Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1902 — Page 2

NELLE’S LOVER

WAS it alone vanity which thrilled Hal Windsor’s breast and brought the sparkle to hla eye as be ascended the steps of Mr. Bodman's handsome mansion, and deliberately pulled the bell? There was no need of baste. He knew all that follow. Now, in a moment, the ponderous door would be swung open, and the liveried servant stand ready to receive bis hat and cane, then usher him with obsequious formality into the largo and brilliantly lighted drawingroom. There might be many there to welcome the rising young barrister, but of one smile he felt assured—the smile which never failed him, which the fair daughter of the house always wore for him. She would come forward, a alight, graceful figure, with outstretched hand, which, holding a moment in his own, be knew would gladly permit its imprisonment forever. She was an heiress, too, her father's only child, and though Hai would have spurned the idea of marrying for money, the accompaniment would by no means be undesirable to the furtherance of bls ambitious alms. Therefore, If vanity it is which swells his manly breast, It Is not altogether unpardonable as he steps Inside from the cold, frosty air into the luxuriant light and warmth, and the panorama, as viewed in imagination, becomes reality. Then voices break upon the scene and we have a playonly there is no audience, and it is the play of life. “So glad to see you, Mr. Windsor,’’ says the host, coming forward with his most genial air. “We are quite alone to-night. Nellie, Mr. Windsor.” Yes, the smile Is not wanting, nor the little outstretched band sparkling with Jewels, and into the dark eyes leaps a light which it Is all too easy for the man of the world to read. Why should he not speak tonight? be questions himself. Is not this tender feeling which thrills him love, or if not the all-consuming passion as depicted—the passion, heaven help him, he once wasted on a woman's glance—surely it 4s a more enduring and a better thing. Here all would be smooth waters; no turbulent current, no waves to lash against a hopeless shore—not one, ’tis true, to share his ambitious dreams, but who, sitting quietly in her well-appointed home, would glory In the reflected luster of bls glory. So when they two had wandered off into the music-room, her fingers listlessly playing with the keys of the instrument before which she was seated, he suddenly stooped, and, pinioning both little hands within his own, asked her to be bis wife. Aye, was he not aura of his answer? Did he need the gentle whisper which passed the trembling lips, the low drooping of the fair young head until it nestled on his broad shoulder, the look of exquisite happiness which transformed the girl’s face Into a beauty scarcely human, since It was love, pure and unselfish, which brought the change. “What have I done,” she said at last, looking upward into the handsome eyes bent upon her, "to deserve such happiness? O, Hal, how could you, so grand, so noble, stoop to me?” “Hush, child,” he answered, and as in two mirrors he saw his own life, with Its hours of pain and passion, side by side with the clean, pure record of one who called herself unworthy bls choice, a flush of almost shame dyed his cheek. So they parted until the morrow, and the sweet young lips cling for a moment to his own, and a whispered "God bless you!” falls on her ear, and once again Hal Windsor goes out into the night But in his heart it is all sunshine. Somehow this girl's faith and love have wakened stronger feelings than lie knew were there. So he enters his room, where his servant has prepared everything in readiness, and fire and lights are awaiting him. On his table lies a letter. Not for ten long years has he seen that writing, and his face pales and a muttered outb escapes his lips as ho takes the created envelope Into his hands. A faint scent pervades the air as he does so, the odor as of crushed violets. Time, place, all are forgotten as that subtle perfume carries him back a half-score years, and be stands, a man of 25, in a woman’s boudoir, and she. Its owner, smiles at bls approach—■ woman whose years equal bis, but whose beauty is so glorious, bo transcendent, that years are forgotten. One does not think of time within that regal presence, and with that ainlle she lures him to bls doom, and with that smile she slays him. It is still there, calm and pitiless, when she telle him she has sold herself to Mammon, and when. In his frenzy, be pleads that she will let him work, toll, gain name, and fame, and wealth, it vanishes, only to break Into a little low, rippling, silvery laugh, as, tapping him with her fan, she answers: “Love! Yea, I love you, but what then? Could you not give me all my needs 1 should bate you. Some day, mon ami, you will thank me.” And the smile faded not when. In mad rage, he left her. For a moment he hesitates whether to toes the letter unread Into the fire, then breaks the seal and mechanically reads the lines. "I told you to forget Yet have yon not forgotten! You are still unmarried, so they tell me. I am a widow. The old dream Is dead. We will not resurrect Its ashes, but I need a friend. I am at the Hotel Vendome, and shall be at home to-morrow evening awaiting you. Shall I wait in vain? Yours, “EUBB VAUGHN.” To-morrow evening, bad prom-

