Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1898 — Page 2

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TO PRESS RUIZ CLAIM.

UNITED STATES IS ABOUT TO TAKE ACTION. The Mild Demand of Last Sommer Is to Be Followed by More Vigorous ■Pressure—Explosion of a Rapid-Fire Gan Hurts One Man. The Ruiz Indemnity Claim. Another demand is to he made upon Spain for the payment of $75,000 indem-

nity to the widow of I)r. Itieardo Ruiz for the murder of her husband in a Guanabacoa jail. The State Department is preparing an instruction to Minister Woodford, in which he will be directed to call the attention of Minister of Foreign Affairs Sagasta to the fact that this claim was presented last summer; that it has not yet been paid, or, in fact, has a detailed answer been received to the note addressed to the late Minister (,'anovas. The only reply made has been a formal acknowledgment of the receipt of the claim. Since its presentation the admin, istrution has made no attempt to press the claim, partly on account of the negotiations following the arrival of Minister Woodford in Madrid, which have resulted in the inauguration of autonomy in Cuba, and the carrying out of a humane policy in the prosecution of the war. It is expected by the administration that Spain may take an argumentative course and endeavor to rehut the evidence produced by rhe United States, showing that Ruiz was murdered, by counter evidence that he committed suicide. The department received a letter from Mrs. Ruiz a few days ago, in which sh'e asked to be informed as to the steps taken to procure the payment of her claim. Mrs. Ruiz wrote that she was in needy circumstances, and expressed the hope that the United States would do all it could to obtain the indemnity demanded. The action to tie taken by the department effectually disposes of reports which have lieen jiersistently in circulation for several months alleging that Minister de Lome had pritately settled with Mrs. Ruiz, as was done by his Government in the Delgado case.

RAPID-FIRE GUN BURSTS. One Man Hnrt by Explosion on the Sandy' Hook Ground. After standing a test of seventy-three ivtmds a five-inch rapid-fire DriggsSArotedtr gun hors; at the Government proving grounds at Sandy Hook. Only person was hurt. William H. Murray, a telegraph operator, who was at work in a temporary office some distance away fr-nt where the gun was undergoing the test. His leg was broken. Several pieces of the gca crashed through the roof and sides of the building and either fell to the or pa -s«-tl oa out through the side of the building opposite to that through which they entered. Suicide of a Professor. The body of Prof. Harry Curth was found in the Ohio river at Cincinnati at a point not far from where his clothing was found three days before. Curth left his home one recent night, went to the river, and, after leaving his clothing on the bank, secured a boat, rowed out into midstream and jumped overboard. He was one of the brightest teachers at the University of Cincinnati. Close application to study brought on nervous prostration.

Kansas Prisoners Escape. Charles Robinson, alias "Blaekeye,” who was charged with robbing banks and postolHees in Missouri, and who was recently captured at Port Scott, Kan., liToke jail with George W. Finche, under a life sentence for the murder of Frank Swafford, and six other prisoners. They assaulted the jailer and took his keys and gun. Robinson is accused of robbing banks at Hume and Richards, Mo., and the postofliee at Nevada. Aerial Railway Is Completed. Hugh C. Wallace, at Tacoma, AVash., president of the Chilcoot Railroad and Transportation Company, has advices of the completion of the company's aerial railwny over the Chilcoot Pass to Lake Linderman. This marks a new era for Klondike travel, as the time between tidewater and the headwaters of the Yukon river is shortened from a month to one day, besides removing the peril and hardships. Insurance Rate AVar. St. Louis is soon to see a general rate war among the insurance companies doing business in the city. The Germania, one of the largest and most powerful companies, has decided to withdraw from the St. Louis board of underwriters and to reach out for business on its own hook. Associated with it will be the newly organized International Insurance Company pf New York.

Try to Burn a Town. Firebugs attempted to burn and loot the business part of Plano, fifteen miles north of Dallas, Tex. Half a dozen business houses in ns many blocks were fired almost simultaneously, coal oil being scattered over the buildings. The fires drew a large crowd and the flames were soon extinguished. Tennessee Deadlock Broken. The senatorial deadlock at Nashville, Tenn., ended in the re-election of Senator T. B. Turley, the present incumbent. The vote stood 40 for Turley to 44 for McMillin. Gov. Robert L. Taylor withdrew from the race. Measles at Dayton, Ohio.

