Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1897 — Page 2

Btiegtmotrflticsfntinel W. ACeKWKrir, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - - - INDIANA

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WEYLERS TROCHAS ARE HALF CANAL, HALF PATH. BtisT Season in Cuba Work* Queer Changes—Boats Follow Bicycles-Eo Closely DoGebana Watch These Boats that Many Forts Are Isolated. Soldiers Near f tarwtiou. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat has the following from Havana: "The flooding of Weyler’s troc-ha systems has occasioned much comment, as the news has come in that both the systems are under water from one to four feet for miles at the southern ends. On the west troeha, in the central portion, for a distance of nearly fifteen miles, it is impassable, except for boats. The troops in the forts are in a terrible state, as they are obliged to subsist on half rations, as the Cubans have made it ’inconvenient' for those who were carrying supplies to them in boats. They have stationed themselves on the heights along the way and as the boats pass they fire into them, sinking .them. Ten boats, so far, have been sunk and many soldiers drowned in these expeditions, A curious incident was reported from the lower end of the west troeha the other day. Seeing a white flag on one of the forts, the Cubans rowed out to ascertain its meaning. They were informed that the buildings were undermined and that the soldiers were all sick nnd were likely to drown if the building fell, the water being quite deep around it. The Cubans rescued all the soldiers, put them into an old boat and towed them within a quarter of a mile of another fort, allowing them to make their way to a place of safety.” EXCITED ABOUT THE LEVEES. Many People Hard at Work Repairing Breaks. With a slightly falling river ami fine weather the levee excitement at New Orleans Is greater than at any previous tiuia The Baton Itouge break at the O* riton lumber mills naturally holds first place. The break will make it doubtful if a levee can be built around the danger spots, or whether the whole upper portion of the Pontchartrain line, running from Baton Rouge to New Orleans. wiU be endangered by back-water. The latest news from the break in the Burton levee shows a large force of men at work there and the hope is entertained by those on the spot that the How of water will be cheeked. Another sensation was caused by the partial failure of the new work upon the site of the old Davis crevasse, considerable of the box levee built by the railroads and planters giving way. New work was started with fully 500 men and the struggle will be interesting. The situation in Bayou la Fourehe, where rnauy rich sugar plantations are situated, has also grown more critical and no more steamboats will be allowed to enter this stream uutil the water subaides.

HERE'S A SPANISH VICTORY. Pacificos in Havana Slaughtered, Mutilate! sod Burned. A band of pacificos living on an abandoned sugar estate, fifteen miles north of Havana, was raided by a band of Spanish guerrillas, and all of them killed. There were six women and two young boys, the rest being aged men. After killing them the guerrillas gathered their corpses, which had been mutilated by their machetes, into oue big pile, on which they placed brush and set it on fire. A courier told all the details and stated that he saw a pile of bones and charred remains ivf the bodies. Athletes of the Diamond. Following is the standing of the clubs in the Natioual Baseball League: W. L. W. L Baltimore ...12 3 New York.... « (I Pittsburg ... 9 4 Boston fi 8 Louisville ... 9 4 Brooklyn .... 5 10 Philadelphia. 9 6 Washington... 4 9 Cincinnati ..9 (1 St. Louis.... 4 10 Cleveland ... 8 7 Chicago 4 12 The showing of the members of the Western League is summarized below: W. L. W. L St. Pau1....13 3 Milwaukee ..8 9 Columbus ...11 4 Detroit 7 9 Indianapolis.. 9 6 Kansas City. 5 13 Minneapolis.. 8 OG’nd Rapids. 4 12 VTar Rumblings in Gas Belt. About twenty of the leading manufacturers of the Indiana gas belt met in Indianapolis and agreed to keep up the fight against the men who are determined to seek oil in the gas territory. It is reported that wells are being sunk by the dozen and that gas has been struck in nearly every one and wasted. The manufacturers will back injunction proceedings to be brought against the oil prospectors.

No Place for Juveniles. Gov. Bradley, of Kentucky, refused to allow Dora Creech, a 12-year-old girl convicted of perjury in Owsley County and sentenced for one year, to go to the penitentiary and granted her a full pardon. The Governor threatens to pardon every juvenile convict out of both State prisons unless the Legislature at once provides funds for State schools of reforms. Big Paper Machine. Workmen this week are putting into place in the mills of the Rumford Falls (Me.) Paper Company the largest paper machine in the world. It was made in Worcester, Mass., and will produce paper 130 inches unde. This is fifteen inches » wider than the best previous American mark and two inches over the world’s record. Succ atful at the Start. The Irish palace building fair was opened in Grand Central palace at .New York in the presence of 5,000 persons. The fair will be continued for twenty days, and the proceeds will be used in the construction of permanent headquarters , for the United States Irish societies House Stands by Grover. The national House, by a rote of 100 to 39, refused to concur in the Senate amendment to revoke President Cleveland’s or ders as to forest reservations. William H. Phillips Drowned. William Hallett Phillips, a well-known attorney and prominent club man of Washington, was drowned Sunday while failing on the Potomac River. He was knocked overboard by the Shifting of the boom. The deceased was of counsel for the Cuban Junta, Increase in Sdfoona. Prom present indications there will be nearly 1009 more salmons in Chicago this year than there were last. The receipts I* collector's office show a correlicensed.

