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PAGE rotf T H I CALUMET NEWS TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1912. ' 1 HE CALUMET NEWS Foun.e.i 1880. wuLV KXCKP'l SCNlAAY. Pubbansd By Th MINING GAZETTE CO. AT CALUMET. MICHIGAN M. W Young. Editor W M Lyon Bus Mgr lit ion m th Printline it. . . n Fifth Street t'alnmw. Michigan an. aa Second Claws Mall Matter TELEPHONES BusinaM office 209 Editorial -oom 4 HANCOCK OFFICE: Elka' Temple Phona 312 HOUGHTON OFFICE Pt.sns ISt r E R MS OF SUBSCRIPTION. By Mail or Carriar TVr var (In advance) IS.oc v vear (not in a dvance) . . . . I.0' m.r oi.inth 80 -mgle iasut Old subscribers wishing to change tt .ir irpHci must furnish old aa u.-ll as new addresses in each instance NVw subscription may be ordered by telephone, mail or carrier, or in ,r,.n at the company's office Complaints or Irregularity In deliv ery will receive prompt and thorough Investigation. TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 20. 1912. it vould be suicidal to nominate QofV Harmon. aV -cording to Bill Bryan ai") Bill is an expert on political sul ci. le. In fixing the tolls for the Panama canal It behooves Congress to remem ber that the canal has not been dug for the special benefit of Europe. It may surprise us to hear that eggs sell for 5 cents a dozen In China, but when we reflect that the average Chi naman has to work half a day to earn that much, the price does not look so lo-.v. The announcement by Henry Clews that the railroad) are preparing to spend sixty Millions In new equipment end lmprr. ements is a pretty good In- r ,. . .... j, , c onfidence In the world. Recognizing that It Is the right of every voter to express his choice of a presidential candidate In his part Hancock eity Republican committee at its meeting yesterday afternoon en dorse.! ;.ernir "shorn for railing n special session of the legislature t pass uch a measure. A presldentla primary will afford the only true tei of public sentiment. It will give the majority the right to assert Its au thority, whereas under the ..invention fstOUl the minority might easily rule Oovernor Hiram Johnson of Califor nia and fJifford Plnehot, boih hereto fore ardent supporters of Senator La Fnllette for the presidency, have come out strongly for the nomination of Col. Roosevelt at the Chicago con vention in June, Like many others w h' have ' hanged their min is of late ns regards candidates, they no doubt will he called "wobblers" and critici 7d for 'flopping," but. in ur opinion. Un r Mtlaa shows the growing strength of the RMsWVOM movement among the Republican oters. and that tl- r u-r.ize in him a leader who eoul' party to victory. )-T ft. .f KW Jersey. Supre:r;- bench sterday. besides j aW jurist, is fourth Xew This dis- V bV M and 1K Oui.ffcr fats? be me a Nw J bbsssj Kw4r-u i 'jnif tic if: JJrVl mtA i HKi a p in ted by Ouwmm' Kart tu be hsn- ie state, Lbe e a J. r.v. I. I'M, i ,.)...,, n b ,t .... thing h it .. S:jan 'i'-:: Htl'l th.K te ll MIL I t .,..k -,VIT the ).,.. . r MMk and because It wants the f'nited Ft.tteM to arree to in bit ration of fh !'l!er. t,. s m ,..s , . e. ,) that S"i i.ii Knox will not visit Colom bia on his teur of tlo eoiintrb-H alonv the Car;ll.enn Sea. In f.ther wordf t li iff great log. powerful governno tit oi ours Is going to snub poor little Colom bia bcaiiso It. has the temerity to stand up for its rights. If we hv done Colombia, an injustice and cheated it In that Panama, affair arbitratlot would lead to rejMiratlon. Just why th I'nited States should not be willliks; t enter into an investigation of thn mat ter Is hard to understand, even though the xt.it" di kiii rron t Uiima the differ ences growing out of th partition ot pan in i were wholly l i a. eri Pinam;' j'ii'1 ( olombia and that the I'nited fttstea haa nothing to arbitrate-. HIS F'RT thousand. A v,r Interesting contest wn centl conducted b the Duluth Her lh.' .uetion. the heat answer to hbf. as sought, was this What ought a young man to do with ihe first thou sand dollar he haa saved up? The answers covered a wUk rang of wise auggeation. but flve-slxt)is of them advised the punhaae of Luid In some form. Some of these sugges- iions were tor tne acquisition of a home, but the best one& were those that advised buying a pood pt.ve of farm land, fertile and well situated with reference to transportation facili ties It is a good sign of the time, this land hunger. It mean much for the .