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The Congressional library rahka rlith among the libraries of the world. Franco comes first, England next. Russia and Germany following in order, the latter with her libraries at Munich, Berlin, Strasburg, the lastnamed holding equal rank with the one at Washington.

While Italy, Maine and other regions where sardines are caught have laws regulating the fisheries. California has Jtjce, the result being that tons of'fisb are caught in spawning time. A club oi sportsmen has been formed for the purpose oi checking the canners and protecting the game fishes of the state.

An Interesting study of the conditions of leprosy in South Africa has been —^ don. a surgeon and physician, whose reputation among practitioners all • over the world Is excellent. He now bglieves that the primary cause of the disease in that part of the world is in a great many cases the eating of badly cured salt fish. Similar conclusions have been announced by medical men of distinction after leprosy Investigations in other countries. The leper almost everywhere is the victim of poisonous food or of the "Virus conveyed by a sufferer already infected. An eggshell farm I' a part of one of the primary school departments of . study in Buffalo. Each child takes an eggshell about two-tblras whole. The child's name Is written on the shell, tod after a lesson on soils sufficient earth is placed in the she^LAo fill it. Each one In a room is'gfven the same ' kind of * seed to plant. After the plant becomes too large for the shell the child is encouraged to take It . home and plant It in-a large garden. The teachers aim to teach the com-, plete life, history of the plant from seed to seed.

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The mediocre, man is tb^ middling man. but how greatly superior Is the middling man of today to his grand- , lather of the same class. He sees and knows and enjoys things which that simple ancestor never dreamed, remarks the Boston Transcript. He is a citizen of a different, a broader and every way richer world. Hd is burn to a more splendid heritage of knowledge and opportunity. He is in touch with more stimulating and farreaching influences. His latltudes,Jii8 longitudes and his altitudes are immeasurably superior. Enterprises once tM$ v formidable to be undertaken" or even understood .are now everyday matters to him. To be a citizen of the twentieth century is better than to ba/e been a king in those that have departed, because we have reached the point where the idea of''possibilities has been discarded. We glory In the ■esumption that *11 things are know■hie, and 1 all hingx ■'.tain*bl»at some time here or hereafter.

The Russians have expanded their herders end sdded to their possessions more than any people in modern lime*, except those who speak Engfish. The Tsar holds swsy today over a territory as compact as the United States and more than twice as large, writes Senator H. C. Lodge in Scrlbnefa magazine. Throwing oat the Arctic wastes of Canadian North '..Alndtfca. Russia- la Europe and Asia., has nearly as large an area aa that of all the widely scattered British poases- . a ions. Tet it jras cot until late In the Ifitil century,’iesa than 400 yean ago, that 'Russia shook herself free from " Tartar dominion. (Two hundred more year* elapsed before her political or gnoizatron became consolidated and coherent, free from the intermeddling at Poles and Swedes. Her great ex tecaicn of territory has practically taken place within 380 yearst runt is, fine* the accession of Peter the Greet.

ICopTrichk UM. by CHAPTER VL

\ 'Continued.

The young man had b^en mueh^Rsappointed that the first night of his stay under the roof of the Blue Lli bad passed off uneventfully. The

ond. however,

lack of exdtfeJMnt So fearful was b«

ig a possl

sleeping himself, that he never closed hla eyes at all; and he was rewarded for his vigilance when, between two and three o'clock, he heard a slight noise at bis dodr, and a moment late:

that

moving In 3e held bis breath while the intrudwent softly toward tbc bead of the bed. making no noise, feeling about, stooping, searching. At last, when the figure, which could now be discerned as that of a woman, reached his clothes and began hunting In them, the amateur detective, allowing his excitement to get the better of him, sat np In bed. making, In doing so, Jnst noise to arouse the attention of the watchful thief. The next moment she bad darted across the room, and out at the doi Ing prepared for such a contingency as this, sprang out of be<U half-dressed, and dashed out on to nie landing In pursuit. The woman had got the start of him. and was by this time half-way up the attic staircase. He followed her. saw her open the door of the room on the right and close It. He beard the key turn in the lock. Without a second's hesitation, he flung himself with nil his strength against the door. It shook. It creaked; another such blow and tbe rickety old framework would give way. Just as he hurled his weight against the door for the second time, however, he heard the unmistakable sound of the throwing open of the window of tbe room. The next instant. tEe door gave way under the force of bis blows, and he dashed Into the room Jnst in time to see a head disappear behind the sill of the open window. Dashing through tbe room wltbont a moment's hesitation, the young fellow reached tbe window, and looked out. There was the sloping roof of an outhouse underneath, and although be could ree no one, he flung himself out. slid down the tiles and found himself precipitated quickly If not very gently to the ground. Then be saw a dim something moving In front of him. under the trees, and he fol-

lowed.

