Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1898 — Page 2

J.: W. McEWEN, Publisher. RENSSELAER, • - - INDIANA

IS HEIR TO A TITLE.

CANADIAN MURDERER WHO IS A NOBLEMAN. Walter McWhirrel, in the Kingston Penitentiary, a Scion of One of Scotland’s Old Families—Many Articles in an Insane Woman’s Stomach. Cut Off from His Kindred. Walter McWhirrell, now serving a life term in Kingston (Canada) penitentiary for having killed an aged couple named Williams near Port Credit five years ago, and whose antecedents the most vigorous search by the authorities failed to reveal, is said to be the son of a Scotch nobleman and heir to his father’s title. Mrs. G. M. K. Truman claims to be by right Lady Kinnaird, the wife of Walter McWhirrell, the rightful heir to great estates in Scotland. She says McW'hirrell was the scapegrace son of a Scotch gentleman of quality; that he ran away and joined the army; that afterward be married her, a servant on his father’s estate, and was cut off forever from his kindred. Through the death of Lord Kinnaird, she alleges, she has become the rightful heir of the title and estate, i SILVERWARE TRUST FORMED. International Silver Company Incorporated in Trenton, N. J. Articles of incorporation of the International Silver Company, the silverware trust, were filed with the Secretary of State at Trenton, N. J. The company has an authorized capital stock of $20,000,000, of which $9,000,000 is preferred stock, to receive 7 per cent cumulative dividends, aud the remaining $11,000,000 to be common stock. The company is authorized to manufacture and deal in silverware, plated ware, pottery and glass. ’The incorporators are William Findley, Hamilton H. Durand, Alexis P. Bartlett of New York, Frederick Dwight of Brooklyn and John J. Tracy of Jersey City. STOMACH FILLED WITH PINS. Many Foreign Articles Discovered During Dissection of a Body. A dissecting class at the Toledo Medical College met with a strange subject the other morning. The body of a middleaged woman who died at a charitable institution was being dissected. When the stomach was cut open the demonstrator and students were surprised to find that it contained at least a quart of hairpins, needles, brass pins, small nails and pieces of glass from one to three inches long. A ring with a fine stone was also found! The alimentary canal was stuck full of needles and pins. It is said that the woman had been insane. Creek Nation Defeats Dawes' Agreement. Secretary Bliss has received a dispatch from Indian Inspector Wright in the Indian territory announcing the rejection of. the Dawes commission treaty by the Creek Indian nation. Inspector Wright says the count of the returns in the Creek elections has just been completed and that the treaty, instead of being ratified as has been believed, is defeated by a majority of 152 votes. Injunction to Stop Boycott. An injunction was granted by Judge Johnson of the District Court at Denver, restraining the International Association of Machinists, its officers and the striking mechanics formerly employed by the F. M. Davis Iron Works Company from interfering in any manner with the nonunion men now employed in the shops nad from boycotting the company’s pi'oducts. Hobson Lifts a Mortgage. Lieut. Hobson has just lifted a mortgage of $6,000 on the home of ? his father. He earned the money by his pen. While Hobson and his men were held prisoners of war in Morro Castle word was sent to his parents that the foreclosure of the mortgage would be averted and the money raised by popular subscription, but the offer was courteously declined. Thieves at Work in Havana., The new police force of Havana, established by Gov. Fernandez de Castro, is very defective. Senor Galis Menendez, inspector of police, who was severely wotmded by thieves some days ago, died from the results of his wounds. One of the rooms in the audience chamber of Havana, where money and valuables were deposited, has been robbed. Keely’s Motor Secret Lives. B. L. Ackerman, president of the Keely Motor Company, says: “Keely’s secret did not die with him. Qn my arrival at Mrs. Keely’s house I found her so prostrated that she was unable to more than state that Mr. Keely had left in her possession a manuscript of 2,000 pages, which explains the whole system and the work he has done.”

Strike Closes the Mills. Three thousand cotton mill operatives struck at Augusta, Ga., on account of a reduction in wages, and the King, Sibley, Enterprise, Isetta and Shamrock mills were compelled to shut down from lack of men to operate the machinery. The strike is the result of an 8 to 25 per cent cut and was expected. Trouble on Shoshone Reservation. Indian Agent Nickerson of the Shoshone reservation received a telegram from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs notifying him that Indians are illegally killing game and setting fire to forests in the Teton mountains of Wyoming. Iloilo Said to Have Fallen. It is reported that Iloilo, capital of tne island of Panay, is in the hands of the insurgents. Fatal Explosion in Paris. A terrific explosion occrred in the Case de Champeaux, Paris, France, underneath the offices of the Havas agency. A woman was killed outright and eight other persons were seriously injured. It is thought that the explosion was due to ignited gas, but there are rumors of an anarchist plot. Sent to Prison for Term of Years. J. H. Southall, who secured some $600,000 in ten States on fraudulent Government time checks, was found guilty at St. Paul, Minn. He was sentenced to serve from six to ten years in State prison. Indicts a Bank Cashier. M. R. Todd, cashier in the defunct Fillmore County Bank at Preston, Minn., was indicted by the Grand Jury at Preston on a charge of embezzlement on four counts. Todd offered to plead guilty, but District J udge Whylock refused to permit him, and the case will go over to the January teiyn for trial. Indians Get a Big Claim. The Court of Claims at Washington rendered a judgment of $1,869,400 in favor of the New "York Indians, who entered suit against the United States to recover the value of certain lands donated to them in Kansas and subsequently disposed of by the United States. Peary Fears a Long Voyage. A letter just received from Lieut. Robert E. Peary states that probably no message will be received from him for several years. The Hope cleared the ice fields all right, but Lieut. Peary expresses fears that the Windward may be delayed by the ice closing in. Trouble Breaks Out Again at Pana. Two fierce encounters between union miners and negroes occurred at Springside, a suburb of Pana, 111. Many shots were fired, but no one was injured. The trouble was precipitated by an attack uppn a union miner by an unknown negro.

