Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1897 — Page 2

SltrjPrmorroticSrntinfi J. W. MoEWEN, Publlaher. RENSSELAER, - - - INDIANA

FEWERCATTLE FOUND

SHRINKAGEOF NEARLY2,OOO,OOO HEAD IS SHOWN. Farmers to the Rescue —Buy Animals from Ranchmen and Feed Them in the Corn Belt for the MarketaSecond Grand Forks Fire. Latest Cattle Census. V'lie latest cattle census showed that the hoviiie population of the country had undergone a shrinkage of nearly 2,000,000 head. It is also well known that a heavy percentage of tlrat shrinkage has taken plaie in the so-called corn licit States, which is l>etter understood as Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, lowa and Illinois. The prime cause of the shrinkage in beef cattle was the very low figures for the same lieginuing two years ago, and only ending about the middle of this year. Then farmers and feeders began to skirmish for ‘ young cattle to feed: to find something to consume the big corn crops of the past two years. Every inch of territory in this country and Canada was searched for the young steers ready to go on grass and corn afterwards: prices were run up to the highest range known in the trade, and yet the farmers wanted more. The ranchmen saw here their way to get out of the misfortune they had met on account of a destructive winter and a disappointing spring season; their cattle coming in in an emaciated condition to meet a scant and wasted pasturage: the season for feediug going out rapidly, so that they were unfit to send to.market for beeves. Especially were these the conditions in the British Northwest, Montana and North Dakota. However, by selling their thin rattle to Kansas and Nebraska, also to the feeders at the big distilleries of Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky, realizing a steady demand at prices that seemed low, but at the same time doing better than if they had undertaken to crowd them on the barket ns beeves. ANOTHER GRAND FORKS BLAZE. Damaging Flames Again Appear in the North Dakota City. The business portion of Grand I-’orks, N. 1)., was threatened by another fire, which would have been more destructive than that of the day before, when the Hotel Dakotah and the Mercantile Company and Nash Brothers' buildings were burned. Smoke was seen issuing from the first floor of the big department store of Benner & Begg. In fifteen minutes the building was in flames and the fire had crept into the Stanchfield clothing house and the H. A. Stone jewelry store In buildings adjoining. After three hours' work, the fire was subdued. The damage to the building and stock of Benner & Begg reaches $55,000. Losses to the other firms are small. TO BURN COURT RFCORDB. The People in Indian Territory Are Alarmed—Detectives at Work. The people of South McALester, I. T., are aroused over what the United States marshal's office believes to be a plot of the Indians to circumvent impending legislation in Congress by the destruction-of all court houses and court records of the United States in the Indian territory. Detectives are now shadowing certain Indians who are suspected of being in the plot. They are suspected of having set fire to the United States court house at Ardmore. I. T., recently, and it is thought that the burning of that building was the prelude of the plot. Cleveland Poolroam Raided. The police made a raid on a horse race pool room in Cleveland, which the managers said was merely a branch of the Central Telegraph Company of Allegheny, Fa. They alleged that no bets were made in Cleveland, but were telegraphed to Allegheny. A police detective discovered that the wires supposed to connect with Allegheny went only as far as the second story window of the building. Locomotive Runs Away. A runaway engine on the Toledo and Ohio Central Railway ran from Shawnee to Kendville, Ohio, twenty-five miles, at a rate of forty-five miles an hour, phasing through two villages, Carrington and Drakes, but injured uo one, and came to a standstill finally from loss of steam without any injury to the engine. By use of the telegraph the track was kept clear before the machine. Shot as a Traitor. Minister de Lome at Washington claims that Col. Aranguren, the dashing Cuban guerrilla chief, has been slain as a traitor by his followers. Aranguren, it would seem, had promised safety to Ruiz. When Ruiz was condemned Aranguren protested, and the rebels thereupon took up Arauguren’s ease aud condemned him too. Earthquake in Virginia. Seismic disturbances were felt at Ashland, Ya. Most of the residents had sat down for supper when the earthquake was felt. Lamps swayed to and fro and some of the small buildings were cracked. The movement was from east to west and lasted for two or three seconds. The shock was felt in Richmond twenty minutes later. ' Murderer Takes Morphine. Jack McCune, a gambler, who killed William A. Albin Aug. 0, committed suicide in the St. Joseph, Mo., county jail by taking morphine. MeCune had frequently said he would never be tried for the crime, and his ease was to be called soon. Vicious Elk Killed. The big elk in Forest park paddock in St. Louis was killed. The animal had grown too cross for safety. It was brought from Chicago. At Lincoln Park it gored and killed two men, aud in the fall of 1895 it killed Henry Nelson, keeper of the Forest Park paddock. Missionary Funds hort. The American Missionary Association, in its fifty-first aunuui report, shows that during the last few mouths hundreds of students have been turned away from the schools for want of funds. Want Mr. Brown to Appear. The Bay conference of the Congregational Church at San Franciseo has decided to cite the Rev. Dr. C. O. Brown, now of Chicago, to appear before it on the fourth Monday in Jannary to show reason for his restoration to good standing the Guiana to Buenos Ayres, stopping at expelled from the conference. - ■ Desperate Fight at a Dance. A bloody fight occurred at Jeffersonville twenty-six miles from Macon, Ga. Three men are dead, and one woman and a little girl seriously injured. The trouble took atece at a dance held at the house of the .vails family. ■ ...o