ised to spend it with his betrothed. Of course he would not go. He would drop madame a note in the morning to that effect, or, stay—it would be better to take no notice. He will go to his couch and forget her. But Hal Windsor finds his bed to-night has somewhere hidden the crumpled rose leaf to disturb his slumber. Sleep he woees in vain. The lips which, in their youth and sweetness, but a few hours agone were clinging to bls own, seem wiped from memory, while other lips, curved in scornful smile, and other beauty, imperious and grand, assert their sway, and say, “Deny me if you can!” So ho rises unrefreshed, and the letter, lying still upon his table, reminds him the scene of the night is no dream. All through the day It haunts him. In vain he says, “I will not go!” Ever ringing in his ears is the question, “Shall I wait in vain?” until, as the sun is sinking, comes the determination, “I will see her, and will prove indeed the ashes of the dead may not be resurrected.” So when, at 8 o’clock, Nellie stands flushed and eager to welcome her lover, it is only the servant who enters, bearing on a salver the choicest flowers, and resting among them, as the hidden asp, the little note, which tells her how an Imperative engagement has prevented his seeing her, but that the disappointment she may feel can in no way equal his own. Poor little girl! Two teardrops fall among the roses, as she stoops to kiss their fragrant leaves, with the heaviest weight on her heart she has ever known. Ah, to love is to suffer! So early in her dream she has learned the lesson. And he, the recreant? Eight has Just struck from every clock as he stands upon the lady’s threshold who has bidden him to her presence. Have ten years elapsed since last they stood face to face? She rises from her chair to greet him, her fingers as exquisitely graceful, her eye as bright, her smile as winning, in all respects unchanged. Once more the odor of violets floats through the room. “You have summoned me, madam! I am here!” “Ah, Hal, I sent for you. Can you guess why? Because for ten long years 1 have hungered to look at your face, and now, In its coldness and disdain, I cannot recognize it I have suffered so much. Can you not yet forgive?” “And I? Have I, too, suffered nothing? Let the dead past bury its dead, Mrs. Vaughn. We are here to speak of the future.” “Since you will not be my friend, Hal,” laying one hand upon his shoulder, while, resist as he would, bls very soul thrilled to the touch. “Hal, your friendship is so little. Will you not give it to me?” “You, perhaps, have not beard, Mrs. Vaughn, that I am to be married?” The suppressed triumph lurking in the dark eyes vanished, a gleam of real suffering swept ever the exquisite face, and a ring of true pain was in her voice as she answered: “Married! Hal, Hal, who is this girl who has stolen your heart from me?” And. sinking in the chair, her face burled in her hands, she sobbed forth tin* question. If acting, then ’twere marvelous, and the man who once would have laid down his soul for her to walk on, looking on it, felt his whole being thrill in answer to her cry. A wild temptation seized him, and he seated himself by her side, to clasp her to his heart, to answer: “Noone; none could take from you that which was yours”—to look once more Into her glorious eyes, to accept the boon she had cast at his feet, to revel in her beauty. But a voice, pure, silvery sweet, seemed suddenly to float through the air. “As if you could do wrong!” and “How could you, so grand. so noble, stoop to me?” A gentle light came into his eyes, from which the veil seemed to have fallen. The violet odor, the exquisite beauty of the woman before him no longer intoxicated and enthralled him. A girl's white hand had led him into purer regions, bad taught him nobler things. “I will say good-by, Ellse,” he said, softly, taking her hand in his. “You have my forgiveness full and free for all the past, but, as you said, we will not disturb its ashes. You have not meant all you said to-night We neither of us could go back to that far-off time. The waves have washed even our footsteps from the sand. You ask me will 1 be your friend? Believe me always so. Good-night!” So he left her, and each retreating footstep sounding on her ear sounded the deathknell of the fair hopes she had once more permitted herself to build, and upon the baffled plans which lay shipwrecked and stranded. But ah! as sweetest music, they steal upon the presence of one who had so mourned their absence. “Darling, were those tears for me?” he says, kissing the drops still wet upon her cheek. “My engagement ended earlier than I expected, and I had to come to you before I slept. My darling, my darling,” wiping tenderly the flushed cheeks. “God grant I may never cause you to shed another tear.”—New York Ledger.

Dyspepsia from Unsound Teeth.

A German physician declares that 72.5 per cent of dyspeptics have unsound teeth. The average woman doesn’t think that she is really sick unless she Is taking some kind of medicine with a death’s bead on the bottle.

