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btered at ths poet office at Cap# May, *. J., a# aoooad-olaa# matter. March llth. 1901.

An Indiana man Has Invostort $18.000 In eggs and Intends to hatch 8.OOO.OdO chickens by means of Incubators. The omelette trust is evidently at hand.

Every now and then-one hears something pleasant and practical about the present Autocrat of all the Russians. His ambition to ameliorate social conditlonsr and incidentally to lessen the motives for 1:1s own assassination, by InvestigatlngMhe actualities, is a step In the right infection. Of course, a certain proportiorTTjf-ahu. ivd-hrother-booJ will be more anxious to assassl-'' nate him than ever, those, for exam- ■ pie. to whom discontent is one of the necessities.

Of ' the many benefits for which Egypt will owp gratitude to England for generations and for centuries the building of the great dam across the Nile will rank as one of the most Important. Of the biggest and costliest dams now In construction anywhere on the globe one is in Africa and two are In America. The new Croton Vallay dam for New York's water supply and the Nashua River dam for Boston's water supply are now rising steadily. Each of the two will cost millions of dollars and will be a masterpiece of engineering.

According to the list census the total school population of the United States is 22.153,050. of which 15.341.220 are in the common school grades. Of the total about 8.000.000 are enrolled in rural schools. The average dally attendance throughout the country Is only onehalf the enrollment. The

average length of the school term va- j the house In Its fall, hail carried away, lies in different pans of the country, one of the outside shutters .of the being longest in the north and short- 1 *-indo-

es« In the south. In 1900 the attend-

THEnYSTERT* oFTHE

"Nonsenie, my dear." InterropteO •r father, quickly, and not without nervousness. “What on earth should

such a person want with us? We have nothing In the bouse worth stdillng;

! had, do you suppose that

the person who was so very skillful lu getting away and In evading Jus tlce, would try to batter our doors In?

I, Theodora."

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Vlorenet . ,(Author of.* The Mouse (OopTiKht. MS, by CHAPTER XIX. ^ — Continued. —— “Miss Boctal takes her part? I dld.' not think the drled-up little creature; bad it In her!” said Clifford, with admiration. "I shall go and aee her.” “That is Just what she wantsj you to do." replied Miss Lansdowne. “She has said so to me so often that I thought, when I saw I had a chance of speaking to you, I would not let

It slip."

•it Is very good of you.” aald Cllf-. ford. “Which was the dance you said I might haveT’ The next morning, before luncheontime. he was at Stroan. It was a bright day. and there was only just enough wind to stir the air pleasantly on bis way across the marsh road. The sun shone on the tfhlte. chalky soil, and the place where the body of Jem Stickles had been found was now no longer distinguishable by any outward sign from tb# rest of the grass-grown border to the road. People had begun to forget the tragedy, and even the fresh Interest excited by the more recent events at the Blue Lion bad by this time faded In their minds, relegated to the background by the pressure of some less stir-lug but newer occurrence. The Blue Lion Itself looked melancholy enough, having been imlnhablt-

rttirsV ” 'to

panes in Us upper windows. It was a dreary contrast to the little Inn he had known. No market-carta now

a dreary contrast to the little Inn he

drew up before the door; the ducks and the chickens no longer wandered about the road; the shed where the cart bad stood was empty and already out of repair. Clifford, after one walk around Into the little garden and down to the shed where he had first met Nell, hurried away from the desolate spot and made hast* to reach

Shingle End.

But a change had come over this place also. To begin with, the storms •f the winter had dealt harshly with the oid bouse. Some slates had been carried ^away and bad not 'been replaced. and a tree, blown down by a southwesterly gale, now blocked the little bit of ground which formed the front garden. It had injured the corner of the bouse in Its fall, bail carried awa;

ance of each pupil was about 99 days per term. In Massachusetts It was 145 days, and 36 in North Carolina. Out of the total school revenue only 4.2 percent is derived from the Income

of permanent funds.

j drawing-room front window and smashed half a dozen of the small panes of glass, 'which had been left broken. Sheets of brown paper had been pasted on the Inner side of the window, completing the desolate appearance of the old house. Clifford, as he approached the gate, found that the tree had fallen in such a manner that It was impossible to get In. Looking up doubtfully at the windows, he caught sight of a little, withered face, gray, haunting, peering out at him from behind the meager muslin cur-

tain.

