St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 20, Number 27, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 26 January 1895 — Page 2

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tW® off p Q CHAI’TEIt X11—<Continued. A week afterward, coining back from meeting the postman, which he always did, though few letters ever came, and never those which, his wife could see, he missed and looked for stil!> Roderick threw down before her a heap of notes, “It never rains but it pours. Evidently, «s old Black says, the ‘hale countrie' has fallen in love with young Mrs. Jardine. Four invitations to dinner and one to a dance— extending over three weeks, and area of fifteen square miles. To aeupl Ilium iKutld take half our quarterly income, in carriage hire, etc., and to refuse them. why. six Caleb Balderstones could scarcely accomplish that feat.” She read and laid the notes aside, with a rather sad face. “You would like to go? Woll. then, my darling, shall we don our purple and fine linen —we have a few rags of splendor left—and fare sumptuously at our neigh- j bors’ expense for four days? We can starve afterward for fourteen; I'm willing if you are.” “Roderick!” “Else we must get up some excuse you must have a cough, and be unable to g< out evenings.” “But I am able they may see me at church every Snmlaj." “Most literal of women! Os course it Is a ‘big lee'—as Black would call it. Hut any lie will do; the bigger the better, since we can not possible tell the truth.” “Why not?” The question was so direct and simple, yet so perfectly natural, that it staggered him. lie laughed, though not very mirthfuly, and made no reply. “Why not tell the truth?” Silence repeated. "It would be much the easiest way. Why not say to everybody, what everybody must know, or - dl soon, that wo are not ri< h enough to keep a earriam or give entertainments, but that we appreciate our neighbors' kindliness, and willbe glad to meet them whenever c’mm e allows. Shall I write and say this? Nobody could bo offended, for it is just the simple truth. And surely the truth is bettor than cu n the whitest of lies.” He had lived beside her and with her for a whole year now —this woman, so different from all other women he had ever known; ami yet he seemed always to be finding out something now in her mme divine simplicity which made all his world ly wisdom useless; some innocent courage which put oven his manliness to shame. But he was too truly manly not to own this. “My darling.” he said, not laughing now, “I did not propose to tell a lie —not seriously. But the truth must be hid sometimes, when it is an unpleasant and humiliating truth. Come, then, shall wo make a great effort, and appear at '1 these fine houses en grande tonne, and m a carriage and pair (Black’s, perhaps, borrowed for the occasion), and ‘make believe,’ aa children say, that wo are rich people?" “Would not that be acting a lie. which comes to the same tiling as telling it ? Did not your father once say so? And you once told me that if" sho paused a moment —"if you bad boys you would teach them exactly as your father taught you, that either to tell or act a lie was absolutely impossible to a gentleman and a Jardine!" “You little Jesuit!" “Don't call me that!" and her eyes filled with the quick tears, which, however, she rarely allowed to fall she was not a "crying” woman. "I cannot argue. I can only feel and think. Dearest. I sit and think a great deal—mord than in all my life before. I ought, you know Iler head dropped and a sudden Hush came over the sweet young face, firm through ail its sweetness, much firmer than even a little while ago. Her brief eight months of married life had made a woman of her. And there were the long lonely hours alone, yet not alone —when a wife ever so young, cannot choose but pit thinking of what God is going to give her; of the mingled joy and fear, and solemn responsibility, stretching out into far generations. Well, indeed, may she say, even as the holy woman of whom it is recorded. "Behold the handmaid of the Lord, be it unto me according to thy word.” Something of this —expressing what she never said- was written in Silence's face. Her husband —"uh] nut unite understand ft —nn man could: but fie saw the soft, i W\S nothing wtnk about her; and he pul his arm around her very tenderly. “My darling, speak; you know I will always listen to you. even though 1 