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72NN AN A G 4 ’ég,/i/ “} ;\\\ L \ [6-" -.:‘E,' —F W\‘ & o BY A\ ¢ - I\ {a E}QRDAH biarr VAfl > Sy = k N A : R 5 /29 '~ '\ “ b N CHAPTER I. i LOVE'S YOUNG DREAM. ’ The sky was a vault of fleckless blue, the sun a great gleaming sapphire, the | air bracimg as pure wine, and the raie autumnal day was drawing to a close. ! | Hopedale was a peaceful hamlet, but beyond its kind in certainly one progressive point—it had a young ladies’ __seminary of unusual excellence, and a - young man of more than usual acumen was enjoying the beautiful day and taking in the distant turrets and peaks ol the institute of learning in question at |t-hn.t eventiul hour, for him, when our | story opens. | He had the look of an artist, and the equipment of an artist surrounded him. He had chosen the slope of a woodel! grove for his camp-stool, and had set his easel facing the village. The flaming leaves of a broad-spreading tree ‘sheltered him. Air, earth and sky were | in harmony with the artistic impulse, ‘but ‘ust now he scemed in a thoughtful rather than an active mood. | His brush had fallen to his side, and the canvas showed only a few lazy patches of color. It seemed as if Le had come out to paint Nature and had ,becen shamed from feecble effort by the ‘glorious brush of Nature itself. The sun, which dashed the white villas with ‘pale gold, made the sumaecs a great ‘ensanguined biur of crimson, and, mingling with the wvari-colored treetops, produced those exquisite shades and alternations of color and beautiful effects which no pen has ever yet described, no brush ever yet delineated. “f wish she would come,” he murmured. “I wonder if she wili come?” i His words were a sigh of longing and anxiety, and he continued to gaze at the distant turrets as if “she” was a fairy, with power to {ly straight through the air to his side. ! There was a rustling among the dry twigs back of him, butv he did not heed it. Then there was a quiver of branches overhead, and down came a hundred fluttering leaves. . “Caught in a shower, Mr. Dreamer!” laughed a bright, bell-like voice. “Is this the way you work at the greatplcture that is to charm the world?” “Edna!” Over went stool and casel as the young man sprang to his feet, as if from an eleciric shock. Red as the red, red leaves strewn about him flushed the B e eSAN S BTS o o AR %il= 2y ¥ “1 80 jvamfiu o {ikm; caof those %’I% Wz‘v':‘.!'c-d to see you, but—- - Raymond!” He was a privileged character, this athletie, handsome-faced young fellow, all soul, all art, all love, for they were affianced, yet her tones were a tender reproach, a mock serious mandate, as his eager lips came a trifle dangerously near sweeping her velvety cheek. She had managed to shrink back and disengage her hand, and with the tip of one pearly pink finger she pointed back the way she had come. There was a roguish twinkle in her eye, as Raynond Marshall stole a quick glance in the direction indicated. He trowned and groaned, dolefully but submissively. His visitor had not come unattended. Back in the-grove, a girl of her own age was toying with the rattling tops of the blanched golden rod. “Was it necessary,” he began, and then he uttered, quite testily: “Always that girl!” ¥ “Raymond! how dare you?” came the sp'rited interpolation, and Miss Edna Deane showed the fire of her quick naturein a sudden, indignent ash of those captivating eyes. “Beatrice Mereer iz my friend.” | “Iwish she wasn't. Os all your associates I distrust her the most,” ven- | tured Raymond Marshall, | “You ought to be ashamed!” commented Miss Tyrant, severely. “and ! you ocught to feel grateful to her, in- | stead o! otherwise.” | “Grateful?” ‘ “Yes; that is if you really care about | secing me. You know the rules of the | seminary. No young lady may leave | its sacred precincts unless acecompanied | by one of the teachers. I’oor Beatrice | has to teach for her tuition, and they in- | vest her with the dignity and judgmeat | of a ducnna. So, when I told Miss | Chandler, the principal, that I had the | headache, that I thought I spied you so : lonesome and industrious over here, and | felt that the encouragement of my | criticism on your . Bkeautiful picture § might hurry up its comp etion, she re- | lutantly admitted that such a proceed- | ing would be quite proper if Beatrice | accompanied me.” fi Raymond Ma:shall wineced at the | thrust at his indolence. He brightened | up, however, as he said: | “Never mind. All that will soon end, ! and soon we shall have no friend, chap- ! eron or duenna to mar the completeness | of happiness, Eh, my little love?” | Edna’s head had dropped on her| breast, and she shook her head slowly. | “1f only—if only Miss Chandler wouid ! s | “Yes,” inter.upted Ray:a ond, excitedly; “if she would only speak. Just look | at it! Here we are, two loving, har- | monious souls. I think the world of | you, and ycu take pity on me, and hope ! to make me famous some day by mar- | rying me and secur ng the right to order f me to work. My family are delighted | with you. Even prim Miss Chandler | acknowledged it would be cruel to part | us, but—that dreadful mystery! She | cannot consent beeause she is not a rel- | ative. She cannot secure a relative’s | consent, because she does nes know any | such. Was there ever such a sti(:klcri for propriety—was therp ever such a | maddening muddle?” l

