Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1898 — Page 2

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BOHEMIAN EMBEZLLER IN CUS TODY IN CHICAGO. Wife and Annt with Him-Former Did Not Know Her Husband Was a Fnaritive When They tailed for America -To Haise $20,000,000. >c:use-l cfßtealirg $46,000. Lambert Wilt, the alleged absconding comptroller of the Bunzlau Savings Bank of Bunzlau, Bohemia, with his young wife and his aunt, Blaja Mullei, arrived in Chicago the other morning in custody of Sergt. Harding, who had followed the foreigners through several cities and finally effected their capture in St. Louis after they had eluded a score of operatives who were on their trail. Wilt expressed reliefthat he was through with being a fugitive and an outlaw. He said that the hounding to which he had been subjected since he left his native land had so worked on his mind that even a rest behind prison bars was a relief. Wilt’s young wife, whom he married about the time he left Europe, declares she was ignorant of the cause of their sudden departure for America and that she knew nothing of the alleged defalcation of her husband until Sergt. Harding’s steel handcuffs were snapped upon his wrists. In W’ilt’s possession was found $5,521, and he is said to have considerable more of the $45,000 which he is charged with stealing from the coffers of the Bunzlau bank, on deposit In New York. INCLINE ROAD CARS CO W<LD. Wreck the Engine-House and hjure Three Persons at Pittsburg At Pittsburg, the machinery of the Fort Pitt combination passenger and freight incline “got away” from the engineer, Alexander McDavid. The two cars ran wild up and down the plant until they battered to pieces all obstructions at the top and bottom. After wrecking the engine house the machinery stopped and the cars came to a stand. Maggie Horn, aged 15, and Henry Hinton, colored, were injured. Both will recover. Mrs. Henry Mackin, passenger on one of the cars, was bruised. Two horses attached to a wagon on which Hinton was the driver were killed. Engineer McDavid narrowly escaped death in the wreck of the engine house. The monetary damage will amount to $25,000. MANY FISHERMAN LOST AT SEA. Eghty-tws Who Went from Q'oucsster, Miss., Fail to Ra'urn. The end of the Gloucester, Mass., fishing season is at hand, and with it is counted the profit and loss and the sacrifice of life. The reckoning for the year is fourteen vessels a total loss and eighty-two men drowned in the pursuit of the fisheries. The losses will approximate SIOO,OOO. The terrible gales which, raged on the banks in October, 1897, are undoubtedly responsible for the loss of three vessels and their entire crews, while the series of gales which prevailed during the winter also brought the fate of many a Gloucester fisherman. The proportion of those lost in dories astray from their vessels is not so large as formerly. BISHOPS ASK $20,000,000. Method;*!* Will Try to Raise the Sum a* a Thank Offering. The bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church are going to ask the members of that church to celebrate the beginning of the twentieth century of Christianity by contributing a thank offering of $20,00q,000. A vote to that effect was taken at the conference of sixteen bishops held in Springfield, Mass. The money will be expended for the improvement of existing educational and charitable institutions maintained by the denomination. The funds are expected to be received by Jan. 1. 1901. The call will go all over the civilized w;orld to Methodists. 8-te c f V rgii Mary's Abode. While in Jerusalem, Emperor William went to Mount Zion, where occurred the ceremony of hoisting the German and Turkish flags bn a piece of ground which, according to tradition, was formerly occupied by -the abode of the Virgin Mary and which the Sultan presented to the German Emperor. The latter subsequently formally prsented the ground to the German Catholics. Ii a Trancs 8 xtein Yser*. Miss Elmira Marie Charpentier, who had been in a trance at New Orleans practically for sixteen years, is dead. During this period she was awake 11,680 hours and unconscious 140,160 hours. In other words, she was conscious one year and ten months out of sixteen years. Her life has been a problem which physicians were unable to solve. Married Women to Bj Barred. The life insurance companies doing business in Canada have agreed hereafter not to accept risks on the lives of married women unless they happen to be the breadwinners of the family, or, in other words, wholly independent of their husbands. The decision has been come to with a view to cheeking the crime of murder for insurance. , Unted States of Central Amsrlca. Three Central American States—Salvador, Nicaragua and Honduras—have entered into a coalition and began life the other day as the United States of Central America. Many that by an Insane Man. Adam Hammer, a machinist at Beaver Dam, Wis., became violently Insane and shot nine men (none of them fatally) before he was arrested. Exjloso; in a Barracks An explosion near the rear entrance to the eastern barracks at Fort Wayne, near Detroit, resulted disastrously to four soldiers, who are now lying burned and bruised in the regimental hospital. They are all members of the Nineteenth infantry. F.r* at OKI h mi Cit The Commercial Hotel, city livery stable and a saloon were burned at Oklahoma City. The guests had time to escape from the hotel, which was entirely consumed. Four horses were burned to death. Boiler Exploalo t Kill* Thre*. By the explosion of a boiler in the Calumet and Hecla stamp' mills at Lake Linden, Mich., JoTm Gillion and William Boyer of Lake Linden and William Helion of Bruce Ont., were instantly killed and Daniel La Francer fatally injured. The cause of the explosion is unknown. Attacked by Flock; of Geeax The young son of Jacob Green, while going through the barnyard at Bucyrus, Ohio, was attacked by a flock of geese. He was knocked down and his nose and ears were torn off and his face badly bitten. He was senseless when found and the geese were still tearing him to pieces. Bank President A:qu tted. At Fargo, N. D., H. F. Miller, president of the defunct Citizens’ National Bank, on trial in the United States Court for the past two weeks on charges of embezzlement and misappropriation of funds of the bank, was acquitted by the jury after it had been out for nineteen hours. American* Arrested In Peru. Two American Protestant tract distributers have been arrested at Arequipa, capital of the Peruvian province of the same name, charged with distributing papers contrary to the State religion. The State attornev will nnnlv far fhnir rplMan