DROUGHT IN AUSTRALIA. Unless Relief Come* Soon Great Ca* 1 ami ties Are Feared. The st*amer Miowefa brings the news that Australia is again suffering from a terrible drought. The different government* are proclaiming days of preyer in consideration of the very serious calamities from the protracted drought. All churches are atso announcing days of prayer. In western Australia the greatest suffering is experienced. Within ninety miles of the coast all timber, with the exception of river gums, has entirely died out. Should the droiight continue much longer there will be no stock left from Ashburton to Gascoyne. The last summer rain fell there was in February, 1892. With the exception of a fair fall of six inches in the winter of 1894, there lias been no rain since to do more than keep the stock alive, although inland stations had fair fails. It is said all taxes on government land will he remitted and steps will be taken to feed the hungry over the wide region devastated by the relentless sun. ILLINOIS LIBEL LAW. New Measure Which Has Great Interest for Publishers. With but one lone vote to spare the Illinois Senate Wednesday pussed the bill repealing the libel law of 1895 and enacting a more stringent statute, similar to the Pennsylvania law. The measure provides a penalty of SI,OOO fine or oue year's imprisonment, or both, for any person who blackens the character of the dead or the living, and also allows the plaintiff to bring ruit in the county where he resides, compelling the defendant to appear there to answer the charge. The latter provision is a departure from the ordinary rules of practice. According to custom, the plaintiff must institute proceedings in the county where the defendant resides. The present law of the State allows publishers the privilege of retraction, to escape exemplary damages. LAID OVER QUICKSAND. Dry-Dock at Port Orchard, Wash., Ia in Danger of Collapse. A dispatch from Tacoma lo the effect that the Fort Orchard dry dock, recently constructed at a cost of $1,090,000, was in a state of collapse and that as a result of the docking of the battleship Oregon the basin had settled in an alarming manner, making it necessary to float the war vessel again in a hurry, created a sensation in San Francisco naval circles. The telegram also stated that the foundation of the dock was laid on slippery quicksand, that the whole country in the neighborhood was filled with subterranean springs, which made the grounds treacherous, and that the selection of the site wns brought about by a corporation composed of real estate men, who had cleared $500,000 by the transaction.

OPEN SALOONS IN TOPEKA. Trouble Between Gov. Leedy and the Probi bitioniste. For (he first time in ten years there are open saloons in Topeka, Kan., and as a result something of a rebellion against the present State administration lias been started. Within a week several saloons with fine fixtures have been opened. Gov. Leedy has been appealed to to compel the police commissioners to close the places, but so far has refused to take any hand in the matter. He says he appointed men on the board whom the prohibitionists recommended, and that it is not his duty to spy around to see if they are doiug their duty. To Be Sold its England. The first experimental exportation of butter from this country was made Wednesday from New York City, when the Government, through an agent sent by the Agricultural Department, shipped three-quarters of a ton of selected butter for sale in Europe. The result of this experiment is of great importance to the agricultural interests, as it is the first step in an effort of the administration to extend materially the market for American butter, and gain some of the trade with Great Britain in particular, which Denmark practically controls with considerable profit. An incidental object is to determine what improvements are needed in transportation facilities. Some butter is now being sent abroad by private firms, but it is alleged to be of inferior grades. Unsatisfactory storage in crossing the ocean and carelessness in leaving the shipments on uncovered docks at Southampton before being loaded into freight cars, thus making the butter soft, have further deteriorated its value in the English market. The butter sent Weduesduy conies from the lowa Agricultural College and a creamery at Windsor, Vt. Subsequent shipments, which will be made during the summer at intervals, will be of butter from other sections. To build up a high standard, only the best grades will be shipped and the butter will be sold at the prevailing market prices. The present shipment goes among the shipped stores of the steamer St. Paul and will he kept at a low temperature. The cargo is made up of packages of different sizes to determine which is most satisfactory. A department agent will meet the boat at Southampton and take proper care of the product and attend to the sale. The appointment of butter agents by the department at New York and Southampton to take care of these interests is possible.

