Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1893 — Page 3

In Sheep's Clothing.

By Capt Ormond Steele

CHAPTER XX-Coatiaued. “Do you think, Captain, that that bloody Kidd is coming up this way?” “I am inclined to think he is.” “If ho does will you tight him?” “That’s what I am here for,” said Fox. By this time they had reached the shore, where Frenauld was waiting with the boat, and Fox and his party .started for the Wanderer. The man who had been favored with the captain’s replies at once became an oracle —the most important man in the town for the time, and a central figure about which wondering groups gathered wherever he went. The reason for Capt. Fox’s return was now plain to the dullest comprehension. He he had been sent from New York to meet and destroy Capt. Kidd, the monster pirate of the oceans. And it was the general belief that if Capt. Kidd had the temerity to come within sight of Capt. Fox’s ship that the fate of the former would bo sealed to a dead certainly. Hereto:ore Balph Denham had been the naval hero of Sag Harbor, but with an inconsistency and forgetfulness peculiar to the ra’e at all times and in all conditions, they forgot the old idol • in the glaring presence of this grand new one. Captain Fox was the man, and some of the more sanguine residents, Doctor Hedges among them, believed that he would have Kidd within the week, if he was within reach. Squire Condit never did run with the crowd; he was eccentric, and he had the boldness to assert himself. As a deacon he could not conscientiously lay a wager, but he told Doctor Hedges: “i’ll give you a farm of two hundred acres, doctor, if this fellow Fox catches Kidd; that is, if Kidd is in these waters, if you’ll give me one hundred acres of equally good land, if Kalph Denham catches him.” “I’ll agree to that,” said the doctor, eagerly. Squire Condit was sorely perplexed. Like .Lieut. Hedges and Lea Hedges, he was sure there was something wrong, and his wife and daughter were also sure, but neither one could say, even indefinitely, where that something wrong was. Telling Don to show Colonel Graham

to the cabin. Fox, on reaching the deck of the Wanderer, drew Frenauld to one side an 1 said, in a low lone: "That man Thrasher should be here by this time. ” “Y'ou mean he should have reached the town, sir?” “That is just what I do mean. Go ashore again; if he is there, bring him aboard at once; if not, wait till lie arrives. You understand me?" “I do, clearly. ” “And you will still maintain a strict reticence with the people ashore, unless you can add to the impression that we are hero to watch for Captain Kidd.” “All right, sir,” replied Frenauld, turning away with much admiration for the adroitness with which Fox was turning this report to his own account. Captain Fox was prevented from going down to talk to Colonel Graham by the arrival of a gig from the Sea Hawk, bearing Lieutenant Hedges, the officer in command. The instant Fox saw the fine sturdy sailor, he advanced to him with extended hand, saying, after the cordial salutation was over; “There will be plenty of work for both of us 'pretty soon, Lieutenant. Capt. Denham will be here in a few days with a supply ship for the Sea Hawk and Wanderer. In the meantime. how are you off lor ammunitloa?” “We have a lair supply, sir,” replied the Lieutenant, handing Fox what the brave fellow supposed was his own captain’s letter, instructing him to report 1o Fox. Without looking at the letter, Fox said;

“Ah, yes, Capt. Denham’s letter asking you to report to me. Well, we shall consider that done. Now, send me at once a list of all your arms, their condition, the amount and kind of ammunition on hand; the strength of jour crew, with a report on the general condition of the Sea Hawk. You sec, Lieutenant, while I am not in actual command, it is very essential for me to know exactly what I am responsible for. ” “That, Capt. Fox, is eminently right and proper,” said Mr. Hedges, much impressed with the precaution and evidence of executive ability evinced by his superior. “Might I ask, sir, if there is a possibility of the Sea Hawk being ordered to sea any time very soon?" “A possibility, but not a strong probability. My beliof is, that Capt. Denham will be back before your ship p oes to sea. But the chances are that the Wanderer may leave to-morrow or next day; it will depend on reports expected from New York. Should Igo to sea I will borrow all your ammunition, as I am about out, and you can get a replenish from the supply ship that Capt. Denham will bring on.” “I shall do as you order in that matter,” said Lieut. Hedges, saluting and turning away. Capt. Fox watched the commanding officer of the Sea Hawk until the boat that carried him came alongside his own ship. Fox looked pleased with himself and every one else, as he had good reason to be. So far he had succeeded with his customary luck; and the future looked golden with a harvest of rare promise. He was not the man to be carried away by success. So lar he had shown much of the character of the abused animal whosd name he had assumed, but to cunning he now added a v/onder..ful caution.

