Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1904 — Page 2

The Riser's Daughter

* CHAPTER XlX.— (Continued.) ‘ “Nanon, we are alone, you and I.'’ “Yes, mnm’selle; if I only knew w here Be tins, the charming young gentleman, l< would set off on foot to find him." “The sea lies between us,” said Eu*raie. When the poor lonely heiress, with jicr faithful old servant for company, iWas shedding tears in the old, dark llcuse, which was all the world she wnew, men talked from Orleans to Nnnfot* of nothing but Mlle Grandet and her (■eventeen millions. One of hei first acts iww to settle a pension of twelve hun4nd francs on Nanon, wjio, possessing '•trendy an income of six hundred francs ieC her own, at once became a great ireatch. In lees than a month she ex(ebanged her condition of spinster for Mat of wife, at the instance and through Me persuasion of Antoine Cornoil’.er, (who Was promoted to the position of (Bailiff and keeper to Mlle. Grahdet. r Eugenie was a woman of thirty and as jjet had known none of the happiness lit tife. It seemed hardly probable that .she would marry while she still wore mourning. Her sincere piety was well Inown. So the Cruchot family, counKted by the astute old Abbe, was fain be content with surrounding the ißeiress with the most affectionate attenMons. Her dining room was filled every levening with the warmest and most de.Wted Cruchotins. M. le President de Boufoos was the hero of the circle; they (tended his talents, his personal appear••ncr, his learning, his amiability; he |Wa» an inexhaustible subject of admirSfeg comment. ”M. le President” had striven to act •p to the part he wanted to play. He was 40 years old, his countenance was dark and ill-favored, he had, moreover, wizened look which is frequently ■ten in men of his profession; but he affected the airs of youth, sported a maBwca cane, and went to Mlle. Grandet’s Bouse arrayed in a white cravat and a shirt with huge frills. He called the feir heiress “our dear Eugenie," and spoke as if he were an intimate friend Of the family. The pack was still in pursuit of Eugenie’s millions; it was a more numerous pack now; they gave tongue together, and hunted down their prey more systematically. If Charles had come back from the Ise-off Indies, he would have found the some motives at work and almost the some people. Mme. des Grassins, for whom Eugenie had nothing but kindness and pity, still remained to vex the Cruefiots. Eugenie’s face still shone out ■gainst the dark background, and Charles, though invisible, reigned there ■upreme as in other days. Yet some advance had been made. Eugenie’s birthday bouquet was never evening he brought the heodilup*6N.. ft had become an institution; every evenS<g he brought the heiress a huge and wonderful bouquet. Mme. Cornoiller ostentatiously placed these offerings in a vase. and promptly flung them into a corner of the yard as soon as the visiters hod departed. In the early spring Mme. des Gras•hts made a move, and sought to trou*l > the felicity of the Cruchotins by talking to Eugenie of the Marquis de Froidfond, whose mined fortunes might >•> retrieved if the heiress would return lis estates to him by a marriage contract. Mme, des Grassins lauded the wirquis and his title to the skies; and, fttkmg Eugenie’s quiet smile for consent, ■he went about saying that M. le President Cruchot’s marriage was not such a (settled thing as some people imagined. "M. de Froidfond may be fifty years ■ld," she said, “but he looks no older than 81. Cruchot; he is a widower, and Was tWamily, it is true; but he is a mar•uis. he will be a peer of France one of these days, it is not such a bad match «s times go. I know of my own certain knowledge that when old Grandet added ■is own property to the Froidfond estate he meant to graft his family into Me Eroidfonds. He often told me as »Bch. Oh! he was a shrewd old man, .was Grandet.” “Ah! Nanon,” Eugenie said one evenfes. ns she went to bed, “why has he not •ace written to me in seven years?”

