Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1894 — Page 3

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CHAP iEK XVI. •GRIEF FILLS THE ROOM OP OF MT ABSENT CHILD.” Sir Cyprian had told himself that, in coming to Marchbrook, nothing was further from his thoughts than the desire to see Constance Sinclair; yet, now that he was so near her, now that he was assured of her unhappiness, the yearning for one brief meeting, one look into the sweet eyes, one pressure of the gentle hand that used to lie so trustingly in his own, grew upon him hourly, until he so t that he could not leave Marchbrook without seeing her. No motive, no thought that could have shadowed the purity of Giltert Sinclair's wife, had his soul’s desire been published to. the world, blended with this yearning of Sir Cyprian’s. Deepest pity and compassion moved hiih. Such sorrow, such loneliness as Constance Sinclair’s was unutterably sacred to the man who had loved and surrendered Constance Clanyarde. Sir Cyprian lingered at Marchbrook, and spent the greater part of his days in riding or walking over familiar grounds. He was too much out of spirits to join Lord Clanyarde in the slaughter of innocent birds, and was not a little bored by that frivolous old gentleman's society in the winter evenings by the fire in the c->mfortable bachelor smoking-room, the only really snug apartment in that great bare home. Every night Sir Cyprian made * up his mind to depart next morning, yet when morning came he still lingered. One bright, bleak day, when there were flying snowstorms and intervals of sun and blue sky, Sir Cyprian —having actually packed his portmanteau and made arrangements for being driven to the station to catch an afternoon train—took a final ramble in Marchbrook park. He had not once put his foot on the soil that had been his, but he could get a peep at the old place across the railings. There was a melancholy pleasure in looking at those wintry glades, tie young firtrees, the scudding rabbits, the screaming pheasants, the withered bracken. The sun had been shining a few minutes ago. Down came the snow in a thick driving shower, almost blinding Sir Cyprian as he walked swiftly along the oak fence. Presently he* found himself at the end of the Monks' avenue, and under the classic temple which was said to be built upon the very spot where the Benedictines once had their chapel. Ten years ago that temple had been Cyprian Davenant’s summer retreat. He had made it his smoking-room and study; had read Thucydides and the Greek dramatists there in the long vacation; had read those books of modern travel which had fired his mind with a longing for the adventures, perils and triumphs of tne African explorer. Twenty years ago it had been his mother’s chosen resort. He had spent many a summer morning, many a pensive twilight there by his mother’s side, watching her sketch or hearing her play. Tne old-fashioned square piano was there still, perhaps, and the old engravings on the walls. “Poor old place,” he thought; “I wonder if any one ever goes there now, or if it is quite given up to bats and owls, and the spiriis of the dead?” Ho stopped under the stone balcony which overhung Marchbrook, on a level with the eight-foot wall. In Gilbert Sinclair’s—or his architect’s—plan ol improvements this classic sum-mer-house, a relic of a departed taste, had been forgotten. Sir Cyprian was glad, to find it unchanged, unchanged in any wise, save that it had a more forlorn and neglected air than of old. The btone-wi.rk of the balcony was green and gray with mosses and lichens. The frame-work of the window had not been painted for a quarter of a century. The ivy had wandered as it listed over brick-work and stone, darting sharp-forked tongues of green into the crevices of the decaying mortar. Sir Cypran looked up at the wellremembered window, full of thoughts of the past. “Does she ever come here, I wonder?" he said to himself; “or do they use the old place for a tool-house or an apple shea?”

Hardly, for there fell upon his ears a few bars of plaintive symphony, p ayed on a piano of ancient tone—the Eensive Broadwood dear to his childood—and then a voice, the pure and sweet contralto he knew too well, began'Lord Houghton’s pathetic ballad, “Strangers Yet.* He listens as if he lives but to hear. Oh, what pathosj what profound melancholy in that voice, pouring out its sweetness to the silent wall! Regret, remorse, sorrow, too great for common language to express, are breathed in that flood of melody. And when the song is done the singer’s hands fall on the keys in a crashing chord, and a wild crv—the sudden utterance of uncontrollable despair—gees up to heaven. / She is there-so near him—alone in •her anguish. She, the only woman he has ever truly loved, the woman for whom he would give his life as freely as he would spill a cup of water upon the ground, and with ai little thought of the sacrifice. The lower edge of the balcony is within reach of his hand. The cen-tury-old ivy would afford easy footing for a less skilled athlete. To climb the ascent is as simple as to mount the rigging of his yacht. In a minute, before he had time to think, he was in the balcony, he had opened the French window, he was standing in the room. Constance Sinclair sat by the piano, i her arms folded on the shabby old mahogany lid. her drooping head resting on her arm- 1 , her face hidden. She was too deeply lost in that agony of hopeless grief to hear the rattling of the frail casement, the fool step on the floor. “Constance!” She started up and confrohted him, pale as ashes, with a smothered scream. “My dearest, I heard your grief. I could not keep away. Only a few minutes, Constance, only a few words,

