Plymouth Tribune, Volume 5, Number 20, Plymouth, Marshall County, 22 February 1906 — Page 3

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By MARCUS CIIAPTEH II. In the breathless stillness of a tropical afternoon, when the air was hot ami heavy, and the sky brazen and cloudless, the shadow of the Malabar lay solitary on the surface of the glittering sea. The sun had just got low enough to peep beneath an awning and awaken a young man, in an undress military uniform, who was dozing on a coil of rope. "Han- It! said he, rising, with the weary' sigh of a man who has nothing to do. "I must have been asleep;" and then, holding by a stay, he turned about and looked down into the waist of the hip. SaTe for the man at the wheel and the guard at the quarter railing, he was alone on the deck. On the forecastle, some half-dozen soldiers were playing at cards, or watching the fishing lines banging over the cat heads. So far the appearance of the vessel differed in nowise from that of an ordinary transport. But in the waist a curious sight presented itself. It was as though one had built a cattle pen there. At the foot of the foremast, and at the quarter deck, a strong barricade, loop-holed and furnished with floors for ingress and egress, ran across he deck from bulwark to bulwark. Outside this cattle pen an armed sentry stood on guard; inside, standing, sitting or walking monotonously, within range of the shining barrels in the arm-chest, were some sixty men and boys, dressed ia uniform pray. The men and boys were prisoners and the cattle pen was their exercise ground. Their prison was dawn the main hatchway, and the barricade, continued down, made its sidewa lis. It was the fag-end of the two hours' exercise, graciously permitted each afternoon, and the prisoners were enjoying themselves. It was not. perhaps, so pleasant as under the awnings but that sacred shade was only for such great men as the captain and his officers. Surgeon Pine, Lieut. Maurice Frere nr.j. most important personales of all. Captain Vickers and his wife. That the convict leaning against the bul warks would like to have been able to get rid of his enemy. he sun. for a moment, was probable enough. His companions, sitting on the combings of the main hatch, or crouched in careless fashion on the shady side of the barricade, were laughing and talking, with merriment hideous to contemplate; but he. with cap pulled over his brows, and hands thrust into the pockets of his coarse gray garments, held aloof from their dismal joviality. The lowbrowed, coarse-featured ruffians grouped about the deck cast many a leer of contempt at the solitary figure, but their remarks wer confined to gestures only. There are degrees in crime, and Kufus Dawes, the convicted felon. who had but escaped the gallows to toil for nil his life in irons, was a man of mark. He had been tried for the robbery and murder of Lord Bellasi. The friendless vagabond's lame story of f.r.ding on the Heath a dying man would not have availed him but for the euriou fact sworn to by the landlord of the Spaniards Inn. that the mur.iered nobleman had shaken his head when asked if the prisoner was his assassin. The vagabond was acquitted of the murder, but condemned to death for the robbery, and Iondon. which took some in terest in the trial, considered him fortunate when his sentence was commuted to transportation for life. The young man on the deck caught sight of the tall figure leaning against the bulwarks, and it gave him an excuse to break the monotony of his employnient. "Here, you!" he called out. "get out of the gangway!" Unfits Dawes was not in the gangway was. in fact, a good two feet from it but at the sound of Lieut. F rede's voire he started, and went obediently toward the hatchway. "I'll make some of you fellows smart, if you don't have a care," went on the angry Frere. "Insolent blackguards!" And thn the noise of the sentry, on the quarter deck below him. grounding arms, turned the current of his thoughts. A thin, tall, soldier-like man. with a cold blue eye. and prim features, came out of the cuddy below, handing out a fair-haircd. affected, mincing lady of middle age. Captain Vickers, of Mr. Frere's regiment, ordered for service iu Van Diemen's Land, was bringing his lady on deck to get an appetite for dinner. Mrs. Vickers was forty-two. and had been a garrison belle for eleven weary years before she married prim John Vickers. The marriage was not a happy oq. Vickers found his wife extravagant, vain, and snappish, and "she Toutd him harsh, disenchanted, "and commonplace. A daughter, born two years after their marring, was the only link that bound the ill-assorted pair. Vickers idolized little Sylvia, and upon the rec ommendation of a long sea voyage for his failing health, he insisted upon bringing the child with him. Mrs. Vickers followed her husband with the best grace she could muster. When fairly out to sea she employed the intervals between scolding her daughter and her maid, in fascinating the boorish young lieutenant, Maurice Frere. Fascination was an integral portion of Julia Vickers' nature; admiration wa3 all she lived for; and even in a convict ship, with her husband at her elbow, she must flirt, or perish of mental inanition. There was no harm in the creature. She was simply a vain, middleaged woman, and Frere took her attections for what they were worth. Running down the ladder, cap in hand, he offered his assistance. "Thank you. Mr. Frere. These horribly ladders. I really he. he! quite tremble at them. Hot! Yes, dear me. most oppressive. John, the camp stool. Pray, Mr. Frere oh. thank you! Sylvia! Sylvia! John, bae you my smelling salts? Still a calm, I suppose These dreadful calms!" Vickers, with a bow to Frere. saw his wife np the ladder, and then turned for his daughter. She was a delicate looking child of six years old. with blue eyes and bright hair. Little Miss Sylvia was privileged to go anywhere and do anything, and even convictism shut its foul mouth in her presence. Running to her father's side, the child chattered with all the volubility of flattered self-esteem. She ran hither and thhher, asked questions. invented answers, laughed, sung, gamboled, peered into the compass' case, felt in the pockets of the man at the helm, p.it her tiny hand Into the big palm of the officer of the watch, even ran down to the quarter deck and pulled the coat tails of the sentry on duty. At last, tired of rnnning about, she took a little striped leather ball from the bosom of her frock, and. calling to her father, threw it up to him. He returned it, and shouting with laughter, clapping her hands between each throw, the child kept up the game. Jn the midst of this mirth the officer of 'the watch, glancing round the fastcrimsoning horizou. paused abruptly, and, shading his eyes with his hand, looked out intently to the westward. Frere, who found Mrs. Vicker's conversation a little tiresome, and had been glancing from time to time at the companion, as though in expectaticn of some one appearing, noticed the action. "What is it, M Best?" "I don't know exactly. It looks to me like a cloud of smoke." And taking the

