St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 22, Number 6, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 29 August 1896 — Page 7

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o^B® CHAPTER XVII— (Continued.) But it became necessary soon to think of sublunary matters. ^liss Mowbray, liappily, was unhurt; but by this time, no doubt, the tidings of her accident, or at any rate of her runaway steed and Ins fair rider having been lost to sight in the dense mist, mast have reached Thorsdale, «nd given ground for no unreasonable alarms. They set forth, therefore, Don insisting that Miss Mowbray—his X iolet, as he was never weary of calling her— ; should lean on his arm as she walked beside him. Presently Thorsdale was approached. The court yard of the mansion was reached, that lighted yard where horses were being saddled and carriages got ready by the glare of lanterns, and where already ; a number of outdoor servants and hang-•ers-on had assembled, and were waiting for orders. Violet's arrival under Don's charge oc- 1 easioned a great relief to many minds, i and put an end to the wild conjectures which were emrent as to her fate. A strange sight it was as the crowd, the lights, and the clamor all converged toward where the young girl stood, pale 1 and lovely, with disheveled hair, leaning -on the arm of the young man, handsome end graceful enough to have been a prince of romance. A fair young couple ! they looked as for a moment they stood then* side by side. Sir Richard Mortmain’s brow darkened as be saw by whom it was that Violet was escorted. He stepped forward, but before he had time to speak, the joyful news had spread from lip to lip, and kindly, rubicund Lord Dil; vid Todhunter came hurrying up, with .almost the air of a guardian. “My dear young lady, welcome back!” tie exclaimed. "Bless my soul! what a marvelous escape! and what a fright you have given us! So this gentleman found you? I am sire we are much obliges! to him. And you are not hurt? That's nice. Please to take my arm and come this way. for five countess is very anxious •and distressed, and no wonder.” So Violet was hurried into the house, with short space for leave-taking; and Don, having 1 .given as brief an account as he could of ; the circumstances of his meeting with Miss Mowbra.,, withdrew himself as •early as possible from the noise and comments of the crowd. CHAI’TEK.WIH. “Sir Richard's room to be fitted up." said the chief housemaid. The room which was assigned at Thorsdale Park to •Sir Richard Mortmain was just then va cant. The Countess of Thorsdale was too .great a lady to occupy herself personally with such matters as the infpeetimi of an expected visitor’s room, but then she .put great faith in the taste of her clever foreign maid. Mademoiselle Glitka. She was herself worthy of notice, this Mademoiselle Glitka. Young she was ■though probably she looked three or four years older than an English girl of her age would have done. Handsome sh ■ was, though of a swarthy pallor of complexion, and with a thin face and well-cut, mobile features. She had raven-haired black hair, very thick and long, and wound tightly round her small, well-p.ds •cd head. Her figure was slight ami nc five. But her eyes were her great attraction—eyes that spoke, eyes that Hashed, ■dark, expressive and at times terrible. Just then Mademoiselle Glitka was in -Sir Richard Mortmain’s room not tin worst by any means of the many bedrooms at Thorsdale Park - ami was al . Having satisfied herself that she was imt the subject of scrutiny, she made haste to institute a special search everywhere Mademoiselle's pliant lingers explore 1 every pocket as deftly as those of a member of the Paris detective police could .possibly have done. But she found nothing, only a photograph of Mrs. Scoreslq pink scented, three-cornered i. te fr. :n Eady Paget, asking “Dear Sir Richard" whether Tomahawk was really sure t > win the St. Leger before she pat b- r money on at the long odds. Then, at last, in a drawer she found a letter of another sort*. Here it is: “Dear Sir 11. Mortmain, Baronet: I am getting so sick of this worn-out old conn- ■ try that unless you soon force on the trump card I have put into your hand 1 «hall have to play mine, and blow the whole concern sky-high. .Mind there’s no J mistake about want I have to sell. The seventy thousand pounds go surely : > Miss V , and, if she marn. s will.