T N L S WL S LTAV SN SL W i Edna’s hand rested concolingly on | -her lover’s arm, as h's face clouded. | “Oh! it is not cuite desperate,” she spoke cheerily. “Let us go over the real facts of the case, Raymond, and be | patient. Here I am, a nobody, a girl | from rowhere. I seem t> have been ! placed at the seminary here at 10 years | of age, without a memory of e:rly ! childhood. Miss Chandler says a mys- | terious gentleman brought me here, | paid ten years’ tuition and board in ad- I ! vance for me, and—that’s all.” “Not a letler since—not a visit since?” | “Not even a hint. Here I was left. | Was I an orphan, was I atandoned here, or was the mysterious gentleman my father, who, for lack of a dead mother’s ' care, placed me here for safe keeping, ‘ and going out into the world to forzet his sorrows or win a fortune, died with the secret of my identity locked in his own tozom?” “And now?” murmured Raymond, his loval heart beating with renewed sympathy for the friendless girl who seemed | to deserve all the love and care he had vowed to her. l “Now, Miss Chandler says we must wait. lam virtually her ward. She dare !not sanction our union. Any day my | i father, or whoever my mysterious rela- | | tive may be, might arpearto claim me. [ | What would he cay if he found me mar- | ricd to a painter who won’t paint, an ‘ | artist who talks more love than avt?” } “Wa't!” elaculated Raymond, im- | patiently. “For how long? The ten | years have two to run yet.” | “Yes, but Tam eighteen to-day—of . legal age. Miss Chandler says she | verily believes that some word or direcl tion will come soon.” t It was an old story gone over now for { the hundredth time, but there was new | interest in discussing it. They talked I i of their plans, of their hopes, of the | i golden future life seemed to presage. ‘ | “I mustgo now,” spoke Edna at last. | “Why! I have been here nearly half an ! {hyur. Iwanted to tell you about the i reception to-morrow evening. Mr. l | Brinsloy is to take me. He is Miss I i Chandler’'s cous'n, and I want to please sher.” ‘ % Raymond’s eyes showed a rising token ' of jealousy, but he was prudently silent. ' { “If he does no’ go I shall write you, jand you must be my knight-errant. I ihope he does not. Good-by. No! Be- | atrice is Jooking this way. Be patient, Raymond, and above all, do make some iprogress cn that tiresome, never-to-be ! finished picture.” ! She was gone as she had come, like ; a flashing, dainty sprite. Raymond ! Marshall followed her with his eyes, i until the bushes shut out the remotest ] view of her pretty, nodding cap. | ' “Picture!” he murmured, with a sigh, as he pa~ked up stool and easel. “Who l could pa'nt with such a face haunting I every glance and thought? And she | bids me wait! Wait, to be fortured steveryitime L see her in the company of . ORI ",'_ ;Qn_‘ 's»"-:': the artist's side. -Why, he SO Sl%arcely explain. Sho was pretty, | young, apparently devoted to his flancee, 1 but more than once he had caught her it eyes fixed on Edna with a latent, bale- : l ful light, upon himself with a passion- i | ate, pieading cxpression that mystified, ~{repulsed him, he knew not why. | l But all this would soon end; ah, ves! | |it mu%t soon end. The mystery of his ‘ | flancee must some time cease to boa ; | mystery. It was not an unusual case, | It would probably have a very prosaie | ‘ic-)nchxsinn, with the long-lost tather i revurning, and explaining that he had | i placed his daughter in Miss Chandler's | { charge because she was motheriess, | | Then they would marry, and life | | would be worth living, and all the dis- | | tressing trifies of the present would { vanish. It mmust be so. Edna had pre- | dicted that word must soon come from | i her mystericus relative, ! | Her faith as hopeful as his own, Edna ! { locked Ler arm through that of her com- | | panion, anl did most of the chattering é the way back to the seminary. i { - Miss Mercer wen® straight to her own {room. If Edna hal s:en her as she | i threw hersel! on her bed and lay cou- | { vulsed in a paroxysm of tears, 1';!;,:0, and emotion for over an hour, she might not vainly have guessed at the cause of the | | varying moo s of this strange creature. | | Asto Edna, she studied for an hour { and started to tind her {riend again, ' [ th'nking of Ra;mond’s handsome face | | dezpite herself, and Raymond’s anxious | | wish that the obstacles to their union | | wereremoved—that “word would come,” | i and the suspense of waiting be allevi- | | ated. i | “Oh, Edna! Miss Chandler wishes to [ see you at onece,” spoke a fellow-stu- | | dent, as Edni croszsed the hall, F | “Particularly:” murmured Edna, with | { a smile. | | “Very much so. She sent me for you, | | and seemed gfuitly excited. Something | - has happened; I don’t know what, but | she acted very much agi.ated.” l __ Yes, “tomething” had happened, and { | ]lidna Peane knew what, a feww minutes l ater,