Was It or was it not Miss BostaTs? For a moment he stood undecided with his hand upon the gate. Had some terrible calamity—the death of the Colonel the illness of his daughterfallen upon the place like a blight? Should he go back and make Inquiries at the nearest cottage betore he ventured to Intrude upon what might be

■ome great grief?

There was an ancient cottage dose by which had once been a toll-house. He thought he would knock at the door and-try to find out something, and was retreating for that purpose, when a hurried tapping on the glass of the npper window made him look round •gain, iiiss Hostal-jf.itjwas Indeed she—made a sign to him to go round

to the back of the boose

Obeying her mute direction, he found his way back to the little slde-

A change baa recently been made g, te ln the pa ii„ K , passed through

The London I-ancet is doing splendid work in its laboratory for the public health of Great Britain, and it has been considering, that the postage ■tamp is not too unimportant for Its attention. -Blood-poisoning has. without a doubt, been traced tb licking an Infectious postage stamp as a cause, and the chances of a postage stamp becoming Infectious are obviously abundant. This year It was decided to revert to red os the distinguishing color of the penny stamp. On examination It Is found that one of the Innocuous aniline' reus was ufed, which Is pecu llarly resistant to atmospheric action or to the action of moisture. Strong adds disturb It but little. The adhesive material Is dextrine or British

•urn in ali cases.

by the management of the London Times which, slight as It seems. Is not without significance Hitherto, when It was necessary to offer a summary of the opinion of the civilized world upon some striking public event. It has been the custom to give precedence to quotations from the leading French newspapers; the**-were followed by extracts sent from Berlin, Brussels. 8t. Petersburg, and somewhere down the line would come tel* grams -from AVasLlngtoa and New York. The rKatlve importance of nations. however. Is a changing quantity. and 1c its relations to the British Umpire France no longer bolds its oU place. The 'Time# now refuses to Paris Its oid ^riJe of place, and rightly supposing that for Engl lab readers the most Interesting dupresstons of

other at the back of the hpnse, .that the blinds were drawn down. Surely, then, the Colonel was dead, he thought He had not time to speculate as to why. In that case, the upper front rooms had had their blinds up, when be heard the sound of some one within drawln back a bolt and

then another and another.

Then the door was opened by Miss BoMaL who pnt out her head to throw

those from the United. fStataa. new glres the first place to from the American now#;

ration the new order of precedence among the nations ran Urns: New York. Paris. Berlin. Vienna. St. Peter*burg. Brwesels. Yokohama. What a mighty change Is here, when we tad Japan represented In a list from which

gan immediately to replace the bolts. Clifford could not help feeling ■mused, although be took care not to ■bow it. It seemed to him clear that the recent occurrences la tba neighborhood had got on the poor little

“Yon are weU seen

glare. I see." aald be. as upon doing the work of door for her. and was turprletd to find how solid and etrong the protection

“Ob. Mr- Ktegr geepetf ih* la a

,TEe point of fainting. And Clifford

ade a

“If you think thsl why don’t you Inform the police? Tuey would lay an ambush for this person, and would certainly free you from the annoyance of his visits. In any case." To the young man’s surprise Colonel

Bostal’a face assumed an expression

the dusty panes above the front and oC alarm which he tried In vain tp the back door, that her Ullle pinched hlfie: but Miss Theodora broke In tri-

face had grown livid at some terrible umpbantly:

thought. "ffhat Is jrfst what *ell him, Mr. "Well, what happened last night- King, hut he won’t hear of It. PerOh?” said Clifford, speaking In ns j haps you will be bfetter able to per-

cheerful a tone as he could, in the ! suade him than I.”

hope of soothing her nerves. But In- The Colonel, for answer, leaned haik stead of answering at once, little Miss i n bis chair and drew his daughter's Bostal, suddenly opening again her little thin hands round his shoulders.

“I always think," he said, after a long silence, during which strange suspicions rushed through Clifford's

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failed light eyes and staring at him with solemn Intentness, led him to the door of the drawing-room, which she unlocked and threw open with a tragic

gestnre.

