Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1902 — Page 6

Won By a Tune

OOD BY, dearest:” ((« “Good-by!” For the twentieth time Mark Jermyn uttered the words of farewell, and for the twentieth time the Klrl responded, but, realizing that the parting was not an ordinary one, they were loth to part, evep then. Years hence they might meet again; perhaps never! “And dearest, you’ll remember, if the .recollection of me ever stands in your light, you’re to forget I existed. Promise me that!” The girl looked Into the earnest face bending over her, into the depths of the gruve, brown eyes. “1 cannot,” she said ooftly. “More»ver, Is it necessary? is it what you vould do were you in my placeV” Her logic wus unanswerable, and lie dghed. “If you were the only child of somebody next door to a millionaire,” she went on, “and your father forbade you to marry any one who was not wealthy while you really loved one poor as a church mouse, • would you give up without a struggle? Of course you wouldn't, Mark. You’d wait, and wait, nud hope!” “But waiting doesn’t always bring wealth,” broke In Jermyn, “especially In the musical profession. Why did my father ever—destine me —for bis own career?” be added, bitterly. “Because It’s what you're most fitted for,” Elsie Benton replied. “Mark, dear, you're going to be a great man.” He waived away her words with a ■mile and another kiss. “You flatter me, sweetheart,” he said, “although It’s true my father was far from being a mediocrity. lie changed his name on marriage, and died when I was only live years old. But his existence really ended, so far ns the world was concerned, when he forsook nis old name, for he never composed a single tiling after.” "How strange!” remarked the girl, wonderingly. “And what a terrible example to you. dearest.” “You may think so. Of course, I ras too young to know much then, nd never heard how It all happened, »r my mother soon followed my •ther.” “And his name before was ?” “Wegar—Mark Wegnr—one of the foremost composers of Ids time!” • • A couple of years later Mark Jermyn was iu London. It seemed much longer since he had parted from Elsie Benton in Paris, where they had been fellow students at the Conservatoire; •he for the sake of finishing a musical education, he because he had Ids future living to consider. In Paris the girl had been free from the hidebound conventionalities of home, and her doting parents would (doubtless have been horrified had they known she had dared to regard ■ome one with affection. The two had parted; he to work for a name and •he to enter Society. And now he was in Loudon, his fame having preceded him, nnd Mark Jermyn, the celebrated piauist, was announced to make his debut before the most critical audience in the world. Success had not spoiled him, and he remained the same modest man that had held Elsie's hand in his two years •lnce; deeply, madly in love with her ■till. Several times site laid written to him, and with her last letter iu his pocket as a talisman, lie faced the eager crowd that evening.

The performance was a success, Mark Jermyu'a reputation was more than upheld and lie quickly became the lion of the hour. Invitations from the highest iu the land literally showered upon him, so numerous, that they would have taken years to respond to all, one of the earliest coming from the Kentons offering a princely fee for a short recital at a forthcoming “At Home." To this Jermyn stiffly replied that he only accepted social engagements. An answer soou eume altering the tone of the Invitation, and a day or two later he found himself about to meet his loved one once more.' The place was already thronged with guests when he arrived, but Elsie was the first to greet him, and as he took her hand he would have knelt down there and then and kissed It, had not decorum forbade. She welcomed him gayly, and lie felt all at once the happiest of mortals, for n single look served to tell him he held her heart still. “I’m hostess for the moment,” she observed. “Let me take you to mother.” He followed her, and a little later was being introduced to Mrs. Kenton. “Mr. Jermyn. mother!” The stately lady addressed, looked up, and as she saw his handsome, clear-cut features, started. “Mr. Jermyn?—ah, yes, of course! Tour appearance seems familiar. But then, aren't your photographs all over London?" she asked. Mark bowed, but guessed by her tone that she had never seen his portrait. He sauntered aimlessly about, conversing first with one and another, till •t length he found lUiusclf addressing the host himself. And Jermyn was Agreeably surprised; Elsie's father