PHILADELPHIA FIREMEN HURT. Touch a Lire Wire at a SIOO,OOO Fire - One May Die. While fighting a fire in the five-story brick building, 1025 Market street, Philadelphia, Foreman George Gaw of engine company No. 4 was struck by a live wire and fell from the third-floor landing of the fire escape to the ground, sustaining injuries from which he probably will die. I Foreman Robert Wilsey of company No. 1 was also struck by a live wire, but was not seriously injured. John Connors of engine company No. 20 was hurt by a falling brick. The loss on the building occupied by F. W. Klinger is SIOO,OO0 — insured. H. Hines, aged 35 years, was knocked down by an engine on its way to the fire and was so badly injured that he is not expected to live. Another engine struck and badly injured Valentine Hoffner, aged 39, and Hoseman John McCuen. aged 26, was thrown from a hose cart and severely bruised. TOO MUCH COTTON. Planters Are Trying to Devise a Remedy Against Cheap Prices. Southern cotton planters are very blue nowadays. The trouble is due to the fact that too much cotton is now raised. This has consequently lowered the value of the plant. When the Southern Cotton Growers’ convention met at Atlanta all sorts of plans were suggested as a remedy —to pool cotton, to reduce the acreage, to hold the product back —but each of these was rejected in turn. The one great difficulty is that when the people have their crop in hand they are in debt and must Bell. MYSTERIOUS MURDER. Ban Francisco Woman Is Killed with a Hammer. San Francisco has another murder mystery. Mrs. Mary C. Clute was assaulted and murdered in a flat at 803 Guerrero street She was a wealthy resident of Watsonville. Mrs. Clute rented the flat only the day before. A few hours later the people in the adjoining fiat heard screams, and found Mrs. Clute dead, with her head crushed in, apparently with a hammer. A carpenter had been Working in the flat, and he was seen to leave hurriedly by a side alley at the time of the screams. Want South American Trade. An expedition is to be sent to South America by United States manufacturers next April in a chartered vessel, the “Bon Voyage.” The itinerary of the seven months’ cruise of this floating expedition of samples of American goods, including almost everything, from cuff buttons to plows, has just been issued. The enterprising salesmen will travel down from the Guianas to Buenos Ayres, stopping at the large cities of each State and going to inland towns by rail to make seductive offers to merchants there. Georgetown, Paramaribo, Cayenne, Rio Janeiro, Bahia and adjacent cities are numbered among those scheduled to hear the broken Spanish of the wily Yankee “drummer.” Facts are set forth in the itinerary which seem surprising to one who has not recently studied South American geography. Some of the cities contain enormous population*; Rio Janeiro, 600,(MX); Buenos Ayres, 600,000, with nineteen stations on the 11,000 miles of Argentine railroads, which contain from 10,000 to 65,000 people each. Over 1,000,000 people are thus connected with Buenos Ayres in this fHrsway country that is said to be competing so vigorously for the wheat, cattle and pork business of the world. These cities make markets attractive to enterprise. Said A. L. Lowe of Chicago, who is in charge of this expedition: “The present method of traffic with South America, where so little is manufactured, is awkward and inefficient. The purpose of the visit is to create a demand for our American goods, that they may later be sold to the new customers through commission men, as in a small way is dpne at iffesent. We hope to plant the seeds for an enormous increase of trade.” Butchered an Invalid. According to a late Havana dispatch, Maj. Fernandez, better known as Pitirre, the insurgent leader, who, according to the official report, was slain in a combat with Spanish troops, was really killed while ill and helpless, awaiting an opportunity to surrender to Thomas Garcia, recently autonomist alcaide of Guines, an old friend. Pitirre, being dangerously ill, applied to him to arrange terms for his surrender. Senor Garcia caused Pitirre to be taken to the Cancio estate, near Guines, where lie made him comfortable and arranged to have a detail of Spanish troops sent to bring him to the hospital in the town. Instead, the troops went to the estate and butchered the ill man in his bed. Senor Garcia is infuriated at this breach of faith and has declared his intention of coming to Havana to lay the matter before Gen. Blanco and demand the punishment. of the officer responsible for the murder. Valuable Papers Destroyed. Fire, said to be the work of incendiaries, destroyed the court house at Ardmore, I. T., consuming the written testimony in Indian citizenship cases, affecting 1,500 persons, besides many valuable court records. The fire also destroyed the implement house of the K. A. Kime Company, causing an additional loss of $40,000, with $15,000 insurance. The loss on the court house cannot be estimated. Train Kills a Man. The Pittsburg special train bearing President McKinley, Mrs. McKinley, Abner McKinley and the members of the cabinet and a number of friends, en route from Canton, 0., to Washington, struck and instantly killed Lonis Moinet, a laborer, walking on the truck near Canton, O. His head was torn from his body. The President was much disturbed at the distressing accident so soon after the sad ordeal of the day. Joseph Ladue Takes a Bride. Joseph Ladue, founder and chief owner of Dawson City, Alaska, was married to Miss Katharine Mason of Schuyler Falls, Clinton County, N. Y. Sixteen years ago, the neighbors say, Mr. Ladue, then a poor young man, sought her hand, but her parents objected because of his poor worldly prospects. Thereupon he went West. He has returned reputed to be worth millions. Dying Alone in Cuba. A sheep herder near Livermore, Cal., found Chas. Martinez, once a prominent merchant of Oakland, Cal., dying of pneumonia in a lonely cabin on a cattle range. Martinez died a few hours afterward. No Jail for Waldorf Kirk. J. Waldorf Kirk, “king of the dudes,” who recently shot Richard Mandelbaum in a hotel in New York, was discharged from custody, Mandelbaum failing to appear in court to prosecute the case. Election in Switzerland. The federal assembly at Berne has elected Eugene Ruffy to be president of the confederation. M. Mueller was electid vice-president. Both president and vice-president elect are radicals. Merry Is in Cnstody. “Chris” Merry and James Smith, wanted for the murder of Mrs. Pauline Merry, “Chris” Merry’s wife, In Chicago, have been arrested at Eddyville, Ky. Married in Her Room. A Kansas City special states that Jesse Wall, a young man well known in Independence, killed himoelf a year ago because he could not marry Miss Leona