-r of tlatt balance between pro duction and consumption which mean' general prosperity. Me have somehow Hot that delicate balance out of kil ter. We have rushed to the cities and .'oined the gretu army of consumers. Meanwhile the army of producers has - ;ftVt' (1 .1.-. i- "ii Th.- result i. costl living for those who consume, and great profits for those who pro duce. What more prudent, then, than for the young man to enlist among the producers ? HOW MANY HAVE YOU? It takes thirty-nine suits of clothes to make a man, according to the Na tional Association of Merchant Tail ors. I hi- ( stimate. l araiditas::, the old opera idea that "It Takes Nine Tailors to Make a Man," will be par ticularly interesting to those two-thtr ty-nlnths of men who make up the n ajor portion of the population. Here is the list of togs that the a rimers sav one must possess in or der to be a member of the smart set: Six Batch suits, four business cuts ways, two dress suits, two dress cut a ways, four suits of flannels, one rag lan suit, one Norfolk suit, two v..k- end suits, one camping, one yachting one full dress yacht, one informal yacht, one riding frock, one riding sack, one riding full dres-, one hunt ing, one polo, one fishing, two ten nls, one golf, two double-breasted frock coats, two double-breasted sack coats. f o'irse. If one doesn't play golf, he might utilize the golf suit for wear while feeding the furnace, and the yachting suit, for the yachtless. might he donned while helping friend wife with the dinner dishes. Folks that 'i n t ' are a hang about fishing can get into thi fishing suit when the watc oipe bleaks In the cellar, and it is 'lulte possible to play pinochle In a tennH par want, providing you know anything about the game. Tailors are not really concerned about the occasion for wearing th- lothes. but they are unanimous that nobody who Is anybody can hope to be long unless he has the entire 39 suits on tup, ready for social In spec tiop. NOW UP TO CONGRESS. According ta a ruling handed dowr hy the C S. Supreme court yesterday, enly onresa arwj not the Supreme ''ourt may object to the initiative and lef.rendum method of legislation lr the states. The court holds that the queatior M whether a state still maintained a P.'-p-ihhran form of government. a if,. Federal constitu tion, after it adopted the Initiative and r-fet-endTJtii method, was a politl ; r sMaga fr 'ongress and not a judicial on for th court. The decision was based on the claim of the Pacific States Telephone A Tel. egrHpri compaair that a lax upon It. :n.poed by the initiative and n feren- dum method In Oregon, was uncon- titutionaJ. The Initiative and refer ' nrfurn povisiomi in Missouri, Califor nia, Arkansas Colorado Kuth Dako a. I.'tah, Monuna, Oklahoma, Maine it.'l Ariuttut. bung In the balance. An advera de'laton would have affected yropoaM pagialation or that chanscter in many other states. Chief Juatlct ar.' our ed th dwlsion of the "urL None of the Justices dissented. Th- question Is one that deala with state rights and It is doubtful whether '.'ortgress will want to pr- Ipltate a dls ussion of it snd open a controversy, heh win is? productive only of great ttttsraess. The initiative and referen tatM is opijlar in th states which ;.ae :wlo,t.j Lbe nothoil. and many other states are working In the direc tion of similar le-gi slat ion. It l a neihod thai has to do with the) affairs if the state Itself, and It appears, rtaht i Ml proper that . a. h utate should be permitted