Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1899 — Page 6

Worth the Winning.

By The Duchess.

» CHAPTER XlV.—(Continued.) f “SepM you were spying on me!” cries little gasps. ‘‘What brought you, Bit? That door below was locked —has ■me locked for fifty years. Is there a BKeepiracy against me, then, that you Hgn thus force yourself into my presence, Rjyspite of bolts and bars?” * "The lock gave way,” stammers Vera; Mlt must have been old, broken by age, pFoety. I bad nothing to do. It was by rape merest chance I came here. I am jporry. sorry.” Her voice dies in her | throat. i "I don’t believe it; there is more that ||>oa keep behind. Speak, girl; speak, I ; Command you! Who showed you the jr*fay here?” have told you,” says Vera, tremuploosly; “you must believe me. If I bad Ijtnown I should not have come. I—l am gprry I have so frightened you, but ” |; : «Who says I am frightened?” lie turns ittpoa her with a bitter scowl and a piercMlng (lance. “Why should I care about Peeing disturbed when I was merely idling I away a dull hour by looking through my •wn will?” "Yours?” asks Vera, innocently enough. • “Ay, whose else?” be asks, with a snarl Of anger. “What do you mean, iflrl? Do you doubt my word? Whose ■ alae should it be —eh, eh ? Go, leave me,” Icries he, furiously; “and cursed be the Splay you ever saw my bouse!” He waves to her to leave him, and, more annerved than she has ever been la all her life before, she retreats behind the heavy curtain and runs with all her might down the dark corridor without, down the steep stairway, and so out into the passage into the hall. CHAPTER XV. Going to where Tom Peyton is dili- . gently weeding, Griselda takes him to task. “Why didn’t you tell me your sister j WM the sweetest woman on earth?” demands she, in quite an aggrieved tone. f "Because she isn't,” says Tom, striving with a giant dock that has treacherously concealed itself beneath the spreading leaves of a magnificent dahlia; “you are that.” "Nonsense!” says Griselda; and then, ; “Oh, Tom! what do you think she is going to do—at once? She is going to make an effort to induce Uncle Gregory to let Vera and me stay with her at The ' Friars! Only fancy if she succeeds! Wasn’t it perfectly lovely of her to think of It?” “Oh, she isn’t bad,” says her brother, broadly; “hut may I ask how she. pro--1 poses tackling the old gentleman?” “Through Seaton.” “If Seaton helps her ” | The words die on bis lips, his jubilant air forsakes him —having turned a corner of the secluded pathway they had Ipbosen, they run right into the arms of Beaton Dysart! For a moment the two ; men gase blankly into each other’s eyes. | "What la the meaning of this mnsquetade?” demands Dysart presently with an angry frown; “what brings you here, Peyton, In that dress, and with my cousin?” “You certainly have every right to aak,” says Peyton, with a rueful glance at his damnatory clothing, “but surely r might guess the answer. The fact I’m —in love!” He makes this confession with a careful artlessnesa not to be anrpassed. - “In love?” exclaims Dysart, frowning etill more darkly. : "Quite ao,” amiably; “five fathoms 4eep. And your father being so—so—exclusive,” making a hard fight for a civil word, “I couldn’t manage to see her in l any orthodox fashion, so I took service ; here." 4 "Her? whom?” asks Dysart, changing color. A sudden light flashes into his ; eyes; to him, as to Tom Peyton, there is but one “her” in the world. "Why, Griselda,” says the letter, as if at the other’s stupidity. ? "And what do you suppose will be the Upshot of all this?” sternly, v. “That, my dear fellow, is what I have never yet gone into. But marriage, I hope.” "Pshaw!” says Dysart, impatiently; | “end what of Griselda?" | “Griselda has confessed that she—likes | »»e a little. I say, Dysart,” with a sudden change of toue, "you won’t tell your ;;«nd—eh?” v H “I am much more likely to tell your slater,” says Seaton, angrily. “You needn’t. She knows. She was here just now, and is full of a desire to kidnap Griselda and carry her away to The Friars. I say, Dysart, my sister depends upon you to make your governor give his consent to the girls going on a gpWt to her; you won’t disappoint her, H&t’do what I can,” gravely; "hut I shouldn’t advise you to be too sanguine |«a to the result of my interference.” Ipfetae to his word, Seaton managed, as- , ter a hard tight, to secure his father’s |*paaent that Vera and Griselda might * two weeks’ visit to Lady Rivers- . It la quite five o’clock when they arrive and enter the spacious hall of The Hplara, that now is filled with a delicate, pMnber light A crimson stream from a \ painted window, somewhere in the distance, casts a flood of glory, blood-red, at Mppt's feet, and a comfortable tinkling •f spoons clinking against'china smites I At the top of the room, reclining in a ppither listless fashion on some velvet IfWMon*. are two little girls, quite lovely A&ough to arrest the gase of any casual pßtoerfer. They have given in to the cu||»ilty attendant on the entrance of the ||*aw guests, and fix their large wide eyes BW Vera, who, in tura, looks back on MMM with a certain interest. Lady Rlversdaie, by a word—an intensely proud, fond word—had intimated ffcat they wore her children. The young*r. taking her courage in both hands, Mm her little slim fingers under the Ills. . iJL /-.ai. ...i..

