Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 34, Number 33, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 September 1888 — Page 1

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ßStrai2eTessa$8 DORA RUSSELL, Author of "Footprints iv the Sxow," "The 'Brozex Sevl," "The Vicar's GovEiLXEss." "Annabel's Rival." CHAPTER XLVIII.

A SAD EXP. ILL you two join U3ina "U5 game of whist?" said Mr. Dalton ; and his voice broke the spell, and the clasped

hands parted, and with a igh, they wrenched themselves away from sweet oblivion. "I shall be delighted," said Xora, hastily. "We ought to ring for light?, I think," suggested Biddulph. And the lights wero brought, and tho parne of whist was played; and during it, Biddulph made up his mind not to allow the pleasant friendship of the morning. vhicn Nora had seemed so anxious to establish, to lapse azain into those dangerous moments of forgetfulness through which they had just passed. "1 tried going away, and it was no pood," he thought, as he made an egregious error in the game, and trumped his partner's trick, to Mr. Dalton's indignation. '"She wishes me to remain her friend, and I shall; it's something, at least, to see her and talk to her sometimes." "I really cannot compliment von on your play, Biddulph," remarked I'alton, when the game was ended. "I can never keep my attention to cards. I do not know how it is," answered Biddulph, with a good-natured laugh. "Apparently not," said Dalton, drilv. "Miss Stewart," said Biddulph the "next moment, "do you mean to be good enough to insist upon my going out to-morrow morning again?" And he looked at Xora and smiled. "If you wish to go, I think it will do vou good," answered Isora, somewhat ehyly. "I an sure it will do me good ; yet I hate to be stared at. A man looks such a fool in a bath-chair," laughed Biddulph. That is, suppose any one looks at him," said Dalton. calmly. '"In the country, we are, unhappily, of sufficient interest to our neighbors for our actions to be watched and commented on; in cities we escape observation. I do net suppose any one will notice yon, Biddulph." Again Biddulph laughed, and they finally settled that he was to go out, and risk the chance even ot being remarked upon. "He imposes upon my good nature, vou perceive, Miss Stewart," said Biddulph, as he shook hands with Nora, alluding to Dalton, who was standing near. "Well, I shall see you in tho morning, then," replied Norn." smiling, as she left the room; and when she reached her own, .er face was flushed and her eyes shining. "He seemed better to-night," she thought; and she thouirht, too, of that silent band-clasp. . and. of tho brief moments when the shadow athwart their lives seemed almost forgotton. But they both remembered it the next morning, and no further allusion was made either to the past or tho coming days. They wero friends and Biddulph accepted the position, and life did not seem dull or wearisome any longer. They had a hundred things to talk of, without even nearing subjects which they knew were best ignored. In the sunny gardens they spent many hours, and Biddulph crew stronger daily, and presently was allowed by his doctor to limp on his crutches by Nora's side. Once while he was doing this, some fasser-by a lady inade a remark to a riend which sent a burning blush to Nora's cheeky but which she hojed Biddulph did not hear. I suppose sh is his wife," said this ladv, looking at Nora. "Yes, I suppose so ; she secm.3 very fond of him," answered the friend. A minute later Biddulph made some commonplace remark, and when Nora ventured to glance at him again he was looking very pale. She thought he had not heard the stranger's words, and in a little while regained her composure. But Biddulph, in truth, had heard them, and they disturbed him and filled his heart for a little while with restless pain. But he did not show this to Nora; this friendship, from which he had once lied, had grown too sweet and precious to him to be risked by indulgence m vain regrets. And as weeks went on, and the summer began to wane, Mr. Dalton left New York, his concerns recalling him to England, and Nora and Biddulph were thus thrown more entirely alone. For while they loitered in the gardens, or took excursions to the sunny beach of Coney Island and sat there watching tho blue waters, in Malcolm Eraser's sickroom the gathering shadows of death grew nearer and nearer, and neither father nor mother would bo persuaded to leave him. Nora went to see him everv day, but poor Mn. Jock felt 8 strange jealousy of these visits, and grudged the wan smile which used to Hit over Malcolm's face when Nora appeared, knowing how terribly dear this love had cost her son. And she knew, too, that Nora went out with Biddulph, and secretly resented this also. "She came her to see him, I suppose," she said to Jock, bitterly, "and not our poor boy." Alick Eraser also heard, with deep and concentrated anger, that Biddulph was staving in the same hotel as hrs brother ani sister-in-law and Nora. He had not approved of their going to New York at all, to see the laet of "that stupid, idiotic boy," ns he called Malcolm, and had been absent from lnismore when the