FIERCE NAVAL FIGHT.

COLUMBIAN GUNBOAT BUNK AT PANAMA BY REBELS. Government Loses Heavily In Encounter—General Alban Is Killed-Two Insurgent Vessels Disabled—United States Cruiser on the Scene. The Colombian rebels won a naval victory over the government forces at Panama Monday. They made a fierce at-

tack on three vessels in the harbor at daylight, completely surprising Gen. Alba n's forces. After a stubborn battle, in which six ships, three on each side, were engaged, the government steamer Lautaro was sunk and many soldiers on board killed. Among the

GEN. ALBAN.

dead is Gen. Alban, Governor of Panama, and commander-in-chief of the government forces. Three gunboats composed the rebel fleet. Two of them were badly disabled in the fight. The United States cruiser Philadelphia was in the harbor and witnessed the engagement. Sailors from the Philadelphia, after the battle, went on board the Lautaro to help fight the fire which had been started by the insurgent shells, but they were unsuccessful. The attack was almost a complete surprise to the government. The insurgent fleet was composed of the steamers Padilla, Darien and Gaitan. The government ships were the Chilian line steamer Lautaro, the Pacific Steam Navigation Company's steamer Chicuito aud the Panama Canal Company's steamer Boynea. The first-named steamer was seized by Gen. Alban and the other two have been chartered by the Colombian government. All three of the government steamers had been armed with as many guns as Gen. Alban could secure. He had Inken a large force on board the

GOVERNOR'S PALACE.

Lautaro and Chicuito, intending to sail to attack the insurgents. The principal insurgent attack was made by the Padilla. It entered the bay and succeeded in getting to close quarters with the Lautaro. The Padillo opened a fierce fire, to which the Lautaro made a brief response. Gen. Alban, however, was killed early in the engagement and many soldiers on board were killed or wounded, apd soon after the

VIEW OF A SECTION OF PANAMA HARBOR.

crew, disheartened at the suddenness nnd fierceness of the Padilla’s attack, deserted the ship as soon as it was discovered to be on fire. The government steamer Chicuito at once opened fire on the Padilla, and was, in turn, attacked by the Darien and Gaitan. The Chicuito was not seriously Injured, but seems to have inflicted serious damage on the Darien. The I’adillu, too, was compelled to retire to a safer distance as a result of the fire of the Chicuito. The guns at Las Vovedas also opened fire on the rebel ships, the range, however, being too great to render the shells dangerous. When the firing finally ceased the revolutionary steamer Darien approached the Philadelphia. The captain of the Darien was told by Captain Mead of the Philadelphia that the insurgent fleet would not be permitted to bombard the city of Panama or to land troops at the docks. The body of Gen. Alban was taken off the Lautaro as soon as possible, sailors from the United States cruiser Philadelphia assisting. The dead and wounded were also removed. The fire, however, could not be extinguished and the Lautaro sank in the harbor. Geu. Alban’s death is deeply deplored. He was loved by his soldiers nnd enjoyed the esteem of the community. It is asserted that the death of the Colombian lender may have the effect of bringing to the government side large numbers of men anxious to avenge his loss. Panama is the capital of the State of Panama, aud one of the finest seacoast cities in the United States of Colombia. It is on the Gulf of Panama and south of the Isthmus of Panama. It Is the starting point of the Panama canal and is a favorite name in that locality. The city contains a population of 40,000, nnd its more important part Stands on a peninsular tongus of land, across which its streets extend from sea to sea. It is a bishop's see, and has a handsome cathedral and five other Catholic churches. It hns a normal and several primary schools, all sustained by the government.

JUDGE • WILLIAM H • TAFT

TAFT RETURNS HOME.

Civil Governor of the Philippines Says Rebellion Is About Ended. W. H. Taft, civil governor of the Philippine Islands, who arrived at San Francisco on the transport Grant, is quite ill, the Philippine climate and the arduous duties he has performed having told on his constitution. Gov. Taft says the war is confined to the two provinces. Batangas and Samar, and the operations in Batangas occasionally range into the neighboring provinces of Tayabas and Laguna. Gov. Taft says Gen. Wheaton is doing splendid work in the islands and that officer assured him shortly before he sailed that tlie natives of the province of Batangas and its vicinity would all be pacified before the close of next March. The provinces of Cebu and Bohol, until recently disturbed by insurgent operations, have settled down, the fighting men having all surrendered. The Filipinos are very anxious to secure a Legislature as a step toward the permanent establishment of a civil government. The present civil government has been working with great zeal and has far exceeded expectations, the governor says. The chief difficulty at present is the lack of police protection in the provinces. Small bands of robbers still infest the back districts. They terrorize the natives and until the strong arm of the law is able to suppress them absolute peace in the islands will not be obtained. The native Filipino police have proved a success. They were appointed by the civil

government nnd officered by Americans, they do good service. Gov. Taft will remain in the United States about two months.

