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CHAPTER XIX. “What an odious woman!” said Mrs. Dumaresq, as soon as they were safely ensconced in the railway carriage. “How pah she abuse' poor Mr. Damer Lawrence in that public way! It is very ill-bred. 'And the daughter, too —what a horrid girl!” “She is very pretty,” said Anno. “Pretty, yes; but what manners! And jMr. Lawrence’s manners are so extremely good. I certainly thought that he would have nice relations. I shall be sorry for Mr. Lawrence’s wife if she has snuch to do with them,” said Mrs. Dumaresq significantly. It was soon found that Mrs. Seymour would go nowhere. She was more of an invalid than she would acknowledge. She was anxious, however, for her daughter (to go out. Miss Seymour ‘was so very pretty that everybody thought it a shame to let her languish for want of amusement, and although the end of the Alexandria “season” was approaching, and there were no more dances to be had, there were tennis parties in abundance. There was something about Anne that (invited confidence. Mrs. Seymour talked ( to her as she had talked to nobody for . years. It is easier sometimes to unbosom one's self to a comparative stranger than to friends of a life’s standing. It was to Anne that Mrs. Seymour one day told a fact that she had carefully hidden from her daughter. Her present bodily weakness did not proceed from the attack of bronchitis from which she had suffered in Venice, but from a concealed and far more deeply rooted trouble—an internal complaint, which she knew would ultimately prove fatal. When Anne heard the story of what she had already endured, and was likely to enduro, of pain silently borne lest it should sadden the vain and shallow nature of the fair-faced daughter, and saw the mother's anxiety for that child's future happiness, her soul bowed down in pity for the anguish and reverence, for the self-control of the sharp- ■ spoken, withered, unprepossessing little woman who seemed at their first interview to be bent upon saying and doing the things most calculated to wound and to irepel. “But will you not tell your daughter?” said Anne, when she had heard the story. “If I had a mother, I could not bear to bo left in ignorance of her illness,” she added wistfully. “Tell Clare? She would be frightened out of her senses,” said Mrs. Seymour. “She would cry herself ill, and worry al! the remaining strength out of mo. No, Hammond knows what to do; sho has been with mo twenty years, and I won't spoil Clare's pleasure before the time.” “Does Mr. Denzil Lawrence know?” “He docs not yet. I wonder if ho will make it an excuse for putting off the marriage? Not that ho is likely to do so. , I think; he is weak enough, but not dis- 1 honorable. If I could only see them bride j and bridegroom!—they will make a handsome couple. I can’t think why Denzil ' went abroad this winter. He did not - seem to care about our following him, Cither; but I was afraid ” “You were afraid?” Anne asked gently, I ns she paused. “I was afraid,” said Mrs. Seymour, ; with a graver look than usual, "that I ■ might not see him again—and that Clare i would be left. And so I followed him. If ■ he leaves her, she’ll break her heart. I ^ried to make her love him—and I’ve succeeded.” Anne had no answer ready. Another silence followed. At last the sick woman roused herself as if from deep thought, and looked searchingly at Anne. “Come here,” sho said, beckoning with her lean forefinger. And when Anne obeyed the call, and stood beside her chair, she peered into the young face with her cold, keen eyes until the color rose in Anne’s fair cheeks, and, in spite of her effort to be brave, her eyelids fell. “Child!” this was the speech that followed on that piercing gaze, “what was Damer Lawrence doing here?” The question took Anne by surprise. The color rushed to her temples .and then receded, leaving her pale. “What was he doing? I do not know—l cannot tell,” she stammered. “Cannot tell? Ah, that may be true enough,” said Mrs. Seymour, releasing her. “Don’t you trust him, that's all.” Just here Clare opened the door, just in time to admit Hammond, the servant, who was running upstairs excitedly. “Oh, Miss Clare, he’s come. He's come, ma’am, if you please. Mr. Denzil’s come.” Clare uttered a little inarticulate cry of joy. Mrs. Seymour tried to rise, but suddenly turned faint, and sank back in her Hammond ran to her aid. and

A nur- hurriedly Yirought «omo MnoHinu i Balin from Vhe next room. It was dtiring \ her momentary absence that the newcomer entered, with Clare clinging fondly to his arm. “Mamma!” she cried, almost impatient jn her delight. “Don’t yon see that he is here? Ue has come back! Denzil has come at last!” And as the name was uttered, Anne looked upon the face of Clare's long-ex-pected lover. She looked and looked again, with another name frozen upon her lips. Ho, haggard as if from illness, and perhaps from doubt and fear, also looked up, met her eyes, and suddenly recoiled. Clare saw nothing; Mrs. Seymour’s keen vision told her that he had turned as white as death. She glanced round at the door, but Anne had fled without a word. For the Denzil of Mrs. Seymour’s plans and Clare’s fond dreams was none other than the man whom she had known and loved as Darner Lawrence. CHAPTER XX. At the very moment of Anne’s flight Lawrence uttered her name without knowing that he did so. “Anne!” he exclaimed, and made a step forward, as if he would have followed her. But sba was gone, the door between the two rooms was shut, and —Clare was clinging to his arm. “I am better now; you can go, Hammond,” said Mrs. Seymour, sitting up.