Desperate Fighting Reported. Reports that the revolution in Ecuador is gaining strength have been received at Panama. The force of Government troops, although smaller than that of the insurgents, is fighting desperately, but no intimation as to the probable outcome of the fighting has yet been received at Guayaquil. Reports coming into Guayaquil are to'the effect that the Monteneros in all parts of the country are joining the insurgents in large bodies, 'luey have’ raided many towns and villages in the provinces of Chimborazo and Canar, leaving waste and ruin behind them, and seizing food, stores and ammunition whenever found. In this manner they nre slowly making headway. Several priests have joined the revolution and in their church garb are armed and taking part in the fighting. The Government troops have taken several prisoners, among them a few petty officers of the rebels. The New York Herald’s correspondent in Punta Arena, Costa Rica, telegraphs that the steamer Newport has arrived there bearing the news that a strong Nicaraguan army, commanded by Gen. Rutan, is marching toward the Costa Rican frontier. The Nicaraguan Government is recruiting men from all over the republic to re-enforce the army, Nicaragua has also sent troops to Honduras to help suppress the revolution there. From all reports from Costa Rica and Nicaragua it seems , that the trouble between the two governments is assuming threatening proportions. Forest Fires In Wisconsin. Near Shell Lake, Wis., forest fires nre burning fiercely in all directions, and unless rain comes soon many farmers will lose their homes. The cranberry marshes and blueberry brush are afire, and a light crop of each will be the result. Free Land for Settlers. The United States Senate has passed the bill to provide free homes on the public lands for actual and bona fide settlers known as the "free homestead” bill; yeas 42; nays, 11. ’ Editor with a Bowie, i There has been ill feeling between W. W. Wilson, editor of the Buford. Ga.. Plowboy, and MarshalW.C^-Y'andergriff. I Vaodergriff threatened to cowhide the edl-

tot. Friday they m«t In a train. Vandergriff had uo rawhide, so he hit the editor with hi* fist from behind. The editor is slight and active and the marabfd stout and slow of movement. The editor had a knife. When the combatants were separated the marshal's coat was cut in tattera.'but he received no serious wounds? No arrests are likely, but it is believed the marshal will not again try to change the editorial policy of the Plowboy. TRADE HOLDS ITS OWN. Reporits Show an Encouraging State of Things. It. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade says: "Nearly all will be astonished to learn that actual sales in April by leading houses in each line of business in the principal cities east of the Rocky Mountains average only about 10 per cent less than in April. 1892, the year of the largest business hitherto, nnd were (1 per cent more than in the same month last year. Yet this is the summary of 357 reports, each covering actual sales of leading merchants in a line of business in one of fourteen cities. They are especially encouraging in view of the great fall of prices within the five years and with exceptional floods and other retarding influences this year.” FIRE LIKES THE GOVERNOR. Alabama’s Chief Executive Is Forced to Escape at Night from a Blaze. Gov. Johnston of Alabama and his wife seem to be fated to have to escape often from fires. For the second time in a month they have been forced to flee from a blaze in the Exchange Hotel, Montgomery, where most of the State officials and legislators live. There were sixty or eighty guests who escaped without injury. Duty of Cemetery Companies. A jury before Justice Dickey of the Supreme Court in the Borough of Brooklyn, N. Y., awarded Mrs. Barbara George, a widow, $3,500 damages in her suit against the Cypress Hilt Cemetery corporation for injuries sustained on June 30, 1895, in the cemetery by coming into contact with poison ivy while visiting the graves of her husband and two children. Mrs. George testified on the trial that poison ivy grew rank near her husband’s grave. Immediately after she hud touched it her face, arms and limbs began to swell. She was confined to her bed for four mouths nnd was incapacitated from work for another year. Even now, she swore, she frequently suffered excruciating pain. In charging the jury Justice Dickey said that the suit was a novel one, being to his knowledge the only one of the kind ever tried ju this country. He instructed the Jury that it was the duty of the cemetery corporation to exterminate the poisonous weed and to otherwise protect its patrons against it.