KRAG-JORGENSEN FOR THE ARMY. All Soldiers Are to Be Soon Supplied with the New Rifle. Secretary Alger, after a conference with Adjutant General Corbin and Major Shaler, of the ordnance bureau, has decided that the United States armories have progressed with the manufacture of Krag-Jorgensen rifles to a point where he could undertake to arm the entire army with this weapon. At the outbreak of the war only the regular soldiers had the small bore.rifles and the volunteers were necessarily armed with the Springfield, except in a few cases, such as that of the rough riders. The armories have been running steadily ever since, turning out the small bore rifle at the rate of 9,000 per mohth, untH the stock on hand warrants the undertaking which the secretary has ordered. CANADA TO CUT POSTAGE RATE. Consul General Announces an Important Change in the System. In his annual report to the State Department Consul General Bittinger, at Montreal, says that Canada is about to make an important change in her postage rates. On the 25th of December there will be three rates of postage on letters, 2 cents for Great Britain and her colonies, 3 cents for Canada and the United States, and 5 cents for foreign countries. If the experiment proves satisfactory the postmaster general, it is understood, will then reduce letter postage for Canada and to the United States to 2 cents. After Jan. 1 next the newspaper rate will be % of a cent a pound, but after July 1 this will be increased to % cent a pound. SWITZERLAND CATTLE BARRED. United States Government Declines That Country’s Request. This Government will decline to accede to the request made by the Swiss minister for a removal of the restrictions imposed by law on the importation of cattle from Switzerland owing to the prevalence in eleven cantons of the Swiss republic of the foot and mouth disease, which in the opinion of the Agricultural Department officials endangers all the live stock products of the country. The Swiss minister called on Secretary Wilson for the purpose of ascertaining if something could be done of a remedial nature, but the law is mandatory and the Secretary will be obliged to decline the minister’s request. Tidings from the Antipodes. Advices from the orient brought by the steamship Empress of China include the following: Japanese papers contain news of an alleged secret treaty between China and Russia, and the Chinese Government is stated to have agreed that Russian soldiers are to be employed for defense of the coasts and as military instructors. They are to be commanded by Russian officers. The whole expense is agreed to be borne by China. This arrangement would be altogether subversive of the plan arranged for not long since for the employment of British officers to drill and organize a Chinese army. It is reported that the Japanese Government has decided to co-operate with Great Britain with the object of restoring all things in China to their former status before the recent coup d’etat. It has transpired that on the day of the coup d’etat no fewer than fourteen of the Emperor’s own personal attendants were ordered to execution by the Empress dowager. The Empress dowager has issued an edict instructing the provincial authorities to diligently protect all places wherever Christian chapels of any nationality have been built, and ordering that all missionaries in the interior be properly and politely treated.

Julian Law Invalid. The State Supreme Court at Jefferson City, Mo., decided that the Julian law, enacted by the Legislature in 1894, and providing for the sale of public franchises to the highest bidder, is unconstitutional. The case came to the Supreme Court on application of the attorney general of Missouri for a writ of mandamus to forfeit the charter of the West Side Electric Street Railway Company of Kansas City for violation of this law. The court denied the writ, holding the law to be vague and indefinite. Motor Car Runs Away. An electric street car on the Tacoma, Wash., Railway Line was derailed five miles from the city the other evening by the controller failing to shut off the current on a heavy down grade. The car was smashed to splinters by striking the side of a cut ten feet deep through which it was traveling. Seven persons were aboard, and all received injuries, but Fay Roberts, motorman, is hurt the worst. He may lose a leg. Kansas Failure and Suicide. The First National Bank of Emporia, Kan., was closed by order of the comptroller of the treasury. An hour later Charles S. Cross, the bank’s president and one of the best known breeders of Herefords in the West, shot and killed himself at “Sunny Slope,” his famous stock farm. Speculation is said to have led to Cross’ downfall. Measure for a Treaty Commission Lost. The bill providing for a treaty commission was lost in the Cherokee Senate at Tahlequah, I. T., by a tie vote. The Cherokees will now be governed by the Curtis bill. By the terms of the till the tribes were given their choice of treating with the Dawes commission or accepting the provisions of the Curtis bill. Killed with a Billiard Cue. John Shanley, aged 52, a machinist from South Bend, Ind., was murdered in Leslie Hanson’s saloon in St. Paul, Minn. Shanley, who had been on a prolonged spree, knocked against the cue of a man who was playing billiards in the saloon and spoiled the shot. The man struck Shanley on the head with the cue, fracturing his skull and killing him.