■mt settlements, to her husband, as her name is Violet Mowbray. You, Sir R., are not the man 1 take you for if you cannot get a ‘Yes’ out of a country-bred young thing like that. 1 need hardly say, don’t spoil your own game and mine by hinting to our innocent what a fortune goes with her nt the altar. Y'ou are quite tit to hold your tongue when there’s money to be lost by speaking. But remember that I am weary of waiting, and shall have, if you ■ shilly-shally, to clap the other screw on; mid remember, too. that there must lie a fair share of the swag, as we say in Australia —where I wish I was again for your old pal, RLE! S < RO I CH.’ Glitka’s eyes glowed, darken.-1, glittered, as she perused this epistle. She : spoke English, perhaps, better than she read it, but she had good brains and a vivid imagination, and could fill up the gaps with some approximation to the truth. First, she folded the letter and ■thrust it into her pocket. 1 hen, resisting the momentary impulse, she snatched it -out again, and taking up the writing materials that lay on a side table near, sue made a rapid but accurate copy of the contents of the epistle. “I have him now!” she hissed out between her shut teeth; "I have him, hard and fast! He is in Glitka’s hands now!" And to judge by the tightening of her lithe, dark fingers, it might have been dangerous to be delivered over to the handling of tiger-footed, bright-eyed Glitka. “He is expected at once,” she said,

presently, and slipped away. About noon Sir Richard Mortmain drove up to Thorsdale Park, and went at once to his room. Scarcely had he reached it Indore there came a light tap at the door, and Mademoiselle Glitka gliding in, and shutting the door, stood before him. “I have to speak to you. Milord Sir Richard,” said the girl, looking Sir Richard Mortmain very steadily in the face. “Indeed, have you? From my sister, perhaps?” asked the baronet, irresolutely, but with some annoyance. "No, but from myself,” answered Glitka, opening her eyes as a she-panther might have opened hers ere she showed her white fangs and sprung on her prey. "You are a lord, it seems. lam Mil.uh s very humble servant, to obey her bell, t > study her caprice. And you are a seigneur. Yet, traitor, craven, dissembler, is not this ring”—and she showed him on her finger a golden hoop set with small blue stones -"the betrothal ring you put on my finger at Arad? and are you not my promised husband, if there In* faith in old customs or the troth plight of man?” “Upon my word, Glitka,” answered the baronet in deprecatory tones, “1 hope 1 you had forgotten or learned to take a : more reasonable view of anything that I was said in far-off Hungary between you ami me. How could I be expected to un- ■ derstand your ancient customs, and to be bound by what seems binding to you? XX e ■ liked each other, 1 dare say. but 1 was a mere traveler, a mere bird of passage." j "Yet, lam as noble as yourself!” fiercely retorted Glitka. “We are nil noble - except a few Slavs, like the glazier an I the smith—in our village; first as free : Magyars, then as being ennobled by the empress hundreds of years ago. And 1 can remember sisdng my grandsire show J you, the English stranger, with honest pride, the grand parchment with the gV 1 and color, and the great seal, of the pnper from Imperial V iennn that ma le his : i grandsire a baron. My father, too, ha 1 the rank of baron. 1. too, am Baroness Glitka, servant ns I am, and Mademoiselle ns they call me." “Glitka,” answered the baronet, in sheer despair, “you, with your Impassioned mi tore and your reliance on old usages, scarcely can do justi'-e ; > a u«. 1 -up, out-at-elbows gentleman like mys. If. I nm j jin debt, poor and worried. There are : times when to put a pistol tn my head to blow my brains out appears the o- ’y I natural result of my position. 