Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1891 — Page 6

THE MASTER OF THE MINE.

By Buchanan.

CHAPTER IX. -il ajojie’s .cowrassrow. They were all in bed when I pot back that night, but as! passedthe door of Annie's room I fancied I heard the eound of robbing. I knocked softly but !-he made no answer, so I coneluded that I must have been mistaken ana that she was asleep. < The next morning she attended at breakfast as usual. She looked w little pale, and now and again glanced uneasily and rather questioningly at me. When I rose to go she put on her bonnet, saying: •*I am going a bit of the way with Hugh, mother,” and thon, somewhat to my surprise, she came along into the road with me. When we were fairly away from the houses and pass, lng across the moor, she put her hand on my arm and said softly: ••Hugh, dear Hugh, I have been out before this morning. I have seen the young masteY:" . 1 suppose my face darkened ominously, for she hurriedly continued: 4 ‘‘Hugh, you must not get angry—indeed you must not I did it for the best. I was afraid, after what happened last night, that he would dismiss you; ancUhe would have done, but I baveinterceded, and now all will be as h was before." j “You have interceded for me!’’ I said. ‘ Then you were wrong, Annie; if he wishes to dismiss me. let him. I have other means of earning my bread." j For answer to this Annie employed a stronger medium than words —3ha cried. Now, tears always 4|sarm me: all 1 could do was what I did. soothe my cousin, kiss her pretty cheek, call myself a brute and avow that she w as the dearest, sweetest little Woman in the wo:Id. Under this process Annie came round, and smiled sadly up at me through her tears. “You promise,” she said, “to goon just the same as usual, and to take no notice of what occurred last night?" “I will promise." I Said, “if you show me the good of it." “The good of it will depend upon whether or not you care anything for me.” she replied- “Just think, Hugh, if you two quarrel again, and you are dismissed, everybody will know why it ait came about—and my mother and father too. Ah, Hugh, dear Hugh, for my sake’’’ She folded her little hands over my arm and looked up into my laco like a supplicating child. As I looked down into her bright aye 3, now fast SLling again with tears the thought came into my mind to do what her mother and father wished mo to do. I thought of- saying; “Annie, give roe a right to protect you. IrCt me call you wife, and I will agree to all you say.” But something held me, and the golden moment pass. For a couple of days or so the master kept away and things went on at the works pretty much as usual; but on the fourth day he strollod down. He talked a good deal to Johnson, but never addressed one word to me. He looked at me. however, and the look he gave made -me wonder what strange influence Annie possessed when she could induce him to keep in •is employment one whom he so cordially hated. I, however, took no notice, since I had given my promise to Annie, and an onlooker would never bave guessed that anything sinister was going on. How long this state of things might have lasted it is impossible to say, but It was most unexpectedly and suddenly changed. One day my aunt, having a little •hopping to do, and eager perhaps for a day’s Outing, determined to sgo to Falmouth. She started off in the morning in John Rudd's wagon, and left my cousin to keep house. Now, it had seemed to me that Annie had looked peculiarly dull that morning, so towards afternoon. I determined to take an hour, and to hur. ry back to the cottage to see how she was getting on. As I drew near to the cottage door, I was astonished to hear noises—the one loud and angry, the other soft and pleading. When I entered the kitchen my amazement increased ten fold. An eldrlv lady—none-other. indeedthan old Mrs. Redruth, George Red, ruth’s widowed mother—was standing in the middle of the room, while my cousin Annie, crying bitterly, was actually on her knees before her! Mrs. Redruth had two characterise tics, her confirmed ill-health and her Iron will. Her power in the village was great; but she was feared rather than beloved. Indeed, it was averred by many that every hard dead committed by either her husband or her aoa might bave been traced to her influence. For tho rest she was a tall thin woman, with powerful aquiline features and a face of ghastly pallor. Amazed at her presence there. I entered uacerimoniously : but both were so intent upon themselves that they were actually unaware of my approach. The old woman was speaking: “Your tears don't deceive me," she said. lam not a man and a fool. I am a mother, and I know when danger hreatens my child, and I say that you are doing your best to entangle my son. But take care. George Redruth ■hall not bo sacrificed; sooner than that I will ruin you—do you hear?--ruin you!” “Oh my lady!” robbed Annie, “will you listen?” j “No," she returned, “I will not! Listen to yod—when every word you utter must be a lie! I have seen you with my son, Cease to follow h.m, or I will oxpo-e you before evory soul in the village!" . :.. hhe turned to leave the cottage, and

