Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1898 — Page 2

tgfyeJkmocraticSrntinci OF. W. BIcEWEH, Publisher. RENSSELAER, • - - INDIANA

OLD CRIME REVIVED.

MURDERER OF JENNIE CRAMER CONFESSES. Inside History of the Famous Nee Haven Crime of 1881 at Last Comes Out—West Virginia Court Relieves Mine Owners of Responsibility. He Killed Jennie Cramer. After seventeen years of roving, Robert Jones stands accused as a principal in the murder in 1881 of Jennie Cramer, a pretty, young girl of New Haven, Conn., for which James and Walter Halley, nephew and son respectively of a New Haven millionaire, were indicted, tried and acquitted. Jones told the story of his connection with the Cramer murder to a Chicago pal, who has told of Jones’ statements. Jones says he and Blanehe Douglas, Jennie Cramer and the Malley boys met after the theater the night of the day in August, 1881, that Miss Cramer disappeared from her home, and that after the theater they all drank wine liberally, Jennie Cramer becoming stupefied. Then he and the Douglas woman took the girl out In a boat, rowing to Savin rock, near New Haven; that he threw her out of the boat and she drowned without coming to the snrfaee once. He said Blanche Douglas sent for him to join her in New Haven, and when he met her she revealed the plot to murder Jennie Cramer and told him he. was to have $250 from her if he would assist her in the crime. Jones says he was given only SBO, and with that went to Canada. On the trial of the Malley boys for the murder of Miss Cramer it appeared that the girl died before she was thrown into the water. Her body was found on the beach off Savin rock pier Aug. 0, twcL days after she disappeared. NEWS OF WHALERS. Captain of the Bel'vldere Reports All Safe and Well. News has reached Seattle that W. F. Tilton, captain of the steam whaler Belvidere, one of the imprisoned whaling fleet at Point Barrow, has come out overland to Copper River and reached Nanaimo, B. C., on the steamer Albion. He wa.' six iponths on the way. It is reported that the whalers are all right and waiting patiently for the ice to break. One of the dispatches says that Tilton did not meet the overland relief expedition. Another says he met Lieut. Jarvis, of the relief expedition in an extraordinary situation. The Albion has left Nanaimo for Astoria and -Tilton is aboard. Before leaving made a report to the American consul, who has refused to divulge its contents.

HOLDS AOAINBT THE MINERS. West Virginia Supreme Court Hands Down an Important Ruling. A year ago one Williams was killed by a fall of slate in the Thacker Coal Company’s mine at Charleston, W. Va. Negligence on the part of the company was alleged and suit was entered by the administratrix. The Supreme Court holds that the law of 1887, whkih compels the mine owner to appoint a mine boss possessed of certain qualifications makes this mine boss the agent of the State and relieves the company of liability. The decision is looked upon by lawyers as leaving a coni miner no redress on account of badly ventilated or propped mines, as the mine boss is employed by the mine owner, and neither is responsible under the law. A similar case was decided the other way in the United States Circuit by Judge Jackson a few years ago. Near Indebtedness Limits. Corporation Counsel Whalen has made public a decision, in which he (holds that New York City’s contract indebtedness is exactly upon the same footing as its bonded indebtedness. The addition of this debt, nearly $21,000,000, brings the city very close to the limit which it may borrow under the law, and will tie up a great deal of public improvement for some years to come. Murder Women and Children. The rising 3 of Colinas in Zambales, Philippine islands, has been subdued. The Spanish troops killed thousands of Indians, including hundreds of women and children. A rebel meeting in Manila was surprised by the civil guards, who killed eleven hi the house and took sixty prisoners. All the prisoners were shot the same day without trial. Hoff Convicted of Murder. Albert G. Vereneseneckockochoff, better known as Albert Hoff, is guilty of the foul murder of Mary A. Clute at San Francisco, Cal., on Dec. 15, 1897. Hoff, who. was a carpet layer and upholsterer, beat Mrs. Clute to death with a railroad, coupling pin. She had employed Hoff to assist her in putting down carpets.

Conflict at Kiao-Choa. There have been frequent conflicts between the Chinese and the Germans at Kiao-Chou. The Chinese attacked a magazine, which the Germans defended. In the melee that ensued one German and one Chinaman were killed. Ives Defeats Schaefer* r Frank C. Ives defeated Jacob Schaefer at eighteen-inch bailk-line billiards for the championship emblem, a stake of SI,OOO and the total gate receipts at Chicago. The final score was: Ives, 600; Schaefer, 426. Big; Fire at Rock Hill. Fire at Rock Hill, S. C., destroyed twelve buildings, involving a loss of $250,000, upon which there was an insurance of $150,000, distributed in sixteen companies. The origin is yet a matter of speculation. Miners Refuse to Work. The coal miners in the Ohio district have returned to work excepting those in Jackson County. The disagreement was merely over the interpretation of the settlement between the miners and the operators effected by the Columbus and Chicago conferences. Kansas Wheat Do'ne Well. Representatives of the Kansas Millers’ Association have completed an examination of the wheat fields in central Kansas and report that the recent cold weather has not injured the growing crop. Dr. Lipscomb Fonnd Guilty. Guilty, with life imprisonment, was the verdict returned against Dr. W. H. Lipscomb at De Kalb, Miss. At the first trial for the murder of Charles T. Stewart Dr. Lipscomb was doomed to death, but the decision was reversed by the supreme court on technicalities.