There are more than 3,000 cases of measles in Dayton, O. It is feared that ail schools will have to be closed. Forty-fonr Sink in a Raging Sea. It is reported that the mail steamer Channel Queen has been totally wrecked off the Island of Guernsey. The owners of the Channel Queen announced that out of 65 persons on board of her when she struck 44 are known to have been drowned. Locomotive Explodes. The locomotive of a Norfolk and AA'estern train exploded near Welch, AA T . A'a. Fireman Will Jackson, colored, was killed and Engineer O’Leary was so badly injured that he will die. Heirs to a Fortune. A 1 and J. F. Reitz of Great Falls, Mont., have received word that by a decision of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania they have fallen heir to $1,000,000. The estate belonged to their grandfather, who died at Tamaqua, Pa., in 1847, leaving an estate of sixty acres of coal lands. Barge Carries Four Men Down. The Luckenbach towboat Walter A. Luckenbaeh, which sailed from Newport Kews having in tow the barges Yonkers and Halcyon, bound for Providence, when Barnegat discovered that the Yonkers bad sunk with the four men on

WOOED AND MARRIED

BY CHARLOTTE M BRAEME

“I believe it and respect you for it. For tome short time past I have fancied that in thinking as I did I was mistaken. Now I know it, and am glad to know it. I am sorry that you were sacrificed to me.” “Did you—do you-—pray do not be angry with me,” she said —“did you love any one else?” “I have been among fair women what a butterfly is among flowers,” he replied. “I bavo loved not one. hut a hundred. I might 6ay I have had as many loves as there, are days in the year.” “But the one great love of your life — the love that is given only once—have you given that?” she asked. “I understand. You ask me, in fact. If I had ever loved any one sufficiently to ask her to be my wife. No, I had not. My loves were for the day, not for all time. I have never asked any one to marry me, for the simple, all-sufficient reason that I have never seen any one whom I should have cared to marry.” “Do not be shocked if I ask you another question,” she said, with downdropped eyes and flushing cheeks. “Now that our marriage is an accomplished fact, do you think that we might make the best of it—might try to forget this wretched begininng? Could you never care even ever so little for me?” He looked at her thoughtfully. “I might deceive yon—l might say *Yes,' and play you false! but I will not. You are too good for that. No. not In the same sense you mean—not to love you as a man should love his wife —never! You must forgive me if these seem hard words —you have asked me for them.” The night wind sighed around them, the sunlight had died away, the moon was rising in the sky. “I am grateful to you,” he continued. “1 will do all I can to show my gratitude; you are and shall be mistress of the whole place. It is yours in so far as your money has saved it; you shall have every desire of your heart, every wish gratified. Your position is one of the highest in the land; you shall have ( to grace it. You shall have entire liberty; you shall invite whom you like, visit -rfhom you like; you shall go abroad when you will and remain at home when you will. You shall be your own mistress in every respect. I will always see that every honor is paid you.” “In short.” she said, “you will give me everything but love.” “Well, if you choose to put it in that light, yes.” “I accept the terms,” she said, gently. “There are many women who have to find the happiness of their lives in the fulfillment of duty; I must do the same.”

CHAPTER VIII. Three weeks had passed since the night on which Hildred hnd heard the true story of her marriage. She had tried hard to conquer the love of her husband which had begun to spring up in her heart. She tried hard to do her duty, to school herself In the knowledge that for her life was to be without love. But it was hard. She was young and impressionable; the earl was handsome and fascinating. There were times when an irresistible impulse came over her—an impulse to beg him to love her. She resisted it and every time she did so resist her heart grew colder and harder. “Lord Caraven,” said Hildred, one day, “who is the person—gentleman, I should say, perhaps—who comes here so often?” “Do you mean John Blant.vre, my faithful friend and steward?” he nsked, laughingly. “He comes every day.” “Is that his name? I do not like his face.”

“Why not, Hildred?” he asked. “It is not the face of an honest man, unless Nature has for once made a mistake in her own handwriting.” “I trust him implicitly—indeed, I do not believe I ever looked over his accounts.” She thought a great deal after that conversation. It had opened her eyes more fully to her husband’s character than anything that had passed before. She decided to study him. AA r as he generous? She thought at first that she might-say “yes.” They were riding out one day, and they met a poor woman begging with a little child in her arms; she was poor, hungry, all in tatters, with pinched face and sad, weary eyes, a pitiful spectacle of want and destitution. As they passed by the earl took out his purse and literally emptied it on the ground at the woman’s feet. She looked dazed and bewildered at this sudden bounty of fortune. He did not wait for any thanks, but rode on. “I wish,” he said, “that I could collect all the poor people in the world together, and make them rich.” “Was that generosity?” she said to herself. Yes, it must be. They rode on until they came to a small cottage—one belonging to the Itavensmere estate —at the door of which stood a man still young but crippled and bent double with rheumatism. A little cry of pain came from Hildred’s lips as she saw him, but the young man’s eyes were fixed with an evil light on the earl’s face. Hildred stopped to say a kind word to him; the cripple came out and stood in front of the earl’s magnificent horse. “My lord,” he said, in a hoarse voice, “I have you to thank for these”—pointing to his shrunken limbs—“and for these, also”—pointing to his useless hands. “What do you mean?” Lord Oaraven demanded, his face flushing with anger. “I mean this, my lord—that I was a strong young man when I took this cottage and brought my wife home here; now,” he cried, in a sudden passion of despair—"now look at me!” “What have I to do with that?” asked the earl, angrily. “This much, my lord—l spent all my bit of money on this land; I had none left for repairing the house—your house, my lord. The water came in at the roof and at the windows—the wind blew through the doors. I begged to have it repaired; I have sent more letters than I could count to agent and landlord. Neither has at--1 tended to me. If I had had the money I 1 would have done it myself, but I had not. I have had a sick wife and sick children, but never a shilling to spare for the broken roof, and your boartlessness has reduced me to this.” “Stand aside,” said the earl, angrily; “you men are never contented —never sat-isfied-stand aside!” “My lord!” cried the man, “the horses In your stables, the dogs in your kennels, are better cared for than I—they are better housed. If I die”—and feia voice

