Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1900 — Page 2

Captain grabason

BY B. M. CROKER

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CHAPTER IX.—(Continued.) The doorway through which they had to pass was blocked for a few moments. A young man standing there evidently looked upon the right of entrance as his own exclusive property, for he was engaged in what he considered elegant audience with no less than three ladies, in apite of themselves, Ksme and Miles could not help overhearing a few scraps of conversation. “I’ll tell you what it is,” lisped the young Adonis to a pretty, bright little woman in black, who was eating an ice while he scribbled languidly on her card. “Look here, you know this sort of thing won't do, you know; the next' s time you are ao late I sha’n't be able to give you two dances!” Miles and Esme gazed at this youth in open-eyed amazement. He was not joking. No, he was perfectly serious, and the little lady was actually laughing and taking hia remark as the most natural thing in the world. “Well,” exclaimed Captain Brabnzon, fiercely, making his way through the crowd with an angry shove, "what next? ill-mannered, conceited young cub! Not he irtote to give the two dances, indeed! 1 should like to be able to take him down to the pump and give him a ducking that would wash some of the cheek out of him. ffnppostngiip had said that to you, Esme, what would you do?" looking down at her interrogatively. ““f think I should feel a burning desire to box his ears - only, of course, 1 couldn’t,” laughing, “and here is my next partner; good-by, till number twelve,” withdrawing her arm, and nodding at him coquettishly. Number twelve came in duo time, and was duly danced by the cousins, and as they paused for breath after a long round, Esme held forth in rapturous terms on the delights of the evening. “I’ve danced every dance right through and hardly missed a bar," she observed, triumphantly, “and the funny thing is, 1 don’t know half my partners’ names; people mutter so, or write so badly; these scratches on my card might be anything. The next one puzzles me. i have it— It’s Berkeley.” “And who is he? point him out, please." “There he is, pussing now, with the lady. ‘Captain Berkeley, Priuce’s Lancers,’ to give him his full title.” '"Prince's Lancers!’ " with a visible •tart, and coloring perceptibly. “Oh! if I had only known,’’ regretfully, gazing, aa she spoke, with eager interest at the swarthy little cavalryman. “However,” aa if struck liy a sudden happy thought, “just let me look at my card. 1 think I’m going to dance with him again; yes,” triumphantly. “Here it is, and is the next dance. I want to ask him about a friend of mine,” with rash indiscretion. But her eousiu was not in a merry mood, to judge by his face, which looked darker than she had ever seen it, and set and stern. “May I inquire the reason of your sudden interest in Captain Berkeley, and why the very name of his regiment sounds as music in your ears?” he asked, in a freezing tone. “Why should I tell you?” she rejoined, playfully. If Miles were gong to be disagreeable she wss not going to put up with it. “But supposing that I insist on knowing.” he said, In a low, impressive tone, standing up and facing her, with his back to the ball room. “Insist! what an ugly word! What does insist mean?” raising her pretty eyebrows, and surveying him defiantly. “It means that I'm not going to be trifled with. I’ve stood a good deal as it ik” his mind suddenly flaming up with recollections of the gate scene and the photogruph. “It means that you must and shall tell me who it is know in that fellow's regiment and what he is to you.” ** “Supposing I say I won't,” shutting her lips very tight, and looking rather white, “what then?” This was not the way to tnnke her reveal Teddy's secret, standing over her authoritatively, his voice shaking with passion, his face as dark as a thunder cloud. “Very well then, so be It,” rejoined Miles, beside himself with auger. “That puts an end to everything. Endurance has its limits—l draw the lino at your friend In the cavalry!” “My friend in tin- cavalry is infinitely obliged to you,” she returned, wi(h a little aggravating laugh. “And as to an end to everything, I don’t sec how there can he an end to what uever hud a beginning! If .you imagine that you are breaking off an engagement with me, please to bear lu mind that it never existed. I would not have believed,” now breaking down a trifle, “that you could be so rude, so suspicious; that you bad auch an awful temper. “Oh, yes,” smiling rather' constrainedly, and winking back two big tears, “our dance, ia it, Captain Berkeley?” rising as she spoke, and, throwing her bouquet ostentatiously on the sofa, she walked away wjth great dignity, leaving it and its donor aide by aide.

