Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1899 — Page 2

CHAPTER VI. if -It was drawing near noon. Some of 'fie teen had sought the coolness of the . billiard room; some of the ladies had retired to the shade of the great cedar tree, /with books and work. Leah had gone to •Iter favorite spot, the terrace, where the fluseion flowers grew in such profusion. She smiled as she gathered some of the flowers, remembering the name “passion•flower” had been given to herself.^ Then her thoughts went to Hettie, who had loved the sweet white lilies best. ’How different life would be if that beloved sister were here, how doubly precious this grand domain if Hettie shared it! jn the gleaming light on the river, in the fire of the scarlet passion-flower, in the flowers of the gay parterre, she saw the sweet, fair face with its aureole of golden hair. Would they ever meet again? Abruptly she saw Sir Arthur standing close to her, a stranger by his aide. “Leah," said the general, “our neighbor, Sir Basil Carlton, has been kind 'enough to waive ceremony and call upon us first. Sir Basil, my adopted daughter - snd dear uiece, Miss Hatton.” A great hush, a great calm came over her. She saw a noble face, full of fire 4Htd impetuosity; she saw dark eyes and (Straight brows, a firm mouth, dark clusters of hair, and a dark mustache. Yet beauty was not the chief charm of , the face; courage and dauntless truth shone there. Most people, when they first met Sir Basil Carlton, were struck by his handsome features and manly bearing, but they were attracted even more when the eyes took a tender light nnd the mouth a smile as sweet as any woman’s, “I like England better than Italy,” said Sir Basil, suddenly, after a few remarks. “You caunot think what a picture you made, Miss Hatton, standing against this -background of foliage and flowers.” “You have been in Italy for many years?” she said, quietly. He drew just a little nearer to her. A great, trailing spray of passion-flowers lay between them; he raised it, nnd she .thought to herself how strange a coincidence it was that she should see him with iher favorite blossoms in his hand. “I was a boy of eleven when I went away,” he said, “and now I am twentyfive. Coming home is a very melancholy event for me, as you perhaps know.” “Yes; we have heard the cause of your mother’s departure from England—and a very painful one it was, Sir Basil,” said the general. Leah looked up at him; all her soul shone in her eyes. “Let us help you to forget the shadow which has fallen over your house and your life,” she said; and his face brightened.” “I shall be only too happy, Miss Hatton. I dreaded my return. I remembered the Glen as one of the loveliest of homes. I have longed to be here. Yet the memory of that night will never leave me.” His whole face changed. “My mother lived fifteen years after the accident happened; but the shock her system had received killed her at last.” Leah’s dark eyes, full of interest and sympathy, filled with tears; and, as he saw them, his heart warmed to her. How long it was since any one had shed tears for this old sorrow of his! "It must have been a terrible shock for you both,” said Leah. “Yes; I was only a boy, but I worshiped my sister. You cannot tell how deeply attached I was to her. I think the love of a sister is one of the greatest joys on earth.” Why did the fair face near him grow so pale? Why did the graceful figure shrink and tremble, the hand that held the scarlet flowers suddenly fall nerveless and helpless? Was it another coincidence that he should value so highly a sister’s love? “If I were in your place, Basil,” said the general, “I would have plenty of friends about me. Stay with us to-day, and to-morrow we will drive over and see your gardens and conservatories. We have a pleasant party, and I think you will enjoy .yourself.” He looked at Leah. “I shall be delighted,” she said, simply, a faint flush dyeing her face. “80 shall I,” replied Sir Basil. And that was how the first day of Leah Hatton’s earthly paradise began. As the days passed on, the intimacy between Leah and the baronet increased. The general grew warmly attached to Sir Basil. He said—what was a great thing for him to say—that, if heaven had blessed him with a son, he should have liked him to resemble Sir Basil. Ail the visitors—and they were many—admired and Uked him; he was a general favorite, and he spent far more of his time at Brentwood than at Glen. It happens so often that a great love Is lavished in vain. Sir Basil saw nothing of Leah’s. He admired her exceedingly, but he never dreamed of loving her., The duchess, who had said to herself that she would not interfere, did just this one thing—she told Sir Basil of rhe splendid triumphs that Leah had achieved, and how she had passed through three such seasons as few even of the most brilliant beauties had ever experienced. She told him of the offers of marriage made to her, and how she had refused them all. “Why did she refuse them?” he asked. The duchess meant to do a kindly action when she answered: “She has ideas that are peculiar for the nineteenth centnry; they are, I may say, obsolete.” He looked anxiously at her, she thought. “What Ideas?” he asked—“if my question may be answered?” “I am sore I may answer it,” said the duchess. “Miss Hatton has romantic kfcsa* that are quite out of date. Marriage in these days is an arrangement. Site might have been Dachas of Bartic, and will never marry until she can marry for love.”

