Pittston Gazette

              % ""ST™'."" I Oldest NewsoaDer in the Wyoming Valley PITTSTON, LUZERNE CO., PA., FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1891. A Weekly Local and Familv Journal. Ilia Profe*»Ioc. M"j boy and I rode lu the tialn yea re ago, when you bore another name, you were a needy artist. Now scarcely a man living has wealth to compare with yours. Before I knew that you were Keppel Darke I never bothered my head about how yon came by your money. But things are different now. You couldn't have made your fortune. Mercy knows it's my interest to believe everything good of youl But my wife and I would rather go back to what we were before than profit by anything that isn't fair nnd above board. Do you want to say anything about it?" ••I \v;y$ t tun mug about you, Count de Lisle," tiho said, as she gave him her hand, "and I was expecting you." talk and be silly—that ia, really wis*. My heart feels so light! Does yours?" you like, only I must keep a million or two to buy your bonnets with." tlie count? - » » However, the count waa rich onongh to be eccentric, and the fashion of marrying unknown girls might catch ou. SOME ETRUSCANTJOSSIE ODDS AND ENDS. way to cnurcn. neroaotas say a m an autograph album which I still retain, and I think very truly, too, that if the Etruscans had kept t heir roads in better repair, gone into diversified farming, bathed more regularlj-, and consolidated or sort-of boiled down their gods, they would have been on deck today. As it is, Wanda, where are they? And yet they were an old people, an old, old family, and well brought up. Seven hundred and fifty-two years before Christ we find them bragging over their ancestryKand even later on, standing around in the courtroom chewing straws and looking on while Pilate was on the bench, and, though saying little, yet seeking to throw contumely on people who had moved into Jerusalem'recently. They were a haughty people, who worshiped a whole city directory of gods, refused to work and were often found on the petit jury list. One morning bright and dear. 'When I'm a grown up man," said ho. "My heart sings like a bird—and I am the song! And the song says: 'I love Keppel Darke! I am glad he is alive, and that the Count de Lisle has vanished f " "Where did yon get so much money, Keppel?" inquired Olympia. "Where did it come from? It seemed natural that the Con tit de Lisle should have it, but that you should have it is different; it is like having it myself!" The coffee palaces of Melbourne are said to be the finest iu the world. Til lie an engineer." Hut soon the dust flew in his eyes. And heavy grew his head. "I wouldn't be an engineer For all the world," he said. I lDe of any use to you?" That is news. ."herephed. "Can BILL NYE SHAKES UP HIS MEMORY ;ed at him while he was speakugulur manner, us if she saw, "Come to think of it, though," said Dr. Venabk's. "was there not an Olympia Raven iu::;eDl up in that murder trial It is said to cost (10,000 to gild the dome of the state house in Boston. AND TALKS ON ITALY. in.? 111 a "I hate that stiff, conventional phantom, too. But he has his uses, and we will make him be useful to us. He is rich, and he is devoted to you!" t Iim physical self, but something some yearn Why, yes! Now, There has been a steady rise in the average ago at which men and women marry ever since 1873. Something; About the Government, Re- My boy was at a seaport town. And saw the rolling sea. "Mama," he said one evening, "A sailor 1 shall bet" We tctDk him to a yacht race- He had to go to bed. "I wouldn't be a sailor now For all the world," ho said. within that or emanating from it. Her eyes sparkled, and their glance was not fixed, but wandered from point to point of the count's face. A smile glimmered ou Lit lips and was gone, and again returned, like light upon dimpling water. Though she sat still, there was a subtle unn-st perceptible in her, as if the thoughts that traversed her mind to and fro left vibrations and fine stirrings in her palpable organism. In the shadowy ro«.m Olyiupia seemed spiritualistic and to ptjf.vs=5 spiritual powers, so that the (.'• vi it felt its if she could see what was i;i !:i.h brain .•« easily as she could see'his "It came from the treasure houses of European kings, and from the strong boxes of misers and the breasts of fair women and the savings of poor peasants; from robbery and murder and crime and cruelty of every sort; it has been gradually accumulating for hundreds of years; it is even said that Charlemagne began it; certainly Francis I added to it, and Henry of Navarre and Louis the Great. Napoleon doubled it, I suspect, but no ono knows or ever will know certainly by whom or how it was contributed to. The singular thing about it is that it should have been paiaad along as a secret heirloom from ruler-to ruler of France; it was always regarded as a private treasure, though of "bourse it should have belonged to the ration—if treasure got as this was could be said to belong to anybody except the original owners. When the French devolution occurred the queen hid the treasure, and when she was condemned, to the guillotine she told the secret to some one whom she believed she could trust, in order that it might be available for bringing back their dynasty to power after the revolution had ended. This confidant must haye betrayed his trust. At any rate Bonaparte got hold of the treasure not long after. Louis Philippe never could get trace of it, and Louis Napoleon, to whom the secret was imparted, entered into possession as the rightful heir after the coup d'etat. He looked upon it, as probably all his predecessors had, as a power in reserve, not to be used except in case of need. But he knew from experience how uncertain things are in France, and when he saw a war with Germany ahead, leading possibly to a grand upheaval of all Europe, he resolved to send the treasure for safe keeping to America. Then, if France came out ahead, he could send for it back; but if he were worsted he could himself come here, and either plot for a return to power or settle down permanently, as circumstances might determine. And this is where I appear in the story." there's a curious instance, Miss Hess- Hesketli, of liie concatenation of ideas. Thinking of the count, you know, brought up the idea of his house. His house suggested poor old Trent, who built it. Trent suggested the trial, and the trial the persons concerned in it. There was the youug fellow, Darke, the murderer, and Sallie Matcliin, and then I remembered that there was some one that Darke in lovo with, and—do you see? Olympia Raven—yes, the same person. Well, now, that ia curious again; one of those mysteries—coincidences, we call them —but who knows? If you recollect, my dear Miss Hess- Hesketh, it ramc quite as a surprise that Sallie Matchin should have turned out to be Mrs. Harry Trent, for it was in evidence at the tiiui.C that Trent was intending to marry this same Olympia llaven But today the tables are turned After that dinner party I'm sure we all expected that Sallie was