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CHAPTER XV—(Continued.) The sounds in the house died away. She fancied -she heard the door of her father's little private room open and shut. Was Paul talking to him now: She sat down, leaned her elbows on her dressing table, and clasped her hands over her face. Every nerve was tense with excitement and emotion. Presently a knock came to the door. “Miche, Miche,” said the voice of one children, “papa wants you in the 'Hie moinenT had come, then! Michelle gave her hands a sort of impatient nervous twist, turned a little pale, and went down to the library. She could not lift her eyes when she entered. Eastlake was not there. Mrs. Dumaresq took her daughter's hand and drew her toward her chair. “Well. Michelle.’’ said Mr. Dumaresq, gravely, but with a suspicion of amusement in his face which the girl could not see, “I suppose you know that Paul Eastlake has been talking to me?" Michelle’s lips moved, but she could not utter a word. “It seems that he does not consider you the child that we have thought you to be. You are very young. Michelle, to have won the affection of a man like Mr. Eastlake, and I hope you will value it. I understand from him that you—you Do you care for him. darling?” Michelle leaned her head on her mother's shoulder and whispered a reply which Mr. Dumaresq did not catch. His wife looked at him over the girl's head and nodded. “In that case.” ho said, as if he had heard her answer, “the only objection that we can possibly have is that of ago. We have the highest opinion of Paul Eastlake, mid should trust you to him with all our hearts. But you are very young.” “I shall grow older,” murmured Michelle, whose courage was returning. “Yes. you will grow older,” said her father, smiling, “but in the meantime, for a year or so, I think there had better be no public engagement. Os course you and Paul will understand each other, and as he —he makes some objection to this time of waiting. I have yielded one point. Your mother will probaldy take the < hil dreuto England in May. I think that you need not therefore leave Egypt before she goes.” “Oh. papa, thank you!” Michelle lifted up her face with a sweet, bright light upon it. “It would be very hard to go away just now.” “Would it? Well —'* Mr. Dumaresq looked .-it his wife rather queerly "it is odd to hear the child talking like that. Isn’t it. Charlotte? Michelle. I can't have any nonsense, you know. You must be careful what you do. I will leave your mother to talk to you more in detail; I only want to remind you now that you are not to consider yourself engaged to Paul at present. And now. my dear, come and give me a kiss, and be a good girl for the future.” He took her into his arms and kissed her, and Mrs. Dumaresq shed a few tears and kissed *her. too. and so Michelle felt herself forgiven. And in a minute or two Paul was with them again., and there were, for the girl at least, some moments of unalloyed happiness. Eastlake protested rather strongly against the year of probation on which Mr. Dumaresq insisted, and prevailed in the course of a week or two in reducing Ihe time to six months. CHAPTER XVI. Ramleh relapsed into sudden quietness upon the departure of the ships, ami Mrs. Dumaresq found herself at liberty to carry out a plan for her niece's enjoyment, which as yet she had postponed from week to week. This was an expedition to Cairo and the Pyramids. In a very short time the wearier would be too hot for this visit; but as the season had been a cool one, it was still quite possible; and to her great delight Anne found herself installed at Shepheard’s, in company with Mrs. Dumaresq, .Michelle. Harold ami Mr. Darner Lawrence, who had quietly made his plans fall in with theirs. He traveled in the aame train, and indeed in the same carriage, for the hundred and twenty miles between Alexandria ami Cairo. How they visited the Pyramids ami the Sphinx and the Boulak Museum and the Cairo Bazars, and how they bought quantities of antiquities ^manufactured in Birmingham). and picked up for themselves various beads and searabel and pieces of mummy cloth in the sand outside the city gates. It is not my province to relate. | Such visits r.nd expeditions were new to , none of then but Anne. Lawrence was lying on the warm sand nt Anne's feet. She sat on tt block of ! marble, with Iter sketch book upon Iter %noe ami a white umbrella over*her head. The others were wandering about in the neighborhood, picking up beads ami mummy fragments, or driving bargains with 'Arabs ft r curiosities. “You remember Mrs. Burton?” Anne said presently. “Yes. Not a pleasant woman." “She has been writing to mo. Darner.” “Yes?” Lawrence divined from her tone that Mrs. Burton had made some communication which Anne did not particularly relish, and he listened with suddenly aroused attention. “Mrs. Burton did not like me." he said, smiling. “It was not that," said Anne, lotting her pencil fall and looking rather questioningly into the dark face upturned to hers, “but - she asks me to explain to Iter why you are still in Egype “What business is it of hors?” said Lawrence quickly, while his face darkened. “No business at all," said Anne, also wit^some appearance of haste, “only she Is a great gossip, ami she has heard something that I think I ought to tell you ” “The old story of my engagement or marriage, 1 suppose. You might know me better, Anne!” “It isenot that story," said Anne, coloring somewhat, but speaking with fireat resolution. “She simply asks why yon do not go to Venice, where your aunt, Mrs.