His immediate plan was to capture the Sea Hawk, and fill her with his own and such of Denham’s men as could be induced to embark under the black flag. But fearing that he might be detected before he could perfect his scheme, he arranged to have the Sea Havk depleted of ammunition, so that she could make little or no resistance should it become necessary to appeal to Lis last resort —force. By fair means or foul he should get Lea Hedges and Ellen Condlt on board the Wanderer, with such other maidens as had struck the coarse fancies of his other officers, and then put to sea with two fleet vessels that would enable him to plunder right and left without fear, and to destroy any force that might be sent against him. He felt sure thatßalph Denham, in the power of the Jealous Montauk chief, was as good as dead, yet be alive long enough to keep him In reserve as a

means of terrorizing Colonel Graham, ,or Lord Paliton, should he refuse to accede to his additional terms. So far, everything looked to the carrying cut of this bold programme with success. The most difficult part of the work was already accomplished, and he was a strong believer in the proverb 'hat “what is well begun is half finished.” Feeling very much pleased with himself, as from his peculiar standpoint he had certainly a right to be. Captain Fox w< nt down to the cabin, where sat Colonel Giaham, looking anything but haopy. “You don’t look well, Colonel,” said Fox, with more familiarity of manner than he had ever be:ore as-utied to the man who now felt sure that in law, as well as in fact, he wai Lord Paliton. “Y'ou know I have been sick.” “I know that, my lord.” Colonel Graham waved his hand in a deprecatory way, and continued: “That idiot of a Doctor Hedges drained me of my last drop of blood—curse his barbarous method —and I did not then and never had any blood to spare for these leeches.” “But what blood you have in your veins, Colonel, is the best in England,” said Fox, with a sly wink. “Y'ou persist in bringing in matters that I would rather not have discussed. Now, will you permit me to speak for a while without any of those irrelevant interruptions?” asked Graham, pettishly. “Certainly. Are you not my guest? Therefore, talk all night if you find the exercise pleasant and healthful.” YVithout heeding the rudeness, for Graham, villain though he was, had the breeding of a gentleman, he went on to advise Captain Fox. “Y'ou have finished your work here, Kidd ” “I beg your pardon, Lord Paliton; sorry to interrupt you again, but my name is Fox, F-o-x. Captain Kidd is another fellow. He is a cursed pirate out on the raging seas. He’s a man that a thousand gendarmes are creaking to hang. He’s a man that Lord Paliton could not associ ”

“Well, well, I ask your pardon,” said Graham, with a smile as grim as the pirate’s humor, “I am at fault there. But I was going to say that the rumor is out that Kidd is in these waters, and very soon there will be a hot chase. My advice, therefore, is to show your heels while you can do so with safety. I will remain here a short time on a little private mission, and if I do not succeed 1 will go to New Y'ork and tlionce home to England.” “He ore you go I have some more business with you,” said tox, with that startling, decisive manner which he could so suddenly assume. “But before see ng to that I have business of great importance to myself to attend to. I came with one ship; I propose to leave with two. I came here a single man; I pronose to go away with a wi;e ” “With a wife?’’ echoed Graham. “Certainly; I am old enough to marry, so are you. The faco of the charming Indian princess—l admire your taste — has struck your fancy; the face of the daughter of the man that bled you so freely has impressed itself on my too susceptible heart. The father is willing, and the lady will be; but if she is n t, why. I’ll play the part of Komulus and the Sabine ” “I beg your nardon. sir,” said Don, putting his head inside the cabin do tr, “but, sir, Mr. Frenauld wants to see you at once." “Tell him to come here.” Frenauld came in looking very much excited, and sfid: "I have brought'Thrasher on board, sir. ” “That is right. Has Thrasher frightened you that you look so ashy.'” “No, Captain; but there has a postrider just come through from New York with letters for Captain Denham. He swears that Denham never was in New York ” “Hold!” thundered Fox. “Back to your boat, at once, man, and away to arrest this fellow, and bring him on board. Tell the people he is a fraud and an impostor—the murderer of the post-rider. Do not lose a second. This should have been done at once.” Frenauld sprang into the boat, and the puzzled sailors rowed back with all speed for the town, over which the shadows of night were settling. And Fox went baek to the cabin, but there was a cloud on his brow, and his confident manner was gone.