Oorder, the daughter of Jackson Cordar, one of the old settlers of the town. Mist Corder loved young Wall and they were j engaged, bat because they were first cous- | in# her parents would not consent to the : marriage. Her parents had always farI ored J. Garland Webb, a wealthy young ! man of Lafayette County. They insisted upon the marriage when Mr. Webb asked ! for Miss Corder’* hand, and finally she consented and the wedding day was set. Both families are largely connected and a houseful of guests ami relatives came to the wedding. It was to have been an elaborate affair. As the hour for the ceremony approached Mum Corder became hysterical. She declared that she could not forget Wall. Ten o’clock came and the wedding supper was served without the presence of the bride or groom, and it was finally announced that Miss Corder could not leave her room and the marriage ceremony would be performed there. So, in the presence of only her parents and the most immediate relatives -of both, Mr. Webb and Mine Corder were married in her room. TOIL FOR 25 CENTS A DAY. Japanese Workers Threatened by Cheap Labor from Corea. It is a curious fact that while Japan is making an effort to find outlet for her surplus labor by emigration, she i* being threatened at home with a competition of even cheaper labor. Horace Allen, United State consul general at Seoul, has sent to the State Department at Washington an extract from a native paper, allowing that the Corean laborers are much prized in Japan, and that considerable numbers of them are being taken there to work in the coal mines, at which work they are superior to the Japanese in many respects. It has also been found that in work upon the Seoul-Chemulpo Railroad, now being constructed by Americans, the Corean* arc superior to the Chinese and Japanese as laborers on earth works, and the engineer in charge reported that they were quite as good as the laboT in America, though they are paid only 25 cents gold per day and feed themselves. FIRE LOSS OF $1,000,000. Hotel and Two Wholesale House* Burned at Grand Forks, N. D. Fire caused a loos of nearly a million dollars at Grand Forks, N. R., the other morning. The Hotel Dakotah. a large five-story structure that cost $250,000, was completely destroyed, as were the two large wholesale stores adjoining of Nash Bros, and the Grand Fork* Mercantile Company. Nash Bros, were grocery and fruit aud cigar wholesalers, and the Mercantile Company dealt in groceries. Both occupied a brick building about one hundred feet square and four or five stories high. Bloody Affair in Arkansas. In Van Buren County, six miles from Clinton, Ark., on what is known as Culpepper mountain, the family of Farmer Patfhrson was at the supper table when two men heavily masked threw open the front door of the house, presented rifles and commanded those at the table to remain perfectly quiet under pain of death. One of the robbers tired point, blank at the head of the family, the ball entering his mouth. Patterson and his three son* returned the tire. The robbers kept up a fusillade until their ammunition was gone, when they drew bowie knives, cutting the old man's throat from ear to ear, knocking senseless two of his sons and mortally wounding the third son and his wife. PatteTson had acted as an informer on several occasions, giving the authorities information that led to the arrest and destruction of numerous illicit distilleries in the county. Millions Gone to Waste. Carroll D. Wright, commissioner of labor, has, at the request of the Senate at Washington, made an estimate of the saving that would have occurred in the compilation of the last census, had the census office at that time been under civil service rules. According to Mr. Wright, the work could have been done for $5,894,253, instead of $15,087,524. Thus a saving of nearly $10,000,000 could have been effected. Original George Harris Died. Lewis George Clark, 86 years old, the original George Hurris of Harriet Beecher Stowe's famous novel, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” died at Ky. In Norway for Reindeer. An agent of the United States Government named Kjertberg has arrived at Christiania, Norway, to buy reindeer for the Klondike relief expeditions. To Be Tried by Court-Martial. Lieut. La Favour of the gunboat Wheeling is to be tried by court martial at Mare Island Jan. 30. He is charged with being intoxicated while on duty. W’illiam Carr Hanged. William Carr, the chad murderer, was hanged at the Clay County court house at Liberty, Mo. Carr killed his 3-year-old child last October. Kansas Man Freezes to Death. J. H. Martindale of Scranton, Kan., was found in a pasture near that town frozen to death. French Novelist Dead. Alphonse Daudet, the famous author, died while at dinner in Paris the other day.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, fair to choice, $2.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 99c to $1.00; corn, No. 2,25 cto 27c; oats, No. 2,21 c to 23c; rye, No. 2,45 cto 47c; butter, choice creamery, 21c to 23c; eggs, fresh, 19c to 21c; new potatoes, 50c to 60c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $3.50; sheep, common to choice, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,91 cto 93c; corn, No. 2 white, 27c to 28c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 25c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2,99 cto $1.01; corn, No. 2 yellow, 25c to 27c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 23c; rye, No. 2,45 cto 46c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2,92 cto 94c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 27c to 28c; oats, No. 2 mixed 24c to 25c; rfp, No. 2,46 cto 48c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,92 cto 93c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 29c to 30c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 26c; rye, 46c to 47c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red, 94c to 96c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 26c to 28c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 23c; rye, No. 2,45 cto 47cclover seed, $3.15 to $3.25. Milwaukee-Wheat, No. 2 spring, 86c to 87c; corn, No. 3,26 cto 27c; oats. No. 2 white, 23c to 25c; rye, No. 2,46 cto 47c; barley, No. 2,38 cto 41c; pork mess, $7.25 to $7.75. Buffalo—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 96c to 98c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 31c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 29c. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 98c to 99c; corn, No. 2,34 cto 36c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 28c; butter, creamery, 15c to 24c; eggs, Western, 20c to 25c.