going to marry the count, instead of which he throwB her over and picks up her old rival. Olympia!"Old Miss Hess-flesketh laughed. "The girl lost nothing by waiting a bit," she remarked. "If she'd got Trent she'd have lost tha count. But I expect Sallie will be mad. I don't blame her. I'd marry the count myself if he asked me!" Miss Hess-Hesketli was seventy, and had the reputation of being the ugliest woman in New York, but she was far from being the greatest fool. ligion and Habits of This People, Wlio Ran a Side Tent in the Great Roman Clroaa. "Do you wish to give mo up to him, sir?" Germany's production of silver in 1890 was 770,00C) pounds, about 9 per cent, of the world's pruUuct. "Ah! He wanis to marry you, I am told!" In 1871 the G. A. K. could claim only 30,- 000 members, but in 1879 it had increased to almost 400,000. [Copyright, 1891, by Edgar W. Nye.] • Wfcat I have, I found," said Count de Lisle. "No crime was involved in my taking possession of it. It never Skyland, Buncombe County, N. C., i July, 1891. f W«i read him stirring stories Of soldiers and their fame. Til go and fight," cried Freddie, "And put them all to shame!" We told him of a soldier's life; He shook his little head. "I wouldn't be a soldier now For all the world," he said. "And you wil'i let him marry me if only I promise to love you? But tell me, Keppel, why were -you such a fool, dear? Why didn't you come t D mo at once? The next time you delay so I sha'n't wait for you!" The following inquiry is awaiting an answer, and with an apology for the unavoidable delay in giving attention to it, I will now cheerfully take the time to answer, in an exhaustive way, such as we have space for: The lirst dictionary was compiled by Paout-she, a learned Chinaman, who lived in the year 1,100 B. C. had a legitimate, owner. It never can La, a one more legitimate than I. Some time after I it I met the man who had called it his. I told him that I had it, and how and when I got it He acquiesced in my ownership, and so far as he could made me his heir. The time was gone by when it could have been of use to him, and it was his wish, for reisons that be thought wise, that none of his desceijflants should learn of its existence. It lid caused only disaster so far, he said; he bado me, if it were possible, to do sou.e good with it That is how tho miKer stands, Bannick. I tell it, not for my sake, but for yours; for I comprehend your scruples, and wish you to feel at ease in the enjoyment of .what you have. 1 am glad, too, that you should understand what I could not explain at first—that what I have done for you was a simple act of gratitude. You did all you could to save my life, and I intend to give you reason to be glad that I am alive." To forgive when we have forgotten it easy; to forgive when we know we can never forget is noble. "How could I know that you would want me? Dead people coming back to life are sometimes very much in the way. I thought it wiser, for your sake, to send some one to find out how the land lay." Don't rob your wife all her lifetime in order to make some provision for her in case you should lie first taken away. Miss Wanda Poppleton, of Paw Paw, Indian Territory, writes: "Could you give our lyceum here any information And thus to each profession He first said "yes," then "no." "To make a choico is hard," he said, "At least, I flhd it so." "But what, then, will you be?" I asked, "When you are grown up, Fred?" •I really think I'll only bo A k* «?d. Historians do not agree as to the origin of the Etruscans, some claiming that they were of Lydian origin, whilst others hold that they came from away down East Herodotus claims that they ware of Lydian (iftk fed that bar had it from the Lydians themselves, but those who know Herodotus will remember that he was a space writer whose best interviews were all written at the office while in a state of remorse. is come when we must Twenty thousand words have been added to the English language in the department of biology siuce Darwin's discoveries. regarding Etruria? We have the sub- Part! Wuat do you mean? Where What lias  attlod out of his ca.T - :i iry id, after a pause. "For my sake? For yours, I think!' They both langhed again. .re vDn It is no unusual thing for a vessel plying between Japan and San Francisco to brin« 1,000,000 fans as a single item of its cargo. —St. NicboUa. "How did you coma'to find mo out?" he asked. "You had accepted the Count de Lisle so long that the last tiling-1 expected was an inquiry for me." id s e impulsively Count Cle Li 1 •. we liTv.t part. The New York end of the Brooklyn ' bridge proper is founded on bed rock; the Brooklyn end of the bridge proper rests on clay. VM rep srulin 1 in lPOSlT "There is something mysterious about that," replied Olympia, turning grave. "When that strange man of yours— Garcia—has put me into the magnetic sleep, which is not a sleep at all, but a deeper waking, that makes ordinary waking seem sleep in comparison—in that state, whatever it is, I can see my own thoughts, just a3 one sees things with one's bodily eyes. And I see things that have happened to me, not as they seemed to me at the time, but as they really were. So I began to have impressions ot you, and at first I could not understand them, for there was no reason that I knew of why you should appear to me. But at last I noticed that the meetings between us (in my visions) were the times of my meeting the Count de Lisle, and from that I was not long in solving the puzzle. When the count came this afternoon I was so angry with him for having deceived me that I was almost ready to let him go off and take you with him! If you had not looked through his eyes at the last moment, and so given a new turn to things, you would have been nicely punished—and I should have died!" "x\nd we must never meet again, in this world or the next." She said this so decisively and yet 60 quietly that the count was dumfounded. He could not think she was jesting, and yet how could she be in earnest? He had been flattering himself of late that she had been learning to regard him with anything but indifference. Even now, though her words were so strange, her manner had never had such attractive* Ribbons to hold fasti are fastened to the shoulders with a bow, and are long enough to f ill nearly to the ground, the fan being carried in the hand. Some claim that the Etruscan nobility came from the Hhaetian Alps, while others say that they were from Tranby ' Sir William Thomson condemns the single wire system of electric lighting on ship board, on the ground that, in spite of every care the compasses are affected. (continued ) MeD who are constantly going around trying uD borrow a quarter should be interested to know that the Bank of England uas reduced its discount rates to 8 per cont "You both understand,'- interrupted the count, "that there is never to be a repetition of the experiment, and hencexurui it uau ueev ue a nianK in our memories, as it is in hers. It has answered its purpose. Sallie Matchin is now convinced that it lies in m y power to destroy