Pittston Gazette

              1 * s 9 '*».■ V w^^^\jw|aUj) m volaixli1"kn5».1 Si0- f Oldest Newspaper in the Wyoming V( lley. I'lTTSTOX, LUZERNE CO., I'A., FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1893. A Weekly Local and Family Journal. ($1.50 PKR AXXl'M } IN ADVANCE ft iR He paused here and idly sketched squares and angles and perfectly meaningless characters in his note-book while his thoughts ran on rapidly: ana Airs, imponi uiea wnen uamnion was in his tenth year. He was wild and ungovernable in his boyhood, and as he grew older he lxDCnmo so incorrigible that his father, who was a very hard, stern man, disinherited hiin." poor child died long ago—perhaps in infancy." HER BACKWOODS BEAU. lying at Pier 13, East river, directly opposite the lighter, with steam up, w,hen tlie captuin saw smoke rising from the deefc of the lighter. He steamed across the river, and at the request of the superintendent of the stores began to pump water on tlie iire, which had broken out in the cargo of thu lighter. ft ATS! SAYS BILL NYE respectfully of the young English tourist who runs so uuch to leggings and so little to legs, wea.ing leggings even to get married in, but I now find that I was hasty. "And was this more newspaper story the only intimation Mrs. Dunkirk ever received that she had such a relative as Annie Dupont?" Mil Intejtions Were Excellent, but tt» /IE yuiige Failed Him. "At last I have found the missing link and my chain of evidence is being fast welded together. Jenner—surely there can be no mistake about it; these three are the conspirators—Jenner, Mrs. Maynard and Noll! Why, it just occurs to me Jenner is that missing witness whose mysterious disappearance occasioned so much delay and speculation, as well as recrimination, each side accusing the other of having spirited her off in order to prevent her testimony from being taken. In view of her confidential relations to her mistress for ao many years it was believed that she co&ld give important testimony in reference to Mrs. Dunkirk's will; but when the papers were issued summoning her as a witness it was ascertained that she had suddenly disappeared from New York, and no trace of her could be discovered. Now, to what conclusion does this flight of hers point? Clearly and indisputably to her complicity in this forgery! She is beyond all doubt as deeply concerned in it as Mrs. Maynard or Noll; indeed, without her aid they could not have carried out their sctysme at alL I presume it was a part of their plan for her to disappear in case the will were contested. Yes, yes, there can be no doubt now about this conspiracy. I comprehend it from beginning to end. The evidence is accumulating, and each suspicious circumstance fits perfectly into its appropriate place. The motive that actuated Jenner isapparent enough; the generous legacy from her old mistress was the stake for which she played. In order to secure for herself these glittering thousands, after that genuine document had been destroyed, it was necessary that a will in favor of some available and not improbable heir should be produced and probated. Annie Dupont, the sole heirat-law, was among the missing; or rather, she was in that still more hopeless category of persons whose existence has never been satisfactorily established. Clearly, then, Annie Dupont was not to be considered in this connection. No more available person than Mrs. Maynard could be found; therefore she was the one selected. Now, ihia lin* r\f orem man♦ tvmiM 1 aorl ♦/* conclusion that the conspiracy originated with Jenner; but on the other hand, with the same facts a little differently configured, it could be as clearly shown that Mrs. Maynard and Noll originated the scheme, selected Jenner as an indispensable accomplice, and by allowing her legacy to be doubled drew her, a willing instrument, into the conspiracy. This is undoubtedly the true state of the case. It was Jenner, beyond all question, who placed the will in Mrs. Dunkirk's desk and subsequently led up to the discovery of it by the lawyers. It was Jenner alone who could have gained access to Mrs. Dunkirk's private seal. It was Jenner who recollected that Mr. Kernan drew that first will; Jenner who furvfehed the specimens of handwriting Irf the aid of which the forgery waft effected; but they made their first fatal mistake in dating this forged will after Norristown's death and Kernan's departure for Europ«. Well, well, I am slowly solving all the mysteries of this case; and yet thus far, notwithstanding my reckless attempts to do so, I have been unable to put my hand on a single direct and indisputable proof of Mrs. Maynard's share in the conspiracy. Can I hope yet to obtain this evidence?" "When I was a young woman," said the wife of a well known New York lawyer, "1 lived in a country town iu Pennsylvania. Like that of many other country girls, the height of my ambition was to teach a district school. I passed my examination before the rural school board and was aftsigned to a backwoods district, where I had to follow the time honored custom of 'boarding round.' I was rather a sentimental girl, I think, and after I had bce*i teaching a few weeks in the district 1 wits by no means displeased to disco* er thatone of the well to do rustic swaiiu of that neighborhood, a good looking, wholesome young fellow, was inclined tc •pay attention* to me. He was looked upoti by all the red cheeked backwoods girls as a great catch, and my natural feminine vanity was in no manner made less by the knowledge that all the girls were jealous of me, although the young man had as yet given' no positive indication of his preference for me. One evening he called at the farmhouse where I was then quartered, and it was not until the family had one by one retired, leaving me alone with him In the big fireplaoe lighted sitting room, that It broke upon me that I was actually keeping company with a beau. A SAD TAIL THAT WAS POURED IN- He, of course, being a younger son who inherited the old family pants, finds'that they wrinklo and become finally abraded and fluted at the bottoms, so he puts on leggings. After he has worn them awhile the trousers or pants naturally, as a result of the warmth of the person and having been tightly folded for some time, especially if slept in, become hopelessly wrinkled, so that leggings become a necessity, and at last one legging seems to call for another, like the drink habit. "And—pardon the interruption, but one question, please—how soon after this did Mr. Dupont's death occur?" TO WILLIAM'S F-AP. "It was positively the only foundation for that belief: yat she was willing and eager to credit it. The fancy used to remr t D her inind continually, without anything at all to justify it. She An alarm had sent in to the Brooklyn fire department, and 'after a few minutes an engine put in an appearance. The tug by this time had the lire pretty well under control. The foreman of the engine ordered the tug to desist from throwing water on the Are. The master of the tug obeyed and pulled out into the 'stream, leaving the fire to be put out by the engine. The tug afterward received $400 salvage.