1 only I wish you uouid keep quiet, ami h ave : to battle with my creditors as la st I may.” "Hear you. Sir R ■! I'M," her la-tv ship’s confidential nil! 1. with bitter cm pbasic "A woman wbolii* I'iw-I ■ hurts the man who ha- left h. r. im • s Ite makes the pain more thou su < > benr. So shall it '. e now. I . m,• -i. ; ■ . England. and Iss-ame a Miuut. m* that I might meet yon thin r r am cause. The old home ■, b: •., >up My uncle’s farm it was his u ben th- -yi- 1 father died has p : sed in: • • h • the Hebrew mom-v lender, who bad b ■ the money on moricage. mid G! , i • j her brothers earn their br. t ! an they ma ' But little as you d.. mmy o - \ • 1i true, I have n Imid on } m. pr ; 1 s ■ R ard, that you can r. > mare shak od • a , a strayed lamb can m t fr-* f; -m the u • ’f of the woods or flic sn >k of th.- f. Marry M: • \ her thousands, and see hYu comes <.f itl" She courti -icd. aad est h.... UHAPTER XIX The picnic, on a grand send f - (Ungs | were liberally done nt I'lmr-' i-1 i took place, and it was fax d by the wt at her. A pi< id - givi ■1 v 11 i -■ I dale, ami planmsl by h.s wife. wa> s . ■ to !e on a large nn l lavish - il -. "Spend ami spar-- n •■!"<•. ■ 1 ‘ 1 ' pith of the countess’ din eti-: . to Mr Sharpe, tlie -■ :. 'w' • s said to h r br -ther Sir 11 1' ' thing that was scarce and dear tin 1 d im ; ty. edible ami potable, was eot.jun I down । from tiie metropolitan market, nnd fr .assistant cooks and couth tioners were sent for. ju-t as were tlm Uov. .■ Gar b . fruit and sala Is and the i e. There would I be goad music ns well ns good viands. I since a fine band under the guidance of i a renowned bandmaster had been engag- ; e<l, ami would l>e stationed in im :~1«. as I it were, in an impromptu orchestra at the corner of a leafy grove. In long array carriages swept d -wn the winding road, nnd the gm-m gathered in force, while the attentive servant’, i apd those auxiliaries engaged for the nonce, who could scarcely be called «er- • vnnt«. but rather exports in t’ e T - ’ ■ tions i>f course, am ng tie k - I gvpsy fires were lighted. They add. ! 1 the pict'aresqueuess of the >• - ne. an i were supposed to be necessary f >r the cooking of the fish, ami the boiling ■>< m - : vegetables, and the making of the tea and ' coffee. The open air feast t< - k place, tae I popping of the corks, the clatter of knives ! and forks, and the clink of glasses blend- ■ ing not unpleasantly with the ir.-' . ■ strains from the band. 1.-ctd-r ami bm 1- ' cr swelled the music, and in the intervals i between the tunes the laughter ami noise l of conversation was in itself enough to I prove the thing a success. Presently the dinner over, and the । wearied musicians having hushed their I instruments, for the sake of rest ami rcI freshment, there was a general move, lit least among the junior guests. Light-cob | ored dressed fluttered gayly, like so many , tropical butterflies, among the willow ; trees that bordered the banks of the shigI gish stream, and the pleasant sound of | girlish laughter and of young voices tloat- . cd on the breeze. Violet Mowbray never knew afterward I how it came about that she found herself ! alone, as it were, with Sir Richard MortI main in the garden of the inn. She had I been standing in front of a bed of the j sweet, queer old roses, not very far from I a hedge of clipped holly. There was no I one to be seen except Sir Richard himI self. “I have been watching for this op- ; portunity, Miss Mowbray,” he said, ! gravely. “I have something- to say to I you that must be said.”

“Something to say to me. Sir Richard? Violet Mowbray falteringly replied; or course she knew of what he meant « SP "xes, I must speak,” resumed Sir Richard. “Yon must have seen, you canno have failed to observe, how very dear you have become to me; how, as if drawn by a power which I cannot but obey, 1 ** stinctively seek your company; how attentive 1 am to the lightest word that falls from those fair lips; how eager to anticipate your wishes, how anxious o conciliate your good opinion. H’‘ v .