Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1898 — Page 2

Wffcntotrtitic Sentinel JT. W. McEWEN, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - - • INDIANA

RUSH TO THE YUKON.

EASTERN EXODUS NOW WELL UNDER WAY. Saif a Dozen Steamships Are Out from New York City, Hurrying South—Going Around the Horn—Kansas Murderers Sentenced for Life. Going to the Eldorado. At least half a dozen steamships are Sow on the way from New York to the Yukon carrying gold seekers. A small fleet of sailing vessels has the same destination and the same class of passengers. Among the steamers well known in these waters now making long voyages around Cape Horn are the Cottage City and the BCuracao. formerly of the Maine Steamship line. whi< h were purchased by Senator Perkins of California ami associates, to form part of the fleet that the transportation company in which he is interested will operate between San Francisco or Seattle and St. Michael’s. The steamer Morgan City has been tilted in the Erie basin for a trip to Alaska and the Gloucester fishing schooner Nellie G. Thurston. whihc left New Y rk in I tuber, is now —or should.be —in the South Pacific. She.has fifteen passengers. The brigantine Harriett <J., another Klondike vessel, is on her way around the Horn with about fifty gold seekers. The steamer City of Columbia, w hich left New York on Dec. 17, has fifty voyagers, including twenty-five women. The steamer Blixham departed for Seattle a few days ago. She carried no passengers, but lists sieeommodatior.s for 2GO who will join the vessel at Seattle. The vessels still in port fitting for the trip to Alaska include the bark Agate, with staterooms for 120 passengers. the steamer South Portland and the little pilot boat Actea. The latter will take a party of ten. including three venturesome women, who declare they prefer the little pilot boat to .the largest steamer.

PROVESA FALSE FRIEN3. Missouri Farmer Loses His Wife Through the Man He Trusted. Up to a few days ago Itichard Conway and Nicholas Willard were cellmates in the Gasconade County jail at Herrmann, Mo. They liked each other and unfolded little schemes and confidences to each other frequently. Willard especially liked to talk, and his principal topic of conversation was his wife. Conway accepted a cordial invitation to visit the Willard farmhouse when the owner should have served his time. Conway was released ten days ago. Willard became a free man a week later. His release came in the form of a pardon based on information of a wife's infidelity and a friend's treachery. Conway had visited the Willard home as soon as he was released and had found Mrs. Willard all that her fond husband had said. He prevailed upon her to go with him. They left three small children, not the woman's, in the house without protection. IMPRISONMENT FOR LIFE. Dobbs and Mrs. New Sentenced for Murdering Latter's Husband. George H. Dobbs and Mrs. Amelia New, recently convicted at Eureka, Kan., of the murder of Mrs. New’s husband, have been sentenced to life imprisonment. When arraigned for sentence Dobbs stoutly protested his innocence. Mrs. New made no statement. At the conclusion of the trial and while the jury was deliberating upon the case she broke down and acknowledged the murder of her husband by herself and Dobbs. Later she denied this alleged confession. Joseph New was mysteriously murdered last October. A few days later Dobbs went to live with Mrs. New. To Break Satisser Will. The trial to break the will of Sausser of Hannibal, Mo., who died and left his fortune, about $150,000, to the Westminster Presbyterian College of Fulton, Mo., has been begun in the court of common pleas. The deceased had no children, and provided for his wife with an annuity of $2,500. William H. Marquis, president of the college, was named as administrator. The only relatives who survive the deceased are Eugene Riggin and Mrs. Isabella Thornton of Los Angeles. Cal., children of a half-brother. They brought the present suit against the trustees of the Westminster College for the purpose of breaking the will.

Thrown Into Icy Rapids. Two men assaulted Health Inspector Charles Leverenz of North Tonawanda, N. Y., beat him with sandbags and threw him over a parapet into the rapids of Tonawanda creek. The water was full of churnit* ice floes and Leverenz was terribly bruised and cut, but he managed to lay hold of the anchor chains of a schooner below the rapids and was rescued. Canada Loses Her Trade. Strong pressure is being brought to bear upon the Canadian Government to close the Dyea and Skaguay passes to Americans altogether. The regulations enforced by the United States Government on Canadian goods going through the disputed territory is killing Canadian trade, and the coast towns of Victoria and Vancouver are suffering. McComas Is Elected. At Annapolis, Md., Louis E. McComas was elected United States Senator, to succeed Arthur P. Gorman, one the tenth ballot. To Make Silk in America. Duplan & Co., silk manufacturers of Lyons, France, propose to establish a branch plant at South Bethlehem, Pa. Poker Players Expelled. Poker playing has got several theological students into trouble. President Jeffers of the Western Presbyterian Theological Seminary at Pittsburg has expelled three students, suspended seven for a definite period and censured several others for this pernicious practice.

