Pittston Gazette

              Oldest Newspaper in the Wyoming Valley. PITTSTON, LUZERNE COUNTY, PA., FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 1897. RMalDli«hrd 1 Hi'iO. I VOL. XVII, No. 40. ) A Weekly Local and Family Journal. {41.00 per Year ~t in Advance. taken very bad, sir, and she prays tbat you will not delay a moment before no lactc ox euort on my part, out jubt because a party of thieves or blackmailers had thought fit to play a game with my liberty. he simply want to detain me, and if so, did he have a motive it would pay me to fathom before 1 exerted myself further to insure my release? Answering' the ware he gave me with his hand, by reaching out for the bottle and filling myself a glass, I forced myself to speak more affably as I remarked: "If the wine must be drunk, we had better be about it, as you cannot mean to detain me more than an hour whatever reason you may have for wishing my society." his choicest phrases, nis subtlest criticisms or his most philosophic disquisitions. I was wrapped op in self and my cruel disappointment, and when in a certain access of frenzy I leaped to my feet and took a look at the watch still lying on the table and saw it was four o'clock in the morning 1 gave a bound of final despair, and, throwing myself on the floor, gave myself up to the heavy sleep that mercifully came to relieve me. "vvnat do you mean.' sort. He had made up his mind to coin hisautobiography into cash for the safety of his family. He knew he had not long to live and was ready to die as soou as his book was finished. LATE FORMS OF KITES. Harbcrt does not stop with tlyirig one kite from a string. Two. or "tandem." kites are common enough, and Mr. Harbert has had as many as eight kites in the air from one string at a time. October 9. 1890. during the twentyfifth anniversary of the burning of Chicago, Mr. Harbert kept a large flag and 30 feet of bunting flying over Evanston from a string of his kites. The exhibition was witnessed by thousands of spectators. Tn fact. Mr. Harbert has all the drawing power of a circus parade in Evanston, where his appearance with a kite is the signal for a crowd to gather. A MEMORABLE SIGHT. "That your partner was not as fortunate as yourself. Look up at the house; what do you see there?" It could not be: there must be some mistake about it; it was some great joke or I was the victim of a dream, or 'suffering from some hideous nightmare. Why, only a half hour before I ' was in my own office, among my own familiar belongings and now—. But alas, it was no delusion. Only four blank, whitewashed walls met my inquiring eyes, and though 1 knocked and knocked again upon the two doors which guarded me on either side, hollow echoes continued to be the only answer 1 received. A crowd—that is what I saw at first, but he made lae look higher, and then I perceived that the windows of my room—of our room—were shattered and blackened and that part of the casement of one had been blown out. Soiontiflo Men Everywhere Are Singular Adventure of a Physician. "About a week after the failure he received a letter from a farmer up the Hudson river, written in a poor hand, but containing words and sentiments that touched the old hero's heart deeply. The farmer set forth in his crude way the gratitude he felt for Grant and how the writer, though only a private soldier, had suffered the hardships and dangers of war to help the general save the union for the benefit of generations yet unborn. Then the farmer told Grant that since the war he had been able to buy a farm and lay aside $1,000. He did not know anyone to whom he would rather loan half his savings than to the man he had never seen, but for whom he had named his only son. If Grant needed $500, the letter went on to say, he would please signify it by making out his promissory note for that amount and forwarding it to the writer, with the assurance that that the money would be forwarded to him by the return mail. interested in 7 hem. Kite Sailing; on the Water Made Possible by the Invention of an Illinois Man—Some Recent Experiments."A fire!" I shrieked. "Poor Richter was smoking—" BY ANNA K ATI I URINE GREEN. I was roused by feeling a touch on my breast. Clapping my hand to the spot where I had felt the intruding hand, I discovered that my watch had been returned to its pocket. Drawing it out I first looked at it and then cast my eyes quickly about the room. There was no one with me and the doors stood open between me and the hall. It was eight o'clock, as my watch had just told me. "No, he was not smoking. He had no time for a smoke. An infernal machine burst in that room last night and your friend was its wretched victim." {Copyright 1891, by the Authors' Alliance.] CHAPTER L He looked at me inquiringly before answering, then, tossing off his glass, he remarked: [Special Chicago Lett.r ] Scientific kite flying owes much to the experiments of Arthur B. Harbert, of Evanston, a suburb of Chicago. A little over a year ago Mr. Harbert's attention was attracted to the subject of kite flying by an article in a magazine. His interest in the subject led him to begin a series of experiments, in which he has evolved a new form of a kite, and has entered upon the new and interesting field of kite sailing on the water. f if - AM a young physician of limited practice and great ambition. At the time of the incidents I am about to relate, my office was in a respectable house in Twenty-fourth street. "I am sorry, but in an hour a man can scarcely make the acquaintance of another man's exterior." "Then you mean—" I never knew why my friend's life was made a sacrifice to the revenge of his fellow countrymen. Though weD had been intimate in the year we had been together he had never talked to me of his country and I had never seen him in company with one of his own nation. Iiut that he was the victim of some political revenge was apparent, for though it proved impossible to find the man who had detained me, the house was found and ransacked and amongst other secret things was discovered the model of the machine which had been introduced into our room and which had proved so fatal to the man it was addressed for. Why men who were so relentless in their purposes towards him should have taken snch pains to keep me from sharing his fate is one of the anomalies in human nature which now and then awake our astonishment. If I had not lost Dora through my detention at their hands I should look back upon that evening with sensations of thankfulness; as it is, I sometimes question if it would not have been better if they had let me take my chances. His investigations, however, have not been conducted for the amusement of his neighbors, but from the conviction that the kite has