® been quite unsuccessful in doing this. 1 hope not —fervently I hope not. Do you not like me a little bit, as a friend? be added, trying to take her hand. But Violet withdrew her hand. Me trembled, but her voice was steady as she replied, "As a friend, Sir Richard, you have, I am sure, always been regarded by every one nt Woodburn ever since we first saw you.” “You dear little hypocrite!” ho exclaimed, energetieal!y, "do you think 1 mix you up in my thoughts with excellent Mr. Langton and his charming household? If 1 have been a freqsient visitor at Woodburn, have you not guessed what was the magnet that drew me there? How I love you, Violet darling, words are too weak to tell; but perhaps a life's devotion would be the best proof of my sincerity. Be my wife, dear. Mak ■ me happy; and let me Weh-ome in the old halls of Mortmain the sweetest, noblest young bride that ever a husband yet brought to reign there! It was all mere acting. Even the trembling of the man's voice was a clever stage trick. The baronet talked of welcoming his youthful bride to the grand old hnlls of Mortmain, he well knew in his inmost soul that the use he designed to make of Violet's seventy thousand pounds was not to set up expensive housekeeping in the mansion of his nmvstors. violet, with new found courage, drew her hand buck from his grasp. "It cannot bi* as you wish. Sir Richard,” she said, very gently, but very firmly. The man of the world bit his lip. "You mean, Miss Mowbray, that you cannot do me -a high an honor ns to consent to be my wife?" demanded the baronet, with a sort of haughty surprise. "1 cannot agree to In* your wife, Su Richard; but 1 had no wish to give you ■ pain or to annoy you by the manner of my i refusal,” returned V edet, gently, and ■ looking aside. "And 1 say," passionately retorted the j master of Mortmain, "that 1 will not, as • the saying is, take 'Xu' f r an answer; : that 1 will not desist from my suit until I you accept me.” "You must spire m<* U nnsw.ri'-l ! Violet, "s;: 1 -V e I". Sr R chard, I my reply will twver be different from that j which I have made to you to-day.” “Is It p ssiblc," ask. I tie bar>*nct. in a ch.mg 1 voi<e, th.i- qnivv- I with anI g‘-r. “that I am son stal’ I?” Sl.e II : he I Ind gmint crinomn. an t turned away, but she d-d ft >t tell him that ;be had no r gist my - ’> q ies-i -n. "A 1 who tiinj tl • f rtu:- He >w :;n Is?, I wonder?" he br he o u, fu. . -nsly, “S beggarly rirote. I snpp. or ; • rhvps a da? ■ i!• <. ;n th -l» > o t* xh Batik. 1■ . '-t hn |. I -f t’ w ’ it i: is -.'■ rto ' e f>r a . ft ud than f>r an > w niy!" He ab«o- --। hit«!v hi-'- J out th«- !a»t word*, with an "L m- me. pray h a/- u. ’" .-v UmM I. .•» F .r- I» - ~ «. j >*' Gwt/ cn- I terl g the aha !y yar b *>f t m inn Withit y » n n \ ~•< hurri I<ff ! - f• t *ll *ft’ fur W ..-re. Xi ht, d. ir." »> 1 I • -•- ? Mrs \ bah-f I n.|m.n r. X- i! •r of tb«> . s m ! Hm-.ganan face of Ma ! ;i. - ho G! -k.a. ■ r< .ei : u : ■ \ ■ 'h Htiincil by n '-ti ikc, a .* s; -y of R| l: - •if te<ed near L s Ang-h , n:ly, te tin; ti tiil.i.rs. esc li.is ,*e. u but , life, li.s ti.i .iit g w.s l of ,i ini'- . clrnnlc. IL U :: : i .. m •’ with hands alone, but one wh » work • h : both hand and brain. Wi en U. s i Grant was running t. r I'n tout, years I ago. there was a lug political cMebrat.on la Üba ago. Grant was there, and , Reese rode in Ills carriage as a n prei scntatlve of the laboring classes, pro- ■ . .-new . ~1 ti. .s, 1. A- last he vbtallied a place in .me of the great shoj^s at Hom.-■-ad. Fa. Eventually he rose to be foreman, with a salary o f SSioi a year. Tcop eame the gr at Honostead s;rike. which brought ruin ! and de.rh ms . : . ; any i :. lb ■ v, as i infected with the labor doctrines then prevailing. \\ hen the struggle was oxer Reese was a ruined man. His i place was lost, and a reputation estab- ; lislmd as a man who could not be reI lied on in a strike. Re.-se < anie to Ualif >rnia. H? came I to L"S Angeles some months ago. exI pe.-ting t<> obtain a position as foreman of the rolling-mill. Thore was some liiteh, and in cons< quem-o Reese olitained only a subordinate position. lio was not content with this. There was a dispute, and Reese's connection with the mill ended. Reese got very poor, indeed, and poverty drove him to crime. He put his skill as a mechanic to the evil use of making bogus money. He declares he has been engaged in the nefarious business but a few months, meaning to save enough money to buy a little home for himself and to get another start. That accomplished, he had vowed to live an honest life again.—Los Angeles Times.