changed to a cry of despair—“my death be upon your head!” “Yon are an impertinent fellow!” cried the earl. “Out of my way, or I will ride over you!” “Pray—pray listen to him, Lord Caraven!” cried Hildred. But the earl turned angrily to her. “You do not understand these matters; you must not interfere,” he said—“a set of idle rogues.” “Stop, my lord,” cried the man. his f«*e paling—"stop. satisfied with taking my health and my strength—leave my character alone. lam no rogue; lam an honest, hard-working man.” “Honest, indeed!” cried the earl. “There is not one honest man among you.” “I will not answer, my lord,” he said, with quiet dignity. “I am asking a favor; it is life to me. I have no money to leave the house; if I remain in it as it is it will be certain death to me. My lord, it is but a few pounds—very few—do not refuse me!” But Lord Caraven’s face grew crimson with anger. “I shall do nothing of the kind. And let me tell you that I consider it a great piece of impertinence for you to stop me in this fashion; I have an agent to manage my affairs—go to him. Out of my road, and take care you do not stop me again.” The man went away and the earl rode on. Was he generous? Qply a few pounds, and for that a life must be sacrificed. She wondered to herself whose idea of generosity was mistaken—his or hers.

CHAPTER IX. Hildred’s heart sank lower and lower —every day brought her some fresh revelation of her husband’s character which was utterly unendurable to her. The worst trait of all was that he seemed to her, as it were, to lounge through life. He literally did nothing—no useful occupation ever seemed to attract him. He never read, he never wrote. If aDy letter of importance required an answer, he passed it to her or threw it aside. If the agent brought the accounts he said in his indolent manner, “Lay the books down —I will see to them soon;” but he never looked at them. He had but one idea, and that was amusement. No idea of work ever seemed to occur to him —self-indul-gence and indolence were all that he cared for. When the month of May came round he decided upon going to London. Halby House was prepared for them, and the handsome earl’s friends made ready to receive him with open arms. He had been welcome in hft penniless state, and, having married a wealthy heiress, he was now doubly welcome. Those who had won money from him before looked forward to winning more; those who had gambled and bet with him before looked forward to a renewal of those delights. He would be welcome.

A proud day for Arley Ransome was that of his daughter’s presentation at court. He drove to Halby House to see her before she went, and to him his daughter looked like a miracle of beauty. Full dress enhanced her loveliness wonderfully; her neck, arms and shoulders were beautifully molded, and they were shown 'to the greatest advantage, as was the perfect, rounded figure. The court dress was one of unusual magnificence—a silver brocade elaborately trimmed with rich lace. She wore a parure of diamonds; the waving plumes that lend so grotesque an effect to some faces gave her an air of majesty. The lovely Spanish face and dark eyes were a study In themselves. She was alone with her maids In her dressing room when Arley Ransome came. He sent up a little penciled note, saying; “Hildred, can you come into the drawing room for a few minutes? I want to see you in your court dress.” There was no elation in her heart as she raised her magnificent train in her hand and threw it over her arm. She went down stairs, grave, collected, almost sad.