was not nearly so formidable as he had pictured him to be; on the contrary, his attitude toward the young lion of the season was courtesy andgeniality itself. “Ah! my daughter tells me she met you In Paris,” he remarked. “One of the first to discover your genius, I believe? Elsie’s a dear girl, iny dear sir!” “She Is,” assented Mark, earnestly. “Always a dutiful girl, and a prize worth the winning,” continued Mr. Benton, briskly. “It's a pity we're to lose her so soon—hut there! the men, the men! I was young myself once.” “Y’ou mean .some one will fall in love with her?” queried Jermyn, anxiously. “Has fallen in love. Scores of them. By the way, there she is with Lord Mapleson.” Mark Jermyn turned and followed the other’s glance to where Elsie stood talking with the man he hud noticed a few moments before. “Are they ?” "Engaged, my dear sir, engaged. And to be married shortly. My wife's a wonderful woman's she arranged it all!” Mark's first Impulse was to flee, but lie resolved to leurn the truth from Elsie’s lips first. At last lie caught her glance; following her Into a small ante-room leading from one of the principal apartments. When the door closed, he took her hand, and looked into her eyes. "Elsie,” he asked. “Is it true?” She averted her gaze. “Is what true?” she murmured. “That you’re engaged to Lord Mapleson?” Her eyes filled with tears and she turned toward him passionately. "No!” she said vehemently. “He's asked me frequently, but I’Ve always refused. But mamma insists, ami the rumor we’re engaged is about already. Oh, Mark! Mark!”—with an stretching of her arms that was irresistible; "what's to be done?” He took her into Ills arms. “You love me, what is to prevent our happiness?” "Mother—she insists. Father, 1 know, would rather I married a man of my choice.” “And I Insist on you marrying me!” he cried earnestly. “That is, if you're willing to become the wife of u nonentity?” She looked up quickly. “Who is the nonentity?” she asked. “You, the clever artist or”—with a gesture of disdain—“ Lord Mapleson?” “Then, darling,” he cried, “if yo'ur mother will not consent. It must be a runaway match. You’re sure you don’t mind Intrusting your happiness to me?" “No, Indeed, Mark, no! I love you, oh! heaps more than I did two years ago, and that’s something, isn’t It?” He admitted that It was, nnd kissed her, when some one calling Elsie, she had to leave. Mark strolled back to the drawing room with a lighter henrt. Some one was asking Mr. Benton whether Jermyn was to play; the host shrugged his shoulders, but the musician at once interrupted with the remark he should only he too delighted. A move was made to the piano, while all voices were hushed ns it became kuown that the great Jermyn was at the instrument. He run through several of Ills better known tilings In' succession, playing ns he had never played before, his nudlence, spellbound and enraptured. The applause at his conclusion, unlike most drawing-room applause, was for once sincere.

Mr. Kenton was profuse in his thanks, and then his less genial wife Inquired ns a special favor, whether he would give them a novelty. “A novelty?” repeated Mark, anxious to please has prospective parent. "Ah, yes! I had almost forgotten. Today's the twenty-second, isn't it? There Is one thing I only play once a year, : -id always on the twenty-sec-ond of this mouth.” The last notes of the song were gradually dying away, when all at once there wns a tense scream from a distant corner of the room. All turned and saw that Mrs. Renton had fainted. A few days later Mark Jermyn called to Inquire after Mrs. Kenton, whom It wus understood was seriously ill. The young fellow wns at once shown Into Mr. Kenton's study, where the millionaire greeted him Cordially. "My dear Mr. Jermyn,” lie said, “you’re the very man 1 wish to see! You remember the effect your wonderful playing produced on my wife the other evening?” "Unfortunately,” responded the famous musician. “Believe me, I’d) exceedingly sorry.” "It’s not your fault, my boy," be answered kindly. "The event has brought something to light which I hope may moan'your'happiness. I have learned that my daughter loves you." “Yes," responded Mark, quietly. “And I love her, too.” “Just so. Just so! What I was gplng to say wns my wife, It npisars, was once engaged to your father.”

