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VOL. xxiv.
MONTEREY, HIGHLAND COUNTY, VA., JULY 2$. 1902,
NO. 29.
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CHAPTER XI.
-.J Continued.
The worst of it was that the sent
mental little old maid, under the pr
text of curing her protege of her unfo
tuuate attachment, by diverting lu
thoughts to a more appropriate cliai
nel, took Jem Stickels in hand hersel
promised him every assistance wit
Nell if he would promise to refori
and encouraged the fisherman to pe
secuto Nell more than ever. It was si
who persuaded Jem to woo with a lei
arrogant air, with offers to "turn ovi
a new leaf" for her sake, and oth<
similar blandishments.
And although Nell guessed who
was that had inspired this alteratioi
the girl was obliged to take a diffcrei
attitude to her unwelcome wooer i
consequence, lt is easy to be haugh!
and studiously frigid to a presumpti
ous person; but when that person b'
comes meek and almost servile in h
endeavors to make himself usefu
even In the humblest capacity, whe
he insists upon chopping your woo
and carrying your water, then it is di
ric alt to maintain a properly freezin
altitude.
The climax come one af tomoo
when Nell was invited to tea by Mis
Bostal, and was let in on her arrivi
by the detested Jem.
Nell looked quite shocked when, o
entering the house, she learned frci
the young man's lips that he had bee
invited, too.
The young girl turned to the door <
the dining-room, where a small fii
burned in honor of the occasion, to p
in search of her hostess. Jem, wi:
was in his Sunday clothes, in which L
presented a stronger contrast tha
ever to the relined, delicate-hande
girl, said awkwardly that Miss Bosh
would be down directly. As Nell, tal
lng no notice of this intimation, wa
about to leave the room, he suddenl
found courage to place himself befor
the door.
"li's done a-purposc; she done it i
purpose," he explained, growing moi
rustic than usual in his speech unde
pressure of his excitement, "so I raigl
have a chance of speaking to you."
Nell looked angry and anxious; br
she looked him in the Tace with an e:
pression which daunted him a little.
"She don't know what I want to sa
to you," he went on in a hoarse Whil
per. "She thinks I want to ask yo
to marry me, as if I should be such
precious fool! No, what I want to sa
is, that the chap Hemming is sti
banging about; he's staying at the Be
at Stroan, and he's offered me a five
pound not if I'll tell him what I tol
you, and I've refused. There!"
And, fairly overwhelmed by the cor
templation of his own greatness o
soul, Jem slapped his chest and mad
his eyes round.
Nell listened, with fear and repulsioi
struggling in her breast. Should sh
brave the man, with the knowledge
which she knew that he possessed, o
should she conquer her own loathinj
and temporize? Miss Bostal had ad
vised her to brave him; but, then. Mis
Bostal did not know what she knew
Nell shivered as tha man came a stei
toward h^r.
"I don't understand you," she said a
last. "What do you want?"
"I want you to give me a kiss." Tin
girl started and made a gesture of ab
horrence. "Come," persisted Jem; "1
isn't much, considering, 'specially a:
1 could take one myself if I had i
mind."
And as he spoke he took anothei
step, threatening to fulfill this menace
Bal Nell was too quick for him; sin
was ut tte other side of the table be
fore the words were well out of his
monti).
"Miss Bostal," she said, quietly, as il
his proposition had been unworthy ol
remark, "advises me to let you make
what use of your information you
please. She says no one would believe
you."
"And do you think tttat?" he asked,
<rfith an indescribably cunning leer.
The sudden anxiety which over?
spread her f;ice at the question showed
him his opportunity.
"Look here," he went on, in a tone
which was meant to be persuasive, but
which was to Nell repellant in its
coarse assumption of familiarity, "I
don't want to rush you into anything.
You know what I have to sell, and you
know what the price is. If you don't
care to pay lt, well, you know how I
can pay myself in coin of Hie realm.
Nov/ I'll give you till to-morrow night.
