Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1898 — Page 3

CHAPTER V_ When a corner near the rholodcnftrfuff has concealed them from view. USesaaX rises from his seat and frees fleliheratdlF seer to where Lady Swansdown is sininp6he is an old friend of his. and he has therefore no qualms about being a Ifttfo brusque with her where eceasMin a email dll’- i “Have a game?" says he. His suggestion is full of playfulness; his tone, tear--ever, is stem. “Dear Felix. why?" says she. sniffing UP at him beautifully. There is even a suspicion of amusement in her smile. “A change!*’ says he. His words this time might mean something. his Tune-any-thing. She can read either as -she queases. “True!" says she. laughing “There is nothing like change. Ton have awakete-u me to a delightful fact. Lord Balfraiurc." turning languidly to her companion, who has been a little distrait since his wife anc «on passed by him. “"What do you say ah trying a change for just we two?” “If you will." says Raitimnre. still a Effie vaguely. He gets up. however, land etretches his arms indolently above his head as one might who is flinging from him The remembrance of an aupleasirui dream. “The sun here is intolerable." says Lady Swansdown. rising, too. “More than -one can endure. Thanks, dear Felix, for your suggestion. I should never have ihougm cf the glade if you hadn't asked w la ytiuy that game." She smiles a little maliciously st Dy sart and. accompanied l<y Lord Rahnnor*. moves away from the assembled gnnn«s upon the lawn to the dim recesses off tinleafy glade. p-y... > “Sold!" says Mr. Browne to Dysart. la Is always impossible for Dioktw Id hold his tongue. “But you nwdn't look «r- cm up about it. ’Tisn't good enough, my dear fellow. 1 know 'em terth ly heart. Baltimore is as much in love with her as he is with his Irish tenants, but his imagmation is his strong point, and it pleases him to think he has found at last for the Twentieth time a solace for all his woes in the disinterested love of someltody. it really Ttever matters who." "These is more in it than yon Th.nik," cays Dysart, gloomily. “Not a fraction!" airily. “And what of her? Lady Swansdcwn?” “Of her! Her heart has been in such constant use for years that iff this time it must be in tatters. G.ve up Thtrikme about that. Ah! here is my beloved girl, •gain!” He makes an elaborate gesture sff delight as he sees Joyce advancing in his direction. “Dear Joyce!" Steaming «n her. “who shah say there is nothing in animal magnetism. Here 1 have been just talking about you to Itysart. and telling him what a lost soul I feel when you're away, and instantly, as if in answer to my keen desire, you before me." “Why aren't you playing Tenuis?" demands Miss Kavanagh, with a cruel disregard of this flowery speech. “Because I was waiting fur you." “Well. I'll beat you," says she. “fl always do."

Hotter and hotter jn-ow-s the fnm. ato evening cranes on apace; a lew jwnjde from neighbor.ng bosses have dropped in Mrs. Mention among others. with Tummy in tow. The latter, who is supposed tej entertain a strong affection for Lady Baltimore’s little -son, no oooner, h<»w <w-et, sees Dicky Browne than he gives himself op to his keeping. What The attracxioxi to that Mr. Browne has fur children has never yet been clearly defined. “TH stay with Dicky," says Tammy, flinging himself broadcast on M-r Browne's reluctant chest, that gives larth a compulsory "WaughT’ as he does sb. "He’ll tell me a story." "Don’t be unhappy. Mrs. Manktun," says the latter, when he has recßvered a little from the shock; Tammy is a WBeHgrown boy with a sufficient amount afaffipose matter about him to make his descent felt. ’Til promise to be careful. Nothing French. I assure you. Nothing that «b&M ■hock the young mind or teach it how to shoot in the wrong direction. My tales are always strictly maraL” "Wefl, Tommy, toe goofC" srys Mrs. Monkton, with a last imploring glanee at her son, who has already forgotten her existence, being lost in a wild wistlmg match with his new friend. Wtffi deq> forebodings his mother leaves him amd goes upon her way. Passing Jtyoe, she says in a low whisper; "Keep an eye on Tommy?’ "Yes, Til look after him." And so perhaps she might have done had sot a light step sounding just htfito* tor chair at this moment caused tor to stars —to look round—to forget aS hst what she now sees. He is a very aristocratic looking mam, tall, with large limbs, and Mg indeed to every way. His eyes are light. has amse a handsome Boman, his fnrr liißd massive, and if not grand in the distinctly inter lectnal way, still a fine farchend and jmpressi ve. His hands are off a goodly wan. but exquisitely piopailiuued. and very white, the ftkta almost delicate. Be as rather like his sister. Lady MsVimiivr, amd yet so different from her in every way-ffisS the rrsrmlili nee that is there torments the observer. "Why!" says Joyce. It is toe most devilish exclamation, and means nothing, ton ahe finds herself a little taken ass tonguard. "1 didn't know you w-ere heteT* She has half risen. "Neither did I haw d'ye da. Dywrriyuntil half aa hour ago. W soft you tosbr hands Y* He holds oat Ms own total to tor as to speaks. There is a ffßi—irsl lijto an Bus

