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<_ CHAPTER XIX. “I will go to Miss Lennox’s house at •nee,” said Beltran tmhimself, after leaving his mother. "I will not try to meet her by chance—l will do everything openly. I will ask to see her, and then tell her why 1 am come.” Fortune favored him. He knocked at the hall door, and was told that Mi. 'Lennox and 'Lady Lennox were not at home —that they were not expected at home until four—but that Miss Lennox ,was disengaged. Beatrix sat alone in the superb drawing room, trying to decide what was best an right for her to do. She glanced listlessly enough at the card that the servan brought in. but when she saw the name her coldness deserted her; the sweet face was transformed, her eyes filled with lovely light, her lips parted with a smile. She held out both hands to Beltran on his entrance. His jealous eyes looked quickly at them—there was no engagement ring on her finger. Quite silently he clasped the outstretched hands—their meeting was so sweet, so pleasant, and it would be over so soon. She did not seem to remember that he was clasping her hands. it “I am very glad to see you back again, she said. “I was so sorry when you went fi. Wli V.** “I am presumptuous, I know,” he told her. “I chnnot help it. I have only called to ask you, is it true?” “Is what true?” she asked. She had completely forgotten the paragraph in the newspaper, as she had forgotten everything else in her joy at seeing him again. “Is it true that you are about to marry the Duke of Heathland?” he inquired. A lovely Hush rose to her face, her heart beat fast, but “Prince Charlie’s” daughter made one last effort in defense of her maidenly independence. I cannot understand why you should ask me that question, Mr. Carew,” she said, and that was perhaps the least* truthful sentence she had ever uttered. “Win you not sit down?” she added. “And will rdoasv^a^J'ainb
gfee was ’unco sen'lu» *-.iS*^P^Wmei^Tiponine." The dark eyes filled with pain. “Sentence of banishment, Mr. Carew? Nay. you will never hear such a sentence from me.” “You cannot understand why I should ask you that question,” he said. “Let metell you—you can but send me angrily away—it is because I am mad; because from the first moment that I beheld your face until now I have loved you with madness, but such madness makes a man's life sweet to him, Beatrix—this once let me call you ‘Beatrix.’ I have been mad enough to love you. Dear heaven, if I j could but tell you how no other face, sweet, has come between me and heaven save yours. Everything speaks of you. The waves murmur and the brooks sing ‘Beatrix.’ I know no other word; your
name, so sweet, so simple, fills the world for me. I did not know that I loved you. I never said to myself, ‘She is the fairest amongst women, and I will win uer.’ I drifted as a leaf drifts down the stream. I dreamed as a child dreams. I wake to find myseif struggling with a man's love, a man’s despair. I went away while I had strength to go. You are not angry with me, sweet?” “I am not angry,” she replied, all unconscious of the story that her downcast eyes and drooping face told, all unconscious that she still stood with her hands clasped in his. “I went away because I felt that if I saw you again I must tell you all, and that In telling I might lose you. I thought that when I was far away from you I should forget you, I would learn to love you less. I have studied hard, I have worked hard, and have returned quite as mad as when I went away. The first thing I saw on mj arrival in England was the announcement of your betrothal; and I have come < ool' TTAII
IO ask you, is it true?” “No," she replied, “it is not true.” The sudden gleam of happiness in his I face startled her. “Not true! Thank heaven! Oh, Beatrix, permit me to ask, do you love this ' great and mighty duke who has so much 1 to offer you?” “You do not deserve to know,” sho said; I and his heart grew lighter at the words. “Why do I not?" he asked. "One would think that is, I should imagine——" and then she stopped. “You would imagine what, Beatrix?” “I should think that, if you had really been anxious to know, yon would have asked me instead of going to Athens," j she sai l. “I dared not.” “Why, Mr. Carew?” she asked, briefly. “Why? Because you are a great heiress, a brilliant belle, a queen of fashion, and I am a poor barrister with no fortune.” “What nonsense!” cried Beatrix; and in *ome vague way, though the words were rather commonplace, he seemed to find a great deal cf encouragement in them. “Nonsense? Nay, it is hardly that. Had I acted otherwise, it would have been the ease of King Cophetua and .the beggarmaid reversed.” “It would have been no such thing,” she rejoined, quickly. “You have all, Beatrix, and I have nothing,” he said. “If the world were mine, I would lay it nt your feet, I would give you everj thing.” “Are you the only generous person in existence?” she asked. k A sudden passionate fire flamed in his
