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NEWS IN BRIEF GUSTS

BLOWN IN FROM ALU OF THE EARTH.

PARTS

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Missionary Meddling,

A special telegram from San Francisco says: Dr. John RaffeL late Pros Went ol i ho MnniAinal ronncil ot Ada. wlio ar

rived nera recently on the steamer Ala

meda, says the whole trouble was causea by the influence of a London missionary nnlet in Simon, lie savs they eorrupt-

t tha einctionn for kins and thereby

earned the installation ot Tanas, the Malletoa Darty chief. The Samoana

would not submit to this for the reason that thev knew Hataafa to have been

elected but defranded of his rights, henoe thn nnrlsins. Tanus is but a mere boy,

19 years of age. Us is under the influence

oi tne rrotestani society . auuww " Oathoiic. The London missionary si

eiatv was fearful that if Mataafa were

elected u would lose its power. There

fore Tanas was put in.

Aaaerican Troops Given a Iiaad Jia The United States transport Sheridan, from New York on February 18th for Ma

nila, arrived at Valletta, Island of Malta. By permission of the Governor of Malta, ia. sir Arthnr James Lvon Fremantle,

the American troops, consisting ot 2,000

men, landed, ana tne governor, biiouuou. Kv hia taff. inspected them on the Flo

rlan parade ground. Subsequently the Americans marched past and created a splendid Impression. Admiral Sir John

Ummsnney tiopKins, iomuHuuor-iu chief oi the Mediterranean station, and

were present. There was also a large at

tendance ot naval and military men and

an immense concourse ot spectators.

A Bank t Manila.

New York special: Negotiations have

culminatea in aennitu action towards tne

organization of a corporation for a gen

eral banking business in Manila. J. and W. Seligman & Co. ot this city, are at

the head of tbe enterprise and the new

baaic will be ready soon. The Manila

corporation wilt probably be known as

the Anglo-American Bank. Tbe plan

ha- tha approval of the Administration.

Tbe Anglo-California Banking Company, in conjunction with the bankers of

sew lore, ban Francisco ana London,

nave arranged to start a bank in Bono

lulu. Opsaed. a Decor Letter. Poslmaster El ward Bozart of Wilkes

barre, Fa., was arrested on the charge oi

tampering wita tne mail. He is the editor of tbe Leader, lie suspected Liddon

'tiM, ine rival editor ot tne Times, it is

aid, of trying to get his Job. It it

enarged therefore that he resorted to

tecirtes ffaiura lit npou lfrul IB TJHT

va;e oEBtsa, where they claim they found

him reading a decoy letter sent by the

secret service agent to Editor Flick. He was held in 18,000 bond by the United

.states lommissioner.

Hay ward tbe Man,

At the joint session of tbe Nebraska

LentsUtnre M. I-. Hay ward was elected

uauea scales senator to sneoaed Will

iam V. Allen. He received 74 votes, the olid Republican membership with the exception of one absent on account of

sickness. Allen received 53, the full la, sioa strength.

More Deadly Bomba.

Two more Hiiro-glycerine bombs wort

lounu lying in front of the HickozofUot

mllding, corner ot Euclid nvenue and

Erie street, Cleveland, OUio. There was

lamcient explosive in either bomb to

work great navoe in the immediate vi

cinity. Dr. Talmase Bealcna.

The Bev. Dr. j. lXjWitt Talmage, wht for nearly four years has been pastor oi the First Presbyterian Church in Wash

ington, bas sent a letter to the session oi

tne eiiurcn, tendering his resignation. Donaldson Will Die, ' Thomas Donaldson, whose sknll n

fractured while driving from the roof of

siadisou tqture Garden in New York, into a tank, is still alive, but his condition is very critioaL

O'Brien on the Beet Associated Press advices from Honolulu, dated March 4, state that the American ship E l ward O'Brien is on the reef at the entrance to the channel and will prove a total loss. ScHooner It Seattle (Wash.) special: The schoonat Myrtle is believed to have foundered and the erew lost in a storm. Wreckage was found clong ths eoist shortly after sot tailed. Cliriatiaa Science Prohibited. " Both houses of the legislature have passed a bill prohibiting tbe practice oi Christian seienca in Oklahoma. Tht S0wmH.is said, will sign the bill. Colored Men for Liberia. Two hundred nerojs have left Oklahoma lor Liberia. They have joined tht Liberia Colonization Association, whose agents have been at work in the territory lor two months. The negroes are furnished railroad fares.

Bis Fire la Boa ton. A large fbur-and-oue-half story ttona building occupied by a dozen firms, and timbered from 65 to 65 Cbarlestowr street, Boston, Mass., was practically destroyed by fire, causing a loss estimated at I7S,01.

Fatal Play with Knives.

At Philadelphia, John McLaughlin, aged 11 years, bled to death as the result

si an accidental knife wound in the shoulder, which severed an artery. Chester Elsie, colored, aged 14 years, was taken In custody pending an investigation. The boys bad been fencing with their pocket knives.

GILBERT TELLS O HIS CRIME,

with only himself aboard, Capt. William llavis has nt Inst sucieeded In reaching

Describes the Killing of His Wire ana tnii- i nonoih. ' ' I

dren at Enterprise, Ran. ; lie. nc nra --. - John Gilbert, in his cell in the county j with a erew of four uiul n party of sports,ii thara confessed to brutally murder- ; ineu aboard. The blizzard cuughl them

at Harbor Island nud the .S0-uiile gale seated tht- crew into semi-uiiiiiuy and they

wlnr,rt thev would iro uo fnrtlier. tine

fil thara mnfMDM TO DrulUlli muiuti ,

!., hio T.-lf ami fonr small children near ; at Harbor Island

Enterprise, Kan. wnen uuoen, .

hom a reward had been oucrea, ws u-

rested he feigned not to know or me crime, and at first shammed insanity. Finally, hard pressed by Sheriff O'Connor. Gilbert confessed the crime, going into dc-

'nils. Gilbert said he was onaiy tu em -...i hA iw. trvinir to leave Euterunse

for a long time. He could not take his family, he said, and offered bis wife a divorce "She kept nagging me about the

children," said Gilbert. "1 torn my wue if she would give me $10 I'd leave and never Mother her any more. During the night I got up and went ont into the yard. Coming back, I picked np the hammer and hit the baby in the head. My wife ran out into the road and wns going over to

the neighbor's. I ran after ami caugui her. She said she'd come back if I'd behave, and I thought 1 would then. But when we got in, why, the baby was

JirashinK about on the bed, aim v.ueu

iaw it 1 couldn't hold myself, but hit my Wife on the head and pounded her till sb couldn't m.jve, and then I killed the children."

