Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 114, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1904 — Page 2

The Sea Scourge

CHAPTER XlV.— (Continued.) “Hal” uttered Paul, starting. ’‘Then Be knew of my flight at that time? (Buffo Burnington has betrayed me!” “Why—did you trust that man with jour secret?" "Yes. I thought he was my friend.” “Then you were most woefully deceived. He was in the cabin all the evenling, and once, when I slipped in upon them, he was showing the captain a fetter. It was written with a pencil." . "That was mine!" gasped Paul. “Oh, tool— dolt—that I have been!” Again the youth wished he had never ■written that letter; but now the wish came with different feelings from those Be experienced before. But it was now too late indeed! When they reached the clearing where tire horses had been kept, the day was just breaking, and it was soon evident that the captain was going to the brig, for he turned into, the path which led , that way. Just as the sun made its appearance over the high headland of the ♦ape, the party stopped upon the beach •pposite to where the brig lay, and Latoon made a signal for a boat. Just then, too, the other boat made its just coming in sight around a curve in tlie river, and both parties reached the Brig about the same time. The four wen who had come from their night’s ■watch by the river bank were not a SBttle surprised at seeing their young Minster thus brought back to the brig. They reported themselves to the first lieutenant, however, who had charge of the deck, and he bade them remain by the mast unrii the captain could see Mhem. Laroon at that moment came up, «nd turning to the coxswain of the boat Be asked him where he Had been all Might. “Been waiting for Mr. Paul, sir,” replied the old salt “Very well, that will do.” > So the boatmen went forward, while the captain turned in the opposite dii»ection, leading Mary, who still wore her Bailor's suit, by the hand. The maiden's Bundle of clothing had been brought ■long, and she was conducted to a stateroom, and there bidden to resume her •wn garb.

CHAPTER XV. Paul walked moodily up and down the quarter deck, and no one came there to trouble him. Once he had seen Buffo liurnington since he had returned, but it was only for a moment. That individual had come up the fore hatch, but upon seeing Paul on deck he went immediately back. That alone would have been anough to convince the young man that (Burnington was the betraver. Of course >e felt the most utter contempt and indignation toward the dark-looking man, fait yet he could not see through the ■whole of it. The yotng man was walking thus when the steward came and told him that the captain would see him fa the cabin. Paul at once obeyed the summons, and when he entered the cabin he found Mary there, habited in her own garb, •nd looking very pale. She sat away fa one corner, but when Paul came in •he quickly arose and went to meet him.” “Stop,” said tlie pirate captain. “You ■lay be seated together, if you wish.” Accordingly Paul sat down upon the ■oftly cushioned scat which extended all around the cabin. He looked into Xaroon’s face, and he found an expression there which was beyond his power (to translate. But Mary left him not long far study. “Paul,” he said, speaking very calmly •nd candidly, but yet revealing something in his black eyes which gave the Ee to his manner, “I have sent for you to let you into a secret ■which I meant ever to have kept from you. You may think that I have never loved you —that il have never cared for you more than •ny other man or boy who may have h&een under me. Now, why hare you 'wished to flee from me?” “Because I loathe the life I am here 'forced to lead. I allude to the dark, condemning crime that surrounds me on /•very hand, and the atmosphere of which il am forced to breathe.” “Ah, you fear the gallows?” “No, sir. I fear God and my own •oul." “Well, perhaps you do. But now tell me why you would have taken Mary ■with you?” “For the self-same reason on her part.” “What did you mean to do with your charge after you had got clear?" “I meant to place her in a position where she could have been contented and Sappy.” “And Mary had consented to become iyour wife?” “I had consented, sir," replied Mary, (frankly. “Then I shall never believe in the instincts of nature more,” uttered the capItain, looking first upon the youth and •then upon the maiden. “Paul,” he added, his toue to one of deep import, “1 have tried to deceive you. You are r»ot iny child!” At any other time the young man (would have received this announcement (with joy; but now a terrible fenr struck jfa his heart, and his brow grew cold (with a freezing moisture. “You are no child of mine, and no relative save by adoption,” continued Latoon. “Your father died when you were only three years old—or rather nearer to four. Your real name is—Delany!” “Delony!” gasped Paul. “Ay,” returned the pirate, while a grim smile played upon his dark features. “You bear the same name as does Mary— so if you should ever marry her, there would be no change of names. Clurious, isn’t it?” ’ “Go on,” gasped Paul, paying no at(tention to this last fling. “It*« all told in a very few words," tlie B irate captain resumed. "Mary is your •ter.” , “It cannot be!" cried the stricken [youth, clasping his hands. j “I never spoke more truly in my life,” E“rd Laroon. “Rhe is your own sisYou Lad but one father and one though the father died some he before Mary was born. I felt be for my Interest, when I first you, to claim you for a son. I I you would be more obedient; and Waving once told you that, I did not •booee to give myself the lie without