Seymour, and her daughter have been waiting for you for the last three weeks. e She says you cannot possibly know that 9 Mrs. Seymour is seriously ill, and that 9 her daughter is very uneasy about her. 1 - thought I ought to tell you, Damer, and ? I have told.” There was a moment's silence. Law- * rence had averted his face so that Anne 6 could not see it, but she was struck by the fact that the muscles of his arms and 8 shoulders plainly grew rigid and set be--8 neath their covering, ami that he clinched his hand as it lay upon the ground until 3 the knuckles turned white nnd the bluo ‘ veins stood out in bold relief. She suddenly put out her own hand nnd touched I his shoulder softly with her fingers. The touch worked wonders. The tension of the muscles instantly relaxed; he looked round at her with a rather forced smile, and said lightly: “Aly dear Anno, Mrs. Seymour’s ailments are so fanciful that one learns not to believe in them. Besides, if she were seriously ill. do you think I should not have heard? That is, if she wanted mo 1 should have heard; but after all, you must remember that I am not my Aunt Adela’s son, and am not to bo at her beck and call all my days.” Thore was a touch of hardness, of illhumor oven, in his voice which surprised his listener. “But, Darner, you would help them you would go on to them if they needed you? lam sure you would." “Oh, of course, if they needed me. But —" He shrugged his shoulders expressively, and sank back into a reclining posture, with one hand under his head, and his elbow in the sand. He did not look at Anno, but he seemed aware that she was looking at him, for presently he said in a disturbed tone: “What is the inatter? What do you want me to do?" “I?” said Anno, surprised. “Only what you think right, dear." “You have only to say the word," ho rejoined. “I really do not see the necessity; but of course if you wish it I will telegragdi— or go." CHAPTER XVII. Anno's spirit rose at the tone he adopted. “They are your own relations,” she said quietly. “You know better than I whether they have any claim on you or not.” “Claim on mo? What claim should they have?" he said, starting into a sitting posture, and turning a very dark nnd lowering countenance upon her. ’ “A claim for help and affection. They have perhaps no very capable person with them, and if the.v are ill they must bo I miserable. Oh. Damer, ought you not to I find out ? Venice is not far off." “1 wish it were at the Antipodes," ho said abruptly. “Then perhaps you might not be so eager to send mo.” “Had you heard of her illness, then, Darner?'' she asked, letting her lingers close upon one of his hands as sho looked down at him. Lawrence winced at the innocent inquisition. “I heard a rumor of it- in fact, it was mentioned in a letter that I received the other day; but I did not think it anything serious. If you knew hiy aunt you would not be so easily alarmed, my dear Anne." “But you will find out?" she said earnestly. "Yej. certainly, I will find out," he said, biting his mustache. Ho knew all about his aunt's illness bettor than Anno supposed. He had a let ter from Mrs. Seymour's daughter in his pocket at the very moment when Anne asked her unsuspecting questions; a letter entreat Mig him to meet his aunt in Venice, and giving a long account of her attack of bronchitis, lie knew, too, that Mrs. Seymour was now convalescent and did not require his presence in the least. But he had reasons of his own for wish ing to see her; ami, after his first vexa tion at Mrs. Burton’s interference, he saw that the opportunity was a good one for leaving Anno for a time without exciting her suspicion. Amj when he retur cd - say. in three weeks’ time or a month Ris engagement should be made public, ami the marriage should follow almost immediately. Ho made a bargain with Anne to that effect. The Dumaresq party returned tn Alex- , andria on the Thursday before Easter. It was in Easter week that Mrs. Dumaresq took up the Egyptian Gazette, looked at the list^f