came face io face with me. She paused abrurtly, opened her lips, as if about to speak; then she changed her mind, and without uttering a word passed out As for myself, I had beeni too much stupefied to say a word, and I stood now, like a great bear, looking at my cousin, who, robbing .piteously, had sunk into a chair, Then suddenly, while gazing at her thus, it seemed to me that the time had come for me to speak. I went unto har. raised her from the chair, and folded her in my arms. ... ~~ “Ann'c," I said. “Annie, my dear,, let there be an end to this. Give me the right to protect you from all this trouble that has come upon you lately Become my wife.” She started and stared at me like a frightened child. •‘Your wife, Hugh!” she said. ‘‘Your wife!" “Yes, Annie," I answered. “My wife—that is, if you care for me enough, my dear.” At this she fell to crying afresh, and clung to me tenderly. “Ah, Hugh, dear Hugh!" she sobbed. “You are the kindest and best man in all the world, and it is your kindness which makes you ask me this now, for you don’t love me,Hugh.” Iler words cut me to tho heart, for I felt their truth. “Perhaps,” I said, "I don’t romance as some young fellows might, but I eh ail make as good a husband. I have always been fond of you, Annie, over since that night, years ago, when I first came here and you gave me a welcome. We have ever heen excel® lent friends, haven’t we? And now tell me if wo shall bo more than friends?” the shook her head. “No. Hugh: be what you have always been—myown dear brother.” • •Is it because you think I don’t care for you. Annie?” “Ah, no!” she replied. “Don’t think it is that. So much the better for you, dear, that you don't love me; for even if it were otherwise, we two could nevor be man and wife.” I looked into her eyes.and I thought I read their meaning. Annie did not care for me; her heart was with another man, and that man far above her. I think I see those who read these lines smiling at my ignorance or my folly, and asking, was it possible that all 1 had seen or heard awakened in my mind no suspicion of any darker wrong lurking in my little cousin’s; path? Yes; it was quite possible. Grown man as I was, I had no experience whatever of the world. I would have trusted Annie in any company,or in any place, and I never dreame4 for a moment that there could be any danger to one so good. As my thought travels back to that time, 1 reproach myself again and again for my own blindness. What worlds of sorrow it would have saved if i had been less unsuspicus—if I had only loved poor Annie more! - - CHAPTER X. THE LETTER. But after this I watched Annie a good deal, and I soon discovered she had a great and growing trouble on ner mind. She was restless and ill at ease, and once or twice, while I observed her quietly, I saw tears suddenly start to her eyes. Her mother and father noticed this, too; but they attributed the change to quite another cause. They were good, honest folk, who could only consider one project at a time; and as for several months past their minds had been occupied solely with the idea of a marriage between Annie and myself, they naturally assumed disagreements between us two to be the cause of their daughter’s depression. I had not the heart to undeceive them. X determined, however, to speak to Annie again, and ask for some further explanation of this mystery. One_aftemoon, about three days after our former interview, I was standing at the mouth of the mine, thinking of things, when I was startled by the sudden appearance of my [aunt She looked pale: but ready to become very angry. “Hugh!” she said, before I had time to open my lips, “where be Awnie?" Had 1 been able at that moment to produce my cousin, she would certainly have been rated very soundly; whereas I shook ray head and said, “1 don’t know!” The rising anger entirely dissapered, and her face grew paler. ••But you’m seen her to-day? she continued. “No. When I left this morning you were all abed.” At this my aunt fairiy broke down, and moaned between her 6obs, “Oh, Hugh! she gone, gone!” 1 was fairly stunned, and all I could do just then was to comfort my aunt, who was weeping bitterly. When she was more composed, I asked for an explanation of'what had taken place, and she gave it. The facts were simple enough, After my uncle and I had left for the mine, my aunt rose, expecting to find the kitchen fire alight as usual, and Annie busy makthings neat for the day. To her astonishment. the kite,hen was empty, the ashes iu the grate were grey, and all was in disorder as it had been on the night before. She called Annie, but got no answer; she searched the cottzge, but failed to find her; then, concluding that she had gone to the village on some errand, she set about doingthe work herself. Several hours passed away; and, as there was still no sign of the missing gid, my aunt began to grow extremely alarmed. She searched through and around the house with no affect. She now went down to the village and made several inquiries, but with no result. Annie had not been seen by anyone that day. Seriously alarmed by this time, she returned to the house and looked again