eves, his lips trembled, the strong hands j tightened their clasp. t “Mind, Beatrix,” he cried, “or you will drive me mad!” 1 “I do not want you to go mad,” she t said—“l want you to be cool and sensi- , ble.” . < ‘‘Standing here, Beatrix, looking at jou, , it is very difficult to be that." j “Then do not look at me,” she sar _ I “As though I could help it! I shall go away ten thousand times happier than 1 ( came.” . „ . 1 “Are you going to Athens again.' she ] asked, quietly. “No, I shall stay here now. Oh, Beatrix, I love you so dearly'. How rejoiced I should be it you could learn to care for me'.” ' . “You have never asked me, she said. “Have I not? The distance between us is so great; it seems to me as useless to ask you as to stretch out my hands to touch a bright star, you are so far above me. But, Beatrix, yon are not angry; you hear me say these tilings, and your dear face does not frown upon me? I am growing giddy-it cannot be possible that you are willing to care for me- 1 must be dreaming! ' “You have never asked me,” -ho repeated; but he saw that her face had grown as white as death. “I ask you now, my darling, my beauti--1 ful love—will you try to care for tie? I • am not worthy, but I love you as no other man ever could. 1 fear to ask, vet it must I be true —do you care for me a little’ “ “Not a little—can you not guess?" she said. “Is it possible, Beatrix, that you love me?” The gravity of her face was broken by ' gleams of rosy, tender light ; the dai k eji s ' looked for a moment into his own, and - then she was clasped in his arms. “I cannot believe it!” he crie 1. * “You were always my hero.” said Bea 1 trix. as though excusing herself- “always. ■ I thought you from the first like King Arthur.” “This is happiness!" he exclaimed. My ’ twoud, beautiful Beatrix is it true that I
CHAPTER XX. , The sound of carriage wheels roused Beatrix and Beltran from their trance of delight. Beatrix looked at her lover. “They are come, ' sho said, and the proud face grew pale as from some great emotion. . Beltran kissed the sweet lips that had already bidden su-h defiance to love. “There will be a battle to fight, my darling,’ he said. ‘ Oh, Beatrix, my heart misgives me! 1 have been selfish. ’ ought never to have told you of my love.” “Would it lave been better, then, to have left me to be unhappy forever?’’ she asked. “Your uncle must be told at once," said Beltran. "When would you advise me to see him?”
"To-morrow morning,” she replied, "before luncheon." “He will be angry with us. I know,” said Beltran, “and I am sorry for it. I like your uncle, Beatrix, without knowing why.” “So much th? better.” she told him. “And I love my uncle very dearly. lie is a sterling, noble man.’’ Hardly knowing whether he was dreaming or awake, Beltran Carew left Strathnarn House. Beatrix went to her room, her heart full of her new-found happiness. “It is the very wine of life,” she said to herself, “this love that I despised.” One of the first things she did was to write to the duke; and her letter was very much to the point. “I told you from the first,” she said, ; “that I did not love you. You bagged of ; me to try to do so. I did try and failed; then you asked me to try again, and,' much against my wish, you persisted in ' declaring yourself a suitor for my hand. 5
It was understood between us that I was quite free, and that, if I found myself unable to love you, I was to tell you so. I That time has come. I have asked you often to withdraw from pretensions that distressed me. Now I deal quite fairly and honestly with you, and toll yon most frankly that I have mot one whom I do love. I esteem you and respect you, and shall always be most happy to call you my friend.” The letter concluded with expressions of good will and continued interest. Beatrix felt light of heart when she had written it. If he could but have believed her when she had spoken before! Then she dressed for dinner, feeling as j though sh° n oved on air, so unutterably happy was she. Lady I.ennox looked up in wonder at the beautiful, radiant vision that seemed to float into her room Beatrix, in her sweeping diess of white silk, with roses in her hair, her bright face flushed with a glow of happiness that was new to it, her 6yes bright with the sweet story of her love. “Trixie, my darling,” said the gentle mothef, “how well you look!” The girl went up to her; she knelt by her side, and clasped her warm arms round her reck. “Kiss me, mamma,” she said, “for I am the happiest Beatrix in all the world—indeed, I feel that there is no other creature so happy as I am.” The love shining in her eyes and flushing the sweet, proud face made her so beautiful that Lady Lennox was struck with her. I have something to tell you, mamma,”
