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"That's rather airs," he thought

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•furnished as a boudoir or small drawling room, and on a sofa with two fe ^cylindrical pillows reclined a dark jfcaired, large eyed handsome woman. jShe was probably nob much older fthau Elizabeth Jane and had a /«parkling light in her eye. In front iof the sofa was a small table with a jpack of cards scattered upon it faces upward.

I The attitude had been so

Elizabeth Jane drew up silently to the head of the sofa, but with obvious pleasure. It could b^ seen that -hi jeWs she was much younger than her entertainer, while in manners and general vision she sesmed trior of the sage. Miss Templeman deposited herself on the sofa in her former flexuous position, and throwing her arm above her brow—somewhat in the pose of a well known conception of Titian's—talked at Elizabeth Jane invertedly across her forehead and arm. "I must tell you something." she sair'. "I wonder if you have suspected it? I have only been a lady little while." "Oh, only a little while?" murmured Elizabeth Jane, her countenance slightly falling. I '"But I was lit for it all my life— education, at least. I should not have mentioned this had I not thought it best you should know the truth." "Yes, yes." She looked thoughtfully round the room—at the little square piano with brass inlayings, at the window curtains, at the lamp, f? at the fair and dark kings and queens on the card table, and finally at the inverted face of Lucetta Templeman, whose large, lustrous eyes had such an odd effect upside down. "How did you know the way to dress so well,*' she murmured, "ifyou had not been a lady long?" "I went to Parts, to the .argest magasin, and said. 'Make me fashionable," holding out some bauk notes. They half stripped me and put -r on rne what they chose. Four women hovered round me. fixed me on a pedestal like an image, and arranged me and pinned me and stitched me

I and pa.lded me. When it was over I

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BY THOMAS HARDY-

less he resolved not to go the next "These cursed women—there's .not an inch of straight grain in 'em!" tie said.

Let us follow the track of Mr.

them to send me several more |essco?the same size, and it was

j? "But how did you tell them to do in a foreign land?" "Qh, I speak their language." V:

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you are a lady and its hu-

'^mility that made you say otherwise," cried Elizabeth .Tane, recovering from the disappointment Engendered by the news that wealth and luxury were as new to Miss Templeman as to herself. "Well, for that matter, in my \country speaking French does not 'jnake a lady of any one. It is rather |.he other way." I 7 "Where is your country?". it was with rather more reluctance that Miss Templeman said. "Jersey.

There they speak French on one 1 side of the street and English on '. the other, and a mixed tongue in the I middle of the road. But it is along time since 1 was there. Bath 'jar where my people really belong to, itiough my ancestors in Jersey were as good as anybody in England.

They were LeSueurs, an old family who have done great things in their tims. But I don't value such mat-

CHAPTER XXII—CONTINUED. like living herself! Lucetta's tongue had for a

But^after all, she outrun her discretion. She had ar-

plainlv had not expected him, and he rived at Casterbridge as a Bath lady (took the refusal quietly. Neverthe- and there were obvious reasons why should drop out of her life.

'Henchard's thought as it were a clew cetta's words went no further, and fine and view the interior of High after this day she was so much on jStreefc Hall on this particular even- her guard that there appeared no jjnty chance of her identification with the

On Elizabeth Jane's arrival she young Jersey woman who had saved ihad been phlegmaticallv asked by an Henchard^ life^ [elderlv woman to go up stairs and I 'take off her things. She replied with Expectancy sat visibly upon Lufereat earnestness that she would not1 cetta the next morning. She dressed •think of givin« that trouble, and on herself for Mr. Henchard and restithe instant divested

herself of her

The room disclosed was prettily They sat in adjoining upper win-

fall

of

abandonment that she bounded up 4ike a spring on hearing the door /j. opeu.

Perceiving it was Elizabeth Jane, she lapsed into ease and caine across P' to her with a reckless skip that, innate grace only prevented from be'ing boisterous. "Why, you aie late," she said, $ taking hold of Elizabeth Jane's hand. "There are so many little things toputup." j| "And you seem dead-alive and tired. Let me try to enliven you by some wonderful tricks I have learned to kill time. Sit there and don't move." She gathered up the pack

of cards, pulled the table in front of spreading their knees, so as to form her and began to deal them rapidly, a lozenge-like opening between them, telling Elizabeth Jane to choose I some. "Well, have you chosen?" she asked, flinging down the last card. "No," stammered Elizabeth. "I quite forgot. I was thinking of—you and me—and how strange it is that