Mark Jermyn looked up In astonishment. I “Yes,” continued Mr.* Benton, “and from what I can hear —of course, this is in confidence between you and me —it broke Mark Wegar’s heart. My wife jilted him for myself, nnd It seems that, out of pity, he afterward married a cousin whom he discovered had been in love with him for years. The air you played the other evening was one of Wegar's compositions, was It not?” "Yes,” replied- Mark. “My father left me ihc manuscripts, with the injunction it was only to be played on the twenty-second of November In each year the anniversary of w r hat I could never make out.” “Ah! my wife recognized the theme; it was the old love song he used to play to her and of which she had been so fond. The date you mention was the one on which she broke off the engagement. Old memories came back to her, and and——” “Say no more, sir, it's a painful subject.” _ “To in l sure, to he sure! My wife wishes me to tell you that, although she broke your father’s heart, she has no wish to’ break either yours or her daughter's. We are both willing you should marry Elsie.” Some one opened the door just then, and Elsie Itentor, seeing Mark, threw herself into his v arms.—New York News.

A PURSE FOR HIGHWAYMEN.

Highway Bobbery Very Prevalent in England a Century Ago. The frequency of highway robberies only a century ago sounds surprising to the present generation. Horace Walpole, in a letter to a friend, recounts an adventure of this kind which befell him and his friend and neighbor, Lady Browne, iu the autumn of 1781. The night I had the honor of writing to your ladyship last I was robbed. Lady Browne and I were, as usual, going to the Duchess of Montrose at seven o'clock. The evening was very dark. Iu tluxcloSe lane under her park pale, and within twenty yards of the gate, a black fignre on horseback pushed by between the chaise aud the hedge on my side. I suspected it was a x higlnvayman, and so I found did Lady Browne, for she was speaking and stopped. To divert her fears I was just going to say, "is not that the apothecary going to the ducliess?” when I heard a voice cry, "Stop!” and the figure came back to the chaise. I had the presence of mind before I let down the glass to take out my watch and stuff it within my waistcoat, under ray arm. He said, “Your purses and watches!” 1 replied, “My watch is not in my pocket.” “Then your purse.” I gave it to him; it had nine guineas. It was so dark that I could not see'his hand, but felt him take it. He then asked for Lady Browne's purse, nnd said, “Don’t be frightened; l wdil do you no hurt.” I said, “No; you won’t frighten the lady.” lie replied, “No; I give you my word I will do no hurt.” Lady Browne gave him her purse and was going to add her watch, but ha said, "I am much obliged to you. I wish you good night!” Then he pulled off ids hat and rode away. “Well,” said I, “Lady Browne, you will not be afraid of being robbed another time, for you see there is nothing in It." “Oh, but I am!’i said she. “And now I am in terrors lest he should return, for 1 have given him a purse with my old had money that I carry on purpose.” “He certainly will not open It directly,” 1 said, "and at worst he can only wait for us at our return; but 1 will send my servant back for a horse and a blunderbuss,” which 1 did.

Faithful to the Last.

In many Scotch families the old man servant Is a permanent Institution. He enters the service of a family when he is a boy, sticks to his place, and resigns only when the Infirmities of age are upon him. Naturally he grows In time to claim ns rights what were at first granted him as favors, and if he is opposed asserts himself with a spirit of, independence. An English paper tells a story Illustrative of this. A lady's coachman —a crusty old fellow who had been In the service of the family In her father’s time—gave her great trouble uud annoyance on several occasions by not carrying out her In-, struotlons. At length his conduct became unbearable, and she determined to dismiss him. Calling him Into her presence, she said with as much asperity as she could command: “I cannot stand this any longer, John. You must look out for another situation. You will leave my servlco at the end of the month.” The old servant looked at her In amusement for a minute, and then the characteristic “loyalty" enme to tho surfuce. “.Nn, na, wy lady," lie said, “I drove you to the kirk to be baptized, I drove you to your marriage, and I’ll stay to drive you to your funeral!”

A Potent Remedy.

Customer—Are you quite sure thu preparation’of yours is good for weak lungs? Druggist—Certainly. Less than one year ago n mart In the last stages of consumption bought a bottle of It and to day Customer—He's a dead one, eh? Druggist—Not on your life. He’s a calamity howling political orator.— Chicago New*.* Tight shoes won’t hurt you If left in the shoe stores. v

FACTS ABOUT THE CATTLE WAR.