may differ from you. No two people can always think alike. But I want a wife, a counselor; I did not want a slave.” She laughed; still she paused a little before answering. If was hard to go against him hard to put into plain, ugly words the fact that sho. a wife, dared to think her husband wrong. Dear as he was to her- this passionately loved Roderick—there was something in the other love, dimly dawning, growing daily into n mysterious yet most absolute reality, wnieh mad'.' her al once clear-sighted and brave, with Ihe courage that till women ought to have when they think of themselves, not as themselves, but as the mothers of the men that are to be. "Roderick” he was startled by the sweet solemnity of her tone—“this seems a smaller thing than it is. Whether we accept these invitations or not, matters little; but it does matter a groat deal whether we begin our married life with truth, or untruth; whether we meet the world with an utterly false face, or else a sullen face, rejecting all its kindness. Why not with a perfectly honest face, saying openly, ‘We are poor; we know it, and it is i*»t pleasant: but it no disgrace; we are neither afraid nor ashair rd?’ ” “That might be all very weh ,h Utopia; but here? Did you ever knCF anybody who did it ?” “Yes; my father and mother did it. Yours ”

I Roderick hesitated. “Perhaps my fath- , er might, only ” They were both silent. “Think, dearest,” she continued; “it is a question not merely for to-day or tomorrow. but for all our lives.’* “God forbid!” ; I’he hasty mutter, the gloomy look—they went to his wife's heart, and he could see they did; but still she never shrunk. I, too. say ‘God forbid!’ for I know oven bettor than you do how hard poverty is. Oh, my Roderick! when I think of what I have cost you”—her voice faltered "of all you have lost through me!” । “Lost and gained.” “Nes, I will not lightly value myself, i nor underrate the woman you chose, who you thought would make you happy. And I Wil! make you happy, even if we are not rich.” ‘l’llo heart of her husband doth safely trust in her,'” said he, fondly. "But. come. this is nonsense, and quite beside the question. What is the question, by the bye? for I am getting rather confused, and” looking nt his watch "1 must be off tn my work. Oh, what a comfort work its! Don't you perceive that I have been twice as happy, and therefore twice as good, since I was at the mill?” She saw through the little loving ruse to save her pain; it made her feel doubly the pain she was giving -was obliged to ■ give. ‘Gou are always good" taking his hand and kissing it "ami inexpressibly । good to me, m> matter how great a burden I 1 am.” “The heaviest burden I ever had to I carry, and the sweetest. But that is ' neither here nor there" with a sudden ■ change to seriousness, the serious, almost ; sad look that sometimes came over him, showing how the youth had changed into a num. the man into a husband truly a husband house-band, the stay and sup port of the house. "Dear, we have elms en our lot; wo cannot alter it; we would not if wo could. It is not all bright; I know that; but wo must not make it darker than it is. We must not look back." "No.” "And for the future Then her strength seemed to come into her strength born of a “further looking l hope" than even he could take in. "It is of that future I think." she said. “We may be poor, as I said, all our lives. 1 hope not; but we may. Are we. and more than wo, to make life one long struggle and deceit, by 'keeping up tip pearnnees.' or are we to face the worst, ■ to appear exactly what we arc, and trust I the world to accept it its such? 1 be i j lieve it would at least the good half of . it. I'or the others, why need we < arc?" G< utiy as she spoke, it was with a eer tain resoluteness, and the hand which ! clasped her husband's felt firm ns steel. j "Dor me." she went on. laying her I hand on his shoulder, and creeping close to him. "1 am so protid^ both for myself , and you. that when these people invite ’ me, I believe they really want me mo i myself, and not my clothes or my ear I riage. And whin they come and sec me, , 1 tlatter myself it is really to visit me And if I liked them, awl 101 l them truly | my friends, I would go and see them. | and wish my husband to do the same, ! whether they were poor professors like outs at Neuchatel or your English dukes and duchesses.” "Even if they said to us, as I him seen ■ •ondescendingly aHix<d to church doors. ' C me in your working clothes,’ for 1 am Im. >wu a professot . 