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NEVADA COUNTY PICAYUNE C. B. ANDREWS. Editor & Publisher. PRESCOTT - - - - ARKANSAS Mr. Barnes, American By Archibald Clavering Gunter A Sequel to Mr. Barnes of New York & Actiior of "Mr. Barrier of New York," "Mr. Potter of Teaat," 'That Frenchman,” Etc. fojjt.iiii, nan. itocia Mean a <_o.. i. SYNOPSIS. Burton TT. Barnes, a wealthy American 'touring Corsica, rescues the young Eng lish lieutenant, Edward Goraril Anstruth cr, ami his Corsican bride, Marina, daughter of the Paolis. from the mur derous vendetta, understanding that Ids reward is to he the hand of the girl lie loves, Enid Anstruther. sister of the Eng lish lieutenant. The four ily from Ajac cio to Marseilles on hoard the French steamer Constantine. The vendetta pur sues and as the quartet are about to board the train for London at Marseilles, Marina is handed a mysterious note which causes her to collapse and necessi tates a postponement of the journey. Barnes g< ts part of the mysterious note and receives letters which inform him that iie is marked by tlie vendetta. He employs an American detective and plans to heat the vendetta at their own game. Bor the purpose of securing the safety of the women ltarnes arranges to have ' I„ady Chartris lease a secluded villa at Nice to which the party Is to be tasen in a yacht. Suspicion is created that Marina Is in league with the Corsicans. A man, believed to he Corregio Pam Ha, Is scon passing the house and Marina is thought to have given him a sign. Ma rina refuses to explain to Barnes which fact adds to ids latent suspicions. Barnes’ ?flans for the safety of the party are earned by the Corsicans. The carriage carrying their party to the local landing is followed by two men. One of the horsemen is supposed to he Corregio. They try to murder the American. The cook on the yacht—a Frenchman is sus pected of complicity in the plot. The party anchors at St. Tropez. The yacht Is followed by a small boat. The cook is detected giving signals to the boat. Barnes attempts to throw him overboard, but is prevented by Marina and Enid. The cook is found to be innocent of the •opposed plot anil is forgiven. The party arrive at Nice and find Lady Chartrls • nd her daughter Maud domiciled In the «-iila rented with Barnes’ money. Barms Is nmazed to find that Count Corregio is at Nice and is acting the role of admirer ■to Lndv Chartrls. Barnes and Enid make arrangements for their marriage. The net tightens about Barnes. He re ceives a note from I.a Belle Blackwood, the American adventuress. Barnes hears that Elijah Emory, his detective, has been murdered by the Corsicans. He learns that the man supposed to he Cor regio, who followed the par!y on their way to the boat, was Salieetl, a nephew ■ of the count, and that Count Corregio bad been In Nice for some time prior to •the party's arrival. The count warns Barms not to marry Enid unless he would have her also Involved in the mur i*erous feud. CHAPTER IX. The Coming of Danella. At the morning meal Barnes finds • the rest of the party growing excited over the approaching ceremony, and Maud telling them about her mald-of tuinor dress. “You'll have to lend me a pair of silk stockings, Enid, rries the putative infant. "I don t think l have any bang up enough •for the ceremony. They should be corkers. Mine show, yours don’t.” This oration is interrupted by Lady Chartris saying, insinuatingly: “Cou sin Burton, you must have had a pret ty long chat with the minister. I waited for you last evening till half past 11." A sly giggle from Maud sets Enid's blue eyes ablaze, though there’s a whimper on her sweet lips. "Yes, lots of details," replies Barnes, casually. “Did you have a pleasant outing with Cip, Cousin Pru Della?” "Of course 1 did, with such a cava iter.” You invited Count Danella to my wedding?" asks the American abruptly. “Of course 1 did," cries the widow, rapturously. “He accepted Immedi ately; said he was very anxious to meet you.” "The pleasure will be mutual,” ob serves Burton, grimly. Enid and her brother look at each other solemnly, but Marina's face, when she learns that Cipriano Danella lias accepted the invitation to the nuptials becomes so serious that iBarnes, after breakfast, takes her hus band aside and says: "Have you found out about that accursed letter?” “No, she begged me not to ask her. She sobbed it was for my happiness that 1 didn't know. You'll soon dis cover, llarnes." remarks Edwin mood: !y, "that you canuot do much with a ■bride when she turns on the hose and wvashes the matrimonial decks." This reminds Burton that he had •better not start his married life with a. secret, and getting Enid alone with bim, w hich isn't very difficult, he brief ly, hut pointedly, tells his fiancee of bis Interview with la Belle Blackwood. “Oh, Pm so glad you told me—so glad she's not all bad!" exclaims the girl. rewarding him with so rapturous a kiss that he is delighted he refused Sally's farewell salute. "I—I learned from Maud that you had received a letter from her," she adds, hesitat ingly. “You dldn t doubt me?” This issues in stern reproach from the