tf, determine Just how and :y what means its own laws shall be initiated arid adopted. AN ANALYSIS OF THE ELECTORIAL VOTES BY STATE8. Tne real purpose or the campaign next fall Is tho election of a Republl an to the presidency of the I'nltel States (n November. To accomplish that ought to be the first object of the National Convention at Chicago in June. In only twctitv -three of the forty- A Prison Prison, Not a Palace With H PRISON HAS TO BE A PRISON, NOT A LIBRARY WITH A SMOKING ROOM AND VALETS ATTACHED TO IT NOR A PALACE WITH SERVANTS. JAIL- ERS AND HAVE TO BE JAILERS. HUMBLE HANDMAIDENS. IS PUT INTO JAIL BECAUSE HE NEEDS PUN ISHMENT AND BECAUSE SOCIETY DOESN'T NEED HIM NOT RUNNING AT LARGE, ANY WAY. J 1 1- jnir.i-liiiHMit U prose ribed" by the law, nd his JAILER IS THERE TO CARRY UL T THE PKESCKllTIOX, not to upset, on his own the combined wisdom of the legislature, the gov ernor and i he oOftf of Jaw. If he will treat tho criminal like a man, give him a square deal, impose no unwarranted hardships, inflict no cruel or unjust punishments, cherish no grudges simply givo tho criminal his CHANtK TO II A K E GOOD AS A MAX INSIDE PBI80jN WAI LS where he wouldn't makr good outside the jailer is doing what the state asks of him and just as much as society and humanity should expeet of him. Tho erimiual may be an unfortunate, but the jailer isn't employed to part his hair and feed him pap. TEACHING, FAIR TREATMENT. GOOD FOOD AND CARE AND. BEST OF ALL, HONEST HARD WORK WILL TRANSFORM A BIG PERCENTAGE OF THESE PRISONERS INTO GOOD CITIZENS. ABLE AND WILLING TO DO THEIR WORK IN THE WORLD. AND THIS IS THE PROBLEM OF EVERY PRISON IN THE COUNTRY, OLD AND NEW. eisht states is the administration now in th. hands ! the Republieans. The states which have Republican asssajfajH ors. with their vote in the electorlal oBafM are: California. 13; Delaware, 3; Illinois, Iowa, 13; Kansas. 10; Maryland. K ; Michigan. Si Minnesota. It; Misaou ri, 13; Nebraska, J New Hampshire, 1; New Mexico. 3; Nevada. 3; IVnn rlvanla, 3S; Rhode Island, .". ; Sotith Dakota, 5; Tennessee. U; Itah, 4; ermont. 4; Washington. 7; West Vlr tlnia, s; Wlsconsta, 13; and Wyoming, S. Total, L'3R. There will he 331 vot. s in the el. torial 'cillf.-. making net-t-ssarv to choir.. f th' Republicans can hold the states in which they now have the 'ov.riiorship, they will need only 8 additional votes to carry the next residential election. Normally the Republican can be expected to carry all these stut. I mass Maryland and Tennessee. Deducting the twenty votes of these two states haves L'lS l.'l,, rial voles, which under normal oittfitlona, the Republicans would b reasonably sure of carrying. Hut the OMfdittOM this year are v. r, far from normal. The governor of Kansas, Michigan, Missouri. Nebraska, New Hampshire, South Dakota. West Virginia and Wyoming have openlv 'lned the movement for the n.. initia tion ..f Colonel Roosevelt. The aggre gate electoral votes of thee state 1 seventy -one. In seven other states which now have RapotHlcan governors Califor nia. Illinois, Iowa. Mineaota, New Mex- ". Washington and Wisconsin there I also decide,! opposition to President Taft. These states have an aggregate of ninety electorlal votes This puts one hundred plxty-one ;il votes from the fifteen nor mally Republican states into the doubtful" column the moment Prea- Ident Taft is declared the nominee of the Chicago convention. In case the nominee at Chicago Is o. net Kooseveit. mere is no reason se that he would fail to car any one of these Republican states with the exception of Maryland and Ti asee. He would be assured of least .'IS electorlal vot.s to stirt with. It would be neeoss-ary for him then in order to carry the .lection to win In other states an aggregate of nly 48 electorlal votes. The Roosevelt fight, therefore, would have fo be made In northern states which now have Democratic adminis tration. There are twelve of these s.tates Colorado, with six electorlal votes; Connecticut, 7; Idaho. 