CHAPTER XX. While these events were taking place -to Banmur, Charles was making his fortone in the East. His first venture was wry successful. He had promptly resfised the sum of six thousand dollars, bussing the line had cured him of many ossiy prejudices; he soon saw very clcar- .»> that the best and quickest way of Hanking money was the same in the tropSrs as in Europe—by buying and selling ■sata. He made a descent on the African exists and bargained for negroes nnd •ikrr goods in demand in various mar■ska. He threw himself heart and soul kata his business, and thought of nothing afcr. He set one clear aim before him, to reappear in Paris, and to dazzle the xarid there with his wealth, to attain m position even higher than the one from which he had fallen. By dint of rubbing shoulders with aaony men, traveling in many lauds, comfcw in contact with various customs, ids *ndb had been relaxed. His notions of togM and wrong became less rigid when Br Sound that what was looked upon as <w crime in one country was lield up to admiration in another. He saw that eves? one was working for himself, that dtteterestedness was rarely to be met vnMb, and grew selfish and suspicious; Star hereditary failings of the Grandets «m» out in him —the hardness, the ■Mftiness, and the greed of gain. He nah* Chinese coolies, negro slaves, swal- ** neqts, children, artists, anything «■* everything that brought in money. * became a money lender on a large Skafg* Eong practice in cheating the cusSmu* authorities had made him unscrupujjtuto ki other ways. ' Poring, his first voyage Eugenie's pure saad nobib face bad been with him; he Bn* aJkV-'hutrtd his first success to a kind ‘IX 'sesaad by her ¥ ut on, adventures -tely effaced ail rocL w jeTdksin, of the old house, e»>ch, and of the kiss that ho had ipatched b ths passage. He remem-

By HONRE DE BALZAC

bered nothing but the little garden shut in by its crumbling walls where he had learned the fate that lay in store for him; but he rejected all connection with the family. His uncle was an old fox who had filched his jewels. Eugenie had no place in his heart, he never gave her a thought; but she occupied a page in his ledger as a creditor for six thousand francs. Such conduct and such ideas explained Charles Grandet’s silence. In the East Indies, on the coast of Africa, at Lisbon, in the United States, Charles Grandet the adventurer was known as Carl Sepherd, a pseudonym which ho assumed so as not to compromise his real name. Carl Sepherd could be indefatigable, brazen and greedy of gain; could conduct himself, in short, like a man who resolves to make a fortune no matter what way, and makes haste to have done with villainy as soon as possible, in order to live respected for the rest of his days. With such methods his career of prosperity was rapid and brilliant, . and in 1827 he returned to Bordeaux on board a fine brig belonging to n Royalist firm. He had nineteen hundred thousand francs with him in gold dust, carefully secreted in three strong casks; he hoped to sell it to the Paris mint, and to make eight per cent on the transaction. There was also on board the brig a gentle-man-in-ordinary to his Majesty Charles X., a M. d’Aubrion, a worthy old man who had been rash enough to marry a woman of fashion whose money came from estates in the West India Islands. Mme. d’Aubrion’s reckless extravagance had obliged him to go out to the Indies to sell her property. M. and Mme. d’Aubrion were now in straitened circumstances. They had a bare twenty thousand francs of income and a daughter, a very plain girl, whom her mother made up her mind to marry without a dowry. It was an enterprise the success of which might have seemed somewhat problematical to a man of the ■world, in spite of the cleverness with which a woman of fashion is generally credited. Perhaps even Mme. d’Aubrion herself, when she looked at her daughter, “was almost ready to despair of getting rid of her to any one, even to the most besotted worshiper of rank and titles.

