Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1898 — Page 2

BfteJ)ctnocrqti(Jfntinel «X. W. McEWEN, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - - - INDIANA

SIX MEN SHOT DOWN.

ANTE-ELEQTION RACE WAR IN ALABAMA. Blood jr Work of Negroes at a Political Rally Armed Men Colled Oat United State* Conscience Fnnd Has Received $207,452 Since 1811. Shot by Alabama Negroes. At the village of Cusseta, Ala., two prominent white men and four negroes were shot and several others narrowly escaped a similar fate. It was understood that the Populists would have a negro rally meeting near Cusseta, and H. R. Mitchell, the overseer of the plantation, with a score of negroes of his following, went to attend the meeting. When be and his party arrived at the place they were met and fired upon by a negro named Gub Avery and his associates. Charlie Morgan, Tom Combs and John Hill were shot. Mitchell returned to Cusseta and procured warrants for the arrest of the negroes, and later, ns the party surrounded the house in which the offenders were concealed, the negroes ofSbed fire from ambush without warning, seriously wounding W. W. Meadors and W. J. Busby, both white men, and Will Floyd, a negro. Armed force# were telegraphed for to Opelika, West Point and Lafayette, and 200 men armed with Winchester rifles, shotguns and pistols responded to the.cnll. Election excitement was at fever heat. Conscience fund $207,452. Amount Received by the United States Treasury Since 1811, A balance has just been struck of the “conscience fund” in the treasury of the United States on the 80th of June last, showing that the total amount received and credited to it since it was opened, in 1811, was $297,452. These moneys are covered into the general treasury as a miscellaneous receipt and may be used like other assets of the treasury for any purpose that Congress may designate. Remittances are received almost weekly. Occasionally there are two or three cases a week, and, as a rule, the letters are not signed. Frequently they are forwarded by clergymen at the request Of penitents. EMPRESS RULES CHINA. Dowager Relieves the Emperor of All Real Power. The Pekin correspondent of the London Standard says: “The empress dowager openly relieved the emperor of all real power. The ministers take their instructions directly from her, and Li Hung Chang practically supersedes the tsung-li-yamen. It is rumored that Sir Claude MacDonald, the British minister, before the tßung-li-yamen accused Li Hung Chang of betraying China to Russia, and it is said that Li Hung Chang has threatened to demand the recall Of Sir Claude MacDonald.” Standing of the Clnba. Following is the standing of the clubs in the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Cincinnati ..02 29Pittsburg ... .45 43 Boston 57 31 Philadelphia. 40 43 Cleveland .. .53 34 Brooklyn ... .38 53 Baltimore .. .50 34 Washington. 31 54 Chicago 50 40Louisville ...32 58 New York.. .47 40 St. Louis 24 66 Following is the standing of the clubs iu the Western League: W, L. W. ( L. Indiauapolis. 56 82 Columbus .. .46 39 Kansas City.ss 36 Detroit 39 54 St. Paul 53 37 St. Joseph... .31 52 Milwaukee ..53 4L,Minnenpolis. 28 64 Private Shot by Quart), Charles Smith, a private In the immune regiment of Col. Riche, who was shot by Private Mingo at New Orleans, La., while trying to sneak into camp, is dead. Smith had spent the night iu drinking and bad overstayed his leave. He refused to hajt when entering the camp, but on the contrary started to run. Minge fired and the bullet passed through Smith’s bowels and also broke his arm. Smith was 25 years of 0/go and a native of New Orleans.

Execution of Martin Thorn. Martin Thorn was electrocuted in the prison at Sing Sing, N. Y., for the murder of William Guldensuppe. When summoned to the execution chair Thorn showed no emotion, walked to it quickly, repeating prayerß after the attending priest. There was no untoward incident in connection with the execution, and after the current had been turned on fifty-five seconds Thorn was dead. Dives to His Death. A diving contest was indulged in at Findlay, Ohio, by Fred Swartz, aged 17, and Gusty Wagner, aged 16, resulting fatally. Swartz made a successful dive from a ladder ninety feet high into the stone quarry filled with water. Young Wagner followed in an attempt, but turned on his side before striking the water, receiving injuries which paralyzed him and will result in his death. Killed by Chinese Rebels. According to advices received by the steamer Tacoma, just in from Chinese ports, the rebels in Kwnng Si have captured Honing and Tien Pak, and are now sufrounding Wuchuensien, in Kwang Tung. Many officials have been killed. The situation at Wuchow is considered so critical that there is an exodus of wealthy Chinese citizens. Woman Attempts Suicide. Mrs. William McCully of Dayton, Ohio, wife of a former leading manufacturer, attempted suicide by sending a bullet through her brain. Heavy Storms in Missouri. Heavy wind and rain storms are reported from all over Missouri and eastern Kansas. Several buildings were unroofed at Knobnoster, Mo. A tornado did $50,000 damage near St. Joseph, Mo., and several persons were injured. Hawaii to Settle with Japan. It is reported at Yokohama that Hawaii has agreed to pay Japan £40,000 in settlement of the dispute which arose out of the exclusion of Japanese immigrants from the Hawaiian Islands. Nail Makers Fail. The Cumberland Nail and Iron Company of Bridgeton, N. J., after a long struggle, went into the hands of a receiver. Half a million dollars’ worth Of property is involved, including the personal estates of the chief officers. The. mortgages against the plant amount to $175,000. Queen Lil Near Death. The steamer Gaelic, which' left San Francisco for Hong Kong and Yokohama and Honolulu, carried ex-Queen Liluokalani to the islands for the last time. She has but a short time to live, the ravages of cancer having made such headway that medical aid can only defer death. •• Railroad Man Killed. Charles Johnson, a conductor on the and Missouri Valley Railway, was killed near Sturgis, N. D., by falling between the cars of a moving train. His body was cut in two. The remains were taken to his old home at Geneva, Neb., for burial. Outlaw Band Is Wiped Out, Mose Miller’s gang of cattle and bank thieves, town raiders and murderers, which has terrorized the Indian territory, was destroyed in two battles with the regulators. Three members are dead, fwe fotftlly wounded and three ppe j» jail, j '