a wide field of usefulness. In common with others, he has experimented in photographing with a camera suspended from a kite. In this case, "pushing the button" was out of the question, and the exposure was made by pulling a string attached to the shutter of the camera. No satisfactory results in photographing from kites have been secured, but the art is in it« infancy. It is easy to see how photography might prove of the highest value in warfare, if it can be employed at high altitudes. Once it is possible to take a photograph from a kite, and Had the carriage then taken away the two persons I had seen in this house, and was I indeed alone in its great emptiness? The thought made ■ne desperate, but notwithstanding this I was resolved to continue my efforts, for I might be mistaken; there might yet be some being left who would yield to my entreaties if they were backed by something substantial. "To know you thoroughly, if you will be so good. I may never have the opportunity again." That I rushed from the hou-te nnd took the shortest road to the steamer goes without saying. I could not cross the ocean with Dora, but I might yet see her and tell her how near I came to He must he mad; nothing else but mania could account for such words and such actions; and yet if mad why was he allowed to enter my presence? The man who brought me here, the woman who received me at the door, had not Ijeen mad. "MBS. WARNER HAS BEEN VERY ILL." coming to her. It is something serious, I fear, and she may have died already, for she would have no one else but you, and it is now an hour since I left her." It is in this latter connection that he has come most prominently before the public within a few weeks. All of New York city, Taking out my watch, I laid it on the table; it was just a quarter to eight. Then I emptied my trousers pockets of whatever money they held, and when all was heaped up before me, I could count but twelve dollars, which together with my studs and a seal ring which I wore seemed a paltry pittance with which to barter for the liberty of which I had been robbed. But it was all I had with me, and I was willing to part with it at once if only some one would unlock the door and let me go. But how make known Buy wishes even if there was anyone to listen to them? I had already called in vain, and there was no bell—yes, there was; why had I not seen it before? There was a bell acd I sprang to ring it. But just as my hand fell on the cord I heard a gentle voice behind my back saying in good English but with a strong foreign accent:giving her my company on that long voyage, which would now only serve to further the end# of my nvaL But when, after torturing delays on cars and on ferryboats and incredible efforts to pierce a throng that was equally determined not to be pierced, I at last reached the wharf, it was to behold her, just as I had fancied in my wildest moments, leaning on a rail of the ship and listening, while she abstractedly waved her hand to some friends below, to the words of the man who had never looked so handsome to me or so odious, as tit this moment of his unconscious triumph. Her father was near her and from his eager attitude and rapidly wandering gaze, I saw that he was watching for me. At last he spied me, struggling aboard, and immediately his face lighted up in a way which made me wish he had not thought it necessary to wait for my anticipated meeting with his daughter. and was shared, greatly to my own pleasure and convenience, by a clever young German whose acquaintance I had made in the hospital, and to whom I had become, in the one short year in which we had practiced together, most unreasonably attached. I say unreasonably because it was a liking for which L could not account even % myself, as he was neither especially prepossessing in appearance nor gifted with any too great amiability of character. He was, however, a brilliant theorist and an unquestionably reliable practitioner, and for these reasons probably J entertained for him a profound respect and as I have already said a hearty and spontaneous affection. "And who are you?" I asked, for though I knew Mrs. Warner well—she is the patient to whom I have already attended —I did not know her messenger."And I must stay here—" I began. "Till I am quite satisfied. I am afraid that will take till morning." " 'I know you are honest, and will pay some time,' declared the farmer, 'and I would rather you would get the money from me than from somebody who cares for you only as he can use you.' The upshot of the business was that Gen. Grant accepted the farmer's offer without a moment's hesitation, while declining the aid of millionaires who Insisted upon givinghim unlimited amounts of money without a scratch of a pen to show that he owed a cent." —St. Louis Republic. I gave a cry of despair, and then in my utter desperation spoke up to him as I would to a man of feeling. "I am a servant in the house where she was takeu ill." "Then she is not at home?" "You don't know what you are doing; you don't know what I shall suffer by such cruel detention. This night is not like other nights to me. This is a special night in my life, and I need it, I need it, I tell you, to spend as I wilL "No sir, she is in Second avenue." "I am very sorry," I began, "but I have not the time." But he interrupted eagerly. "There is a carriage at thef door; we thought you might not have your phaeton ready." "The woman I love"—it seemed horrible to speak of her in this place, but 1 was wild at my helplessness and madly hoped I might awake some answering chord in a breast which could nut be void of ul I feeling or he would not have that benevolent look in his eye— "The woman I love," I repeated, "sails for Europe tomorrow. We have quarreled, but she still cares for me, and if I can sail on the same steamer, we will yet make up and be happy." Have I lost Dora? From a letter »I received to-day I begin to think not. I had noticed the carriage. "Very well," said I. "1 will go, but first let me write a line—" PREVENTS RAIN. TRIANGULAR TANDEM KITES. [the end.] As our specialties were the same, and as. moreover, they were of a nature which did not call for night work, we usually spent the evening together. But once I failed to join hiin at the office, and it is of this night I hare to tell. "O sir," the man broke in pleadingly, "do not wait for anything. She is really very b id and I heard her calling for you as 1 r:in out of the house!" MEXICAN GIRLS. Austrian Grape Grower Disperses Clouds by Heavy Explosions. Possibly it was from noticing the unsuccessful attempts made by the wouldbe rainmakers in the United States to bring down showers when wanted that an ingenious Austrian grape grower was induced to exactly reverse the American practice. the population of Evans ton and a large number of the people of Chicago and the towns around the upper end of Lake Michigan have become interested in watching for Mr. Harbert's kites, as well as for air ships. lVES' BOX KITE. They Are Fond of Americans, Bat They Arc Dangerous. "She had hjr voice, then," I ventured, somewhat distrustful of the whole thing and yet not knowing how to refuse the man, esp.