Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1898 — Page 2

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GROOM MAKES HIS BRIDE AN ORPHAN. Tragic Sequel to an Elopement In Saline County, Arkansas-Married and Taken to Jail-Highest Mountain in America Is Discovered. Kill* Hit Brtds's Father. In Saline County. Arkansas, Joe McKinney shot and killed Charles Taylor. McKinney was a tenant of Taylor’s and had Tiis home in Grant County. Taylor had been very much dissatisfied at the attention shown by McKinney to his daughter, and purchased the latter’s crop in order to get rid of him. McKinney arranged his affairs and started to his Grant County home, Miss Taylor accompanying him. Immediately upon hearing of his daughter’s elopement Taylor started in pursuit and overtook the couple in a wagon near the Fletcher place in Saline County. Taylor immediately opened fire and McKinney secured a shotgun from under the wagon seat'and shot Taylor in the breast, immediately killing him. The young couple then drove to Redfield, surrendered to Justice Bain and were married. All parties connected are prominent in Saline and adjoining counties. PEAK 20,000 FEET HIGH. Most E ovate:) Mountain in North America Found In Alaska. The G. 11. Eldredge geological survey party, which has returned from the Cook’s Inlet country, is said to have discovered the highest mountain in North America. The peak, which towers far above Mount St. Elias, is situated in Alaska to the right of the Sushitna ltiver. The govern-menl-topographer took triangulations of the elevations, ascertaining by scientific calculations the exact height of the peak, which he declared to be more than 20,000 feet. The mountain was named Bullshae, a word spoken in exclamation by the Indian guide of the party upon first beholding the wonderful peak. Lursd by Advertisement Alexander S. Sampson of West Duxberry, Mass., died in n hospital after having been lured to San Francisco by the advertisement of a matrimonial agency. He was 05 years of age and went there to marry an alleged “rich widow.” He met a woman who has recently figured in a somewhut similar case, but when his money was gone she is said to have refused to recognize him.

Kills H s Bw>sthsart Near Montieello, Ky.j Alex. Keith, a young farmer, called on his sweetheart, Miss Lou Dick, and found a rival talking to tier. - Angry words passed nnd Keith attempted to shoot the other man. Miss Dick interfered, when Keith turned his revolver on her and shot her through the right breast, inflicting a mortal wound. He then fled. Ba-rgar 1 1 Worth SIOO,OOO. Charles Broekwitz, worth SIOO,OOO, was sent to Blackwell’s Island in New York as a professional mendicant. He came to this country from Russia about twenty years ago. He found begging more profitable than labor and made a tine art of it. To incite pity he deliberately destroyed his eyesight by gazing open eyed directly at the sun. National Laagus Standing. Following is the standing of the clubs in the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Boston ....101 45 New York... .74 72 Baltimore ...94 51 Pittsburg ....71 74 Cincinnati ..91 59 Louisville ...07 80 Chicago 84 05 Brooklyn ....54 87 Cleveland .. .79 05 Washington. 59 99 Fhiludelphia .74 71 St. Louis 39110 Young Troopjr 13 Shot. Private M. A. Doucet, a young Swede belonging to Company L, Twelfth New York, was shot and killed at Lexington, Ivy., by the provost guard while running away to evade arrest. Private Bailey of the Third engineers was also shot by the provost guard and is in a critical condition. v Have Not Bsen Andree. The German steam yacht Heligoland, with the members of Herr Theodor Lerner’s expedition, returned from Spitzbergen, having reached 81 degrees north. They had not seen Andree, but had collected much zoological matter. Will Evacuate Crete. The reply of the Turkish government to the. note of the powers on the evacuation of the island of Crete has been handed to the ambassadors. 'Turkey accepts the terms proposed, but expresses a wish for certain modifications. Selects a New Emperor. The empress dowager of China and the imperial Clan have adopted as the new emperor a son of the late Emperor T’UngChi, who will shortly be proclaimed. Heavy Fire Loss at Tacoma. At Tacoma, the Tourist Hotel, under construction, was burned. There had been expended on the structure up to date SOOO,OOO. Bank Relieved of Oash. The private bank of Jacob Denherder at Zeeland, Mich,, was looted by robbers. Ail currency was taken, except SI,OOO in “ silver. Frssident at the Exposition. Two hundred thousand citizens of the transmissouri region welcomed President McKinley to the peace jubilee in Omaha. Quart* Runs $1,003 Per Ton. News is received at Victoria, B. C., of the finding of gold quartz at Skaguay going SI,OOO to the ton. The news comes from a very reliable source, and although the exact location is not made known, it is within a very short distance of the gateway city. Amir cin Troops in ManzsnTo, The American troops raised the Stars and Stripes over the custom house and in the public square of Manzanillo, Cuba, and took formal possession. The Spanish garrison departed for Cienfuegos. Dsath of Freildoit’s Bro'hsr-ln-Law. George D. Saxton, the only brother of Mrs. William McKinley, lies dead at the Canton, Ohio, morgue, murdered by a woman. Mrs. Anna George, an intimate friend of the dead man, is under arrest charged with having fired the fatal shots. Last’ Hang ng In the 8 ate. Alfred Williams, convicted of the murder of John Gallo, in Lynn, July 22, 1897, was hanged at Salem. Mass. This is the last hanging Massachusetts will ever know. In the future the penalty for all capital offenses will be electrocution. Qsnsral O'ay’j Child W fs Marries Dora Richardson, “child wife” of General Cassius M. Clay, and who was divorced from him a month ago, was married at Keene, Ky., to Riley Brock, the farmhand to whom she was engaged. E ected B*nator In O-egon. Oregon now has two Republican United States Senators. Joseph Simon of Portland was elected in joint ballot by the Legislature, receiving the full Re/r publican vote. ' Ex-May r A. Oikey Hall Dead. Ex-Mayor Oakey Hall of New York died suddenly in the 73d years of his age. Mr. Hall had been ill for some time,* but his death was somewhat unexpected.