BETWEEN TWO LOVES

BY CHARLOTTE M. BRAEME.

“That seems to me right,” said Sir Basil. "I am glad you think so,” returned the duchess, dryly. “But Miss Hatton has another theory. It is this—that for every person in this world there are one love and one lover—half souls, she calls them, if you can understand the term. She believes that she will recognise her half soul, or lover, whenever she sees him.” . “It is a very pretty theory,” said Sir Basil. “I do not see why any one should object to it.” He looked at her somewhat eagerly as he asked: “And has she met this ideal yet?” “That is a question she alone can answer. You must ask her yourself,” laughed the duchess; and she smiled to herself as she thought she had given him a very plain hint. The young baronet was far too modest to take it; that such a peerless beauty, such a wealthy heiress, should fall in love and find her ideal in him never occurred to him. If she had rejected many noble and great men, she was doubtless looking for some one higher. Yet what he had heard increased his affection and respect for her. He liked the idea of a girl who could make to herseif an ideal, and wait patiently until she met with it. How many would have yielded to the temptation of rank and wealth, and have forgotten the belief and aspirations of early girlhood!

CHAPTER VII. The Duke and Duchess of Roscdene, with their visitors, were at Dene Abbey, within sight and sound of the ever-mur-muring sea. Miss Hatton had the whole day to herself; she had no great household to manage as at Brentwood, she had no care abopt the entertainment of visitors; the long, bright hoars were hers, to spend as she would. Lady Maude Trevar had gladly accepted the duchess’ invitation; but pretty May Luson had promised to pay a visit elsewhere, and could not break her engagement. The military element had dispersed. Sir Basil Carlton had been delighted with her grace’s proposal to join the party at the Abbey. He lik»<l the duchess; her kindly manner pleased him; he was touched by her kindness to himself, although he did not know the cause. He did not go with the party from Brentwood, but he followed them in a few days. It was a wonderful change from the green, sweet woodlands of Warwickshire to the country bordering on a sunny southern sea. Leah was more shy and timid with Basil than she had been at Brentwood. She avoided him a little, but loved him just as much. She would have gone through fire and water for him; she would have made any sacrifice for him. The marvel was that the youug baronet never dreamed of the conquest he had made. As for Leah, she had not yet begun to doubt; she felt certain that his love would be hers in the fullness of time. Sir Arthpr Hatton was a stranger to all fair love-dreams and sweet fancies./That he should understand a nature or a love like Leah’s was not to be expected; but he was one day the unwilling witness of a little scene that opened his eyes. In the library stood a large Japanese screen, and Sir Arthur enjoyed nothing more than placing this round one of the great bay windows and intrenching himself therein with his newspaper. One morning there was some Indian news in the Times which interested him greatly—letters written by fellow officers whose opinions he valued highly. He wished to be undisturbed; so he betook himself to his favorite retreat. He found the library cool and empty; the sun blinds were all drawn, the light was dim and pleasant. He placed the screen around his favorite window. “Thank goodness,” he said to himself, “that I shall now be able to read in peace!” Fate was against him this morning. The door opened. It was Leah who appeared. She was in her favorite colors of amber and white, with creamy roses at her throat. She did not observe the screen, much less wonder if anyone were behind it. For ten minutes there was almost complete silence. Sir‘Arthur could hear the sound of Leah’s pen. She was writing rapidly. Then, suddenly, the door opened, and Sir Arthur’s smothered groan was lost in the voice of the speaker. “Shall I disturb you. Miss Hatton?” It was Sir Basil who put the question. “I am in trouble, from which a lady alone can release me.” “I am glad you sought me,” she said. “What can I do for you?” “There is an old proverb which says that ‘a stitch in time saves nine.’ Will you make that first stitch now, and save the nine hereafter, Miss Hatton?” “Of course I will,” she replied. “Where is the stitch needed?” “In this driving glove,’ ’he replied; “the button is nearly off. Would you be so good as to fasten it?” Leah laughed blithely. “Certainly,” she said, as she took the thick yellow driving glove that he held to her. “Will you excuse me one minute while I find needle and thread?” she added. She went away, leaving Sir Basil looking over an open Tolume that lay upon the table. “I hope,” thought the general to himself, “that this good fellow will not find me out, and begin to air his ideas on Indian politics to me.” Bqt Sir Basil was In happy Ignorance of the general’s proximity. He read a few lines in the open volume, ,hnmmed a favorite air to himself, and then Leah returned. “I am sorry to have kept you waiting,” she said. "I will release you now in a fsw minutes.” i The slender fingers soon accomplished their task. She held out the glove to hiss, and as she did so her eyes fell on the spray of stephanotis that he wore la