BY MISS M E BRADDON

and I will leave you. Oh, my love, how changed, how changed!” A flood of crimson rushed into the pale face, and as quickly faded. Then she gave him her hand, with an innocent frankness that went to his heart, so like the Con tanoe of old—the pure and perfect type of girlhood that knows not sin. “I'do not mind your hearing me in my sorrow," she said, sadly. “I come here because I feel myself away from all the world. At the house servants come to my room with messages, and worry me. Would I like this? Will I do the other? What carriage will I drive in? At what time? A nundred questions that are so tiresome when one is tired of life. Here I can lock my door, and feel as much alone as in a desert” “But, dear Mrs. Sinc’air, it is not good for you to abandtn yourself to such grief.” “How can I help it? ‘Grief fills the room up of my absent child,’ ” with a sad smile. “You heard of my loss, did you not? The darling who made life so bright for me—snatohed away in a moment —not an hour's warning. I woke that morning a proud and happy mother, and at night No, no one can imagine such a grief as that.” “I have heard the sad story. But be sure Heaven will send comfort —new hopes ” “Don’t talk to me like that. Oh, if you knew how i have had Heaven and the Bible thrown at my head—by people who talk by rote! I can read my Bible. I read of David and his great despair; how he turned his fao i to the wall, how he wept again for Absalom; and of the Shunamite woman who said: ‘it is well,’ but David had many children, and the Shunamite’s child was given back to her. Gtd will not give my darling back to me. ” “He will—in heaven.” “But my heart is breaking for want of her here. She will b 3 an angel before the throne of God—not my Christabel. I want my darling as she was on earth, with her soft, clinging arms —not always good—naughty sometimes—but always dearer than my life." What could Sir Cyprian sav to comfort this bereaved heart? He could only sit down quietly by Constance Sinclair’s side, and win her to talk of her sorrow, far more freely and confidingly than she had talked to her father; and this he felt was something gained. There was comfort in this free speech—comfort in pouring her sorrow into tho ear of a friend who could verily sympathize. “Dear Mrs. Sinclair,” said Sir Cyprian, gravely, when he had allowed her to tell the btory of her bereavement, “as a very old friend—one who has your welfare deep at heart—l must entreat you to struggle against this absorbing grief. I Tiavo seen your old friend Doctor Webb, and he assures me that unless you make an effort to overcome this meiancholy, your mind as well as your body will suffer. Yes, Constance, reason itself may give way under the burden you impose upon it. Perhaps no one else would have the courage to speak to you so plainly, but I venture to speak as a brother might to a fondly loved sister. This may be our last meeting, for I shall go back to Africa as sooa as I can get my party together again. You will try, dear friend, will jou not, for my sake, for the sake of your husband ” “My husband!” she exclaimed, with a shudder. “He has billiards, and guns, and racehorses, and friends without number. What can it matter to h m toat I grieve for my child? Somebody had need be sorry. He does not care. “

“Constance, it would matter very much to your father, to all who have ever loved you, to yourself most of all, if you should end your liie in a lunatic asylum.” This startled her, and she looked up at him earnestly. "Unreasonable grief sometimes leads to madness. Despair is rebellion against Cod. If the Shunamite in that dark day could say ‘lt shall be well,’ shall a Christian have less patience—a Cnristian who has been taught that those who mourn are blessed, and shall be comforted. Have faith in that divine promise, and all will be well.” “I will try, ” she answered gently. “It is very good of you to reason with me. No one else has spoken so frankly. They have only talked platitudes, and begged me to divert my mind. As if acted charades, or billiards, or bezique, could fill up the gap in my life. Are you really going to Africa very soon?” “Early in the new year, perhaps; but I shall not go till I have heard from some reliable source that you are happy.” “You must not wait for that. I shall never know happiness again in this world. At most I can but try to bear my lot patiently and put on cheerful looks. I shall try to do that, believe me. Your lessons shall not be wasted. And now, I suppose, we must say goodby,” looking at her watch; “it is time for me to go back to the house. ” “I will not detain you; but before I go I must apologize lor my burglarious entrance by that window. I hope I did not frighten your" “I was only startled. It seemed almost a natural thing to see you here. I remember how fond you wore of this summer-house when I was a child. I have so often seen ycu sitting in that window smoking and reading.” “Yes, I have spent many an hour here, puzzling over the choruses in ‘.Prometheus,’ and I have looked up from my book to see you scamper by on your pony.” “Pepper, the gray one,” cried Constance, absolutely smiling; “such a dear pony! We used to feed him with bread and apples every morning. Ah, what hapey days those were!” It touched him to the core of his heart to see the old girlish look come back in all its brightness. But it was only a transient gleam of the old light which left a deeper sadness when it faded. “Good-by, Constance,” he said, taking both her hands. “I may call you that lor the last time." “Yes, and when you are in Africa—in another world, far from all the false pretenses and _ sham pleasures that make up life in this—think of me as Constance, the Constance you knew in the days that are gone—not as Gilbert Sinclair’s wife.” He bent his head over the unresisting hands and kissed them. “God bless you and comfort yon, my Constance, and give you as muoh happiness as I lost when I made up my mind to live without you!” He opened the window, and swung himself lightly down fronf the balcony to the turf below. I CHAPTER XVII. A BALCONV RCENR Gilbert Sinclair and his chosen set — the half-dozen turfy gentlemen with whom he was united by the closest bond of sympathy—had spent this December morning agreeably enough at a rustic steeple-chase nine miles from

