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CHAPTER XXI. - Peter Lennox sat in his study. BreakjTast was over; his letters were answered, Ulis business affairs finished. He sat mus-i ing with great delight on the wedding | that was never to be. He had wondered a little, for, when breakfast was over, Beatrix had laid her hands on his shoul- , der and said, with a charming smile: ' “Uncle, if some one comes to see you this morning, and has something to say about, me, you will be very kind, will yon not?” He had not the remotest idea of her meaning; he fancied that she must be speaking of a jeweler or a milliner. ; “What am Ito say. Trixie?" he asked. : “You must say ‘Yes.’ Bear that in ' mind. All the time that my friend is talking to you say to yourself over and ever again, ‘I have to say Yes.' ” ‘ Peter Lennox laughed. “You’re a terrible coax, Trixie,” he re- ■ plied. “We shall see what the ‘Yes involves,” and he went to his study, won- ■ dering what she could mean. There he employed himself busily. He was about to leave the room to go ■for his morning's walk, when Beltran Carew was announced. He asked him to sit ' down, and expressed how gratified he 'was to see him and they talked for some minutes on matters in general; then Beltran said: ) “I am come on a very important errand, • Mr. Lennox.” ; In a moment it occurred to Peter Lennox that this was Beatrix's “friend," and that he had to say "Yes." He looked up In dismay. What could Beltran Carew have to say about his niece? He listened intently. “I hope you will not think me preBumptuous. I only wish that I were king of a great kingdom that I might prove to you the disinterestedness of my affection. I love Miss Lennox—l cannot tell you how deeply and dearly. 1 ask your permission to make her my wife.” At first he listened in blank dismay, and then his face grew pale with anger. “I distinctly refuse my permission, sir,” he answered. “My niece must marry the Duke of Heathland.” i “But,” said Beltran, “your niece does not love the duke, sir. She loves me.” “It is not a question of sentiment,” declared Peter Lennox. “Love is a toy for boys and girls; my niece must marry for the welfare of her house, for the pros perity and well-being of her race. She must marry as the ladies of her house >have done before her —and in that ease |she cannot marry you.” ! “Miss Lennox loves me, sir,” he said; «nd, despite his anger, Peter Lennox's flieart warmed to him, he looked so handJeome. ' “It is a girl’s fancy,” rejoined Peter tLennox, grimly, “that will die before stern Realities.” ; ; “I think not,” said Beltran. "Miss Len’nox is not a girl who is easily influenced. She is firm —a true Lennox, sir. I hope you will not harden your heart against us. I know that I am what the world ■would call a poor match; but I love her so dearly, sir—l do, indeed—l would give my very life for her. She is the heart of my heart, life of my life, soul of my soul.” His lips quivered, and a mist of tears rose in his blue eyes. "1 will work hard for her, sir,” he went on—"I will surround her with luxuries —indeed, she shall miss nothing that she has had here.” I Peter Lennox rose from his chair and Booked at him gravely. "I am very sorry,” he said, “that it conmot be—that I cannot consent. You plead pvell, but you plead in vain. You cannot |marry my niece. I refuse most distinctly. 3 decline to listen,to your proposition. I pike you; personally I have not the least •objection to you. You are a noble-hearted onan. If I had two nieces, I would give kou one. As I have but one, she must knarry for the benefit of the race she Jeprings from.” ■ “I do not think she will agree with you, ■Rir,” said Beltran. I “It is of very little moment whether she does or not; she will have to marry as I have stated. Go home, sir, and forget Cier. I like you, and will be your friend hrough life. I will do anything for you, , except give you my niece—that is an impossibility. lam sorry to be abrupt, but I have an engagement this morning. 1 trust to your honor, Mr. Carew, to make I no attempt at seeing my niece again.” . Anil with a grim civility that boded ill ; kor bis interests, Beltran found himself showed out of the room. CHAPTER XXII. ♦ After his dismissal by the millionaire, ^Beltran Carew stopped in the hall of btrathnarn House and asked to see Miss Lennox. She came to him looking dazxlingly bright. | "You have seen my uncle, Beltran?” •she said. “What is the nows?” i He took her hand in his and looked sadJly into her face. . “My darling, you must send me away |from you. Your uncle will not hear of the lengagement— will not listen to one word ■about it.” “I shall never send you away, Beltran, land I shall never give you up,” she replied rankly. “Was my uncle very angry?” “He seemed to be sorry for us, I fancied; but I might just as well have prayed and pleaded to a statue, Beatrix—he was immovable.” “If you can bear all that, I can do the I same, and we shall win in the end, Beltran,” said Beatrix. “Nothing shall make aie break my promise; and if you can bear the trouble that I fear is in store for us, ■never speak again of my giving you up—ft you do, I shall take it as a sign that ^ou have grown faint-hearted and wish to