some strong cause for it—and that cause has now most -surely come. But you don't seem very happy at having found a sister. How is it with you, Mary? Are you not glad you have found a brother?” The maiden gazed up into her interlocutor's face, but she did not speak. Her face had now turned to an ashy pallor, and her hands were moving about her throat and bosom as though there were a sense of oppression there. Paul thought he heard a gurgling in her throat, and on the next instant her eyes began to glare wildly at himself. He threw his arms about her, and as he did so she sank upon his bosom like a corpse. He quickly laid her back upon the seat, and rushed for his medicine chest and obtained a battle of liquid ammonia. By this time the captain was on hand, and he entered into the work of resuscitation with a will. Cold water was brought, and her brow and temples bathed, while her hands were chafed, and ever and anon Paul held the ammonia to her nose. The maiden possessed a strong and perfect organization, and ere long she revived, but she was too weak to converse. For a w’hile her pulse beat very slowly and irregularly; but ere long its velocity increased, and finally it beat with extreme feverish rapidity. “She must be removed- to the castle immediately,” Paul said, "for I fear a fever will set in upon this, and this is no place for her to be sick in.” “Do you really think there is danger of fever?” asked the captain, now speaking earnestly, and without any of that strangeness which had marked his words thus far. “She will have one most surely, if she remains here," returned the youth, “and she may have one at any rate; but the sooner she is removed, the better —for should she be taken down, it would be too late.” Mary showed by her looks how grateful she felt for this interference in her behalf; but she did not speak—she could not then, have spoken above a hoarse, painful whisper had she tried. Laroon at once hastened on deck to have a boat called away, and while he was gone, Paul clasped Mary to his bosom. “Dearest,” he whispered, "we may yet be ” He stopped suddenly as though something had struck him, and the pain marks came to his face, for at that moment he remembered that she was only a sister. In a few moments the captain returned, and made Paul help him get the maiden ready for going. This was quickly done, and then Laroon took her in his arms as he would have done a child, and carried her on deck. "Shall I not accompany you?” asked our hero. -“No,” was the simple answer. As the captain thus spoke he proceeded up the gangway, where most of the crew were gathered. “Back, back! every one of you!” cried Laroon. All obeyed this order save Buffo Burnington. He crowded nearer up, and as the captain came to the gangway ladder, he said: “Let me take her, captain, while you go down in the boat, and then I will hand her to you.” Marl had not before thought of the difficulty he should find in descending to the boat with his load, and he quickly gave her into the man’s arms. Buffo seized her, and with a quick, excited movement, he brushed her hair back from bar face and jirow, and then, for one moment, he gazed into her face with all the power of outward and inner vision. “Mary,” he uttered in a low, -thrilling tone, “Mary,” he repeated, seemingly forgetful of those who stood around, “look at me!” -The maiden looked up to those horrid features, but she did not shrink, nor did she tremble, but she seemed rather to be fascinated by the devouring gaze that was fixed upon her. “All ready,” cried Marl. In an instant Burnington ascended the ladder, and when he had gained the top of the bulwarks, he adroitly held his burden with his left arm, and seizing the man rope with his other hand, he descended and deposited the girl safely in the captain’s arms. He waited to see the boat off, and then he returned to the deck.

