St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 19, Number 1, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 22 July 1893 — Page 6

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?K Z X^ G^POr^^rxd yeck CHAPTER XXV!—Continued. The sound of gnawing, which had stopped while the officer was present, was again resumed, and Ralph Denham was on the floor, close to the place from ■which the sound came. ‘ , Outside the bustle and noise of boats being lowered, and the deep, gruff orders of the sailors could be heard. Captain Fox was preparing to conceal more of his treasure on shore. Tired of his j osition on the floor. Captain Denham went back, and was tai ing in a whisper with one of his men, I his eyes still bent in the direction of the partition, when he saw a light that a most seemed dazzling after the darkness. Cut from the opening, as if carried by this stream of light, came Don the cabin boy. Rushing up to Captain Denham, the only man not in a hammock, Don said eagerly: “I’ve loosed the plank, and you can come through. Oh, lam so glad that you know your danger, for my heart has been sore for you." “We came with a full understanding of the danger. We do not want to get on deck now, but when the time comes we desire you to be near to guide us,” said Captain Denham. “How shall I know the time?” ; “When you hear a gun fired on board the Sea Hawk. She will be close by soon after daylight. ” । ’l’ll try. sir,” said Don, who recognized in the voice of the man addressing him a ring of command, such as he i could not associate with an ordinary ; sailor. “But I’ll go back and close the | place from the other s de, and if I am ■ not. near when the signal is given, go I through and turn to the right; there will I be plenty of daylight then. You will I pass through the store-room and armory, I where you can get arms if you’ll need. | them. To the left are the steps leading > to the deck.” “God bless you, Don. We’ll find the j place, and reach the deck. Now go, । go!” The Captain’s voice was nervous- ! ly imperative; for in the distance he j could hear a vigorous knocking, accom- i panied by the call: “Don! Don! What the blazes are you sleeping for when the Captain wants ! you.” Don darted through the opening, and i pu out the light. As he pushed the ; Aukum; presence o. nnhu, tor ma voice । sounded like that of a sleepy boy: “Aye, aye, sir! Coming!” and the । next instant the banging of a door could ! be heaid: As Don ran out, a man shouted to him: “The Cap’n’s been a callin’ for you, youngster; you’ll be mighty lucky if you don’t get a right good lashin’ with a rope end. ” Don heard, but made no inquiry till he stood before Captain Fox on the deck. With a savage oath the captain demanded: “ Whene have you been, you dog?” “I was about to turn in, sir,” replied Don.. “Did I tell you to?" “I thought you did, sir. ” “ You have no right to think. Next time you are not on hand, you young dog, lil keelhaul you. Do you understand me?” “ Yes, sir. ” “Very well. Leap into that boat and । bear a hand,” said Fox, pointing over ; the side, where in the darkness the dim | out iae of a longboat could be seen, I with a number of men in it. Don leaped into the boat and took the post of coxswain. All night long Lea and Ellen, who occupied the same stateroom, could hear I , the boats coming and going. To say ' they were frightened would but weakly | express the state of their feelings. ; Could they have seen their own white ' faces, a common sympathy would have increased their terror. I , But they knew that Ralph Denham j and his gallant men were on board, and 1 they tried to cheer each other by reiter- ' ating their knowledge of this fact. Had they known Ralph Denham’s { , actual condition they might not have ■ drawn so much comfort from his prox- j imity. At length the boats took their last t load to the shore, and Captain Fox, who ! s had been superintending the conceal- f h meat of the booty, came back with 1 them. t Day dawned, and the distant head- I lands and the island under the lea 1 seemed to lift from the dark, waters by । the power of light. t Two of the boats were left alongside; ' 1 an 1 now Fox and Frenauld entered the ■ 1 cabin and called in excited tones for their visitors to < ome out. i 1 Lea and Ellen tried to obey, but they £ found to their horror that they were I locked in. They raised their voices, but amid the din and uproar outside they could not । be heard. Doctor Hedges, supposing that his i daughter and Ellen Condit had preceded ' him, was about to descend to the boat, j when an eager glance told him they I were not there. Turning to Frenauld, who stood near, : he asked: “Where is my daughter and Ellen ’ Condit?" “They will follow you. Hurry up. ’ There is not a moment to spare. Captain Kidd is in sight!” A number of sailors hearing this burst into a loud roar of laughter. The Doctor, now completely beside himself, was seized bodily by strong hands i and lowered into the boat. “Pull away, my lads,” shouted Fre- ' nauld to the men in the boat. “But my daughter. Oh, heaven, my i jchild!” cried the Doctor. Seeing Capta'n Fox, he continued: “Send down jny child and Ellen! I can see no sign of the pirate!” “Then I will show him to you,” : laughed Fox. “Look well at me, my old friend.” The Doctor raised his white face and