/f you'll see me to-morrow, down at
your own garden-fence, where you'll
be quite sale, mind, for I mean quite
/air and above board, aud If you'll
ipeak to me fair and be civil, I'll hold
my tongue, and wild horses nor all the
| cs in Lou'on shouldn't make me
i en ch: but if von don't choose to do
this, and it's a precious small tliiug
to make such a fuss about, why, then,
I'll go oft' to Hemming and get the five
pounds, and you can guess what'll hap?
pen, if you don't know."
As the man looked at her, with
bloodshot, Inflamed eyes, enjoying in
anticipation the kiss which he felt
Bhe was bound to give, Nell's heart
tank. He would not surely speak in
this tone to her, If the proofs of which
he had spoken were not very strong
enos.
i ^you must give me time to think,";
she faltered, turning her head away to
escape the gaze of the lustful eyes,
but keeping a sharp eye on his move?
ments all the time.
She felt keen resentment against
Miss Theodora, who, in her amiable
folly, had exposed her to this persecu?
tion. Luckily that lady herself ap?
peared a few seconds later, aud then
Nell at once made the excuse of going
to fetch the tea-things to get out of
the room.
Once outside the door, however, she
ran through the passage to the back of
the house, slipped out Into the garden,
and ran home across the fields oj fast
as her fleet littre feet could carry Ber.
"Since she likes his society so much,
she may enjoy a tete-a-tete with him:"
she said to herself, not without a bit?
ter feeling that her old friend and pro?
tectress had betrayed her in her eag?
erness ta reclaim the prodigal.
Before she reached the Blue Lion,
Nell had made up her mind what to
do. She felt that she must have some
advice of a more solid, more worldly
kind than that of kindly, sentimental,
narrow-minded Miss Theodora. So she
wrote a little note, the first she lind
ever sent him, to Clifford King, and
sent it by a safe hand to Stroan to
catch the night mail.
Her note was very short, containing
as it did, only the following words:
"Dear Mr. King:
"If it would not be too inconvenient
to you to come down to Stroan to-mor?
row, I should be very glad of thc op?
portunity of asking your advice upon
a matter in which I do not dare trust
my own judgment, and do not dare
to consult my uncle.
"With apologies for my audacity in
asking such a great favor,
"Believe me, yours sincerely,
"NELL CLARIS.''
Then she passed a sleepless night,
torturing herself by wondering what
Jem. Stickels, would do, and whether
Clifford" would come?this she did not
greatly doubt?and how she should tell
him if he came.
And on the following evening, just
when she had given up all hope of
seeing him, and just when the time
appointed by Jem Stickels for her
to meet him was approaching, she saw
Clifford, from her seat by the open
door of the sitting-room, walk into the
bar.
Nell sprang up with a little cry, and
Clifford, catching sight of her, flushed
a deeper red than his walk had givcu
him, and going quickly through the
bar and along the passage, pushed
open the door of the little sitting-room,
and stood before her.
The girl had been so anxious for
his coming that all her little maidenly
arts of affected surprise, of Indiffer?
ence, of reserve, were in abeyance; and
he saw before him tho girl he loved,
with love confessed In her blue eyes.
For one moment he stood looking at
her, a little awe-struck, as a lover
ought to be, at discovering how much
more beautiful she was than he re?
membered her. Then, not unnaturally
taking her summons for just a little
more than it was intended to be,
caught her in his arms, and pressing
her against his* breast, covered her
face with kisses.
Nell uttered a little cry; she thought
lt expressed consternation, alarm; but
Clifford read the sound differently,
and kissed her again.
"Oh, Mr. King!" panted the girl, as
Boon as she could draw back her head
enough to speak, "you don't under?
stand. 1 sent for you to advise me,
that's all. I-"
"I quite understood," replied Clif?
ford, calmly, not letting her go very
far. "And I am longing to put my pro?
fessional knowledge at your service.
But first-"
He stopped short, arrested in the
middle of his speech by a violent start
on the part of Nell, who was looking
with eyes full of alarm at the door
which lcd into the garden.
The upper part of this door was of
glass, and she had suddenly perceived
that a face was pressed to the outer
side.
"Who is it?" asked Clifford, as soon
as he saw what had arrested her at?
tention.
