Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1897 — Page 2

Bl)cßcniocrolicSfnl;iitl J. W. MoEWEK, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA

AFTER SENOR DELOME

STATE DEPARTMENT MAKES HIM UNCOMFORTABLE. Bpain Made to Believe that the United States Winked at Violations of International Law-Next Congress Will Pass an Immigration Bill. < Put Government in Bad Light. The State Department at Washington is making it very uncomfortable for Senor Don Enrique de Puy de Lome, the Spanish Minister, The charge is laid at his _ door that he has, in his communications to Madrid, persistently and willfully misrepresented the facts in connection with the Cuban filibustering expeditions and has made his home Government believe that the Federal authorities winked at this violation of international law, whereas he should have known that directly the contrary was the case. The Spanish Minister, assisted by his counsel, Calderon Carlisle, drew up an indictmemt against this Government some time ago In which was catalogued all the filibustering expeditions that had left American shores with arms, ammunition and supplies for the Cuban insurgents, the facts being so presented as to produce the impression that they could all have been stopped if the United States had been desirous of so doing, and that failure to prevent the filibustering made this Government responsible for it all. At the State Department the claim is made that the Spanish Minister was fully advised of the efforts which had been made and which are being made continually by our Government to prevent filibustering, and that he knew that more than $2,000,000 had been spent in the work. This side of the case appears to have been entirely ignored in De Lome's official communications and reports.

FOOD SCARCE AT DAWSON. Canadian Officials Consider It Expedient to Collect Royalty. The steamer George W. Elder has arrived at Nanaimo, B. C. Among her passengers was Donald Nicholson, who left Dawson Sept. 23. Mr. Nicholson says the food problem was a most perplexing question when he left Dawson. Seven steamers were then overdue. Nicholson says that Skookum Gulch proved an absolute failure outside of one claim. He believes the country to be rich, biit it can never be properly developed until provisions nre cheaper. Work is plenty «t $1.50 per hour. The gold commissioner and mounted police do not consider it advisable, under existing circumstances, to collect the 20 per cent, royalty and to reserve alternate claims for the Government. The miners are not required to take out licenses, but have to pay sls for staking claims, which pnys for surveying and recording, and SIOO for the claim the second year. F. W. Vaille, assistant superintendent of the railway mail service at Portland, Ore., has received a letter from Dyea stating that a party started Oct. 22 with 300 pounds of late mail for Dawson. The Canadian police were in charge, and the mail was drawn by dog teams. IMMIGRATION BILL. New and Stringent One to Be Enacted by Next Congress. A Washington dispatch says: One of the first measures of public importance that will come up for consideration in Congress next session will be a bill to restrict immigration. The administrat on is committed to such a bill and the Republican leaders in the House and Senate will devote their attention to its passage early in the session. It is certain that the bill which the next Congress will pass will be even more stringent in some features than the old one. The new bill will provide for the exclusion of anarchists. It will aim to keep out the ignorant classes of immigrants who form the dangerous elements in the cities. Encouraging Railway Outlook. Gen. Wade Hampton, who has just been succeeded by Gen. Longstreet as commissioner of railroads, has submitted to the interior department at Washington his report for the last fiscal year. He Bays that the year marked the low-water mark of railway construction. During the year thirty-four companies, with 5,441 miles of road, passed into the hands of the courts, and fifty-eight others previously placed in receivership were sold at foreclosure. A steady improvement in railroad earnings during the first six months of the current year is noted, an improvement particularly apparent in the bond-aided Pacific railroads. The outlook in the West generally for the present year is reported encouraging.

Kicked Off a'Moving Train. Henry Smith, a young man who lived at Garrettsville, Ohio, was assaulted by a gang of tramps on an Erie freight train. He was robbed of a small sum of money, and then thrown from the train, M’hich passed over his legs, cutting off both of them. Smith lived but a short time after being hurt. Ex-Queen Won’t Give Up. Honolulu friends of ex-Queen Lil are going to Washington this M’inter to plead her cause before Congress. The antiannexation movement appears to be gathering strength, many Mealthy sugar planters having joined it. Governors’s Son a Vagrant, j James Penn. M’ho claims to he the son es ex-Gov. Penn, of Louisiana, is serving a term of thirty days in the Louisville (Ky.) workhouse for being a vagrant. Fortune for Mrs. McKinley. 1 The Campbell family, including John and Alexander Campbell of Warren, Ohio, Mrs. McKinley, mother of President McKinley, and others have notice of a fortune left them in Scotland by an ancestor. The estate is large and steps M’ill be taken to secure it. Madhouse in Flames. • The Georgia lunatic asylum at Milledgeville M’as partially destroyed by fire. Nearly 1,000 colored inmates M’ere placed in peril. One M’as burned to death and the rest saved M’ith difficulty. Dies of Poißon. At Kansas City, Mo, Allen M. Bishop, vrfco bad been employed as an undertaker's assistant, M-as found unconscious te the rear of the store. He was removed t* police headquarters, where he died in tea minutes. He had committed suicide I<f1 <f driok ciK embalming fluid. (Hrmm He Stole $2,0,000. Mm Fortier, wanted by the Chicago MS***- <*• (we indictments for larceny and fflgliii i itirmrsf. was arrested at Longeuil, djaifeftc Fwtier admits having stolen 'PRjiiftMi tmm »t«w. McCoy & Co, clothimw impmrlwm *4 Chicago, for whom be