La swept the horizon.

His Natural Life

CLARKE "Let me see," said Frere, and he looked also. On the extreme horizon, just to the left of the sinking sun. rested a tiny black cloud. The gold and crimson, splashed all about the sky, had overflowed around it. and rendered a clear view almost impossible. "I can't quite make it out," says Frere. handing back the telescope. "We can see as soon as the sun goes down a little." By and by Captain Blunt appeared, and taking the glass from his officer, looked through it long and carefully. Then the mizzen top was appealed to, and declared that he could see nothing; and at last the sun went down with a jerk, as though it had slipped through a slit in the sea, and the black spot, swallowed n; in the gathering haze, was seen . tore. As .je sun .iank. the relief guard came up tie after hatchway, and the relieved guard prepared to superintend the descent of the convicts. At this moment Sylvia missed her ball, which, taking advantage of a sudden lurch of the vessel, hopped over the barricade, and rolled to the feet of Iiufus Dawes. The bright spot of color rolling across the white deck caught his eye; stooping mechanically, he picked up the ball and stepped forward to return it. The door of the barricade was open, and the sentry did not notice the prisoner pass through it. In another instant he was on the sacred quarter deck. Heated with the game, her cheeks aglow, her eyes sparkling, her golden hair afloat. Sylvia had turned to leap after her plaything, but even as she turned, from' under the shadow of the cuddy glided a round white arm; and a shapely hand caught the child by the sash and drew her bark. The next moment the young man in gray had placed the toy in her hand. Maurice Frere. descending the ladder, had not witnessed this little incident; on reaching the deck, he saw only the unexplained presence of the convict uniform. "Thank you." said a voice, as Rufus Dawes stooped before the pouting Sylvia. The convict raised his eyes and saw a young girl of eighteen or nineteen years of age, tall and well developed, who. dressed in a loose-sleeved robe of some white material, was standing in the doorway. She had black hair, coiled around a narrow and flat head, a small foot, white skin, well-shaped hands, and large, brown eyes; and as she smiled at him her scarlet lips showed her "white, even teeth. He knew her at once. She was Sarah Purfoy, Mrs. Vicker's maid, but he never had been so close to her before; and it seemed to him that he was in the presence of some strange tropical flower. which exhaled a heavy and intoxicating perfume. Iiufus Dawes was seized from behind by his collar and tlung with a shock upon the deck. Leaping to his feet, his first impulse was to rush upon his assailant, but he saw the ready bayonet of the sentry gleam, and he checked himself with an effort, for his assailant was Mr. Maurice Frere. "What do you here?" asked that gentleman. "You lazy, skulking hound, what brings you here? If I catch you putting your foot on the quarter deck again I'll give you a week In irons." Ruf us Dawes, pale with rage and mortification, opened his mouth to justify himself, but he allowed the words to die on his lips. What was tlie use? "(Jo down below, and remember what I've told you." cried Frere; and comprehending at once what had occurred, he made a mental minute of the name of the defaulting sentry. The convict, wiping the blood from his face, turned on his heel without a word, and went back through the strong oak door into his den. Frere leaned forward and took the girl's shapely hand with an "easy gesture, but she drew it away, with a flash of her black eyes. "You coward!" she said. The stolid soldier close behind them heard it and his eye twinkled. Frere bit his thick lips with mortification, as he followed the girl into the cuddy. Sarah Purfoy. however, taking the astonished Sylvia by the hand, glided into her mistress cabin with a scornful laugh and shut the door behiud her. CHAITER III. Convictism having been safely got under hatcl.es. and put to bed in its government allowance of sixteen inches of space per man. cut a little short by egigencies of shipboard, the cuddy waa wont to pass some not unpleasant evenings. Mrs. Vickers. who was poetical and owned a guitar, was also musical, and sung to it. Captain Blunt was a jovial, co vse fellow; Surgeon Pine had a mania for story telling, while if Vickers was sometimes dull. Frere was always hearty. Moreover, the table was well served, and the sultry evenings passed away with a rapidity of which the wild beasts 'tween decks had no conception. On this particular evening, however, the cuddy was dull. Dinner fell flat, and conversation languished. "No signs of a breeze. Mr. Best?" asked Blunt, as the first officer came In and took his seat. "None, sir." "These he he! awful caims." say? Mrs. Vickers. "A week, is it not. Captain Blunt?" "Thirteen days, mum," growled Blunt. "It is infamous the way they crowd these ships. Here we have over two hundred souls on board, and not boat room for half of 'em." "Two hundred souls! Surely not, says Vickers. "By the regulations " "One hundred and eighty convicts, fifty soldiers, thirty in ship's crew, all told, and how many? one, two, three seven In the cuddy. How many do you make that?" "We are just a little crowded this time." says Best. "It is very wrong." says Vickers, pompously, "very wrong. By the regulations " But the subject of the regulations was even more distasteful to the cuddy than Pine's interminable anecdotes, and Mrs. Vickers hastened to change the subject. "Are you not heartily tired of this dreadful life, Mr. Frere?" "Well, it is not exactly the life I had hoped to lead," said Frere, rubbing a freckled hand over his stubborn red hair; "but I must make the best of it." "Yes. indeed." said the lady, in that subdued manner with which one comments upon a well-known incident, "it must have been a great shock to you to be so suddenly deprived of so large a fortune." "Not only that, but to find that the black sheep who got it all sailed for India within a week of my uncle's death! Lady Devine got a letter from him on tie day of the funeral to say that he had taken his passage, in the nydaspes for Calcutta, and never meant to co;oe back again." "Sir Richard Devine left no other children T "No; only this mysterious Dick, whom I never saw, but who must have hated me." "Dear, dear! These family quarrels are dreadufl things. Poor Lady Devine, to" lose in one day a husband and a son!" "And the next morning to hear of the murder of her cousin! You know that we are connected with the Bellasis familr. Ifr aent's father married a eister 1