narrow gold bangles that adorn Vera's wrist, and begins to push them up and down with a childish, diffident gesture. “What’s your name?” asks she, gravely. “Vera.” “Vera!” Both children repeat the word with a sort of gratification. “But —tell us—you have another name, haven’t you?” “Dysart,” confesses she, softly. “Why, that’s Seaton’s name,” cries Dolly, brightening, and looking up at the tall young man who is standing near them; “isn’t it, Seaton? Why, you must be something to him. Sister —eh?” “No,” says Vera, shaking her head. “You can’t be his mother?" hazards the younger child, uncertainly. Vera laugrs lightly. “No,” she says again. “I have it! I know it!” exclaims Dolly the wise, glancing up triumphantly; “you are—his wife!’’ This innocent bombshell spreads dismay in the camp. “Who is that pretty little girl over there?” Vera asks, with a wild longing to change this embarrassing conversation, pointing to where the girl who had first attracted her Is sitting, “quite opposite, in the red-and-white gown? Do you see her?” “Oh! that is Mary Butler. Don’t you know her? Everybody knows Mary Butler. We love her, so does everybody else.” “Mamma says Seaton does,” says little Flossy, mildly; “perhaps that’s why he won’t marry you.” “It was true, then,” thinks Vera. A great sense of disgust rises up within her, swallowing all other thoughts. And yet he would have forsworn himself! Would have—nay, he would do so still. Oh, the shamelessness of it! Perhaps something of her secret scorn communicates itself to him, because even in the midst of his apparently engrossing conversation he lifts his head abruptly and his eyes seek hers, and read them as though he would read her soul. And then a curious light flashes into his face. He makes a movement, quick ungoverned, as though he would rise and go to her, but, even as he does so, someone steps out from the shadows behind her, and, bending over her, holds out his hand—a young man, tall, well favored, smiling, with a air about him of sudden, warm delight. “You remember me?” he says, so distinctly that Seaton can hear him across the room. “To think that I should have the happiness of meeting you—here—today—and after so many vain inquiries. How it brings back the past to see you. Venice, Rome, thnt last carnival. Vera, say you are glad to see me!” Some people walking past them, and suddenly staudiug still, obliterate them from Seaton’s view, hut when next he looks the stranger is sitting beside her, and Vera, with flushed cheeks and brilliant eyes, full of an unmistakable welcome, is murmuring to him in low, soft tones. “Who is the man talking to my cousin?” asks Seaton, indicating Vera’s companion by a slight gesture, and speaking in a tone so changed that Miss Butler involuntarily lifts her head to look at him. “Lord Shelton,” she says. “George Sandes he was. Don’t you know him? Great hunting man. He came in for the title about eight months ago. Thnt brought him back from his big game in the East.” CHAPTER XVI. In the last four days Peyton has mysteriously disappeared, no one knows whither, except perhaps Griselda, his sister aud two others. “North” he was going, be said to inquiring friends. To-day, however, he has turned up again, admirably dressed as ever, and ns radiant as a good conscience should make any man. “I'm so glad Tom has got back in time,” says Griselda. “I quite feared Uncle Gregory would he too many for him. Vera, what makes you look like that, darling? Now tell me what it is that has annoyed you.” “1 must be mad to be annoyed,” saya Vera, with angry self-contempt “Seaton again?” “It is always Seaton,” with an increase of her irritation, “when it isn’t his father. Was there no other path into which fate could have flung me, except this? Yes, it Is Seaton.” “But why think so much about him? He cannot interfere with you now, be his father never so persistent in his idea of marrying you to him, because all the world can see he is as good as engaged to Miss Butler.” “1 pity her, then, with all my soul! What a family to enter! She is too good to be sacrificed so cruelly. I believe he is employed by his father to watch me, to report all that I say or— Ah!” she breaks off abruptly, and points almost triumphantly to the pathway outside, where indeed Seaton atanda. That it is one of the most public walks at The Friars, that Seaton might have, nay, indeed has, come this way withont intention of any kind she does not allow herself to believe. “I told you,” she says, vehemently, “it is to spy upon my every action he is here! Oh, fool that I was, to dream of being free for even these few days!” She has come a step or two forward; a scarlet tide of indignant humiliation baa dyed her cheeks. She still points toward Seaton with one trembling hand, while he, advancing slowly, looks with some anxiety from her to Griselda, who !a sorely troubled, as if to demand an explanation. “I think you must be mistaken, darling,” she says, nervously, laying her hand upon her sister’s arm. “1 fed sore Seaton would not undertake the part yon hare assigned him. Seaton, speak to her; tell her it Is impossible that you should do this thing.” * "What thing} Of what dote oho seen*® mol" Us brow growing dark.