A WOMANS HEART

CHAPTER XlX.—(Continued.) “Bat for a child like you, Rosie, to lire alone and work for yourself! It i« incomprehensible, and it is very dangerous.” “Dear Wilfrid, I will never return to Lambs cote Hall.” “AH right, Rosie! I will not ask you again. I have made a great mistake in life, and I must bear the consequences of It by myself. But, at all events, you will not deny me the occasional pleasure and comfort of your society. You have found friends in London. Who are they? Where are you living, and with whom?” At this question, which Rosie had foreseen that sooner or later she must answer, she colored painfully. “Surely, Rosie, you are not ashamed to tell me?” “Ashamed! I should think not. I am only too proud of my friends, and all that they have done for me. Fancy, Wilfrid, people so poor as to have to work for their own bread, taking me in when I threw myself on fheir protection, without a word of remonstrance, without a question as to whether I should ever be able to contribute my share toward the family expenses. Fancy their sheltering me then and there, receiving me into the house as a sister or a daughter, supporting me until I was able to support myself, nursing mo in sickness, comforting me in sorrow, and asking nothing, positively nothing, in return?” “I can hardly fancy it, Rosie. Such open handedness is beyond the imagination of the nineteenth century.” “But it is true—every word of it is true. She has been the dearest friend and sister to me that ever an unhappy girl was fortunate enough to light upon. She has taught me how to bear my trouble, and where to look for comfort. She has borne with my fits of impatience, with my ” “She—she—who is she?” demanded Sir Wilfrid, with a smile. “I thought I owed my debt of gratitude to a whole family, Rosie, but they seem to have dwindled down into one.” “They are n family.” replied the girl, more composedly. “There is her mother, and Miss Prosser, and little Nellie. But the friend I spoke of, the one who has been all the world to me, Wilfrid, since you saw me last, is the daughter of your old landlady, Jane Warner.” For a moment Rosie Ewell was almost frightened at the effect which this name seemed to have upon her brother. As she pronounced it he rose suddenly from the chair on which lie was sitting, and stood gnzing at her with a fixed countenance, as if he could not believe that he had heard aright. Then the dark blood tame pouring over his handsome face in a torrent of shame, until his very eyeballs were suffused with it. He was suffering an agony of suspense. With the unexpected knowledge that his sister had been living for nearly two years with the woman he had deserted, came the conviction that she must know all—Jane would surely have told her. For men cannot believe that where their hearts are concerned women are as reticent as themselves. He could not find a voice in which to express his surprise. He could only murmur, “Jane! —Jane Warner!” under his breath, as if the intelligence were too wonderful to believe. Rosie mistook his emotion for anger. “Dear Wilfrid,” she commenced, “you are not angry with me, are you? I know that you had some misunderstanding with Jane, and forbade me to mention her name In your hearing, but that was so long ago, you surely must have forgotten it now. And she has been so good to me—l cannot tell you all her goodness. She is an Ongel, if ever there was one.” “And you have been living nil this time with Jane Warner, at Chelsea?” he said, passing his hand over his brow, like a man In a dream. “It is incredible! Does Jane ever mention me?” “Never! unless it is to warn me.” “How to warn you?” “Against doing anything that may displease you, Wilfrid. Sometimes she says, ‘Your brother might not like it.’ ‘Your brother might disapprove,’ but that is all. She made me take the name of ‘Fraser,’ in order to save you from annoyance. Jane Is always thinking of others instead of herself.” “Rosie,” said her brother, after a pause, “I suppose I can come and see you at Wolsey Cottage?” “You ought to be able to answer that question yourself, dear. I know of no objection, if you don't. But perhaps it would be better to ask Jane’s leave first.” “Will you ask her for me?” “What am 1 to say?” “That I want to visit you sometimes. That will be sufficient.” “Very well,” said Rosie, rising; “I will ask her, and tell you what she says.” CHAPTER XX. Wilfrid Ewell of Somerset House trembled when his cab drew up at the gate of Wolsey Cottage and he believed that in another moment he should stand face to face with Jane Warner. But his emotion was premature. No one opened the door to him but Caroline. She stared at him when he gave her his name as if she had never seen a gentleman before, and ushered him into the dining room, where his sister was waiting to receive him. She rose fuil of delight at his appearance, and they greeted each other with the same effusiveness they had displayed before. “Let us go and have a turn around the garden!” he exclaimed. “I used to love the old garden in my ’green sallet’ days. Many a day's work have I done in it, training the creepers and potting the slips. Colne, Rosie, this room is too hot for comfort. Come and have a look at the lilies!” But the old garden was deserted, bleak and bare. The snowdrops and crocuses in the borders were the only flowers visible, and they were, not worth looking at in the gray veil of dusk. Sir Wilfrid soon had enough of the garden. And while these events had been passing below, Jane Warner had been in her own room, with the door looked against all intruders, weeping passionately over the bed of the sleeping child. After the lapse of a few hours Sir Wilfrid's vanity was quite ready to make him believe that the fact of his not having seen Jane on the occasion of his first visit to Chelsea was merely attributable to aceideut. But when weeks elapsed without his encountering her—when lie had paid three and four visits to the cottage and Jane had never once appeared in the sitting room, he could no longer lay that flattering unction to his soul. He saw that her avoidance of him was intentional, and he grew moody and restless in consequence. At last Sir Wilfrid confided his trouble to Rosie, and enlisted her aid. “It is nonsense. Jane Warner and I playing at hide-and-seek in this manner,” he said. “Can’t you think of some plan to bring us together without compromigyourself. Rosie? If I could only set