WHAT SPAIN SAYS. More Particulars of the Contenta of the Spanish Note. A semi-official note ha* been circulated hi Madrid giving a more exact indication of the contents of the Spanish note in reply to the communication of the United States on the subject of Cuba than has hitherto been published. The first part of the reply is a paraphrase of the latest note of the United States. It concludes With the assurance that Spain is animated by the same friendly feeling aa expressed on behalf of the United States. The second part of the reply goes into elaborate details concerning the various filibustering expeditions. Spain, in concluding that portion of her reply to the United States, expresses the hope that this phase of the situation will be changed and that the United States will try to “prevent further violations of international law.’’ Replying to the offer of mediation made by the United States, Spain says she Hopes the United States will act “loyally and correctly in helping Spain to pacify Cuba, especially in view of the fact that such an extended form of autonomist government is about to be sincerely granted.” The general feeling In Spain’s capital is more hopeful of a peaceful outcome of the situation, especially since Marshal Blanco’s arrival at Havnna, as it is believed his presence will greatly further the solving of the Cuban problem. STOLE HER DIAMONDS. Mysterious Theft of $20,000 Worth of Jewels in New York. Capt. George McCluskey, chief of the detective bureau at New York police headquarter*, and a score of the ablest men under his command have been engaged during the past week in trying to solve the mystery of a great diamond robbery. Mrs. Alice Norton, a wealthy young widow, living at the Hotel Bartholdi, left her room in the hotel over Tammany’s headquarters one evening last week to take dinner with a woman friend, who also lives at the hotel. Mrs. Norton had a large collection of diamond*, many of them having been bought abroad. They Mere considered of great value. When Mrs. Norton left her room she locked the door and put the key in her pocket. In a drawer in a bureau were the jewels she did not wear that evening. There M’ere several diamond rings, a large sunburst, u-liich had been purchased in Paris, and u brooch valued at SI,OOO. The exact value of the diamonds left by Mrs. Norton is not knon’n, but it is estimated to bo about $20,000. When she returned at 11 p. ni. her jeM’els were gone, and there is no clew to the thief.

BPAIN MAY CHANGE HER POLICY. Expected to Tell the United States She Will Do as t he Pleases. There is likely to be a complete change in the polity of Spain in dealing with the United States, according to the view taken by Englishmen. This is attributed to the printed utterances of former United States Minister to Spain Ilannis Taylor. News comes from Madrid that the cabinet intends to abandon its plan of conciliation and will inform the United States in diplomatic but plain language that Spain will do ns she pleases regarding the granting of reforms in Cuba. It is also said in Madrid that Mr. Taylor’s strictures on Spain will u-ork hardship for the Competitor prisoners in Havana. It has been understood that these Americans would have only a perfunctory trial and wuld be released as a mode of appeasing public clamor in the United States, but now the statement is made on apparent authority that they are to be prosecuted to the fullest extent. Spain will claim that her officers were within their rights in capturing the Competitor, and that the protocol of 1887 referred to American citizens residing in Cuba. Great Canadian Project. With the arrival of ex-Mayor McLeod Sten-nrt cf Ottawa! from London in a few days there will be begun the projected Montreal, Ottawa and Georgian Bay canal. Mr. Stewart has been in Englnnd laying the big scheme before the British financiers and the British Government. Cable dispntches received a few days ago say he has succeeded in interesting the British money bags in the project. About $25,000,000 is needed to do the work. The Georgian Bay canal when built will make a cut of over 400 miles to the seaboard. In other words, grain and general produce will he enrried from the great lakes, through an all-Canadian route with far less expense and time than by any existing American or Canadian watern-ay. The canal once built Mill be a severe blow to the carrying trade now controlled by Chicago and Buffalo, ns the difference in cost and the immense saving of time Mill be certain to forse the bulk of the carrying trade lo the nen- route. An effort Mill he made at the coming session of the Dominion Parliament to get the Government to guarantee the payment of $15,000,000 worth of bonds for the canal at 3 per cent.