Asks for Mediation. The Athens correspondent of the Associated Press learns, on the very best authority, that Greece has made a written application to the powers through their representatives at Athens with a view to obtaining mediation. All the representatives have promised in their replies to use their best ofliies, except the German minister, who has merely acknowledged the receipt of the note from the cabinet. The porte is inclined to support the powers, with n view to the fnciiiation of negotiations, but it declines to consent toan armistice, on the ground that this would enable Greece to reorganize her forces. It Vi said Turkey will not attempt to secure Grecian territory, but will insist on a heavy indemnity. Etoclcvar ta Investigation Likely. The taking of testimony in the stock yards hearing on the allegation of the stock yards officials that the enforcement of reduced yardage rates, as proposed by recent Kansas legislation, would render the business unprofitable, was resumed at Kansas City, Mo., Friday. There is a strong probability that the Stock Yards Company will ask for a continuance of the inquiry in Chicago and East Bt. Louis, 111. The company wishes to make a comparative showing to support its claim that the law is not reasonable. This Order Prospered. Grand officers of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen have almost completed their reports, to be submitted to the biennial convention, to be held at Toronto, Receipts for two years have been $1,158,201 and disbursements $1,109,360. There is now in the treasury $58,574. During two years 42 lodges have been added, making a total of 520. The total membership now is 23,532, a gain in two years of 3,201. From Oct. 1, 1884, to Jan. 1, 1897, the sum of $3,667,904 wns paid out for death and total disability claims. They Have Two Wives. The sentence of W. J. Burke, a trainman on the Pennsylvania Railroad, brought out the fact that a number of men similarly employed, between Pittsburg and Altoona, have wives in both cities. Twelve Dollar Free Milling Ore. Workmen in the Tornado mine ou Bald Mountain, near Deadwood, S. D., encountered a fissure vein of free milling ore under the quartzite that assays sl2 a ton. Drown In a Colliery. Eleven men have been drowned through an inflow of water into the Kelloe colliery, near Durham. England.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime,) $3.50 to $5.50; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice, $2.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 71c to 72c; corn. No. 2,23 cto 25c; oats, No. 2, -16 c to 18e; rye, No. 2,32 cto 33c; butter, choice creamery, 14c to 10c; eggs, fresh, 8c to 9c; potatoes, per bushel, 20c to 30c; broom corn, common growth to choice green hurl, $35 to S7O per ton. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, common to choice, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,88 cto 90c; corn, No. 2 white, 20c to 27c; outs, No. 2 white, 21c to 22c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2,90 eto 97c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 21e to 22c; oats, No. 2 white, 19c to 20c; rye, No. 2,32 eto 34c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2,90 cto 92c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 20c to 27c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 21c to 22c; rye, No. 2,37 cto 39c. Detroit—Cattie, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 88c to 90c ; corn, No. 2 yellow, 23c to 24c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 23c; rye, 35c to 37c. Toledo—AVheat, No. 2 red, 91c to 03c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 24c to 25c; oats. No. ■2 white, 17c to 19e; rye, No. 2,34 cto 30cclover seed, $4.30 to $4.35. Milwaukee-Wheat, No. 2 spring 7” c to 74c; corn, No. 3,23 cto 24c; oats, No 2 white, 21c to 23c; barley, No. 2,30 cto 03c; rye, No. 1,35 eto 37c; pork, mess, $8.20 to $8.75. * * 2 - 50 t 0 S 5 -5 0; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 89c to 92c; corn, No. 2, yellow, 29c to 30e; oats, No. 2 white 24c to 20c. ’ * N '® W Yerk Cattie, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.50 to $4.75; sheep, $3.00 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 79c to 80c; corn, No. 2, 29c to 31e; oat*, No. 2 white, 22c to 23c; butter, creamery, 13c to 18c; eggs, Wmt4 era, 9c to lie. ,

LIVING IT DOWN

CHAPTER IX. My jea’ous disposition at once took fire. At Sir Ralph's statement the old fierce, resentful anger against Yorke seized me. The latter s silence aggravated my feelings against him. 1 did not write to him; 1 could not. even if I had felt s > inclined. Of what use would it have been, since he had loft my last two letters unanswered and I did not even know his address? A week later Darby and 1 and (ho nurse, with Sir Ralph ns courier, started for Nice. There Sir Ralph rented a pretty villa for us, while he took up his quarters at the neighboring hotel. There we remained for weeks and months, while Darby grew well nnd strong again.* And all this while I did not hear a word from Yorke. Oue summer day Sir Ralph took us all out for a sail and while we were drifting along over the blue waters of the Mediterranean confessed his love for me and asked me whether I could not return it. His maimer in making the proposal was so delicate, so gentle, 1 fairly began to long that I could find it iu my heart to respond in the way he desired. But I could do no more than he silent, nnd he rightly interpreted that to mean that I had no love to give him. ‘tl might have known it,” he said bitterly. “I never meant to tell you; only just now the feeling grew too /strong for me. Do not think of it any more. Let us nt least be friends.” “Yes,” I said eagerly, and finding voice at the same moment ns 1 found relief. “We can always be that. I should lie so —so sorry if we could not.” After that Sir Ralph busied himself in the management of the boat. Suddenly a storm bore down upon us, one of those tierce, sudden squalls which spring up on the Mediterranean, and 1 firmly believe but for Sir Ralph’s able seamanship the vessel would have foundered nnd we should have all been drowned. As it was we weathered the storm, though we landed in a drenched condition. Sir Ralph hurried us to the villa, while he went, to the hotel to change his dripping garments. When we hnd changed our clothing and I had found, to tny great Joy, that Darby had suffered no harm from the exposure to the storm, I went down to tlie parlor, where, to my surprise, I found my father, who had just nrrived. He had time not only to pay us a visit, but to inform me that Sir Ralph had taken up all hi* debts, nud that it was Sir Ralph’s money which had enabled us to go 4? Nice, which kept us there, which had oeen the means of restoring Darby’s health. “It is his money,” said my father, “and I never knew it—as there is a heaveu above me, I never knew it, till—a week ago.” I rose from my chair, pale as a culprit, frightened, trembling, heart-sick. “Perhaps,” I said in an odd, suffocated voice, after the sileuee had lasted some •ixty or seventy seconds, “perhaps you can pay back the money soon?” He looked at me with a sort of pitying compussion for my ignornnee. “I never can,” he suid. “I should be ruined, or Moorlands would have to be sold.” I felt as if all the blood in my veins had turned to ice. Ruin! The full seuse and misery of the word could only reach me in a dim nnd far-off way; but still the horror of it seemed about me even then as I looked on the bright scene beyond the villa windows—as I sawYhe luxuries and comforts of the pretty, dainty room. Across my confused and tangled thoughts my fnther’s voice broke agaiu: “There is one way—but one—by which all these troubles might be averted; one way by which Sir Ralph might become my debtor instead of my being his. He —he spoke to me of it long ago, before you came here at all. I left it to him and to your—well, to your own good sense. Joan.”