Mlle. d’Aubrion was a tall, spare demoiselle; she had a disdainful mouth, overshadowed by a long nose, thick at the tip, sallow in its normal condition, but very red after a meal.- From some points of view she was all that a worldly mother, who was 38 years of age, and had still some pretentions to beauty, could desire. But by way ot compensating advantages, the Marquis d’Aubrion’s distinguished air had been inherited by her daughter. Her mother had taught her how to dress herself. Under the same instructor she had acquired a charming manner, and had learned to assume that pensive expression which interests a man and leads him to imagine that here, surely, is the angel whom he has hitherto sought in vain. Charles became very intimate with Mme. d’Aubrion; the lady had her own reasons for encouraging him. People said that during the time on board she left no stone unturned to secure such a prize for a son-in-law. It is at any rate certain that when they landed at Bordeaux Charles stayed in the same hotel wdth M., Mme. and Mlle d’Aubrion, and they all traveled together to Paris. The hotel d’Aubrion was hampered with mortgages, and Charles was intended to come to the rescue. The mother had gone so far as to say that it would give her great pleasure to establish a son-in-law on the ground floor. She did not share M. d’Aubrion’s aristocratic prejudices and promised Charles Grandet to obtain letters patent which should' authorize him, Grandet, to bear the name and assume the arms of the d’Aubrions, and to succeed to the property of Aubrion, which was worth about thirty-six thousand livres a year, to say nothing of the titles of Capal de Buch and Marquis d’Aubrion. They could be very useful to each other, in short; and what with this arrangement of a joint establishment, and one or two posts about the court, the hotel d’Aubrion might count upon an income of a hundred thousand francs and more.

“And w’hen a man Im&a hundred thousand francs a year, a name, a family and a position at court, the rest is easy. You can be secretary to an embassy.” She fairly turned his head with these ambitious schemes. He never doubted but that his uncle had paid his father's creditors. He resolved to strain every nerve to reach those- pinnacles of glory which his egotistical would-be mother-in-law had pointed out to him. His cousin was only a dim speck in the remote past; she had no place in tfiis brilliant future, no part in his dreams, but he went to see Annette. That experienced woman of the world gave counsel to her old friend; he must by no means let slip such an opportunity for an alliance; she promised to aid him in all his schemes of advancement. He had grown very attractive during his stay in the Indies; his complexion had grown darker, he had gained in manliness and self-posses-sion; he spoke in the firm, decided tones of a man who is used to command' and to success. Ever since Charles Grandet had discovered that there was a definite part for him to play in Paris, he was himself at once.

Des Grassins, hearing of his return; his approaching marriage, and his large fortune, came to see him, and spoke of the three hundred thousand francs still owing to his father’s creditors. He found Charles closeted with a goldsmith, from whom he had ordered jewels for Mlle. d’Aubrion’s corbeille, and who was submitting designs. Charles himself had brought magnificent diamonds from the Indies, but the coat of setting them, together with the silver plate and jewelry of the new establishment, amounted to more than two hundred thousand franca. He did not recognize des Grassins at first, and treated him with the cool Insolence of a young man of fashion who is conscious that he has killed four men in as many duels in the Indies. As M. des Grassins had already called three or four times, Charles vouchsafed to hear him, but it was with bare politeness, and

■he did not pay the slightest attenittea to what the banker said. “My father’s debts are not mine,” he said coolly. “I am obliged to you, sir, for the trouble you have been good enough to take, but I am none the better for it that I can see. I have not scraped together a couple of millions, earned with the sweat of my-brow, to fling it to my father’s creditors." "But suppose that your father were to be declared a bankrupt in a few days’ time?" “In a few days’ time I shall be the Compte d’Aubrion, sir: so you can see that it is a matter of entire indifference to me. Besides, you know even Letter than I do that when a man has a hundred thousand livres a year, his father never has been a bankrupt,” and he politely edged the deputy des Grassins to the door.