Davenant. The race wae*.ae event of the most insignificant order—unohronicled in Ruff—but there was pleasure in the drive to and fro on Mr. Sinclair's drag through the keen froaty air, with an occasional diversion in the shape of a flying snow storm, which whitened the men's rough overcoats and hung on their beards and whiskers. Just at the hour in which Sir Cyprian and Constance were bidding eaoh other along good-by, Mr. Sinclair was driving his sorrel team back to Davenant at a slashing pace. He and his fr.ends had enjoyed themselves very thoroughly at the homely farmers’ meeting. The sharp north wind had given a keen edge to somewhatedl jaded appetites, and game pie, anchovy sandwiches, cold grouse, and boar’s head had been duly appreciated, with an ad libitum accompaniment of dry champaigne, bitter beer, and Copenhagen kirschen wasser. The gentlemen's spirits had been improved by the morning's sport, and the homeward drive was hilarious. It was now between three and four o’clock. There would ba time for a quiet smoke, or a game at pyramids, and a fresh toilet before afternoon tea, opined such of the gentlemen as still held by that almost exploded superstition, a taste for ladies’ society. The more masculine spirits preferred to smoke their Trajxicas or Infantas by the har-ness-room fire, with the chance of get- ; ting the “straight tip" out of somebody else’s groom. James Wyatt was the only member of the party whose spirits were not somewhat unduly elated, but then Mr. Wyatt was an outsider, only admitted on sufferance into that chosen band, as a fellow who might be useful on an emergency, and whom it was well to “square” by an occasional burst of civility. He was one of those dangerous men who are always sober, and find out everybody else's weak points without ever revealing his own. He was Sinclair’s ame damnee, however, and one must put up with him. Gilbert was driving, with Sir Thomas Houndslow, a gentleman of turf celebrity, and late captain of a cavalry regiment, next hi.u, smoking furiously, while Mr. Wyatt sat behind the two, and joined freely in their conversation, which inclined to the boisterous. How calm that smqoth, level voice of his sounded after the strident tones of his oomyanions, thickened ever so slightly, by onampagne and kirschen wasser! The chief talk was of horses—the sorrels Gilbert was now driving—the horses they had seen that morning—with an inexhaustible series of aneodotes about horses that had been bought and sold, and bred, and exchanged, including the story of a rheumatic horse, which was a splendid goer in his intervals of good "health, and was periodically sold by his owner, and taken back again at half price when the fit came on. James Wyatt admired the landscape, an enthusiasm which his companions looked down upon contemptuously from the serene height of stolid indifference. “There's a glade,” cried the solicitor, pointing to an opening in the undulating woodland, whore the snowwreathed trees were like a picture of fairy-larid. “Pretty tidy timber,” assented Sir Thomas Houndslow; “but for my part, 1 could never see anything in ti ees to go into raptures about, except when you’ve sold ’em to a timber merchant. Shouldn’t like to see cremation come into fashion, by the by. It would spoil the coffin trade and depreciate the value of my elms and ( aks. ITO BB CONTINUED. |

Circumstances Alter Cases.