she said, shyly, “but you must keep It a secret until to-morrow— something that is most wonderful. Can you not gu eag ?o And with the shyness of a child she hid her face on her mother's neck. "I cannot guess—unless the duke- ” “Oh, mamma,” sho cried, "do not talk about the duke, please! That is all at an end. I want to toll you why I arn g 0 happy. Beltran Carew loves me, and has asked me to be his wife.” She was silent for a moment —the sound of the words ns she herself had uttered them filled her whole mind with inexpressible joy. Lady Lennox did not stir or speak. “1 laughed at love so long, mamma, and now no one loves more deeply than I do ” said the sweet voice. But Lady Lennox looked very grave. It was not in human nature to hear such words and see such a face as Beatrix’s without some emotion. She unclasped i ler daughter’s arms from her neck, and gazed half sadly nt her. “Do you love him so very much, darling? Is it such very good news?” “The best I could bring you, mamma; nothing could be better,” she said. “No one could imagine anything better.” “My dear Trixie, it is a very serious
matter. What about the duke? First of all, tell me about him.” * “There is nothing to tell, man 1 have'always been quite open ant. ' "L' about him. Ho would not ewer, which was always 'No.' IK u ^sis ed in saying that if I would -if I would only try-in time 1 should loie him; it required time. I am not to blame, mamma.” “But, Trixie, think of the position, my dear. It is such a splendid match to break off, such a brilliant future, to mar and spoil. lam quite frightened at what the world will say.” “Am 1 to marry to please myself or the world?” she asked. “Yoqrself, of course, Trixie; but consider the proposed match. You are very beautiful, and you will have a large fortune—Mr. Carew has only his profession. “I should not mind, mamma, if he had even less than that,” she said, proudly; “one does not measure such a man by his wealth. Oh, mamma, dear, be kind to me! Do not talk about money. Think how I love him how he loves me. M bat is money? Tell me that you like him—that you are pleased—that you will be my friend." Lady Lennox was quite roused now. “I do like him,” she replied. “He is handsome, generous, gifted, noble—he is all that a man should be; but I cannot say that I am pleased you arc going to marry him. Trixie, with your beauty, you ought to do much better. Your uncle will be bitterly annoyed." Beatrix rose from her knees. “I am sorry you nre not pleased about it, mamma,” she said. “It will not matter, though; death itself would not
change me." “I am quite sure harm will come of it, Trixie. I am frightened.” Beatrix kissed her with the same air of protection that she would have shown a child. “You are nervous, mamma; It will be all right. I’ncle never refuses me anything on which my heart is fixed. Do not think about it. Only kiss me and any that ymi hope 1 shall b^i tippyjMNM
is piwm "‘WKb , jO t sap wry badly. sin.-.- 7^ Wiscon the difference, socially, between a pee, and a barrister.” (To ho continued. ) Love anil Genius. Matty men of genius have undoubt edly believed, with Thackeray, that i Is better to love foolishly than not al all; that they practiced this philosophy is proved by their memoirs and blogra phies. Leigh Hunt lov’d a good girl whose spelling was unconventional, and whose chirograph? could not lai called her chief accomplishment. Keats was wildly, madly in love with a commonplace girl named Fanny Browne. He married her. but she was incapable of appreciating hum Hazlitt, the brilliant essayist, loved the pert, coarse ’laughter of his landlady. He wrote her a letter which she never answered, ami he said that "the rolling years of eternity would not till up the blank that her failure to answer that letter caused." A practical Scotch girl. Charlotte Carpenter, won Walter Scott's love. She not only hated literature, but objected to writing to him. He wrote her saying: "You must write me once a week." She replied: “You are quite out of your senses, and you need not put in so many ‘musts’ In your letters. It is beginning too early.” Walter was foolishly in love with Imdy Dorothea Sydney, who was his “Saccharissa.” She liked his love making in poetry, but when he proposed marriage in prose, the idea did not appeal to her. Alfred de Mussel's love for the irresponsive George Sand gave * his
thoughts such an extraordinary elevation that he wrote many bril! .nit poems in consequence. Thomson :<J his Amanda and Littleton his Nad : '‘- Chaucer sang fan ] •——^tny queens, but his one great, love was I’hfillppa Picard do Bonet, the lady In waiting to Queen Anne of Bohemia He waited nine years to marry her, but made it a matter of complaint in several poems. Moore lived up to his theory that love’s young dream Is sweetest thing in life. He never let one love get old before he supplanteq it with a new. Carey had his .Sally o f “Sally in Our Alley” fafire. Surrey loved Geraldine from the time she was a. child Ln short dresses. Corneille, the astute lawyer, fell in love and became the brilliant dramatic poet." Thus it seems that love, whether successful or otherwise, for a time inspires its votaries.