TRAGEDY IN BT. LOUIS. Mob Tries to Lynch a Negro Who Had Shot a White Man. A murder that almost added a lynching with it occurred at St. Louis the other night. Edward Kennedy, a railroad man, was passing -a saloon and stopped on the sidewalk a moment. The negro porter ordered him to move on. Kennedy started slowly, which enraged the negro, who pulled a revolver and shot Kennedy through the forehead. As he fell the negro Tan. A number of pedestrians witnessed the murder and at once gave chase with cries of “Lynch him.” A police officer outdistanebd the mob and caught the Degro, holding the crowd at bay with bis revolver until a patrol wagon was summoned. Kennedy was not dead when picked up. He was placed in an ambulance and hurried to the hospital. The ambulance broke down on the way, throwing the dying man into the street. He was quickly placed on a dray and the journey continued, but he died before the hospital was reached. CHARLE9 A. BRANT IS KILLED. Ballet Ends His Life In St. Louis as He Is Mailing a Letter. Charles A. Brant, stenographer for an electrical supply company in St. Louis, Mo., stopped to mail a letter at the corner of Twenty-first and locust streets, and was shot and almost instantly killed. Three shots were fired, and three men were seen to ruq. Brant staggered across the street, nnd fell dead. In his pocket was an affectionate letter, evidently to his wife, but addressed to Postoflicc Box G 93, Asbury Park, N. J., also a will headed: “To Miss Mary Harding, Davenport Inn, Asbury Park, N. J., whom I desire to be notified in case of my sudden death, and who, in the sight of God, is my lawful wife.” Miss Harding is the daughter of Roger E. Harding, a wealthy citizen of St. Louis, to whom Brant was married in October, 1890, against the wishes of her father. They fi-ere divorced in April, 1897. Brant was formerly a hotel clerk at Los Angeles, Cal. SEEKS WIFE AND CHILDREN. Mysterious Disappearance of Pitts* .burgh Physician’s Family. Dr. Oscar Brunn of Pittsburg has written to a friend in St. Louis, Mo., to look for his wife and children, who he believes are in that city, where she formerly lived. She left Pittsburg several days ago, drawing from the bank $2,000, and taking her 6ix children with her. Her disappearance revived a former sensational story. Last year she was visiting her brother, Charles S. Bange, in St. Louis, and among her acquaintances was a swarthy man who passed himself off as a Cuban patriot and went by the name of Gen. Jantzscha. She one day ran to her brother and begged his protection, saying that the Cuban exerted a hypnotic influence over her. He disappeared and has since not been heard from. Her husband believes that when she left Pittsburg she started for St. Louis, but she has not yet been located.

Deal by the Sugar Trust. In connection with the annexation of Hawaii there have been persistent rumors to the effect that the sugar trust had concluded important arrangements with the Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar Company, which owns a monopoly in making raw sugar on the Island of Maui, one of the most important of the group. The president of the company is Rudolph Spreckels, and Charles S. Wheeler is vicepresident. These two are also on the board of five directors, the other members being C. A. Spreckels, manager; M. S. Wilson, a well-known San Francisco lawyer, and M. H. Hacht. The company’s New York office is in the Commercial Cable Company’s new building iu Broad street. P. J. Hoffacker is the local representative. On a recent afternoon Mr. Hoffacker said that C. A. Spreckels had left New York more than a week before for San Francisco. Mr. Spreckels had said nothing to him before leaving the city regarding any deal with the sugar trust, nor had he received any word on the subject since his departure. There was positively nothing of a definite character which he might say regarding it. Mr. Hoffacker gave much information regarding the Hawaiian Company. The Hawaiian company owns about 40,000 acres on the island, together with an enormous plant erected at a cost of over $1,000,000. There are over seventy miles of railroad track on the island constructed by the company, on which are operated four locomotives and 540 cars, fitted up for drawing sugar cane. In connection with the sugar trust rumor it is interesting to note that there has been a cleaning up of the Hawaiian company’s stock in the local market.

Panic Among Steerage Passengers. The steamship Ardandhu of the Tweedle line, trading between West Indian ports and New York, came up the bay the other day with a heavy list to starboard and the cargo stored in her lower hold on fire. The fire first made its appearance when, if the vessel had made an uninterrupted voyage, she should have been off the New Jersey shore and close to Sandy Hook. But leaky boilers and the breaking down of her engines delayed the Ardandhu at least thirty hours, and at the time of the discovery of the flames in hold No. 3 the steamship was off Fenwick’s island on the coast of Maryland. The wildest excitement followed the outbreak of the fire and several of the eleven steerage passengers, all Jamaicans, endeavored to seize the lifeboats. The third mate, Percy Sanders, was forced to draw his revolver to prevent the men from the steerage leaving the burning steamer in the boats. The forty-five passengers were all ordered forward and the women and children were first put into the lifeboats. It was nearly midnight when Captain Walker considered that lie had the fire in control and decided to continue on his way to New York. The women and children were then taken back to the steamer. On the trip up the coast, although it was apparent that the flames were being held in check, it was also clear that the fire in hold No. 3 was an extensive one. On account of the water which had been let into holds 3 and 4 the vessel had a heavy list to starboard, preventing much speed.