CANNOT GET OUT OR GO IN,

Big Apartment House at CIsvsland, Ohio,

la unaor vuranrino. A case of smallpox was discovered in

bie downtown apartment house at

Cleveland, in which nearly 400 people are living. The victim is an attorney and he

was the roommate or nreaenck iun, assistant county solicitor. The sick man

was sent to the smallpox hospital, wane Mr. Taft was committed to the detention house and all the iuinfttes of the building were quarantined in the apartment house. The situation was ludicrous in some respects. Those who were in could not get out and all who were out when the case was discovered were refused admission to their rooms unless they were willing to submit to the quarantine regulations. BUYS A RAILROAD FOR $800,000. Indiana and Lake Michigan Line Sold In Chicago for Bondholders. Morgan Bulkier, former Governor of Connecticut, purchased in Chicago the Indiana P.nd take Michigan Kailroad for tout $800,000, on behalf of the Yale corporation and Colgate Hoyt and W. L. Scudder of New York, who arc the other heaviest bondholders. The road is known as the Michigan division of the Yandalia Hue, and has been operated by that system, although its corporate title is the Indiana and Lake Michigan Railroad. It runs from South Bend, Ind., to St. Joseph. Mich., and has valuable dock and terminal facilities at Benton Harbor, Mich.

of the crew attempted to get ashore on i. sledge made of bed slats. When about half-way to shore he broke through the ice, but at the peril of their lives Charley Hose of North Carolina nml Mr. Green of the firm of Green & Pearson. Madison, N. J., who were of the Nellie's party, managed to get him ashore. The rest of the erew succeeded in getting ashore, but the captain remained aboard. Meantime the blizzard had increased in violence and the Nellie was blown out to sen. The sufferings of Capt. lavi were terrible. He finally succeeded in reaching Hog Island, where he was cared for and from whence he made his way to Norfolk. LIBERAL BRANCH THE VICTOR.

Court Rules Between Factions of the United Brethren Church. The United Slates Court of Appeals at Cincinnati rendered a decision involving the title to the large publishing house at Dayton, numerous colleges and thousands of churches held in the name of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ. The case grew out of a division in this church many years ago, since which time one division has been kuowu as the lib

erals and the other as the radicals. The

decision rendered by Judge l.urton was from a unanimous court and it sustained Judge Taft iu giving the property to tht liberals as against the radicals. It 13 stated by the liberals that they have been compelled to spend about $211,000 iu defending these suits from the radicals lor church property in different States. In .mn of the States decisions have been

rendered in favor of tht radicals, but the

decision bv a Federal court of tinal juris-

diction iu such cases ends this litigatiou,

which has been going on (ill over tne country for almost ten years. CHAUTAUQUA OFFICER 5 CHOSEN.

n.m ikak.r to Be President and

Wilson M. Day Business Manager. Wilson M. Day of Cleveland is to Ik'

ih i-onral mnuttcer of the Chautauqua

association. The appointment was made

some time ago informally and was eoufirmml nt the meeting of the trustees held

in that city the other day. The work of the association has been practically dtvi.tod into two ceneral divisions, business

and educational. Mr. Day, as general

manager, will have entire eharge of all the

business of tbe association. The new president of the association, to succeed the late Lewis M. Miller, will be Clem Studebaker of South Bend, Ind. Edward A. Skiuner tendered his resignation as

treasurer of the association aud V arre

OUR MINISTER IS CRITICISED. y Walworth of Cleveland was elected

Interior Politics.

The press at Montevideo, Uruguay, condemns severely the felicitation which the American minister, William K. Finch, sent to President Cuestas, considering it as an intrusion into the interior politics of tbe country. In his note Minister Finch says, among other things: "You defeated the secret opposition of false friends and

the combinations of foes without employing unrighteous means."

Nearly Killed by Safe Robbers.

As a result of an encounter with two burglars, whom he surprised while they were attempting to crack a safe in the

office of Scannell & Woley nt Lowell,

Mass., Officer John F. Healy is suffering

from three bullet wounds and a terribly

battered head. Healy had just reached

Scannell & Woley's, when a man suddenly

shoved a revolver in his face. Officer

Healy reached for his own revolver and

as he did so the burglar fired, but the bul

let went wide. The officer's weapon re

fused to act. The burglar fired again, tbe

shot taking effect in the officer's left leg.

blow, however, did not incapacitate the

man, and when the officer jumped on him a desperate struggle ensued. Almost im

mediately a man came ont of the office aud

fired three times, two shots taking effect

in the officer s body. The second man

drew a slungshot and struck Healy over

the head. The burglars relieved Healy of

bis handcuffs, club, revolver, watch and

$50. They then made their escape.

Novel Book to Be Compiled, The War Department has undertaken the compilation of a novel volume, a photographic history of the war with Spain. It bas addressed a circular letter to all the officers in the service, asking them to Contribute such prints, films or negatives as they may have in their possession. Scores Die In Battle. News comes from Constantinople of a fierce battle at Kilun. in northern Macedonia, between Albanian Mussulmans and Turkish troops- Several hundred were killed on both sides aud the Saltan has ordered the execution of all prisoners taken by the Turks. Indians Suffer for Food. . Southern California Indians are suffering greatly for. want of food and clothing. Many of them are ill, some with consumption. The advance of civilization has

driven uze juuiaua ium uapruuucuve partss of the country. Assistance is argent! I needed.

Dead Body In a Mill. The flour mill of Gibson &. Son at

Wakeman, Ohio, was destroyed by fire and William Gibson, junior member of the firm, was burned to death. For some time the owners have missed flour from the mill, but no clew to the thieves could be found. Young Gibson had been watching the milL When the fire was discovered all the doors were locked. When the flames were extinguished Gibson was found dead. Near him was a rifle, and employes of the mills say no firearms had been kept there. It is the belief that Gibson caught the robbers and that thev mur

dered him and then set fire to the building.