into her head that yon an her* to—to watch her." "Is that how it strikes you?" sayS bo, slowly; a sudden, short, miserable laugh breaks from him. “So that la bow yon look at it? Great heaven, to think how I have loved you—such as yoo—no poor a thing! It shames me now to think of it!” He draws his breath sharply, though she writhe*. "No, you shall hear me!. I have heard much from you, first and last—this shall be the last, I swear! Here, even now, in this moment when I find you so altogether contemptible a creature, it is my misery to know thnt I still love you! Day after day you have heaped insults upon me. Your every look has been an affront. I have said too much,” he continues, wearily; but with a little eloquent gesture die renders him silent. “Ob, not T too much, but perhaps enough”—she smiles again, that cruel smile that hurts him like the sharpest stab—“surely it would be hard to expect you to find another insult to-day. Tomorrow, perhaps. And now let me say one little word. Have I no cause to doubt you?” "None, none!” declares he, vehemently. She throws out her hands with a little expressive movement. “I leave that to your own conscience, to your own sense of right and wrong,” she saya, shrugging her shroulders, finely. "But once for all,” raising her voice and throwing up her head, “I warn you. Rather than marry you,” making a slight gesture of horror, “I would accept the first man that asked me!” A faint rustle among the bushes outside, a footstep—and Lord Shelton steps into view. “I hold you to your word,” cries he, gayly; he steps lightly within the flowercrowned archway, and looks straight at Vera. He is smiling, but underneath the smile lies a longing to be taken seriously. “You give me a chance," he says; “I here, before witnesses, declare myself a suitor for your hand”—his expression is still wavering betwixt mirth and gravity, and he holds out to her both his hands. “You are not, however, the first to ask, her,” says Dysart, in a voice vibrating with many and deep emotions. His brow Is black, and anger fights for mastery with despair in his dark eye. Vera, pale as death, but with a little indignant frown, steps between the two men. “What does it all mean?” she asks, ; contemptuously; “would you make a tra- * gedy out of a farce? It so, at least be good enough to assign me no part in it.” She sweeps both men out of her path i by a slight imperious gesture, and pass- ; ing them, walks swiftly sway in the direction of the house. (To be continued.)

THE FILIPINO SCHOOLBOY.