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A New Weed Peat. * UlUbling mustard is a troublesome Weed in the Canadian Northwest provlne**i. and has recently been reported from nine different localities in the United States, mostly on waste lands and city lots. Its record in Canada, and the rapidity with which it has already spread in some places in the I nlted States, necessitate prompt action if its further progress is to be checked. The weed Is found throughout the greater part of Europe, northern Africa and western Asia. Temper- - V fi J . ' * I ■ / tv vm.txo mi <«ta un • tore ami moisture have not yet limited y* range, and there is every reason to suppose that If left unchecked it will dispute the pos of land with daisies thistles nnd other foul growth. This pest is a bl» nn!al. aft-r gcmdnatlno resembling dandelion or ah< yh« rd * pur*c \ •mall part of a rfbwenng branch te shown at d. Th. low< r par; of the stem numerous leave# ?, to Id 1m ho# : g and 1 to inches wide, shown at b. The nearly I white bl*»**«'m«. shown at c. appear ti ftmall cluster* at the ends of branches S. od te usually Intr-due^! in buh l Lay. poorly <i-\m I»• u k can or •Weeping* from grain <~nn« Tin timothy S^- I grower* Os our XV. stern a h I J I tlx liin*! at fn-’pH nt hitor To l’r went > % A plank -u k » ! th*' < -Htnab.i In m '■' -1 arm a »It. i- * & lit v. H ail tin* Wiilh tuft* Hl tbv s »il : I t tallied If 'p’** alblc* Ordinary cak.va-in^ In'inw: I fafe t > tiie aciiuD of the sun nod air ‘ r dges, while having the land ligh nnd porous. An Ohio farmer advise; rounding the ed-grs of the pl ink slight I*l. A'K DRAG ATI A HM- XT. ly. from end to end, so as m t to dis turb the earth deeply near the plan rows. Our Illustration snows an eas way of attaching tne plank. Thrcshini: Pausp Grain. It is quite likely that much grain wi I e threshed while damp this y nr. a wet weather in harvest time caused i ;> be got in before fully dry. In nr s cases tiie grain will take less harm ii the bundle than out of it, says "Amer can Cultivator." So long as grain wa ihreshed by hand, there was no dang - of the work being done while eithe straw <>r grain were damp. It made th work too hard, and the threshing wa always reserved for cold weather, ai ter frost had thoroughly dried out hot’ straw and grain. When horse powe threshing machines came into usi there was nearly as much care in hav ing the grain in good condition so threshing. We have seen the threshe stalled when tiie grain came too fast o too damp. In the large steam thresh , ers the bundles go through all right, bn if damp, more or less of the grain goe into the stack. The evil of threshim damp grain is not confined to the los

1 waste. What is put in the granary is much more likely to heat and become musty than it is if the grain has been thoroughly dried in the straw. Feed Corn. 1 he practice is common among farm-

eis, even among those the most ail- , vanced, to select seed from the body J of the ear. and to discard the small ( grains that grow on the tips and butts 1 of the ears. They do so from the con- i viction that like produces like, and 1 the stronger plants should lie obtained from the larger grains. If, however, ! such a practice were persevered in irom year to year, it would result in 1 the production of ears with few grains of corn on the tips or none at all, for * lae distance of a full inch from the end • of the ear. It has been ascertained from experiment that corn produced from the butt brains comes first in tassel; that from the body grains tassels next, and corn from the tip grains last of all. The difference between the periods of tasseling will average a week or ten days. This is nature's method of providing an abundance of pollen, to complete the fertilization of all the grains on the ear. It may not be wise to plant all the small grains from the tips of the ears, as there would then be M danger that the corn would be too thick. This ilitlicnlty may be obviated ,y running the seed through a sieve. . with meshes of suitable size, after the j corn has been shelled. l.an<l Measure. 