And without wailing for au answer,
hesprang across the little room, to?
ward the glass door. Nell sprang ar?
ter him, and clutched at his sleeve.
"Never mind. Don't go." she whis?
pered apprehensively. "It is only Jem
Stickels. Don't open the door."
But as Clifford stopped, under the
pressure of her earnest entreaty, the
sound of a hoarsely uttered curse
reached their ears; the face was quick?
ly withdrawn, and the next moment,
with a loud crash of broKen glass,
Jem's fist came through tho upper part
of the door, and struck Clifford full in
the chest.
Nell saw, even before the blow was
dealt, that there was an open knife
in the fisherman's hand. But, al?
though she threw herself upon her
lover, tryiug to drag him back from
the danger, she was not in time. With
a howl of savage delight, Jem drew
back his knife, covered with blood.
CHAPTER XII.
Clifford was so entirely taken by
surprise that he hardly realized In the
first moment that he was hurt. The
next, he dashed open the door at ono
blow, and finding Jem outside coolly
wiping his knife on the ivy which'
grew on this side of the house, ho
seized the fisherman by the throat
with one hand, snatched his knife
from him and flung it away with tho
other, and then hurled the man from
him with such violence that the latter
fell, and striking his head upon the
stone ledge of a window lay motion?
less on the ground.
Then, suddenly overcome by a feel
lng of dizziness, the result of his
wound Clifford staggered back against
the broken door and into Nell's arms.
"Oh, it is my fault?my fault! I
ought not to have asked you to come!"
moaned she, not attempting to hide
her affectionate concern from the peo?
ple who, startled by the noise of the
affray, now pressed into the room.
George Claris Avas among the first
to enter, and he frowned angrily on
seeing Clifford, of whose arrival he
had not yet heard.
"So lt's you, is it, Mr. King!" he ex?
claimed surlily, on recognizing the
man whom he looked upon as the ori?
gin of all his trouble. "Aud what have
you been up to now, eh?"
"Oh, uncle, uncle, can't you see that
he's hurt, badly hurt?" implored Nell.
"Send for a doctor?oh. some one pray
go for a doctor, or he will bleed to
death!"
But George Claris hardly concealed
the fact that that event woi.ld give
him satisfaction rather than annoy?
ance; he did not dare to interfere,
however, when Nell gave orders to one
of the men who had crowded Id, to go
to Stroan for a doctor.
"Who did it?" somebody, not the
landlord, presently asked.
Clifford was by this time hardly con?
scious. He had boeu laid on the sofa,
while Nell herself, keeping enough
presence of mind to be of use and to
ste what tho danger was, held her own
fiugers to the wouud to check the flow
of blood.
She heard the question and an?
swered it.
"It was Jem Stickels. He struck
him through the glass."
This reply led to further Investiga?
tions, and Jem was quickly discov?
ered and brought into the room where
his victim lay. Unconscious though
he was, having been stunned severely.
Jem. of course, got uo pity from Nell.
And when some of the men suggested
carrying him to the cottage where he
lodged, which was within a stone's
throw of the inn, Nell made no sugges?
tion that he should remain where he
was, being unaffectedly glad to have
him taken out of her sight.
Buxom Meg exchauged many a nod
and wink and grin with the customers
from the bar, Inspired by the utter ab?
sorption Nell showed in her lover and
his danger.
"All my fault?my fault!" the girl
kept murmuring, as she hung over
Clifford, Watching his face, which had
grown pale, with straining eyes, and
listening anxiously to the breathing,
which told her that he was alive.
Then Meg became abruptly con?
scious that there was something In
this simple grief, this maidenly affec?
tion, too sacred for the gaze of the
rough, though sympathetic, group.
And she bundled them all, with large,
wide-sweeping gestures as of a gigan?
tic hen, back Into the bar. And Nell
and her lover and her uncle were left
together.
George Claris, though he, too, was
somewhat touched, was uneasy and
suspicious.
"What was he doing down here?"
he began, Inquisitorially, when they
were left alone. "And what was he
up to that made Jem Stickels knife
him? No good, I'll be bound," grum?
bled he.