BY FLORENCE MARYATT

her and speak to her, I am sure it would be all right. But it will be impossible for me to go on visiting here as an intruder, whom the mistress of the house refuses to recognize. It must be one or the other, Rosie. Either 1 must be friends with Jane, or I must give up coming to see you.’And Rosie who would have gone through tire and water rather than lose the pleasure of her brother's society, promised to keep her ears and eyes open, and effect a meeting between him and Jane Warner if possible. In compliance with which, about a week afterward, he received the following epistle: "Dearest Wilfrid —Do you know the place they call the Old Dairy Farm, about a couple of miles from this on the Middlebridge Road ? She is going there to-morrow afternoon, if fine, to get butter and eggs. She will take the child and perambulator with her. She will start about two or half-past, and be returning about four. “Ever your affectionate “ROSIE.” This intelligence threw Sir Wilfrid into a state of greatest excitement. Had he been obliged to parade for hours up and down the Middlebridge Road, he would have done so in order to get speech of Jane W arncr. He could not imagine how he could have waited for two years for news of her. Supposing she had died in the interim, what a lifelong reproach it would have been to him! All he wanted to know regarding her was, if she was happy and at peace. Assured of this, he would be ready to follow her wishes in everything. That is what he persuaded himself. It was a beautiful spring day now, in the middle of April. The limetrees that ghaded the paths on the Middlebridge Road had put forth their tender leaves of greeu, the quickest hedges were full of shoots: above his head the birds wesel l wheeling in their giddy courtships. Bv-, erything smelled so fresh and sweet, and’ looked so rural, that it was difficult to believe one was within a mile of onp of the busiest suburbs of London. Sir Wilfrid sauntered along,” coating a look over his shoulder every minute to see if the person of whom lie was in search were yet in sight. At last he saw her coming. He was sure he'cou’d not be mistaken in the tall, graceful figure, pushing the perambulator in front of her.' A little less distance between them, and he was certain it was Jane. He could recognize the swan-like elegance of her neck and head—could even catch the tones of her soft, rich voice as she addressed some words to the child in the perambulator. chapteiTxxi. Jane looking up, encountered, to her consternation. Sir Wilfrid Ewell. He was gazing at her fixedly, with a look of the utmost melancholy, and as his eyes met hers they seemed to take her breath away. She stopped short in the pathwny and bent her head over the perambulator. "Jane,” he began, in a low voice, “are we never to be friends again?” "I have always been your friend,” she answered, with a trembling lip. “But you reruse to see me ur speak to me. You absent yourself whenever I enter the cottage. You have no hesitation in showing that my presence is distasteful to you.” “What is the use of speaking or seeing?” she said, in a tone sharp with pain. “What good can it do? It can only make the past more bitter to remember, the present more difficult to bear?” “Then you have felt it, dear? you do feel it still? Regret is as keen with you as with myself.” “It can never be that, Will, for I never injured you.” “I know. Forgive me. But let me still remain your friend.” “To what end? It cannot undo the past. It cannot even ameliorate it. We are separated by your own free will. Let me go on my way for the future unmolested.” “I cannot. You do not know what this separation has cost me, how bitterly I hare repented it. Oh, Jane! I am so miserable! I have not a friend—worthy the name —to look to but yourself.” At last she raised her eyes with astonishment and stared him in the face. Pity —the loveliest vittue in the composition of woman—thrilled her through, and effaced for a moment the memory of her own wrongs. “Not a friend!” she ejaculated, “with your mother and sisters, and—and—the person you call Lady