Most Valuable Gold. Lester Turner, cashier of the First National Bank of Seattle; George Renniek and George Stinson, old Alaska miners, are interested in on Alaskan mining proposition that apparently out-Klondikes the Klondike. Renniek and Stinson u-ent to Seattle, Wash, from Alaska last August and M’ent to the First National Bank, where Turner cashed for them $33,000 M’orth of gold dust at $lB an ounce, or $2 more than is given for Klondike gold. Turner became interested in the men and found out that they took the gold out of two churns in sixty days. It is supposed that the claims are thirty days’ journey from Prince William Sound, on Americnn soil. The steam schooner Augusta has sailed from Seattle with Renniek and a party of tM-enty-five miners. Each miner is under contract to take a claim and deed half to the original discoverers. Virginia Railroad Wreck. The “F. F. V.” thcough vestibule train from Cincinnati to New York on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad plunged into the Rivanna river nbout three miles east of Charlottesville, Va. Four people M’ere killed outright and a large number badly injured. The accident M’as caused by spreading rails. Made Insane by Jealousy. At Tiffin, O, James Reed went home, drew a revolver and with the M’ords, “I have decided to kill you,” shot his wife three times. He then turned the weapon to his own head and fired, but Btumbled and the shot went wild. He M’as captured by the police and lodged in the county jail. Jealousy. Former Millionaire Kills Himself. M. W. Bremen of Globe, A. T, a well- ‘ known mining man, committed suicide at a hospital in Silver City. About ten years ago he took $3,000,000 from his silver mines at that place. Recent business reverses M’ere the cause of the suicide. Hope for Trade Revival. Commercial Agent Hamilton, at Morrisburgb, Ont, in a report to the State Department at Washington, says the merchants of the United States are making a great mistake in not sending their agents into Canada. Triple Crime at The United States steamship Lancaster dropped anchor in Hamjfton roads from Bahia, Brazil. In military confinement on the u-nrship M-ere five men of the cren•Wf the schooner Olive Pecker, whose Cap-

I tai*, J. W. Whitman of Rockland, Me., I and First Mate William Saunders of Sandy Cove, N. S., were murdered at sea in August last. In the ship’s brig, closely ironed, is J. Anderson, the schooner’s cook, who is the self-confessed perpetrator of the murders, and who afterward set fire ro the vessel. The Olive Pecker sailed from Boston on June 27 with a cargo of lumber for Bahia, and the story of the tragedy is told by the murderer, who gives a signed version of his crime. The seamen remained in the old prison at Bahia for four weeks before the arrival of the Lancaster. When the men were sent aboard the cruiser they were found to l>e so filthy and poorly clad that it was necessary to give them baths and new wearing apparel. - SKY IS CLEARING. Bradstrcet’s Takes a Favorable View of the Business Situation. Bradstreet’s commercial report says: “Killing frosts South, the raising of quarantine embargoes at nearly all States invaded by yellow fever, the resumption of traffic and a prospective revival in demand for staple merchandise constitute the trade features of the week. Rains in central western and n - estern States, folloM'ed by colder weather, have favored farmers and stimulated demand from interior storekeepers. This has had a favorable effect at Louisville, St. Louis and Kansas City. Jobbers in northwestern States are awaiting seasonable weather to stimulate the movement of heavy dry goods and winter clothing. Leading manufacturing Industries continue fairly well employed. In addition to lower prices for Southern and Bessemer pig and for steel billets, quotations for naval stores, wools, copper, coffee, pork, flour, oats and n r heat are lower, u'hile those for cotton, print cloths, sugar and beef are unchanged, and for Indian com and lead, are a shade higher. Wheat exports—flour included as wheat—from both coasts of the United States and from Montreal this week aggregate 5,575,210 bushels, compared with 5,DU,391 bushels last week. Exports of Indian corn this n-eek amount to 2,199,550 bushels, compared with 1,589,000 bushels last week.” GROWTH OF PENSION ROLL. Evans Shows That the List Hus Increased 5,336 in a Year. The first nnnual report of Commissioner of Pensions H. Clay Evans to the Secretary of the Interior at Washington has been made public. A summary follows: “There Mere added to the rolls during the year the names of 50,101 new pensioners, and there M’ere restored to the rolls 3,971 pensioners who had been previously dfopped; n total of 54,072. During the same period the losses to the roll M’ere 81,900 by death, 1,074 by remarriage of M’idows and mothers, 1,845 by legal limitatiou (minors), 2,623 for failure to claim pension for three years and 4,500 for other causes; nn aggregate of 41,122. The v.hole number of pensioners on the rolls June 30, 1897, Mas 970,014. The net gain over the previous year was 5,330. The nmount disbursed for pensions hy the pension agents during the year M - ns $139,799,242.12, and the nmount disbursed by treasury settlement was $150,475.23; a total of $139,949,717. This exceeds the amount disbursed during the fiscal year 1890 by the sum of $1,584,480.”