arrivals from Europe and uttered a sudden cry of surprise. “Why. Anne." she snld. “these must be the very relations whom Mr. Lawrence wont to see! Mrs. Ami Miss Seymofir, from Venice! llow vexed he will bo to । have missed them! 1 wonder if they will ' go on to <'niro or stay in Alexandria?” “lio will bo very sorry," said Anno. ■ with a qualm of regret for having dispatched him on a bootless errand. Sho soon hoard more of Mrs. Seymour ami her daughter. Mrs. Burton called upon them, and reported to Alexandrian society in general that Mrs. Seymour was in a weak and suffering shite, but that sho meant to stay at the Hotel de I'Europe until her nephew camo to fetch her, ami that she would bo glad to make acquaintance with any ladies who 'iked to go and see her. And Mrs. Dumaresq at once suggested to Anne that they call in company with Mrs. Burton. Anne was rather glad of the opportunity of making the acquaintance of Darner Lawrence's relations. She was shy, too; and sho wished that matters had 1 turned out differently, but at any rate she ' would see Inis aunt and his cousin, and she hoped that they would like her as she i was prepared to like them. Airs. Burton, Mrs. Dumaresq and Miss Carteret wore ushered by an Italian wait- । or into a sitting room on the first floor, • overlooking the square. Here they found - Mrs. Seymour, a little, gray, dry-lipped woman, with a self-contained manner • which was indescribably chilling. If Anno had hoped that Darner's aunt would be like Darner, she was very much mistaken. Mrs. Seymour had been fair; but the t color had long ago faded out of her cheeks > and lips, out of the hair that had once boon golden and the eyes that bad once

been blue. Everything about her—even her dress—now was ashen gray. Mrs Burton introduced her friends. Airs. Seymour had been lying down on a very uncomfortable looking sofa; she insisted on sitting up and talking in a dry, matter-of-fact way, concerning the things she had seen and the things she meant to see, as soon as returning strength enabled her to continue her journey. “I expected my nephew to be here,” sho said in u tone of dissatisfaction. “He last wrote to me from Alexandria.” “He went to seek you, did ho not?" Airs. Dumaresq ventured to inquire. “When we parted from him in Cairo a few days ago he said ho hoped to meet you in Venice.” “Indeed?” Airs. Seymour looked incredulous. “Why did he not telegraph, then?” she said, rather tartly. “But it is just like Denzil; he never does anything in the way other people do.” “The Air. Lawrence we know is not called Denzil,” said Anne, suddenly stimulated to speech—she hardly knew why. “John Denzil Lawrence —that is my nephew's name,” said Airs. Seymour, in her dry voice. “He is sometimes called Denzil, and sometimes Jack. I call him Denzil. It was ho who wrote to mo from Alexandria.” ■yvnat was our Mt, nuir^uw-n Anno?” said Mrs. Dumaresq, with a | smile. “It was neither John nor Denzil— J that 1 know." "It was Damer,” said Anne, coloring in spite of herself under Mrs. Seymour's cool gaze. "Ah!” said the elder woman. “That is another nephew of mine. I heard that he was cruising about in the Mediterranean. I hope you have not made much of a friend of him, for I believe there is no worse scamp in all Europe. That’s my opinion of Damer Lawrence, st any rate, and he knows it.” CHAPTER XVHI. Everybody sat silent and uncomfortable for tho moment or two that followed Mrs. Seymour’s speech. Sho followed it up by another piece of Information. "John Denzil Lawrence is a very different man or else I should not have accepted him for my daughter. Ho is engaged to her. They have been engaged these three years." Some civil reply was murmured in return, and then tho door opened. “It is my daughter," said Mrs. Seymour, icily. “Come in, Clare." Icily sho might speak, but oh! how her face softened. The colot suddenly leaped intp her withered cheeks, tho tire into her pale eyes. Looking from tho mother to the daughter at That moment. Anno caught a glimpse of what Adela