— New York Evening Sun. Some Interesting I arts About Hritish Co- "I really do not know, positively, but it could not have been many rmnth: after. Hamilton was only twenty-one when his father di?d." lumbia—Showing In Victoria on Good Friday — An Incident Kvidencing How Fond Nye Is of Iiepartcc w;;s almost childish in the way she alternated between the doubt and the belief." &&6X "And after this sad event Mrs Dunkirk and Hamilton were; tlie only surviving members of the family. Do you mean by this their immediate family, their father's family, or, in a broader sense, that there were no collateral branches, no cousins of any de Rats gave me some trouble last evening and during tho night. They had their hook and ladder company out, I think, for exercise, for in the wall of my room they were practicing on running up as far as possible and then falling to the bottom with a dull report like that when a fat aeronaut falls 1,000 feet and strikes on tho top of a man with a high hat. [Copyright, l«tt, by Edgar \Y. Nye.l '•/v very mysterious case," commented North, with a perplexed frown. "And now let mo inquire, Mrs. Maynard, had Dr. Dunkirk unv near relatives?" One man I saw had two pairs on at the same time. CONTINUE®, "Not in this country, you know, were English." "Had he any property?" "None whatever." II is family. But now that I know the cause, and that it is actual want which lies at the bottom of all this, I regret very much the hasty manner in which I spoke. Under those wrinkled and passe trousers may throb a warm, true English heart. " 'Mr. Maynard used his discretion in the matter, and his right to do so no fine can dispute. That you are disappointed is, of course, natural; but why you should feel so despondent in regard to your own future I cannot understand.' To what, if I may inquire, do these two sentences refer?" many years' standing, had never been intimate at all." San Francisco Criticises New York. New York is as self absoroedasa hamlet which is why it is so painfully provincial It is under the flattering illusion that because a city of 1,500,000 inhab'tants is bigger than one of 300,000 therelore the man who lives in the larger place L' bigger in proportion than his neighbor of ihe smaller oue. Now it happens that the average man forms the bulk of the population nearly everywhere, and as the average man is generally a fool all citics are much alike. New York is an exception. Her ordinary citizen is not an averag? man, but an inferior person, either an immigrant or the offspring of immigrants. There was a perplexed expression on North's face as he pondered this answer in silence for a few moments with his eyes bent upon his note-book. Then he said slowly, raising his glance to Mrs. Maynard's face: "'I used the expression us Mrs. Dun kirlt herself did, in its broader senst She frequently spoke of the fact tha her family was so nearly extinct. ShC grecr "Then all this great wealth of Mrs. Dunkirk's was inherited from her father?" After I had gone to sleep, tired nature being no longer able to hold out against noise, they got more intimate, and I woke up to find a confidential old chap pouring his cold, sad tail in my ear. Entirely from him." Quien sabe? had not a relative in The world, she said, of whose existence she had any knowledge." "The heirs, if any there be, must all be on the Dupont side?" "So I imagine." We liked Victoria and Vancouver, though the latter is the coming city of that country. The buildings are excellent, the hotel first class, though crowded on steamer days, and one of the finest opera house*tn ti»e coast is there, ably managed by Mr. Goldsmith, a Jewish gentleman who was born in Australia. He says that he was characterized as a Sheeny Kangaroo in his early life, "but now," said he, "I call myself a Siwash Chinaman." "And yet, during her last illness, your mother wrote to. Mrs. Dunkirk—a comparative stranger, as we must infer that she was—requesting her to take you into her home and ok tend to you, "Why, to Mr. Maynard's will." "Ah—to Mr. Maynard's will," repeated North, absently, while hC was thinking: "What about the major's will? I must try to-ascertain." "She was a widow, was she not, for many years?" "There are no heirs on that side?" "None." "She was. Dr. Dunkirk was lost at se% on his way to Europe, a few years after their marriage. Of course, though, Mr. North, you know all this," she added, cheeking herself with a weary little smile. "Unless Annie Dupont is discovered?""I told her about it in my letter," resumed Mrs. Maynard, "and, I believe, complained rather bitterly of it as unjust to me and not at all what I had a right to expect." "Oh, certainly! That is always granted, Mr. North." "I can feel now the blush that rnshed to my fate when I realised the situation, which, I must admit, was % pleasing one. Bat how embarrassing it wm! And the embarrassment was made all the more painful when I discovered that my 'company' was most annoyingly bashful. He »«tt on one side of the fireplace, I oi. the oth*s. His eyes were fixed on the hearthstone, and b« kept them there, while he fidgeted on his chair and twirled hit* thumbs nervously. I was naturally a seif possessed girl and a lively talker, b at as I sat there opposite that bashful youth I was unable to find a word to •ay anCi sat as awkwardly silent and nervous as he was himself. The old clock ticked loudly, and, I thought, impatiently, in the com er, and its hands went around the dial for one long hour without another sound breaking the awful silence of that room. The suspense was simply frightful. The New York'immigrant is below most In brains and energy, else he would not «t«y there on landing to wallow in dirt and poverty. The worst of the refuse of all nations remains where it is dumped, which accounts for the unapproachable squalor and ignorance anil depravity of New York'* tlums.—San Francisco Argonaut. "How soon after Hamilton Dupont's death did Mrs. Dunkirk commence her search for Annie?" North also smiled. "Dad you then discovered for the first time that he had made this will?" "Well," he said, "my one question has grown to several. I beg your pardon for this long interruption. Will you please proeeed, Mrs. Maynard?" "It must have been at least ten years before she made any effort to trace the child." At the opera house I was called upon to Bhow my ready wit and explain it afterward to several people who remained after the opera was over. "Oh. no! I knew his intention in regard to the matter long before this. Mr. Maynard told me plainly what he intended to do, and I was present when the will was drawn. There was no secret made of it, I assure you. The major was only too anxious for me to know what had bt«en determined UDon. that he might triumph in my discomfiture." "She did not advertise nor resort to any very public measures?" Fish with Langs. "Where was I? Indeed, I have forgotten."There are few more interesting Inhab itaiits of the earth in the eyes of scientists than the ceratodus, a rare fish, now found only in two rivers in Australia, although