Pug-wash Wiped Out by Fire. The town of Pugwash, 1,200 inhabitants, a shipping port of considerable importance on the straits of Northumberland, N. S., was wiped out by fire, 200 dwellings, five churches, twenty stores, -three hotels and several mills being destroyed. The foreign shipping in port was slightly damaged. The town was little insured, owing to the absence of fire protection. The inhabitants encamped in the fields and woods. Several people are reported missing. Denver Paper Company Fail*. Judge Riner of the United States Court has appointed Francis T. M. McErney receiver of the Denver (Colo.) Paper Company. The creditors agreed upon this action as a means of recovering amounts due. The company’s assets are worth more than $1,000,000. Its liabilities are $580,000. Big Blaze in Minneapolis. Frazer & Shepherd’s sash and door factory at Minneapolis was totally destroyed by fire. The loss was $40,000. The fire started in -H. H. Bennett & Co.’s hard wood mill adjacent. This was also destroyed at a loss of $5,000, with no insurance. American Oarsmen Victorious. B. H. Howell, the American oarsman, beat H. T. Blaekstaffe of the Vesta Rowing Club by three lengths over the course from Putney to Mortlake, on (fie Thames, England, for the Wingfield sculls and the amateur championship of the Thames. Hawaii Is Jubilant. The arrival of the Coptic at Honolulu bringing news that the Hawaiian Islands had been annexed to the United States was the signal for great rejoicing. Many United States flags were hoisted in honor of the eveiit, Unrest in Central America. Gen. Prospero Morales, the Guatemalan revolutionary leader, who was drivep out of that country by t}>e late President terrloi, not botpf MtJagod with the

mission of power to President Estrada Cabrera, has announced that the news from Gunatemala is that the Government party is much alarmed and has concentrated around the city of Guatemala, daily expecting to be attacked by the revolutionists. The business community and many large planters are disgusted with the frequently of the recurring revolutions, and many of them advocate annexation to the United States or the establishment of an American protectorate, and some would like to be annexed to Mexico. AH factions in Guatemala have been restless since Cabrera took office. Prosper© Morales, the leader, Is a typical Central American factional chief, and his success offers no more guarantee of stability than any previous administration of Guatemalan officers. NEW GOLD FIELDS FOUND. Standard Oil Magnates Developing Rich Mines in Alaska. The latest gold tale comes from the Last Chance mining district, forty miles from the Dalton trail and 200 miles inland from Pyramid harbor, Alaska. The Standard Oil Company or the principals of that corporation have secured the best river in the district and have fifty men at work for wages. Henry Bratnober, representing a London exploration company, has a dozen men working in the same district. The Standard Oil people have taken up the chief claims on Khasha river. The men are being paid SSO per month and one-fifth of the gold output, besides hoard. The whole district is now located and the company’s agents are buying up all the claims offered for sale. Shorty creek, Alder creek and Union gulch are the main producers in the district outside of Khasha river. They are paying as high as $1.85 t 6 the pan and more claims arc showing up rich, though bedrock has not been reached. A number of Skaguay men are working claims on these creeks. All are making plenty of money. The Standard Oil and Bratnober syndicates are taking in more men to prospect the creeks in the surrounding country. Haytl Refuses the Request. The Government of Hayti has declined to permit the United States Goyernment to establish a weather station on its domain. Its action follows a request for this privilege made by the Secretary of State at the instance of the Secretary of Agriculture, with an express explanation of the purposes sought, and that the Haytian Government would thus get the benefit of our weather service. The declination, however, was definite, and doubtless was based on a fear it would offend against neutrality between the United States and Spain.

From La Bourgogne’s Wreck. The Bchooner Delight, Captain McDonald, arrived at St. John’s, N. F., the other day and reported passing through a quantity of wreckage from the lost French line steamer La Bourgogne off Sable Island. Captain McDonald launched a boat and rowed to some dead bodies which he descried floating about the wreckage. He found the bodies, of several men and women, from which he removed rings, watches, pocketbooks and other" property which would help to identify them. Captain McDonald turned the property over to the Government. Family Starves in Cleveland. A shocking case of destitution has Just come to light in Cleveland, Ohio, through the death of Elizabeth Harley, aged 15 years, which, according to the coroner, was caused by starvation. HeT mother has been driven insane for lack of food, the father is in a still more pitiable condition and throe other children of the family are nearly dead. William Harley, the father, has been out of work for the last year and a half. Yacht Wrecked on Lake Erie. The yacht Clipper, owned by William Arhuckle, a prominent Toledo attorney, was struck by a squall off Greeji Island, in Lake Erie, and capsized. William Arbuckle, Jr., son of the owner of the yacht, and Marcus Battelle, two of the crew, were drowned. The Clipper had been attending the inter-lake yacht regatta at Put-in-Bay. Officer Shoots the Court. While Judge Parry of the County Court at Manchester, England, was delivering judgments cancelling the commission of Court Bailiff Taylor for misconduct, the latter drew a revolver and fired three shots nt the judge. It is feared Judge Parry’s Injuries will prove fatal.

F tabbed by a Rival. In a saloon fight at Wichita, Kan., Fred Schernboldt Btabbed Dave Rhodes, a man about town. The weapon used was a stiletto. The fight grew out of trouble about a woman, the sweetheart of Rhodes, to whom Schernboldt had been offering attentions. Rhodes cannot live. Could Find No Privateers. The torpedo boat destroyer Sparrowhawk has returned to Victoria, B. C., from an unsuccessful search for privateers in northern waters. At the order Of Admiral Palliser, H. M. S. Pheasant has scoured Queen Charlotte’s sound, but without avail. North Dakota Crops Rnlned, A. E. Grant, the railroad contractor, has arrived in Duluth after having been all over North Dakota. He says the crops in the northern half of that State are ruined by drought and hail. Miss Marie Tempest Weds. Miss Marie Tempest, the actress and light opera singer, was privately married in London to Cosmo Stuart. Mr. Stuart is wealthy aud has figured as an actor and financial backer of plays. Riot at Ledford, 111. Striking miners and non-union men at Ledford, 111., engaged in a bloody riot, in the course of which several on both sides were injured with knives and missiles. California Fruit Shortage. A shortage of about 25 per cent in the pear, peach and apricot crops of California is reported.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 70c to 71c; corn, No. 2,33 cto 84c; oats, No. 2,24 c to 25c; rye, No. 2,42 cto 44c; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 18c; eggs, fresh, 11c to 12c; potatoes, choice, 45c to 60c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, common to choice, SB.OO to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 64c to 66c; corn, No. 2 white, 35c to 30c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 28e. St. Louis —Cattle, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $3.75 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,70 cto 72c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 32c to 34c; oats, No. 2,23 cto 25c; rye, No. 2,44 cto 46c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2, 67 cto 09c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 35c to 37c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 24c to 25c; rye, No. 2,41 cto 43c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.25 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2,67 cto 69c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 35c to 37c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 29c; rye, 44c to 45c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 68c to 69c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 84c to 36c; oats, No. 2 white, 26c to 27c; rye, No. 2,42 c to 44c; clover seed, $3.25 to $3.35. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 82c to 84c; corn, No. 3,34 cto 36c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 29c; rye, No. 2,43 cto 45c; barlpy, No. 2,45 cto 47c; pork, mess, $9.25 to $9.75. Buffalo—Cattle, good shipping $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, common to choice, $3.50 to $4.50; sheep, fair to choice wethers, $3.50 to $5.00; lambs, common to extra, $5.00 to $6.50. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00. to $4.75; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 73c to 75c; corn, No. 2, 88 c ffl 89c; oats, No- 2 white, 31c to 32c; b«t*ef, creamery, J4c to 19Ci pgga,