lips of the Amoricau. "Oh, no, but—but uo secrets from •a* please," she entreats. "There s no real love without a little Jealousy;” then shudders: "And bo those villains killed poor Emory?” "I’m afraid so,” answers her lover, and his tone grows very solemn. “You see how remorselessly, how craftily we are pursued, that the haven of safety I had planned for you, dear i one, when I left you to put those ; devils forever out of the way, is now : known to them. You remember the awful threat against any woman who weds me. You've—you’ve no wish to delay our marriage?” His eyes are very eager. Her eyes answer his with equal pas sion. "No, on the contrary,” answers the resolute English girl, “I am re solved more than ever.” "Then may God never forgive me if I don’t save you from all harm,” mut ters the coming husband. "Yet we must take all precautions. Just try and see if you cannot do better than your brother.” “How?” asks Enid, eagerly. "The knowledge of the contents of that letter to Marina may be vital, not only for the happiness of her hus band and herself, but perhaps to the safety of all of us. See if you cannot in some woman's way get the informa tion of what it contained.” About an hour after this, Enid re turns and remarks disappointedly: "Not a word from Marina except that it was something entirely between her and her husband; that we would dis cover some day.” Then she blushingly asks: "Where are you going to take me after marriage?” This is a proposition upon which Barnes has been racking his brain. He rays, meditatively: “Supposing you and I go out on the yacht?” "What, alone together? Delightful, romantic!” "Not entirely. I shall take Graham and three seamen, to sail the schoon er. We’ll only be away two or three days.” "Two or three days of happiness,” whispers the girl, radiantly, and runs away to prepare for her coming uup tials. Barnes's own preparations occupy him most of the time till the cere mony, though he contrives to discuss his yachting plans with Edwin. “All right,” answers the sailor, "Graham can take care of the schooner as well as I. Yop leave me the bal ance of the Jackies and I'll guarantee everything's all a-taut when you come into port. I shall take no cruises into Nice. I have enough here to make me happy.” "If Emory should by any chance turn up,” remarks Barnes, "keep him with you to help you.” They are interrupted by the French cook, who has come on shore in the dingy bearing a magnificent wedding cake that he has manufactured in ri^ “Have You Found Out About That Accursed Letter?” the schooner’s galley. “My offering to your bride," remarks the culinary artist. “This will be the crowning glory of your noces, Monsieur Barnes. 1 am to cook for you on your wedding cruise. I must walk into Villefranche to get supplies.” The American is minded to call him back and caution the fellow to have a <iuiet tongue, but Maud breaks in upon him in all the glories of her child maid-of-honor frock, crying: "The notary is here and the minister has arrived." Soon alter tne party assent Dies in the parlor, which has been decked with the flowers of southern France, and Miss Austruther conies down to them looking in her fresh beauty, with her modest blue eyes tilled with love, very bridelike. She is in an ex 1 ((uislte summer yachting costume, all lace and sheer muslin, through which ! her fair arms and shoulders gleam like chiselled ivory. A hat of white plumes and ribbons graces her golden hair. I didn't put on an evening gown,” | she w hispered, "so I'm ready to go on board. Burton, immediately after the ceremony." ' My heavens, no bridal veil,” flut ters Lady Chartris; then she cries in | a tone of dismay; "and Count Cipri ano is late." But without waiting for him. the English divine having made the neces sary official arrangements as prescrib ed by the French law, the civil con tract is hastily signed before the no tary, Edwin acting as Enid's guardian and giving his formal consent. Then what is to Miss Anstruther her real wedding begins, the sacrament of the English church. She standing be fore the divine, giving her assent modestly, hut very firmly, Barnes mak ing the responses ardently and deter minedly, and thinking even as he puts the ring upon his bride's finger: "it u> a kind of curious feeling, getting married with a revolver In your hip pocket ready for business.’’ A moment later the usual congratu lations and kisses have been given, the party are about to turn to the din ing-room, where the wedding supper is spread, there to drink the bride's health before she flits away. But their steps are stayed by the sound of prancing steeds announcing the coming of the belated yet onlj Invited guest. “Oh, at last! But you are late,” cries Prunella, ecstatically, as she runs into the hall. “Just time, Count. Cipriano, to toast the bride.” “Yes, an unfortunate accident to my horses,” enters to them in a soft, southern voice from the hallway, where Prunella Is interviewing the cavalier she has been waiting for so eagerly. As this takes place, Edwin whis pers: “I’ll keep my eye on the beg gar.” "And I’ll talk to the gentleman as soon as I can