4; In- diHiia. 1..; Maine, 5; Massachusetts, 18; Montana. 4; New Jersey. 14; New York. 13; North Dakota. 5; Ohio. 24; and ' lo gon, 6. Total 1."3. On the showing made In the last three national campaigns, e very one of thes State, ought to be easily Re publican. Mr. Taft lost Colorado and Nebraska In 1W8. but Col. Roosevelt OW Colonist One -Way Rates to California, Oregon March 1 ma' Must Be a Servants By ROBERT M'KENTY, Warden of the Eastern Penitentiary, Pennsylvania NOT NURSES A CRIMINAL carried both easily in 1904. On any figuring which can be made in regard to the twelve states now administered by Deni... ratio governors, if would be easy for Col. Roosevelt to win the forty-eight votes necessary in addition to the 21S fron states thai are at present Republican, to carry them to victory. He . otild win without Indiana. OMo New York. New Jersev and GMMMajtl cut combined. To do so he would have to hold the states now Republi can except Maryland and Tennessee and carry. In addition, the New Kngland states of Main, and Massa chusetts, which have never failed th Republican party in a presidential campaign. And the estern states of Colorado, Idaho. Montana, North Da kota. Oregon, In all of which he is ex 04 pt iotially strong. State Politics Got, ( inborn is rapidly making friends for PresJdeol Taft. -Detroit Free Press. And the Detroit l-Yee Press is rapid ly making friends tor Gov. Osborn. IVtosky Bford, Railroad I 'onimissioner Iawton T. H.-man.s has been in Washington and I dispatch from the capitol city credits him with saying that he did not think Nation.,, t omniitteeinan Kd wln O. Wood could be prevailed upon to make the run for governor on th" Democratic ticket. He exjiressed a similar opinion In regard to Con gressman Dorenius of Detroit. "Praise Tall: silent on governor." Taft sure of nsinillllWUlnfj " '(oose velt boom d.ving down." Where tlo we get these headline? h. nowhere. Just where we got those familiar one:., "Huitows sleeping the state." "No Tow nsend sent mi. in in sight." "Dcnby will have. 1,000 ma lorlty." "Laborers, ten to one for franchise." And the com edy goes On. OetroH Now. "THIS DATE IN HISTORY." 1716 DavUI Qarrick, famous Kng llsh actor, born. Died Jan. 20. 177H. 1772 Royal Marriage Act passed b the British parliament. ISSt After moat heroic isfeooa, SaiagosH, Spain, .surrendered to the French. 1835 Sir Robert Hart, for many years Director Oeneral of Chinese Iin pOTtel Customs, born In Ireland. Died In London. Sept. 20. 1911. 18f2 a'lrst through train from the east, via the Michigan Southern rail-I'-ad. aJStgred Chicago. ls.a; Packet ship "John Rutlcdgc,-' from l.lveriwol to New York, collided with an iceberg and was lost with ISO 'aslhiinffton. Etc. to April 15 Variable Route Full particular at ticket offices Chicago and North Western Railway The House of the Whispering Pines By ANNA KATHARINE GREEN Copyright UlP. by Anna Roolfa Continued From Pane Three. Here li i swear It. here and now. by your sister Caruiol's sacred disfigure- iiK'ut. Such depravity could not exist as such a row from the lips guilty of tho crime you charge uie with. Look at me, Arthur, i cousidered you; uow consider me." (Juickly be stepped back. "Enter," aid lie. It was some minutes laterI cannot say bow mnny that one of tbe serv ants disturbed us by asking if we knew anything about Zadok. "lie bas not come borne," said be, "and bere Is a man who wants him." "What man 7" asked Arthur. "Ob. that detective chap. He never will leave us alone." 1 arose. In an instant enlighten ment bad come to me. "It's nothing," said 1. witb my eyes on Carmel, but the gesture 1 furtively made Arthur said otherwise. A few minutes later we were both in the drlvewny. "We are on the brink of a surprise," 1 whispered. "1 think 1 understand this Sweet wnter now." Zadok could not be found, lie was wanted by tbe district attorney, who wished to put some questions to blm. Were there any objections to bis searching tbe stable loft for Indications of her passengers. 