The Syracuse Journal, Volume 5, Number 19, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 5 September 1912 — Page 6

The Syracuse Journal I GEO. O. SNYDER, Publisher. Syracuse, - • • Indiana K ~ 1 "" ■■■ ■ — "" SJ TRIES TO SUICIDE BY BLOWING OUT HIS BRAINS WITH A REVOLVER. WANTED TO EVADE ARREST Wesley Baker, of Garrett, Ind., Unable to Elude His Pursuers, Tries to End His Life—Other News of the Day. — 0 Garrett, Ind.. Aug. 28.—After being chased for some distance by Deputy Sheriff John Hoff, Marshal Will Duerk And Night Watchman Shaffer, during which he was unable to elude his pur* suers in a com field, where he had bidden, Wesley Baker, night yardmaster for the Baltimore and Ohio, drew a revolver and attempted suicide yes. cerday morning. In his haste to put an end to his life he fired the shot in a slanting direction and was consequently not seriously injured. He was brought back to the city where Dr. Thompson dressed the wound, and is now being cared for at his home, Ed Reyher and A. J. Stewart having gone bn his bond. The trouble started Monday night when Baker complained, that two men who are employed in the yards, were . robbing cars instead of attending to their duties. Later these men were called to the office of the superintend ent and are said to have (given dam aging evidence against Baker. Bakei was also called before the superintendent, but what transpired was not made public. - Shortly after noon, the three officers went to Baker's boarding house and were told he was not there. While they were still in the vicinity Baker dashed from the back door and made across some fields into the Singler corn fields, where his attempt at suicide was made. White Slavers Arrested. San Francisco, Cal., —After the outbound liner Manchuria had reached a point three miles from shore yesterday United States Mar shal Elliott and two deputies arrested Bernice Ward, Jane Kelly and Jennie Heath, passengers for Yokohama wanted at Seattle on charges of vio lating the federal white slave laws The arrests are believed to be the first of their kind. A federal statute provides that' the marshal is without authority over travelers on land passing through a city, but that he may arrest them at sea while “passing through a port.” Marshal Elliott and his deputies boarded the Manchuria at her dock and lost themselves among the passengers. A government tug followed them and when the arrests had been made the prisoners were sw’ung over the ship’s side, and the Manchuria steamed on for the orient. Big Rapids Dentist Killed. Howard City, Mich., Aug. 23, —Dr. F. W. Joslin, a Big Rapids dentist, his wife and four-year-old son, Howard were killed; his mother probably fa tally injured and his son, Burr,, elev en years old, slightly hurt last night when a freight train crashed into theii automobile less than a mile from here Women Parade. Columbus, 0., Aug. 28.—Approxl mately 6,000 women paraded here, ad vocating votel for women. The pa rade w£s the most spectacular event of the Columbus centennial and was the beginning of a day devoted to the women. Shot by Keepers. Syracuse, N. Y„ Aug. 27. —With only ten more days to. serve, Charles Ross attempted to escape from the Orondaga penitentiarj’ yesterday and was shot to death by keepers. Ross worked on loading stone on cars. Three Girls Drowned. Bloomingdale, Ind., Aug. 27.—Three girls, members of a Sunday school class of the Friends’ . Church, were drowned in Sugar creek, near here The dead are: Corsa McKay, 16; Lydia Harvey, 17; Fay Wilkins, 17. Wireless Station Covers 3,100 Mile* Vallejo, Cal., Aug. 27.—The first di rect communication between the Mare Island navy yard ind the Pribiloff sta tion in Alaska was established yesterday. The operators‘read the messages easily. Gain Control of Big Timber Fires. Pasadena, Cal., Aug. 27.—Aftei three days of hard work rangers and volupteers gained control of the forest fire which threatened the valuable Devil’s canyon and Bear creek water sheds. j f I <* Two killed; Five Injured. Terre Haute, Ind., Aug. 24. — Tw« ooys were killed and five fatally in jured last night at the McKeen tower on the Southern Indiana Belt junction, nearly two miles south of Terre Haute. Drowned Trying to Swim St. Joe. South Bend, Ind., Aug. 26.-r While rying to swim the St. Joseph river near here Orville Webster, 17, a high school student, was seized with cramps and drowned before companions could reach him. trapped in the Mountains. Juarez, Mexico, Aug. 24.—Caught as a mouse in a trap, although the trap is one hundred miles wide and 200 miles long, is Pascual Orozco, commander in chief of the rebel forces In the north. f