CHAPTER X.

During the remainder of the evening Kerne did not once «ee Mile*. lie must have left Immediately after their quarrel, and she went home in the fly undoubted belle of the ball, and acting decorously to all her sister's encomiums and expressions of delight, and yet with a heart as heavy as lead. "It was ridiculous! Hhe would not have belleted Itl” she said to herself, angrily, as, when Onssie was sleeping the sleep of the Just, she, wrapped in a shawl, leaned out of the open window, and'warched the dawd creeping over the sea. More than the dawn; the Ashing boats were oof, the sparrows were up; It was 4 o’clock. "1 did not think ! should have cared eo much,” she said to herself, aggrievediy. "He may imagine what he likes, but

I shall keep Teddy’s secret! If he had not been ao angry, I might—l might have told him; but if he really cared for me, he would not be ao ready to suspect me!”, and Miss Esme Brabazon bent her arms on the window sill, and, burying her face in them, wept bitterly. Breakfast was late, of course, and when Esme joined the family circle with pale cheeks and hollow eyes her aunt said, as she kissed her primly on cither cheek, “Dissipation docs not agree with you, .my dear! No more balls for you!” sportively, for the old lady was immensely delighted with her niece's debut, and all the compliments that had betn paid to her about the beautiful Miss Brnbazon. After breakfast Qussie and Mrs. Brabazon went off shopping, and Esme fell an easy prey to oue of the Miss Clippertons, who led her off to the parade in triumph. The sun was shining, and it was a bright, cold, day, with a very-high wind. The bathing machiues were not down, the boats were drawn up, and formidable white horses were beginning to show their crests, although but an hour ago it had been a very tolerable morning. Many were the fashionable promenaders up and down in twos and threes, but chiefly twos. There were some pretty faces to be seeu, and some pretty frocks, and not ft few yachtsmen in blue serge suits.. After our young ladies had taken one turn they came to the very end of the parade, and were surprised to see a large crowd down on a rocky part of the beach, at some distance, all looking out on the sea in one direction—at what? Miss Clipperton and Esme, true daughters of Eve, hurried down to the spot, and were in time to hear a weatherbeaten old gentleman, in a pea-jacket, asking imperiously, as be pushed and elbowed his way into the crowd, “What is the matter?” “Three poor men drowning,” returned a womuu with pallid cheeks. “They are out there,” pointing; “they were bathing and swam out, and can’t get back again. Holiday people; cheap trippers.” “Bathing such a day!” cried the old gentleman, putting his telescope to his eye. “Mildness, madness! Escaped lunatics!” “Where’s the lifeboat?” demanded a naval officer, raising his voice to a shout. “She’s under repair; and, any way, she'd never be round in time,” responded a surly voice from the crowd. "They’ll not hold out more than ten minutes,” .with’ stoic calmness. “It was only a bit roughish when they first went In," volunteered another speaker; “and they were good swimmers till the tide took them, and now they can’t make the shore at any price,” speaking from the middle of a scarlet-worsted comforter. “And must they perish before our eyes, good friends?” said an elderly clergyman, looking anxiously round the throng. “Will no one put out a hand to save our fel-low-creatures? Boatmen!” addressing himself to that compact body, “will none of you venture?” “Venture, indeed!” echoed a shrilltongued fish woman, in a cheeked shawl, with her hands on her capacious hips. “What boat could live in that sea but be smashed on the shingle ere she was launched? Our sailors’ lives are just as much to us-don’t you think?—as those strangers’ out youder. Venture, indeed!” with a snort of indignation. At this instant a man broke into the midst of them, without his cap or coat,* in a state of the utmost excitement and despair. He had beeh one of the bathers, but, fortunately for bimself, had not been carried out so far, and had gained the shore by superhuman exertions. “Will none of you put out a boat?” he demanded fiercely. “Will you stand there, not moving a finger, aud see my comrades drown before your eyes? I’ll go on my bended knees to anyone that will lend a boat and pull an oar with me!” looking eagerly about; but there was no reply in the weather-beaten, stolid countenances that surrounded him. “Shall I go, Esme?” said a voice beside her, a well-known voice, that made her start, and, glancing up, with streaming eyes, she beheld Miles, who had just appeared upon the scene. “Yes, oh, yes,” she cried, jumping to her feet, “do go!” forgetting, in the agonizing scene before her, the delicate terms on which they had last parted; “and quickly, quickly, Miles,” seizing his arms; “there la not a second to spare.” “I’m going out!” he shouted, raising his voice without hesitation and addressing the throng; “any volunteers?” No answer beyond the whistling, soughing wind aud lashing, gray-green waves. “Twenty pounds!” he continued, elbowing his way toward the center, and speaking in a clear, decisive voice. "Twenty sovereigns for a seaman and a boat! Who is coming? Don’t all speak at once.” Twenty pounds! ah, that was a consideration, though, for au instaut, there was no reply. At last«esfter a muttered discussion, there was a murmur, a move, in the crowd, and a long-armed sailor, in a blue kuitted jersey, shambled out Srom among the group of boatmen, and said: “I’m your man for twenty sovereigns. I’m game to go, and I’ve a tight boat; but I'd like so see the money flrat.” “I've only a few pounds with me, but my watch la worth double, and I’ll leave it aa a pledge,” returned Miles, unfastening it and handing It over as he spoke. “ ’Tis the price of your life, Jack Small,” said the big fish woman, Impressively. “You’ll be food for the fishes.” “Well, 'tain’t a bad price; many a man has risked his self for less, and the gentleman la venturing for nothing,” rejoined Jack, In a deep gfowl. The flah woman was understood to say that “the gentleman waa a fool,” but at any rate he was not a naan to let the grass grow under his feet. "Here, you don't stand jawing there,” taking off his coat ond flinging it to Barae. “Come along, you fair-weather sailors, lend ua a hand to above her off;

