Plymouth Tribune, Volume 4, Number 36, Plymouth, Marshall County, 8 June 1905 — Page 3

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The worst feature of the business situation is entirely due to further Chicaaa spreading of labor troubles. With the struggle now carried into productive branches and enforced idleness probable among large bodies of workmen, obstruction becomes intensified and requires prompt relief. Except for the local disturbance trade generally exhibits strong tone throughout the Chicago district, and the indications are good for continued industrial prosperity with the present difficulty removed. In actual results the week's progress affirms the inherent strength of commerce. Money remained in fair demand and bank exchanges made the largest gains during this month, as compared with a year ago. Financial conditions here made a healthy showing, investment in improvements gained, and the security market almost trebled in dealings, without any disquieting change in values. Crop reports played a strong part in the markets for the two leading cereals, and these being mainly unfavorable and the May options much oversold, it was not found difficult to manipulate sharp advances in quotations. These operations were not helpful In the general demand, for grain and flour values were easier. Receipts of grain aggregated 2,074,429 bushels, against 2,120,130 bushels for the corresponding week of 1904, and the shipments were 2,C2G,34S bushels, against 2.S3S,3S3 bushels. The production of flour has increased, but there Is no corresponding gain in the forwarding and the foreign demand has remained remarkably dull. Production in the leading branches Is without diminution, and new commitments were made to a satisfactory extent. Wholesale transactions reached a fair volume in staple merchandise, deliveries were larger and State street activity. was stimulated by better demand for seasonable wares. Country advices have been very encauraglng, farm .work showing rapid recovery from the effect of recent heavy rains, crop prospects remaining good and merchandising expanding. Western railroad traffic! sustains exceptional magnitude, earnings steadily exceeding those of a year ago. Heavy movement of manufactured materials, raw product and general merchandise provided most of the tonnage. Marketing of grain has declined 22 per cent, but this Is due to temporary causes. Live stock receipts were 2 Gl, 001 head, compared with 2GG,."iSG head a year ago. Shipping demand weakened in heavy beeves and hogs and sheep found ready absorption. Failures reported in the Chicago district number twenty-six, against thirty-three last week and eighteen a year ago. Wholesale trade is seasonably quiet pending a clearer view of crop out K6V YorL turn, which, owing to irregular or unsettled weather in wide areas, still lacks defin.'te form. Cool weather is still a bar to fullest activity at retail. Manufacturing activity is still in large volume on orders previously booked. Speculative markets for wheat reflect technical conditions and short supplies in primary markets more clearly than they do the slight deterioration in quantity and quality indicated as resulting from recent backward weather, which has also been used as a lever to affect corn and cotton. Collections reflect little more than seasonable slowness, and money Is easy and in abundant supply. Rather more friction In labor matters is noted In Chicago. Despite efforts to accentuate less favorable happenings for stock speculative purposes there is still abundant evidence that the country's consumptive requirements are on a large scale, heavily exceeding a year ago at this time. Railway earnings for the first half of May exceed it year ago br C.5 per cent. Chicago Cattle, common to prime $4.00 to $0.00; hogs, prime heavy, $4.00 to ?3.40; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.85; wheat, No. 2, ?l.oG to $1.07; corn, No. 2, 50c to 52c: oats, standard, 30c to 32c; rye, No. 2, SOc to 83c; hay, timothy, $8.50 to $13.50; prairie, $G.0O to $11.00: butter, choice creamery, 18c to 20c; egs, fresh. 13c to 15c; potatoes, new, per bbl., $2.00 to $3.00. Detroit Cattle, $3.50 to $5.70; hojrs, $4.00 to $5.35; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2, $1.03 to $1.05: corn, No. 3 yellow, 53c to 55c; oats. No. 3 white, 31c to 33c; rye, No. 2, 78c to 80c. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern, $1.05 to $1.0!J; corn. No. 3, 50c to 51c; oats, No. 2 white, 32c to 34c; rye, No. 1, 81c to 82c; barley, No. 2, 50c to 52c; pork, mes3, $12.25. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 90c to $1.01; corn, No. 2 mixed, 4Sc to 50c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 30c to 32c; rye. No. 2, 81c to 82c; clover seed, prime, $7.00. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to G.25; hogs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $5.G0; sheep, fair to choice, $4.50 to $5.00; lambs, fair to choice, $5.00 to $0.73. New York Cattle. $3.00 to $5.80; bogs, $4.00 to $3.75; sheep, $3.00 to n.73; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.02 to $1.03; corn, No. 2, 5Gc to 5Se; oats, natural, white, C5c to 37c; butter, creamery, 20c to 21c; eggs, western, 15c to 18c. Indianapolis Catt, shipping, $3.00 to $0.25; hogs, choice heavy, $4.00 to $5.40; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2, $1.04 to $1.0G; corn, No. 2 white, 50c to 51c; oats, No. 2 whit. SOc to 32c. St. Louis Cattle, $4.50 to $0.23; hogs, $4.00 to $5.40; sbeep, $4.00 to. $4.75; wheat, No. 2, OCc to OSc; corn, No. 2, 40c to 50c; oats. No. 2, 20c to 30c; rye, No. 2 70c to 72c. Cincinnati Cattle..00 to $3.C3; tcs, $4.00 to $3.4C vep. $2.00 to C110: wheat. No. 2, $ J to $1.07; corn, Io. 2 mixed, 52c to 54c; oats, No. 2 nixed, 31c to 33c; rye. No. 2, SOc to

