THE LONE INN
It was neither Felix nor Rose who
spoke, but Olivia, who, in spite of all I
"I am a seceal spirited hournd," he an
sweurcd wearily.
could do, broke on the astonished pair.
The man advanced toward her, but she
waved him back.
"I defend you, sir, " she said proud
ly, "because I know that this woman
speaks falsely, but I have also to de
mmland an explanation from you. "
Felix paid no attention to the remark,
but simply stared at her in a stupefied
mallllr.
"Olivia," he said in a low voice,
"bow did you come here?"
'I brought her. Mr. Felix Briarfield,"
said I, stepping forward.
"You, Denhaml And for what roa
son?"
I pointed to Rose Gernon, who stood
quietly by, with a malignant smile on
her face.
"There is the reason," I retorted
meaningly, "and Miss Bellin"
''Miss Bellin will speak for herself,"
said Olivia in a peremptory tone.
"Miss Bellin speaks of what she does
not understand, " interposed Rose ven
omously.
"Because I deny that Francis killed
Felix?" questioned Olivia.
"No, because you deny Felix killed
Francis. "
"What do you mean, Miss Gernon?"
I asked rapidly.
"I mean that this maun whom Miss
Bellin thinks is her lover Francis is Fe
lix Briarfield, and Felix Briarfield,"
she continued, "is my lover. "
"No!" said Felix hurriedly. "It is
not true!"
I expected to see Olivia grow angry,
but in place of this a bright smile irra
diated her face as she looked at Felix.
I could not conjecture the meaning of
her action and began to grow uneasy.
Rose also looked anything but comfort
able. Evidently she had met with her
match in Olivia.
"I overheard part of your conversa
tion," said Olivia, addressing her point
edly.
"Very honorable, I am sure," retort
ed Rose, with a sueer.
"Holnor is thrown away on women
like you," answered Olivia scornfully.
"I am glad i listened, for it enables im
to protect the man I love against your
arts. "
"That is not the man you love," said
Rose spitefully. "He lies in the marshes
surrounding the Fen inn, slain by the
hand of his brother. "
"That is not true-I swear it is not
true!" cried Felix, approaching nearer
to Olivia.
"Be quiet, Francis, " she said quiik
ly. "Let us hear what she has to say."
"I have to say that Felix Briarfield
loved nme," cried Rose angrily. "He
loved me long before he ever saw you,
but when you crossed my path he want
ed to leave me. Ho impersonated his
brother Francis, who was at that time
in America, and you, poor fool, did not
discover the deception.t"
"You are quite right. Idid not," re
plied Olivia calmly. "Go on."
"When his brother Francis came back
this month, he thought all would be
discovered and implored me to save
him. He told me of a plan whereby he
intended to decoy his brother to the Fen
inn on pretext of explanation. There he
intended to kill him. "
Olivia made no remark, but placed
her hand within that of Felix. I won
dered she could do so, seeing that he
was accused by his accomplice of a hid
eons crime, and made no denial.
"I went down to the Fen inn with a
maln called Strent"-
"That was not his real name," I in
terrupted.
"How do you know that?" she said
sharply.
"Never mind. I know that it is so."
"I decline to tell his real name, " said
Rose, darting a furious look at me. "I
call himu Strent, and by that name you
knew him and knew me at the Fen
inn."
"I certainly did not expect Rose
Strent, waiting maid, to change to Rose
Gernon, actress. "
"You are too meddlesome, Mr. Den
ham, " she said coolly, "and would do
better to mind your own business. "
"Scarcely when I have discovered so
vile a crime. "
"It was he who committed it, " said
Rose malignantly, pointing to Felix,
"Ho came to the inn and killed his
brother. "
"It is a liel" cried Felix in despair.
"I laid no hand on my brother. I did
not even see him. "
"Wait one moment, Miss Gernon, be
fore you make this accusation," said
Olivia? "You say that Felix is your
lover?"
"I do. "
"And you promised to assist him in
removing Francis if he married you?"
"I did. "
"For what reason when the removal
of Francis would enable Fellb: to marry
me under his false name?"