She would neither betray herself nor allow her relations to betray themselves beneath the waiting woman’s watchful eyes. Not till Hammond had disappeared did she remark in her usual dry tones: “Anne? I was not aware that you were acquainted with Miss Carteret, Denzil.” Lawrence looked desperately about him for some means of escape. Clare’s soft hands were upon him; he could not shake her off; Mrs. Seymour's cold eyes were upon him, too. If there was a woman on earth whom Lawrence hated, and even feared, that woman was his Aunt Adela. She knew it, and despised him for it, too. He was obliged at last to answer his aunt’s question. “I knew her a little I met her before, at Malta,” he said, lowering his eyes. She drew a long breath of relief. He did not mean to repudiate ChTre, after all! Well, then, her darling's happiness was safe. Clare broke in gayly. “Do you really know Anne Carteret? How very nice! But I thought she only knew Damer!” “Oh, people are always contusing Damer and me,” said Lawrence, caressing his mustache and speaking with as much nonchalance as he could muster for the occasion. But he looked singularly white and shaken, and sat down presently as if he had not strength to stand. “I dare say Miss Carteret did not distinguish between the two mums. Mrs. Seymour observed promptly. "She probably meant Denzil, not Damer, I-iwrence all this time. People are not always wry particular about Christian names. He rose and took his leave ns soon as possible, refusing an invitation to dinner on the plea of fatigue. He was staying at Abbat’s Hotel, which is a few minutes’ walk from the square, but he promised to come next morning, and half arranged a drive with his aunt and cousin to I’mn pey’s Pillar. As soon as he was outside the Hotel de FEurope, however, he im mediately set off to tho Rantleh stntmi i and arrived then 1 in time to enteh the seven o'clock train. "hj he did so he could not have told. He felt a* if he dared not enter the Dumnresqs’ h and certainly he bad no hope o' mee.inz . i Anne. Yet to Rantleh Ite mm t How was he to seo her? Lauren., i : asked himself that question, and Lund :no answer ready. He knew that in order to justify himself at all he mas' , In r speedily and alone. Ihe r M< a ■ b ’ him no opportunity. He was ehained to Mrs. Seymour’s side ns bug m* it " • " light. In the evening he ventured t ■ :< eopt an invitation to dine nt the De. . esqs', but gained nothing by that move, as Anne did not appear. She had i! • I ache, Mrs. I>v.ma:<-"q t Id I ■ , u ■ . air of compassion for his d-.napßiintme c,. ; but Inter they < ame fa. et" tn m’’ music r< om. “Anne.” he saM, L-i ! Implorincty. “arc you not r" 1 '; .‘ 1 . ।to me? Went you vouchsafe me ’. 1- ■ |—a word ?” "Not here.” she .HIW. ■l ed oHlf. i” j with nn effort: “1 suppose y u ba. . | thing to say to me. I ha' eI n exp< ■:.. | it. 1 am quite willing to I. • i 1 • i a' i the proper time ami in the pr i" rI . ■ ; Mr. Lawrence. but ti :■ o miilnr." “I can explain everything to yon it ye i i will only listen.” “Not here," she r< pe; ’. 1. i “Anne," ho said, control!',i : Lis pas i-u i with ditliculty. "have you forgotten me Have you forgotten our meeting at M \ ? or our parting in the desert? I lav y m forgotten that you t<ld nm and I I Heved you that I was the ot 'v man y i ( had ever loved? You told ne that. At m you know you did. Yeti cann t have f-T gotten me so soon? Look at me and ■■‘ay ■ that you remember me and low me .. • w i did!” She did not shrink beneath his nrde; gaze. She tried no longer to draw her elf away from his close grasp. Her face was : pale; but. it showed no other 5... n of w-w. ■ ness as she looked him full in the »y< s and I gave him his answer. “You are not the man I loved," she said. "You belong to Clare Seymour, not to me.” "You loved me before,” he said. "To you I am the same.” "Oh, no," sho said, with nn involuntarylittle shiver. “The same? No, never, never! You cannot understand what I think of a man who comes to me under a false name, who deliberately misleads me, and who—to crown all—asks me to think no worse of him for all this, but to 'love him as I did before!' No,” she went on, more sadly than contemptuously, “the Damer Lawrence whom I thought I knew is dead; the gentleman whom I see here is Mr. Denzil Lawrence—a very different person—Miss Seymour’s cousin and future | husband; with whom I desire no further