CONGRESS QUITS UNTIL DECEMBER General Deficiency Bill, Carrying $9,000,000, Is Passed. VOTE FOR CAMPAIGN INQUIRY Penrose Resolution Asking for Investigation Goes Through In Senate — Bribery Charges Filed Against Virginia Senators. Washington, Aug. 28.—With members tired and peevish and less than a majority in attendance in each house ofxiongress, the second session of the Sixty-second congress was brought to a close on Monday. The next session will open In December unless some great crisis should arise that would justify President Taft In calling a special session during the fall. The senate bowed to the house and struck out of the general deficiency appropriation bill the state claims of Ore-[ gon, Texas, Virginia and Maryland, aggregating $600,000. The president was at the capltol to sign the measure, which provides fdr an expenditure of $9,000,000. Senator La Follette brought up the Penrose campaign investigation resolution and-, with the threat of a long filibuster, succeeded in forcing it through. The resolution was passed without a roll call. Ten minutes before adjournment the house administered a final blow to the senate by refusing to consider a resolution of the upper chamber permitting It to pay Its own employes a month’s extra salary. In the house the adjournment ceremony was uneventful. Barely a handful of Democrats and Republicans applauded the final address of Speaker Clark, congratulating them for their aid during the session and expressing the hope that they would all return in December. Prior to the speaker’s address Chairman Fitzgerald of the appropriations committee and former Speaker Cannon, the ranking Republican member, Indulged in a verbal duel. Both agreed I that the total appropriations for the year were $1,019,000,000, as against of the last Republican congretjj. Cannon maintained that the Republicans had been aS economical as the Democrats, but that the total budget of tie last Republican -congress was increased by the $45,000,000 which they allowed for the Panama canal. The house whilet. away the several hours by discussing the immigration bill. This was brought about by an attack on Chairman Burn-att of the immigration committee by jtepresentatlve Focht of Pennsylvania, whose language finally became so unparliamentary that he was called tn order by the speaker. He charged Bnrnej.t with having printed a personal attack on him in the Congressional Record without delivering any portion of it on »he floor of the house. He characterized the attack as a “venomous untruth.” President Taft shortly after the adjournment started for Beverly, where he is to spend his vacation. LATE GOVERNOR’S SON WEDS. John D. G. Oglesby Marries Maude Lee Byrum. Chicago, Aug. 28.—The return from Europe of Mrs. Emma Gillett Oglesby, widow of the late Gov. Richard J. Oglesby, disclosed the fact that through a secret marriage the Oglesby family had became linked with that of Gen. Luke Wright, former secretary of war. The former Miss Maude Lee Byrum, niece of General Wright, and daughter of David B. Byrum, a prominent real estate dealer of Chicago, was married secretly in Milwaukee two weeks ago to the son of Governor Oglesby, Lieut. John D. G. Oglesby. The wedding was a runaway event and was kept a complete secret until Mrs. Oglesby returned to her summer home at Elkhart, 111., to find that the young couple had begun their honeymoon there. AMERICANS HELD FOR CASH. Mexican Rebels Carry Away Two Into Mountains of Sonora. El Paso, Tex., Aug. 27.—An American coming from the Dolores mining district of Sonora brought the Information that two Americans, whose names he could not learn, had been overpowered and carried away from the Mulatos mines, where they were employed, and are being held in the Sonora mountains by the rebels until ransomed The Americans are being slowly starved to force them to sepd an urgent message to tke Mulato? company officials in the United States for $40,000 ransom. A rescue party Im being considered at Douglas. Darrow Must Stand Trial. t Los Angeles, Cal., Aug. 28. —The motion of Clarence S.’Darrow’s attorneys to dismiss the indictment charging him with the bribery of Robert Bain was denied by Judge Willis of the superior court Monday. Postoffices Close Sundays. Washington, Aug. 28.—A1l first and second-class postoffices will be closed Sundays as a result of one provision of the new postal appropriation bill passed by congress and signed by President Taft. Five Killed In Train Wreck. El Paso, Tex., Aug. 27. —Three men 1 were killed and the traffic on the El 1 Paso and Albuquerque line of the Santa Fe’s system was blocked by a collision Sunday. A tramp and a track walker were also killed. 5 Schwab Robbed of $2,000. ’ Loretta, Pa.. Aug. 27.—While en 1 route from New York to his summer ’ home Sunday, Charles M. Schwab. • president of the Bethlehem Steel company, was robbed - of a wallet containing $2,000.