-cially as it was absolutely necessary to see Mrs. Warner that night and get her consent to my departure before 1 could think of making further plans. "Put up your money, Mr. Atwater; we do not want your money, only your society. Allow me to beg you to replace both watch and money." "Ah, Dick, you are late," he began effusively as I put foot on deck. But I waved him back and went at once to Dora. "The Mexican girls are very fond of Americans, but their admiration is not extensively shared by their countrymen," said J. S. House, a member of the Old Vets' club, in session at the Laclede, says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. "I went down there with old Zach Taylor, and liked the country so well that I staid. I bought a cattle ranch and soon had one of the finest herds in the country. I got along nicely with my neighbors until the handsome laughter of Don Jose Velasquez came tome from school at Paris and then my troubles began. Pretty girls are not plentiful in Mexico, and Senorita Inez was as beautiful a woman as ever graced the court of old Castile. I was soon paying assiduous court to the dark-eyed senorita and she appeared to regard my suit with considerable favor. I had for my rival a Senor Romero, a wealthy ranchero, who was supposed to have been at one time chief of a gang of banditti that infested the Sierra Mad re mountains. One evening, while riding over to the hacienda of my prospective father-in-law, a lasso was thrown over my head and settled about my arms, pinning them to my side. My horse went on, b-t I stopped. A minute later I was surrounded by a dozen atD villainous-looking greasers an ever cut a throat. They bound me securely, carried me up into the mountains and anchored me in a cave that was evidently the repository of plunder secured by robbing excursions. I supposed they intended to hold me for ransom and opened negotiations witji them. I then learned that Romero had employed them the general of an army may send a camera over his enemy's camp to get a plan of his fortifications. If dynamite bombs can be dropped with their aid into the midst of a hostile army, the invasion of a country may be prevented. I had been over to Orange, for my heart was sore over the quarrel I had had with Dora, and I was resolved to make one final effort toward reconciliation. But, alas for ray hopes, she was not at home; and what was worse. I soon learned that she was going to sail the next morning for Europe. This news coming as it did without warning affected me seriously; for I knew if she escaped from my influence at this time 1 should certainly lose her forever; for the gentleman concerning whom we bad quarreled was a much better match for her than I, and almost equally in love. However, her father, who had always been my friend, did not look upon this same gentleman's advantages with as favorable an eye as she did, and when he heard I was in the house he came hurrying' into my presence, with excitement written in every line of his fane face. Wheeling abont in my double surprise at the presence of this intruder and his unexpected acquaintance with my name, I encountered the smiling glance of a middle-aged man of genteel appearance and courteous manners. He was bowing ulmost to the ground and was. as I instantly detected, of Uerman birth and education, a gentleman and not the blackleg I had eery reason to expect to see. start?" "At what time does the steamer The progress of his experiments led him irresistably to the conclusion that kites might be put to a practical use in carrying messages across large bodies of water, and his later trials have been the working out of that theory. To take the place of the reel from which the line was paid out on land, and by which the kite was steadied he designed a float, or drag, for the water, which would at once carry the end of the line and steer the kite. He watched for several weeks for a west wind to carry his kites across Lake Michigan, but it refused to come. Weary of waiting, heat length started two sets of kites from Evanston Monday, April 26. Attached to each set was the following request to the finder at the end of their journeys: » "At nine in the morning." "Forgive me, pardon me," I incoherently said, as her sweet eyes rose in startled pleasure to mine. "I would have brought you flowers, but I meant An account of his experiment is given by United States Consul Stephan at Annaberg in a report to the state departs ment. The Austrian owns extensive vineyards situated on the southern slopes of the mountains, in a locality often visited by destructive hailstorms. At first he tried galvanized wire, but this was too expensive and he decided Jo install a battery and test the plan of causing explosions to drive oft the hailstorms. He erected six stations on prominent mountain summits, commanding a territory about two miles in extent. Each station sheltered ten mortars and a corps of volunteers handled them. The practical test is thus described: •Well, you shall leave this house at ••ight. If you go directly to the steamer Vou will be in time." For signaling between armies or at sea. it will be seen that kites may be enn ployed to great advantage. If signals of distress can be displayed from a great height at sea. the passengers and crew of many a disabled ship may bo promptly rescued from their danger. So leaving word for Richter to be sure and wait for me if he came home before I did, I signified to Mrs. Warner's messenger that I was ready to go with him and immediately took a seat in the carriiige which had been provided for me. The man at once jumped up on the box beside the driver, and before I could close the carriage door we were off, riding rapidly down Seventh "But—but," I panted, "I have made no arrangements. I shall have to go to my lodgings, write letters, get money— I ought to be there at this moment. Have you no mercy on a man who never did you wrong and only asks to quit you and forget the precious hour you have made him lose." The possibilities of kites in exploring the upper regions of the air have not been overlooked by the scientists of the weather bureau. The gentlemen whose good nature is depended upon to furnish the right brand of weather for picnics and parades have been greatly hampered by their lack of knowledge of conditions