A LIVING LIE

une can -few- ®o£ te* ffinfo amusement in the Sam rias rite gjz£ hms been so mueh -injjc—swA By te unexpected: appearsm-e That ssht- tes ecem f- nagwren. the small gets •off ■countsw xcirft wh-eh we greet our ftremfis. She Bind. im&edL been dead to everything Bug hi* ™;no. 'T«s <*nnr ■" threes she. stammering a Mt-_ as dhe mmes her mtstake. ~®-F rite amhSgy rruihr I gave myself jnst rihw u>. sun.--It a sandwich, say a wind -ar tea »*. ny sister, whom. I found ’ in rite geedhm. and titeni eame ou here to I asic yon ue 2<gy rite nesr game with me." ' -xdi! Inm. so sorry. Bag 1 have promised ;3t ao “ . Tte toms rare m: of her mouth before : -ste lets awnteeti rifo feiet that Dyssrt is liidtnimg who i* lying nt her feet, wcwviknir ewagy expressimt in. her mobile Ifcre She eofiics and looks down at him, '.•onSusfd. "TbfflrtC" says Dysart, not fondly, not curty. yen ih. su strange and decided a wiy üßjk: 3i remfiurs her silent. “To a musenh mind an*.’ say* hi*, a sevontf later, jin his rnwucl emm. 3<ee. “1 know you and K-nnchrk sre- wmuferfuf players. You I <atn gwt- m»- a gtaie inter mt." I “A eugiitul aeramgimenr?" says BeanI tiieA. eoorfiumthiy. uniting- into a chair F‘ lesude 3mst_ whli- *ll the lazy manner of a mm ac perii'e wirih almseif and his world. : "esgifwOgly as 1 slialL have go in pres-we-jh some letters- fior the evenI air post." Hr Beams agahu and foofcs boldly into Mies K.Evuam£h*s- ey-s. She btashes hotiy. gnd. -arsppuug Ber fltn. makes a Utile atTenpn »pikfc ig up-again. Mr. Bfeauelerk makes jaother aerie attempt, and so man- ■ ixg's rihK hits Band meets her. There is a -Bigm-.. ;el ahnoK? Bene«ufour pressure. Hue they fooih'd at I>c*art a.s they both ris-unwG rih-urahivrs. they eoaid have- seen tfaaa Bus taoe was white a* death. Miss Kawnwrih. 3fo<. fooft* * Errfo- pule, a little • moxsrixii. Snr. a* a whoso. nervously d?Twlm &*i» tt the- triii place of mine." pses es Mr. “Terrible dscwgisjr—mde timrtsan<ils tu pur it in any i«®t -ht&e. And where's one to get them? Thue's the sue that has : g«* mo answer nowadays. Eh, Dysart?" “There- is am oniswer. hewever." says Dystcrt. irarriy. mic iiHiking at him. “Am. wdL. I suppose so. Eat I haven't leturfl hr yec." “XTh. ye*. I thinlE yea have." says Dy■sErt. ■qutJe Bur grmJy. neverthe1 JSVCTjTTTh. “Tnesr Sqjfow. h»»w? where? unless ons ■dHeewta a mine <sr an African, diamond h-isl?" “Mr am meres*." says Dysart, tneidentol- ¥- “HdE In'fty tfing. that eonies home to you." stays BesDcforfc. giving him a playful pwc 'f® his- shoaTifor Mil stooping from hi* <fluar asefi*- ir. os- Dy sart still sits upon The gras*. ~X«t ab m»-_" “Xu? Yen wiH Be-motfest? Well well! Snt. Urkny <>< that eld place. 1 assure won. Mists Kavuaagft. ft worries me—it ■floes, anflesd. It sounds- like one's duty to resnsre it. *m£ still " “There- are- Better thins* than even an rilfl min'-*" says pwssrt. “ABj! yon Baven't one. you: see." cries BeranbiA. wist the utmost geniality. “If you Brafl—l nestly think, if yow had yotr wnulfl -imforsctmf rintt ft requires a sacrifice ae g-vo- ft off a*- much* and rust and thih. *T srnifl tfhflre were Better things than xflfl pirate*." sajys Dweart. never footing in -AneettHm. “And! if there are, make a '♦ill f ’’’ifif’fu*" “Tb«uf! Larky Biflhws Efce yon—gay wuflier hafe—wftft Besets- as light as sunrbesmsi. tarn easily pwaeft; bur sacrifices ace m«c » eatsiy nmabt. There ft that hnrrafl wnsfl. Day! And a man must MBoromßH shuvft! Chore- on. Miss Kavamagh. Bee ms grt «ror scalp*. Dysart, will you us?" gayly.. “Off ywn—hmu" -gmirngx the- smile is adaniaiblF Aim. am£ wn»ufd Be taken os the Jfes Kiranuet then.?' Far a teitff msemr. and evulently ypa°"* Ks wiiA. Dysart's eyes met these “The m«B game- v ear*. Mr. Dysart. rewrafteg." says s&r. jpanving at Dysart «s«ar ter dbtau&rt a oeaeft of anxiety in ter T aDways n»memfier." soys hr, with a natter amdigneas saw Tr. What is he reanewterhic aw? Jeyer's mnorh takes a grave tew » rite Sd&ews Boaoeierk .fleam rite- mnsthbr steps that lead ts the 'ind io:o w_.