leave me. Together we can brave fate.” He could only kiss the hand that he held. He was in a passion of love and deI light; he could find no words to say to her, she was so true, so noble, so loyal. Then he went away. Just as he was leaving | the hall door he saw a groom wearing the | Heathland livery ride up with a note in his hand. The note was for Beatrix, and within it was inclosed one for her uncle. She had never liked the duke so well as when she read his present letter; it was so full of kindness. It ran: "My Dear Miss Lennox My affection for you has been so sincere that I prefer your happiness to my own. As you have found your happiness in the love of a more fortunate man, I withdraw; and. wishing you every blessing. I promise to remain your friend until death. “HEATHLAND.” The little note written to Peter Lennox merely said: "My Dear Sir—l have to thank you for all the kindness that you have shown me during the time of our friendship, and to ask that the same friendship may be extended to me still, although my hope of winning your niece has ended. Yours truly, HEATHLAND.” Beatrix sought her uncle with her note in her hand. He was still in the library, too much annoyed, too vexed and miserable to care about going out. He looked up when she entered. His heart misgave him when he saw the firm, self-reliant expression of the proud face. She did not look like one to be swayed by sharp words. "Beatrix," said Peter Lennox. ”1 was just about to send for you. 1 was very much annoyed this morning.” Despite his annoyance, his usual old-fashioned coiir tesy did not forsake him; he rose and placed a chair for her. "Be seated, my dear; I want you to listen to me. 1 have been very much annoyed.” "I am sorry to hear it, uncle," she re sponded. "I am afraid you have not b- on kind, as you promised; you have not said ‘Yes’ to my friend." “I have not —I could not. I atn more ' annoyed, more irritated than I have been for years.” She placed the duke's letter in his hand. I “Read that, uncle," she said; "there is an example of generosity." His face darkened more and more ahe read it, and very quickly ho laid it down with muttered words that she did not care to hear. “So you have given up a man who writes like that." he remarked “a generous hearted man whose like you will m t easily meet?” “Yes. uncle: it was far more honorable to give him up than to marry him with out love —was it not?" “I am so annoyed," he said, “that 1 cannot speak calmly upon the matter, it is the greatest disappointment I have had in my life —the very greatest.” "1 am sorry to hear it. uncle," she re turned, gently. "I did not expect such treatment from my brother's daughter—l had hoped for better things. lam old and must not look for old-fashioned virtues, I suppose. You ■ can leave me, Miss Lennox; I prefer to be alone.” "Are you going to call mo ‘Miss Leu nox,' uncle?” she asked, with a dreary sigh. “That would make me very miserable.” “You are no niece of mine while you 1 persist in disobeying me,” lie replied. He watched her as she quitted th’e room in all the pride of her glorious youth, a shadow lying upop her fajr young faey. । "It seems hard that she cannot have her heart's desire,” he said to himself, “but she cannot.” He grew restless. Ho walked up and down the long room. He paused repeatedly at the door, thinking that he would go after her and remonstrate again with her, and then he said to himself that it would be useless. CHAPTER XXIII. A mantle of gloom fell over the once happy household; the servants soon perceived that there was something wrong. Peter Lennox kept to his study now, and seldom dined at home, or spoke to his niece; he was vexed, angry, and discomfited. In the meantime Beatrix <;w Beltran at rare intervals es Elysiuin" he called such meetings. lie could not go to Strathnarn House I‘eter Lennox I had forbidden it. The Duchess of Elmsj lie was very civil to him when she met him, but she never invited him to her house. The lovers met at balls and parties, at the opera. If they could not meet they could write; and they did so. One evening the three members of the ■ divided household dined together. Peter Lennox had resolved upon making one more appeal to his niece, and so talked to her more kindly than usual. It was gentle Lady Lennox who caused the mischief. She noticed the ring with its band of pearls, and, taking her daughter's hand in hers, she said: “Trixie, what a beautiful ring! What ! large pearls! How fine they are! Have I I seen that before?” “No, mamma,” she replied. , “Where did it come from?” asked Lady I Lennox, quite unconsciously. Some girls would have evaded the question, and without speaking falsely would - have laughed away the inquiry—not so ; frank, uncompromising Beatrix. She looked up and said: i “Beltran Carew gave it to me, mamma. ■ It is my engagement ring.” > The few simple words fell like a thun- ■ derbolt. Lady Ailsa sighed deeply. Peter , Lennox abruptly rose from his chair. “I am your lawful guardian, Beatrix; I stand here in your dead father’s place ■ he began.