you are not afraid to do that, are yoaTI “I would not give a pinch of salt foe their lives,” said an old woman in a large black bonnet. “Jack Small’ll never have the spending of that twenty poupd.” “And the young gentleman that went / for nothing!” said a milder voice, compassionately. “Nay, the girl bid him go,” exclaimed ♦ho virago in the cheeked shawl, darting as she spoke a vindictive glance at Esme, who stood as close as she dared to the water’s edge, trembling and shivering l with excitement. “Heaven help yon then, yonng woman,” said a bath-chair man, piously. "You never meant it, but you just sent him to his death. No boas could live in such a sea; there, see that!” his voice rising to a shriek, as a vast wave came tumbling over the others and entirely hid the boat from sight. “She’s foundered," shouted the crowd, hoarsely. “She's not! she’s through it safe this time,” bawled an old gentleman with a telescope under his arm, and there, sure enough, was the Mary Ann still afloat, still lighting her way, conquering every Inch of water by sheer determination and muscle alone. “Sent him.to his death!” and the words rang in Esme's ears as she looked out over the awful sea, with eyes nearly glazed with terror. She felt that the wdmnu was right, she had sent him to his death. Oh! was it too late to recall him? They hud only made n little way. Flying to the very edge of the water, regardless of, wet and spray, regardless of the gaping crowd, she stretched out her arms and cried: “Come back, come back. Miles, you will be drowned, too!” But the wind and the waves roared in partnership, and mocked her entreaties, and drowned her feeble voice, and the fluttering figure, gesticulating wildly, at the water's edge, was wholly unnoticed in the boat. And now the boat js among the surf, and the hush of suspense denotes that everyone is aware that this is the critical moment of life or death. Which will it, be? It will be life; after various ineffectual struggles, after being on the brink of capsizing twice, after bringing everyone's heart into their mouths about half a dozen times, they grate on the beach, are landed far up on the shingle, on the crest of a monstrous wave, the rescued ones aboard. The Mary Ann was almost swallowed up by a surging, clamorous crowd; the half-drowned men were carefully wrapped up in eonts and jackets and carried out first; and then a roar of acclamation greeted Miles and Jack Small. The feat had been accomplished bravely and successfully* and many contemptuous glances were now leveled at the little knot of boatmen, who looked more sullen than ever. Indeed, one bold, loud-voiced young woman loudly declared “that had a barrel of beer been anchored out there beyond for them, they’d have pulled to it smart enough.” Miles, quickly seizing his coat, whispered to Jack that if he came up to the Grand he would find his twenty pounds; and was about to hurry away, leaving him to receive both shares of the popular ovation, but Jack could not part from his fellow-boatman in this fashion. “If I may make bold, sir,” he said, bashfully, “I'd like to shake hands with you,” tendering a horny paw. “We have been partners together for half an hour, and a rare half hour it were. I never wish a better mate.” Miles wrung the proffered hand, and leaving Jack to expound, and talk, and swagger, once more made an effort to escape. He dreaded, horribly dreaded, being remarked or spoken to, with the hatred of notoriety common to his class, and felt that he would sooner take to the sea again than listen to a speech. In short, he was as shy and frightened as a girl. On the edge of the crowd he encountered Esme, pale, dishevripd and breathless. “Oh, Miles, Miles!” was all she could gasp. “What in the world has happened to you?” he said, pausing and surveying her blankly, their quarrel of the previous evening now apparently entirely forgotten by both. “However,” eagerly holding out his hand, “don’t let us stay here; come along, come along,” hurrying his cousin up the beach, goaded by his fears, and before anyone could realize the fact he was gone. (To be continued.)