ALLEGE SENATORS OFFERED TEN DOLLARS FOR VOTES : Charges Are Filed Against Two West Virginians—Petition in Senate Hands. Washington, Aug. 27. —A demand for an investigation of the election of Senators William E. Chilton and Clarence W. Watson of West Virginia was made in a petition signed by Governor Glasscock and others, presented to the senate on Monday through Senator Gallinger, the presiding officer. The petition called attention to charges of bribery publicly made In reference to the election of the two West Virginia senators. A request for the reading of the petition was made by Senator Penrose before its contents were known. When the document, had been partly read, Senators Bailey and Bacon objected to the printing of its allegations in the public records of the senate before they had been Investigated by the committee on privileges' and elections: The petition contained records of newspaper charges and alleged conversations, intimating 'that charges of bribery had been never had been Investigated. Senators Bacon and Bailey charged that while the election took place nearly two years ago, and the charges had been made about that time, Governor Glasscock and,his associates purposely had refrained from sending/he petition to the United States senate until almost the last day of its session. On the motion of Senator McComber all of the petition that had been read was expunged from the record, and the entire document referred to the committee on privileges and elections, which conducted the Lorimer and Stephenson investigations. Senators Bailey, Bacon and Martin, all Democrats, declared the petition had been made for political purposes. Senator La Follette defended the petition as furnishing more basis for investigation than did the original charges against William Lorimer. The petition was signed by Governor William E. Glasscock, William Seymour Edwards, Herschell C. Ogden, David B. Smith and Frederick A. McDonald, and made a formal demand for an Investigation. Q FIGHT OVER NEGRO IS ON. American Bar Association May Split on Color Line Question. Milwaukee, Wls., Aug. 28. —When the thirty-fifth annual convention of the American Bar association opened here on Tuesday at the Hotel Pfister, members said that before the end of the three-day session the association might be split wide open by the fight for and against the admission of Assistant Attorney General William H. Lewis, a negro, as a member. Lewis is known at Harvard, where he yas graduated in 1894, as the perhaps greatest center rush in all football history. He has a champion in no less a personage than his chief, Attorney General W’ickersham, who has threatened to resign from the association if Lewis is not admitted. Col. Alexander Troy of Montgomery, Ala., has replied thus: “You keep your negro and lose a thousand members throughout the south.” The executive committee admitted Lewis to membership without knowledge of his color, and then rescinded its action and left the matter for the association to decide. The president’s address, by S. S. Gregory of Illinois, opened the meeting. $10,000,000 GEMS AT BALL. Vanderbilt Affair Is Most Extravagant Ever Seen in Newport. Newport, R. 1./ Aug. 26. —The fancy dress ball which Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt gave at their splendid residence Peaudieu, on Friday, will go down in history as the most extravagant affair of its kind ever seen in Newport. Its whole tone and color was of the effete east; distinctly oriental. The dance cost $75,000, it is estimated by the few fashionables here. They estimate, too, that the women whose grace and beauty adorned the occasion wore $10,000,000 worth of jewels. Diamonds, pearls and rubies glittered even In the heels and on the buckles of the golden slippers that encased the women’s twinkling feet. ASKS FOR JOHNSON’S RECALL. California Governor Accused of Approving Improper Legislation. San Francisco, Aug. 28.—A petition for the recall of Gov: Hiram Johnson has been put in circulation here by Alva Udell, an attorney. Udell cannot be found. Investigation failed to show that he had any powerful support in offering the petition. One of the charges made in the petition is that Governor Johnson approved legislation intended to foster land grabbing by wealthy individuals. Udell led a demonstration against the relief corporation of San Francisco in the disorders following the great fire i of 1906. Gunboat Vicksburg Damaged. Washington, Aug. 28.