Dies from Hydrophobia. Mrs. Elizabeth Vanname, a widow, 35 years of age, died of hydrophobia at her home in West New Brighton, Staten Island. Mrs. Vanname was bitten on Feb. 7 by a dog which ran amnck through the town, biting four other persons. Kills Civil Service Bill. At Columbus, Ohio, the Senate, by a vote of 15 yeas to 10 nays—l 9 being necessary to pans a measure—defeated the Garfield bill to give civil service reform to the State and city governments. The vote did not follow political lines. Report Our Flag; Is Afraid. It is reported from London that passenger steamers flying the United States flag will not sail from British ports, owing to the imminence of hostilities between us find Spain. Ex-Chancellor Wolcott Dead. Hon. Janies L, Wolcott, former chancellor of Delaware, died at his borne la D 9. vw, aged 00 yearly «. •” ~

PAYING THE PENALTY

BY HESCOTT

CHAPTER I. Before the days of colossal fortunes in America the Great Western Bank of Chicago was tooted as one of the solid financial institutions of the country. Why should it not have been when its cash capital approximated five hundred thousand dollars? Stephen Z. Kellogg of the North Carolina Kellogg family, who had migrated West in the early thirties, was the trusted president of this bank from the day its doors were thrown open in the fall of 1842 until they were closed to business some fifteen years later. Stephen was the eldest of three brothers, the other two being Amos D., a cotton factor of Wilmington, North Carolina, and Andrew, who died in 1853, leaving a widow, his second wife, and a stepson, Earl. Andrew, in fact, had left little else, though Jacob Kellogg, the father of the three named, had left them joint heirs to his estate. Under tho management of Stephen and Amos, their inheritance had quadrupled, while Andrew was doomed tq see his snug fortune dwindle into insignificant proportions; so insignificent, in fact, that the appointment of an administrator was deemed unnecessary—there would have been nothing save a small amount of personal property for him to have administered upon. The one article that Andrew did leave behind that was prized above all others by his widow was a letter directed to Stephen, the Chicago banker, requesting him to look after the future of his wife and son. % “Stephen is a banker and very wealthy,” he had said to his wife not a week before his death, “and Earl will stand a better chance of advancement in the West than here in North Carolina. Amos, to be sure, would employ him and see that you did not come to want, but I would prefer that after I am laid in the grave, you go to Stephen and leave the scene of my misfortunes behind.” So it was that when the doorbell of the banker’s residence on Dearborn avenue was sounded on the evening of the ninth of August, 1853, Julia, the housemaid who answered its summons, ushered into the presence of the banker, who on this occasion was the only occupant of the spacious parlor of his residence, his sister-in-law and her son, neither of whom he had ever before beheld. Mr. Kellogg bade his guests be seated while he perused the letter the widow had handed him. He was aware that his younger brother was dead, Amos having written of his demise immediately after its occurrence; but he had received no intimation that the widow of this brother, together with her son, expected to visit Chicago with a view of becoming members of his household, or that Andrew had left a letter requesting him to look to their future. The widow had taken care that he should not. Amos was not made aware of the existence of this letter until the date of the departure of Mrs. Kellogg and her son for Chicago. The madam had decided that the most certain way to attain her object would be to present her letter in person. “If I write and send it,” she had thought, “I may not receive a satisfactory reply. Perhaps advice would be all. Perhaps a check for a hundred or two. Maybe the words, ‘I will see what can be done.’ Our course is to go and go quickly. Once there, something will be done. I will take no chances.” Tears filled the eyes of the banker as he perused the last words written by his younger brother, and if he felt annoyance over any part of the contents of the letter, appearances did not indicate it. For a moment he sat as though lost in thought, then, rising from his chair, he cordially extended a hand to each of his visitors.