“As a general thing,” said a man, “it is an annoyance to have anybody sitting alongside of you or back of you look over at the paper you are reading; still, it makes a difference who it is. I have seen a man who was reading a pa. er hold it carefully so that another person oould read it. I saw a case of this sort the other day in a railroad car. A lady who had been sitting looking out of the window leaned forward suddenly to look at something In the newspaper which the gentleman in the seat in front of her was reading. He had just turned a page, and something on the fresh page caught her eye. It appeared to interest her greatly. It was a long article, and she could not have read more than half of it if the gentleman had net moved the paper a little to one side, which he did apparently quite unconsciously, keeping on reading all the time himself and holding the paper very steady. At last the lady finished the article that she was reading. With a she leaned back in her seat again and looked out of the window once more, all the time quite oblivious of the man. He didn’t flop the paper over as though the end of an episode had come; he looked again at one or two articles on that page, and then turned to the next one, just as though nothing had happened.”—Philadelphia Bulletin.

"Leaves of Theo.”

The9phile Gautier, the French author, was gifted with an extraordinary memory. Whatever he had heard or seen remained engraved upon his mind. On the day on which the two first volumes of Hugo’s “Legende des Siecles” were published, the author dined in Gautier’s company at the house of another friend, all allied more or less closely to the tribe of romanticists, admirers of Victor Hugo, and counting upon finding a feast of good things in his new work. In the course of the talk Gautier remarked, “Let us prove what we advance. I will reoite ‘Les Lions’ to you." And in a clear voice, his eyes gazing steadfastly as though he were reading from afar a book visible to himself alone, he reoited the whole piece, not repeating himself once, never hesitating, and not mistaking a single syllable. Yet he had read it that morning for the first time. Many times his friends, doubtful upon some points of history, language, geography, anatomy or art, referred tho matter to him, and received immediate satisfaction. They used to say then, “We have only to turn over the leaves of Theo. ”

Lord Hannen and the Undertaker.

Lord Hannen the distinguished English judge whose death was recently announced, was known as a very stern and strict ruler of his court; no man dared take a liberty with him, and he was never known to bs hoaxed except on one cc asion. A juryman, dressed in deep mourning, serious a>d downoast in expression, stood up and claimed exemption from service on that day as hs was deeply interested in a funeral of a gentleman at which it was his de-ire to be pre-ent. “Oh, certainly,” was the courteous reply of the judge, a:d the sad man went. “My lord,” interpo ed the clerk as soon as the ex-juryman had gone, “doyou kDow who that man is that you exempted?" “No.” “He is an undertaker.”

How It Was Done.

The flute took its name from the fluta, an eel caught in Italian waters, which has seven spots like finger holes on its sides. Aurora, 111, was the first city in the world to illuminate its streets with electricity. The wires were placed in position in 1881.

SU GAR-TRUST'S HEAD

CONTROLS THE SUGAR OUTPUT FOR MILLIONS OF PEOPLE. l"he Evolution of a Olant Monopoly from the Original Havomoyrr - Oakery" In New York to a Trust Capitalised at 88i,009 and Maktpg •35,000,000 a Year. The Snsrar King. Henry O. Havemeyer. who is the First Vice President, manager and active front of tho great Sugar Tru>t, and who of late has been so conspicuous in the Washington investigation of tbe trust’s method , jolitical and otherwise, is the grands n of Frederick C. Havemeyer, who, with his brother, William F. Havemeyer, came to this country in ISO” from Huchuburg, Schaumburg-Lippe. Germany. These two original Havemeyers began the sugar-rettning bu-iness "as soon as they reached this country, and their refinery as well as their residence was in Vandam street, Now York City. It was in this street that Henry O. Havemeyer's father, who was thon Frederick C. Havemeyer, Jr.,was born in 1807. At the time* Henry O. Havemeyer s father was old enough to b'gin to be interested in the mvsteriesof the sugar refining business, the establishment in

HENRY O. HAVEMEYER, HEAD OF THE SUGAR TRUST.

Vandam street was a very modest little affair. The two brothers, who came originally to seek their fortunes in this country, had learned tho sugar-baking business in London, and even when Henry O.’s father begun work in tho Vandam street con»o:n it was called the Havemeyer “bakery.” It was considered a very creditable day’s work in those days when thoy baked an entire hogshead of sugar in a day. The building in which the entire Havemeyer' Diisiness was conduct d was a little concern only 25 Let wide by 40 feet in length. This is in rather striking contrast with the enormous Williamsburg plant, covering acres of ground, and the output of the surgar trust's works—and tho Havemeyers virtually tho sugar trust—is very many tunes more in a singlo day than was tho entire yoarly production of the Vandam street factory. Yet even in those early days the Havemey>r* were, as they are now, at the head of the sugar-refining industry in the United States, for the Vandam street concern was the largest establishment of the kind in the United States.