In long past times, a."s its remains in the rocks show, it inhabited Europe and other countries. There are two other rare fishes related to the ceratodus, one of which, the lepidosiren, has been discovered only in the Amazon, while the other, the protopterus, is not known outside of tropical Africa. Part of a football team came after all other seats were occupied and were given the chairs usually occupied by the orchestra. Several of them came in a beastly state of intoxication and one in a long white nightshirt. This joke comes from William the Conqueror, but the lick just behind the ear which this young man got came from Mr. Goldsmith, who was at the door at the time. "The search was conducted in a very quiet way, though she spent a great deal of money and employed the most skillful detectives." "You spoke last," observed North, referring by a glance to his notes, "of Hamilton Dupont's reckless course, which resulted in his being-disinherited; and my first question elicited the fact that within a comparatively short time after this event his father died." "And all to no purpose?" "No trace of the child was ever discovered."lier darlt eyes flashed as she spoke, and a tiny spot of scarlet glowed "Oh, to be sure! Now don't expect a detailed history, Mr. North, for my information is extremely fragmentary: but it is certain that there had always existed between Mrs. Dunkirk and her young brother a barrier of cold reserve, which time and his wayward conduct only increased. Mr. Dunkirk was not si woman possessed of warm affections. Her regard for people was purely a matter of intellectual esteem. If her stern judgment approved them, that was sufficient: if not, there was no tender voice in her heart to plead their cause. There was little in Hamilton's wayward life of which she could approve; hence her total estrangement from him. "Finally, Mrs. Dunkirk herself became convinced that there was no such person in existence?" cheeks; but her tones did not vi " 'Oh!' I kept thinking to myself, 'wby doesn't he say something or go home!' The special interest in these fishes arises from the fact that they possess lungs as well as gills, aud consequently appear tc represent an intermediate condition of life between the fish and the amphibian. They are sometimes described as one of th'f "missing links" in zoological history. The ceratodus enjoys the distinction or haviDg received a name through the dis covery of the fossil remains of itsancestors, jefore it was known that any representatives of its race were still living upon the earth. an instant- from their cool B' GLAXCINQ UP IN SUBTKI&E. "As 1 said, Mr. North, her mind wavered between the two opinions. She told me shortly, before my marriage, that she had quite lost faith in that old rumor about her niece; and yet it returned to her afterward and led to the destruction of her will four months before her death." I ENTERED StY DRESSING ROOM WEEPING SOFTLY, So the man with the nightshirt was pulled out of the mud at the door and sent home on a wide board. nor her manner from its gracioi so long as you should need it, a guardian's care and protection; a request which was made so urgently that Mrs. Dunkirk was loathe to disregard it. Has this never seemed strange to you, Mrs. Maynard?" "But still be sat there in the flickering light, fidgety and nervous, his eyes never moving from tfcat oue spot on the hearth. Another half hour dragged its way around the clock. Then suddenly the bashful swain raised his eyes and looked at me. There was an animated but fiustrated look on hia face. I have never been the confidant of a dumb animal that way before. "Danger signals—the domestic skeleton at hand!" thought North, ruefully; nevertheless he did not swerv# one degree from his perilous investigations. The others came in and made remark"? during our overture, thus annoying th * audience and cutting into our remarks. It was so de trop that I saw we must execute a coup d'etat or receive a faux pas. British Columbia in summer must be a most beautiful country. The ride from Victoria to Nainaimo by train is one that seems like a beautiful dream. The smooth water of the strait is on your right, and on the left the magnificent forest with solemn mossy firs that grow to a great, size, and every few moments you cross a musical trout brook with a milky waterfall that echoes far and away through the answering woods. There's nothing so peaceful unless it be the death of a good man. I could fish there forever. Some do. You can get trout there too. "It may not be considered important, or directly bearing on our case," he observed in a meditative way as he glanced up at Mrs. Maynard over his notes, "still, if the inquiry were carried on in court, I apprehend that all these collate eral questions would be raised, and it may be as well for me to be thoroughly informed on this point. Will you please state briefly whit were the conditions of that will? I will note them down as you proceed." It was evident' that the strangeness of the fact had now occurred to North for the first time; it was equally evident that Mrs. Maynard had long since ceased to speculate upon the matter, as something which she was unable to explain."Well, Mrs. Maynard," said North, with an air of firm conviction, "one of two things is certain. Either there is not and never has been any such person as Annie Dupont in existence, which is to my notion far the more plausible theory, or there are persons who are interested in keeping from the world all knowledge of her whereabouts. In either case, we need not apprehend the final defeat of our plans, through her." " 'Thank heaven!' I thought. 'He's going to say something at last!' We are often asked to call for a physician in ' he audience, who is sent for by messenger to the stage, so I paused in the olio and with great gravity and earnestness advanced to the footlights and asked with a trembling voice if Dr. Keeley would kindly come to the front. "He looked at me a moment, still twirling his thumbs, and then stammered out: " 'Miss Paley—did you—ever—see—aowlf "This was an unexpected and surprising query, and although it almost destroyed what little composure I had left it was a relief. I welcomed it as a probable breaker of the ice. This strange animal is said to deposit its eggs upon weeds growing in the Burnett and Mary rivers in Queensland, and Pro fessof W. Baldwin Spencer, of Victoria, riade a long journey in Queensland in "There has always been a little mystery shrouding that circumstance, Mr. Worth," she said, with a faint smile. "Dear mamma herself recognized the fact that, in her choice of a guardian for her daughter, she had made a demand upon Mrs. Dunkirk's kindness which her slight acquaintance with that lady would scarcely justify; but in her letter to Mrs. Dunkirk, written just before her death* she Baid that I would explain that action satisfactorily. When Mrs. Dunkirk referred the matter to me, I was utterly unable to account for the fact that 1 had been consigned to the care of a perfect stranger, whose name, even, 1 had scarcely heard before." "After