in the higher strata of the atmosphere. Experiments with captive balloons have been made, but it was found that balloons were unable to reach high altitudes in a strong wind. No better results were secured with a "You have madea slight mistake," he was saying; "it is your society, only your society that we want." "I am sorry," he said, "it is certainly quite unfortunate, but the door will not be opened before eight. There is really no one in the house-to unlock it." avenue. Astonished at his appearance and exceedingly irritated at his words, I stepped back as he offered me my watch and bluntly cried: "If it is my society only that you want you have certainly taken very strange means to procure it. A thief could have set no neater trap, and if it is money you want, state your sum and let me go, for my time is valuable and my society likely to be unpleasant."As we went the thought came: "What if Mrs. Warner will not let me off!' But I dismissed the fear at once, for this patient of mine is an extremely unselfish woman, and if she were not too ill to grasp the situation, would certainly sympathize with the strait I was in and consent to accept Richter's services in place of my own, especially as she knows and trusts him. "And do you mean to say," I cried, aghast, "that you could not open that door if you would, that you are locked here as well as I, and that I must remain here till morning, no matter how 1 feel or you feel?" "Threatening black clouds made their appearance on the summits of Bacher mountains. At a given signal all the mortars were fired off and the continuous detonations in a few minutes aDused a sudden reaction in the moveuents of the clouds. The cloud wall Dpened up funnel-like; the mouth of the funnel began to rise in the form of consecutive rings, expanding gradually until all the clouds scattered and entirely disappeared. No hail nor sudden downpour of rain fell. The same experience was gone through six times last summer and has without a single exception proven a successful preventi\e."—Chicago Tribune. "Ah! Dick, my boy," he exclaimed, joyfully, "how opportune this is! I was wishing you would come, for do you lroow Appleby has taken passage on board the same steamer as Dora, and if he and she cross together they will certainly come to an understanding, and that will not be fair to you or pleasing to me, and I do not care who knows it!" To the Finder—Will you please All out the blanks on the inclosed postal card, stating when and where you found this, and post It at your earliest convenience. The return of this kite is not expected. ARHTUR B. HARBERT. SAMUEL MERWTN. "Will you not take m cigar?" he asked. combination of a balloon with kites. Prof. C. F. Marvin, of the weafher bureau, has undertaken an investigation of kites and their construction. Investigators who care to go into the mathematical and scientific details will find plenty of material in his report, which was issued in July, 1896. His experiments have been principally in the construction of kites which wiU give the best results. When this has been accomplished the weather bureau will make use of these kites in sending np meteorological instruments to the higher levels of the air. A knowledge of the conditions at high altitudes will add much to the information from which the forecasts of the bureau are made, and are expected to prove of great value in its work. When the carriage stopped it was already dark, and I could distinguish little of the house I entered, save that it was large anl old and did not look like an establishment where a man servant would be liki ly to be kept ile gave a shrug with his shoulders that in no wise interfered with his set smile. Then, then, I began to see how useless it was to struggle, and visions of Dora leaning on the steamer rail with that serpent whispering soft entreaties in her ear, came rushing before me till I could have wept in my jealous chagrin. Mr. Merwyn is a young man who has been associated with Mr. Harbert in his experiments. The kites were set adrift from Evanston about ten o'clock in the forenoon. A strong wind was blowing from the northeast. It would not be supposed that the circumstances were favorable to sending a kite away from the shore, but by an arrangement of the float which, will be explained later, this was accomplished. The two sets of kites sailed away toward the south with their drags in tow. Later in the day, one of them was found on a point of the lake shore near the suburb of Buena park. The other went toward South Chicago. "I MEANT TO SAIL WITH YOU, DORA." "You choose to be facetious," he observed. "I have already remarked that we have no use for your money. Will you sit down? liere is some excellent wine, and if this brand of cigars don't suit you, I will send for another." to sail with you, Dora; I tried to, but wretches, villains, prevented it and— and—" I gave him one look and sank quite overwhelmed into the seat nearest me. Appleby was the name of my rival, and I quite agreed with her father that the tete-a-tetes afforded by an ocean voyage would surely put an end to the hopes which I had so long and secretly cheriahed. "Is Mrs. Warner here?" I asked of the man, who was slowly getting down from the box. "O, it does not matter," she said, and then blushed, probably because the words sounded unkind. "I mean—" "It is cruel, base, devilish," I began. "If you had the excuse of wanting money and took this method of wringing my all from me I could have patience; but to entrap and keep me here for nothing, nothing, when my whole future happiness is trembling in the balance, is the work of a fiend and—" I made a sudden pause, for a strange idea had struck me. "Yes, sir," he answered, quickly; and I wms about to ring the bell before me. when tlie door opened and a young German girl, courtesying slightly, welcomed mc in. saying: "Send for the devil," I cried, greatly exasperated. "What do you mwan by keeping me in this place against my will? Open that door and let me out or—" But she could not say what she meant, for just then the bell rang for all visitors to leave, and her father came forward, and, evidently thinking all was right between us, smiled benignantlv in her face, gave her a kiss and me a wink and disappeared in the crowd that was now rapidly going ashore. ,te me and that they had Quick and Witty. captured me instead and proposed to nerve the master who paid .best. If Romero bid more to have me killed than I could pay for my life they would draw a knife across my throat. If I outbid him I was free to return and settle with him as best I "miffht. Romero's purse was longest, his hatred infinite and 1 fully expected that he would name a price that I could not pay. After they had opened