Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1897 — Page 2

t&fjfmotratir Sentinel a. W. MeEWEJf, Publisher. KNSSEUER. - - • INDIANA

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MISS WILLARD INDORSED BY W. C. T. U. CONVENTION. Mrs. Carre Is Sustained-Resolution Adapted After a Five Hours' Debate -Bliss Dow to Handle the Cash—The Very Latest Foreign News. Miss Willard's Plan Adopted. Miss Frances E. Willard's plan to raise S3HO,OOd for retiring the Chicago Temple Beads was indorsed by the \V. C. T. U. renvontion at its meeting in Buffalo, N. Y. Miss Willard thus takes up the Borden which proved to be too heavy for Mrs. Carso, and the majority of the eonveotion wished the President godspeed in her great work. Here is the resolution which was adopted after a five hours' session: “Resolved. That we pledge our aoppoft sad co-operation to our President tn her effort to raise $300,000 to he placed in the hands of Miss Cornelia Dow, as rastodi-tn. who shall hold this fund until •neh time ns there shall he enough money on hand to retire the $300,000 of Temple trust bonds.” The resolution was proceed by a preamble, which was adopted By » parliamentary quirk, but allowed to «U»d by consent. This preamble collided •he names of Miss Willard ami Mrs. Carsc. A resolution setting forth that no reflection upon Mrs. Carse was intended was adopted by a rising vote at the close •f the session. RIOT IN PENNSYLVANIA. Lively Fight Between Strikers nnd Non-Union Men. A riot occurred at Seottdale, Pa., in which Henry Gillespie. John Jordan, and Manager Skein p, of the Seottdale Iron a*ri Steel Company, were badly injured. The previous day a union man.'Frank Kelt?., was beaten into insensibility by non-union ironworkers, and Keltz’s fellow workmen vowed vengeance. Manager Skemp, fearing trouble when his men *eit wotk. formed thirty or forty of them io line and inarched up Pittsburg street. At Broadway a large crowd had gathered ond four of the marchers with drawn revolvers i topped to the fro at and ordered Uh* crowd hack. Just then some one threw a stone into the crowd of non-union-*l*. This was responded to by a shot, foHowed hy a regular fusillade, fully fifty ■hots being fired, nearly all coming from the non-union men.

INMANS ARE LEAVING. Mtondo Settlers No Longer Fear an Uprising of Redskins. . It" is reported from Ilipley, Colo., on good authority that, the Indians are getout of the country #s fast as possible. Warden McLean and Sheriff Wilber had horn riding the country for days notifying the Indians to leave, and when the officers started hack to Meeker the Indians were all moving out. These officials. ss well as the settlers along the rirrr from Itangeiy to Meeker, are satisfied that the Indians have left for good and. very little uneasiness is felt on the B»rt of the settlers. Wardens have he in •tatianed along the Utah line to report the first reappearance of the Indians. England Fears Another Strike. Instead of improving the labor sit nation in England is getting worse daily. The engineers' strike is not yet settled, and now conies the announcement of another great war, involving 200,000 cotton operatives. Necessity (smipels the owners of mills to insist on a 5 per cent ml net it in in wages, a reduction which, of course, labor leaders resist. The latter propose Bd> curtail production, hut the owners won't have this. A cotton operators’ strike on top of the engineers' strike would paralyze the greatest trade of the empire. The spinners and weavers will soon decide what they will do. Held Up By a Neighbor. Nathan Stark, a prominent farmer of Mmrccr,.Mo., was held up on the highway By Ira Sexton, a neighbor, who attempted Is mb him. Stark resisted and Sexton shot and killer! him. Sexton was taken to Frinceton and pi aml in jail. The fecOng against him is strong and an extra guard has been placed about the jail. Three others have been put under arrest in Mercer as accomplices. They are SexAss’s wife of a week, her sister and a stranger. Sexton says he did not want Is kill Stark, but the latter showed fight when held up. The robbers got nothing.