Imploring eyes, and the outlaw shouted: “I am Captain Kidd, and your daughter’s in my keeping!" Again Frenauld shouted for the men to pull away. And as they did so, Doctor Hedges fell back in the boat and looked to be dead. CHAPTER XXVII. THE SEA HAWK COMES UP. AND THE SIGNAL GUN i ; FIRED. The town of Sag Harbor was excited to its center by the conduct of Captain Fox. All the families in the place were related by blood, or connected by marriage, or united by those ties of friendship, equally strong, which they had inherited from their sturdy ancestors. The people carried off by the Wanderer were among the very best in the place, the flower of its society. No reason could be given for Fox’s conduct, ix evident to the most simple-minded that the act was deliberate and therefore malicious. The people gathered in excited groups, and their spirits rose for a while, when they saw the ship come about and try Ito beat up the harbor. But their relief from anxiety was only temporary, for again the Wanderer tacked and headed i for the open water. In the midst of the excitement a coach j and four, guarded by a number of horse- I men, drew up before the inn, ami from it, aided by a provincial officer, descended a stately lady in black. She was about five and forty, and the face still retained its nobility of form, though lines of care had seriously marred a countenance that must once have been of surpassing loveliness. The landlord came out and the young j ofll er addressing him said: “I desire apartments for the Countess 1 of Paliton. ” The overpowered landlord rubbed his j hands, bowed himself double and was about to lead the way into the house i when the lady stopped him by asking: “Can you tell me if Lord Pal—l mean one Colonel Graham, is stopping here?” | “He is, my lady,” said the landlord. “And a gentleman named Captain Ralph Denham lives hero?” “Yes, my lady, but he is not here now. He is in New York.” The lady looked at the landlord sharp- ’ ly, as if going to deny this, but, changing her mind, she motioned for him to j show her the way. As the party entered the inn, old : Dinah amazed the crowd by raising her hands above her head and crying aloud: “Oh, praise en bress de Lor’. She I libs, my lady libs!” "What do you moan, Dinah?” asked one of the bystanders. “Conscious that sho had boon hasty, : the old woman seized her staff, and : muttered, as sho turned away: “I can t talk en ’splain at do same | time.” The coming of the coach with its out- ’ riders did not lessen the excitement. . uuir.y wr.Ralph Denham, ana the' taut I that she bore a striking resemblance to , the young Captain, were talked about i and commented on by those who forgot, I for the moment, tho departure of the Wanderer. It was now quite dark, and all tho people in town wore on the street; women wailing for their lost ones, men armed and anxious to use their weapons, and frightened children clinging to their i mothers' skirts, and wondering what it all meant. But tho subjects of talk and wonder were not yet over. The boys, believing that they should do something to show their interest, had lit bonfires all along the street, and by their light tho people saw T what appeared to their excited imaginations to be a great army entering the town. The young people had never seen the Mont auks in war dress, nor heard their i war songs, but the older men roeogi nized in the sound that struck their ears ’ one heard in their childhood, and never i forgotten. The boys, in their excitement, threw more fuel on the fires, and as the Hames leaped up they flashed on the noble form of L'ntilla. who marched at the head of her warriors. On her hea l was the plume of Wyandanch, and in her right hand the silver- I tipped spear of the mighty chief. With measured step, two hundred I armed men came down behind her. The red paint that distinguished their fierce ancestors in battle they had discarded, ‘ owing to their higher civilization: but I the stirring war song which they shout- ' ed was the same which the united Mon- । tauks and Pequots had sung when they ‘ had renelled in days past the invasion j of the Narragansetts, or went in their war canoes to the homes of their ancient foes. Untilla turned neither to the right nor the left, and paid no attention to the salutations that greeted her till she led { her warriors to the shore. While all this was going on in the j town, Lieutenant Hedges and Valentine j Dayton were not idle on board the Sea i Hawk. They saw the Wanderer sailing away with their friends, but they were powerless to prevent an act that filled them with anxiety. The moment Fox’s ship disappeared from the harbor, Lieutenant Hedges said to Valentine: “Now, my lad, the time for hard work has come. ” And how shall we begin?” asked Valentine, who had unlimited confidence in his uncle’s capacity and courage. “We must get these cursed pirates out of tho way—l’d like to hang them at once. ” “How are we to do it?” “First, how many sets of irons have we on board?” “Enough to ornament the men sent from the Wanderer,” replied Valentine. ■‘Good! Now have them called in by fours to the ward room for enrollment. Disarm them, for the dogs, as you will | see, are lined with knives and pistols; i then put them in irons, and place a | guard over them,” said Mr. Hedges, his j blue eyes blazing with anger. The Wanderer’s men on board the ; Sea Hawk were comforting themselves ■ with the belief that not a shade of suspicion attached to them. They expect- ! ed to be enrolled, as their names were not yet taken by the officers of the Sea Hawk; but they were somewhat astonished when Mr. Dayton ordered them , i into the ward room by fours. Those who went smilingly down were । searched and ironed at once, and so I j could not communicate with their mates : on desk.