Iain here." Miss Templeman looked at Elizabeth Jane with interest and laid down the cards. "Ah! you are an other sort than that," she said, lie here while you sit by me. we'll talk."

moment

Jersey But Elizabeth had tempted her make free and adeliberately|fonned resolve had been broken,

It could not, however, have been been broken in safer company. Lu-

ler,sly awaited his call before midday

'bonnet and cloak in the passage, as he did not come she waited on •She was then conducted to the first! through the afternoon. But she did Idoor on the landing and left to find not tell Elizabeth Jane that the periher way further along. son expected was her stepfather.

dows of the same room nearly the whole time, netting and looking out upon the market, which formed an animated scene. Elizabeth could see the crown of her stepfather's hat among the rest, beneath, and was not aware that Lucetta watched the same object with yet in tenser interest. He moved about amid the throng, at this point as livel}r as an ant hill, elsewhere more reposeful and broken up by stalls of fruit and vegetables. The farmers as a rule preferred the open carrefour for their transactions, despite the inconvenient jostlings and the danger from crossing vehicles,to the gloomy sheltered market room provided for them. Here they surged on this day of the week, forming a Jittle world of leggins, switch and sample bags men of extensive stomachs, sloping like mountain sides on which watch chains meandered as rivulets men. whose heads in walking swayed as the trees in November gales, wno in conversing varied their attitudes h, lowering themselves by

and thrusting their hands into the pockets of remote inner jackets, the outer ones being inappreciatively flung back for the purpose. Their faces radiated tropical warmth, for though when at home their countenances varied with the seasonsturning bun colored in summer, in winter approaching the pink of dawn, and even occasionally purple or pale—their market faces in all "I'll seasons were glowing li^-le fires, and

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All over clothes here were worn as if they were an inconvenience, a hampering necessity. Some men were weir

dressed but the majority

were careless in that respect, appearing in suits worth half a crown from a clothier's point of view, but which were historical records of of their wearer's deeds, sun scorchings and daily struggles for many years past. Yet they carried ruffled check books in their pockets, which regulated at the bank hard by a balance of never less than four figures. In fact, what these gibbous human shapes specially represented was ready money—money insistently ready—not ready next year, like a nobleman's—often not merely ready at the bank, like a professional man's, but ready in their large, plump hands.

It happened that to-day there rose in the midst of them all two or three tali apple trees, standing as if they grew on the spot, till it was perceived t-hat they were held by men from the cider districts who came here to sell them, bringing clay of their country on their boots. Elizabeth Jane, who had often observed them, said, "I wonder if the same trees come every week?" "What trees?" said Lucetta, absorbed in watching for Henchard. Elizabeth replied vaguely, for an incident checked her. Behind one of the trees stood Farfrae, briskly discussing a sample bag with a farmer. Henchard had come up, accidentally encountering the young man, whose face seemed to inquire, "Do we speak together?"

She saw her stepfather throw a shine into his eye which answerd, "No!" Elizabeth Jane sighed. "Are you particularly interested in anybody out there?" said Lucetta. "Oh, no," said her companion, a quick red shooting over her face.

Luckily Farfrae's figure was immediately covered by the apple tree. Lucetta looked hard at her. "Quite sure?" she said. "Oh ves," said Elizabeth Jane.

Again Lucetta looked out. They are ail farmers, I suppose? she said. "No. There's Mr. Budge—he's a wine merchant there Benjamin Brownlet -a horse dealer, and Kitson, the pig breeder and Yopper, the auctioneer, besides malsters and millers—an.l soon." Farfrae stood out quite distinctly now, but she did not mention him.

ters and am quite an English person allegiance which had characterized in my foelings and tastes." her their first acquaintance the

The Saturday afternoon slipped on thus desultorily. The market changed from the sample showing hour to the idle hour before starting homeward, w^ien tales were told. Henchard had not called on Lucetta, though she had stood so near. He must have been too busy, she thought. He would come on Sunday or Monday.

The days came, but not the visitor, though Lucetta repeaced her dressing with scrupulous care. She was disheartened. It may at once be declared that Lucetta no longer bore toward Henchard all that warm

most unfortunate issue of things had chilled pure love considerably. But there remained a conscientious wish to establish her union with him, now that there was nothing to hinder it —to right her position, which in itself was a happiness to sigh for. With strong social reasons on her side why their marriage should no longer continue void, there had ceased to be any worldly reason on his why its ratirieation should be postponed, since she had succeeded to comparative fortune.