CHAPTER XXI. CAPTAIN' DENHAM'S GHOST. Uncas, chief of the Montauks. was to remain in Sag Harbor until he had had another meeting with Captain Fox. It may be said, not in extenuation as much as in explanation of the Indian’s conduct, that he believed in Captain Fox as a friend, as did Doctor Hedges, and lhat is saying a great deal for his credulity. Until recently.lie had kept his dislike for Captain Denham, a disliko born of his impetuous love for Lea Hedges, to himself. But Fox bad discovered his feelings, and with that rare skill he had for binding men to him through their weaknesses, hp availed himself of the passions of the Montauk. It had been Uncas’ desire to meet Captain Denham in combat, man to man and blade to blade, foolishly believing—as had been the custom of his barbarous ancestors —that the hand and heart of the lady in question would be at once given to the victor. Captain Fox destroyed his thought, or rather supplanted it with another that was much safer, if not equally heroic. The chief reasoned that if the great Captain Fox—the whites of Sag Harbor said he was great—could a Iviae assassination, it was not so wrong after all. Fox had showed him that Denham was really a very bad man, and that instead of being a sailor, as the people thought, he was a pirate, substituting his own character with great skill for that of his victim. Crime becomes much easier if the criminal can delude himself into the thought that good is to result to others fro i) the act he contemplate s. so Uncas soon began to look on himself as an instrument of justice. Except Old Somonk, his son and wife, with the two warriors wh) helped to carry Balph Denham from the boat to the vault, not one of the Montauks knew anything about the murderous enterprise in which their chief was engaged; and even if all knew it &Dd depreciated it, fidelity to the r chief would prevent an act of betrayal. But Uncas had a spy oh his acts, whom he dreaded with superstitious fear that is often found associated with the greatest physical courage. He wished old Dinah as dead as he believed Balph Denham would soon be, but neither he nor anv of his tribe would have dared to raise a hand against her. From old Dinah’s bold statements the chief had suspected that she knew all, but his fear of her interference was offset by his faith in the fidelity of the people who had his secret Dinah lost no time alter Uncas left with his white visitors and their servants for Sag Harbor. She sent an In-

d!an lad to Untilla, the beautiful sis'ef of the chief, asking her to come to her hut Dinah at once began preparations for the work she had set herself. About her thin neck she st:ung a number of peculiar shell-necklaces. About her head she wound tightly a whiti turban, an i bound it into place by a snake so naturally preserved, that the eyes and tongue, in the center of her forehead, seemed sashing and darting. About her lank arms she wound other snakes, and they looked to be held in place by their own contractions. Over her shoulders she threw a scarlet mantle, decorated with tinsel stars, the moon in all its stages, and queer c abalistic characters, all the more awful to the ignorant Indians for their representing nothing in particular. This done, Dinah look a long staff, not the one she usually carried, but another that looked as much like a great serpent as the rois the Egyptians tried to palm off on Moses, and her toilet was complete. She next sat down on a high stool in her cabin do >r, a sight to alarm the strongest if she appeared unexpectedly, and waited for the coining of Untilla. In a few minutes a light, quick step was heard approaching, and then a shadow fell across the threshold. Untilla stood there, but the old black woman, without looking up, said in a voice that seemed to come from some far-off i*.ace: “Untilla of de Montauks ” “Yes, Dinah.” “You en me hez got to run a race wid death. We must git ahead of ’iin, en drive ’im back from de grave.” “I am ready," said Untilla, eagerly; “let us be going.” The old crone seized her staff, took from the floor near by a basket containing an earthen dish and sundry parcels of herbs, and then started off. They bent their course to the west; the Indian girl walking with the light, springy step of a fawn, and Dinah with a vigor that was wonderful in one of her years. Without an instant’s hesitation or stop they hurried on, till the hill, with the vault at its base, rose before them. They saw Old Somonk and his wife cooking before a little tire outside, and Young Somonk and two other Indians lying on the grass and smoking with an air of lazy contentment. At sight of Untilla and Dinah the men sprang to their feet and Old Somonk and his wife stopped their work and looked up in surprise. Without a moment’s hesitation Dinah walked up to the fire, removed the pot boiling thereon and replaced it with her own. Into this sho put some water and several bunches of herbs, muttering to herself the while. Then she grasped her staff as a drum-ma;or does his baton, whirling it around her snake-crowned head, and 1 egan to dance about the fire, shouting out a wild song, of which the terrified listeneis could not understand a word. Stopping suddenly, Ehe drew Untilla near to her, and facing the terrified Indians, she said aloud: “De sperrits of de dead command dat all leave but de sistah of de chief en Dinah, de sarvint of d i sperrits. Go, Somonk, en yer family; go, ye Montauks watchin’ n'gh; go to de village of de Montauks, en stay dar until we jine ye. ” |TO PE CONTINUED.]

Calling a Halt.