PAR* STftlK£_ EXTENDING. Faarsd that the Lssdsrs Are Aiming at a Revolution. The strike of the laborers in Paris has extended to nearly all the building trades, and it is feared the railroad men will join in the movement. Work on the exhibition buildings and underground railroad has completely ceased. About 60,000 men have gone on strike, and the situation is causing consternation. The attitude of the strikers is increasingly aggressive, and fights between strikers and so-called “black-legs” are incessant, involving the intervention of the police, troops and mounted republican guards, who have been obliged to repeatedly charge the strikers. The quarters in which rioting has taken place are patrolled by strong detachments of police and troops. There are great apprehensions lest the agitators turn the strike movement'to political ends. SUES ON NOVEL GROUNDS. Pullman Company Blamtd for Consumption Contracted in a Oar. J. M. Edmondson, a prominent attorney of San Antonio, Texas, formerly of Dallas, has sued the Pullman Palace Car Company in the United States ' Circuit Court at El Paso, Texas, for $15,000 alleged damages. The plaintiffs grounds for the suit are somewhat novel. He claimed that while journeying in a Pullman car from San Antonio to Denver he was drenched with rain water through a hole in the roof while asleep in his berth. From the effects of the wetting he says he contracted a severe cold, which resulted in consumption. ONE THOUSAND DIZ IN FIRE. Estimate of th» Loss of Life in a Conflagration at Hankow. According to a special dispatch from Shanghai, a fire on Sunday at Hankow destroyed over a square mile of the city, including the Government buildings and temple. It is feared that 1,000 lives were lost. Hankow is a treaty port on the Yongtße-Kiaug, at the mouth of one of its tributaries, 700 miles from the sea. The city forms, with Han-Yang and WooChang, the capital of Hoo-Po, all in sight of one another, and separated only by the river, one of the greatest commercial centers in the world. POLICE STATIONS ON YUKON. Canadian Authorities Flaci Them About Thirty Milas Apart The Canadian police are completing the establishment of a chain of police stations along the Upper Yukon, from Dawson on to Lake Bennett. The stations are now about thirty miles apart. Five men have been detailed for each post. Each station has supplies for two years and numerous dogs. The soldiers are to carry dispatches and facilitate the forwarding of mails, and are instructed to assist all travelers, of whom from 6,000 to 8,000 are expected to come out over the ice.

FIRE LOSS OF *500,000. Flams* at Olarksv.lle, Tann., Swsap Ovsr Tan Acras. At Clarksville, Tenn., fire broke out in the Grange tobacco warehouse occupied by Mill & Turnley, burning about 4,500 hogsheads of tobacco. The loss on tobacco aud building is estimated at nearly $500,000, with insurance of about $300,000. The fire also burned Gracey Bros.’ coal and storage shed, the Louisville and Nashville depot, six freight cars on the track and several cottages. The fire covered a space of about ten acres. Its origin is unknown. ARMY CORPS ARE REORGANIZED. Third, Fifth and 8 xth Are Discontinued and O h»r» Rsmidalad. A general order was issued organizing new army corps and designating various points where the troops shall be stationed. The Third, Fifth and Sixth corps are discontinued; the First, Second and Fourth corps reorganized. They are to be commanded respectively by Major Generals Breckinridge, Graham and Wheeler. The headquarters of each corps will be: First corps, Macon, Gn.; Second Corps, Augusta, Ga.; Fourth Corps, Huntsville, Ala. Railway Smashup Naar Mi wauka*. One man killed, three cars burned and a locomotive wrecked was the result of a collision between a passenger and freight train on tfae Chicago and Northwestern Railroad about eight miles south of Milwaukee. The trains which collided were the passer or train No. 15, which leaves nightly at 10:30 p. m., and an extra freight both north bound. The freight train was standing on the main track and the accident was caused by failure of Engineer Lane of the passenger to notice a block danger signal. The passenger train on crashing* into the freight telescoped the caboose, setting it on fire. The locomotive toppled over sideways, burying Fireman Thomas Duckwall of Chicago, whose dead body was taken out several hours later in a badly mangled condition. The engineer escaped. The flames communicated to the mail car, and also a freight car containing coke next to the caboose, the three being destroyed. All the mail, with the exception of one or two sacks, was saved, and the mail clerk escaped unhurt. The passenger train was in charge of Conductor H. S. Smith. Conductor J. H. Vebber wns with the freight. Drowieti at His Bath. William Strutt, aged about 25 years, son of Lord Belper of Kingston, Derby, England, and nephew of the Earl of Dunmore, a Scotch peer, who is a lord-iu-waiting to Queen Victoria, was found dead iu the bathtub in his apartments at the West End Hotel at St. Louis. His body was entirely submerged in the water that filled the tub. The remains were discovered by Herman Alweise and Lottie Piper, man and maid servants respectively of the young man, who occupied a suite of apartments on the fifth floor of the fashionable hotel. The hotel people were immediately notified and the coroner took charge of the remains for the purpose of learning the cause of death. The Countess of Dunmore, who is stopping with friends in the city, is an aunt of the dead man. She was notified of his death, but as her whereabouts are kept a secret nothing could be learned from her concerning Mr. Strutt. Deceased went to St. Louis Aug. 15 and took apartments at the hotel where he died. He was there apparently on a pleasure and sight-seeing tour, and not very much was known about him. Dsiver H s a Jack th« Rppir Ois a. Mrs. Julia Vogt, a clairvoyant and medium, was found dead in her apartments on Champa street, Denver. She lay on the floor face downward. A twisted towel was tied tightly around her neck and there is no doubt that she had been strangled to death. There is no clew to the murderer, but the police believe that thd deed was committed by the same strangler who murdered three women on Market street in that city some time ago. Chic g >an Lost In Alaska. Sterling Martin is drowned and ten of his companions, all from Chicago, are stranded. They were gold hunters and were members of the Alaska and Bonanza Mining and Transportation Company of Chicago. Their small steam schooner, Fortune Hunter, now lies beached on the shores of Golovin Bay. Nits) Old Stsmsr Doomed. The old steamer Prof. Morse, which assisted the Great Eastern to lay the first cable across the Atlantic, is lying xt the Fulton Iron Works, San Francisco, and will probably be broken up. Orop Out Dow v - Trustworthy indications are that the cotton crop in Georgia will be cut down at least 300,000 bales by the recent. severe storm. The money damage will amount to nearly $5,000,000. Lnra* Lost in a Smtsh-Up. A Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley freight train drawn by two locomotives ran into the rear end of an Omaha line passenger train ia the-yards at Omaha. The last car on the passenger train