news of Malcolm's terrible injuries reached Airdlinn. But he did not know that Nora Stewart had eone with them until they had absolutely started. When he found this was the case, he gave way to a violent fit of passion, knowing that Nora would thus araln meet Biddulph. "But sb can't marry him, at all events," he consoled himself by thinking; and thn he went over to Airdlinn, and brought Minnie back to stay with him at lnismore until her parents should return. He thus heard constantly how Malcolm was going on, as Mrs. Jock naturally wrote to Minnie all the news about her brother, and sometimes news about Nora Etewart, too. "Nora Stewart seems to see a good deal of Mr. Biddulph, apparently," Alick once read in one of these letters, and he frowned and bit his lips asho did so. The idea of going out to New York crossed his mind, but more prudent thoughts prevailed. He was not quite sure of that quick temper of his, and he did not w ish to get into "any row," ns ho called it, with that "confounded fellow Biddulph;" nor did he wish to be mixed up in any War with poor Malrolm Fräser. . ia best dead," he thought many a

time, in his hard way, and he grew impatient for the news. Perhaps, had he seen the young man stricken down in his prime, laying panting and gasping for breath during tho hot August days, his heart might have relented. It was very pitiful, and move! Nora many a time to tears, while tho mother's grief Avas too great and bitter to be told. Mrs. Jock grew old, white-haired and bent during this sud vigil. At last the end came, and one bright morning Jock Erazcr called up Nora, about 0 o'clock, to tell her that Malcolm was dying. She hastily dressed and went to his room, and there a most mournful sight met her gaze. Mrs. Jock was holding him up in her arms, as his difficulty of breathing was very great, while the gray pallor of his face, his damp brow, and dim, sunken eyes, told that tho coming change was verv near. He looked at Nora as she approached him, but did not smak. "Dear Malcolm," said Nora, going up to tho bed, and kneeling down and taking one of hi3 wasted hands. Then he turned his head toward her. "Kiss me," he gapped out in a hoarse whisper; and she bent over hitn and kissed him again and again, while her tears loll hot and fast upon bis face. "I I loved you too wellr" she heard him murmur; "so forgive me before I go." "I have nothing to forgive," wept Nora. "Dear boy, do not distress yourselt" abou; anything now." "Tell Biddulph I am sorry." went on Malcolm, still in that hoarse whisper; and then he grew silent, his breathing changed, and the mother, with her agonized eyes fixed on his face, thought tho end had come. But he lingered about an hour, apparently in a semi-unconscious state; and then, just before he died, he opened his eyes and looked straight at his mother. ""Mother," he said, and spoke no more; and until tho last breath passed his lips and the lilm of death stole over them, his blue eyes were still tixed on his mother's lace. "II13 last thoughts were for you, Jeanie," said Jock Fräser, trj-ing to draw her away, but with an "exceeding bittter cry" she Hung herself on her dead son's breast. "My darling, my darling, look at mo again! Malcolm, Malcolm, my son!" It was terrible to see her, for thero was no comfort for her any more. "Oh, Lord, take me too!" she kept crying. "Let me die since Thou hast taken hiiar r The next few days were most miserable oner;, audit was in vain that Jock Frazer or Nora tried to soften the grief of the bereaved mother. "Why was he born?" she asked almost fiercely, in reply to some soothing words. "Why did God "give him to me mv babe, my tirst born i; He meant to take him away? Don't talk to me of hope or of hereafter; my hope is dead!" And she refused, positively refused, to allow her son's body to be buried in America. "I shall take him home," she said. "Jock, I have not long to live, for I won't live after him, so don't refuse my last request. Let us take him back to Airdlinn, and let him sleep among the hills where he was born, and bury me beside him." This, of course, meant great expense, but lock Frazer had no heart to refuse And during the sad time Biddulph acted w ith such generous forethought and kindness, that he quite won poor Jock's heart, and many a time Nora Stewart told herself that but for "James," her own heart would have been broken too." Malcom's death drew them nearer and nearer, and made the tie that parted them more hateful and bitter to Biddulph every day. He used to sit and look at Nora's sweet face, and listen to her words, while the doubt of Natalie's identity passed and repassed through his mind. Should ho tell Nora this he began asking himself leave her to judge? Honor told him he had no right to do this; but another feeling that grew and grew urged him to let her at least share this vague hope. "May I go back with you?" he had asked Nora, when the conveyance of poor Malcolm's body home was discussed; and she looked up in his Lice, as if half surprised at the question. "Surely you would never stay on here alone?" she said. "No, that would b? too desolate," he answered; and he sighed, moved uneasily, and then turned awav his head.