DIG PATH TO LIBERTY.

Desperate Criminals Escape from Prison on McNeil’s Island. Eleven of the most desperate prisoners in the United States penitentiary on McNeil’s Island, \Uash., escaped Sunday afternoon. It was the most daring and successful jail breaking ever attempted in the State. A hole in the brick wall of cell No. 10, which was occupied by Convicts Snyder nnd Davis, revealed the means of escape. The wall is about a foot thick, anil the floor of the cell is of the same thickness, and is covered with concrete. A tunnel was dug at the junction of the wall and the floor, sloping outwardly, until it formed a connection with the nir chamber about two feet below and a foot from the corridor wall of the cell. ’ Through this air chamber the prisoners crawled forty feet to where it opened into the boiler room, the opening being covered by nn iron grating. This obstacle was overcome by the use of inw», and the prisoners liad then only to walk out of the back door of the boiler room and across the yard nnd scale the board fence. A few yards from the prison grounds the dense growth of timber afforded them a safe retreat temporarily. Warden Palmer believes the prisoners used a spoon aud wooden wedges to burrow through the brick.

Sparks from the Wires.

A new lecture hall, to cost $109,000. is to be built for Harvard University this President Roosevelt has announced that he intends to make a trip to the Pacific coast next summer, Nat Herreshoff is preparing plans for a new vessel to be used as an America’s eup defender, in case of need. A Chicago syndicate has leased for oil prospecting purposes 4,000 acres of hud near Granite, O. T., and will begin work at one*.

FACE OF A SUICIDE ON THE NEW $10 BILL.

Most persons are unaware that the portrait on the new $lO bill, known as the “buffalo bill” because of the rampant

figure of a bison in the center of it, is that of a man who committed suicide. It is a picture of Meriweuther Lewis, a famous explorer and once private secretary to President Thomas Jefferson, who afterward made him Governor of Missouri Terri- ’ tory. In a fit of deep despondency he killed himself when 35 years old. No other instance

M. LEWIS.

of the face of a suicide appearing on any of Uncle Sam’s printed money is known.

TOWNE ENTERS WALL STREET.

Ex-Senator Heads a New York Banking and Stock Exchange Company. In spite of his denunciation of the “money power” and his invective against Wall street, ex Senator Charles A. Towne is to enter that thoroughfare. The firm of C. A. Towne & Co., bankers and brokers, will occupy handsome offices at Nos. 63 and 65 Wall street, and it is said negotiations have been completed for the new concern to acquire a seat in the New York Stock Exchange. In May, 1901, in answer to a telegram from a friend in the Beaumont oil field in Texas, Towne answered from Duluth: “What's the use? I haven’t any money.” His friend urged that a good name was better than money, and the ex-. Senator, who had retired to practice law, went to make a fortune. He successfully floated two large companies and six months ago was rated a millionaire.

MINERS IN CONVENTION.

Nearly; 1,000 Delegatee in Attendance nt Indianapolis, Ind. Nearly 1,000 members of the United Mine Workers of America were present at the thirteenth annual convention when it opened in Tomlinson Hall, Indianapolis. Delegates were present from twen-ty-four States, representing every bituminous and anthracite coal field iu the United States. Ben Tillett, the famous British labor leader, who is in this country studying labor conditions, was the guest of President Mitchell and the miners. His address was one of the features of the convention. The convention was to continue until the joint conference with the operators of Ohio, Pennsylvania. Illinois and Indiana should begin. This last conference will probably last for ten days.

M’CALLA TO BUILD CLUBHOUSE

Prize Money Won in the Bpaniah War to Be Put to Novel Use. Captain B. 11. McCalla, now in command of the Kenrsarge, the flagship of the North Atlantic squadron, lias in view

the erection of a tine club house at Vallejo, CaL. for the enlisted men of the navy. He hns already secured a site for the proposed building. paying for it with prize money awarded to him for hi* service* In the Spanish war. Additional fund* nre to be secured

CAPT. M CALLA.

by popular subscription. .Mrs. McCalla is now in San Francisco making the preliminary arrangement* for the erection of the structure, which will probably be modeled after the Bluejackets’ Club House in Brooklyn, which was erected through the munificence of Mis* Helen Gould. It will be a home for the men at Mare Island when off duty.