I looked at him in a sort of stupor. My heart began to beat slowly, painfully, nervously. I knew what was coming now. I waited for the next words as I might have waited for the executioner’s ax. “I —I suppose he has not spoken yet?” my father continued. “He is diffident, because he thinks you are so much younger than himself. But he is a man wor.th fifty of the young, foolish dandies of the present day. And he loves you with all his great, honest, generous heart. Look at all he has done for your sake! I —l don’t want to force your inclinations, Joan, but I should like to know what you think of the subject. Give it due consideration, and then—then tell me what your answer would be if Ferrers asked you to be his wife.” “Would be?” 1 cried bitterly. “There is no chance of what it would be now. He has asked me. Oh, if I had only known all this yesterday—this morning—a little sooner! Now—it is too late!” "Too late?” echoed my father, stopping his pacing backward aud forward, and coming to a halt in front of me. “What do you mean? Has he asked you already?” “Yes.” “Aud you ” “I refused him,” I answered slowly. He turned very pale. He dropped into a chair, and, lenning his arms on the table, bent his face down on them, and groaned aloud. There came a slight sound at the door. A little white figure stood there—a golden hulo of damp and tumbled curls about her face. She came straight into the room, and, with tiuerring instinct, went up to hiiii. and laid her hand upon his knee. “Papa,” she said softly, “is it you, papa?” The hands dropped from his fnee. The child climbed up on his knee without further word, and leaned her soft cheek against his own. I stole out of the room. The child, perhaps, might comfort him. I could not. I CHAPTER X. I went straight up to my room and shut the door; then 1 fell down on my knees beside the bed and gave myself up to utter despair. Fur once I put my ill-fated love aside, and looked life and its attendant circumstances fully in the face. When I rose from my knees that day I said in my heart: “1 will marry Sir Ralph Ferrers to-morrow if onlyj he will ask me again"—and I meant it. The events of the day had unsettled and

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disturbed me, and every time I thought of the generosity and kindness I bad so ill requited I grew hot with shame and dismay. Sir Ralph was just the same as ever, to all appearances—courteous, frank, genial—so true u gentleman, so kind a friend. I said this to myself again and again as the meal went on; as 1 watched the looks, or heard the tones I knew so well, and had valued so little. Some stupid constraint had fallen upon me, and I was very taciturn; but Sir Italph and father did not appear to notice it. When dinner was over I left them, and went out into the grounds. was dark with shadows here in the qWiet walks I paced; the stars glittered in myriads over the viofet waters, and everywhere came the scents of roses and orange blossoms, steeping the air with languid, dreamy odors. It seemed to me as if 1 bad never been so keenly conscious of the beauty of the scene before. The very breath of the wind, the sway of the leaves, and murmur of the sea, touched me in a way altogether new and strange. 1 felt as if they were parts of n dream, not actual realities. Presently a figure stole out from amoug the shadows, paused, then came toward me. “Is the child asleep?” he said abruptly. “I wished to bid her good-bye, for I must be off early in the morning.” I turned my face to his. I saw how pale he was, and what a harassed look the kind gray eyes held in their depths. “You are going—to-morrow?” I echoed stupidly. “Why?” “It is better I should be,” he answered slowly. “Your father’s affairs—l must see to them. They—they can’t be as bad as he says, and he must not be allowed to sell Moorlands —he must not!” My lips began to quiver. I looked up at him. “Oh, Sir Ralph,” I cried, “how good you have been! How much you have done for us! Father only told me to-day about — about Darby.” “I did nothing—nothing,” be said impatiently. “What is the use of money if one can’t help a friend who’s in a scrape? And what's the use of my money to me? It can’t buy me the affection of a single creature —it can’t give me a home ” His voice ceased abruptly, then grew gentler. “Forgive me, Joan,” he said; “I did not mean to reproach you.” “But I am fond of you,” I burst forth with sudden courage*-“and grateful. Oh, you don’t know how grateful I am! Your generosity shames me. I seem to have been so selfish, so exacting ” “Hush!” lie said, “ft I have been of any use or comfort to you, that is all I want. I am a lonely man. I wanted something to occupy my thoughts and affection. I found it. If there is a little pain behind, that is only my fault; you are not to blame—or —or the child.” “The child ?” I faltered. “Yes, I know it was for her sake. And she loves you so. Don’t say there is no one ” “Did I say that?” he asked gently. “It was wrong and ungrateful, was it not? Perhaps I should have said^—” “No, do not say it,” I cried eagerly. “I know what you mean. Oh, if I had only known it before!” “Do you think I wanted to buy your love?” he said sternly. “Oh, Joan, how little you know me! You would make any sacrifice for their sakes. lam sure of it, child; but I don’t want a sacrifice. Since you have learnt the truth, I must leave you; so my own sake, perhaps, as well as yours. I know it is hopeless to expect you to love me—even a little—and I am foolish enough to care only for your love.”