CHAPTER XVI. Paul had seen all this strange work on Burnington’s part, and he was sorely puzzled. He gazed into those features, and he thought they seemed all kindness and love. And his gaze was returned. For a while the youth was really mysified. Perhaps, he thought, there must be some mistake after all. Perhaps Burnington did not betray him. He took a few turns up and down the deck, and finally he resolved to call the strange man to the cabin and question him. As soon as he had come to this determination he went to the gangway, where the man yet stood, and touched him upon the shoulder. “What is it?” asked Buffo. “Come to the cabin, will you?” Paul led the way aft, and the lame man followed. Many of the crew noticed the movement, and many were the nods and sidelong shakes of the head’ it caused, for all the crew had by this time come to know that there was some mysterious connection between Paul and the one-eyed pirate. The young surgeon was alone with the man who had occupied so much of his most earnest thought, but the latter evinced no uneasiness or fear. He took a seat opposite the youth, and then prepared to wait for some one to commence the business. “Burnington,” said Paul, as soon as he could sufficiently compose himself to speak calmly, “I have called you here to nsk you some serious questions, and I hope you will answer me truly. You are, of course, aware that I attempted last night to make my escape from this place and these people? And you must be aware, too, that Marl Laroon overtook me?” ■ “Certainly." “And is It not reasonable to suppose that some one in whom I reposed confidence betrayed me?” “I should think so.” “Excuse me for the question, but I must ask it Did rou betray me?”

BaraiHgton did not answer this question at once. He gazed into his interlocutor’s face, and then bent his eyes to the floor. “Your silence almost amounts to an affirmative answer to me,” said Paul, with a spice of bitterness in his manner. “Very well,” returned Burnington, returning Paul’s gaze calmly and steadily. “I was thinking, not what answer I should make, but whether any explanation would be of use. I can simply say £hat I did betray you. I showed the captain the letter you gave me; aqd but for me you might have been in Nagasaki.” “Why did you do this?” the young man asked, -Striving to keep back his anger. “Because I felt it to be my duty,” calmly returned the other. "We all have our ideas of duty, Paul, and perhaps if I were to explain this point you would be no more satisfied than you are now.” "That is enough, sir,” uttered the youth, rising from his seat. “I thank you for your candor, for I shall know now whom to trust. I have nothing more to say.” Without a word Burnington arose and moved toward the ladder. His step was very slow and heavy, and, in addition to his lameness, he seemed to have an impediment of motion that proceeded from within. Paul could see his face, and he could see that there was a sad, unhappy look upon it. In an instant the whole current of his feelings changed. “Stop—-stop one moment,” he uttered. “Tell me why you did this thing.” ."Because I meant that you should not leave the brig,” answered Buffo, stopping at. the foot of the ladder and turning toward his questioner. As he thus spoke, he turned again and moved up the steps. As soon as Burnington was gone Paul began to pace up and down the cabin floor, and at tlie end of half an hour he had fully made up his mind that Buffo Burnington was more ready’ to serve the interests of.-the pirate captain than any one elseA It was now dinner time, and Paul was aroused from his reverie by the entrance of the steward, who had come to set the table. After dinner the second lieutenant took the deck, while the first lieutenant, took twelve men and started off to hunt up more of the horses. With this party Buffo Burnington went, and as we shall have occasion to note something that befell them on their route, we will go with them. Mr. Langley, the lieutenant, knew’ all the crook-s and turns of the woods where the horses wandered, and as it was now approaching the season when horses were in demand, Laroon wished to get up all that were fit to break, and dispose of them; for, as we remarked before, the pirate ipade much money by the raising of stock on his estate, and the merchants of the neighboring cities knew-him only as the owner of the Silver River estate. Langley’s party were furnished with bridles and lassoes, and when they reached the shore they took their way to the enclosure where the tame horse# were kept. Their first movement was to call the horses together, which was done by a peculiar whistle, and while they were thus engaged, they noticed a man approaching them from the woods. He was a well-dressed, gentlemanly looking person, in the prime of life; and possessing a frame of great muscular power. He came up to where the party stood, and after running his eyes over the men. he selected the lieutenant for the superior. “Can you tell me,” he asked of Mr. Langley,, "if Captain Laroon is about here?” “I think he is at his dwelling,” returned the lieutenant, eying the stranger sharply. "He has a vessel somewhere about here, I believe?” "He may have; he owns several.” As Langley made this reply, the stranger took off his hat and took therefrom a handkerchief, and after wiping his face with it, he returned it to the place from when he took it, and replaced his hat upon his head. On the next instant there came a crashing sound from the circumjacent wood, and upon looking in the direction from whence the sound came, Langley saw a party of some twenty horsemen dashing towards him. » “What means this, sir?” he uttered, turning to the stranger. "Oh, those are friends of mine,” war the cool reply. (To be continued.'