“I cannot imagine why I am so tired all the time. It seems to me that I do very little,” said a woman, dragging herself to a chair and sitting down wearily. “How many times a day do you go up and down stairs?” inquired a friend. The house was in a city, high and narrow, with four long stairways, three of which intervened between the kitchen and the mother’s “own room.” “Why, not very often; I don’t know. I have a good many errands about the house, here and there, and my impulse is usually to wait on myself. I suppose I spend a good deal of strength on the stairs, now that I think of it.” “And, pardon the suggestion, but you are always looking out for others so much and so generrusly that others ought to look out for you. Have you ever thought how often you are interrupted in the p-.ogress of a day? The ordering of supplies for the house is the tlist. thing, but some tritie is forgotten, pepper or salt, flavor or seasoning, and you are consulted about that. Then your big boy comes to you with his necktie or his cuffs, and your four-year-old has pinched his Anger and needs comforting; your daughters have no end of affairs in which you must be the counselor, and your husband leaves the weight of his perplexities and irritability that grows out of his overwork on your ever-ready strength. Dear, it is not wonderful that you are tired! The wonder is that you rest so soon, after a nap, or a little time by yourself, coming out to the family made oter again.” “But what can I do? All that you mention forms part of the every-day duty of a woman like myself, whose main work in the world is to keep her home happy and comfortable.” “Once in a while you might call a halt. You should pack a little bag arid run away for a three days’ visit, leaving the housekeeping to the young shoulders, which will llnd it only a slight burden. It is an imperative duty, occasionally, to take care of one’s capital, if one be a wife and a mother.” In the interest of the rest, for the sake of the days that are coming, a matron must he provident of her own health, not suffering herself to drift into nervous prostration or wearisome invalidism. There are graves, not a few, over which the inscription might be written: “Here lies Mary , the beloved wife of Theodore ; tired to death.” And in mest cases the blame is not Theodore's, but Mary’s own. She should have called a halt in time. —Harper’s Bazar.

Exaggeration.

John Fitzgerald is a hard-headed, matter-of-fact boy who has just entered the high school. If you talk with him you must be careful how you express yourself. The other evening his father was reading aloud a book of travels. The author was describing a Christmas which he spent in Australia. “It was a rather gloomy day,” he wrote. “We had a good dinner and did our best to be merry, but it was hard to feel very jolly. We were ten thousand miles from home, and " “What's that?” interrupted Master John. ° ‘Ten thousand miles from home?’ Impossible? Why, the maximum diameter of the earth is only eight thousand miles.’ Charles Emobt Smith, wio was Minister to Russia, says the czar is “a sedate, sensible, sober-minded, fearless man, firm and resolute in action. ’

LITTLE BOYS AND GIRLS.

THIS IS THEIR DEPARTMENT OP THE PAPER. Quaint Sayings and Doings of Little Onas Gathered and Printod Here for Other Little Folk* to Keud. The Frog’s Song. Early one bright morning a little frog hopped from the water, opened his music-book and sang this very strange song: if I swallow you and you swallow me. Who’s going to swallow the humble-bee? He was about to sing another verse when a big pelican swooped down on him and froggy disappeared. After a while he popped his head up again, looking angry this time, for he was fond of that song and wished to finish it. So he began once more, “If I swallow you and and you swal” but he got no further, for swoop came the pelican, splash went the frog, and the pelican missed him again. “Oh, let him finish it,” said a sly old water-rat, who was combing his hair with a porcupine quill. “I don’t believe he knows the rest of it,” piped a small, wee frog, who was jealous of the other frog because he had green legs and a better voice. “I never did like that song,’’buzzed a fussy bumble-bee. “Swallow the bumble-bee, indeed! I’d stick something in him if he ever swallowed me!” Nobody blamed the bee in the least for talking so. They knew just how he must feel about it, and it is rather disagreeable to have any one swallow you, as everybody knows. After a while they all left but the crafty old rat, who, having finished his toilet, fastened his wicked little

OPENED HIS MUSIC-BOOK AND SANG.