Arley Ransome started as she entered. Then he made a low bow. “My dear Hildred,” he said, “I congratulate you. How beautiful you look! You were horn to be a countess.” “I am glad that you are pleased,” she replied. He was her father, and she was compelled to honor him; but she felt that she could never forgive him for having sold her —sold her for a title. “I think, my dear,” said Arley Ransome, nervously, “that it would be quite well if you could try to—to look a little bright. You do not look happy. How is it?” “Did you ever expect that I should be happy, papa?” “Of course. Most certainly you have everything to make you so.” She made no reply. The lawyer’s eyes glistened with keenest satisfaction as he looked at her. “It is a proud day for me,” he said—“the day on which I see my daughter in her court dress. Throw down the train; let me see the full effect.” AA r ithout a smile on her face she complied, standing before him, calm, beautiful, self-possessed. At that moment the earl, not knowing she wus there, entered the room. He stared at the lovely apparition. “Hildred, I did not know that you were here. You are ready, I see.” “Quite ready,” she replied, briefly. “Then we will start at once,” he said. Arley Ransome went up to him. “You must feel pleased and proud,” he said. “The most beautiful woman presented to-day will be your wife. I predict for her a signal triumph.” “AA r hieh will add considerably to my domestic happiness,” remarked the earl. Yes, he was pleased. He saw people whose opinions he valued turn to look at his wife; he heard her name whispered; he saw admiring glances follow her; he felt that among fair pink-and-white English girls she looked like some southern queen. But the knowledge of all this did not in the least warm his heart to her. And she? She had ceased to feel any great interest in his opinion. The time had been when she would perhaps have stood before him, and have said, “I hope you are pleased with me, Eord Oaraven.” She would not now; she was proudly, superbly indifferent. Indeed, she would have given much for the impulse, the desire to please him. It had faded away—died of neglect.

CHAPTER X. “Hildred,” said Lord Caraven, “Captain Fane will dine with us this evening. Try to get someone else to meet him.” She was in the library, busily engaged in writing letters, and her husband’s sudden entrance startled her. It was a bright morning, and the sun shone on her graceful 'head. She wore a pretty morning

costume, dainty white lace encircling Hie white throat and armi. A man’s heart might have warmed to her with exceeding great love—Lord Caraven did not; he, never even stopped to look at her, to make any inquiries about her, er to apeak a few words of kindly greeting. “I do not like Captain Fane,” she said, quickly. “Possibly—but then, yon see, that has nothing to do with the matter.” He spoke quite good-humoredly, but bis wife saw a slight flush in his face. “Captain Fane, you may be surprised to hear, was rude to me when I saw him at Lady Redsley’s ball.” “Indeed! I have never heard anything against -him of that kind. If he really was rude, you must have annoyed him.” “I did nothing of the kind, Lord Caraven,” she replied, quietly. "What did he do or say?” he asked. “I decline to tell. You evidently disbelieve what I say; but, if Captain Fane dines here, I shall not.” “That is as yon wish,” he replied. “I mean it, Lord Caraven. If Captain Fane dines here, I shall not enter the dining room.” “Then I must make an apology for your absence, and say that you have a headache,” he replied. “I will give no orders for dinner for Captain Fane,” said Hildred. “I think you will, Lady Caraven; if not, they will be given for you. Mind, there is a limit to my patience—you must not often abuse it. It is plain that you dislike Captain Fane because I like him.” “No, it is not so, I assure you, Lord Caraven. I was told not many days since that Captain Fane was strongly suspected of some unfair dealings at cards, and would be requested to leave your club.” “I do not believe it,” he said, abruptly. “It is mere gossip—it is not true.” “It is true, for the Duchess of Morley told me. She said she would tell me whom to know and whom not to know; among the latter was Captain Fane.” “It is all nonsense,” he said, but he began to fear there might be something in the story. The earl then quitted the room really angry at last. He was naturally of an even temper. He was perhaps too indolent to be of any other, but he was really angry this time. _ “A school girl like that to defy me in my own house,” he said —“it is quite unendurable.’' He rang for the housekeeper and gave orders for a recherche dinner. Hildred had gone to her room. She would not permit the servants to know that there was anything wrong. Her only resource was to shut herself up in her room arfd leave them to imagine that she had a bad headache. Shut up there, she heard all that passed. She heard Captain Fane's arrival, and dinner being served. She heard the sound of laughter —then came a silence, and she knew, just as though she had been present, that the earl and his guests were playing cards. (To be continued.)

BRITISH LUNACY STATISTICS.

Number of Insane Persons Who Recover Is Increasing;. Two things appear to be established prlma facie from the annual report of the commissioners in lunacy, and these are: 1. That the proportion of insane people relatively to sane people Is every year getting greater, and 2. That the number of deaths from Insanity Is getting less and the number of recoveries Is Increasing. But both deductions may be answered by the statement that the numbers have risen chiefly through the fact that more control is now being exercised over insane patients than formerly. The commissioners themselves do not draw any Inference one way or the other, merely giving the available statistics, and commenting only where comments are thought necessary to explain the figures. One of the main tables shows that last New Year’s day the total number of lunatics in England and Wales was 99,305, as compared with 96,446 on the corresponding day of 1896, being an increase of 2,919.