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Oats and Corn Growth Slow, but "Wheat Still Appears Promising. The following is the general summary of the weekly crop report of the weather bureau: During the week ending May 29 most of the country experienced unfavorable temperature, frosts occurring during the early part of the week in the plateau regions, in most of the northern tier of States, east of the Rocky mountains, and as far south as the interior portions of the middle Atlantic States. Rains interfered with farm work in portions of ths- south Atlantic States and east gulf States, Tennessee, and over an area extending from central Texas northward to South Dakota and in portions of the lake regicn. At the close of the week rain was much needed ia New England and the middle Atlantic States, and sunshine and warmth in" the south Atlantic and east gulf States and the Missouri valley. On the Pacific coast the weather was cool and cloudy, with showers in northern California, Oregon and Washington. Corn planting is largely finished, except in th-s lake region, Ohio valley and northern portion of the middle Atlantic State. Throughout the principal corn States germination and growth of corn havt beert very slow, owing to cool weather, and more than the usual amount of replanting will be necessary. In the central gulf States part of the crop ha been laid by. Ia this region corn has suffered considerably from overflows. In northern Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Tennessee corn is much in need ot cultivation. Winter wheat has suffered slight detericvation in portions of the central and western districts of the winter wheat belt, but it continues promising In the eastern districts, an Improvement being reported from Ohio. Reports of injury from rust continue from Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas, and rust and black heads are appearing in Illinois. Generally the reports indicate that wheat is heading low. In California the crop is maturing rapidly and an average yield is reported. In Oregon and Washington growth has been rapid, too rank growth being reported from Oregon, where it is in danger of lodging. In the Lakotas, Minnesota and Nebraska oats have made slow growth and the crop has suffered deterioration in Texas and portions of the middle Atlantic States, but elsewhere and ia principal producing States the outlook continues very promising. Throughout nearly the whole of the cotton belt cotton is much in need of cultivation, and reports of abandoned fields are received from the Carolinas. Georgia, Alabama and Louisiana. Good( stands are generally reported, but much planting remains to be done in northern Texas and planting is unfinished in Arkansas. In southern Texas and ia portions of the central and eastern districts the situation is improved and the crop is doing well in localities. Squares are now forming in the southern portions of the central and eastern districts. Boll weevils are increasing in Texas. The general outlook for a good crop of hay continues promising. Although freezing temperature occurred in the northern portion of the spring wheat region, spring wheat is reported as in good condition in Minnesota, and while frost in North Dakota proved injurious, the crop in that State has not been seriously damaged. Over the southera portion of the spring wheat regioa the crop has made more favorable progress, although growth has been slow. On the north Pacific coast spring wheat is much improved in Washington, but in Oregon it has advanced slowly, BOMB FOR THE KING. Life f Alfbnso Is Aimed at by Anarchist! ia Paris. An attempt to assassinate King Al fonso of Spain, while in Paris for a week's visit, and President Loubet of France was made the other night by an anarchist, who hurled a bomb beneath the carriage containing the two rulers as they were leaving the opera. As if by a miracle, both the King and President escaped uninjured, but frag ments of the missile seriously " injured ALFONSO. fir persons, killed or maimed a number of cavalry horses forming the escort,' and knocked out a child's eye. . The King and President retained their presence of mird, his majesty sending back a member of his suite to make inquiries as to the condition of the wounded. The person who is believed to have thrown the bomb has been arrested, with two others who are thought to have been implicated in the plot. Great excitement followed the