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