I But oven if they had been able to do so they could not have made a successful resistance, for the Sea Hawk’s men were at their posts, ready to shoot down the first man who showed a sign of insubordination. At length the fifty men, who had expected to play so important a part in the capture of the Sei Hawk, were all prisoners in the hold of the ship, with armed men to guard them. Valentine Dayton having completed this task reported the fact to his superior officer. Mr. Hedges had received Fox’s instructions just before he sailed to follow in tho morning. As the understanding with Fox was that the Sea Hawk should not sail till the supply ship came, ho was puzzled to know why the pirate.had changed his mind. However, as he had planned with Captain Denham to follow at daylight, and begin to fight with the Wanderer the moment he camo within reach, Fox’s order did not annoy him. “And how do the wretches take the situation?” asked Lieutenant Hedges, when Mr. Dayton returned. “They don’t like it; they are swearing like pirates,” repli d Valentine,, smiling at his unpremeditated joke. ? “The dogs! I am glad they can ' iruo Vo tliumuul »uu Lai P thill Mr. Dayton, get all the boars transport Untilla and her peoploaK ; board,” said Lieut. Hedges. The Sea Hawk’s men were on w’j alert; they know just what was wants? of them, and they were as eager as fheV officers to do all in their power to eure the success of the d< sperata veiT ture in which they were embarked. 4 Tho five 1 oats were soon lowered away, and properly manned, and unde? ; tho immediate direction of Mr. Dayton they pulled for the shore. Under Untilla's lead there wore 217 young men, tbo flower of the Montauk tribo; mon who would have followed Unea- to tho death, as they did his sistor, had he shown himself worthy of leadership. Lights were hung along the bulwarks of tiie Sea Hawk, and the remnant of ■ the sailors on board met their red allies I in full uniform. Tho first person to roach the dock was Untilla, and so glad was Lieut. Hedges to soo her that ho could have caught her in his strong arms and kissed her. The gallant sailor was ev n more in love than ho had imagined. At length the last of the Montauks engaged in this expedition was on board the Sea Huw.., and assigned to quarters where they could I e comfortable for the night. Lieut. Hedges was so thoroughly acquainted with all these waters that he I could sail them as sa ely on an ordinary night a ■ under the full light of the sun. lie was about to give the order to get under way, when a b came along- । side with Squire Condit. Tho squire saw tho preparations going on about him and understood I their ob.ect. Ho was soroiy troubled i about his daughter; but there was a j great deal of iron in his nature, and ‘ now that a blow was to be struck at the : wretch who had so violently disturbed | the pea o of the town and endangered i tho-e dear to him, ho was not the man ! to force h's ovn troubles into promi- j nenee. To defeat Fox he was willing i was not ne essaiy on the ship while it was in the distracted town. “I’ll only detain you a moment," said tho Siju re, as he held Lieutenant Hedge’s hand. “ You know, old friend, how all my life and happiness are involved in the contest. On that pirate's ship are my a lopted son and daughter; advise your men to watch for them when they shoot, and if possible to aim to one side. That’s all. ” The Squire shook hands with Valentine Dayton, told h:m to keep a brave heart, lor God would preserve Eilen, and then left tho ship as suddenly as he had come. “The wind an 1 tide are in our favor," said Lieutenant Hedges, addressing Valentine, “and they m ly not be if we wait for light, so we’ll up anchor and drop down, and beat about till daylight shows us the pirate.” “May I ask, sir, if you will fight at long range or close quarters?” asked | Valentino. “We can’t use the Montauks at loag | range. No, sir; we shall run alongside, i grapple, and drop anchor. Muzzle to muzzle, hand to hand, and eye to eye. ! Wo must get to our Captain, lad, and j you know where ho is?” “On the deck of tho Wanderer," rei plied Valentine, catching his uncle’s j spirit. I Up rose the anchors, and the loosened sails came down and fluttered in the wind So well did the sailors know what was wanted that they anticipated orders i before they were given. Every light on board the Sea Hawk was extinguished, and she turned in j obedience to the helm and shot down j the harbor, the courier of a righteous vengeance. |TO BE CONTINUED.] Presence of Mind. There is nothing like presence of mind after all. The other day, during a tremendous shower, a gentleman entered a fashionable