the death of their father, however, she seemed to feel the loneliness of her position, and for the first time she turned to her brother Hamilton for sympathy and companionship. He was in trouble of every sort, drifting about in the world without aim or purpose, friends or prospects. She offered him everything—a home, wealth, social advantages, asking only that he renounce his youthful follies and strive for the future to devote his talents and energies to useful and honorable pursuit. Sin-finally induced him to accept this offer; and. having established him beneath her roof, she made every effort, faithfully, if not always wisely, to reclaim him from the error of his ways. His education was fair, although he had never completed any regular course of study, having been three times expelled from college. Mrs. Dunkirk urged him to enter one of the learned professions, and. though he had no inclination for such a career, he finally yielded to her importunities, choosing the study of medicine; and while he was pursuing the cour",e at the university, she settled upon him a handsome allowance for his own personal expenses. The audience couldn't have been more than seven or eight minutes at work on it before it was settled that it was intended as a bonmot. Then they turned loose with lung and boot heel and umbrella ferrule till the football team began to ask itself, "How is it possible that this vast audience and even the speaker,,a total stranger, has discovered that we are drunk?" ■search of some of these eggs. Though h, did not find them, he did learn some inter esting facts about the animal. " 'Oh, yes, Mr. Crane!' I replied enthusi astically. 'Many and many a time.' "The document itself was very brief and to the point. With the exception of a certain income to be paid annually to me so long as I remained a widow and continued to reside ander this roof —two distinctly tyrannical conditions which must be complied with, both and severally, otherwise so far as Mr. Maynard's wealth was concerned, I should be left penniless—with the exception of this conditionally granted income, in consideration of which _ my right of dower was set aside, aH of Mr. Maynard's large fortune was willed to his relatives. Think of it, Mr. North, such a sweeping disregard of my rights!" The undercurrent of indignation rippled the calm surface now, just for an instant as these words were warmly uttered."My rustic beau grinned in a satisfied way for a moment, and 1 was hopeful, but suddenly the solemn look came back to hi* face, and he dropped his eyes to the hearth again and resumed his inspection of th« fascinating spot on the stone, twirling hia thumbs and fidgeting as before. Paralysis seized my tongue again, too, and as th« slock ticked away minute after minute I felt that I must either soon scream or die. Another hour passed. I was on the point of springing from my chair and rushing from the room when the bashful swain showed signs of another gleam of intelligence. He raised his eyes and looked at me as if he had been seized with a brilliant 'ilea and stuttered out: It is a big fish, he says, sometimes attain ing a length of six feet or more, and it if not good for food, as has been reported. Although it is furnished with a lung for breathing, it does not voluntarily leave thD water, and if it gets out of the water it i» practically helpless. In a few hours afte/ being removed from the river it perishesunless it is kept damp. The great use of Its lung seems to be to enable the ceratodiuto live by breathing air without quitting the water entirely.—Youth's Compan-ou The conductor stepped down to a babbling brook while we loaded five trunks and borrowed a willow rod with a line to it fixed up with a boy at one end and a worm at the other and whipped out two rainbow trout before one could say scat. "Do you think so?" The question was uttered listlessly without any appearance of interest or elation. She did not even glance at him as she spoke. "I ain convinced of it," he reiterated, looking at her in mild surprise. "It is my firm belief that if Annie Dupont is living to-day, she is as profoundly ignorant of her own true identity and of her right to this fortune as we ourselves are of her present jvhereabouts. Now it appears, Mrs. Maynard," he went on with another iabrupt change of subject and manner, "that you had no claim upon Mrs. Dunkirk except, indeed, that of friendship, which she acknowledges here?" We showed in Victoria on Good Friday, as the date had been made months ago and without due forethought. Good Friday in an English city, and a pouring rain gave us an apprehensive pain as we strolled into the opera house at the stage entrance. The steamer ride all day had been dreary, wet and cold, and at 8 o'clock I entered my dressing room weeping softly as my valet laid out my handsome costumes for the evening. Few of the present generation have anj knowledge how the present one cent piece came into circulation. Prior to the civil war the coin which represented one cent weighed exactly half an ounce. There were plenty in circulation for the population of the time, but when the war broke out it seemed as if coins of all denominations had been swallowed np. Tokens W various kinds were made first of cardboard then of metal. The One Cext Coin. "There is only one possible inference to be drawn from these circumstances, then," observed North, with a thoughtful air, as he looked inquiringly at Mrs. Maynard. "Mrs. Kingsbury was prevented in some way from communicating to you the explanation that she intended to give before her death." "Say! What cussed—big—eyes they got —h-iin't they?" "Well, that was more than human nature could stand. I screamed with laughter at the ludicrous situation, and I think 1 cried to think'that I had been sitting all that blessed evening with such a stupid bumpkin. Anyhow when I recovered somewhat of my composure my beau wa* fcone, and I went to bed and cried myself to sleep. The youth never honored m« with another call, but I learned soon after ward that one of the backwoods girls was boasting that she had 'cut nie out,' and that in speaking of me the rustic gallant had said, with much emphasis4 The opera house manager came back to see me. I dried my eyes as well as possible, dashing some powder on my dlscTSTffted nose, and expecting to hear him say, "You come to us at a very unfortunate time, but some of our best people are here tonight," etc., but he rubbed his hands cheerily and said, "We will do well to get room for them tonight, and I'd hate to turn them away in the rain."