"He loves me. uncle. He has asked
nie, weeks ago, to be his wife, but I
hadn't even promised; no, not a word,
but when he came to-day-"
"Ah, what made him come to-day?"
Nell hesitated, and then confessed,
in a low voice:
"I sent for him."
George Claris mumbled his dissatis?
faction.
"And what made Jem Stickels knife
him? Come, now, I should have
thought you were above having any?
thing to do with a chap like him.
But I've seen him loafing about more'u
usual lately."
"It was not fault, of course," said
Nell. Simply. "And of course he had
no right to?to-"
"To be jealous? So I should ha'
thought. Still, he was jealous, eh?"
"I suppose so."
There was a short silence; then
George Claris spoke again:
"Well, lass, lt's no use talking to
women, 'cause they've got their own
way o' doing things, whatever you say
to 'em. But you've brew'd yourself a
peck o' trouble between them two
chaps, and neither mo nor anybody
but yourself can help you out of it.
An' mind, I won't say I'll have this
c-hap turned out of the house, though
I've a good mind to. But If the doc?
tor says he's to be laid up here, I'll not
jave you hangin* 'round. You'll just
jo away sharp to my sister in London.
Do you hear? I'll have him properly
inned, that I'll promise, but it'll not
be by you. Do you hear?"
Nell assented meekly. Ai loug as
Clifford was not made to suffer she
reit that there was nothing for it but
Lo submit.
Uncle and niece exchanged no moro
words until the arrival of the doctor,
when George Claris told his niece to
pvt on her hat and to go to Miss Bos
:al's, where she was to remain until he
sent her luggage to her there, when
die was to start without delay for
Loudon.
To be Continued.
Earthquake la New York.
Malone, N- Y. (Special).?A distinct
arthquakc shock was felt in Malone.
t lasted about ten seconds. Many per?
ons were awakened by the rumbling
nd rattling of windows. .
JOHN W. MACKAY
DIES IN LONDON
American Millionaire Succumbs to Heart
Failure.
LAST OF FAMOUS BONANZA KINGS
When a Lad He Caught the Gold Fever and
Weot to California Made and Lost One
Fortune Before He was 30 Yeara Old
Mis Great Luck With the Comstock
Lode.
London (By Cable).?John W. Mao
kay, of San Francisco, who had been
suffering fvrom hteat prostration since
Tuesday last, died at his residence, or.
Carrollton House terrace at 6.30 o'clock
Sunday evening.
Mr. Mackay*! condition had improv?
ed kat the patient had a bad night, and
in the morning a consultation was held
by three physicians. Mr. Mackay grew
worse as the da*y progressed. He was
unconscious most of the time and died
very peacefully.
The immediate cause of death was
heart failure. The right lung was found
to bc congested, and the symptoms in?
dicated pneumonia.
Mrs. Mackay, her mother and Coun?
tess Telfener were present when Mr.
Mackay died, and Princes.' Galatro Co
lonna arrived from Paris half an hour
after her stepfather's death,
duse; Shock 11 Fan Francisco.
San Francisco, Cala. (Special).?The
news of the death of John W. Mackay,
in London, caused quite a shock here,
notwithstanding the public was in a
measure, prepared for it by the previous
announcement of his illness. Mr. Mac?
kay was the last surviving member of
tiie four bonanza kings, Flood, O'Brien
and Fair, the other three having long
since died.
For thc past 18 years Mr. Mackay bad
not been actively identified with the life
of this city, but had passed most of his
time in the East, making annual visits to
the coast to look after his property in?
terests in this state and Nevada.
L'VEi LOST AND BUILDINGS WRECKED.
Ten People Killed in a Storm that ls Driven
With Hurricane Velo Ity.
Baltimore, Md. (Special).?This city
was thc center of a storm Sunday after?
noon which resulted in thc death of io
persons, the injury of others, unroofed
200 houses, seriously damaged shipping
in the harbor, almost entirely severed
telegraphic and telephonic communica?
tion with the outside world, destroyed
many magnificent trees, seriously inter?
fered with street car service in places,
damaged the city's electric light facili?
ties, caused the death of several horses
and other animals by tearing down live
wires, and generally wreaked more de?
struction than any storm which has vis?
ited the city in years.