When tho two original Havemeyer brothers retired they were succeeded by their two sons, Wil iam F., who afterwards was mayor of New York for several terms, and Frederick C., the father of both Theodore A. and Henry O. Havome.yor, who are now at the head of the onormous trust interests. In 1831 the two ooudns, William F. and Frederick C., took charge of the business and continued it until 1842, when both retired, each letting a brother, Albert and Frederick, continue the business. Than the Trn*t» The great sugar trust, which monopolizes the entire sugar-refining business of the United States, was formed in 1887. So far as the production of

H. O. HAVEMEYER'S NEW YORK RESIDENCE.

refined sugar In the United State* is concerned, it actually has no competitor, and, as Henry O. Havemeyer recently testified with so much frankness in Washington, can and does regulate prices in this country at its pleasure. It was not until the Claus Spreckles refinery in Philadelphia was admitted into the combination that the trust was fully formed and its arrangements for the absolute control of the sugar refineries of the country were completed. When that arrangement was made the trust con isted, as it consists to-day, of what formerly had been seventeen distinct firms. These were the Havemeyer* & Elder Co., of Brooklyn; the Brooklyn tugar-Retinlug Ca, of Brooklyn: tho Decastro & Donner Ca, of Brooklyn; (lie Havemeyer (a. of Brooklyn; the Havemeyer Oa, of Jersey City; the F. 0. Mattlilessen & Wiechers CD., of Jersey City: the Standard Co., of Boston; the Bcstoo Sugar-Refining Co, of Boston; the Continental Ca, of Boston; the Forest City Co., of Portland; the St. Louis Ca, of St Louis; the Louisiana and Planters' Coa, of New Orleans; the Franklin Co., of Philadelphia; the F. C, Knight C<\. of Philadelphia: the Spreckles Co., of Philadelphia; the Delaware Ca. of Phlladelihla; and the Baltimore Co., of Baltlmnre. Tbe total daily capaoity of these companies is about 4-1,800 barrels. The total capitalization of the trust is sß.',000,000, made up of 875,000,000 capital stock anil $10,000,000 of bonds. The actual value of the plants Is estimated at abiut $40,010,000. The annual profits of the trust on refining alone are in the neighborhood of $25,000,000, Dr about 73 per cent, on the actual investment and 34 per cent, on the present capital, water and aIL

ERASTUS WIMAN'S DOWNFALL.

Convicted of Forgery In the Becond Decree. That noted financier, reputed philanthropist and tireless advocate of C anadian annexation to the United States, Erastus Wiman, is a fallen idol. He was found guilty of forgery In the second degree in New York. He was tried for forging the name of E. W. Bullinger, a creditor of the firm of R. G. Dun & Co., with which Mr. Wiman was conrected, to a check for $5,000, the amount of which Mr. Wiman appropriated. During tho trial, which created much intesest on account of the social and business standing of the accused, it was shown that Mr. Wiman had engaged in many other shady transactions. On two occasions he had drawn checks on the firm and appropriated tbe money; had overdrawn his account many times, contrary to agreement, and one time to the extent of sl3t>,oH),

&q 4 hadjyibsd a clerk to be a rogue. Letters were read wherein Mr. Wiman begged the forgiveness of Mr. Dun, and one addressed to Mrs. Dun asking for her intercession was produced. Mr. Wi'uan admitted, for the evidence waa positive, the forging of Bullinger's name, but denied any intent to defraud. Thus falls an idol who for years has been held up as an exemplar to Ameri- j cau youth and who lor twenty-eight | years, during which he had been con- | nected with R. G. Dun & Co., in New ; York, had been a power in the financial and social world.

CRADLE OF FINAL VICTORY.

Headquarter* Washington at Dobbs rerry. The historic associations which duster about the old house at Dobbs Fe ry which Washington made his headquarters are such that the celebration, which wai held last week by the New York Society of the S. ns of the American devolution, becomes of special interest. Dobbs Ferry is one of the many charming suburbs of New York, One hundred and thirteen years ago it was a place of much importance. Washington was there with his army of half clothed, half-starved Continental soldiers, while a ong the Greenburgh hills were the giittcrtng uniforms of the French under Hoohambeau It was a critical time in the war of independence. It was necessary to make a final strike for victory, which might result in defeat. Washington and Rochambeau met in the mansion of Van Brugh Livingston, and thoro planned the campaign that closed the war. Thfi tbipie la still standing, and has been in no.-session of only one owner between Van Brugh Livingston and the pre-ent proprietor. Dr, Joseph Hasbrouck. It has been called the “Cradle of Final Victory," On Hag day, or the anniversary of the adoption of the stars and stripes as the national standard of the United States the society decided that this day should be commemorated by laying the baso stone of a monument io mark the house in whioh the Yorktown campaign was idunned, in which the American and British coinmandors-in-ohief arranged for the evacuation of American soil by the British, and opposite which the British sloop-of-war that brought Sir Guy Carleton to Dobbs F'erry fired a saluto of seventeen guns in honor of Uon. Washington, the first salute by Great Britain t.> the United States of America. The monument will be of a plain square oap design ten feet in height, and of granite. The oltizona of Dobbs Ferry are planning to orown this monument with a statue of Roohambeau. The site is very near Dr. Hasbrouok’s bouse. It is a aemi circular bit of ground taken from the lawn and bordering upon the roadway. Washington was ut Dobbs Ferry for nearly six weeks before he decided upon the Yorktown campaign. The