"He promised not to do so, and I
thought if I helped him to kill Francis
I could force him to marry me. "
"You love him greatly?"
"I love him better than any one else
in the world. "
"I am sorry for that," said Olivia,
with a touch of pity, "because Felix is
dead. "
"Felix dead!" said Rose incredulous
ly. "Then who is the man?"
"This man is my lover, Francis Bri
nrfield, who returned from Chile on the
6th of June."
[TO BE corNTiNUEn]
HEAD OF THE COAST SURVEY.
General William V. uffiteld Comes of a
Distinguishetd Family.
General William Ward Duffield of
Detroit, the newly appointed superin
tendent of the coast and geodetic sur
vey, has had a long and varied career
as engineer, soldier and scientist and is
a scion of a family which has produced
eminent men for 160 years. The found
er of the family in America was George
Duffield, who emigrated from Ireland
to Pennsylvania in 1732. His son George I
was long the leading Presbyterian di
vine and scholar of the country and was
famous as chaplain and attendant on
sick and wounded soldiers during the
Revolutionary war, and his son George
was an eminent merchant and official
in Philadelphia.
The muerchant's son George, fourth of
the name, became the eminent Dr. Duf
field of Michigan, preacher, author and
educator, and his wife, Isabella Graham
Bethune, sister of the famous Dr. George
GENERAL W. W. DUFFIELD.
Bethune, was eminent in many ways.
They also had a son George, who be
came eminent in the ministry, and Wil
liam Ward Duffield is their third son.
They had five sons, of whom three are
ministers, and one, General Henry Mar
tin Duffield, won high honors during
the civil war, was wounded at Chicka
mauga while on the staff of General
Thomas and was the orator of the day
when the Garfield statue was unveiled
at Washington in 1887.
William Ward Duffield was born
Nov. 19, 1823, in Carlisle, Pa., was
graduated at Columbia in 1842, served
in the Mexican war on the staff of Gen
eral Gideon J. Pillen and was wounded
at Cerre Gordo and Contreras. He en
tered the civil war as lieutenant colonel
of the Fourth Michigan infantry, and
by hard service gained the rank of brig
adier general. President Lincoln bre
vetted him major general for conspicuous
gallantry in tihe battle of Murfreesboro.
As engineer he has managed many great
worlis and was engaged as chief engi
neer in the construction of the Kentucky
Union railroad when appointed to his
present position. In 1880 he was a can
didate for sheriff of Wayne county, in
which Detroit is situated, but was de
feated. He has a son and daughter, and
his family has recently lived at Pine
ville, Ky. The Duffields are a long lived
and hardy race, and though 70 years
old the general is quite vigorous.
TALKED WITH THE GRAND LAMA.
Dr. IIcnmoldt Is the Only White Mfan to
Claim That Distinction.
Dr. Heinrich Hensoldt is said to be
the only white man who has conversed
with the Hindoo
Dalai Lama, or
alleged incarna
tion of Bodhi
Sattva, the ava
tar, andcommnon
ly called the
grand lama.
Now, if the doc
tor were a mere
adventurer, his
story might be
passed as a ro
S mance, but he is
DR. HENSOLDT. a very eminent
scholar, proficient in a dozen languages,
and before going to India was for six
years lecturer on geology in Columbia
college. When Dr. Goldschmidt started
on his tour of exploration in Ceylon in
1875, he took Dr. Hensoldt with him
because of the latter's knowledge of
Sanskrit, the sacred language of India
and parent of the Brahmanical and Hin
doostanee tongues as well as of Pracrit,
Poll and other local dialects. He quali
fled as a Hindoo devotee and determined
to penetrate Tibet. The great plain of
that country in which stands Lassa,
the religious capital, is some 12,000
feet above sea level, and many months'
residence is necessary to enable a low
lander to travel there and breathe with
comfort. To this difficulty must be add
ed the fierce determination of the people
to exclude unbelievers. In 1845 two
French missionaries in disguise reached
Lassa and returned, but did not see the
grand lama. Others have lost their lives
in the attempt. For unknown ages the
visible deity has dwelt in the golden
temple unseen, save by his priests.