her whenever I see fit,, and yet all legal process has been avoided." "'Tis a strange story, count," said Tom gravely. ness. "Why must we part?"' he demanded. "G ive mo a reason. What has happened to change you since I saw you last?" "Can you give me a reason why we should not part''" she returned. "Yes, I can!" said lie, "a personal rea- "It is the truth, Bannick. Some day perhaps I will give you the names that will confirm it, but not now; and you are not the first to whom they must be told." [TQ BK CONTIKUFDJ James Keeps Ills Place. WHY DIDN'T HE? There is a small boy working in a mercantile establishment in this town who is not likely to be hanged while he stays in New York state and the present laws stand as they do. More than this concerning tliii young man it would be rash to proph eny. "I see, but you have told her nothing at all as yet?' son." %Vliat Was the Use of a SIgu if He Didn't IN THE FIRELIGHT. "But don't you mean to proceed against her?" inquired Bannick. "Haven't you the evidence?' "No; that is a difficult problem. If I fail there, all is a failure. I am jealous of myself, and she must be faithful by being unfaithful. But let that pass. Are you satisfied?" tie hefd out his hand as he spoire. Tom rose and stuck his own into it. "I believe you are a true man," he said. "You have bleached your hair and beard, and you wear eyeglasses and a title; but there's nothing wrong with you inside. I never thought there was; but I'm glad to here it out of your own mouth. Now. *rhat axa you going to do?" "Ah!" she said quickly, "I have a personal reason on the other side." "What is.it?" When the Washtenaw county man from the headwaters of Stony creek into a Woodward avenue dry foods store the first sight that struck him was, "If you don't see what you want aek for it," and he went over to the pretty girl at the glove counter. Keep Anything? ject for discussion now in a few weeks, and I for one know almost nothing regarding it at all. I am an Indian girl with some white blood in my veins, though it does not show much. I like to fool with history, and often ask my parents about our lineage to know if possible how high it was, but they always look out at window and gradually turn the conversation toward the late war. I am quite sure that some of my parents were from Cape Cod, for I cannot help feeling an interest in trade and bewailing most bitterly the numberless instances in which my people was done up from a business slandpoint, swapping, as they did on several occasions, a congressional district for a bottle of spirits and a red martingale ring. Oh, it is indeed tough to think of now when one, for instance, goes ont as far as Pullman and Calumet to fine, lots selling for far more than we got for the whole state of Illinois. I read you;- get offs, or gets off rather, that is printed in the papers,  though I am rather depressed most of the time owing to the wrongs of my people, I find that I can add to that feeling very much by reading after you. Please tell me all you can id regards to Etruria, or anything; else that seems to be \ festering on you r mind, and oblige. How do you like my writing?" Etruria or Tuscia was an ancient country of Italy, extending from the Tiber and the Appeni nes to the Mediterranean sea. The people who lived there werajralled Etruscana. The government of the Etruscans was simple, being a confederacy. It is now no more. But why rake up old personalities or Btir up a race prejudice now that all is friendly again? Etruria was ruled by a Bort of board bf supervisors chosen by twelve cantons, which comprised the Etruscan confederacy. Each canton had the divine right to secede from the others by paying its dues and the bill at the restaurant. She turned on the piano stool on which she had been sitting, and began to touch the chords of the instrument, but so lightly that they responded, as it were, in u whisper of melody. Now, the merchant who employs him to do a great many things very badly is large, red of face, pompous and dignified. He was once iu the senate gallery at Washington when Roscoe Conkling sat down, metaphorically speaking, on a statesman from Jimtown or some other place. Since that time this merchant has been Conklingesque, particularly when rebuking an employe."Some evidence and plenty of moral certainty. Qarcia could prove the forgery and the fraud as to the finding of the will, for in order to get his assistance she was obliged to make admissions whidh, coupled with other known facts, amount to proof. A* to the murder the evidence is of couiro circumstantial. No one saw hir strike the blow, but we know that she oeverai times was dressed in man's clotheA, that she was present, so disguised, in Trent'.) house that night, and that the papers in her possession could only have been taken on that night from the safa in his library. The net is strong enough no doubt. But it is enough for my pi *sent purpose that she knows she standi in deadly peril. To bring her to trial t nd have her sentenced would be a relioi* to her. I wish to punish her myself, t&e did what she could to get an innocent man hanged in her stead. I will keep the same rope dangling over her head till she is ready to draw the noose herself. There is no law to punish adequately a criminal like her." "Morain', mum,"'he said, with a prairie smile. "I have something to do," she replied. "I have lost three years already. I cannot go on so. I must devote myself to tli.it only." "Well, I am glad of that," remarked Olympia. "I was afraid you had forgotten yourself." This terrible picture called for consolation on both sides, and the two lovers administered it to each other. They were sitting in the embrasure of the window, a deep, well cushioned divan, protected from the room by the piano and a pot of ferns, while the light of the western sky, now golden with the setting sun, came softly through the semitransparent silken window shades. They had put one cushion up on the window sill, and both their heads were upon it; Keppel's arm was round Olympia's waist, and the hand of that arm held in it her hand. By turning his face only a little Keppel's lips would come in contact with a white and alluring region just beneath Olympia's ear; but if she liappened to be turning toward him at the same time, as might easily happen in conversation, it was no longer the place under her ear, but her mouth that advanced into the proximity witli Keppel's. This arrangement was convenient enough, one would tliink, to satisfy even two lovers; but they had improved even upon this by a system of signals, which could be felt, but not seon. "Good morning," responded the young lady. "What can I do for yon today?' Keppel related the story of his escape from the railway wreck and subsequent adventures, to all of which Olympia listened with wide open eyes and diligent cars. He went on to tell her how ho had made the journey to France, and had there purchased the estate ot M. de Lisle, an aged monarchist, who was the last of his family, and who had died within a couple of weeks of the making of the bargain. Keppel had adopted the name of his new possessions, and had gone to Paris and found means to get presented to Napoleon. Circumstances "Got any grindstones?" he inquired. Now the small boy, who may be called lames, succeeded the other day in performing some especially villainous action that Irew down upon him the wrath of his employer. So lie was called into the presence. The dignified merchant expanded his chest, frowned and proceeded to annihilate the small boy with h look. The small boy would not annihilate. 