F»r the Good of Humanity. ft is projkosed by the Coo]>er Medical Meet of San Francisco and persons who arc convinced of the efficacy of Dr. Ilitschfclder's oxytuberculrae in the treataoent of consumption, to secure the oomTMwi for free distribution. Dr. Reilly of the Chicago health department has written to Dr. Hirschfelder, stating that Sic hopes soon to bo able to use the con■■niptirfe cure for the benefit of the poor of that city. Battles of Ballots. In Tuesday’s election the Republicans •ere victorious in Ohio, lowa, Mawsaiehu<Kikt South Dakota and Kansas, while the-Democrats carried Virginia and Keuincty. Yan Wyek (Tammany t is elected Mayer «f Greater New York, Pliitadelchooses a Republiean and Detroit a BeaHKTat. Nebraska stacks to salver and Maryland probably returns Gorman to the Staatc. Big Wheat Crop in Prospect. The prospects for crops in Argentina Jtre aplendid, ami there is every indication Mnt the- yield of wheat will be very large. Union Pacific Railway Sold. The Union Pacific Railroad has been «aM to the reorganization committee for Ar sum of $53,528,522.70. Tin Horn Brings Death. Ma Shafer, a Covington shoemaker. M years old, was kilted while celebrating Democratic victory at Cincinnati. He IMI heen Wowing a huge tin horn. He wared it in the air. it came in contact with an electric light wire, and Shafer fell Daring Robbery of Diamonds. The store occupied by the Diamond Mor•haarts’ Alliance, on Piccadilly, London, was Woken into by burglars, and dia■aadi, etc., to the value of $75,000 were ado ten. There is no clew to the thieves. Combine Against Pope. t^ y u le Wauu, aeturers of Ihe Oaitirf. btates have banded together to wheels on the same lines **,, * Columbia and will unitedly y**, "jr . should he sue for iufringommt* Tfceir attorney declares that Pope s ••tents are invalid. ' .'-re To Search for And roe. Dr. Otto Nordenskjoid. the well-known outarctic explorer. Will superintend an exJ® fitted out at the joint cxNorway and Sweden, to ascerfam whether any trace of Prof. Andree’s hatteoM eati be fpunti near Prim,.. Charles

ANSWER FROM SPAIN. Wordford's Note Does Not Call Forth a Defiant Reply. President McKinley has had laid before him at Washington the text of Spain’s answer to Minister Woodford. In company with Secretary Sherman and Assistant Secretary Adee he went over the document with great care. As a result it can be stated from official quarters at the White House that the construction placed upon the answer hy the administration is that it is not defiant in tone, is not menacing and is not warlike. Under such circumstances those officials who are chiefly concerned in the negotiations do not feel that any crisis is near at hand, nor do they fear that the answer presents an issue beyond the power of diplomatic solution. On the contrary, the entire disposition in administration quarters is to treat the answer as satisfactory in tone, and as a marked advance in the assurances Spain has heretofore given. Notwithstanding this official view, there are those who believe that the message is much stronger in tone than the officials will admit, and that it presents issues which will call from the President a ringing message when he lays the case and ail the correspondence before Congress a few weeks lienee. From no authoritative source, however, can this belligerent view be con fil med. OFFICERS OF SCOTTISH RITE. Result of Election in Supreme Council at Providence, If. I. The supreme council of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite 33d degree Masons for the southern and western Masonic jurisdiction of the United States of America held its twenty-eighth annual session in Providence, 11. I. The election of officers resulted as follows: Grand commander, John Jones, Chicago; lieutenant grand commander, Richard F. Greene, New York; grand chancellor, C. W. Newton; minister of state, W. L. KLmburg of Texas; grand auditor, R. .1. Fletcher of Sacramento; grand secretary general, I). F. Seville, Washington, I). C.; grand treasurer general, W. R. Morris of Minneapolis; grand marshal, Spencer N. Gilmore of Providence; assistant grand auditor, James Hill of Jackson, Miss.; assistant secretary general, E. E. Pettibone of Grenada, Miss. The next annual convention will be held iu Omaha iu October, 1898.

thief has confessed. Fellow Who Stole $15,000 from the Mulls Is Captured. IV alter It. Houghton, aged 25, has been arrested at Cheyenne, Wyo., and confessed to stealing a registered package containing $15,000 which had been sent Sept. 21) hy the National Bank of the Republic, Chicago, to the State National Bank at Butte, Mont. The package was sent in :ui extra through-registered pouch, and was delivered to Houghton, a postal clerk on the Cheyenne and Ogden run, by-Clerk Brill of the Omaha and Cheyenne district, who inadvertently failed to take Houghton’s receipt for one of the pouches. Postoffice Inspector Frederick of Denver learned that a woman had changed three new SIOO bills and secured from her an admission that Houghton had given them to her on the night of his return from his run of Sept. 30. The robbery is the largest which has ever occurred in the registry service. ON HYGIENIC GROUNDS. Belgium Restricts the Importation of American Cattle. Consul Lincoln, at Antwerp, Belgium, id 11 report to the State Department at Washington, says that one of the matters now interesting importers is the restriction thrown in the way of the import of cattle from both North ami South America on hygienic grounds. The Antwerp chamber of commerce is doing till in its power to remove the restrictions. There lias been a large increase in the importation of wheat from the United States, also of rje, barley, corn and oats. The United States furnishes a considerable amount of cast steel, petroleum and tobacco. TRUE BILLS RETURNED. Sheriff Martin Must Answer for the Shooting nt Lattiiner. At A\ iikesbarre, Pa., the grand jury returned a true bill against Sheriff Martin and his deputy for the Lattiiner shooting. The true bills included nineteen for murder, one for each man killed and one for the victims considered collectively. Thirtysix true bills were found in the same way for felonious wounding against the same defendants. The likelihood is that Sheriff Martin and his deputies will elect to be tried together.