Seynmyr had been before her bloom hnd failed nnd her features grown stern and cold, It was easy for her afterward to believe what sho was told that thirty years before this little gaunt, gray woman had been tho beHo of every ballroom in her I county. And what sho hnd been, her ; daughter Claro was now. A verj slight, dainty little figure, a com- I ploxion of porcelain pink nnd white; largo blue eyes nnd a cloud of golden hair. Miss Seymour leaned back in her chair, i nnd looked utterly uninterested In either I visitors or conversation. Mrs. Dumnro*iaJ was rather anxious to go, but found thnt J sho could not do so until ten hnd becn^ brought in. Presently Mrs. Seymour referred onwid more to her nephews. “Did 1 understnmLl you to sny," she naked, fixing her ej>J deliberately on Anne, "that Mr. Dinner ’ Lnwrenco had gone to Venice to find us?" ' "Yes," said Anno, feeling her color rise. “How long Ims bo been here?" Mrs Dumaresq interposed. "Ho enmo I hero first in November. Perhaps you did not hear of his accident in December? Ho broke his log, nnd was unable to move for some time." "Yes; Mrs. Dumaresq nursed him most carefully," said Mrs. Burton. "Ho stayed at Mrs. Dumnrcsq’s house for two ' months." “As a relation of his. I am much obliged , to Mrs. Dumaresq," said Mrs. Seymour, with a stiff bend of her head, "lie did not inform mo of the* circumstance*. But • indeed 1 have not corresponded with him 1 for some years. My nephew, Dentil, who ' must have been hero about tho snmo time, did not mention it, either." Mrs. Dumaresq was nt a loss. She hnd ' not heard of tho other nephew. Sho did i not know whether ho had been-in Alex-q andrln or not. She turned to Anne rather | awkwardly for information Mrs. Sey- I mour had a knack of making everybody ] do awkward things and Mrs. Seymourd i eyes followed her, nnd fixed themselves i once more upon Anne’s face. < "Air. Lawrence told us that he was going ! to do so." | But by this time Anne was perfectly I tranquil. SlnAlid not color beneath Mrsi I Seymour's strange, hard looks; she re- I plied simply and naturally to her nunt's I question. 6 “Air. Damer Lawrence mentioned his < cousin two iW throe times to mj*. He sgld that they were always being mistaken { ne for the otl^er, because one wrt£ callecL John Damer LaWrpnce and the other! John Denzil Lawrence ”. « told you so, minima," Miss Clar<V“ broke in, with a visible, pout. “I will noP ciftl him Denzil; I will call him Jac&, fiM”* then people will perhaps learn to distiui'.j gulsh him from Damer I.axvro'hcK* ** “('all him what you like." said lu'r ' mother dryly. “He never signs himself

anything byt Denzil." * "I always address his letters ‘John D.j! Lawrence,’ mid I always will," murmured the daughter with some sulkiness. 'Hie visitors were a little astonished byi this outburst. But Mrs. Seymour contine ued, without a trace of discomposure: "1 know that mistakes oft m arise. And did Mr. Darner Lawrence mention his cousin's visit?" Anno thought for n moment. ‘‘l think! he said one day either that his cousin had been here or was coming, I cannot quite remember.” . ; “Ah! Well, Mr. Denzil Lawrence did not stay long in Alexandria,” said Mrs. Seymour. “He went to Cairo almost ini- ( mediately, 1 believe, mid up the Nile, I . cannot say that he has given its a very full .account of his proceedings. He Is up the' Nile now, I think. We shall waiA here until he conies back.”^ K (To be continued.) T The First. I The Trish Hardeners’ Association ha vol had an exhibition of potatoes and held! a conference in Dublin in Novembei' ta. Celebrate the tercentenary of tho introl duct ion of (lie potato into Ireland. ThoF first potatoes Introduced in Europ®. wore planted In Ireland In ibOG by Sirf' Walter Raleigh In tho garden attached 1 1 to his residence, Myrtle Villa, Youghal JV County Cork. The spot is shown t( P visitors. P 1 0 -