CHAFTEM VL "MriE. aftK- a«L Bto tos ffia —i pinta ««■ lb- MWrlWrl, CTktaff wpos toe skua lnnigr tosdr Mis» Kavanagh, ssfl snator way toaßfCurws si«&. kßasßkhaxntttebdpwaky Itafiteol La* BnactaM* is na NX swine. ■n—ffiril to IhiLw ««T Mr and very tomflMtae. Hto efiww-erwppetL eminently wWtewri- tomi to ttewn a Qttto task, to Ctow fid |Mf to «to «nta£to smile ha to fiimata* at Jasve. “T total#* I atoafil .never to aHe to gut a fiaaae wtoh >wn; jwa see"—smainy—"wtow «ar to itto toffir es tto esentoc owe StamwdHffira&. Batt yon tow tope ■ fififfi on-srfiCwa yw tmifiti Ito me. Aa «M fittoafi. tan.” KJM fitamto tol amaat aft a tonte. Fm ■MlttoT anffw sto wicb a ode as genial » Loa mam. “thiauA tar tto amftter of Aat yw aafll tone tod tto fast; na onetowS as to mar to to anato yaw tefieve to—tod adted tto tato ass tto ewninc fee atoL” "KMfhS Hat fcsfiT" says to. wtofi a gesture |at anoaSoßßte. “T stoat focpve Isabel to a Imiiii atao* Itos, sto ramadl my ctote ing afftotfifix. HtManrecT ttewwto* odL m at «vw. ■mniaiaaa memories by a dutootflto tomLTtaA tot mespoft my lone gpodl ifimr Iff toaflfa* apam a bad one. Bare 1 ata saw aft afi iTtnta; tore !m eaaStoit. tone to penre. Tto toar 1 j tome Bm totfaff Ata is aame aft laaft.’*