tim that It is sulucky to wear fatal “By all means replace it, if you will be good enough,” be responded. She took the spray of stephaaada from Mm and laid it upon the tablet From one of the vasea she chose a beantifnl moasrose bod, fresh as the dawn, and fastened It in his coat for him. He thanked her briefly, stood talking to her for some few minutes, and then went away. Sir Arthur, looking over the screen, was •bout to thank heaven that he was gone; bat no word came from Ms lips—he was stricken dumb. What was she doing—Ms proud, beautiful niece—whose love no man had been able to win, whose smiles bad been sought as a priceless boon? She bad never seemed to care for love or admiration, for lovers or marriage. She had moved through the brilliant world like an icemaldefi. What was she doing? She had taken the vitkdvd flower in her bands, and was kneeling down fay the table and covering the faded spray with kisses and tears. “Oh, my love,” she sighed, “my love, if .yon only loved me! Bat I am less to yon than the withered flower yon have thrown away.” The general would have spoken then and have let Leah know that he had overheard her, bat surprise and wonder kept him silent. He saw her kiss the open volume where Sir Basil's hand had rested. “I shall die,” she sobbed, “just as this flower has died, and jnst as far from his heart! Oh, cruel world! I have asked but for one thing, and it has been denied me. I wish I had never been born. Oh, my love, why can yon not love me? lam fair enough for others, why not for yon? I can win other hearts, why not yours? I would give luy life for yoar love!” The low, smothered sound of her bitter sobbing mingled with the song of the birds and the whisper of the wind; it smote the heart of the old soldier with unutterable pain. He had rescued her front what he thought a shameful life, adopted hei> and given her Ms love and protection; he had made her heiress of his vast fortune; and this was all that had come of it, this was the end of all Ms hopes for her. She was wearing her heart and her life away for a love that could never be hers, or at least that was not hers. From the sight of the kneeling figure, the clasped hands, the proud head so despairingly bent, the general turned with tears in his eyes. “If I could out die,” she said to herself, “and be at rest; if I could bat sleep and never wnke; if I could bat hide my love and sorrow and pain!” He was tempted to go to her, to take her in his arms and try to comfort her; but a sense of forbade Mm. She was so prond and sensitive, what would she think or feel if she knew that he had possession of her secret? Yet the bitter, long-drawn sobs fell on Ms ear and tortured him. He could not help her. He would not for the world let her know that he had overheard her; so he laid down his newspaper and passed noiselessly out through the open window on to the lawn, and not until he had walked some little distance did he feel at ease. “I would not haTe her guess that I have been a witness of that scene for treble my fortune, poor child!” he murmured. (To be continued.)