A Dangerous Secrest.

By FLORENCE MARYATT.

CHAPTER I. Mrs. Hephzibah Horton has just come In from a weary trudge through the mud and the grease of the city on a foggy November afternoon; from standing in dingy offices until pert clerks shall have thought fit to deliver her messages to their masters; from fighting her way into omnibuses over a chevaux de frise of damp umbrellas and dirty petticoats, and she thinks she has earned the right to make herself comfortable. Miss Hephzibah Horton is her legal denomination, for no man has persuaded her to enter into bondage to his will; but she stands out for the “Mistress” before her name on the plea that no woman has a better right to hear it than she who' has never been a slave. And since she has turned the corner of the forties, nobody dreams of disputing her right to do as she thinks best in the matter. From little beginnings she has risen to solid, if not great ends; and now, at the age when most women, if not married, have become soured through disappointment, Mrs. Hephzibah’s days are employed in a continuous round of duty, which leaves her no time for discontent. She does not realize large sums for her work. She is not a fashionable novelist, able to command a thousand dollars for a thousand pages of bad grammar and worse taste; she is obliged to he as careful of her diction as of her subject, for she writes chiefly for the press, and there are too many competitors entered for that race not to render it necessary to keep one’s eye fixed upon the winning post. A low tapping has been going on at the door; but it is some time hefhre she notices it.

“Come in,” she calls out rather impatiently; adding: “If it’s the boy from the Aurora office, Sarah, just tell him that the copy is not ready, and it won’t be ready till to-morrow morning, so it is of no use waiting. I’ll send it by the first post.” “It’s not Sarah, Mrs. Horton; it’s me,” replies the low voice of somebody who has partially opened the sitting room door. Delia Moray, whatever brings you round here on such a night as this?” “I wanted to see you, to speak to you,” says the stranger, in a hesitating manner. “Besides, it is on my way to the theater.” “Now you must take off your things and have some tea with me. It will warm you before your walk to the theater. How cold your hands are. Come nearer to the fire. Why, my dear!—my dear!—what’s this?” For Delia Moray has sunk on a footstool at Mrs. Hephzihah’s feet, and, laying her head upon her lap, commenced to sob bitterly. “Oh! Mrs. Horton, I am very, very miserable.” All the hardness fades out of the elder woman’s face as she lays her hand upon her friend’s head, and pats it soothingly. “I’m sorry to hear it, Delia Moray, but I could have told you as much long ago. What else eau you expect, when you put yourself in the pojver of a man? Don’t you know that tneir tender mercies last just as long as their admiration of you, and that a worn-out woman is much the same to them, as a worn-out suit of clothes —only fit to be chucked away?” “I was so young,” pleads Delia. “I knew so little of the world. I never thought it would c»me to this.” “So every poor fool says, who has made a trial of them.” “But I feel as if I couldn’t stand it any longer. I wouldn’t mind his cruelty to myself, Mrs. Horton! I could bear that—but it is the child!” “What of the child ? How can he harm him?” “He uses him as a tool to extract my submission, and if I rebel in the least thing he makes my poor Willie suffer for it. I can hardly describe to you the pass things have come to. He is hardly ever sober, night or day. I have worked to supply him and the child with the necessaries of life; but he takes every penny I earn for drink, and when I remonstrate with him,_ and show him that Willie has not sufficient food or clothes, he insults and ill-uses me. Last night he threatened to turn me out of doors. Look at my arms!” she exclaims suddenly, as she pushes up the sleeve of her thin alpaca dress, and shows the angry red and blue marks of a fresh bruise.

She is a pretty woman, of five-and-twenty, this Delia Moray, or she would be pretty if she were not so thin and worn. Her Irish breeding is evinced by her blue orbs, black hair and rose-leaf complexion; but all trace of the national archness and espieglerie has deserted her countenance. Her sorrowful eyes are surrounded by dark rims—the effect of constant weeping—and there is a sad drooping about her pretty, quivering mouth. Yet the inherent fire of her race is only sleeping in her. It has nearly been extinguished by ill-usage, but the embers smolder still, and only need a helping hand to fan them into a flame. “And that scoundrel can make a beast of himself upon your hard-earned wages, and then treat you like that,” says Mrs. Hephzibah, meditatively. “Now, be frank with me, and tell*me the whole truth. Have you ever given him reason to be jealous of you?” “Never!” “What made you marry this man?” demands Mrs. Hephzibah. abruptly, as the slight meal is concluded. Delia Moray looks up with a startled, flushed face. “Didn’t you hear my question? I don’t ask it without a purpose. I want to learn all you can tell me about your former life. Perhaps I may be able to help you.” “How can you help me?” “Never mind! We’ll talk of that by and by. Tell me now about your marriage. Where did you meet Mr. Moray?” “Miles away from here, at a little town in Scotland where I was playing.” “Was he on the stage as well?” “Oh, no! He was a clerk in a bank, or some house of business in Glasgow; but he got into trouble, and had to leave.” “He was kicked out, you mean! Did he embezzle money?” “I am afraid so; but he never told me the entire story, and I did not think it of much consequence then. I was only sixteen. James saw me first upon the stage at Greenock, and when he proposed to me I thought it a grand thing to be married to him. I had no parents or relations, that I knew of, and his people were thought a great deal of in Glasgow.” “Was your marriage with him a secret one?”