explosion, rumors spreading immediately that the threats mad by the anarchists to assassinate King Alfonso when he came to "Paris had been successfully carried out. It has been known very generally in Paris that King Alfonso was added to the anarchists' list of victims marked for slaughter recently, and when the announcement was made that the young King would visit Paris the anarchists declared that they would make use of the visit to carry out their plot. Possibilities of Irrigation. The United States government now owns about 600,000,000 acres of vacant land. Of this land the greater part is arid. About 6,500,000 acres are irrigx.ted. There is water availlable for CG,000,000 more. Most of this land already irrigated is in Colcrado and California. The cost to the government thus far has been about $S per acre for irrigated land. A considerable area can be reclaimed at a cost no greater, but much of the land will cost $25 or Q -when provided with water. 7.t is estimated that if 1000,000,000 were expended -during the next forty yeats ia a large and consistent scheme of irrigation, the lands improved would t worth by the e-d of that period, net Iera thaa C2,CO0,CC0,0CO. Thesa are the ertirxate3 cf Director Chxxlcs D. Walcctt cf tha United Ditca

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Judge Albion WInegar Tourgee, fa mous as an author, lecturer and jurist. died at Bordeaux, France, where he was serving the serving United States as consul. He succumbed to ncute uraemia, which resulted from an old wound. J u d z o Tourgee was born at Williamsueld, Ohio, May 2, 183S. He graduated from Rochester Univera. w. loLKütK. slty in ihhz ana was admitted to the bar In Ohio in J804. He served as an officer in the ;Unlon army and was wounded twice in the Civil War. lie was also a pris oner in Llbby prison for six months. From 1SGT to 1881 he lived in North Carolina, being a member of the State's constitutional convention. lie was Judge of the Superior Court from 1S0S to 1874. He was a contributor to r)nncnoTaM r ty- orrOTlnoö flTlfl TCTOt P numerous novels, among them being ."A Fool's Errand" and "Bricks With out Straw." He married Emma L. Kilbourne at Columbus, Ohio, in 1803. His first consulship at Bordeaux was from 1897. to 1903. Then he served as cons'ul at Halifax and later was sent back to Bordeaux. M. Pobledonostseff. procurator gen eral of the holy synod, whose downfall is recorded in St. Petersburg dispatch es, had dominated the reactionary Influences In Russia for twenty- five years. He is SO years old and an Invalid, but until thd recent ukase conferring rellg.lous liberty upon the empire was the power behind the throne, with a Ions m. poBiEnoNosTSBKF. list of victories over the reform forces. As head of the Greek church Pobiedonostseff wa primarily responsible for the cruel persecutions of the Jews and Polish Catholics in the Czar's dominions, ne had always been an unrelenting foe to the United States and to the spread of American ideas in Russia. Ills career shows him to have been possessed of great energy and ability. He was born a peasant, nut worked his way to Kleff to study at the university there. -: :- The scat In the United States Senate vacated by the death of Orville II. Piatt, of Connecticut, will be occupied by Frank B. Bran-: decee. who was elected by the Leg islature for the un-i expired term.' Frank Bosworth Brandegee was born July S. 1S04, j I In New London, ( I Conn., where bis I r tf i luinuy is uue tu. the oldest and n. Bi!A.utut. most esteemed. and graduated from Yale College in the class of 1SS5. He was admitted to the bar of New London County In 1S88 and has ever since practiced his profession in his native town. At the age of 2-4 he was elected to the Con necticut General Assembly, and the next year became corporation counsel for New London, a position he filled until elected to Congress in 1901. He was speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1S99, . Sir George Williams, who, because pt ill health, was unable to attend the jecent Y. M. C. A. jubilee at Paris, Is the founder and president of the Organization and also is president of the Band of Hope Union. Sir George .was born in 1821, was knighted in 1894, and Is a member of the firm of Hitchcock, Willf v:-: V U&mW lams & Co., Lon- L-Q-' don warehouse- sin ueo. Williams men. He was but 21 when he started his Y. AI. C. A. wt)rk, and has witnessed the growth of the organization until now it extends to all parts of the civilized world. In Great Britain the property of the 1". 31. C. A. is val ued at $2,500,000. -.' :- Professor Leon C. Prince, who holds the chair of economics in Dickinson College, has attacked the principle of government Inter ference In industry In a lecture before his class. Profes cor Prince roundly denounced the Esch Townsend bill and similar agitations for fed eral control of the railroads. The pro posed legislation, i'rof. l. c. PRiscE Professor Prince said, is of a kind for which there is Jittle Intelligent demand and less ne pessity. Evils he admits In the rail road business. It would be strange if there were none. But the remedy does not lie In endangering the security of investments by foolish laws, whose only effect will be to reduce earnings Joaquin Madueo De Araujo, the new Brazilian ambassador, who is due to arrive In Washington soon, is very .popular in the diplomatic circles of the American capital, he having .served previously la tha capacity of attache. He .trill arrive before 'the new Russian and Mexican ambassadors, and will, therefore, ac L cording to the uses J. m. de akaujo. cf diplomacy, take precedence over C