acquaint aneo.” ll<> wns still xvonlc in 1 »<.Hy fr<»tn hi« ill ncss t and crjuld not easily command his feelings. Perhaps his want of self-control stood him in good stead nt that moment; for, on turning round, Anne saw that ho was leaning against the wall with his face half covered by his hands in an attitude of the most profound humiliation; and her heart throbbed with sudden pity and compunction. Lawrence started up and confronted her with haggard cheeks and flaming eyes. “Anne,” he said, “I meant to tell you all. You don’t know how hard it was to nerve myself to confess to you that I had been a liar and a coward. When I had freed myself from those bonds, I meant to tell you all. Have a little mercy, Anne. If I did I wrong, it was for your sake. Surely yon : can forgive me that! Forgive me, and ’ forgot the past, Anne. I will have no sccrets from you in the future.” She opened her beautiful eyes wide, and regarded him almost with a look of horror. “What?” she said. “Do you think it is so easy to forget? 1 may forgive—l do forgive you—but I could not forgot the past if I tried. And you know I have no right to try. You have separated us. I trusted you once; I could not trust you again.” “But yon might love me,” he urged. “Y'cs, I might lovo you,” she said; "but what of that? It might be my duty to love you, whether I trusted you or not, if I were your wife; but I cannot be your

wife now. Can’t yon see that, there are things that I must love even better than you?” “Y’ou are no true woman or you would never be so cold to me,” he said angrily. “Don’t you see how I love you? I would give the whole world for you; but—do you mean to break my heart, Anne?” At this reproach her calmness for the first, time deserted her. “Oh,” she cried, “don't you see that I am cold because my heart is broken already?” They could not remain so long. The sound of approaching voices and footsteps was heard outside. It was time for them to part. Later Lawrence found himself able to hold a few minutes' conversation with Michelle unobserved. “Anne is angry with me,” he said. “Angry? Why?” “She does not care for mo.” said Lawrence, vehemently. “I see how it is. She’s gone over to that other fellow.” “What other fellow?” Lawrence was too angry to heed what he was saying. He stood frowning, with his eyes cast down. " I hat fellow Eastlake,” ho said. Michelle turned pale, and was silent and still for a moment. "1 think you are mistaken," she said at hist. “Mr. Eastlake is not—does not ” "I know that he proposed to her,” said Lawrence, more sullenly than ever. “'Perhaps she means to accept him now.” Michelle stood where he left her for several minutes. Presently her face be-~ gan to flush and her eyes to fill with tears. "1 never guessed that,” she murmured. “He never told me that when he said he could not love me as I ought to be loved!” CHA ITEM XXL Anno received a note from Mrs. Hey. mour the next day, and wrote back a line of acceptance, in spite of her aunt's rcmonstrams's. She looked like the ghost of In r former self when sho entered Mrs. Seymour’s sitting room. Clare's mother gave her a warmer greeting than usual, then pierced her with her keen eyes mid said; "You look half dead. girl. What’s the matter?" "1 have bail a feverish cold," said Anno. "I nm better now.” “Glad to hear it. And now, Anne Carteret, answer me one thing. Did you ever I tell a lie in all your life? Would you fell I a lie for your own advantage, or would I you not?" I "Certainly not if I knew what I was I doing.” ] "Very well. Then y u will speak the I truth if I ask '•m whe: were your rela- I Hons with Denzil Lnwrence?" Anne row from her ehnir. looking very I pale- "Mrs. Seymour," she said with dig- I nity. "there arc question! «Im h one nmy I I utterly refuse to answer without any want I ■of trmhfyh <' “Come.” . • ! Mr*. Se-m.mr. 