negotiations with him. however, I chanced to over hear their conversation. Romero would not raise the original price—one thousand dollars. They came to me and told me that he had offered ten thousand dollars for ray life. I saw through the game and replied that I would pay only two thousand dollars for my release. They made a pretense of preparing for my execution, but I stood firm and they accepted my price. It waa several days before I could arrange the payment, and then I returned to have it out with Romero and resume my attentions to the young lady. What was my surprise to find him coming to my rescue. While we were quarreling about the girl a Frenchman had stepped in and married her. Romero wanted my assistance to kill the Frenchman. I declined to join in the laudable enterprise, and Romero undertook it alone and got the top of his head blown Off for his pains. I was always a trifle sorry the affair did not result differently."Lord Young is said to be one of the ablest Scotchmen on the bench or at the bar. At least, he has a ready tongue. One day in September he was driving into town from his place in the country when he met an acquaintance. "IIollo!" said the latter, "what are you doing here? I thought all respectable people were out of town." "Well," said the other, "have you seen anything to make yon alter your opinion? I haven't." At the time of the general election of 1892,.he was visiting at Dalmeny house. And the report Mine tljat Lord Wolmer, now earl of Sel borne, had been returned for the Western division by a majority of three, over Mr. T. R. Buchanan. Soon after some one came in and said that the majority was 300. He added that Lord and Lord had voted for Wolmer. "Ah," said Young, "that accounts for the two ciphers."—Youth's Companion."Does she,know he is going? Did she encourage him?" I stammered. "Mrs. Warner is upstairs, sir; in the front room, if you please."' 1 was ready to spring and he saw it. Smiling more atrociously than ever, he slipped behind the table, and, before I «-.«uld reach him, had qnietly drawn a pistol which be cocked before my eyes. lint the old man answered, generally: "O! she knows; but I cannot say anything positive about her having eneour aged him. The fact is, Dick, she still holds a soft place in her heart for you, and if you were going to be of the party-" Not doubting her, but greatly astonished at the ljarren aspect of the place I was in, 1 stumbled up the faintly lighted stairs before me and entered the great front room. It was empty, but through an open door at the other end 1 heard a voice1 saying: "He has come, madam," and anxious to see my patient whose presence in this desolate house 1 found it harder and harder to understand, I stepped into the room where she presumably lay. I felt that I must follow, but I gave her one look and one squeeze of the hand, and then as I saw her glances wander to his face, I groaned in spirit, stammered some words of choking sorrow and was gone, before her embarrassment would let her speak words which I knew would only add to my grief and make this hasty parting unendurable Experiments have been made by the life saving service in sailing1 kites before the wind from wrecked vessels to the shore, but, so far as can be learned, this is the first attempt to send a kite in a direction oblique to the wind. This feat was accomplished by a device at once simple and effective. A float was made of two timbers 12 feet long, united by two pieces of plank. "Yon are excited," he remarked with a suavity that nearly drove me mad. "Now, excitement is no aid to good company, and I am determined that none but good company shall be in this room to-night So if you will be kind enough to calm yourself, Mr. Atwater, you and I may enjoy ourselves, but if not—" The action he made was significant and I felt the cold sweat break out on my forehead through all the heat of my indignation.What if this man, these men and this woman were in league with him whose rivalry I feared and whom I had intended to supplant on the morrow? It was a wild surmise, but was it any wilder than to believe I was held here for a mere whim, a freak, a joke, as this bowing, smiling man before me would have me believe? CHAPTER III. Mr. Harbert's experiments have attracted great attention, not only in Evanston and Chicago, but in many other cities. He has received many letters on the subject, one of which was from a Chicago fireworks company, who wanted a set of his kites in giving an exhibition of fireworks in Dallas, Tex. For the time he has been at work he has accomplished wonders. The beginning of his experiments was made at Lake Geneva, , "Well?" "I think you would come off conqueror yet." "Then I will be of the party," I cried. "It is only six now and I can be in New York by seven. That gives me five hours before midnight: time enough in which to arrange my plans, see Richter Alas! for my temerity in doing so; for no sooner h.ul I crossed the threshold than the door b3' which I had entered clcaed with a click unlike any I had ever heard before, and when I turned to see what it meant, another click came from the opposite side of the room, and I perceived with a benumbed sense of woudcr that the one person whose somewhat shadowy figure I had The look of amazement and chagrin with which her father met my reappearance on the dock can easily be imagined. Rising in fresh excitement, I struck my hand on the table. "You want to keep me from going on the steamer," I cried. "That other wretch who loves her has paid you." But I did not mean to show him that he had intimidated me. "Why, Dick!" he exclaimed, "aren't you going, after all? I thought I could rely on you! Where's your pluck, lad? Scared off by a frown! I wouldn't have believed it, Dick. What if she does frown to-day; she will smile to-morrow."Wis., and there he expects to carry them on during his coming' summer vacation. His next experiment will be with a kite modeled after the bony framework of a bat. In the short time he has been at work Mr. Harbert has "Excuse me," said 1, "and put down your pistol. Though you are making me lose irredeemable time, I will try and control myself enough to give you an opportunity for explaining yourself. Why have you entrapped me into this place?" But that other wretch could not know that I was meditating any such unusual •scheme as following him, without a full day's warning. I thought of this even before I had finished my sentence and did not need the blank astonishment in the face of the man before me to convince me that I had given utterance Va foolish accusation. "It would have been some sort of a motive for your actions," I humbly added, as I sank back from my hostile attitude; "now you have none" C ncountered on