club, bp* r " ing a splendid ivory -handled silk dhibrella, wliich he placed in the stafld. Instantly another gentleman, who was mourning the abstiaction of just such an article, jumped up. “Will you allow me to look at that?” he said sternly. “ Certainly,” remarked the umbrella-carrier. “I wag just taking it to the police-station It was left in my house last night by a burglar whom we frightened off. I hope it will prove a first-rate cine ” And though the exasperated owner could plainly see where his name had been scratched off the handle, he sat clown and changed the subject’ Me Are Wonderfully Made. In a human body there „ 2,( 00,COO perspiration glands, communD eating with the surface bvduet^ h > e a total length of some ten X ’ whn? that of the arteries, veins and ’ ries must be very g^at U ^' contains millions of millions of corjuscles, each a structure in itself ^The : rods in the retina, which m-a o a to be tho ultimate reSnientVn?^ are estimated at 30.000 00? and vs £ s ußssa?? ?,» 000 cells ° at lcast GOO,OOO,The ous. ! almond. Its hrnVy'^^ and cultivation have not only removed its poisonous qualities, but turned it | into delicious fruit. ul uea n>

A GRIAf MOVING ISLAND. Treacherous Sable, Which Is Well Called the Cemetery of the Ocean. Sable Island is again reported to have partly disappeared. It is not always correct to infer that Sable Is- [ land is becoming smaller because a ' slice-of it has been whittled away, i It may be found a little later that tlic debris had been piled up against some other part of the coast,extending the great sandbank about as far in one diiectlon as it has lost ground in another. There is no doubt, however, ■ that in the past two centuries. Sable Island has lost mu hos its area. A good deal of the island is now scattered over the bottom or the Atlantic, where all mariners in the neighborhood of the Grand Banks would be glad to have what is left <>r it stay at rest. Sable Island is about a hundred miles nearly east of Halifax. Sailors never know whether last year's chart is a safe guide for navigation in the adjacent waters. Many a ship has been wrecked upon its treacherous coast. It has been called the cemetery of tho ocean, and .. the New Y'ork Sun thinks it deserves the name. It would have nopopula-'Vh-Hi it the Canadian Government did not find it necessary to support a score of people to look after the ^Rhthouses and care for castaways ' who uro thrown upon the island. If the French maps of two centuries ago told the truth Sable Is- | land has since that time lost more than half its area. Maps of the island made at intervals si nee isisshow rem irkable changes in its form and position. Its western end is now about twenty miles farther out to sea than it was a century ago. The highest sand d ine, which was formerly about two hundred feet above the sea ■ level, is now only about eighty feet high. The shifting sands a:e constantty changing the outline of the curious little lake in the interior ust as they do the contour of the coasts. Sometimes this lake is wholly cut off from the sea and at other times a wide channel .dins it with the Atlantic. Years ago two small vessels took refuge in this lake from a storm,only to find that they were prisoners, unable to put to s 'a wli !i ready to pursu their voyage. In a single night the Atlantic sometimes cat s up many acres of the great sand heap, only to build it up in some other direction. Its present form is a crescent, with its convex side to tho south. Two of the three lighthouses built since D-o were undermined l.y the invading j ocean, and a while ago the third was j badly damaged and will probai n have I to be replaced. It is fortunate that there are n >t I many similar ini|eolments in the i most frequ -nted tracks of commerce. Sable, however, is only an ex.iggerI ated type of moving islands in variWinds, storms. the ouulin s of not a few low, sandy islands in the Pacific. Baker Island, • lying under the equator north of the Ph । nix Archipelago, is a very curious instance of these changes, in summer the wind blows almost steadily from the south-a-t and the axis of the lag sand bank extends directly oast and west. In winter, when the dominating atmos] her.c current comes from the northeast, the bank moves smith, the extreme annual oscillation in the position of the idand being about 700 feet. HOW DRUGGISTS GET MUSK. The Swimming Koilvnt of the Jcr ey Meadow- Is the Source of Supply. “As to the musk, now,” sa d the I young man man in search of inlormai tion, - I dare say that the race of j iragile but aromatic little deer from which musk is obtained must be I nearly extinct by this time, is it not?” “Well,’’ replied the frank druggist, says the ?lew York Sun, “not the fragile and aromatic little deer that furnishes the musk 1 sell. That fragile and aromatic little deer isn't ; any nearer extinction now than l.e was when he first began to dive and burrow, and that was 'way back in the pristine years.” “Why,” exclaimed tho young man in search of information, “the animal that supplies the musk of commerce lives among the palm-clad hills of Central Asia, where picturesque native hunters follow its tiny track, risking their lives and undergoing gieat toil and hardship to secure the almost infinitesimal sac which envelopes the precious perfume, and !