Lost in Lake Erie. Nineteen lives Mere lost hy the sinking of the steamer Idaho of the Western Transit line. The accident happened off Long Point, in Lake Erie, about sixtyfive miles M’est of Buffalo, on the Canadian side. A strong southM'est gale was blowing at the time. Off Long Point the steamer shipped n big sea, which quenched the fires in the engines and the boat M-as helpless. The captain and crew were lowering the lifeboat when the vessel gave a lurch nnd n’ent down on her side, stern first. Two of the crew managed to reach the top of a single spar that stood above the M’ater. There they clung until eight hours later, when they M’ere discovered by the outlook on the Mariposa of the Minnesota line. Firebugs Burn a Big Hotel. The Hotel San Marco, one of the finest and most commodious in St. Augustine, Fla., M’as burned to the ground, entailing a loss of nbout $250,000, M’ith less than $50,000 insurance. The fire M’as started by incendiaries, who made {he M’ork sure. Earth Shakes in Montana. A slight earthquake shock Was felt at Helena, Mont., rocking buildings. It was of seven seconds’ duration. The shock was also felt iu Butte and Anaconda. Many people were shaken out of bed, chimneys tell and plate glass was broken. laslgi Is Found Guilty. The Superior Court jury in Boston, which has been trying the ease against Joseph A. lasigi, ex-Turkish consul, charged Mrlth embezzling $140,000 from French estates, reported a verdict of guilty. Fire in Boston. At Boston, the shops of Heyn’ood Bros, and the Wakefield company, manufacturers of rattan furniture, M’ere badly damaged by tire. Loss $50,000. Death of G. D. McLean. G. D. McLean, the millionaire miner of Grass Valley, Cal., died at San Francisco, after a lingering illness.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Chieago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 t<? $4.00; sheep, fair to choice, $2.00 to $4.50; M’lieat, No. 2 red, 92c to 94c; coni, No. 2,25 cto 2Ge; oats, No. 2, ISc to 20c; rye, No. 2,40 cto 48c; butter, choice creamery, 22c to 24c; eggs, fresh, 15c to 17c; new potatoes, 35c to 50c per bushel. Indianapolis—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; coni, No. 2 white, 24c to 20c; oats, No. 2 M’hite, 21c to 23c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,97 eto 99c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 24c to 25c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 22c; rye, No. 2,45 cto 47c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,92 cto 93c; com, No. 2 mived, 25c to 27c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 21c to 22c; rye, No. 2, 4Gc to 48c. Detroit —Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2, 92c’to 94c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 25c to 26c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 23c; rye, 47c to 48c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red. 93c to 95c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 26c to 27c; oats, No. 2 M-hite, 17c to 19c; rye, No. 2,47 cto 48c; clover seed, $3.20 to $3.30. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 84c to 86c; corn, No. 3,26 cto 27c; onts,’ No. 2 white, 22c to 24c; rye, No. 2,47 cto 49c barley, Iso. 2,40 cto 44c, pork, mess, $7.25 to $7.75. Buffalo—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 96c to 9Se; corn, No. 2 yelloM’, 29c to 31c; oats, No. 2 n’bite. 25c to 26c. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, $3.50 to $4.25; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 99c to $1.01; corn. No. 2,32 cto 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 25c; butter, creamery, 15c to 25c; eggs Western, 19c to 21c.