get a chance, and If he doesn’t give me a clean bill of health—’’ The rest of Barnes's speech is inter rupted by the entry of the object of their suspicions. Count Cipriano greets the company with extreme po liteness. Upon the ceremony Marina had looked with a very pale face, but now two hectic spots flame in either cheek as she returns the salute of Danella, who murmurs: “’Tis years since 1 saw you—the little girl poor Musscv loved. You have grown into a beauti ful woman—you who were my dead brother’s ward.” But soon after, as the champagne sparkles, the count toasts the bride very gallantly, remarking on her youthful English beauty. “Signore Barnes should be a very happy man,” he whispers to her, and goes on chat ting so unaffectedly and pleasantly that Enid, who had looked upon his entrance as if he were Mephisto him self, begins to think this pleasant voiced but vivacious-mannered gentle man is not so dangerous as she sus pected. Dressed in the deep mourning of southern France, the high Corsican hat he still carries in his hand lends picturesqueness to Cipriano’s costume. Notwithstanding his somber garb, soon the gentleman is laughing with Lady Chartris: Maud driving her mother distracted by crying. “I'm only 11, but I'm as tall as the bride, ain't I, mamma, dear?” and standing up back to back with Enid, making a great juvenile display of baby waist and pink silken stockings. It’s her high-heeled slippers,” cries her mother, angrily. “The deceitful child is standing on tip-toe!” “Ma foi, la petite is anxious to be married herself,” smiles Cipriano. "Ain't I?" cries Maud, merrily. "Ask mamma for me, count.” "Oh. mercy, the champagne has gone to the minx’s head,” gasps Lady Chartris, savagely. But Corregio has again devoted his attention to Marina. As well he may; her dark, liquid eyes carrying in their depths the passion of the south, yet always seeming to ask this man a pathetic question— one his orbs refuse to answer, though several times there is so amorous a gleam in them that the young English husband would like to take their own er by the throat. At the first opportunity, while the ladies are gathered about Enid talk ing to her of her yachting cruise, Barnes says to Danella: "A few words in private with you, please, count.” "Certainly, I was about to request that myself," remarks Cipriano. "Perhaps the garden would be more secluded.” and the American, ready i for action, keeping his eye upon his visitor, politely opens the door and 1 bows him out into the grounds. His visitor walks well into the shade of the orange ad citron trees, passing to where a rift in the foliage permits a view of the boat landing, which in the coming night is now hardly dis cernible. Here he pauses carelessly, his brilliant orbs occasionally directed toward the water. A moment later he observes quietly: "Your wedding made me sad. Signore." (TO BE CONTINUED ) To Clean Window Shades. We have all heard the story of the woman who told the new maid to wash the curtains, meaning the lace ones, and came into the kitchen just in time to discover the newest window shades melting in the boiler. But we do not all know that when shades are merely dust soiled the surface can be freshened by the application of hot. corn meal. The shade should first he spread out flat on a large table and the meal rubbed in with a circular mo tion of the palm. Then If rubbed gen tly with a soft, dry cloth the meal and the dust it has absoibed will be re moved without leaving any trace of either.—Country Life in America. Sadness Is Penalty of Humor. All the great humorists are sad— Cervantes, Moliere, Swift, Sterne, Heine, Richter, Balzac, Dickens—for sadness is the penalty which nature has annexed to that deep- searching knowledge of life we call humor. Hence is the tragedy of literature. If the man did not weep sometimes, we would cease to laugh at his jests —in the end he weeps too much, and then we talk of the failure of art! — Michael Monahan in Papyrus. What She Should Do. They were interested only in their own atTairs and didn't seem to care who heard them. "Gave me the icy elbow on Main street yesterday, didn't ! you?” he began. "Cross my heart, I didn't mean to," she replied. 1 just didn't see you. “But you loosed right at me." "Can't help it, 1 didn't see you.” "Huh! Well, if you didn't you ought to go to one of these octogsuar Ians and get your eye* fixed-” SLEEP IN A CITY TREE. New York Boy Makes His Summer Home in a Big Walnut. New York.