“But I don’t know that it is—hopeless,” I cried suddenly, with a courage born of desperation, I fear, for I could not* bear the idea of losing him out of my life now. He seized my hands and drew me out of the shadows into the pale, sweet glow of moonlight, nnd looked down at my face with earnest, searching eyes. “Child,” he said, “if I know you at all, I know you would not trifle with any man’s honest love. Do you know what your words imply? If it is not folly to you, is it—anything else?” “Yes,” I said, gravely, “a great and noble gift, of which I am not worthy.” “But which you will accept; is that it, Joan?” “Yes,” I answered, lifting my eyes to his, and wondering not a little at the rapture and the joy that lit his face, and swept away every line of age by the magic of happiness, “and value as I have never valued anything in all my life before.” “May heaven bless you for those words,” he said, and bent and kissed my brow with reverent and most tender touch. “And the love —will that come, too?” “If I were not sure of that I would never be your wife,” I answered. “I believe you,” he said. “And remember, Joan,” he added, solemnly, “I trust you with all my heart—with all my soul.” “I will remember,” I said. And afar off, like a sob, the waters seemed to echo my words, as they rose and fell in the quiet night, against the quiet shore. A month later we were married. CHAPTER XI. “I never saw anything so lovely in the whole course of my life!” “You have made that remark a good many times, my dear,” says my husband’s voice. “But I pardon its repetition here. This place is an earthly paradise.” I am standing, or rather we are both standing, on the platform of the railway station at Salzburg. There is a pile of baggage beside us; tkere are polite officials suggesting the various excellences of their respective hotels; there is my particular maid a little distance off, and there is Darby, with meek and wondering face, listening to my raptures. For Darby, who could not ben r. to be separated from me, had at my husband’s own request, accompanied us. Presently we were at the hotel, and I am shown into a room all white lace, and dainty furniture, and with a balcony beyond the window, from which I behold a perfect panorama of loveliness. The sun is just sinking behind the highest of the mountain peaks—it is the Gaisberg, I learn afterwards. The rich, soft air seems like a breath of purer life, aud as I stand and gaze, the river and valley fade into paler tints, and the trees stand black as shadows against the rose hues of the sky. “One is glad of life at such a time,” I say at last, and I draw the child closer to my side, and tell her in low, hushed tones of those wonderful heights with their crowns of snow that reach far, far up to heaven, of how the clear stars leap into the violet dusk of the sky, of the waters that grow so dark as the spell of night creeps onward, and how one by one the distant lamps gleam out through trees and avenues, and shine down into the river. “I can see it all,’’ says the child, as I ' cease speaking, “flew beautiful it must,

to, Jo! I can fatar tto m«r quit* di» tibctly about the whole place.” "It seems the only thing that has file or motion,” I answer dreamily. “There is such a sence of stillness and restfulness about the whole place.” "How accurately you have described it,” says a voice close at hands* voice that makes me start as if, indeed, she dead bad found me here in this faint dusk, a voice remembered as only pain remembers; and cold, and sick, and trembling, I turn, and beside me, on the adjoining balcony, I see —Yorke Ferrers. For a moment Ido not speak. No word —not even the commonest form of greeting will my lips frame. I only stand as if turned to stone, and gaze at the face before me with eyes that must surely speak the terror of my heart. He bends a little nearer. I have some dim, confused idea that he puts out his hand, but Ido not touch it. I draw further aud further away—a sort of horror seizes me. I feel as if I hated him—Bated him because he stands there, calm, smiling, composed; and I—what agony has me in its gnp as I lean against the cold stone balustrade, tongue-tied, paralyzed, by the shock of this strange meeting! Darby’s voice rouses me. Darby it is who runs forward and clasps the hands that to me are as the hands of a murderer. “It is Yorke,” she cries gladly. “It is Yorke, and here, too! How funny! Did you know we were here?” “No,” he says; “I did not know.” “Why don't you speak to him, Joan?” the child goes on. "Are you not glad to see him? You were so fond of him once. Was she not, Yorke?” “Yes,” he says, in an odd, cold voice; “I think she was fond of me once. But that was a long time ago, Darby—a long time ago!” Then something gives me strength, and I stand up calm and straight, though pain seems draining the very life-blood from my heart. “I was too surprised to speak to you,” I say in a voice that is no more like my own than these failing evening shadows are like the radiant sunset I have watched. “How—how did you come here?” “By train, from Vienna,” he answers. “May I ask the same question of you? Or shall I waive ceremony, and say at once, why have you never answered my letters?” “Your letters? I gasp. “What letters?” “Those I wrote before leaving London, and again from ‘Boulogne,” he tfhys. “I grew sick of it at last. A one-sided correspondence has few charms at the best of times. It certainly possessed none for me.” “Your—letters?” I repeat. “Why, I never had one after last July. Never, though I wrote to you again and again, though I begged and prayed for one word to say you had not forgotten.” “I never forget,” he says in the same hard, strange way—“never. It is my mis-i fortune to have a fatal memory. There is something odd about this. I can’t understand it.” “But I can,” I cry with a sudden passion of wrath and indignation. “Yon are not telling me the truth—you can’t be. Why did you go away with that woman? If—if you had loved me as you said, you could never have done that—never! And as for letters, I had none. And all these months I have waited and waited in vain I Oh,” I cry in sudden despair, as I wring my hands together, “what does it all mean?” (To be continued.)