Austria and Hungary, The present deadlock in the reichsrath ut 5 ienna, owing to the German obstruction, has created a critical situation, and in some quarters a suspension of the Austrian constitution is believed possible. At a late session of the lower house, after an uproarious dispute between Dr. Kramarez, the acting president, and the German opposition, the chamber adopted. by a large majority the acting president's proposal to discuss the motions for the impeachment of the ministry at the morning sittings and to devote the evenings to the bill for the extension of the compromise with Hungary, the delay in adopting which is causing much resentment in Hungary and rendering the passage of the treaty by the Hungarian parliament extremely doubtful. In the lower house of the Hungarian parliament at Budapest. Baron Banffy, the premier, replying to Herr Francis Kossuth, son of the celebrated Hungarian patriot, who urged the Government to “take advantage of Austrian chaos and try for Hungary’s independence,” declared that the ministry had no intention of turning Austria’s difficulties unreasonably to the advantage of the Hungarians. "The ainion of the two countries,” he declared, “must be regarded as indissoluble. Should the Austrian constitutional system break down —which God forbid —the Hungarian Government would be obliged to act independently regarding the joint questions of the customs and commercial treaty between Austria and Hungary, and of the charter and privileges of the Austro-Hungarian banks.” This announcement caused a great sensation, and it is believed that Baron Banffy spoke with the consent of the em-peror-king, and that his statement points to the possibility of absolutist government in Austria.

New Cure la Indorsed. The committee of the faculty of Cooper Medical College having in charge the investigation of the merits, efficiency and value of oxytuberculiiie, tile new consumption cure discovered by Dr. Joseph O. Hirschfelder of San Francisco, lias met and announced that after patient examination the members unreservedly in dorse the remedy. Every House Washed Away. Floods have washed away every building in the village of Ahumada, State, of Chihuahua, Mexico. The town had a population of 1,200 persons, and they me all homeless and suffering.. Mine in Flames. Fire broke out in the main slope of the Yon Storeh mine at Scranton, Pa. An extra force of men was at work timbering the mine. Department of Commerce. The National Business League has addressed a communication to President MoKiu'ey favoring the establishing by

I Congress of a new department of the Government entitled the Department of Commerce and Industry. It suggests that ihis department include, among other things, matters relative to the gathering of information with a view to the systematic extension of commerce with the South and Central American States and other foreign countries, nnd the collecting and tabulating of statistics as to the industries of this country, with reports | and recommendations concerning them, as | a basis of intelligent action in the interest of such industries and the employes there- [ in. It requests that the statistical and i certain other bureaus and matters now in other departments be transferred to the proposed department and that it also include a tariff bureau or commission which shall investigate nnd rei>ort on future contemplated changes in tariff schedules. President McKinley is respectfully requested in the communication to recommend to Congress that there be such legislation as will accomplish the object sought, and is told that so far sis the National Business League can learn the business men of the country arc practically a unit in the demand for the new department. BUSINESS IS RETARDED. Bradstrcet Reports a Slowness in General Trade. Bradstreet's latest commercial report says: "General trade retains most of the features of a week ago, with a continued check to the movement of staple merchandise. At larger Eastern and central Western cities sales of seasonable goods have not equaled expectations, and at none of these points has the volume of business increased. At Chicago, St. Louis, Baltimore, New York and Providence there has been a decrease in the volume of business in some lines. The Northwest continues to make relatively more favorable reports as to trade, although at Milwaukee and Minneapolis mild weather has checked distribution. Wheat is again above a dollar, on continued heavy exports. Our wheat exjiort movement, aggregating more than 70,000,000 bushels within thirteen weeks, is unprecedented, and points to a keener appreciation.of the statistical strength of wheat by European importers than by many American traders. Exports of wheat, flour included ns wheat, from both coasts of the United States and from Montreal this week amount to 5,991,391 bushels, against 5,552,000 bushels last week. Exports of Indian corn amount to 1.589,193 bushels this week, compared with 1,177,000 bushels last W'eek.”