>y painful journeys of miles and miles bearing it to the marts of trade, where it is sold for many times its weight in gold. Everybody knows that.” “Yes,” replied the druggist. “I've heard of that. But the way I find the facts is different. The animal that supplies the musk of commerce around these parts lives largely in those luxuriant realms of bog and malaria known as the Jersey marshes, where the following of its trail is attended with no risk of life, no toil, no hardship, that 1 ever heard of. I never knew it to be attended w th much of anything but a jug of rum I and a long-handled spear. The hunt- 1 ers are picturesque, though. An old i fur cap. a large chew of tobacco oozing over an unprotesting red chin whisker, and a pair of gum boots filled with the legs of hickory overalls and a long, lank Jerseyman—that • ought to pass for picturesque, hadn’t i t? But none of the hunters ever said anything to me about an infinitesimal sac enveloping precious perj fume, nor even complained about having to journey many painful miles and miles to reach the marts of trade, nor have I any recollection of their demanding many times its weight in gold for the precious perfume. Not any hunters that 1 ever dealt with. They just jumped aboard a ferry boat, ' landed on this s de, and hoofed it up here, and chucking on the count-er , what they had to sell, said: “ ‘There ye be, cap’n. Dind’t hev j

TWIWW m—lllll—ll muiwriiMi niiiiuii !■„, much luck ylsterd’y, an' only slashed the pods out o' ten. They’re good tins, though. O’t to be wuth lOcents ' a pair, cap’n? : “Yes. Those picturesque hunters who risk their lives on the trail of j the musk deer in Central Asia moun- । tains can do better by packing their ' grips and coming over here and chasing the wily muskrat on the Jersey marshes. They might have to wear i more clothes, but they’d get m.ore . musk and find a market right under j their noses. Y r es, my son. The cfj lete orient is no place for the musk hunter nowadays. The robust Occident beckons him and he had better come. He needn’t fetch his spar with him. He can get one here for 50 cents. He XX as the Other Sullivan. '• It is Sir Arthur Sullivan himself who in Mr. Willeby’s memoir tells how, when he was traveling on a stage coach in a rather wild part of California, and was about to stop ata certain camp of miners for refreshment, his self esteem was gratified by the observation of his drivec, “They expect you here, Mr. Sullivan.” The announcement was confirmed when, coming across a knot of prominent citizens at the whisky store, the foremost of the group came up to i a burly bystander and inquired, j “Are you Air. Sullivan?” “No,” replied the burly man, while he pointed at the English traveler. The citizen looked at the stranger rather contemptuously and said: “Why, how much do you weigh?” This seem d a curious method of gauging the lowers of a composer, ’ but he received the prompt answer, “About 1112 pounds.” £ “Well.” returned the man, “that’s ' odd to me, anyhow. Do you mean to say that you gave tits to John S. Blackman in Kansas City?” “No, I did not give him fits,” was the reply. Conferring further, it proved that the per-on expected was Sullivan, the prize tighter. It appeared, however, tint the musician’s fame had. in a dim sort of way. reached that remote settlement, for this “pnuuineut citizen,” in an outburst of cordial hospitality, finally ex. laimed: “O, Arthur Sullivan! What, arc you the man th it put ‘Pinafore together?’’