The disturbance which created this
havoc came upon the city with a rapid?
ity that was astounding. Thc first rain?
drops fell at 1.27 o'clock, and as late as
I o'clock the skies, while they showed
that a thunderstorm was approaching,
were bright with thc sun, and many
thought that thc cloud would pass
around.
In a moment came the main body of
wind. It blew 5 3-8 miles in 5 minutes
or an equivalent of 64 miles an hour.
Only 45 minutes elapsed between the
first threatening crash of thunder and
thc last dying murmur as the cloud pass?
ed to the northeast, but in that time
more damage was done in this city than
ordinarily occurs form the same cause
in several years.
This Woman is not Slow.
Salem, Ore. (Special).?The remains
of David Merrill, the escaped convict,
have been delivered at the Oregon Peni?
tentiary, after being brought here by
Mrs. Mary Waggoner, who found the
body near Chehalis. The body was
readily identified. It was interred in the
prison cemetery without ceremony. Mrs.
Waggoner made a formal demand for
the reward of $1,500. Superintendent
Lee declined to pay the amount, offering
her $3CO for her trouble and expense,
and explaining that the reward could
only be paid for the capture of thc con?
vict, and not for the mere finding of his
dead body by accident. Mrs. Waggoner
refused the amount offered and made a
formal written demand for the full re?
ward, to be presented to Governor Geer.
Wrangle Over Carnegie Gifts.
Pittsburg (Special).?Andrew Carne?
gie wiil give to the city of Pittsburg a
polytechnic school which will cost
$2,ooo,coo, and promises to make it
worth $5,000,000 if the city will provide
a site large enough for the purpose. The
city is now wrangling over the site. It
has got into politics, thc Citizens' party
wanting a 52-acre tract for the site and
thc old Republican machine wanting an
11-acre tract for it. Thc city has enough
money to buy thc latter site, but to buy
the larger one would necessitate an is?
suance on bond for $1,000,000, and both
sides arc unwilling to submit an issue of
bonds to the people.
Lives Lost in Tornado.
Chesterville, Ont. (Special).?A tor?
nado of great fury passed within a mile
of this town, and everything in its path,
about 60 rods in width, was destroyed.
Thc country presents a scene of devas?
tation. Dwellings are overturned and
dead cattle are lying at nearly every
farm. Several persons were killed and
a number injured. Thc damage will ex?
ceed $2CO,000.
Tracey Munt Abandoned.
Tacoma, Wash. (Special).?After 40
days of continual pursuit by men and
bloodhounds all organized effort to cap?
ture Harry Tracey, the escaped Oregon
convict, has ended. The pursuit of Tra?
cey through Clark, Cowlitz, Lewis,
Thurston, Pierce, Kitsap, Snohomish
and King counties has cost these coun?
ties $10,000. Oregon's refusal to pay
Airs. Waggoner, of Chehalis, the re?
ward for Merrill's body has done much
toward the dropping of Tracey's hunt.
SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS.
Domestic.
James F. Robinson, late president oj
the Rock Island and Central Trust and
Savings Bank of Rock Island, 111., left
bequests to the Northwestern Univer?
sity and the American University, at
Washington.
The American Line steamer Selgen
land, from Philadelphia for Queenstown
and Liverpool, was towed into Halifax,
N. S., by the British steamer Scholar.
Thc Belgenland's shaft is broken.
President Williams, of the Seaboard,
denied that Chesapeake and Ohio and
Norfolk and Western stock had been
purchased by John \V. Gates and others
in the interest of his road.
It is reported that several coal oper?
ators will attempt this week to operate
their mines in the anthractie region, al?
though thc strikers declare they will bc
unable to do so.
Judge Witt, of thc Hustings Court in
Richmond, called a special grand jury
to investigate the charges of city fath?
ers, which have caused a sensation.
Mrs. Daniel Grant, her daughter, Mrs.
John Reeves, and a man named Nuck
les were shot and killed while returning
from church near Atoka, I. T.