of the second Lord DeHisis." "Indeed. That was a horrible .murder. So you think that the dreadful man you pointed out the other day did it?" "The jury seemed to think not," said Mr. Frere, with a laugh; "but I don't know anybody else who could hare a motive for it. However, I'll go on deck and have a smoke." "I wonder what induced that old hunks of a shipbuilder to try and cut off his only son in favor of a cub of that sort," said Surgeon Pine to Captain Vickers, as the broad back of Mr. Maurice Frere disappeared up the companion. "Some boyish follies abroad, I believe: self-made men are always impatient of extravagance. But it is hard upon Frere. He is not a bad sort of fellow, for all his roughness; and when a young man finds that an accident deprives him of a quarter of a million of money and leaves him without a sixpence beyond his commission in a marching regiment under orders for a convict settlement, he has somo reason to rail against fate." "How was it that the son came in for the money, after all, then?" "Why, it seems that when old Devine returned from sending for his lawyer to alter his will, he got a fit of apoplexy the result of his rage, I suppose and when they opened his room door in the morning they found him dead." "And the son's away on the sea somewhere." said Mr. Vickers, "and knows nothing of his good fortune. It is quite a romance." "I am glad that Frere did not get the money," said Pine, grimly sticking to his prejudice; "I have seldom seen a face I liked less, even among my yellow jackets yonder." "Oh, dear. Doctor Tine! How can