Colored Soldiers in Trouble. In a general row in the colored quarters of Cheyene, Wyo., three soldiers were shot. They are L. Fontenough, H. Mitchell and William Saunders. All will recover.— The shooting was done by Corporal Scott of Company E of the San Juan heroes, who was arrested. Dragged from Her Horse. Great, indignation and excitement prevails at Madisonville, one of the jnost aristocratic suburbs of Cincinnati. As Susan Williams, a white girl 16 years of age, was riding on horseback into Madisonville, she was stopped and pulled from her horse by an unknown negro. Prairie Fires Cause Damage. Dispatches announce serious prairie fires in Gregory, Tripp and Todd counties, South Dakota, the ruin of thousands of acres of range and the loss of many cattle. In northwestern Nebraska the losses on grain and farm buildings are even heavier. Wire Worm in Kansas Wheat. The wire worm is doing great damage to the new wheat in northwestern Kansas. Maw fields have been totally destroyed. Farmers say the worm was in this year’s, stubble and was a product of the rainy season in July and August. Woman Sentenced for Murder. Mollie Breedlove, who killed her husband in Argenta, Ark., last August, has been convicted of murder in the second degree and sentenced to four years and six months in the penitentiary. She pleaded self-defense. British Ship a Total Wreck. The British ship Atalanta, Capt. MacBride, has been wrecked at Alsea bay, on the Oregon coast. Reports say that of thirty men aboard only two were saved. The vessel is a total wreck, her back being broken. Fire at Portsmouth, Ohio. A Portsmouth (Ohio) special says: "Eire destroyed Dice’s livery stable, the Farmers’ Hotel and Friok’s flouring mill and residence. The loss will reach $75,000, partly insured.” No Negro Need Apply. A dispatch from Havana says: “The news from Topeka, Kan., that John T. a Baptist clergyman, is about to

send to Santiago thirty negro families as a nucleus for a large negro colony has caused an exceedingly bad impression among the Cubans,'who are anxious that only white immigrants shall come to Cuba. The more rabid predict a race war should many negroes come from the United States. A strange feature is that the Cuban negroes are even more bitter than the whites in denouncing the movement. The Cuban army will receive one year’s pay on Dec. 10. Notes for the balance due will be issued and the troops will then be disbanded. This information comes from an officer of Gen. Garcia’s personal staff, on whose word implicit confidence may be placed. From what source the money will come cannot be learned, but that the United States has guaranteed the loan is almost certain." FIGHTS FOUR BANK ROBBERS. Plucky citizen of Weston, Ohio, Routs a Quartet of Desperate Men. A bold attempt was made to rob the Citizens’ Bank of Weston, Ohio, and after a battle between the four burglars and one plucky citizen tbe robbers escaped. Mrs. Henry, an agbd woman residing opposite the bank building, was awakened between 2 and 3 o’clock by a sound as of some one using a sledge or hammer. She aroused her son-in-law, I. M. Neifer, and he, armed with a revolver, started out to investigate. He discovered a light in the bank building and boldly advanced to the door, when it was suddenly thrown open and four men opened fire with revolvers. Neifer, instead of retreating* held his ground and emptied the six chambers of his weapon, with the effect of wounding one of the burglars, how seriously is not known. The citizens were by this time thoroughly aroused and came running from every direction. The robbers started down Main street to a point where a fifth was waiting with a team and surrey, which had been stolen from a livery barn, and made their escape.

FASTEST IN THE NAVY. Torpedo Boat Dupont Develops Over Thirty Knots’ Speed. The torpedo boat Dupont, attached to the torpedo station at Newport, R. 1., exceeded the best torpedo boat speed yet developed in the United States, proving her to be the fastest boat in the United States navy. During torpedo practice in Narragansetf Bay her starboard engine made 401 revolutions per minute and the port engine 403, with only two of her three boilers in use. This demonstrated a speed of over thirty knots. Her contract speed was twenty-seven and one-half knots for three boilers. ANOTHER GOLD STRIKE. High-Grade Ore in Abundance Discovered Near Snowshoe Pass, Idaho. A. Lewiston, Idaho, special says a great strike of high-grade ore is reported near Snowshoe Pass, on the Warren trail, twenty miles south of Florence, Idaho. A big stampede from Florence is reported. The Florence correspondent of the Spokane Spokesman-Review reports that the strike was made between the now famous Buffalo Hump and Thunder Mountain. The great vein crops 6,000 feet, is from thirty to ninety feet wide, and carries an abundance of free gold. Drowned in the Yukon. Passengers on the steamer Dirigo, from Skaguay, bring news of the drowning of two men in the Fifty-Mile rapids on the Yukon River. Four men left Lake Bennett on a scow with -fifty tons of provisions. When the scow reached Fifty-Mile her seams opened and she sunk. Two men, Smith and Halloway, swam ashore. The other two, whose names are unknown, were drowned.

Boy Shot by His Stepfather. In a heroic effort to save his mother from his stepfather’s brutality, William Lindemayer, aged 14 years, was shot in the head by the stepfather, James Clements, at Philadelphia, and now lies in the hospital in a precarious condition. Another son, George Lindemayer, was shot in the head, but the wound is not of a serious nature. Rock Island Wrecks in lowa. Two freight trains on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific collided at Moscow, lowa. One man was killed and one injured. A wrecking train about to start to the scene from Wilton was run into by tbe fast mail. The fireman of the latter was badly hurt and sixteen men on the work train were injured, some seriously. Minnesota Votes Female Suffrage. Official figures on the recent election show that the constitutional amendment providing home rule for cities in Minnesota carries by a vote of 26,945 to 12,809. Returns from thirty-seven counties on the proposition to extend the franchise to women on school matters show 27,860 and 18,079 against, which carries it. Ohioan Kills His Daughter. At Dayton, Ohio, John Kirves, a plasterer, blew his daughter’s brains out and then made an ineffectual attempt at suicide. The man has been drinking heavily for weeks. Boy Shoots Little Sister. Julia Reidel was accidentally shot and killed by her brother Walter at their home near Cincinnati while carelessly handling a shotgun. Both were school children.