“It might have been yours considerablyj earlier,” says Miss Kavanagh, with very, noteworthy deliberation, humored by his lover-like glances, which, after all. have more truth in them than most of his declarations. She sits, playing, with her fan, and with a face immovable as any sphinx. “Do you know,” says Mr. Beauclerk, gently, “I think you are the one sweet character in the world.” There is a great amount of belief in his tone; perhaps half of it is honest. “I never met anyone like you. Women, as a rule, are willing to tear each other in pieces, but you—you condone all faults, that is why I ” A pause. He leans forward. His eyes are eloquent; his tongue alone refrains from finishing the declaration that he had begun. To the girl beside him, however, ignorant of subterfuge, unknowing of the wiles that run in and out of society like a thread, his words sound sweet —the sweeter for the very hesitation that accompanies them. "1 am not so perfect as you think me,” says she, a little sadly—her voice a little faint. “That is true,” says he, quickly, as though compelled against his will to find fault with her. “Awhile ago you were angry with me because I was driven to waste my time with people uncongenial to me. That was unfair, if you like.” He throws • her own accusations back at her in the gentlest fashion. “I danced with this, that and the other person, but do you know where my heart was all the time?” He pauses for a moment; just long enough to make more real his question, but hardly long enough to let her reply to it. To bring matters to a climax would not suit him at all. “Yes, you do know,” says he, seeing her about to speak. “And yet you misjudge me. If I were to tell you that I would rather be with you than with any other woman in the world, you would believe me. wouldn’t you?” He stoops over her, and taking her hand, presses it fondly, lingeringly. “Answer me." “Yes,” says Joyce, in a low tone. It has not occurred to her that his words are a question rather than an assertion. That he loves her seems to her certain. A soft glow illumines her cheeks; her eyes sink beneath his; the idea that she is happy, or, at all events, ought to be happy, fills her with a curious wonderment. Do people always feel so strange, so surprised, so unsure. when love comes? “Yet you did doubt,” says Beauclerk, giving her hand a last pressure, and now nestling back among his cushions with all the air of a man who has fought and conquered and has received his reward. “Well, don’t let us throw an unpleasant memory into this happy hour. As I have said." taking up her fan and idly, if gracefully, waving it to and fro, “after all this turmoil of the fight it is sweet to be at last in rhe haven where one would be.” He is smiling at gayest, the most candid smile in the world. Beauclerk indeed is enjoying himself immensely. To a man of his temperament to be able to play upon a nature as fine, as honest, as pure as Joyce’s, is to know a keen delight. That the girl is dissatisfied. vaguely, nervously dissatisfied, he can read as easily as though the workings of her soul lay before him in broad type, ami to assuage those half-defined misgivings of hers is a task that suits him. He attacks it cun amore. “How silent you are.” says he, very gently, when he has let quite a long pause occur. “I am tired, I think.” “Of me?’ i “No.” “Of what, then?” He has found that as a rule there is nothing a woman likes better than to be asked to define her own feelings. Joyce, however, disappoints him. “Sitting up so late, I suppose.” “Look here!” says he, in a voice so full of earnest emotion that Joyee involuntarily stares at him, “I know what is the matter with you. You are fighting against your better nature. You are trying to be ungenerous. You are trying to believe what you know is not true. Tell me—honestly, mind—are you not forcing yourself to regard me as a monster of insincerity?” “You are wrong,” says she, slowly. “I am forcing myself, on the contrary, to believe you a very giant of sincerity.” “And you find that difficult?” “Yes.” (To be continued.)

Before Santiago.

A lieutenant, who was among the wounded before Santiago, thus describes the sensation of being a target for a rapid-fire gun: “We were going forward under a scattering fire from the front, and all at once, off at the right, a rapid-firing gun opened on us. There was no smoke, so we couldn’t locate the battery exactly, but we could see the bullets playing over the long grass like spray from a hose. They didn’t have the range at first, and thjt shower of bullets went swinging bamt and forth, clipping off the tops of tpe grass and coming nearer us with ev<ry sweep. You can’t imagine the sensations it gave us to watch that deafcspray, driven by some invisible, relentless force, creeping on and on. reaching oat, and feeling for us. There was something unnatural about it, and we watched as though we were fascinated by IL I didn’t feel as if men had anything to do with it It was an impersonaL deadly enemy that I couldn’t fight and couldn’t escape. There wasn’t a living enemy within sight. At last, with one big sweep the shower reached te Men all around me dropped, and then I felt a sting in my side, and down I went. I believe we were all thankful when that gun found us. It relieved the tension—but it ended my fighting.”