Of course, the population Is always steadily Increasing, and insane people, other-things being equal, may be expected to Increase with It. But even taking this into consideration, the number of persons reported as insane are steadily becoming greater. In 1859 one person in every 536 of the population was under treatment; In 1869, one i» every 418; in 1879, one in every 363; and every year the state of affairs has been getting worse, till in 1895 there was one in every 323, in 1896 one in every 318, and in 1897 313. The death rate has not gone up with the numbe rof patients, for it is reckoned for 1896 at 9.05 of the total number of patients, a decrease of 0.96 as compared with the previous year, and 0.65 under the average for the ten years ended 1896. The number of recoveries is not quite so satisfactory. In 1896 it stood at 38.53 per cent, of the total admissions, or 0.35 above the preceding year, but 0.48 below the average annual rate for ten years. It is in the merry month of May that most of us go mad. April, however,runs May close, and July makes a pretty fair third. April is the month for mania, and June, just as the holidays are beginning, for melancholy. In February most forms of the disease seem to be at their ebb. The five months, March, April, May, June and July, are usually responsible for many more cases of insanity that the rest of the year. The married man seems to have a greater tendency to go mad than the single man, and, what is worse, he seems to go madder. During the five years from 1891 to 1895 inclusive 962 married men with suicidal propensities were yearly under treatment, 738 bachelors and 171 widowers. The married women numbered 1,222, the spinsters 939 and the widow 353—London MaiL

Had the Required Nerve.

Her Father—You have the nerve to ask me for my daughter, sir, the joy of my old age, the priceless jewel in my diadem? Her Adorer—That’s what—and I want the jewel and the diadem thrown in. Her Father—ln that case you can have her. I’m looking for a man with nerve for her.

France to Protect Song Birds.

France has a law forbidding the slaughter of birds smaller than larks. Nevertheless, piles of such birds are offered, for sale in the markets of many French cities. A movement is now under way for enforcing the law and saving the song birds and the fields which they keep free of injurious insects.

BIG VOTE FOR SILVER.

TELLER RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE SENATE. Forty-seven Senators Go on Record for the Measure, While Only Thirty-two Oppose It—Debate Is Lively—Amendments Lost. Majority a'Snrpriae. The United States Senate has put its veto-on currency legislation by the Fiftyfifth Congress. After a debate, animated at all times and occasionally acrimonious, which occupied the greater part of the week, the Senate Friday evening, by the decisive vote of 47 to 32, passed the Teller concurrent resolution. The resolution is a practical reaffirmation of that of Stanley Matthews, in 1878, and is as follows: That all the bonds of the United States issued, or authorized to be Issued, under the ssld sets of Congress hereinbefore recited, are payable, principal and Interest, at the Wptloa of the Government of the United States, in silver dollars of the coinage of the United States containing 412% grains each of standard silver; and that to restore to its coinage such silver coins as a legal tender in payment of said bonds, principal and interest, is not In violation of the public faith nor in derogation of the rights of the public creditor. All efforts to amend the resolution were voted down by majorities ranging from 5 to 29, Mr. Lodge’s gold standard substitute being defeated by the latter majority. The vote on the Lodge amendment was: Ayes, 24; nays, 53. The events of the day leading up to the final vote were full of interest and importance. It was a field day for the orators of the Senate, no less than twenty-five Senators embracing the opportunity to speak upon the subject under discussion. That the debate was interesting was attested by the attendance in the galleries, which were crowded throughout the day, and that it was important was evidenced by the statements of several of the speakers that the discussion was but the preliminary alignment of the great political parties for the contest of 1900. From 10 o’clock in the morning until 7 in the evening the contest was continued. When the voting began it was evident that party lines were being broken on both sides of the chamber, but it was on the substitute offered by Mr. Lodge (Mass.) that the most decided break occurred. On the Republican side Mr. Allison (Iowa) and Mr. Burrows (Mich.) did not answer to their names on that roll call, and many of the Republicans voted directly against it. Upon the final passage of the resolution, some Republicans, who supported McKinley and the St. Louis platform in 1896, like Carter (Mont.), Chandler (N. H.), Clark (Wyo.), Pritchard (N. C.), Shoup (Idaho), Warren (Wyo.) and Wolcott (Colo.), voted for the resolution. Mr. Stewart (Nev.) opened the discussion. In supporting the resolution he maintained that money, whether it be silver or gold or paper, was a creature of law, the creation of money being inherent in all independent nations. He said that this statement had been upheld by the highest tribunals and cited historical instances of such creation of money. Dollar Wanted by Silver Men.