Price of Zinc Advances. For the first time in the history of zinc mining at Webb City, Mo., the price per ton reached $36. Forty dollars is anticipated. The highest heretofore was $34. ■ Foreigners Shut Out. Advices from Seoul say that the Corean Government has issued orders that foreigners are to be stopped from trading in the interior. Run Down by a Train. During a dense feg a Pennsylvania train ran upon a gang of workmen on the Hackensack Meadow, killing eleven trad injuring six.

THE MARKETS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 66c to 67 c; corn, No. 2,32 cto 33c; oats. No. 2,24 c to 26c; rye, No. 2,50 eto 52c; butter, choice creamery, 21c to 23c; cpgs, fresh, 20c to 23c; potatoes, choice, ssc to 40c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep and lambs, common to choice, $3.50 to $5.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 68c to 69c; corn, No. 2 white, 32c to 34c; oats, No.. 2 white, ,27c to 29c, St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.50 to $3.75; sheep, $3.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,69 cto 71c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 31c to 33c; oats, No. 2,26 cto 28c; rye, No. 2,51 cto 52c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,69 cto 71c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 34c to 36c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 27c to 29c; rye, No. 2,55 cto 57c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5)60; hogs, $3.25 to $3.50; sheep and lambs, $3.00 to $5.25: wheat, No. 2,70 cto 72c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 34c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 29c; rye, 55c to 56c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed. 71c to 73c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 33c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 27c; rye, No. 2,51 c to 53c; clover seed, new, $4.70 to $4.75. Milwaukee —Wheat, Nd. 2 spring, 66c to 67c; corn, No. 3,32 cto 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 26c to 28c; rye, No. 1,51 cto 53c; barley, No. 2,40 cto 48c; pork, mess, $7.50 to SB.OO. Buffalo—Gattie, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, common to choice, $3.50 to $3.75; sheep, fair to choice wethers,' $3.50 to $4.75; lambs, common to extra, $5.00 to $5.50. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 75c to 77c; corn. No. 2,39 cto 40c; oats, No. 2,29 cto flic; butter, creamery, 18c to 24c; eggs, Western, 23c to 24c.

CHAPTER 111. On a wild and blustering evening, seventeen years after the events related in the two preceding chapters, two girls were out, in spite of the fierce wind and gathering darkness, in a little gig that accommodated only two. They drove a very sober cob, who went at his leisure, picking his way, seeing ruts in spite of the darkness. These girls were Barbara and Eve Jordan. They had been out on a visit to some neighbors who lived at a distance of five miles, and were divided from Morwell by a range of desolate moor. They had spent the day with their friends, and were returning home later than they had intended. “I do not know what father would say to our being abroad so late, and in the dark, unattended,” said Eve, “were he at home. It is well he is away.” “He would rebuke me, not you,” said Barbara. “Of course he would; you are the elder, and responsible.” “But I yielded to your persuasion.” “Yes, I like to enjoy myself when I may. It is vastly dull at Morwell. Tell me, Bab, did I look well in my figured dress ?” “Charming, darling; you always are that.” “You a» a sweet sister,” said Eve, and she put her arm round Barbara, who was driving. Mr. Jordan, their father, was tenant of the Duke of Bedford. The Jordans were the oldest tenants on the estate. They held Morwell on long lease® of nine-ty-nine years, regularly renewed when the leases lapsed. They regarded Morwell House almost as their freehold; it was bound up with all their family traditions and associations.