'To what? Cannot I help you?" "Oh, no," she said, with guileless innocence, "this is a dry goods store. Maybe you would like a pair of gloves for your wife?' NYE AS AN ETRUSCAN. her to a living interest in what was passing around her. "Yon don't know what you are asking, Count de Lisle," she replied, glancing »t him over her shoulder. "You know—I have told you—that I love some one. I wish to devote myself to him. How can you help me in that?" Croft. However, up to the time when the Romans became the dominant nation in Italy and prior to the trouble in the New Orleans dynasty, the Etruscans had extended their influence over Southwestern Europe and managed to undersell many of the* Jewish clothing merchants of that country. They were bold in war and enterprising in business. Their standing army rarely sat down and their navies were seldom seasick. All this was the ;ase up to about 586 B. C.i—to the best of my recollection. After that they had the air of having been checked up too tiighJ Their pride prevented tlxem from sweating and they perspired very little too. Finally their letters were all "dictated" to a stenographer by a private secretary, and a century or so later we find the Etruscans suffering from brain fag before their wihiskers -broke out. They sat for hours trying to remember back « • 'Tm afraid," said Tom's wife to her bnsband, as he was putting on a clean shirt for dinner, "that Olympia was thrown off her balance by that hypnotizing business. Nobody really understands what these trances are; and there may be more harm in them than we imagine."" "She'll come around all right," answered Tom, with cheerful optimism. 'Every young unmarried girl goes queer once in a while; and quite proper, tool" "Got any hay rakes?" he asked, looking over his shoulder toward the sign. "No, sir," and the girl smiled. "No? Ner no axle grease?' "No, sir." He blushed violently "I mtan Keppel Darke. Tiiere is no one else that I can love." "Do you mean"  "James!" said the merchant haughtily. "Van, sir," said James not at all haught- "Ah—Keppel Darke! You are jesting. after all. A sentiment—a memory —is not love. This ia not your true rea- VVhy do you play with me?" "Mebbe you could let me have a kaig of nails?" he ventured nervously. "I'm sorry we haven't them." He went back and read the sign over carefully. "1 wish you to listen iO me." "Yas, sir," said James. "This sort of thing won't do at all, sir." "Yas, sir," said James. "Do yon think Keppel Darke is dead?" a-sked Olyinpia, harmonizing her tones with the notes she was drawing from the keys. "I thought so once, but I have began to feel that he is alive. I know it in my heart. I see him in dreams. He is often near me. I am happy in this communion with him. Whatever disturbs it I wish should cease. And nothing disturbs it so much as the Count de Lisle." son, enabled him to see a great deal of the emperor; the latter conceived singular confidence in him, and even, toward the end, an affection for him. At length, wheif all was lost at Sedan, Keppel told the emperor the story of the treasure aud offered to restore it to him, and aid him in his escape to America. Napoleon had hesitated for a moment, but then shook his head. "That treasure," he said, "has been the curse of France for near a thousand years. Disaster followed every French ruler who had to do wifh it—disaster persoiMl, If not also public. My uncle died in St. Helena; I am a broken man, dying of an incurable disease. I will not transmit the cui-se to my son, who as yet knows nothing of the secret. Keep the jewels yourself; and I hope that in your ownership they may begin to do good instead of harm. I am glad that I can die with that load off my heart!" "There can l*j uo apology for such pro x.-ediiigs! l)o you hear, sir?" said the mer chant "I will uot hear of un apology, sir!" Olympia did not herself know anything of the mysterious part she had played on the night of February twentyfifth. It had accidentally transpired some time before that she was an exceptionally good subject for hypnotic experiments, and the count had intimated that she might, if she chose, become instrumental in discovering the murderer of Harry Trent. She finally consented, on condition that she be not informed of tho manner in which her power was used. She was willing to become an instrument in the cause of justice, but shrank from being made privy to the means adopted. Garcia, after the first experiments, was able to throw her into a trance without her even knowing of his proximity; and it had thus been possible to take her to the count's house and back again without any consciousness of the transaction on her part. But the experience had had other effects upon her which were not as yet suspected by any one. "I thought mebbe I hadn't got her quite kerrect, not bein' much of a scholard," he said, returning to the counter. "Uuess, p'raps, you ain't got no paregoric, ner quinine, ner bretchin' straps, ner plow lines, ner milkin' stools, ner hoss shoes, ner brass kittles, ner brad awls* neither?" "Yas, sir," said James, made none." 'but 1 bavea't "I can understand her {Tutting a knife into Mr. Trent," observed Garcia. "He had given her the best of reasons to think that she ought to be his wife, and, having finished him, the manufacture of the marriage certificate and of the will followed as a matter of course. Those TU.;u the seance closed, and James is not yet discharged. The haughty merchant Is still ttiiuking the matter over, and does not see his way clear lames does.—New York lieoorder The young lady shook her head and the Stony creek man started out. Neai the door met the floor walker. "Olyinpia, you are not speaking seriously; you are smiling." The introduction of the style of riding on horseback side saddle is attributed to Anna of Bohemia, consort of Richard IL She it was, according to Stowe, who origiuully showed the women of England how gracefully and conveniently they might ride od horseback sideways. Another historian, enumerating the new fashions of Richard ll's reign, oljserves: Ladles Kitting Sideways. young people, but ... 