Tuesday was the great Candlemas fair. At breakfast she said to Elizabeth Jane quite coolly: "I imagine your father may call to see you today? I suppose he stands close by in the market place, with the rest of the corn-dealers?"

She shook her head. "He won't come." "Why?" "He has taken against me," she said, in a husky voice, "You have quarreled more deeply than I know of?"

Elizabeth wishing to shield the man she believed to be her father from any charge of unnatural dislike, said, "Yes." "Then where you are is, of all places, the 0'ie he will avoid?"

Elizabeth Jane nodded sadly. Lucetta looked blank, twitched up her lovely eyebrows and lip, and burst into hysterical sobs. Here was a contretemps—her ingenious scheme completely stultified! "Oh, my dear Miss Templeman— what's the matter?" cried her companion. "I like your company much," said Lucetta, as soon as she could speak. "Yes, yes—and so do I yours!" Elizabeth "chimed in soothingly. "But—but She could not finish the sentence, which was, naturally, that if Henchard had such a rooted dislike for the girl as now seemed to be the case, Elizabeth Jane would have to be got rid of—a disagreeable necessity.

A provisional resourse suggested itself. "Miss Henchard, will you go on an errand for me as soon as breakfast is over? Ah, that's very good of you. Will you go and order

Here she enumerated several

commissions as sundry shops, which would occupy Elizabeth Jane's time for the next hour or two, at least. 'And have you ever seen the Museum?"

Elizabeth Jane had not. "Then you should go at once. You can finish the morning by going there. It is an old house in a back street—I forget where—but jrou'll find out and there are crowds of interesting things—skeletons, teeth, old pots and pans, ancient boots and shoes, birds' eggs—all charmingly instructive. You'll be sure to stay till you get quite hungry."

Elizabeth hastily put on her things and departed. "I wonder why she wants to get rid of me to-day?" she said sorrowfully, as she went. That her absence,rather than her services or instruction, was in request, had been readily apparent to Elizabeth Jane, simple as she seemed, and difficult as it was to attribute a motive for the desire.

She had not been gone ten minutes when Lucetta's servant was sent to Henchard's with a note. The contents were, briefly: "DEAR MICHAEL You will be standing close to my house to-day for two or three hours in the course of your business, so do please call and see me. I am sadly disappointed that you have not come before, for can I help anxiety about my own equivocal position especially now my aunt's fortune has brought me more prominently before society. Your daughter's presence here may be the cause of your neglect, and I have therefore sent her away for the morning. Say you come on business'. I shall be quite alone. LUUETTA."

When the messenger returned,her mistress gave directions that if a gentleman called he was to be admitted at once and sat down to await results.

Sentimentally she did not much care to see him—his delays had wearied her but it was necessary and with a sigh she arranged herself picturesquely in the chair, first this way, then that next so that the light fell over her head. Next she flung herself on the couch in the cyma recta curve whieh so became her, and with an arm over her head, looked toward the door. This, she decided, was the best position, after all and thus she remained till a man's step was heard on the stairs. Whereupon, Lucetta, forgetting her curve (for Nature was too strong for Art as yet), jumped up, and ran and hid herself behind one of the window curtains in a freak of timidity. In spite of the waning of passion, the situation was an agitating one. She had not seen Henchard since his (supposed) temporary parting from her after their few days of union

She could hear the servant showing the visitor into the room, shutting the door upon him, and leaving as if to go and look for her mistress.,. Lucetta flung back the curtain with a nervous greeting.

CHAPTER XXTII.

The man before her was not Henchard. A conjecture that such might be the case had. indeed, flashed through her mind when she was on the point of bursting out, but it was just too late to recede.

He was years younger than the Mayor of Casterbridge fair, fresh, and slenderly handsome. He wore drab cloth leggins with white buttons, boots with infinite lace holes, light cord breeches, and black velveteen coat and waistcoat, and he had a switch in his hand. Lucetta blushed, and said, with a

curious

mixture of pout and laugh on her face, "Oh, I ve made a mistake!"

The visitor, on the contrary, did not laugh half a wrinkle. "But I'm very sorry," he said, in deprecating tones. "I came and I inquired for Miss Henchard, and they showed me UD here, and at no hand would I have caught ye so unmannerly if I had known." "I was the unmanned}' one," said she. "But is it that I have come to the wronghouse, madam?" said Mr. Farfrae, blinking a little in his bewilderment, and nervously tapping his leggin with his switch. "Oh, no, sir sit down. You must come and sit down, now you are here," replied Lucetta, kindly, to relieve his embarrassment. "Miss Henchard will be here directly."