184 Oonfc.MM -a tea under jen. Kln nigiin .b leated He KederulM under ! n Seymour at i Uiistee, b'la. 1 s?s '.'irdinal I'. cci eh ctod I'umk m Leo xxn 181MI President Harrison duplicated thg Carnegie Library In A llei;lieiiv , I'a 18!K Court of inquiry began Its In vest ig.it Ion Into the destruction of the battleship Maine. GRAND CONCERT Red Jacket Congregational Church Thurs, Night, Feb. 22 at 8 o'clock UNDER THE AUSPICES Of THE YOUNG PEOPLES GUILD PROGRAM. Piano solo Miss CroBfr, Vocal solo, selected M is:, Mildrid Rom dahL Sid. ction Miss KoniMdahl's C.l Club. Vo, alsdo. selected Miss Mabel Lid. dicost. Selection - Miss Romstlahl d Club. . Intermission (5 mln ). Piano solo .Miss (Jregg. Itass Bedouin Love Song (Cir. utl) Mr. C. . .lackola. Beleottogj MisH RomaslaiU's Club. U"ss- lledoifin L(le Song (Clei Kins. C.le Pln- Ole. Pin- Vocal sob. Mb Mildrid Horn -dalil. Admission 25 cents. fALUMET THEATRE Saturday and Sunday LTCDDIMDV Oil QC Matinee ILUMUHMI ZH-Zd Saturday Hunting from an Aeroplane PERIL8 OF CLIMBING THE ALPS ABOVE THE CLOUDS OFFICIAL -EXCLUSIVE INSPIRING SCENES OF "OUR NAVY" THRILLING HORSEMANSHIP TRIP THROUGH ITALY HYDROPLANE FLIGHTS VOLCANIC ERUPTION OUR ANIMAL FRIENDS 20 OTHER BIG FEATURES Pnicea 25c, 35c, 50c Mat.nat, Adulta 25c. ran 15o. of bis whereabouts? Arthur made none, and the delectlve, wItu 'he col'' but Just as deterraln after sending the Cumberlands- second ed 08 vrer 'Come,' I whispered; I man before mm to light up the stable. : 0Bvn found way.' dlsappeiireil beneath the great Uoor. j "sl,e ave me ner hand, and I led windier we more slowly follow. him n?r around to tbe shod. She was like "Not here!" came lu s shout troiu sn,,w womnn. and ber touch was above as we stepped In from tbe night lco llMe,f- 'Walt till I get a hoi or air, and In a tew minutes the detective b8"1 or something.' I gaid. Hunting came running down the stulra, battled ; aLout. I found s box leaning against nnd very ill at ease. Suddenly be en- I kitchen side. and. bringing it, i countered my eye. "Oh. 1 kno rr ho fried nnd started for tbe gate. "I am going to follow him." I con fided to Arthur. "Look for me nln tonight, or at least expect a message. If fortune favors us, as 1 now expect, we two shall sleep toolgbt as we have ! not slept for months." And. waltlug for no answer, not even to see If be comprehended my meaning, i made a ', run for tbe gate uud soon came up with Sweetwater. "To the cemetery?" I asked. "Yes; to tbe cemetery." And there we found bim in tbe same place where we bad seen blm before, but not in the same position. He was ! sunken now to tbe ground, but his face was pressed against tbe rails, and in his stiff, cold band was clutcbed a let ter wblcb afterward we rend. Let It be read by you here. It will explain the mystery which came near destroying tbe lives ot more than Ade laide: "No more unbnppy wretch than I goes to his account. 1 killed ber who hud shown me only goodness und will be the death of others If 1 do not con fess my dreadful, my unsuspected se cret This Is how It happened. 1 can not gve reasons. 1 cannot even ask for pardon. "That nlghL Just as I was preparing to leave the stable to Join the other servants on their ride to Tlbbltt's hall, the telephone Mg, nnd I beard Miss Cumberland's voice. 'Zadok.' she said, and at first I could hardly understand her, 'I am In trouble. I want help, and you are the only one who can aid roe.' "I had been with her mnny years, and I loved ber ns well as I could love anybody, though yon won't think It wbeu I tell you my whole story. What she wanted was this: 1 was to go to tbe ball Just as If nothing bad happened, but I was not to stay there. As soon as I could 1 was to slip out, get a carriage from some nearby sta ble and hurry back ur the road to meet her and take her where she would tell me or. If I did not meet her, to wait two bouses below hers till she came along. She would not want me long