National Bank of Paola Suspends. The National Bank of Paola, Kan., suspended business. No statement of assets or liabilities is made, but it is stated that the deposits, which are small, will be paid in full. Fire at Randsburg, Cal. Fire broke out in a vacant building in Randsburg, Cal., and spread so rapidly that more than thirty structures were consumed within one hour. Everything was swept clean on both sides of Rand street. This included the postofflee and some of the largest stores in the camp Fishermen in Peril. One hundred fishermen's huts on the ice in Lake Erie, off Put-ia-Bay, were swept away in the late gale. Two hundred men, women and children narrowly escaped drowning by the ice breaking up and carrying them out into the lake and Iff the huts catching fire.

BIG GRIST OF BILLS.

OVER EIGHT THOUSAND AWAIT CONGRESSIONAL ACTION. The Outlook for Hawaiian and Cuban Legislation-Talk About BankruptcyMeasure General Appropriation Bills to Be Closely Scaled. Now Hard at Work. Washington correspondence:

CONGRESS is now well down to its work, and the process of grinding out bills is in oi>eration. Over 5.488 bills and 107 joint resolutions have been referred to the SB House committees, gsr and 2.918 bills and 77 EfiL. joint resolutions to GSSiSenatc committees. HgaThe calendars are hoppers into which the grist of the committees is thrown. ; f-J I The House has sent ||| jy two of the great ap- | 1 9 ’ propriation bills over I

to the Senate. They carry $1G2.000,000. Eleven others are to follow. These appropriation bills are the essential of leg- j islation. Without them the Government • is blocked. When the differences concern- ‘ iug them have been settled by conference I committees, and they have passed both ‘ houses and received the signature of the i President, Congress will be ready to ad- I jot: rn. It is evidently the intention-of the leaders in the House to scale the general ap- | propriation bills'as closely as possible, and to force an adjournment at an early date. Under the rules other bills carrying appropriations can be buried without allowing them to come before the House. An appropriation bill is a privileged measure, and it is frequently used to shunt offensive legislation from the track. It has the right of way at all times, except when confronted by a contested election case or by a special order from the Committee on Rules. An appropriation bill can switch a contested election case from the traek at any time by a vote of the House,, but it requires unanimous consent to set aside a special order after it has ofice been sanctioned by the House. Bearing this in mind, the question of the annexation of Hawaii becomes interesting. If the Senate fails to ratify the treaty by a two-thirds vote, a bill providing for its annexation will undoubtedly pass that body. If the leaders of the House are opposed to such a bill they can easily prevent its consideration by the House. It may be buried in the Committee on Foreign Affairs; and if reported from that committee, there is no way in which the House can consider it, except by a special order from the Committee on Rules. The Cuban question is in a similar situation. The House is held up by an application of its own rules. If three-quar-ters of the members favor the recognition of Cuba, they would have no opportunity to vote for it. The Senate resolution is still buried in the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. If this committee should report it favorably to the House it is in the condition of Lord Lovell’s wife, who jumped into a box that closed with a spring. It could not come up for consideration without the usual special order. Once on the calendar, it might be called up on suspension day, provided the Speaker would consent to recognize a member of the committee for this purpose. Then a two-thirds vote would pass it. Bankruptcy and Currency. There is much talk about a bankruptcy bill. The Committee on the Judiciary has reported a bill practically the same as the Torrey bill. Gen. Henderson of lowa is the chairman of the Judiciary Committee. He is also a member of the Committee on Rules. The bill will probably be brought before the House by a special order. If this is done the friends of the Nelson bill will offer that as a substitute, unless precluded by the terms of the special order —another spring in the box. At all events, it seems safe to say that if the House passes any bankruptcy bill whatever this season it will be the bill reported from Gen. Henderson's committee. There is no probability, however, that such a bill will pass the Senate. It can be amended in that body so as to make it entirely unacceptable to the leaders in the House. The differences between the two bodies are apparently so great that they cannot be settled in conference. The same is true of a financial or a currency bill. Men of experience in both houses agree that there is no probability of the passage of any such measure this session. If necessary, the appropriation bills may be used to send them awry. At all events, there will be no Sabine assimilation. The situation was aptly described by Senator Thomas H. Carter of Montana, who said that to ask the Senate to pass a financial bill based on the plan of the monetary commission would be like “squirting water against the wind.” The Committee on Rivers and Harbors is in session and giving hearings to those interested in such appropriations. It is clear that an effort to pass a river and harbor appropriation bill will be made before the end of the session. Such a bill has the same privilege, under the rules, as the other appropriation bills, and is usually so framed that it can pass the House by a two-thirds vote on suspension day, without debate. This was the case in the last House, and this House is equally as eager on the question of internal improvements. Another bill of importance is what is known as the anti-scalping bill. It was brought before the House in the last Congress under a special order from the Committee on Rules. In the Fifty-fourth Congress it was put to sleep in the Senate. Its opponents had the benefit of the short session, when appropriation bills were crowding each other to the wall. They used these bills to defeat it. They will have no such opportunity in this session, for it is the long session, and Congress is not compelled to adjourn by the 4th of March. In strong contrast with this stand what are known as the letter carriers’ and postal clerks’ bills. Both have reached the calendars in previous Congresses, but their friends have never been able to get a special order for their consideration. Another bill attracting considerable attention is what is known as the Loud bill. It revises the rates for second-class matter in the mails, making stringent limitations affecting the newspapers, and all periodical publications. This proposition was brought before the House on a special order last session, and will probably receive similar treatment this session. Like the anti-scalping bill, it came up last year in the short session, and was buried in the Senate. This year, however, it will have a free course, nnd the Senate will give it due consideration. Another important measure is the immigration bill, better known as the Lodge bill. It passed the House by a large vote at the short session last year, and was lost in conference. Its fate will be different this year, as each itouse will have plenty of time for its consideration. The bill has twen shorn of some of its objectiona-