Now this was not strictly true but that same something about the young man—that Hyperborean constringency, crispness and charm, as of a well-braced musical instrument which had awakened the interest of Henchard, and of Elizabeth Jane, and of the King of Prussia's crew, at sight, made his unexpected presence here attractive to Lucetta. He hesitated, tooked at the chair, imagined there was no danger in it (though there was) and sat down.

Farfrae's presence here was simply the result of Henchard's permission to him to see Elizabeth Jane, if he were minded to wooher. At first he had taken no notice of Henchard's brusque letter, but an exceptionally fortunate business transaction put him on good terms with everybody, and revealed to him that he could undeniably marry if he chose. Then who so pleasing, thrifty and satisfactory in every way as Elizabeth Jane? Apart from her personal recommendations, a reconciliation with his former friend Henchard would, in the natural course of things, flow from such a union. He therefore forgave the Mayor his curtness, and this morning, on his way to the fair, he had called at her house, where he learned that she was staying at Miss Templeman's. A little stimulated at not finding her ready and waiting— so fanciful are men—he hastened on to High Street Hall, to encounter no Elizabeth, but Lucetta herself. "The fair to-day seems a large one." she said, when, by a natural deviation, their eyes sought the busy scene without. "Your numerous fairs and markets keep me interested. How many things I think of while I watch from here!"

He seemed to doubt how to answer, and the babble without floated up to them as they sat—voices as of wavelets on a chopping sea, one ever and anon rising above the rest. "Do you look out often?" he asked. "Yes, very often." "Do you look for anybody you know?"

Why should she have answered as she did? "I look as at a picture merely. But," she went on. turning pleas.mtly to him, "I may do so now I may look for you. You are always there, are you not? Ah—I don't, mean it seriously! But it is amusing to look for somebody one knows in a crowd, even if one does not want him. It takes off the terrible oppressiveness of being surrounded by a throng, and having no point of junction with it through a single individual." "Ah! And is it that you are lonely, ma'am." "Nobody knows how lonely." "But you are rich, they say." "If so" I don't know how to enjoy my riches. I came to Casterbridge thinking I should like to live here. But I wonder if I shall

Where did ye come from, ma am?" "The neighborhood of Bath. "And I came from near Edinboro'," he murmured. "It's better to stay at home, and that's true: but a man must stay where his money is made. It is a great pity, but it is even so. Yet I've done very well this year. Oh. yes," he went on with ingenious enthusiasm "you see that man with the dark kerseymere coat? I bought largely of him" in the autumn when wheat was down, and then afterward, when it rose a little, I sold off all I had. It brought only a small profit to me, while the farmers kept theirs, expecting higher figures, yes, though the rats were gnawing the ricks hollow. Just when 1 sold the markets went lower, and J. bought UD the corn of those who had been holding back at less price than my first purchases. "And then," cried Farfrae, impetuously, his face alight, "I sold it a few weeks after, when it happened to go up again! And so, by contenting myself with small profits frequently repeated, I soon made five hundred pounds—yes!" bringing down his hand upon the table, and quite forgetting where he was—"while the others by keeping theirs in hand made nothing at all!"

Lucetta regarded him with a critical interest. He was quite a new type of person to her. At last his eyes fell upon the lady's, and their glances met. "Ah, now, I'm wearying you!" he exclaimed.

She said, "No, indeed," coloring a trifle.

"Yes. I think of home sometimes," he said, simply. "So do I—as far as I can. But it was an old house where I was born, and they pulled it down for improvements. so 1 seem hardly to h^.ve any home to think of now."

Lucetta did not add, as she might have done, that the house was in St. Heliers, and not in Bath. "But the mountains and the mists and the rocks, they are there. And they seem like home?"

She shook her head. "They do to me, they do to me," he murmured. And his mind could be seen flying away to the northward. Whether its origin were national or personal, it was quite true what Lucetta had said, that the curious double strand in Farfrae's thread of life—the commercial and the romantic—was very distinct at times. Like the colors in a variegated cord, those contrasts could be seen intertwisted, yet not mingling. "You are wishing you were back again," said she. "Ah. no, ma'am," said Farfrae, suddenly recalling himself.