“It will be a pleasure to me, madam,” he said “to fulfill the last request of poor Andrew. For the present, at least, your home shall be beneath my roof. I will see that Earl is established in business, and if he be of good habits, capable and economical, ere many years roll by he may offer you a home of his own.” “Oh, sir,” began the widow, rising to her feet, while with her left hand she raised a convenient handkerchief to her eyes, “we can never ” “There, there, my dear madam! Dry your eyes and give yourself no further annoyance. Earl will bo fully able to repay me for all I may do for you. I am engaged in a business that requires trustworthy men, and may be able to find a place for your son in my bank. How would you like to learn banking, my boy? No training as yet in that direction, I suppose; but I judge you are somewhat older than I thought.” “I have passed my twenty-second year,” replied Earl. “I was graduated from the North Carolina University two years ago. Since that time I have been engaged in trying to straighten out the tangled affairs of my father; but, alas, it was too late. We were able to save nothing from his estate.” “Amos wrote me to that effect,” said the banker. “It is many years sin£e I last saw my brother. He was a poor manager, I fear, for we inherited equal amounts from our father’s estate.” “I shall endeavor to do my duty in any position in which you may sec proper to place me,” observed the young man. “And ns to my competency, you can soon judge." “Yes, yes. Well, I will have you located in a week’s time. Why, here we are talking of matters that may well be deferred for a day or two, and you people fatigued from your long journey.” At this point Mr. Kellogg sounded the bell that stood on the center table, and Julia appeared. “You see,” continued the banker, “my wife is an invalid, so that you will not see her to-night. My son and daughters are out for the evening. Julia, however, will attend to your comfort. Why, you have not dined!” “Oh, yes,” exclaimed the widow. “We patronized the dining car before entering the city.” “Well, Julia, this lady is my sister-in-law, Mrs. Kellogg; this young man is my nephew. You will conduct Mrs. Kellogg to the room next my daughters’ on the second floor; Earl to the room opposite. Tell Aunt Eliza to prepare tea for them. See that their rooms are aired and made comfortable. I must go up aud inform my wife of your arrival. Ah, by the way, your baggage?” “At the depot as yet,” said the young man. “Hand me the checks and I will send for it at once.” The sable Julia conducted her charges to the floor above, calling Tom, the coach-, man, as she passed through the hall, to whom the banker gave the checks with instructions. “A remarkably well preserved woman is my sister-in-law,” quoth Mr. Kellogg as he ascended the stairs. “She mnst be all of forty. Humph! She hardly appears twenty-five. Yes, she is quite a beauty. “Let’s see—what was her name before Andrew married her? I have it —Newberry. Now the Widow Kellogg. Married twice. Ob, well, she may marry again. Poor Andrew —perhaps his second wife helped dissipate hjs fortune. “The young man looks bright and smart. He must be all right or rAmos would have written me about him. Sitrange he didn't mdStion their intention of coining berg.” Here the banker entered the room of bit wife. v "Ah, £b»llt, dear, reading? ¥oq

be feeling better to-night. We shall soon have you down stairs now. Oar family has suddenly increased by two, and I will venture a five-dollar bill you will never guess who the newcomers are.” “I will not try, Stephen—it is too much trouble. But stay! You say that oar family has increased by two —your brother Andrew left a widow and son.” “A step-son.” “They are the newcomers.” “The five dollars is yours, Thalia.” “Oh, I have more money now than I can spend, my dear husband; but neither this widow nor her son have claims on yon. I had supposed he was Andrew’s son.” “She was my brother’s wife, dear. He died insolvent. I can’t understand it. She brought a letter from Andrew requesting me to take them under my protection. We conld not do less. The poor woman is in great trouble. I am quite sure you will like her. The boy is of Robert’s age—dark complexion—hair and eyes the same. No resemblance to the Kelloggs there.” “I may be able to use the young man in the bank. If not, I can easily locate him somewhere. He is a college graduate, and I feel confident has no bad habits. He may have a good influence on Bob—you know Bob is a little wild at times, else he would be the cashier of the bank to-day, Instead of Lawrence Terry.” “Oh, Robert is so young, Stephen! I have no fears for Robert. And as for Lawrence Terry—if he is to be our future son-in-law, he should have the preference above all others. You know Lawrence is three years older than Robert.” “True; but I am as yet uncertain as to his becoming our son-in-law. I have not given my consent.” “Oh, but you will! Laura would die if yon should refuse to. But we have diverged from the subject. lam quite content with your receiving your brother’s widow and her son. Now remember that, and don’t refuse your sanction to the marriage of Lawrence and Laura.” “You don’t care to see our guests tonight?” “No, no, Stephen; I have talked too much now.” “Well, you will see them to-morrow. Of course their stay with us may be but temporary. After a time Earl will be able to provide a home for his mother. I will see about Lawrence and Laura.” “I knew you would, dear. Well, goodnight.” “Good-night, my dear wife. And may you look bright and fresh in the morning.” And imprinting a kiss on the lips of the one he had led to the altar thirty years before, the banker left the room and descended the stairs. j

CHAPTER 11. It was after eight o’clock when the widow and her son arrived at the banker’s residence. A half-hour later when Julia entered the madam’s room with a tea tray on which was an urn of tea and a dainty repast, she found Earl assisting his mother in the unpacking of one of the three trunks that had constituted her baggage. “Oh, that was entirely unnecessary, Julia,” said the madam. “I informed my brother-in-law that we had dined. And yet, I presume we shall be able to do justice to the repast. I find this northern air quite a stimulant to one’s appetite. Place your burden on that table beneath the chandelier.” “Is you from de Sous, Missus?” “Yes, Julia, we are from North Carolina; so you see we are accustomed to the attendance of colored people.” “Dar ain’t no colored people down Sous, Missus—da’s just niggers—poo’ misable nigger slaves —dat’s all da’ is. Da’s colored people up yere dow, fer true!” “Are there many colored people in Chicago, Julia?” “Lor, no, Missus! How could dar be when da’s all down Sous? But Mars Stephen say one of dese days da all gwine be free; den I spec da come up yere.” “Well, you need not wait for the tray, Julia. My son is assisting me to unpack, and we shall be quite busy for a time. Those rolls look excellent.” “Da’s de bes’ out. My mammy made dem, an’ Mars Stephen say she’s de bes’ cook goiu’. You see, Mars Stephen bied mammy an’ me in Balemore when I was ’bout seven year ol’. I spec I’s nigh ’bout twenty now.”