The Happy Marriage.

Charles W. Eliot, president of Harvard University, recently addressed the Dorchester Woman’s Club. His subject was “The Happy Marriage.” “Human love la the main source of our human ideals,” he said. “For creating and Increasing human happiness the home counts for very much more than anything else. Marriage is and always must be the source of domestic joys aud happiness. Within fifty years marriage lias undergone many changes, hut, after all, it has only changed with everything else in the world. The Intellectual conditlous of civilized life have also changed as the industrial independence of woman Increases. The happy marriage begins In the attraction lietween man aud woman which we cnll love. It is the moat admirable thing In human nature, being au Idealizing devotion. The young woman who marries for money or position la sacrificing the best of life which marrlago affords. The chief conditions of a happy marriage are health, common Intellectual Interests, and a religious belief held in common between hualtand and wife.”

Curious Cycling Effect.

A curious effect of hard cycling Is reported from France. Out of the last hatch of conscripts no fewer than eight well-known cyclists, some of them enjoying European renown, were rejected as physically Incapable of doing duty In the raukn. Hypertrophy and other diseases of the heart were the chief causes of these rejections, which occasioned profouud astonishment to the candidates tbemaelves. One would have thought that ssch wrecks of athletic humanity might at all events ha vs been utilized as military cyclists, win are not unknown In tho French army.— New York World. The first exports of cotton from this country waa In 1785, In which year ona bag wss sent from Charleston to Liverpool, whlls twelve were sent from Philadelphia and one from New York.,

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

New York.—So far as legitimate business interests are concerned the feeling of .nervousness occasioned by the recent closing of several steel mills seems to have worn away. The iron aud steel trade itself is still in a somewhat unsettled condition, however.♦ The export trade is still large, and earnings of both railroad and industrial companies continue to compare favorably with last year. The stock markets hare been irregular. Trading has been largely professional in character, the public showing little disposition to take the long side so soon after the shake-out. There is also a feeling that with the approach of the time for opening the presidential campaign there will come a further material decline in prices. The money markets continue easy. Call rates in New York have been quoted at 2 to per cent, and there is an abundance of time money obtainable at 4 per cent for the year. The Chicago rates also have been shaded this week, 4% per cent being now generally quoted on call loans. Chicago.—The most noticeable feature of the grain markets during the week was the marked change of sentiment as regards wheat. For some time back the feeling generally hfts been bearish. Crop prospects have been most cheery and with the time for May deliveries drawing near it has been felt that the natural course t>f the market was downward. Thusrsday the first evidence of a change in sentiment was shown when France was found to be in such a disastrous condition regarding her crops. Her minister predicted that because of' injury from various causes the country would be compelled to depend upon foreign sources for upward of 32,000,000 bushels. Despite optimistic reports of growing crops it has been known all along, that Michigan, Ohio and Indiana were below normal condition. Kansu? Is complaining of chinch bugs and in some parts of the State the Hessian fly has appeared. Liverpool has been bearish, but reports that Argentine arrivals from the interior are falling off. Because of the, uncertainty of the conditions trade has. been quiet. The price of wheat is about 13 ceLts below the average, hence there ia no great inducement to sell. Corn continues to show the firm undertone that has characterized - that market for so long. Too much rain has fallen to be of benefit to the crop, the truth being th.it planting has been hindered considerably by the wet weather. Stocks are light and there is good demand for the article, especially from across the water.