ELECTRIC CARS IN THE SEWERS.

.... 1 How Visitor* to the French Capital May Enjoy a Novel Trip. The main sewers of Paris are periodically cleared by means of scrapers carried on cars or boats. These conveyances are also used for conveying visitors through the large sewers under the Rue de Rivoli and Boulevards de Sebastopol and Malesharbes. These expeditions take place fourteen times a year, in spring aud autumn, and about 8,400 visitors are admitted yearly. Until 1804 these cars and boats were drawn by men, hut the labor and expense were found to he so excessive that now the traction is entirely done by electric motors, taking current from accumulator batteries ou the boats or cars. These main sewers are in section very similar to an ordinary tunnel, hut in the floor is formed the rectangular channel for the sewage, while round the roof are fixed the water and compressed air mains, the telegraph and telephone wires, etc. The sewer under the Boulevard des Malesherbes is the largest. It is 18 feet 414 inches wide, 10 feet high from floor to roof and the sewage channel in the floor is 3 feet 514 inches deep and 9 feet 10 inches wide. Boats are used in this channel. The other sewers are similar, the channels in them being only 3 feet 11 inches wide and from 3 feet 11 indies to 5 feet 7 Inches deep. In these cars are run, the flanged wheels of the cars running on the edges of the channel, which are protected by angle bars and form the rails. The approximate weight of a train of five cars, with 100 passengers on hoard, Is about 15,200 pounds, and this travels at the rate of three and three-fourths miles per hour. The accumulator battery consists of twenty-eight elements and thighs 1,400 pounds, and its capacity i*loo ampheres at fifty or sixty volts.' The motor, which is series wound, develops two-horse power and

runs at 1,600 revolutions per minute, this speed being reduced to eighty by means of a pinion and wheel and chain gearing to the driving axle, the wheel being fifteen and three-quarter inches In diameter on the tread. The boats are towed by means of a chain sunk in the sewage channel, which is brought to the surface and passes round a pulley driven by means of a double reduction gear from the motor. The chain, by means of guide pulleys, makes three-quarters of a turn round the driving pulley, this pulley being a magnetic one, magnetized by means of two coils, one on each side of it on the axle. Each passenger train consists of six boats, in the first of which is carried the accumulator battery and a towing apparatus, while in the last boat, which is smaller, there is another towing apparatus. The battery consists of sixty elements, giving an output of sixty amperes for two and a half hours, at from ninety-eight to 125 volts. It is divided into two parts, which can be connected in series or parallel as required. The motors run at 580 revolutions per minute, but this speed is reduced by means of the gearing, so that the boats travel at about one and one-half miles per hour. The power required for this Is from about two to five and a half horse power, according as the boats are traveling with or against the current. The total length of sewers open in this way to the public Is about two miles, and they are lighted partly by lamps on the foothpatlis or by oil lamps on the boats. —Scientific American.

SENATE AND HOUSE.