In New Britain.

la the island of New Britain a man most not speak to his mother-in-law. Not only Is speech forbidden to his relative, but she must be avoided; and if by chance the lady is met, the son-in-law must hide himself or cover his face. Thirty years ago the Earl of Halsbury (then plain Hardinge Giffard) was defending ex-Gov. Eyre concerning the massacres that had occurred in Jamaica. Having depicted Eyre protecting tto people from outrages, Mr. Giffard asked passionately whether for so doing his client was to be done to death by persecution. "Good God,” he exclaimed, “is this justice?” and wound up his apostrophe by bursting into tear*.

BIG NEW YORK FIRE.

GREAT BUILDINGS DESTROYED by Flames. a Twenty-Story Structures Help to Feed a Fnriona Blaze-Destruction of Rogers* Peet & Co.’s Building and Others Badly Damaged. Fire in the business section of New York Sunday night destroyed property to the value of millions. The Home Insurance Company building, the Postal Telegraph Company building, the United States Life Insurance building and the downtown establishment of Rogers, Peet & Co. were destroyed. Other structures in the neighborhood were also damaged. Rogers, Peet & Co.’s establishment is a total loss. All of the woodwork in the United State* Life Insurance building was burned away. The Postal Telegraph and the Home Insurance buildings were of stone and marble and were thought fireproof. The firemen were unable to cope with the fire in the big sky scrapers for the reason that it was impossible to reach the flames, as they made their appearance on floors midway from the basement to the top. A stiff gale was blowing and a blinding rain was falling. Over fifty fire companies were called to battle with the elements, for it was bitterly cold, and water soon formed coatings of Ice on the exteriors of the blocks upon which it was thrown. At 10:25 the roof of the Rogers, Peet & Co. building fell in. The flames leaped clear to the top of the Home Life building, fully 150 feet above the other roof. The effect was instantaneous. The Home Life window panes cracked, and in a minute fire burst from each of these windows as the furniture and curtains of the rooms ignited. The building had withstood the flames for nearly three-quarters of au hour, but in the end was conquered. For fully twenty feet on each side of the airshaft the flames were drawn into it and went roaring upward. Soon the windows here were sending forth flames almost equal in vigor, and it was evident that the fire had gained a stronger foothold here than at any other point. The Home building was one of the most magnificent of the modern skyscrapers on lower Broadway, and was conspicuous, even though it occupied a place next .the great block of the Postal Telegraph Company. The estimate of the losses by Chief Bonner after midnight was An insurance man roughly estimated the losses at about as follows: Rogers. Peet & Co., building and stock, and losses to other tenants in the building, $350,000. Home Life Insurance building and losses to other tenants, $500,000; Postal Telegraph building and losses to other tenants, SIOO,OOO.

ANOTHER STORM IN THE EAST.

Hurricane from the Gulf Goes Howling Up the Coast. A great snowstorm and a gale of hurricane proportions that were at the height of their destructive reign Sunday night over the territory between Indiana and the New England coast caused damage and disasters of which only vague details could be transmitted on account of injury to telegraph wires. Driving snow snapped wires by the hundreds. So quickly was the havoc made, and so completely, that the big telegraph companies were rendered helpless to transact their Eastern business for many hours. A big fire raged in New York City during the storm, and its spreading to the Postal Telegraph building further hampered that company. Points on the New England coast for the second time within a week experienced a blizzard-like visitation that paralyzed traffic and caused distress and disaster. Out at sea, in the track of the great liners and coasters, it blew as it never did, even in the recent great storm. The cause of the remarkable gale was a cyclone, which originated in the Gulf of Mexico, and swept across the country to the sea. It was rejiorted on Saturday off the middle Atlantic coast and moving north. There was no area of high pressure to impede it, and it rushed up the coast with a roar, swishing inland and drenching everybody out of doors. The rain came in horizontal lines and the terrific gusts made any sort of protection except a rubber suit next to useless. Even when the gale moderated a bit, it was slashing along at a fifty-four knot gait. It is estimated that fully 800 houses were unroofed in Baltimore and vicinity.

SLAYS TO END FEUD.