CHAPTER XXL In the early days of the month of August, in' that same-year, Eugenie was sitting on the little bench in the garden where her cousin had sworn eternal love, and where she often took breakfast In summer mornings. The poor girl was almost happy for a few brief moments; she went over all the great and little events of her love before those-catastro-phes that followed. The morning was fresh and bright, and the garden was full of sunlight; her eyes wandered over the wall with its moss and flowers: it was full of cracks now, and all but in ruins, but no one was allowed to touch it. The postman knocked at tlie door, and gave a letter into the hands of Mme. Cornoiller. who hurried into the garden, crying, “Mademoiselle! A letter! Is it the letter?” she added, as she handed it to her. mistress. The words rang through Eugenie’s heart as the spoken sounds rang from the ramparts and the old garden wall. Paris! It is his writing! Then he has come back.” Eugenie’s face grew white; for several seconds she kept the seal unbroken, for her heart beat so fast that she could neither move nor sec. Big Nanon stood and waited with both hands on her hips; joy seemed to puff like smoke from every wrinkle in her brown face. “Oh! why docs he come back by way of Paris, Nanon, when he went by way of Saumur?” “Read it; the letter will tell you why.” Eugenie’s fingers trembled as she opened the envelope; a check fell out of It and fluttered down. Nanon picked it up. Eugenie read the letter through. It ran as follows:

“My Dear Cousin —You will, I am sure, hear with pleasure of the success of my enterprise. You brought me luck; I have come back to France a wealthy man. My dear cousin, the day of illusions is gone by for me. I I am sorry, but it cannot be lielped. You are free, my cousin, and I, too, am free still; there is apparently nothing to hinder the realization of our youthful hopes, but I am too straightforward to hide my present situation from you. I have not for a moment forgotten that I am bound to you. I have always remembered th* little wooden bench ’’ Eugenie started up as if she were sitting on burning coals, and sat down on one of the broken stone steps in the yard. —“the little wooden bench wherf we vowed to love each other forever; the passage, the gray parlor, my attic room, the night when in your thoughtfulness and tact you made my future easier for me. Yes; these memories have been my support; but I cannot deal insincerely with you. Your bringing up, your ways of life, and your tastes have not fitted you for Parisian life, nor would they harmonize with the future which I have marked out for myself. I posses* at the time of writing an income of 80,000 livres. With this fortune I am able to marry into the d’Aubrion family; I should take/heir name on my marriage with their only daughter, a girl of nineteen, and secure at the same time a Aery brilliant position in society. I will assure you that I have not the slightest affection for Mlle. d’Aubrion, but by this marriage I shall secure for my children a social rank which will be of inestimable value in the future. When I tell you plainly that my marriage Is solely a marriage of suitability, and that I have not forgotten the love of our youthful days, am I not putting mysulf entirely into your hands, and making you the arbitress of my fate? Is it not implied that if I must renounce my social ambitions, I shall willingly content myself with the simple and pure happiness which is always called up by the thought of you “Tra-la-la-tan-ta-ti!" saug Charles Grandet, as he signed his name. “That is acting handsomely.” he said to himself. He looked about him for the check, slipped It in, and added a postscript. (To be continued.!

Said the Boy Was Dear.

At a leap-year party held recently in Germantown a novel way of raising funds for a charitable object was suggested and carried out in the auctioning off of the young men present, the highest bidder for each being entitled to his attentions for the evening. A bright young girl was chosen for auctioneer, the boys being banished to another room. The sale started with the’ fair auctioneer naming the meritorious points of the young men. No names were used, but she managed, in a humorous comment ou their failings as well as their virtues, to Indicate the personality of each one as offered. Bidding started off briskly in dime Jumps, but after the dollar point was reached the auctioneer announced that the boys would be so Impressed with Uteoir value that they would be too conceited to be good company, and blds were reduced to 1 cent. One young man hung fire at 30 cents. “Why, girls, the brass in this article Is worth more than that,” pleaded the auctioneer, in an effort to secure a higher bld; but to no avail. "Sold, at 30 cents,’’ she announced, as the young man was brought in, adding, “and you are dear at that” And the young man for the life of him can’t figure out whether he ought to cut the witty auctioneer’s acquaintance or consider himself complimented.- Philadelphia Record.

Nothing makes a man so weary as to have bis fool friends say they bops his unfortunate speculations will prove a good lesson.