ciiArnn! xlix. noise, home. There was no question after this about Biddulph going back to Kngland with the sad party. Mrs. Fraser was too utterly prostrate to take tho slightest notice of any arrangements, and Jock Fraser was really glad of his company, and truly grateful to him for having tried to save the life of Iiis unfortunate son. Malcolm's secret had died with him, as far as his father and mother were concerned, and none but Nora and Biddulph knew that he had brought his miserable fate upon his own head, and had twice attempted to take the life of the man who had done his best to save him. And this joint knowledge added another linkto the bond between these two, whose strong ami faithful affection had lcen so sorely tried. Women are quick to recognize trenerosity of any sort in men, and ready to forgive any faults and failiiu'3 better than meanness or self-glorification. Biddulph had !orne great pain in silence rather than add another pang to Jock Fraser and his wife; and this seemed very noble in Nora Stewart's eves. And one day, when the poor boy lay dead, Biddulph told Nora something of that terrible night in the ravine in tho Yellowstone valley, and the auguish of thirst that ho arid Malcolm had endured. It was not a story for a woman to bear unmoved, and Nora dare not trust herself to speak the words that rose unbidden to her lips. But Biddulph saw her cheeks grow pale, and her dark eyes fill with tears, and ho understood something of what eho felt, and knew that the love Nora had once given hirn was still unchanged. It was a terribly trying position for a man of strong feelings to continually keep the chain on his tongue, and hold back the words which he knew he ought not to speak. As he had foreseen and told Nora he was not strong enough tobe constantly near her without some of the old feeling iceping out. To do hirn justice, ho tried hard not to show this; but littlo thin?) a look, a sigh reveal so much; and during the voyage back to Fngland he was naturally always thrown with her. Jock Eraser's whole timo was taken up with trying to console his broken-hearted wife, and Nora, in her doep mourning for her poor young cousin, felt no inclination to make new acquaintances or friends. The "pale, handsomo girl in black," and the "grave, good-looking man on crutches," ss they were called, kept very much to themselves, and perhaps wero really not unhappy, as the great green waves of the Atlantic rolled around them ; for they were together, and that, to thefn, meant much they only understood. It was on a moonlit night, balmy, beautiful that tho old ewctt laadnegs stole

over Biddulph's heart with such irresistible power, that he yielded to the temptation to tell Nora of tho doubts which now constantly beset his own mind. Up and down on a short space of the deck of the big ship these two had been walking more than an hour, and the white light shining on Nora's upturned face made it seem fairer than ever to Biddulph's eyes. Once or twice their arms had accidentlv touched as the ship swayed on the waters, and each time a thrill had passed through Biddulph's frame, as ho involuntarily bent nearer to her. Then, suddenly, the moon became overcast, the sea darkened, and a summer storm seemed about to commence. "I hope it will not thunder," said Nora, half timidly. "You are not afraid, are you?" asked Biddulph, feeling at that moment almost a wish that a great storm should ingulf them, if they might die together. "It would be better than to separate now," he thought, as he walked almost In silence by her side. "No, I am not afraid ; still " "Would you rather go below, then?" said Biddulph, making a great eU'ort to speak calmly. "Oh no; it is so tiresome there! One has to talk." "Take my arm, then; the, ship is rolling a little it will steady you." She laid her hand "lightly on his arm; but as they walked together he drew it closer to him. "Whv don't you lean on mo? Are vou afraid ?" "Oh no," answered Nora, with a smilo and a littlo conscious blush. "Nora," began Biddulph the next minute, as though moved past control by his own feelings, "there has been something trembling on my lips for days something I would fain tell you and yet 1 shrink from doing so." "You must tell me now, then." "Do you remember," continued Biddulph, in a broken voice, "that miserable night when I went to Ilossmore to tell you such a tale that I should rather have died than spoken the hateful words? I told you then my mind was full of doubt as to tho actual identity of the woman who claimed to be the wife that I had believed dead." "I remember," answered Nora, growing very pale. "I thought that doubt was settled the next day, when I saw tho dead and living woman face to face when the living one said a few words in my ear I believed none but Natalie Beranger could kuow. But afterward strange, the suggestion Was made by Lady Barbara I began again to doubt. The likeness between these two twin sisters wa3 so wonderful, it was perfectly easy for either to assume to be the one that it was most convenient, financially, to be ; and it was, of course, more convenient to appear as a living wife than a distasteful sister-in-law. In fact, I have thought and thought of this, night and day, since I parted with you, before I went to America, and I have thought of it constantly since we have met again. Perhaps I have no right to tell you this." "No right!" echoed Nora, with parted, quivering lips, looking eagerly up in his face; "when this would make all tho difference between " sh-; . topped abruptly, aud her eyes fell, and her breast heaved. Her violent emotion startled Biddulph, who had become accustomed, as it were, to argue this doubt in his own mind. But to Nora the idea had never occurred since the doctor had gone to Kossmore to tell her that Bidduph was satisfied his wife still lived. And now! Again she looked up in his face with eager questioning eyes, and Biddulph f -It her hand trembling on his arm. "To me," he said, laying his own