Eccentric E[?]icts in Korea.

That the Sovereign of the Land of the Morning Calm, otherwise Korea, has some peculiar notions which he impresses upon* his subjects is not perhaps matter for surprise, but they are matter for amusement Every Korean official wears a band of woven horsehair, which fits tightly round his head. Mr. Hatch, in a recently publishec" book on the manners and customs oi Korea, says, "The origin of this curious adornment is attributed to a desire on his Imperial Majesty’s part to-restrain the intellectual powers of his servants. According to his notion, brains might expand if not thus held in. It is not unlnstructlve to know,” adds Mr. Hatch, “that the Emperor does not deem this adornment necessai'y in his own case.” The hats worn by Korean state futic-" tlonaries have brims of enormous dimensions—three feet across sometimes -“-and are required to be made of clay. The reason for this, Mr. Hatch remarks, is that some years ago the then Ruler of Korea was annoyed at the habit of whispering that prevailed at court, and so decided upon compelling his courtiers to wear hats that would make It somewhat more difficult to put their beads close together and exchange confidences.

Popular Fad.

“This literary journal,” remarked the Newspaper man, “contends that the modern book-reader skips.” “It isn’t always the book-reader,” said the great merchant; "sometimes it’s the bookkeeper.’

His Status.

Cholly—Miss Horsey is very proud of her new saddle horse. She says he’s afraid'qf nothing. “Miss Sharpe—Really? Arfil did be shy at you?—Philadelphia Ledger. Perhaps the plot of n play Is allowed tc thicken so It can’t leak out

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Farmer with Gun Stope Survey for Electric Road Across Hia Farm—Temperance Lecturer Stabbed by Rowdies —Costly Fire in Prison. Standing guard on his farm with a big dog and a shotgun, Cal Osenbaugh, who lives three and one-half miles southwest of Hartford City, defied the engineering corps of the Indianapolis, Hartford City and Celina Traction Company of Indiana to come on his place to make the survey of the right of way. When the surveyors came to the Osenbaugh farm tlie owner refused to allow them to come on his place and told them they would have to go around. Osenbaugh was accompanied by a fierce-looking dog and said if they attempted to-' cross his land he would set the dog on them. They started across and Oseiihaugh hurried to the house and procured a shotgun and compelled them to get off his farm. Condemnation proceedings will be taken and in all probability the line will cross Osenbaugh’s place. Temperance Man Stabbed. Rev. M. E. Long, lecturer of the Kansas State Temperance Association, was stabbed while trying to drive away disturbers of his meeting at Zion Baptist church at Farmersburg. He was seriously injured in the shoulder with a knife by one of the disturbers, while the lecturer had hold of the arm of another-mid was pulling him from the church window? Which had been raised by the rowdies to enable them to shout into the ehurcM Several men sitting near the window —had shut it, but the rowdies opened it again. Mr. Long went outside to stop them. As soon as the audience knew of the stabbing men tried to capture the fellows, but they escaped ni the darkness.