' " " 'c- . ,1 4k, a f * Jones, waiter, of Chicago, was kilted, and Otto Homedale, conductor dining car, scalded and fatally injured about the body. Several other persons were seriously injured. The accident was due to the inability of the engineer, Michael Smith, of the head engine of the freight, to stop his train. The track from the curve south to where the accident occurred is a down grade. Engineer Brandt said that when the engines passed the curve he saw the motionless passenger train and whistled for “down brakes,” but before this move contd be made the engine struck the dining car. As they struck Brandt and his fireman jumped, as did Engineer Smith and bis fireman. CARNIVALS HELP TRADE. Bradstraat's R -parts Hssv/ D stribution of Qiods. Bradstreet’s says: “With the exception of some parts of the South where heavy storms and yellow fever with resulting quarantines cheek distribution, a very large business appears to be doing, though complaints of ft narrow margin of profit are well nigh unanimous., It has been a carnival and fall celebration period at a number of Western cities and a resulting large distribution both retail and wholesale is reported. Prices of leading staples, while showing rather more irregnlarity, are in the main well held.” FIRE AND DYNAMITE AS WEAPONS. Inca idiariss Bssk to Burn and B ow Up an lowa Fh/slcian. Dr. Harrison, an old settler and the richest man in Newton, lowa, incurred the enmity of unknown persons npon being charged with selling whisky in his drug store. On a recent night the drug store, livery Btuble and dwelling owned by the doctor were burned by incendiaries. While the fire was raging the doctor’s residence and private stables in another part of the town were blown up by dynamite and partially destroyed. The family narrowly escaped death. Dr. Harrison’s loss is $15,000. SENTRY SLAY 3 A DESIRTERTwo Boldi«rs, Falling to Raach the Front, . Attemp E icaps. Believing there was no chance of their being sent to Porto Rico, Privates Oliver W. Greenwood and Harvey Stokes of battery B, Seventh United States artillery, attempted to leave Fort Slocum, New York, while prisoners. The men refused to halt when challenged and the sentries fired upon them, killing Greenwood instantly. Stokes, although uninjured, immediately surrendered. Greenwood was from Kentucky. Ever since hostilities were suspended he had been unruly and despondent. Djctrsis Ohsrgsj wth Murder. Coroner Doten has completed his inquest into the death of Emma Gill, whose dismembered body was found in the lrellow Mill Pond at Bridgeport, Conn., a few weeks ago, finding that she came to her death by felonious homicide at the hands of Nancy A. Guilford, assisted and abetted by Alfred Oxley and Rose Drayton. The grund jury has indicted Nancy Guilford for murder in the second degree. This will facilitate her extradition from England. Canrt batism in Russia. At the church congress held at Kieff, Russia, the question of cannibalism among the Votiaks came up for consideration. The bishop of Kasan affirmed that such was rife in his diocese. Its votaries are so cautious and secret in indulging in this practice that great, almost insuperable, difficulties had been encountered in trying to stamp it out. Eng'and’s Ru'er In a Runaway. Qfieen Victoria and her daughter, the ex-Empress Frederick of Germany, had a narrow escape from death while driving at Balmoral, Scotland. The coachman lost control of the horses and a serious accident was only averted by the horses turning into the woods, where the carriage stuck between the trees. To Prcbi Yukon Scandals. William Ogilvie, Yukon commissioner, has been empowered by the Canadian Government to make a searching investigation into Yukon scandals, and Gordon Hunter, barrister, of Victoria, B. C., has been appointed to replace Gold Commissioner Fawcett, Hsavy Loss for Mining Company. The Standard Consolidated Mining Company’s 20-stamp mill at Bodie, Cal., was totally destroyed by fire. The fire started in the boiler room. The adjoining offices and the cyanide plant were saved. The estimated loss is $50,000, partly insured. Savad by Ohsw of Tobsco. While standing in a skiff at Tarrytown, N. Y., John Kelly fell overboard. He was chewing tobacco. This lodged in his throat and prevented him from swallowing water. He was rescued and relieved of the quid, after having gone down twice. Smallpox Causes a Pan e. An epidemic of smallpox has broken out at Wapakoneta, Ohio, but so far there have been no deaths. All the schools have been ordered closed, and public assemblages have been forbidden. The scare amounts to almost a panic. Dispjrstt Fight with I ldians. Indians and Gen. Bacon’s soldiers fought a desperate battle. The scene of the conflict was a promontory in Leech Lake, near Bear Island, thirty miles from Walker, Minn. Several were killed on either side. Russia Mskei a Q-ab. Menelik, negus of Abyssinia, is said to have come to an agreement with Russia whereby the latter country secures a coaling station on the Red Sea. Qsorgi* 70,000 Democratic. The Democrats elected all State officers in Georgia by majorities approximating 70,000. Allen D. Chandler was chosen Governor.