[in Annie's room. Suddenly her at- | traded to the bed; she looked at it, and found that, although it w 4» in disorder, it had not been slept in that night. Having told her tale, my aunt looked at me, hoping that I might be able to say her fears for bet 1 child were. unfounded. I could not; the utmost j could do was to counseLsilence,and try to buoy her up with hope. This J did. —lAitnaay be ail right, atmt,* IsaTd; “therefore it will be much better to keep onr fears to ourselves. Don’t say anything to my uncle there will be time enough to do that when our last hope is gone. After some little difficulty, she consented to follow my advice, and I persuaded her to return hornet But the day was finished for me. After my aunt was gone, I could do nothing but think of Annie: tho worst fears struggled to take possession of me, but 1 diligently thrust thmeaway. I would not believe ill of my cousin. About five o’clock.my undo came up from the mine, and 1 proposed we should knock off work for the day, and stroll home together. My uncle was in singularly good spirits, and during our walk home he frequently checked his mirth, avowing ’twas unnatural, and that something ill would come of it. As we drew near the cottage, my heart beat painfully and when we went in Ilooked anxiously about me. My aunt was moving about preparing tea, and she was alone. “Whar be the little woman?” asked my uncle as we sat down to our meal. X saw my aunt’s face grow very pale, but she turned her head away and answered as carelessly as possible: “She be gawn out!" “Beant she coming in to tao?” “Naw!” The answer was conclusive, and the meal went on; my uncle eating heartily, while I was scarcely able to sip my cup of tea. When the meal was over, my uncle, according to hisusual custom, went to his seat beside the fire and lit his pipe. Heiiad been smoking for an hour or more, when a scene occurred which I cannot recall without pain even now. All signs of the meal had been cleared away, and my aunt, with trembling hand, was about to lift dow her workbasket from Its shelf, when a knock came to the kitchen door; than the door was opened, and in came John Rudd. He had a parcel for my aunt, which he delivered; he chatted for a few minutes, then he prepared to go. His hand was on the latch of the door, when he paused and looked back: “Say, missus,” said he, “whar be Miss Awnie gawn to?” My uncle looked up curiously; my aunt’s cheeks grew as white as newfallen snow. “Whar be she gawn to??” she repeated helplessly. “Iss!” continued Rudd, “I seen her this marnining in Falmouth, but she were in a mighty hurry and didn’t see me. She were dawn on the jatty. and she went aboard the steamer for Partsmouth.” Mr. Rudd paused, thunderstruck at the effect of bis words. My aunt, thorougly exhausted by the strain that had been put upon her that day, sank, sobbing and moaning, into a chair; my uncle, who had risen from his seat, stood glaring from one to another. Presently he spoke. “What be all this about mv Awnie?’ he cried. “Speak, come’un.” My aunt continued to sob, John Rudd stared in a mystified manner at one and all. “Thera’s nothing to alarm anybody,” I said; “it’s all right.” But my uncle, who was growing terribly excited, hardly seemed to hear me. “If thar be aught wrong wi” my little woman,” he cried, “tell me; Faint a child to be petted, nor a fool to be kept i’ the dark. Speak, tell me what ’tis all about!” So we told him all we knew, putting this and that together, he gathered at least one idea—that his child had, for some reason or other, voluntarily left home. He stood like a man stupefied, scarcely gathering the 6cnse of the situation, and dimly wondering why his wife received the news so violently. In his simplicity, he did not guess as yet. that Annie’s flight might have its origin in secret guilt and shame. But when John Rudd was gone, and we were left to ourselves, I looked at my uncle and aunt, both so changed within the last few hours, and told them my suspicions of George Redruth To my surprise they were received with blank amazement, then with indignation. My uncle averred that I had always disliked the young master, and it was bjt natural I should credit him with a dastardly deed; but he himself refused to believe for one moment in the young mun's guilt. I felt convinced of it, however, in my own mind; and in order to make sure, I determined to go up to the master's house and ascertain if he were from home. The moment my uncle heard of my determination he resolved to accompany me. On asking for the master we were shown into the library; five minutes later the young man himself walked into the room. The sight of him deprived me utterly of the power of speech; my uncle looked at me reproachfully, and was silent too. George Redruth, who had just been dining, wore evening dress and had never looked handsomer or more thoroughly at ease in his life. “Well,” he said, glancing at us pleasantly—he was evidently in an after-dinner mood—“is there anything I edn do for you?” “Master Jarge,” said my unce, earnestly. “we’m in trouble, 6lr, in sore trouble." “Indeed! I’m sorry to hear it” “I knawed you’d be sorry, sir," con*