Gain in Postal Receipts.

A general increase of 14.5 per cent I* indicated by a statement of the postal receipts at the fifty principal postofficea for the month of December, 1901, compared to the corresponding period for 1900. The aggregate I* $5,137,310. Chicago reports the greatest proportionate advance, 22.8 per cent, the total at that office being $783,094. New York advanced 16.7 per cent am? Philadelphia has an advance of 14.9 per cent.

Steerage Passengers at New York.

According to the immigration figure* at Ellla laland, the varloua trnnwatlantlc ateamahip line* brought to New York during the year RtH.Oll paaaengera, of whom 438,8*18 were carried in the ateer«Me. A branch of the Y. 81. C. A. ia to be eatabliahed In the City of Mexico.

OPENED BY THE KING.

BRITISH PARLIAMENT RESUMES ITS LABORS. stcsml Pomp Attends the Ceremonies —Populace Hails the King—Speech from the Throne Greeted with Cheers —Ruler Defends Hia Soldiers. King Edward opened Parliament with a ceremonial in all essential respects similar to that of February last. The procession to the House of Lords was of the same character as that witnessed on the occasion of the opening of the first Parliament of King Edward’s reign, while within the upper house were seen the same state pageantry, the same historic dresses and the same revival of ancient forms. King Edward and Queen Alexandra occupied their thrones beneath a canopy, with the Prince and Princess of Wales on either side of them. The other members of the royal family were seated on chairs at the foot of the steps leading to the throne. The gentleman usher of the Black Rod, Gen. Sir Michael Biddulph, having summoned the speaker and the members of the House of Commons, his majesty read the speech from the throne. Their majesties then retired amid a fanfare of trumpets and attended by the same regal ceremony as accompanied their entry into the house. King Edward’s speech from the throne opened with a reference to the tour of the Prince and Princess of Wales. “They were everywhere,” said the King, “re-

KING EDWARD VII.

ceived with demonstrations of the liveli est affection, and I am convinced their presence served to rivet more closely ths bonds of mutual regard and loyalty by which the vigor of the empire is maintained.” “I regret," said his majesty, “that the war in South Africa is not yet concluded, though the course of the operations has been favorable to our arms, the area of war largely reduced, and industries are being resumed in my new colonies. “The necessity for relieving those of my troops who have most feit the strain of war has afforded me the opportunity of again availing myself of the loyal and patriotic offers of my colonies, and further contingents will shortly reach South Africa from the Dominion of Canada, the commonwealth of Australia and New Zealand.” In regard to the sugar conference the speech said: “I trust its decision may lead to the abandonment of the system by which the sugar producing colonies and home manufacturers of sugar.havo been unfairly weighted in the prosecution of this important industry." Then came the following clause: “I have concluded with the President of the United States a treaty, the provisions of which will facilitate the construction of an interoceanic canal under guarantees that Its neutrality will be maintained, and that it will be open to the commerce and shipping of all nations.” On the opening day of Parliament the aggressiveness of the opposition rivaled the speech from the throne in public interest. The attacks upon the government were of such an unexpected nature that they drew the tire of Premier Salisbury in the House of Lords and that of Joseph Chamberlain in the Commons.

NEW ROCKEFELLER FACE.

Multimillionaire Change* Appearance by Shaving Hia Mustache. The shaving off of his mustache makes a surprising change in the appearance of John I). Rockefeller, the multimillion-

aire. He seems much thinner and more sickly, aaya a New York dispatch. His hair has begun to fall out so fast that he is almost entirely bald. He seems to be more easily fatigued than heretofore. On his estate of 2,(MX) acres in the I’ocantico hills, Rockefeller often works for day* st * time in the fields, hoping thus to regain hi* strength, but thus far hl* efforts have oven In vain. After a few day* of exertion he sits down to a supper

J. D. ROCKEFELLES.

of cracker* and skimmed milk, which la served at a temperature of 98 2-5 degrees, for nothing may pass hi* Up* at a temperature lower than blood heaL Ho ia almost a pbyaical wreck.

COAL IS SCARCE.

Railroad* Unable to Meet the Demand for Thia Commodity. Shortage of care and motive power on the rallroada haa reaulted in a acarcity of coal throughout a large part of the United State*, and in New York and other large citiea where the conaumptlon ia great a coal famine ia threatened. There actually la leu coal on hand here now than there wae at the name time laat year, when a prolonged atrike in the anthracite region had paralyaed the laduatry.