RECORD OF CONGRESS’ DIGEST OF THE WORK OF THE FIFTY-FOURTH SESSION. Total Appropriations Near the Billion Mark-Many Pension Bills Pass— War Claims Are Few- Measures for Relief of Bettiers. Work of Lawmakers. Washington correspondence: Speaker Reed and other leaders of the House entered upon the final session of the Fifty-fourth Congress with the avowed determination that no legislation which compelled great expenditures of public money should be enacted during the session. They felt compelled to adopt this policy because of the condition of the treasury, and they have generally adhered to it, although the regular appropriation bills for the support of the ciovernnient have ♦brougi’it the total appropriations of this Congress well up to the Trillion mark. | Many of tho appropriations, notably Ihose for fiver an<l harbor improvementa ■Fad for public buildings, were necessary ko continue works authorized by other Congresses. No public buildings have ^een started by this session, nnd no new aattleahips or vessels of any description, ■ithough the creation of a “new navy,” begun several years ago, has by no means been abandoned. Tho intention of the House leaders at tho beginning of the session wns to confine the work, so fur as possible, to the appropriation bills, nnd they have been successful in living up to their policy. These bills, moreover, have been cumbered with fewer new projects nnd less gencrnl legislation than usual. Necessarily tho policy of tho House to avoid new legislation which involved expenditures has been enforced upon tho Senate. The Nicaragua canal bill, which wns discussed nt great length in the Senate, but not voted on, wns not taken up in tho House, nor was.the free home bill, which the Senate passed, given n hearing nt the other end of the enpitol. Tho Pacific Railroad funding bill met a decisive defeat in the House, so the Senate found it useless to discuss that proposition, One feature of tho session’s record worthy of note is the great number of private pension bills passed, many of them placing the widows of officers on the pension rolls nt ratings ranging from $.30 to $75 n month. I’rivato elnims nnd war claims, on the Other hand, have been few. Severnl of the pension bills wore vetoed by President (’levoland, but Congress enacted sot%o ot these, despite tho veto, by^ the necessary two thirds majority. Tho immigration bill establishes nn’cducntionnl test for immigrants ami bars out laborers who mnintnin their homes in other countries. < hie net written upon the statute books this session is noteworthy ns being the I work practically of one mnn. Thnt is the i not to reduce the eases in wlii< h tho pen laity of death mny bo intlieteil, « move I meat to wlii< h <li-n Curtis of Xcw \oi k Ljilis UeeoU-tl the licit efforts of bis coll Lgrcsslona! career. The nlMilition <>f tin.death penalty bus (wen n long .lierished Ibntimsinsm with (ten. t'urti* Now, after years of agitation of the subjeH, he has pq^coeded in erasing from the statute i books all I nited States laws imposing ? the death penalty for otic r «inm * than i murder, rape, treason or piracy, nnd on- ! dewed juries with the power to stipulate ? whether or not > ipital punishment shnll ।be inflicted for flu -e crimes An agitiitkin by dramatists, composers and theattlenl mnmigcrs has resulted in । se< uring n law nt this session fixing hemy i penalties for public performan<‘> s of copy righted dramatic or musical compositions I and emjiow cring nil I nited Ktntes Circuit Courts to enforce the orders of tiny such i court regarding these p< rformames. The I interstate commerce laws have been exbtended to prevent traffic in obscene Hternj ture or nrtiihw desigmsl for immoral buses. 14' The shipping laws have been nniemhd tn enable yachts belonging to American •or foreign clubs to enter or dear from i the customs homo s without tonnage tnxes, * also to require naphtha or clei trie boats Bof more than fifteen tons burden to be nuibjeeted to nil requirements for inspec i th»na ami for pilot* ami engineers. A uew | law compel- the name and draft of every"* I BMtlstered v< -sol to be marked on the stern i Bind bow. New regulations have been iMuuD for the compensation of inspe tms stonm vessels for their traveling ex jienses. All per ;,s who m‘ ke siga d< x Ertions in rescuing a wrecked ship or a liirowning person are. under a law ot this 1 pension, eligible for the life saving medals |vhieh formerly wer< gin n only to tlo laving crow UThe friends of tho Tennessee mil'-n---minl expot 1 ' ■ ■hearing nn appt 1 SI lo.u(M) fm Government Imildii - 1 bit. while rthe Nebraska delegation js working to sc |Rure n like ricognition for tin thmi in exsmsition. jSDne of the most important picoo- of vui. I el