Suddenly the two girls heard a call, then the tramp of horses’ feet. Barbara even was for the moment startled, and drew the gig aside, off the road upon the common. A black cloud had rolled over the sickle of the moon and obscured its feeble light. In another moment dark figures of men and horses were visible, advancing at full gallop along the road. Tbe dull cob the sisters were driving plunged, backed and was filled with panic. Then the moon shone out, and a faint, ghastly light fell on the road, and they could see the black figures sweeping along. There were two horses, one some way ahead of the other, and two riders, the first with slouched hat. But what was that crouched on the crupper, clinging to the fast rider? As he swept past, Eve distinguished the imp-like form of a boy. That wholly unnerved her. She uttered a piercing shriek, and clasped her hands over her eyes. The first horse had passed, the second was abreast of the girls when that cry rang out. The horse plunged, and in a moment horse and rider crashed down, and appeared to dissolve into the ground. Some moments elapsed before Barbara recovered her surprise, then she spoke a word of encouragement to Eve, who was in an ecstasy of terror, and tried to disengage herself from her arms, and master the frightened horse sufficiently to allow her to descend. She helped her sister out of the - vehicle. “Do not be alarmed, Eve. There is nothing here supernatural to dismay you, only a pair of farmers who have been drinking, and one has tumbled off his horse.” In the meantime they could see that the first rider had reined in his horse and turned. “Jasper!” he called, “what is the matter?” No answer came. He rode back to the spot where the second horse had fallen and dismounted. “What has happened?” screamed the boy. Barbara advanced into the road. “Who are you?” asked the horseman. “Only a girl. Can I help? Is the man hurt?” “Hurt, of course. He hasn’t fallen into a feather bed, or—by good luck—into a furze brake.” Then the man went to his fallen comrade. “Give the boy the bridle, and come here, girl. Is there water near?” “None; we are at the highest point of the moor.” “Jasper!” shouted the man who was unhurt, “for heaven’s sake, wake up. You know I can’t remain here all night.” No response. “The blood is flowing from his head,” said Barbara; “it is cut. He has fallen on a stone.” “What is to be done? I cannot stay.” “Sir,” said Barbara, “of course you stay by your comrade. Do you think to leave him half dead at night to the custody of two girls, strangers, on a moor?” “You don’t understand,” answered the man; “I cannot and will not stay.” He put his hand to his head. “How far to your home?” “Half an hour.” “Good heavens! Watt! always a fool?” He turned sharply toward the lad who was seated on a stone. The boy had unslung a violin from his back, taken it from its case, had placed it under his chin, and drawn the bow across the strings. The boy swung his bow in the moonlight, and above the raging of the wind rang out the squeal of the instrument. Eve looked at him, scared. He seemed some goblin perched on the stone, trying with his magic fiddle to work a spell on all who heard its tones. The boy satisfied himself that his violin was in order, and then put it once more in its case, and cast it over his back. “How is Jasper?” he shouted; but the man gave him no answer. “Half an hour! Half an eternity to me,” growled the man. “However, one is doomed to sacrifice self for others. 1 will take him to your house and leave him there.” They went on; the violence of the gale had somewhat abated, but it produced a roar among the heather and gorse of the moor like that of the sea. Eve went before, holding the bridle. Her movements were easy, her form was graceful. She tripped lightly along with elastic step, unlike the firm tread of her sister. For some distance no one spoke. It was not easy to speak so as to be heard, without raising the voice; and now the way led toward the oaks and. beeches and pines about Morwell, and the roar among the branches was fiercer, louder than that among the bushes and furze. .“He is moving,” said Barbara. “He said something.” “Martin!” spoke the injured man. “I am at your side, Jasper.” • “I am hurt—where am I?” “I cannot tell you; heaven knows. In some waste.” “Do not leave me!” “Never, Jasper.” “You promise me?” “With all my heart.” “I must trust you, Martin—trust you.” Then he said no more, and sa*k back into half-consciousness. They issued from the lane, and were before the old gatehouse of Morwell; a light shone through the window over the entrance door. “Eve!” said Barbara, “run in and tell Jane to see that a bed be got ready at once, in the lower room.” A bedroom was on the ground floor opening out of the hall. Intf this Eve

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led the way with a light, and the patient was laid on a bed hastily made ready for his reception. Martin was left alone in the room with Eve and the man called Jasper. Martin moved, so that the light fell over her; and he stood contemplating her with wonder and admiration. “How lovely you are!” said Martin. A rich blush overspread her cheek and throat, aud tinged her little ears. Her eyes fell. His look was bold. Then, almost unconscious of what he was doing, as an act of homage, Martin removed his slouched hat, and for the first time Eve saw what he was like, when she timidly raised her eyes. With surprise she saw a young face. He had dark hair, a pale skin, very large, soft dark eyes, velvety, inclosed within dark lashes. Eve could hardly withdraw her wondering eyes from him. Such a face she had never seen, never even dreamed of as possible. “Beauty!” he said, “who would have dreamed to have stumbled on the likes of you on the moor?” Suddenly he put his hand to her throat. She had a delicate blue riband about it. He put his finger between the riband and her throat, and pulled. “You are strangling me!” exclaimed Eve, shrinking away, alarmed. “I care not,” he replied, “this I will have.” He wrenched at and broke the riband, and then drew it from her neck. As he did so a gold ring fell on the floor. He stooped, picked it up, and put it on his little finger. “Give it me back! Let me have it! You must not take it!” Eve \vas greatly agitated and alarmed. “I may not part with it. It was my mother’s.” Then, with the same daring insolence with which he had taken the ring, he caught the girl to him and kissed her.