POSTOFFICES IN PORTO RICO. M»J. BtuartTei:* Hiw Postel System of the Island Was Reformed. Major James E. Stuart, ehairman of the Porto Rico postal commission, has gone to Washington to report to the Postmaster General. In discussing his work Major Stuart said: “There were ninety of us, including my assistants and a number of postal clerks, when we lauded at Ponce. As soon as we landed tre began obeying the Postmaster General’s order to establish a postal system by following-in the rear of the advancing army. As soon as a town was captured we evicted the native postmaster, put one of our clerks in charge, introduced a money order and registered letter system, and there we were. We bad an up-to-date American postoffice running like clock work four hours after a town was captured. We have now about eighty offices, with all the modern arrangements, in full operation. Most of the postmasters are American citizens, but in unimportant interior towns we have appointed native postmasters. A native postmaster is the proudest mortal alive, for, aside from being accounted the chief man of the community, he is looked upon as a soft of magician.” THREE KILLED IN COLLISION. Open Switch on U non Pac fl: Cause* a Fat*! Acc dent A rear-end collision on the Union Pacific at Omaha resulted in the death of three men and the serious Injury of one other. An extra freight train standing on the sidetrack and the switch being left open, freight No. 27, going at a good rate of speed, crashed into the rear end of the extra. The engine was badly wrecked and four freight cars reduced almost to kindling wood. Samuel Hindman, engineer of No. 27, was taken from the wreck unconscious. He died later. William Ranan, the fireman, was caught in the freight cars, being thrown a distance of several feet, and was wedged in- between timbers and parts of the engine. It was half an hour after the collision before he was extricated. He died a little later. John Grilling of the extra was caught between the cars and sustained serious injuries. Brakeman Shannon was fatally injured, being thrown from the car to a considerable distance. CUT A PASSENGER’S THROAT. Murderous Deed of«i I ,sina Farmir In an Atlanta Street Car. William Shockley, an insane farmer of Auburn, Ga., cut the throat of J. D, Bishop and wounded Police Captain John Thompson in a street car at Atlanta, Ga, Robert McCoy, an ex-policeman, in effecting the capture of the demented murderer, was seriously but not fatally stabbed. Bishop died instantly. Shockley called at the police station during the morning and asked to be locked up, as he was going insane, but was thrown out of the station. He then called on Gov. Atkinson and asked for protection, and while the Governor was telephoning the police the man departed. Shockley was sitting next to Mr. Bishop in the car, and without a word drew a razor, reached around and nearly severed his head from the body. Shockley is under arrest. BIC SAW 'MILL BURNED. One of the Largest Plant* on Pte fl: Coast Totally Destroyed. Fire broke out at the Hastings sawmill at Vancouver, B. C., and entirely destroyed it. Two hundred and fifty men were thrown out of employment. The mill was one of the most complete on the Pacific coast, having a capacity of 300,000 feet per day, or 9,000,000 feet per annum. All the valuable machinery was destroyed, as well as the wharf and the company’s mill. The owners are the Royal City Planing Mill Company, and the loss will amount to several hundred thousand dollars. Opp sition In Rubbir Business. George A. Lewis of Naugatuck, Conn., president of the Goodyear Rubber Company, has tendered his resignation. This :s the consummation of the biggest deal in the history of the rubber business in this country. Levi T. Warner, general superintendent of the company, has also resigned, and he’takes with him his brother, Abner, shipping agent for the company, and John D. Rodenbach, general manager. The avowed intention of all concerned in this deal is to organize an opposition to the United States Rubber Company, and, with the millions of money behind the Lewis family, the Whittemores and the Warners, there will be an interesting contest. It has been suspected that the Naugatuck rubber magnates for a long time have been quietly backing the late Joseph Bannigan of Providence in his fight. It is now thoroughly understood why J. G. Whittemore sold out his stock in the Goodyear and other companies. The move of his son is also understood—the buying of the immense plant of the Tingue Woolen and Plush Company at Beacon Falls, which has lain idle for several years.