1 ble features, and the prospects are flair for I its passage. Army and N«vy Affair*. The army and navy are especially Inter- | ested in legislation thia session. The Committee on Military Affairs is considering a bill providing for two additional • regiments of artillery. The proposition is | strongly favored by the War Department. ■ These regiments are wanted to man the guns in the new fortifications planned and I being built for coast defense. If the ap- | propriation for them is placed in the regu- ; lar army appropriation bill it is liable to I l>e stricken out on a point of order. Should a separate bill for this increase be reported from the committee it would go on the calendar, and could not be considered I without a special order from the CommitI tee on Rules. Its fate, therefore, is pri--1 marily in the hands of the leaders of the | House. Once before this body, the bill I would give rise to a sharp discussion, and I probably pass. Judging from the liberality shown by the Senate in the appropriations for fortifications, it would readily pass that body.

WILL SEEK THE POLE.

A Canadian, Captain Bernier, to Try His Luck in the Frozen Arctic. Capt. J. E. Bernier of Quebec is about to join the long list of men who have tried to find the north pole. On March 1 he will start north with a party of eight, including a surgeon nnd a geologist. The expedition will head for the northern coast of Siberia, and then will begin the journey overland. The expedition will use the ship Windward to reach, by sea, the northern coast of Siberia. This vessel is the one that was used by the English explorer, Jackson, on his recent arctic journey. Bernier expects to reach the pole by means of dogs, and he believes he will be able to make about six miles a day in this

CAPT. .J. E. BERNIER.

fashion. After landing he is assured be can reach the pole in about 120 days, or four months. He expects to abandon the Windward after landing, and to make the journey home by way of Spitzbergen. Bernier is going north with provisions to last him for two years. Reindeer will be taken along to enable the party to use them for meat in case of necessity. Bernier has carefully studied the experience of former explorers, and he believes that with the proper establishment of food stations on the route he will be able to reach the pole without danger.

IN AN ICY GRASP.

Great Damage Wrought by Snow, Frost and Wind in Chicago, Chicago was on Sunday a wrecked but a beautiful city. From underneath a tangle of telephone, telegraph and trolley wires its streets and rooftops sparkled white, while every tree stood out against the blue of the sky like a diamond cluster aglow in a turquoise setting. Ruin itself was not hideous, for the sun gilded the icy coating of the fallen wires, as well as the interlacing snow and frost fringes of twigs and branches. Dawn looked upon a city as isolated from the world as if it lay locked in the heart of the arctic zone. It was walled at its outskirts by banks of snow which blockaded every suburban street car line and furnished picturesque resting places for broken telegraph poles and miles of twisted, useless wire. Chicago suffered more than any other city included in a territorial storm area extending from Wyoming, Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin and lowa on the west and north to Pennsylvania and New York ou the east. Railroad and Western Union telegraph authorities agreed in the statement that the destruction of their lines was confined practically to the edge of the city circle. No lines were affected beyond a radius of 100 miles from Chicago, few beyond one of twenty-five.