eyes on the place where the frog disappeared and waited. Pretty soon froggy came up, peered cautiously around, and, seeing no one, he opened his mouth wide and began to sing: If I swallow you and you swallow me. Who's going to swallow the bumblo-bee? “Excuse me,” interrupted the rat, “did you ever swallow a bumblebee?” “Y'es, sir,” croaked the startled frog. “I have just swallowed one." “Don’t they hurt?” anxiously inquired the rat. “Not when you’re used to them,” replied the unsuspecting frog. “So glad to hear you say so, for I expect to swallow one myself very soon, but he will be seasoned with something nice, so I sha’n’t mind. ” Then he looked at the frog and licked his lips. “Now, will you please come a little closer,” said he, “and sing ail the verses of your charming song?” The frog, smiling from car to ear with pleasure, and bowing low to the rat, sang: If I swallow you and you swallow mo. Who’s going to swallow but, sad to relate, he never flnl-hed his song, for when he sang, “Who's going to swallow” the rat cried, “1 am!" and seizing poor froggy by the legs swallowed him, bumble-bee and all! Then he smiled a contented smile, and sat the rest of that day gazing dreamily in the water, laughing softly to hintself, and singing, “Ha, ha, ha! He, he, he! who’s swallowed froggy and his bumblebee?” until he went sound asleep, for it was now bedtime, and in his dreams he sang froggy’s song. Meanwhile the pelican had been sitting on a log near by watching, and as the rat sang: If I swallow you and you swallow me. Who’s going to swallow the' bumble-Lee? Said the pelican: Why. It’s plain to see, For I can quite easily swallow all three. And swooping down from the top of the log. Without any effort that one could see, Ho swallowed the rat that swallowed the frog Tb*t heartlessly swallowed the bumblobeo. —New York Recorder.

A Pergonal Compliment. Singers in church and elsewhere are not always careful as they ought to be to articulate their words distinctly. A little girl entered a meeting-house not long ago in New York just as the choir was singing the anthem. “Hallelujah! Hallelujah!” said the singers; but the little girl, whose thoughts were somewhat preoccupied, did not catch the words correctly. After getting home she startled her aunt by saying: “I never saw such a nice choir. They stopped right in the middle of the anthem and spoke to me.” “Why, my dear,” said her auntie, “I didn’t notice it.” “But they did. You know I wore my new cloak, and as soon as I came In the choir said, ‘Hardly knew you!’ two or three times.”

Up to His Neck That Way. “I fell into the pond to-day, and it was up to my neck,” said Walter. “Nonsense!" said Jack. “The water in the pond isn't more than a foot deep.” “Ah, but I went in head first,” said W alter. She Was Enough. The wnall hoy was sitting on the doorstep whistling when the policeman came up. “Can I see your father?” inquired the officer. “No, you can’t,” replied the boy promptly. “Why can’t I?” “’Cause mam’s seein’ him, that’s why. ” The Bee'* Market-B s sket. Every bee carries his market-bas-ket around his hind legs. Any one examining the body of a bee through • microscope will observe that on the

hind legs of the bee there Is a fringe of stiff hairs on the surface, the hairs approaching each other at the tips, so as to form a sort of cage. This is the bee’s basketThe Hurd Part of It. “It wasn’t hard learning how to write,” said Bobbie one morning, when he was trying to write a letter to his father. “What bothers me is learning what to say when I write.”

A New Guinea House.

In some parts of NewGulnea whole .towns are built “in the sea” The in* habitants live in constant fear of the bush tribes, and as a protection against them construct their houses just off the shore. A traveler describes a summer villa which he built after the native pattern at a cost of about S2O. Two chiefs undertook tho work, and received a little more than half the money, and the laborers got tho rest. The traveler says: “I drew on the beacli a rough ground-plan of the house, showing tho length and breadth, the division of rooms and the two veraudas. Peter, one of tho chiefs, measured tho plan with a piece of cane, marking the length and breadth, and then rolled up the cane and put it in his pocket, or rather in his bag, for of course natives are not provided with pockets. “He went home to his island, and in a few days came back with several large canoos with all the necessary logs, timber, and other materials lashed to them, including the sago palm-leaves for the roofing, and the cane for splitting into laths; and when the house was finished there was very little material lett. “How he calculated so nicely I cannot say, but of course he had had considerable experience in building native houses. Not a nail was used in the building. “On the sea side the house stood in about four feet of water at low tide, and on the shore side was connected with the beach by a gangway. The people had a curious way of driving piles. We gave them a rope, which they fixed round the head of tho pile, leaving the two ends dangling. “Several natives got hold of each end and pulled alternately, until tho pile was worked down to the required depth. The piles are made of white mangrove, and in order to prevent the ravages of the cobra insect, it is best to tar the piles well—or, bettor still, though very expensive—to copper them all over. “The flooring is of cane, tho walls are made of the skinof the palm, and the roof of the leaves of the sago palm, which have to be put on separately, the leaves overlapping a little, and on the outside are placed some branches of the cocoanut palm. “A house of this kind is quite rainproof, and if well constructed will keep in good condition for at least two years. ”

A German Fiddler Who Wan Do terrained to See the Great Napoleon.