STATE FAIR DATES. American Association Holds a Brief. Meeting in Milwaukee. The American Association of StatP Fair Managers held a brief meeting in Milwau-, kee. Dates for fairs governed by the association were fixed ut the same dates ns this year, with the advance of one day in each week. This leaves the dates ns follows: Wisconsin. Sept. 21 to 2<i; Minnesota. Sept. 7 to 12; lowa, Sept. 14 to 19; Indiana, Sept. 14 to 19; Nebraska, Sept. 21 to 20; Illinois, Sept. 28 to Oct. 3; Missouri, Oct. 5 to t(); South Dakota, Oct. 12 to 17; New York, Aug. 24 to 29: Ohio, Oct. 31 to Nov. 5; Michigan, Oct. 7 to 12. Fast in the Ice. The news reaching San Francisco from the whaling fleet is discouraging. Nearly all the vessels have been caught in the ice and some of them may not last through the winter. Not since the winter of 1884, when the fleet was caught in- the ice off Herald Island, has such wholesale disaster threatened. Fourteen steamers, barks and schooners with 1,000 hands arc known to he in the pack, nnd only , five of them are supposed to have more than two months supplies ithuiirrl. A dispatch received by the met chants' exchange says: "The whaling steamers Orcn and Belvedere, the whaling steamer Itosario and the steam tender Jennie are frozen in to the west of Point Barrow and may be crushed in tlie ice. There are no provisions on the whalers, but as they are near land, the crews may be aide to reach an Eskimo village.” Too Much Cold Water. Someone broke into the Simmer High School (for negroes) in St. Louis through one of the windows, went downstairs and turned on the full water pressure into the boiler. The water shot up through the steam pipes into the radiators and escaped through the valves. It soaked through the flooring and flooded tile whole building. School was dismissed until it can he dried out. About SSOO worth of damage was done to the plastering. There is no clew to the perpetrators, hut it is supposed to have been done by someone in the neighborhood, as a protest was made when tlie school was built. Cremates Her Rival. At Birmingham, Ala., Ella Barnes and Tessie Thomas became involved iu a quarrel, the hone of contention being their mutual regard for the same youth. The Barnes girl threw a lighted lamp at her adversary. The Thomas girl burned to a crisp. Her murderess is in hiding. A Son at Last. A son and heir has been born to exPresident Cleveland. Grover, .Jr., weigh* ed twelve pounds at birth. Duel with Knives. W. Price and Attliur Ferguson of Jasper, Tenu., fought a duel with knives. Price will die.

DAA RKET QUOTATIONS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice, $2.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red. 90c to 98e; corn. No. 2,25 cto 27c; oats. No. 2. lSe to 19c; rye, No. 2, -47 c to 49c; butter, choice creamery, 22c to-24c; eggs, fresh. 14c to 10c; new potatoes, 35c to 50c per bushel. Indiannpolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, common to choice, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,93 cto 95c; corn. No. 2 white, 24c to 25c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c t o 22c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep. $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2, sl.Ol to $1.03; corn, No. 2 yellow, 24e to 2(»e; wits, No. 2 white, 21c to 22e; rye, No. 2,47 eto 48c. Cincinnati—Cattle. $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,96 clo 98c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 25c to 20c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 20e to 22c; rye, No. 2,40 eto 48c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; lmgs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,90 cto 98c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 25c to 27c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 23c; rye, 48e to 50c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red, 97c to 99e; corn, No. 2 mixed, 25c io 27c: oats. No. 2 white, 17c to 19c; rye. No. 2,48 cto 50c; clover seed, $3.30 to $3.35. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring. 87c lo 89c; corn, No. 3,2 tic to 27e; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 24cp rye, No. 2,48 cto 49e; barley, No. 40c to 45e; pork, mess, $7.25 to $7.75. Buffalo—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 97c to 99c; corn, No! 2 yellow, 29c to 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 25e. New York—Cattle. $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, 53.50 to $4.50: sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red. $1.03 to $1.05; corn. No! 2. 32c to 33c; outs. No. 2 white, 24c to 25c; butter, creamery, 15c to 25c; eggs. Western, 18c to 19c.

A WOMANS HEART

CHAPTER 111. The solicitor was leaning back in his chair thoughtfully with a paper-knife. “I am sorry to hear this. Sir Wilfrid, very sorry, because I presume—forgive me if I offend you, sir—that (as you did not care to announce your marriage to your late father) Lady Ewell is not, perhaps, quite in the same position as yourself.” “She is not,” replied the young man, curtly. “I am very sorry,” repeated the lawyer; “very sorry, indeed.” “Look here, Mr. Parfitt,” said Sir Wilfrid, “you were my father's apd iny cousin s friend, and I will make a elmi breast to you. You know where I have been living for the last three years, down at Chelsea, at a place called Wolsey Cottage, kept by a lady named Warner and her daughter? It's the daughter—you understand—l married her two years ago.” “But, my dear sir, “you were not of age,” exclaimed Mr. Parfitt, with aroused interest. “I think I am right in saving you are two-aud-twenty at the present moment.” “Of course I wasn't of age. If I Lad been I would have married Miss Warner openly. But I was only 20, and she 17, so we took French leave.” “And, how, then, did you procure the license?” inquired the luwyer. At this question the new baronet grew very red. “That was the most awkward part of the business, Mr. Parfitt. You see, I was quite ignorant of such matters, and when I applied for a license, I found I had to declare we were both of age. There was no other way of getting it. I had already decided to be married under iny Christian names only, of Wilfrid Stanley, so that my father might not get wind of it; so the license was made out accordingly. It was very foolish and very wrong. I see that now; but at the time I was so much in love that I would have sworn to anything in order to obtain my own way.” “You took a false oath, in fact, Sir Wilfrid?” “I did. I feel very much ashamed to confess it, but I looked upon the whole matter ns a mere form, and of no consequence to any one but ourselves. And no more, I suppose, it is.” Not from a moral point of view, sir, certainly; but looked at legally ” “What of it, looked at legally?” “Simply this; that it is no marriage at all.” “What!’ cried Wilfrid Ewell, with the utmost nstonishment. “I repeat it, sir. A marriage entered into by minors, without the consent of parents or guardians, aad under an assumed name, is invalid.” “I am extremely sorry to hear it, hut it was not done willfully, nnd, ns I said before, no one has a right to dispute my marriage with her now,” spoke Sir Wilfrid. “Except yourself, sir.” “What do you mean?” ‘That you could set aside this marriage without the slightest trouble—in fact, you aro as free to marry ns if you had never seen the lady under discussion. You would not even have need to appeal to the law; you are at this moment absolutely free.”