“He bought you South?” “He did dat, Missus; but we’s free as de air now. Mars Stephen say so, an’ he know. He pays mammy an’ me he good money.” “How much, Julia?” “Bress you soul, Missus, I ain’t know dat; but he pays us lots; I spec ’bout sebenteen dollars.” The madam smiled as she raised a roll of red ribbon from the tray of her trunk and handed it to Julia. “You may be able to use that,” she said; “and you may go now. Tell your mother we are much pleased with her tea. Good-night.” “Lordy! Dat red ribbon is des de ting I’s been wantin’, an’ mammy wouden let me buy none —she say it’s stravigant. Tank you, Missus, tank you! Won’t I cut de shine off on dat Larkins gal now? Wait till Pete Rollins sees me wid dis rop roun’ me. De nigger’ll nigh ’bout go crazy!” And Julia, with her eyes sparkling, dashed out of the room, forgetting to say good-night. The widow and her son for a moment could not restrain their mirth. “Africa’s children are the same the world over,” Mrs. Kellogg remarked presently. “Well, let us discuss the contents of the tray, aud at the same time hold a confabulation over the present aspect of our affairs.” “Agreed, mother,” said Earl, rising from his knees, in which position he had been at the side of the trunk. They were soon seated at the table with the tray between them, and the widow proceeded to pour the tea, while her son helped her to the wing of a chicken. “We are at last located where there is a desirable outlook,” the madam said after a little. “There is finally a prospect of some of my fond hopes being realized. As you are aware, my life’s ambition has been to be the possessor of great wealth, and to see you a wealthy man. It was with that end in view that I, six years ago, married Andrew Kellogg, believing him to be a man of fortune. I made a woeful mistake. He was worth but a paltry fifty thousand. Stimulated by me lie strove to increase his means by speculation, with what result you know. He lost all.” “All, mother?” “Well, nearly so. Certainly I saved something from the wreck, for Andrew had placed ten thousand to my credit the day I married him. For a time I speculated with it with varying success. Finally I invested it in such a manner that when, on the verge of bankruptcy, he wished to withdraw it from my hands, it was beyond my reach, whether or not we shall in the future realize on the investment, time alone can tell —you know how it is invested.” “Yes, I know, mother. But you never can—you ” “Wait! I am not so certain as to that. But the time is not yet. Now this banker is wealthy. He may be a millionaire. The position for you is that of cashier of his bank.” “I am well aware of that, my dear mother, and I may in time attain it.” “Nay! You must. Of course you may enter the bank in a subordinate position, and there you must perform every duty with au exactness not to be surpassed. Y’ou must please your uncle. No matter how particular he may be, you must not leave a stone unturned to court his favor.” “My uncle?” “Yes, henceforth yonr name is Earl Kellogg. You must drop the name of Newberry, I shall request Mr. Kellogg to introduce you as his nephew. You will receive more consideration from those you come in ooptact with if they believe you his nephew,” “Mother, there is ope very great obstacle &at ijjw it&nd la .y»f t -Far the

moment I had forgotten it. Stephen Kellogg has a abn, and that son may be cashier of the bank.” “I had thought of that. ‘Rome was not built in a day.’ There are ways, and then there are other ways! Yon must, and shall, become cashier of that bank. If Robert Kellogg occupies that place at this time, we must bring about the change.” “I am favorable; but how?” “We will let that rest for the present. He may not even hold a position in the bank. There are other matters. Yon are a good-looking young man, Earl, with your athletic figure, your dark complexion, your black hair, mustache and eyes. And remember, yon will soon be twentythree.” “Why, mother, what on earth are yon driving at now?” “You must marry—one of Banber Kellogg’s daughters.” “That would not be a bad scheme. But, mother, we can hardly plan until we have been here a week or so.” “True; but we must lose no time. There is another thing. Mr. Kellogg’s wife, it seems, is an invalid. I must be very attentive to her. She may die—l had not thought to marry again after having made two failures, but —ah, well, we shall see.” “Mother, you are a great schemer.’’ (To be continued.)

LIFE IN DAWSON CITY.