you?" interrupted Mrs. Vickers. I will go on deck." At the signal, the party rose. (To ia continued.) "Jota, NINNYH AMMER. A Plea for the Restoration of un Early English Word. That entertaining student of language and other things is trying to restore "Nlnuyhaminer" to the vocabulary. As Mr. Wilstaeh is In the theatrical business, he feels the need of the word, and thi3 is his ingenious plea : "It is rather odd that one of the most beautiful and best Elizabethan words one that all the shining lights of the most brilliant age of letters delighted in using should now be obsolete. Is there a more dramatically descriptive word than nlnnyhammer, or one half so connotative, pathognomic or emblematic of sense or, rather, the lack of it? Should one say, for example: 'A nlnnyhammer loved an actress who wore pink tights,' could any simp or nimski, as they say In Indiana, be in doubt as to the meaning? "Yet this lovely onomatopoeia is never used nowadays. It receives scant consideration in the Standard Dictionary, where, instead of giving a definition, the editor wrote after it 'slang. while ninuyhamniering' is said to be "foolish behavior. Webster says it means A simpleton: a silly person. and then attributes the -word to Joseph Addison! Why, the word was in ise 200 years before Joseph Addison had his first spelling lesson. It is to be seen in Dekker's (lull's Horn Book, and almost every tome and play of the sixteenth century. It is evident that ninnyhammers bad a hand in the making of our dictionaries. "If old Webster had said that Addison invented ninnyhanimer,' what would the Century Dictionary and Union square literateurs have to say? If Webster had said simply that the word was in common use during Addison's time, be would have been quite right, and could have given as bis authority Bailey's Universal Etymological English Dictionary: And an interpreter of hard words, of 172I. Iiailey says: 'Ninnyhaiuraer. apt to be made a fool of; silly, soft.' And then to accuse Joseph Addison of using slang. Horrors! "Our old friend Roget, who built the Thesaurus, was not a 'ninnyliammer.' When you catch father Roget slipping up on a word, the day is dreadfully cold and particularly icy. He lived in a salubrious clime, where there wasn't any slipping, overlooking or forgetting. Old Roget ci rag-netted the English language, and not even a 'nlnnyhammer' escaped. "What, in comparison, are such a common brood of words, and phrases as nlzj-, noodle, driveler, boggier, milksop or Boeotian! This last sounds good, even though suggesting an aquatic rather than a foolish person. Boeotia, was, as you know, a division of Central Greece, noted for the rusticity of its people; henco, Boeotian, a dull, clownish person. Pretty good! "But all of these are Ss moonshine compared to the neglected one. If, for example, a friend should ask you if Clyde Fitch's play written for Viola Allen. "The Toast of the Town." was the dramatization of a bakery, you may be assured that you are confront ed by a nlnnyhammer!" Convict's Invention. Referring to the fact that the new jail in Newburg, when completed, will Lave an automatic arrangement for locking and unlocking a series of cell doors or a single one in any section. the Port Jervis Gazette says the idea originated with Zoy Schoonover. a criminal in this county, a noted character in his day, and for many years an inmate of Sing Sing prison. Schoonover took kindly to prison dis cipline and in time came to regard the institution as his home. He was v. hat is known in prison parlance as a "trusty," and was given considerable liberty by authorities of the institu tion. He was sometimes even sent on errands outside of the prison. On one such occasion he remained away until after the usual hour for closing and was locked out by the turnkey and unable to gain admission until morn ing. As soon as the doors were open he sought out the offending official and berated him severely for his action. Inside the prison walls Schoonover's character and conduct were wholly exemplary, but he found It difficult to conform to the regulations of civilized society, and hence was never long at liberty. He possessed considerable Inventive talent, and is said to have invented and perfected the original de vice for automatic locking and unlock Ing of switches now employed in most of the prisons and penitentiaries of the United States. Waiden (N. Y.) Citizen. '. Heavy Drops. Pete Green Look here, Sam, when yo' comes home late en' yo' wife looks out ob de window do she drop eny in sinuations? Sam Sparks Well, yo' might call dem 'sinuations, but I call dem flat Irons en bootjacks. A, True Philosopfier. A dog has attained the highest emi nence ever reached by a philosopher when he can forget his fleas. Somervilla Journal . w