“Do you think I am a. villain?” exclaimed Sir Wilfrid, starting in his chair. “My dear Sir Wilfrid, pray be reasonable. I am your legal adviser, and it is my business to tell you what is the law, and what is not. Y’ou might as well find fault with your doctor for attempting to direct your regimen.” “Tree! You must forgive my hastiness, Mr. Parfitt, but this intelligence has upset me. Well, I suppose the only thing to be done is for me to marry Lady Ewell »> “Miss Warner, Sir Wilfrid,” interposed the lawyer, blandly. Sir Wilfrid laughed. “Miss Warner, then, if you will have it so, over again. It can be done without any fuss or publicity, can’t it? I mean, without letting the world know it has been done before.” “Certainly, sir—if ytm are determined to renew the contract.’’ “Of course I am determined. What else could I do?” “Well, under the circumstances, considering the Indy’s position in life, and that you have, in fact, never been married to her, I think most men would find plenty of other things to do. However, that is wot my business, Sir Wilfrid. No doubt, your heart is set upon the matter, and of course yovi are the best judge of your own actions. But I cannot help feeling sorry —for your father’s sake, as well a a your own. A lodging-house-keeper’s daughter is not the wife for Sir Wilfrid Ewell, nor the mistress for Lambseote Hall. You should have looked higher, my dear young friend—if you will permit me to call you bo —much, much higher.” “All right, Parfitt; we will speak of this again to-morrow.” “Good-morning, Sir Wilfrid—goodmorning!” said the lawyer, as he accompanied the new baronet to the outer office, and opened the door for him with his own hands. It was a false pride, but Wilfrid Ewell could not help feeling proud as he walked through it, with the clerks bowing to him on every side. Which of them would have bowed to him a month ago, if he had been sent to Mr. Parfitt with a message from Somerset House? But to be a baronet with a fine estate, and a rent-roll of seven thousand dollars a year, was a very different thing! The man was just the same, but nobody would think so. And neither did outward objects appear just the same in the eyes of the newly-made baronet as- they had time to those of Wilfrid Ewell; and this fact struck him more forcibly as he walked up to the door of the cottage in Chelsea that evening.The cottage walls looked dingy, and as if they needed paint; the cry of welcome from the old parrot in his cage In the veranda sounded like a discordant shriek. Mrs. Warner’s fantastic dress, ns she appeared for an instant at the window, looked the essence of vulgarity; even Jane, who ran to the door to welcome him with her grave, sweet smile, seemed more like a servant than she had ever done before. He took her by the hand, but he did not kiss her. These married lovers had been compelled, from fear of discovery, to put a very strong control upon their words and actions, so that Jane neither expected nor desired such a demonstration on his part. But she was disappointed to see him enter with a frown upon his handsome face, just when she had thought it would be over-brimming with his new happiness. “Oh, Will!” she exclaimed in a kind of whispered gasp as their hands mot. “Why do you wear that thing?” he answered, pointing to her Holland apron. “You know I hate it.”