The fair without the windows was now raging thick and loud. It was the chief hirirg fair of the year, and differed quite from the market of a few days earlier. In substance, it was a whitey-brown crowd flecked with white—this being the body of laborers waiting for places. The wing-bonnets of women like wagon tilts, their cotton gowns and checked shawls, mixed also with the carters' smock-frocks, for they, too, entered into the hiring. Among the rest, at the corner of the pavement, stood an old shepherd, who attracted the eyes of Lucetta and Farfrae by his stillness. He was evidently a chastened man. The battle of life had been a sharp one with him, for, to begin with, he was a man of small frame. He was now so bowed by hard work and years that, approaching from behind, a person could hardly see his head. He had planted the stem of his crook in the gutter, and was resting upon the bow, which was polished to silver brightness by the long friction of his hands. He had quite forgotten where he was, and what he had come for. his eyes being bent on the ground.

A little way off negotiations were proceeding which had reference to him, but he did not hear them, and there seemed to be passing through his mind pleasant visions of the hiring successes of his prime, when his skill la:d open to him any farm for the asking. The negotiations were between a farmer from a distant county and the old man's son. In these there was a difficulty. The farmer would not take the crust without the crumb of the bargain: in other words, the old man without the younger and the son had a sweetheart on his present farm, who st nxl by, waiting the issue with pale lips.

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"What then?" "Quite otherwise. You are most interesting."

It was now Farfrae who showed the modest pink. "I mean all you Scotchmen," she added, in hasty correction. "So free from Southern extremes. We common people are ail one way or the other—warm or cold, passionate or frigid. You have both temperatures going on in you at the same time." "But how do you mean that? Ye were best to explain clearly,ma'am." "You are animated—-then you are thinking of getting on. You are sad the next moment—then you are thinking of Scotland and friends."

sorry to leave ye, Nelly,'

said the young man, with emotion. "But, you see. I can't starve father, and he's out o' work at Lady Day. 'Tis only seventy mile."

The girl's lip quivered. "Seventy mile!" she murmured. "Ah! 'tis enough! I shall never see 'ee again!" It was, indeed, a hopeless length of traction for Dan Cupid's magnet: for young men were young men at Casterbridge as elsewhere. "Oh, no, no, I never shall," she insisted, when he pressed her hand and she turned her face to Lucetta's wall to hide her weeping. The farmer said he would give the young man half an hour for his answer, and went away leaving the group sorrowing.

Lucetta's eyes, full of tears, met Farfrae's. His, too, to her surprise, were moist at the scene. "It is very hard." she said, with strong feeling. "Lovers ought not to be parted like that. Oh. if I had my wish, I'd let people live and love at their pleasure." "May be I can manage that they'll not be parted," said Farfrae. "I want a young carter, and perhaps I'll take the old man, too—yes. he'il not be very expensive, and doubtless he will answer my purpose somehow. "Oh! you are so good," she cried, delighted. "Go and tell them, and let me know if you have succeeded."

Farfrae went out. and she saw him spf,ak to the group. The eyes of all brightened the birgain was so struck. .Farfrae returned to her immediately it was concluded. "It is kind-hearted of you, indeed." said Lucetta. "For ray part, I have resolved that all my servants shall have lovers if they want them. Do you make the same resolve?"

Farfrae looked more serious, waving his head a half-turn. "I fear I must be a little stricter than you," he said. "Why?" "You are a woman of means—a thriving lady: and I am a struggling hav and corn dealer." "I am a very recent lady." "Ah. well, I cannot explain. I don't know how to talk to ladies, new or old. and that's true," said Donald, with grave regret. "I try to be civil to a' folk—no more." "It is quite true. I see you are a? you say, replied she, sensibly getting ths upper hand in these exchanges of sentiment. Under this vevelation of insight Farfrae again looked out of the window into the thick of the fair.

Two farmers met and shook hands, and being quite near the window their remarks could be heard as others had been. (TO BE CONTINUED.)

Several of the graceful launches which were used in the lagoons at the World's Fair have been sold to proprietors of summer hotels in the Wisconsin lake regions.

110BY RAMPANT.