Tuning Up. It has often puzzled the uninitiated why musicians tune their instniments in public, and not before they enter tire orchestra. If they manipulated them before entering the theater”or concert loom they might find the temperature different in the place of performance, and the InstTumemte would not bp in tune. In some of the farming districts of China pigs are harnessed to small wagons and m&db to draw them.
ARM TO FIGHT FEVER. RIGID QUARANTINE IN SOUTHERN TOWNS. Law Will Be Enforced with Guns if Necessary—Guards Watch All Pass* Ing Trains—Danger that tho Pestilence Muy Spread. Peril in the Plague. The breaking out of yellow fever at Ocean Springs, Miss., New Orleans and other places has caused a very widespread alarm In the South. Practically every city and town in Alabama has established the most rigid quarantine against Ocean Springs, New Orleans and other yellow fever infected points, and most
places a shotgun quarantine is the order of the day. This Is virtually true of Mobile, whore the officials publicly proclaimed that tire regulations would be enforced at the point of guns. Trains from the South and Southwest on all railroads passing through any part of the State are boarded by determined officers heavily armed, and ; no on* from anywhere near the infected district* is permitted to leave the cars. At a number of Binall towns guards line the depot pkitforms as well as the trains. Many Alabamians summering at Gulf coast resorts ar® shut out entirely from the rest of the world, ns trains between Mobile and New Orleans now run past all stations without stopping. It is feared that the deity of the health authorities in proclaiming the disease yellow fever will result disastrously, and it would be no surprise should it break out at various Southern points at any moment. May Spread the Plague. For three weeks past people from all over this and neighboring States ha^e been leaving Ocean Springs In fright because, ns they said,, a peculiar epidemic was prevailing nt that place. 3 hose who thus got away before the yellow fever commenced are now scattered far and wide, and herein lies the greatest danger. The Florida State Board of Health has
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Issued n proclamation excluding from the ' State all persons and baggage from the yellow fever infected points in Louisiana and Mississippi, unless accompanied by a certificate that the person has not been exposed to the disease within fifteen days from the time of departure. The salt water resorts between Mobile and New Orleans Pascagoula, Scranton, Biloxi. Ocean Springs, Bay St. Louis, WB Ohrisden, Waveland, the Mulhern nt this season tens orthouaands of visitors from all sections of the South. Mobile now has representatives by hundreds at Scranton, Biloxi, Ocean Springs and the camp grounds. These people, since the fever panic began, have been wildly anxious to get to their homes. Federal Authorities A c f. The general Government will render all assistance in its power to cheek the spread of yellow fever. This will be done mainly through the agency of the Marine Hospital Service. Dr. Walter Wyman, the bead of the bureau, has returned to Washington and assumed active charge in di-
recting the work in assisting the State s officials of Mississippi in their efforts to confine the disease to the locality where >. ft appears to have started. Dr. Wyman 2 says that as yet he has no opinion to ex- i . press whether the disease is really yellow 2 fever, although he admits it looks very j suspicious. The precautionary measures he has taken are based entirely on the ; declaration of the State Board of Health of Louisiana in the Gelpi case, which ‘ was that the disease from which the person had died was yellow fever. Dr. Wyman says the situation at Ocean Springs । is entirely in the hands of the State Board of Health, while the Marine Hospital Bureau is doing everything possible to assist Dr. Wyman has wired the physician In charge at Ocean Springs a copy of the treasury regulations relating to’the prevention of the spread of epidemic diseases from one State to another. These regulations prescribe the manner of surveillance to be established over railroad trains coming from the infected district and give rules for the isolation of infected passengers and the disinfection of their baggage. The Marine Hospital Service has ample camp material on hand. The nd I .. it- ; fit which has I at < has been sent to th-’ • ty of Ocean . hd>! if a ■ ar :p - f tie.- ntion is I found necessary the outfit will be used ns ' occasion may require. The bureau also keeps portable apparatus at Savannah, *la., intended for use in epidemics. It consists of machines'for disinfecting and fumigating purposes. They have also been sent to the vicinity of Ocean Springs. EUROPE NEEDITwHEAT. Agent Atwell Sends a Report to the State department W. P. Atwell, commercial agent of the United States at Robaix, France sends to the State Department a report’on' the short wheat crop in France. He says the crop In France and in fact in all Europe has fallen much below the average, and - t-h <i f if la Act im « fnJ ♦ V .. * u