1 am a working I man." "Certainly; but something else ns well. Look in the glass; you don’t do it too of ton! could anybody mistake you for any j thing but n gentleman?" Roderick laughed, coloring a little. "My dove, you are growing a veritable serpent. Mistress Eve. you tempt your Adam on man’s weakest point vanity." . "No, you are proud, not vain. Do not be afraid; 1 see all your faults clear as light." "Thank you." "As you mine, I hope; because then we can try and cure both. Dear, we are like two little children sent to school together. We may have many a hard h sson to learn; but we will learn them together." He was silent. As she had said, tilings were harder for him than for her. She recognized this fully. You could have seen by her face that her heart bled for him, as people call it— that cruel “bleeding inside,” which natures like hers so well understand; but she did not compromise or yield one inch even to him. and he knew her well enough by this time to be quite certain she never would. A weak man might have resented this, have taken refuge in that foolish "I have said it. and I’ll stick to it,' or keep up that obstinate assertion of masterdom which usually springs from an inward terror of slavery; but Roderick was prone to neither of these absurdities. He had that truest strength which never fears to yield, if there is a rational need for I yielding. — ■■ ~ MniiVandGoAkhig but not a shadow of anger, "wlmt .i<> yon wish me to do?" “'Do richt and fear nocht,' a: your motto—our motto —says. That is all." “What is the right?" “The simple truth. Say it-and act it." “How?” "Let us tell our neighbors that we are not rich enough for what is called ‘society,’ but that we feel their kindness, and will accept it. whenever we can. Occasionally we will go and visit them— Symington, for instance, is quite within a walk; and when they visit us’’—she smiled "! hope I shall bo able to give them a little hospitality ', without need of a Caleb Balderstone.” “My darling!" . “Do not be afraid of mo” she kissed him with a slightly quivering lip. "1 may , be young and foolish, but 1 know how to . keep my husband’s dignity, and my own. i Now, shall I write the notes, or you?” s "sou, he said, and, plunging into a 1 favorite book, referred to the matter no ! more. . At supper time she laid before him , silently a little bundle of letters, which he . read, and then looked up with the brightest smile. , “What a comfort is a wife who can get ; one out of a d;lli<ulty! You have the prettiest way of putting things—French grace ; added to Scotch honesty. How do you ' manage it?” “I don’t know. I just say what I feel; . but I try to say it as pleasantly as I can. Why not?”

“Why not, indeed! Only so few do it.” Tie looked at her. sitting at the head of his table —young, indeed, but with a sweet matronly dignity, added to her wonderful crystalline simplicity looked at her with' all his heart in his eyes. “People say that though a man’s business success rests with himself, his social status depends upon his wife. 1 think, whether rich or poor. 1 may be quite sure of mine," A glad light ""MS in her eyes, but she made no answer', except just asking if the letters would do. “Yes. But, little law-giver. I seo you have accepted one invitation- the Symingtons'?” "You do not object? You like 1 them? And they will have a house full of pleasant people for Christina* Ladv Symington told me so. It is not go >d for man to be alone not even with his own wife, who is half himself, and therefore no variety. I cannot bear you to hide your light under a bushel.” “Always mo- nothing but mi'.” “It is always you it ought to be.*’ she i cried, with that rare passion less expressed than betrayed, "lot think so little of yourself that it is right some one should think for you. Everybody will bv-nnd-by.” We shall see. Once 1 had nmbiMons for myself." "Ami now I have ambitions for you. They can wait. We are young. We bide our time, (inly we’ll Lave nothing undone. We'll watch the turn of the tide.” "And meanwhile we’ll go to the Symingtons, said he, with a smile. "You see, I let you have your own w ty." , . ? ! " ' " '*■ ’oh think it is right way. And I may sonu iliese notes? You agree?” x "Yi's. But," half jesting, half earnest, “suppose 1 hail not agre< d, what then? There is a little word in our English mar- । riage service it was not in the Swiss one, I think ‘love, honor, and obey.’ ’’ | "The two former imply the latter: but j । if nn English wife does not love or honor, i ' must she obey ?" < "Would you obey?” Sileme paused a moment, nnd then nnswert'd softly, but very distinctly, ! "No. Neither God nor man could require ! it ot nn . One must both honor and love i the man thill om* obeys, or obediellee is ' impossible. If a wife sees her husband doing wrong she should try to prevent i him; if he tells her to do wrong she should refire, for higher than man. even though it bo one's own husband. Rodeti- k. you might 'cut me up in little pieces,' as the children say. but ’ not even you could make me do what I ' felt I ought imt to do, or hinder me from ; doing what I thought tvns right." “My little rebel! No," -miteldng her to his bosom, "my little < 'mis ■ ieme the! be t cm'seicnec n man can hnve a wife who is afraid of nothing ami nobody; not ‘ el i'll id himself." “And arc yon not angry with me?" “Angiy I" acs.> you spoke y<mr mind; j even though I thought one thing tu><! । । you another ns may happen many nnd I । many a titm- My dear' • did I n d tell | you once 1 wanted a wife, n >t a slave? i Time enough for you to turn slave when i ! I turn tyrant. 1 may like to rule most ' i men do; and it is fair they should if they ■ rule wisely, but I should despise myself I I if I attempted to tyrannize. Now, ki»« j mo. <mr disus-om is our. our quarrel ; i end' d." "Not a quarrel only n difTcreme of ' ■ opinion." "In which etch 1 olds his own ti'l «;'.t | Rin. torily convinced to th" contrary." 1 i “Or te' *■—“- - । Him tujm I Wisdom beyond botn iihaix .'... ” ’"fW- | baits the best lesson one learns in mar i i riage. Except one my husband!'’ And for tie • mid time he took ami j kissed his hand, not in humiliation es re--1 penfunee what bad she to repent id'. I Imt in that tender reierence. that entire ( ; trust w ithout which »»* edtcm.-c is n lie j tion ami love an impossibility. Tlfba, । censing to talk, he put her on the s (a. j w ith her wotk-talde be de 1 er. and j threw himself on the her.rth rug at ’sr ! i feet, t > "improte his mind." I said, r. A ; hers ?>y reading aloud. But. ns often ! happened now. he was so tired that all ! th're laudable intentions i .cd. He laid i his head against his wife's lap. and fell 1 fast asleep with the book in his hand. (To be continued.) Bor Sutisci iptivn. At the time of n passing rebellion in i I‘eland, known as Smith ( t'Brien's tlio region where Frances I‘ow er Cobin lived and worked among the poor was t:ausformed. as she says, into a small Hecla; not under snow but mud. clubs were used for the purpose of buytm. pikes, to in' rsed whenever the leaders at Dublin should call for an iusum-e---tion. The result was as harmless as the bursting of a bubble, but meantimt there had been real danger for all land ed proprietors, whose downfall had i been determined upon. < >ne incideni , related by Miss Cobbe showed her iu noeent participation in the rebellion She says: 1 was visiting the fever patients a Balisk. and was detained in the village quite late one ■ ummer evening. Si many were Hl th”' ic took a long tim* to supply th 'in w ith food and all tbnut* ’ ffMsßflrv M oi>” hou^ ’• HR e< । L, were ill. I leg and presmibinir. until üboiU_A n( । il l lot k. When 1 went away I R'ft*® ^ I cy to purchase the arlii les I hadj i -w riboq. Next morning my fathei|f I loom: 4 ' "So you wore in Balisk last "Yes. 1 was kept there.” “You stayed in Tyrell’s house until nine o'clock?” "Yes; how do you know?" “You gave six and sixpence to thy mother to get provisions?" “Yes; liow do you know?" "Well, very simply. The police wert watching the door, and saw you through it. As soon as you wi^'e gone the club assembled there. They were wailing for your departure. 1 he money you gave was subscribed to buy pikes; of course to pike me!" Tht' greater part of what we see when we look at Jupiter is probably a mass of more or less heated clouds, suspended around the hot core of the planet within a cloud ball, 5G,500 miles in diameter. Above Jupiter's equator the surface of those clouds is whirling along at the rate of more than 27,000 miles an hour, in consequence of the planet’s rapid rotation on its axis. Kate Field has been decorated by the French Government for her literary services.