The American Window Glass Com?
pany has asked the manufacturers in the
independent company to unite with the
American and Federation companies in
shortening the length of the fire and
maintaining prices.
Edward Congdon. a New York insur?
ance brr ker, was arrested on the charge
of kissing Mrs Marie Farrel, of Madi?
son. N. J., as the Lackawanna train on
which they were riding entered a tun?
nel.
It was reported in Philadelphia rail?
road and financial circles that the Penn?
sylvania had, through friendly interests,
secured enough of the Reading Rail?
road stock to give it control.
Commonwealth Attorney John G.
Tilton, of Norfolk, instituted suit
against the Virginian-Pilot Publishing
Company in the sum of $10,000 for al?
leged libel.
The chief of police of Harlem, near
Chicago, and io members of the village
board were arrested on thc charge of
permitting gambling at the race tracks.
Vinton Gregory, white, was arrested
cn the charge of criminally assaulting
Mrs. John Romans, near Saltville, Va.
The striking chaintnakers of York,
Pa., have been assured of financial sup?
port by the American Federation of
Labor.
Fred Lee Rice, a young criminal, who
had a sensational career, was hanged in
Toronto, Canada, for murder.
'1 he Gould interests are said to have
secured an entrance into New York for
their transcontinental system.
Hyman Hoffman, a Russian tailor,
shot his wife in New York and then
committed suicide.
John Hardy was shot and killed near
Media, Pa., by Thomas Duff, whom ho
was tormenting.
Elwyn F. Larson, an absconder from
Milwaukee, was arrested in Wetaskiwin,
Canada.
Benjamin Faughn was shot and killed
by Jasper Abbott at Metropolis, 111.
In the closing hours of the North
Carolina Democratic Convention State
Senator Ward characterized Cleveland
as "the arch traitor of the Democracy,"
and, in turn, Mayor Boyden, of Salis?
bury, N. C., called Ward a liar.
It was announced in York, Pa., by
State Secretary Harry Deemer, of the
Junior Order United American Me?
chanics, that 120 councils, aggregating
30,000 members, had been expelled from
the order.
Dr. B. W. Arnold, professor of his?
tory at the State Normal School at
Farmville, Va., was elected professor ol'
history and economics in Randolph
Macon Woman's College.
Miss Lonic Farmer was arrested at
Winchester, Va., on a warrant sworn
out by her father, Gere Farmer, of Ber
ryvillc, Va., on the charge of running
away._
loreign.
Minister Bowen has cabled the State
Department at Washington that the
President of Venezuela has abandoned
the idea of attacking the revolutionist?
at Barcelona.
King Leopold of Belgium visited
King Edward aboard the English royal
yacht. King Edward's condition con?
tinues favorable.
The contract wa* signed in London
for the manufacture and laying of the
cable between Honolulu and Manila.
The Vatican, in a note to Governor
Taft, of the Philippines, says: "The
main lines for future negotiations, in?
dicated in the notes, having been ac?
cepted by Secretary Root, thc repre?
sentative of thc Vatican in the Philip?
pines will enter into relations with the
authorities in the Philippines."
Countess de la Warr was granted a
divorce in London on the ground of thc
Earl's desertion and misconduct. Thc
Countess was given costs and thc cus?
tody of her children.
Seven directors of the Prussian Mort?
gage Bank, charged with falsifying bal?
ance sheets, were sentenced to different
terms of imprisonment and to pay heavy
fines.
Two unsuccessful attempts are report?
ed to have been made by revolutionists
to seize Nicaraguan ports.
Thc Sultan of Zanzibar died of a
stroke of paralysis. His death has
caused no disturbance.
Whitelaw Reid, the head of thc Unit?
ed States embassy to the coronation ol
King Edward, in a speech at the ban?
quet of the American Chamber of Com?
merce in Liverpool, defended thc Mor?
gan shipping combine, declaring it was
not a monopoly, and that it obviated
violent fluctuations in rates and insured
to Great Britain a great neutral fleet.
A. J. Balfour, the new British premier,
presided at thc first cabinet meeting ol
the new administration. It is reported
that the Duke of Marlborough will suc?
ceed Lord Curzon as Viceroy of India,
but there is little credence given to thc
rumor.