— London News. Mr. Ferguson's Saving Prayer. Away back in the early ’dOs Mr Ferguson was defending a man ac cused of beating his wife. The case was on trial before a justice of the peace, probably the same justice who decided that stealing a sack of potatoes out of a canoe in the river was “piracy on the high seas.” The accused was convicted, and the justice promptly -enteueed him to b? hanged. “But .you can’t hang a man for Ferguson. ‘•The devil I can’t,” sai 1 the justice, bridling up. “Ain’t he guilty? Oughtn’t any man to be hung who would beat a woman and that woman his wife? And ain’t I tlic only mlge in this county'-' If I haven't got the power to hang a man, who ha ; , eii? Ili hang him with n an hour; won’t we, boys?” he concluded, addressing the crowd standing around whose sympathies were evidently with the woman. “That we uill,” shouted the ■ crowd. Seeing that t he case was beginning to look serious for his client, Ferguson said: “Well, your honor, before the man is hanged I’d like to take him oit behind that big tree and pray with him.” “All right,” said the justice, and off v.-ent the prison r and Ferguson. When they got behind the treu Ferguson said in an undertone: ‘ ‘Now git, youd d hound. ” And he got.—Seattle Press-Times. Japanese English. “The Japanese students,” says ar American teaching in that country, “are fond of using long, high-sound-ing words. One day I told the story of ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ to one of my classes of young men and a>ked them to reproduce it in writing. 1 u-ed the simplest possible English in order to make it easy for them to ui: derstand. and what was my surprise when I came to correct the papers to find tlic first one I took up began as follows: ‘Once upon a time there lived a poor widow who for certain pecuniary considerations was obliged to sell her cow? Another one wrote: ‘Jack .•■aid to the fairy: “Please tell , me the way to the nearest hotel;” ’ and still another wrote, ‘the giant said to the lien that laid the golden egg: “Borne.l an egg. Burned another same way.” ’ A student asked one of the teachers in our theological school to please teach him ‘idiotic’ English. A stud nt in some othei school was aske I to make a translation of the proverb, ‘Out of sight,out of mind? This was the result, ‘'Oh blind are insane? ” To Prevent the Cock Crowing. I Poets and nursery rhymesters alike j have encouraged the notion that the cock crows only at break of day. They talk of chanticleer pro 'laiming the dawn, and so foith; but as a matter ' of fact—though it is quite true this I bright particular barndoor fowl is very fond of saluting the dawn—the cock likes to hear the sound of his 1 melodious voice at all hour.'. Thc:c is one simple device, however, by which even he c*an beredu ed to comi plete and acceptable silence. The bird cannot crow unle s he is able to stand erect and raise his head to the fullest extent. Now. if a plank, or even a lath.be placed above his perch i so that he cannot gain an upright po- i sition, he cannot possibly lift up his j , voice, but, on the contrary, must, as I ’ Sam Weller expressed it, remain । i ‘ dumb as a drum with a hole in it.” ;

SUNDAY CLOSING OF THE FAIR. The Action of the Directory Was Practically Unanimous. The World's Fait- will be closed Sundays during the remainder of the Fair period. Such is the decision of the Board of Directors, declared by the emphatic vote of 24 to 4. When it became apparent by actual admissions that the general public did not care for Sunday opening, that it required the attendance of over 16,000 employes to wait upon the pleasure of about 40.000 visitors, the question was considered purely from a business point of view and it was decided that “the interests of the public are not promoted by keeping the Exposition open on each and every day of the week,” and that the gates should be closed. The sole reason for closing the Fair Sundays is a financial one, as Director Hutchinson stated. The directors found that the people did not want it open and would nut attend Sundays, and so they closed. The closing resolution tells the whole story and sweeps wish it the promise to repay the United States the amounts received from the souvenir coin appropriation. The resolution reads as follows: Whereas, The Board of Directors heretofore, to wit, on May 16, 1593, adopted certain resolutions providing for the opening of the Exposition on Sundays in response to urgent appeals from perHonn and or«-aniz«felons reprefli cutin# u large majority of the public as well as stoakholders of this corporation, and also in accordance with a resolution adopted bj’ the City Council of the city of Chicago, representing the ilm ncial Interest 3 of said city in said Exposition to the amount of ?5.