CHAPTER IV. Eve drew herself away with a cry of anger and alarm, and with sparkling eyes and flushed cheeks. At this moment her sister returned with Jane, and immediately Martin reassumed his hat with broad brim. Eve stood back behind the door, with hands on her bosom to control its furious beating, and with head depressed to'conceal the heightened color. Barbara and the maid stooped over the unconscious man, and while Martin held a light, they dressed and bandaged his head. “Will you be so good zs to undress him,” said Barbara, “and put him My sister will assist me in the kitchen.” “Yes, go,” said Martin, “but return speedily, as I cannot stay many minutes.” Then he returned to Jasper, removed his clothes, somewhat ungently, with hasty hands. When his waistcoat was off, Martin felt in the. inner breast pocket, and drevV from it a pocketbook. He opened it, and transferred the contents to his own purse, then replaced the book and proceeded with the undressing. When Jasper was divested of his clothes and laid at his ease in the bed, his head propped on pillows, Martin went to the door and called the girls. He was greatly agitated, Barbara observed it. His lower lip trembled. Eve hung back in the kitchen; she could not return. Martin said in eager tones, “I have done for him all I can, now I am in haste to be off.” “But,” remonstrated Barbara, “he is your brother.” “My brother!” laughed Martin. “He. is no relation of mine. He is naught to me and I am naught to him. I do not even know the fellow’s name.” “Why,” said Barbara, “this is very strange. You call him Jasper, and he named you Martin.” “Ah!” said the man hesitatingly, “we are chance travelers, riding along the same road. He asked my name and gave me his.” He went out. Barbara told the maid to stay by the sick man, and went after Martin. She thought that in all probability the boy had arrived driving the gig. Martin stood irresolute in the doorway. The horse that had borne the injured man had been brought into the courtyard, and hitched up at the hall door. She saw him shrink back into the shadow of the entrance as something appeared in the moonlight outside the gatehouse, indistinctly seen, moving strangely. Then both saw that the lame horse that had been deserted on the moor had followed, limping and slowly, as it was in pain, after the other horse. Barbara went at once to the poor beast, saying, “I will put you in a stall,” but in another moment she returned with a bundle in her hand. “What have you there?” asked Martin, who was mounting his horse, pointing with his whip to what she carried. “I found this strapped to the saddle.” “Give it to me.” “It does not belong to you. It belongs to the other—to Jasper.” “Let me look through the bundle; per haps by that means we may discover his name.” “I will examine it when you are gone. I will not detain you; ride on for the doctor.”

“I insist on having that bundle,” said Martin. “Give it me, or I will strike you.” He raised his whip. “Only a coward would strike a woman. I will not give you the bundle. It is not yours. As you said, this man Jasper is naught to you, nor you to him.” “I will have it,” he said with a curse, and stooped from the saddle to wrench it from her hands. Barbara was too quick for him; she stepped back into the doorway and slammed the door upon him, and bolted it. He uttered an ugly oath, then turned and rode through the courtyard. “After all,” he said, “what does it matter? We were fools not to be rid of it before.” As he passed out of the gatehouse he saw Eve in the moonlight, approaching timidly. “You must give me back my ring!” she pleaded; “you have no right to keep it.” “Must I. Beauty? Where is the compulsion? Come! What will you give me for it? Another kiss?” Then from close by burst a peal of impish laughter, and the boy bounded out of the shadow of a yew tree into the moonlight. “Halloo, Martin, always hanging over a pretty face, defined by it when you should be galloping. I’ve upset the gig and broken it; give me my place again on the crupper.” He ran, leaped, and in an instant was behind Martin. The horse bounded away, and Eve heard the clatter of the hoofs as it galloped up the lane to the moor. (To be continued.)

After Prussia defeated Austria In whathas been called the “seven weeks’ war,” she demanded 20,000,000 thalers, or about $15,000,000, besides securing territorial accessions. States which aided Austria were similarly assessed. There are no persons more solicitous about the preservation of rank than those who have no rank at all.—Shen stone.

ATCHISON GLOBE SIGHTS.

Most husbands live their entire Mvea without once being satisfactory to their wives. As long as a woman keeps her hair combed in the latest fashion, it is an indication that her health is perfect. When a man wants one friend to dine with him he has to invite six more at the same time, to keep them from getting offended. An Atchison man 55 years old is still afraid to smoke in the presence of his wife. The man might as well be married to a wildcat. , Don’t attempt to be funny with a stranger; he may prove to be funnier than you are, and your best friends will laugh to see you outwitted. The women’s Idea of a model boy is one who passes from the cradle to his first shave, and is never heard to say anything beyond “Yes, nia'm,” and “No, ma’m.” The average girl has a terrible lot spent on cultivating her “voice” In order that she may seme day come home and start “Old Hundred” in the church eho’r. An Atchison woman complains that her hired girl becomes trifling every.six months. We should say the girl does particularly well; most people are trifling oftener than twice a year. An Atchison woman who never attended a church social in her life is the beet cake maker in town, and when the church workers speak of her they sigh to think that so much talent is wasted. After sitting in a doctor’s office ten minutes, staring at the skeletons and charts showing what’s Inside a man, a patient is in such frame of mind that the doctor finds no trouble in convincing him that there are all kinds of old things in him that need cutting out. We have an idea that away back in the days before every house boasted of a can opener, the cooking was better than it is to-day. The women place a great deal of reliance in canned goods which newspaper writers can’t shake by their frightful stories of people poisoned by eating canned stuff. The women refuse to be scared, and continue to gad around till five minutes to twelve, when they get dinner by using the can opener. A woman regards her right to visit kin as a vested right, and as a right that has actual value. This has been demonstrated by a suit lately brought in the United States Court at Topeka. A Missouri woman repeatedly wrote to a cousin in Atchison that she intended visiting her, but the Atchison woman as often replied that a visit would not be “convenient.” The Missouri woman has now brought suit for $2,000 damages, setting up that she is entitled to a certain amount of board from every cousin, and that if any particular cousin sees fit not to entertain her she must pay in money.

Politeness in Mexico.