Something had happened in away directly in accordance with her thoughis and Raymond Marshall's impatient desires. “Word” had come! CHAPTER II FROM THE PAST. Yidna Deanc’s heart quickened its pulsations as he started for the reception room. 'l'ie m ssage brought her bore a token ! excitement. Her mind upon her lover, upon the myst ry of her fair young life, she vagzuely dreaded to take the step across the threshold that might po tend revelations that would | distress her. | A glanece through the vestibule doors showed a close carriag> with tw) reeking horses, a driver on the Los. Hw:lg this unusual spectacle somethng to do with the summons of the moment? ’ “You sent for me, Miss Chandler,” | spoke Edna, inquiringly, as she entered | the reception room, and ihen paused abruptly. f The face of the lady principal was | pale, her manner agitated. She half; arose, as if moved by a sudden impulse, 1 to greet her favorite warmly, sympa- g thetically. Then, checking herself, she | sa'd, in a muffled, indistinet tone ofl voice: i

“Yes, Fdna. This gentleman has ecome | | for you.” ' At the gentleman in question tho wondering, perturbed Edna was staring.'|, He made a sl’ght obeisanze as she appeared. Now, stilf, prim, severe, his gallow face and nervous eyes rather de- | pressed her. : “It is—it is about—-" stammered Ldra. “Your past? your friends?” murmured - the principal, brokenly. “Yes, Edna, I am very sorry, but your schooldays are over.” “Oh! Miss Chandler, don’t say that!” Edna gasped th2 words. Bhe comprehended that the consummaticn so devoutly desired by her mystified, impatient lover and herself had arrived. But the sho:k of the announcement, a realization of how sunny and happy had been her life under the tender care of the school guardians sent the quick tears 1o her eyes and the warm color from her face. Then eagerly, lonzingly, piteously, she glanced at the man before her. Was he the relative she had so oiten dreamed of—the mysterious censor of her fate? “You are not—my father?” she began, twisting her hands in nervous coafusion. " The strange, mobile features never changed. Staring, straight ahead of him like some automaton, his face most resembling that of a man in ill-heal h, suifering but silent, schooled against the betrayal of the least emotion, he answered solemnly, but not unpleasingly: < - “Trno. I am enly youp fathers i friend—his servant—his messenger.” “And—he has sent for me?” ' Every word was a throb of suspense and painful uncertainty. A {father! - Then she was not utterly friendless? A father! But why had he left her loveless, ' neglected, all these years? | “Miss Chandler will tell you,” an- | swered the stranger. “She recognizes ‘ the authority by which I appear.” | “Dear Edna, let it be smiles rather | than tears,” spoke Miss ChLandler, coming to Edna’s side and p'acing a caress- ! ing arm about her. “lt is all quickly told. You have a father, and he has i sent for you.” “But——" “I