A WOMANS HEART

CHAPTER V. The new baronet’s mother, Mrs. Ewell, lived M’ith her five daughters on three hundred a year, in a small cottage at Surbiton, where she had retreated on the death of her husbaml. She had found it a hard task since then to feed and clothe herself and her children like gentleu-omen, and many a sigh had she directed even toward the pittance which her son received from the Government, thinking how much more comfortably they might all live together if Wilfrid would only join his income to hers. But Wilfrid had had his own reasons for continuing to live hy himself. When Mrs. Ewell, however, M’as apprised of her son’s M’Olulerful and unexpected good fortune, all her difficulties seemed to vanish. She made sure then that Sir Wilfrid Mould provide a home for herself and his sisters at Lamhscote Hall, or failing that, M’onld make such an addition to their income as to place them above M’ant, And the girls, too. What views they entertained of halls ami theaters and neu - dresses, and long visits to Somerset, and eligible young men that should lay their fortunes at their feet. Their years varied from five-and-twenty to fifteen, hut not one of them had ever mixed in the gaiety usual to young people of their age. Neither before their father’s death nor after it had there been the requisite money forthcoming for such pleasures, and the announcement that their only brother had suddenly been transformed into a wealthy baronet gave them nlmost as much joyful anticipation os it had done to him. Mrs. Ewell had M’ritten more than onee begging him to run dou-ii to Surbiton and receive her congratulations in person, and when, on the morning following his return to Chelsea, he u-alked into her tiny sitting room, he M’as almost overn’helmed by the family greeting. His sisters hung about his neck like leeches, as they poured upon him a volley of kisses’and questions, which they gave him time neither to return nor< aijSMer. But his mother sat in her armchair, pale, silent, and almost tearful at the prospect that she believed had opened before her. “Yes,” he said, answering the thought M’hich he read in every countenance, “it has been rather a stroke of good luck, hasn’t it? Fancy poor Bob going off in that unexpected way. He Mas only ill tM'elve hours. And the little hoy, too! Poor Carrie feels it awfully, of course. So did I at first: but a man can’t remain inconsolable for an event which has come as such a blessing to himself.” “A blessing, indeed,” murmured Mrs. Eu-ell fervently; “ami after the poverty we have suffered since your poor father’s death, it seems too good to be true. Will you not have to make the widow some indemnification, Wilfrid?” “I think not,” lie nnswered carelessly, and M’ithout the apparent recognition of any moral obligation in the matter. “Parfitt has said nothing nbout it. And, hang it all, you know, she" is living rent free, and Mill do so for the next two months.” “Oh, shan’t u r e see Lamhscote for two M’hole months?” exclaimed Rosie. Rosie M’as Sir Wilfrid’s youngest and prettiest sister. She M’as also liis favorite, but he did not vouchsafe to ausM’er her remark. “How many rooms are there at the Hall, Wilfrid?” asks his sister Edith. “I am sure I don’t knoM\ More than you can count.” “And do you get the horses and carriages and everything?” said Flora. “'Yes; all the property that has been purchased with the income becomes personal to the estate. I believe there are ten or tM’elve horses in the stables. How I M ill hunt next season!” “And oh, Wilfrid, may I learn to ride?” cried Rosie. “Yes, dear, that you shall. Mother must let you come nnd stay with me in the autumn, and I’ll make a horseM’oman of you.” “Not before the autumn?” pouted Fanny. It M’as becoming patent to all of them that Lamhscote Hall M’as not to he a freehold property for the whole family, and Mrs. EM-ell developed, a certain snappishness under the discovery. “Don’t M’orry your brother, Fanny,” she Interposed. “The Hall is his own, and he will do as he pleases with it. Though I think you M’ill find, Wilfrid, that you cannot get on so well M’ithout ladies us you seem to imagine. No house can be properly managed M’ithout a woman at the head of it.” “But who said I M’as going to try and get on M’itliout ladies?” he retorted, M’ith a smile. “Don’t he afraid, mother, Lainbscote M’ill have a mistress in good time.” At this announcement a chasm, of which Mrs. EM’ell had not yet dreamed, opened at her feet. Of course she had expected that Sir Wilfrid M'ould marry—some day—but he M-as only tn’enty-two, and she had hoped that the evil M’as quite in the distance. The calm certainty with M’hich he mentioned the prospect made her gasp. “But not yet, dear, I hope,” she ejaculated. “What you allude to cannot take place for several years to come. Why, you M-ere only twenty-tu’o last birthday!’’’ “I knoM’ that, mother.” “It M’ould be impossible for you to marjy under thirty.” * , “Do you think so?” “I mean it would be very (inadvisable. Marriage is a serious undertaking, Wilfrid. Once done, it is not to be undone, and the consequences abide by you, for M’eal or M’oe, to your life’s end.” “So I have heard,” he ansu’ered, ya Mining slightly behind his hand. “Mamma. 1 am sure that Wilfrid is already in love,” exelnimed Edith. “He looks dreadfully conscious. And non- he is blushing— actually blushing! Oh.’Wilfrid, is it true?” “Is what true? That I am in love? No, decidedly not. Will that content you?” “And I trust that you M’ill not even think of marriage for many years to come,” said Mrs. EM-ell. “I can’t promise you that, mother. Lamhscote requires a mistress, as you said just now, and J do not think it M’ill be long before you see one established there.” “Of course, now that you are rich, you M’ill he surrounded by harpies, all eager to M’in you, or rather, your money,” said his mother, quite unconscious that she was a harpy herself, or wished to be, “and whatever you do, Wilfrid, be careful! Try to raise your family, my dear, not lou-er it, and look out for a M’oman M’ith an independence of her own. I hope I should be the last person to approve of mercenary motives in marriage. But yet, you see, you have many claims upon you, Wilfrid, and seven thousand a year, though it appears a large income, does not go very far with a place like Lambscote.” They were almost the same words, and certainly the same sentiments, which the lawyer had used to him the day before, ud though Kir Wilfrid had not yet