No other nation can equal Mexico in the stately courtesy practiced in everyday life among all classes. Even *e poor laborers rarely address one another without some terms of endearment. “Como estas, mi alma?” (“How are you, my soul?”) is a common form of address. Every one seems to have a gentle consideration for the feelings of others. “My lady, I am at your feet,” is the prescribed form of salutation from a gentleman who meets a lady, whereas if two gentlemen meet they say, “I kiss your hand.” A Mexican w-ill never permit a lady to descend the stairs alone; he takes her by the hand or offers his arm and only takes leave of her at the street door. Often in their rambles through Mexico strangers lose their way and if they have a slight knowledge of Spanish an appeal to a native is certain to bring courteous relief. The Mexican lover calls his sweetheart “the very eyes of me” and if she rejects him he is likely to say, “Since there is no help I bow before you, kiss yoqr feet and depart.” Mexican politeness always has the appearance of perfect sincerity. An American young lady was once talking with an old Mexican gentleman and she laughingly said something about having some literary work to do. It was good to see the old fellow’’s impressive manner as he exclaimed: “Work! Miss, such lips as yours should never mention work. You should be a queen and wear pearls as beautiful as those incased in your lovely mouth!”

Sun Heat Winds His Clock.

M. Burton, of Indianapolis, has a clock which has not been wound in three years and six months, but which has run all the time. It is wound by a more reliable agency than anything human. It may be said to be wound by the solar system. In this invention the axiom of heat expanding and cold contracting is the basis. The clock is wound by changes In the temperature, the principle force being in the day and night differences. Mr. Burton found that there is an average difference of twenty degrees in the temparture of the night and the day. The day, of course, is the warmer. The heat of the day expands the atmosphere and the lower temperature of the night contracts it. This is how Mr. Burton applied the force to his clock—an ordinary old-style clock—using a weight: Outside of his house he has a tin tank, ten feet high and nine inches in diameter. It is airtight. From it a tube runs Into the cellar. The tube leads to a cylindrical reservoir, which receives the air from the tank. In this reservoir there is a piston, whose rod moves with a ratchet between the chain on which the piston depends. The heat of the sun expands the atmosphere in the exterior tank, thus forcing any excess into the reservoir near the clock. During expansion the piston rises. In the night time the contraction of the air in the exterior tank reduces the air in the reservoir and the piston lowers itself. The ratchet arrangement winds the clock.—lndianapolis News. ’ •

Worked Both Ways.

A lady once engaged a Chinese cook. When the Celestial came she called him up, and, among other things, she asked him his name. “My name,” said the Chinaman, smiling, “is Wung Hang Ho.” “Oh, I can’t remember ail that,” said the lady. “I will call you John.” John smiled all over, and asked: “What your namee?” “Oh, my name is Mrs. Melville Langdon.” “Me no memble all that,” said John. “Chinaman he no sayey Mrs. Membul London. I call you Tommy.”

Sweet Medicine.

Mamma—Come, now, Robbie; please don’t tease me for any more sugar. Sweets make little boys ill. Robbie—Why, no, mamma; sugar can’t make folks ill, can it? I saw in the grocery where they had sugarcured hams.

POLITICS OF THE DAY

MUST BE A CHANGE. Thelossof a par of exchange between gold-using and sliver-using countries, and the constant tendency of a lower exchange are productive of uncertainty and loss in commercial transactions difficult to exaggerate. Prof. Foxwell •ays: “There are 432 pars of exchange depending on the ratio between gold and silver. The whole of these and the trade that rests on them are left to fluctuate with every passing change in the bullion market. Every calculation of business and finance in these pars is enough to turn the fine profit of modern trade into a loss. Take one of them—the par between the rupee and the sovereign. The variation of this par in a single year has so upset the calculations of the Indian Finance Minister as to turn a surplus of £1,000,000 into a deficit of £ ’,000,000.” The fall in silver exchange has been a constant protection to the Industries of silver-using counftles and a bounty on their exports. While their mints were open to silver both Japan and India profited by this process amazingly. The progress of the former country for twenty years under the silver standard was absolutely unexampled among nations, and similarly the trade and manufactures of India thrived. But hardly were the mints of India closed in 1893, and scarcely had Japan taken her initial steps toward her recent adoption of the gold standard, when each began to feel the evil effects of a constricting money supply, falling prices and the competition of the countries, like China and Mexico, whose mints remained open to silver. During the four

And the Administration at Washington still —Chicago Democrat.

years succeeding the closure of -rhe mints India’s excess of exports over Imports fell off over 60 per cent., while that of Mexico Increased more than 40 per cent. Japan has been compelled to witness lately a marvelous awakening in China and to feel her hated and humbled rival seizing the commercial and industrial advantages which she herself had previously enjoyed, as against the Western nations, and which the adoption of an artificially limited money accommodation has compelled her to relinquish. British capital is fleeing from India, her industries are languishing, prices are falling, the burdens of taxation are increasing, and the mutterings of popular discontent lend to the situation a political complexion of extraordinary gravity as affecting English supremacy in India, and, indirectly, the peace of the world. It is safe to describe the situation as Intolerable, and to predict that the nations will not permit it to continue much longer.