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NEWS OF THE WEEK CONCISELY CONDENSED. What Onr Nelshbora Are Dolnc Matters of General and Local Inter est Marriages and Death Accidents and Crimes Personal Pointers About Indianians. Brief State Items. A movement is on foot to orgai.ize a State bank at Moore's Hill, and $25,000 has been subscribed. Mrs. Jennie Poole of Danville, the white wife of a negro miner, was struck by an interurban car and killed. Thomas Ryan, for several years tylr ol the Elks' lodge in South Bend, swallowed carbolic acid, dying soon afterward. Christian Knoop, aged 81, a wealthy citi zen of Evansville, while in a tree picking cherries, fell and sustained probably fatal injuries. The body of Nathaniel Warren was found along the Tan-handle tracks at Gib hardt. He was 35 years old and lived al Crown Point. Nervous disorder of the eyes has resulted in total blindness for William F. Merrick, a business man of Anderson, and he has retired from active life. Mrs. E. M. Arvin, until recently a wellknown woman of Evansville, brought suit against her husband for divorce at Hen derson, Ky., allegin;; that he is an avowed infidel." As he stepped from a Big Four track tc avoid an approaching freight train, Her man G. Steigerwalt, aged 61, of Lawrenceburg, was decapitated by a passenger train on the other track. The National Bridge Company of In dianapolis, has begun building the longest concrete bridge in the world at Peru. The bridge is to span the Wabash river and is to be 700 feet long. During a fire in Eastwood's market, at South Bend, $2,000 damage was done, while the family of Patrolman Vanlakc vas rescued from death by ladders stretched to the upper windows. While playing on the Louisville & Nash ville railroad bridge that crosses the Ohio river ten miles below Evansville, Ernest Woolfolk, age 8 years, was struck by a passenger train and killed. John Busker, 65 years old, a herb doctor, who lived the life of a hermit in a cabin near Evansville. was struck by a passenge, train on the Louisville, Henderson & St. Louis railway, and instantly killed. During William J. Bryan's visit at Cul ver, it is said that he arranged for his son, now in the Nebraska University, to enter the Culver Military Institue, and he will begin his academic course next fall.The slaughter house owned by G. B. Slagle & Son of Churubusco, caught fire from some unknown cause and burned down, entailinr: a loss of $500. Several dressed beeves and hogs were destroyed. The Ford fc Donnely factory and ma chine works of Kokomo.were destroyed by fire. The flames started in the boiler-room and spread to other parts of the factory. The loss will amount to $10,000, covered by insurance. A young man about 22 years old was struck by the Pennsylvania Limited a mile west of Fort Wayne and instantly killed. A memorandum book in his pocket bore the name of Willie Beichart, address Wilt shire, Ohio. Cyrus B. Jack man, aged 29, who died re cently at his late home in Angola, was probably the largest ma in the stata. 1E weight was 512 pounds, and his casket was twenty-four inches deep and forty-two inches wide. Melville Lockyear of Evansville, is arranging to build a ten-story office building in that city. The new structure will be is Main street, and will cost $200,000. Of this sum $145,000 has been subscribed by capitalists in Chicago. Miss Moille McVeda of Kokomo, who was born without a nose, and all her life had lived comparatively secluded, so keenly did she feel her disfigurement, that she attempted suicide, first by shooting, and afterwards by cutting her throat, failin both efforts. James Ellison, a rich and respected bachelor of Blue Creek township, is wanted by the officers at Decatur on a most serious charge, according to an affidavit filed in the Adams Circuit Court and signed by William T. Baker.. The affidavit charge, Ellison with criminal assault on the 5-year-old child of Baker. The body of John Kellar, a wealthy German farmer residing at Kellarville,was found in the woods hanging by the n;ck. He had been dead several days when found. Kellar was 70 years of age. lie divided his property among his children a short time ago. He became morose and imagined that he was being mistreated. While playing around his father's feed mill, Ward Robertson, the 10-year-old son of Libby Bobertson of Browstown, was caught on a line shaft and fatally injured. One leg, one arm and the chest bone wero broken, and he was otherwise cut and bruised. The mill had just been started and the shaftwas moving slowiy,otherwise the boy would have been instantly killed. One of the oldest dams in the St. Joe