Demoralization of telegraph service caused the principal trouble for railroads centering in Chicago and seriously interfered with the movement of trains. On many of the lines the wires were completely disabled and train dispatching came to a standstill Until dispatchers could be sent from the main offices to outlying stations, where the communication was not so badly hampered. But the havoc wrought among the wires was not the only trouble that was met by the railroads. The heavy snowfall and consequent wretched condition of the tracks delayed trains and added an element of danger to their operation. Chicago was for hours cut off telegraphically from nearly all the principal cities of the country, and the storm's havoc affected the city telephone and fire alarm service to the poipt of temporary disablement.

LUETGERT IN TEARS.

Sobs Convulsively as He Tells the Jury His Story. With a smile on his faee ami the utmost confidence in his manner Adolph L. Luetgert took the witness stand in Chicago. The court room was packed and the stern eyes of Judge Gary roved constantly over the breathlessly expectant throng, commanding silence as they fixed face after face. A small army was denied entrance to the building. Slowly, impassively, Luetgert weighed the questions and gave back his answers until he was asked of his first wife—the first love of his strange career. Then to the astonishment, the utter amazement, of the great audience, the iron-hearted prisoner burst into tears. Covering his face with his broad palms he sobbed convulsively; his shoulders shook with emotion, and his tones choked in his deep chest as he tried to go forward with his story. At the afternoon session the examination of the witness by Attorney Harmon was so slow that when court adjourned nothing pertaining to the alleged murder of Mrs. Luetgert had been brought out. Walter Nash of the West Hoboken, (N. Y.) police found $92,600 worth of counterfeit money in a vacant house. It was all in SIOO notes on the Bank of Montreal. The house was the one formerly occupied by William Brockway and his confederates, Abbie L. Smith and William E. Wagner. They were arrested in August, 1895, charged with counterfeiting. The United States Board of General Appraisers in New York has overruled the protest of Charles P. Coles of San Francisco against the assessment of a duty of 67 cents per ton on an importation of coal which he claimed was entitled to free entry.

WOOED AND MARRIED

BY CHARLOTTEM BRAEME.

CHAPTER YI. A week had passed since Lady Caraven reached Paris—a strange week. She had seen but little of her husband. He never took breakfast with her; they met at dinner, and twice he had taken her to the opera. He never interfered in the least with any of her affairs. He sent up her letters unopened, and never even inquired from whom they came. He sent every morning to ask if, she had any particular wish for the day—if there was any place she desired to see. At first she said “Yes,” and went to the different places of note. He accompanied her, but she could not avoid thinking that he was slightly bored by these excursions. The next time he sent she declined, and lie did not remonstrate; he made no remark, and she felt almost sure that he was relieved by her refusal. When they went to the opera, they were never always secured some companion. It seemed to Hildred that he was quite as much a stranger as on the first day he entered the Hollies. "Shall I ever be part of his life?” she thought. “Shall I grow to be heart of his heart, soul of his soul? Shall I ever know what he thinks, what he likes, what he loves?” One evening he was rather startled by Hildred. There was a favorite singer at the opera, and they went to hear her. She was very fair, and the gentlemen were busily engaged in discussing her. With Lord and Lady Caraven was a Frenchman, the Comte de Quesne, a great admirer of fair womeji. The conversation, kept up chiefly between the two gentlemen, was about the charming actress. “She is of the real English type,” said the'eomte, “and the English ladies are so fair —they are adorable!” “I think myself,” remarked the earl, “that a fair-haired English girl is certainly the loveliest object in creation.” The comte laughed. “You prefer the blondes to the brunettes, then?” he said. “Certainly,” said Lord Caraven. “I do not see how a woman can be beautiful unless she be fair.” .

He had entirely forgotten his young girl-wife with the dark eyes and the Spanish face. He would not have wantonly pained her, but he had forgotten her presence. She heard the words. At the time she made no remark, although they burned into her heart like fire. “I want you to tell me one thing,” she said later. "If you admire fair girls with golden hair, why did you marry me, with hair and eyes sb dark?” • She asked the question in such perfect good faith, in such earnest tones, with such sad, sweet eyes, that he was touched, not deeply, but as he would have been had some child come to him with trembling lips to tell a pitiful talc. “You know why I married you,” he replied, gravely—“why ask me the question ?” He saw a vivid color spread over her face, a bright-light shine in her eyes. The simple girl thought and believed he meant that she®knew he had married her because he loved her. Her heart gave a great, glad bound. He loved her! She would understand better in time; she would know why he seemed reserved, reticent, cold and indifferent.