Americana Caused Revolt, The Kansas City Journal prints a

lengthy story to the effect that New York financiers whose -contract to build the Nicaraguan canal expires October next are

beueved to be back of a scheme to over

throw the Nlcaragnan Government in

order to secure from a new Government

concessions which will enable them to rter-

manently control the building of the canal.

Valuable Papers earned. The residence of Dr. George L. Miller.

at Seymour Park, a suburb of Omaha, was burned. The house and contents are a total loss. In addition to the buildine.

large number of valuable art works.

letters and documents collected during-

the doctor's long career as editor of the

Herald, were destroyed. The money loss

win amount to $30,000.

Size of the Cuban Army, Gen. Maximo Gomez bas sent Governor

General Brooke a statement of the number of men in the Cuban army. It is understood the total reaches 48,00032,000 privates, 10,000 non-commissioned officers

and the rest officers from major generals

to sublieutenants. About 10.000 privates

enlisted in 1805, 18,000 in 1800, 4,000 in

1897 and 8,000 in 1808.

Governor of Illinois Signs Ailing BUI. The Allen street railway franchise law

ceased to exist when Gov. Tanner, of

Illinois, affixed nis signature to the Ailing repeal bill. The measure went into effect when signed.

Sexton Killed by Lightning. While Sexton William H. Hoxie was

ringing the bell of the Cougregatioual

unurcn in tne village of Chiltonrille, Mass., he was struck by lightning aud instantly killed. Innocent of Grave Desecration. Dr. B. C. Hyde, a dean iu the Kansas City Homeopathic Medical College, charged with desecrating the grave of Michael Kelly last fall, was dismissed by the Bute. Killed by an Explosion. By a boiler explosion at Frank Smaltz's tone quarry at Myerstown, Pa., Monroe Billinger was instantly killed and Irving Firestone and Frank Suialtz injured. Schley Raised Above Sampson. The United Stales Senate has settled

the Schley-Sampson controversy by making each a rear admiral, with Schley two numbers in advance of Sampson. Josephine Kipling Dead. Josephine Kipling, the 0-year-old daughter uf Itudyard Kipling and the oldest of his three children, died of pneumonia in New York. Dewey Appointed Admiral. The President litis sent to the Senate the nomination of Rear Admiral George Dewey to be admiral of tbe navy. Rescued After a Rough Experience. After being ice-bound during the terrible blixxard, half frozen mid blown to sea,

Sale of Railroad Land In Nebraska,

All the lands of the Union Pacific Hail

road Company in Nebraska covered by the

sinking fund mortgage of lsid, given by

the old company to the Lmon lrust Com

pany of New York, as trustees, have been

sold in Omaha. Ihe only bidder was

D. Cornish, vice-president of the Union

Pacific Company, who represents that

company. The equity in lands under con

tract of sale brought $000,000, and the

unsold lands $1,000,000. Robbed Her of $2,300.

Five masked robbers entered tbe house of Miss Eliza Waltz, an aged maiden near

Cavetown, Md., securing $2,500 in cash

and escaped. Miss.W ultz and a boy nam

ed Holtzman, aged 10 years, were the only

persons in the house. The robbers broke

in the door with a fence rail and tied Miss

Waltz and the boy iu their beds.

Their Wages AdvanceJ,

When the operatives of the Naumkcag

steam cotton mills of raleiu. Mass.. went to work the other day they fonud posted

ticolly is a restoration of the cut of Janu

ary, 1808. About 1,500 hands will lie af

fected. Indian Wants a Divorce.

Shoots-at-Him, an Iudian from Rosebud

agency, has commenced divorce proceed

ings in the United States Circuit Court at Dead wood, S. D.. from his wife, Fanny Shoots-at-Him. This Is the first case on

record of an Indian applying for a di

vorce. American Student Hurt in Russia.

Mr. Gardner, a"n American student at

the University of St. Petersburg, has

lodged a complaint at the United States

embassy regarding injuries he received at the hands of the police during the recent

troubles on tne fete day of tne uuivcrsity,

No New Trial for Parricide.

At xopeka. Ivan., Judge Ilazen over

ruled the motion for a new trial in the

John Collins murder case. Young Collins

was convicted on Dec. 24 of killing his

father, J. 8. Collins.

To Be Director of the Census.

The nomination of William It. Mcrriani

of Minnesota to be director of the census

was confirmed iu the executive session of

the Senate without opposition.

Caught In Line Shaft and Killed.

Edward I. McIIenry, cartman at the

George E. Nicholson smelting works, lola, Kan., was caught in a whirling line

shaft and instantly killed.

Woman Gets a Life Term.

At Sandusky, Ohio, Martha May Mc

Fillen, convicted of the murder of hei lover, George Koechle, was sentenced tc

the penitentiary for life.'

Postoffics Looted by BurglaVs.

Burglars blew open tbe safe in the East

Byracuse, N. Y., postofUce and obtained nearly $3,000 in postage stamps and

money.

Tobacco Warehouse Burns.

The large tobacco factory of John D

Elliott, Owensboro, Ky., burned. Lost

$30,000, insurance $17,500.

MARKET REPORTS.

unicago cattle, common to prune,

$3.00 to $0.25; hots, shipping grades. $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice, $3.0t

to f4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 72c to 73e

corn, No. 2, 35c to 37c; oats. No. 2, 27i

to 28c; rye, No. 2, 55c to 00c; butter, choice creamery. 19c to 20c: eitas. fresh.

10c to 21c; potatoes, choice, 55c to Out

per bushel.

Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 tc

ao.io; nogs, choice light, $2.75 to $4.00, sheep, common to choice. $2.50 to $4.25

wheat, No. 2 red, 72c to 74e; corn, No. S

wnitc, B4c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 30i

to azc.

St. Louis Cattle, $8.50 to $0.00; hogs.

d.uu to ?4.w; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75

wheat, No. 2, 73c to 74c; corn, No. 2

yellow, 33c to 35c; oats, No. 2, 28c to 30c;

rye, jno. z, one to 01c.