'ye, n . < not go. ami ) m nerd i " an*v. cr in;, iiuc* | tion mile.* you Lkc. Sit down. Anne. I [ know all nhont it. Denzil avowed Jt to mo la t Tu< ! i>. and I want to talk to \nm m emvift ghm-eat h-r. then i sank Into I r rhnir i. ain, < ver«sl her I taee with her bands nml l-urM im.. tears. "Yes. . rv. ii ar; it v Id. » ; ..J ! kn*iv h n «P v kill < htro I ’ ■ .. ■ . • s net hi e t ! the wit • I .-• nffmr .r tl ... 1!. re wo R. -. Grn :i eof u ) -m be was gi; I I inn: ■! hr 3 venb. Anne He tin. mm. dt > bl-.-i out his brail.s for lb o-Gno me, when be was and the) quarreled in'a ueek? He t'm" I his h.art u mid break ov, r G.-i trade de ; 1:1 i’<M r> <’ :t:h five V, : s • lut iq ; C, m.edhs be wn* -r/. • tiy co-erful and Ir— -abU; vx:. InsNu -H. my i he will have forgotten all about y.-u. You lar stmiigi • than Claro, -••r rg. r than . 1 >enzil. I alm -t t! k stnu .. r tba-i myI seif, f- r I have t > | to man. . • Denzil ami failed, and I d n't think y. 1 will I fai! " ••INiH? What ii.?” “I i milking I.i n ke. p his pr m:se. my ' dear. lleis so viid lit you th at if you tell him to marry Ci. ehe will do it. 11! answer for that.” Anne's face turned v. hite again. “Oh, no.” she said. "110, I - aid not do that.” “Yes. y I could, if y 1 thought it right," said tin -1 ku :;a: . v. ?'■ inag her keenly. "Let me in my sim'< rity add this. Mrs. Seymour." said Anne bitterly, "ihat if you force Mr. Lawrence into a marriage with Clare against Lis wdl you will secure neither her happiness nor his.” "I don’t care for his happiness, my dear; and you are mistaken about Clare's. I shajl secure hers by making her his wife. He'll console himself with her when he is bound to her, little as you may be disposed to acknowledge it.” Anne rose suddenly. “I can bear this nn longer.” sho said. "Have you taunted me enough? Be so good Ils to excuse me: » Is lime I went." An<l sho iH-uan to arrange her cloak, which sin- had loosened. (To be continued.) Parrot anti Srn'to. A few days ago the attention of the family was attracted by his cXClled calls for "Helen, Helen, or Mi s Helen!” followed by continuous shouts of “Ho, ho, ho!” The first was not unusual, but Ihe last was. An inspection of the back porch, where the bird's cage was hanging, found him straightened out at full length and staring intently at a small garter snake on the iloor. The snake seemed bewildered at the outcry and lay still with uplifted head. Content at having summoned his friends, the bird ceased bis shouts with one triumphant “Hurrah!” A hoe speedily' appeared on Ihe scone, but the snake had vanished, presumably to the ground below. A little later, however, the shouts for “Helen!” again uprose, and there was the intruder emerging from the diningroom. This time the hoe ended its career, amid the laughter and hurrahs of the delighted parrot, which evidently understood all about It.—Montclair coiTcspondencq Jacksonville (Fla.) Citizeu

JOBS FOR FAITHFUL. FEDERAL PATRONAGE AT M’KINLEY'S disposal. CHlzons by the Hundred Maktn B Eforts to Secure Government Posins in tlie Consular Service and *ne Departments. Information Rc"nrdin K the Offices. 1 resnieuvch^t M< Ki l; i ey will find seekimLl mK Ce f ° r ’‘ Very P,UCC Ut his ,lisi re nU ,C U ue . book studied ‘ J hinidreds of citizens anxious !?vii erVe their coun,r J’. and though the la "? US •” “ sreat ”1 Ihe number of places at his disposal, there remain many desirable billets. Mr-st in importance are the three em*assles— with their salaries of $17,500 per annum; the Mexican mission, paying the •same wage, and the Italian embassy, fixed at h 12,000. Equal to the latter in salary, though slightly less in diplomatic standing, are the missions to Austro-Hungary, Brazil, China, Japan and Spain. Jhere are eight nice missions, with