“I will try to remember,” she said, gently. Dull as was his ear, he heard new music in her voice. “You will remember what?” he asked. “I will remember why you have married me,” she replied; and as she went away he wondered greatly. “I should not think that she is likely to forget it,” he said to himself. “Certainly women are puzzles. She will try to remember why I married her—and the words seemed like melting music on her lips, a light that was like sunshine on flowers spread over her face! Why, I married her because her father sold her for a title, and she was willing to be sold!” Three weeks had passed away, and Lord Caraven began to wonder how much longer he was to remain in Paris. If he had been free to follow his own inclinations, they would have led him to the gaming tables at Baden Baden. But, as he said impatiently, he had no idea of going there with a whole train of people to look after.

Lady Caraven was willing to go to Ravensmere—willing to go anywhere that the earl suggested. She had grown quiescent. A new, strange feeling was stirring in her breast; it was love for her husband—love for the handsome, debonair earl.

It was a chilly evening at the end of October when the Earl and Countess of Caraven reached Ravensmere. No preparations had been made to receive and welcome them. There was no gathering of tenantry. The earl's tenants simply detested the sound of his name. They had been so heavily burdened, so taxed and tormented by the earl’s confidential agent, Mr. Blantyre, that they had no welcome for his master. “I had no idea that Ravensmere was so large,” said Lady Caraven. He looked half incredulously at her. “Did you not really feel interested enough in the place to ask about it?” he Inquired. “I was very much interested in it,” she replied, quietly, “but I never thought of asking any questions.” “I should have fancied that you would know all about it,” he said—“the number of rooms and their contents. lam surprised that you do not.” She did not in the least understand the drift of his words. That he should ever fancy that she was mercenary, that she wanted the full value for all the money she had brought him, never occurred to her.

They dined together almost in silence Lard Caraven did not tell his wife what a comfort he felt it to see the family plate once more in use. Hildred was slightly overwhelmed by the magnificence of everything around. How little she dreamed that her fortune had preserved the grand old place from utter ruin—that but for her the massive plate, the beautiful pictures, even the old walls themselves, would have passed from the Caravens, and the family name would have been written in dust? Perhaps some such thought occurred to him as he looked at the sweet face before him; perhaps that thought made him feel a little more kindly toward Hildred. He talked to her, and showed her the various art treasures, the costly pictures, the statues, the ancient armor. She was nleased and bright and interested in all

he said. He showed her the library, where the .accumulated treasures of so many scholars lay. When she had seen a-nd admired all, he said to her: "If all these were on the verge of destruction, and one woman came forward to save it, what would you call her?” “I should call her the good angel of the house.” she replied®not having the least idea that he was referring to her. “That shall be my name for you,” he said. “You shall be the good angel of the house.”

CHAPTER VII. A beautiful evening in October: it was as though some of the warmth and sweetness of summer had returned for a while. The sky was blue, the colors of the sunset were gorgeous, the foliage of the trees was magnificent, autumn flowers were blooming, autumn tints were over the land. The day had been unusually warm and sunny. Lord Caraven had invited some friends to dinner: as they lived at some little distance, and they could not remain for the night, dinner was ordered earlier than usual. It was only twilight when the guests drove away, and Lord Caraven, having no one to play billiards with him, sauntered restlessly through the rooms, thinking to himself how foolish he had been not to provide himself with a companion for that most interesting of all games. "I must not let this happen again,” he said. “To live here alone requires more strength of mind than I am possessed of.” It did not occur to him that he was not alone —that he had a fair young wife near him. He never thought of her at all. He would not have remembered her existence but that, wandering aimlessly along the terrace, he saw her in the drawing room. Seeing her, he thought it was possible she understood something of billiards, although “women never know anything useful.” She saw him, and, fancying from his manner that he wished to speak to her, she opened the window and went out to him. “I wanted to ask you, do you know anything of billiards?” he said. “Billiards?” she repeated, wonderingly. “Yes —many ladies play remarkably well. Lady Courtenay does. It is such a great resource.” “Do you want me to play with you?” she asked, quickly. “Yes, I am bored to death. I am tired of smoking. I never read much, and there is nothing to do.” “Extraordinary!” she cried—“nothing to do!”