The Real El Dorado to Be Found in the Far North. “The River Trip to the Klondike” is the title of an article in the Century written by John Sidney Webb. The author says: On the morning of August 17, at about four o’clock, broad daylight, we came up to that collection of forty large log cabins and five hundred tents, sprawled at the foot of Moose-skin Mountain, named Dawson City. Helter-skelter, in a marsh, Ilea this collection of odds and ends of houses and habitations, the warehouses of the two companies cheek by jowl with cabins and tents; a row of barrooms called Front street; the side streets deep in mud; the river-bank a mass of miners’ boats, Indian canoes, and logs; the screeching of the sa'wmill; the dismal, tuneless scraping of the violin of the danchalls, still wide open; the dogs everywhere, fighting and snarling; the men either “whooping it up” of working with the greatest rapidity to unload the precious freight we had brought—all of this rustling and hustling made the scene more like the outside of a circus-tent, including the smell of the sawdust, than anything else in the world. Dawson City seems like a joke. Eighteen hundred and fifty miles from St. Michael Island—this is where they have gold, millions of gold, and nothing better than a muddy swamp to live in; gold-dust and nuggets in profusion, and yet the negroes in the cabins of a Southern plantation live better than the richest man in the country. Our arrival at Dawson was at a very critical time. We had brought with us nearly four hundred tons of provisions, and this fact served to allay the anxious fears of many who were becoming panic-stricken at the idea that there would be a scarcity of food during the winter. No news had come to us by way of the ocean of later date than June 10, but newspapers had been received over the summit at Dawson of date as late as July 26; and so the report that crowds were swarming into the gold-fields had reached them, but was news to us. The town was thoroughly scared, and was overrun with men who had come down from the diggings, often twenty and twenty-five miles, to make sure of their outfits for the winter; and so determined were they to procure them that they sat themselves down calmly in line, like men waiting to bny seats at a firstnight performance, determined to wait until the goods were put’up and set aside in tjpir names. An outfit. a miner means everything that he uses during the winter, and this, being reduced to its lowest terms, means bacon and beans. There are other things, of course, in, tins and in gunny-sacks—flour, sugar, salt, pickles, dried fruit, desiccated potatoes —to suit the taste; but the work is done, and the gold is found and cleaned up, and miles and miles of the wilderness conquered, and cold weather and wintry winds withstood, on bacon and beans. It is the easiest food to pack, the quickest to prepare, and the most lasting and sustaining. The miner usually reckons on getting his outfit in November, because he can carry on a sledge, after the snow has set in, four times as much as he can pack on his back, and if he is foi-tunate enough to have dogs he can draw much more.

A Small Matter.

An 11-year-old lad, while studying his history lesson last week, learned that Saturday would be President McKinley’s birthday, and thought it would be a nice thing to send tihe chief magistrate a birthday card. The one he secured and mailed contained the following good advice: “In whatever station you are, God has called you to fill the place, and you should do your duty.” Saturday’s mall brought the boy a White House letter, addressed to Mr. who said he had been directed by the President to acknowledge the receipt of the birthday token and. to convey the President’s thanks for the remembrance. The youth was delighted with the attention, but was disappointed that the President should think he was a man and was anxious to rectify the mistake. The President was to leave for Philadelphia at 10 o’clock Monday morning, but notwithstanding the pressure of official and private matters the youth was admitted to the President’s room when he presented himself about 9 o’clock that day. Ah long as he lives he will never forget that audience. The President thanked him for his thoughtfulness, and presented him with the rose which he wore in his buttonhole. It was a happy boy who returned home and told of his success.—Washington Star.

Texas Parson on Euchre.

This is what Rev. Mr. Claggett, of Dallas, Texas, says about progressive euchre: “It is one of the cunndngest schemes of Satan ever invented to fill up his fiery dominion. It actually makes me blush to think that there is need to talk to Christians about the right or the wrong of this thing. It began as a fad, a makeshift of those who could find no other way of entertaining company. Now it is a curse—ordinary gambling.” The number of marriages is in the proportion of 75 to 1,000 individuals. People born in the spring are generally of a more robust constitution than others. Deaths are more frequent by night than by day. The number of men capable of bearing arms is calculated at onefourth of the population. On nearly every block in Japanese cities is a public oven where, for a. small fee, housewives may have their dinners and suppers coojced for them. Cigarette—A rank concoction with a light on gne god and nothing on the 9t|«,

FLOWER THAT TYPIFIES EASTER

Religious and Poetic Associations tliat Cluster Around the Lily.

| HE flower that typic .les Easter to all nations and to all peoples is the lovely as- ; cension lily, which blooms in fragrant abundance in time for the festival of ; the spring. Every florist’s window is 1 a domed with its ! beauty; every pri- . vate dwelling is perJ meated with its /sweetness; it elus- ■ ters around altar and shrine, and \ wafts its penetrating | odor through the Llim aisles of vast cathedrals. It lies like