and very soon I could go back nnd have as good a time as I pleased. Hut ehe would like me to bo secret for her errnnd was not one for gossip, even among her own servants. I even tried to do better and be even more becret about it than she expected. Instead of going to a Rtable, I took one of the rigs which I found fastened up In the big shed nlongslde the ball. and. being so fortunnte as not to attrnct anybody's attention by this business, I was out on tiie road and hnlf way to the Whis pering Pines before rielen and Magglo could wonder wby 1 bad not asked them to dance. "A few minutes later I was on the hill, for tbe horse I bad chosen was a fast one. ni.d ) was Just turning Into our stt n " hpn I was passed by Mr. Arthur" fcui.v mare and cutter. This made me pull up for a minute, for I hadn't expected this, but on looking ahead and seeing Miss Cumberland peering from our own gateway I drove qalckly on nnd took ber up. "I was not so much astonished as yon would think to be ordered to fol low fast after the mare and cutter nnd to stop where It stopped. That was all she wanted to follow that cutter nnd to stop where it stopped. Well. It stopped at the clubhouse, and when she snw It turn In there I heard her give a little gnsp. " 'Walt.' she whispered. 'Walt till she has hnd time to get out and go In. Then drive In. too, and help mo to find my way Into the building after her." "And then I knew It was Miss Car mel we had ooen rotlowlug. Before 1 thought It was Mr. Arthur. "Presently sbe pulled me by tbe sleeve. 'I beard tbe door shut,' said she, and I was a little frightened at her voice, but 1 was full of my Im portance and went on doing Just as he bade me. Driving in after the cutter. I drew up Into the shadows, where tho gray mare was bid. and then, reaching out my hand to Miss Cumberlnnd. I helped ber out and went with her as far as the door. 'You may go back now.' said she. 'If I survive the night I shall never for get this service, my good Zndok.' And I saw her lift her hand to the door, then fall bnck. white and trembling. In the moonlight. 'I can't.' sbe whis pered over nnd over. "I enn't I can't' "Shall 1 knock T I asked. " 'No, no.' sbe whispered back. I wnnt to go In quietly. Let's see If there's no other way. Run about the house. Zadok. I will submit to any humiliation, only find me some en trance other than this.' She was slinking so nnd her face looked so ghastly in tbe moonlight that I was w his sTirr. cold hanm was oldtohbo A i i n i it afraid to leave her. But she made mo a gesture of such command thnt I ran quickly down tbe steps and so round the house till I raroe to a shed over tbe top of which I saw a window partly open. "Could I get her up on lo the hort? I thought I could nnd went hurrying! back to the Mf entrance where I bad I left her hc was still there, shiver I ueipen ner up ana soon had her on a level with the window. "As she made her way in sbe turned and whispered to me: 'Go bnck now. Carmel has a horse and will see m bouie. lou have served me well Zu dok.' "I nodded, nud sbe vanished Into the darkness. Then I should have gou but my curiosity was too great I wnnted to know Just a little more. Two women In this desolate and Litter ly cold clubhouse! Wbut did It mean? "I could not restrain myself from following her in and listening for u few minutes io what they bad lo siiy. But I did not catch much of it, and when I heard other sounds from some place below and recognized these sounds ;:s a man's heavy footsteps com log up tbe rear stairs I got a fright at being where 1 should not be aud slipped into the first door 1 found, ex pelling this man to come out and Join the ladio "Hut be did not. He Just lingered for a moment in the hall 1 bad left; theu I heard blm clamber out of the win dow and go. I now know that this was Mr. Arthur. Hut I did not know It then, and 1 wns frightened for the horse I hnd run off with and so got out of tbe building as quickly as I could. "Aud all might yet have