tinued my uncle, ‘‘though ’taln’t no affair ot your’n, Sod knaws; but my daughter, sir, my little Annie, she be run’d away.” “What!" he exclaimed. “Runaway from home, do you mean? But why come to me? What can I do?” “Naught; you ean’t do naught at all.” said my uncle; “that’ll just it.” ~ —lt was an awkward situation for us all, and we all felt it. My untie turned his hat nervously round and round. 'whTte the y’ohhg niasFer grew more and more uncomfortable as every minute weht by. I felt that some explanation was demanded, and I gave it. “The fact is, sir.” I Said, “there is some villain at the bottom of it. and we want to find out who that villain is.” “And so you come to me! Really, I don’t see the force of all this, and I have more important matters to detain me.” ~ He opened the door, and we, seein g that further conversation would be useless, left the room and house. During the walk home my uncle never spoke. When we reached the cottage he sank down into a chair and hid his face in his hands. Nothing more could be done that night, so we all went to bed, but not to seep. During the night I heard mv uncle walking with measured step up and down his room, and in the gray of the morning he came out to the kitchen to kindle a fire, I looked at him and scarcely knew him; his face was white and lined like that of an old mnn. He was quite calm, but there was a sad look in his eyes which spoke of deep-set pain. 1 spoke to him of Annie, and told of a plan I had made to follow her and bring her back, but he sadly shook his head. “Naw, lad,” said he, “’tis best left alawn; she went o’ her awn free will, and maybe some day she’ll come back, and till she docs we’ll wait, we’ll wait.” I felt he was right; it was better to wait. Evon if we had been rich folk, w hich we were not, it would have be on difficult to find her; as it was, the matter was hopeless. So we went on as usual with the old life. And yet it was not the old life, for the house was changed indeed—and there was ever one vacant chair. Several days after that sad night a letter came from Annie; it bore the London postmark, and ran as follows: * ‘Mr Dear Parents, Do not grivo. about me, for I am quite well and in want of nothing. Do not attempt to find me, it would be useless; but I shall soon come back, with God’s blessing, and then you will learn why I left without a word. I am sorry, so sorry for any trouble I have given you, and hope you will forgive me, for the sake of the happy days that are gone away. Your loving daughter, Annie." My aunt read the letter aloud; then my uncle took it from her, looked at it for a long time, and finally, without a word, placed it on the fire—watching It t'li it was consumed. After that, for a long time to come, he never spoke of Annie again; but he drooped daily, like a man under the weight of some mortal pain. (To be continued.)

He Had a Reason.