Condition Intolerable, At present the experiment of the gold standard is in a state of incompleteness. In almost no country has It yet been Installed in its entirety. To go on with it to the logical conclusion of the gold valuation system is a practical impossibility, while it is equally out of the question for the world to remain in its present monetary condition. Let us examine these propositions somewhat more fully. The gold standard in its simplicity means the abolition of every other kind of money of full debt-paying power except gold alone, and the use of various forms of credit based on gold in the ordinary transactions of business. We may see an indication of this intended consummation in the various schemes of “monetary reform” recently proposed and now pending in Congress, the so-called Gage plan, that of the “Indianapolis sound-money convention,” and that embodied in the McCleary bill now on the calendar of the House of Representatives, all of which share the aim so distinctly announced by the Secretary of the Treasury, to commit the country more thoroughly to the gold standard, and agree in their essential provisions. They contemplate the retirement of all forms of government paper money, our greenbacks and treasury notes, and the reduction of our standard silver dollar into a mere promise to pay in gold. The inevitable result of such a course would soon be the absolute disuse of silver for money except as small change, the melting and sale for use in the arts of about half a billion silver dollars, and the contraction of our circulation to such a quantity as should be furnished by our distributive share of the world's gold, plus such a paper circulation as the banks could keep actually redeemable in gold.

Altfjeld on Recent Elections. When viewed as a whole, the 1898 election was favorable to the Democrats. While the Democrats in Congress and out of Congress forced the administration into the war they knew that it would give it a tremendous political advantage, ror they knew the war must be successful, and a successful war always strengthens the party in power. The Republicans should have received much larger majorities than two years ago. Instead of that they have lost forty Congressmen and a large number of others had their majorities almost wiped out. One more such a Republical victory will destroy that party and forever end the hypocrisy and false pretense now reigning in Washington. The Democrats have not lost a single State they carried two years ago, but, on the contrary, have elected a Governor In Minnesota, which Is equal to a miracle. That element of the Democratic party wnlch has fa

voted the abandonment of all principle and has urged harmony for the sake of spoils has had a chance to try its scheme and has utterly failed. In Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut and one or two other States where they had refused to indorse the national platform they have suffered humiliating defeat, although in some of these States the conditions favored the Democratic victory. I understand that nearly every Democratic Congressman elected in these States was unsuccessful because he told his constituents, if elected, he would support the national platform. That fraudulent sideshow called gold Democracy will now pass out of existence, and the Democratic party from the Atlantic to the Pacific will line up on higher ground. It will assume the aggressive and not only fight for the mighty principles enunciated in 1896, but it will make itself the champion of struggling humanity. It will pull this country out of the pool of corruption into which the Republicans have dragged it. and it will lead our people toward a higher civilization. Tuesday’s election will make Mr. Bryan more formidable than he ever was, because it is going to bring to the front the great principles which he has advocated.—John P. Altgeld.

Meaning of Roosevelt’s Victory. The election of Theodore Roosevelt to be Governor of New York is not an administration victory. It is not a result for President McKinley and his immediate political friends to be felicitous over. It flatly presents another candidate for the highest favor of the Republican national convention In 1900.

TRUSTS REIGN.

It will be of no avail to affect contempt of Roosevelt as a Presidential possibility. The facts will have to be staged In the face. One of these facts is that a man who has been elected Governor of New York cannot be flippantly shoved aside if his friends and those who see personal advantage in supporting him choose to consider him fit for the most eminent advancement.—Cincinnati Enquirer. A Deceptive Fallacy. The assumption that gold possesses a certain fixed and invariable value as a commodity, and is taken as a standard for money, Is a nice and convenient theory, but it is a fallacy through and through. It is a relic of the “intrinsic value” theory of money, which has been pronounced the bane of economic science, and which has been scouted by economists for two hundred years. It rests on the theory that the value of gold, unlike anything else, depends on its color or specific gravity, or other indefinable quality, and not on quantity, or on supply and demand. But while this theory is necessary to support the propositions of the Indianapolis Monetary Commission—and it builds upon it throughout—lt is nevertheless utterly unscientific and fallacious, and with its overthrow must fall the whole structure built upon it The commission referred to in Its report proposes, after announcing that the gold standard has been established, then to allow the greatest possible “expansion of th< currency within the bounds of safety.’’ The gold standard and the utmost expansion of the currency possible at the same time! The thing most astonishing about such a proposition is that it should receive the sanction of conservative bankers anywhere.

Changes in New York Politics. New York can change its politics with greater facility than any other State in the Union. In electing Roosevelt by a majority of 20,000 it upset a Democratic plurality of 60,000 given a year agb in the election for Supreme Court Judge. The result in 1897 was a radical reversal of the vote in 1896, when McKinley carried the State by 268,000 majority. and that was again an overturning in the status of the vote as it stood in 1892, when the Democrats carried the State by 45,000.-*Kansas City Star. Standing under the shadow of an indictment which, If honestly prosecuted, would probably land Him in the pen!- • tentiary. Matt tjuay proudly points to the election returns in Pennsylvania as a personal vindication. He not only assumes that his own garments are now white as snow, but he gives voice to virtuous indignation in speaking of those who attempted to defeat “his" candidate for Governor and “his” candidates for the Legislature. The President is said to have remark ed recently, in a tone of. mingled amazement and resentment: “They blame Alger, but I was the Secretary of War.” In one sense he was, since he chose Alger and kept him, and made himself responsible for him, and even in the speeches of his recent tour tried to screen him. It was a terrible blunder, and Mr. McKinley will have to pay for it through all the rest of his term.—• New York Times. Judging from the deliberate way in which the American Peace Commissioners are acting, there may be something in the statement that the Spanish war was a Republican war. Things are not being Closed up in the way in which Democrats have been in the habit of closing them. Imagine, if you can, Andrew Jackson submitting to the delay and the Spanish and European Insults that are being heaped upon us. —Peoria Herald.