Millions of Acres of Government Domain Fenced Each Year. The trouble over the cattle ranges that have been established on the public lands io several States nnd which came so

prominently before tlie country through tile warlike declarations of Col. .Mosby a few weeks ago, is really a question tli>il affects a very wide area of country. When Col, Mosby stated that the 1 ’resident would send troops to drive the ranchmen off the lands they ille--gaily occupied the declaration was re-

COL J. S. MOSBY.

carded ns the effervescence of a.particularly fiery soul. It was officially denied in Washington that the I •resident had any such intentions. This official denial v, iis looked upon as a repudiation of Col. Mostly. This view, however, was a mistake. The colonel is still ill tin* employ ■■• f tlic government and is industriously procuring evidence ngnihst the men who have fenced in the public domain aud turned the lands of the United States into cattle ranges for private, uses. Although Col. Mushy's statement that i trp I’resident was about to send troops to drive the rangers off the lauds which they illegally .occupied was premature it was not founded on imagination alone. For the act of 1885 gave the. I‘resident the power to send troops t<> tear down the fences that had 'been illegally erected about the government lands. The act also suggested a less drastic enithod of procedure. That was to secure evidence against the men who illegally occupied the government lands and to indict llieni in the United States courts. That is the work that Uoi. Mostly lias been doing, but as the process is long and slow,, and in the meantime the government is being • mulcted of thousands of acres of valu.i----i Ido land which is thus shut off from set- ' (lenient it is not improbable that the core drastic method may he employed. It is known that powerful inrtuenees are ! fit work in Washington to get the administration to agree to summary methods | being used to protect the rights of tin ountry and the settlers against the ag- | gressiotis of the cattle barons. As an I illustration of the inadequacy of the j present methods it is cited tlint during ! last year lot! cases of unlawful fencing f public lands were reported to the luerior Department. These cases embrace t. 952,844 acres. In nine of these cases die fences were removed on notification ;>f the government agents. But in the i eniainder of the eases, embracing 3,28,280 aers, the land is still in possession of the cattlemen, while the rases ire going through the slow processes of lie courts.

AGED PRIMATE IS DEAD.

The Archbishop of Canterbury I’asscs Away in London. Most Rev. Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury and primate of all England, died in London Tuesday. His

death had been expected for several days and only the archbishop's remarkable vitality ennViled him to survive as long as lie did. The primate died of old age. The i pathetic scene in Westminster Abbey at the coronation of King Edward was one of the indications of his failing strength. Then came

BISHOP TEMPLE.

tlie collapse in the House of Lords at the conclusion of a vigorous speech iu support of the education bill. He had uot left his bed since then. Dr. Frederick Temple was born at Santa Maura, lonian Islands, Nov. “0, 1821, and achieved fame as head master at Rugby. He was made Archbishop of Canterbury Dec. 22, 1890, and was without doubt one of tlie most popular men who ever was primate of all lingland. Although 81 years old, bis health was good until his last illness. The archbishop’s work was mainly preaching, although he did some writing. His best known publications art* “Sermons at Bug by School," Hampton lectures nnd-tracts and pamphlets.

MARCONI SPANS THE OCEAN.

First Long Wireless Messaifen Pent Across lie Atlantic. Marconi has positively announced ike successful inauguration of the transoceanic wireless service between Canada and England. The great inventor made the announcement that n message from Earl Minto. governor general of Canada, wns successfully transmitted from Table Head to the Cornwall station and thence forwarded to his majesty King Edward VII. of England. A second message was sent by the commander of the. Carlo AJberto to the King of Italy and a third by Dr. Parkin, manager of the Rhodes scholarship scheme, to the London Times. 80 gradually Ims the possibility of wireless telegraphy been made known to the world that the public generally will miss the tremendous significance of the announcement made at Halifax. To appreciate it better one has only to consider thut but. a very few years ago telegraphy without wires was looked upon as something well out of the range of possible attainment. Even after its practicability for short distances hml been demonstrated the idea of sending messages across the Atlantic without wires was regarded as the dream of a visionary enthusiast. Marconi, It Hpponrs, has succeeded nut only in sending messages, across the ocean, hut in demonstrating beyond all reasonable doubt that this may be made a regular method of communication for practical purposes. The achievement uppeals to the imagination not alone ns another instance of man’s conquest of material forces, hut ns bringing a new factor into play In the social mid political life of the world. Like the telegraph, the telephone and the cable, the wireless system must have its effect in bringing the nations nearer together and making them more closely Interdependent. In some ways It may pc curiously effective hi shnping the world’s history. Frank Lewis Imnged in Hnrlan, Ky., for murder.