Epoch. urphy (spokesman of committee). Slattery, we byes on .yez an’ put yer name to this payteeshun for shorter hours. Slattery—Oi do put moy name to no payteeshuns. Murphy—Phwat! Don’t yez be in wid th’ movement? Slattery—Of course Oi do be in wid th’ movement, but Oi put moy name to-no pavteeahuns. r Murphy—Phwat ails ye mon? Slattery—Oi do tells ye Oi put my name to no paytee^uns* Murphy—All th’ rist o’ th’ byes do be a sinin’ o’ it. Slattery—Well, Oill be domd If Oi do. Murphy—Don’t ye be afther wantin' shorter hours and bigger pay? Slattery—O’ course Oi do. Murphy—Do ye want th’ byos to think ye to be a scabber. Slattery—o’ course not. Murphy—Thin, Mr. Slattery, phwy th’ divil won’t ye sign yez name to the payteeshun? .. Slattery—Be cause, Mr. Murphy, Oi don’t be after knowin’ how to wrote moy name.

Cost of a Society Dinner.

New York has become a city of extravagance in dinner-giving,and many of these entertainments, with all the delicacies of the season and rare wines, cost from S2O to SIOO per cover. Of course the latter is the outside figure, but reckoning that one gives a dinner once a week to a party of, say, fifteen, at the first named figure it will prove a snug sum at the end of the jrear In order to render those dinners complete and perfect the hostess must possess a dinner service more or less elaborate, and it is rarely, if ever, that the majority of outsiders stop to consider what these consist of and how much money is spent in this direction. In the old Roman days no greater magnificence could havo existed in the way of table decoration, wines and service than a millionaire New Yorker displays when hi 9 wife gives a large dinner.

A Land of Adulterations.

Austria is a country where one’s food needs to be tested in order to avoid adulteration. At the laboratory in Venice, where food is analyzed for nothing, a loaf of bread was found to Consist largely of the pulverized bark of trees, sawdust and chaff; ground pepper was found to be mixed with wood ashes; cinnamon was colored with ochre, and a so-called “nutritious 1 coffee" consisted entirely of roast acorns and ehioory.

WASHINGTON.