BY FLORENCE MARYATT

“Oh, my poor apron! I quite forgot to take it off, I was in such a hurry to lot you in. Shall I pay the cab, Will? What is it? . Two shillings? You go upstairs. There's no one in the house but me and mother, and I’ll come to you as soon as I've settled with the cabman.” He walked down the garden-path, and as soon as his back was turned Jane seized her portmanteau, which had been deposited in the hall, in her strong young arms, and carried it bodily upstairs. When Sir Wilfrid entered his sittingroom he found her divested of the apron and quietly arranging her hair before his looking-glass, as if she had done nothing out of the common way. “Did you bring up my portmanteau?” he inquired, curtly. "Of course I did. Will. Who else? Haven't I done it scores of times before?” “But always against my wish, .lane, ns you will acknowledge; and in future it will be against my orders. I cannot have you degraded to the position of a maid of all work.” He had thrown himself in an arm-chair when he entered the room, and the girl went up to him and knelt beside his knee. “Then I won’t do it again, Will, you know I won’t. But I cannot think it a degradation to wait upon you, I have done it for so long. It would seem quite unnatural to me to sit still and let somebody else attend to your wants.” lie was touched by her answer, and folding his arms about her, kissed her upon the brow and lips. CHAPTER IV. “You will tell me all about it, won't yon. Will?” said Jane, coaxingly, from her seat on the arm of his chair. “You can fancy how anxious I am to hear the whole story. It seems too wonderful to believe that this grand new baronet, with his estates and his mcney, can possibly be my husband.” Sir W ilfrid looked annoyed at the term she used, and glanced around the room anxiously. "How incautious you are, Jane. How often have I begged you not to use that name,' even in private. The door is ajar, and you never know who may be listening.” “But, my darling!” laughed the girl, jumping up and slamming the offending door. “I have told you already there is no one in the house except poor mother. Besides, everyone must know it now, surely! We can’t go ou like this when you take possession of Lnmbscote. Will.” “Certainly not; but I cannot take possession for some time to come. Mr. Parfitt, my solicitor, tells me it is usual in these cases to allow the widow to choose her own time for vacating the premises—that is, within a month or two. Awful nuisance, isn’t it? But it’s always the way in this world. You can’t get a stroke of good luck without some worry to counterbalance it.” “Oh. don’t call it worry, Will! Think how completely unexpected our good fortune was—how different it is to be a«rieh man, from toiling at a desk all your life —and nothing will be a worry to you. And poor Lady Ewell, too! A month w ill seem n very short time for her to give it all up in. Tell me more about her. Will. Is she nice and pretty? and will she—can she be Lady Ewell still, as well as—as ’»

“As well as yourself! Yes; you are both Lady Ewell, now! She is the Dowager Lady Ewell, and you are the reigning one.” “How strange-—how very strange—it seems.” replied the girl, thoughtfully: “but I am so ignorant of such things. I have never been thrown in the way of lords and ladies and such high people before. Oh, Will, dear, where shall we goV” “I have no intention of taking you away from Chelsea, at all events for the present. But I shall have a great deal of business to transact during the next few weeks, and I must have rooms at the West-end. Parfitt is looking out for some for me, and I am to see them to-morrow.” “What shall I do without you—perhaps for a couple of months?” said the girl, wearily. “Just.as bad for me as for you,” he answered, carelessly, “but I have to endure it. Make the best of it, ns I do, Jane. You see everybody will be wanting to speak to me now. My mother has written twice already for me to go down to Surbiton, and several of my father's old friends have sent letters and cards for me to Parfitt's office. It is quite necessary I should have a proper place to receive my visitors in.” “Of course," acquiesced Jane, who knew nothing of social etiquette; “and I must remain here, then. Will?” “For the present, my dear, certainly. You see, Jane, I am rather in an awkward predicament. I have passed everywhere for a bachelor; and to go now and tell the world, without any preparation, that I am a married man would call down many comments and inquiries. I have told Parfitt all about it, and he seriously advises our keeping the matter dark, until my business is finally settled.” "You have told Mr. Parfitt that we are married!” exclaimed Jane. “Yes; I gave him every particular.” “Oh! what did he say?” “He thought we had been very foolish and very imprudent, naturally—eveyy one would say that; and ” “Oh, Will!” interrupted the girl, eagerly, “1 wonder if it was too foolish! I have been thinking so much about it since I received your letter, and worrying myself with the idea that if we had not been so rash, you might have found some one else more suited to your rank and station. But never one to love you better, darling—never a more faithful and constant wife than I shall be to you.” “Don’t talk rubbish, Jane, and don’t get sentimental. When people are married they’re married, and there's an end of it. You will see the necessity that has arisen for our keeping our marriage a secret for a little while longer. Not a word to anybody, Jane. Remember, not to anybody.” “Not even to poor mother! It would make her so happy,” said the girl, regretfully. “No! Your mother is the last person in the world to confide a secret to.” “And your mother, Will?” v I shn n’t tell her, either, until we are settled at Lambscoto Hall—if we ever are.” “Why do you say ‘if we ever arc'?” exclaimed Jane, with surprise, “Only because ‘there’s many a slip ’twist the cup and the lip,’ you know; and who s to tell what may happen in a couple of months? We may all be dead before Lady Ewell takes herself off to her father.” “Oh, Will! it's your turn to talk nonsense now. But about mother, dear; yon won’t separate us—will you? You promised me you never would.” She looked wistfully at her husband as she spoke, but h;s eyes did not meet hers. “if I said so, my dear, it must lie all