cannot tell you more. This genI tleman not only binds me to secreey, or, | rather, leaves me in complete igno- | rance of the motive for all this mys‘l tery, but insists that you shall leave at | once. Os one thing be assured, how- | ever. lam satisfied that you are going into kind handz. All will be well. This tletter will convince you. It is from | your father.” And Miss Chandler nodded ;t) the stranger, who handed Edna a sealed missise. She barely gianced at it through her blinding tears. She read only the first few lines, beg'nning: “My child, there have been vital reasons for my seeming neglect of you, there are still vital reasons why suddenly, abruptly, you must sever your connection with your dearest friends and hasten to me. When I expla'n you will know why no c¢ne must know——-" Edna erumpled the unfinished missive into her pocket at this stage, for Miss Chandler was giving her directions to go to her room and pack up hurriedly. In that apartment Beatrice Mercer joined her. With a strange, wondering light in her eyes, she listened to Edna’s i story of the sudden summons. ; “Oh! 1 shall surely be allowed to write to you, {o explain e egything whe in v _fathed, " Jaalbedd lidna, 2 pryent Fheauly sCa e T g psion was veiled from®p UL F U g [ {’bhnded sight. i . : “I shall tell him——" $ l “That I could not bid him gnoi-by; l they would not let me. Tell him I will i get hm word as soon as I can. Oh | this mysterious haste unnerves me! I | do not even know where I am gong. | Good-by, dear {riend. Gouod-by, <gooc4i- i { by { A clinginz kiss emphasized every { word. The tearful Miss Chandler waved her a last adieu from the door. Her | somber corapanion helped her into the | carriage, and the wheels grinding down | the soft road scemed to be tearing her | very heart-sirings, as Hopedale faded from view in the distance and the ve- | hicle bounded forward,. earrying inno- | cent Edna Deane to meo: a Stx'ungn, { solemn mystery. i Twilight closed in a%out ths lan l-‘ [ £cape, as the carriage dashed aeross the country for the nearest railway station. Twilight, folding its mystic shrouil about the 01l seminary structure, was | shut out secureily from one room at least. | With locked doors and shades drawn, Beatrice Mercer cat at a table in her apaitment, poring over a letter, study- % ing it, analyzing it, re-reading it. @ , It' was th2 crumpled missive, half read by the distressed Eduna. How had l it come inio her possession? By do- | sign, the gleaming, l’:li(‘ll:&llnguo"\‘g-,gl | told, for those oyes had the mask down | ' now, all alone by herself. | |TO BYE CONTIAUED. | i i R —= — == { ' Wire Nails. | It was only a few years ago that the l first wire nails we’e used in this coun- | try, but now the indusiry has attained large propoctions. This is well shown by a machine shipped from Greenpoint, N. Y,, to Everett, Wash. The machine weighed 12} tons, and turns out nails—spikes would Le a better term—7-16 ¢f