William Kent Kills Brother on a Railway Train at Girard, 111. Noble Kent was shot and killed by his brother William at Girard while the train was stopped for coal. Noble Kent was the elder son of Abner Kent, a wealthy farmer who died last February, leaving William Kent, the younger brother, most of the estate of $20,000, Noble only being freed from the debts he owed his father. Noble was enraged at this and swore vengeance on William, saying his father had been influenced in writing the will. Noble appeared at the Kent home soon afterward and fired a ball into William’s head. He escaped and William finally recovered and offered $290 reward for Noble’s arrest. The Springfield police captured Noble after he had made a second attempt to shoot William and made an assault on a trainman while going to Springfield. William could not pay the reward, as his mother would not assist him in securing the money. The police held Noble for the reward. Finally William secured • the money and wired the sheriff to bring the prisoner to Carlinville. As they neared the coal shed at Girard William entered the coach where Noble sat beside the sheriff, handcuffed, and fired five bullets into Noble’s body, 'four entering his head and one in his breast. 'William attempted to shoot the sheriff, who tried to prevent the assassin from firing again, and then swnng out the coach door and made his escape. The verdict of the coroner’s jury accuses William Kent of willful murder.

News of the Great West.

The family of ex-Senator Carey of Oheyennc deny sensational stories of the elopement of their son With a young woman of New Haven, Conn. Gov. Richards of Wyoming was caught out in a fierce blizzard the other afternoon while driving to the railroad, and had his face frozen, but not seriously. / Jess Lennon of Douglas, Wyo„ was shot and almost instantly killed at Glen Rock by Pete Matsen while trying to separate Matsen and John Farrell, who were engared in a drunken brawl.

MONEY OF THE NATION

ANNUAL REPORT OF SECRETARY GAGE. Chief of the Treasury Department Diacusaes the Need of Banking Reform and the Necessity of Meeting New Conditions. Secretary of the Treasury Gage has made public his report on the condition of the finances of the country and the work accomplished by his department during the year. It is an interesting document. Upon the subject of currency and banking reform he says: The arguments against government Issues of paper money as a medium for commercial exchanges have been fully made and need not be repeated in detail. The proposal to substitute bank Issues for government notes is opposed with many honest prejudices and assailed denunciations. The first arise from a failure to comprehend the true philosophy of a paper currency and must be patiently considered. The latter obscure the question by reckless statements, charging that ail propositions for currency reform ar* bank conspiracies. If it be conceded that the legal-tender money issued by government does not possess the qualifications to make It a proper factor In the country's exchanges of products and manufactures, if the fact also be admitted that it l ls a deranging and disturbing factor In its relation to Industry and commerce, then the time has come to substitute for it a currency which will adequately, economically and safely meet with the ever-growing needs of the country, rapidly developing, as it is, in the power of production, in the number of its people and the importance of its domestic and foreign trade.