IN THE PUBLIC EYE

Luther T. Ellsworth, United States consul to Puerto Cabello, the Venezuelan town that was bombarded by the

British, is the first American to have been elected president of the consular corps at that city, an honor conferred on him a few months ago. lie is a resident'' of Elkhart, Iml., and is now on a visit to his family in that city. During tlie late rebellion in Venezuela Mr. Ells' worth did splendid

L. T. ELLSWORTH.

service in helping wounded soldiers. After the capture of the city in 1891) he personally saw that the sick and wounded men were properly pared for. President Castro, for this service, desired to decorate Mr. Ellsworth with tlic order of the Bust of Bolivar, an honor denied the consul owing to the constitutional limitation. Mr. Ellsworth is a native of Ohio.

Senor Jose Yiuceuti Concha, who bits been recalled by his government from bis post of minister from Colombia to Wash-

ington, lias had a short stay in the American capital, owing to his persistent tactics as an obstructionist to the negotiations for the isthmian canal. Concha arrived in Washington last spring, and w as well received. Jle came with a good record as a diplomat and master of international law. lie had

SENOR CONCHA.

been attorney general and minister of war in the. cabinet of the United States of Colombia, and is also said to have been an excellent soldier.

Tlie acquittal of Boland Id. Moliticux marked the end of one of tlie most notable murder trials New York has ever

seen. It began nearly four years ago, when he was charged with musing tlie : dentil of Mrs. Katherine J. Adams. It was alleged that Molinenx sent anonymously to Harry 8. Cornish of the Knickerbocker Athletic Club a bottle of bromo seltzer containing cyanide of mercury. Corn-

R. B. MOLINEUX.

ish gave Mrs. Adams a dose of tlie supposed drug, and her death resulted. On the first trial Molinfux was found guilty, loir an appeal was taken nnd a new trial ordered, which ended iu freeing him from tlie shadow eleatric chair under which lie so long

Rewards aggregating $18,900 have been offered for tlie arrest and conviction of the murderers of Arthur 1.. Col-

lins, general manager of the Smuggler Union Mining Company nt Pandora, near Toll unde, Colo., and of \V. G. B. Harney aiul Wes, j ley E. Smith, miners who mysteriously disappeared or are believed to have been killed previous to the assassination of Collins. Mr. Collins was shot by an

A. L. COLLINS.

unknown assassin while in _ the office building of the company late in the evening. .

Dr. Adolph Lorenz lias been honored with the degree of bachelor of laws by ilic Northwestern University. The noted

scientist is professor of orthopedic surgery in the University of Vienna. He is a nntivo of *he Austrian capital, and has spent his life thus far in that city. It was l)r. Lorenz's fame as nu expert operator in congenital malformations that induced .1. Ogden Ap inour, the Chicago millionaire, to sc-

DR. A. LORENZ

cure the services of the great Austrian in the case of his little daughter, Lolltn Armour.

Her. William Henry Milhurn, the blind chaplain of the Senate, who hue resigned front that post after a service covering.

with some few Interruptions, n apace of nearly sixty years, first officiated as congressional chaplain in He is a native of Pennsylvania, and in his ninetieth year. He began his career as n clergyman in Illinois, where lie was a student in Illinois College, and was a pioneer traveling

REV. MILBURN.

preacher in the Methodist Church, lie lias lieen blind from his youth.

Huntsville, the county seat of Madison County, Ark., a town of about six hundred inhabitants, was almost totally dostroyed by fire. A court house, with most of the county records and four business houses were burned. The dowager empress has decided appoint Prince Chen to he the principal representative of China at the Ht. Louis exposition. Tim location of the packing honsa at Fort Worth is stimulating the raising of cattle in central Texas.

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