Yili&cral oils under the mineral land laws. ■Enother extends to Jan. 1. 1899. the time which purchases may be made of the grant lands forfeited to the Gov^mment under the act ol 1890. and anatlier confirms cash entries which have icon declared invalid because the lands •’titered were never offered tor sale. * Other acts confirm the titles of settlers in Greer County, Oklahoma; Alissis*ippi settlers on swamp lands in the grants of ’lhe Mobile and Ohio Railroad, and settlers on some 80.600 acres in Louisiana. Atnong the acts of the session relating to the courts were these: living tho foes in the Circuit Court of Appeal-; withdrawing from the Supreme Court juris diction of criminal eases not capital ami giving it to the Circuit Court ol Appeal*; directing the filing of mortgages on lulian territory properly in the judicial dis trict in which the properly is located when the mortgagor is a non resident, constituting a now division of th’ l eastern judi cial district of Texas; attaching Audrain County to the eastern judicial district ol Missouri. An act was passed to validate tho aits of deputy marshals in the Indian teriitory sworn in between March 1, IS9.>, nnd

April 15, 189 G, when the law was defective; an act providing heavy penal lies • for selling intoxicants to Indians; mi act authorizing the Secretary of the Intel im to use tho abandoned I'ort Bidwell in California, for an Indian training school, and one to enable the town of blagstafl, Ariz., to issue $G5,000 <1 per cent bonds to construct a water system. Military acts were passed authorizing the conferring on officers of the regular

army of the highest brevet rank held by them in tho volunteer service; to authorize officers who served in the regular army 1 during the rebellion to bear the official title and on ceremonial occasions wear the uniform of their rank; for issuing cer- I 1 tificates of service to members of the i military telegraph corps; for tho State of < -olorado to use the Fort Lyon military 1 leservation for a soldiers' home; to per- < mit the appointment as medical officers of 1 soldiers’ homes of others than those who have been disabled in the military service; 1 to appoint John Marshall, Brown of Maine 1 a member of the board of managers of t national soldiers' homes. t Life saving stations have been provided t for at Point Arena, Mendocino County, 1 California, Great Boar's Head, New t Hampshire, nnd one on the Maryland f coast between Fenwick Island and Ocean 1 City. A survey has been authorized for t a water route from the mouth of the jet- > ties at Galveston, Tex., through the st’ip channel nnd up Buffalo bayou to Houston, < Bigin of way has been granted the Mus- 1 kogee, Oklahoma nnd AVestern Railroad 1 through the Indinn territory nnd Oklahoma, and the Eastern Nebraska and Gulf Railway i'umpany through the Omaha ami Winnebago Indian reservations in Nebraska. The time for completing tho East river bridge between New York City and Ix>ng Island has been extended to Jan. 1, 1900. PROFITS OF THE SUGAR TRUST. Startling; Figures Given the Cow mlttce by President Havcmeyer. In the trust investigation now going on in New York nothing more astonishing has been produced in the testimony than ' the evidence of the enormous profits of the big combines. President Havcmeyer gave tho committee these figures: Net profit Total Per lb Per eonsunip- Total Y’r. ( ts. ton. tion. tons. profit. 