SIOO,OOO Fire in a Prison. I Fire in the Michigan City prison wrought considerable damage to State property and to J. S. Ford Johnson & Co., chair factory, and the Reliance Shirt factory, whose plants were located inside the prison walls. The fire also created a panic among the 800 prisoners, who almost escaped. The J. S. Ford Johnson & Co. loss aggregates $50,000 with $45,000 insurance. The State, the nejrt heavy loser, sustained a loss of $5(mXX)i and carried no insurance. The Reliance, the smallest loser, sustained only $7,000 loss, which was- covered by insurance. The loss on the prison supplies and cold storage is given as $ 10,000. ’ Dead Official Accused of Theft. Leander M. Robinson, for thirteen years City Treasurer of Madison, and who committed suicide a month ago, was short nearly $19,000 in his accounts, according to Henry K. Nobloch of Jeffersonville, who has completed an examination of the books. Along with his statement, Mr. Knobloch advances the opinion that there was an unknown influence behind Robinson pocketing the money and that the City Treasurer himself got no use of the stolen funds. For Trade Schools in Prisons. The Indiana prison board will recommend to the next Legislature the establishment of a trade scnool, in which the inmates of the prison may learn trades and make things to be used exclusively in the State institutions, with military drills and schools of letters added, to take the place of the prison contract system. They will also submit a plan for the establishment of State workhouses and the abolishment of county jails. State News la Brief, Several small fires in Anderson. Glass factories are resuming work. Clover hullers and tomato peelers are busy. Tipton Lutherans will erect a new church building. Cambridge City Casket Company is doing a kind. office business. Wabash counts on having sufficient natural gas the coming winter. Fred Albrecht, 17, Ja>gansport, fell from a train and perhaps was fatally inju red. C. M. Karnes fell from a scaffold in Columbus and it is believed he is fatally hurt; Handsome new school building at Avon has been dedicated. It replaces the building burned a year ago. C. M. Lucas of Washington died in St. Louis after a short illness from a disease of the head. L. C. Powell, Shelbyville's oldest grocer, has suspended business and turned .his stock over to creditors. Football teams are springing up all over the Rtate at a lively rate. Undertakers have ordered more Bloomington people fear that the proposed electric line to connect that city with Martinsville never will be built. A Shelbyville mule was so nngry at seeing an automobile that he kicked the buggy he was drawing almost to pieces. Joseph K. Little, a trustee nt Danville, has sued the town for $250 salary. It is said the town has no fixed salary for officials. William Stephens and «wifc, believers in divine healing, are said by Prosecutor Dentler to be responsible for the death of their 1-year-old -baby, which was, found dead in the family home in Marion by John Golding, humane officer, and Dr. Brose Horne, city health officer. The parents had been given medicine to administer to the child, but instead of doing as directed, it is alleged, the father threw the medicine in the street. Prosecutor Dentler declares he will prosecute Stephens and his wife on the charge of manslaughter. The largest mortgage ever executed in Marion county was filed in Indianapolis, when the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad Company recorded a refunding mortgage for $25,000,000 in fnvor of the United States Mortgage and Trust Company. Miss Nellie Kroh, 29 years old, committed suicide by drinking carbolic acid while riding in an automobile with Dr. Martin of Kokomo. Dr. Martin said that owing to the speed of the macthine he could not let go of the steering wheel i> time to prevent her from aecomplishher purpose.