right I have not been in the habit es breaking my protniae* to yon—have I? What time is it? Let me see. By Jotel five o’clock: and I’ve had no luncheon. I thought I was feeling deucedly hungry” She sprang to her feet imm.tdiately. “How selfish of me, Will! Here have I been thinking of nothing bnt myself, whilst my boy was starving. What wili you have, dear? There is a cold pie in the house, and some lamb chops, and a bunch of lovely asparagus.” “I'll have scone cutlets and asparagus, Jane; and tell the girl to go round to the wine merchant’s and order in a dozen of the best claret. How soon will it be ready?” ‘ In half an hour, dear; but I must go and look after it myself. lam not to be a baronet’s wife till you go to Lambseote. Yon told me so. And when I get there I will be very good, I promise you, and pretend I never darned a sock or cooked a cutlet in my life. But I must teach mother not to talk about it—mustn’t I ! Poor mother!” continued Jane, with affectionate pity, as she left the room; ‘ how she will enjoy herself at Lambscote!” As a vision of Mrs. Warner, arrayed in every color of the rainbow, and with her tongue going like a water-mill, doing the honors of his residence with h*er daughter, passed through Sir Wilfrid’s brain, he shuddered and closed his eyes. “No,” he thought, “that cannot be. M hat I promised Jane when I married her, and believed that this cottage would be our home for life, must not be allowed to stand in the way of her own advancement. Her slender chance with the county families would be ruptured at once, unless her mother is kept in the background. We must get someone to live at the cottage and look old lady instead. How extraordinary it seems to remember what Partitt declares —that after all this time of apparent security, Jane is actually not my wife! I wonder if she will be cut up when she hears it! But I sha’n’t tell her, until I am prepared to repeat the ceremony. She is not, perhaps, in every particular what I would have chosen for Lady Ewell, but she is a very handsome, intelligent girl, and there is no doubt of her affection for me. And, hang it all! after a couple of years a man could scarcely be such a scoundrel as to propose to annul the marriage, It would be too mean! But I wish Parfitt hadn’t put the notion in my head.” Which proved that, in whatever light his conscience might regard such a contingency, Sir Wilfrid’s inclination meant to have a fight for it when the time an rived. (To be continued.)

THE CHIN AS AN INDEX.

Can Yon Tall n Person's Character by »h» Shape »f Hia Lower Jnw? A writer In the St. Louis Clinique, writing of the chin as an Index of character, says; "Protruding chins characterize men and women of the get-there type. Successful i>oople usually carry their chins thrust forward, with compressed lips. This chin, If heavy, with broad rami ajid swelling masseters, Indicates fighting blood. "A retreating chin shows lack of force, mentally, morally and physically; usually of the yielding sort; soon discouraged; desires protection; small executive force. The development of other faculties often makes up for this defect. A small, well-rounded chin, with mobile and red cushion of flesh upon, indicates a pleasure-loving owner. If dimpled, all the more so, for dimpled chins belong to coquettes. People with dimples love to be petted and loved; like admiration and praise. Generally fickle. Usually this chip is healthy, recuperative and long-liye<l. “Broad chins signify nobleness and large dignity, unless vertically thin, when, if with it there be thin lips of bloodless kind, you find cruelty. “Square chins with little flesh denote firmness and executive ability. These make good haters. "Drunkards usually have a circular line about tlielr chins. “Slovens have wrinkles about their chins. “Long, thin chins are poetical, unstable and delicate in constitution. Such people are subject to bowel derangements. If thin through the angles of the mouth, too, they are prone to tuberculosis. Generally short-lived. “Medium chins, with a suggestive bifurcation in the center, with small mounds of flesh on either side, characterize generosity, impulsiveness, cheery natures. (The same sized chins, with a dab of flesh just under the center of the lower lip, indicate meanness, selfishness, brutality.) “No one feature can be taken in judging character. Of ten; 1 development of other faculties of mind or feature entirely governs. In each ease take the ‘totality of indications’ before judg. ing.”

Can This Be True?

Not many years ago in New England God-fearing women smoked and were not ashamed. Jorevin de Rochefort, who traveled in England in the seventeenth century, wrote as follows; “The supper being finished, they set on the table half a dozen pipes and a packet of tobacco for smoking, which is a general custom, as well among women as men. It is a custom in England that when the children went to school they carried in their satchel with their books a pipe of tobacco, which their mother took care to fill early in the morning, it serving them instead of a breakfast, and that,at the accustomed hour everyone laid aside his book to light his pipe, the master smoking with them, and teaching them how to hold their pipes and draw in the tobacco.” And others tell us that at the same period it was the custom to offer tobacco pipes to women of high or low degree in the theater. Did women smoke on aecoaint of the reason given in King James’ “Counterblast to Tobacco?” Moreover, which is a great iniquitie, and against all humauitie, the husband shall not be ashamed to reduce thereby his delicate, wholesome) and clean comiplexloned wife to that extremitie, that either sihee.-must also corrupt her sweete or else resolve to live in a peiipetUal stinking torment.”~Boston Journal.

The Same Thing.

Farmer Nubbins (shouting across the garden fence to his next-door nelghuor) —Hey, there! What are you burying In that hole? Neighbor—Oh, I’m just replanting some of my garden seeds. Nubbins—Garden seeds, eh? Looks to me mighty like one of my hens. | Neighbor—That’s fill right'. The seeds are inside of her.—New York World.