entering had vanished from the place and that I was shut up alone in a room without visible means of egress. Vociferous Apparel. Albert—Ethel is at lost beginning to smile on my suit. taken rank as one of the leading kite I shook my head; I could not tell him just then that it was not through any lack of pluck on my part that I had failed him. experts of the country. "I have already told you," said he, gently laying the pistol before him, but in easy reach of his hand. John—Well, I don't blame her. Everybody else laughs at it. — Twinklea.A. S. CHAPMAN. A HORSELESS-CARRIAGE FACE. This was startling, and hard to believe at first, but after I had tried th« door by whu:h I had entered and fount! it securely locked and then, bounding to the other side of the room, trier the opposite one with the same result. I could not but acknowledge I watt-aught, caught! What did it mean Caught, and I was tn Haste, mad naste. Filling the room with my cries, I shouted for help and a quick release, but my efforts were naturally fruitless and after exhausting myself in vain I stood still and surveyed, with what equanimity was left me, the appearance of the dreary place in which I had thus suddenly become entrapped. When I left the deck I went straight to a restaurant, for I was faint as well as miserable, not having had any supper the night before or any breakfast this morning. But my cup of coffee choked me and the rolls and eggs were more than I could face Rising impatiently, I went out. Was anyone more wretched than I was that morning, and could anyone nourish a more bitter grievance? As I strode towards my lodgings I chewed the cud of my disappointment till my wrongs loomed up like mountains and I was seized by a spirit of revenge. Should I let such an interference as I had received go unpunished? Mo. If the wretch who had detained me was not used to punishment he should receive a specimen of it now, and from a man who was no longer a prisoner, and who once aroused did not easily forego his purposes. Turning aside from my former destination, 1 went immediately to a police station and when I had entered my complaint was astonished to see that all the offl- Awfal VlMfe That Will larpaM «h*j Bicycle Face. The "bicycle face" will now yield thel palm to that awful visage known as the "horseless-carriage face." That expression known as the "bicyck face" la caused by anxiety, apprehension and actual dread lest the owner run over This cast of countenance, brought about anxiety lest some bad accident occur, apprehension that the rider may be the victim, and positive, downright dread that some one else may be injured. These varying and powerful emotions, constantly playing upon a sympaD- thetic soul, are reflected through ocular and nervous lines in the countenance technically known as "bicycle face." This cast of countenance, broughtabout by the most humane emotions of a sympathetic soul and reflected through the mirror of eyes and expression, is the opposite of that glare soon to become known as the "horse! ess-carriage face." When the modern moloch is in full operation the face of the rider undergoes an awful change. The lines of the mouth become set, rigid, inftnovable and stonily grim—just the opposite of thel sympathetic bicycle face, in that it re4 fleets a determination that if anybody) is killed it won't be the owner of the) "horseless-carriage face." There la! also a look of fear—not fear that he may run down somebody, but fear that he won't. The eyes have a fixed and steely glare, while over the whole sat-) urnine face Is the impress of horror.j •» faint but ever-present shadow thatj shows the modern moloch is impelled) to pursue his work of devastation by, some potent hellish power. Once seated) on this powerful engine of destruction,; with a firm grip on the lever, even that fairest countenance takes on some aM "But that is preposterous," I began, fast losing my self-control again. "You do not know me and if you did—" HER UNHAPPY INFIRMITY. "Pardon me, you see I know your I thought he bestowed upon me a took of quiet pity, but if so he soon hid it with his uplifted glass. Bo Tried to Be Synnathrtle, Bat the Ladr AVonld Not Have It. name." lie waB an angular man with gray far whiskers. He gave up his seat in a crowded car with an alacrity that spoke well for the cheerfulness of his disposition. The lady who took the proffered seat was stout and haughty. She slipped into the vacant place without a word. Yes, that was true and the fact set me thinking. How did he know my name? I did not know him nor did I know this house nor any reason for which I could have been beguiled into it. Was 1 the victim of a conspiracy or was the mun mad? Looking at him very earnestly, I declared: "My name Is Atwater, and so far you are right, but in learning that much about me you must also have learned that I am neither rich or influential or of any special value to a blackmailer. Why choose me out then for—your society? Why not choose some one who can—talk?" "Forget the girl," said he, "I know of a dozen just as pretty." I was too indignant to answer. Wonderful 8hoemuklng. "Women are the bane of life!" he now sententiously exclaimed. "They are ever intruding themselves between » man and his comfort, as for instance just now, between yourself and this In a pair of fine shoes there are two sewed pieces, two inner soles, two stiffenings, two pieces of steel to give a spring to the instep, two bands, twelve heel pieces, two sole linings, ten upper pieces, thirty tacks, twelve nails in the heels and twenty buttons, to say nothing of thread, both silk and flax; but the wonder is found in the rapidity with which these multitudinous pieces ore -combined in a single completed work, for, as an experiment, some oi our shoe factories have from the leather completed a pair of shoes in less than an hour and a half, and as a test a single pair of men's shoes have been finished in twenty minutes. FLOAT FOR SAILING KITES. Two lines were attached to this float, and the string of the kite made fast to these lines in such a way that it pulled the float in an oblique direction to the string. It is the same principle on which a canal boat is kept away from the bank of the canal by attaching the tow line back of the middle. A glance at the diagram will explain it. A board nailed to one of the timbers ncted as a lee board and kept the float in the proper direction. In this manner the kite was kept in a direction oblique to the wind and driven forward like a sail boat at an angle to the lake "ah! dick, my boy!" "The angular man looked at her thoughtfully. Theu he stooped over and suid: and make everything ready for sailing in the morning." good wine." I caught up the bottle in sheer desperation."I had