Senator Edmunds gives his unqualified' pproval to a cloture rule in the Senate. Commissioner of Pensions Ream favors the proposed Reduction of the fees of pen* aion attorneys to #2. .» • • A new silver dollar is to be created by the Pan-American monetary conference which assembles in Washington next week. republics. • The President has issued his prodlama tion inviting the Nations to take part in the celebration commemorative of the discovery of America by participating in the World’s Columbian Exposition at Chi- * oago, from May 1 to the third Thursday in October, 1893. The rumor is revived to*day that Con* gressinan Joe Cannon will be appointed lie S. Treasurer early in the coming year, or as soon as the business of the House Commit* tee on appropriations, of which he is chair* man, has been completed. Treasurer Hus* ton's resignation has been on file for some time, and, although he is anxious to retire, it is understood that he has withheld his request for its immediate acceptance until the oondition of affaira will permit rtf Can* non’s nomination. This is in spite of the late report that Mr. Huston would with* draw his resignation. The Washington Post on the 23d pub* lished the views of a number of Southern Congressmen on a proposition which, it says, Senator Butler will bring forward in the Senate before the debate on the election bill closes, in the shape of a joint reso lution depriving tne negro of his right to vote, and at the same time reducing relas tivcly Southern representation in Congress. Senator Butler is reported as saying that he will dare Republican Senators to vote for such a measure, which, he declares, would receive his hearty support. Senator Pugh declared emphatically that the South would not hesitate one moment to give up any representation based on the negro vote if by so doing it could forever eliminate the negro vote as an entity. "This, the Senator thinks, is the universal sentiment of the Southern people, and this he thinks could be done by repealing the fifteenth aiuendmentto the Constitution, and relegating the powers back to the States again as it was before the adoption of that amendment. The legislative history of this year practically closed on the 23d. The House has adjourned over uhtil Friday with an understanding that no business shall be done before the new year, ana the Senate will doubtless adopt the same program, as the leaders have found that their ranks could not be kept full ss against the attractions of a holiday season at home. The closing day was marked by two important events in the Senate—the presentation of the financial hill by the committee on finance and the cloture rule by Mr. Aldrich. The financial bill was the formal outcome of an hour’s session of the committee this morning, but in reality it represents the results of nearly a solid week’s consultation and planning and contriving by the most adroit minds on the Republican side of the Senate chamber. The committee’s understanding, when the financial bill was agreed upon in caucus a week ago, was that it represented a party measure. This understanding was based on the erroneous assumption that a senatorial caucus committed the participants to the support of a proposition commanding the support of the mas jority. whereas the senatorial caucus has from time immemorial been nothing more than a conference and bound nobody. So it soon appeared that the caucus bill would not be supported by all the Eastern Senators. The principle objection was the—te the eastern mind—heretical leaning, not only toward free silver coinage but toward actusl fiat money as evidenced by sec. 4 providing for supplying the deficiency in National bank circulation by the issue of treasury notes. Senator Sherman set himself to work to reconcile the conflicting views and Tuesday’s bill is in a large measure attributable to bis ingenuity. In it he believes that he has placated the Eastern man byatriking out sec. 4 and in* sertingthe 2 per cent, bond provision, which promises a lease of life to the Na tional banks. He has sought to remove the objections of the Western Seuators to this action by reducing from thirty to ten years the period during which the bonds are to run without redemption. The point has also been made—this time again to the Western men—that the silver purchases that would follow under Sec. 4,if it had been retained, would have been insignificant in amount, as the stimulus conveyed to the national banks by that section would soon have resulted iu an increase of their circulation to the legal maximum and have stopped further silver purchases. These arguments have evidently been effective. Save Morrill (VL),who objects to any bill legalizing the legal tender character of a greenback, the Eastern men seem to think well of the proposition. There are some irreconcilables among the silver men—notably Teller, Plumb and Stewart—but it is thought not enough to break a Republican majority. The others like the bill, either on the principle that half a loaf is better than no bread, or because they believe that the parity section will bring free coiuage in a year or two and allow them to keep in the party lines. The understanding was hat the bill would be called up next week, and this understanding seemed to be confirmed by Mr Aldrioh’s action in reporting the clotur’ rule us per caucus direction. Certainly i would appear to be useless to present, this rule, so dear to the Eastern Senators, unless there was warrant for the belief that some kind of assurance had been received that it was to be used and It can only be used with the aid of the silver senators. The program of tbe Republicans is believed to be in this line. At a convenient time the rule is to be called up, when a Republican majority is at hand When tbe Democratic Senators attempt to attack it, with the intention of talking itto death or until the 4th of March, the presiding officer will rule that debate is not in order, taking bis stand on the broad ground if general parliamentary law, that a motion lo close debate would in itself be defeated bv debate, whiqh must, therefore, be out of order, as was ruled in the British parliament when the celebrated cloture rule wa* adopted against the vigorous opposition of the Irsh members. Wbat will follow no one can say, but if the rule carries, the force bill will come very near the statute books.

FAMINE IN THE SOUDAN.