Ewell? Why, what has become, then, of all the friends for whom you deserted me?” “They were not deserving of the name, Jane. Haa not Rosie told you of the unfortunate relations between my—l mean, between Lady Ewell and myself? We are not living together. It is very probable we shall never live together again. I was blinded, Jane, by an insane passion for her beauty, and my Nemesis has come upon me sooner than I thought.” “It comes to most of us,” she answered, quietly. “What a pretty child!” remarked Sir ■Wilfrid, for the first time observing the occupant of the perambulator. “Whose is she?” “Whose is she?” repeated Jane in a startled voice—“whose is she? Why, she’s an adopted child of mother’s. We never heard the name of her parents. We found her.” "Found her! What an extraordinary thing to do!” said Sir Wilfrid. “Is it? I thought it happened every day in London. Some one put her over the garden wall, and we kept her. We couldn’t have done anything else, could we?” “A very pretty child!” repeated Sir Wilfrid, contemplatively. He was right. The little foundling had developed into a lovely specimen of infancy. She was now about two years, and had just learned to talk and run. “You seem to hare a faculty for taking burdens on yourself, Jane,” remarked Sir Wilfrid. “First, your poor mother, then my truant sister, and now this little orphan. You must have enough to do with them all.” “I did not lake thorn: tfcc.v were sent me,” she answered, and she folded Nellie’s wrappings closer round her, and went on her homeward journey. They had by this time reached the streets, and the time for confidence and emotion was over. Jane breathed more freely as she trod the pavement. The walk along the country road had been a fearful trial to her. “Jane,” said Sir Wilfrid, as they neared the cottage, “what do you intend to do?” “I do not understand you.” “What plans have you made for the future?” “None. I have my daily work to perform, and I leave the future to God.” • “I have not quite spoiled your life, 1 have I?” he whispered. “It ia not in the oower of a mortal to

■poil the life of another, Will,” she Mid. “I am content that mine ahoold be aa it ia. Too moat be content with the knowledge.” “That is jaat what I have been longing to hear you teH me,” he exclaimed in a tone of satisfaction, “that you are happy and contented. You hare indeed lifted a load from my mind. Jane. I shall go home and sleep as I hgve not slept for weeks past.” Still selfishly thinking of himself and his own comfort —still selfishly unmindful of her and the sea of tears through which she had waded in her present state of calm. Still unsuspicious that the calm was all assumed, and that in granting him leave to meet her aa a friend, Jane Warner had only added one more to the many sacrifices of self which should shine as jewels in her spiritual crown. When they reached the garden gate of Wolsey Cottage, Bir Wilfrid murmured, “May I come in?” and she answered, “Not to-day,” with a hurried manner that seemed almost unkind. He felt it, but he did not remonstrate with her. He wanted to prove, if possible, on this first occasion of their rehnion, how ready he was to give in to all her wishes. Still with the idea of pleasing Jane, took a sovereign from his pocket, and heid it toward the child. “Will baby buy a dolly?’ he said. Little Nellie made a grab at the glittering coin, but Jane Warner intercepted the offered gift, and turned upon the donor with a dignity of manner that made her -almost majestic. “I will not allow her to take it,” she said firmly; “and please to understand, Sir Wilfrid Ewell, that if you wish to visit at this house vou must never again make the mistake of offering any sort of present to me, or to —to the child.” Jane Warner was very silent and depressed that evening. She could not make up her mind whether she had acted wisely or not. And yet, since she was the only one likely to suffer from their renewed intercourse, was it not her duty to do all in her power to help and succor this man, so much more unhappy, because so much more guilty, than herself? (To be continued.!