—The gunboat i Vicksburg, scouting off the west coast ; of Mexico to watch the revolutionists, , put into Magdalena bay Monday with . a hole punched in her hull by a broken propeller. Black Damp Kills Four. [ Linden, Wls., Aug. 28.—Four men I overcome by black damp in the t Frontier Lead and Zinc mine, near I here, Monday, and perished before it r waa known that they were in any danger. Albanian Massacre Serious. i Vienna, Aug. 27. —Dispatches re [ ceived here Sunday tell of the massai ere by Albanians of practically all the k Servian population of Sienitza and i Blelopolls, Macedonia. Novlbazar ia threatened and Servians are fleeing. Picnic Train Wreck Kills. t Decatur, 111., Aug.’27.—An east-bound r excursion train over the Cincinnati, . Hamilton & Dayton railway, carrying -200 passengers, was ditched by a bro- - ken rail near here Sunday. One was killed and many Injured.

ROOSEVELT WILL UITJCK HARD Colonel Is Preparing Answer to Archbold’s Charge. ASKS CONGRESS TO BE HEARD Requests Permission to Appear Before Senate Committee, But That Body Cannot Hear Him Before October 1. Oyster Bay, Aug. 27. —Colonel Roosevelt is about to make an onslaught against his accusers, who have insinuated that he conjured at obtaining Standard Oil support for the campaign Os 19C4, and will endeavor to free him-« self of the odium of such a charge. The ex-president, stung by the blockade put up by the senate committee against his appearing before it, and on Sunday that he will write out a comprehensive defense embodying all he intended saying before the inquisitorial body. In it he will bring out correspondence that passed between him and various statesmen, showing their relation to the Standard Oil company and on his part, the firm adherence which he says he as president maintained against corporation influence. A sharp attack upon the Standard Oil company for its attempt to frustrate the administration’s prosecution against it will form a conspicuous part of the colonel’s assault. The ex-presi-dent has been delving into administrative records to spring letters that were written to him by agents of the oil octopus. He intends, so he said, to use some of these letters to bring out clearly the sinister attitude of the Standard Oil toward the government. Mr. Roosevelt has received no direct word from Senator Clapp in response to his telegraphed request for permission to appear before the investigating committee, but he did learn, through his campaign secretary in New York, O. K. Davis, that the committee would not be able to hear him before October 1. Davis telephoned that Senator Clapp had conveyed information by telegraph that he could not assemble the committee on Monday and that the colonel would have to wait. This put Mr. Roosevelt in a militant mood. He dictated a statement telling of his in : tent to spread his defense before the country in detailed fashion. In the course of his statement, the ex-presi-dent let it be known that Saturday night he had held a secret conference at Sagamore Hill with George B. Cortelyou, - chairman of the Republican national committee in 1904, and that Cortelyou had backed up all that Roosevelt said in his utterances concerning the Standard Oil company in the last few days. “Mind you,” quoth the colonel in relating the visit of Cortelyou, “1 have never said at any time that there was no'contribution made by the Standard Oil in 1904. I want that made explicit. What I have said all along, and in this Mr. Cortelyou bears me out, that I took a stand against the acceptance of Standard Oil money and ordered any contribution it might have made instantly returned. I was informed that my wishes had been complied with. Mr. Cortelyou told me that I was exactly right; that 1 had written to him just as I said, against accepting the Standard Oil money and had directed its return if any contribution had come in. Mr. Cortelyou says he knows of no Standard Oil money being taken for our compalgn. Mr. Cortelyou supports everything I have said in my statements concerning the Standard Oil. DARROW MUST STAND TRIAL. Court Rejects Motion to Dismiss Bain Bribery Indictment. Los Angeles, Cal., Aug. 28. —The motion of Clarence S. Darrow’s attorneys to dismiss the indictment charging the former chief counsel of the McNamaras with the bribery of Robert Bain, the first juror chosen to try James B. McNamara, was denied on Monday by presiding Judge Willis of the superior court. The attorneys for Mr. Darrow, and the defendant himself, were obviously disappointed at the adverse ruling of the court. Secretary of Navy 111. New