been well if I bad not found lying un Ihe snow at the foot of the shod n bottle of whisky such ns I hnd never drunk and ihd not know how to resist Catching it Op. I ran nbout tbe bouse to wbere I hnd left my rig. It wns safe, and In my relief nt finding It 1 knocked off Hfl head of tbe bottle and took a long drink. "Then I drank again; then I sat down In tbe snow nnd drank again. In short, 1 nearly finished it; then I became coufused. I looked at the piece of broken bottle in my hand, took a faucy to Its shape and, breaking off a bit more, thrust It Into one of my big pockets; then I staggered up to the horse, but 1 did not untie him. "Curiosity seized me again, and I thought I would take another look nt t o ladies perhaps they might want i e perhaps i was pretty well con Msed. but I went buck and crawled once more Into the window. "This time the plnce wns silent not a sound, not a breath but 1 could see n faun glimmer of light I followed i'-ih glimmer. Still there wns uo t- .und. "1 came to an open door. A couch vns before me, ben pod with cushions. A long ray of moonlight had shot In t trough a communicating door, and I room see everything by It This was whore the ladles mid been when I lis tened before, but they were not here now. "Weren't they? Why did I tremble so. then, nnd stare and stare at those cushions? Why did I feel I must pull them away, ns I presently did? 1 was mud with liquor nnd might easily hnve imagined what I there saw, but I did not think of this then I believed whnt 1 snw Instantly. Miss Cumberland was dend. und I hnd discovered the crime. She hnd killed herself no; sbe hnd been killed! "Should I yell out murder? No. no: I could be sorry without that. I would not yell. Mistresses were plenty. I hnd liked her, but i need not yell. There was something else I could do. "She had a ring on ber finger a ring that for months I had gloated over aud watched as I bad never watched and gloated over any other beautiful thing in my life. 1 wanted It I bad alwnys wanted It. It wns before me for the taking uow. I should be u fool to leave It there for some other wretch to pllfor. 1 had loved ber. I would love the ring. "Reaching down. I took It I drew it from ber finger. 1 put It In my pocket 1 Cod In heaven, the eyes I hnd seen glassed In denth were look ing at mel "Sbe was not dead; she had been witness of the theft Wlibout a thought ot what I wns doing my hands closed round her throat. It was drink, fright, terror at the look she gave me. which made me kill hor, uot my real elf. My real self could have shrieked when In another lustant i saw my work. "But shrieking would not bring her back, and It would quite ruiu me. Miss Cnrmel was somewhere near. 1 heard her now nt the telephone. In another minute she would come out aud meet me. I dared uot linger. "Tossing back the pillows. I stum bled from tbe place. Why 1 was not benrd by my young mistress I do not know. Her ears were deaf. Just as my eyes were half blind. In a half hour I wns dancing with the mnlds. telling tbem of the pretty stranger with whom I had been sitting out an hour of fun In a quiet corner. They believed me, and not a particle of suspicion has any man over hnd of me since. t "But others have bad to suffer, and that has made hell of my nights. 1 re stored the ring to my poor mistress, but even thut brought harm to one 1 had no quarrel with. But be bas es caped conviction, and if 1 thought Mr. Ranclagb would also escape 1 might have courage to live out my miserable life and seek to make amends In the way she would have me. "But I fear for blm. I fear for Miss Carmel. Never could I testify in sn- otber trinl which threatened her pence of mind 1 see thnt. instead of being the selfish stonier of her sister's happi ness, ns 1 had thought, sbe is an angel from whom all future sutteriog should be kept "This is my way of spaying her. Ter haps It will help her sister to forgive me when we meet In tbe world to whlch 1 0,n now Wing.'' Tn" Rra- ,