A Carefully P.anned Eu clda. August Rantach threw himself on the Northwestern Railroad tracks at West Ravenswood park and Foster avenue, near Chicago, the other night. His body was found the next morning with the head entirely severed from the trunk. The tracks are elevated at that point and the head had rolled almost to the edge of the embankment. The body was thrown to the side of the track. From the appearance of the body, the plan was carefully thought out and the deed most deliberate. Rantach had removed his overcoat and coat, carefully folding them and placing them beside the track. Apparently he waited until he heard a train approaching and then placed his body between the rails so that his head would be severed. He was lying near the track of north-bound trains. The police are uncertain when the affair took place, but are positive that it was not an accident. Nothing unusual was noticed by those who had the train in charge. A number of trains pass the place during the night, and several of them may have passed without the crews noticing the body. Cloak Vanufacturar* Bank) upt Julius, Alfred and Israel Ablowich of New York, who composed the firm of J. Ablowich & Co., have filed a petition in bankruptcy, both individually and as members of that firm. They were formerly cloak manufacturers and failed three years ago. The firm’s liabi'itits amount to $196,865. F X 8« Datet for fctata -Fair*. The American Association of Fairs and Expositions has fixed the following dates for State fairs to be held in 1399: New York and lowa, Aug. 28 to Sept. 2; Minnesota and Nebraska, Sept. 4 to 9; Wisconsin, Sept. 11 to 16; Indiaiyi. Sept. 18 to 23; Illinois, Sept 25 to 30; St Louis, Oct. 2 to 7. D-cw e I While F thing Dr. Edward Bovett, a well-known veterinarian of Denver, and E. Girard, cook ut the club house of ths Standard Shooting Club at Bowles Lake, ten miles ssuth of there, were drowned while fishing in the lake. The cause of the accident is unknown. Yellcw Fever In New York. Commissioner William T. Jenkins of the New York health department gave out an official statement to the effect that Col. George E. Waring, Jr., who returned to New York on the Ward line steamer Yucatan from Havana, had yellow fever. Web Wrecki Street Car*. The employes of the London, Ont., Street Railway Company are on strike’ and a mob of sympathizers wrecked several cars and bombarded the company’s oflice with stones, driving off the. clerical force. Hereford! Sold to EreoJey. Stock breeders from every section of the country attended Armour’s sale of Hereford cattle at Kansas City. Many head were disposed of and high prices were realized. Much Gram Sh pp>d Abroad. Bradstreet’s reports on the condition of business in this way: “Irregularity in prices and trade movements has been rather more marked this week than for some limo pdtst, but measured by all the usual

standards of business developed the sitoa» tlon Is one of exceptional activity and even strength. The active foreign demand at advancing prices for American cereals and their products appeared to have culminated early in the week in a virtual ‘warscare’ market, in which the highest prices reached since early in August were recorded. The reaction shown, however, has been a small one. Evidences of reaction in prices are not confined to wheat, but extend to lard and coffee, among food products, Bessemer pig iron, lead and cotton, while most other cereals, pork and beef, copper and print cloths, have remained steady and unchanged. The industrial situation has many points of interest in It. The cotton goods trade is closely following the workings of the plan or restriction adopted by the Fall River print cloth mills. Sales of wool are of increased volume. The manufactured product remains slow of sale at first hands, but advices of good retail buying are more numerous. The iron and steel situation continues without much change. In other industries the report is generally of plenty of work. Wheat, including flour, shipments for the week aggregate 5,500,991 bushels, against 4,582,773 bushels last week. Corn exports for the week aggregate 2,424,376 bushels, against 2,397,191 bushels last week.” SHE CHASED A BURGLAR. Bcrafoo'.ad and in Her N ght Robe, 6hs Follow *d the Thief. Mrs. W. D. Lefevre, wife of a railway conductor living at 204 College street, Akron, Ohio, awoke at 3 o’clock on a recent morning and heard some one in the house. Thinking her husband had returned she called to him. Receiving no response, she took her revolver and sailed out into the hall. Here she found a strange man just crawling out of a window. She fired at him once, and opening the door pursued him out into the street. Four times more she fired and chased the robber down the street, although clad in her night robe and barefooted. On the way she passed four men, but they made no effort to stop the running man. At last the robber vanished into the railway yards and the plucky woman gave up the chase. SHOT THROUGH THE HEAD. George Bare'ay, a Prom nant Lumberman of Pine R ver, Assassinated. Information has been received that George Barclay, a prominent lumberman and proprietor of the hotel at Pine River, Minn., a station on the Brainerd and Northern Railroad, was shot through the head while sitting in the waiting room of his hotel. The shot was fired from without by a party unknown. The operator says a man was seen running away immediately after the shot was fired. General Manager Haas of the Brainerd and Northern was wired for a special train to bring a doctor from Walker, but before the special could be gotten ready, word was received that Barclay had died. .- Will Ba Triad at Ban Franc'aco. (Mrs. Cordelia Botkin must stand trial ar San Francisco in the Superior Court on the charge of the murder of Mrs. John r Dunning of Dover, Del. The grand jt ’y, after a prolonged session, has voted to indict her. The evidence collected there ai i in Delaware was presented to the gr nd jury and action was hastened at the rq uest of Detective McVey, who said he w> s anxious to return home. fc'urdsr at Ling Braich, N J. larry Brooks, married and 21 years old, w«»t to the residence of George Hibbett in (Long Branch, N. J., at 1 o’clock the o tiler afternoon and shot and killed Hibbelt’s wife, who was ten years his senior. Th* cause of the murder remains a mystery. The murderer was taken to the coiinty jail at Freehold to escape a mob of riynchers. { Schooner St. Peter Founders. 'Vhe three-masted schooner St. Pe’er, a To edo boat, foundered seven miles northwe it of Sodus, Lake Ontario, in twenty fat 10ms of water. She had 700 tons of ha; 1 coal for Toledo. Captain John Griffin is her owner. His wife and the crew of even were drowned, but Griffin himself was saved. The schooner was valued at $1,500. fjo Troublj Expected with Shoshones. A- special courier from Nye County, Nev., the scene of the recent Indian scare, reports that all dread of an uprising among the Shoshones is past. Fifty mounted policemen are still on duty and it is believed these men can quell any disturbance that may arise, but hostilities are highly improbable.