"What do you mean?” he asked. “I mean nothing. I am very sorry. I have seen a billiard table; but I have never played. I will try to learn, if you like.” The night wind was sweeping round them, bending the tall chrysanthemums,stirring the dying leaves—a sweet fresh wind that was as odorous as palm. The twilight was fast fading, the birds had long since ceased to sing, there was a pleasant brooding sense of rest and of freshness. “This is almost as good as a billiard table,” said Hildred laughingly; but the earl shook his head. "It may be for you,” he replied; “but it is not for me.” “Lord Caraven,” said Hildred, “a thought has just struck me. We have been married—how long?—since the third of August, and it is now October; and do you know that you have never once addressed me by name? My school fellows used to call me ‘Dreda,’ my father calls me ‘Hildred.’ You have so contrived as never to give me any name at all. You do not say ‘Lady Caraven,’ ‘Hildred,’ ‘wife,’ or anything of the kind. How is it?” “I cannot tell,” he replied, blankly. The question had evidently puzzled him. "I do not expect you would ever care to use any pretty familiar loving name, but do you not think you might learn to use my own? Lady Courtenay used to look at me, when you addressed me in that general kind of way as ‘you.’ Could you not say ‘Hildred*?’’ “I—l really do not'know,” he replied; “it is an uncomfortable kind of name—‘Hildred.’ ” She raised her changing head with a haughty little gesture. “Do you fancy so? I think you do not know what ‘uncomfortable’ means. lam rather proud of my name; it may be quaint, but it is not common. If you cannot say ‘Hildred,’ can you not calfme ‘Lady Caraven?’ I am tired of being spoken to so vaguely.” “I will not do it again, Lady Caraven, if it annoys you,” he said, “Lord Caraven, will you be very angry with me if I ask you a question?” “No; without knowing what the question may be, I predict that —certainly not.”

“Briefly, it is this: Why did you marry me. Lord Caraven?’’ “Why did I marry you?” he echoed in astonishment. “I ask you the question,” she went on, “because I have watched you and studied you, and I am convinced at last that you did not marry me for love.” “Love!” he cried. “Why, what has that to do with it?” “I thought,” she continued, “that you had married me because you loved me. I knew that you were cold, undemonstrative, that you had no sympathy, little kindness; but I believed implicitly that you married me for love.” “I had never seen you—l saw you only once,” he said in astonishment. “I know, I remember. Still, I repeat what I have said to you; I —l—fancied —I am quite ashamed to tell you the truth, but I will do so—l fancied that you had seen me somewhere and had liked me.” He laughed, but the laugh was not pleasant to hear. “Did you really think that?” he asked musingly. “Poor child!” Then he turned to her with sudden briskness. “Do you really mean to tell me, on your word of honor, that you do not know why I married you?”

She raised her fair, proud face to his. “I assure you most solemnly that I do not. It is the greatest puzzle I have ever had.” “Did your father tell you that I—l loved you?” “No,” she replied, thoughtfully, “he did not. Indeed, he assured me that love was not needful for happiness. He never said you loved me. He said you wanted to marry me.” “And what else? Go on. What else?” “That it was a grand position, in which I should be supremely happy.” “What else?” asked the' stern voice. “I hardly remember. That if I consented his highest ambition would be gratified.”

Lord Caraven murmured some temtue his closed lips. “Th«i he never told you why this marriage was forced upon me?” “Forced?” she interrogated, gently. Perhaps the sudden paling of her lovely face startled him, or the sharp quiver of pain in her voice touched him. “He—your father—never told yen that he insisted on the marriage?” “No, never,” she replied, faintly. “He never told you that he made it my only refuge from him —my only hope—my only alternative?” “No; he never told me that.” “Then I will tell you now. He compelled me to marry yon—and I begin tn perceive that he has sacrificed you as well as myself.” “Sacrificed us?” she repeated. “You cannot mean the word!” “I do mean it, both for myself and you,” he replied. “I will tell you. Lady Caraven; it is right that you should know the truth. I have been a spendthrift and a prodigal. I have squandered a large fortune, and was deeply m debt. I owed your father the sum of sixty thousand pounds—l had mortgaged Ravensmere to him. I was also deeply in debt to others. I had literally come to my last shilling; disgrace, ruin, poverty and shame were all before me. Your father had the management of my affairs, and, when I asked him what I was to do, he told me that he had two hundred thousand pounds and a daughter.” A low cry came from her lips, and she covered her face with her hands. “I am sorry to pain you,” he said — “sorry to distress you—but it is better that you should know the real truth. Your father is ambitious; his hopes were fixed on your marriage. He offered me the alternative —I could choose beggary, ruin, shame, disgrace, the total annihilation of my house and name, or I could choose the money and marry you. I told hi in that I did not feel inclined to marry, that I had no affection for you, and I implored him to find some other way out of the difficulty. He refused, and you know the result. Bear in mind, though, that I am most deeply grateful to you. Your fortune has saved me from worse than death. I am sorry, too, to tell you this story; but it is best that you should know the truth.” “Yes,” she agreed, despairingly, “it is best.” She drew her hands from her face and looked at him. What nature of man could he have been that the anguish and dsepaar on that girlish face did not touch him? “Then you have never loved me, never cared for me?” she said, faintly. “No. I am grateful to you; I can say no more.”