NT Rl A LTeY Se S G SR S s e SRe st e eo s dle, o S an inch in diamet:r, 12 inches loug and weighing just half a pound each. The wire from which they are mado p:sses between a series of rolls which straighten it, and is then graspad by a pair of jaws whi‘h pull it so sward the proper distan-e to make a nall. It is then firinly gripped in another set of jaws and the head is formed by a powerful blow with a die of tha proper shape. ‘l'he headed wire is then pushed along unt’l other dics cut off and shapa the point and the finished nail falls from the machine. 1f anyone had prophesied five years ago that the little wire brads then coming into use wonald be followed in a few years by such spikes, he would have found few Lelievers.

| el ! Deeply Disgusted. A celebrated artist scomewhat addieted to joviality was painting the vortrait of’ a great teetotal divine, His reverence thought this an excellent opportunity, while sitting to the artist, to give a little homily on total abstinence, and so, all | the time the painter was working, he delivered his harangue, which he thought exceedingly impressive and must have both convinced and converted the artist. Hecpaused to hear what the artist had %o say in return, when that personage, with the utmost sang froid, smoking his pipe all the time, said: “Turn your head a little and shut your mouth.”

SILVER IS THE ISSUE. CONFERENCE NOW IN SESSION IN BRUSSELS. e Resurs Hoped For from the Gathering— American Commissioners and Their Views—Secretary Foster llopes for a Solution of the Problem. For a New Standard. The International Monetary Conference, which has begun at Brussels, Belgium, will doubtless be the most important gathering of recent years so far as its effects upon {he fiscal policies of the world are concerned. It will be of especial consequence to the interests of the United States, for this is the chief silver-producing nation of the world, and upon the results of the conference will depend in a large measure the material prosperity of several States of the Union, whose chief wealth consists in their mines of argentiferous ores. : The conference was first proposed by the Congress of the United States, and after consultation with representatives of the leading foreign powers its details were formulated and delegates appointed. These consist, on the part of the TUnited States, of ex-Comptroller of the Currency 'Henry W. Cannon, Senator William B. Allison, of Iowa; Senator John P. Jones, of Nevada; President E. Benjamin Andrews, of Brown University; Congressman McCreary of Kentucky; and Ydward O. Leech, Director of the Mint. These delegates represent fairly all the views of Americans on the subject of silver coinage. Senator Allison takes a middle view on the question. Senator Jones is confessedly a radical free-coin-age man. Dr. Andrews has written an interesting volume cn “The Gold Dollar,” and his views are almost radically against free silver. Director Leech believes that there is too much silver in the market, and Congressman McCreary is inclined to side with Senator Jones, although by no means as radical on the subject. : Dutles of the Members. The duties of the delegates have been elearly defined by the act authorizing the conference and al!so by the Secretary of the Treasury. They have authority simply to discuss and propose,’ ea s)e T A ’“(x % )Sg 7 ) : . \’“ "3)) i 4 \ . ‘fing B T e ) W VTR Gy W W\ ¥ 2 ' > l, h i & \) e ° ( g"%fi g | 7-- e\ 1\ G;S 3 , eoV lb OQ 1% 42 ) | B\ ) { ,\‘”')T&"v‘?rm\'fifi g=7 ) (. N (:"'\(s,/( *‘Q 2 _,/,./—\‘4l4 & - ) RN W AMERICA AT THE CONFERENCE but no power to take final action. The delibera‘ions will in all likelihood be condueted in the Fnglish language. The American delegates will argue for bimetallism, and it is likely that our most bitter opponents will be the English delegation, who believe that we are i ' rror in purchasing T — Hrrb gy drive more buion abroad, and in that way favorably affect the silver market. No proposition hmkm«{ to an indorsemw‘nt of free coinage of silver will probably be Submnt;‘d by any of the American representatives. Importance of the Conference. | 'j:lle" conference will have the co-ope-raticn of all the leading nations. It is likely to be far more important than any Imonetary conference of recent Years. The conference held at Paris during the Exposition of 1888 was not vested with any authority and was productive of no results. A conference was held at Washington last year of the Pan-American countries, but it relutv']lxm.‘zwiy to devising methods for Securing a common coin, and its work was fruitless, because the scheme was impracticable. The present conference will represent every shade of national views. .There will be England and Ger- | many, which are upon a gold basis, and | Aus ria, which is passing through the i conditions necessary to bring it to the ! same basis, silver having been demon- | ctized. Irance and the other countries | of the ILatin Union, which maintain a! | parity between the two metals while | - limiting ihe silver coinage, will be fully ’ represented. India, which is suffm'in:gi financial convulsions because of its sil- | ver basis, w.ll have its own representa- f tives, although Great Britain will die- | tate its policy. Mexico, which is on a, p}il':)l}' silver basis and has a large | direct trade with Europe, may help in solving the problem. Many suggesiions have been made for the guidance of the eonference. The one which has been most discussed | among ftinancial authorities is the| proposition of Dr. Seytbooer, the em-[ inent Austrian publicist. He has sug- f gested an agrecement by which the | countries taking part in the conference | should limit silver coinage to Ccrtuint