“THE CRADLE OF FINAL VICTORY.”

outlook for Independence was very gloomy. The colonial army had met many reverses In the South; the treasury was exhausted and there was mutiny in the army. This was the condition of affairs May 1, 1781. A month later the prospects wero brighter. By the middle of June Lafayette was in hot chase after Cornwallis and Washington was planning with Roohambeau to effect the capture of New York City. On July 4, 1781, their foroos met at Dobbi F'erry. Washington removed his headquarters from tho house of Joseph Appleby, which then st >od a few miles from the Hudson, on what was later called Washington's Hill, to the Van Brugh LJvingston mansion. There ho held itoftiiy conferences with Rocharabeau and the leaders of the Continental Congress. When Washington learned that the fleet of the French commander, the Conte de Grasse, was headed tor the Chesapeake, he determined to abandon the movement against New York, join 1 afayetto at the York peninsula, and force the end of the war by compelling the surrender of Cornwallis. By a curious chance the ccinmandors-in-chief of the two armies met in the Van Brugh Livingston mansion a year and a half after the battle ot Yorktown to arrange for the evacuation of American soil by the British.

IN A TREE-TOP 36 HOURS.

A Flood-Stricken Family Make Their Home In the Branches, Perhaps the most thrilling story of adventure in connection with the floods in several parts of: the West was the rescue of the Stewart family at Pueblo, Col. The Arkansas and Fountain River 3 join in that city, and the recent heavy rains cau-ed them to dverflow their banks. Hooding the city in BOme places to a depth of fifteen feet. Many lives were lost and much property destroyed. The Sicwart family consisted of Mr. Stewart, his wife, brother and three children. The r home wai caught in the flood and carried away.

A HOME IN THE BRANCHES OF A TREE.

It was final’y anchored among some tree*. The three grown persons climbed out into the branches, carrying the little ones with them. They Were in the treetop for thirty-six hours before they were rescued. All were in a terrible condition and utterly exhausted. It is believed that the woman and two children will die.

Relative Merit.

The super had not been paid for weeks by the hard-pressed manager, and *he had stsrrved and gone naif clothed and shelterless, until he could stand it no longer, and he went to the boss for money. "By thunder,” exclaimed that person, “I’vo got no money; hbw can I pay you any? I’m only human; I can’t do Impossible things." , “And I suppose you think I’m superhuman and can,” wailed the poor fellow in such a tone of helplessness that the manager lent bim a quarter to get his supper with.

CHECK ON JAW WORK

HOUSE WILL LIMIT "EBATE ON THE TARIFF B LL. Expect the Bill Will Be Beck from the Benete Within Ten Dtr> and Then It Will Be Piuhed Through—Small-pox In Chicago. End Now In Sight. Tariff leaders of the House are preparing to handle the tariff bill expeditiously when it comes back to that body, says a Washington correspondent No definite program has yet been arranged, but the plans have matured sufficiently to satisfy those in oharge of the bill that there will not be another long-drawn-out debate. If need be a series of special rules will be presented to close debate on various schedules and then a final rule to wind up the whole question. Such a course will be adopted, however, only in case the debato gives promise of becoming Interminable. In will not be used to limit a reasonable discussion of the Senate changes. Members of tho Wavs and Means Committeo expect the bill to be returned to the House within the next ten days. It is expected, however, that there will be several days' delay after the bill passes the Senate lu order that a careful revision of the Senate changes may be made and a new print of the bill issued. Representative Breckinridge of Arkansas, a member of the oommittee, says the first stop In the House on the receipt of the bill will bo to refer it to the Ways and Means Committee. This body will take several days, perhaps a week, in carefully going over the Dili, and determining on tho policy to lie adopted toward it in wholo and in detail. Thu * far there has boon nodesire to fix a policy, as it was likely to be construed as improper influonoe on tho Senate. But with the Senate's work complete, tho Houso mombors will go over the bill in detail to see how far they will recommend an agreement with the Senate and to what extent they will join issue with the Senate ohanges. The determinations of the oommittee will be largely advisory to the House, but they are likely to fix tho future program of the oonfe enoe. The committee will select the House eonferrees, to be rcoommended to Speaker Crisp for his appointment. Kulos for Debate on the Bill. When the bill is once in conference froquent reports will be made to the House on Buch agreement as may bo reuchod. Some of the Wavs and Means members say ten days will suffice for agreements. Others are less sanguine, and foresee the necessity of a rule, or series of rules, to prevent another protracted debate.