Flenh-Dnlldlnar Treatment. Absolute freedom from care and anxiety. At least ten hours' sleep qjut of every twenty-four. In addition to this, 1 naps during the day if possible. This sleep must always be natural. Nothing Is so bad for the appearance and general health as sleep induced by anodynes or narcotics In any form. The diet should be liberal and should consist largely of food containing starch and sugar; potatoes, fresh, sweet butter, milk, cream, fruits cooked and served with sugar, vegetables containing starch and sugar, such as corn, sweet potatoes, beans, peas, foods or the macaroni and spaghetti kinds, fish and oysters, Ice creams, desserts without pastry ; plenty of outdoor life and a moderate amount of exercise. Sleep in a well-ventilated room. No one can gain flesh if there is an internal disease; certainly not if there is any tendency to dyspepsia or liver trouble. Where the patient is plump In one part of the body and fails in another a gymnastic course is advised. There is nothing better than bicycling, unless it may be a regular gymnastic course; in order to pursue the latter properly the patient Is advised to go to JVo. 1 Reception Conn. Made in Empire Princess sty'le, slightly draped under artrj ; material is heavy white Oriental talfeta with regular sprays of white cherry blossoms. The sleeves are elbow length, the neck is cut round. The embroidery extends around the bottom of the skirt. a first-class gymnasium, submit to an examination and take the exercise pre scribed by attendant physician. These gymnasiums, at moderate prices, may be found in a town of any size In tue country. Where the development is meager in the upper part of the body swimming is also an excellent exercise. Walking is always wholesome. The patient who wishes to gain flesh can never do so if she worries, is harassed or iermits her nerves to get the better of ber. Ilovr To detain Good Looks. The woman who longs for social success should always be cheerful. That is the key-note of social success. Do not laugh loudly and do not giggle, but let your eye sparkle and your countenance show that ou feel animated. If you are tired stay at home. Good humor Is a matter of digestion. If one eats the right food and arlnks the right beverage one will be in a good humor. Vivacity and good spirits are largely muscular. The woman who Is dreadfully tired will never be vivacious. The muscles must be exercised and rested. This gives a certain lightness to the physique. Beautiful women are nearly always hard workers, and are always full of hope and cheerfulness. That Is the way they retain their good looks. The dowages empress of China has already spent nearly $4,000,000 on her own monument. Miss Mabel P. French of St John has been refused admission to the bar by the Supreme Court of New Brunswick on account of lack of precedent Quen Margherita of Italy his an Alpine garden C,000 feet above sea level, whifh is said o i-e not only the highest garden In the world, but the most perfect of its kind. Quden Aanarolo of Madagascar has recently realized a long cherished ambition by paying a visit to Paris. ;Vlüle there she enjoyed the felicity of

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having her allowance increased from ?0,000 to $10,000. With an income of $2,400,000 a year. Miss Bertha Krupp of Germany Is one of the wealthiest women in the world. She owns nearly all of the $10,000,000 capital of the Krupp Gun Company. It is probable that Miss Krupp's income exceeds that of Hetty Green, the American millionaire. Queen Maud of Norway will need little tuition in the speech of her new realm, for she took to the Danish language with instinctive ease during her girlhood. It Is said that the differences between the two languages, both in vocabulary and pronunciation, are merely dialectic. So far as her private business is concerned Queen Alexandra is not considered, by the laws and customs of England as a married woman. If she contracts debts In her husband's name he would not be responsible for them. Tne King cannot be sued for debt, but the Queen can be. Although more wives obtain divorces than husbands no authority for giving a woman a divorce will be found in either Buddhism, Taoism, Shlntolsm,

SOME GOWNS IN MISS ROOSEVELT'S TROUSSEAU.

No. 2 Ten-Gown. Moonlight blue Oriental silk, in Empire style; the bolero is of Oriental embroidery. The elbow sleeves are embroidered at the tops of the puffs. A broad band of embroidery extends th full length of the front, while another extends around the bottom of the skirt.

No. 3 Street Gown. Pongee silk with Oriental embroidery; the bodice is made with the bolero jacket. Beneath this is a wide girdle effect formed of folds of the eilk ; the sleeves extend to a little below the elbow; with this is worn a waist of lingerie. Skirt ia embroidered on bottom.

Confucianism, Ilindooism, Mohammedanism. Judaism or Christianity. Rut that part of the several faiths was arranged by "the men folk as a personal matter of their own. Society women in the town of Haparanda, in Sweden, have decided to relieve men of the necessity of doffing their hats to women In the streets during cold weather. The Value of Praise. Has it ever struck you what a sweetener of life lies in a few words of appreciation and encouragement? How few of us take the trouble to stop a few moments and praise a servant for work well done, or even pause to tell our nearest and dearest how we appreciate all the daily services, which we have apparently never noticed. When our friends die we hasten to send beautiful llowers as a last appreciation of our love for them. But would It not te better if we had helped them by a little praise when they were working, or if we had cheered them in the dark days when they were troubled and suffering? Only a few kind words of appreciation ! The cost is nothing, but the recompense js beyond price. Let the husband tell his wife how much he prizes her love for him, and the wife tell her husband liow truly she recognize? all his care for her. And the mother should reveal in words how much she values her children's affection, while the child who says to its mother, "Thank you for all your love to me," has rewarded her far beyond knowledge or understanding. Fashion Note. An entire frock of silver tulle Is very gorgeous. Tulle Is the best liked of all fabrics for dance frocks. The dainty littlr cravats of lace and mull were never so fascinating. Many old furs are appearing with new faces, thanks to the dyer's art One evening skirt Is ruffled from hem to waistband with scalloped frills. The raincoat of the hour Is nearly sumptuous enough for a theater wrap. When lace falls from the short sleeve It is now put on as plainly as possible. 1 Separate cuffs and tinted suede, edged with gold braid, are buttoned on