salariec of SIO,OOO per annum, namely, Argentine, Bidgium. Chili, Colombia, Guatemala, and Honduras, Nicaragua. Coatn Ril’ft, and Salvador. Peru aixl Turkey. At “&7Aiuy >■ nunum arc rated the missiomi tJMßiumrk. Hawaii, Corea, the Nether lIPL Paraguay, and Uruguay, Portugal, nnd Norway, Switzerland, ami Vgßztieln, nine in nil. One salary is SO.of the minister to Greece and Seven plnei-s pay ^s,<*OO per auBolivia, San Domingo, Ecuador. HnlW, Persia, Siam and Egypt, where wo are represented by an agent ami consul general in the same person. Many of the embassies and ministers are supplied with secretaries, interpreters and attaches, with more or less attractive salaries. The best paid of these is the secretary of the Hawaiian mission, who nnviren $4,000 per annum. The others, thirty-five in number, have salaries nttached all the wav from JCI.OOO down to I As to the consular service some doubt exists. By « rule made last September President Clcicland provided that id) . om Isolates with salaries ami othi ial fees run ning between sL<*»o and $2.5«»0 should be filled by only three methods promotion or transfer, appointment <>f persons pre | vfoanly serving th® State Department well in some enpa. t<, and lastly, by npjs.int nwnt, after examination. Tb.it was ns far ns hr went in the application of civil •rTVKe prindplni. gild it remains to be •ren whether or not the numerous incam

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* bduw’thi m >• at? Places. They are thirty - ven consulates general, many being In rathe p -ts. sm h as London. Paris ami Berlin. The fixed In the War and Navy Departments then' are just t 'o pin < - op. a to . md;dates, aside from a .miple of private retaryships and u hall dozen i ■■■■> । amy paid laborers’ places. These places are the assistant secreteryM.ps. one in each department, paying $4,300 each. Good Places Gage May Fill. The Treasury Department next offers the greatest inducements, salary end h. •. or tawn into consideration. I’hese includef.Threc assistant wcretnrms at > 1.stKt ea?h, six auditors at * IM 1 each, six deputy auditors at $2,000 . a< h. om* treasurer al $6,000. and also an assistant treasurer, 'ontroller of treasury, register of the tri usury, assistant register of treasury, controller of the currency, comm.ssionerk’f internal revenue, ce;. ial s ip. - Sl ” ut • hung surgeon general marine hosM ? r ’ f /'>>ervisiug inspector general of im- ! ym. superintendent coast survey, I’rivat .Keeretary to the Secretary of the Treasury, 230 laborers actually employed as suJ from $240 to $600; 120 collectors of cu®oms, at varying salaries, 4”. surveyorSpf customs, ti naval officers, fl general a if,raisers of < usioms. 5 commissioners ofommigration, 13 appraisers of cus-toms,-IS assistant appraisers of customs. 4 exitminers of drugs, 63 collectors of internal''revenue. 0 assistant treasurers of the United States, and 10 supervising inspectors of steam vessels. Connected with I nited Slates nrnts there are four superintendents, five melters and refiners, three coiners, live assayers, one engraver. In the I nited States assay office there are one superintendent, two assayers in charge, two assayers, one melter and refiner, one melter and one assayer and melter. Connected with the department of justice there are one solicitor general, six assistant attorneys general, one solicitor of the treasury, one assistant solicitor of the treasury, one solicitor internal revenue. 14 territorial judges, three judges in the Indian territory, five judges court of private claims, io United States attorneys, 75 I nited States marshals. There are also in the District of (olumbia two judges of police court, la justices of the peace, about lot) notaries public and commissioners of deeds, eight trustees of the reform school for boys, and nine trustees of the girls’ reform school. During his administration President