Representative Outhwait, of tho Rules Committee, says there will bo no disposition to cut off fair debate. “The House will not consider itself bound hand and foot by the Senate amendments, "he > aid. “On tho contrary, they will bo fairly and reasonably discussed. The good senso of tho House will undoubtedly diotato when the debate has proceeded lar onough. if, howokbP,’ a rule becomes necessary, one can undoubtedly bo brought in and passed for closing the debato. As yet, however, no suggestion of u rule has bd'eu made." 1,1 Representative Burrows, a Ropublica l mombor of the Rules Committee, says: “A rule can be un loubtodly made effective in disposing of debate on tho tariff. It can prescribe a limited time for discussion, and then diroot that tho previous question bo considered ah ordered without any dilatory motions. Of courso the House would have to vote on such a rule, but if the gentlemen on the other side determine on orowding the bill through they can probably get through a rule strong enough to accomplish that purpose."

SMALL-POX IN CHICAGO.

Terrible Condition of Heportod by Agents from Neighboring States. A startling state of affair has been brought to the notice of the Mayor and health officials of Chicago in relation to the spread of small-; ox. Special agents from Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, and. Illinois were sent t> Chicago not long ago to make secret inquiry into the matter, and the ropors they made to Mayor Hopkins of tbe manner in which the hoalth authorities of the oily were endeavoring to check the epidemlo seems scarcely credible. The report reoommended a quarantine against the city and so stirred up the authorities that a force of 400 vaccinators was at once adde 1 to the health department, the forte of regular physicians was doubled and a detail of police draited and held in . readiness If it should be needed. Then within two days a descent was mode upon the inflicted region and a house to house canvass vfas made. Every one who had not a well-defined scar of recent production was obliged to bo vaccinated again. There was some strong resistance, particularly in the Polish district, where the police had to be called In, but the work was thoroughly and impartially done. In one district, comprising four square miles 6f territory and inhabited mostly by poor foreigners, the special agents found everything ripe for tho spread of the disease. It was sh this tection that the scourge showed itself first. The filth and squalor of the locality was Indescribable. The men reported that only two physicians wore at work, and that but one oase of smallpox In six was reported to ths health officers. About one ease in tea was placarded to warn pibple away, ami in one out of ten instance* was there fumigation and quarantine. Children in homes where there was smallpox were found in a large number of Instances playing on the streets with other children. Instances were found of Qhildren who had about recovered from small-pox, but who still had scabs on their faces, mingling freely with well children. Grown people living In infected homes came and went about as they pleased. Vaccination had been attempted to some extent, but the facilities were entirely unequal to the demand. The inhabitants of the district were found to be bitterly opposed to whatever work the Health Department attempted, and were evading at every opportunity.

TO CONVERT THE BIG CITIES.

An Evangelistic Movement to Be Inaognrated Next Winter. There will occur next winter a series of religious gatherings tbe like of which this country has never teen. They will surely attract the attention of tbe religious world, especially as ♦he'movement is to be non-sectarian in Its broader purposes. The plan includes aggressive and continuous work, not only within the Episcopalian denomination, but within every denomination, the Roman Catholics included, and while as yet no formal response has been made by I those in power in the Catholic Church, there is reason to believe that they will give the movement their cordial a d. Tbe plan was first conceived by Rev. Dr. E. A. Bradley, the rector of St

Agnes' Church in New York City, and the president of the influential association called the Brotherhood of SL Andrew. Bishop > of Philadelphia. gave the first cordial approval, followed by Bishop Paret, of Baltimore, and Bishop Potter, of the New York diocese. Mr. Moody heartily approves of the proposit on and regards it as auxiliary to his own special religious work. He gladly consented to arrange for his Washington meetings so that they could be held at the same time that this series of meetings in Washington churches was to be held. In detail the plan is as follows: Eight weeks before the beginning of Lent there will begin a series of daily services in every Episcopal Church in Washington, in every Presbyterian Church there and probably in every church of any other denomination. There are to be held three services daily, morning, afternoon and evening. They are not to be what are called revival services: they are to be more in the nature of that extraordinary series of religious meetings whioh was held in Trinity Church In New York City during Lent four years ago, when Phillips Brooks preached for an hour te large congregations. To Washington will go some of the ablest and most eloquent preachers in all of the denominations. Suck men as Dr. Greer, Dr. Lyman K. Beecher, and every one of the clergy of Great Britain who has gained repute in this country. Later the meetlugs will be held in Baltimore, Philadelphia, and other large cities. It is believed that the Methodists and Baptists will oordi&lly co-operate.