Frightful Situation of African*—«MH Tribes BUtt»4 to Death. A correspondent at: Suakim telegraphs On the 29th that the full magnitude of tad famine that for eighteen months has rav* aged the eastern Soudan can never be known. It is only where Europeans ha vs been present that some detailed informa* I tlon bas reached tbe outside world as t« j the terrible condition pf the people extent of tEe affected region is very great; in fact, trustworthy native accounts indicate that there is not a town nor district from Egypt proper to, Sennaar in thp south, and from Barfoor in the west >through Kordofan to the Nile province* and east to the sea, that has not been,during the past year and a half, mors than idecimated by starvation. Not only the inhabitants of the plains have suffered, but misery has also reached the mountains from the Beni Ameri country to Abyssinia. The chief causes of the famine are described to be: First,the insecurity of prop* terty, the natives heing on this account afraid t® place too mucltground under cultivation; second, tho partial destruction by drought of crops in 1889, the supply of grain being very deficient, and, third, the ,total failure of the winter crop of 1889-90, the locusts having destroyed nearly every green thing. Tbe cotton crops of Dorua and Duroor were also devoured. The Inhabitants of the country had to rely on the coast ports for supplies which were released by the Egyptian government with a spare band, causing unnecesary suffering to thousands of people. The oldest native inhabitant never saw the locusts so "thick as they have been this year. Tho country was visited eight times by vast clouds of these rapacious insects. The victims of famine are so numerous thst it is not an exaggeration to say that some sub-tribes of the Hadendowas and Amarars have ceased to exist. The awfu experience of people has not, however lessened their determination to maintain their freedom. The "greatest sufferers among the tribesmen have been tbe families of those who, in 1884 and 1885, arrayed them selves in battle against the English, colonial and Indian forces, and those bones are still bleaching on the plains in silent protest against the English attempt to place the people- again under Egyptian ruleNow many widows and children lie unburied beside these bread-whiners, starvation having found them easy victims. In some places in the Soudan the poorer classes were forced to eat cats, dogs and lizards,all vegetable food having disappearedThere have also been many undoubted cases of cannibalism, freshly interred bodies of the dead having been exhumed to satisfy the cravings of hunger. Here snd there a whole village is found deserted, with skelotons of the dead remaining iu some of the houses. The wealthy fared hardly better than the poor, as riches could not procure food that did not exist. To add to the terrors of the situation, smallpox broke out and spread over nearly the entire famine district. For the past two months there has been some improvement, * and by spring the people Will probably have regained their normal condition, but they will not forget that the British and Egyp.. tian authorities, by closing the gates of Suakim against them, firs Responsible for much of their terrible sufferings.

KOCH’S LYMPH COUNTERFEITED.

It has been discovered that a spurious Imitation of Professor Koch’s lymph is being manufactured, and a number of cases have been reported in which foreign med* leal men have been deceived into purchae* ing the bogus preparation. Agents of Prof. Koch have been unable to discover the manufacturers of the counterfeit. The police are working on one case where the fraud was attempted upon Dublin physis ciaus. A man who gave his name as Bough, and who claimed to he attached to the Koch. clinic,- opened cemmuaieatteawith the doctors of the Dublin Hospital, offering to send them a quantity of the lymph on payment of a certain sum of money. The doctors in reply forwarded a check for £ls and told Bough to send the lymph. Bough also got from another Irish doctor who was visiting BerlinLater, however, the sender of the check, suspecting a swindle, telegraphed to stop payment. Bough had given the check to the manager of the hotel where he was stopping in paymentof his bill. The man* ager informed the police, but Bohgh had decamped, leaving a quantity of plausible Imitations of the Koch lymph. The medical prhfession throughout the empire gets more and more indignant over the manner in which the lymph is distributed and Professor Koch’s secrecy regard-, ing its production. The medical associations of Brandenburg and other provinces have sent protests to the government against the secret manufacture of the Koch remedy, which, they say, is giving rise to scandal. The Breslau Medical So 4 eiety sent to Professor Koch and also to Dr. Von Gossler, Minister of Ecclesiastical Ass fairs, a resolution. declaring that it works great injury to the profession at large to allow hospitals and privileged persons In private practice a monopoly of the lymph. Professor Koch, in an interview with an English physician, who wanted the Pros fessor to disclose the whole process, gotangry at the proposal and declared that he had the right to do as he pleased with his disoovery. An explosion of a boiler In the sausage factory of Ben Loewenstein & Bro then, Cincinnati, damaged six small dwelling houses: killed Jennie. Grey, aged four years; fatally injured Mrs. Loewenstein, aged eightyseight, and less seriously inlured several other persons. William Longlutz, a butcher, who ran the engine> was arrested for running an engine without a licensei also his employer, Ben Loe* weustein. Loss to property about #3,000. i Wallace & Co.’s circus and menagerie ie wintering at Peru, and last week one of the elephants underwent a surgical opera* tion for the removal of a six pound tumor growing upon his neck. He submitted to the operation quietly, and the tumor waa isuooassf ully removed.