When one dies, his successor is at once
made known by the priests. He is al
ways a boy of less than 10 years, sup
posed to be divinely selected, and when
the divinity enters him he at once names
the day of his death.
Dr. Hensoldt, disguised as a Hindoo,
reached the city, and the Dalai Lama
sent for him. The doctor found the
deity a boy of 7.or 8 years, yet the lat
ter addressed him at once in German.
"The lama, " says the doctor, "speaks
every tongue. Usually he did not wait
for me to speak, but answered cmy
thought just as if I had spoken. He dis
cussed botany, microscopy and various
other departments of modern science in
a way which made me, with my west
ern education, feel how small my knowl
edge was. A few days later I saw the
Dalai Lama again, and we talked as we
had done before, he answering my
thoughts. I went away with enough
food for thought to last me many years."
We can easily believe that last. The
doctor witnessed all the Hindoo mir
acles and thinks their priests have got
on the inside of nature's law and mas
tered the occult.
A Pomiological WVonder.
A queer case of natural cross fertili
zation is reported front Anjou, France.
A grapevine, which grows in close
proximity to a large apple tree of the
russet variety, has developed a full
bunch of small apples on the stem
which is usually set with grapes. There
are 2!) of these queer "grape apples" in
all, and they are so thickly set upon the
stemn that many of them, all, in fact,
except those growing at the ends, are
mashed out of shape, so that they are
ahlost as angular as corn grains. Each
of these freaks has its "blossom end"
like true apples, and in the fine speci
mncus which. have been examined 11
poorly developed apple seeds were found.
The pomologists of Europe are greatly
excited over the publication of the facts
relating to this queer case as they ap
peared in La Nature, and many who
have never attended a meeting of the
Imperial Pomological society will do so
this year in order to hear the curiosity
discussed. Those who have ever paid
any attention to fruit culture and know
how entirely dissimilar the blossoms of
grapevine and apple trees are will nat
urally doubt the genuineness of this
freak..-St. Louis Republic.
She Cured His Iliccoughs.
About a week ago an old man named
Wetherow was attacked with a violent
spell of hiccoughs, which kept up until
the doctors despaired of saving his life.
Wetherow's mother-in-law had heard
of an old fashioned way of curing hic
coughs, and she determined to make use
of it. Gun in hand, she managed to
creep without being detected under the
bed in which Wetherow lay, and when
she and the old man were left alone for
a moment she pulled the trigger.
In her agitation she forgot to aim for
the floor, in which the load might bury
itself in safety, and instead lht the dis
charge tear a hole through the mattress
on which Wetherow lay. The powder
burned the sick man's toes, and in a
rage he sprang from the bed, and drag
ging the woman from beneath proceed
ed to give her a sound beatilig. tn his
anger Wetherow forgot all about his
hiccoughs, andwhen the doctors called,
expecting to see a dying man, he was
dining, and they had only the mother
in-law's bruises to look after.-RTamer
(Ala.) Dispatch.
A Japanese Simile.
A bright young native of Japan who
is in business in this city camne into
The Express office the other evening to
learn the latest news about the war
between his country and China. He
speaks English with but a slight ac
cent, and his only difficulty in express
ing himself seems to be rather in a
limited vocabulary than in ability to
pronounce the words. He has the ut
most confidence in Japan's ultimate vic
tory, and when it was remarked to him
that China had a great advantage in
point of numbers he said:
"It's just like this: You have 100
conts-that's $1. I have a $1 bill.
That's only one. My one is as good as
your hundred."
This Japanese has evidently a full
appreciation of the advantages of civili
zation. His simile was a good one and
pretty nearly describes the situation.
Albany Express.
His Rletort.
The famous John Randolph of Roan
oko, as he was called in his day, once
met, while walking on a narrow pave
ment, a political opponent of his.
The man pushed rudely against Mr.
Randolph with his elbow, saying as he
did so, "I never make way for scoun
drels. "
"I do, " said John Randolph, stepping
to one side and making his most courtly
bow, as he allowed the man to pass.
"Cavlonedim of Anecdotes."
THE JAPANESE VICTORIES.