small coins, none to exceed in value the twenty franc piece. It is stated that while silver could not thus be placed on a parity with gold, it m'ght be maintained at a ratio of about twenty to one. The actual commercial ratio is

now about {wen y-four to one. The coinage ratio in the United States is sixteen to one, in the Latin Union and most Uuropean countries fiftcen and a half to one, and in India fifteen to one, Dr. Seytbooer’s plan is declared by those who have studied it to be too intricate to meet with general adoption. The whole aim of the Brussels conference will be directed toward practical measures, without seeking to revolutionize the existinz relations of gold and silver, which could only be done by universal remonetization, The Foreign Delegates. The delegates from other countries as far as announced are as follows: | Great Britain—Sir William Houlds- | worth, M. P., for Northwest Manchester; l Bertram Curne, partner in the bank of ! Messrs. Glynn, Mills, Curne & Co.; Sir | Charles Freemantle, K. . 8., Deputy | Governor of the Mint. =4 Government of India—General Rich- | ard Strachey, G. P. 8., formerly member of the Indian Council; Sir Guil- | ferd L. Molesworth, K. C. I. E. ; France—M. Tirard, formerly Minis- | ter of Finance and Presideet of Coun- ] cil; M. L. de Liron, high official in the ! Department of Finance; M. de Fayille, |

high official in the Department of Finance. ! Switzerland—Messrs. Cramer, Frey and Lardy, Minister at Paris. | Ttaly—Messrs. Luigi Luzzatti, Ramere Semonelli and Domenice Zappa, all m=mbers of the late Parliament. i Sweden—The Hon. Fersell, ex-Minise« ter of Finance. Denmark—Mr. C. F. Tretgen. UNCLE JERRY’S REPORT. Work of the Agricultural Department Reviewed by Rusk. The report of the Secretary of Agriculture has been submitted to the President. The report begins with a com- !

parison of the ex- | port trade of the | last fiscal year with that of form- | er years, and em- | rhasizes the fact that of the more | than $1,000,000,- ! €OO, representng thie exports of our domestic products for the last year, nearly 80 per cent. : consisted of agri- | cultural preoducts, this not only mak- ° ing the United