tnat i u estimated that the United States and Canada will be called upon to exnort from 20,000 000 to 130,000,000 bushels more than tliey exported to Euronext W1 require about 60,000000 bushels to meet the deficiency i u th a ’t country. J Consul Heenan at Odessa has made an extensive report to the State Depart meat concerning the failure of the A
T ~ v vx uic crops in Rusaia In many districts it has been the wettest season ever known, and grain has b^ d ^troyed by both rain and hah Much of the grain was not worth the expense of binding. The wheat received at Odessa is of a very inferior quality The report predicts that little wheat will be exported from Russia during the season of 1897-8, as there is little availablefor that purpose, the old stocks being practically exhausted and the new crop little more than sufficient for the home deI ma nA
The failure of the wheat crop in Aus-tria-Hungary, Roumania and Bulgaria, Consul Heenan continues, has brought buyers from those countries into Russia, and wheat which would ordinarily leave Odessa by steamers is destined to go by rail from the interior into tho countries named. Secretary Wilson was at his desk in the Agricultural Department in Washington Tuesday for the first time for a month, having just returned from his tour of the trans-Mississippi States. He went as far west as Montana and Utah, giving especial attention to the agricultural interests of the States visited, with particular reference to irrigation, horse-raising and su-gar-beet growing. “I found the farmers in especially good spirits wherever I went,” he said. “There is no doubt that confidence is restored, and that the country is justified in its anticipation of better times. The people are all busy in the West. Indeed, I do not
believe there is an idle man west of the Mississippi who wants work.” Mr. Wilson predicted a still further advance in the price of wheat, due to the fact that there is not only a short crop abroad, but also because of the fact that, according to his observation, the crop will not be so extensive in this country as has generally been anticipated. “With the improvement of the times,” he said, “the average American U going to have till the flour his family can consume, even though he may have to pay a little more-for it. I believe that even without the shortage in the foreign crops the conditions in this country would have forced wheat to $1 a bushel. But,” he added, “the improved condition of Lie farmer Is due not alone to the enhanced price in wheat. There has been a corre-
। sponding improvement in all farm products.” LUETGERT’S LETTERS. ' Missive* Which Tend to Establish a Murder Motive. * When Luetgert, the alleged Chicago j wife murderer, entered Judge Tuthill's r* courtroom Tuesday he smiled and nodded 1 at the jury, but he failed to extend the •. J sweep of his salutation to the crowd. s j Th* first business taken up was the
I reading of translations of letters written by the defendant to Mrs. Christine Feldt. , The reading of the fond missives sent by Luetgert to the widow occupied much time, several being very lengthy. While Assistant State's Attorney McEwen read the epistles the jury listened carefully. The reader was careful to 1 place due emphasis on each endearing I word or phrase and to fully emphasize ail reference to the fact that the mg sausage manufacturer wns anxious for the wou cue object of his affections. When i those portions of the letters containing i reference to Luetgert’s trouble in engaging an attorney were read aloud it evii dently embarassed the prisoner. Luetgert’s leading attorney, ex-Judge \ incent, smiled and the prisoner visibly winced when the sentence was heard in which Attorney Vincent was termed "gret ly.” The letter went on to state that Luetgert intended to release Attorney A incent, as he did not consider him able to handle so important a case. In another letter Luetgert wrote to the of-
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3 feet that on the first day of the trial t there was to be a great surprise for the i Police and the State. An attorney of ; world-wide fame was to be engaged? and . when “the dogs of police” saw who it was they would quail with fear. This as yet unknown lawyer, Luetgert continued, was to supersede Attorney Vincent and then the case would be properly conducted. Attorney Vincent shook with silent laughter several times during the above and similar references. He seemed to regard the matter as a huge joke. Luetgert, whose chances for life were so considerably reduced by the introduction of the letters as evidence, rocked to aad ™ t v? 13 C ? air ’ and occasionally forced a s ckly smile, during the endearinpassages in the letters. He evidently did not enjoy, the public exposition of his amatory correspondence. After the letters were all read the re-