7 92-100 Inches. I link; 100 links, 1 chain; 1 chain Is feet or 1 rods; 1 r.«l is IfO-j feet; U’>o square rods is 1 a re. or 2«>s feet S'-y inches square te me acre; ("..-.t t square feet is 1 acre; I IM) squ ire yards is I acre; s'.i chains make 1 mile; .'520 rods make 1 mile; l.“'’O yards make 1 mile; 5.280 feet ake 1 mile; om half mile square con- . ns 100 a< re-; 1 miles square con'alns 2.550 ncres; 5 acres of land measur s l>'d fee; St t inches square; 10 i r. s of land nu-asures ot‘>o feet square; 1.5 acres of land im asur < *•■*■; feet 1 in lies square; 30 acres of land measurcs !‘"3 feet 4% in lies square; 25 ‘ aerts of land measures 1,05 t» feet : — .. (ii 11» v»t it» !• ncc«! Gnrdcn. r Sor ek< hen gardens must be fene.t i. or <!• nru ti«m from straying cattle c will follow It is a misfortune, hows ever, to have a garden so fenced that 3 rultWit n cannot take place. The y n■ • iny ,rg «k’ :• h slmv s away 'o n fen ea sn all garden, that admits of I .. den must Le ictirely In rows runs r.lug h—.gtb. . The side fences are .> p. ;: anent. Ihe ends are panels of : , A* i • , J M -V MH r. <• XHOEX FEXCI . fen e tl; it hook on to posts set p« rmaneutly. en h p<«st living In lino with a plant row in the garden, so that they is. ; >t !• n tin- way -f the horse and ’ ■■ 1- but a moment’s work to take d >wn, or put up. these end pan- ’ el., as they van be made of light strips. 'I 11. X phiry. Strong .tdorn s protect themselves d against robb- rs. 1 > m ’ h-t the sun shine diris ily upon r.e<-s hat iwd in the fall will live ‘ through winter until j ring. . All < x v-< >f drom* comb should be removed from the La *. One adv.mt tge in w ring foundations is that it v ill bear a heavier weight of j bees. Whi n a considerable number of hives are kept, seven t- et ea h way is close Pure lialian b *s. as a rule, are the . easiest handled. Not only do they sting less, but they keep their place# i on the comlis better. Poultry Points. * Give fowls shade. Give fowls air an 1 exercise. ! Give fowls lime, grit and light. ! Give fowls frevh earri: serai, h. • v Give fowls green stuff every day. Give fowls fresh water twice a Jay. Ga’s shoul i be crushed if fed to little ■, Ci; i' fats. 1S | See that coops are well oiled or whltcp, washed before tiie li:;! ■ .-hi.-k> are put st ! into them. in Do not be d whed with rhe idea that •i- iucubatoi-s m-ed no care. The best that is can be made require attention. sr i A sitting of eggs was sent from Neer hraska to Hammonton. N. J., by mail. ie registered, at a cost of 39 cents, without is : an egg broken. r ' | Give the old hen a good dusting with 11 snuff before site is taken from the nest ‘ r with the little chicks. Better do it a e > day or two before the chicks come. Farm Notes. u l Economize space. If vou starve vour land it will starve >r i lr i you. !t I Have cabbage leaves in the hat on a , s ' hot day. ig j Buy in bulk, in order to get large disss ( counts.

HOKE SMITH GOES OUT. — Cleveland’s Secretary of the Interior Quits' the Cabinet. Hoke Smith, President Cleveland’s Secretary of the Interior, has quit the Cabl- 4 net. The rumor that he had resigned

made its appearance on Saturday. Mr. Smith refused to discuss the rumor, but at his residence active preparations for moving were being made, and many of ^his personal effects have been shipped to Atlanta. Mr. Smith was an ardent champion

HOK" SMITH.