Cincinnati Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2, 74c to 75c; corn, No. 2

mixed, 85c tc 87c; oats, No. 2 mixed, atto 31c; rye. No. 2, C2c to 04c. Detroit Cattle. $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2,50 to $4.50;

wheat. No. 2, 74c to 75e; corn. No. 2

yellow, 3uc to 30c; oats, No. 2 white, S2t to 84c: rye, (lie to 03c. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 73c to 75c; corn, No, 2 mixed, 84c to 35c; onls, No. 2 white, 28c to 80e; rye. No. 2. 7lc

to 57c; clover seed, new, $3.80 to $3.!K). Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 spring, 70c to 71c; corn, No. S, iXiu to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 29c to 31c; rye, No. 1, 50c to 58e; barley, No. 2, 45c to 51c; pork, mcst, $9.25 to $9.7.-i. Buffalo Cuttle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, coiuiuou to choice, $3.25 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice wethers, $3.50 to $4.75; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $5.50. New York-Cuttle. $3.25 to $0.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep. $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. ' red, 83c to 85c; corn. No. 2, 43c to 45c; oats, No. 2 white, S8c to 88c; butter, creamery, lUc to 21c; eggs, Westerni 23c to 25c

CHAPTER V. When a corner near the rhododendron bat concealed them from view, Dysart rises from his Beat aud goes deliberately over to where Lady Swausdowu is sitting. She Is au old friend ot his, aud he bas

:hurefore no qualms about being a little brusque with her where occasion demands

it. "Have a gamer" says he. His sugges Sou is full of playfulness; his tone, how ever, is stern.

"Dear Felix, why V says she, smiling up

it him beautifully, 'there is even a sua picioir of nm i which t in her smile.

"A change!" says he. His words this

tin e might mean something, his toue any thing. She can read either as she pleases,

"True!" says she, laughing. "There is

aothiug like chauge. You have awakened me to a delightful fact. Lord Baltimore,"

turuini! laneaidty to her companion, who

las boon a little distrait since his wife and ion passed by him. "What do you say to '.rying a change for just we two:" "If yon will," says Baltimore, still a Utile vaguely. He gets up, however, snd

stretches his arms indolently above his

hca't as one might who is Hinging from him the remembrance of an unpleasant dream. "The sun here is inlolcrabV," says Lady

Swausdowu, rising, too. "Uore than one can endure. Thauks, dear Felix, for your

suggestion. I should novo have thought of the glade if you hadn't asked mc to play that game." She smiles a little maiciously at Dywrt and. accompanied byLord Baltimore,

moves away from the aisembled groups upon the lawn to the din recesses of the

leafv trlade.

"Sold!" says Mr. Brone to Dysart. It

is always impossible tc Dickey to hold

fj-tongue. "But you icean t look so cut

up about It. 'Tisn't god enough, my dear fellow. I know 'em b-th by heart. Baltimore is as much in ve with her as be

is with his Irish tens its, but his imagina;ion is his strong poiit, and it pleases him

to thiuk he has foun at last for the twentieth time a solace or all bis woes in tbe

disinterested lore Jf somebody, it really never matters wh'." "There is nior in it than you think," lays Dysart, gltomily. "Not a fractim!" airily, "And what rf her? Lady Swansdown?"

"Of her! Her heart has been in such constant use for years that by this time it must be in tatters. Give up thiuking

about that, ill! here Is tny beloved girl

igain!" He makes an elaborate gesture of delight as be sees Joyce advancing iu his

direction. "Dear Joyce! beaming on her, "who shall say there Is nothing iu animal

nagnetism. Here I have been just talking ibout you to Dysart, aud telling him what s lost soul I feel when you're away, aud instantly, as if in answer to my keen de

sire, you appear before me.

"Why aren't you playiug tennis V" de-

mauds Miss Kavinugh, with a cruel disre 'BecauseTf was waitiHg'for you." "Well, I'll beat you," says she. "I always do."

Hotter and hotter grows the sun; the evening comes on apace; a few people

rrom ueignooring bouses nave dronned iu.

Mrs. Monktou among others, with Tommy

lu tow. The latter, who is supposed to entertaiu a strong affection for Lady Bal

timore s little -sou, no sooner, however, sees Dicky Browne than be gives himself up to bis keeping. What the attraction is

that Mr. Browne has for children has never yet been clearly defined.

1 II stay with Dicky," says Tommv.

Singing himself broadcast ou Mr. Browne's reluctant chest, that gives forth

compulsory "Wough!" as he does so. He'll tell me a story." "Don't be unhappy, Mrs. Moukton."

lays the latter, when he lias recovered a

little from the shock; Tommy is a wellgrown boy w.th a sufficient amount of adipose mutter about him to make his descent felt. "I'll promise to be careful. Nothing French, I assure you. Nothing that could shock the young mind or teach it how to shoot in the wroug direction. My tales

are always strictly moral."

'Well, Tommy, be good!" says Mrs.

Monkton, with a last imploring elnuce at

her sou, who bas already forgotten her existence, being lost iu a wild wrestling match with his new friend. With deep forebodings his mother leaves him and

goes upon her way. Passing Joyce, she says iu a low whisper:

Keep an eye on Tommy." "Yes, I'll look after him."

And so perhaps she might hare done bad

not a light step sounding just behind her

chair at this moment caused her to sturt

to look round to forget all but what

she now gees.

He is a -very aristocratic Jookinz man.

tall, with large limbs, and big indeed in every way. His eyes are liitht. his nose

a handsome Roman, his forehead massive, and if not grand in the distinctly intellect na! way, still a fine forehead and impressive. His bands are of a goodly size, but exquisitely proportioned, and very white, the skin almost delicate. He is rather like his sister, Lady Baltimore, snd

yet so different from her iu every way that

me resemblance that is there torments

the observer.

"Why!" says Joyce. It is the most fool

ish exclamation, aud meaus uothiug, but she finds herself a little taken off her

guard, "l didn t know you were here! She has half riscu.

"Neither did I how d'ye do. Dvsnrt?

until nail au hour ugo. Won t you shake hands?"

He holds out his own hand to her as he

speaks. There is a quizzical light in bis

eyes as he speaks, nothing to offend, but

one can see that he finds amusement iu

the fact that the girl has been so much Impressed by his unexpected appearance that she lias even forgotten the small acts of courtesy with which we greet our

friends. She had, indeed, been dead to

everything but hia coming.

lou came falters she, stammering little, as she notes her mistake. "By the midday train; I gave myself

just time to snatch a sandwich, say a word or two to my sister, whom I found In the garden, and then came on here to ask you to play this next game with me."