WASHINGTON GOSSIP

A bulletin Issued by the census bureau gives the total number of employes In tho executive civil service of the United. States as 150,383. These figures include only those employes who are required to take an examination, so that about 85,000 postmastera and employes of small postoffices are excluded, as are about 15,000 employee with small salaries in the field branches of the War Department, about 16,000 employes at navy yards, who are classified, but appointed under navy yard regulations, and a few thousand* in other parts of the service. Of th* 150,383 given, 25,675 are employed in the District of Columbia; 137,061 are males, 135,575 are native born, and 102,431 are engaged in clerical work. Of the entire number, 46,162 are between the ages of 80 and 40 years; 89,218 between 20 and 80, and 80,394 between 40 and 50. One hundred and one are over 80, and 8,422 below 20 years of age. More than one-third of the number have been employed for less than five years, and more than a fifth for less than a year. Only 828 have occupied places for more than forty years. Those who receive salaries of $2,500 or more number 851; less than $720, 50,001.

The new salary schedule for rural mall carriers has been completed, to apply from July 1. The last Congress raised the maximum salary from S6OO to $720 a year. It was found that the maximum route was 24 miles long and to carriers on routes of this length, numbering about 12,000, the maximum salary will be paid. The salaries of for each mile less than twenty-four, carriers on routes shorter than the maximum was fixed by deducting $lB The net result has been that slightly over two-thirds of the whole force of 24,500 rural carriers have received increases of SIOO a year In their salaries. The remaining carriers have received Increases of less than this amount This schedule takes into consideration the expenses for equipment, and makes what is stated to be a liberal allowance for such expense to carriers on routes less than the maximum length. It leaves about the same appropriation available for new service during the coming /ear that the department had during the last fiscal year.

The eagerness with which men seek appointive positions under the government almost amounts to a craze, and like all crazes it is not readily explainable. In Boston, for example, where examinations for custom housa employes are about to begin, there are 1,589 applicants for 30 possible appointments. These figures are. somewhat>xceptlonal, to be sure, but In other large' cities there is always a marked disproportion of applicants to places. The Isthmian Canal Commission has already had a hundred applications for every position It Is authorized ,to fill. Yet the salaries are not large, rarely exceeding $1,200 a year; and though the civil service law may give some assurance of permanency of tenure, there Is little assurance of promotion. That there should be such eagerness for the appointments is not creditable to the seekers. Men with '.ven an average equipment of ability ynd enterprise case find much more promising careers.

The National Civil Service Commission has recently arranged to open branch headquarters In Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Atlanta, Cincinnati, Chicago, St Paul, St. Louis, New Orleans, Denver, Portland and San Francisco. Each of these thirteen cities will be the center to which the civil service boards in the districts surrounding them will refer all matters which they cannot decide for themselves. Heretofore it has been necessary to communicate directly with Washington when vacancies were to be filled In the classified service. This has occasioned delay, especially In cities distant from the capital. Under the new system the Washington office will be relieved of practically all the detail of preparing for examinations, and the national' commissioners will be able to devote themselves more fully to the enforcement of the spirit of the civil service reform laws. In decreeing that the Washington policemen must give up the use of toothpicks while on duty, Major Sylvester, the chief of the capital police force, has established a new record In rules governing the men. The order rends as fallows: "It is observed that officers, among them special street railway crossing policemen, walk the streets with toothpicks in their mouths, giving evidence of having enjoyed refreshments.. I advise against this practice, as it Is unbecoming and unofficerllke.” A special report of the census bureau on occupations shows that in continental United States the total number of persona engaged In gainful occupations in 1900 was 29,073,233, which was one-half of the population, 10 years of age and over, and nearly twofifths of the entire population. The total number comprises 22,480,425 men. 4,833,880 women, and 1,700,178 children, of whom 1,204.4 n were boys and 06,767 girl*.

CHORUS Off 200,000 VOICES.