He Learns Very Little Abost the United States. It has been frequently remarked that the Filipinos could have no conception of the extent and resources of the United States or they never would have been deceived Into the hallucination that they could successfully combat us. In going through their school here I fouud a little manuscript volume in which, in less than a hundred manuscript pages, was comprised all of syntax and geography that was taugbt tbe children here. And it must be remembered that Malolos, before the insurrection, was an important city in this part of the world, and one where the children would be expected to receive tbe average education. Turning to one of the pages in this book that I picked up, I found the United States of America discoursed upon, immediately after Nlgrlcia, and just before Mexico. Here is the entire lot of information given as to the United States, in the form of questions and answers: “Where is this country (the United States) situated? In North America. “What are its boundaries? To the north, British America; to the east, the Atlantic ocean and the Bahama channel; to the south, the Strait of Florida and the Gulf of Mexico, and to the west, Mexico aud the Grande (Pacific) ocean. “What is the form of government? It is a federal republic. “Of what Is this republic composed? Of forty different States. “What are Its rivers and mountains? The most notable rivers are the Misisipi (literal spelling), the Niagara, the Missori (again tbe literal spelling), the Colorado and the St. Lawrence, and the principal mountains are the Cumberland and Rockies. “What is the capital? Washington, but the most Important city Is New York. “Protestantism prevails, but there are Catholic archbishops.” And this is the sum total of what the average FlHpino boy has been taught about our rather considerable and somewhat prosperous country.— Manila Letter in Leslie's Weekly.

Milk and Eggs a Bad Diet.

“People over 30 would do well to give up 'milk and eggs in any form as a diet,” said a well-known physician. “These are the structure-forming food of animals which mature In a short time, and when taken to quantities by human beings whose structures have already formed they tend only to the hardening and aging of the tissues. I have seen people who were beginning to find stair climbing difficult and who were losing their elasticity, much benefited by eliminating these articles from their diet That there has been a great Increase to the duration of life below the age of 90 statistics prove, bat beyond that period there has been no Improvement In my opinion, the person over 90 would have as good a chance to preserve life as the child just beginning Its struggle with existence if he would only suit his diet to hia yean.”

A Harem Car.

Central Aslan railroad managers try to meet the desires of their public. A harem car with latticed windows has been constructed fur the Emir of Bokhara. esht Y te® years.

TALK ON THE TRUSTS.

THE CONFERENCE ON COMBINES OPENS IP CHICAGO. Assembly Notable for tbo Diversity of Ideas and Interests Represented -th» Transport Tartar la Permitted to Clear from Hows Kong. When Franklin H. Head, president of the Civic Federation of Chicago, called to order the national conference on trusts and combinations Wednesday morning not all the seats in Central Music Hall were taken. Many delegates had not arrived in Chicago. Much time was taken op in perfecting an organization after the introductory addresses by President Head of the Civic Federation, Dr. Howard S. Taylor, representing Chicago, and Attorney General Akin, representing Illinois. Thirty-five States were represented, the calling of names occupying one hour’s time. It was afternoon before any move was made toward preparing a program or permanent organisation. As soon as President Head announced that the meeting was now in the bands of the convention it became apparent there was to be a clash in the selection of a committee on program. First came a motion, which was lost, that a delegate from each State be appointed to form the committee on program. It was unanimously decided that the committee on program be comprised of one delegate from rach State appointed by the Governors and from each organization represented, said committee to be selected by delegates in private conference at the midday adjournment of the convention. This matter being settled, President Head announced that the Civic Federation had already prepared the morning program in two papers, short ones, to be read by Prof. Jeremiah W. Jenks and Prof. Henry Carter Adams on “Problems Before the Conference,” and requested the indulgence of the conference to hear them before the morning adjournment. Attendance at Thursday’s session was much larger than Wednesday. Many

THE AWAKENING OF JUSTICE IN FRANCE.

—Chicago Tribune.

prominent delegates arrived during the night and were given seats at the opening of the morning session. The great national conference on combinations and trusts has met with the most sanguine expectations of the promoters, tbe officers of the Civic Federation of Chicago. Although many leading lights, who were expected to attend, failed to pnt in an appearance, the distinguished gathering at Central Music Hall fully justified the great purpose for which it was intended. This great meeting, attended by this country’s most distinguished statesmen, orators and deep thinkers, will be banded down in history ns one of the most notable gatherings in the nineteenth century.

PHILADELPHIA SHOW OPEN.

j National Exposition Pnt In Operation by IV.sdent McKinley. J Thursday morning at 8 o’clock President McKinley, by pressing an electric button in the White House, put in motion the machinery at tho national exposition In Philadelphia. This act opened the exposition to the public. Although handicapped in point of time, marvels have . been accomplished, and when the gates : were thrown open the exposition was In as good shape to receive visitors aa any big show that has been held in this country during recent years.