DECORATED FOR BRAVERY.

- Field Marshal Lord Roberts’ Charger apd His Noble Record. Shorfly after the jubilee, the writer askfd a colonial what he though of life gorgeous procession. His reply ,W|£ brief and to the point. “The procession? I think it may be summed UP in a nutshell—the Queen and Lord Roberts.” In that there was doubtless some exaggeration, but there is no question that, after her majesty, Lord Roberts, mounted upon his beautifully diminutive Arab Yolonel, made the greatest appeal to the popular fancy. Both man and his horse were familiar to military eyes, but the general public do not often get a chance of seeing “Bobs,” and the sight of the sturdy, in spite of his years, still elastic, lithe figure, seated upon a charger which seemed made for hkn, naturally aroused all their latent hero worship to fever pitch. The late Valentine Baker used to be known ai “the man on the old white horse;” probably it will be as “the man on the little gray Arab” that Lord Roberts will be enshrined in the hearts of many of our country and colonial cousins—aye, and of Londoners as well. Volonel, like his master, is a veteran. Lord Roberts bought him in March, 1877, from Abdul Rahman, an Arab horse dealer in Bombay. Volonel Is of pure Nejdi breed, and certainly he is a striking example of the longevity and powers of enduring the ups and downs of life ascribed to the pure Arab. He went through the Afghan campaign with his master. Ont of that campaign Lord Roberts came with undying fame, but Volonel was also rewarded for his distinguished service, receiving the medal for the campaign and the Kandahar Star. Both decorations were, I believe, specially struck by order of her Majesty. Certainly the stout-hearted little animal had earned these badges of honor, for who knows, if he had faltered or gone wrong at some critical moment, that the whole course of the campaign might not have been altered? Volonel most assuredly seems to be made of wondrous stuff even for an Arab, for, after having traveled with Lord Roberts some fifty thousand miles, and endured all the vicissitudes incidental to warfare in a savage country, this is what his Lordship says of him: “He has never been sick or sorry; * * * he is now about twenty-five yeurs of age, and as fit as ever.” Both rider and horse looked little the worse for wear at the great jubilee review at Aldershot. Both of them looked as “fit as ever.”—London Sketch.

Love Followed Pity.

“Yes,” said the village gossip, “John wuz always a-pesterin’ of Sue about marryin’ of him, an’ she done told him ‘No’ more times ’n I could tell you.” "You don’t say.” “Hit’s true as preachin’. Well, you know John carries the mall?” "Yes. I have hearn tell he does.” “An’ las’ Wednesday wuz a week. Sue wuz a travelin’ along with him goin’ to town, when John ups and says if she didn’t make up to marry him he’d make the horse run down hill till all three of ’em wuz drowned in the bottom er the river.” “Do tell.” “That’s what. But what do you reckon Sue did?” “Lord knows.” “Caught John by the collar, jerked him outen the buggy, grabbed up a live rattlesnake that was a-sleepin’ by the roadside, and lambasted John with it till he couldn’t stan’.” “Laws a-massy.” "Then _ she stomped the snake ter death, an’ John—he took ter his bed, whar be laid fer two weeks; an’ Sue got sorry fer him, an’ nussed him, an’ killed a beef ter make stew fer him, an’ now—what do you reckon?” “I dunno.” “She’s a-goin’ ter marry him.”

Facts Concerning the Brain.

Estimating that the world contains 1,400,000,000 people a statistician figures that their brains weigh 1,922,712 tons. This averages about 40 ounces per isead. Physiologists give the average weight of an adult male brain at 48 ounces, and of a female 43 ounces. The calculations of a German biologist shows that each human brain contains 300,000,000 nerve cells, 6,000,000 of which die and are succeeded by new ones each day. Hence there should be about 676,713,600,000,000 brain cells in the world. Everywhere and always a man's worth must be gauged to some extent, though only in part, by his dome» tldtg.

SENATE AND HOUSE.