an uncle, ma'am, that had just that same affliction." "Dick, you are a trump!" exclaimed the gratified father. "You have a spirit I like, and if Dora does not like it too. then I am mistaken in her good sense. But can you leave ypur patients?" CHAPTER II It was a small, square room, and I shall not soon forget with what a foreboding shudder I observed that its four blank walls were literally unbroken by a single window, for this told me that I was in no communication with the street and that it would be impossible for me to summon help from the outside world. The single gas jet burning in a fixture hanging from the ceiling was the only relief given to the eye in the blank expanse of white wall that surrounded me, while as to furniture the room could boast of nothing more than an old-fashioned black walnut table and two chairs, the latter cushioned, but stiff in the back and generally dilapidated in appearance. The only sign of comfort about me was a tray that stood on the table, containing a couple of bottles of wine and two glasses. The bottles were full and the glasses clean, and to add to this appearance of hospitality a box of cigars rested invitingly near, which I could not fail to perceive even at the first glance was of the very best brand. "Don't talk of them," I cried, "and I will try and drink. I almost wish there was poison in the glass. My death here might bring punishment upon you." "Sir!" said the stout lady, with an insulted toss of her head. "I find your conversation very interesting.""Yes," continud the angular man. "he couldn't pronounce any word beginning with Hh' to save his blessed neck. That's rignt. He'd stutter and stammer, an' the beat he could do would be to give it the sound of's.' It was n dreadful affliction. His oldest son's name was Theophilus, but he always called him 'Sophilus.' Had it long, ma'am?" "Just now I have but one patient who is in anything like a critical condition.'' I replied, "and her case Richter understands almost as well as I do myself. I will have to see her this evening, of course, and explain, but there is time for that if I go now. The steamer sails at nine?" Bafiled, exasperated almost beyond my power to restrain myself, I shook my fist in hiB face notwithstanding I saw his hand fly to his pistol. lie shook hia head, totally unmoved by my passion. "We deal punishment, not receive it. It would not worry me ia the least to leave you lying here upon the floor." "Let me go," I shrieked, "let me go out of this place. I have business, 1 tell you, important business which means everything to me and which, if I do not attend to it to-night, will be lost to me forever; let me go, and I will so far reward you that I wul speak to no one of what has taken place here to-night, but go my way, forgetful of you, forgetful of this house, forgetful of all connected with it." r  HU Heroud Trial. Widow McDoolihan—Uow are yer. Mister O'Rafferty? shore. I did not believe this, but I did not stop to weigh the question then; I was too much struck by a word he had used. The kites were perhaps 1,000 feet above the floats. Mr. Harbert's kites themselves bear little resemblance to a boy's kite, except in flying in the air. In the evolution of the scientific kite, the tail long ago disappeared, never to return. It is made in varions hollow or. In technical terms, "cellular" forms. Mr. Harbert's kites are triangular prisms of stick* and cloth, about 12 feet In length. About two-thirds of the frame is covered with the cloth, leaving n vacant space in the middle. He has found this to be the best form for a light wind, although square "box" kites are said to be superior for high winds. Pine or whitewood is used for the frame* and white or colored cotton clo' the covering. The sides ure fi five feet wide. Silk is considere best covering, but it is an expe material as 15 or 16 yards are net for a single kite. After the fram been made, the covering is sev place, as tacks are likely to sf light sticks. Pine sticks a quarte inch in thickens by an inch in or whitewood sticks half an inch . are the best size. "Precisely." Widower O'Rafferty —I am loike the prisoners in the Tombs. 1 am going to move for a new trial. Will you be me woife?—Texas Siftings. "Do not tell Dora that I expect to be there; let her be surprised. Dear girl, she is quite well. I hope?" The stout lady was dark red from vexation. "Deal punishment?" I repeated. "Are yotj punishing me? Is that why I am here?" "You are insulting.'* she snorted "Well, I don't wonder you hate to hear anyone refer to it, said the angular man with great cheerfulness. "But I couldn't help noticing it when you took my seat and wasn't able to say 'thank you.' I wouldn't have minded in the least if you'd said 'sank you'—oh, do you get off here? Good day, ma'am—never mind the thanks." "Yes, very well; only going over with her aunt to do some shopping. A poor outlook for a struggling physician, you think. Well. I don't know about that; she is just the kind of girl to go from one extreme to another. If she once loves you she will not care any longer about Paris fashions." He laughed and held out his glass to mine. GRANT REFUSED. "You enjoy being sarcastic," he observed. "Well, it gives a spice to conversation, I own. Talk is apt to be dull without it." The Proffered Aid of Millionaires, lint "You are very good," was his quiet reply, "but this wine has to be drunk." And he calmly poured out a glass while I drew back in despair. "You do not drink wine?" he queried, holding up the glass he had filled between himself and the light. "It is a pity, for it is of most rare vintage. But perhaps you smoke?" "The Grant & Ward failure, which crushed the old general and made him long for the grave, had but one compensating feature that made life emdtirable to him," said Col. Randolph Armstrong, of Chicago, recently. "1 got the story from Col. Fred Grant, and therefore consider it entirely true. I don't think it has ever been in print. Accepted a Humble Farmer's. For reply I struck the glass from his hand; it fell and Bhivered, and he looked for the moment really distressed."Hhe shall love me," I cried, and left him in a great hurry to catch the first train for Hobokcn. And the stout lady flounced down the street to take the next car.