“But not with his kindly heart,” she Interposed. "I stand in his place.” continued Peter Lennox, "and 1 hold his authority. In his name and in my own, I command you to take that ring from your finger and return it to the presumptuous man from whom you have received it. Do you hoar?” "les, uncle, I hear,” sho replied calmly. “Do you intend to obey?” he asked. “No, most decidedly not. You must think 1 am a child, uncle, to ask me such a thing. That ring will never leave my finger while I live.” "Think again,” he said, "before you defy me. I give you one more chance. Will you take off that ring, send it back to Beltran Carew, and tell him that by my wish all acquaintance between you is ended ?” "No, uncle, I will not —I cannot,” she replied. The stern face grow white with ra'e. She did not quail before it. "You refuse? Then listen to me, Beatrix Lennox. 1 have been some time considering what I should do—listen to me.” “I am listening, uncle,” she replied. But even she, who know how far thei Lennox anger could go, wondered what it was that he had to say. “I have borne a great deal,” said Peterj Lennox; “far more than 1 ought to have! borne; but I loved you, Beatrix, and I did^ not want to harm you. Now I have eoiugj to this determination you must give up 1 *. reW n, ” Rt ^'e me on< of the tuo. My heiress must be worthy of her name, an.l !f you marry ( hL needy barrister you will not be worthy “Do not say one word against himg’ she returned, with white lips. "I will leave that for the world," he" - said. "It will say enough without the addition <»f one word from mo. I brand him as a fortune-hunter, and so dismiss him. It is with you I have to deal. You must choose between us between Peter Lennox, your father's brother, the head of your house, your uncle, your guardian, the man who would have given his heart's blood for you, the man who has lavished his wealth upon you. who rescued you from poverty and made you his heiress, and the man who may mar your life and mine. You must choose between us, Beatrix Lennox.” She stood quite still, quite silent it was a tremendous stake. Presently she raised her eyes to his, and u light such as he had never seen before came into her face • a look that jo never forgot while he lived. “I choose Beltran Carew, uncle,” she said, quite calmly. "1 choose jwverty with him rather than wealth without him." There was deep silence between then for many minutes a silence that neither of them cared to break. Then Peter Lennox moved nearer to her and Iwked into her face. “You deliberately renounce Erccldcen mid my wealth, my love and the inheritance 1 could have you for Beltran (h---rew ?” "I would renounce the whole world f>r him,” she replied. He bowed. "I can say no more, Miss Lennns. Yul jean tell your mother that this houst is • your home no longer.” “1 cannot bear it. Trixie,” Lennox. "I thought I was stronM. Wit will kill me to leave the luxury tad cfn forts of this place for the lonely, dcsolits solitude of Strathnnrn. I am yet strong.” Beatrix looked at her uncle. “I’ncle” she asked, "could yon not find some other way of punishing me? Make mo suffer twice as much, if you will, but spare mnmmn." He neither looked at her nor spoke to her. but turned to Lady Ailsa. “1 am sorry you have to suffer for your daughter's wrong doing. You must pardon me if I am firm. When your daughter submits t<> my wishes, I will make everything as pleasant as possible for you; but while she persists in her willfulness I will persist. Lennox has met Lennox—you know how it must end. Let me add that I shall be pleased if you will take her away to Strathnarn as soon ns you can. I shall leave my house now. and not return until she has quitted it." Beatrix rose from her mother's side, and stood before him with flashing eyes. “You are cruel," she cried, angrily—"cruel and unmanly. 