of the gold standard up to the meeting of the Chicago convention, and “stumped” his State last spring for the cause in oposition to ex-Speaker Crisp. Precisely what determined him to renounce his affiliations is not known, but his friends say that he pledged his word to support tho Chicago ticket and platform, believing, as they say, that the administration forces would triumph at the convention. It is understood that immediately upon I his withdrawal he will return to Atlanta and resume the practice of his profession. The Secretary’s law office has not been closed since his departure for Washington, his partner, Judge John T. Pendleton, remaining in charge. The sign, “Hoke Smith" has remained on the door, and the Secretary's desk has been kept awaiting his return. It is well known that Mr. Smith, on entering the Cabinet, left a law practice which paid several times the salary of a Cabinet officer, and he will return to enter upon one which will doubtless be still more profitable. FLOUR COMBINE DISRUPTED. North American Milling Trust lias Gone to Pieces. Flour will be sold for a time at least at whatever price individual millers see fit. The big flour combine known as the North American Milling Company has gone to pieces, ami as a result a cut of 10 cents a barrel in prices has been made by the Northwestern millers and followed practically all over the country among spring wheat millers. This makes the present price in Chicago of best Northwestern brands $3.55. The combine was supposed to be one of tho best and most carefully planned ever known, and its failure is considered by some of the Northwestern concerns at least as conclusive evidence that a successful combination is impossible. However, one big concern claims that the break in arrangements is only temporary. The combination was effected March 16 last, and was the result of months of patient work on the part of its inhugurators, and many meetings w< re held. It represented a combined milling capacity of over loO.tKMJ barrels n day. The mills within ths combination had to put up a guarantee fund f<>r the faithful carrying out of the agr- ements on a basis of Itl cents per barrel per SX) barrel milling capacity. In spite of this it was soon discovered that some of the mills were taking advantage of the others in granting rebates, and tins has grown froni small beginnings to such large proportions that a general row resulted. The minimum price was made by one man appointed for that purpose in the Northwest, ami he made tho price from time to time based on the conditions of the trade, it is said, uninfluenced by any of the miils in the combine, and in every way those who went in in good faith tried to sustain a fair minimum price, which was supposed to be a good thing for al) branches of the trade. CREAT MEETING OF PYTHIANS. Enc.iii.^mcnt at Cleveland Drawing Crowds of Knights. Great erowu* of visitors were attracted to t!;o Knights of'*' , ytn ’:ts encampment at Cleveland, it being estimated that 50,(mmi spectators witnessed the dress parade of tho Second Ohio Regiment Sunday afti rnoon. The exercises at the camp during the afternoon consisted of the dress par de and a sacred band concert. In th- ii. iiing many of the visi’ing knights avoToio l services at the Epworth Memo- | rial M. E. Church and listened to an appropriate s< rmon by the pastor. Among the attractions at the eamp was Lafayette, Ind., division of the uniform rank, whi. h has won more prizes than any 1 other division in the country, even though it has not competed in prize drills in eight , years. There was also present the crack division from Hastings, Mich. Maj. Gen. Carnahan, in speaking of the knights as a military organization, said it was part if the unwritten law of the order that tho , knights should respond to the call of the Government in time of need, especially if it was necessary to rep T an invasion ' by a foreign foe. The knights were not f in any sense guardsmen, he said, and they would not take part in internal dissens. cis unless it was necessary to preserve order and uphold the laws. Supremo Cham c” .>r Richie, in speaking of the I : y ■ f liie order, said there would prob- ? ably l>< no change. "The same lessons ; that it teaches men to-day," he said, “will . be good for men 1,000 years hence.” News of Minor Note. Eric Eckman shot and killed Daniel Clough at Randall, Minn. The crime is I said to be the result of a dispute about a contract for clearing land. A freight train on the Oxford and Clarksville Railroad went through a br; Ige twelve miles from Durham. N. C. The engineer and fireman are thought to be fatally injured. ? The Spanish press in Havana urges the Duke of Tetuan, minister of foreign affairs. to demand the extradition of the Cuban revolutionist, Carlos Roloff, now ' in the United States. Percival Lowell announces from Flags staff, Ari., that with his new twenty-four-t inch telescope he. has been able to see that the Martian .Canal, Ganges, is double. The Lowell Observatory will be established near the City of Mexico to ob- ’ serve the apposition of Mars during tho winter. Sheriff Landy Folsom has been arrest--1 cd by a Deputy United States Marshal at i Perry, O. T., on a charge of having muri dered a wealthy cattle man named Long some years ago. Folsom was suspected at the time of the murder, but was not prosecuted. A fire at the Montpelier Industrial, ex--5 hibition destroyed the most valuable pictures and some of the most important ; papers in the archives. Montpelier University was also burned, the damage being estimated at $120,000. Anarchists are supposed to have started the conflagration.