He saw her drav, her silvery shawl round her shoulders and shudder as though she were seized with violent cold. “I feel now,” he said, “that it was a cruel thing to do. You are young, and your whole life is blighted. At first I thought and believed that you understood everything—that you were as mercenary and ambitious as your father —that you were as ready as he to give yourself and your money in exchange for my title; I thought that you, through him, knew the full value of the estate and everything on it —that you knew all the house contained —that you were as keen and shrewd as he was. I misjudged you—l beg your pardon for it.” She raised her pale face to his. “I swear to you,” she said, “that I would rather have died than have married you had I known the truth.” (To be continued.)

LOUIS XVII.

The Boy King Rudely Torn from the Arms of His Mother. Miss Anna L. Bicknell writes an article on “The Last Days of Louis XVI. and Marie-Antoinette” for the Century. Miss Bicknell says: The respect shown to the boy-King irritated those who governed at that time, and they were further exasperated by the insurrection which had broken out in La Vendee, where Louis XVII. was styled king. Thenceforward the poor child's fate was sealed. On the night of July 3 of that memorable year, at 10 o’clock, the guards appeared bearing a decree by which it was ordered that “the son of Louis Capet” should be separated from his mother, and given into the hands of a “tutor,” who would be appointed by the Commune. The scene that followed is one of "the ■most han-owing recorded in history. The terrified child uttered loud cries and entreaties, clinging desperately to his mother, who knew only too well into what hands he was about to fall, and what would be his fate. She refused to give him up, and defended him with the strength of despair, telling them to kill her before taking her son from her. A whole hour passed thus—in desperate resistance on the part of Marie-Antoin-ette, in threats and violence on the part of the guards, in tears and supplications from Madame Elizabeth and Madame Royale. At last the guards declared so positively that they would kill both of her children, that the Queen, exhausted, ceased her resistance. Madame Elizabeth and Mlilftye Royale then took up the child from his little bed, and dressed him, for the Queen w-as powerless. When ready she gave him herself Into the hands of the guards, with floods of tears, “foreseeing,” says Madame Royale, “that she would never see him again. The poor little fellow kissed us all very affectionately, and followed the guards, crying bitterly.” After the poor little Dauphin was taken away they were left to mourn in peace, “which was some comfort,” says Madame Royale. The municipal guards locked them up in their rooms, but did not remain with them. No one nowdid the housework. Madame Elizabeth and Madame Royale made the beds, swept the rooms, and waited on the Queen. The guards came three times a day to bring food and to examine the bolts and the bars of the windows, lest anything should be disturbed.

The prisoners were able to go up by an inner staircase to the top of the tower, where the Queen spent hours looking through a crack in a -wooden partition, in the hope of seeing her son go by. Madame Elizabeth was informed by the guards of the ill-usage to which the poor child was subjected, “and which was beyond imagination,” says Madame Royale, “more especially because he cried at being separated from us.” But Madame Elizabeth entreated the guards to keep all these particulars from the Queen, who was only too much enlightened when she saw the child pass by, and watched his pale, sorrowful face.

The last time that such miserable comfort was granted to her was on July 30. She had watched long, and at last she saw him, cowed and terrified, bereft of his golden curls, wearing the red revolutionary cap, and, alas! singing a song of coarse insult against herself! She knew then how the child must have suffered before he could have been brought to this.

CONGRESS

On Thursday the consular and diplomatic appropriation bill was passed by the House after a day of debate on the Cuban question. Mr. Dingley made a. speech relative to wage reductions in the cotton industry, in which he showed that the tariff question has nothing to do with them. Ln the Senate Mr. Teller's resolution that bonds be paid in silver as well as gold was taken jip by a vote of 41 to 25, and, after debate, was made unfinished business. Mr. Pettigrew secured the passage of a resolution directing the Secretary of the Interior and the Attorney General to inform the Senate what steps the Government had taken concerning the killing of a woman in Oklahoma territory by Seminole Indians and the burning of two Seminole Indians in the same territory. The resolution inquiring of the Postmaster General what action was necessary to maintain the excellence of the postal free delivery service was agreed to. Mr. Tillman’s resolution extending the authority of the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee relative to the investigation of the giving by railroads of transportation for any other consideration than cash was also passed.