Will Sins in the G. A. R. Encampment in Boston. In connection with the National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic in Boston there is to be held a river carnival at Waltham which 'for unusual and thrilling features undoubtedly will surpass anything of a like nature ever attempted before. While 4.000 canoes and hundreds of floats, all brilliantly decorated and illuminated, are passing up- the Charles River and the air is filled with bursting bombs and soaring skyrockets and further made brilliant by the play of scores of searchlights, the 200,000 spectators tfho it is expected will line the banks will join in singing America. It probably will be the mightiest burst of song it has been anybody's fortune to listen to. The river carnival will be held on the evening of Aug. 17. The procession will move along the river for a distance of two miles. About half a mile of this stretch is a straightaway course, while the res 4 abounds in gently sinuous curves. At no point along the stretch is the river more than 300 feet wide. The banks on either side slope gradually upward to a height between twenty -five and thirty feet, thus affording the best possible vantage place for viewing the spectacle. - The south bank of the river will be the stage and the north bank the auditorium. The only curtain will be the sable robe of night. Nature will furnish the scenery—grass,, trees, the beautiful river and the placid moon above. All the houses along the course will be illuminated and gayly decorated with flags and bunting. And as the long procession of boats starts to move there will b* a pyrotechnic display of gigantic proportions.

The finale will be magnificent. Each of the hundreds of boats in the procession will contain a quantity of powder for red fire, and at all possible places of vantage along both banks of the river there will be similar supplies. At a signal given by the firing of a gun six miles of red fire —that is three lines of two miles each—will blaze up simultaneously, and the great spectacle will be thus brought to a close in a blaze Of glory.

TWENTY THOUSAND GRADUATES

An Army of College and University Graduates Now Face the World. Twenty-thousand young men were graduated from the colleges, universities and professional schools of the country last month. That means 20,000 more educated young men thrown into the business and professional arena to compete with those already there. Of these graduates, it is estimated that 9,000 are from colleges proper, 1,500. from technical schools, 1,500 from theological seminaries, 3,500 from law colleges and 5,500 from medical schools. The medical profession is already the most crowded and it is a question how so many new doctors are to make a living. The field of ths law is scarcely less filled. In business, finance and occupations requiring technical knowledge there is more room. But of the college graduates entering these fields, those who will find success awaiting them must work for it They are to come into competition with others possessing less general education but with years of experience. Those who think their college education alone should entitle them to superior places and who decline to work their way up through the ranks of employment will prove failures. But for the college graduate who is willing to begin at the bottom round of the ladder, learn all the details of the business, apply himself carefully, work long hours and throw himself heart and soul into the work, success is waiting. It will take years for him to catch up with the men who have been learning the business while he has been in college, but once he has caught up his superior education, his broader grasp of life and his wider range of vision will give him the advantage. All other qualities being equal, the college graduate has by far the best chance. His greatest enemy is What may be termed his tendency to get the ’’big head.”

TIE-UP IN NEW YORK.

Six Thousand Carpenters Locked Out by Employers’ Association. All carpenters employed in New York by the Master Carpenters’ Association have been locked out by order of the board of governors of the. Building Trades Employers’ Association. Ths lockout ties up the carpenter work ou every large building in the borough, and involves between 5,000 and 6,000 men. This is the first time since the acceptance several months ago of the arbitration agreement of the Building Trades Employers’ Association that there has been a general lockout of any kind. The carpenters locked out belong to the Brotherhood of Carpenters and the trouble is owing to the violation of the arbitration agreement by carpenters striking on a contract held by one firm holding membership in the Master Carpenters’ Association. The trouble was about the handling of non-union wood. Twelve men struck on the building about six weeks ago. The men were ordered to return to work pending a settlement and did so, but more men were required as the work progressed and there was more friction, which ended in another strike. The men were ordered to return to work a second time, but only the twelve men Who originally struck returned to work. The board of governors of the employers’ association met again and gave the carpenters a fixed time on which to return. The carpenters went to work three hours after the time set, but the lockout order was enforced, much to their astonishment