I Fire in the cold storage plant of Sw!» ' dell & Brothers at Plymouth destroyed' [ the entire structure and 100,000 dozen of i eggs. The loss on the building is estimated at $15,000. Mrs. Lizzie Likely was buried at Sugar Branch. It is said that she grieved herself to death for her son Will, who has been roving Over the country for yeArs. She advertised in many papers for him, but received no tidings from her son. Percy Wilson, 25 years of age, a member of Fred M. Berger’s company, presenting the “Sign of the Cross,” died at the Westcott Hotel in Richmond, as the result of a stroke of apoplexy. At the inquest it developed that Wilson was seated in his room writing a letter to his mother in. Montreal, Que., when he was stricken. At the Mundy carnival shows in Richmond, Arthur Holden, a loop-the-loop artist, fell from the top. of the loop, but landed in nets and was uninjured. His bicycle flew through space into the crowd of spectators and Willie Davis, 15 years of age, was struck and perhaps fatally injured. Three ribs were fractured and internal injuries received. Miss Ida E. Michener, the young Colorado Springs waitress who will soon come into a fortune of $15,000,000, together with seven brothers and sisters, has quit work at the Colorado Midland eating house at Cascade and returned home to Carmel. She says her great-grandmoth-er, who left the estate, Lady Margaret Michener of. Essex, England, married against the family’s wishes, causing all the trouble. Surveyors have begun work on an electric railway which is to complete a chain of electric lines from Benton Harbor, Mich., to Cincinnati. Considerable of the right of wayjias been purchased for this bystem, part of which is in operation. The plan of the projectors of the •numerous systems in operation in northern Indiana is to make South Bend the great radiating point for Chicago and to points in Michigan. William Gordon of Elkhart talked incessantly the other day, using his vocal organs for the first time in mouths. The young man fell from a tree at Celina, 0., last April and hovered between life and death for two weeks. When able to be out again he found his hearing and speech gone. One night he was seized with excruciating pain between 8 and 11 o'clock; then suddenly his hearing and speech aeturned. Doctors had abandoned the case. Too late to save his wife from a murderous and mysterious attack by a thug, William Hoagland emerged from his homohr Elkhart just as an unknown man dealt the woman a blow from'which she is now in a critical condition. Mrs. Hoagland went into the back yard and was. seized by an unknown man, choked, dragged to the back of the yard and beaten. Her husband heard the struggle and went to the’rescue, but too late to catch the man. Sylvester Speiker and Gus Hehnke are detained on a charge of grand larceny in Evansville. It is alleged Helmke got SIOO from David Becker, clerkrof a bank on the West Side, and Sjeiker secured S2OO from Becker. The men promised Becker to invest the money in the corn market, but it is claimed they never did. The police say they’ have been getting money right along from Becker since last February, amounting in all to $5,000 or more. The Rev. Mr. Spicer of Nashville, who is conducting services in a gospel tent, preached his wife’s funeral in the tent to a large audience. One of the incidents was a song rendered by the choir, written by Mrs. Spicer on her deathbed, the inspiration for which she claimed to have had direct from heaven. All parts of the music were completed save the tenor. Her own voice was also heard from a phonograph, into which Mrs. Spicer talked two days before her death. The mysterious attack on Mrs. William Hoagland in South Bend has been rendered more perplexing by a similar visit which the supposed same assailant has made on Mrs. Clhit Nolan in tlie same neighborhood. This time, however, he did not succeed in his purpose, for his intended victim fought with vigor until the appearance of her husband and his brother with weapons, who alarmed the fellow and he fled. The neighliorhood is greatly wrought up by the occurrences. Ralph Thorpe, a 7-year-old child of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Thorpe of Linton, is in a very critical condition at his home as a result of falling twenty feet from a tree. He, with several other children, • were in the woods gathering hickorynuts, and he had climbed up the tree about twenty feet when he lost his balance and fell, striking Ms head on the ground. He was carried Iwme for dead, and lay unconscious for six hours. It is not thought he will recover. William McNeely, who moved to the Ehrmandale mine three years ago from Wilke.sbarre, I’a., after spending the past year visiting that city trying to prevail on his wife to live with him in Indiana, has arrived in Terre Haute with their son, whom he kidnaped some days ago. The wife would not come and the father made way with the boy, coming back to Indiana by the way of Canada, Detroit and Chicago, and on his arrival here employed a lawyer to defend his right to the jiossession of the boy In an; ticipation that his wife will take action. Gustav Helmke and .Sylvester Speiker were arrested by the Evatisville police on tlie charge of grand larceny. It is charged the young men secured S3OO at one time from I>avid Becker, aged 24, on the pretense that they would invest the money for him in corn. Becker ad» mitted to the police that he had given the young men money on several occasions to speculate fqr him, but they told him the bottom had dropped out of corn and therefore he did not get any returns. The police assert Helmke and Speiker have gotten between $5,000 and SB,OOO from Becker since last February. Becker is a clerk in a bank and hie father recently gave him $5,000 to deposit in Iris own name. Rev. E. O. Ellis, former pastor of the South Eighth Street Friends church of Richmond, a trustee of Earlham college and clerk of Indiana yearly meeting of Friends, haa been entirely dropped by the Friends denomination, which issued a statement assigning grossly immoral conduct for such action. Some time ago Ellis created a sensation by disappearing from the city in comjMiny with a young woman. Upon Ms return he was declared iiMane and sent Na. a sanitarium, but he left the institutlmi in company with the woman and has not since been seen.

JUDGE PARKER'S LETTER.