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thought it possible to rectify the error he had iuade, he was beginning to think it was a serious error, and one he would be well rid of. “Do you know Lena St. Blase, Wib frid?” asked his mother, presently, rousing him from a reverie. “Yes, slightly—that is, I met her with her mother. Lady Otto, at Lambseote two .years ago.” "Now, that’s the sort of wife I should like you to have,” continued Mrs. Ewell; “well-born, beautiful, and with a little fortune of her own. I think it is five hundred a year.” “Five hundred a year!” echoed the new baronet, contemptuously. “Not enough to keep her in dresses.” “Oh, my dear boy, your ideas are growing too extravagant! But, anyway, Miss St. Blase’s fortune would evade the necessity of any great expenditure on your part in settlements. And she is thfe granddaughter of the Duke of Martyrdom, you know; and her mother comes of an unexceptionable family.” CHAPTER VI. Sir AVilfrid did not consider it expedient to tell his mother that he had done more than admire Lena St. Blase. But the fact was that he had met her before his marriage with Jane Warner, and she had raised one of those wild, mad passions in his breast which most boys feel at some time or other for women older than themselves. Lena St. Blase was a beautiful, heartless dirt of five-and-twenty. She cared for nobody in the world —not even her mother; but she was inordinately proud of her birth and station, and vain to excess of her own person. She had coquetted and played with the young Government clerk, as such women will, until she had quite turned his brain; and then, when he could keep silence no longer, and his passion burst forth in words, she had struck* him dumb with her look of cold astonishment at his temerity. She hud wounded his pride so bitterly, that he had rushed away from Lambseote to the shelter of to be made much of and assiduously waited on by Jane AVarner. It was from that very episode in his life that his marriage had originated. AVhen we are most cruelly hurt in the battle of life, we are most anxious to forget it—even to the cutting of our throat, or the sxjoiling of the remaiuder of our existence. Sir AVilfrid had fancied he loved Jane AVarner before that visit to Lambseote Hall: and, after it, he persuaded himself that he did love her, and the other had been but an unholy dream. And so perhaps it was. It was certainly a very different sentiment from any he hud ever felt for his wife. It made him shrink from the remembrance of Lena St. Blase as we shrink from recalling some horrible fraud or act of treachery in which we have been worsted. But he could not tell his mother all that! So he only said—what was not true —that he considered her rude and disagreeable, and Mrs. Ewell took umbrage at the words.

Chambers in the Adelphi proved to be all that Sir AVilfrid could possibly desire. They had just been vacated by a fashionable young diplomat ordered off on foreign service, and furnished according to his fancy. There was nothing for the baronet to do but to sign the agreement and take possession. He had no sooner seen the rooms than he decided to engage them, and authorized Mr. Parfitt to secure for him also the services of the valet and cook who had been in the employment of their late owner. Meanwhile he repaired to a hotel to keep sundry appointments with tailors and bootmakers, and to answer his voluminous correspondence. AVhen Sir AVilfrid looked in his mirror on the evening of the AVesterleys’ dinner .party, he smiled with satisfaction. And so far as his appearance went, he had every reason to be satisfied. The tailor and hosier and bootmaker had done their utmost to turn him out a fashionable gentleman, and the only ornament he wore, a diamond solitaire, which blazed in his shirt front, was the perfection of taste. IJe had improved, too, personally, since he had parted with Lena St. Blase. Two years had added manliness to a set of rather effeminate features, and covered the short upper lip with a mustache. Indeed, as he first entered the drawing room of the AA 7 esterieys’ house, the young woman who had scorned his boyish passion hardly knew him again.

“That young Ewell?” she whispered to her mother, as the baronet was announced. “Why, how good-looking he has grown!” Lady Otto and her daughter had had more than one conversation on the subject of Sir Robert's successor since they had heard the news. Gen. Westerley had extolled Siy Wilfrid to the skies, and openly advised his niece to catch him if she could. And Lady Otto had backed up the opinion of her cousin.' Of course, it was perfectly right of dear Lena to have refused Mr. Ewell at Lambscote. She could not have married him then. The thing was impossible—too absurd even to think of. But now circumstances were altered. Sir Wilfrid Ewell was in a position to maintain her as she had a right to expect, and dear Lena must not forget she was twenty-five last birthday. “But remember how you made me snub him at Lambscote, mamma! Do you suppose he has forgotten it already? Why, I called him every name I could think of.” “You can make him forget it if you choose. You know the boy was awfjilly in love with you, and you are (if anything) handsomer than you were then. You really must try. I will give nothing for your chance of marriage if you go through another season. And you are not tfye sort of woman, my dear, who will be happy in a single life.” Miss St. Blase made a gesture of contempt' for the honorable condition alluded to, but all she said was: “Poor, dear Jack!” The name seemed to rouse Lady Otto’s anger. “Lena!” she exclaimed authoritatively, “I have told you always that I refuse to hear that man mentioned. Y’ou ought to be ashamed of yourself! A rattle-brained extravagant scapegrace, who lives on his wits, or his friends, and has had his name associated with everything that is most disgraceful! Captain Dorsay is unfit to be the acquaintance of a decent woman, far less the intimate friend you would make of him. I have forbidden him my house, and I lxaye forbidden you to speak of him before me.” When Sir Wilfrid entered the Westerleys’ drawing room that evening, his head, notwithstanding his determination to be brave and cool, was spinning like a humming top, and he very nearly shook hands with a lady he had never seen before in mistake for Mrs. Westerley. Miss St. Blase, Who looked like a white marble statue in a black satin dress, was watching his every movement from her