York, Aug. 28—Secretary of the Navy George von L. Meyer is reported to be ill on board the dispatch boat Dolphin, on the way from New York to Newport. The secretary arrived at the Brooklyn navy yard on the Dolphin Monday. Word was sent ashore that Mr. Meyer was not in good health. It was said at the navy yard that the nature of the secretary’s illness was not known, but it was not believed to be serious. Mr. Meyer was seized with a slight attack of typhoid in June and has not been in full health since, ’v. Lightning Kills Six. St. Louis, Aug. 27. —Six persons were killed and eight others seriously injured by lightning, which accompanied a severe electrical storm, here Sunday. Much property damage also was done on both sides of the Mississippi river. Peking People Honor Dr. Sun. Peking, Aug. 27. —Dr. Sun Yat Sen, ex-provisional president of China, who left Shanghai August 19 with the intention of endeavoring to conciliate the rival factions, arrived here Sunday. He waa received royally. Mrs. Clarence Mackay Is Injured. Pittsfield, Mass., Aug. 26.—Mrs. Clarence H. Mackay, society leader and prominent suffragette, was thrown from her automobile Friday and rendered unconscious on Monument mountain In the Berkshlres. Thirty Albanians Are Killed. Constantinople, Turkey, Aug. 26.— Thirty Albanian insurgents were killed and twenty wounded in a sharp attack bn the Turkish seaport of Durazso on the Adriatic coast Friday afternoon.

| WILLIAM LOEB IN DEFENSE | OF COLONEL ROOSEVELT Gives Version of Contributions in 1904 Campaign—Tells of Harriman Visit. New York, Aug. 28. —William Loeb, collector of the New York port, came to the defense of Theodore Roosevelt on Monday in a statement concerning the contributions to the 1904 campaign fund by E. H. Harriman and the Standard Oil company. He says it was he, and not President Roosevelt, whose secretary he then was, to whom George B. Cortelyou, as chairman of the Republican national committee, gave positive assurance that the Standard Oil company had made no contribution to the campaign. Mr. Loeb also makes the further statement that instead of Roosevelt asking Harriman for assistance, the latter, at the famous White House interview, had urged the president to cause National Chairman Cortelyou forthwith to give financial help to the New York state committee in order to save the state ticket. “I am making these statements only in the interest of truth,” said Collector Loeb. Collector Loeb then took up the Standard Oil contribution. “Os this matter,” he said, “my memory is quite as clear and distinct as to the other I have just discussed. I remember the two letters and a telegram President Roosevelt had sent to Chairman Cortelyou Instructing him to return forthwith to thei Standard Oil company any contribution that concern may have made to his campaign. PREDICT A TARIFF WARFARE. Many Think United States and Germany Will Have Trade Struggle. Berlin, Aug. 27.—N0 reply has been received from Washington by the German government to its cabled inquiry concerning the reported decision of the United States government to impose a countervailing duty on importations of wheat and rye flour and split peas from Germany. The German government therefore has not announced Its policy in the matter. The action of the United States is generally regarded here as merely another step in a little German-American tariff war which started with the paper pulp duties and was followed by by German action excluding the United States, from the benefits of the Swedish and Japanese treaties under the most favored nation clause. HUNT PIRATE MOTOR BOAT. Milwaukee Police Trace Plunder and Murder Clues. Milwaukee, Aug. 27—A pirate motor boat which, the police say, has been leaving murder and plundered vessels in its trail, is at large on Lake Michigan. For several days special police boats have been working on the case, but no arrests have been made. The pirate boat is a small craft of exceedingly great speed. The members of its crew make their hauls and get away so swiftly that they can’t be followed. It is said that the pirates have several rendezvous about the lake, but that their headquarters are in the northern part of Wisconsin. EMPEROR WILLIAM IS ILL. Suffers From Cold and Cancels His Trip to' Saxony. Cassel, Hesse-Nassau, Aug. 27. —Emperor William’s cold apparently is more severe than at first supposed. It is announced that his majesty has given up his plans to see the army maneuvers in the province of Saxony and attend the festivities arranged in his honor by the Saxon court. The emperor will be represented at these functions by Crown Prince Frederick William. The kaiserin is declared to be ill also and to have canceled her social engagements. GETS WORLD’S AUTO RECORD. Spencer Wishart Sets New Mark for 200 Miles at Columbus. Columbus, 0., Aug. 27.