—Sleeping outdoors in a rudely constructed house erected among the branches of a high walnut tree in the heart of Flatbush a young Polytechnic institute student has adopted a novel method of “getting near to nature.” The tree sleeper will commence this way of sleeping just as soon as the weather begins to show signs of summer. Last year he tried this method of outdoor life, starting in the early spring and con tinuing until the first real snowfall of the season. The “tree house,” as the people in the neighborhood call it, is located on the lawn surrounding the home of Mrs. \V. T. Lees, who lives on Flatr The Bedroom in the Tree. bush avenue, near Avenue I, Flat bush. W. Thompson Lees is the tree dweller. A wooden stairway winds around the tree's trunk leading to the single chamber above, allowing an easy as cent to be made. The entire structure is made of wood and was designed by young Lees and his chum, Vail Apple gate, a freshman at Dartmouth col lege. The boys built the house a lit tle more than two years ago, but it is only lately that they have converted it into a sleeping place. At first their intention was simply to build a “crow’s nest" where they could seclude themselves on rainy aft ernoons and days when it was too hot for active exercise. The “crow's nest" ilid not prove to be largp enough, so the boys added a large platform which forms what they call their piazza. This piazza is roomy enough for an ordinary sized dining-room table and comfortably accommodates six or eight diners. After Lees and Applegate had the house completed their parents took an interest in it. They recognized that it would be a fine place to git in the warm weather. Mrs. Lees suggested that a stairway be added to enable the older folk to climb to the tree top. It took the boys three month? to build it. It was last summer that Lees and Applegate decided that they would like to see how it would feel to sleep out in the open. They covered the top of the house with panes of glass and this gave them all the light, day or night, they needed. The trial worked so well tha they declared that thereafter they would, while the weather was warm, sleep in the tree. ANCIENT HOUSE OF WORSHIP. Church in City of Mexico Oldest in North America. City of Mexico.—The chapel of the Conception, in the City of Mexico, is the oldest house of worship on the North American continent. 1 y this it is meant that it was used longer for that purpose than any other build ing. It was erected in 1541 and has served almost continuously since that Chapel of Conception in City of Mexico date as a place where daily devotions were held. This ancient building is still in a splendid state of preserva tion. It is situated in the Conception plaza or square. It is small but at tractive architecturally, and never fails to interest antiquarians who visit the city, in the early days of its his tory a large convent was situated ad jacent to it, but with the growth of the city, streets were cut through the convent buildings and nothing now re mains to indicate that they were once a part of the church property. It is stated that for a century or more after its erection this chapel was the most fashionable church in the city. Iti devout worshippers numbered many of the people of wealth and high so cial standing. Wins Prize for Kidney Research. Dr. Norman Ditinan has received the Gibbs prize of $20,000, offered by the New York Academy for the best original research work on the kid neys. The prize was founded to cre ate an interest in the study of Bright's disease. Dr. Ditman's investigations tried to account for the unnecessary two-thirds of man’s meat diet, and to see if this had any close connection with the poisons present in the system if a person afflicted with Bright’* lisease. London Companies’ Gas Supply. Thi 11 London gas companies sup among them 48,403,852,000 cubic «*. < I gas to 1.101 kttti rnr.uiurv.r. CALLS EXTRA SESSION Acting Governor Hamiter Give* A* Reasons the Needs of New Capi tol and Status of Revenue Laws,. , Little Rock, Ark.—Acting Governor Allen H. Hamiter Monday night is sued a call for a special session of the state legislature. He calls the legislature to meet in Little Rock at noon Monday, May 18, for the purpose of taking up the matter of completing the new state capltol and also to ar range for the monthly payment of state tax money into the general rev enue fund in order to prevent deficit in that fund, a condition of affairs which has been threatening under the present arrangement of tax payment for some time. Governor Hamiter and his friends claim that Acting Governor X. O. Pin dall, who is now in Washington, D. C., and whose place as governor of Arkansas was assumed by Governor Hamiter during his absence from the state, cannot revoke the call for the special session, and that nothing can prevent the extra session. Following the issuance of the call Acting Governor Hamiter named three new members of the General Assembly to take the place of legislators who have either resigned or died since the last session. He appointed Henry Stillwell as representative from Ash ley county to take the place of W. A. Roby, resigned. He also appoint ed Scott Harris as representative from Clark county to take the place of R. G. McDaniels, present state corpora tion clerk in the secretary of state's office, resigned, and Arthur J. Johnson as senator from the Sixteenth sena torial district, to take the place of Senator Amis, who died a short time ago. In a statement made Monday night shortly after the issuance of the call for the special session Acting Gover nor Hamiter outlined his reasons for calling the legislature together. He stated that he thought it best to have the new state house completed at once, assigning several reasons for his belief, among