“He kept It a secret from his family. They were very proud, he said, and he was afraid if they heard he had married an actress they would refuse to help him any further. So we waited till we could cross the border and were married in Berwick.” “I’m sorry for that! If it had been done in Scotland, we might have proved it to be an irregular marriage. What is the name of the place at which you were married?” “Chilton. Oh! I shall never forget that day, Mrs. Hephzibah. I was frightened out of my senses; and jtbe horrible old man who married ns was so tipsy he could hardly get through the service. And the very sajne night the little church in which we were married was burned to the ground.” “Burned to the ground, child! What! entirely destroyed?” “I believe so. They said it was struck tor Mfhtstof, but io»e people thought the

clergyman had set fire*Jo it himself; andj I am sure he was .enough for any-1 thing.” “Delia Moray!” excbrfms Mrs. Hephzi-j bah, suddenly, .“have yon got t your mar-j riage certificate?!’ “Yes! I have a' <SJpy of It. It tv*s given! us before we left die church. Ifot why* do you ask, Mrs; Horton T'- —with, a dis-i tressed countentfnM —“surely you do not/ suspect that I am iß>t : married fco-hikn ?” “No, child! Not ftt would? be much better, may be, if you were'not. Bkzt the, man is a villain, and may turn roraidVuponj you any day. Keep the certificate .sate. Don’t let it go out of your bands, or* you may find your name ruined before you know where you are. ’Burned to the ground! I never heard of such $ thirlg before. And what became of the drunken parson Y* “I have heard nothing of him sinoe. BJor a few months we lived near Glasgow, and then James was unfortunate, and lost |»is situation, and I had to go on the staige again, and have been there ever since.’*’ "While he does nothing." ,f No, nothing. He says he can’t get anything to do.” v “An idle excuse, he prefers to live upon your salary. But it appears to me that things have coane to a crisis, and that you ought to do something to free yourself from the clu’tches of this scoundrel. Your friends canfO help you, because you’ve got none, and Ms friends/ won’t. Nothing remains for ywi, there*! fore, Delia Moray, but to take the law| into your own hands and help yotirself.” At these words the younger woman’s face becomes a picture of despair. “How can I help rhyself ?” she cries. “As other wives hdwe done before you.i Have you never heard,of such a thing as, a protection order?” "Never.” “Really, the ignorance of our sex ugpon{ matters of general information is astovCnd-* ing! I should have thought it was the! interest of every married?woman in Chris-* tendom to make herself ! acquainted with the relief the law contains for her. It’s little enough, my dear, I can tell would burden no one’s brains to get by heart. A protection or dor, obtained! from a magistrate, would render you safe’from the assaults of that man'to-morrow, and enable you to live in peade, and support yourself and your child.” “Oh, Mrs. Horton! can be true? I thought that a woman, married, was bound to remain witn\her husband till his death. I thought he could force her to live with him.” “So he can, if he supports her—not if she supports him. Thank\ goodness! we are not quite such slaves as^that! though, in my opinion, marriage is a one-skled contract, under the best of circumstances. Now, mind you look in again to-mopow evening, and hear if I have Jbeen abife to extract any sense out of my* stupid' old hnvyer.” But long after Delia Moray, .jvitji her bruised body and sick heart, has**,Crept away to her evening’s occupation, tMrs. Hephzibah sits motionless, staring’into the fire, and wondering what she can-do to alleviate her position.

CHAPTER 11. Delia Moray, drawing her woolen wrap closely about her mouth to prevent the thick November fog finding its way down her throat, traverses the sloppy streets to the stage entrance of the Corinthian Theater, where she has been employed, on and off, for three years. Inside the theater little is known of the girl’s private history, except that she is married. Of this fact she has never made concealment, using it as a protection in her dangerous position; but since her husband never appears upon th<* scene, either 1 to conduct her to the theateir or to take her home, she has not found bus name of nearly so much use to her as her own. Most of the women employed in the same line of business consider that Miss Merton “gives herself airs.” The part she has to play to-night—a secondary character In the opening' farce —she has acted over and over again, until she is utterly sick of it. She dresses for it almost in silence, while the girls around her are relating all the adventures that have befallen them since the evening before, and she is pondering on the conversation she held with Mrs. Hephzibah Horton* She walks on the stage and goes through her part almost mechanically; words and gestures following each other in the old accustomed way, while the actress’ heart is brooding over the probability—nol not the probability, the possibility—of a release from her present intolerable bondage. Her lodgings are situated a long way from the theater, somewhere in the back streets of the city; but how can three people live decently on a couple of pounds a week? It is half an hour or more before Delia Moray reaches the dingy old house in which she and her husband live, in company with half a dozen other families, as poor as themselves. The door is opened to her by her landlady, a battered old woman, who rejoices in a wig of disheveled curls—a legacy, probably, left her by some of her theatrical lodgers in exchange for rent—surmounted by a black cap adorned with every sort of dirty artificial flower, but who keeps a kind heart in her bosom, nevertheless, and is particularly interested in Delia, whom she constantly declares she will not see "put upon.” The mother is in a hurry to see her boy. She runs up one, two, three flights of 6tairs and quickly enters a dingy sitting room. There is a strong smell of beer and tobacco pervading the place; but it is empty and the fire has burned down In Ibe grate. Delia turns into the bedroom. All is in darkness. She makes her way up to the bed, and lays her cheek down upon the pillow. The bed is vacant—no one is there! Then a sudden fear attacks her. What has become of her child? She rushes out upon the landing, and calls to the woman who let her in at the front door: “Mrs. Timson! Mrs. Timson! Where is my Willy? Who has taken my boy away? Speak to me; tell me where he is gone to —for the love of heaven!” The woman in the brown curls and artificial flowers comes limping up the stairs. “Lor 1 bless yo», Mrs. Moray! you’re no call to be in such a stew. I would have told you where he was at first, if you -’adn’t run past me like a whirlwind. The boy’s only gone out with his pa.” “With Mr. Moray, and at this time of the night! Wherever can they have gone?’ ; “That I can’t tell yon. All I know is that I was just'going to slip off the child’s things and put him to bed, when your ’usband called to me to put on his ’at and comforter, as he was going to take him along of him. I said it wasn’t fit weather to take the boy out, with his cough, too; but all I got for my pains was to be told to mind my own business. The other gentleman was here, too, and went out with them.” “What! Mr. William Moray, his brother?” “To be sure. They left about seven, and 'aven’t been back since. When I ’eard your knock I ’oped it was them; for I knew you’d worry terrible to come home and find Willy gone.” “Oh, Mrs. Timson! it will kill him—in m weatfcwl” I9bi Della,