Mr. Cannon (Utah) followed in support of the resolution. He firmly denied that the advocates of free coinage were in favor of anything but a 100-cent dollar. “We do not believe, however,” said Mr. Cannon, “in the deified dollar of Grover Cleveland, which is worshiped by the present administration.” Mr. Jones (Ark.) said he made the broad statement that no Democrat, silver Republican or Populist had ever declared in favor of paying Government obligations In a depreciated currency. Mr. Jones, continuing, said: “I believe that the people’s conviction upon this question is more firmly fixed than ever before. They are determined to restore silver to its status before 1873, nnd we shall do all we can to accomplish that result.” The first speech of the day in opposition was delivered by Mr. Burrows (Mich.). He said that the Republican party was pledged to secure, if possible, international bimetallism and the President would do everything in his power to carry out that pledge. Meantime the existing gold standard would be maintained. Mr. Fairbanks (Ind.) followed against the resolution. He said the purpose of the resolution was not frankly expressed on its face, and it was only in the course of the debate that it developed that the essential purpose was to give an expression of the United States Senate favorable to the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. Mr. Wolcott (Colo.) thought that -any Senator, whatever his financial views, could vote for the Teller resolution, as it involved nothing except the carrying into effect of the Government’s plain obligations.

Mr. Foraker (O.) was opposed to the resolution. The enforcement of its terms, in his opinion, would not bring about bimetallism, but would force the Government to a silver basis. Mr. Allison spoke of the circumstances attending the passage of the Stanley Matthews resolution in 1878. To him it had not meant at that time a declaration in favor of the free and unlimited coinage of silver. Other coinage measures were pending at that time, and when one of these came over from the house the Senator from Colorado (Teller) voted to strike out the provision for the free coinage of silver and voted for a limited coinage agreement. Mr. Allison declared that the clear purpose of the pending resolution was to commit the country to the free and unlimited coinage of silver at 1C to 1, when it was almost axiomatic, the Senator declared, that such a course without concurrence of other nations will lead us inevitably to the silver standard alone and to silver monometallism. Mr. Tillman (S. C.) thought this discussion was simply the maneuvering of the great political parties for position in the great contest that was to be fought in 1900. The people, he said, would win in that contest. Mr. Cullom (Ill.) announced briefly that he would vote against the resolution, because it was a step toward free silver. Mr. Aldrich closed just as the clock marked C, the hour set for voting, and the' vice-president promptly announced that the voting would proceed.

The trunk murder mystery which for nearly a fortnight had been baffling the police of New Orleans has been cleared up. The murdered man was Rosario Cusand he was murdered in that city. The police are hunting for Vineento Azzarilla, his godfather, who is accused by the dead man’s brother of having killed him. Prussia is commonly supposed to lead south Germany iu matters of education, but among the Prussian army recruits for 189(l-’7 there were 0.10 per cent who could not read and write, while in Wurtemberg the percentage was 0.03, and in Bavaria 0.02. The case of the Three Friends, on appeal to the United States Court of Appeals from Florida, which was to have been heard at New Orleans, La., has been postponed. Sumatra kerosene is competing with the Russian oil in the markets of the far East. The supply seems to be iu-xhaust-ible.

M’KINLEY AT A FEAST.

President Declares Financial Legislation la Needed. The third annual banquet of the National Association of Manufacturers of the United States, which took place Thursday night at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York, was one of the largest and most elaborate affairs eff the kind ever given in the city. One thousand guests were seated at the tables. W arner Miller called the gathering to order. He said there was nothing political in the organization. The chief end of the organization, he declared, was to extend the commerce of the United States abroad. Mr. Miller introduced Theodore C. Search, president of the association, who spoke briefly. The wildest enthusiasm prevailed when President McKinley was introduced. Men stood in their seats, women in the boxes waved their handkerchiefs and the uproar drowned the speaker’s voice. President McKinley spoke slowly and was plainly heard in every portion of the hall. He said in part: National policies can encourage industry and commerce, but It remains for the people to project and carry them on. If these policies stimulate Industrial development and energy the people can be safely trusted to do the rest. The Government, however, is restricted in Its power to promote industry. It can aid commerce, but not create it. Much profitable trade is still unenjoyed by our people because of their present insufficient facilities for reaching desirable markets. Much of it is lost because of a lack of information and an Ignorance of the conditions and needs of other nations. There is another duty resting upon the national Government—to coin money and regulate the value thereof. This duty requires that our Government shall regulate the value of Its money by the highest standard of commercial honesty and national honor. The money of the United States Is and must forever be unquestioned and unassailable. Nothing should ever tempt us—nothing ever will tempt us—to scale down the sacred debt of the nation through a legal technicality. Whatever may be the language of the contract, the United States will discharge all Its obligations in the currency recognized as the best throughout the civilized world at the times of payment. Nor will we ever consent that the wages of labor or its frugal savings shall be scaled down by permitting payment in dollars of less value than the dollars accepted as the best In every enlightened nation of the earth. Under existing conditions our citizens cannot be excused if they do not redouble their efforts to secure such financial legislation as will place their honorable intentions beyond dispute. I have no fear for the future of our beloved country. While I discern in its present condition the necessity that always exists for the faithful devotion of its citizens, the history of Its past is assurance to me that this will be as it always has been through every struggle nnd emergency, still onward and upward. It has never suffered from any trial or been unequal to any test. Founded upon right principles we have nothing to fear from the vicissitudes which may lie across our pathway. The nation founded by the fathers upon principles of virtue, education, freedom and human rights; molded by the great discussions which established its sovereignty, tried In the crucible of civil war, its integrity confirmed by the results of a reconstruction, with a union stronger and better than ever before, stands to-day not upon shifting sands, but upon immovable foundations.