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States the creditor of the world for a sum exceeding s2oo,6oo,ooo—the excess of our exports over imports—but re- | lieving our home markets from a surplus product which would ctherwise have re- | duced prices to a point below the cost . of production. For a large share in bringing about the conditions which ; have made these gratifying resuits possible the Secretary claims credit for his department. In regard to imports he finds encouragement for the farmers in the fact that | in spite of an aggregate increase there . is a reduction in the proportion of im- | ports consisting of products which com- ' pete with our American agriculture, for, ' while in the fiseal year ended in 188) 54 per cent. of the imports were com- ! peting, only 44 per cent. of our imperts for the last fiscal year did co compete, ! He nevertheless regards imports competing with the products of our own so’l | as still far too great. He instances S4O, - ! 000,000 worth of animal products, $67,1 009,000 worth of fibers, $27,000,000 worth of hides, $30,000,000 worth of fruits and wines, as articles of this kinds, and cites the imports of raw silk, amounting to $25,000,000 yearly, as an instance of products imported which could with proper encouragement be produced in our own country. He declares these figures to indicate the main ultimate object of the work of the department, which he defines, in brief, as “the closest study of all markets abroad which may be reached by our own agricultural products, accompanied by per- | sistent and intelligent efforts to extend them and the substitution in our markets of home-grown for foreign-grown produets.” : LABOR LOSES ITS FIGHT. The Great Strike at Carnegie's Homestead Mills Deeclared Os, The great strike at Carnegie’s Homestead steel works has been declared off. | After a five months’ struggle, which for | bitterness has probably never been '| equaled in this countiry, the army of | strikers finally decided to give up the | fight. This action was taken at a meet- ‘| ing of the lodges of the Amalgamated || Association at Homestead, the vote ' | standing 101 in favor of declaring the | strike off and %1 agaimst it. Among 3 at a S Sayce wvrowme '3 O | of the Advisory Board, The officials addressed the members, and in plain words told them the strike was lost, and advised them to take steps to better their condition. The remarks met with considerable opposition, but when the vote was taken it showed | amajority of tenin favor of declaring ; ! the str.lke off. Those who wera in favor | of calling the strike off were jubilant, /| while those who were agains: it were | badly put out, ;‘ | The Homestead strike has proved one | of the most disastrous in the history of | the country. It originated from a reduction in wages in the department where members of the Amalgamated Association of 11'055 and Steel Workers were employed. The hiteh was on what ' is known as the sliding seale. Tt is a’ g scale which regulates the men’s Wnrges | | by the market price of steel billets, | Nearly every mill in this vieinity signed | tl'xe sca!e, including other mills of the | Carnegie Company. At the refusal ofi i tl}@ firm to sig,n the scale for the Homel s\cfud nf.'xll, a lockout was declared b}" ’ the Ax.m'ugaumtfl-:l Association, and they ! { were joined by the mechanies and lab- | | orers, who struck out of sympathy only, | l their wages not being reduced. The | :str.ikers were determine ! to keep non- ! union men out of the mi.l and adopted military discipline. The story of the arrival and bloody fight with the Pinkertons :}uly 6, the subsequent riotous proczed- | ings, and the calling out of the National Guard, and its departure after {ihree ! months’ duty, is too well known {o repeat. Forsix weeks the mill has been | running almost as well as before the strike, but until within the last week the i strikers have steadfastly refused to ad- ‘ mit defeat. ! RICH FORONE DAY ONLY. Messenger Bagley Takes SIOO,OOO from

the United States Express Company. , George J. Bagley, a messenger for the United States Express Company, appropriated a package containing SIOO, - 000 in paper currency, which had been placed in his care in Omaha Thursday night to Le delivered in Chicago Friday morning. Just twinty-four hours after the money had been missed the thieving messenger was arrested in Chicago by Detectives Weaver and Plunkett, of the { Central Station, Iy a brilliant coup. And within forty-cight hours after the disappearance of the cash $:9,990 of it was locked up in the safe of the United States FExpress Company in Chicago. | Bagley obta'ned the money by a bril- ; liantly laid scheme, but onece in his pos- ' sess’on the weight of the currency was i too much for his diseretion and he com- [ pletely lost his head. In fact, he was - “scared to death,” to use his own words. ' And his actions subsequently do not belie them. ‘! “LOCKHART, I may have but a moment to speak with you. My dear, be a good man, be virtuous, be religious, Le a good man; rothing else will givo Yyou any comfort when you come to lie here.”—Walter Scott. IN future each soldier of the Belgian army will carry on his person a small Lone disk, which will eontain his name, birthplace, and regimental number, so that the holder can be readily identified in case of accident or death,

DAVID C. COOR. The Ploneer Pubiisher of Literature fer! Sunday Schools. ‘ David C. Cook, tho Chicago Sunday! School publisher, was born in East Worcester, New York, in 1830, a son of