which was that the present state house building is un healthy and unsafe and that it is unwise to allow the new state capitol building, partially completed, to stand open to the weather. He also stat ed that the condition of the general revenue fund for the past several months has made it necessary for the legislature to pass some sort of an act that will prevent future deficits in that fund. Who will be president of the Sen ate and what will Governor Pindall do, are being asked on every side since the issuance of the call for the special session. ••John Ike Moore will be president of the Senate,” the acting governor and his friends say. They hold that under the provisions of Section 17, Article 5 of the constitution, Mr. Moore, who was elected president of the Senate at the last session of the legislature, is still president of that body and will continue to hold that office until the expiration of his term in September. According to their views, Governor Pindall will be a member of the Sen ate, but not president. The question as to what Governor Pindall will do remains unanswered. It is believed he will lose no time in returning to Little Hock, probably ac companied by George W. Donaghev of Conway, Democratic nominee for governor, who, in statements made heretofore, has shown that he did not favor a special session. What the governor will do when he returns to the state is only a matter of conjee ture. Some prominent politicians nre of the opinion that Acting Governor Ham iter and his friends will attempt to keep Governor Pindall from resuming his place as governor, although neith er Governor Hamiter nor his friends as yet have stated that they had any such intentions. They have refused, however, to make any statements on the matter, and their silence is con sidered ominous. It is believed that they will claim that John Ike Moore is the rightful acting governor. Hanna Shot Up in Cowboy Style. Shawnee, Okla.—One man dead, one dangerously wounded by pistol shots, and one with two legs broken, is the result of three men shooting tip the town of Hanna, northeast of Shawnee. George Strong, Henry Whiet and Will Stevens rode into the town in a buggy and began shooting at everything they saw, and when Dep uty Sheriff Abbans called on them to surrender they turned their guns on him. In the fight, Strong was killed, White shot in the arm by the deputy, and Stevens attempted to get away in the buggy, but overturned the vehicle and broke both legs. Fume* Beat Burglar. Memphis.—Rendered unconscious by fumes from a bottle of ammonia brok en during his dash through the bath room to liberty,' George Williams, a negro burglar, was caught and turned over to police Monday night by Dr. Walter McClean, whose residence he bad broken in. He had almost es caped, but the ammonia probably sav ed his life, as the physician was in close pursuit with pistol drawn when tl^e ammonia exploded. COMPLAINTS ABOUtTa^ The time to complain atom Is before the painter applies it ^ man who puts up the money .k1' not shirk the responsibility 0f k Ing the paint. True, the ought to know paint better tha» banker, the professional man ** merchant. The trouble is, the h ** owner too often deliberately bJ*? competent and honest painter”h! the job by accepting a bid whitin' ought to know would make an hn * Job impossible. Secure your bids on the bash National Lead Company’s pure wJ Lead and pure Linseed On 3.,*" that you get these materials. Q 8,1 No one need be fooled by artm. ated white lead. A blowpipe teS outfit will be mailed to anyone i„, ested in paint. ia,*l Address, National Lead Comm. Woodbridge Building, New York The New Baby. A^lpung woman of a religious ttm of ritfed wished to announce to 1 friend the birth of her first-born chM She sent the following teleri«! “Isaiah, 9-6,” which, being interpret* read, "For unto us a child is bon unto us a son is given.” The friend, more literal and ]* familiar with the prophets, read tk message, and said to her husbaat "Margaret has a boy, but why on eaitk did she name him Isaiah0 He be a healthy chap, though, tor fe weighs nine pounds and six ounces,X Woman's Home Companion. You Would Not Accept Counter!* Money, Why Accept Counterfeit Goods? Good money is made by the Goverj. ment in which you have implicit faiti and confidence. Good goods are madi by manufacturers who are willing u stake their reputations on the quality of the material offered to you through the medium of their advertisements it this paper. Counterfeit goods arenot advertised. The reason for it is they will not bear the close scrutiny to which genuine advertised goods an subjected. Counterfeit money pays more profit to the counterfeiter. Com. terfeit goods are offered to you for th« same reason. Insist on the Genuine—Reject tin Counterfeit. Hanging Scaffolds. With the modern skyscraping offla building has come n new form of; building scaffold. Instead of construct; ing the scaffold from below, which It impossible in the cases of building* ranging from 10 to 50 stories high platforms are suspended from thl steel girders above. 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