The shadowy something paused. A cry escaped him. a low cry of triumph, as be found that be was gaining on the creature he was pursuing. But The next moment he uttered a cry of a different sort, and a ra&ch louder one. as be found himself precipitated with

t suddenness

;1£ prec _

great suddenness Into a bath of Ice-

cold water.

Not being acquainted with tb^ geography of tbe plso* be bad walked straight into the little fiver. Cries and ■honts quickly brought him assistance, for tbe landlord, who (had been already awakened by tbe hammering ip of tbejjpstalrs door, came out in bis night shirt and rescued him with a

boat-book.

"The thiefr sputtered file amateur detpctlve with chattering teeth. “Tbe thief; I’ve found her out! Pre found

berr

•What thief?” said Ctarla, surlily, as he dragged tbe shivering min towards the back-door of the ini with no gentle hand. “Who do you mean by thief, you addle-Dated rascal?" ••you’ll see. you'll see- to-morrow." replied the other, undaunted, not heeding bis own pitiful plight In' his excKereent. “Whose Is the bedroom upstairs at tbs back on tbe rigbtr Thsfs my niece - * roo said Claris, sullenly, “and if you dare to say Hut she had anything to do with your fool’s online to-nlgbt, PU shake such braies as you've got o«t of yerf “WelL you may. and welcome, if you don't find that she's left her room and got away by the window. Ah!” be stopped short Suddenly In tbe middle of the cabbage garden.- through which they were walking, and pointed to a white figure which was stealing Its way into the borne: “Is that yonr niece, or is it not?” roared the young man excitedly, aa he pointed with a shaking finger in tbe direction of the disappearing woman. For answer George Claris sprang forward, and seized the girl's wrist Just as abo roacbed the shelter of tbe doorway. "NeUr* dried'the man. to tones so hoarse, so terrible that they sounded like those of a stranger. 'Tell me. las* what were you doing out there?” ,Bot the girl only stnuimemr and shook, and he waited to vain for an CHAPTER VII. If ever mill . ,

"What were you doing out there, lass? What were you doing out there at this time o’ night?" roared her un de, wltb an eanmstness which

Lownde forced t

con-

vinced. Lowndes of his Innocence o/ the attempt at theft. ■T—came out—to see—what was tb« matter!” stammered the girl, whose voice was weak and tremulous. ‘T— Her uncle stared fixedly at her. ai If a doubt of her had begun to darken even his mind. It was In a dlfferenl tone, almost apologetically, that be turned to the stranger. "Well, and that's a reasonable 'answer enough, surely! For I'm sure by tbe noise you made, it might ha’ ^>e*n the parish church afire!" But the shivering man was beginning to feel that dry clothes and a fire outweighed everything else to his

mind.

"Let me get Inside," stammered he. "and when I'm dry again, I'll talk to

you."

But this speech caused Claris to look at him wltb more attention, and he then perceived that Lowndes was

dressed.

"There's something to be explained here!” be exclaimed; with sudden suspicion. i*You haven’t been to bed. Who are JJou?” he asked. In a different the entrance to the bouse rly person. "Who are you? And what did you come here for? Now. out with It! Were you sent here to lay traps for honest folks? Speak out man..or back you shall go Into the river cgaln!” * ^ And Claris seize* the unfortunate^ ides In his powerful grssn and a him backward In tbe Unction

of the little river.

By this time NeO had paftly recovered her composure. She now spoke to her uncle In a calmer voice. \ "Let him coma in. Unde G^rge." she said. “Let him come ln\ and change his wet clothes. And When make him give an account of himself,

If he can.”

With apparent reluctance the Innkeeper took his niece's advice, lied Lowndes up to his room as if he lad been a prisoner, locked him In, ind kept watch outside tbe door until the

was ready.

Jack Lowndes could hear the unc and niece In whispered conversatli on the landing, and murmured Imprecations against tbe "artful hussy." as he detected by the i anger to George Claris’s tones the that the girl was “working him up." A thundering knock at bis do which threatened to bring It down -easily as Lowndes himself had brought down the door of the upstairs room] warned him that It was time for him to come out and-ffice the Indlgunul

pair.

jy "Now, air.” roared Claris, hard] leaving Lowndes the rime to get dowi stairs before beginning bis attack “what have you to say for yourself It seems you had tbe impudenci to batter In the door of tny. niece'i room, and that you went flying ©u through the window like a madman Now. wbdt have you to say for- you: self? Do you remember anything about It, or not?"And George Claris, who had lit candle, the pale rays of which lookei sickly In the struggling light of tin dawn, peered x-urloualy into the bag gard face of Jack Lowndes. "Remember? Of course I remembex How should I know It was you niece’s room? I only came Into tb house last night for the first time, followed the woman and she went li there. She turned the key to th lock, so I had to hurst It open." As he mentioned tbe word "woman

at her. and was struck with bewildex

ment. Believing thoroughly

guilt as he did. having come down a he had come to unmask her. he wai at that moment converted to an abso lute belief In. her innocence. And yet he could'not have explained bow it was that the sight ot her face, the sound of her volse-a* she uttered tbe

cry. bad this instantaneous and

ipsn him. So deeply

was he in contemplation of tbla new aspect of the.matter that at first he did not hear, or did not heed, tbo

Innkeeper's next words.