1 do not care uhat you do to me, but is it worthy of a man to punish a weak, delicate woman for the fault of her child? You strike nt me through her, and I say it is cowardly, unworthy of you. The meanest foes meet face to sace —you strike at me through one whom I bold most dear.” He never looked at her, nofer answered her; the girl's slender figure trembled with agitation. "I have no respect for you,” she said, proudly. “I did not think that you could have done such fl t ing. 1 would not be your heiress now if I could. You are a trader, and no gentleman. You will not be kept out of your house Jong. I liall go to Lady Rayner's now—at oncejiny dear mother will go with me; and wa-an travel to Strathnarn when she is Jvell enough.” | She made him a low bow and fjept from the room, leaving him behind IR-. “Do not cry, Ailsa,” Peter Lenrfhxgnid more gently; “you shall want for imtßM. A । A . i.s at Sir. ■ aam will <;«T put an end to all this false heroistk of iit rs, and everything will come ri-ht again. Having made the threat, I milst follow it up." ”1 wish that I lay safe by Charlie's side!" sobbed the helpless lady; and her grim, stern brother in-law liked her betI ter for her weakness and dependence < n him. (To be continued.) Ball Bearings. If I». lm suited a,,,, be subserved by inacmg the wheels r. ball bearings, and experiment has shown that the starting pull require on a ear so equipped is very m-ueh l s - a than on other cars. It. seems to 1 only a question whether 1 he cost of ■ S troduction and maintenance of bearings is not greater than the cost^ r the energy that would be saved i their use. If it is not, we may look far greater station economy in the future. ear Statistics of I,ate Repentance Munhall says that he knew a minis, ter who had kept a record of 1,000 Cfls of deathbed repentances, in which ti $ penitents recovered, and that twenty-three in the lot remained relpJ , lous after recovery,

Maying for rain. p ARMERS AND PREACHERS ASK HEAVEN'S HELP. Conditions Prevailing Are Worse than Have Been Experienced for Many Septembers— Schools Forced to Close Because of the Deadly Heat. Many States Stricken. Wells are drying, corn is scorching, pastures are bare, dust is inches deep and the Pastors are calling special meetings and Joining their flocks in earnest prayers for r ain. Illinois, Indiana and lowa are Parched. Until Tuesday evening Kansas Mas in the same condition, but rain came. In Southern Illinois the temperature averaged 90 degrees for fourteen days. Northern Illinois and Chicago are having an unusually hot period for so late in the Beason. Corn is being destroyed in all the Egyptian country, and no sutMt record has been made in heat and drouth since the September of 1879. The Sangamon, t Mackinaw and Vermilion Rivers are near- . ly drv, and the cattle on a thousand hills *** "°" * U1 * ' U va ' n dying for want ■Lj2LL" ,,nn " <W..p Os mol.ture b». r.Htwo months, the corn is being Jburncd to death, the pastures are ns in flammable ns powder and fires are raging. All over Northern and Eastern Indiana prayers for rain are being offered in all the churches. lowa has had an average of neatly 90 for ten days and never in the State's history has there been so much suffering in September. Public schools are closed in many towns, workmen are forced to quit toil and prayers for rain are going up on every hand. In Ohio also public schools were forced to close on account of the extremely hot weather. Children fainted at Bellaire during the morning and there was no school in the afternoon. Michigan, too, is scanning the skies ami watching every newspaper and weather bulletin for the promise of a downpour. Earmcrs are anxious, fruit raisers arc downeast and the people of the cities arc discouraged. hollowing is n table of temperatures in the principal cities Tuesday: St. Louis pfl Kansas ( py rm Intllanip Cia ‘M lies M iln-s 'st Cincinnati m sc Paul"su Philadelphia .... trg mnatia sit Memphis New Y0rk....... . .7U Chicago Pl Detroit 70 STRUBLE A SUICIDE. Ofilcialw So Declare Regarding the Michigan Cashier. Tim un called Struble murder mystery at Shepherd, Mich.. ems to bo developing into n story of defalcation ■nd suiciile. It is knowti almost beyond doubt that Struble died by hi* own hat’d, •nd the charitably inclined say he was insane when do did it. One by one the ■ upporters of the murder th *ory are forsaking that idea. The officers have been working upon the sui.-Je theory for about a week. What first turned tlo ir attention to this idea was the discovery of a mysterions depositor, who evidently had extensive dealings with the Partners bnnk. On Aug. 2 it wns dis overod thnt Prank Sutton had drj>os ted SSOO. which was I yWK i ELMER STRUBLE. withdrawn on Aug. 11. No one knew anything of such a man, and the mystery about him was d> < pened when word was sent by the Jackson City bank that a check for SI,OOO given upon them payable to the Shepherd bank had been received and dishonored, for they knew no such man.