0_/eitup. They did not marry sutside of their set at all, and so managed to confine all the broad heritage of antique and ancient diseases, which many generations of indolence, insolence and rich victuals had engendered, to their jwn proud but biligus race. when an. It was her treatment of me that caused the iron to enter my seal, and^K, are foibles, and become a beautiful wom- Whenever Eeppel wanted Olympia tc turn her face toward him he pressed the hand that has already been mentioned as held in his, and he did this 50 frequently that it might have been regarded as a reflection upon Olympia's profile, only her profile was too ravishingly beautiful to be liable to reflection except in a mirror. Ravishing though it was, however, the full face was not thereby prevented from being more lovely still; not because it more nearly approached classical perfection, but because it carried with it the glance of her dark, deep gazing eyes, and the full curve of her mouth, and the faint fragrance of her breath. Either way, it was a choice of felicities for Keppel, who could not have been better off unless he had had both the full face and the profile at the same time; and a casuist might have called even that in question. * »Vhy should I not smile? I am happy. What am I to you?" "Say, mister," he said, glancing up at it curiously, "why don't yer take in yer demed old sign?' torture is exquisite and lingering enough to pay for it" "You are everything to me!" he said impetuously. "I love you!" He offered no further explanation of his departure, and the floor walker learned the particulars from the good looking girl at the glove counter,—Detroit Free Press. "How do you make .hat oat?" demanded Tom, who conld never quite satisfy himself as to whether this personage were a fiend, a fool or a jester. "Being stabbed 1 shouldn't mind." uarcia went on, "or robbed, or starved, or any commonplace matter liko tlia\ Bat the insulted my feelings, and that 1 can never forgi ve. I loved her—yes— any one may know it now. I knew that she was aiming at Trent, bat she persuaded me that it was his money she wanted, not him; and in thart way she used me. I ran her errands and did her dirty work, believing that it was me she really loved, and that Trent was the fool, and that as soon as she had carried her point she woald snap her fingers in his face and be off witb me. Yes, gentleman, she made me believe all that, and without once committing herself, either She is a clever woman." " W hat had you against Trent.'' Tom "Is that the first time you hare said those words to a woman?" she asked, facing him. And bo at last, WaDda, they petered Dnt, to use the glowing words of Livy, ind the places that knew them once now knows thein no more forever. "Likewise noble ladies then used high heads, and corsets and robes with long trains, and seats on sidesaddles on their hordes, by the example of the respectable Queen Anna, daughter of the king of Do hernia, who flrst introduced the custom into the kingdom, for before women of every rauk rode ;:s men.*' Stothartl, in l;:s beautiful illustrative picture of C.t.iuccr's "Canterb uy Pi I grims," aiD|K*;u-i. aocor.Jiii;; to lU- above quoted authurii ic*s. iCD irtvo commuted an anachronism i:i placing LiDo most conspicuous female character of his line composi tiou sideways on her steed. That the lady ought to have been depicted riding the male fashion might have been inferred, without any historical researcD on the subject, from the poet's describing her as having on her feet "a pair of spurres sharpe." --Detroit Free Press. - The question embarrassed him, and he hesitated. She laughed. "I will not take yoa at your word," she said. "Keppel Darke loved no one bet me; I gave him my promise, and it shall never be broken. Would you break your promise iu my place, Count de Lisle? Or would you wish me to be your wife, knowing that I loved hiinV"- Trying It On the Uog. "Poor old man!" said Olympia sympathetically. "And, after all, how unreal such treasure is! If it had been in houses or lands or industries, or even in bonds or gold, it would have been something real and reasonable; but jewels are only beautiful; their value is an imagination. If they were to be thrown into the sea no one would lose anything. It is wrong that beauty should have a money value. Diamonds and pearls should be given for love, not bought and sold. Perhaps that is the explanation of the curse!" "Wh-s-t, wh-s-t," signaled a tramp to a policeman 011 a quiet beat up Gratiot street. ♦ The church and slate were almost identical in Etroria and almost everything was opened with prayer. The Etruscans, however, worshiped Tinia or Tina, hence the expression making of one "a little Tin gcd." Tina or Tinia was undoubtedly Jnpiv-er, and here originated another expressi an which may be traced at once to the Etruscans. To call down the wrath of Jupiter or Tinia grew at last till it became simply, instead of "I will call down or 'sic' Jupiter on you," "If you do not da soand so, I will put a Tinia on you." Think of it. Seven hundred and fifty D*cara before the boom struck Rome the Etruscans were a powerful nation, with a glorious history, a heritage of liberty for the purpose of forking over to posterity and a war debt. The officer looked around and then went over to the signaler. She was sitting at the piano one afternoon when the count came in. The air was still vibrating with delicate harmonies, softly tuned into life by her fingers, as she turned to meet him. It was the first time he h&d come to her since the night of the ball. "Judging from your uniform I should conclude you were a copper," remarked the tramp. Later on trouble broke out with the Romans themselves, many Etruscans having been skinned, it would seem, by unscrupulous real estate dealers, who told the Etruscans lots in Uncle Remus' sedition to Rome which afterward turned out to be in another county. This precipitated upon tie Etruscans a war which was most disastrous, many 3f the choicest and best dressed Etruscan Mficers of the regular army having been killed or overhet in their flight, so that they were no good after that, or their uniforms were so mussed up that they were ashamed almost to go to a large place like Rome, where the next battle was advertised for. "Indeed I would!" he exclaimed, She shook her head. "The \nan 1 would marry must be jealous of me." The officer nodded. "And judging from mine you would doubtless say I was a tramp," he continued."Jealous of a dead man?" "Why do you say Keppel Darke is ■had? Have yoti killed him?" "To spea* el personal matters. There are three principal ones: to settle my account with Mrs. Matchin, to get married, and to appear in New York in my own proper person. They depend on one another. Until it is established beyond possibility of question who the real murderer of Harry Trent was it cannot be known that Keppel Darke is alive, and until that can be revealed I cannot marry. My present idea is to force the woman to confess her own crime; the rest will follow of itself." "But," said Keppel, after a while, "do you remember everything that happens to you while you are in the trance?" "I only say inarry me, and you may love him all you will!" "I dare say it is—if a curse there be," said Keppel. The ofileer nodded again. "I don't look like a man who would work, do I?" Olympia rose and closed the piano. The count also rose, and they confronted each other for a moment. "Nothing that my body does," she said, "but I remember what my mind does and sees. I