hand on those small, quivering lingers, "it would make the ditlerenco between a life worth living for a life which is not. It is no use disguioinsr tho truth, Nora, and this is about it. With you it is different, I know; you seemed happy aud content, my aunt told me, when I was away and I was glad." Nora did not speak; sho turned aside her head, and tried to hide, as women do, tho overpowering emotion of her heart. Jl-ypv'j! She thought at this moment of the bitter pain sho had endured, and tho resolute endeavor she had made not to show this to a world that scoil's at unfortunate or unrequited love. Sho had been calm, and very anxious not to make those around her uncomfortable, and Lady Barbara, perhaps, might have thought she was "happy and content;" but Eidy Barbara, in truth, hud done nothing of the fort. "I have worried I have pained you," said Biddulph, remorsefully, tho next moment, for he saw how deeply she was agitated. "Forgive me for being so selfish; you know 1 did not mean to disturb you in any way." "It is not that," faltered tho poor girl; "it is the thought" Ah, she could not tell him, and yet ho knew! It was the thought that their lives might no lomrer be apart, that they might openly live for each other, as they now did in secret, which filled her with such emotion sho could lind no words. And Biddulph, seeing this felt strangely moved. "I meant," he said, clasping her hand yet closer, "to return to Kngland and sea this woman, even beforo we met again, Nora; and I shall do so now tho moment we arrive thero. Until then, I cannot give up the idea that 1 was deceived." The last words were spoken in a very low tone, but sho heard them, and a sudden Hood of joy seemed to sweep over her heart; and as the night wind passed and kissed her pale cheeks, tho lovely blush which now so seldom stolo there crept back with hope. And Biddulph's grave face, too, flushed, and a new light lit his gray eyes, as they walked there in silence together, thinking Of what might still be. Presently tho moon shono out again from amid tho dark and broken clouds, and tho white ravs recalled to his mind his dream, when ho laid so sorely injured in tho ravine, and a track of shining light seemed to fall upon him, and the angel's face changed to that of tho fair woman by his side. "Do you know, I dreamt of you, Nora," he said, his voice vibrating with deep feeling, "w htn I spent that terrible night in the Yellowstone valley. I thought you wero an angel, first, sent to comfort me, and then saw your face tho faco I loved best to see." "In a dream?" asked Nora, softly. "Yes, all in a dream only a dream, Nora, for when I awoke, that poor fellow, Malcolm Fraser, was crying for water, and it was stern enough reality after that." "Oh, don't speak of it I never daro think of it!" "You are a tender-hearted littlo girl," said Biddulph, looking down at her with a smile. "I don't know about being a girl; I don't fee! like a girl now never since " "Since when, Nora?" "Since that night when you came to tell me that that tho woman whom you believed to be dead " "I believe her to be dead still, I think!" interrupted Biddulph, with sudden im patience, "Don't let us speak any more

of her to-night to-night, when it almost seems like tho old happy times." And they did not mention her again. Thev watched the waves and the sky, and Biddulph talked almost as he used to talk before tho bitter blow had fallen on his life, which seemed to change it all to bitterness. He had that vague poetic instinct in his nature which finds vent sometimes in picturesque words and phrases, though not in rhymes. And the hour and scene tho dark cloud3 and the moonlit rifts, the changing silver tracks upon tho sea, stirred these dreamy fancies, and made him for the time, at least, forget the gloomy shadows that stalked so often by nis side. At last, with a blush, a sigh, Nora remembered how late it was, and bade Biddulph good-night, going below too much excited to sleep. If this should be true if he were free after all, and she might bo his wife! She could think of nothing else, and the next morning she met Biddulph with a new sweet shyness, which he knew very well how to interpret. And it made him happy; sometimes too happy. He began, in truth, to persuade himself that ho had been deceived by "a base, wretched woman;" and he was eager to reach England, so that he should have an opportunity of trying to force her to ppoak tho truth. He thought this one day, and the next awoko in the morning full of chill, sad doubts. It was like a fever, this uncertainty, with fits of hot and cold, and lasted during the remainder of tho voyage; Biddulph's changing moods naturally influencing Nora. They had settled that when they reached Liverpool thev were to part, Nora returning to Scotland with Jock Fraser and his wife, and Biddulph proceeding to town, to see his lawyer and find out the present address of tho woman who had called herself his wife. And when the hour came, and they stood together on the landing-stag?, both pale and grave, they s poke few words of farewell. They clasped each other's hands, and they understood each other's hearts. "Wo, at least, shall always be friends," faltered Nora, her dark eyes dim with unbidden tears, and he emphatically answered, "yes." Then Jock Fraser warmly grasped Biddulph's hand, also in silence; but the poor mother never raised her crape-hidden face. She wa3 carrying home her dead, and all other things were as nothing to her. It was tho saddest journey the sorrowing father and mother bearing back the encoiiined form of their only son; and a hearse awaited them at tho Highland station, as well a3 the carriage which was to to take them to tho loch-side, before they crossed to Airdlinn. For "ho shall go home again," Mr3. Fraser had said; and thus Maicom Eraser's body was borne back to tho old roof-tree under which he had been born. It was a gloomy, wet evening when they reached the water, and the shadows of tho great hills fell dark and