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. It seemed wild, this scheme, but I determined to pursue it. I loved Dora too much to lose her, and if three weeks' absence would procure me the happiness of my life, why should 1 hesitate to avail myself of the proffered opportunity? I rode on air, as the express I had taken shot from station to station, and by the time 1 had arrived at Christopner street ferry my plans were all laid and my time disposed of till midnight.Astonished at these tokens of consideration for my welfare, and confounded by the prospect which they offered of a lerfgthy stay in this place, I gave another (Treat shout; but to no better purpose than before. Not a voice answered and not a stir was heard in the house. But there came from without the sound of suddenly moving wheels, as if the carriage which I had left standing before the door had slowly rolled away. If this were so then was I indeed a prisoner—a prisoner while the moments so necessary to my plans, and perhaps to the securing of my whole future happiness, were flying by like the wind. As I realized this, and my own utter helplessness. I fell into one of the chairs before me in a state of perfect despair. Not that any fears for my life were disturbing me, though one in my situation might well question if he would ever again breathe the open air from which he had been so ingeniously lured. I did not in that first moment of utter down-heartedness so much as inquire the reason for the trick which had been played upon me. No, for my heart was full of Dora, and I was asking myself if I were destined to lose her after all, and that through "I had rat.heryou had struck me." he remarked, "for I have an answer for an injury like that, but for a broken glass—" He sighed and looked dolefully at the pieces on the floor. *h for trlbTlt«« °* this " horseless-carriage Jr tQ face."—Pittsburgh Dispatch.  tlie essary | rheumatism!) rofan Co-p!iicu. I by eminent physiciana^PB " Baagg».«l ™ IWlN EXPELLERl The ■ Ad. SI51'emriSt., New York. I ,fiT I H,SHEST A**RD*. tnsid- ■ 13 Branoh House*. Own Glassworks. D pull- Endorsed & recommended i DDJ| y Iron & Atpdub/J 1Q°re Hick and disgusted, I found a chair and sat down in it. If the man were crazy there was certainly "method in his madness." Besides he had not a crazy eye; there was calm calculation "WAS UK NOT A OKHMAN, TOO?" The Children Shonld Walk. "You know that every dollar that Gen. Grant had waa swept away by the failure, and he was left almost penniless. According to his son, he had only about $80 in his pocket when he learned that he was a bankrupt. Every mother should teach her children the value of walking as exercise if she wishes them to have sturdy legs. All children except little ones should walk at least, a mile during the day in the open air, and twice that distance Is not too far for healthy ones. In these days children linger too long in their carriages and in their nurses' nrms, when their own legs should be exercising vigorously for the development of muscle and svmmetry.—N. Y. Tribune. cials had grouped about me and were listening to my words with the most startled interest. Mortified and somewhat ashamed, I put down my own glass. "You shonld not have exasperated me," I cried, and walked away beyond temptation to the other side of the "Was the man who came for you a German?" one asked. I said: "Yes." mpr" "And the man who stood guardian over you and entertained you with wine and cigars, was he not a German, too?" "Millionaires, brokers, railroad magnates and money-makers of every kind rushed to him with offers of assistance. Some of them wanted him to go in business with them and pictured a glorious future for him. He received them all courteously, but declined every offer. His experience with the rascally Ward opened his eyes for the tirsi time to the dangers of lending his powerful name for the promotion of business enterprises, and he regarded all propositions with grave suspicion. Telegrams and letters proffering aid poured In on him from every part of the country for days after the collapse.His spirits had received a dainpener, but in a few minutes he seized upon a cigar and began smoking. As the wreaths curled over his head he began to talk, and this time it was on subjects totally foreign to myself and even to himself. It was good talk—that I recognized, though 1 hardly listened to what he said. I was asking myself what time it had now got to be and what was the meaning of my incarceration, till my brain became weary and I could scarcely distinguish the topic he discussed. Hut he kept on for all my seeming, and, indeed, real indifference—kepi on hour after hour in a monologue he endeavored to make interesting and which probably would have lDeen so. if the time and occasion had been fit for my enjoying it. As it was I had no ear for room. It was therefore with no laggard step that I hurri- d to my office, nor was it with any ordinary feelings of impa- I nodded acquiescence and they at once began to whisper together Then one of them advanced to me and said: A kite 12 feet long1 is quite a thing1 for a boy's plaything, an man who should attempt to t would soon tire of his fun. Mr. F uses a reel, set on a pivot, to al the changes of the wind by wh monster kites are controlled, string is another important que An ordinary cord is not to be C ered when the thing in the air ing like a team of oxen. IIea\ wire, or light telegraph wire ii monly used. Piano wire is idea' purpose, but is too expensivt thought of when half a mile 01 of it is required. IAS Other un-to-date kiteflver tience that I found Riehter out, for this was not his usual hour for absenting himself, and I had much to tell him and many advices to give. It was my first balk, and I was fuming over it. Eight eggs, one pint cream, one pound sugar, two pints milk, one pint strong coffee. Scald milk, beat eggs nnd sugar until light, and add to hot milk. Cook for an instant, take off fire and add cream and coffee. Freeze.— American Caterer. r rtiicn tummui "You have not been home, I understand; you had better come." Astonished by his manner, I endeavored to inqtiire what he meant, but he lrew me away, and not till we were ■vithin a stone's throw of my office did lc say: when I saw what looked like a package of books lying on the table before me, and though it was addressed to my partner I was about to take it up. when I heard my name uttered in a tremulous tone, and turning saw a man standing in the doorway, who, the moment 1 met ' D- eve, advanced into the room and "Toa must prepare yourself for a ■hock. The impertinences you suffered from last night were unpleasant, no doubt, but If you had been allowed to return home you might not now be deploring them in comparative peace and safety." Foil of Life. Theodore—Ma, I'm feeling awfully good to-day. "LET MB GO!" I SHRIEKED. "To all these he replied in the same spirit. He thanked the authors courteously for their kind offers, but firmly declined to accept assistance of any Ma—What do you mean by "feeling good?" ~«r * "Oh, doctor! I have been waiting for mi »n hour. Mrs. Warner hat» been in it and not a little irood nature. Did "I feel Uk« being bad."—Brooklyn Life.