see other minds, though I don't always know whom they belong to. Some are beautiful, like lovely landscapes; 6ome are dreary and barren; some are all darkness and horror. I saw such a one the other night—the same night that I discovered that you and the Count de Lisle were the same person. There was a hidden place in it, like a cave, with branches and thistles growing before the mouth of it, and ugly birds flapping in and out. I knew that there was a dead body in that cave, and I was afraid that I should have to go in and pull it out, but just as I was at the entrance it all faded away and I seemed to fall through a deep space, where everything was still and dim. When it ended I was in my bed here at home." After a pause she said, "Yon love me more than anything, don't you?" The officer shook his head emphatic ally. Thus the thinking mind is ever at work tracing out the origin of things on til at last we reach the point where we know so much that brain colic is a very common occurrence among us. "Nothing in the world. Quite the contrary. I met him first in Ceylon, where he had gone to bay some jewels that one of the native princes wanted to sell. "I Will marry you," she Baid at length, "wheu you bring Keppel Darke here, ami he bids me do so." "More than anything and everything." "Never saw one of my circle in society who would, did you?" It is the belief among' both the ignorant and the educated classes of China that sclip.ses of the sun are caused by a great dragon which attempts to devour the center of our solar system. An eclipse which was visible in the Celestial empire occurred at a time when the people were celebrating the birthday of the emperor. Now, it is the custom to celobrato such an event clad in the best raimeut that can be afforded; it is also customary to wear sackcloth and go into uiourniug at the time of an eclipse, at least until the sun has been rescued from the great dragon which seeks to devour it. Here, indeed, was a dilemma. At last the emperor was petitioned. He being as superstitious as his people, ordered his birthday ignored and commanded the people to go into mourning until the sun shall be "rescued."—St. Louis Republic. TUe Great Suu Dragon. "If we find that the money keepa us apart we will get rid of it, for it will not be worth keeping on such condition; but if * * * Ah!" The officer shook his head again, "Well, now, my good man, suppose I should tell you I was going to work, and could prove it to you, what would you do then?" The Etruscans wo He bent forward and looked in her There must have been in them some speaking light, revealing what her woman's ton gup refused to tell. I knew India, and I knew the princes. 1 acted as a go-between and got the jewels for Trent at forty per cent. off. He made me a present of that forty pes She broke off with a shudder and a contraction of the nerves; she caught Keppel's arm in her hands and moved closer to him. Eighty-nine years before Christ the Etruscans were admitted to the Roman franchise, but still even as a subordinate power they constantly threw it up to their conquerers that they were a very old people, and it was indeed a raw, disagreeable day when some Etruscan did nor go Home wixn a tjeautrrtn swiaa sunset under each eye and tell his wife that he got it while roaching the tail of a casual mule. "Is there no danger that she may find some way to check you?' "Olympia!" he cried, in a voice too weighted with emotion to be loud, "you know me—you have made a fool of me— but you love me!" "Take you out to the lunatic asylum," said the policeman promptly. cent, as commission, and from that time in one way or another I was his agent. I understood gems as well as he did, and that is saying a good deal, and I was often able to do things and to make bargains that would have been impossible for him. No one knew of our relation— that would have spoiled my usefulness —but I put him in the way of many a good thing, and he always paid me well for it No; Harry Trent and I were the best of friends, but the best of friendships can be ruined by a woman." *. "Do yoa mean to say yon plotted with her against him?" "I woald have done it without a doubt if she had asked me," Garcia replied. "Yes, I would have taken that murdering contract off her hands if she had let me known she contemplated it But she didn't know it herself till the time came. She went over to have a serious talk with Trent that night, about the rumor that he was going to marry another woman. His explanations were not satisfactory; the dagger happened v to be lying handy, and she took the hint So far I find no fault; it's human nataro —feminine nature anyhow. Bnt from "Not while she has me against her," said Garcia quietly. "Meanwhile," continued the coaut, "I shall hurry forward my cottage on Long Island, and get the foundations of the school of art laid. Will you come up tonight and go over the plans witb me?" "What is the matter, lore?" he exclaimed. "What frightened jrou?" "And yon would be doing your duty, my noble fellow," smiled the soiled apostle of rest. "But don't do it- I was merely trying 011 you tho grand climax in a new sensational play I am going to write when I have grown too wealthy and proud to mako a success in my present profession. Good evening.'"—Detroit Free Press. "That man—Garcia!" she whispered. "Garcia! He is not here. Besides, what can he"  His arms closed about her, and a fire of new life seemed to flame up in his heart asjie felt her soft pressure against him. It went glowing through hisveins, and images of ecstacy trembled in his brain Across what gulf of darkness had he passed since last he had held her thus! But peace and joy were only here. They kissed each other with a slow, deep ki«=, full of memories of pain that was pu-it, and of a present delight so exquisite that they half feared to move their lips, lest all should prove a dream and they should awake. Such happiness comes in moments only, yet when it comes the soul recognizes it as its true estate—a glimpse of the eternity in which it was meant to dwell forever. No dream is half so fair us this brief reality, whose intensity make3 all the rest of life seem dreamlike. In such a moment lovers, live in heaven and are the peers of nii'jeJs. • "lie is near—somewhere—in the street, perhaps. I feel him. Ah!" 8I10 shuddered again. _ . also ,rshiped Juno L give above a drawing of an esophagui in which the Etruscans buried their deceased "quality." I found the tomb two years ago while on the Continent, and concealing it in a shawl strap brought it home, where I now have it in my study. I felt much interest in the relic, not only bec&ose of the tableau on the top representing one of the Etruscan king3 engaged in laying the cause of the people before Juno, but also on account of the three sheet poster pasted on the end of the tomb, as it shows how alert the Etruscans were in advertising, and also the degree of perfection to which show printing had attained even at that early time. The Etruscan writers were not of a high order generally, but they excelled in all the