lowering on its breast. And the weather-beaten faces of the boatmen who awaited them were wet with tears as they carried "the young laird" as Mai com had always been called on their shoulders to the boat, in which so many of tho days of his lyhood and young manhood had been srynt. One of these was Tv.m Ma. irnzie, and the poor lad fairly broke down, remembering the devoted love which his brave boy-brother Bob had given to the "young master." "It's wer 1 ho did na livo to see this day," 6aid Tam, rubbing his eyes with his brown knirckles to try to hide his fastfailing tears. "Ay, they're both gane now and Am bit pictur' is Iving on Rob's breast still." So across the darkening Inch tho voung heir of Airdlinn, tho pride and daning of his mother's h art, was taken home dead, after his Ion; suilerings and borrow. The kindly, homely face of the doctor was watching for them at tho other side, ready to grasp Jock Eraser's hand ia truest sympathy, and to do what he could for her whxs ) dry eyes shed no tears, and whoso white lips spoke no words. Not even when Minnie Fraser thing he rself weeping into her mother's anus did Mrs. Fr.ir.er break that silent agony of grief, which vs past all human, expression. She had grown grav and old ; her mourning for her son had eaten into her length oi days as moths into a garment. V V ' V V They buried him the next d.yinth'j kirk-yard at Bal'a, among his kinsfolk; for long generations of Fräsers sleep there beneatti the green mossy turf. His lather followed liira to the grave. a:i t the dccir'i ; but tho stern man ut Insiu:ore stayed at home. Aliek Fraser, in truth, was very wroth that Jock had yielded to "Jeanie's folly," about bringing bac Malcolm's body, and did not go to Airdlinn. until alter Malcolm was laid in his grave. "Useless waste of money; just making people talk again," many a time Alick had reflected angrily, since Jock had telegraphed to him from Liverpool that they had arrived there. But after the funeral was over he went to see his brother, and felt a sort of shock when he saw how gray Jock had grown, and how old-looking. "And you raw that fellow Biddulph?" he presently asked abruptly. "Yes," answered Jock; "he came home with us, yuii know. I shall never forget what ho did for our poor boy." "Ho came home with you?" repeated Ailck, sharply. "Then, "aro Miss Nora and ho sweethearting again, in npite of his being a married man?" Aad Alick laughed disagreeably. "There was no question of anything of the sort, 1 should say; we wero all in too much trouble." "Where is he now, then?" "Ho left us at Liverpool, and went nt to town. He's a fine fellow, Alick, say what you like; begot his own leg badly broken, trying to save our dear lad ;" and Jock's brown eves grew dim, and he turned away his head. "He may bo one thing or tho ether; I know nothing about him, nor wish to; but he's a married man, and Nora Stewart had best keep out of his way if sho minds her good name, in my opinion." Jork Fraser made no reply to this, nor did he speak to his brother of the long walks together on tho deck of the steamer, or of the intimato friendship which, no doubt, existed between Biddulph and Nora Stewart. It was Jock's private belief that Nora would never marry any one else; but he confided this opinion to no one. t "It is no business of mine," he had decided; and, like a wise man, ho held his tongue, knowing well also what mado Alick bo bitter on tho subject of Biddulph. "He is wasting his time," thought Jock, when he heard that Alick had been to call on Nora at Bossmore; but ho did not tell his brother this, and Alick seemed to be very well satisfied after his visit. For he could not look into tho girl's inner life, nor sco her kiss the letters which came from the man sho loved. Biddulph had seen his lawyer, and Madame do Beranger's last quarterlvallowancohad been forwarded to Monte Carlo. "I mean, therefore, to start at once for this place, though I detest it," wrote Biddulph, "aud ahalf. ao doubt find her there

squandering her last penny. I shall tell you everything, my dear my dearest, and leave you to judge. I believe now I have been "the victim of a base deception ;" and so on. Alick Fraser did not know how often Nora read and re-read these words; he did not know tho fond hopes that filled her heart, nor how she watched for the post and eagerly looked for the news Biddulph's letters might contain. He only saw her as a handsome woman whose estate lay next his own, and whom he cared for as much as it was possible for him to care for any one, except the owner of lnismore. Nor did he see her receive a letter ono day which drove tho blood from her cheeks and lips, and filled her heart with sudden excitement and fear. This letter, written in a handwriting which seemed familiar to her, was carried up to her bedroom by her maid, Palmer, about a week after her return to Bossmore, and Palmer told her that the ludy who had brought it was waiting in the dining-room downstairs to know if sho could see her. Nora glanced at the letter and then grew paie. "I shall tell you in a moment," she said; "ask the lady to wait." Then, when Palmer was gone, she drew out the key of tho desk where she had always kept locked away that tirst communication which fcho "had received to warn her against James Biddulph the Stange messajre that had come to her from an unknown hand and she laid this letter which she had just received side bv side, and stood looking at the both with blank aud staring eyes. For the handwriting was the same; the words that had bade her loug ago to beware of James Biddulph, and the words that now asked her to receive the writer, as she had au important communication to make was written evidently by ono person. Nora's breath came short and a bitter feeling of disappointment and pain swept over her ; for if the tirst letter had been written by Biddulph's wife, as she had always believed it to be, Nora knew that she still must live. To be continue J next iceek.) A CHINESE MILLIONARE.