Chicago Gamblers Take Possession In 4 Great Style

A Chicago dispatch to the Indianapolis News, Tuesday, says: "Roby is herself again. The big covered amphitheater has been converted into one of the greatest gambling resorts in the country, and suburban traffic on the Michigan Central, Lake Shore and Pennsylvania Lines has swollen to almost World's Fair pioportions. The promoters and proprietors of the Hoosier Monte Carlo are unknown, but rumor has it that Perry A. Hull's gambling trust is behind the scheme, which is a pretty one so long as the Indiana authorities do not interfere. The big tank-like structure, which will hold several thousand people, has been fitted up with every money-changing device knowj to the world of chance. Ninety men iirn employed in the establishmont. These ninety men are at work from morning till night and from night till morning. There are pool rooms and stock exchanges and tickers and ••clocks" of the most approved pattern for financiers. Then there is everything from a wheel of fortune to a faro layout, as well as cozy corners where the votaries of draw and stud poker may while away their time and salaries. Har and restaurant are not want,in lo complete the conveniences of a first-class temple oJ yhance. The Roby gambiing-house was opened. Satnr.lay. without formal notice to the world or to the Sheriff of Lake county. !»ut the "pertesh," the touters, t.hc cappers and the gudgeons were and are there in force. Mayor Hopkins said. Monday, that he was reliably informed that, the railroads were carrying 10.000 people t.o Uoby daily since the establishment wasoponed.

INDIANA OIL FIELD.

Points from the Kc^ort of State Inspector .Voiron Hyde.

The State Department of Geology has received the 'report, of Nelson J. Hyde, State Supervisor of Oils, who states that the total number of barrels of oil inspected last year was :M5.r:$4, of which S32 were rejected. This shows an increase of 10,000 barrels over the preceding year, and a decrease of 1.2)0 barrels of rejected oil. There were i:5.3(jr» barrels of illuminating oil made from Indiana crude oil used in the State last year. The supervisor thinks the oil in iustry only in its infancy in this State, and believes Indiana will soon be among the leaders in point of production. A year ago there were 151 producing wells in the State. Last year 657 well were completed, fifty-six of which were dry and seventy abandoned, leaving G32 producers, Jan. 1. 133k the total output of which was !i,33."».2SS barrels which was all refined in this State. These are 225 flowing and 457 pumping wells. Five men on an average are employedoin drilling a well, the wages being from $3 to £4 a day. After a well is completed one man is employed at ?n0 a month. The pipe line companies employ an average of about 10) men each, at from

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to Si.O each a month. The countios in which the welis are located are Jay, with 219 Wells, with 270 Adams, with 85 Blackford, with 45. and Grant, with 3.

This year gives promise of being the best the State ever knew in relation to its oil field. In fact, it is expected that a greater number of wells will be drilled in during the next ten months than have ever been sunk in the State. Supervisor Ilvde is so sanguine of Indiana's oil future that he enthusiastically says that Indianapolis will be the leading city in the world in all that pertains to oil interests.

BURNED AT THE STAKE.

A Negro Eavlsher Suffers an Awfal Death (. —He Was One of the Unites Who Tied a Girl to a Tree and Assaulted Her.

A negro ravisher was burned at the stake by a mob of infuriated farmers near Vcronia, Mo., Monday morning. lie was one of the negroes who, Sunday, assaulted a twelve-year-old girl near Veronia, Mo. The girl was tied to a tree by her assailants. The latter were pursued all night and the one I nrned at the stako was caught early Monday morning. His guilt was proven to the satisfaction of those who captured him, and it was decided unanimously that hanging was too good and that tho Paris, Tex., method should be pursued.

MORPHINE ANTIDOTE.

Permaganate of Potassium Will Prevent Fatal RonultH.

Dr. Win. Moor, a specialist, of New York, at a clinic in that city, Saturday, demonstrated the effectiveness of a discovery recently made by himself. In tho presence of a number of physicians he swallowed three grains of morpnine in spite of the efforts of tho doctors to prevent what they thought was su'eido, and then swallowed four grains of pormaganate of potassium in four ounces of water. The doctors kept Dr. Moor underdose surveillance for five hoars, but apparently he suffered no inconvenience from the poison he had taken. It is stated by Dr. Moor that the antidote will be equally efficacious in all cases if administered within one hour after the poison has been taken.

LOAN THEIR EMPLOYER $50,000.

A Glass-Workers' Association Unusual Thin]

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Friday nfght, at a-peeting of Local Assembly 30.1, Window-Glass-Workers' Association, at Pittsburg, the application ot James A. Chambers for a loan of J50,00€ was finally passed upon and approved, and the money Will be advanced when the attorney of the association passes on the security offered. This is the first case, probably, in the world where a labor union has been cal.cd upon to loan money to an employer. Mr. Chambers' application hat been in since early in November, and on the securing of the money depended tbe continuation of the Chambers pl&nt At Kingston.

Rival factions fought for the possessfoB of the United Brethren Valloy Church in It loom Geld, Pa. Four persons were Injured.