In the House on Friday there was a parliamentary struggle over the bill for the relief of the bock publishing company of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. By shrewd maneuvering its opponents succeeded in preventing action. Previous to the consideration of this bill the House passed the bill to extend the public land laws of the United States to the territory of Alaska and to grant a general railroad right of way through the territory. The urgent deficiency bill was sent to conference after the silver forces, with some outside aid, had succeeded in concurring in the Senate amendment striking from the bill the provision requiring the depositors of bullion at Government assay offices to pay the cost of transportation to the mints. In the Senate the resolution of Mr. Allen asking the Secretary of the Interior for papers concerning the dismissal fropi the pension office of Mrs. M. E. Roberts was referred to the Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment, after considerable debate. The Senate spent njost of the day in executive session.

Some bills of minor importance were passed by the House on Saturday and the remainder of the day was devoted to general debate on the Indian appropriation bill. That the Cuban question is still uppermost in the minds of the members was evinced during this debate, much of which was decoted to it. Mr. Hitt, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, submitted a privileged report from his committee, recommending the passage of a resolution of inquiry, requesting the State Department to transmit to the House all information in its possession relative to the military execution of Col. Ruiz, a Spanish envoy to the insurgentcamp of Aranguren. The resolution was adopted without division. In the Senate after a speech by Mr. Stewart in favor of the Teller silver resolution, consideration of bills on the private calendar was begun and a number were passed.

In the House on Monday a couple of hours were devoted to business relating to the District of Columbia, and the remainder of the day was occupied with the Indian appropriation bill. A lively debate was precipitated by an allusion made by Mr. Simpson (Pop., Kan.) to an alleged interview- with the President on the subject of immigration. Mr. Grosvenor took occasion to express the opinion that the President had never used some of the language imputed to him, and the debate drifted into a general discussion of our industrial conditions. In the Senate proposed annexation of Hawaii wa.s somewhat extensively reviewed by Mr. Morgan of Alabama while speaking to a question of personal privilege. One of the features of the session was gn elaborate speech by Mr. Turpie of Indiana in support of the Teller resolution. The pension appropriation bill was debated for nearly three hours, but was not passed, the Senate adjourning pending the disposal of a point of order made against an amendment offered by Mr. Allen of Nebraska to the pending bill. Under the parliamentary fiction of discussing the Indian appropriation bill, the House devoted almost the entire day Tuesday to a political debate in which the main question was whether prosperity had come to the country as a result of the advent of the present administration. Mr. Smith, the delegate from Arizona, made an attack on the system of educating the Indians, and Mr. Walker moved to strike out the appropriation for the Carlisle school. No vote was taken on the motion. A bill was passed granting American register to the foreign built steamer Navajo. In the Senate the session was characterized by a heated, almost acrimonious, discussion of the financial question. For nearly four hours the Teller resolution was under consideration, the principal speeches being made by Mr. Allison (Iowa), Mr. Berry (Arkansas) and Mr. Hoar (Massachusetts).

News of Minor Note.

Secret societies at Denver are waging war on department stores. M. B. Goodman, clothing merchant of Texarkana, Ark., was attached by home creditors. Liabilities and assets not stated. i The Comptroller of the Currency has appointed William J. Kennesaw receiver of the First National Bank of Pembina N. D. D. M. Hough & Co., shoe manufacturers at Rochester, N. Y„ have made an assignment to Granger A. Hollister. Liabilities, $38,000; assets, $48,000. The United States ambassador to Great Britain, Col. John Hay, and family, will sail from Genoa on the North German Lloyd steamship Prinz Regent Luitpold for Egypt for a tour up the Nile, The condition of the health of Empress Augusta A ictoria of Germany excites comment. She will go in the spring to some Southern air cure. Her physicians still forbid her leaving her rooms. The Dominion cabinet which has had under consideration the case of Mrs. Olive Sternaman, under sentence to be hanged at Cayuga, Ont., for the murder of her husband, decided to grant her a new trial. At Holbrook, Ariz., wild dogs are causing great loss ,to the ranch owners by killing stock. At Ravenna, 0., while walking with his sweetheart, Cornelius O. Eatingei quarreled with the young woman. Suddenly he pulled a revolver and without a word of warning sent a bullet through his brain, falling dead at his sweetheart's feet. A chattel deed of trust has been filed by M. W. Alexander, proprietor of one ot the oldest retail drug houses in St. Louis, to Charles AV. Wall, treasurer of Meyei Brothers’ Drug Company. Liabilities amount to $17,200. The cause of the failure is not given.