Yamnagata Arilcomo, an Oriental Von
Ioltke, Receives Credit For Them.
The series of extraordinary victories
gained by the Japanese prove that their
ariny is remarka
bly well organ
ized or that the
Chinese are mis
erably poor fight
crs. The Chinese
nation seems to
be in a sort of
Sdissolving proc
ess, the govern
lment weakl and
the people dissat
isfied, and there
COUNT YAMAGATA. fore lacking in
patriotism. Japan, on the other hand,
has all the vigor of youth and a newly
reorganized nation. Her people are unit
ed and enthusiastic and her army dis
ciplined and trained up to the European
standard. As Li Hung Chang bhears the
disgrace in China, so Japan's most hon
ored official is Field Marshal Count Ya
magata Arikomo, who won the great
victory recently at Ping-Yang.
It is no exaggeration to call him the
Von Moltke of Japan. Ho is 47 years
old, tall for a Japanese and of slender
figure. His origin was quite humble, as
his father was of a caste which, in Ja
pan's feudal times, could not win high
rank. All that is now done away with,
and democratic policies prevail. Count
Yamagata has been in service or military
office since boyhood. His military edu
cation was completed in Europe, and
before attaining his majority he com
manded an army successfully. In 1864,
when the government was in a transi
tion state, the shogun, then the ruling
power, sent 20,000 men to chastise the
feudal lord of the Chosin province, but
with only 2,000 men Count Yamagata
defeated and scattered the 20,000 before
they reached Chosin.
In all the wars of the revolutionary
period he took an active part, and aft
er the complete suppression of all rebel
lions against the new government he
was made chief of staff of the Japanese
army. In 1890 he was made primo min
ister, but retired in May, 1891, when
the parliamentary system of govern
ment was fully introduced. Early in
the recent campaign he was sent to com
mand in Korea, whero he has shown re
markable ability. Of the four Japanese
field marshals he is the only one not of
princely birth.
AN AMIABLE HOSTESS.
lMrs. Morton Gained That Reputation In
Washington and Paris.
The Mortons of Ellerslie-on-Hudson
would be the title of one of New York's
most prominent citizens and his family
just now if we were only a little more
English. As it is, they are credited to
Rhinecliff, the station near their beau
*,
MRS LEVI P. MORTON.
tiful home. It is in politics only that
Loevi P. Morton outranks his wife, for
as one draws nearer to Rhinceliff he
hears less of the statesman and a great
deal more of Mrs. Morton. When he
was vice president, she nade his honme
noted in Washington, and when he was
minister to France La Belle Mme.
Morton, as the Parisians called her, was
one of the social lights of the city. Her
beauty and taste in dress, her wit and
fluency in the French tongue gave her a
social standing no American lady had
attained there.
Her father was William L. Street of
Poughkeepsie, and she was married to
Mr. Morton in 1873. His first wife died
in 1871 without children, but the pres
eut Mrs. Morton is blessed with five at
tractive daughters, ranging in age from
11 to 20. They have been thoroughly
taught, especially in languages, their
motller being quite a linguist. Ini Wash
iungton they were noted for their general
proficiency, and at Ellerslie their studies
are continued unde? a French governess.
Especially is their physical welfare
looked after. They ride and drive, romp
and take prescribed exercises in the
open air and are in addition taught do
mestic duties. Mrs. Morton gives mi
nute attention to household affairs.
Flatterers are prone to exaggerate the
attractions of ladies whose husbands are
high in office, but Mrs. Morton's beauty
was noted before her husband became
prominent. She is slightly above the
medium height, with a figure of great
beauty, and her arms and neck are es
pecially well formed. Her complexion
is fair, her eyes blue gray, and her light
brown hair shows a silver tint here and
there She owns to 46 years, but her
youthful voice and face, without a
wrinkle, would indicate less. In Paris
her drawing rooms were the common
meeting ground of royalists, republic
ans and imperialists, Catholics, Protes
tants and free thinkers, and all were
pleased with their hostess.
A CONVENTION OF MOTHERS.
It Decides That a Boy Is More of an Ani
mal Than a Girl.