- He took up M*rs. Dunkirk's letter, which had lain all this tiae unnotieed on the table at his elbow, and, unfolding the thin blue paper, he glanced at it speculatively. "Preposterous!" declared North, as he made a few brief dashes in his notebook while in his mind a very trivial question kept repeating itself: "Why does she sometimes call him 'Mr. Maynard' and sometimes 'the major?" " "That is the conclusion at which both Mrs. Dunkirk and I arrived," answered V«h» "and accenting il Mrs. Dunkirk carried out mamma's wishes with an evident feeling that they imposed upon her a sacred obligation. I have always thought that the very mystery attending our first meeting gave her a special interest in me, to which was due the great kindness with which she discharged her duty as my guardian."He raised his eyes to her as this qnesD tiomentered his mind. She was apparently lost in reverie as profound as his had been; she seemed even to have lost all consciousness of his presence, and when he spoke abruptly after a long interval of silence she started as if the whole current of her thoughts had been changed. "That was my only claim, yet she seemed to consider it (sufficient. This may be merely my own mistaken interpretation of her words, however. What opinion have you formed, Mr. North, as to the value of this letter as evidence in our case?" A small coin about the size of the present one cent piece was produced, having upon it various devices, such as "Not one cent," "Good enough for defense," "Our country forever." From 600 to 1,000 varieties of these tokens were made and issued. A« they were taken to represent a cent by ev erybody, those who hail copper enough on hand and" could make or procure molds 01 dies, realized a good profit from the making and issuing of these tokens. The size and weight were convenient, and the United States government saw that the people were better pleased with the small er piece, although comparatively valueless, thau with the old half ounce coin. "And this, you see," continued Mrs. Maynard, a delicate satire in her tonus, "was the sympathy that Mrs. Dunkirk offered me: 'Mr. Maynard used his own discretion in the matter, and his right to do so no one can dispute.' It was not entirely his own discretion, as I very well know." "He was not long in attracting a large and brilliant circle of acquaintances, for his dashing manner and reckless style of expenditure made him universally popular. All this, however, interfered with more important matters; he could not respond to the constant demands of society and at the same time attend faithfully to his duties at the university,, and the consequence was that his studies were neglected, his absence from lectures and clinics became the occasion of frequent reproofs from the faculty, and in time the report of his delinquencies reached Mrs. Dunkirk's ears. "But how about Good Friday?' "Oh, that is all right. I was only afraid it would be a pleasant day. Then all of Victoria -would have been fishing all the daylight there was and been too tired to come, but now they are all rested and on hand." "Jenner was quite an old family servant, was she not, Mrs. Maynard?" Norm preserved a meditative silence for a few moments; then he answered, slowly: " 'Why, gosh! she don't know nawthlnl" -New York Sun. The question was so strangely irrelevant to her own reflections that Mrs. Maynard smiled a little as she answered it "No doubt of it," returned North with a smile. "A touch of mystery is always a great sharpener of one's interest. But now, right here let me bring up another point. You say that Mrs. Dunkirk 'intimated' to you her intention Ctf making you her heir; did she, then, not show you that will?" Solid Silver Statues of Women. "Ah! then there was undue influence exerted to induce him to make this will?" inquired North, quickly; thinking, with the unconscious professional instinct that no legal poii it, however slight or extraneous, ever eluded: "If that were proven, his will can easily be set aside, ivhen the time comis. I, wonder if this has never occurred fco her?" "Remember, I have no proof of thisv, Mr. North," Mrs. Maynard said, slowly, as if answering his very thoughts. "Nevertheless, I am' convinced that he was influenced to my disadvantage. However, this is a digression. My unhappy differences with Mr. Maynard are not at present under discussion, I believe." "I must say, Mrs. Maynard, that In my opinion this letter clearly proves that Mrs. Dunkirk, although not yet Montana's unique silver exhibit at the World's fair hus been a prolific source ol misstatements and inaccurate historical comment. One writer declares that it is the only life sized statue that has ever been made of a precious metal, and another that it is the most valuable piece of statuary known in the world, both statements being about as far from the truth as it is po» sible to get them The statue of the goddess Athene, made by Phidias, the Greek sculptor, in C198 B. C., was made of solid gold and ivory, the robe of the statue alone being worth 44 talents of gold, ths talent being 913,809. Here we have It in • nutshell. The dress, the lightest part of the Ivory and gold statue of Athene, was worth 36 times as much as that silver statue of Ada Rehan. And this was one of Phidias' minor works. His ivory and gold statue of Jupiter Olympus was nearl) twice as large as Athene, the latter being 39 feet and the former 60 feet in height Business men of Victoria are not slaves to thejr work. They get down to their business at 10 "o'clock, and if any one i« waiting to see them they make an engagement for 3 o'clock. The house is closed at lunclitime also. Good Friday was a holiday. Saturday is a regular holiday. Sunday is the same, of course, for tired merchants then go fishing. Monday was a holiday also, being Easter Monday, and on Tuesday many were so worn out with fishing that it was also observed as a holiday. A YOUNG MAN HELD MY BAG. Then those who needed it went home and tied their heads up in wet towels, and the others most generously apologized. "Yes, she camc from England with Dr. and Mrs. Dunkirk when they were married, forty years ago. She was their housekeeper, and in this capacity she lived with Mrs. Dunkirk all these years." \ As the object was to keep the subsidary coins ict the country, and as the people were content to use the smaller pieces, the experiment was tried in the issue of the "turkey buzzard" mixed nickel cent. They were larger, thicker and heavier than the present cent, and did not please as well a?D the tokens had pleased. After trying two or three issues of the nickel coin, some with the flying eagle and other's with the Indian's head, the United States govern ment decided upon the present style ol coin.