WANT MORE SALARY. UNCLE SAM THREATENED WITH A diplomatic STRIKE. Antbnssmlors to Foreign Lands Musi Have Better Pay or Give Up Their JObs-Say They Are Annually Out of Pocket. — Money Upholds Dignity. Wellington correspondence:

IN n general way it has been understood for some time that our diplomatic service is not in a flourishing condition. Things have gone from bud jiaM to worse until now a Swa crisis has been reach»‘d in the affairs of the five ambassadors stationed in EuroiT^lt^pean capitals by the ^4s^ United States GovaTinrn ''pr** ^'l*lllllolll. 11 Py ——.Gresham Iris inti(F'j h'S mated to the PresiII II Pdent that the posili I' * tion of the ambassa-

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dors is smh ns to warrant immediate notion by Congress. Should no action be taken by that body it is ahno.-t ."rtain UHit < liftoti K. Bri<l o ur atuhnn iMadnr to Ktisiin, and l ii'odore Runyon, who holds tiio same post in Germany, u"Wil! r. ogu. Then' has !> en cirenlated a *tatoment to thgeii- t that Mr. Breckinridge Ims nhiady inmnmetd his intention o> abandoning his post. That statement, however, is pr'mature. j The whole trouble is the result of tin' I long-standing salary grievan e. As evoryi body knows, our nmb tssaders receive a i very inadequate stipmd. Their salary i is > 17..*>(.(» n year ea h. Imt SaiUMlO is pronounced barely sutfuient to maintain the dignity of the position. Mr. Runyon ; iu Giimanx and Mr. Eustis in Erame i have, even with the exercise of the closest , ecoimmy, spent twice their res|H'ctive snlari' a nnd more in expenst s connected with the posts they till. These details will surprise no one. But it will be now s to nnmmme that the :imba-<adors have held two conferem . s abroad, one in Lonj don ami another in Puris, for the purpose of making unanimous represenfa- । tion tn the State Department tiint their tutefuh ess is almost nominal. (In his way to St, Petersleirg Mr. Breckinridge 1 saw both Mr. Runyon nnd Mr. Eustis. Mr. Breckinridge hml heard that his e.xj peases in Europe would be very In avy ; far more than hi' salary. A < lie is a man i of very moderate means he felt the ue-ci-ssjfy of gening their advice. He ex pres - I his teelings with candor w hen he j was informed of the humiliating straits ■to which his fellow diplomats ware re- i dneed. Then it was that a pri-maturo ! rumor of the i • sign itmn of the ambassador to Rii'-m was ■ q. nlated. A Ph u for the Strikers. Meanwhile, lionet , r. Thomas F. Baj nrd. timbn-sador to the court oi St James, had turn in the I Hifed Stale' and one of | the express objects of his visits here was to impress upon the Slate Dipartment the manner in which onr । Hi. nal d^ , ; (y is heiug •'*'" T ' ,r - ♦"S Dir 'e •'m I ere:e . s with the * retary of State on the subject of am ♦ bassidorial snlnries. Mr Greshnm. dur- ! ii g t’,. • ■ mt- rtiews, had "ppm'tnr.ity to ' rend letters from Wayne Miu V. ;mh, Mr. Eustis and Mr. Runyon, nil setting forth | the fact that their positions were little short of ridi ulo is. Their own w ish had ’ been to resign, but us the demi Mon. to i । sea diplomatic term, of nil our umbassnj dors nt om-e might create nn unpleasnnt | irapn • <ion. it was deemed best that the retirement should take place nt intervals j of a few months. As nn illustration of the position in wbi h onr ambassadors are pla ‘ ‘d, the following itemized statement of Mr. Eustis' expenses is interesting: House rent in Paris, per year. . . .$12,000 Ambassador's «s»nch and livery.. S.(MX) : Diplomatic dinners and entertainments 3,000 ( One b ill per annum. 2,(MH) Entertaining American naval officers 2,0<>0 Attending state department functions 1.000 i Official presentations 2JHK) T >tal $27,000 In reality, however, Mr. Eustis has spent a g . >d deal more than .$27,000 a j year .since he went to Paris. He is out of pocket about sso.<Mhi as a result of be- । iug American ainba« idor to Franco. It j might be observed that Mr. Eustis has ; chosen n rather exp<msiv" house. But I were ho to go out of the I xpi'U'ive quar- ; ter of Paris his usefulness as a dipbmmt would be gone. And house rent in fash- > ionbb' Paris is high. The ambassadorial conch is also a ne " ssity, and the entertaining must be kept up or the diplcmat will lose caste. Were Mr. Eustis, for example, to decline an invitation to a state function or a minister's entertainment it would be deemed a grave breach ot etiquette. Were the offense repeated the I minister would find himself without influ ’ once, and migiit even be reported to ■ Washington ns persona non gryila. Hav- ■ ing om i accepted the courtesies, he is I bound to reciprocate them. Al list Go the Royal Pace. In the holiday and vacation season his I post is oven more trying. He must go ; wii. ic tn.