river, used for more than seventy years for power to operate a flouring mill, went out at Spencerville, and now the village is minus power to operate its only industry, that of the Murray Bros, flouring mill. The dam was a relic of pioneer days along the St. Joe and was constructed more than seventy years ago. It had been frequently repaired but the immense downpour of rain for the past two weeks was more than it could stand and the collapse came as no little surprise to the villagers. The dam was 175 feet long and fifteen feet high. A large parjot owned by A. E. Stokes of Evansville, discovered a fire in three stables, and for a while the prettiest portion of the city was threatened with destruction. The parrot saw the flames and kept yelling: 'Mamma, Mamma," at the top of his voice until the family turned in the fire alarm. A lad atteü;ptKl to walk a narrow plank ipanning the Strauss millrace, just above the big power mill at North Manchester, but lost his footing and fell into the swift current. Harry Mentzner of Wabash, saw the fall and spiang to the rescue, dragging the boy out barely in time to save the lives Df both. . . The South Bend Team Owners' Association, a large local organization, has struck against local contractors who have been trying to fix prices of team delivery. Much inconvenience has resulted. The team owners insist they arc the pi Icemakers. ' As a means of increasing the funds in its treasury, the Christian endeavorers of Atlanta have nearly 2,000 silkworms on exhibition, charging a small fee for witnessing the worms at work. After the worms have finished spinning, the cocoons will be sold. Each worm is supposed to spin a thread of silk 3,500 to 4,000 feet in length. They were shipped to the Bev. 21. L. Pierco frcn Candler. Okli.

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By H. V. 0 CHAPTER V. I The depth of th'e wide ravine and the phenomenal height of the great trees of this primeval forest of Indiana, together constituted an inclosure so high walled as to shut out all sights, save itself and patches of sky, black-veined with the great oak limbs, and motJted with bunches of green leaves. The moist, cool sides of the long "hollow," und the dense canopy of overhanging leaves, layer above layer, had prevented the two explorers from feeling to any noticeable degree the stifling heat and "unbreatheableness" of the atmosphere, as Mr. Mason put it. Now that they had reached the very crest of the "ridge," and come upon a spot of "open" ground, perhaps two or three acres in extent, ia which there were from some unknown cause but a few large oak trees widely scattered, they were suddenly aware that they could run no longer, and both walked silently and languidly toward the large round tent now quite conspicuous. At the door they paused, looked in each other's faces, and laughed. "I'm afraid you are an alarmist, Mr. Mason. See! Not a drop of rain has fallen yet. And there is not even the most distant mutter of thunder, although that cloud is black enough as to its wings and but isn't it breaking p before it can reach us? See what a light space right in the middle of the cloud. You can almost see the blue sky through it. Now I know you are an alarmist." She looked round at Mr. Mason, and was positive that he had not heard her. With his yellow 6traw hat pulled hard down upon his brown-gray locks worn decidedly too long, she thought he was standing with face slightly upturned and his rather heavy, broad chin thrust forward in the attitude that is interpreted to mean determined resistan:e or fierce attack. His face was pale, or the darkness made it seem colorless, and his blue eyes were widely opened as if to take in the whole scope and meaning of the heavens without in the least altering that pose of determined resistance. Looking at him thus, there came upon Lizzy Wickly a new and strange sense of great dread of something she had no notion what and with it a compensating sense of reliance in the strong, determined, defiant man before her. lie even seemed in that instant to be revealed to her in a totally new and imposing phase, as if revealed by tue greenish glare from the strange, swift cloud that was now coming down upon them from the west, with a frightful velocity faintly indicated in the sprays of grayish nshen vapor that flew before it like great gray birds fluttering in a wild, vain agony of terror. Mason turned suddenly and ran into the tent, and in a moment came backing out and dragging a confused mass of heavy two-inch rope and canvas tarpaulin after him. "Ilelp me with these," he said in a low, clear voice; "take this end of the rope and get it out of the tangle, if you can." lie dropped it at her feet, and once more plunging into the tent, came out backward again, carrying this time a heavy sledge and a mass of large ironringed tent pins. Carrying these with him, dropping a pin here and there, as he ran a, little way down the eastern slope of the hill, she saw that he stopped at a pile of the reddish-yellow clay that indicated the location of one of the pits. A dim perception of his purpose began to glow in her