—Yaukee Blade. This incident will be published in Punch under the heading, "The Following Good One," etc. "Oh, no! She was not even aware that I knew of its existence. She did not speak about it to me with any definiteness; she merely hinted at what she might do, very much as Bhe does in this letter. Your memory is strangely at fault, Mr. North, if you have forgotten this point. It was Jenner who told me about the will," "Of course she remonstrated with Hamilton, and he generally answered her reproaches with angry defiance. These scenes, however, alwa3's ended in a reconciliation, with promises of future good behavior on his part, and a resolution on hers to give him one more trial. Thus affairs ran on until at last, without any warning, the catastrophe came. • I am very fond of repartee indeed and in Wyoming once gave such full vent to it in chaffing a stage driver on the old Douglass creek stage line that I shall bear the marks of it no doubt to my grave. "A clever person, is she not?" "She is a woman of more than ordinary intelligence, and Mrs. Dunkirk always treated her as a friend, rather than a servant Jenner's family in England were very respectable middleclass people, and she received a fair education, which, added to her native shrewdness, made her appear quite the average of her class. A very sensible, dlever woman." We could not got, into a bank by any honorable means, and so when we got to America we had a trunkful of Canadian money. Had w£ been a few days later we would have had 20 per cent discount to pay, as th.s is the rule since April 15. "Ah! Then you never saw the will?" "Never." She Meant It. "You know nothing about it of your own knowledge—nothing except what Jenner told you?" "Mrs. Dunkirk had at the very beginning of her compact with Hamilton exacted from him a solemn promise that he would not marry until he had obtained his diploma and established himself in practice. Unfortunately for this promise, chance threw him into the society of a young lady who was neither wealthy nor highly connected, but whose wonderful beauty, combined with her sweetness and intelligence, took his heart by storm. On one occasion a congressman of a past generation, not noted for his habits of personal tidiness, was visiting 0:1 the New England coast, and one day while out in a sloop with a sailing party he was swept overboard, but was happily rescued. When the excitement was over a young fellow rushed down into the cabin. Doesn't 'ant to Lom Any* North experienced a peculiar sensation as he listened to this direct allusion to the tragedy of Mrs. Maynard's domestic life; but he smiled as composedly as if her last remark had been the merest commonplace, and proceeded with his inquiries. "Was she friendly to you?" iOHMS BACK J Cmrnf" Rt'OulH* #IN*M ■'*1 "That is all; but really, Mr. North, it is sufficient I have no reason to believe that Jenner misrepresented the affair to me." "From the very first I was secure In her good graces. It always seemed a little odd to me, for she was not at all disposed to show any friendliness to strangers." It is a retr ant or y measure. The Canadians say that we started it, and the Yankees say the Canadians started it. I do not knot who started it, bnt I can put my hand on my heart and say of a troth that I had nothing to do with it. Coining down to modern times we might mention that Editor Childs of Philadelphia •wns a solid silver statue, life sized and the exact model of a perfect woman. She stauds on a Mexican onyx clock 4 feet In height and holds the pendulum of the clock su spended from her right hand. This statue is 5 feet inches in height.—St. Louis Republic. THE FOOTUA.1Y ENTERED. ittiB. i/uukhk t» inter, men, so iar as I have cited it, refers to this will, of which you had written her, and to your comments on it?" "Oh, probably not; but I'm after facts, now—not theories, if you please!" North nodded slightly. He was making his own shrewd mental comments on all these statements. ready to declare the fact, had determined to make you her heir, on the one condition that her niece were never discovered. Hear her own words: 'While I live I must retain the control of my propertj-; after 1 am gone, what matter to me who has it?' She would as lief it should be you as anyone else, you see: yes, she would prefer you, as the lines further on indicate: 'There is no one that has a greater claim upon me than yourself. This claim I feel at present'—the emphasis is my own, but mark the words, if you please; do they not clearly indicate the. writer's character—'at present inclined to recognize.' Delightfully meutral, charmingly non-committal; giving you to understand, you see, that, after all, she might change her mind. It gave her a sense of power to keep you in suspense as to her real intentions; at the same time her purpose remained unchanged, I have nodoubt. 'Charitable bequests I "By Jove!" lie exclaimed, "we've been having an exciting time on deck." And, smoothing down the edges of this rejoinder with his most irresistible smile, North wenj on with his investigation, following up eagerly a new clew which had thus unexpectedly fallen Into his hands. "What is it?" asked everybody. "Mr. Blank was washed overboard." "I'm glad of it," snapped a fastidious New England matron. All the tiire while there I tried to think of something to smuggle, but I could not. By going oa board a Chinese steamship we succeeded in buying soma embroidered handkerchiefs, and by being extremely foxy and free with our shillings we got them off the steamer—the handkerchiefs, I mean—and across the line. My heart wfs in my mouth all the time. I sent then! since to my wife, who says that they | re very curious, but can be bought ch«jiper at Asheville, N. C. "Yes; that is all." j "And now," continued North, 'Jwt come to this terrible arraign tnenfon a charge to which many of us, I fear, would have to plead guilty: 'You were always over fond of money.* Can it be possible, Mrs. Maynard, that anything ever occurred in the course of your long acquaintance with Mrs. Dunkirk that would justify her in suspecting you of being the least particle mercenary in your disposition?" "And now, Mrs. Maynard," he said, "to pass abruptly to another point, as nearly as you can recollect, when was this will of Mrs. Dunkirk's—the genuine one, you understand—when was it "We shall be obHged to imagine all the details of this little romance, since only the merest outlines of it are on record. His wooing prospered, and within a few months the lady became his bride. He contrived to conceal the fact of his marriage from his sister for several weeks, continuing to reside under her roof and devoting himself to the university with a zeal that he had never before exhibited: and Mrs. Dunkirk, delighted at what she considered the first real evidence of reformation, looked on with kind approval and encouragement It was in the full tide of her satisfaction with his course that some one brought her the astounding Intelligence of his marriage. Restaurant* at the World's Fair. Everybody was horrified. There never were so many restaurants a* there are going to b« at the World's fair. Along the promenades around most of the buildings you will see tables and tables mid tables—some waited on by Americans, •thers by Frenchmen, others by Germans, otuers by Chinamen and Japanese and Ital ians. Some very queer and pretty buildings ar? restaurants such as they have In CeyVon, Japan, China, Algiers, Morocco, Switzerland, Holland, Paris, India and Turkey. You will see people eat with sticks, with their fingers and with knivea and no forks. But the drinking will b« even more wonderful. "Well, I am," she explained. ".Justhink of that man being wushed on board —Detroit Free Press. "Now, that first will, of which, as you say, Jenner told you, was substantially the same as this later one which has just been exploded in New York"— he tossed Mrs. Dunkirk's letter down on the table with an impetuous air as if his interest in it had suddenly ceased for the time—"the latter was a faithful copy of the former." drawn?'' "As nearly as I can recollect, and I am convinced that my memory is not at fault, it was made two years before my marriage; just six years ago." tor dyeing mordant dyeing coloring master, a preliminary treatment with chlorint Is a great improvement—that is, much deeper shadC*s can by this means be ob tained, due to the simple fact that the ivool takes up the mordant very much better than untreated wool—with the exception of those dyestuffs which require copperas for a mordar.t, as Is the case with the gambines, when, instead cf a green, a brown D obtained, and the same may be said of logwood.