“Don’t go to talk such nonsense, ma’am. The boy won’t tafae no ’arm, though he was coughing terrafle, to be sure, as I let ’em out The gentleman seemed in high feather, though. Perhaps your ’usband ’ad some good news—’eard of an appointment maybe, or \ something of that sort—and it’ll tarn outfall for the best; so don’t you take on like that now.” “Oh, will he ever come back, Mrs. Timson—will he ever come back? Surely something dreadful must have happened to them! Mr. Moray is taken ill, or Willy has been run over by a cab! What else should keep them so late? I am frightened out of my life waiting for them in v horrible suspense!” this sense, my dear!” returns the laod“Noik *eally. “You know your good lady prady bits well enough. It’s much gentlemanrs ‘a. K een a bit overtaken by more likely he's; * his way *ome. But, liquor, and can’t fiau are!” bless my soul, ’ere they . ’ey must be— And here, sure enough, tn.. 't be—for or at all events, somebody mu*>. -mces the knocker on the hall door comtu. to sound and continues to sound as in* orously as it can, until every lodger in the" house is wakened from his slumbers. Delia flies downstairs to open the door, while Mrs. Timson limps after her, growling audibly at the unnecessary commotion mjhde by the returning party.

“As if it wasn’t enough to keep honest ftolk out of their beds till the small hours 'of the morning, but what ’e must come ’ome with row enough for the Prince of ’isself.” But Mrs. Moray heeds nothing but the ‘fact that her child is close at hand. She the fastenings of the door with (trembling eagerness, and flings it open. ’’On the threshold stand three figures. She .’sees but one; and sinking down upon her y knees, clasps the fragile little boy in her Farms. “Get out of the way, will you?* ex(claims the stuttering, drunken voice of •her husband. “What do you mean by {blocking up the door in this fashion? fon’t you see we want to come in?” (To be continued.)

ALL KINDS OF KISSES.

(The Oscnlatory Caress as It Obtains Amony Many Peoples. 4 The kiss, we are told, was a formula of good will among the ancient Romans, and was adopted by the early Christians, whose “holy kiss” and “kiss of charity” carried the weight of aposi tolic sanction.” It is usual that the golden cross of the sandal on the Pope’s right foot should be kissed by newly created cardinals and by those to whom an audience is granted. Even royal persons paid this act of homage to the vicar of Christ, Charles V. being the last to do so. Men in uncivilized regions kiss the feet of a superior or the ground in front of him, and in ancient times to press (the lips to the knee or hem of a garment ■'was to humbly implore protection. The have adopted the custom of “kissing, but the negroes of West Africa Refuse to do so, and apparently that •which is a medium of so much pleasure Ito many nations fills them with dislike. Kisses admit of a great variety of {character, and there are eight diversities mentioned in the Scriptures. It is pas a sign of reverence and in order to fcset a sacred seal upon their vows that ♦witnesses in a court of law, when they iare called upon to speak “the truth, the ♦whole truth and nothing but the truth,” .’are required to touch the Bible witli ‘their lips, as also are soldiers when they l enlist ansd make the oath of allegiance to Queen Victoria. The pleasant old Christmas custom of a k3ss under the mistletoe is a relie of Noree mythology. Baldur, the beautiful gpd of light, was slain by a spear ) whose shaft was a mistletoe twig. This was bewitched by Loki, the malevolent godx>f fire, until it swelled to the requisite siz*s, and was given by him to blind 'Hodur, who threw it, and unintentionally strpok Baldur when the gods were iat play. Friga had made everything In teeaven;and earth swear not to harm aidur,; but had left out the mistletoe ’as being too slight and weak to be of ' harpn. Baldur, however, was restored to Itfe,/and Friga guarded the mistletoe, which the gods determined should not aga£n have power to do any mischief unless it touched the earth. For this I reason it is always hung from the ceilHing/and the vigilant goddess propitiated by tyhe kiss, a sign of good-will.—Odds t and i Ends.

Devised Plimsoll’s Mark.

Samuel Pllmsoll, who died the other at Folkstone, Eng., was the originator of the famous “Plimsoll’s Mark,” which prevents the overloading of ships and ywhich appears on every merchant vessel sailing under the British flag. Byf a horizontal line the statutory deckUme is marked, below which is a disk llj! inches in diameter, through which passes a horizontal line 18 Inches long, twenty-one Inches forward of the center of the disk ’is a vertical line, with a hol lzontal line (extending toward the disk, which is marked “F. W.” (fresh waaterV To the right of the vertical line are four horizontal lines marked “I. S.” (Indian summer), “S.” (summer), “W.” (winter), “W. N. A.” (winter North Atlantic!), which indicate the depth of (water thoship is permitted to load to in< different seasons. The fresh-water mark permits ships to load to that deprth or its proportion at certain seasons, as the ship rises in the more buoyant salt'water. In accordance with the regulations made by the British Board of Trade the disks andllines must be permanently marked by punch marks or cutting and painted white, thus preventing any change of the mark. The Lloyds agency prescribes that where a vessel is loaded to a greater draft of water than allowed by the mark, or if the maximum load draft be placed higher than the position assigned by Lloyds, the vessel forfeits her character In the register. The disks and Pllmsoll mark must appear on both sides of steam and sail vessels.