THE MARKETS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4,00; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4-75; wheat, No. 2 red, 63c to 64c; corn, No. 2,29 cto 30c; oats, No. 2,21 c to 22c; rye, No. 2,47 cto 48c; butter, choice creamery, 19c to 20c; eggs, fresh, 14c to 15c; potatoes, choice, 27c to 35c per bushel, Indianapolis—Cattle, Shipping, $3.00 to $5.75; bogs, Choice light, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, common to choice, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 63c to 64c; corn, No, 2 white, 29e to 80c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 25c, St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $0.00; hogs, $3.50 to $4.00; sheep, $3.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,67 cto 68c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 20c to 80c; oats, No. 2,23 cto 24c; rye, No. 2,47 cto 48c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,66 cto 68c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 30c to 81c; oats, No, 2 mixed, 23c to 24c; rye, No. 2,48 cto 50e, Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; bogs, $3,25 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,65 cto 07c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 30c to 82e; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 26c; rye, 47c to 48c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 68c to 68c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 30c to 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 23c; rye, No. 2,47 c to 49c; clover seed, $3.85't0 $3.95. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 62c to 64c; corn, No. 3,29 cto 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 26c; rye, No, 1,47 cto 48c; barley, No. 2,44 cto 46c; pork, mess, $7.75 to $8.25. , Buffalo—Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, common to choice, $3.50 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice wethers, $3.50 to $5.00; lambs, common to extra, $5.00 to $6.00. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 73c to 75c; corn, No. 2,35 cto 87c; oats, No. 2,26 cto 280;! butter, creamery, 15c to 21c; eggs, West' era. 17c to 18c.

A Dangerous Secret.

BY FLORENCE MARYATT.

CHAPTER XXII. Delia makes her first entry into the fottages which have been allotted to her care with some degree of eclat. It is not everybody who can get on with the poor. It requires more than a desire to do them good to be able to effect it. Delia possesses the essentials of a very sweet voice and affable manner that makes her appear even more interested than she ia when discussing matters that do not concern herself. She will not carry tracts nor Bibles nor any of the formula of parish visiting in her hand. But she takes one or two illustrated papers from Mrs. Hepbzibah’s drawer, and a few roses out of the cottage garden. She will not enter the house without knocking, but stands on the threshold until she has received permission to enter. The old people and the children stare at her at first with the uncouth breeding of the lower orders, but although she is so unused to their society, she makes them feel at home with her at once. Her secret is a simple one. She treats them as though they belonged to her own rank of life, and takes no liberty with them that she would be ashamed to do with ladies and gentlemen. So that even on that first day she receives many a cordial invitation to return soon, and has engaged herself to read the news, once a week, to such of her friends as may be active enough to assemble in one place to listen to it. Mr. Le Mesurier laughs loudly when she reports her early efforts to establish a club in Cloverfield, and how it has set her thinking that if he can procure her a vacant room for the purpose, she might add to the pleasure by giving the old people tea or coffee, and permitting them to smoke while she reads to them. “We shall have you setting up a ‘free-and-easy’ next, Mrs. Manners, nnd presiding at the piano and the bar yourself. What a dreadful mistake I have made by setting you, with all these loose continental notions in your head, to run riot among my innocent parishioners! Have you been able to make anything out of old Strother?” “Not yet. He would not even look at me, far less speak. But I hope that may not last. Is he as surly with you?” “Far worse! He has taken a hatred, or fear, of me—l cannot tell why—which has prevented my visiting him for a long time. lam afraid he is not a very amiable old person. I wish he had never come here.” “He is not a native of Cloverfield, then?” “Oh, no. He is a Scotchman, the father of Mrs. Kennett, who died many years ago. His daughter undertook the charge of him when he became a widower. I consider the old man to be quite mad, and advised Ivennett to place him in the county asylum; but it seems that he promised his wife upon her death-bed not to do so. So he will be saddled with his support as long as he lives, w r hieh must be very inconvenient, as he requires constant watching.” “His granddaughter, Patsy Kennett, complained bitterly to me the other day of the confinement it entailed on her.” “Poor Patsy! Yes; she is a fine girl,” replies Mr. Le Mesurier, with a slight increase of color. “She appears devoted to you.” “It is all fancy, I assure you. She suffered terribly from neuralgia a short time since, and I w'as foolish enough to try if mesmerism would relieve her. The attempt was successful, but the natives do not understand the meaning nor the effect of such a cure, and I had great reason to regret having used it.” “Ip wiiat way?” “It attracted my patient too much toward me, and my motives and actions were altogether misinterpreted. That is one reason that I seldom cross Kennett’s threshold now unless I am obliged to do so,” “You are a practiced mesmerist, then?” “Yes, yes. But pray don’t speak of it. The subject is an unpleasant one to me, and I would rather not discuss it. Shall you see old Strother to-day?” “I think I shall not find my way up to Kennett’s farm until Monday.” “Monday will be the day of the school feast, when I had hoped to have had your assistance in the field.” “If you will excuse me I would rather not be present. Mrs. Bond intends to be there, I know, with a sackful of toys and sugar plums; but I cannot play at children’s games, and shall be more usefully employed elsewhere.” In the matter of the school feast, she is determined not to be associated with him, because the affair itself is so thoroughly out of her line that her friends will of necessity think she has taken part in it W'ith the simple intention of pleasing him. So she remains firm in her refusal; and on Monday afternoon, when the tent is pitched, and the flags are flying, and the village band is making most discordant music in the vicar’s field, and the school children, with their tin mugs hung round their necks, are marching two-and-two up the laureled drive, Delia is half a mile toiling along the lane that leads to Mr. Kennett’s farm. As she enters the long, narrow garden that fronts the house, she becomes aware of loud voices engaged in altercation and making themselves very audible through the open window. “Now, then, Patsy!” exclaims Farmer Kennett, “off with all that fal-lal finery, and sit down to your work agen, as I tell ye. Why, where wad ye be runnin’ to at this time o’ the arternoou?” “I’se going to the school feast, to be sWe," replies the girl. “Ay! I guessed as much. A follerin’ the parson agen! A bleaten’ arfer ’im like an unweaned lamb! Now, I tell ye, once for all, I won’t have it! There's the old man’s meals to be got, and he to be looked arter! nnd the parson may go to blazes before you uhall neglect your proper work to run arter him! We’ve enough o’ that already, I tell ye.” “Mr. Kennetty” exclaims Delia, unwilling to hear any more of the conversation without making her presence known, “is Mr. Strother indoors to-day?” “Sure, ma’am, I was just having a talk with Patsy aboot him as ye came up.” “And how are you, Patsy?” “I’se well enough, ma’am, thank ye!” “She’s put out because I can’t spare her to the school feast, and leave the old gentleman to himself all the arternoon, ma’am.” “But can’t I relieve Patsy for an hour or two, Mr. Kennett? I don’t care about the school feast; and if you will let her go, I will stay here and try to amuse Mr. jtrother till she returns.” “You’re main good, ma’am,” says the girl for the second time, as she takes advantage of. the permission extended to her and runs down stairs, leaving Delia alone with old Simon Strother. CHAPTER XXIII. As soon as Patsy has disappeared, Delia attempts to ingratiate herself with her surly companion. “Shall I read to you, Mr. Strother?” “What’ll ye be arter readin’?” he asks. “I will read anything you please, Mr. Strother. Do you take any interest in the news? I have to-day’s newspapers with me.” “Na, na! I care nobbut the news.” “Would you like to hear a chapter out Of the Bible?”