Judge Allen in Indianapolis decided against Russell Harrison and Mrs. Mary Harrison McKee, son and daughter of the late ex-President, in their suit against their stepmother, Mrs. Mary Lord Harrison, regarding the listing of securities for a trust fund for the latter. Edgar G. Bailey, a union hackman, was convicted of murder in the first degree in Kangas City for killing Albert Ferguson, a non-union hack driver, during the recent strike in that city. 'Jho penalty is hanging. Crews from the schooners patriot and Viola May and the British barkentine Albertina were rescued from their vessels off Chatham, Mass. "Whitecaps” have driven all negroes from Marshall, a omhll town near Guthrie. O. T.

THE WEEKLY HISTRIAN

One Hundred Years Ago. The chiefs of the Osage Indians gave a war dance for the entertainment of the President and members of the cabinet at Washington. A demand was made of his holiness the Pope to grant full power to Cardinal FOsch to crown, in his name, the emperor of the French. Russia positively refused to acknowledge Napoleon as emperor of France. Abolition societies began to dwindle as the value of the cotton gin became known.

Seventy-five Years Ago. Prussia sent an emissary to Constantinople to make every effort to bring about a peaceful ending to the conflict between Russia and Turkey. A treaty was concluded ' with the Winnebagos and the Pottawatdmies and purchase made of all lands south of the ©Wisconsin and between the upper Mississippi and Lake Michigan, Including all lands formerly held by the Indians. The Catholic emancipation act seemed to have little effect In quieting the disturbances In Ireland, as more outrages than ever were perpetrated.

fifty Years Ago. The Chinese insurgents attacked Canton. Albes Pacha, viceroy of Egypt, was found dead in bed by his officers of state. Tho first party sent out by the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid, Society left Boston for the territory of Kansas. Three English and four French ships arrived in Honolulu. They mounted 198 guns and were destined to act against the Russian Pacific squadron. Three hundred pardons were ill of yellow fever in Havana, Cuba. Said Pasha entered and took possession of Alexandria in consequence of the death of Abbas Pasha, the former viceroy. Many vessels were lost in Table bay in a violent gale.

Forty Years Ago. Gen. Sherman’s army left intrenchments on the Ohattahooche and advanced upon Atlanta, and Johnston was said to be retiring. Gen. Sheridan started on flying expedition into Confederate territory to pay back for rMd into Maryland. Telegraphic communication out of Washington, D. C., was restored, and the Confederate raid into Maryland began to recede. President Lincoln, under act of July 5, 1864, Issued call for 500,000 more volunteers. Railway traffic between Washington .and Baltimore, which had been interrupted by Confederates cutting the line, was resumed. Six steamboats at the St. Louis wharf were burned, supposedly as part of a conspiracy to destroy all vessels in the harbor.

Thirty Years Ago. Goldsmith Maid broke all trotting records at Saginaw, Mich., making the final heat of three in 2:16. In a letter to the investigating Committee of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, Theodore Tilton announced his intention of placing before it all the charges made by Mrs. Tilton against Henry Ward Beecher. Reciprocity treaty between Canada tnd United States was discussed by dominion board of trade and other commercial bodies at St Jahns, N. B. Twenty Years Ago. News reached Washington that Lieut Gneely and six companions on polar expedition were safe and that eighteen of party had died. Immense Blaine and Logan ratification meeting was held in New York City; Blaine’s letter of acceptance was made public two days later. Society composed wholly of noblemen formed in Germany for purpose of colonizing indigent members in Chill. Lace importing firm of Edmund Yard, Jr., & Co. of Neiw York failed for over $1,000,000. Gen. Porfirio Diaz was elected President of the republic of Mexico.

Ten Years Ago. Big strike on Chicago railroads practically broken and work resumed on many lines. Headed by Chairman Wilson of the ways and means committee, the House refused to recede on the Wilson tariff bill and instructed conference committee to yield nothing to the Senate. Patrick Eugene Prendergast was hanged in Chicago for the assassination of Carter H. Harrison.