PRESIDENT SAVES SOLDIER.

Private In Philippines Will Net Be Shot for striking Officer. ' The President has saved a soldier from an ignominious death. Private Thomas McVeigh, Company G, First Wyoming volunteer infantry, was fonnd guilty of striking his superior officer by a general court martial convened at Imus, Philippine Islands, and waa sentenced to be shot to death. By direction of the President, the sentence is commuted to dishonorable discharge and confinement at hard labor for the period of three years ; at Alcatraaz Island. CsL

FOUR CLAIM A FORTUNE.

Four Mrs. Sutton* f#k the Blcbea of a Dead Klondike Miner. Four wires claim the estate of William EL Sutton, who died in the Forty-Mile district, Alaska, leaving a fortune of half a million. Three of them are at present in Chicago—Mrs. Haima Sutton, Mrs. Jdhannah Sutton and Mis. Donna Bruce Sutton. The description sent by lira. Haima Sutton is thought to be from the right wife. This Mrs. Sutton lives at Anoka, Mian.

THE MAN of The HOUR

KRUGER IN FULL REGALIA.

Paul Kruger, President of the South African Republic, is the man of the hour. Oom Paul, as everybody calls him, is a unique figure in history. Bismarck called him the greatest natural diplomat he had ever met. Although a dictator he lives in democratic simplicity in bis own house in Pretoria. He rises at break of day, and after his cup of coffee and daily Bibla reading, steps out upon the porch to greet his regular morning audience, which begins to accumulate before sun up. Ha goes to the Government buildings at 9, attended by a bodyguard of six armed policemen. Returning at 4, he sits on tho veraada, smoking his old wooden pips. His only beverage is coffee, and of this he drinks a great deal. “When I an thirsty I drink coffee and smoke; when I am thinking I smoke and drink coffee," he says. His religious creed is austere^

but simple. Whatever God sends Is right and must be endured without a murmur. Many stories are told of his physical strength. In young manhood he saved his sister’s life by strangling a panther, and held a mad buffalo’s head under water until the animal drowned. He twice amputated his own finger after having met with an accident.

TARTAR IS RELEASED.

Transport Allowed to Clear by the British Authorities. Clearance papers have been allowed the Tartar at Hong Kong. It is supposed clearance was allowed upon the suggestion of the British foreign office to the British governor at Hong Kong that It would be unwise to interfere with American transports. The War Department was officially notified Wednesday morning of the detention at Hong Kong by the British authorities of the transport Tartar, which they claimed to be overcrowded with men. Gen. Otis cibjed the facts. Tho captain of the vessel also cabled from Hong Kong. The Tartar Is a British vessel and shows the British ensign over her stern to Indicate her nationality, although the United States army transport flag flleo at her masthead. Her regular service was between Victoria and Hong Kong. It is declared that her charter by the United States Government divested her of her mercantile character and made her, for the time being, a regular American war vessel, and as inch, under the Geneva convention, entitled to full extra territoriality throughout the world. Officials In Washington deny that Great Britain has any jurisdiction over tbe transport Tartar, and Ambassador Choate was cabled to make strong representations to the British Government on the subject.. Overcrowding is also denied, it being pointed ont that remodeling tho ship increased her passenger accommodations by 60 per cent.

Odds and Ends.

lfail carriers will meet in Detroit la 1900. Tramps are aald to have wrecked the freight at Corry, Fa. Mace Johneoa, colored, Monroe Otty, Mo., celebrated his 127th birthday. Chicago Board of Education has decided to have Spanish taught in three of her high schools. John Conn, 85, Alliance, Ohio, was Jilted by Blanche TUaon. He pnt n bulls* into bis cranium.

SON COMMANDS FATHER.