Dsath Litt of Spanish War. Commissioner of Pensions H. Clay Evans says that up to Sept. 30 the war with Spain had caused the loss of the lives of 2,906 American soldiers and sailors, and that the pension list would likely be increased that number of names. Earthquake Shock at Ottawa. An earthquake shock was felt in Ottawa, Ont. It was most marked on Ssndy Hill and in the vicinity of Gilmore street. On the latter street several of the houses were shaken, awakening the inmates and causing great alarm. Car Barn* Burned. The Cuyahoga Falls barns of the Akron and Cuyahoga Falls (Ohio) Rapid Transit Company were destroyed by fire, and with them sixteen cars. The loss will be $20,000, fully insured. Incendiary. Defalcation Cause* Failure. A direct outgrowth of the flight of Cashier J. M. Childs of the First National Bank at Lisbon, Ohio, was the assignment of William Steele, the leading grocer of the town. Thanksg ving Day November 24. President McKinley has issued his annual proclamation and set aside Thursday, Nov. 24, as Thanksgiving day. Massachusetts Strike End-d. The general strike of the boot and shoe lasters in southeastern Massachusetts factories has been declared off.

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, 65c to 67c; corn, No. 2,31 cto 33c; oats, No. 2,23 c to 24c; rye, No. 2,50 cto 52c; butter, choice creamery, 21c to 23c; eggs, fresh, 17c to 18c; potatoes, choice, 30c to 40c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, common to choice, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 67c to 69c; corn, No. 2 white, 32c to 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 26c to 28c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, $3.50 to $4.00; sheep, $3.50 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2,70 c. so 71c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 31c to 33c; oats, No. 2,25 cto 27c; rye, No. 2,51 eto 52c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,67 cto 69c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 34c to 35c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 25c to 27c; rye, No. 2,54 cto 56c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.25 to $3.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,71 cto 73c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 35c to 36c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 28c; rye, 52c to 54c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 70c to 71c;, corn, N®-. 2 mixed, 33c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 25c; rye, No. 2. 51c to 53c; clover seed, old, $4.95 to $5.05. Milwaukein-Wheat, No. 2 spring, 66c to 67c; corn, No. 3,32 cto 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 27c; rye, No. 1,50 cto 52c; barley, No. 2,46 cto 48c; pork, mess, $7.50 to SB.OO. Buffalo—Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, common to choice, $3.50 to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice wethers, $3.50 to $5.00; lambs, common to extra, $5.00 to $5.75. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 76c to 78c; corn, No. 2,39 cto 40c; oats. No. 2,28 cto 80c; bptter, Creamery, 16c to 24c; eggs, Western, 2O<po2lc,

A dangerous Secret.

By FLORENCE MARYATT.

CHAPTER XXVH. As Delia reaches the second window she tells Jane to re-enter the house and watch the deeping man for her. As soon as ever the girl disappeared, she is on the sill and through the open casement Yes, here is the same room in which her last interview was held with the old clerk of Chilton; and there stands his bed, with the immortal package on the top of it. She sits down, and, taking out a pair of scissors provided for the purpose, commences to unrip the stitching of the wrappers. She has never calculated on the difficulty of her task. The box, or books, or whatever the contents may be, have been stitched and restitched with thick twine, so that the old man appears to have spent days over his task. At last, by dint of blunted implements and bruised fingers, Delia' has succeeded in removing the outer wrapper of American cloth, when she finds herself confronted by a second one of drugget or baize, as hard to work through as the first. She tries to cut right through the center of the package, but some hard substance resists the scissors; she must have patience and proceed by degrees. As she has half unripped the second covering, however, she is startled by a noise upon the uncarpeted stairs—the sound of approaching footsteps stumbling up the narrow gangway. What can it be? Is it possible that Strother can have awakened from his slumber and had his suspicions aroused by her absence? She flies to the casement which looks out upon the front. It is true! He has left his chair, and a key is already grating and twisting about in the keyhole of the door. Delia has no time for consideration—no tilfe to do anything but to escape by the way she came, so leaving the “paircel” in the state to which she had reduced it, and not waiting even to recover her fallen scissors, she leaps to the window sill, and is down the steps and standing on the gravel path below before an eye had seen her proceedings. Her next effort is to place the steps where she found them, and thence to proceed, flushed and panting, into the front kitchen, where Jane is quietly seated, shelling broad-beans, with her half-sov-ereign laid on the table beside her. “The old gentleman’s gone through up to his room,” are the first words with which she placidly greets Deb'a. “My goodness! what’s that?” She alludes to a loud scream, like the note of an angry ape in pain, which proceeds from Strother’s chamber. Delia knows full well what it is, and prepares to fly from further questioning. But the old man’s ravings reach them but too distinctly. “Wha’s been in my room?” he cries. “Wha’s daured to touch my paircel? Let me find the carle and I’ll wreeng his neck for him. I’ll ken wha’s daured to sash me. I was anely i’ the gairden takin’ a wee drap o’ whusky, and naebody hae been i* the house but Jean. It maun be that huzzy Jean. Here, Jean, Jean!” “You had better go to.the old man and quiet him, Jane,” says Delia. “Tell him no one has been in his room. How could they, with the door locked? I’m afraid I may have given him a little too much whisky. Do what you can with him, and Til go and tell Miss Patsy, whom I see coming up the garden, all about it.” Miss Patsy does not think anything of the affair. Mrs. Manners is “main” good, she says, to trouble about “the old hunks,” but one never dreams of attending to anything he says or does. He’s as “daft” as any lunatic in the county asylum. “And where have you been, Patsy?” “I’ve been to meet my young man, ma’am,” says Patsy, with a blush and a smile; “for, you see, it is our harvesthome supper to-night, and if he was to miss it all the fun of the evening would be gone for me.” “Naturally. Where is your supper to be held?” “Up at the big barn in the poplar field. I suppose it would be no use asking ye to join us, ma’am. Likely parson will be there. He mostly looks in at the harvesting suppers.” “No, Patsy, thank you; I am too tired to-day. Besides, Mr. and Mrs. Bond are in London and I have the cottage to look after. But I hope you will have a very pleasant evening and that your young man will be sure to be there.”