McKinley also will have a number of Hf® appointments at his disposal, including places on the Supreme Court, the Feders? bench, and in the army and navy, of which class of officers are allowed to retlra on full pay. Postal Fervice a Wide Field. No field embraces more positions over u hich contests will be made by aspiring candidates than the postal service. Thero are just 70,G12 postoffices in the country’, and most of these change hands with every administration. Os these over 66,500 are fourth-class postoffices, and 20,000 of these OGJHM) arc money order otliees, or ones that pay well. The retiring administration is the first one to fix a four-year tenure of office, but this, of course, is not binding. Os the presidential postoffices, about 250 will be at the disposal of Mr. McKinley during his first month in office. There are forty cases of presidential postmasters' commissions already expired, not acted on by the Postoffice Department, and thirtyeight more will exj ire during March. Semi-attaelied to the department are • the two commissioners to investigate the । overtime claims of letter curriers, now j A. B. Hurt, ex-doorkeeper of the House, ' ami Judge Ixirenz. The former draws I not only the $5 per diem paid as commissioner, but also S2.OW per annum as assistant superintendent of the free delivery HyMem of tin- depart men t. < ItltMde of tbe regular <lepnrtmental ser- ■ vice there are u number of independent , branches of the government service, to ' some of which considerable patronage atj tachos. The chief of these places nre the commissioner of lalmr, public printer, three civil service commissioners, a librarian <>f Uongress and superintendent of the library, a commissioner of fish and fisheries, and chief of the bureau of American republics. VETOED BY THE PRESIDENT. Cleveland Declines to Approve the I inmi B rntion Bill. One of the last nets of President Cleveland was to veto the immigration bill. By the first sect ion of this bill it i* proposed ;<> amend section 1 of the act of March 3, Isbl. relating to immigration, ‘ny adding to the cla-se* of aliens thereby excluded fr en admission to the United States the following: “All persons physi.-ally capable and over I<> years of ago w ho cannot read and write the English language or some other language, but a person not so able to rend ami writ* who is over s<» years of age ami is the pan nt or grandparent of a (p.alitied imnimr utt, over 21 years of age and capable of supporting such parent or gram! parent may n- - otnpiiny such immigrant, r smh parent or grandparent may bo .- ■ ' >r ami . m.. p> join Ilie family of a

■1 or :.-ran h odd ov. r 21 years of age > arly q nd ami ■ iq al. • . and a wife ; ..r minor child r..>t so able to read ami | w: ”e may a. (empany or be sent for and • ■ • nd join f hu-3mid or parent sim- • * ■ . • i । Io a u ."■..igc setting forth his reasons for the veto Mr. Cleveland says; ’’ t hot . iMm- I I believe, that the . tim•• has come for the further restriction I ■ • • • rercrowds our land, j It V however, that the quality of '■•■'t ii.m.igraiion is urn . sirable. The ’ time :s u'p o wphin recent memory when same thing was said of immigrants who with their descendants are now numbered among our best citizens. It is said j that too many immigrants settle in our b, thus dangerously increasing their idle and vicious population. ’I his is certaivly a disadvantage. It cannot be sb. vn, however, that it affects all our cities nor that it is permanent; nor does it fppcar that this condition where it ex- । ist' demands as its remedy the reversal oi innuijfration policy. “ i he claim is also made that the influx of foreign laborers deprives of the opportm Uy to work those who are better enI titVH than they to the privilege of earning the:’ livelihood by daily toil. An unforI tuimfe condition is .ertamly presented j 1 whoa any who are willing to labor are un- j : employed. But so tar as this condition . i now exists among our people, it must be i । conceded to be a result of phenomenal i business depression and the stagnation of 1 all enterprises in which labor is a factor. 