Our Brave Marines.

When Lieut. Hobson had convinced Admiral Sampson and Commodore Schley of the feasibility of his plan to close -the entrance of the harbor of Santiago by sinking the collier Merrimac in the channel, Commodore Schley signalled to the Texas, Massachusetts, New Orleans and lowa, asking Jf they would furnish one volunteer each to go on a mission of almost certain death. The character of our marines may be judged by the following answers: “You can have fifty from this ship,” was the answer back from the Massachusetts in an instant. “The Ipwa presents her muster-roll,” came the reply from “Bob” Evans’ ship. “My men are fighting over a choice,” answered Capt. “Jack” Philip, of llie Texas. “ Capt. Folger, from the New Orleans, sang out through the Megaphone: “As many as you want.”

Why He Is Worshiped.

“I can’t understand all this adulation of Dewey. He simply obeyed orders. Any one elss in his place might have done as be did.” “Ah, but you forget that there isn’t any likelihood of bis coming bom? and }C9W»f about It,”

POLITICS OF THE DAY

SMOOTH AS H|S OIU Certain of the pious youth of New York, says the Journal,/ must surely still remember the instinctive moment when Mr. John D. Rockefeller appeared before them with ai well-thumbed memorandum book hi b&s hands and told them of the little earnings and modestibeneflcence of his;youth. They listened* spellbound whiles lie told of his earnings of $0 a week, a gift of 25 cents to foreign missions, 10 cents to Bible '"letles, j»*ud various sums to divers ' An< * when the multibenetn... t> ~lng to look as if he millionaire. vg of again, yearned for the v \ . he held lt the closed by saving V a% y all the monev duty of every man to fn , give , t he could honestly, and then , iere j n away, his auditors felt thntK ough deed was a true guid * for youth tiu life’s thorny path. When the Ohio la.^

lslature Is not electing corruptionists and bribers to the United States Senate it is usually engaged in investigating the methods by which Mr. Rockefeller gets his money “honestly.” It was so employed recently wheu John Teagle, an oil refiner, testified before it Mr. Teagle swore that the agents of John D. Rockefeller tried to bribe his bookkeeper with an offer of S6O a week, to give the Standard Oil Company information regarding his shipmenls, prices, cost of manufacture, etc. This book- x keeper pretended to be complaisant, and actually received one payment for helping Mr. Rockefeller to undermine his employer's business. It seems that the Bibles are not the only books which interest Mr. Rockefeller; the books of his competitors also engage his attention. And perhaps in the memorandum of charitable disbursements now he puts down the sums benevolently paid to Indigent employes of bis business rivals in consideration of tbeir treachery to their employers. At any rate, Mr. Rockefeller is living up to the first part of his counsel to aspiring youth. He is getting all the money he can. We note that the dividends paid to this eminent churchman and philanthropist from the Standard Oil holdings in 1897 are estimated at $7,500,000, and still the man who wants to make a living refining oil must be fought with weapons ranging all the wpy from corruption to explosives.

An Insult to Germans. In the name of the Democratic party and the 0,500,000 voters who cast their ballot for Bryan in 1890, we protest against this vicious attempt on the part of the combined Republican press of the United States to throw discredit on the German race and character by repeatedly charging that Germany is against us in the war with Spain. It is an Insult to a nation that has always been our friend, an insult to a class of our adopted countrymen who have always been loyal to our flag. This base slander is uttered in the interest of the proposed Anglo - American alliance, the one great object of the Republican party.' The fact that the victims of the insult on this side of the Atlantic have In the past supported the Republican party seems to have little weight with the Republican press. The only gratitude it knows is slnnder. The day of reckoning is approaching. The German Americans are having their eyes opened. Once they believed that the Republican party was the best for this country. Now they see it is narrow, bigoted and anti-American in its politics. That will not suit the Germans. They are coming to understand the Democratic party. Events of the post few years have taught them a lesson. We welcome the German Americans to the ranks of Democracy. And this Is not merely because they will make victory for us certain, but because we love the sturdy and unflinching characteristics of the race. It was this same low, contemptible bigotry that drove Irish Americans into our ranks, where they have ever found the hand of true brotherhood as well as a chance to labor earnestly for a cause that Is God’s. When the Republican party finds its true level lt will be mainly composed of a few Anglomaniacs (those what-is-its that look so uncomfortable in male attire) and theft progenitors, the trusts and newspapers established and supported here by British capital.—National Democrat.

Down with the Trnsts. With nearly two thousand millions of dollars Invested In pools and trusts, the United States Is certainly menaced by a great and growing evil. Recognizing this fact, the Democratic State Convention of Illinois adopted the following as one' plank of the party platform: “We demand the adoption of national and State laws that will abolish pools and trusts which unite in unlawful combinations, corporations engaged in the same line of business for the increase of prices and the decrease of wages, thereby largely augmenting profits at the expense of both consumer and laborer.” Consumers are placed almost entirely at the mercy of the trusts. Prices are advanced without fear of these combines, for they have killed competition. Hardly an article of common use can be mentioned that is not absolutely controlled by a syndicate of manufacturers. Among the boldest of these organizations are the Sugar Trust and the Standard Oil Trust. The Steel Trust, the Leather Trust, the Cordage Trust, will occur to the mind of the most casual thinker. Aside from their power to increase prices and to lower wages, these combines threaten the liberties of the people. They corrupt courts and legislatures; they coerce employes to vote for the candidate who will make laws favoring the combines, and thus they perpetuate their power. It is wise and patriotic on the part of the Democracy to oppose these institutions, and the plank of the Illinois State platform expressing this opposition ought to commend itself to every honest and to every patriotic man.