- powers go. He is obliged to | lease o chateau, or, at the humblest, a villa. 1 here .are always American interests needing the support of an amb'issador at a foreign power. Were the social side of diidomatie life neglected, American interests would be deprived of all protection. A conspicuous instance of this is the manner in which American beef and hams were allowed entry into Germany for years in spite of domestic agitation, solely owing to the personal i influence of our minister to Berlin. The other ambassadors are in an equally sorry plight. Mr. Bayard is out, so far, about $25,000 on his-!nission. Mr. MacVeagh si>ent $20,000 in Rome during the first three months of his stay. The money question has reached a crisis owing to the recent elevation of our ministers to the capitals of Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Russia, to the rank of ambassadors. When we had ministers only the situation was bad enough, but now it lias become w 'll nigh intolerable. At the same time our ambassadors have urged their claims with great moderation. It’is well known to them all that the adniiuistration concurs fully in their view of the matter, but Secretary Gresham made a personal plea to Mr. Bayard to use his influence with his colleagues in Europe to remain patient until the time

whon their situation can bo rm do known to Congress. This Mr. Bityard has already dene, for on his arrival in London ho sent letters, which he had previously written in this country and shown to his official superior, in which the hope of amendment of their situation was held out. At the pro-ent time Mr. Gresham has received communieations from the ambas- , sators sitting forth that their positions are absolutely untenable. At their < onloieneo, the Ameri-m diplomats agreed ” representation to the State Department that, in tlmir opinion, it would •e ndvmablo in the interests of our n - , ot om foreign "stablishments to its for- ' $100<')0 .J J 1 '’ 8 " OUkl Sav ?‘ eaeh '^l’len’at 'r ' 11 Jeai, since a minister is saved eoneh expenses ami the st of ontmlain- ( mg other ambassadors. Unfortumitoly however, such a proceeding would leave the ambassadors from the live forebm powers in Washington in a very undignilied position. Their governments wouhl undoubtedly recall them and the enten'e cordiale would be jeopardized. PERIER IS OUT. The Presdilent of France Suddenly kesigim His High Office. : M. Casimir-I’erier, President of the b fetich Republic, has resigned his office. I'rime Minister Dupuy imparted President <'asimif-l’erier's decision to the Presidents of the Senate and Ulmmber ;ot Homilies who Will forthwith call ’-Hi-. When 11 no tn boeaine known con .1 amonntina utmost to Htiqmr. seized evi>ryone. There had been ominous liliitn in the press in the recent days that M. Cas-imir-lTrier was growing tired of his position, yet nobody paid any attention to them. The high character, experience, firmness, and integrity of the President inspirit] the confidence of even the advanced Republicans. The long conference which M. CasimirPerier had with M. (Tiallemet Lacour, President of the Senate, is now explained. He had :i!ri ady resolved to resign. M. < imllenb t Lacimr employed his utmost eloqueme in a vain en.deavor to persuade \ the I’resident to reconsider his decision (1 VS- ( f kM I M. < V't-Mllt-ri ItIEU. and quit led the palace of the Elysee under .a •ims" "* deep distress. All the mem- i b<rs <>f th" labinet. fi nn Prime Minister Dtipui down, followed Uhallemet-La-eoiir nnd exhau Jed every argument to ndm e Casimir Perier not to resign. 