Story o* the loan, Two Colorado fo|dler* itt the Philippine®. Out of the burry and bustle of the war there has come one of the most remarkable cases of tbe reversal of family authority ever known to militairy men. A son is a commissioned officer in a regiment, ..wblfii the father is a private to the same regiment. The son gives tbe father commands; the father executes the orders; he touches his bat when he passes by his boy during duty. On the rolls of the First Colorado Infantry appear the names of Ben Lear, second lieutenant, aged nineteen, and Benjamin Lear, Sr., private, aged forty-four. It is a standing joke in the officers’ mess that if tbe old man gets a superior post be Intends to take it out of the youngster’s hide. But this joke has no foundation. The father is proud of the success of his son and never tires of boasting to hia fellow privates. Lieut. Lear is a fine specimen of the young American soldier. He has ail the good qualities that are known a« “Western.” He has go and push and grit, a very intelligent mind and an aptness for hds work. From under his black eyebrows glance a pair of keen dark eyes that seem older than the rest of him. War ages a man’s intellect rapidly, and Ben Lear, Jr., has grown to experience quickly. He laughed when asked about tbe family relations In the regiment. “Why, my dear fellow,” he exclaim/:*d, “don’t you know shat in a regiment there are no family relations? Here we are all officers or privates or bandmen, and that ends the whole business. But, seriously, the curious relations which I am bound to maintain with my own father are ridiculous, and if he did not have a fine sense of hulnor himself they would be well nigh insupportable. He comes in here with a message, for instance, and, stopping at the dooT, he stands at salute until I have, time or am to a disposition to receive him by acknowledging his salute. Then he does tbe goose step and comes Into my tent, where he must stand at attention until the business Is finished; then he must salute again before he goes out. Altogether It Is laughable, because I am a stickler for discipline, even though it does involve my own father. “When it is father’s turn to carry wood, draw rations or do police duty. It ia my task to issue those orders to the old gentleman, and be touches hia cap and replies, ‘Yes, sir,’ as respectfully as you please. When the call for volunteers came I was a first sergeant in the Colorado National Guard, and volunteered. I went with my company to Denver and we were mustered in. I kept my old rank of first sergeant in the First Colorado Infantry. ' “When the regiment was recruiting father came to headquarters and wanted to enlist. I persuaded him not to join, and when I left I was sure that father would stay at home, where he was badly needed on his paper. But when the recruiting officer went back to Denver for more men, you can judge" of my amazement to find my father in the first batch sent us.—Manila Letter in St Louis Post-Dispatch.

The Queen’s Conservatism.

I E. M. Jessop, describing “The Queen’s private apartments at Windsor,” in the Pall Mall Gazette, says ; that one may mention with regard to ! repairs and renovation of the castle ' rooms that all Innovations are strictly forbidden. For Instance should new curtains or new carpets be required for a room, there is a fixed set of patterns, and each article must be a duplicate of that which it replaces. On no account may the entire renovation of a room be undertaken all at once. It must be done piece by piece in her Majesty’s absence, so that it never loses its look of homeliness. There is a well-worn but perfectly true anecdote current at Windsor with regard to the Queen’s objection to smartness. On one occasion, during the absence of her Majesty, some railings In view of her private apartments required repainting, and it occurred to the responsible official that a somewhat brighter tone and gilded tops might improve their appearance. The work was duly done; the Queen returned; an hour or so afterward an order was issued to return the railings to their original color before the Queen came down in the morning. Dozens of painters had to start to work at 5 o’clock a. m. to obliterate the objectionable decorations.

The Persian Carpenter,

j In accordance with the Invariable j custom of all Eastern artisans, the j carpenter sits upon tht ground while at work. Instead of a bench a strong stake is driven down before him, leaving about ten inches above ground, and > upon this he rests his work and keeps It steady with hia feet The facility with which the work Is executed to this position has always been a matter of surprise to European workmen. In the royal arsenals English took are used, and a better system of working has been Introduced under the superintendence of British officers, but in the native work shops the workmen are still to be seen squatting on the ground, and, being used to this position from Infancy, and thefr tools being formed to work with more efficiency when used In this way, any alteration is scarcely to be expected. Their principal tools are the frame saw, adze, planes, hammers, nails and a few smaller tools.— Southern Lumberman.

Sand to Extinguish Fire.

Sand will be used to extinguish lire, if there should be one In the New Telephone Company’s exchange at Indianapolis. It' is used became it is less injurious than water or chemicals would be. The sand Is stored In a large above the exchange room and is sifted automatically to any or all parte of the building in such a manner as to smother the Are very effectively.