She gets away as soon as she can after that, for she is disappointed at the failure of her afternoon experiment and fears lest she may have marred her chances of success by her precipitancy. But as she sits alone in the evening thinking over these things it suddenly occurs to her that in all probability old Strother will have gone up to the harvesting supper with his friends and the coast be once more clear. She never thought of asking Patsy Kennett whether her grandfather would be included among the guests, but it is worth going up to the farm to see if it is the case or no. As soon as this idea strikes Delia she puts it into execution. It is ten o’clock; but what is ten o’clock for a walk along a country lane, with the harvest moon lighting up each object as bright as day? When she has traversed half its distance her eye is attracted by something that glitters in the hedgerow. Delia stoops to pick it up and finds, to her astonishment, that it is the same glass flask she presented to the old Scotchman that afternoon. It is like the old man’s surly ingratitude to throw it away, she thinks; but how on earth did it come here? She holds it in her hand as she walks on wondering, but can come to no better conclusion than that Strother may have commissioned some child to fetch him whisky in it with the money she gave him, and the messenger, cognizant of the old man’s weakness of intellect, has been unfaithful to his trust. But as she reaches the farmhouse another light is thrown upon the circumstance. She is met by the servant Jane, howling loudly, after the fashion of the lower orders when in distress, and wringing her hands. “Gracious heavens!” exclaims Delia, “what is the matter?’

CHAPTER XXVIII. > The matter was that old Strother had taken his bundle and gone off with it. As soon as Delia hears the news she says rapidly to the servant: “You must stay here and I will go in search of him and bring him back with me if I can.” As Delia hurries along, her thoughts are all in confusion, and she is only sure of one thing—that she must follow after that parcel, if the quest takes her to the other side of the world. One precaution only will she observe, to scribble a few lines in pencil on the back of a card, and give it to the purblind housekeeper at the ’rectory, who she knows cannot read, to deliver to Mi- Le Mesurier as soon as he returns. She walks so quickly that she has arrived at the little town of St. Alders before she thinks she is half way there. The railway station is on the outskirts of the town, and the state of activity it appears to be in emboldens Delia to go straight there and make inquiries for the object of her search. She finds the narrow platform quite crowded with passengers, and a truck full of luggage bars ber entrance for the space of half a second. It is evidrat a train is momentarily expected. As

she enters the booking office, a clerk thrusts his face out at the ticket office. “Now, then, miss—where for? Winchester, Basingstoke, Waterloo?” “No, thank you! I only came to ask if an old man, very bent and decrepit, and shabbily dressed, with a large parcel, has been seen here this evening? He has left his home, and his friends are very much distressed about him.” “Don’t know nothink about it, miss; better ask the station master,” says the ticket clerk, abruptly, as he bangs down the window. “Oh! where is the station master?’ exclaims Delia to every one within hearing. “Do you think the lady can mean the little peddler looking fellow who carried a box, or summat, on his back, and spoke such broad Scotch, Bill!” demands an official, who has overheard her conversation, of another.

“Yes, yes! that is he!” replied Delia, eagerly. “An old man, with his hair half red and half white, and with a freckled skin, and velveteen suit. He is mad. I must find out where he’s gone to!” “Well, if so be this was the old gentleman you’re in search of, miss, he booked hisself by the 8:10 for Winchester, where he must have been landed full an hour ago.” “When does the next train leave for Winchester, then ?” “Why, this here’s the Winchester train as is alongside now! Last one to-night, too—the eleven express to London. She won’t stop again now, except at Winchester and Basingstoke, till she’s run through to Waterloo.” ‘■'Put me in a carriage! I must follow that man at all risks!” "You’ll have to look sharp if you want to leave by this train. Have you got your ticket?”

“I’ll pay at the other end!” cries Delia, as she leaps into the carriage, the door of which is just about to be closed with a bang, and finds the train at the moment moving off in the direction of Winchester. In three-quarters of an hour she finds herself at her destination. As she pays her railway fare, she tries to extract some information from the ticket collector. Her best plan, he says, guessing her station in life, will be to put up at the George Inn, in High street, and place her inquiries in the hands of the parish authorities in the morning. The night porter receives her in the hall of the George Inn, although the house is not yet shut up. She sleeps well and peacefully. She is up with the morning’s light. As she sits at breakfast a curd is put into her hand, which is inscribed to her surprise, with the name of “Le Mesurier.” In another moment the friends are together. “Is it really my business that has brought you over here!” cries Delia. “How good and kind of you! I never thought my message would have such an effect.”