1 h"if eftorts were without success. l) u - i puy again visited the pntn.s. of tha Elysee later iu the evening and was closeted with the President for forty five minutes urging every possible inducement and appt Ming to every patriotic sentiment in order to get him t" insider his deterrnimiti'U. All was without avail. After mb r ,1 v. a of the prefect of the Seine and the prefect of police with M. Casimir lb -r, they received from Dupuy in;■!rii'-'. toil's to be followed during tho er: The report of the resignation of tl •• Prc-Mi nt b came generally known at 11 o'clock, but was universally discredited. and a general movement was made toward the newspaper offices with a view to learning the truth. Soon the papers exhibited lantern transparencies of the official note. Even then many pi rsotis refused to believe that the event was positive. I'inally they became coni inee l that the President had really retired and assembled in groups, discussing the chances of those who would be named to succeed him. AGAINST JUDGE RICKS. Committee Votes to Impeach —May B Tried Before the Senate. Washington dispatch: Congress war given a decided surprise Tuesday by the House Committee on the Judiciary, which decided by a vote of 7 to G to report a resolution for the impemjiment of Judge Augustus J. Ricks of ( 'leveland for malfeasance in otliee. Not for many years has a United States Judge been called before the bar of the Senate to defend his right to wear the ermine of office against criminal charges, and only three or four ’ times in the history of the government : has an impeachment trial of a member , of the Federal judiciary been conducted. Few members had looked into the charges preferred by tin- Central Labor Union of Cleveland, the aeeu.se>- us Judge Ricks, that while sitting on the bench ho paid to himself fees which he claimed lie ! had previously earned ns clerk of the ! court, and to which it is now asserted lie was not entitled. The number of years which have elapsed since the transaction and the contention of the Judge's friends that the proceedings were inspired by a : ruling prejudicial to the interests of l.i- --। bor unions which ho made recently, temlI cd to lessen the interest which ordinarily | would have been taken in the case. Now that the Judiciary Committee his 1 deemed the matter of sufficient gravity j to warrant impeachment, it has become, suddenly a decided sensation. The friends ■ of Judge Ricks declare that there are ; large possibilities that the impeachment may not be undertaken. Hundreds of prospectors are swarming into the 'Wichita mountains in the Kiowa and Comanche Indian Reservation, caused by the discovery of rich deposits of , gold and silver. Troops have been order- i | ed from Fort Reno to eject them and serious trouble is looked for. A strong wind blew over the false work of a new bridge being erected over the Monongahela River at Homestead, Pa., and a number of workmen were dashed to the ground, a distance of thirty feet. | One man was killed and several badly bruised. After balloting nearly two days the Arkansas House, til Little Rock, elected John 0. Colquitt Speaker. j

FIRE INTO” THE MOB. TROOPS USE THEIR GUNS ON BROOKLYN STRIKERS. Bay of Riot and Bloodshed-Seven Thousand Soldiers anil the Entire Police Force Fail to Cope with tho Street Car Strikers. Strike May Spread. N io!-nee and bloodshed marked the eighth day of the electric street railway operiitives strike in Brooklyn. Three militiamen are in hospitals with broken heads, two having sufi'ered al I) e hands of riotous men and women, white the other was the victim of his „wn carelessness, lasing fallen out of a second-story window. A sem-e or more of policemen are sutiering irom bullet wounds or contusions of the head and body, disabling 1l)em tor the time being. To wlmt extent the strikers have suffered cannot be conjeetured. Il they escaped puuishmeut it. was not the fault of the militiamen, who, in accordance with orders, tired as direet’ ly at their assailants as a dense fog, which completely hid objects at thirty yards’ distance, would permit The strike is not ended and order is not restored. Seven thousand national guardsmen 11ml I..MM) or I.GINI p >li< emen wore not oil Monday strong enough to make the resumption of tho street railway traffic in ; "A”'" ’ii'ili’e. In fact, says a ; sear, ely p.' L .^aiih.".' a ..