188 G .GSS sls .31 L45D.250 $22,385,353 1887 .678 15.07 1.381.711 20,822,429 1888 1.200 25.22 1'.519,283 42,874,100 1889 1.210 27.10 1.410.274 38,381,023 1890 .709 15.88 1.170,377 23,411,800 1891 .805 18.03 1,558,85 l 34,055,083 1892 1.030 23.07 1.553.370 42,757,245 1893 1.150 25.70 1.900.758 48,818,080 1894 .80S 15.09 2,012,714 80,409,890 1895 .882 19.74 1.949,744 37,961,815 1896 .908 20.36 2,100,000 42,756,000 Tot. 1.102 $22.60 18.861,365 $390,666,966 According to Mr. Havcmeyer, of the total profits made in the sugar refining business in this eoun(ry from 75 to 80 per cent goes to the American Refining Company that is, to the sugar trust. Consequently the trust pocketed about 32 out of the 42 millions for profit in 1896. The face value of the stock on which the trust pays dividends is 75 million dollars. Mr. Havcmeyer admits thnt tho value of the property represented by thnt stock is les* than 2<> millions. It is probable that the organizers of tho trust havo mndo Ri'mething like 5o millions by peddling out their watered stoek to the general public. Tho dividends paid on that stock nro out raucously high. <>n the basis of the cnpltnl invested they are colossal. A profit of 32 million* is made on tin investinoiit of less llinn 20 mUti'eio. Kuell n profit w otihf be Imp"* <ible if the trust tlid not, in definnee of law, monopolize tho sugar refining industry of tho I’nited States, which has n pop dntion of 72 million sugar consumers. FITZ’S FIGHTING FACE. WcnrH n Look bo 1- i rociotis os to ReHrtiiblt' m XV »!<! The faces of all pugilists undergo peculiar changes in the ring. It has been said thnt the gruit John L. Sullivnn had his opponents halt w hipped before n blow’ was *inp k l>< .ot*' of the ugly glare op his face. Probably no fighter nt the present time Im* qi h a ferocious looking face FITZSIMMOX.s’ F-IGHTING FACE. a- Bob rifzsimn "in. It isn’t necessary to see him In the ring to see this face. It I conn s when he lights, no matter where or i w op, if he only so .*ts ii is play. A j writer who saw I’itz in training says that l Bob went to work in a merry vein. After a while s inething oecurred to wake him up. Suddenly the spnee between the eyes -■omed to widen. Both eyes became wild with a fierce light that seemed to grow’ nnd grow, until not even the eyes of the wildest beast could havo been more terrible. ST. LOUIS BANK IS CLOSED. Mutlanphy Bnviimn Ins 11 1 n f ion FnilH Xpplicntion for Receiver. Bank Examiner Austin closed the Mullanphy Savings Bank of St. Louis, a State institution, which has been in operation for more than twenty-five years. The statement issued by the bnqk at the close of business on Feb. 26. 1897, shows th<* liabilities to have been: Capital slock, $100,000; surplus. $5,204; demand deposits. $218,132; time deposits, $396,088; certificates of deposit, sight, 55.208: cashier’s checks, SB, IS I; bills payable, StAJMIO; total, $806,069. Resources: Bills receiva--1 blo, $561,763: bonds, ssl,<><’•!; real estate, $89,112; cash in vault, $42,946; cash in ’ bank, $48,197; total, sßo6,tiOO. i run was started when the bank opened in the morning, whereupon Examiner Austin, seeing how matters were going, 1 promptly closed the doors. There was ; much indignation among the depositors, who are mostly poor people. Assistant Attorney General Jeffries applied to Judge 1 Valiant for the appointment of a receiver for tin* bank. He placed the bank s total liabilities nt $5(17,630 ami the available 1 assets at $567,114. He stated that the ' bank had lost S2O I.G(M) on bad paper. It seems to indicate that depositors will get ’ little more than 50 cents on the dollar.

No More “Easy” Divorces. The North Dakota House passed-yeas, 44- nays, 5-the bill introduced by Speakilliains extending the period of residence from three months to one year before action for divorce can begin Iho bill carries an emergency clause deelarng that the State and its judiciary is scandalized ami the moral standing of the State degraded by the conduct of those X come to the State for divorce purposes only.