I - V Local officials got hold of the check and began to see light when it was discovered to be in Cashier Struble's handwriting GOVERNMENT CROP REPORT. Wheat Shows an Average Condition of 85.7 Per Cent. The September report of the statistician of the department of agriculture shows the following average conditions on Sept. 1: Corn, 79.3; o.its, 84.6; rye, 90.1; tobacco, 75.5: wheat, 55.7; barley, SG.4; buckwheat, 95.1; potatoes, 66.7. The condition of corn, 79.3, is 4.9 points lower than last month, 11.7 points lower than on Sept. 1, 1896, and 3.3 points lower than the September average for the last ten years. The principal State averages are ‘as follows: Ohio, 84; Michigan, 88; Indiana, 82; Illinois, S 4; lowa, 70; Missouri, 74; Kansas, 61; Nebraska. 87; Texas, 81, Tennessee, 85, and Kentucky, S 3. The condition of wheat, is ILI points higher than on Sept 1189 b, and 4 5 points higher than the Sep ember average for the last ten years. I here is a marked decline in the principal springwheat States as compared with last month. The average condition of oats is 84.6, as compared with 86 on Aug. with 740 k Sept. 1. 1896, and withro.< the Sepember average for the last ten years The average condition of barley, 86.4, .hows a decline of 1 point during the month, but is higher by 3.3 points than on Sept 1 1896, and by 1.9 points than the S„ntember average for the last ten years. The average condition of 90.1 is 8.1 points higher than on Sept. 1 1896, and Q I points above the average for the last ten veers. The condition of buckwheat, 95 1' sb-ws a slight improvement during 11m month. It is 1.9 points higher than on Sept. 1, 1896, and 7.3 points higher than the September average for the last ten ycurs. The condition of tobacco has declined 3 2 points during the month, and is now 6 points below the condition on Sept. 1, 1896 and 4 points below the average condition for the last ten years. The average condition of potatoes has continued to fall and is now only 66.7, or 11.2 points lower than on Aug. 1, 10.5 points lower than on Sept. 1. 1896, ami 11.7 points below the average for the last ten years. The number of hogs for fattening shows

a decrease of 9.2 per cent, from that of last year. In point of condition the stock hogs are 1 point lower than on Sept. 1, 1896, and .7 of a point below the September average for the last ten years. BETRAYED HIS TRUST. His Greed for Gain Caused Him to Lose SIOO,OOO of Church Money. Charles M. Charnley has been known in church circles of Chicago for thirty . years as a gentleman of sterling charac- , ter and exemplary life. His record for ' truth and honesty had led his friends to repose implicit confidence in him and be ] was appointed treasurer of two or three of the funds of the Fourth Presbyterian Church. i Mature in years, firm in the faith, stal- । wart in the service of the church, and j one of its faithful stewards, he was too j well trusted to be asked for a bond com- ■ mensurate with the amount of money he i handled. His last report showed $95,000 in assets and cash on hand. Secretary E. C. Ray, not being satisfied with his report, went quietly to work to Investigate the books. He found that where $20,000 in the bank was claimed, the bank showed only $163. Charnley confessed that he had lost $58,000 of the church funds, but iM' CITARLES XL CHARKLET, subseouent examinations of the accounts show that the amount lost will probably exceed SIOO,OO. As a result of his ein- ' bezzlement sixty schools and academies, I which were supported by the funds of the i church, will have to be closed. After the discovery of his enormous defa! ations he walked the streets of < hie:!go a free man for nearly five weeks. , During this time he was shadowed al- i most continually by detectives, but a few days ago he escaped surveillance and has 1 not been seen since. It is thought that I he hns sought suicide as a refuge from his crime. FEVER GAINS GROUND. — I iiensy Feeling in Louisiana, Missiaaippi and Alabama. New Orleans n Mobile, Ala 4 Ocean Springs. Miss 40 Perkinson. Yllss 1 Barkley. Miss 4 M ir Sernuton, Miss 1 Biloxi, Ml-* 43 IM-Aard*. Miss 3 Late dispatches say there are more yellow fever eases in New Orleans, and it would he folly to deny the prevalence of a decidedly panicky feeling throughout Lou- I i- in 1, Mississippi and Alabama because of the presence of the plague in each of | those States. The fact cannot be disput- 1 e<l that the disease is gradually spreading. There are four cases in Mobile, and the facts seem to show the disease was intro- i