clplent, Mrs. Christine Feldt, a middleaged widow, was called to the witnesa chair for the purpose of finishing her testimony for the State. When Mrs. Feldt was called to ths stand her former lover, to whose case she had done so much damage, refused to glance in her direction. He twisted uneasily in his chair, and then leaned over to Attorney Vincent and a consultation was held. Meanwhile Assistant State's Attorney. McEwen proceeded with the direct examination, which dealt largely with the financial relations between Luetgert and Mrs. Feldt. The latter admitted having received funds from Luetgert prior to his arrest, and said that she had withdrawn the money at his demand from a safety deposit vault > for his use. The sums she had with- , drawn at different times footed up $4,000, • the entire amount which she had received. ‘ She asserted her ignorance of how this t money was used by the prisoner, but ad-
mitted that portions of it had been retained by her on his order for the care of his children. She also testified as to the substance of the letters and asserted that she had refused to lend Luetgert her own money upon the requests which she had received from him in the letters. She testified to having received in all eight letters from the big sansage manufacturer. The prosecution regards Mrs. Feldt as one of the most important witnesses, as thronjeb her testimony they expect to establish the fact of Kuetgert’s motive in i the alleged murder of his wife. i The last witness called b^the State on ? Tuesday was Nicholas Faber. Faber was ? employed as a fireman in the sausage faeJ tory and said that he had seen Mrs. 1 Luetgert enter the factory about 11 - o’clock on the night of the murder.
SIX PERSONS ARE KILLED. Terrible Explosion of Nitroglycerin at Cygnet, Ohio. A terrible explosion of nitroglycerin occurred at Cvgnet, Ohio, which resulted the death of at least six persons. The explosion occurred at Grant well, located at the rear of the National Supply Company's office building, in the village limits. This well had just been shot by Samuel Barber, the shooter for the Ohio and In-
diana Torpedo Company. The well was a gasser, and when the 120 quarts of glycerin let down into the well exploded the gas ignited, and with a terrific roar the flames shot high above the derrick. As soon as the drillers saw the flames several climbed into the derrick to cut off the gas, but they had hardly gotten there when there was a terrific explosion. The burning gas had started the remaining glycerin in the empty cans rtanding in a wagon near the derrick. In another wflpnn near l>y wore some cans containing another 120 quarts of the stuff, and this was started by the force of the first explosion. The second was blended with the first in a mighty roar and the town and surrounding country for many miles trembled from the shock. Eight buildings are a total wreck and many others damaged. The town has a population of about 1,200. Many bystanders were wounded. COSTS TEN MILLIONS. Extensive Coal Strike Proves Expensive tor the Miners. It is thought that the miners’ strike will x. it is understood that the national officials of thes miners ’ union nr® willing to accept the compromise at 64 cents, an-aa-e,. cen-s, although the striker^ wan cents. The battle has been a costlv one for the strikers, according to estimates made by their own officials. The strikers have lost in wages $10,500,000. It is estimated that in the bituminous coal districts of the country, including Pennsylvania. Ohio, West Virginia, Indiana, Illinois, lowa and other States, 12,000 men were idle. The average earnings of the men is put at $1.40 a day. It will take
' two years of steady work for the strikers to recover what they have lost. Although the strikers are by far the heaviest losers, the operators claim that ha J. e lost or rather "ill lose, i di/ lhe °P« a tors say that up to ? aTe lost no mone y, because tliey have been able to sell at fancy prices immense piles of slack and mine refuse that is ordinarily worth nothing. But suF/hT^ °C?- 1 Ceuts P ro P° sed result In their filling a number of large at a . loss ’ and for this there is Tb.T^ 1 new c °ntracts are made, ne operators say there is but 1,000 000 >e ! 1° ba sh 'PPed to the lakes under . C * bnt 11107 are a f ra id they will not be ab.e to get it out in time, because there Ul be a shortage of cars just as soon as tne miners resume work. We are inclined to regard the mad Mullah of Huddafe as a holy terror.