WHEAT GOES SOARING.

Reaches the sl.lO Mark-The Highest Price on the 1897 Crop. Cash wheat took another of those rising, sky hunting jumps Friday in Chicago, and when the smoke had cleared away and the circle of the charging bulls had fallen back, the cereal stood at sl.lO, and the bears, who got into the thick of the rush, had pocketbooks that looked an if an elephant had stopped on them. This is the top mark for wheat. September went up to $1.05, and traders were astounded when the December price was shoved up to $1.09. Now these figures look small, and further advances are looked for. It is predicted by well-posted men that the May figure will be far above Oven the present high quotations. Wheat closed at $1.04% Thursday night, and opened at $1.05 Friday. There were rumors around the floor of the Board of Trade of an intended onslaught upon the prices and a desperate attempt to run the mark up to a height never attained before, and the bears were on their guard. When the attack came, however, they were like chaff before the breeze. The bulls swept over them, and the price went up by leaps and bounds. The pit was a worse pandemonium, if possible, than on the day that Leiter and his colleagues first rushed the price beyond the dollar. Men were dancing around like monkeys on hot griddles; messengers rushed frantically here nnd there, and the uproar of voices resembled a spasm of many bulldogs headed up with ten packs of firecrackers in a gigantic barrel. The onslaught never rested for a moment. At every swoop the price went up another fraction, and it was not long before the fractional divisions began to be ignored and the figure to ascend by wholesale quantities. At 12:27 the sl.lO was reached, and the triumphant rushers rested from their labors. May wheat, meanwhile, took a small climb of its own, starting iu at 96%c and ascending to 98%c, but nobody took much interest—the big battle absorbed all attention.

ALASKAN VESSEL LOST.

Steamer Corona, Bound to Skagaway, Bashes on the Rocks. The steamer Corona, which left Victoria, B. C., Jan. 10, bound to Skaguay and Dyea, has been wrecked. All her passengers and crew were saved. This news was brought by the steamer Danube. It also brought the information that the steamer Coqtiitlan, likewise in the Alasknn gold trade, had stranded and had been badly damaged if not completely wrecked. The Corona struck a rock near the mouth of Skeena river, and at once commenced to sink. Lifeboats were lowered and the passengers were conveyed to the beach of the Skeena river. The steamer Al-Ki went to the rescue, and is now on her way with the unfortunate gold seekers. The Corona, it is feared, will prove a total wreck and that the whole of her cargo will be lost. The Corona had accommodations for 225 passengers, 130 of them first-class. Seventy first-class and seventy second-class tickets were sold in Seattle.

Told in a Few Lines.

The Queen 'City cotton mills at Burlington, Vt., have resumed operations. Their operatives were the first to resist a cut in wages. A bill has been introduced in the Ohio Senate to abolish capital punishment and substitute solitary life imprisonment for first degree murder. Peter Jackson is training ' faithfully across the bay from San Francisco for anything that may turn up in the way of a match. Jeffries is also at work in Alameda for his prospective match with Tom Sharkey. O. B. Shallenberger, consulting engineer of the Westingliouse company of Pittsburg, died at Colorado Springs, Colo., of consumption. He was one of greatest electrical engineers in the United States. Gen. R. E. Lee’s birthday was celebrated at Richmond, Ya., by the closing of the public and private schools, banks and public offices and business exchanges. Addresses were made at the Soldiers’ Home and Lee Camp Hall. A. Blackney of Covington, Ga., a traveling salesman, shot himself in a Now York hotel. He left a note saying that he was about to end his life because o'* unrequited affection.