Oh ! I am so sorry, but I hare promised

It to "

The words are out of her mouth before

she has realized the fact that Dysart is listening Dysart, who is lying at her feet,

watching every expression in her mobile

face. She colors and looks down at him, confused, lovely.

'Don't 1" says Dysart, not loudly, not

curtly, yet In so strange and decided a way that it renders her silent. "You mustn't mind mc," says he, a second later, in bis usual calm toue. "I know you aud Beauclerk are wonderful players. You

an give me a gaute later on."

A capital nrrangenieut, says Beau-

clerk, coniform lily, sinking Into a chair beside her, with nil the lazy manner of a

man at peace with himself and his world.

"especially as I shall nave to go In presently to write some letters for the evening post."

He beams again, and looks boui'y Into

Miss Kavanagh's eyes. She blushes hotly.

and, dropping her fan, makes u little attempt to pick it up again. Mr. Beaiicli-rk makes auolher little attempt, and so manages thut his hand meets her. There is a slight, au almost beuevolent pressure. Had taey looked at Dysart as they both resumed their places, they could have seeu that his face was white as death. Miss Kavauagh, too, looks u little pale, a little uncertain, but, as a whole, nertuusly happy. "I've been down at the old place of uiiue," goes on Mr. Beauclerk. "Terrible disrepair take thousauds to put it in any sort of older. And Where's one to get them? That's tbe oue question that has got no answer nowadays. Eh, Dysart?" "There is au answer, however," says Dysart, curtly, not looking at him. "Ah, well, 1 suppose so. But I haven't beard it yet." "Oh, yes, 1 think you have," says Dysart, quite politely, but grimly, nevertheless. "Dear fellow, how? where? unless ont discovers a mine or au African diamond field?" "Or an heiress," says Dysart, "y"Hah! lucky dog, that conies home to you," says Beauclerk, giving him a playful pot on bis shoulder and stooping from his chair to do it, as Dysart still sits upon the grass. "Not to me." "No? You will he modest? Well, well! Rut, talking or that old place, I assure you, Miss Kavauagh, it worries me it does, indeed. It sounds like oue's duty to restore if, and still " "There are better things than even au old place," says Dysart. "Ah! you haven't one, you see," cries Beauclerk, with the utmost geniality. "If you had 1 really think if you had you would understand that it requires a sacrifice to give it up to moths and rust and ruin." "I said there were better tbiugs than old places." says Dysart. never looking iu his direction. "And if there are, make a sacrifice." "Pouf! Lucky fellows like you gay soldier lads with hearts as light as sunbeams, can easiiy preach; but sacrifices are not so easily made. There is that horrid word, Duty! Aud a man must sometimes think! Come on, Miss Kavauagh, let us get our sealps. Dysar:, will you fight it out with us?" "No, ibanks." "Afraid?" gayly. "Of you no," smiling: the smile is admirably done, ami would be taken as the genuine article anywhere. "Of Miss Kavauagh, then?" For a brief instant, and evidently against his wish, Dysart's eyes met those of Joyce. "The next game is ours, Mr. Dysart, remember," says she, glancing at Dysart over her shoulder, a touch of auxiety iu her eyes. "I always remember," says he, with a rather ambiguous smile. What is he remembering now? Joyce's mouth takes a grave turn as she follows Beauclerk down tho marble steps that lead to the tenuis ground below.

CHAPTER VI. "Well, after all, life has its compensations," says Mr. Beauclerk, sinking upou Hi SUu-wVr-VMptSriffls -Sss? " It Is a week later, and the ball given by Lord and Lady Baltimore is in full swing. Beauclerk is looking very big aud very handsome. His close-cropped, eminently aristocratic head is thrown a little back, to give full play to tbe ecstatic smile he is directiug at Joyce. "I thought I should never be able to get a dance with you; you see" smiling "when one is the belle of the evening one grows difficult. But you might have kept a fifth or sixth for a poor outsider like me. An old friend, too." "Old frieuds dou't count at a dance. I'm afruid," says she with a smile as genial as his own, "though for the matter of that you conld have had the first; no onehard as it may be to make you believe it had asked the belle of the evening for that." f "Oh! that first!" says he, with a gesture of impatience. "I shan't forgive Isabel in a hurry about that; she ruined my evening up to this. However," throwing off, as it were, unpleasant memories by a shake of his bead, "don't let me spoil my one gJ time by dwelling upon a bad one. Here I -am now at all events; here is comfort, here is peace. The hour 1

have been longing for is mine at last."

"It might have been yours considerably

earlier," says Miss Kavauagh, with very

noteworthy deliberation, humored by his

lover-like glances, which, after all. have more truth in them than most of his dec

larations, bbe sits, pluying with her fan,

aud with a face immovable as any sphinx,

"Do you know," says Mr. Beauclerk,

gently, "I think you are the one sweet

character in the world." There is a great amount of belief in bis tone; perhaps bait

of It is honest. 1 never met anyone like you. Women, as a rule, are willing to tear each other in pieces, but you you

condone all faults, that is why I

A pause. He leans forward. His eyes

are eloquent; his tongue aloue refrains

from finishing the declaration that he had

begun. To the girl beside him, however,

ignorant of subterfuge, unkuowiug of the wiles that run in and out of society like

a thread, bis words sound sweet the sweeter for tbe very hesitation that ac

companies them. "I am uo: so perfect as you thiuk me,

says she, a little ssdly her voice a little

faint.

"That Is true," says he, quickly,

though compelled against his will to find fault with her. "Awhile ago you were an

gry with me because I was driven to waste my time with people uncongenial to me. That was unfair, it you like." He throws

her own accusations back at her iu the

gentlest fashion. "I darned with this, that and the other person, but do you know where my heart was all the time?"