In gauntlet fashion above dress gloves of tba same color. A new face veil has a border of lover's knots done in chenille embroidery. A little Jabot of ermine cascades down the front of a handsome sable collar. It is said that the empire coat Is to be more popular than ever In tho spring. Rabbit fur Is now so cleverly disguised that it passes very plausibly for ermine. Candle shades are so novel and charming that every woman uses the waxen light. Egyptian veils studded with silver and gilt are very popular for evening bead wear. The glove with monogram buttons is a distinctive novelty. You have to order It, of course. White tulle is heaped on the hat and Uuffed under the chin and the face between this ethereal stuff looks very pretty, indeed. The princess cloth dress with short velvet coat to match which has been so popular Is still being made, but with

No. 4 Reception Gonn. The feature of this heavy white silk gown is the wonderful embroidery of butterflies in every delicate hue; the small ones are embroidered flat on to the material, while the large o"n"es have only their bodies fastened to the silk, while the wings hang loose. the coat of fur. One white cloth dreas has a short coat of ermine. Satin-striped chiffon is a novelty and is exquisite for ball dresses and dinner gowns for young girls. Reception Urea. The picture shows a reception dress of lace with applique designs of pink chiffon roses and silver leaves. Hat to correspond. To Polish a Mirror. Dip a sponge in water, squeeze It as dry as possible and then dip it In alcohol and rub it all over the glass. Have ready some powdered blue tied up In a cloth and dust it over the glass. Rub the glass lightly and quickly with a soft cloth, thea polish well with a, good wad of tissue paper or a silk handkerchief. At Munich there Is a hospital which is entirely supported by the sale of old steel pen nibs, collected from all parts of Germany. They are made Into watch springs, knives and razors.

HEINZE LETS GO.