WANTED HIS GIRL.

She Had Pro at leed to Marry Him, aad He Called for Her. A black-eyed young man came punting into the barge office the other day. says tbe New York Commercial Advertiser. “Is this the place where they keep the immigrant girls?” he asked in English so broken that even to the Interpreters of the establishment It seemed to be made up of rolling r’s and b’a. Receiving an affirmative nod the man turned about and beckoned in the direction of the open door. Four other men, all as black-eyed as the first, made their appearance. “These are my witnesses,” the leader of the party said, by way of introduction of two of the newcomers, and then in turn he added: “And this one* la the clerk, and this gentleman Is the priest So give me my girl and I’ll marry her at once, so that you need not be afraid there is any humbug about It” The interpreters’ sense of humor Is drawn upon too heavily for them to laugh at a scene of this sort They got angry Instead, and asked him what be was talking about He essayed an explanation, but all that he succeeded in making plain was that he was an Armenian, and that bis English consisted In rattling r’s and booming b's. “Why don’t you tell your story In Armenian?” said one of the Interpreters in the young man’s native tongue. Tbe would-be bridegroom took offense. He had been three yean In America, and he spoke English better than Armenian, he said. Finally Mrs. Ctucklen, the “mother of Immigrants,” came up and shed light on the matter. The man’s name waa Yahl Kriborlan. He was 24 yean old and made a comfortable living. At home he had a pretty girl, who now came to join him. Her name was Toshkowhi Gobcdian. She was four yean younger than he was, and very bashful—so bashful that when she spoke of her love for Yahl and his promise to marry her, her olive cheeks glowed and her Mack eyes gased at the leg of the matron’s chair. “Have yon got any money?” the clerk had asked bo*. “No, sir. I have a sweetheart" “But how do you know he'll marry you?” “Because God would strangle him If he went back on me.” When the two were brought together Yahl offered to kiss the girl, bat she blashingly held back. “Don’t you want me?” be asked in despair. “Tea, bat there are so many prince* around. lam ashamed.” The wedding took place outside of the baffle office, a clerk of the Immigrant station being present to see that the ceremony was really performed, and then tbe girt was declared Yahi’s wife and free to “go out into America.**

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BLUNDER OF THE BRITISH.

flluwi for UEyiaitk Defeat Divided Between White ead Carletoa. English military experts are agreed that the defeat hear Ladysmith was doe fie bad blunders. Gen. WMte is blamed tor aat having provided means of keeplag in touch with CoL Garieton’s column aad for act having made any effort to extricate the command from its untenable position. Col. Garieton is Mamed for not having retired to Ladysmith immediately after the loss of his artillery and ammunition through the stampede of Ms moles. In some quarters it is suggested that the Cape boys who were driving the moles and whoso loyalty has been under suspicion, caused the stampede in order to help the Boer cause. Gen. White, in giving details of the capture of Ms left wing, says: “The lost detachment under Col, Cartaton started Sunday night to seise Nicholson Nek, thus turning the enemy’s right. Carle ton got within two miles of Nicholson unmolested, when suddenly boulders were rolled from the hill and a few rifle shots were fired. This stampeded the moles drawing the ammunition and they disappeared In the direction of the enemy with practically all the gun equipment. Carleton then entrenched his forces on a neighboring MIL At 9:30 a. m. Monday, the Boers attacked the British in heavy force. Their fire was searching and two companies of the Gloucester regiment were obliged to retire from their advanced position. The enemy then pressed in at close range and oar losses were numerous. At 3 p. m. our ammunition was practically exhausted. When the Boers stormed our position our survivors were captured. The failure of the column is due to stampeding of the males."