arts. As a people, they allowed nobody to outdo them in art. Sculpture, painting, etc., etc., had a great hold on the people, and home decoration was run into the ground. Everlasting flowers and dried grasses with powdered alum on them were in their full meridian when the Etruscans curled np and died as a people, leaving their glittering bones to ornafcient the shores of time. "All right! Are you wise," added Tom in an undertone, as they rose, and Garcia passed out in advance, "to trust that fellow as you do?" Keppel drew aside the window shade and looked, in the street. On the corner, about thirty yards distant, he recognized the figure of Garcia walking up the street. He must have passed the house at the moment of Olympia's impression. She was now calm again. "We will have no more of this," said he. "It is not right that you should be made liable to such experiences. And if there even were need for it, it is passed now. I know all I require to know, and now that we have met, I don't care for anything ebe—not oven to punish the guilty." "I have an idea," said the young man who is always having strange idea3v "that one can tell which party to h matrimonial alliance lias the brains, the ability, the force by the children." He Could Tell by the Children. Jen Ictus Dreakt Loom. "Some risks cannot be avoided," the other replied. "Bnt as long as he feeli I do trust him I think he will hold on. And I don't feitr him in any case." Miss Fenderson is ono of those lovely, aymphlike maidens who seem the incarna tion of some poet's dream of beauty. She is somewhat above medium height, with a lithe, graceful llgure, exquisite in its proportions, and a bearing of mingled ease and diguity. The clustering locks of her bright, golden brown- hair contrast strik ingly with her large, velvety lashes over arched by strongly marked eyebrows. In moments of animation or excitement the pale tea rose tint of her cheeks deepens and (lushes like "a rosy dawn," and her brilliant eyes glow with redoubled luster. Hers is not the beauty of coloring alone, for her features have ft cameolike delicacy and regularity.—New Orleans Picayune. "Perhaps it was only a coincidence," said Keppel to himself. But the episode had startled him, and he did not forget it. CHAPTER XV. LOVE CONTINUED. "Sure, Show mo a family where all the ohildren are boys and I'll show you a man who is the forceful one, the brains of the family." "Yes?" commented the other quietly. "Yes, love makes up for everything, doesn't it?' returned she, "but the guilty punish themselves. All the vengeance in the world could not bring us nearer together." wtn marry you yau tiring Ke pel Darke ftcro," CHAPTER XVI A WEDDING KNELL The so called Tuscan architecture is a modification of the Doric, and looks well on an unencuinoerea piece or property. The Cloaca Maxima, at Rome, which many travelers will remember has been unoccupied'for so many years, is attrib uted to the Etruscans during their domination. They showed in this building that they wero acquainted with the principles involved in the construction of the arch, and the plumbing is said to be good, though the building needs airing. Very little remains of their temples, .theaters, etc., and their religion is only a matter of uncertain history. No one that I know of is able to work up any interest in the gods that the Etruscans worshiped. They have gone with Bluebeard and Jack. the-G4ant Killer to the attic where childhood plays and rambles on rainy days, and among all those who were so popular in the decalogue of the people of Etruria there is not one today who could command four dollars a week. "Yes?" Still quietly "There is only one thing that makes me Wish that justice might be done," said Keppel, after a pause. "I have always wished that the world should know that I was innocent. Now that I am no longer disguised from you, I wish not to be disguised at all. And I doubt if I can maintain my mask as easily as 1 have done hitherto. I shall continually be speaking in my old voice, and acting ir. my old way. It has all coina back to Ue so strongly that I no longer see mygelf or think of myself a3 the Count de Lisle." "Dead certain. I've made a study of it. I've looked up particular families. If you find all girls the woman is really tho head of tho family. She is the one who really manages things, although she may be aqniet little woman at that." In Etruria, also, it was customary to worship twelve other divinities, asiCle from those ..amed above, and so it is said that at last the Etruscans were taking up a coll .ution or trying some one for heresy all the time. Trade became congested, commerce curled up its tail and died. Poverty succeeded to thrift and contentment, hunger sat at the gateway and appealed to eyes that answered only by their own tearless hunger. Over and above the gods I have described, there "vDh,' Kt'PiK'l, why have you denied youfself du sighod Olympia at last. sliotild have known you at the first if I couhl have brought myself to believer that you would hide from me so." that point on her course is indefensible. After inducing me to aid her in securing plunder by intimating that she woukl marry me as soon as Bho* got fast' hold of it she clapped me in jail on • trumped up charge of_.ftISiilineJjer jewelry. It broke my fieart; I made no defense; she had everything ready to choke me off in case I attempted to turn the tables on her, but she might have spared herself the trouble. I weqt to £il and staid there two years thinkg it over. By the time I came out J was reaay for action, and thanks to our friend, the sount, who gave me a ton dollar gold piece, a broken leg, aml.jUe use of A capital of a couple of hundred of millions, more or leas—I have put in . my first blow. 1 am ready to follow up," • i "Well, Mr. Garcia," said Tom, crossing his legs and scratching the back of his head, "they say confession is gooa for the soul, bqt I'll t6ll you frankly, in the presence of Count de Lisle, that your story puts me in mind of an old prov•rb"—"Of course I've noticed when it is pretty evenly divided Uetwoen boys and girls the abilities are pretty evenly divided. By tho way, you're married, I believe?""Yes?" lie was really very meek, Foggs—I have never yet been able to stand up to a New Year's resolution. Ills lUsolve. "A disguise like mine is something uiore than a cloak that can be thrown off and resumed at will," he replied. "Fr»mr the first I have been as strange to myself as I hfcva appeared to others. But for you I should never have found my real self again. ' With that change caine so many changes I lDegan to forget that I had ever been Keppel Darke, and all my youth and what belonged to it swmed never to have been; but I was as if bam middlo aged, with no youth or kindly associations to humanize me. If it had net' been for you I should have lived on so, and at last died so, if a man without a childhood and a soul can be said to die.'' Boggs—I am proud to say my pledge for 1890 has been kept sacredly. Foggs—What was it, pray? Boggs—I quit quitting. — Harper's Bazar. "Any children?" "Yes." "We will not live here," said Olympia. "We could go to New Zealand or Peru or Asia, where no one knows us or can reach u&. You are my counttfy, the only one I care to live in. Let us disappear, like the fairies!" "Two. Both girls," "Oh!" was a mysterious pfrtver wmtfi ftaa tne call on all the others and wa3 a sort of James G. Blaine in the Etruscan cabinet, who drew a moderate salary, but really allowed no appointments to be made unless he countersigned the application. This oower was similar to the Fates of the Greek and Roman Mythology, and, it is said, used to write Jupiter's messages for him. Query. And th*n conversation flagged.