Wonderful as arc the parts which a modern reporter will play, in order that newspaper readers may gratify their curiosity, be never, according to Household, did anything bolder than the part a German violinist played to gratify his personal curiosity. In 1808 Napoleon held, at Erfurt, the congress of princes. In the evenings tho emperor amused his guests with music and a drama played by a French troupe brought from Paris. Spohi, the violinist, was intensely curious to see this assemblage of royalties, and betook himself to Erfurt, thinking he might wriggle himself into some corner of the house. He discovered, however, that the public were excluded', blue blood alone being allowed to enter. The fact that the whole house was reserved for sovereigns and their suites would have discouraged a less determined man. But Spohi was persistent. Having a friend who was second horn player in the orchestra lie persuaded him to feign illness and to ask the bandmaster to allow his friend, the violinist, to take his place. The request was granted, and Spohi set himself to work to acquire his friend’s part. On taking up the horn he discovered that he had set himself a difficult task. It took him a day and a half to produce the simple notes. On the evening of the performance the muscles of his face were strained and stiff, his lips swollen and back, and he could hardly get through his part, which fortunately was not very elaborate, One thought cheered Spohi as he took his seat in the orchestra, he would enjoy a fine view of the princes, and especially of Napoleon, who was to sit in the center stall of the first row. But to his dismay he learned that the emperor had issued a formal order directing the musicians to play with I their backs to the audience, and j under no circumstances to turn their heads. The violinist was equal to the emergency. Pulling out a pocketmirror, he placed it before him in a proper position, and thus, obtained an excellent view of the audience of sovereigns.

His English Betrayed Him.

The following story is told in’England of the Rev. John Sheepshanks, who was recently made Bishop of Norwich: “One evening a young Cambridge man, afterward head master of a well-known grammar school, but tutor for the nonce to a Russian prince, was smoking a cigarette in his rooms in St. Petersburg when a servant announced that a moujik wanted to see him very urgently. The unknown visitor was shown up and appeared in the well-worn garb from which Brian O’Lynn derived his simple but practical sartorial notions. To his host's utter bewilderment this uncouth being addressed him in refined English, and presently explained that he was a brother Cantab desirous of securing his good offices. The man, in short, was the Rev. John Sheepshanks, who, having landed some six months before near the mouth of the A moor River, had made his way alone and on foot through Tartary, Turkestan and Siberia to the banks of the Neva.”

Civilization vs. Savagery.

It is popularly supposed that it is civilization that increases and aggravates nervous diseases, but Dr. Brinton says it diminishes them. Amo.ng the lowest African races, which might be supposed to be devoid of nerves, he found such diseases common.

SECOND OPEN SUNDAY.

VERY SMALI, CROWD AT 1 THE WORLD’S FAIR. Exposition Officials Disappointed at the Result—Machinery at a StamlstUl—Quiet on the l’lalsance—Rain In the Afternoon —The Infanta In Chicago. Visitors N >t Numerous. If the machinery had been running and the exhibits had been uncovered peoplo at Ine World’s Fair Sunday might have thought they had turned the wrong leaf in the calendar, according to a Chicago correspondent. It was more like a dull Monday than a wide-open Sabbath. The scattered, strangling streams of Sunday sightseers left enough room on the highways and in tho buildings for half the population of Chicago to walk in comfort The paid attendance, as shown by the purchase of tickets at Jaokson l’ark, was 54.501, of which number 2,050 were children. Exposition people attributed tho light attendance to various causes. They thought that many were deterred trom coming on account of tho heat, others because tho western horizon In tho afternoon portended tan, and still others thought the uncertainty of the in unction proceedings had left tho peopio in doubt until too late for them to plan a Sunday trip. They all agreed, however, that the attendance was dlscouragiugly light. At no time wore tho gates troubl dby the sizo of the crowd. The bustle and liveliness of the preceding six days were missing, and for an open day the Exposition was wonderfully quiet. With the exception of tho Government building nil the Exposition halls were open, but many of the exhibits were covered with sheets. Oi.li't dm Midway l'hiL-nme. Midway l’lalsanco concessioners wero disappointed. Tho crowd thoie was small and those who were out did not spend money. When the thunder eh w.or came ud many of the foreigners thought that the rain would drive tho crowd into the almost empty thoaters for shelter, lut tho shower had no such effect. The people crowded under tho viaducts or splashed around In tho mud, and ns a result tho thoaters wero almost empty. The zoological arena did tho largest business and tho Street In Cairo did fairly well, but the Duhomeyit»B and Chinese did not have crowds enough to yell to and tho performances wore cut short. Tho glass works and the New England cottage wero closed. Tho Irish girls in Blarney castle ftt'endod high mass in tho morn ng and opouod tho village at 2 o'clock 10 inspootlon, but no work was done. Tho chair boys and tho sedanchair men complained that they did not have anything to do. The people preferred to walk through tho mud to paying for chairs. The night attendance was ns much of a negative surprlso as tho day crowd. When tho setting sun broke through a rift in tho clouds the gato-koopers predicted a heavy inllux of 50-cent plocos after 7 o’clocn, and made pools among themselves on tho number of people that would swing the turnstiles botweon 7 and 10 o'clock. Their expoctod rush failed to appear. A sma 1 but steady lino of visitors came, most of them young people, and drifted up to the administration plaza, where Sousa scattered a mixturo of snored music and Strauss’ waltzes on tho ovi ning air. The waiting listeners stood mound on tho wot ground or paid a dime aptooe for red camp chairs, while the concert was going on. About !> o’oloek there was a genoral exodus homeward, and when the musloluns packod their Instruments at 10 o’olook scaroely a corporal's guard remained to see tho lights go out and tho fountain’s play cease.