WORK OP OUR NATIONAL LAW* MAKERS. A Week 1 * Proceeding* la the Hall* of Congre**—lmportant Me—re* Discussed *nd Acted Upon—An Impnr*. tial Resume of the Business. The National stolons. The Senate Wednesday by the vote of 43 to 26 refused to ratify the general arbitration treaty between the United States and Great Britain negotiated by Secretary Olney and Sir Julian Pauncefote. At the conclusion of the proceedings, all of which were in executive session, the Senate refused to authorise the publication of the details. The open session of the Senate was devoted to the sundry civil appropriation bill, which was not completed up to the time of adjournment Mr. Deboe of Kentucky took the oath of office at the opening of the session and was cordially greeted by his Republican associates. The Senate in executive session confirmed the following nominations: Elmer J. Miller, surveyor of customs at Columbus, Ohio; Thomas R. Purnell, United States district judge for the eastern district of North Carolina; William Meyer, Indian agent for the Southern Ute agency, Colorado; John B. Wright and John W. Ross, commissioners of the District of Columbia; John McMullen of Maryland, to be an asp ; sti’nt surgeon in the mariue hospital service The Senate Thursday agreed to an amendment to the sundry civil biH revoking the order of President Cleveland, made Feb. 22 last, establishing forest reservations aggregating 17,000,000 acres. Another amendment agreed to provides for a continuance of the investigation of the condition of the fur seals in Bering Sea. The sundry civil an aggregate of $53,000,000. The House by a strict party vote, all the Republicans favoring and all the Democrats and Populists opposing, adopted a resolution providing that the House should meet only on Mondays and Thursdays of each week until otherwise ordered. It was announced to be the Republican policy to wait on the Senate’s action on the tariff bill. Mr. Bailey (Dem.) of Texas made a strong but unsuccessful fight to have the order modified so as to give early and full consideration to the bankruptcy bill. The Republicans replied that they would call up the bankruptcy bill and hold daily sessions on it after Gen. Henderson’9 return, but until then the rule should stand. The House then adjourned until Monday.

On Monday Senator Pettigrew of South Dakota, at the head of the Senate conferees on the Indian appropriation bill, announced his intention to present the report of the conferees about 3 o’clock; but Mr. Morgan’s Cuban debate held the floor until after 3 and then the Senate went into executive session and adjourn-) ed. The amendment to the Indian appropriation bill as proposed by Mr. Alien (Pop.) from Nebraska and adopted by thq Senate was as follows: “That the Secre-) tary of the Interior shall, within sixty days after the passage of this act, establish and thereafter maintain at the city of Omaha, in the State of Nebraska, a warehouse for Indian supplies, front which distribution shall be made to such Indian tribes of the West and Northwest as the Secretary of the Interior may direct.” The House nonconcurred in this proposition and appointed Sherman of New York, Curtis of Kansas, and Allen! of Mississippi conferees. They, after; conferring with Mr. Pettigrew and his Senate associates, agreed upon an amendment to the amendment which extended from sixty days to one year the timq within which the Secretary of the Inte-t rior was to transfer the Indian distributing warehouse from Chicago to Omaha; and adding a proviso that the city of Omaha should furnish a suitable building for; the purpose, free of cost, to the United States. 1 The Morgan resolution favoring recognition of Cuba was up in the Senate Tuesday. Senators Morrill and Caffery spoke in opposition. Senators Lodge and Foraker advocated deferring the question until further information could be secured from the State Department, and Senators Mills and Allen urged the immediate passage of the resolutions. The debate went over. During the day Senator Kyle, rising to a question of privilege, disclaimed having sought committee places from Republican Senators. A partial conference report on the Indian appropriation bill was agreed to. The consideration of the Senate amendments to the sundry civil appropriation bill was finished by the House and the bill sent to a conference. President Cleveland’s forest reservation order was the subject of much debate, and the House voted not to concur in the Senate amendment to annul the order with the understanding that the conferees should arrange an amendment which would have the same effect.

Don’t Put Coin in Your Mouth.

It is possible to catch a whole string of diseases through holding money in the mouth. A scientist says that a man who carelessly puts a penny in his mouth subjects himself to greater danger than if he were exposed to the bitterest weather without clothing. Scientists w'ho have been testing coins find that, as a rule, the germs that find lodgment on their faces are powerless to harm human beings unless they are able to penetrate the skin and get into the blood; but In cases of consumption and one or two other of the more deadly maladies, the organisms may be given a foothold by being inhaled into tie lungs. In cold weather there are frequent cracks and small abrasions on people’s lips, and there, of all places, the germs find the best opportunity to reach the blood. Shopkeepers who are in the habit of handling coppers should be careful to wear gloves if their hands are cut or scratched.

Big Prices for Pictures.

Franz Hals’ portrait of a man in a white ruff and black hat brought $17.585 recently in London, that being the highest price paid at an auction sale in England for one of his pictures, not two dozen of which in all have been sold in this country. An interior with figures by Jan Steen sold for $5,000, two landscapes with figures on horseback by De Keyset- brought $3,675 and $2,025. Sir Edwin Landseer’s “Hinds Alarmed” was sold for $2,025, and C. Stanfield’s “Nelson’s Victory Towed Into Gibraltar After the Battle of Trafalgar” for $1,260.

A Rabbit-Loving Cat.

In Oglethorpe County Mr. Ben Dillard caught a rabbit and took it to his house. A cat, stealing an opportunity, carried it to her bed of kittens and adopted it as one of her family. She nurses and cares for bunny as loving-/ ly- as if It i was one of her own offspring and the happy family are living together in apparent peace;—Atlanta Constitution,