—Sweeping all records from 75 miles on up to 200 miles before him as he went, Spencer Wishart, driving & 60-horse power Mercer car to victory, here, in a 200mile race before 40,000 persons, established a new world record for 200 miles on a dirt track, fixing it at three hours, 28 minutes and 4 1-5 seconds. His prize was SI,OOO and a silver trophy. \ U. S. BATTLESHIP DISABLED. Alabama Unable to Take Part In Tart get Practice by Fleet. Norfolk, Va., Aug. 27. —The battleship Alabama will be unable to take part in the target practice at Tangier sound this week, because the big guns in the forward turret cannot be moved. The Alabama will be sent to Norfolk or Philadelphia for repairs. Ships of the Atlantic fleet will use a skeleton mast erected on the hulk of the old battleship San Marcos as a target. I . — Aged 70, He Dies on Gallows. Nashville, Tenn., Aug. 28.—George Rose, seventy years old, was hanged here Monday. Rose was convicted of the murder of a neighboring planter, J. M. Miller, in McMinn county. One of Rose’s sons is in prison for murder. Young Girl Badly Burned. Gary, Ind., Aug. 28.—Miss Ethel Smith, nineteen years old, lies at the point of death at her home in Caldwell as the result of burns sustained Monday while riding double on a motorcycle with her sweetheart. Knox Salls for Japan. Seattle, Aug. 26.—Secretary of State Knox, Mrs. Knox and Ransford Miller, chief of the far east division of the department of state, sailed Friday on the cruiser Maryland for Japan, where he will attend the funeral of the emperor. Senate Confirms Torbet. Washington, Aug. 26.—The senate on Friday confirmed the appointment of Lewis K. Torbet as naval officer, attached to the customs service at Chicago. The position carries a salary of $5.00®.

RURALE OR PEON? I Love Affairs of a Mexican ' Girl. BY LOUISE PALMER MILLER. Carmelita sat in her father’s! house on a low log stool, crocheting. ' while Juan lay stretched on the floor i at her feet, first looking into her I pretty face, then watching her small I brown fingers nimbly drawing the white threads into place by her | crochet needle. He was telling her of j his visit to the city and of the bold , advance that the common peons had > made in its capture the year before i under the rising tide that surged | throughout Mexico and submerged the brave Diaz. It was not, however, the signifi-1 cance of the war that was holding the : simple mind of Carmelita She was interested in Juan’s recital only because he told of the little city of which she had dreamed, but which she had never seen, although she had lived, since her birth, but forty miles from Cullacan. The only villages she had visited were much like her own She had only heard of Cullacan. There people lived in brick houses. Instead of couches mgde of branches they had beds hung with draperies and they had rugs on the floor. She had heard of white Americans building houses with windows of glass. Juan, throughout his narration, man-like, thought Carmelita was interested in the heroic deeds and was flattered by her attentive mood. Suddenly, in a pause of his recital, she interposed: “Juan. I wish we were rich and could live in the city after we marry. It must be fine to ride in carriages and look into stores with all their bright clothing- Can’t we move there some day, Juan?” “You would not enjoy life tn the hot city, my sweet,” said Juan. “The houses are so closely built that you would smother for a breath of air. You could not watch the brilliant feathered birds nor see trees and bushes there. You could not bathe In the cool brook when the hot days ! come. “The women of Cullacan are not fresh and beautiful as you are. Carmelita, the only roses that blossom on their cheeks are placed there by the use of red paint. Perhaps we can visit there at the time of our marriage, if we save a little each week I out of our scanty earnings, but to live there, never! never! never!’’ Carmelita did not raise her voice in protest, but in her heart the old craving did not die. There was always a hope that by some strange | means she could live in a city where there were bands of music and a porch where people gathered to talk and promenade. During the short silence between the two lovers, while Carmelita was resolving this hope within her mind, and Juan was comparing Carmelita favorably with all the other senoritas he had even seen, their silence was suddenly broken by the sound of hoofs on the rotd. Without, pl d Pedro, Carmelita’s father, was halting his burro with that sizzing sound of the lips employed by the Mexican bur-, ro drivers. Juan did not change his position, for i he well knew that he was a welcome I guest in thq Casa of the old Pedro, as : well as ajt Wome suitor for the hand ' of his ifipghrjr. The sound of another caused him to glance up curiously. He immediately jumped to his feet with an attitude of respect With old Pedro was a rurale dressed in all of the elegance of his uniform. “Welcome, Juan!” exclaimed the father of Carmelita. “Come forward to meet an officer of our country who has lost his way hereabouts in the mountains.” The rurale but half-greeted Juan, for he was looking quite past him with bold admiration for the girl seated on a rustic stool with a pile of crocheting in her hands He had looked upon many peon maidens before, but none so free from the heavy Mexican features as this girl. He noticed the unusual fairness of the skin, the slenderness of the nose, the delicatelycurved lips and the arch of the small brown feet. “White blood somewhere,” he silently mused. Carmelita’s cheeks were flushed at his steady gaze, and, while her eyes were partly drooped, she was not blind to the strange bearing of this man before her. He was unlike any man she had ever seen in her life. He wore a suit of wool with gold buttons, as she thought, and on his feet were shining boots Instead of sandals, and over his arm hung a cape lined with bright velvet She might have remained long in her fancy of whether this was a dream or a real being, if her father had not demanded her to hurry a lunch for them. When the rurale hailed old Pedro he gave him an extra pesa to hurry him on his journey with a quick lunch. Two days had passed now and yet he said nothing of his first intention to hurry to his regiment. Old Pedro asked him each morning if he should have his horse ready early for the journey, but the rurale proffered some offhand reason for a delaj. Juan haunted the front of Pedro’s ramada like a shadow, lacking courage to assume his former position. Twice he had resolved to enter boldly, but each time he saw Carmelita sitting on her stool with the rurale near by. The third day he rallied a firm resolution to enter the casa and to face the rurfde with an order to leave Carmelita alone, even If a year In prison were the result of his Impudence. This time Carmelita and the rurale were sitting on the thong couch of <Md Pedro. They seemed unconscious of Juan’s presence in the doorway. The rurale was telling her of his great wealth In the city: "You are too pretty a senorlta to live hidden In the forest If you will come to the city with me, there to marry, you would be known by the people of the worli.” Juan was held to the spot as If by bands of steel. “But, don’t you know,” said the low voice of Carmelita, “that Juan has always Intended to marry me? Ever since my mother’s death my father has told Juan that he could have me- Juan la very brave, for he fought at the capture of Cullacan last

year." Juan’s heart leaped with a great joy, and he was about to gather heXto him. when she “ButXJuan does not like the city, he said never, never, never! Oh, this grieves me much because all of my life have I yearned for a carriage and a silk mantel.” “Yes, and so you should have,” urged the rurale, as if foiling his nay.point by point “You can go with me on my return. See, here is a lace revorsa for your Journey into the city. The dresses *we can purchase immediately after our arrival, and you can be dressed as befitting a lady.” He drew from his pocket a revorsa and put It into her hands. Never had she seen a fabric so fine. “We will go tonight after the dance, It will be better not to tell your father until after our marriage. Place this revorsa in your dress and wear It i tonight at the time of your departure.” With these words be pressed her tb 1 him and said: “Promise.” “Yes," ! she said thoughtfully. The fingers of j Juan had beqp running along the edge of his stilleto until this last word and this last hope. “Instead of plunging it Into the back of the rurale. let me keep It for myself,” and he slunk away under the glare of the noontide sun. That night at the dance Juan was not seen. “Where is Juan?” was the query