The Pagan Owner of Peruvian Plantations Iteturn to China. San lYancisco Examiner. The steamer Parthia, w hich sailed yesterday for the Orient, carried among her caLin passengers a distinguished celestial. The passenge r, although wearing the queue according to Chinese custom, had discarded tno usual costume of his countrymen, and was attired in a neat-fitting suit of black broacMoath. A high standing color of the latest fashion encircled his neck, and, unlike other Chinese, he wore a tight-fitting pair of gaitenj. Just before tho steamer departed he paced the deck with the air of a nabob. The voyager is registered on the passenger list as Chun Lee, Peru, bound for Hong Kong. He is said to be worth, in coin and other property over a million dollars. This fortune he amassed in Peru, in which country he has resided for thirteen years, having arrived there in 1S75. When he left this city he had but $400. This amount ho placed to advantage in a plantation. He mado money rapidly, and gradually increased his acreage, until he now has large tracts in different parts of the country. He decided several months ago to visit his native country, and, leaving his property in tho hands of his managers, he left for Panama, at which place he took the steamer for this city. He arrived here about two months ago, and durincr his st.ty has made things exceedingly lively f ir his friends. Swell banquets and dinners on the Chinese plan were numerous, all given at the expense ot Chun. His friends also enjoyed carriage rides nnjl trips to tho suburban cities through the pagan millionaire's lilerality. lie ma le things tiiriyhum during his shi rt stay, und his friends reciprocated by givir.L: a giaud farewell dinner to the dis-timrui.-hed victor. Th' dinner was had at the rci-idenco oi a leading Chinese merhr.nt. and the tables groaned with all the luxuries that the Chine. -e restaurants afford. A iiumTiT of the Chinese merchants v i ie j;t the Oceanic wharf to see Chun oil". !!' slü'.-iü them sdl warmly by the hand. I hade them good-by, after which he bj..iled the steamer. H i t.-.iks but little English and his remarks are almost unintelligible. He re-i;u-e 1 to say anything regarding himself or his br.-ine.-s interests in Peru. He sl.'.ted that he was going to mako a com;iic le u.r.r of the Flowery Kingdom. When :..!. e.i if he was going to travel alone, ho smiled fdi-htly and pointed to a mite of a Chiuc.-e woman, and remarket! that tho feio.i!.' was his wife. He married her in thi- city privious to going to Peru. Tho pr.ir expect to be gone about four months. Chun is a man about forty-five years of age, and his better half is about ten years hi junior. A MTt MyMerr. t. ltrpuMle.l It uj'pr.ir from all the statistics that whila tli ii"l -ah rrii-e of li;e cattle delivered in th" stockyards his goa clown steadily far tho tust rive year tb retail price of meat on the lilock. l-.ns steadily increased. There is absolutely no good reason why this ohouM be the case, tlioiu'h the problem of idling beef on the block is largely a local one. The butcher or. incutshupmun buys by the whole beef or by the quarter, paying so much per pound. About l'j per cent, of tho dressou quarter can he worked oil' in what in called choice cuts loin ai.d porterhouse steaks and the best roasts. For those hoice cuts a comparatively high prico must he charged, of course, in order to uverago up the low prices realized on the "ronph meats" the shanks, neck pieces, boiling beef and tough kteuks and roasts. Tor Coffee Drinkers to Ilend. fj. M. Itoladar la North American for September. While eofl'oe causes a temporary activity of the digestive system and miui, this is a circumscribed activity a sentimental or sympathetic fantasy and not a muscular inspiration and prowess. ColTce cats into the digestive membranes, forcing their Khtiids to Pu forth their reserve of juices, thtia drying un the fountains of life and leaving in these little urns of vitality the seeds of rheumatism, catarrh, kidney nilment. heart disease, lunpj inünnity and abdominal degeneration. Colfeo drinking exhausts the mouth and throat, leaving the face a grinninif skeleton, while tue body is honeycombed. The penetrative and stimulating qualities of coffee are excessive as weil rs insidious, but nature ahhors anything that leads nature, and will gradually withdraw from it, leaving in the temple of life nothing but a shadow and a name. A Check That Did Much Good. fPrhU Ans (Cal.) Standard. Rome weeks apo a prominent real estate dealer in ls Augeles handed a gentleman a check for $2,500 in a desl. The recipient of It having some little obligations outstanding as the result of too much boom, quietly indorsed it, and handed it to a creditor, and thus it started ou it mission of charity, love and business. In due course of time it turned tip no less than fifteen indorsements on the back. It hud paid $.17,500 in debts, made fifteen men happy, and returned to its drawer. A Score. Ufe.l Hard up Gent "Say. boss, can't yar give feller a few cents to help him along?" Mr. Delawney '"Why don't you do something faw yaw oun living? You had bettah ask for bwains instead of money." Hard up (jont "Well, boss, I asked yer lor what! thought ywluuittaUOiVtitL..- . .

PdSGS IN THE WILD WEST.