<it0,000; and. Whereas, Said action of the Board has been sustained by the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, and the rieht and poxver of the Board of Directors to ccntrol the physical administration of the Exposition Sunday as well as other days of the week has been upheld by the final decree of said court; and. Whereas, It row appears from the actual admissions that the general public do not manifest a desire that said Exposition should be kept open to the public each day of the week, and it further appearing tha if the Exposition is kept open Sum ar it will require the attend- : anee of more than 16,000 laboring men and women, the employes of the Exposition, and others, including the curators and clerks of the exhibitors, and while the Exposition authorities can give its own employes one day of rest each week it seems impracticable for ihe exhibitors and others to provide such day cf rest for their own clerks and employes : an , Whereas. It further appears that the number of laboring men and women whose services will be necessarily required to keep the Exposition open Sunday is disproportionate to the number of visitors on said days, and therefore the interests of the public are not promoted l y keeping the Exposition open on each and every day of the week; now, therefore, be it Resojved, That all the said resolution so adopted the Bth day of May, 1893, and the amendments to the rule relative thereto adopted said day. save and except the prices of admissions, be and the same are hereby rescinded, to take effect after the 16th inst. ARMY BILL PASSED. The Measure Forced Through the Reichstag Amid Exciting Scenes. According to cable advices the army bill was forced through the German Reichstag amid scenes unparalleled. The speeches were rancorous; the opposition bitter and unyielding; the excitement intense. The Emperor himself was in the parliament house and was fuming with unbridled rage because his royal pleasure was not acceded to with more celerity. The Government had hoped that the final passage of the Emperor’s pet measure the Reichstag' would close in time to enable the swaggering war lord and his ministers to congratulate each other at their luncheon over their great triumph But they were mistaken. The enemies of the bill fought to the very last and exhausted every means to harry the Emperor and his advisers. The passage of the bill is an event of much importance. Aside from the dramatic interest which attaches to the Emperor's victory, and the humiliating concessions made to the foreign and church elements in order to muster a majority, the new law has other aspects of interest. The demand for its passage was based upon earnest and seemingly sincere representations that German security demand d it. Without this law, which gives more men for the army, it was claimed that Germany would not remain first in her military resources. It was broadly asserted that without it she would" slip backward, outstripped in the race, and become second in importance as a European power. If the Government view is correct Germany will now step to the front with renewed strength and greater resources. At the same time watchful rivals, guarding their own interests, will measure the new strength of the German army and take measures to outdo it. Thus the race will continue as it hae been going on until, financially exhausted, overtaxed, burdened with military service, the people will become impatient and will inaugurate —perhaps in blood—a new order of things. Or, perhaps, the dream of peaceable disarmament of the great powers may ba realized. Young Baptists Cheer. The convention of Baptist Y'oung People, in session at Indianapolis, went wild when the announcement was made that the World's Fair gates were to be closed on Sunday. They were engaged in prayer meeting at The time, and shouted and cheered until they were hoarse. The morning session was entirely occupied with the discussion of missionary topics, and the afternoon was devoted to a symposium upon the lesser federation of the union. At 4 o'clock thirty State and provincial rallies were held in various parts of the city, where matters pertaining to the State federations were discussed. The board of managers announced that Toronto had been chosen as the place for next year's convention. Congressman W.C.Breckenridge, of Kentucky, is to marry Mrs. ScottWing, of Louisville, widow of the exminister to Peru, in August. He was recently reported engaged to Miss Madeline Pollard. Secretary Morton proposes to save public money by causing packers to pay the costs incident to the inspection of meats. Friends and foes of militarism in Germany rejoice that the empire is freed from depressing uncertainty by passage of the army bill. While attempting to save his drowning son John Vick, of Detroit, was dragged down and both men perished. Trustees of the De Pauw University in Indiana fear that bequests may I fall $1,C00,000 short of calculations. Thomas Seaton, of Bolivar, Pa., ! was bitten by a copperhead snake, and ' physicians despair of his life