TRAMP WITH KELLY.

Two Good-Looking Girls Marehlng with tho Commonweal Army. Accompanying “Gen,” Kelly's oommonweal army on the march to Washington are two good-looking girls whom the members of the army call “angels.” These girls carao into notorioty at Council Bluffs where “Gm " Kelly and his band wero stranded. They seized

"ANGELS" ON THE ROAD.

a Union Pacific train and ran it to the industrial camp, offering it to Kelly to transport his men. Tho offer was declined and warrants wero issued for the arrest of tho girls. They skipped the country, howevor, and subsequently joined Kelly’s industrials. The girls claim to bj typewriters and give their names as Edna Harper and Anna Hooton.

SUGAR WILL BE TAXED.

Senate Strikes the ken from the free LUt-The Vote. Sugar will ie taxed. At noon on Wednesday Senator Aldrloh demanded a separata vote upon the commltten amendment striking sugar from the free Usl. The amendment was adopted—.‘lß to 2:'. Quay, Irby, Allen and Kylo voted aye and Peffer no. The detailed vote was as follows: TEAS. . Allen, Gordon, Palmer, lists. Gorman, Pasco, Barry, Harris, Pngh, lllanohard, llun ton. Guay, Cattery, Irby. Ransom, Call, Jarrls, Roach, Camden, Jones (Ark.), Smith, Cockrell, Kyle, Vest, I Daniel. McPherson, Voorneea, Faulkner, Mitchell (Wls.).Waleh, George, Murphy, White—S3. MATS. Aldrloh, Hate, Peffer, Alileun, Hawley, Perklna, Carey. Higgins, Platt, Chandler, Hoar, Power, Cnllom, Hodge, Prootor, Dubois, MltonelUOre.), Hhoup, Frye, Morrill, Teller-ax Galllnger,

Telegraphic Clicks.

A cloudburst ocourrod near Wichita, Kan. Several small towns were inundated. Gen. F. W. Butterfield, of Kansas City, died at Excelsior Springs, Kan., of chronto diabetes. In a quarrel at leadville, Col., over 10 cents, William Miles killed George Schlnn with a razor. The Florence and Cripp’e Creek Railroad, which has been tied up by washouts, is running again. The steamer City of Madison struck a dike In the Ohio river and sank. Her passengers were rescued. Dr. J. M. H. Brown, a Chicago phyeiolan, was drowned in Madison Lake, Blue Earth County, Minn. Capt. Simmer has been reprimanded for causing the damage to the new cruiser Columbia on her trial trip. Mibb Marion Crane has brought action for $25,003 damages for assault against Dentist Adolph Maisner at New York. Henry F. Batchelor, ex-President ot the Stookgrowars’ Bank at Helena* Mont., was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment for embezzlement. A bio orowd and a brass band welcomed Coxey, of commonweal fame, on his return to Massillon, Ohia He proposes to make a lecture tour. WrLLiXM Cammack, who was stabbed at Poughkespsie, N. Y., by Ferraro Adamaro, a Spanish medical student, is dead, and Adamaro is a fugitive. A freight train on the Cleveland & St Louis Road jumped the track near Batesvilio, Ind., and Tom Haley and Michael Cunningham, tramps,.were killed. The Navy Department has accepted the proposition of the Duouque Iron Worts people to have the torpedo boat Ericsson delivered at New York Instead of Pensaoola. The second annual meeting of the Lutheran Young Men's Association of the Synodical Conference of Missions met at Fort Wayne, Ind. The session was devoted to routine work. A Stranger tried to cash a forged draft for S6OO at the First National Bank, of Lebanon, Ind. Payment was refused and the man escaped ’before the attempted fraud waediscovered. Goodwin & Swift, railroad contractors and promoters at New York, made an assignment for the benefit of creditors. The cause of the failure was inability to meet obligations. The liabilities are estimated at $500,000 to $750,000. A SENSATIONAL story of a plan to assassinate members of the State pr s<jr Vard of Minnesota came to light at -raul Tbe would-be assassin was Murderer Michael Brennan, who recently escaped and was later recaptured at New Orleans. When the prison board visited Stillwater recently, Brer,nan tried to secure an interview to air alleged grievances, but hits actions were so Suspicious that be was searched and a sharp-pointed knife made from a table-knife was found in his possession; He admitted his intention to etao the commissioners.