Income Tax. _ That the Democratic platform adopted at the State convention of Illinois Is worthy of hearty approval on the part of the people needs no argument. Following the silver plank conies a declaration that will appeal to the sense of justice in every heart not hardened by selfish interest. This plank reads as follows: ‘We demand the adoption of a fair and equitable tax on incomes and an amendment to the constitution of the United States if necessary, to accomplish this purpose.” Thjs is just and reasonable on its face. As the law now stands the burden of taxation is placed on the shoulders of those least able to pay it. The man who has an income of SIO,OOO a year may be able to avoid taxation entirely, but the man who earns a dollar a day jaunt m bw? taxation aoa b#» do

chance to evade such payment. By the vote of one man on the supreme bench! it has been decided that an Income unconstitutional. Although this Is {simply the opinion of one man, it is ‘binding so long as it Is not reversed, nd perhaps the simplest way to reaverse it Is to secure a constitutional wmendanent. In the long run justice will be secured, and the Democratic party l of Illinois is pledged by its platform to aid in its securement, not |°n y in this one case, but in other cases c ** W M be referred to later on.

Reward of the Farmers. “ iff to reward the farmers for support! Jig. the gold standard,” says tb ) Tinu/s-Jlerald, “Nature has forced th s PurcAarse of $800,000,000 of our pro* - ucts|b(, foreign lands.” It is certain r dis\*oui -aging to find that both God and -Mature are in cahoots with the Repub-' llcah rty. It will be news to you to le v ' u ‘ n t Nature (probably acting untar I* od’ifK direction) caused a failure of th<* rro l> throughout the world, and f**or'*ed% millions of people in Indio. Italy, , an(i other gold standard countries in’ At t° reward the American farmers r voting for McKinley. Really, are th*k e Plutocrats lunatics? or is it possib.V tllat tlle,r dupes are such asses as t> v*\ 3w allow such rot of that kind—rot th. «y i PP | o»rs ns an editorial in the paper Mentioned? Nature does not support a 'lhthney standard or any other scheme ■ ibuhi. She dispenses an even-ham. Justice to all, and will wipe the Rep party off the earth,,even though . t t>e a great exponent of sound money, (W disregarding her laws, just ns quick, V.as she will gather into the kingdom pouio the roost chumpish king that ever soM his ballot for drink. But while the ptutes caji’t with Nature very much, they.have,had their own sweet way /.with the' woiy’dng classes so long that' perhaps t\ey conceived the Idea .that they v ro r ®V u league with God and Nature.—CoTOnCoA' Nation. ■. *

Where la Fltzhngh Dee? >' What has the War Department donewith Gen. Fitzliugb Lee? Miles went to Porto ltico, Merritt has gone to Manila, Shafter has captured Santiago and Wheeler was with the big general and helped to bring big event. But where is Lees Sanryson was an unknown quantity forced upon the* navy by political and from* being an unknown quantity .has developed into a palpable and -100 wellknown cipher. Schley won the naval victory over Cervera, and Sampson turned up just in time to claim what; Schley had won. Thus it seems tl*at: politics has had something to do with* securing positions of advantage, and' perhaps there may be more or less of politics in the suppression of Lee. By right of a full knowledge of the country, Geri. Fitzhugh Lee should have been given an opportunity at the front in Cuba, but up to date that position has been denied hint. Is lt possible that Gen. Lee is too popular with the peopleof the United States to please the politicians at Dispatch. u

Several Nations Should Note It. \» Labouchere sees in the Italian riotsi this lesson for England: “From the terrible condition of Italy we should learm a lesson, or what has befallen her will 4 ultimately befall us. We should glvei home rule to Ireland, and thus put air end to the discontent there; we should reduce and not increase taxation; what we do levy In taxes should be spent for the welfare of the eompaunity, instead bf being squandered in buccaneering and in the armaments that are rende*ed necessary for our predatory habltsi Peace, economy and reform are scoutedi nowadays as not fitted for this enlightened age. We should revert to them.” Public taxation in Italy has reached a point where of every dollar a labored earns the state takes half to spend oa the army, the navy, the officials and the aristocracy. Meanwhile the unofficial taxation levied by monopoly, by; landlords, takes a good share of the' remaining half, or denies opportunity to earn any dollar at all. England Is not the only nation that may learn this. The War Taxes. Probably many druggists wild hone to be content to make smaller and so also will the dealers in tobacco. The duty on tea will be wholly borne by the consumer. The tax on sugar refineries and oil refining can be Shifted on to the consumer, and the banket will probably charge their depositors for the checks used. The class least affected by the new law are the landlords, who live upon Interest, ondl those who live upon other people’s toil.. They will pay but little more than the day laborer. Such schemes of taxation are unjust and are therefore unpopular. The best provision of the hdll is that which provides for the coinage of silver bullion in the treasury. This Injures no one and adds to the volume of currency.—Santa Clara News.' Folly of the Dingley ‘Tariff. One of the minor barbarities of the Dingley tariff, as interpreted by the customs officials, is illustrated in the duties imposed upon a collection of eighteenth century miniatures imported; by a resident of New York. These were portraits of various celebrities painted upon ivory, some in metal frames and some set in covers of snuff boxes and other articles of ivory and metal. The appraisers have decided that the articles must pay duty ranging from 35 and 45 to 00 per cent., as manufactures of ivory, metal or Jewelry. This is doubtless necessary to protect the native manufacturers of antiques.—Philadelphia Times. Direct Legislation Not a Panacea. No, direct legislation is not a panacea for all national ills. In fact, it is not a panacea at all. It is iperely a spoon with which the panacea could be administered. Specific legislation is the panacea for political ills, and direct legislation tbe method that can be secured. A sick man may need a different number of medicines, hut they can all be administered with one spoon. If the nurse went to get a spoon with which to administer the medicine, you would not say that she considered the spoon the panacea for all the sick man’s ills.— New Era. | •Legalized Thievery. It does not require argument to establish the fact that the jfrodnctaof th« world belong to the men who raise them; neither does lt require argument to convict as thieves, in the minds of all rational people, the men who are depriving producers of tbe benefit q{ yrwJqctfr-FiftwtDs swo^