from young and old. Carmelita shook her head, but her mind was busy with the same question, “Where is Juan?” She danced less gaily than she had ever done in her life. At the close of the dance she turned home with her father. She » lay down to sleep for the night, but she continually listened for the step of Juan. If she could only hear him speak. Jf he would approach to kill her, It would be better than this eating silence. Suddenly a firm tread passed in front of her casa. She knew his step. She heard Juan arouse his mother In the silence of the night. “Mother, 1 to the other ranches—not more here. Tomorrow follow me on burro.” She heard the creak of his saddle as he sprang to the ba.ck of his horse. She heard the even walk of the The horse did not canter, but it kept; a slow step, step, fainter and fainter, until she could no longer deceive her ear Into counting the step. Juan had gone and burled her out of his life. She listened a few minutes in the hope that he might return, then she unclenched her stinging palm from the leather thongs of the couch. She arose, and, feeling the soft bulge bl the lace revorsa, she took it from her dress and stamped it Into the dirt of the floor. If she ran through the breecha, which cut off two kilometers of distance to the road Juan had taken, she could reach the crossing point before Juan arrived there. It was nearing the fiour of dawn when she reached the crossing of the road. The Mexican sky was filled frith the pink reflection of the sun. At the crossroad she stopped for breath for the first time —“Juan. Juan. Juan!” was the silent voice within. For a time she thought he had passed. She was about to hasten on when the click of a horse’s hoof held her. Not for a second did she doubt that it might not be Juan. Life was returning to her again as she fell on her knees. The faint shadow of a horse and man was approaching. Not daring to meet ’ his gaze, she burled her face in her arms. His horse stopped of its own accord In front of her. Juan urged It gently with his foot, then he sat looking at the figure in the road. Not until he had jumped to his feet did he recognize Carmelita. His hand passed in front of his eyes as 11 brushing away a vision, when a sot aroused him. “Carmelita,” he said. She did not lift her face) till he himself lifted It and held it long between his hands. Neither knew how all happened after that, but he held her closely and she clung to him with both hands. He then lifted her to the horse in front of him and turned the horse for the walk homeward. Beerbohm Tree’s Ride. A story is told concerning Beerbohm Tree, who, after an evening at one of the London clubs, called, a hansom from a nearby stand he frequently patronized. “Home,” shouted Tree to the cabby, who was a new one about town. ~ "Beg pardon,” said the man. “Home,” repeated Tree in commanding tone, and the driver whipped up ’ his horse. He drove about for half an hour or so and then returned again. Stopping his horse and arousing the sleepy actor, he apologized and asked to what number he should drive. "Home,” thundered Mr. Tree, this time thoroughly Indignant. “And where might your home be?" queried the cabby, shaking In his boots. “You Idiot,” replied Tree, “do you think I’m going to tell you where my beautiful home Is?” It Wasn’t Soap. A New Jersey farmer “'came to the city the other day and. among other things, he visited a high-class restaurant. His appetite ran to cheese, and 4 inquiring of the fralter what sort of cheese was listed he desired “some thing new.” “Why don’t you try a bit of Roquefort?” suggested the waiter. “What’s that?” asked the farmer.* “Hang It,” he added, “bring me some. I like the name anyway. He ate of It and liked it So he thought he would take some home to his wife. Arriving late he laid the small cheese, wrapped In silver paper, on the sideboard. Hi forgot to Inquire about it till nexi night, and then he asked his wife how she liked it "Oh, I’s’pose it’s mlghtj stylish up to the city, but I jes kinder couldn’t use It. I couldn’t get no foam out of It, and when I washed the children they smelled kinder funny, and I can’t say’s I like It.” —Scraps. > A Practical Kid. “Let’s go Into the woods and kID Indians,” said the first little boy. “Do not be childish,’’ admonished the other little boy. “If you really want to kill something. I’ll be glad te join you In swatting files.” Adversity corrects the census ol your true friends. Prosperity only multiplies hypocrites, as the sunsklM 4 brings out the gnata