He pauses for a moment; just loug

euough to make more real his question, but hardly loug enough to let her reply to It. To bring matters to a climax would not suit him at all. "Yes, you do know," says he, seeing her about to speuk. "Aud yet you misjudge me. If 1 were to tell you that I would rather be with you than with any other woman iu the world, you would believe me, wouldn't you?" He stoops over her, and taking her baud, presses it fondly, liugeriugly. "Answer mc." "Yes," says Joyce, in a low tone. It has not occurred to her that bis words are a question rather than an assertion. That he lores her seems to her certain. A soft glow illumines her cheeks; her eyes sink beneath his; the Idea that she is happy, or, at all events, ought tu be happy, fills her with s curious wonderment. Do people always feel so strauge, so surprised, so unsure, when love comes? Yet you did doubt," says Beauclerk, giving her hand a last pressure, aud now nestling back among his cushlous with ail the air of a man who bas fought and couqiterel and has received his reward. "Well, don't let us throw tin unpleasant memory into this happy hour. As I have said," taking up ber fan and idly, if gracefully, waviug It to aud fro, "after all this turmoil of the tight It Is sweet to be at last In the haven where one would be." He is smiling at Joyce the gayest, the most .-undid smile lu the world. Beauclerk indeed is enjoying himself

Immensely. To a man of his temperament to be able to play upon a nature as fiue, as hutiest, as pure as Joyce's, is to know a kc-ii delight. That i he girl is dissatisfied, vaguely, nervously dissatisfied, he can read as easily as though the workings of her soul lay before bim in broad type, ami to assuage those half-defined misgivings of bers is a task that suits hira. He attacks it con amore. "How silent you arc," says he, very gently, when he has let quite a loug pause occur. "I am tired, I thiuk." "Ot me?" "No." "Of what, then?" He has found that as a rule there is uotbing a woman likes better than to be asked to define her own feelings. Joyce, however, disappoints him. "Hitting up so late", I suppose." "Look here!" says he, In a voice so full of earnest emotion that Joyce involtinturily stares at him, "I know what Is tbe matter with uu. You are tUshting against ymir better nature. You are trying to Ix) ungenerous. You are trying to believs what you know is uot true. Tell me houestly, mind are you not forcing yourself to regard me as a inouster of insincerity ?" "You are wrong," says she. slowly. "1 am forcing myself, on the contrary, to be lieve you a very giant of sincerity," "Aud you find that difficult';" "Yes." (To be continued. I

WHY HE WAS FULL OF GRIT. Tenderfoot 6its by While a Stick of Uyuamitc Burns. "la the winter of '79," lie said, 'I was In Leudville, Col., aud the camp wat literally swarming with frontlet toughs, who took delight iu inuklnii tilings interesting for a 'tenderfoot.' One night a few of them got hold ot u Boston dude nud escorted hltn to B big general store that was a populal rendezvous for a gang of practical jokers. The dude lurued out to lie a pivtty good sort of a fellow, and final ly tin? proprietor got his ear and warn ed li I i that the boys were going to gel up a fake light as a finale, in which one of tlioui would pretend to throw s stick of dymimlte In tho stove. " Just sit quiet, souuy,' lie said, 'and they will resiwct your nerve.' "The dude thanked liiui and said ha would. Presently the row began, and iu less time than It takes to tell II blank cartridges were cracking in all directions. The dude simply gi'lnnod aud took out it cigarette. At thut on of the crowd snatched up a atlck from a box aud, yelling that he was golug to blow everybody to hades, threw It Into tbe open stove. It so happened that ho went to the wrong box and got hold of au actual, suri'-enough piece of dynamite iustead of the dummy which had lKi-ii prepared lu advance. This was noticed almost immediately nud the jokers scattered like scared rablrits, leaving the tlllde in possession. As usually hapiH'tis, the dynamite merely burned like so much wax. The gang finally returned and found tho dude smoking his cigarette, but when be

realized that he bad really been sit-

tiu ou tbe edge of a volcano he nearly

falated and gave away the secret of hlg nerve. Otherwise he would have passed Into history as the earnest man

In Leadvllle." Chicago Chronicle.

Superstitions in Trinidad.

In his Rambles In Trinidad, J. H.

t'olliiLs says that the natives are firm

Iwllevers In "Obt-ah." a kind of fetish

Ism very much lu vogue amoug the African Kudus, aud lutrodueed Into

Trinidad probably by Radu. slaves The obeah mau, or priest as he Is gen

erally called, uiukes a fetish or Image

of wood, with a moulded clay head,

. ..fa human hair and teeth.

These priests are drende-rt oe-yoitd T-

eryrhlug by the common, people on ac

count of their assumed mystic power,

When a peasant contractor, stepping

out of his hut one morning, finds a

sealed bottle at the entrance containing abominations as horrid as those of Macbeth's witches, his heart sinks wlibiu him, for he feels that calamities

dire aud untold are looming ahead.

Somebody oue of his enemies is

working "olw-ah" ou him. His call-

dreti will Kt "yaws," libs cows dry up.

his crops will fall.

One thing Is cerrain: all will go wrong with him unices he can counter

act or overcome the evil. So he goes to

some wretched old humbug who pro

fesses to have the mysterious power,

aud fees him heavily to prepare a

charm which shall have the desired effect. I need hardly say that t;he police authorities and the law are very severe on these obeah quacks; but such Is the hold the superstition haa ou the

in iuds of the iguorant that nothing will shake their faith, lu It, and It will take

years. If not generations, to eradicate

It. 1 have been told that oue of these olieali men has made quite a considerable stun of money by practicing his

am, and Uvea "en prluce."

Before Santiago.

A lieutenant, who was among the

wounded before Santiago, thus de

scribes the sensation of being a target for a rapid-lire gun: "We- were going forward under a scattering fire from the front, and all at once, off at the

right, a rapid-firing gun opeued on us. There was no smoke, so we couldn't locate the battery exactly, but we could see the bullets playing over the long grass like spray from a hose. They didn't have tbe range at first, and tbe shower of bullets went swinging back aud forth, clipping off the tops of the grass uud cotnlug nearer us with every sweep. You cau't Imagine the scusa tions It gave us to watch that deathspray, driven by some Invisible, relentless force, creeping on aud on, rcachiug out, and feeling for us. There was something unnatural about It, and we watched as though we were fascinated by it, I didn't feel as if men had anything to do with it. It was au impersonal, deadly enemy thut I couldn't fight and couldn't escape. There wasn't a living enemy within sight. At last, with oae big sweep the shower reached us. Men all around me dropped, ami then I felt a sting In my side, and down I went. I believe we were all thankful when that guu found us. It relieved the tension but It ended my fighting."