PURSUIT IS ABANDONED.

British Who Were After Boers Return to Bloemfontein. London advices say thut the flood of newspaper dispatches describing the recent operations throws no light whatever upon the present position of affairs or upon the great question as to when the main advance is to begin. The Standard’s announcement that Gen. French’s cavalry are returning to Bloemfontein is dear proof that there is no further hope of catching the retreating Boers and the London papers are beginning to display impatience at the practical failure of the elaborate operations of last week. The London Standard says: “It is disheartening to find that these elaborate maneuvers have had so small a result.” The Daily Chronicle remarks: “We are reluctant to criticise Lord Roberts, but it is impossible to shut our eyes to the fact that during the last ten days we have gained very little from our enormous display of force." Without doubt these operations have been of a very exhausting nature and will entail further delay. The Bloemfontein correspondent of the Timca, writing after the I'aardeberg affair, describes Lord Roberts' army as a "wreck,” because it was without horses aud without transport. The Bloemfontein correspondent of the Post speaks now of the urgent need at present and always of more horses. There is very little news from other quarters. Col. Dalgety’s force at Wepener numbered 1,700. His losses during the siege were thirty killed and 149 wounded. The Daily Mail publishes a statement from Col. Long, who was blamed for the loss j>f guns at Colenso, that in advancing the guns ns he did he merely obeyed orders and that the staff was quite ignorant of the proximity of the Boer positions. The sudden derision of the Boer peace delegates to visit' America is attributed to the fact that the Government of the Netherlands, after sounding all the European capitals, told them they had nothing to hope from Europe.

News of Minor Note.

Kangaroo farming is to.be au established institution in Australia. Dave Duncan went insane while discussing religion at Newkirk, Okla. Because Reinhardt Toon killed Ida Keller at Chicago, Paul Wagner, 17, committed jptiride, Wednesday night, by hanging. 1 The latest statistics show that the United States has over 200.000 miles of railroad, and less than 20,000 utiles of good wagon roads. Coral is again in favor after its long period of disuse. The pink coral ia the choicer, from its purity, but the common red ia much worn. The women of Pretoria gather together at each other’s houses iu sewing parties, making clothing for those of their family on the firing line/ The Jewish population of London has more than doubled duriug the last twenty years. It is now estimated at between 100,000 and 120,000. Alfred K. Morrison, who killed his wife at White Plains, N. Y., thinking she waa a burglar, was acquitted. Mrs. Etuyle Hyde Grinnell of ter, Vt., who died recently at the age at 103 years, was the oldest resident of the Green Mountain State. The War Department has purchased from the North American Mail Htcamshlp Company the steamship Columbia for use as a transport in the Pacific. A Philadelphia man who has jast taken the pledge explains this act by saying that 'when he was drunk recently be committed the folly of paying hia debts.

CONDITION OF CROPS.