a star on the coat lapel, of the man of fashion, and rests contentedly pinned to the waist of the Easter costume of the belle of the season. As white is the color of the resurrection, any kind of a spotless blossom can be appropriately used for Easter decoration, but the lily is the symbol sanctioned for Easter service by tlip annual repetition of centuries. From the time of that faraway morning, when the angel rolled back Ihe stone from the sepulcher and told thesorrowing Mary to seek elsewhere for her risen Savior, the lily in art, in religion, in fashion, has typified the spirit of the resurrection. The lily was the popular blossom of Palestine. Over and over again its beauty is extolled in the Bible, anil the story ■of its loveliness is continued from page to page, and the scent of its fragrance steals faintly through the ages that separate the nineteenth century from the centuries that were chronicled before modern time began. “Consider the lilies of the field,” said the wisest man that ever lived. “They toil not, neither do they spin, and yet t say to you that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.” The beauty of the Easter blossom is as noticeable to-day as in the days of the /reign of the sage king of Jerusalem; and all the glory of the yearly Easter raiment, which fashion and beauty together fender so enticing, fades into insignificance before the lovely purity of the perfect starshaped flowers. What is properly the Easter lily with its long waxen petals and fragrant heart, is often called by other names, but the delightful odor that Juliet attached to the rose called by whatsoever title, is indeli.ibly associated with the glory of the spring festival. It promises Easter when March snow and wind are unpleasantly dragging •out winter’s life, and presages warmth and sunshine with the advent of April. The calla lily is a colder blossom than •the Easter (lower; deathlike rather than suggestive of a new birth, but its purity •of whiteness makes it appropriately seasonable. The modest valley lily with its string of tiny colorless bells, shares also the Easter privilege of paying floral tribute to the joy of the resurrection. After the lily the symbolic emblem of Easter is the egg. Formerly they were inown as Pasch eggs, and stained with dye woods and herbs, were presented as gifts to friends and acquaintances. Sometimes they were eaten and sometimes kept as amulets, and frequently games were played by striking shell against shell. In some moorland portions of Scotland it was fort’ rly the custom for bands of men and girls to goeout rtirly on the morning of Easter and Search for the eggs of wild fowl to be used at breakfast, and the finder considered himself blessed for the coming year by the god of fortune. The original use of the egg at Easter simply typified the revivification of nature at that season of the year. The Jews used eggs at the festival of the Passover, and the Persians in their celebrations of the solar new year, which occurred in March, mutually presented each other with colored eggs. Christianity retained the ancient symbol, but changed its significance into new birth and the risen life of the resurrection. Many of the popular Easter observances date backward to the times of the pagan ascendancy. The goddess Ostara. or Easter, was the personification of the east,

or morning, and also of spring, or the budding year. The Anglo-Saxon * name of April was Estormonatb, and Germany still recognizes it ns Ostermonath. The worship of the spring divinity was deeply imbedded in the superstitions of northern Germany and was carried to England by the Saxons. Even to the beginning of the present century Ostermonath was celebrated in Prussia by ceremonial rites and bonfires. Like the May jubilees in England, it was mainly a festival of joy; joy at the rising of the long-hidden sun and at the awakening of nature after her drowsy winter’s rest. But the church turned natural rejoicing into spiritual joy, and substituted the sun of righteousness for the material sun, and the resurrection of Christ for the birth of nature, while Ihe bonfire is typified in the huge Paschal candle of Easter Saturday.

AN EASTER TRAGEDY.

IT was awful, as they tell it in the town of Genesee, Of the fate of poor Miss Wiggles and her brand-new Easter hat; It Is very, very seldom that we find a tragedy That contains so much of horror as was brought about by that. Miss Wiggles was a lady with a millinery taste That was truly quite remarkable; I nbver knew its like; She could make a splendid bonnet from the merest bit of waste, A bonnet that e’en Virot at her best would hardly strike. But it latterly did happen—oh, how sad a tale to tell!— Miss Wiggles gave up ribbons and laid in a stock of wings, Little wings of little birdies, and the larger ones as well — She didn’t even spare the little yellow bird that sings. And then on Easter Sunday, with her hat upon her head, With twenty-seven pinions snuggling all about the rim, Miss Wiggins went to service, and, as usual, she led In the saying of responses and the singing of the hymn. Now how it was it happened I confess I do not know, A miracle I doubt not must have been the cause of it; But as she sat demurely in the very foremost row Those wings began to flutter and to wobble and to flit. And before the poor dear lady could take out her bonnet pins And free herself, the bonnet hauled her upward by "the hair, And with sundry pirouettings and with several dizzy spins She floated up the steeple and out in the open air. —Harper’s Bazar.

ALL IN HONOR OF EASTER.

Mans’ Curious Customs Relative to the Celebration of the Hay. In France, during the middle ages, there were many curious customs relative to Easter eggs. Before Eastertide began the priests paid a round of visits, blessing and receiving eggs. The largest eggs were picked out and sent to the King as tribute. After high mass in the chapel of the Louvre on Easter day huge gayly decorated baskets of gilded eggs were carried in to the royal presence; the attendant chaplain blessed and distributed them to those present. Then came the substitution of the artificial egg fff sugar, pasteboard, ivory, and so forth, the cover or .case for some daintier gift. Beringer and other writers refer to the fabulous sums of money spent upon luxuries inclosed in Easter eggs. It is a little curious that as far as the custom of egg-rolling is practiced in the United States it has a national reputation only in Washington. How or where it started there no one now living in Washington can tell; but that the enchanting slopes of the White House grounds give it inviting encouragement no one will dispute. With every year the crowd of children engaged in the sport has increased, and the egg-rolling has finally grown to the importance of a festival. The public schools are closed on Easter Monday, and thousands of children swarm about the White House. The grounds are prettily diversified with little hills and intermediate valleys, and on the knoll above the steepest of these grassy