vantage ground in the corner. And decided at once that Sir Wilfrid's agitation was on her own account. “He has heard I am here,” she thought, “and it has upset him. All right! The game is mine. I have only to go in and win.” AA’hen Sir "Wilfrid took his leave it was with a heart flattered by the unexpected attentions he had received, and a head almost as much filled with the image of the lovely Lena St. Blase as when, in the old days, he had presumed to woo his goddess to come down from her pedestal and mate with a son of a man. CHAPTER VII. Jane, left alone in the old cottage at Chelsea, was happy as a bird. No prophetic vision of coming sorrow clouded her quiet existence. She missed "Wilfrid terribly, and felt quite lost now that he no longer needed her daily attention and care; but her head was filled with the grand prospect before her, and she had no time to think of anything else. The following Saturday evening Sir Wilfrid came down to-Chelsea, and after tea the husband and wife had a secret meeting in the shrubbery path. “Oh, AVill, kiss me!” Jane exclaimed, as they found themselves alone and out of view; “for it seems an age since I have seen your face or heard your voice.” Sir AA’ilfrid took his cigar from his lips and did what she required of him, not coldly, but yet not eagerly. He was nbt yet tired of Jane. Their intercourse had been too limited and broken in upon for that. He kissed her,, but he sighed—and her instinct detected there was something wrong. “AVhat is the matter?” she asked him. “Are you ill?” “No, dear. A sudden change like this, to wealth and position, brings so much responsibility with it. It seems as if the whole world were looking on to see what one will do or say.” “And this secrecy about our marriage makes it worse. I am sure it does,” replied the girl. “AVhen will it be over, AVill ? Surely it is time that people knew I am your wife. It places me in such a false position. How I wish now that everything had been fair and above board from the first.” “So do I—but it is too late to say so, Jane. And you are right, my dear, you are in a false position. It is to speak of that to you that I made a point of coming homo to-night.” “I am. so glad,” said Jane, never dreaming but that he meant the time for disclosure had arrived. “I have been longing for this moment, darling. I knew you could not keep me in suspense one day longer than was necessary.” “No, indeed. And when you have heard what I have to tell you, you .will not be surprised that I have absented myself from Chelsea lately. You asked me why I sighed just now, Jane. I have some cause to sigh, dear. You remember I told you I had confided the secret of opr marriage to Mr. Parfitt?” “To your solicitor? Yes.” “AA 7 ell, he's been talking it over with me, nnd so forth, and he says our marriage was informal—not legal—you understand me?” Jane stopped short in the shrubbery path and stared him in the face. (To be continued.)

SAVED TWENTY-NINE LIVES.

A New York Policeman Promoted for Signal Gallantry. In the October Century there is an article by the Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, entiled “The Roll of Honor of the New York Police.” In speaking of promotions for gallantry, Mr. Roosevelt says: Among the first promotions we made were two which Illustrated the attitude of the board toward cases of this kind, acd which also Incidentally illustrated exactly what we mean by ‘‘taking the force out of politics”—that is, by administering It on principles of decency, and appointing and promoting men on their merits, without regard to their political backing. The first case was that of an old fellow, a veteran of the civil war, who was at the time a roundsman. I happened to notice one day that he had saved a woman from drowning, and had Idm summoned so that I might look into the matter. The did fellow brought up his record before me, and showed not a little nervousness and agitation; for it appeared that be had grown gray in the service, had performed feat after feat of heroism, but had no political backing of any account. He w r as a Grand Army man, but not one of the “political” type, and so had not received any attention from the former police boards; and now, at last, he thought there was a chance for him. He had been twenty-two years on the force, and during that time had saved some twenty-five persons from death by drowning, varying the performance once or twice by saving persons from burning buildings. Twice Congress bad passed laws especially to empower the then Secretary of the Treasury, John Sherman, to give him a medal for distinguished gallantry in saving life. T)>e Life-Saving Society had also given him its medal, and so had the Police Department. On examining into his record carefully, we found that it was wholly free from complaints of any infraction of duty, and that he was sober and trustworthy. AA 7 e felt that he was entitled to his promtlon, and he got it. AA’e did not know his politics, nor did we care about them. It is very unlikely that the woman whom he last saved, as he swam out toward her, felt any special interest as to whether he had voted for Cleveland or Harrison; nor did we. He had risked his life freely again and again in the performance of his duty; he had conducted himself so as to be a credit to the department, and a credit to the city; and we felt that he was entitled to his reward. It is worth while mentioning that he kept on saving life after he was promoted to a sergeantcy. On Oct. 21,1896, he again saved a man from drowning. It was at night, nobody else was in the neighborhood, and the slip from which he jumped was in absolute darkness, and he was about ten minutes in the water, which was very cold. The captain of the precinct, in reporting the case, said: “The sergeant was off the bulkhead and into the water after his man quicker than it takes to say ‘Jack Robinson.’ ” There was no way in which the board could, reward him for this, except by telling him that he wgs an honor to the department; for he had been given all the medals, and bars to , tbe medals, that he could be given. It was the twenty-ninth person whose life he had saved during Ills twenty-throe years’ service in the department, and he was 55 years old when he saved him. A whale recently captured in arctic waters was found to have imbedded in its side a harpoon belonging to a whaling vessel that had been out of. service nearly half a century.