mind; and she took th end of the cable and dragged it, uncoiling from its tangle like the dun gray serpent of the storm, down toward him. lie was already swinging the great sledge as a child would whirl a top hammer driving the long, stout stakes deep into the firm clay with ponderous strokes whose heavy sound reverberated up and down the many converging ravines like the beating of the wings of the storm upon its torn breast. Even in the silent horror of anticipation, she could not fail to note the practical, skill and precision of the man. She saw him seize stake after stake exactly at the right point with his veined and muscular left hand just below, the Iron ring that encircled the head of the pin; then with one light tap of the sledge the Btake was standing slanted smartly outward, the strong man with a fieice, even vengeful look in his face, was standing back whirling the heavy hammer in wide, perpendicular circles, bringing it down with a force that soon sunk the ironed pin deep in the clay. Then a step would bring him to another pin; and so the process went on until the pit stood hedged with strong stakes. "Now, help me with this rope, Miss Lizzy," he said in the rapid, absorbed tone that indicates intense mental action. She did not ask what she must do, as ot other times she certainly would; but she seemed to be able to take her direction from the glances of Lis glittering eyes as he moved with surprisng rapidity and strength, drawing the heavy cable in mysterious knots about pin after pin, and so weaving a network of the strong rope across the opening of the shallow pit whose blueish looking floor she could see eight feet below the edge. Then the tarpaulin was rapidly drawn two-thirds of the way across the hole and fastened by the tying of many small cords reeved In close set eyelets along its edge. "Now," he said, after taking one rapid plance at all the surroundings, "we have done all that can be done by human foresight in such an emergency as this. The cyclone may veer suddenly to the north or the south f us. But if not - He ceased speaking. She crept up to his side and took his arm in silence, the mute and altogether automatic tribute and confession of her need of protection and her belief that he afforded it. He pointed to the widening central, greenish dun opening of the vast black cloud, an opening as symmetrically round as if made with all the elaborate apparatus pertaining to modern civil engineering. Across the opening nearer the lower edge than the upper, and stretching in a horizontal line from rim to rim of the visible heavxens. flew what looked most like an innumerable flock of wild pigeons, uch as used to fly twice in a year across the whole western continent in an almost unbroken linel "What is it? What are they?" she asked. In a terror of curious wonder. A vast low-noted roar began to make most twigs of the tallest poplars, the the hills tremble. High up in the topbroad leaves began to be whirled about In a growing fury. "Look! look!" he said, pointing to the tdze of the wood. 'There is the answer to your question." As he epoke a cloud of brown, dead haves seemed to rise up from the edge cf the forert liie a mighty covey cf rrhlrri' ouaiU fri'Menci tt tha ep:r:i cf tl bz-t-cn cf tla err-

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WOOD 4. TAYLOR air, and flew away to the hills for safety. Then, too, the air was filled with green leaves. Little twigs of poplar and oak, and pieces of the iron-like covering of the shellbark, dropped about them. Lower bent the trees, as if preparing for a mighty leap, an attack upon all the harshest powers of sound, and then the whole universe seemed smitten with one roaring, stunning crash that filled all space with the darkness of flying leaves and twigs, and branches, and dust, and stinging gravel, and the crushing, and rending, and splintering of mighty trees. Shouting something in her ear that she was utterly unable to distinguish, he seized her about the waist and literally dropped her into the pit below the flapping and beating tarpaulin. In an instant he was at her side, and here his shrillest tones could be distinguished even in the awful roar of the cyclone, and the redoubling crash of splintering trees. "Keep up against this side of the pit! It is safest here! Don't try to move, no matter what happens! I will stand between you and the worst." She knew that he took her in his arms and pressing her to his breast, held her immovable against the side of the firm clay viall with her whole figure almost welded into his own. She knew it, but she made no protest. She saw that this was the very extremity of devotion and courageous self-interposition against an imminent and appalling death. She thought of it as with crash after crash great trees thundered down to the reeling, resounding earth, whipping their smaller topmost branches down upon tarpaulin and taut cable netting, with stunning report like the crackle of rifles in the roar of artillery. One great splintered oaken branch tore through the tarpaulin and pinned it against the opposite side of the pit at the very bottom of