1 With the advent of settled and wholesome i financial and economic governmental poli- . vies and a consequent encouragement to i the activity of capital the misfortune of I unemployed labor should, to a great extent lat least, be remedied. If it continues its ! natural consequences must be to check the । further immigration to our cities of for- . eign laborers ami to deplete the ranks of those already here. In the meantime ■ those most willing and best fitted ought to be able to secure the advantages of । such work as there is to do. “ 1 he best reason that could be given for । this radical restriction of immigration is j I the necessity oi protecting our population against degeneration and saving our na- | tional peace and quiet from imported turbulence and disorder. “The requirement concerning the coming of illiterate relatives of immigrants proceeds upon the assumption that these relatives are in every case by reason of poverty liable to become a public charge unless the immigrant is capable of their support. The contrary is very often true. And yet if unable to read and write, though quite able and willing to support themselves and their relatives here besides, they could not be admitted under the provisions of this bill if the immigrant was impoverished, though the aid of his fortunate but illiterate relative might be the means of saving him from pauperism.” A

—' 1 THE INDIANA SOLONS The street railway bill, originating in the Senate, which abrogates the charter of the Citizens’ company in Indianapolis in 1901, besides other street railway franchises, was passed by the House Tuesday. The minority attempted to break t the caucus action on the Fort Wayne charter by threatening to defeat the bill, but the Indianapolis delegation stood firm. Ihe Fort Mayne charter amendment, which was so violently opposed, provides that the councilmen of that city shall be elected by the several wards, six of them now being councilmen at large. Seeing that tin? majority would not yield on the railway bill, only thirteen voted in the negative. The House passed the compulsory education bill, compelling schooling of children between S and 1-1 years, and the voting machine bill, the commissioners to have right to use any approved device. .After an hour of constant wrangling, during which the House of Representatives was so noisy that one could with ditliculty hear himself speak, that body defeated on Wednesday the bill passed by the Senate limiting street railroad fare in Indianapolis to 3 cents. Another wrangle followed on the bill amending the I ort \\ ay ne charter so as to require all the eoumilmeii to he elected by wards. Init a ctiui'UH iuea»urc the majority carried it through. The House then concurred in the Senate’s amendments to^the anti-trust bill ami to the > bill, and l»oth of the bills were sent to the Governor for his approval. For a time it looked as if a personal collision would reI suit in the Senate over the repeal of the apportionment of ISBS. The bill was passed. The House passed the prison contract labor bill, which provides that the product of the labor of convicts shall not be put on the market in competition with that of free labor, but shall be used iu the State institutions. Other bills passed: Taxing insurance companies upon their receipts; requiring that chattel mortgage foreclosures be made in the Uircuit Court; permitting incorporated towns to levy a tax of 50 cents on the hundred dollars for electric light plants; to wipe out wine rooms: to prevent th« sale of impure miners’ oils. The Senate defeated the State Board of Commerce bill for a commission to revise the laws relating to local government. The House Thursday reconsidered its vote defeating the 3-cent car fare bill and its provisions limited to Indianapolis, and ii wns fore.-d t<> a passage by a vote of 51 to 4.». It was this bill which was latterly fought by the Citizens’ Street Railway • ’ompany. A “double” motion was made to reconsider ami table, which was done.