“Na, na! I care nobbut the Buik.” “What do you care for then?” “I care nobbut ae thing. Ye’d best gang your, way.” - “But I have promised not to leave you alone, so I must stay here till Patsy returns.” “Ay! Dinna sash me then!” And the old wretch places his elbows on his knees and his head npon his hands, and closes his eyes in intimation that he considers the interview, so far as conversation is concerned, to be concluded. By and by Delia recalls Kennett’s assertion that the old creature frets sorely after his native land, and makes a second effort to interest him. “You have been in Scotland, Strother?” “Aiblius I have—conseedcrin’ it’s my ain country.” “Do you like it better than England?” “Mabbe I do.” “Would you like to go back again?” “Ay! but there’s nane left at hame as ken me noo.” “Ahl that makes a great difference, does it not? But you have good friends here to love you and look after you, and a beautiful place to live in. Do you ever go to church, Strother? or to the kirk, as you eall it in Scotland?” As she puts this simple question, a transformation seems to pass over the old man. He has been ordinarily intelligent hitherto, but now he suddenly collapses and becomes incoherent. His little bleared eyes roll wildly; his hand is clinched; nnd the saliva bubbles from his mouth aud drops upon his grizzled beard. “The kirk—the kirk!” he utters, excitedly, “wha’ll harm the kirk? Muster Gray maunna do it, and the storm maunna do it, for the water will come doon and pit it oot. And the poor mun, wha’ll dream the puir auld mon wha’s been twenty year aboot the place and been main car’ful, and aye dune his duty, could mak a meestake at the lfiirst. Ye saw Muster Graw do it, didna ye noo?” he exclaims, making a dash at Della, who is backing toward the door, with serious thoughts of beating a retreat downstairs. “Ye maun say ye saw the carle do it, or I’ll mak ye greet for the day we ever met.” “Of course I saw him do it—everybody saw him do it,” she replies boldly, for she can gather his meaning without eomprehe ding his words; “but don’t excite yourself in that way, Mr. Strother, or you may make yourself ill.” ..“Ill! ill!” he ejaculates, slowly, as.he wipes the sweat off his forehead with aragged cotton handkerchief. “Hae I been weel sin’ the day? But ’twas an awfu’ starm surely. Eno’ to burn the grondest edifeece that mon ever raised. And puir Simon was only the clairk, aud coqldna be expected to ken the reason of the fire. ’Twas an awfu sight to see it burn, with the flames leekin’ oop the rafters and the roof, and cracklin’ through the beeldin’.” “Of what are you speaking?” says Delia, curiously. “Have you ever been in a fire, Mr. Strother?” ' The old man eyes her suspiciously, and becomes silent. “Do tell me all about it,” she coaxes. “I love to hear a story, and you tell it so well.” “Ay! But ye want to drair the seecret frae me, and ye wullna do it, na! na! Simon’s a puir auld mon, but he can keep a seecret wi’ the best o’ thum,” “Indeed! I don’t wish to know your secret, Mr. Strother. I only want to hear about the fire. Was it in Scotland?” “Na! na! ’twasna in my ain country, but ’twas an awfu’ fire. But Muster Gray did it, and ye saw hipn do it, and ye canna go back frae your spoken word.” “Of course not! I do not wish to do so.” “Weel then, ye maun be content. If ye saw the carle do it, ye ken a’ aboot the fire, and need nane to tell it ye,” She laughs quietly at the trap the cunning old creature has set for her. and returns to the contemplation of her book, little thinking of the import of Mr. Strother’s secret is to her. Presently he fidgets about on the top of his bundle, and she asks him if he is comfortable. “Why don’t you sit in a chair instead of on that great packet, Mr. Strother? I’m sure it must be a very hard seat.” “It does weel eno’ for me.” “But it would pack away so nicely under the bed nnd your room would look all the tidier without it.” “Ay! but I consider it’s best whar’ it is.” “I suppose there’s a box inside that wrapping?” “Aiblins!” “A box with clothes in it. Do you never take off the covers, Mr. Strother?” “I' no need to tak’ them off.” “Do you never want to look at your treasures, then?” “I dinna ken what you’re speakin’ aboot.” “Do you ever look at the things you’ve got in that parcel—well, the books, or whatever they may be?”