‘ol!."' '.',',',? I the First Brigade, composed of New Yoi-u City regiments, has seemed rather to mid to the tension than to bring a solution of | the difficulties. The task of restoring I peace and order along m arly 200 miles of street ear line is a vast one. The new i levy numbered not far from 4.000 men. j The.v ivero moved across the great bridge ! early in the day. The various eompaii ; es j W'nt l>y elevated trains whenever it was j possible to the points to which they had | been ordered. Generally speaking, the greetings they met with on the streets . were far from friendly. Boys guyed and mi'll jeered them as they passed through I the sections inhabited by laboring people. The elements which early in the day were suspicious soon took on an unfriend- ■ ly aspect. A Scotch mist settled down on i all tho city, increasing in density as the 1 evening approached, and added 1o the dif- । lienlties which attended the carrying out I of the announced intention of the street i car companies to run ears upon lines not > operated since the strike was declared, i Such attempts in this direction as were । made were futile. A car started from the | Ridgewood station of the Brooklyn Heights Company a little after 5 o’clock [ and was assailed with volleys of stones' ■ and bricks from windows and vacant lots ; before it had proceeded far on its w ty ! down town. A private soldier was struck I in the head with a. stone and disabled. The officer in eommaiid ordered his men to shoot, and two volleys were fired in the direction of the rioters, who, howeve”, were iiiddei: by the dense fog. About 250 bullets were sent in search of victims, but tow many of them found human targets | "tnnot at present be determined. The i militiamen’s orders wore if they shot it would be to kill. Policemen also did same ' shooting at this point, with what effect is , as uncertain as in the case of Ihe militi.i---1 men. It is ascertained by the militia ■ officers that they only ordered the volley I wlien the violence of the mob made it nec- ; vssary to do so. EUROPEAN GRAIN CROPS. JI utercsting Stat i.-.tics Gathered by the Agt icultural Department. Grain statistics of foreign countries for tli,' past year are gives in a report issn"d by the Agricultural 1 ’artment. In i Eur'scean Russia the estimated outpit for IS!H is as follows: Rye, S2Ls34.!i<> I IntiMels; wheat. 252.G42.040; oats, GS7.s7<;.:;OS: barley, 15G,715,218; buckwheat, 4:;.:>()!i,Gst». The produetion of Great Britain is estimated as follows: Wheat area L'.*27,!)G2 acres and production "1,-O-'17,!>2“ Winchester bushels; barley, 2.0!’"i.771 acres and 74.553,807 bushels, and <>ats, H. 25::. 10l acres and 1’19.7."2.723 bushels. In France the output was in round numb r-; 34.3.350,000 bushels of w lent, 7G,5G0.(WK1 of rye, 5G,550,000 of birley and 278,9”5.ii(X) of oats. Die ■ wheat product for the year in Germany aggregated over 12G.400.000 bushels; winter sp"lt. 33.3.">(>.<>c‘I; rye. 32G.G33.j .mm»: spring barley. 130.000.000; oats. 452,( 100.000; pota'oes. 1.239,704, ami meadow hay, 22,298,509 lons. The Roumanian Government estimates the principal crop of wheat 43.554.000 bushels, rye 5.7<i i.ooo. barley 1G,9(>G.000, and oa's. Io.019.01(0. In Italy wheat aggregat"! almost 123.000.000 imshels. oats almost 1 (i.t H JO.OOO. barley over 8.000.000, maize 54.7G3.000, and rye almost 15.000.0'10. Wheat exports from the .Argentine Republic for the first seven months of 'he year aggregated G 75.573 tons. In Ontario wheat aggregated over 20.500.000, barley 11.300,(1(10, oats over 72.000.000. potatoes 17.000.000. and peas 14.400.000 Winchester bushels. Manitoba produced 1 i.700.00i> Wim hester Imshels of wheat, 12.200.0n0 of nnd 19,900.000 of potatoes and other root crops. Ri ports from European agents of the department show that there is a nore hopeful feeling in the grain markets of England and th:it the farmers there are expecting better prices. Ln Soutliern England great floods have overrun large expanses of arable land and have limited simiewliat the are:! intended to be devoted to winter wheat The development ol winter seedings of crops in France is rapid, and the condition of next year’s । mop is generally reported as highly favorable. Execs-; rain has proved unfavorable to seeding operations in the north of Italy, and in Romnania the wheat area is considerably reduced. In Germany mil l weather has made the development of plants unnsnally rapid, and the sowings : in Spain are reported by telegraph as compieted under. favorable conditions. The extreme wet lias compelled a large number ol farmers in Belgium to postpone sow ing until very late. The Commercial Union Assurance Company has withdrawn from the San Fram-iseo insurance compact and announces it will write policies independent of the combine with the privilege of cutting rates it it so desires. Other companies are expected to take the same attitude. The six SIO,OOO damage suits filed aga nst the Alexandria Natural Gas Company as a result of the gas explosion which occurred at Elwood, Ind., last Man h are to come up for trial in Tipton County before Judge Kirkpatrick.