MILITARY BALLOONS.

These end Wireless Telegraphy Are in Baa in Sonth Africa. The announcement that Gens. White and Hunter spent part of a day in a captive balloon at Ladysmith reeonnoitering tiie position of the Boers, and that they got back to the ground in safety, is in contrast with the news which came

MILITABY BALLOON IS ACTIOS.

from Santiago in July, 1896, when the captive balloon served chiefly to concentrate the Spanish fire on the road over which the troops were passing. la addition to the balloons wMch tbe English have sent out to South Africa their engineers are supplied with the proper apparatus for using wifeless telegraphy in communicating with the ground when the balloon has reached a great bright. The illustration is from a photograph of one of the balloons now in South Africa. It was taken in England and shows tbe balloon In midair, with an officer making observations.

CHURCH AND CLERGY.

“Old Christ Church” (Philadelphia) is to have several costly memorial windows. Churches in White Plains, N. Y., are making a fight against opening the postoffioe on Sunday. Grace Episcopal Church, New York, has been forced to buy a neighboring saloon to close it up. The Archbishop of Canterbury has made an appeal for the dosing of London saloons on Sunday. The Rev. P. M. McCabe, who was instrumental in liberating John Boyle O’Reilly when a political prisoner, is dead. \ The Rev. Dr. L. D. Sevan, an Australian Congregationalist traveling in America, says “revivals” are a detriment to religion. The Rev. Dr. John Brown of Bedford, England, is delivering the Lyman Beecher loctntea at Yale on the subject, “Puritan Preaching.” The Rev. Dr. Joseph Silverman is acting rabbi of the Temple Emanu-El in place of Rabbi Gottheil, whose resignation has been accepted. The Rev. Dr. Way land Hoyt of Philadelphia has decided to accept the call given him recently from the First Baptist Church of Cambridge, Mass. The Bishop of London is an expansionist, and believes that the church, having created Christian civilization, mast be the chief agent in spreading it. J. Gordon Watt of Aberdeen, Scotland has succeeded the Rev. Dr. William Wright as editorial superintendent of the British and Foreign Bible Society. The Rev. B. F. Hancky of Brick (harch, Philadelphia and F. Hr Richards of Zanesville. Ohio, are to go as Lutheran missionaries to Porto Rico. In Bishop McDonnell’s charge on I<ong Island 400,000 members will spend the last four months of the year in prayerful observance of the dosing 'century. The Rev. Stopford Brooke’s friends are raising funds for a lectureship in English literature at University College, Oxford, to be called “Stopford Brooke Lectureship.” New York Protestants have united for an interdenominational “revival." with Practlcapy jfiofthe $87,000 .wgg ■a |q Homj GitMidk

JEFFRIES WINS THE FIGHT.

Wina Over Sharkey in the TwentyRfth Roundaon Potato. James J. Jeffries retained his tide oi! heavyweight champion of the world Friday night at Coney Island, after one of the hardest battles ever fought by Mg men in this country. Had the fight endl ed with the twenty-first round Sharkey would have been given the decision. With the ending of the twenty-third round Siler would hare called it a draw. The last two rounds, however, were so far in favor of the champion that the result of the battle was apparent-before the referee, Siler, declared Jeffries victor. Sharkey’s tactics were very, very rough, and be clinched and brought hi man’s head into chancery a dozen time during the progress of the fight. He used tiie heel of the glove after every clinch, and in other ways transgressed the roles repeatedly. Jeffries did not fight in the form he displayed against Fitzsimmons. He was wild in the earlier stages of the contest. His defense, too, was weak. Sharkey landed left and right swings repeatedly where Fitzsimmons had failed utterly. He bore in, under, over and through Jeffries’ guard at times as though the latter hod none. It was an even match as to strength. The forcing was done by Sharkey, but effective countering stood this off to no inconsiderable extent. The matter of vitality did not figure as much under the heat as was anticipated. Siler and the seconds of the men suffered greatly from this, but the equatorial voyages of Hhe sailor and the blasting furnaces experience of the boilermaker made both men practically immunes. It was an earnest fight all the way through. Siler’s decision, while in accord with the opinions of the winners, and opposed in some quarters by the losers, is approved by the non-betting and neutral critics who saw the fight.