tlov. Mount appointed Hugh H. Hanna, Indinnapidis; ex-Congressman George W. Cooper. Columbus; James R. Henry. Spen <r. and Senator Ellison, Fort Vt ayne. directors of t’.e Indiana reformatory at Jeffersonville. Following are some of the mor important bills that hav. been finally passed: Bill making it unlawful to >' Il ei^ar-ttes to any minor; new street railroad bi ,; bill repealing the sj.e, jal verdii-t law; paarmaey bill; genral medical bUI; labor commission bill; ' Linck anti trust bill; the bill to give the 1L ; üblu a::s a majority in the boards of control t>>r th ■ hospitals for the insane and the institutions for the education of tL. blind an ' 'io deaf and dumb; bill provid'.nu tor incorporntiop of farmers’ live -toek ins;,ram •• । ompazies; building and ’ I-., n mfimi bill. 1 ■ie v>. a v. i .r! of excitement in the H • I ■' d.i. ।-. enin^ u hen the Speaker e u i:efi i!,, t iliere had been an attempt t., Ini!., ep,. ~t the clerks, and appointed a < inmiitee of investigation, headed by ’ Representative Smith of Tippecanoe. It i- ? - t eally « . tied that here was an atI t. mpt to tamper with t ie bill recently d ereatii:, ; be Lake County Superior < art, the objeet being tc. give it concur- . r i.t jcri- li. tion with th ? Lake Circuit • ourt. This was the original purpose of I io nil!, but amendments, both in House and Senate, gave the court limited juris|i iction. , Su.-nicion point:; to a former member of the j louse from a northern ; county as the principal in he attempted bribery. Several of the prominent city | ministers app' jtn d on the floor of the Senate to urge the passage of the antiquart simp bill. The bill was passed and : transmitted to the Governor for his ap- ; proval. The bill requires the venders of liquors by the quart to seen -e the same license required of saloonkeepers and, in fai t, plan s them under all the "estrictioiis provided against the tt iffic. Wholesalers. when selling in packages of five .alions, alone are exempt. Gov. Mount receded from his determination not to accept bills for consideration passed after 12 m. Saturday night, and ! Monday the general appropriation bill ; was passed by the Senate and House and transferred to him. The Gcaemor ap- • proved the 3-cent fare bill, limiied to Indianapolis. ami vetoed the county treasurer settlement bill and a bill intended to pave tb.e way for contesting wills by heirs ; unable to pay costs. Examination showi cd that the cigarette bill had been tam- ! peied with, and the Governor recalled his approval, after which the nil! was jc-operly enrolled in both houses. The bill to protect township trustees from school . supply -harks also passed, the Governor intimating that it would be acceptable. The Indiana Legislature adjourned at S o’clock, after having been in session six-ty-one days. Both houses were controlled by the Republicans. Some important measures were enacted into laws, among them being the following: A bill providing for a 3-cent street car fare in Indianapolis: a general medical law patterned after the Ohio law; a law to encourage tlie estabiishment of domestic insurance companies; a law abolishing the expense fund ami withdrawal charges of building and loan associations; the repeal of the •p, ■, in! verdict iaw: a law authorizing the Attorney General to sue the Vapdalia Railway on an old State claim for$1.0()0,OW; a iaw abolishing quart shops; a law providing for compulsory educatio,.; the : p acing of all the benevolent instiitTions i. f tlie hands of Republicans, and q law providing D r the conversion of the S mthern Indiana penitentiary into a reformatory on the Elmira plan. "Johnny.” said the farmer, “go down in the cellar anil draw a pitcher of that sweet cider. Take a candle with you.” "Don’t need no candle." said Johnny. "Ah. my little man," said the minister. who was staying over night, "you must have quite an accurate judgment, to have filled the pitcher in the dark without running it over." “Aw," said Johnny, "it ain’t no trick at all. When it got up to tha first joint of my thumb I stopped."--Cincinnati inquirer.