CHAPTER XXIV. Simon Strother springs up from his perch like a jack-in-the-box, and comes down again upon the packet; glaring at his visitor. “The bulks! the buiks! what do ye ken aboot- the buiks? I was main car'ful of them. The fire burned the kirk, but it couldna harm the buiks, because the puir auld chiel carried them safe to his hame. He lo’ed the buiks better than his bairns, and the awfu’ fire daurna burn them! Hoot! see the lightnin’, and listen to the peals of thoonder! The puir lassie ’ull be skeered wi’ the flashes and the rain. Dinna greet, my puir, wee thing! Dootless but theer’s haird times before ye, but willna hae your wits burned oot like puir auld Simon, wha saw the whole edifeece come to the groond. But he saved the buiks—the gude auld buiks that had sairved the peerish for so mony years. Ay! he was main car’ful of the buiks, and nane could thraw bleeme upon him becaise the buiks came to hairm!” The books! the fire! the kirk! Something like a gleam is dawning upon Delia’s mind. It cannot be! It is altogether too unlikely—yet if it were! , “Mr. Strother,” she cries, “what was the name of the place where the kirk was burned down?” “What! ye saw it dune, and ye canna remember the name of the place!” he returns, with a cunning leer, “Was there a girl married ou that day in the church? Is it the storm at Chilton in Berwick you are speaking of? The lightning that burned Chilton Church to the ground twenty years ago?” “Cheelton! Cheelton!” screams the old man, “wha daurs to mention Cheelton, in Bar wick to me? I ken naethin’ of tne toon. I dinna ken if there is a kirk in Cheelton or no. I’m a Heclandmon, I ken naethin’ of the Border-land, and if any say I do, they lee. I tell ye they lee. Get oot!” he continue#, angrily, to Delia; “ye’re a leear, I say—a leear! and naethin’ in this paircel but ft peer o’ breeks. What would ye be luikin’ at the auld mun’s breek for? Get oot, I say, and leave me to mysel’; I willna hae ye speering aboot my room in this shameless manner. And ns for the paircel, it’s my paireel, and ye shall na hae my breeks; I’ll see ye dee fairst.” Delia, now fairly alarmed, rushes toward the door, amt stumbles down the narrow Staircase, where, to ber infinite comfort, sbe encounter# Patsy Kennett,

who, much flushed and smiling, is mount*' ing to reliere guard. “O,‘Patsy! I am so thankful yon hare returned. Yonr grandfather has frightened me out of my senses.” “Has he, now? It’s just like him! The old hunks can’t keep a civil tongue in Jus head for ten minutes together.” “I want to ask you a few questions. How long is it since your grandfather left Scotland T “A matter of five year or more, ma’am.” “Is he mad, Patsy?” “Bless ye! ye% ma’am! as mad as a March hare.” “But what drove him out of his senses, Patsy ?” “ ’Twas a big fire, ma’am, and he was terribly burnt in it. You can see the scars on his breast and shoulders now. You see, grandfeyther he was parish clerk at a place called Chilton ” “Not Chilton in Berwick, Patsy?” “Yes, ma’am! that’s the placer’ “Gracious heavens! is it possible? But Mr. Strother denied just now that he'd ever been there.” “Ah! that’s his cunning! He won’t bear the least talking to on the subject. But there was an awful fire there that burned down the church and the parsonage, and no one ever knew how it happened; but grandfeyther lost his situation, and took it so to heart that he’s never been right in his head since.” (To be continued.)

HOW CARCIA BROKE THE BANK

Story of the South American Spaniard’s Hun of Lack. Either the author of the once popular song, “The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo,” shared the general belief in the existence of such an individual or he dexterously utilized that belief to obtain an effective title. To state a paradox, the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo never existed. But It is not safe to assert that he never will exist, for Pascal, who invented the roulette, is said to have stated on his deathbed that the “demon disk” could be defeated on mathematical principles. Up to date, however, the victor has not materialized, and the bank goes on adding wheel to wheel and table to table, while its coAHkl has grown to colossal To dream of breaking the sense of causing it to meut, even for an hour, is an There was a time, however, “man who broke the bank” realljlgßied, though not at Monte Carlo. When, the famous Mr. Blanc, founded the Monte Carlo Casino, » ’ proprietor of a gambling establUß meat at Hamburg it was his custoxSl to bring down 300,000 francs every , morning to meet the bank’s lossesJ When this sum was exhausted the banjfl was said to be “broke” an4thed<x>j||| were closed for the day, corded that the unique feat of “breto** lng the bank” was accomplished three days In succession by the notorious South American Spaniard, Garcia, who, not satisfied with such a small maximum as 12,000 francs at trente et quarante, induced Mr, Blanc to raise it to 00,000 francs. Garcia won five coups in success, thus breaking it for the day. He repeated this on the two following days, after which his luck began to turn. Six weeks later he was obliged to ask Mr. Blanc, for a few louls with which to return to Paris. A characteristic story is told of Mr. Blanc’s composure during this memorable struggle. It was his habit to walk from table to table while play was going on; but, although such large sums were literally at stake, he did not approach Garcia’s table until the second day, when he hobbled up, and, leaning on his inseparable cane, calmly surveyed the plunger raking In a pile of gold and notes he had just won. “Ah, Mr. Blanc,” cried Garcia, exultantly, “you are disturbed, eh? One of us will have to go under, and I bet it will not be myself.” - “Mr. Garcia,” replied the old gentleman, tranquilly, “I have an annuity of 3,000 francs deposited in the Bank of Prance, and that you cannot take from me,” whereupon he resumed his perambulations.—London Mail.

The Largest Bible.

In 1857 Mlndon-min, King of Burma, erected a monument near Mandalay, called the Kutho-daw. Then he buih 700 temples, in each of which there Is a slab of white marble. Upon these 700 slabs is engraved the whole of the Buddhist Bible, a vast literature in Itself, equal to about six copies of the Holy Scriptures. This marble Bible is engraved in the Pali language, thought to be that spoken by Buddha himself 500 B. O. Photographs of some of the inscriptions have reached England, and Professor Max Muller—perhaps the greatest linguist in the world—has examined them. But, alas for all this human ingenuity and perseverance! If his majesty, Mln-don-min, thought to perpetuate the teachings of the Great Buddah by causing it to be graven on the rock, he nourished a vain ambition. The climate of Burma is moist, and its effects have already wrought havoc on the surface of the white marble, and the photographs show a partinl effacement of some of the Burmese characters in which the Pall text is engraved. This is certainly the largest known copy of any portion of literature. Even the National Encyclopedia of China, in 5,000 volumes, occupies a comparatively small space. To reach the other end of the limits of the printers' and engravers’ art we need only remember the “Smallest Bible in the World,” and the diamond editions of Catullus, Tibullus and Propertius. To ehgrave the Bible of Buddha on the marble slabs in the temples of Kuthodaw must have cost many thousands of dollars, but these sermons in stone are easily outclassed by a copy of the New Testament, which, beautifully printed, can be bought for 25 cents, and if carefully cherished will last many generations.—Boston Traveler.

