleaching, finishing, etc. The number of woolen mills constructed shows the greater increase. Relatively speaking, there was an increase of 250 per cent, compared with the number erected during the latter part of 1900. This should be an encouraging factor with the wool man and grower, as It goes to show that the woolen industry is increasing proportionally with the fast increasing wool growing industry. A point worth mentioning is that the new mills referred to will make mostly goods of a quality not considered cheap. The public is beginning to see the folly of .buying clothes made from these cheap goods and necessarily the demand Is not sufficient to keep additional mills in operation. In fad, the old satinet mills throughout the Connecticut valley, in Massachusetts, have found it to their interests to change over on to goods flnor ni-djr nn/1 nn? en!nc through these mills -will see more cass;mere9 than any other class of goods. The knitting industry is also increaoing rapidly. While the depression In the textile industry has not affected the knitting business as much as the other branches, yet it has been sufficient to cause the building of new mtll3 in less numbers than would hava been done. Our knit goods are being exported In larger numbers each year. Not long ago reference was made to this natter in these columns. In Germany and more extensively in E.ijland, goods made by American manufacturers can be found in the very centres of the hosiery manufacturing towns, and prices as a rule are in favor of the American product In tne cotton manufacturing industry the demand has not warranted as many new mills as In other years. Yet since the first of the year the number of new mills constructed only laclc one of being equal to the number erected during the latter part of last year. The Chinese controversies have affected this branch of the textile industry more than anything else, and not until that trouble has been fully settled will business in this line ehov much improvement. This, however, has only reference to the manufacture of coarse goods. j-A ? FA rw# finnr ovwlo \& 1 1IC luaiiuiawuic v* uavi qwuw becoming more general with the Northern mills which formerly made goods for export This was brought about when the Asiatic market was cut off. and in order to keep their mills running they had to change the nature of their product. The following table gives in detail the location of the 261 new textiie enterprises. together with the class of goods manufactured: Cot. Wool. K.G. Mis. Alabama 18 ? 9 ? Arkansas 4 1 ? ? California ? 1 ? ? Colorado ? 1 ? ? Connecticut 3 1 ? 3 Delaware ? ? 11 Florida ? ? 2 ? Georgia 29 15 1 IndHna ? 1 ? ? Kansas 1 1 ? ? Kentucky ? 11 ? Louisiana 1 ? ? ? Maine ? 2 ? ? Maryland ? 1 ? ? Massachusetts .... 3 6 2 1 Michigan 1 ? 1 1 Minnesota ? ? 1 ? Mississippi 3 1 3 ? Montana 3 1 ? ? New York 1 3 5 1 North Carolina ...24 ? 10 1 Ohio ? 1 ? ? Oregon ? 1 ? ? i Pennsylvania .. .? 4 5 8 Rhode Island .... 1 3 ? 6 Swth Carolina . .26 ? 4 1 Tennessee 4 1 4 1 Texas 9 ? ? ? T'tah ? 1 ? ? Vermont ? 1 ? ? Virginia 4 2 4 ? Canada 1 ? ? ? Total 143 35 5S 25 . . v.J?