duce l from a point other than the Missis- ‘ sippi sound towns. Cablegrams from Nicaragua say the plague is spreading there, giving a now source of danger to the coast cities. Yellow’ fever also exists at Savannah, according to late reports. In Mississippi thp trend of affairs ia even more gloomy, though that State has the advantage of having been practically turned over to the federal health officials. Ocean Springs, where the plague first x ook hold, has about forty cases of fever. ■ There is one case at Perkinson, a little town on the Gulf and Ship Island Rail- । road. The fever was traced from Ocean ' Springs to Barkley, Miss., a settlement of but four houses and a postoffice. Mrs. , Saunders, who died in Ocean Springs, wa» buried in Barkley, and soon after the fu- ’ neral her son, her husband and two other i people died in the town. One case ex- 1 ists about midway between Scranton and Pascagoula, Miss. At Biloxi, Miss., there are forty-three cases of all sorts. Fifteen of these are declared to be yellow fever and seven others are strongly su» pcted of so being.

FIVE MEN LYNCHED. Enraged Citizens of Indiana Shot and Hang Prisoners. AJ Osgood, Ind., a mob of 400 infuriated men Tuesday night lynched Lyle Levi, Bert Andrews, Clifford Gordon, William Jenkins and Hiuey Shuler. They were taken from the authorities. The men had been arrested for burglary. Frequent robberies had enraged the citizens of the county and the mob was composed of men from Milan, Sunman and other towns. The mob, on horseback, entered the i j town an hour after midnight and called 1 out Jailer Kenan, who, upon refusing to ■ 1 give up the keys, was overpowered. The , men soon pushed their way into the cellrooms, and in their impatience first fired on the five prisoners and then dragged J them to a tree, a square from the jail door, and hung them up. Andrews and i Gordon had already been wounded, hav- 1 ing been shot several times while attempt- i ing to rob a store at Correct Saturday i night. Shuler was in jail for attempted 1 burglary amLLevi and Jenkins had just 1 been indicted by the grand jury for rob- i bery. They had failed to give bond, and < were put in jail CABINET RESUMES WORK. i McKinley and His Advisers Consider the Union Pacific Case, Interest attached to the cabinet meet- 1 ing Tuesday, the first in a number of weeks. Every member of the cabinet, ex- 1 eept Secretary Long, who is out of Wash- ; ington, reached the white house promptly I .' at 11 o’clock. The morning session was ! 1 devoted almost entirely to the consider- 1 ation of the Union Pacific question, presumably the advisability of taking an ap- ' peal from the decreee of the United States court at Omaha for the sale of the prop- s erty under foreclosure proceedings. The t cabinet also discussed the San Pedro c (Cal.) harbor project, and Attorney Gen- 1 eral McKenna rendered an opinion to the I effect that Secretary Alger should pro- r ceed under the law to carry out the pro- a jnct of building a breakwater and making 1 other improvements at San Pedro. The i civil service devision in the Wood case t and its effect on the law was also infor- t mally talked over. 1

Shooting of Miners. The action of the posse seems to hav# been criminally precipitate.—New York Herald, The sheriff and his deputies appear to have been demoralized by fear. —Boston Transcript. It is awful. A tremendous necessity must l>e shown for such a murderous order.—Pittsburg Post. Sheriff Martin has inaugurated all the horrors of martial law without any of its excuses. —Boston Traveler. The circumstances did not justify the wholesale slaughter. The shooting was cowardly.—Birmingham (Ala.) News. It is an unnecessary slaughter. It is a most deplorable blunder. Even the statement of the sheriff does not excuse it.— Louist ilie I’ost. Back of it all is a damnable system whereby the courts, through unconstitutional injunctions, become-the oppressors of the weak.—Omaha World-Herald. The appalling tragedy was the logical outgrowth of conditions which have been tolerated in some of our mining regions for some years past.—Philadelphia Times 1 he case is one that calls for rigid ex amination and if the sheriff exceeded his authority he should be dealt with in a summary manner.—Albany Evening Journal. Everything points to the suspicion that Sheriff Martin lost both head and heart and ordered the destruction of life w’hen no real necessity for it had arisen.—Detroit News. It is the worst exhibition of race hatred nnd diabolical fury of an armed force, vented on Tin unarmed procession, that ever occurred in our country.