Attacks Tmperialism. and Advocates Tariff Reform. ■< ■ , Arraignment of imperialism and executive power based on individual caprice, demand for tariff reform on prudent lines so as not to work revolution in existing conditions, unequivocal declaration in favor of Filipino Independence, the urging of the immediate curtailment of expenditures , and a return to economical administration, and promise of a sweeping investigation of all departments of the government in the event of party success -—these are the distinctive features of Alton Brooks Parker's formal letter accepting the Democratic nomination for the presidency. Judge Parker digresses from the Issues he regards as standing forth preeminent in the public mind to answer Rooseveltian epigram and interroga- j lion with judicially constructed statements on a few of the other issues in- , volved In the campaign. Characterizing the service pension order of the President as a usurpation of legislative power, he quotes from Mr. Roose- „ velt’s letter of acceptance, and accepts the challenge contained therein by declaring that if elected he will revoke the order. He adds, however, that, having done so, he will contribute his effort toward the enactment of an age - pension laxv by Congress. The language of the President’s letter, Judge ♦ Parker says, suggests the suspicion that the order was made to create an issue. _ The duty of proceeding with due diligence in the work of constructing tlie - Panama canal is imperative. Judge Parker declares, but he says the methods by which the executive acquired the canal route and rights are a source of regret to many. Another matter discussed briefly is American shipping, forty years of decadence being deplored, and the record of the Democratic party being pointed to as giving assurance that the work of restoration can be more wisely intrusted to it. The remedy, it is declared, does not lie in subsidies wrung from the taxpayers. Attention is directed also to the officers and men of the army and navy, both, it being declared, 'having suffered from the injection of personal and political in-, fluence. In a paragraph devote I to foreign relations, Judge Parker says the new conditions call for a management of foreign affairs the more circumspect in that the recent “American invasion” of markets in all parts of the world has excited the serious apprehension of all the great industrial peoples. It is essential, he believes, to adhere strictly to the traditional policy regarding friendship and entangling alliances, which means the “cultivation of peace instead of the glorification of man, and the minding of our own business in lieu of spectacular intermeddling with the affairs of other nations.”

SIXTY-TWO DIE IN WRECK.

Mistake of Engineer on Southern Railway Cannes Great Loss of Life. Sixty-txvo persons were killed and 120 Injured (many of whom will die) in a head on collision on the Southern Railway nineteen mines east of Knpxvllle, Tenn., at 10:18 Saturday morning. The engineer of the west bound train, so investigation show’s, was directly responsible for the disaster. He deliberately disobeyed orders. Why, will never be known, for he was crushed to death’beneath his engine, and his fireman suffered a like fate. The crash came on a sharp curve, betw’een high banks. The west bound train w r as a heavy one, it carrying the sleepers from the east for Knoxville, Chattanooga, and other Southern cities. The east bound train yas lighter, consisting of day coaches and chair cars. It was going thirty miles an hour, the other forty. The heavy train crashed into the lighter one with the force of a giant missile hurled from a catapult. And, by the irony of fate, the engineer and the fireman of the train at fault were tlie only ones on that train to lose their lives, while fifty-three travelers were killed on the train that had the right of way. Expert railroad men who have seen scores of wrecks unite in saying that never have they seen such an inexpressibly thorough smashnp. The two engines and their tenders were simply a mass scrap iron, from which vpmited ftje, smoke and steam. The light coaches of the local train were literally knocked into splinters. Roofs w’ere smashed like crumpled envelopes, two , cars had both sides torn out, floors were driven up and forced through the ceilings, catching and crushing men, • women, and children as If in a vise.

News of Minor Note.

In a quarrel over a polo race Sergt. Boyle shot and killed Private Allen of the Fort Robinson, Colo., cavalry troop. President Hyde of the Bath iron wqrks announced that the battleship Georgia would be launched Tuesday, Oct. 11. After shooting Mnddie McGill, his woman companion, twice in the head and wounding Claude Gardlnen, John Isaacs, a colored man, drank carbolic acid- and died in New York. In a deal involving more than ? 1,000,000 the Dupont Powder Company of Wilmington, Del., has taken the property of the Chattanooga Powder Company of Chattanooga. Erik Lars Didrik Edhehn, general manager of a London company, was killed instantly in Larchmont, N. Y., by a train. It la believed he committed suicide, but no motive is apparent. The steamer Longfellow of Wilmington, Del., bound from Philadelphia to Yarmouth, N. 8., with a load of dynamite, sank off shore opposite Highland Light, Mass. The crew was saved.