—Textile Mercury. Dyeing Itnw Wool. "Then you have been married four years," was North's instantaneous comment, which, however, he kept to himself, merely saying aloud: At Nainaimo coal mining and football .ire indulged in. Coal mining is the only thing that is not affected by the rainy season. A man on the sound also told us that for two years he did not Bee Mount Hood, Mount Ranier, Mount Tacoma or Mount Baker for the rain. Mount Tacc.na and Mount Ranier are the same, but called by different names according to whether you live at Tacoma or Seattle. J have referred to this before. Empty Ellis (to proprietor)—Say, cap, I can't quite get at de last of dis soup. Ye ain't got a piece of blotting paper handy, is yer?—Triith. Mrs. Maynard glancing up in surprise •and encountering an extremely quizzical expression in the keen gray eyes that were regarding her so intently hesiMited for an instant, evidently unable to perceive the drift of North's inquiry. Then she said, speaking slowly as if still speculating on his motives: He put this in the form of a positive assertion, but it was in reality a question, the answer to which he awaited with the greatest interest. ' "And it was destroyed sc«ne ten months previous to her death—no, no, ten montlis previous to the present time, these dates are so very confusing—four months previous to her death. Then all this time from the day on which it was drawn to the day on which it was destroyed—we can only approximate these dates, 1 presume?" abruptly. xtepairs rreteraoie. During war times an old negro mammy met with an accident on the cars which left her with various bruises, including a sprained ankle and a dislocated wrist. Her mistress advised her suing the railroad company for damages. "I certainly would site them, aunty," she said, "and for good sized damages too." "Lord, Lord," exclaimed old aunty. "Sue de company fer damages, honey. Doesn't ye think I'se got damages nuff? No, no, honey; when dis pore old nigga sues that company she done sues em for repayaa."— Kato Field's Waahin£ton. Littered everywhere oat of doors are pretC ty little stands and booths and cagelike houses called "kiosks." Hundreds of these are for the sale of water at a cent a glass; others are tea drinkers' resorts, kept l»y oriental people; others are chocolate bootLa attended by pretty young girls; others are coffee stands; at others you can drink c» coanut milk from Cuba, or lime juice or sugar and water, as the French do. And scattered among all these often beautiful little buildings are others, literally by the hundred, for the sale of chewing gum, peanuts, candy and mounds of sweet flowers. -J ulian Kalpb in Harper's Young People. "The only difference, I believe, waa in the amount of Jenner's legacy. In that first will Mrs. Dunkirk bequeathed five thousand dollars to Jenner, in con- Not to Be Eaten. "I cannot say, Mr. North, that I ever consciously did anything to warrant Mrs. Dunkirk in forming such a conclusion. She was rather given to hasty judgments, and she clung to her opinions with great tenacity. She knew, of course, that I looked upon wealth as one of the good things of this life, which I should be glad to possess. Is not that a natural and proper wish?" "You can perhaps imagine the sequel. I think she might in time have pardoned him if he had not deceived her so unscrupulously; but that was an offense beyond all forgiveness. After a stormy scene, with biting reproaches on her part 1md s*&Drnful defiance on his, they part«l forever. He took his wife away from New York within a week; and Mrs. Dunkirk never looked upon his face again." The dessert was being served, and the Btately colored waiters were passing pretty little pink frosted cakes to be eaten with the ice cream. A plato of them was held before the young lady, who looked them over and said, "I don't care for any." do not favor.' Why? 'I have given freely to public and private charities during my lifetime, and have Teceived but meager thanks.' 8he was weary of the ingratitude of the public. She reasoned, ana mtieea sne reasoned well, that if they gave 'but meager thanks' while the beneficent donor was living, and there was a possibility of still further gifts when she was gone, and there would be nothing to look for beyond the testamentary bequests, she would receive no thanks at all. No, no! She wished her fortune to go to some one who would be grateful for it; some one who could properly value it; some one who had a reasonable claim upon her generosity; and that person, of all others in the world, was clearly and indisputably yourself, Mrs. Maynard."Each large city aims to be the terminus of some great transcontinental road. In some countries people are divided into Episcopalians, Methodists, Baptists and Presbyterian*, but here one must at once become a follower of Jim Hall, the N. P., the C. P. or the U. P. "I think so. I certainly have no definite knowledge of them." "Well, then, during all this time—a period extending over about six years, not more and only a trifle less—that will was in Mrs. Dunkirk's possession, and, so far as we can divine our sentiments in regard to it, Bhe was entirely satisfied with the document, and was willing that it should stand as her last will and testament. Now, the next point that I propose to take up this morning, if I can do so without consuming too much time, is in reference to Hamilton Dupont. I consider it important for me to have his history, so far as it is known to you, clearly in my mind. His estrangement from Mrs. Dunkirk, and the uncertainty in which, to this day, that unhappy affair has involved the fate of his daughter, are matters of vital importance to us. Will you, therefore, please tell me briefly what you know of the history of Hamilton Dupont?" The waiter was moving away when she saw, as she thought, an eclair on the farther side of the plate. Sho was fond of chocolate. I Was about to say that P's hath her victor}- no than war, but the customs "Oh, entirely so! I myself sympathize with it very profoundly, as you are doubtless aware. But did you ever give Mrs. Dunkirk any reason to suppose that you wished, hoped or expected to be made her heir?" Paternalism of Millionaires. officer told mo I had no right to bring such a tiling as that into this country free unless I wanted it for my own per- "A sad story," commented North, as Mrs. Maynard paused here. "It seems strange that he