Rev. E. 8. Cook, & Methodist minister,’ a cultured and scholarly man. Since ear-. licst chiidhood he . has been devoted to » the Sunday School.’ %In boyhood he joined the church, and began teaching in the Sunday School at the

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age of seventeen in the West Division of’ Chicago, and for four years following taught most of the time in two or three schools each Sabbath. The fire of 1871 was the beginning of his mission and Sunday-school work on the North Side. His field was one of the roughest and pocrest of ths burnt district. Here, in'a Cerman theater and beer-hall, he organized “Everybody’s Mission,”’ afterwards removed to a building of its own. With an attendance of 330* to 450, he sustained the school for five years without the aid of church or society. [ Besides this, he has since organized - and superintended North "‘Avenue Mis- ' sion, Lake View Mission, Lake View - Union Sundaygschools in Chicago, and the Sunday-s_hool connected with Grace . Church in Elgin, 111., besides several \ smaller schools. j { His fir=t publicaticns were issued for his own Sunday-schools alone. Neigh- ‘ YTosing Sunday-schools, appreciating i the'value of these helps, became his ! first subscriters. Scon Mr. Cook dis- | covered that his were no: the only | schgols that needed more and better { literature than they could afford to buy ; at the prices then existine, and resolved { to make it his life work to place in the ' hands of the Sunday-school children of i the land an’atundance of the very best | literature at the lowest possible prices. i He was met at the very outset with almost incsurmountable obstacles and lively opposition; but the obstacles and opposition only furnished zest. for he is : a man of purpose, and it has been well | said of him, “his indomitable energy de- ! mands insurmountable obstacles.” That I his purpose was good and wise is proved by the way he has been supported. I It is seventeen years since he issued. his first publication, and there i¢ now scarcely a village or hamlet in the land where they are, not known and?used. { He empleys regularly six associate ! editors and_ some sixty writers, repre- ‘ senting some of the ablest Sunday gchool talent in the land. Among those, who know him personally he is always recognized as a man ofi strong -Christian character, a ‘gractical worker in the church, Sunday school and temperance cause, and a warm friend of missions, both home and foreign. It Was True. ' Late in the evening a rerort spread | through the train that we had a fellow- ' ‘ passenger a man worth $2v,000,000, who i had got on at Buffalo. I made Inquire | of the porter of my car and he replied: " “Dat’s what dey say, sah, but yo’ | ecan’t allus tell. He’s in de next cah, | f but I can’t dun say if he’s a rich man 1 till mawnin.” " Next morning the porter beckoned ' { me into the smoking compartment and en he’s worth $20,000,000, en?” “All of dat, sah, and mebbe mo’,” “How did you find cut?” | “From the odder po’tah, sah. De- . gem’lan has jest gin him 20 cents, while ; everybody else has cum down wid a ; quarter.”—New Yerk Sun. {LT R e l Fine Playi~ 7 Cards. | Bend 10 cents in star ;s to John Sebas- | tlan, Gen'l Ticket and Pa:s. Ast . C.R'YL & P. 'y, Chicago, for a pack of the «Rock ’ Island» Playing Cards They are acknovl- ! edzed the best, and worth five times the ; cost, Senq money order or pistal note for { 50c, 39d will send five packs by express, prepaid. i Washington Stoek. t The State of Washington has 176,005 . horses, mules, and asses, 221,723 cattle, . 246,260 sheep, and 49,168 hogs. ! e r—- | - TTTT———————————a ! 0 . NY" e N;Q}.Ujs Dery 78 i 1o , }l\\"Tit : G e : | (A T P - 'Remedy QU tbe equal of ° Q- l | COBS K g p for the Prompt and | Perr.rrl‘agnen(ll'fln;(’a (;F YOUNG ROTHERS We offer.you a remedy which if !;sed as directed, insures safety te life of both mother and child. “MOTHERS FRIEND*— Robs confinement of its Parx, Horror and Risk, as many festify. “Mywife used onix tweo beo B e sey quici iy reeved

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