“What other effect did you anticipate, Mrs. Manners? When I returned home last night and received your card I considered it my duty to follow and offer you my protection. What can you mean by running about the country ut dead of night, in this harum-scarum way? What good did you expect to do by It?’ “I don’t know; but I traced Strother to Winchester, and I felt that I must follow him. How did you ascertain that I was here?” “As soon as I got your message I walked after you to St. Alders; but the station was closed. So I sat there till the morning, and came on by the first train. The porters told me all about you and the ‘Scotch peddler* you were inquiring after; so I knew I was on the right track. And once at Winchester it was easy to guess I should find you at the George Inn. Everybody who comes to Winchester goes to the George.” “Oh! Mr. Le Mesurier, do you think we shall find him?” “Sooner or later, there is no doubt we shall; but I question whether we can do much in a day. What are your plans?” She tells him of her desire tp consult a magistrate, and he considers it the best thing she can do. “But be advised by me. Let me save you the trouble of walking all over the town for nothing. Rest quietly here, and I will go out and make the necessary inquiries. Then if your presence is required I will return and fetch you.” (To be continued.)

CAUSE OF LEPROSY.

An Exclusively Human Disease and Not Inoculable to Animals. The active cause of leprosy is a apei cific micro-organism, the bacillus leproe. The period of incubation varies from a few minutes to several years. Two principal types or'forms of leprosy that are recognized as the brunt of the disease are determined toward the skin or toward the peripheral nervous system. The first form is termed tubercular; the second, anaesthetic or nerve leprosy. In the firm form infiltrations occcur in the skin, forming nodules or tubercles, which are especially prominent about the forehead, cheeks and ears; later, these nodules break down, froming ulcerating sores; often they occasion pictures of horrible deformity. The tubercular form is the most severe and rapidly fatal; the average duration of life is from five to ten years. In the anaesthetic form the nu-, trition of the skin is interfered with from Implication of the nerves, leading to contractions and deformities of the members; not Infrequently there is marked mutilation from the sinking in of the nose, the loss of the sight, and the dropping off of the fingers and toes, so that only the stumps of the hands aijd feet remain. In this form the course of the disease is slower, and life may be prolonged to ten or fifteen years, or longer. Some patients exhibit the characteristics of. both forms (mixed leprosy). I Leprosy is an exclusively human disease; it is not inoculable to animals. It is never of spontaneous origin, but is invariably derived from the lesions or secretions of a person similarly diseased. Its development in a country previously exempt from the disease may always be traced to its importation in the person of a leper from an Infected center. We know nothing definitely of the mode of infection or the channels of entrance through which the bacillus gains access to the organism—whether by direct contact, by inhalation or imbibition of the germs, or by other intermediaries. Observation proves conclusively that every leper is a possible source of danger to ail witlj whom he may come into intimate and prolonged contact The Swedish bride fills her pocket with bread, which she dispenses to every one she meets on her way ti church, every piece she disposes oi averting, as she believes, a misfortune. He conquers wbe endures.

WHO WHIPPED SPAIN?

Republicans are endeavoring to make the people believe that the Republican party whipped Spain. Had it not been for the Democrats in Congress the Republican administration would have swallowed all the Spanish insults and have accepted without protest the destruction of the Maine. Have the people forgotten the struggle in Congress to force McKinley to cake a manly and patriotic stand? Have the people forgotten Mark Hanna’s insolent boast, “Give us twenty-four hours and we’ve got ’em licked?” Do the people remember that it was not the Spanish that Hanna said would be “licked,” but the patriotic Congressmen who wanted to fight Spain? After the war had been begun, Republican newspapers alleged that McKinley had been coerced into fighting, and Mark Hanna said that “nobody wanted war but tramps and loafers.” That is the vtfhr record ot the Republican party—the party which now claims the honor of whipping Spain. Forced into the conflict against its will, the Republican party now poses as the victor. Such a claim is absurd on its face, and will serve no purpose other than to make ridiculous the party making it. As a matter of fact, the war was won by the people, but the Democratic party was the cause of giving the people an opportunity to fight the Spanish. Patriotism is not the exclusive possession of either party, but it can safely be said that the Republican leaders were sadly lacking in that regard when the war question was unler discussion in Congress.

AFTER THE WAR.

Questions for Congress. There are several things which the McKinley investigating committee has not yet Investigated. It is quite probable that this white-washing committee will not reach the matters in question, but Congress may be so careful of Alger’s feelings. Among the problems to be solved are the following: Who sold decomposed meat and spoiled canned goods to the government at the price of firstclass articles, and what official secured the “rake off”? Who bought rotten hulks as auxiliary craft for the war department at three or four times their real value, and what did the purchasing agents get for their share of the “swag”? Who acted as buyer in negotiating deals for palatial yachts with their millionaire owners at fancy figures, and what share did the buyer get of the “boodle”? Who purchased army mules In the north at $l2O. each on the very day that several thousand army mules were sold at Chickamauga for S4O apiece, and who got the benefit of the “dicker”? There are many other questions of a timilar nature that might be asked.

Fostering the Trusts. Organized capital has been systenatically strengthened by Republican egislation. As a result of the compact nade by Mark Hanna with the trusts before the election of McKinley, the Republican party is the slave of the rusts. Republican workingmen should ■end the record of trust legislation; •hey should peruse the history of the enactments made in the Interests of the sugar trust, the steel trust, the whisky trust and the other great combines of capital against labor, and they should resolve to break their connection with a party which is their deadliest enemy. When a trust is formed what is its first avowed object? To cheapen the cost of production. Who are the ones to suffer from this cheapening process? The laborers. Fostering the combines, the Republican party strikes a blow at every wage earner in the nation. And yet there are wage earners who will vote the Republican ticket. Who are the leaders of this party which is the friend of organized capital? Mark Hanna, Carnegie, Rockefeller, Lukens, and all the managers of the great combines in this country.