INFLUX OF SPANISH.

Six Thousand Have Arrived in Cuba in Bix Months. On the Spanish steamer Alfonso XIII., which arrived at Havana Thursday, there were 1,175 Spanish immigrants. Daring the last three months 6,00 Q Spaniards have arrived there. It is Mid that the Madrid Government is assisting the people who wish to take op their residence in Cuba. Very few women are coining. Two problems are presented by this inflow. All the immigrants are poor, and they come seeking work. They are damped into the city, which is not yet on its feet industrially, and many of them are having hard times. They herd together in such fashion that they increase the danger of the spread of fever. The Spanish merchants and societies are doing everything possible to assist them. The main object is to get them into the country districts.

4,000 PERISH AT CERAM.

Earthquake end Tidal Wave Devastate Molucca laland. News is brought to Victoria, B. C., by the steamer Miowera of an appalling earthquake Oct. 10 in the southern portion of the island of Ceram (or Sirang), one of the largest of the Molucca archipelago, part of the Dutch possessions. It is second in size of the group, located between Borneo ami Papua and northeast of Amboyna. About 4,000 Malaya and Papuans were killed. Avalanches of rocks, split from the mountain sides .by the terrific concussion, rolled down the range, burying many settlements, and entombing some hundreds of Papuans who inhabit the interior.

Arms of the Boers.

The forces of the Sonth African Republic are armed with the sporting model of the Mannlicher rifle, probably the most deadly weapon of its weight and caliber tn the world. The Mannlicher rifle weighs about eight pounds aud Sts barrel is 30 inches in length. Its caliber is .30. It haa a killing range of 4,000 yards. At that distance a bullet will go through two inches of solid ash. The bullets used hy the Boers are full-mantled, that is, entirely covered with a thin coating of copper or nickel. If this bu”et striked at a range of 1,000 yards or under it will pierce a bone without splintering. At longer ranges, however, it is apt to spread, making a terrible wound.

SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES

Harvard has a brass band and a rifle dab. Plumbing is taught in the Boston Trades School. Pennsylvania has a new banking and business course. The class of 1903 at Harvard contains over 500 students. “Coeds” at the University of Wisconsin wear short skirts. The proportion of female to male teachers is increasing in England. Class crews and basket ball teams are being organized at Wellesley. The proportion of Latin students in elementary schools has increased. An astronomical observatory is to be built for the University of Maine. Eight thousand children in Philadelphia cannot find room in the public schools. Bowdoin’s entering class of seventy is the largest in the history of the college. Work has been commenced on Robinson Hall, the new scientific school of Tufts College. * Yale’s divinity school has a decreased attendance, due to the raising of the standard. y Edward Tnck of the class of *O2 has given $300,000 to Dartmouth in memory of his father. Yale shows increases in the entering abases of scientific, academic and law departments. ■ The National Association of Collegiate Alumnae will make an exhibit at the Paris exposition. * Graduates of fifty years gathered re> cently at an alnmnl reunion of the Springfield (Mara.) High School. An attempt is being made to remove the role providing that London University shall hold toot more titan $50,0001 worth of property. Harvard University receives a bequest ofab^sl^)oo < b L t he,wUUf abeyance since his death in 1883, and bra