Financial.
The British Indies wheat crop is put
at 224,000.000 bushels, a decrease of
28.000,000.
Pacific Mail's net earnings for the
year \Verc only $16,847, a decrease oi
$406,142.
An Amalgamated Copper quarterly
dididend of 1-2 of 1 per cent was de?
clared.
Since January 1 the consumption of
copper has increased 25 per cent., says
John Stanton, and the production has
increased only 5 per cent. ,
flN A WHFFI Arider frequently meets with disaster. Avery
Uli H "nLLL bandy and efficient doctor to hare with jon when
an accident happens is a buttle of Mexican Mustang Liniment.
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|| MARRIAGE IN JAPAN
? Lore and Romance Have Little to Do With the
?*? Making of the Nuptial Contract
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Japan has some marriage customs
that are at variance with our West?
ern ideas on the question. In the first
place, love doesn't enter into the con?
tract at all.
The primary purpose in a Japanese
girl's marriage ls to get her placed
where sne will be well connected and
cared for. No mother in all Janan
would for a moment be so foolish as to
think of giving her daughter in mar?
riage to a young man who had no
home ready for her reception. He
must have the necessary moans to
care for his wife and he must bo able
to show a creditable family tr<v(>.
Without these essentials he might love
the girl to desperation and she might
regard him with equal ardor, but he
would never get her.
Tho Japanese maiden in any event
does not choose her own husband. It
would no more occur to her to do such
an audacious thing than to have cho?
sen the nam? given her at birth. An
interested iriend of the family, known
as a "go-between," attends to this mat?
ter.
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Wncn a girl reaches a marriageabJ-;
ige this "go-between" casts about bf
i husband for her. When he finds a
oung man who moots all of the re?
tirements of the family and fortune
ie arranges for a meeting with thc
;irl and her mother.
Another way is to arrange for a
nesting at the house of a friend. Of
ourse, the matchmaker will pretend
hat it is quite by accident, althougn
ill of the party understand perfectly
hat it ie by design.
The girl is very shy and hides her
ace behind her fan as she bows low
nany times. Then she retires, blushi?
ng and nervous, behind her mother,
["he young man at this meeting looks
mr over and decides whether ho will
ved her. If he agrees, the negotia
ions are carried to a finish. He pays
or the trousseau and the bride'o
ather provides the entire furnishings
br the house which the newly married
lair will occupy.
It's a clear waste of time to go ont
ooking for insults.
Mystery of Pompeii
Max Nordau Unable to Understand What
Became of the Inhabitants
Max Nordeau raises a question con?
cerning Pompeii which is of double
interest now in view of the disasters
of St. Martinique and St. Vincent. He
writes as follows to the Neue Freie
Presse (Vienna): "One thing has al?
ways been a puzzle to me. Here waa
a flourishing city of about 30,000 in?
habitants, most of whom evidently
were well-to-do. A few hundreds, at
most, lost their lives in the destruc?
tion of the city; the rest escaped.
The eruption of Vesuvius continued
only a few days, after which the dis?
trict returned to its usual placid con?
dition. In many places the deposit
of ashes aud lava was only a yard
thick, and it was not moro than three
yards thick at any point yet exca?
vated.
"How did it happen that these
thirty thousand homeless persons
showed no desire to return to their
beautiful houses, so well built that |
they arc standing to this day, and
which could have been restored, at
the time with very little labor? Why
did they not make the slightest at?
tempt to regain their valuable prop?
erty in land and buildings, furniture,
bronze, marble, gold, silver and Jew?
els? Did the men of that time have
so little love of home that they could
leave it without a backward glance
at the first unpleasantness? Wer<?
the Pompeiians so rich that the loss*
of th "r perfectly appointed homes
appeared trivial to them, so that they
preferred settling elsewhere to restor?
ing their city? Or did superstition
prevent the attempt? This indifferent
renunciation of their patrimony by a
whole cityful ls to me an insoluble
enigma which forces itself t ie mora
strongly upon my attention now as I
walk along the finely paved street?
between houses which need only new
roofs to make them again habitable."