A Broken Promise.

Lawyer—What can I do for you, madam? Client—l want a divorce from my husband. Lawyer—Upon what grounds do you desire to bring suit? Client—He hasn’t been faithful to his marriage vows. Lawyer—ln what particular has he violated them ? Client—He promised to die for me, and he hasn’t done it

He or She.

The word “ship” is masculine in French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese, and possesses no sex in Teutonic and Scandinavian. Perhaps it would not be an error to trace the custom back ,to the Greeks, who called all ships by feminine names, probably out of deference to Athene, goddess of the sea. But the sailor assigns no such reasons. The ship is to him a veritable sweetheart. She possesses a waist, collars, stays, laces, bonnet, ties, ribbon, chain, watch* es of other feminine valuables.

POLITICS OF THE DAY

AN INFAMOUS MEASURE. The Overstreet - McCleary currency bill, now pending in Congress, which is, by the way, the result of the Indianapolis Monetary Commission’s several sessions, if enacted into law (as it surely will be if the McKinley administration is given encouragement by this year’s elections), would create a set of conditions In this country that would almost justify revolution. It would: 1. Retire $346,000,000 of greenbacks. 2. Stop coinage of silver dollars. 3. Make $500,000,000 of silver redeemable In gold. 4. Make debt contracts, public and private, payable in gold. 5. Turn over to banks all power to issue paper currency. 6. Secure bank currency by assets only. 7. Eeave depositors without protection. 8. Enable banks to contract or expand their currency at will. 9. Create a bank monopoly. 10. Leave honest banks at theunercy of dishonest ones. 11. Make legitimate banking'hazardous. 12. Increase the value of our debt obligations, national and private, many million dollars. 13. Open an avenue for wildcat banking. 14. Provide a tweive-year board to control currency. “Make money the master, everything else the servant,” as McKlnjley said in 1891. Do Democrats want these conditions to prevail? We think not.

Price of Silver and Wheat. “Along in the last part of May wheat went up to about $1.80,” says B. F. Spry, in the lowa Farmers’ Tribune, “and that Demo-Republlcan-gold standard sheet, that tries to hold the Democratic patronage by pretending to be a Democratic paper, and to hold the Democratic traitors—the ‘gold bug Democrats’—by advocating free trade, and the Republicans and thedr advertising money by referring to the silly jokes about Bryan, wheat and free silver made a great hit, as the Leader thought, by saying, when wheat was up in the gambling rooms of the Chicago Board of Trade to $1.60, ‘How is Bryan with his silver and wheat? Silver and wheat have parted company now that good times have come and the country is again prosperous; let the people part with this silly Bryanism which promulgates the idea that silver and wheat go hand and hand in prices.’ “But now that wheat is worth, after all the stretching up it had, only about 43 to 51 cents, and silver about 60 cents here In Des Moines, and they are practically together, we do not hear the all-around-polltlcal-party paper say bne word about ‘Bryan, silver and wheat.’ “After the speculators had bought practically all the wheat in the world, and only left a few bushels here and there in the possession of the farmers, they went to fighting and gambling with one another, these Board of Trade men, and the result was that the poor people all over this country had to pay an enormous price for flour; and the farmer who had sold his wheat at about 40 cents per bushel to the speculators had to put it back in flour at about 100 per cent., and many are the poor families that had to go hungry because of the machinations of trade robbers; and still we have a class of paupers and people, in the face of all these facts, publishing and proclaiming to. the public that good times have come, and they can prove it by citing the fact that wheat has advanced in price. “Just think of the logic—‘good times’ —not because the demand for labor or the wages of the laborer have advanced; not because there has been an increase in factories, an advancement in the price of cattle, hogs, horses, chickens, or the general productions of the farm; but’ because the speculator had bought up all the wheat and have then put it up and made everybody pay a double price for the bread of the family.

“A country is in a dangerous position when a fe.w men in the large Eastern cities of these United States can get their heads and pocket-books together and make the hungry millions pay a double price for their bread, without any advantage or help added to produce or buy it; and then hypocritical and boodle newspapers make the citizens believe that these evils are signs of and even proofs of ‘good times.’ “We would not expect the people to be led astray now by the devices of these designing and evil agencies because of the interest of the present war, which overshadows all else in the minds of a loyal people, because the people of the United States love their country more than their lives; that is, the people do, but there Is a class of human devils that live in this land who love their money more than their country, and now is the time that they will fasten their posonous fangs into the life-blood of the principles of the equal rights of our people, and while the attention of the great republic is intensely absorbed on the war they will steal Into legislation measures that will leave evils which will punish and reach to our great-grandchildren.”