In answer to the question whether a bank note currency can be established which will be economical, adequate and safe and serve the public needs in a better way than is now served, the Secretary points to the system in force in Canada. The facts set forth by the Comptroller relate exclusively to the proposition that the notes of a failed bank shall be a paramount lien upon the assets for their full value before any rights accrue to other creditors. Tlie issue of notes upon the general assets es national banks may be made perfectly secure without the requirement that the notes be a first lien upon their assets. It would only be necessary to award to the noteholder t lie same ratable proportion of the assets which went to other creditors, atid to provide that the amount required to pay the difference be obtained by an assessment upon all the national banks, collected ratably in proportion to their share in tlie circulation of this character. The vital question is. What percentage of assessment upon this circulation would be required in order to cover tlie losses to noteholders In the case of failed hanks? The experience of the national banking system demonstrates that the assessment would be insignificant. The total circulation of failed banks outstanding at the time of failure up to Oct. 31, 189”, was $20,893.82”.' The loss upon these notes, if tlie security for them had been Impaired in the same degree as the security for other liabilities, would have been $5,379,165, or an annual average of about $163,000. This loss would have been made good by a tax of about one-twelfth of 1 per cent, per year upon the circulation of the solvent banks. A tax of one-fifth of 1 per cent, upon the average circulation of the national banks since the foundation of the system would have paid such losses up to Oct. 31, 189”, stud left a surplus of about $9,000,000 In the guaranty fund. Urges Former Measures. In my last report I ventured upon specific recommendations. These recommendations, if adopted and formulated intd law, would in my opinion bo curative of the evils herein pointed out. In house bills Nos. 10,289 and 10,333 are embodied a series of measures in some respects more meritorious. The measures herein proposed are the result of careful study by expert and experienced men. With some modifications—the reasonable fruit of full discussion—they would, I believe. meet the country's needs. I commend the subject to the early and earnest attention of Congress. On the point of fractional silver the report contains this paragraph: Tlie amount of fractional silver coin held by the treasury July 1. 1897, was $16,201,960; July 1, 1898, $12,070,690. This stock has at present, Nov. 18. been reduced to $7,122.506, much of which is so worn as to be unfit for circulation. Tlie amount available, distributed among the several sub-treasuries, gives but small stock to each, and some denominations are exhausted. The Secretary of the Treasury should tie authorized to recoin this uneurrent stock and any such coin which may hereafter accumulate In the treasury, the difference between its face value and the new coin it will make to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Further provision should be made to add to the stock of fractional coin, and to that end it Is suggested that the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized to use any silver bullion now in the treasury for the coinage of such denominations as may be required from time to time to meet the demand from the different sections of the country. With an ever-increas-ing population, which will be added to in the near future by the acquisition of additional territory, the demand for fractional silver coin will be such as to make it essentially necessary that the stock should be increased. It is suggested that, at the proper time, action be taken by Congress to assimilate the currency of Porto Rico to that of the United States, so far and so rapidly as this can be done without unduly disturbing existing conditions and contract relations in Porto Rico. This, it is believed, can be accomplished by making customs dues in the island payable in American money, yet receiving the silver pesos and centavos at a fixed relation to our dollar. The revenues of the Government from all sources for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1898, were $494,333,953.75, while the expenditures for the same period wete $532,381,201.35, showing a deficit of $38,047,247.60. As compared with the fiscal year of 1897. the receipts for 1898 increased $63,946,785.86. There was an increase of $77,594,423.23 in the ordinary expenditures. The revenues for the current fiscal year are estimated at $577,874,647.37, while the expenditures for the same period are $689,874,647.37, leaving a deficit of $112,000,000. For the fiscal year 1900 the revenues are estimated at $610,958,112 and the estimates of appropriations for the same period aggregate, exclusive of sinking fund, $641,006,490.64, or an estimated deficit of $30,048,387.64. “The first proceeds of the popular loan of $200,000,000.” the report reads, “were received June 14, and from that date forward the inflow of money from this source has been rapid and constant. The total amount received up to Nov. 1 was $195,444,187.62.”

Mint Receipts and Deposits. Tbe receipts and deposits of bullion at mints and assay offices, including redeposits, aggregated $215J566,261.54, of which $198,740,492.23 was gold and $16,825,769.31 silver. The deposits of gold Were greater than in any previous year of our history. Foreign coins to the amount bt $47,210,078 were deposited during the year. It was recommended that an appropriation of $50,000,90 made for the erection of a building for the assay office at Seattle. Posterity—Our'Qlstant relations.

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERMM Told. a Value of Indiana Property~ Lake Bank Plundered try Woman Convicted of Murder— Railway Employes Injured. M The State Auditor has compilation of the returns from auditors, showing the value placed kinds of property by county and assessors this year. Tlie totals are asSI lows: Value of land, $4.'>3.1'*».653; -J™ proveiiieuts on lands, $89,181,578; of lots, $151.351.5i11; lots. $1<>7.3<;4.1;’>3: persiinal. total valuation, $1,149,131,678. As CoH pared with 1897. tlie value placed on shows a decrease of $321 .t*so; the vmH placed <>n improvements on lands, an te crease of $3.9*14.967: the value piacefl'Sß lots, an increase of $13,581,000; the vajfl <>f improvements on lots, an increaaHH $4,471,744; the value placed on persflijH property, an increase of comparison of the totals for the two shows an increase on the whole of 369,792. These figures d > not include $■ assessments on railroads and other *tgjra porations by the State Board of Tax Hlissioners. I