should have passed so entirety from the knowledge of all his friends. How long did he live after be left New York?" Happily we don't need any p»**«s, tat (here are public duties for the performance at which the popular will is always ready to constitute the millionaires a special committee. All the quasi public work which a paterral government might undertake, but which thus undertaken would be contrary to the traditions of our democracy, we are willing to see carried through by million aire power. Paternalism in government w* object to, but when Mr. Flower buys a quarantine station or Mr. Pierpont Morgan 4 qua-antine steamer we clap our hands, can Btand a deal of paternalism in oar millionaires without flinching. W ken they build cathedrals for us, and pay for keeping our art museums open on Sunday, and pay the deficit after a season of grand opera, we are glad that we hav« them. And yet the work of their ao cumulations in promoting industrial devel opment, of which we hear little, is doubtless of much more public Importance than their more obvious benefactions and benevolences. That happily Is a work which la the surer of being done the greater th« surplus fortune behind it—a consideration that abounds with solace to the public whenever a 150,000,000 property chaugea bands.—Harper's Weekly. "Yes, I will too," she said, reaching over for the eclair. "There is one with chocolate on it." LIUle Willie's Toy. "Beg pardon, miss," said the waiter, as she tried to pick up the tempting morsel, "beg pardon, miss, but that's my thumb."—Rochester Democrat. sonal use. At Nainaimo we took the little steamer Clutch to Vancouver. In crossing the wharf at Nainaimo I sat my bag down on the dock in order to peel my umberella and hit a rainin. A young man with a liaggard look took it up and held it for me. He continued to hold it till I paid him wharfage on it. "Would not such a wish, hope or expectation be perfectly natural In view of the fact that she had actually made her will in my favor?—ah!" she added quickly as North's eyebrows were again raised, "I forgot the prerogatives, just for the moment Well, then, yes, Mr. North; she knew that I had some such expectation. She herself intimated to me several times that she might make me her heir." "It was just two years later, I believe, that the papers contained inoajrer accounts of his tragical death in Balti- Gymnastics in Bropliy's Alley. more." North gravely assented. The brief outline of this history that ho had received from Hunter and Ketchuiu had not embraced any particulars of Hamilton Dupont's tragical death; but he deemed it best not to pursue his inquiries on that point. After a little musing silence Mrs. Maynard volunteered some additional information. North had folded Mrs. Dunkirk's letter, replaced it In the envelope, and tossed it down on the table again while he was speaking these last words. He now rose and stood idly gathering up his notebook, pencil and papers, as if preparing to leave. It is a private wharf and is all the poor man has to keep him ip liquor. If you send your trunks down to the steamer, he holds them until you ransom them. IDI.T SKETCHED MEANINGLESS C'lUBAO TKRS. Grandpa—Ah, there's nothing like on# of these easy canvas seat chairs to throw one's self in when one is tired I sideration of her long and faithful services; whereas, you know, in this— other will"—she spoke these words shrinkingly and with averted glance— "this legacy was doubled, was it not?" An old resident told me that once this man stopped a funeral procession because the bearers put down the remains on the dock to spit on their hands, and they h&d to pay a dollar before the procession could move. This keeps the respectable people with baggage from going to Nainaimo, and especially as they wish in case of death to bo buried elsewhere. Even the Chinaman does not want his body to be found dead at this place and has it sent back to China. » "How far back does your personal acquaintance with Mrs. Dunkirk extend, Mrs. Maynard?" inquired North abruptly. And with pencil poised over his note book, North waited for the recital. Mrs. Maynard began at once. Wl}ile he was thus engaged the footman entered, bearing to Mrs. Maynard a small scrap of paper, which he presented with an air of dignified disdain. "[lis wife, poor girl, died soon after, broken-hearted. I have been told that the papers made quite a pathetic romance out of the materials thus furnished, And there was a great deal of ► The answer ftune 6lowly after an ta stant's silence. "Yes—yes —you are right," was North's absent-minded response, while his eyes,as he kept them resolutely upon his note-book, sparkled In triumph. "I merely wish to get every little thread straightened out, just for my own benefit. Of course we maintain in public that you knew nothing about Mrs. Dunkirk's will, never dreamed of the possibility of its existence—no, no, that's a little too radical, in view of this letter; well, then, that you had no definite knowledge of its existence until this contest came up in court." CHAPTER XIII The lady glanced at the paper for an instant with a rather blank expression; then with a sudden gleam of comprehension she held it out toward North. "To the day of poor, dear mamma's funeral, when Mrs. Dunkirk came, in answer to mamma's last request, to take me to her home." King—Let us from point to point tbta story know. —All's Well That Ends Well. "Hamilton Dupont was the youngest of a large family, of which, by the time he reached the age of twenty-one, he and Mrs. Dunkirk were the only survivors. The eldest of the children, Mrs. Dunkirk, was more than twenty years older than Hamilton; a disparity in age that prevented them from having any common interests or pleasures. All the other children died in infancy, sentimental pity expressed for the poor little Annie, who was thus cast upon the cold charities of the world, llut the interest in the matter soon died out; it was only the sensation of a few days, and it gave place to later and more exciting events. Thus the futo of Annie Dupont became shrouded in mystery. The chances are, however, that the "This has as much interest for you, perhaps, as for myself, Mr. North," she said. "Previous to that day you had never met Mrs. Dunkirk?" i "Never." i "But she was an intimate friend of your mother's?" Salvage in Fort. The steamship Empress of India sailed from Vancouver whilo we were there and carried quite a large cargo of Chinamen who had died at Nainaimo, paid dockago and started for home. "The inquiry was for Mrs. Maynard," ventured Williams. An instance where a salvage service was rendered in port was in the case of a lighter with a valuable cargo aboard, lying at the dock at Prentice's stores, South Brooklyn, to November 1892. The tun America waa "Very well, Williams," said Mrs. M&vnard, dismissing him. .  Boy in Chair—L-let me down, Jimmy. I ain't f-frightened, but me stummick's fainted.—Life, "So far as I have ever been able to team, their acouaintance, though of [TO BR CONTINUED.J In my last letter I spoke a little dis- «([JJ Ml |Jf» —Smith & Gray's Monthly.