WASHINGTON GOSSIP

In the next Congress there will be a large appropriation tor rural free delivery. The report of Perry Heath shows that rothl free delivery is a success, although the appropriation still limits it to the experimental stage. It has been demonstrated that the average cost to the population served in the whole country is only 84 cents per capita annually. whewu as in cities of only 5,000 having free otF livery the cost la at least $2.80 annually for each inhabitant It has been proved that where the roads are fairly good, the houses near together, and the population reasonably intelligent letters can and should be delivered and collected at the farm cross roads. The reports of the success of the system on selected routes are almost invariably enthusiastic, and it is believed Congress will appropriate at least $1,000,000 for the extension of the service to the farmers. It has resulted In an increase of the circulation of both daily and Weekly papers, while there has been an immediate addition to the general postal revenues. Fanners receive and write more letters when they can have them delivered and collected. As fast as the money is provided new routes will be laid out. On July 1 the routes extended over 8,930 miles, covered an area of 7,567 square miles, served a population of 273,004, and had handled 9,212,927 pieces of mail. President McKinley will probably outline his Philippine policy, at least far enough to ask Congress for a specific declaration as to the status of the islands. The treaty of peace ceded the Philippines outright to the United States, but Congress has not .vet accepted them, inasmuch as the treaty was ratified by the Senate alone, and the status of the islands has, therefore, never been fixed by statute law. The President has assumed that the United States can keep the islands, but he will report to Congress that, while the situation does not justify now the establishment of a civil government, it is necessary that the islands should be formally annexed to the United States by law, in general terms, so that the President may proceed legally to defend them. The national Government W&s decided to go into the menagerie business on a scale which wiH make the ordinary collection of animals look lonesome by comparison. The new menagerie will occupy 166 acres of land northwest of Washington. Circulars have been prepared and sent out to the consular representatives of the Government all over the world, instructing them to purchase and forward to Washington animals of as many different species, indigenous to the countries in which they are located, as possible. It is expected that Africa will contribute the most specimens, among them the gorilla, giraffe and chimpanzee. The national “zoo” 11111 be maintained in connection with the Smithsonian Institution.

The Government is not concerned over the claim made in the Spanish Senate that two of the Batanez group and the island of Calayan were not included in the transfer of the , Philippines from Spain to the United States through ignorance on the part of the treaty makers. The American commissioners gave the fullest consideration to the question whether these islands would not be outside the boundaries of the archipelago prescribed by the treaty, and It was finally arranged, with the concurrence of the Spanish commissioners, that they should be included within American jurisdiction, even if the maps followed by the treaty makers should prove to be defective. Librarian Putnam is doing a work for the Congressional Library which has long been needed. Of all libraries in the country that one should be most liberally supplied with newspapers and periodicals for use, not only by Congressmen, but by the public in a city where almost more than any other the people should keep abreast of the times. And yet there has been no place hitherto where the leading newspapers could be consulted. Mr. Putnam is now equipping one of the largest halls in the new building as a newspaper and periodical room, following the line of the Boston public library, which has a perfect system of newspaper and periodical reference. Large numbers of immigrants suffering with loathsome and dangerous diseases are dally arriving In this country. During the month of September alone fiftyone arrived in New York, forty-nine of whom were suffering with contagious and incurable disease of the eye. Thirty-nine of these unfortunates were deported and six are confined in a hospital and will be sent out of the country as soon as able to travel. Most of the afflicted are from the southern part of Italy and are Rnssian Jews, Italians and orientals of various types. In 1835 the national debt of the United States was only 837,733—1e5s than is owed by hundreds of men to-day. The debt reaches its highest point on Aug. 31, 1865, when it was 32,844,049,026. The first refunding was that of the revolutionary debt, at 6 per cent. After the war of 1812 the war loans were refunded at 4% per cent, while the enormop* debt incurred during the civil war hUI been refunded several times at various' rates of interest. President McKinley went borne to rote. He left with Mrs, McKinley on Monday in a private car over the Pennsylvania road, going direct to Canton. Assistant Secretary Cortelyou and a few others accompanied them. Checks amounting to $821,000 were received by the United States treasurer Wednesday in further part settlement of the Union Pacific railroad’s Indebtedness to the Government. It la expected that a further amount will be received within a short time. cured *>*■ otto cams can be cured in the Miot