THE EASTER “ADVANCE GUARD.”

slopes the children gather. Baskets and boxes are quickly emptied, and the sport of rolling the colored egg begins. It has no apparent object, unless it is to test the strength of the eggshell and to see how many times it will go bumping over rough places without breaking. Some of the little ones try to roll their eggs against others, to see which will break; others run after their eggs as they roll down, to catch them before they reach the bottom, so that they may not break. But they are not long-lived. Even the hard-boiled egg has a limit of endurance. Before long the first comers have seen the last of their colored treasures broken and scattered over the grass. But the newcomers constantly arriving bring a fresh supply. S 6 the business of the day goes on with everrenewed vigor. The children come and go from 9 o’clock till su*ndown. t

How to Mske East`er Pudding.

To make Easter pudding, says the Woman’s Home Companion, put a pint of milk into a small saucepan, and set over the fire; moisten four tablespoonfuls of cornstarch with a little cold milk, and add to the milk in the saucepan, stir until thick, add half a teacupful of sugar and a tablespoonful of vanilla. Have ready a dozen eggshells that have been carefully emptied through a smitll hole in the top, fill them with the mixture, stand up in a pan of meal and set asid*e to harden. Turn a large soup plate upside down in the bottom of a round, two-quart tin pan, pour gelatin jelly over the soup plate and set aside to harden. Whip a pint of crean, turn the jelly out on a large, round dish, remove the soup plate. Cut strips of candied orange or lemon peel and put around the space for straws, and fill the center with the whipped cream. Teel the shells off the cornstarch eggs, arrange them in the center of the nest, send to the table, and serve in glass saucers.

THE DATE OF EASTER.

Why It Is Sometimes Barly and at Olher Times Late. The date of Easter is determined by the ecclesiastical calendar of the Catholic Church. It is a very complicated and laborious affair invented by Lilius, a Neapolitan astronomer and sage, under Pope Gregory XIII., at the close of the sixteenth century. It would be preposterous to tax the brains of modern readers with the abstrusce calculations by which the date of Easter is determined, but a few general rnles might be given for their enlightenment. The regulations of the council pf Nice are fouri First, Easter must be celebrated on a Sunday; second, this Sunday must follow the fourteenth of the paschal moon; third, the paschal moon is that moon whose fourteenth day falls on or next follows the day of the vernal equinox; fourth, the equinox is fixed invariably in the calendar on the 21st day of Maxeh. This calendar moon, it should be remembered, is not the moon of the heavens nor yet the moon of the astronomers, but it is an imaginary moon created for ecclesiastical convenience. From these conditions it follows that Easter Sunday cannot happen earlier than the 223 of March or later than the"2sth of April.

Origin of Coloring Easter Eggs.

In all oriental mythology the egg is the symbol of life, the mysterious appearance of a living creature from the apparently inert matter contained within the shell being so unexplainnble, on any principle of science, that the Hindoos regard the hatching of every egg as a direct interposition of divine power. In the early days of Christianity a great many Pagan superstitions were engrafted on the new system. The Saturnalia of Rome became the Christinas midwinter Festival. The spring holidays of the gods of the wood and the field were transformed into EastThe sending of eggs, as presents in the spring, was a common practice long before the time of Christ among both the Persians, the Hindoos, the Egyptians and the Jews, the.egg being regarded as emblematic of the resurrection of nature from a state of apparent death. Many, if not most, of the early Christians were Jews and retained the practice, coloring the eggs red in allusion to the crucifixion.