Barker's Bimetallic Views. By restoring bimetallism, expanding the basis of our currency instead of contracting the superstructure of credit money to the narrow gold basis, we can keep gold and silver in circulation side by side. The gold monometallist believes, or at least feigns to believe, this to be impossible. He says we must turn the balance of trade, much in our favor; that only thus can we keep our gold. We answer, certainly. He says it is only possible to turn the balance of trade sufficiently in our favor by contracting our currency, and thus causing such a fall in prices as to Induce foreign buying. We answer, this is not only ruinous but needless. The English trader does not seek our products, because he can buy cheaper in India, Argentina, or Mexico. Raise the price to the Englishman of wheat or cotton bought in India and Mexico, and he will buy from us at prices much higher than those now ruling. That it is preferable to make a market for our surplus products at higher prices, rather than beg for a market at lower, any gold monometallist, whose feelings are not deadened to the sufferings of our people, must admit But is this possible? Assuredly It Is. The Englishman now buys In India, In Mexico, and other silver-using nations paying with silver or silver exchange—sliver that has remained of stable purchasing power in those countries even since the Western world struck it down. We have simply to raise the price of silver with which to pay for purchases made

In silver-using countries at 67 cents an ounce, but forced to pay our mint price, to wit, $1.29, would at once find the cost of buying In silver-using countries doubled, and he would eagerly turn to our markets to buy cotton and wheat, so long as the price was not doubled here.—Wharton Barker, in 1896. Peace Palaver la Costly. The American Peace Commission la still palavering with the Spanish commission over which country shall bear the burden of the Cuban debt —a controversy beyond the limits of the protocol and stupid to the point of silliness in so far as the United States is concerned. And meanwhile the United States continues to pay the freight. The peace negotiations at Paris are costing this country on a fair estimate $1,000,000 a day. That is about the cost of maintaining the army and navy at Its present rating. Until the Paris commission reaches an agreement the present strength of the army cannot be reduced. Volunteers must be kept in the service. The costly war footing must bo maintained. It is the same in the navy. Vessels of the battle line can not be put out of commission even temporarily. Costly auxiliary vessels must be kept In ship-shape and seaworthy which otherwise could go Into dry-dock or bo dispensed with altogether. Responsibility for this condition of affairs, say competent critics, rests solely upon President McKinley. It Is ttls * lack of definite policy; his inability to 5 make up his mind what to demand in the Philippines, which has cost tho United States $25,000,000 without any adequate return. Criticism of this cost, ly pottering with diplomacy Is becomIng caustic. It is felt at the White House and the State Department

’ Bullion Value and Coinage Value. It Is assumed by the unthinking that we are already upon a gold standard because gold can be freely had In exchange for other forms of money in circulation. Nothing can be further from the fact. Under bimetallism ounces of silver exchanged for an ounce of gold In Europe because the mints were opened alike to both metals and the coin made from ounces of silver had the same debt-paying power as the coin? from an ounce of gold. Silver that is coined and endowed by law with debt-paying power equally with gold has a purchasing power at the present time equal with gold. Only silver bullion, that is barred from coinage by laws closing the mints against it, is sold upon the markets at a lower prlce ( than it would represent If coined. Ifthe mints were reopened to the coinage; of both metals equally, under law en) flowing the coins of both metals with equal debt-paying power, the bullion) value of gold and silver would at once become the same as coinage value, be-) cause the Government would standi ready to convert all the bulllonj brought to the mints Into coins free oC charge, and no holder of silver bullioni would sell It to private parties at any less price than the face value of the' coin that the mint would make from the same.—Sliver Knight-Watchman.

The War Investigation. i There appears little doubt now but) that the committee appointed by Presl-; dent McKinley to investigate the short-, comings of army officers and the causes of disease in camps and the .fa tai fitness of so many soldiers will thor-' oughly and effectually whitewash matter and bring In a clean slate. Not an Instance has occurred yet to cate even a suspicion against a man. In fact, the investigation has been carried on In such a manner that there' are no formal charges preferred against any army officer. Surgeons, generals, colonels, who are said to haVe neglected their men, who failed to furnish hospital accommodations, who neglected to supply sufficient medicines or wholesome food, will be found to have acted directly in the line of duty, and not one word of censure will be raised against them. The committee has already announced that there is not an lota of evidence to indicate that the Secretary of War was to blame for any of the unfortunate occurrences, and this finding will eventually go down the line even with the horse doctor, who reigned so long at Camp Thomas. The committee was Intended to be a whitewashing committee, and President McKinley selected well when he picked the men to do this duty.—Burlington Gazette.

Opposed to a Public Debt* In his letter, dated Monticello, July 12, 1816, to Samuel Kerchival, Thomas Jefferson said: “I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom. And to preserve their independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our selection between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run Into such debts as that, we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government- for their debts and dally expenses, and the sixteenth being sufficient to afford us bread, we must live as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes; have no time to think, no means to call the mismanagers to account; but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow sufferers.” Free Silver Night Schools. A very ingenious method has been adopted by the farmers in Southern Michigan for teaching the principles of bimetallism to their neighbors. Night schools are organized in which the school arithmetics are used. The plan was originated by Mr. George Burr* Smith, a prominent attorney of CMca-j go, while visiting in the country during the summer months. Strangely enough, Mr. Smith himself became convinced of the depressing effect of the gold standard upon prices a number of years ago while explainingproblems in exchange to a class in* arithmetic in a district school in that county of which he was a teacher.; Later he entered upon the study of law and is now practicing In Chicago. Thq matter has been taken up by Farm; Field and Fireside, an agricultural weekly, of Chicago, and a volume will be published for special use in schools. Meantime leaflets for a school of twenty-five members may be had op| application to that paper, enclosing stamps for mailing. |