—Chattanooga Times. Assuming that the facts were as they have been reported, the sheriff and his deputies were utterly incompetent and guilty of cowardly and criminally careless conduct.—Buffalo Courier-Record. Killed officially and shot in the back. Does anything appear in the story of this tragedy to give the slightest provocation for this horrible blunder, this terrible crime, this official murder? —Toledo Bee. The shooting of unarmed men on slight rvovocation, for merely insisting upon marching peaceably along a public highway, is a very serious matter and may lead to the gravest consequesces.—Minneapolis Times. m1 nf re is no room for acts like this in the United States. There is no place in a republic of freemen for the punishment of an unascertained intention, which is the ultimate goal of government by injunction.—St. Paul Globe. When a sheriff’s posse can fire ’jnto a crowd of several hundred Pennsylvania miners without hitting an American, the public ought to secure a fair idea of one of the prime causes of labor troubles in that State. —Washington Post. If the sheriff's statement is true, and we do not see that it is credibly contradicted, his firing upon the mob seems to have been a necessity to save his own life and the lives of others summoned to maintain the law.—Philadelphia Times. Forgetfulness of the real character of our citizen-soldiers is at the bottom of the hesitancy and delay about calling out "the troops” that is continually leading to just such deplorable results as this Hazleton slaughter.—Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. Those men in Pennsylvania who were marching had a right to that highway. They were injuring no one’s property. The sheriff who ordered the deputies to fire on this unarmed crowd of men simply ordered them to commit murder,— Peoria Herald. This outrage should nerve every American heart to support by all legal methods the suppression of this iniquity of government by injunction. This un-American, uncivilized, un-Christian system must go if the liberties secured for us by our foiefathers are to be preserved.—lndianapolis Sentinel. We say that the powers of the courts are and must be restrained within moderate and reasonable limits. We say that the injunctions issued in this strike are an insult to freemen, and we point to the Hazleton horror as the natural and necessary consequence of the issuance of those extraordinary orders. —St. Paul Globe. (The system which has collected oodies of ignorant and excitable workers and brought them by inadequate wages into a state of exasperation needs reformation. But this country will not be worth living in if the fiat of an excited mob can override the commands of the legal authorities without suffering for it. —Pittsburg Dispatch. Even the dastardly and cowardly sheriff who ordered his posse to fire upon those defenseless men admits that they had committed no overt acts of lawlessness. He is a murderer, and his men are murderers, and each of them should be tried and punished for the commission of the highest crime known to the law — Kansas City Times. If the sheriff was indiscreet, if he fired into the crowd without due provocation, the demand for his punishment will be summary. If, on the other hand, it be found that he acted strictly within the lines of his duty, he will not lack in public commendation and support. Meantime legislators, mine operators, and miners will grow more thoughtful.—Macon Telegraph. It is questionable whether under the law the attempt to interfere with the peaceable marching of rhe strikers on the highway xvas not of itself a breach of the law. It is the duty of the sheriff and all peace officers to protect the lives and property of citizens. It is their duty to maintain law and order and prevent lawless trespass upon private premises. It is neither their duty nor their right to molest people passing over the public highways even though they may be suspected of unlawful intent.—Omaha Bee. It is a noticeable fact that the men wlio set themselves up in this matter to defy the constituted authorities were foreigners and the names of those who were killed and wounded show the same fact. It will be well worth the while of the authorities in making the investigation, which must necessarily be had, to inquire how far the trouble which has culminated so terribly was due to the large admixture of the foreign element among the miners, and how far our immigration laws are responsible.—Detroit Free Press.