Built of Buttons.

A house built of buttons is the latest thing in architecture, and a certain French musical celebrity is building it. The walls, the ceilings, the doors, the exterior and the interior, gre all ornamented with buttons of every description, from the very origin of their invention up to those of the present day. Those dating from the lower Greek empire are of the most curious manufacture, but every country has been ransacked, and some very curious specimens are reported to have been brought to light.

Losses in the Mexican War.

No battle In the Mexica:* war cost the American ariwjr as long a casualty list as that of July 1 at Santiago. But General Worth at Molino del Key lost a fourth of his 3,500 men, including fifty-eight officers. The percentage of casualties was double that at Santiago. At Monterey and Cerro Gordo the American loss was 500 each, and at Buena Vista less than 800.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The greatest pilgrimage to the holy land are undertaken by the Russians. It has been calculated that between 30,000 and 40,000 Russians visit Palestine every year,

MARK TWAIN'S APPETITE CURE.

HI. Antidote Warranted to Be Pure, Simple end Efficacious. In the Cosmopolitan, Mark Twain narrates his experience at an “appetite cure” In Bohemia. When he arrived the doctor looked him over. The doctor considered awhile, then got out a long menu and ran his eye slowly down It “I think,” said he, “that what you need to eat Is—but here, choose for yonrself.” “I glanced at the list, and my stomach threw a handspring. Of all the barbarous layouts that were ever contrived this was the most atrocious. At the top stood ‘tough, underdone, overdue tripe, garnished with garlic;’ half way down the bill stood ‘young cat, old cat, scrambled cat;’ at the bottom stood ‘sailor boots, softened with tallowserved raw.’ The wide intervals of the bill were packed with dishes calculated to insalt a cannibal.” The doctor did not press him to eat bat invited him to go to his room. When they got him there they locked him in and left him. “When I had been without food fortyfive hours,” says the patient, “I ran eagerly to the bell and ordered the second dish In the bill, which was a sort of dumplings containing a compost made of cavair and tar. “It was refused me. During the next fifteen hours I visited the bell every now and then and ordered a dish that was further down the list. Always a refusal. But I was conquering prejudice after prejudice right along; I was making sure progress; I was creeping np on No. 15 with deadly certainty, and my heart beat faster and faster, my hopes rose higher and higher. “At last when food had not passed my Ups for sixty hours, victory was mine, and I ordered No. 15: “ ‘Soft boiled spring chicken—ln the egg, six dozen, hot and fragrant!’ Then the head of the institution appeared on the scene. “ ‘lt’s a cure, It’s a cure,’ said he. ‘I knew I could do It Dear sir, my grand system never fails—never. You’ve got yofir appetite back—you know you have; say It and make me happy.’ “ ‘Bring on your carrion—l can eat anything in the bill!’ “ ‘Oh this is noble, this Is splendid—but I knew I could do It, the system .never falls. How are the birds?’ I “ ‘Never was anything so delicious lu Lthe world; and yet as a rule I don’t [cafe for game. But don’t Interrupt me, Ifon’t—l can’t spare my mouth, I really Btfi’t.’ the doctor said; ggWThe cure Is perfect. There Is no doubt nor danger. Let the poulrflPalone; I can trust you with a beefsteak, now.’ “The beefsteak came—as much as a basketful of It—with potatoes, and Vienna bread and coffee; and I ate a meal then that was worth all the costly preparation I had made for It. And dripped tears of gratitude Into the gravy all the time—gratitude to the doctor for putting a little plain common sense into me when I had been empty of it so many years.”

RAM’S HORN BLASTS.

Warning Notea Calling the Wicked t# Repentance.

UR greatest foe is self. ' Self-adulation is self-deception. Star-gazing is not star-gaining. Childlikeness is not childishness. Folly never files out of man's reach. War with tyran-

ny, is peace with heaven. Sin is never disposed of at less than cost. It is of a half truth that a whole He is born. Popular plaudits will pass no man to Paradise. The reign of righteousness will right all wrongs. Lip-service is vain, without heartconsecration. A gossip may be ambitious, but she never soars above a lie. The almighty dollar has no hypocritical worshipers at its shrine. Calamities are God's curfews to call the soul home before nightfall. Faith is the mother of character and a mature faith is never childless. God’s providence will never place you where His grace cannot keep you. My son, live a straight life. The bent tree is never the giant of the forest. Though* the sins of the father go visiting, they never fail to come home to him. There are too many good Samaritans abroad without bandages and liniment. Some people pay so much attention to their reputation that they lose their character. There is not much lifting power in the testimony of the church member who does not pay his debts. There are many of those whose idea of worship is a fervent thank God that they are better than their neighbors. The church carpet seldom looks worn to the man who expects to be called upon to assist in purchasing a new one. The preacher who mixes too much truth and Christianity with his sermons, doesn’t often receive a “call” from fashionable churches.

Dramatist Gilbert’s Joke.

The following smart example of repartee is attributed to W. S. Gilbert. The dramatist was at an evening party, and chanced to be standing bareheaded in the hall when a guest, departing in a hurry, mistook him for a waiter. “Call me a fourwheeler, will you,” says he. “Sir,” replied the ready author of “The Mikado” and a round dozen other operas, “you are a four-wheeler.” The guest was startled by this reply. “Why,” he exclaimed, "what the ” But Mr. Gilbert Interrupted him with an elaborate pretense at apology, “I couldn’t call you hansom, you know, could I r

The Bankrupt.