IN HONOR OF LOVEJOY

HANDSOME MONUMENT TO THE FREE SPEECH MARTYR. Formal Dedication in Alton, 111., Ia Witnessed by Many Visitors - Story of the Killing of the Great Aboli-tionist-Durrant Is Doomed. Shaft to a Hero. The Elijah P. Lovejoy monument, recently built at Grand View Cemetery, in Alton, 111., was formally dedicated Mon-

day. The dedication was first to occur in June, but an accident to the monument while in course of construction necessitated a postponement, and it was decided by the committee in charge .to dedicate the structure on the anniversary of the killing of Lovejoy. It was on Nov. 7, 1837, that a

E. P. LOVEJOY.

mob, angered by the abolition editorials appearing in Lovejoy’s weekly paper, the Alton Observer, came across the river from Missouri and besieged the editor and his friends in Godfrey & Giiman’s warehouse, where they had taken refuge. The doors and shutters were strong and the mob was unable to gain admission. The infuriated men sought to dislodge the Lovejoy party by throwing burning brands upon the roof. Lovejoy climbed from the window twice and snatched the brands, receiving a bullet wound the second time from which he died shortly after rejoining his friends. Through the efforts of the late Senator C. A. Herb of Alton an appropriation of 525,000 was made by the State Senate, but Gov. Altgold refused to sign the bill till the citizens of Alton had raised 512,000 by popular subscription. The Lovejoy Monument Association was then organized, and succeeded in raising about half that amount. The Governor then allowed the appropriation to pass into the hands of the association. Flaps and specifications Were immediately drawn up, the work was started and was pushed to

LOCEJOY MONUMENT, ALTON, ILL.

completion in a short time. The monument cost 530,000. The architect was Louis Mulguard of St. Louis, and the sculptor Robert Bringhurst of St. Louis. The first speaker on the program at the dedication was Thomas Dimmock of St. Louis. Lieut. Gov. Dimmock is better acquainted with the story of Lovejoy than any other living man, having been a resident of Alton at the time and an intimate friend of the family. Dr. AA’ilkerson, a colored divine of Upper Alton, representing the colored people, made a speech. Lieut. Gov. Northcott delivered an address and a choir consisting of the different singing societies of the city furnished music for the occasion. accompanied by the AA 7 hite Hussar band. John AA 7 . Homed of Greenville, 111., who was an eye-witness of the death of Lovejoy, was present at the dedicatory exercises.

BUST OF COLFAX.

Modeled by nn Indiana Girl and AVill Be Placed in December. The United States Senate chamber is to be adorned with a bust of Schuyler Colfax. It is the work of Miss Frances P. Goodwin of New Castle, Ind. At present the bust is in the office of the architect, of the capitol, where it is an object of inter-

COLFAX BUST AND ARTIST.

est, especially to Indiana people, all of whom pronounce it an excellent likeness and a fine work of art. At the invitation )f the sergeant-at-arms of the Senate, Col. Richard J. Bright, Miss Goodwin went to AVashington a few weeks ago and selected a niche in the Senate chamber where the bust will be placed.

TO AID ICE-BOUND MEN.

Movement to Send tlie Cutter Bear to Point Barrow. There was a conference at the White House in AA’ashingtou Monday, attended by Secretaries Gage, Long and Alger, Commodore Melville and Commander Dickens of the navy nnd Capt. Shoemaker, commander of the revenue marine service, to consider measures for the relief of the American whaling fleet said to be icebound in Bering sea. It was decided to send the revenue cutter Bear to the relief of the whalers. She is now at Seattle, AA 7 ash., having just arrived from Alaska. Orders have been issued to put her in commission for the voyage at once, and Capt. Shoemaker says she will be ready to sail as soon as she ean be provisioned, which will take but a short time.

DURRANT’S FATE IS SEALED.

California Murderer Must Suffer the Death Penalty. The United States Supreme Court has affirmed the decision of the Circuit Court for the California district, refusing a writ of habeas corpus to William Henry Theodore Durrant, under sentence of death for the murder of Miss Blanche Lament in San Francisco in April, 1895. The case has attracted attention throughout the whole of the United States and this decision permits the law to take its course with the man.