Transfer of Copper Mines Made to Amalgamated Company. The seven years' war of the copper magnates in Montana, which has filled the courts with lawsuits in which $400,000,000 was involved, and which has been one of the greatest financial struggles on record, came to an end Tuesday. The treaty of peace between F. Augustus Heinze, the spectacular, and Amalgamated was the direct result of the deals which have resulted in the formation of a giant copper and lead trust. The first public act in this connection was the filing at Butte, Mont., of papers by which all the mining ground held by Heinze, or the United Copper Company, the ownership of which is in dispute, was transferred to Thomas F. Cole as trustee. The transfer also includes the smelter of the Montana Ore Purchasing Company, a Heinze corporation. As to terms the United Copper Company receives $2.V.KXMJ0, part cash and part stock, of the new company. The proportion of cash is placed at $10,000,000 to $20,000,0(X). Under the new arrangement the United Copier output, which has been 40,000.000 pounds of refined copper a year, will l reduced to 12,000,000 or 10,000,000 pounds. The new company, starting with a production of 25,000,000 to C0f000,000 pounds, will increase that to some 7.",000,000 pounds by opening up properties which have been closed by injunction. F. Augustus Heinze entered the Mon tana copper field in 1S0." as an engineer. He soon started a smelter and in a little while became a big factor ia the copper field. Meantime Heinze Rot into trouble with his rivals over disputed territory, and lawsuits were started. In ISO!) the famous Amalgamated company was organized. It was headed by Marcus Daly, who was backed by the Rockefellers, H. II. Rogers, James Stillman and othr Standard Oil financiers. Heinze fought the whole crowd, and his knowledge of local conditions gave him an immense ad vantage. TORREY PREACHES TO 15,000. Convert In Philadelphia umber 200 In One Day. Fifteen thousand persons tried to gain admittance to the afternoon and evening Torrey-AIexander revival meetings in the Philadelphia armory Tuesday. More than 200 converts were rci-ordd as the result of the day's work. The meeting in the afternoon was for women only and that at night for men only. They wen declared to be the largest separate congregations of men and women that ever gathered for religious services in Philadelphia. In the rush to get into the armory one woman fell and fractured her nose. The whole city is in the throes of the revival movement. It is tit-1 chief topic of conversation in the street cars, iu stores and at the dinner table. Kven political issues are being lost sight of in the religious enthusiasm. Striking effects of the revival campaign are being felt. The policemen of the three districts in the neighoorhood of the armory declare that they have had litt or nothing to do since the revival began. One day last week when the magistrates appeared for tin? hearings in these districts not a single prisoner was arraigned. Startling Trade I'lKurm. The final trade statistics for the year !005 confirm the figures of the preliminary forecasts and show a phenomenal degree of prosperity throughout the country. So enormous was the product of farm, mine and factory that, had it been moved at one time, it would have filled 3.i,lS4,S57 freight cars, 4.0oO,0u0 more than would have bvn required in the prosperous year of ltXl. Thirty-three million freight cars, if med'? up iuto one train of fabulous length, would extend for a distance of lü!!.-4!) miles, or would girdle the earth about nine times at the equator. If this mythical train, with th-? S25,000 locomotives which would be required to haul it, had traveled out into space on a trip to the moon, the leading moguls would have been pulling through the valleys of the earth's satellite before the conductor's-, buggy had rumbled out of the freight yards at the starting point. Merely to store the cars and engines in such a train would require the use of nearly all the railway mileage in th United States. Sparks from the Wires. The general staff of the army has adopted the French straight and curb bits for the use of the cavalry. An order for the winding up of th affairs of the Dominion Mills Company of Iiracvbridge, Ont.. was issued at Toronto. Foreign ambassadors in Washington have abandoned their plan of sending an official wedding gift to Miss Alice llooscvelt. James Hazen Hyde has been sued by the Equitable Life Assurance Society for $72.0, representing alleged syndicate profits. The Grand Trunk Pacific railroad will ask the Canadian parliament for franchises for twenty-three branch lines in Canadian Pacifie territory. A member of the Westchester Country Club, near New York, is being sought as the "abductor of the daughter of a titled Englishman from Honolulu. Mrs. W. M. Iiarton. wife of a Washington (D. C. physician, was attacked by a "slasher." Her gown was badly cut, but she escaped injury. Women of the Minerva Club, New York, have secured the indorsement of college presidents and are framing a law to make hazing in colleges a crime. Dr. Henry S. Conrad of Johns Hopkins university says that the sundew, a plant growing in swamps, can see, feel and taste, but lacks the sense of hearing. In a street crowd at San Francisco William Walbridge, a lalorer, shot and seriously wounded his wife, slightly injured two bystanders and killed himself. Father I. Jj. Conrady, who succeeded Father Damien, in charge of the Hawaiian colony, is completing plans in New York for establishing leier colonies in China. The trustees of the Carnegie School of Technology at Pittsburg have received a letter from Andrew Carnegie thanking them for naming the woman's department after his mother. Justice Joseph M. Deuel, who lost his libel suit against Norman Ilapgood recently, declares the Town Topics suit haa destroyed his usefulness and he will resign from the New York bench. After six years' work a New York Merchants' Association committee has asked for a thorough revision of the customs administrative act and has sent its recommendations to Secretary Shaw. Affidavits filed in support of a new trial for Albert T. Patrick, the lawyer sentenced to die for the murder of William Marsh Pice say that Charles F. Joaea repudiates his confession implicating Patrick. Edward A. Vaughan was arrested at Denver on the charge of using the mails to defraud in a commission business in Minneapolis. He was indicted with Henry T. Raymond and three others at Minneapolis last May. A lone masked bandit held up Frank Mcduire's saloon in the center of the business district at Hamilton, Ohio, forced the bartender to open the register, took out $4G in money and. making everybody present drink to his health, escaped. The demurrers of George W. Beavers to the indictments charging him with conspiring with former State Senator George E. vireen of Pinghamton, N. Yn and W. D. Doremus, to defraud the government in connection with the furnishing of postoffiee supplies, and also to the indictments against Beavers Individually charging him with bribery, were overruled bv Justice Gould in Washington.