BATTLE OF BALLOTS

Results of the Elections in Various States. APATHYISAFEATURE Contest Hottest in Ohio, lowa and New York City. Van Wyck Given 84,000 Plurality in New York City-Governor Bushnell and His State Ticket Associates Victorious—*• cnator Hanna in a Close Fight-Shaw, in lowa, Is Given About 23,000 Plurality-Democrats Claim Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, Nebraska-Colorado for Silver. The elections held in the year immediately following a presidential contest are almost invariably marked by a lack of interest and the chief feature of the contests in the various States Tuesday was the apathy manifested by the electors. There is a falling off in the vote of both parties, and while the Democrats show relative gains when compared with the phenomenal presidential vote of last year, the stay-at-home vote is made of nearly an equal percentage of both parties. New York. The State of New York has reversed a plurality of 2(>8,41>9 for McKinley to a Democratic majority of 84,000 for A. B. Parker as chief judge of the court of appeals. The Republicans may also have lost the Assembly, in which last year they had seventy majority. New York City has elected Robert G. Van Wyck, the Tammany candidate, as Mayor by a plurality of 82,000. Seth Low, the Citizens’ Union nominee, finished second in the race, while General Benjamin F. Tracy, Republican, and Henry George, Jeffersonian Democrat, follow in the order named. lowa, lowa elects L. M. Shaw and the Republican State ticket by about 25,000 plurality. The Republican State committee claims 35,000 or more. The Legislature is overwhelmingly Republican. It is figured that the Republican vtsfe in tne State fell off 25 per cent, while the fusion vote is only reduced about 10 per cent. The fusiouists admit their defeat by an adverse plurality of 15,000. McKinley’s plurality last year was 05,552, but it included the fotes of many thousand sound money Democrats, who scattered this year. Ohio. Ohio re-elected Governor Bushnell and the entire Republican State ticket, but the Legislature, which will elect the successor to Marcus A. Hanna in the United State Senate at the time this is written, is claimed by both Republicans and Democrats, and the official vote may be required to settle the Senatorial vote. Hamilton County (Cincinnati) went Democratic except on Governor, while Cuyahoga County (Cleveland) went Republican.

Massachusetts. Massachusetts re-elects Wolcott, Republican, Governor - by 1(18,000 votes, against 80,000 for Williams, Democrat, and 17,500 for Everett, gold Democrat. The lower house of the Legislature will stand 200 Republicans to 40 Democrats, while the Senate will stand 33 Republicans to 7'Democrats. * Maryland. Maryland returns up to midnight Tuesday leave it a matter of doubt whether the Legislature which will choose a successor to Senator Gorman will be Democratic or Republican. Both parties claim it. Gorman’s friends claim that it is reasonably certain he will be returned. Kentucky. Kentucky has gone Democratic. The returns up to a late hour indicate that Sam ,T. Shackleford, ihe silver Democratic candidate for clerk of the Court of Appeals, has from 5,000 to 7,000 plurality. Louisville has elected a Democratic Mayor by at least 4,000. Virginia, Virginia has elected the Democratic State ticket, headed by .1. Hoge Tyler for Governor, by a majority exceeding 50,000. Returns indicate that not a Republican or Populist has been elected to the Legislature. There was a very small vote. South Dakota. South Dakota polled a light vote. Democrats joined with the Republicans against the Populists. Of the eight Circuit judges, tiie Republicans elect five. In the second district a Populist majority of 1.000 was overturned, Republicans winning by 500. Later returns may add to Republican victories. Nebraska. Nebraska lias gone Democratic. At midnight the fusion State chairman claimed the State by from 20,000 to 25,000 plurality. The Lincoln State Journal (Rep.) at that hour conceded the defeat of the Republican State ticket. The chairman of the Republican State committee made no statement. Colorado. Colorado has probably been tarried by the silver men, although the result is in doubt, owing to the delay in getting returns from outlying district!. Violent storms kept many voters ind«>rs. Women. counted upon to help thffsilver men, were unable to get to the poJf. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania held its qMetest election in many jears. The featwe was the extensive scratching of the mnme of James S. Beacon, candidate for ■tatc treasurer. Returns indicate a snbsAntial Republican majority. §

POSTAL BANKS NEEDED.

Indiana Financier Tells Why They Would Be Popular wjith the People. At a recent meeting (of the Indiana Bankers’ Association fat Indianapolis, Mortimer Levering of (Lafayette, recognized as one of the financiers in Indiana, made an address <* n postal savings banks in which he said; “The government is in a position to manage this thing through its present postoffiqe system, and will scarcely increase the ex*)cn£es of that department, while it will en*uvaee the accumulated wealth of the popple throughout the whole United Static. It wa,y thought that building and levin associa ; tions would care for the savjings of tins masses, lint people have heiloiae suspicious of them. It is well kho win that lawyers in Indiana are making ays much as .$10,00(1 a year out of these iilstitutious, and officers are making much itnoney out of them. We all know that trust companies are not organized as eUsLuosynarv institutions'. We want a system 'lf savings banks that are for the poor peoJde. What greater pride eouhl a man havie- than tr think himself a depositor of tlrtc United States?" fi