CONGRESS

Consideration of the Indian appropriation bill consumed the entire day in the House on Wednesday. The debate was chiefly on extraneous subjects. The motion to strike out the appropriation for the Carlisle Indian school was defeated after considerable debate, 29 to 65. Ten pages of the bill were disposed of. The conference report on the urgent deficiency bill was adopted. In the Senate the day was spent iu a discussion of the Teller silver resolution. The Indian appropriation bill was passby the House on Thursday and the political debate which had been Jgging since Monday was transferred to District of Columbin bill, which fol it. The only two important the Indian bill as passed were 9 Stunnnation of the provisions tor,s9 of the gilsonite mineral 1 jjU Kiowa, Comanche, Apache to reservations, both of which ewt points of order. The featnreavß? tw bate Thursday were the jr Hartman (silver Republican, MW/’m denunciation of the financial policy'of the administration, and of Mr. Dolliver (Republican, Iowa), in reply to the general attacks of the opposition. In the Senate the day was spent in debate on the Teller resolution. The bill to pay the book publishing company of the Methodist Episcopal Church south $288,000 for damages sustained by that corporation during the war, after encountering an obstinate filibuster, which staved off a vote on two previous private bill days, was piloted to its passage in the House on Friday by Mr. Cooper of Texas, who was in charge of the message. The friends of the measure proved themselves in an overwhelming majority, and the opposition, finding it could hold out no longer, reluctantly yielded. The vote on the bill was 188 to 67. An evening session for the consideration of other private bills was held. In the Senate the entire day was taken up by consideration of the Teller silver resolution. It was passed by a vote of 47 to 37. The District of Columbia appropriation bill was before the House on Saturday, but the day was spent in political debate. The controverted question as to whether prosperity had arrived attracted the most attention aud interest, and testimony pro and con was offered throughout the day. At times considerable acrimony was displayed, but as a rule the debate was goodnatured, both sides seeming to recognize that it was merely a struggle to score political advantage. The Senate was not in session.

In the Senate on Monday two of the general appropriation bills, that for the army carrying $23,243,492, and that for the legislative, judicial and executive departments, carrying $21,058,520, were passed, the latter consisting of 121 pages, occupying the attention of the Senate during the greater part of the session. After a brief executive session the Senate adjourned. In the House all day was spent in debate on the Teller silver resolution. It was defeated by a vote of 132 to 182. The fenture of the short session of the Senate on Tuesday was a statement made by Mr. Clark (Rep., Wyo.), as a matter of personal privilege, concerning his vote in favor of the Teller resolution. He maintained that his vote was in no way inconsistent with his Republicanism, and declared he would not permit anybody to read him out of the party, as he was satisfied the masses of the party would not convict him of political heresy. The House devoted most of the session to the District of Columbia appropriation bill, but had not completed it at the time of adjournment. Some politics was injected into the debate just at the close, the feature of which wns a bitter denunciation of W. A. Stone of Pennsylvania by Mr. Mahany (Rep., N. Y.), for the former's position in favor of the immigration bill. Mr. Stone did not see fit to reply. Before the district Oill was taken up several bills and resolutions of minor importance were passed.

What Is a Creole?

What is- a creole? A creole properly and in strict sense is the child of any foreign parents who is born on American soil. The accepted use of the term, however, Is one who is born of French parents in the Franco-Latln States of the South,' especially Louisiana, Alabama and Florida. In those States the creole is the high-caste native, |»ut the term has been misused to designate the mixed mulatto races, descended from French or Spanish fathers ami Indian or other native mothers; blit this use is incorrect in toto. The word comes from the Spanish “crillo,” or the word “criada,” signifying “born hero.” In the gulf coast region the generic term “Daygo” (a corruption of the Sjanish name “Diego”), is used to cover all the mixed races except the Creole proper. He is the very Hidalgo of the coast country—the F. F. V. of the South, as it were. He is ever proud of his blue-blooded descent, and not infrequently comes from an old And titled family. He is proud, gracious, fond of cigarettes and sometimes absinthe, and lias inborn boycott on labor. The creole woineu have a languid and sinuous beauty and grace of their own, tardy equaled by those of colder blood and skies, It is a fad with the old creole families of New Orleans not to mix socially with the American society. A type of the class Is Madame Latour, in De Leon’s novel, “Creole and Puritan,” a grand dame of eighty, who knows no word of English and has never crossed Canal street.—Atlanta Journal.

Her Face Often Soiled.

Lady (to house girl)—You should take a lesson from the cook. You are slovenly, whereas she washes her face three or four times a day. House Girl—No wonder. The fellow ! who comes here to court her is a chimney sweep.

The Egg of the Ostrich.

The largest egg is that of the ostrich. It weighs three pounds, and is considered equal in amount to twenty-four hens’ eggs.

Singing Soldiers.

A French general lias inaugurated a plan of.permitting soldiers to sing when on the march, a privilege which has been strictly denied until recently. It has also been arranged that any soldier who can play on any of the smaller instruments shall"be provided with such instrument at the expense of the state.

Didn’t Strike Him Hard.

Ethel—Do you think that George was struck by my beauty? Clara —I hardly think he was severely injured.