WORK OF OUR .NATIONAL LAWMAKERS. A Wsek’s Proceedings to the Halls of Congress Important Measures Discussed sad Acted Upon—As Impartial Sesame of the Business. The National Solona. Wednesday’s proceedings in the Senate were enlivened by au interesting debate upon the bill presented by the Foreign Relations Committee providing for the prohibition of pelagic sealing by Americans. The provisions of the measure were explained by Mr. Davis. Mr. Pettigrew (8. D.) sharply antagonized the measure, saying that this country had already suffered more than enough humiliation on account of the seal business, and that he favored the settlement of the question by killing all sf the seals as they appeared at the rookeries of the Prybilof Islands, if by the first of June next Great Britain also had not agreed to the prohibition of pelagic realing. He offered an amendment to that effect, bnt it was defeated. The bill was passed by a vote of 37 to 14. Mr. Mcßride of Oregon endeavored to secure the adoption of his resolution directing the Secretary of War to supply relief to the suffering miners in the Klondike region and appropriating $230,000 for that purpose. The resolution was amended so that the supplies might be transported by means of reindeer. Mr. Mcßride consented finally that the resolution should be recommitted to the Military Affairs Committee, with the understanding that it would be promptly reported. The session closed with a spirited civil service debate upon the bill presented by the Census Committee providing for the appointment of a director of the census and thirty-two employes who should form the skeleton of an office force for the twelfth census. In the House the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation bill was discussed, but only one amendment of importance was adopted. It reduced the clerical force at the pension office ninety-five. In the House on Thursday a bill passed appropriating $175,000 for relief of people who are iu Yukon river country, and also bill |>assed by the Senate the day before to prohibit pelagic sealing by American citizens. Former bill encountered practically no opposition. Bill to prohibit pelagic sealing warmly antagonized by Mr. Johnson of North Dakota, Mr. Loud of California, Mr. Hepburn and others. In the Senate resolution directing the Secretary of War to send supplies to American and other sufferers in Klondike region passed. Mr. Pritchard of North Carolina, chairman of civil service investigating committee, delivered brief speech upon execution of civil service law as developed by his committee. Senate passed bill directing Secretary of Treasury to purchase or construct suitable Tessel for revenue cutter service on Yukon river. Alaska, to cost not to exceed $40,000. Mr. Allison of appropriations committee reported favorably House joint resolution providing for recess of Congress from Dec. 18, 1897. to Jan. 5, 1898. Adopted. Mr. Hawley of Military Affairs Committee reported resolution of Mr. Mcßride of Oregon for relief of American miners and other sufferers in Yukon valley, Alaska. Committee struck out all but enacting clause and amended by appropriating $250,000, which is to be used by Secretary of War for purchase of subsistence and supplies and for their transportation and distribution. Adopted. In the Senate on Friday a joint resolution accepting the invitation of Norway to participate in an international fisheries commission next year was passed. One hundred and thirty-eight private pension bills were passed. Resolutions on the death of William Steele Holman, late representative from Indiana, were taken up. Tributes to his memory were paid in eloquent eulogies by several members. The resolutions were passed, and as a further mark of respect the Senate at 4:25 p. m. adjourned until Saturday. In the House amendments to the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill were adopted. The House refused to accept the Senate amendment to the bill for the relief of the miners in the Upper Yukon. On Saturday both houses of Congress adjourned until Jan. 5. The Klondike relief bill was put through its final stages before adjournment.

Shap a of Eggs.

The eggs of the owl family are almost spherical, and are thus easily moved by the parent bird in her desire to secure an equal amount of warmth to each. As she nests in a hole, there is no fear whatever of any of her clutch rolling away and being smashed. On the other hand, the guillemot, which nests, or rather lays, her eggs on flat, bare rocks in high, exposed latitudes, lays a single egg so elongated and curiously shaped that when stirred by a violent gust of wind or the bird’s sudden flight, it does not roil away, but simply spins around upon its own axis like a top. In the case of plovers, snipes and other birds that lay four large eggs, the eggs narrow so rapidly toward the smaller end that four of them in a nest practically form a square, thus enabling the bird to eover them the more effectually. According to Dr. Nicolsk.v, the variety in shape In eggs Is due simply to the effects of the law of gravity. Every egg which is not yet covered with a solid shell deviates from the spherical form and lengthens by the effect of the pressure by the sides of the ovary.

Anne Hathaway's Descendant.

In Anne Hathaway's cottage at Shottery live the last of the line to bear her historic name. This nineteenth century Anne Hathaway Is the granddaughter of Mary Taylor Baker, kinswoman of distress William Shakspeare aDd custodian of her famous home. For years Mrs, Baker owned the cottage and allowed it on her own account until the guardians of Shakspeare’s birthplace bought the historic old house for a round sum and appointed her caretaker. When extreme age rendered her unfit for the numerous trying duties of custodian, the guardians appointed her son to assist her, and he, with his two daughters, now occupies half the cottage. The younger of these girls is the last Anne Hathaway, a beautiful child of twelve, with quantities of brown hair and wonderful eyes.

Breaking Colts by Machinery.

A horse-breaking machine has lately been invented, and an ingenious system for training horses has now come into use. In the center of a large round building a horizontal wheel is set up. Long shafts are attached and the horses are harnessed to them, after the manner of a merry-go-round. The trainer sits in the middle and drives his circular team, one of which is always a thoroughly broken horse, which set* the pace and keeps the others In check.