NrTW TnTAMA LAWS ! stricken ont. The first bill was killed

" -- ' ' ' j tainlng this provision. The law iTaces a j great burden on the Sheriff for letting a " ! prisoner get out of his custody, removing

In New Britain. In the Island of Now Britain a man must not speak to his mother-in-law. Not only Is speech forbidden to his relative, but she must be avoided; and If

by chance the lady Is met, the gou-lu-law must hide himself or cover his face.

Thirty years ago the Earl of Hals-

bury (then plain Hardtuge Ulffard) was

defending ex Gov. Eyre concerning the

massacres that had occurred In Jamaica. Having depicted Eyre protecting tbi' people from outrages, Mr. Ulffard asked passionately whether for so doing bis client was to be done to death by persecution. "Hood God," he ex-

t-liilined, "Is this Justice?" and wound

up his apostrophe by bursting Into tears.

Scientists have demonstrated that

the purest air lu the cities Is found

about tweuty-llve feet above the street surface. This goes to prove that the

healthiest apartments are those on tha

third door.

MOST IMPORTANT PRODUCT OF SIXTY DAYS' LEGISLATION, The General Assembly Writes Many Good Laws Upon the Statute Books of the State -Busy t'ession Without Junkets or Parliamentary Delays. ludliiuapolls c-jrrepondeuce'. The Legislature which completed its work recently was so attentive to business during the session that there was no hurry during the last days of the session, l-'cw law-making bodies have adopted laws from wliich greater benefit has been expected. The reform meusures are specially Important to the whole State, as they completely change the methods of county and township governments. Many measures of great importance have been considered. Tbe usual number of inconsequential bills cumbered the dockets of both bodies ind the committees. It ma) be added that the Legislature has beeii impressed with the responsibility devolving upon it. It has indulged in uo junkets and uo day has been wasted for lack of a quorum. The Sixty first General Assembly passed county atd township council bills after u hard right. The councils are intended to govern tbe tux levies aud to supervise the expenditure of public money. Tbe power of the township trustee is restricted by the township council, and of the county commissioners aud county officers by the county council. A source of great money was:e ha3 been the building of bridges by onnty commissioners. Some of the board have let contracts without competitive bidding and under cover. One of the laws enacted requires specifications to be on file a certain time, open to all bidders aud the public. Hereafter the public is bound to know what is being done. Another law compels county auditors to publish statements of all allowances made by judges or oounty commissioners. Other laws relating to township government and of special interest to the farmer, provide for the election of road supervisor by the people instead ot allowing the trustee to tippoiut. This was done to remove the temptation of tbe trustee to select a good friend, to the detriment of good roads. Another important road law amendment provides that land owners shall b? allowed $1.25 a mile to cut weeds and brush by the roadside. Hitherto they have been allowed $1.25 a day and in some places the road fund was consumed by lazy workers, who required several days to clear the road of weeds and briers. Still another law compels land owners to mow weeds and brush along partition fences. This will do away with the condition of one side "clean" aud the other "dirty." Another law does away with the appointment of road superintendents by the county commissioners. The work of the superintendents is to be done by the road supervisors in their respective districts. tSoulherti Indiana farmers took a decided iuterest iu seeing the commercial fertilizer law enacted. For some years worthless material has been marketed for manure. The law makes the professor of chemistry at Purdue analyse all fertilisers before they may be sold. Pre-eminent as the law which labor interests exect to redound to their welfare is that of Senator Hugg regarding contributory negligence. Heretofore in Indiana when an employe's leg was cut off on a railroad, before he conld secure damages he must prove that the railroad was guilty of negligunce, and also that he himself was not negligent. The old law put a double burden on the laborer. Now the corporation must show that it was not negligent, aud if such was the case, that the laborer was to blame. The powers of the factory inspector were enlarged and a department of inspection was created. Henceforth there will be closer supervision iu small factories. Fire escapes are made necessary in certnlr, znbii bnjldinca and factories. A radical change in the tax law In which owners of small homes are especially interested is the $700 exemption of mortgage indebtedness. It is intended to throw the tax on the mortgage holder entirely, for it provides that, in order to get the exemption, the mortgage holder must be named. The $700 exemption will be taken advantage of by everybody and . : 1 l t.. .1. . .1 i , -. . ' m

expected. Some hidden mortgages will

lie unearthed, but holders ot mortgages of Indiana property who live outside the

State will escape, and much property will

go untaxed. The effect of the law can-

uot be definitely stated. The Governor deposited it with the Secretary ot State

without His approval.

The anti-convict labor law of 1897 was modified at the State prison and the pub

lic account system will be inaugurated.

The change was agreed to by representa

tives of organized labor, although In some sections of the State labor cried out

aguuist it.

Weekly payment of waes is made com

pulsory, aud it is made unlawful for an

employer to assess a line against an em

ploye. The assignment of wages is pro

hibited. This law is expected to put

stop to abuses in the gas belt and In the mining districts. It doos not apply to

common carriers or to employes in inter

state commerce.

Some marked changes were made in the

laws governing public school education.

most of them In the line of the Geetiug bill, which was defeated in 1SU7 because

of opposition from the sectarian colleees.

Under the township high school law, high school privileges will be extended to the farmers' children where there are fifteen students iu a township asking for high

school instruction, lnen there is the law

making educational requirements for the

county school superintendents, and still

another giving the applicant for teucher'

license th right to send manuscript to the

State school superintendent for examiua

tion, and, if license is granted, to tench In

any couui:y of the State without further

examination.

Aside from the count.- and townahiu

reform bU, the assembly was worked up

to the bit hcst pitcn over the reorgnulza

tion of the State Board of Education,

IPartv lines were cast rside. The iux.

Itarian colleges demanded that the presi

dents of the three stute colleges be taken

toff tbe board, and in their stead lie placed

appointeea of the itove-uor, while the State Teachers' Association and the

State Bonn! of Lducntion resisted, this.

and secured ti reorganization which atids

to the prescut board three members, oue to be a county school superintendent aud

the other two citizens, possibly rep resell

tatives of some ot the sectarian colleges,

the three lo be appointed by tbe Governor. While this is not all that was demanded

by church schools, it is predicted that the

additions to the board will be of their

party, aud will make kuowu the alleged

shortcomings of the stare college presi

dents, or, rather, their system, and that

the fight will hardly be renewed in 1901

The compulsory education law was

amended to reduce the uimber of truant

officers and to exempt from its provisions

children of 13 aud 14 having regulnr em

ployment aud being dependent upon it for

their owu or tbelr parent) living. Many

icgisiatora were anxious to repeal the entire law.