Seven hundred women recently held
a national convention of mothers in Chi
cago to discuss
matters pertain
ing to the prob
lem of teaching
the young idea
how to shoot and
were so well
pleased with the
results of their
deliberations
that they decided
/ to meet annually
i .hereafter and ex
c1 change v i e w s.
The convocation
was held pursu
ant to a call is
S. sued by the Chi
cago Kindergar
MRS. J.N. N CROUS. ten college and
was presided over by Mrs. J. N. Crouse,
president of the Kindergarten associa
tion. Almost every state of the union
and several territories were represented.
The range of subjects discussed was a
wide one and included about everything
from the subtle effects of prenatal in
fluence upon the baby mind to the del
eterious effects of candy between meals
upon the baby stomach.
One doting mamma created a sensation
by declaring that she put her baby in a
bag at night, but the sensation died out
ing the youngster from kicking off his
clothes and acquiring a bad attack of
the over musical colic. Another muther
said that her 6-year-old boy had brokelr
up about everything in the house except
the kitchen range, which he was still
at work on, and she wanted to know if
any girl could be such a "terror" as
that boy. "Or is a boy more of an ani
mal than a girl?" she asked.
As there were 700 women and only
about a doCzen scared men in the hall,
the convocation found no difficulty in ar
riving at the conclusion that not oldy
boys of 6, but boys of from 6 to 60, are
somehow "nearer to primitive nature
than are girls and women."
Dr. Norman Bridge caused a flutter
in motherly hearts by declaring the
somewhat iconoclastic doctrine that
fruit was not good for growing children
and that candy was better. Dr. W. W.
Jaggard, a specialist in gynecology, also
made the interesting statement that it
was impossible for a woman to inlun
enco the character and appearance of
her child before birth, save by proper
attention to hygienic rules. Amoug the
interested spectators at the convention
were several babies who attempted to
infornmally address thle meeting now and
then, but were either promptly silenced
or carried from the hall.
Lowell and Poe.
Lowell's friendship with Poe was not
destined to good fortune. There had
been mutual good will and respect, with
kindly offices on both sides. The con
nection of Poe with Briggs in the edito
rial conduct of The Broadway Journal
was the occasion of an exchange of
views and facts between Briggs and
Lowell which left Poo's reputation very
much impaired in Lowell's judgment.
Poe's admiration for "the author of
'Rosaline,' " on the other hand, did not
survive the lines in "The Fable For
Critics,"'' in which his own portrait was
not inaptly drawn. After Lriggs ceased
to be his coeditor Poe attacked Lowell
as a plagiarist, and thile latter expressed
his resentment, at length in a passage to
be found in his published "Letters."
Lowell, too, had lately met Poe, just
recovering from a spree, and the im
pression thoun received was sufficient of
itself to terminate their relations.
A short time after, in October, 1845,
occurred the public scandal of Poe's
visit to Boston to read a poem before
the Boston lyceum, which confirmed
him in his lifelong dislike of the Bos
tonians. Later, in an unpublished letter
to Mr. F. W. Thomas early in 1849,
Poe denounced Lowell with some con
tempt and made a public disclosure of
his changed attitude by an unfavorable
review of "The Fable For Critics" in
The Southern Literary Messenger in
February of that year.--Scribner's Mag
azine.
How Hlindoos Use Their Feet.
Strangers in India are usually a good
deal surprised at the curious ability pos
sessed by the Hindoos to use their feet
and toes in various industrial occupa
tions. In the native quarters of the
towns it is no uncommon sight to see a
butcher seize a piece of meat in his
hands and cut it in two with a stroke
of his knife held between the first and
second toes of his foot. The shoemaker
uses no last, but turns the unfinished
shoe with his feet, while his hands are
busy in shaping it. The carpenter also
holds the board he is cutting with his
great toe, and the wood turner uses his
tools as well with his toes as his hands.
Sensitive to Impressions.
First Fly-Did it ervd occur to you
that baldheaded men have a keener
sense of humor than others?
Second Fly-Well, I have noticed
that they seem to be easily tickled.
Indianapolis Journal.