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PEItJl RKR CJ1VEN' SE.XTENCB. Woman "Who Ten U fled In I)arror Caae Mont Serve In Prifton. Mrs. Rose Duck, the self -con fussed perjurer whose evidence contributed largely to the verdict of guilty rendered ia the disbarment case involving Mayor Harrow of La Porte, and John V. Talbot of South Rend, rendered iu the Circuit court of Ulkhart county, was brought before Judge Richter and on her plea of guilty to uttering perjured evidence the judge imposed an indeterminate sentence of two to fourteen years and then suspended judgment. Mrs. Duck has ben incarcerated in the county jail for the last year. BILLET LODCiES l.V TOBACCO. Veternn lcape Wben 1IUe .Mrlke 11 a if In III IWLel. When Albert II. Thomas of Logansport sank to the floor struck by a bullet from a revolver which was accidentally discharged while John Simmons was displaying the weapon, it was thought that he had been mortally wounded. A c loser investigation revealed the fact that a plug of tobacco, which Thomas carried in his hip pocket, contained the bullet, and Thomas was uninjured. P.oth men are weil known farmers and Civil War veterans. Simmons thought he had extracted all the shells from the weapon he was exhibiting. CONVICT ClU'SUni) TO DEATH. Oven at Michigan CIt- Penitentiary Cave In on Top of Man. The new dining hall of the State prison in Michigan City wi;s the scene of a tragedy in which William Mitchell, a convict, was crushed to death. Mitchell had crawled into the oven to remove an arch when the oven caved in and caught him beneath an avalanche of brick and sand. Thf body, which was recovered several hours later, was terribly crushed. Mining- EiiKlneer Mnltbrd. From trouble originating in a saloon and starting from a misunderstanding. Thomas Jones, aged .T. a coal mining engineer in P.oonville. was probably fatally stabbed by Claude P.arton. a miner, who is only 1'.. Part on used a pocket knife and slashed his victim over twenty times in the breast. Crnh in 1!ku' Corner. Because of a heavy investment in cold storage eggs. 1 H. Hadley & Co.. pro-du-e merchants doing business at Seymour. Bedford. Scottsburg and Bloomington, have failed. The liabilities ir phuvd at $lm,o,, the assets be ins -oa siderably less. Life Saved liy Supemler IlurWIe. A suspender buckle on the person of Hugh Vauhn of Newcastle stopped a bullet alleged to have been tired by Clarence. "Mullen in shooting at rowdies. The buckle was over the heart and im.l i's':tedly saved Vauhn's life. Drowned in Miallmv 1'itol. William Bei, aged 17 years, of Mount Vernon, was drowned in three feet of water in the pool of the Young Men's Christian Association building iu Ev.imville. 3Iinr State Matter. Pastors in Smith Bend churches attacked Mayor Fogarty for riot enforcing the Sunday laws. Michael Burke, th- alleged In-li.ini bank robber, has been brought to Indiana from Toledo. Dr. E. P. Yohn, ae.l 4-J. :t 1r minnt physician of Valparaiso, died from bioI loisoning contracted froui a patient. Blood poisoning resulting from a decayed tooth resulted in t ho death of Adam Stokes, aged 7, in Evansvill. Fire destroyed the M Gregory ;eri House, Wall's music store, Keller's drug store and several offices at Brazil : l.vs $70.1 M . President Roosevelt's views in r.ice suicide have made it necessary for him to send to an inquirer at Hartford a formal denial that he is paying $1(M for every set of triplets Iwrn in the country. After long resistance of Gov. Ilanly'a orders for Sunday closing the Mayor of Ter re Haute dosed all saloons and place of business in the city, except hotel and drug stores. Thirty-seven arrest were made for violations of the hiag laws. In the thriving settlement of FhndT the general store of James Docket burned down the other night without anyone knowing it. The proprietor, living on ib-oppot-ite side of the road, woke up after it was all over and discovered the smoldering ruins. Tl. loss is S2.0X4'. with n insurance. Docket had been in busiaesj only a year. Two fires in Washington caused a loss of property valued at $t Fire brok out in the Murphy block, doing $l.twn) damage to the buildings and damaging In L. Whetzell's shoe store $1.hm. J. E. Bowman's restaurant $700 and Padgett & Padgett's law offi.-e $l(io. William Prater's feed store was totally dt?stroyed, at a loss of $70o. The death of B. P.. Weed, formerly of South Bend, at Fayetteville, N. C, show he had leen living a dual life. Mrs. Wml, who resides at Jackson. Mich., went to the South to search for her husband. She was surprised to find he w.i dead and that his estate was in the hands of another Mrs. Weed. Mrs. Weed No. 1 has legal proof of her marriage and will fight for her rights. Mrs. William Barrone of luonroeville purchased some medicine from a faker traveling about the country and her 4-year-old daughter Caroline swallowed two of the pills and in a few minutes was ia convulsions The child died. Barge owners of lands along the Kankakee river will divert the flood waters of the Kankakee into the Tippecanoe river, whereby a more rapid and thorough discharge may be had and muc-h dam.to crops averted. The channel will be about eight miles long. The tvankakee will then flow down the Wabash instead of the Illinois. In an explosion resulting from accumulated gas in the Polk mines near Boonville, Joseph Kelly, Adrian Robinson, Commodore Gentry and Claud Wheeler, coal miners, were severely burned. Kell' and Bobinson may not recover. The control of the South Bend Woolen Manufacturing Company, one of the largest in the country, was sold by William W. Iewis of South Bend and 1 E. Hall of Providtice, R. I., to Henry G. Niies, Stanley Niles and Harry G. Niles, Jr.. of Mishawaka and W. W. Hubbard of Indianapolis, The purchase price is not given, but is estimated at from $2(1 UY) to $250,000. Sixty-cent gas for Indianaiolis is now tegarded as a certainty under the decision of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals at Chicago. The Citizens Company which was organized with a view to getting the Consumers' Gas Company mains, and which contracted with the city for its option on the plant, is receiving subscriptions to the stock hourly, and is confident of being able to manufacture a fuel gas at the ordinance price of CO cents per. 1,000 cubic feet. James Ward, a wealthy Evansville farmer, died on his birthday in the house where he was born. He predicted several months ago the end would come when It

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