Hank Is Robbed. The private bank of Chadwick, biirs A Co. at Pleasant Lake was on a recent night of over $1,900. men drove into the town at 2 tlie morning, broke open the back wrapped tlie night watchman in a ami tied him to a post. Three of th, n turned iheir atti ulimi to the tlie others looted the company's where tlie bank is situated. At charge the safe was blown into a hundrttej p-ic; es and tlie iiiammoth door was ■ iiroligli the window and across the in front. due thousand dollars of bankers' money, tlie special menul ins t.. s. . ral Imn ir; d dollars aiH| the po<i>n. t sier’s money ami stamps taken from : lie safe. Everything of about tlie store was loaded into the Tin- robb, rs drove imrtli and Life in Prison for a Woman. 8 At Frankfort, Mrs. Sarah g, r. charged with poisoning her in-law. lias been declared guilty byaMH ami -emem-, d to iii'e impris umieut. murdered girl elopi d with Edward kcnlii-rger tive years ago. They livefl|Mß| \ari-ms cities and ri’uri.-'d to last, -timmer. The young- wife was and taken to her mot!i.-;-in-ia w. She lier smmm h being examined w ;i - found ill large quantities. IH

Rear-End Collision. Tin' T'libl and thin] sections of more and Ohio fri iu-ht train No. 98 veM wrecked at \V:t 1!:.• i-t• .31. Eight were injured. <'ondnetor Thomas was injured internally and leg.-, were <nt off at the knee. He recover. Two engines wire ib n: 'li'hi d and the third derailed. Within Our Borders. At Washington. Janies Mahan. years, is dead. At Goshen, Fannie Garnett was ed while on her way to school. MM The G-year-old son of John St. Thomas was burned to death. M Linville Ferguson and wife of celebrated the sixtieth a uni their marriage. At Sellersburg, lbw Nolde, 15 yearftMH accidentally shot and killed his Floyd. 13 years old. There is a mad-dog scare at and vicinity. Several head of live have been bitten by fugitive dogs. MH A Vandalia locomotive has been chased by Rose Polytechnic Terre Haute, for instruction of Joseph Waggoner of Franklin guilty to burglarizing Younce & shoe store in that city and was to prison. I‘rutsiunn Brothers of Hoopeston, have leased the new Grand Hotel tiers*,>n for live years and will open hotel Jam 1. At Shelbyville. Albert Lyons was ly injured by footpads. He was of s<so, money he had saved to wedding suit. ■ Charles Roberts of Carthage commit suicide by taking poison. AjW ago he tried to cut his throat. He urMM lieved to be insane. Will Raines, aged 19 years, suicide at Evansville because his heart. Mamie Doench, refused to puny him home from a ball. ■■ Fire started in the postoffice at son and consumed a hotel, six houses ami two dwelling houses. the contents. Loss $15,000, some ance. Aunt Charlotte Pullen, an inmate of Spem er County poor bouse at was fatally burned. She was in her alone when the bed on which she lay discovered a tire. The story of a remarkable find from Centerville. Walter Commons, remodeling the old Widup found an old oyster can full of gold alleged to amount to $2,000. H| Mrs. Jefferson Kendall, wife of a byville farmer, disappeared from hotneM| eently. Two weeks afterward she ed, unable to give an account of her WBH derings and hopelessly insane. Ml Two burglars robbed the Schlosser Brothers at Hanna of burglars, discovered at their work fiyß| M. Barber, the manager, shot Aiding probably fatal wounds. At Kokotuo. the old Milton B. University, later used as a ward burned to the ground. The loss is POO and the insurance SII,OOO. Ib ing the fire Chief Shawman was badlyMfij by falling glass. The fire started JbMH the furnace while the janitor waiM| church. . MN Joseph Baird, the negro ora toe, HMM Mayor A. W. Mills exchanged abafiHM teen revolver shots at Seymour *fIMM damage to each other. Baird acoMB the Mayor of heading the mob w!mMM| eently horsewhipped him, and the eß|Bg| ter was the result. ,|ta| The next Legislature will amend voree laws of Indiana. For this puttaHßM marriage and divorce census has beMRMM eu by the State statistician. year ending June 30 there were marriages and 2.89 G divorces, of * M 793 were given to men and vomen. Jml