"Woman! What yroman You said

nothing about a woman."

"I don't know myself what woman it was.” answered Lowndes. In * tone In which a change to doubt and tancy could be detected. "But

elded effect t

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Don't be bashful; make It a hundred, or say two. We’ve been bled before; no doubt we can stand bleeding

ngalo."

There seemed to Lowndes to b« something pathetic In the rough Irony of the man’s tone; he began to feel heartily sorry and ashamed that hr

bad allowed himself to be persuader* Into this adventure. Tbe pretty, pale girl, standing mute behind her uncle; the uncle himself wltb the dull perjplexlty In his eyes, seemed to him In ; the ghostly light of the early piornlng so utterly broken dowu. so bewildered so miserable, tbabjie wanted to slink away without exchanging a furthe: word with them. B«t thie, of course, was out of tbe question. "I have bad nothing taken.” he said, hurriedly. "Nothing whatever." “You think the woman was maybe only taking a look round by way of passing the time?" suggested Claris, stm in the same grim tone. Lowndes was silent. “And. pray. If I may make so bold,” went on the Inkeeper. In a threateninj '.lone, after a few minutes' pause, I ; “what was she like, this woman?" I i “I couldn’t ace. It was dark, yon ] _

know.”

course?"

There was,

>st In Claris'! Irony

1 “Yea.” anawered I-owndes. with a

little more decision. "I am sure of that. She moved like a woman, and had n | — , - , , , woman's head and a woman's skins i OSt U1HC2 ilauTcSS,

'I saw her head as she got out of the window. I saw her sklrta moving about before me when I got down to '

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"And that's all you’: Now. Nell, tell us what

m’ve got to say?

you saw."

iphai

mtly to hit

"l woke up rfu< nolsejjp* saw 1 totai one rush tl

And he turned trium;

niece.

Nell waa standing opposite tbe window. and tbe gray light of the morning came over the top of the sbuttera full on her face. It was white, weary, and there were dark llneH under the eyes, which were heavy and lusterleas. Every word she uttered bore—so the young man thought—an odd stamp as

of truth and sincerity. Suddenly, hearing a loud tbe door fall In and through and get out of

Ibe window. I sprang up and looked out. and saw this gentleman sliding down from the roof of the outhouse on

to the ground.”

"I didn't see you,” Interrupted Lowndes, sharply, with another doubt. "You did not look up,” replied the girl, with composure. "You ran away through the garden to the right. I dressed quickly, and ran downstairs and oijt by the back door to see What was the matter. When I got out you had scrambled up tbe bank and were talking to my uncle.” Lowndes said nothing; there wai nothing to say. But. although It la true that be had not given much at-

>n when

room

he felt convinced a person In bed

I9 the room he should have seen her, or heard some cry, some worn, to indi-

cate her presence.

“Now. you've beard another story. And, begging your pardon. I’d sooner take her word than yonrs." "But," suggested Lowndes In a conciliatory tone, “do the two stories contradict each other? All this young lady says is that she did not see the woman pass through her room." "No. nor any one else, either.” burst out George Claris, as if bis patience was at last exhausted. "An' look here —l'won't stand no man coming down here to spy about, and taking fancies Into his bead, and breaking Into the rooms of my bonae-not for nobody, and so. sir. you can Just go up stairs and pack your portmanteau and clear out between this and breakfast time. Not annTn«>r bicnor drew win t»u be served with under my roof. And you

the escaping figure, he 'that if there bad been a

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may Just tell the three young scoundrels that sent you that whatever they likes to call themselves they’re

genUemen. I—I know them, you see. I know you were put up to this by Jordan. King and Co.” "Uncle! uncle! No; Mr. King never sent him. I will answer for that!” And Nell's face became suddenly crimson with a blush that betrayed

her secret.

Lowndes was touched. "You’re right,” be said to her, very simply. "Mr. King knew nothing about my coming." He turned to Claris. "Let me have my bill.” he said. "I will go at once." And tbe young man, ashotoed of hit own aettba. but more perplexed every

night”—George Claris moved imps/ tlently. -j don't say I was tnpiV pared for this, but I can sweat tbsi came.’ and when she took op nfj

I heard the chink *

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loose money in my pockets X «ar*d up, and she ran oat of tbe roitg.J-1

Mint of T«i the

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view, hie singular adventn

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