—Chicago Tribune. Mr. Bohre (hearing an air mentioned) —That always carries me away whenever I hear it. A Vacant Mind. Mr. Blunt—Is thero no one here who can whistle it?—Journal of Education. "Riches can buy most things, but the more riches yon have tho less can yon buy seclusion. We can't escape that way. Wherever we went we should And a newspaper correspondent. , Mamie—I know you think so now, Cholly, dear; but when you're away across the water and having a good time you'll not ueod to have mo on your mind. But I shtfl be litre all alone and have nothing to think of. Cholly—Ah, Mamie, dear, yes you will; you'U have uk» to think of, Olympia Raven, since the night of the fount's ball, b#d1tMWtt 1n a condition, which gave her friend Mrs. BanriicV same anxiety. She was not ill, but shf was not her usual self. She sat for long periods of time plunged in intense ipedi:, tation; then she would rise"and wander restlessly about; sometimes her mpod would be gloomy, sometimes a sudden change to hilarity would come over her. In answer to the tender questionings of her friend, Olympia would reply, with a look of surprise, that she was perfectly well; and Mrs. Raven, whom Mrs. Bannick consulted, shook her head and declared that Olympia looked to her about the same as usnaf; she . peye,t been able to understand her, anyway! Mi$, Riven, never a brilliant or powerful'infeflect, had been growing old of late; sbt was very deaf, and spent her time chjefly in .reading pjd newspapers. Her mind was dull and vague, and she was inclined to resent any attemot to arouse The Trials of Our Helper*. The tombs of the Etruscans are their chief charm. They are beautifully decorated and though poorly ventilated, as so many tombs are apt to be, are ou the inside covered with paintings and ciirvings. They are also furnished with various articles, on many of which may be found the remains of very unique and once beantiful tidies, which, it is presumed, were a weakness of tfca Etruscans, though it must be admitted' that they showed much mental acumen, it seems to me, in putting them where they could npt be worn off down town on the shotddep of an inoffensive guest. Your penmanship is very good, Wanda, and If you would cut off the unnecessary snappers which ornament your capitals I could read it after awhile, real ■well. Yours truly. " Where can I sec youf" "Come to metottiffhf"There is a great deal of mystery surrounding the early history of Etruria, and you will find very few people, Wanda, who have the moral courago to come out and say authentically as much about this country and people as I do; but having been blest with a good memory and being also an omnivorous reader, often reading away along into the afternoon while ray wife is gathering fagots in the forest, so that at eventide I may lay prone upon my stomach by the flicker of the fireside, eating the cool and fragrant Rhode Island greening, whilst I monkey with some old tome of long since forgotten lore. "Yes, you are yourself again now!" murmur&l Olympia. "I have felt a wall between us all 'this while; I knew, in feoirte secret place of my heart, that you were on the other side; but yet I did not butwardly know it until the last day or two. It was like the fairy tales, when (he prince is enchanted, and the princess cfumot recognize lain; but at last the '8j*ll is dissolved, and then they know each other. I am not afraid of you now; I can see through your beard, and your hair, and your eyeglasses; you are only KC jDpel!" and she gave a little laugh and drew down his face and kissed him. "We might give the money away," Olympia suggested. "You could build and endow your school of art, and a few things like that, and then we would go off, like good people when they die, nnd we should certainly go to heaven, So long ms wo staid together. Then the newspaper people wcmld stay behind with the money."- " —' Now that everything had been spoken between the lovers, these seemed to be no reason why they should not be made entirely happy forthwith, and negotiations were entered into which resulted in appointing the first of May as tho wedding day. The. announcement formed the chief topic of polite conversation during 'Dent. Society took the count's dinner party as a base, and upon that erected their surmises of what the wedding would be like. It would be something worth living to see, that was certain. As to the wife, society was bo unfortunate iis not to know her. Olympia Haven/ No. There was no recolleo (ion of such a name. She must be soniething remarkable. There were so many lovely girls in New York whom ttafe did know something about; whv couldn't Jealous Elder Sister just what she said.—Detroit Free Press. None Too Lar^r. Thirty-two rooms? Soems to me that's an awfully big house for only six people.""When thieves fall out honest men come by their own?" Garcia interposed i "Yea, air; that is what I meant" "Well, perhaps we will," said Keppcl musingly. "To have wealth beyond a certain point is only to undertake the labor of living the lives of ten or a thousand men, as well as your own. You may, if you aro wise and gdod enough, produce more concentrated and visibly beneficial effects than a promisouons prpwd would, but in the long run private mount-- f money do more harm thin n trive awav as much as ''Yes, but there nro two families of us." "I acknowledge the impeachment." Garcia "Unce I was an honest man, bnt better men than I might lose their virtue if they feli ia lore with a woman like Sallie Matchin." "Count," said Tom, "you found me a poor man, and yon have made me a rictf" 9ne. I owe you everything. But three "Oh! And only thirty-two rooms?"— Chicago Tribune. What a Man Cannot Lose. A man may lose his heart, Anil also lose his head. But he can't lose the pain of a darned old rorn Till ho hiiuself is dead. ~ Umke's Magazine. Officer Murphy (under his mustache) —Pwfy doan' yei phweel thim? The government of Etruria was in the hands of a few, but most every one.was glad that there were no more. The system of toad repairing was similar to that adopted by this county, and many people annually broke their necks on their "I £eel as if I were nothing but a mere xhttd," said l», laughing, too. "I want to do nothing bat sit hero with you and loVj- you, ami talk to you and hear you Norah (the nurse, out of the corner of her mouth)—Nayther av th' thwins '11 ride backward, an' th* mother's laynient •rid'm.—Puck.