EULALIA IN CHICAGO.

How tho Ropiosrntative of tho Queen of Kpiiln Was Recelverl. The Infanta Eulalia, Princess of tho blood royal of Spain and guest of tho Government of tho United States at the Columbian celobratlon, arrived In Chicago at noon Tuesday. Tho arrangements for her reception were a mighty delicate matter for consideration on tho rough Western minds of Chicagoans, but they wore finally completed after much discussion. Tho train on the Pennsylvania Hallway was met In Indiana by ex-Mayor Hompstead Washburns, acting as Mayor Harrison’s representative; Hobart C. ChaUleld-Tay*

INFANTA EULALIE,

lor, w'no is Spanish consul at Chicago, and Allison V. Armour. It was the business of these g< ntlemen to learn ihe pleasure of the royul party and to see that their entry to the city was attended with no inconvenience. At the Union Depot Mayor Harrison met the party. The aldermen were there, too, but there was no lunch and the aidermen will remain in the background. Mayor HarrDon was presented to the Princess, Prince Antonio, and the suite, and having been presented, the Mayor offered his arm to the Infanta and escorted her through a lane, fenced in withtho biggest coppers on the force, to Canal street, whore cariiages were taken to tho hotel. The can iage which carried the princess was Mrs. Potter Palmer’s landeau and four, and in the carriage were seated the Infanta. Pr.nce Antonio, the Duke de Tamamos, an 1 the Mayor. At each side of tho carriage rode an officer of the cavalry and an orderly, and the whole procession was escorted by two troops of horse from Sheridan. The members of the royal suite drove with carriages and pairs. A detour was made down Wabash avenue and around Michigan avenue, where the royal salute was' tired. From Michigan avenue the party drove to tho Palmer House. A carpet was laid from the edge of the walk to the private entrance, and Mayor Harrison escorted the Infanta to her apartments. There she was presented with an invitation to breakfast with the Mayor on the following day.

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Joseph Jefferson is better, and will be removed from Boston to Buzzard’s Bay. The body of Miss Fannie Wykoff was found in the river near Hudson, N. Y. The girl had been murdered. The G. A. B. and the Boys in Blue—the Populist veteran organization—held rival Memorial Day demonstrations at Topeka, Kas. Social Democrats at Berlin attempted to break up a meeting of antiSemites. A desperate fight occurred, which the poll e finally ended.