TO THE WHITE HOUSE. McKinley Begins the Journey Amid Bhonts of Joy. AVith a crowd of 25,000 people yelling their good-byes to him, a brass band playing “Home, Sweet Home,” the explosion of firecrackers, and the tooting of horns, M illiam McKinley started from Canton on his journey to Washington to become the ruler of the greatest nation on earth. The crowds that watched his departure from the little city that has been his home nearly all of his life covered the roofs of the houses abort the railway station and the tops of ihe ears in the railroad yards, they’ packed the streets along the line of march, ami were jammed into the side street:' When finally the procession of soldiers and citi’/ens that surrounded the President-elect's carriage came in sight the cheers were almost loud enough to split the sky. A long line of soldiers in blue overcoats cleared the way on each side of the carriage. Four white horses with nodding plumes of red, white and blue drew it. Within were the President-elect ami his wife. Behind the carriage came a long row of soldiers and citizens on foot and u squad of cavalry. Tho President's train of seven cars in shiny red paint and gold lettering waited in front of the station for their arrival, the special ear for ihe President-elect in the rear. It was fifteen minutes after the time set for the departure of the train when the President-elect stepped from his carriage. He helped Mrs. AlcKin’ey to alight while Capt. Floyd of the Cleveland detective force threw a heavy wrap over her shoulders. They walked through the line of policemen to the rear platform. Mrs. McKinley entered the car, but the President-elect, hat in hand, turned toward the people and said: “Aly Neighbors and Friends, and Fel-low-Citizens: On the eve of departure to tho seat of government, soon to assume the duties of an arduous responsibility, as great as can devolve upon any man. nothing could give me greater pleasure than this farewell greeting this evidence of your friendship and sympathy; your good will, ami. I am sure, the prayers of all the people with whom I have lived so king, and whose confidence and esteem are dearer to me than any other eaithly honors. “To nil of us the future is a sealed book; but if I can, by official act or administration, or utterance, in nny degree, add to the prosperity of our beloved country, and the comfort and well being of our splendid citizenship, 1 will devote to it ihe best nnd most unselfish efforts of my life. “Th<* ass.imption of tbi* chief magistracy is of such grave importance that partisanship cannot blind the judgment or accept any other eonsiderntions but for tho public g<>o I of all to every party nnd every section. With this thought uppermost in my mind. 1 reluctantly take leave of my friends and my neighbors, cherishing in my heart the sweetest memories nnd the tenderest thoughts of my ohi homo my home now, nnd. 1 trust, my home heronfter, so long ns I live. 1 thank you, and bid you nil good-by.” The Presid'-nt elect’s voice wns full of feeling ns he spoke, but it wns clear, and everv word was distinguishable to the outxklrtH r>r lb. 1..VT.1. Who. to IK. V Oolrfied there wns n tremendous shout and a volley of firecrackers, the bell rang, and the fra in started. COMMANDS BRITISH SQUADRON Sir J. O. Hopkins XV ho Is nt the Head of tlie British Mediterranean Fleet. With all the great powers of Europe snarling about the little island of Crete. England may be expected to be a big dog. and she is just that in the person of VicCAdmiral Sir John < >. Hopkins, commander in chief of tho British Alediterranean squadron. Sir John is one of the best known and one of the most efficient officers of the British navy. He sneceeded Sir Michael Ciilme-Seymoor in this important post not long ago, and was in every way < iipacitated to take the place of so efficient n sailor. Sir John is an old sea dog who has seen no end of service. He took part in the Crimean war, and was S’ ' X'"' F stc. John o- noruiNs. present . ve attack of Sebastopol ami at other p rations in that war. For his eminent services there he received tho Crimean and the Turkish medals and the Sebastopol clasp. For one year—lßßl- - he was secretary to the first lord of tho admiralty, ami was aid-de-camp to tlie queen in November, 1881. He served his country in many important positions, notably as superintendent of the Sheerness dockyard, director of tho naval ordinance, admiral superintendent of the Portsmouth yard and lord commissioner of the admiralty. Americans wot of him as the commander of the British naval movements in Hampton Roads during the World’s Fair. He is a grizzled, bronzed marine fellow, utterly familiar with every trick of naval strategy, and the very man for Britain to have in the extraordinarily peejilinr position she finds herself to-day in in the Mediterranean. Sir John has a number of titles and decorations he cures very little about, being accustomed, as ho is. to lie SO seldom on land where people know about them. The North German Gazette, referring to the far reaching bimetallic conclusions some newspapers have attached Io the recent visit of Senator Edward (). Wolcott of Colorado to I’rince Hohenlohe, says the imperial chancellor declares that the Senator’s audience was practically one of courtesy. American bicycles are threatened with destructive piracy in Germany, and I’nited States Consul General De Kay, who reports the fact to the State Department, has gone immediately to work in the effort to checkmate the movement.