CLEVELAND'S WAR ON MONOPOLISTS Some of th Industries" Which He Ha Destroyed The Land Grabbers, the Cattle Stenlers and tho Miuing; Sharks All Asraintt Iliut. Diinviju, Col., Sept. 0. Special. J I soo that ex-Minieter Logan, whom Cleveland transferred from our diplomatic service in South America to private life, has been interviewed by The Sentixf.l upon the political outlook of Colorado, aud correctly places the state ia the Harrison column. He tays Cleveland's administration has been disastrous to some of Colorado's industries. I corroborate his statement, and add that Cleveland has not only injured, but destroyed some of tho most profitable businesses of the West. But first I will give lour reasons why Colorado is against Cleveland: 1. A United States senator is to be elected next winter, and four millionaire mine-owners, including Millioniare Tabor and ex-Senator Hill, and two raiirond magnates, Att'y Walcott of the Denver & Rio Grande and President Kvan-3 of the Denver fc Ft. AVorth, are candidates. The boodle all these money bags will circulate to carry the state and legislature will curry along the electoral ticket. The pic-sent governor is a democrat, and the last legislature had only one republican majority on joint ballot. 2. Cattlemen who, under republican administration, combined the remunerative business of raising cattle on the free range and robbing the government of its public lands along all the streams through fraudulent entries made by hired "professional pre-etnpters and cowboys, in order to monopolize the water privilege and keep oil' actual settlers are again ft Cleveland, because the land oliice, under the able and honest management of commiseionera Sparks and Stockslager, revoked the fraudulent entries not already "proved up" by their republican predecessors and havo puecepsiully checked further land-grabbing. 3. F.x-oihcials expecting re-appointment, land sharks, irresponsible men who make a business of "locating" lands for corporations, lumbermen who divested the public lands of timber some of whom were sent to the penitentiary tor this offense and will be out in time to vote an: all atrainst Cleveland, because under Lis rule their "occupation is gone." 4. Most of the new settlers come from Kansas and Iowa, the republican btvedingground, and are also againet Cleveland, because they alwavs vote everything labeled "Republican,'' whether free whi.-ky, high taxes, dear clothing and the devil goes with it or not. Everybody will remember that within a month following his inauguration, Cleveland ordered the cattlemen to remove the fences erected upon the public lands erected, apprcfir.gly during republican rule that uu Englishman with TTJ,000 acres of government land under fence near Trinidad shot at the federal oüieers who undertook to remove them and was in return severely wounded; that the army had to be used to remove the fences of the English and Scotch companies in Wyoming; that these Englishmen resisted the United States authorities with armed cowboys; that before six months of ''free trade" rule all unlawful fences in the Weht had been removed. These fences cost the "cattle barons" more thr.n S-VXX).M which Cleveland caused to be destroyed. In reviewing the decline of the range cattle industry, tho Colorado Field and Farm, whose editor i a republican, on August 4, very truthfully says: Aside from these reasons tor failure then; are others that have helped on the destruction of the industry in Colorado and Wyomini. The investors ia cattle about ten and twelve years ago became too greedy to ksics the earth, and to do it they invested thousands and hundreds of thousands of dollars in barbed wire and fence posts and encircled the public domain millions and millions of ncr-s intending that the eheep herder and the bmn fide pettier the man with the plow, seed drill and reaper should have no hold on the gren earth whilo they neoded it lor their lowiug herds. Then came the government with its scents, sometimes with its army, and ordered the destruction of the illegal fences and the country opened to setttement. This movement alone cot the cattle-holders of the state and Wyoming not lesi than amilliou dollan in lo-s. Many of the herds had been bonded to pay for this wire that the investors had bought and were ill prepared to lose. The fences were not the onlv los. Immediately after the removal c( the fences actual settlers, "the man with plow, seeddrill and reaper," came in from tho states and crowded out tho cattle men, and today eastern Colorado is all settled up, where, three years ego, the cowboys, cows and cayotes were lords of the land. These "grangers," as tho cowboys tail them, are crowding upon the knights c t the branding-iron all over the West, und have taken up so much of the public lands that where thero wero forty acre 3 per cow on tho range three years ago, there are not five acres to-day, and as it takes, on an average, twenty acres to raie a steer, 2ÖO,OOÖ head of cattle died last winter in Colorado alone from starvation. Many extensive ranges havo been wiped out by homesteaders and large cattle companies, of which the r-wan land and cattle company of Scotland, with ranges in Wyoming, Montana and Colorado, were tho most extensive, failed, ttnd many "cattle kings" have beeu beggared. During the past year cattlemen have been reducing their herds or winding np business, and the result is a "glut" in the market. There is no demand for cows ct $15 w hich brought $4 in 1S". A three-year-old steer soils for 12 to S17. And yet the people of Indiana, and tho wholo country east of the Missouri river, pay as much for beef ns when steers aold for S45 to )0. Whv is if Dues the butcher pocket the difference? No. The range ief market is controlled by Chicago, Kansas City, Omaha and St. Louis men, who are in'a trust one of those "privat a affairs" with which Maine says President Cleveland has no "particular right to interfere." Ask Thil Armour and the others of the trust who stand betw een you and the cheap lxef of the range country, who they are for for president, and you w ill find out that they are for lllaino and Harrison, who will not interfere in their "private aliäirs." until Cleveland's administration the West w as in the hands of cattlemen. They had the banks, the merchants, the boards of trade, the press, the federal stato and county officials and tho legislatures all arrogantly arrayed against the despised "grangers." Those w ho undertook farming had their fences cut down by cowboys and crops destroyed by cattle. There w as no redress from officials of the state or federal government They wero nil interested in the cattle industry. When a new federal officer arrived with a commission from Washington, whether at

territory, or surveyor-general, register.