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ITEMS GATHERED FROM OVER THE STATE. Am Interesting Summary of the More Important Doings of Our Neighbors—Weddings and Deaths—Crimes, Casualties and General News Notes. Minor Mention. Wayne County Is overrun with counterfeit 82 bills. CnARL.ES Hazri.riog, a pioneer of Henry County, is dead. L. E. McDonald's residence at Morristown was struck by lightning. Loss. 9700. Thieves entered the office of the Seering planing mill, at Crawtordsvltle, and took $lO4 from the sajo. , The Citizens’ Gas, Oiland Water Company, of Greenfield, has struck Us second well and It is a gusher. Farmers in the northern part of Wayne County have organized a stock company to bore tor oil. Mrs. Emily Pricket, aged 83, Centerville, fell down a stratrway ana was probably fatally injured. Henry Stein had his foot crushed at the ccrealtno mill in Columbus, and is threatened with lockjaw. Rudolph Guikr, a prominent farmer residing four miles north of Fort Wayno, was killed in a runaway. John Hancock, a farmer, residing west of Muncle, lost two valuable horses, which were killed by lightning. The Thompson hotel, at IvenHand, was dostrovod by fire. Origin of the fire unknown, as tho building was unoccupied. No insurance. James Anderson, a young Republican from Dolphl, has been given the West Point appointment from tho Tenth District by Congressman Hammond. The City Counell of Noblesville has passed an ordinance granting a charter to tho Illinois Electric Railway Company for tho construction of an electric street railway. An Italian named Francisco Bahona was standing against n bumping post in the railway yards at Richmond, when a box car was backed up against hint, killing him Instantly. Charles Gough, a voting man living at Hhoibyvllle, and employed as brakeman on freight No. 54, fell under his train in the Grecnsburg switchyards, and wus ground to plecos. The action of tho Citizens’ Gas Company of El wood' in raising the price of gas 100 per cent, has caused a big kick on the part of tho consumers and they will bore a now well unless the company comes down. Allen County has paid Into tho State Troasury 600,800.12, and drew out tor schools $45,005.08. Tills is about tho same per cent, of tho payment into tho treasury that other counties showed, and does not Indicate padding. John Walkinshaw was caught bv falling slate In tho American Beauty Brazil Block Coal Company mine and fatally mangled. Ills face and shoulders aro lacerated, andwbon taken from tho mass of slate lie was unconscious, lie cannot recover. A tin-plate worker named William Evans wus Instantly killed at the American Tin-plate Works, El wood, In a novel manner. The buildings are lighted by electricity. Evans was standing on an iron floor with a pair of tongs In his hands whun he attempted to push an electric light wire out of tho way. The instant tho tongs touched tho wire Evans dropped to the floor dead. He was about 27 years of ago, and was married only last week.

Cari, Bowen's team ran away at Vincennes, and !u its lllght dashed across a pond where tho wator was two feet deep. Home men caught tho mules and then went back to look for the young man. His body was found lying in tho pQliu,' ono hand sticking out of tho winter.' Over ono eye was a wound. It Is thought that ono of the mules kicked and knocked him off tho wagoffi' into tho tyatur, and that, being ungttflo to rise, ho was drowned. . - While workmen wtro tearing down tho Old Star Hotel at Center Point, they were surprised upon finding buried at a depth of over-six feet a curious box. They carofullv, but eagerly, opened it, expecting to find vast wealtli tradition said was burled In that vicinity. They were horrified to find that it contained a human skeleton, that of a man. The find producod a decided sensation, and It Is associated with tho strange disappearance of a man from that city several years ago. It Is a mystery, and is likely to remain so. C. L. Gauf, head brnkeman on freight train No. r>4, was killed at Greensburg. In attempting to step from a freight ear to the track and was literally ground to pieces, the trunk of his body being found 100 yards from w,hore his legs woro picked up. Although ho had been In the employ of the road for some time but little Is known of him, he having como from North Carolina. Among his effects picked up at the scene of the accident Is a meal ticket on Fred Cruso’s Riverside Hotel and restaurant, showing that he boarded there.

An accident occurred In Muncie which caused great pecuniary damage. The top on the largo continuous tank at the Muring Hart Window-Glass Works caved in, tumbling down in the three feet of molten glass, which filled the tank. Just a short time before three men had been at work on top of the arch. The tank was built by the Dixon Wood Company, of Pittsburgh, at a cost of about $70,000, and was one of the largest in tho country. When the large fire clay brick structure tumbled in, the natural-gas Same from the furnace burst out, and the large factory had a very close call from being destroyed. One of the men In the factory shut off the gas. Two hundred hands are thrown out of employment for at least three mouths, and are leaving the cltv. The cause of the accident Is attributed to the use of poor material in tho massive structure. Mr. Hart is one of the best-known glass manufacturers in the country. At Ga 3 City a head-end collision occurred on the Panhandle Railroad withlu the city limits. A through freight was entering the yards from the east at a speed of fifteen or twenty miles an hour at the same time that a yard engine, attached to a string of cars, was moving at a moderate speed in the opposite' direction. The engines met on a sharp curve and reared up from the force of tho crash. Tho trainmen escaped by jumping, and were notseriously injured. Several cars were shattered and derailed, and the money loss is heavy. The track was blockaded for several hours. Information was received at Fort Wayne recently, that Dr. Henry Moeller. Chancellor of the Diocese of Cincinnati and Secretary to Archbishop Elder, would most likely be chosen Bishop of Fort Wayne Diocese, to succeed Bishop Dwenger. It is known that the following three names were forwarded to Borne early in April, and after going to the Committee of Cardinals were then Drought to the Holy Father: Worthy Very Rev, E. P. Walters of Lafayette; More Worthy Dr. John Schoenhoft, D. Most Worthy Dr. Henry Moeller. It Is almost settled that the latter will be selected. He is 43 yeers old and was born in Cincinnati He W a theologian of high order.