"Look In there!" whispered she. Clifford obeyed, and say nothing whatever; for It was dark. When, after a few minutes spent In rather uncanny silence on the part of the lady, his eyes got used to the gloom, he saw that the windows had been barricaded from the inside In

most thorough and ingenious manner

id with [ rosa from side to side

with furniture and with planks nailed

"Why," said he. In astonishment “you seem to be. preparing to stand n siege.” He had already made up his mind thaf the eccentric out of ner mind. "We are besieged," she whispered, with a look which confirmed Cllf-

ouly my fancy. But ask my father." And before Clifford could make answer, she had quickly crossed stone-flagged passage, bad thrown

c any d the

scandals that are past and don? I may have my own suspicions that the annoyance we suffer from Is connected with the oncanny stories we have heard so much about. But still I will not Interfere, and I refuse to cal! In the aid of the police. We must not forget that In delivering up this unknown person who annoys us. we might be exposing others to danger." “What others, papa?” asked Miss Theodora quickly. But the Colonel would not answer. He turned the conversation to another subject, and the interesting tfiolc was not again touched upon until Clifford, ' _ ' ‘ in te stood In the hall with Miss Theodora. “Do you kq^w why I came down here ta-day?" be then asked. “Not to see us?" asked .Miss Theodora. "We could hardly have hoped

for that"

"It was to see you and to thank you for your trust In Nell. I met Rffcs Lansdowne In town one evening, and

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open the door of the dining-room and 6he to ],j me you wero one with a gesture Invited CUfford to cn- who gUU believed In her Innocence."

But to his chagrin, the little lady

As the young man did eo. rather sighed and looked down. At last she fearing what sort of conversation he said:

mid have to hold with her. ho war

“I did hold ont as long as I coaid against the thought of her guilt, Mr. King; hut I must confess that I. t«. have had to-give way to overwhelming evidence. In face of some fresh circumstances which have now come to my knowledge. I don't see how I

the conclusion that she did

much relieved-to find that the Colonel

there, sitting by the fire, with his tacles on. reading a weekly paper, to Clifford's astonishment and

alarm, the change In the old man was

as great as in his daughter.

Colonel Bostal. although bis clothes escape the conclusli were always shabby and old-fashioned, these crimes."

had always retained an air of soldier- Clifford drew himself up with a ly trimness, had always kept his hair shock of disappointment. Here, closely cut and his snow-white mus- W here be expected a fortress, he found

tache well trimmed, so that he had % quagmire,

home a certain air of smartness and ‘°°f HI. m—Uch. b m . ntptlDA ™ "jSi S

optrlmtaed orer a rouah and anas- ^

“And who is the person?” asked

gUng beard. More than this.. there waa in his eyes a look as pitiful In its

reltleraes. a. the haunting expres- ^ 0 '^ n . slon which CUfford had noticed In A wh ° obtained a xii« great influence over her, and who has

T*a old oaa .Urt.d b, ...

“‘.’.h ““b a” ™ ClWortl OTlFoot^S*. a mova rttb ^r„b..b,d r n. I meM . „ t M ,„ ” i ll " l 1 .?" «“““ 1 ” Boata] «,d ,0 perauadc bba ,o ooib,

„ back Into the dining-room with her

Mlaa Boetal went «,roi reood bl, .od Bdl ba c*i«al ™ 22? ^’a' 1 a*. 1 S! bmaelf ud. „ltb a nlb.r colder atepa a»d pat bet band neatlp on bl( „„ t , p,, «p«ted. b, aboplder. left t):e b b tin bocl: door, and -Dot papa.” abe aald la a wblaper, b „ rt ul „ T b^,„„ am. a,, bolta “dont jon ranenibar Mr. Klbjt H, bt m.^ u., end ot tbe par

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remember, don’t you?"

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again to take refuge In the belief that If she had bfcen an agent In these criminal acts, she had been an unconscious And the thought which was uppermost In hla mind was: What step* should be take to find her? The

But the question was: How to find her? Clifford had been down to Btroan already to make Inquiries, but

, “It Is simply this: At least half a dozen times since tbe Blue Lion

has

1 been desert «d 1

1 have been on-

although we have find out who It is this ms do so." “▲ad hare yon no Idea, bo suspicion?” Tb* Colonel shook bis brad la a troubled and anxious manner, but Mias Theodor* purred, her Upe and

Ite than the vague rumor thst George Haris was "shut up somewhere.’' CUfford paused for a few mon utslde the garden gate

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