the wall. Then there came a mighty dash of falling waters, and the fury of the cyclone had whirled away to the northeast. She did not realize that the awful peril was over, until he gently and almost stealthily unclasped his arms from about her, and drew back a little way.' "I will get up and see if I can draw the tarpaulin far enough over to keep the rain out," he said gently as he reached up and drew himself along the sturdy oaken branch that the storm had hurled upon them in its rage at their escape. Presently he came back. "I couldn't move it an inch," he said, with a faint smile. "But the rain will be practically over in half an hour, and I think our cavern of refuge will not be deluged by that time." Nevertheless they were compelled to abandon their cavern of refuge, as he had named it some minutes before the rain had entirely ceased. Again he climbed up, and lying down upon the unbroken cable netting, he reached down and took both her hands in his own. "See how apparent evils work out for our good," he said laughingly. "If the cyclone had not hurled this ragged oak limb into our cavern, I should be compelled to make a rope ladder for you. As it is. you can wlk up it with my help. There, put your boot upon that little snag. It's as hard as iron and will support twice your weight. Now, let me take you, so. There! You are once more above ground, and safe. Look around you and judge of the awful force of a real cyclone, and the saving grace of a pit that I assure you was not lug for my neighbor, although fortunately she fell into it at the right moment." "Or was cast into it by my jealous brother," she said, with an effort at gayety. And then seeing the sudden shadow upon his face, she hastened to say: "Look at this path through the forest, Mr. Mason. "Every tree cut down as if by the blows of some titanic ax. Nothing but the slender saplings and dwarfed bushes remaining. Actually, I can see straight down into the Argus-eyed village of Sandtown. And if I can see clearly, there isn't so much as a roof lifted off." "No! The storm reaped over that portion of the river bottom a long leap probably from the opposite bluffs, alighting just in the edge of your property, Miss Lizzy. Look! Yonder are your Argus-eyed villagers trooping up here to make search for us. Y'ou see what an interest they take in you. I believe that is your father in the lead there picking his wr.y through the debris of the storm. Wave your handkerchief! Or does he see us already? Well, I will resign you to him while I undertake a tedious hunt after my tent and a certain heavy chest of valuable instruments that must be somewhere in the ruins. I will see you and make comparisons of mental notes, this evening or to-morrow afternoon. Miss Lizzy. Sorry for the spoliation of that pretty dress and lovely hat! But I. did my best. He was gone before she could even begin to form a fitting reply. Hours afterward she accused herself of genuine Sandtown rudeness, in not thanking him in some fitting phrase. CHAPTER VI. On the morrow there was the congregation at Mount Zion as usual, to hear "that air feller" lecture on some everyday theme, when the regular preacher was not there, and what happened two Sundays out of the four or five in each month. After a little waiting everybody was seated In the new, white little church, save and excepting a dozen godless boys of fifteen to twenty years, who came galloping up like a troop of wild Indians, and sat in their saddles or rode about under the long, drooping limbs of the sparsely growing beeches that cast their cool, quiet Sunday shadows over Mount Zion Church. Even they ceased their ordinary occupation of switching each other's horses to make them jump, and knocking off each other's hats to compel the unfortunate hatless to dismount in order to recover that portion of his Sunday attire. ' In fact, all this "wild set" of boys who came here from a distant neighborhood paused in their gambols when it was whispered about that "the new preacher" was not only ubsent from his post, but absent from all the purlieus of Sandtown. At first there was much speculation and many various opinions as to the probable whereabouts of Mr. Mason. He had gone away from his work on several other occasions, it is true, but never before had he gone without telling 'Coonrod" Kedden just where he was going and precisely when he would be back. . Lizzy Wickly was greatly annoyed at this unforeseen impediment in the way of the prompt amends that she had so fully contemplated making on that very day. She remembered now that the had always treated lir. Mason a little bruruely, even maybe patronizingly, when the wasn't teasing him. This the knew, grew out cf her vzzt rcrpsct, nd crcu reverence fcr L!i cn-

at Last to confess, had its origin and whole growth in the mystery with which