Improvement Reported in the Appeasr* •nee of Winter Wheat. The summary of the crop conditions throughout the country, as ahown by tha weekly crop report issued by the weather bureau, is as follows; “The temperature conditions were generally highly favorable, but excessive rains in the Southern States greatly Interfered with farm work and caused destructive floods. In portions of Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana much replanting will be necessary as a result of the inundation. Farm work has also been retarded as a result of heavy rains In the eastern portion of Kansas and Nebraska and Southern Missonri. Rain ia much needed in Montana, North Dakota and over the northern portion of Minnesota. While freezing temperatures occurred in the upper Missouri A’alley and middle and northern Rocky Mountain regions, it appears that no serious injury has been done The week has not been favorable for the rapid progress of corn planting, but preparations for this work have been active in the more northerly sections and under favorable weather conditions will progress rapidly. Planting has been generally retarded where not completed in the Southern States, asi also from Kansas and Oklahoma westward over the central Mississippi Valley, being later than for many years in Tennessee. “An improvement in the condition of winter wheat is generally reported, except in Michigan and Wisconsin, where plowing up for other crops continue. With ample moisture and favorable temperature the crop has made rapid growth in the central valleys and Southern States, its condition in Kentucky and Teunessee being exceptionally fine. Wheat is heading in Texas, where a good yield is indicated. The favorable outlook on the Pacific coast, except in Southern California, continues. Early sown spring wheat is coming up to good stands over the southern portion of the spring wheat region. Seeding is now nearly completed, except in North Dakota and Montana, where from one-quarter so one-half of the crop is yet to be sown. All reports respecting the oat crop are encouraging, seeding being well advanced (a the northern sections.”

DEATH IN CHICAGO LABOR RIOT.

Union Picket Lead* an Attack and Ia Killed. In an attack upon non-union men employed at the Baker-Vawter company, lithographers in Chicago, where a strike is in progress, Peter Miller was shot through the head and instantly killed 1»y H. O. Baster, superintendent of tha factory. John McGuire waa also shot through the right arm and right cheek by the superintendent, and severely, although not fatally, injured. In addition to this affair, the labor situation waa intensified by the arrest of George P. Gubbins, president of the Bricklayers’ Union. He was taken on a charge of inciting riot. The trouble at the Baker-Vawter company's plant which almost assumed the proportions of a riot was the outcome of a strike which has been m existence at the factory since last January. •

THE TRAILROADS

The Burlington may parallel the Northern Pacific tracks to Ogden. The Canadian Pacific Railroad agreed to join other roads in abolishing commissions. The extension of the C. & E. I. from Marian to Thebes, 111., has been opened for passenger business. It ia reported that the Nickel Plate road will put in service another ChicagoNew York passenger train. The Lake Shore has put into service a new train from Chicago to Boston, which will make the 1,039 miles ia twenty-six hours. Hereafter Sisters of Charity in uniform will be sold halPrate tickets by Central Passenger Association lines without the necessity of their securing clergy certificates. All the roads front-Chlcago, St. Louis and Kansas City to Colorado will follow the example of the Rock Island and run excursions at half rates to Denver, Pueblo and Colorado Springs. Chicago capitalists have purchased a controlling interest in the Munising Railway, which runs from Munising Bay to Little Lake, Mich., a distance.of sixty miles. The purchase is incident to the acquisition of over 80,000 acres of Michigan timber land. Justice Sblras of the United States Supreme Court has handed down a decision that Ashland and not Duluth is the East-, ern terminal of the Northern Pacific road. By reason of this decision a large area at valuable timber land comes into possession of the road. Attorneys for six big Western land grant railroads have decided to sue the United States Government for nearly $300,000 for carrying soldiers from Chicago to San Francisco during the SpanlahAinerican war. Immediately after tha close of the war the roads filed claims for transporting the troops. The claims asked for fuU tariff rates, less deductions of 00 per cent made by the lines which hold land grants. The Government!-re-fused to recognize the claims, alleging that the railroads were not entitled to rates higher than are charged parties of twenty or more persona traveling on one ticket, known In railway parlance aa “party rates.” In addition to this the Comptroller contended that the land grant roads must deduct 00 per cent. The Rockefellers are reported to have obtained control of the Missonri Pacific and will consolidate it with the Missouri, Kansas and Texga. A train of twenty-five flat cara loaded with thrashing machines from a Racine, Wis., factory was taken west from Chicago by the Burlington. A private car and a brass band accompanied the train. The Central Passenger Association has decided to adopt a composite ticket, with coupons for both first and second class passenger* In order to do away with any opport unity for the roads to offer sleeping ear service os second class tickets.

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