CONGRESS

After passing a bill to pension the widow of Gen. Johu L. Stevenson at the rate of S3O per month the House devoted the whole day Tuesday to the consideration of the bill to pay certain claims for stores and supplies furnished the Union by loyal citizens of the South during the war. There was a bitter contest over a claim of $217,000 preferred by the heirs of the widow of Gen. Robert E. Lee. She inherited the claim from Mrs. Fitzhugh, her aunt, who, it was admitted, was loyal. The claim wim finally stricken out, but the House reebssed before the bill was passed. It provides for the payment of about SSO claims, aggregating about sl,200,000. At an evening session pension bills wore passed. In the Senate, after the introduction of Cuban resolutions and a speech by Senator Mason, seventy-four private pension bills were passed. Then Mr. Tillman presented resolutions concerning the death of the late Joseph A. Earle, Senator from South Carolina. Eulogies were delivered by Mr. McLnurin, Mr. Chandler, Mr. Clay, Mr. Spooner, Mr. ChiltoD, Mr. Cannon, Mr. Kenney, Mr. McEnery and Mr. Tillman. A wild and uproarious scene occurred in the House on Wednesday when Mr. Bailey, the Democraticiieader, attempted to force the hand of the Republicans upon a proposition to overrule the Speas*or and pass a resolution recognizing the independence of the Cuban republic. Mr. Bailey presented the resolution ns a privileged question. He was ruled out of order by the Speaker. Au appeal from the decision of the chair was laid on the table. The House then went into committee of the whole and resumed consideration of the naval appropriation bill. The Senate 1 Committee on Foreign Relations hns agreed to delay action on all Cuban questions now in its possession until after the President has had opportunity to conclude pending negotiations. The House on Thursday listened to speeches on the Cuban question. The three speeches which stirred the assemblage to its depths were made by Mr. Grosvenor of Ohio, who, it was assumed, spoke for the administration, and who practically pledged it to the cause of free Cuba; Mr. Bailey of Texas, the Democratic leader, who announced the Democratic position ns for free Cuba, without war if it could be avoided, but with war if necessary, and Mr. Johnson of Indiana, who spoke for peace, declaring that it was our duty to go to the extreme in magnanimity in order to avoid the hprrors of war. In the Senate Mr. Frye of Maine, who reported from the Committee on Foreign Relations a resolution calling upon the President for the Cuban consular reports, requested that the resolution lie on the table until such time as the committee desired to call it up. Mr. Chandler of New Hampshire objected to the making of any such contract ns suggested. Mr. Frye then moved that the resolution be recommitted to the Foreign Relations Committee. After a somewhat heated discussion the motion was passed. Friday was to have been private bill day in the H&isc, but the rnles were stns'w pended and nivate bills will be heard Tuesday. TB naval bill was then taken up. After Breral hours of wrangling, during wbicllall sorts of amendments were offered «nd voted down and many speeches werf made, the vote was taken upon the Canboh substitute to reduce the number of battleships to one and to increase the torpedo-boats and torpedo-boat destroyers to twelve each. It was defeated, 78-—124. Mr. UnderwOod (Dem.) of Alabama an amendment appropriating $4,000,000 for the establishment of a government armor plate "factory. The amendment was ruled out on a point of order. Au amendment to reduce the price of armor plate to S3OO per ton was defeated. This completed the bill and it was reported to the House and passed. Then, at 6 p. m., the House adjourned until Monday. The Senate spent almost the entire day in the discussion of the resolution reported Thursday from the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations for the acquisition of the West India islands owned Dy Denmark and the session wnj closed by the practical withdrawal of the resolution by Senator Lodge, nS-fiuthor. While there was no attempt to force consideration for a resolution regarding the Cuban situation in the House on Monday, there was one brief outbreak in which the warlike temper of the galleries was manifest. It came over a bill to authorize the President to erect temporary fortifications in case of emergency upon land when the written consent of the owners was obtained. The bill was passed. The remainder of the day was speflt in the transaction of District of Columbia business. In the Senate prepared speeches upon the Cuban situation were delivered by Messrs. Perkins of California, Clay of Georgia, Mantle of Montana and Rawlins of Utah. The sundry civil appropriation bill was thou taken up.

News of Minor Note.

Judge Campbell of San Francisco has decided that a cat is not a domestic animal and cannot, therefore, be claimed as the property of any one. William Johnson of Claremore, I. T., shot and killed United States Marshal Arnold and was himself killed by Deputy Busey, while resisting arrest. Capt. Sobral, Spain’s late naval attache at Washington, who has plans of the United States coast defenses, has been appointed on the staff of the admiralty. In accordance with the wishes of Farmer Appleby of Hempstead, N. Y., bis widow caused his remains to be cremated and scattered the ashes over the fields. The winter’s gold output of the Klondike is estimated at $9,000,000, which will be sent down the Yukon by the first steamer after the opening of navigation. Miss ty. C. Stone of ltoxbury, Mass., has made up her mind to possess someKlondike gold. She has arranged to go with a party of twenty-four men, and they expegt to start about the middle of April in a Schooner around the horn. Provisions for two years will be taken. There is a movement on foot to organize a stock company in Houston, Texas, for the purpose of making that place a tobacco market, to serve as an outlet for the heavy crops of that State. Three thousand acres will be planted in Harris and the counties immediately surrounding Houston. There have been terrific storms throughout the British Islands. Trains were imbedded in heavy snow drifts, telegraph wires were down, people were frozen to death while traversing the moors, a hurricane swept all the coasts, producing tremendous seas, and great loss of shipping and human life. The cattlemen of she lowey and iouthwestern districts of Texas are experiencing much trouble and loss of stock by depredations of mountain lions, wolves and coyotes. _ The loss in the mountain districts bordering on the Rio Grande river will reach an average of 25 per cent. Lambs, calves and colts fall a prey to these voracious wild beasts. The troops at Fort Sheridan, Chicago, are to join the troops at the New York harbor defenses. ’ The work of deepening and widening the channel on the bar at Pensacola, Fla is being pushed with the utmost speed, and the largest merchant steamships now’pass without difficulty. It is expected that 28 feet of water will soon be obtained. Gov. Bradley of Kentucky has vetoet the fellow servants bill, which was con sidered one of the most important meas ures passed by the recbnt Legislature upon the ground that it wouM^ ake tb , corporations responsible for «„ Juries for which they ure not Msuonalhl wpr tb? wwitjtutiou of the