or Indian agr.t or p'st-trader. he was soon let info some cattle company on the "ground Moor." Wlun Cleveland ictired them for the g o l of the service they ail found themselves in protitable business in land or in cattle not even excepting the '"great grandson of his great grandfather," who, upon retiring from a lucrat-' ive otiico at Helena, d: - covered himsel the proprietor of the Kufana Lh-e Stock' Jauriial and mannrrvr of the Harrison cat-' tie company, in w i.ieh, the Chicago Trihsays Mere El kins has an interest. Ivo doubt this company has suffered through Cleveland's administration, too. As the Firld and Farm indirectlv says, Cleveland hr.s made it possible for the man with the plow and reaper to settle in the nudst of these arrozaLt c utile Kings by sending otlieials from th-f states to protect them men w ho could not I"? bribed. A few who had forgotten their euperior'a edict that a "public oiiire was a public trust" and associated too freelv with the ex-land-grabbers and timber thieves wcrs summarily dismissed from oilice. Everybody retaemlxTs how Mr. Cleveland suspended by telegraph the chiefjustice of New Mexico upon tne information of George W. Julian that Dort-ey hmi been appointed by the ncv judge commissioner to draw jurors for Colfax county and ha 1 taken dinner at Dorsey'a ranch. The young judge imm-Miat ly repaired to the white house, with inÜLH nti.il democratic conjreiucn and a wealthy andinliuenti.il democratic f.aher-in-law, t'a plead for rJn.-i.itcmeiit, giviüf as an excuse that he didn't know L'orsey. "Don't know Porsey'.'" n-plied the "president;. "why, every school boy knows who Dorsey is. No, sir, 1 shall not have any 02 in the govern. iient service who do, s not know w ho Dursy R'; And th j next day Judze Van long of War.-aw, Ind., was appointed in lii.s place, upon the recommendation of Congressman Lowry. Last winter the "branding-iron legislature" of Wyoming pts.-ed a "maverick" bill giving ali the mavorlcks r unbrande 1 cattle found in tho "round-ups" to the Siockürowors association. iov. Moonlight, who was snt by CK vcla'.u from Kaus?.., over tho protev 01 the uyomirig democrats who were themselves tainted with land-grabbing; ve. ... I the bill upon th ground that small owners and settler would be at the mercy of the associaktion. There was euch a howl raised !" the stockmen and the ran;e press that if the eovernor had not been an old soldier he would have been driven out of the country. "Has not Gov. Moonlight found out this was a cattlemen's country?' "He will till tin? range with grangers." "We demand the oid fogy's removal, and like expressions w ere freely uttered by the whole subsidized press. Although the Cheyenne society, composed of sons of English baronets and others with cattle on the range, ostracized him for his action, he is stnl governor, and, with Cleveland's re-election, he will continue to veto maverick bills till all th T ' 1 i . . : u V j.j X.ngiisn companies uue ultii 1 ruwupa out by American settlers who will develop the agricultural and mineral resources, the latter ot which are more extensive and varied than those of Pennsylvania, ih.vir;ir:-:har.t:b'.e ilelds of coal, iron, copper, petroleum, soda and all kinds of bui kling stones. What was this "maverick" bill? Every summer, generally in June, the association orders general "round-ups' of th' stock for the purpose of branding th calves and eohs drop d since the last branding. The country is divided iat districts or "round-ups," and all thf stock found within each "round-up is driven to the designated point, where the calves and colts aro branded. In Wyoming there my be a do a-a "round-ups," and one owner may have cattle ia alt of them, as the stock will shift one and two hundred miles during a season. He must be represented at each "round-up" to protect his interests. Tho calf is given th same brand that the cow which it follows bears, but if such brand doe not belong to "the association" tho calf is declared a "maverick," and given the association brand, cr sold ti the highest bidder, to defray the expenses of the round trip. Of course th:s is illegal, but the email owner or settler who owns the calf cannot arford to protect his rights in a dozen round ups with a Winchester, and he is barred out of the association with big fees. It h ippens at th close or round-tips that many calves hav lost or been detached from their mothers, and it is impossible to dcP.-nnino their ownership. It has alwajs Ken the custom of the association to take possession of them, but the territorial court, as reorganized by Cleveland, decide 1 that th association had no rieht to claim tinbranded find unknown stock, and th maverick hill cbvd by the governor wa to give them the rij'it. Under the operation of the maverick rule it w as easy for tho cowboys to appropriate non-ussocia-tion cuttle by cutting o.F the cahes from the cows, and many small owners wer swallowed up by the branding iron of foreign corporation.-.. The origin of th Wold "maverick" is traced to a Tex3n named maverick, who, daring the wsr, stayed at home, and while the cowboys of "western Texas wire liliting forth "lost cause." brande I ail tno yc-nn unprotected stock with "maverick,'' ani made a large fortune. How many behevo thr.t. in iewoflrl political surroundings, (Jen. HarTis)i would, in tho remot'.' eve nt oi his election, appoint a territorial governor wh" would wto a maverick bill, or that h would remove lroia i.thu t nch judge for appointing Domey to drar jurors to trv ca-e.s between cattleman and fanners, when said judge had behind him leading con-.rresMu.iu and an indncutial family? Ot n. lh-.rrison would b inclined to overlook the hortconiings of au olacial who belonged to an "oil. family, "and especially one with a "grandpa." Who ever heard of a dishonest ollirer dismissed by a republican president? It would "bt? well to inquir whether Gen. Harrison w ould appoint for territorial oflieers men who would cot run their oiuVes in connection with live stock journals and cattle companies, whether he would retain s-urveyor General Julian to complete Ids work of unearthing th Mexican fraudulent grants, or re-appoint one of his predecessors, who increased th Maxwell land grant from 10,000 to 1,?ÜV 000 acres the grant upon w hich tho Holland company is now trying to eject ore a thouand American settlers w ith arms. It would be well to know first how much influence Steve Elkins would have in th appointment of a court to adjudicate thos accursed grants a court provided for ia bill which passed the house six w eeks a?, w hich the senate is holding over, at th request of Elkins & Co., till the next session, to givo the appointment of the judgt to Harrison in the event of his election. Yes, what would Mr. Harrison do upon these questions? Would he fc-'diw tip th reform inaugurated by Cleveland ot would he let the old gang return to tba crib? These questions are of more vital interest to the workingmen even than th tarid", which can be rais.'d or lowered in a day. 11 member that the publlo lauV ir.ll 1 bin f4