Few words have so remarkable a history as “bankrupt” The money changers of Italy bad benches or stalls in thebourse or exchange in former times. At these they conducted their ordinary business. When any of them fell back in the world and became insolvent, his bench was broken, and the name of “broken bench” er banca rotta, was given to him. When the word was first adopted into English, it was nearer the Italian than it now is, being “bankerout” Instead of “bankrupt” Some machines have automatic attachments and some have sheriff’s at*

FUN WITH THE CAMERA MAN.

Reason He Failed to Get a Good Photo graph of the Vo ting Man. A professional photographer tells this tale of a practical joke. One day a young man came to sit for his likeness. To the ordinary eye he looked just like any other young man. A couple of plates were exposed and then the assistant, who was operating, went Into the dark room to develop the negative. He was gone much longer than usual and was heard berating the junior assistant pretty soundly for playing pranks with the apparatus. When he returned to the studio he asked for another sitting and apologized for having before used spoiled plates. This time when he went away to develop he was heard to utter a slight scream, but he reappeared and said there was a peculiar effect in the negatives which he couldn’t account for, and would the sitter oblige him again. Once more he went to develop, then the bell rang violently for the master, and the two held a long confabulation In the dark room together. This time the master tried his hand and went away to develop. It was not long before he returned and said he was sorry not to be able to get a satisfactory likeness, but a skull and crossbones appeared defined on the young man’s forehead. “Rubbish!” said the sitter; “my forehead’s all right. Can you see anything the matter with my forehead?” and he peered into a mirror as he spoke. “No, there’s nothing that I can see,” answered the photographer. “But I Should be obliged if you will please go away and not come here again; this sort of thing is just a wee bit creepy.” Upon this there was a dreadful scene, but the upshot was that the young man had to go, and up to the present time has never returned. The explanation of the matter is that the young man was a bit of a scientist, and had been playing a joke on the photographer. Bisulphate of quinine is a chemical which is white to the naked eye, but seen black by the camera. Anything that is painted on the skin, therefore, with the chemical will be Ordinarily invisible, but will come out prominently in a photograph.— Pittsburgh Dispatch.

Two Chums on a Throne.

Not until Nicholas 11. went to Paris In the a dress coat in his wardrobe. His majesty’s ceremonious toilets consisted of elaborate uniforms, with nary a clawhammer coat in the lot. But etiquette demanded an evening coat. President Faure could not wear anything else, and the Czar was forced to admit he was baffled by a matter of dress, and as gracefully as possible the situation was accepted. He sent for the court tailor and commanded a dress coat In the latest Parisian fasion. This personage could cut emperor’s uniforms, but the evening coat was beyond his genius. What to do? Why, being a tailor of expedients, he sent to Paris to find out the latest fashions in dress suits. A few days afterward his messenger returned to St. Petersburg, and two weeks later the suit was ready. It cost 700 rubles, but that was of no consequence, for it fitted the emperor like a glove, and the empress said Nicky had never looked so well in his life as in it. Women who take an Interest in their husband's wardrobes always do say that of the dress suit. But Nicholas 11. and his Alexandra-Feodorovna are like two chums, and In St. Petersburg it is said that never was there on the throne of Russia a couple so well mated and so completely happy.—Boston Herald.

An Elephant Had Fun with Him.

A young traveler and sportsman who has just returned from a hunting and exploring trip through Africa has lived to tell how It feels to play football with an enraged elephant for the center rush on one side and yourself as the whole team and the football on the other. “Round Lake Stephanie,” he writes, “we had some excellent sport, and it was here that I was hurt by a wounded elephant. My escape was nothing less than miraculous. The great beast, mad with rage, was charging me when at the critical moment my gun failed, and I had to turn and run. But the elephant soon caught me, and going on his knees tried to pin me to the ground with his tusks. Failing in this he caught me with his trunk and flung me round under his body, with the idea of crushing me to death. How I escaped-1 do not know, as I was in this situation for half an hour. At the end of that time the great brute got up and kicking a piece of wood which he doubtless took to be my dead body, made off to his retreat. Curiously enough, I had no bones broken.”

Henry George and the Porter.

Henry George was traveling once on a sleeping car. The porter came to brush the dust off him and “work” him for the customary quarter. There were but few passengers. George reflected on the fact that Pullman paid his poor black hireling little or naught, and relied on his ability to brush aud gouge the public instead, and he determined to give him all the change he found in his pocket. He thought there might be about 60 cents, but there actually was $3 in quarters, halves and dimes. He gave it all to the darky, who dropped bis broom and stared at the tip and then at George. “This all fo’ me, boss?” he grasped. "“It’s all for you,” replied George. The darky looked at the little, rusty, modest man and again at his handful of silver. “Wow!” he ejaculated; “it’s true as de Good Book puts it, you nevah cain tell how fah a toad kin Jump twell you sees him hop.”

Workingmen’s Insurance.

J. C. Monaghan, the consul at Chemnitz, testifies earnestly to the value of the German system of insuring workingmen against sickness, accident, Invalidism and old age. The fond is furished by employers and employed—the former paying one-third, the latter twothirds. The system has been productive of incalculable good. Its result has been to insure hundreds of thousands of working people who would have had otherwise no provision for the futnre.

Damascus the Oldest City.

Though Rome is called “the eternal city,” the name by right belongs to the city of Damascus In Syria, which is the oldest city in the world. As long as man has written records the city of Damascus has been known.

Admiral Schley.

Rear Admiral Schley Is npt noticeably tall, but his legs are wonderously long, and it is said that be could run like a deer in his days, but has long ago forgo^esoliow.

Dange[?] ball.

“Do you thinlMlS? Ys any real danger In foot-ball “Not as long as a player can avoid being -used as the hail,” The wise man counts the cost of his pleasure after the doctor has sent In btabUL ■J . ’ A