Another change iu tbe school law pro

vides that all contracts between teacher

and acbool corporation snail be written. Township trustees have been in the habit of making verbal contracts. Still more

important is the law regaiding transfer of school ch ldrcn from one corporation to

another, providing that trustees shall pay $1.50 u month tuition for the grades aud $o a momh for high school. This law is Intended to stop indiacriu iuate transfers. Wlipn a child leaves his corporation to attend scho l in another, the trustee must pay for It Another law authorizes Kosciusko County to vote a levy to assist in building a school nt Winona. An anti lyueh law was finally enacted, much as tie Governor ant Attorney Geueral recommended, with the excention

thnt the Ik'i.OOO damages recoverable by tbe telative against the county was

him from office. Arrests may be made on

the filing of information. Along the same line was a law allowing county commissioners to give a $600 reward for the capture of an escaped murderer or lyncher. A source of great benefit to the State may be the law allowing the Attorney General to prosecute iu the name of the State for an injunction without giving bond. This power can be used against gas waste or against bold breaking of the gambling laws. The commissioner of fisheries was made the commissioner of game also, and constabulary power was given his deputies when they find violations of the law with their own eyes. A law was enacted pre venting the pollution of streams and the killing of fish by dumping strawboard refuse and such like into them. The powers of the State Board ot Health were increased over county health officers and $6,000 was appropriated to be used as the board sees fit to suppress contagious diseases. A pure food law was passed. The pharmacists were placed under State board which licenses them, and unlicensed druggists or storekeepers are only permitted to sell certain medicines specified in the law. A Stateentomologist was created to fight San Jose scale and other peats in oar orchards. County boards of charities were created to consist of six persons to serve without salary, not over four to be men. They oversee county charities and are amenable to the State Board of Charities. The principal modifications of the election law are that voting machines are authorized and men who sell their votes or for money refuse to vote may be disfranchised for ten years. Also any political party may have one challenger and one poll-book holder at the polls. Aside from Indianapolis street car legislation, the principal law and the only one of gcuera! import in a street railroad way, requires the heating of cars from November to March. Insurance legislation was enacted to make it possible for companies to organise under Indiana laws and be on as solid a financial .footing as Eastern companies. The tendency of all the insurance laws was to put companies more nearly under the supervision of the State Auditor and to require them to deposit with the auditor good securities. In the way of fees and salaries of county officers the principal change was putting commissioners on salaries instead of per diem. The next General Assembly was anticipated by the passage of a law creating a commission of three persona who are to study fees and salaries between now aud 1901 and report to the Assembly changes needed in various connties. There has been no temperance legisla-1 tion, though a great fight was made to stop drug store liquor selling. One antitrust bill became a law. It is said to be directed principally at the trust of plumbers' supply houses. The Wlnsfield trust bill was postponed. Efforts to reduce railroad fare failed. Large appropriations were made to build additional room at tbe insane hospitals and the Jeffersonvillo reformatory. The insane hi jails and poor farms will be cared for. Children' Cast-OfT Clothing. While great quantities of men's second-hand clothing are sold, there to proportionately but very little children's second-hand clothing. The small boy ia likely to wear his clothes more than a man does bis clothes to begin with. It would not, for example, pay dealer to buy, to sell again as clothing, a pair of boy's trousers that bad to be patched. New trousers can now lie bought so cheap that the price that could be got for the patched secondhand ones wouldn't pay for the handling, and the work of repairing. It does pay, however, to repair men's trousers that need patching, for there are always to be found for these purchasers at prices that yield some profit But while children's second-band clothing Is rarely seen hanging about with the men's clothing in second-hand stores, all dealers will buy it when it is - good or fair condition, and tliere are some dealers that make a specialty of it, and seek fine clothing that bas been cast off when but little worn. There are customers for the comparatively limited supply of children's secondhand clothing that Is offered.

Quite Kails There). A quaint-looking member of the Quaker persuasion recently administered the following apt rebuke to a certain country parson more celebrated for hia passionate love of fox-hunting than for his pulpit powers. "Friend, thou'rt clever at fox-hunting, I believer "There ure few men In the countryside who can excel me at the sport," observed the parson, proudly. "Nevertheless, friend. If I were a fox I would hide where thou wouldat never find me." "Pray where 'would you hide, sirr was the Interested query. "I would hide In thy study, friend."

KnJoyed HerselC My friend's colored maid came In one day after her regular weekly outing, looking as if she had enjoyed herself. "Well, Susan," said tny friend, who is sympathetic, "I suppose you saw all the pretty things in the stores down town?" ".No" in; not 'zactly. I ben lookln' at de handiwork ob de Lawd." "Indeed; So you took a little trip to tbe country to see the fields and flowers r "No'm; no, Indeedy. I ben at de dime museum. They has a hairy boy there

and a two-headed man." Lipplncott's

Magazine. Water Supplies. It Is generally thought that among

the ancient civilized peoples tbe Itonians had the moat perfect system of water supplies. But excavations in Greece have shown that in several inspects its inhabitants were more advanced In the art of laying aqueducts than their Italian neighbors. Their water was brought to them in subter

raneous ducts, so that greater purity was secured, and the liquid was kept cool. The very fact that the Itoman

aqueducts are more visible, as being

over ground, probably accounts for the

fact that Koniau constructions have en

joyed world-wide fame, while the supe

rior Greek art was unknown In this re

spect.

True Journalistic Instinct. In Par lis a young woman drove to the

Bois, alighted from her coupe, seised

her coachman's whip and advanced before an eager crowd to administer a

whipping to a journalist who had not flattered her vanity. Tbe journalist

caught the whip, broke It. and lifting

the fair one In his arms covered her

with kisses. Then he went aii-i wrote

It up.

A Realist. A New Orleans beggar wears a plac

ard inscribed, "I am really blind." All the other members ot the fraternity give him a black look as they pass, St. Louis (Holie-Democrat.

The coal miners' strike of 1S08 was

one of the most disastrous In the his

tory of Wales, leaving thousands of

workmen impoverished. Tbe compaaJf

losses also were enormous. ,