I rof. Huntley chose to surround him self. She had been driven to think of him as so earnestly devoted to the one nobl calling of patiently wringing out of Earth the secrets of the ages, for the instruction and elevation of mankind, that he could find no time, even if such a man could have the inclination, to mingle with the common people of the village. And taking another view, was not. Mr. Will Mason himself, responsible for Prof. Huntley's decidedly distant attitud toward all the people of Sandtown? Had not Mr. Mason deliberately misrepresented her father's family to Prof. Huntley? If he had told his employer that the Wicklys were educated people, and far above their surroundings in all mental acquirements if he had said to him what hü had said to her on yesterday afternoon, only, when she had been unusually respectful and considerate toward him? If he had done this, would not Trof. Iluntley have sought and obtained an introduction an undertaking so easily achieved in Sandtown? And then! Well then, candidly she would have done her very best to interest and impress him. For she might as well confers to herself now as to evade self-questionings, as she had done for a mouth past, Lizzy Wickly was in love with Prof. Huntley! Now do not sneer at the notion of this really capable young woman being in love with a man she had not seen. Have any of us, who have loved and loved again, had so much the advantage of this romantic young woman? Have we really Been the people we have loved? On the other hand, have we not been more effectually prevented from seeing them than if a mere few thousands cf yards of green summer woods lay perpetually between them and us? Have not all of us awaked from the trance of love to find that our fingers had been caressing asinine ears? And is not this the meaning of the Midsummer Night's Dream? (To be continued. i A S0G OF COURAGE. There are times when the mind must be called away from present danger or anxiety, and not allowed even to contemplate the serious snd deeper aspects of an emergency. The San Francisco Call gives an instance of good sense and pluck on the part of a young lady who was shipwrecked. A few months ago a most gallant fight for life in a storm at sea took place In the Pacific. When the Queen, with two hundred souls aboard, was about thirty miles off Tillamook, fire was discovered In the after cabin. A heavy gale was blowing at the time, and the situation seemed bopeless. Captain Cousens first put the women and children, and all other passengers who were not able to assist in fighting fire, into lifeboats, and launched them in the charge of experienced men. These boats remained under the lee of the blazing steamship until those on board had conquered the flames. When the life-boats were launched that dark and stormy morning, the women and children were terrorized In the face of the threatening tragedy. In one boat a voice was lifted in prayer, and the sound of weeping was heard above the roar of the waters. Some one raised the song. "Nearer, My God, to Thee," raid with trembling lips the fear-dazed company joined. The prayer and the hymn combined to deepen the morbid gloom, and the last note of the sacred song died In a chorus of sobs. Then, strong and clear, a cheery voice made all sit up and listen. "What is the matter with you people?" it said. "We're not going to die. The fire is growing smaller. We shall all be In our bunks In an hour. If you must sing, sing 'Bedelia.'" The young woman then started the jaunty popular song, and In a few moments, to the amazement of themselves and the wonder of the workers aboard the steamer, every one In the boats was singing "Bedelia." From that it was an easy step to other airs of a lively nature, and long before the boats were recalled their occupants were almost enjoying the novelty of their stern situation. The Pacific Steamship Company decorated with gold and silver medals the captain and men who risked their lives to save the ship and passengers. They also presented a token to the brave singer. On it Is engraved, "For Singing 'Bedelia " The Retort Vicions. 'I suppose you missed me last evening," said the first boarder, with a superior air; "I was up at Swellman's house." "Yes" remarked the other, rather frigidly. "Yes, I dined out last evening." ."The idea! it was so cool last night I should think the cook might at least have asked you into the kitchen." Philadelphia Press. Slight Mistake. "You have a pretty tough-looking lot of customers to dispose of this morning, haven't you?" remarked the friend of the magistrate who had dropped in at the Police Court "Huh!" rejoined the dispenser of justice, "you are looking at thewTong bunch. Those are the lawyers." Chicago News. His Limit. Old Gotrox I don't think much of that young Dudeleigh who poses as a: parlor ornament around here occasionally. Pretty Daughter Why, papa, he pays me the loveliest compliments. Old Gotrox Yes; and that's all he was ever known to pay, as far as I can learn. Chicago News. Easiest Ever. Sllaa They gay ole man Meddergrass is an easy mark for these hero sharp swindlers. Beubenr Shucks! They don't eay half enough. Why, he's an easy mark for the dumb ones. Philadelphia Press. Ilcr Advantage. Stubb Eve was the first woman and the mother of feminine blunders. Penn Yes, and I bet if trolley cra had fccca running then tt 2 vrc'S-l have ctepped c2 en 3 backrrard. He vrto has Iz-st conüienco cm I" 2 T-