Walkerton Independent, Volume 29, Number 47, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 4 June 1904 — Page 6

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CHAPTER XX. It seemed an unutterable relief to ‘Lestelle when she found herself once more in her own cool, darkened chamber, with the hateful face of \\'yett‘ Paulton no longer bending over her. The knowledge that she was his bond-slave made his presence all the more intolferable; and when he would have touchad her cheek with his lips she put out her hands, and thrust him from her with a {ook of abhorrence. Presently Miss Hill stole to the couch | -of the miserable girl, and wrapped her arms around her. "I hoped I should find you weeping, my poor child, for tears -would relieve yon. What has happened? ‘Will you not tell me? If I cannot help +you, dear Lestelle, I can grieve with ryou.” Though still reluctant to pain the gen“tle, generous woman, Lestelle told all. ,{.m;;"fjnd as your marriage is now a deoided thing,” Miss Hill commer.ed, her swwoice faltering a little, ‘‘perhaps you will flearn to love Mr. Paulton by and by. He can be the most fascinating of men when he pleases.” ‘Miss Hill began to question her so closely about Darcy Lesmere, and her own connection with the Glenaughton 2amily, that at last she grew tired of an--swering inquiries which brought back «scenes and circumstances she longed to -forget. “Dear Lettice, why dwell on the past? “You know that I left Mrs. Price's at the suggestion of Wyett, who had learned -somehow that I was a daughter of the Glenaughton family. Os the certificate »of my mother's marriage he deprived me wwhen he first brought me to London, to .place me under your care. How he pre--wailed upon you to undertake such an -onerous charge I cannot divine.” “Cannot you? And yet if you had rloved him as devotedly as I did, you «gwould have been as willing to further plans which were to be the stepping «gtones to his future prosperity.” “When I grew older and braver,” Les~tell musingly proceeded, “I asked him :for the paper, but was put of with as--surances that it was in safer keeping than my own. He would have kept me {n ignorance of its purport, but this I fearned as soon as I was able to read ~the letter he dropped when appropriatting it. It had been written by my :mother in her dying hours. From that iletter I learned that she was legally “married to oae of the sons of the late Glenaughton.” Not all Lestelle’s fortitude would enable her to go through her part in a .comic opera that night. On the follow--ling evening, however, she appeared at r the theater, a little paler than usual, and v with a wistful look in her dark eyes « which they had never worn before. Per- . ¢y stood at. the wing when she came off, . and, for a moment, she put her cold fin- . gers into his paim, as if she needed the uwreassuring touch of a friend’s hand. ;»Wfi* What is the matter, Lestelle?’ he £ RS 1 have only just heard that - cousin he need not fear any further an- - moyance. He will comprehend my meanS w cp : The next minute Mr. Paulton had led Fher away, smiling blandly, and bowing to » one and another as he did so; but when *they were at the door of the young ac- ‘ tress’ dressing room, his face changed «.a8 he spoke in his sternest tones. “Let this be the last time that I find ~you holding communication with either -of these Glenaughtons. If you were not 4 silly, credulous woman, you would see that they are only craftily plying you with flatteries, that they may learr all you can tell them of my plans.” ’ TLestelle disengaged her arm from his, «-and would have passed on without replydng, but he would not let her. “You must promise before you leave me. Some day, when you are wiser, you will thank me for my firmness.” “I shall always speak kiadly to Per_«@y—always!” she said deliberately. “You #know why I have liked and pitied him. It was your own acts that brought us ~together.” “And now I think fit to separate you. ‘1 have never had any faith in these kind -@f friendships, and so remember that I -bld you see lim no more.” “Take care! You are rousing all the -evil in my nature! I may yet foil all your schemes, and make you repent that +you ever emb.rked in them!” Wryett Paulton grew ghastly pale, and -eaught hold of the door frame for support. Yet it was in his usually sardonic smanner that he asked, “And how will ~gou do this?” Lestelle let her arms fall by her side, ‘lt had but been the empty threat of a pebellious woman, who chafed against +the chains that were closing around her. | Lcrtelle passed swiftly into her dress4ng room, and locked the door between them with a fierce haste, born of he: “fncreasing detestation of the man to ~wvhom the rest of herd days were to be -devoted. - Percy carried her message to his - @eousin, repeating it to him as he sat wait- ¢ ing for Ida, who was going to ride with | “him. Darey, however, did not appear «gverjoyed at the tidings. ““What does she mean? How has she -prevented the prosecution of the claim? I bad rather, much rather, have been permitted to examine the evidence on which it is founded, and decide for my.self whether it be a just or nnjust one.” “As far as you are concerned, it is an ranfounded one, depend upon it!” said Percy. ‘“Therefore, I would, if I were you, accept Lestelle’s asurance, and let -¢he affair die away.” “No, I cannot do that,” Darcy exclaimod, after a few minutes’ thought. *lf Lestelle is renouncing her won rights -on my behalf, I should be selfish and ungenerous to suffer it. I must know <nore about the matter.” “Better not,” said Percy, with a sigh. ““or, at least, consent to let it lie in -abeyance until I am gone.” Neither of the speakers had heard ¥da enter, but now aer voice pettishly fnterposed. “How foolishly you talk, Percy. Dr. Dullman assures mamma that you take‘ . &, very exaggerated view of your case. | You seem to take a cruel pleasure in‘ frightening us,” Ida said, reproachfully. | “What has Darcy been proposing? May! ¥ not know?” } ““To be as high-minded as Lestelle, and i rafuse the sacrifice she offers to make."i [Percy answered. ‘“‘She has interposed.i i€ appears, to prevent the suit being car- | ried en.” | Eda curled her lip. “A sufficient proof | ¢hat it was an unjust one. Cannot this ereature be punished for her audacity {n attempting such a fraud?”’ Percy raised himself from the couch .a@ which he had beem lying. *“I don’t

A RO L | feel up to a wrangle this morning, so I'll | go; but in future, Ida, I'll thank you to | speak with more respect of a young girl, | who, in many virtues, is vastly your superior!” t Ida’s bright eyes were full of angry | tears as she turned tfiem towards her cousin. | “You =ee to what length Percy’s in-] fatoation has carried him. He actually | insults me with a most degrading com- | parison! I repeat that this bad creature ' ought to be punished. Don’'t you agree! with me?” | “I must first ba convinced that fraud | has been attempted,” Darcy gravely told I her; *and secondly, that Lestelle has participated in it.” She looks dissatisfied. “You are, as papa says, too chivalrous. Then, if the suit i 8 dropped, you will not take any more notice of the authors of this annoyR s . Darey hesitated. “T must think seriously before I come to any decision. I cannot rest until I know why the claim is not to be prosecuted.” “Is not the reason patent to every one?’ Ida demanded with impatience. “This woman and her advisers are evidently afraid to pursue their nefarious schemes any further. Don’t you see this? Is it possible that Percy has infected you with his folly?” “If it be a folly to judge less harshly of the young girl we call Lestelle than you have been doing, I must answer yves!” Ida grew crimson with indignation. “You offend me deeply when you uphold the cile cause of so much sorrow to my parents. You are the last person who should view her conduct so leniently. I am obliged to fear that there is some truth in the reports that have reached me concerning you. You have abetted Percy in his insults, and named the odious Lestelle in my presence.” “Insults, Ida! I must beg of you to use more temperate language. I think both Lestelle and myself deserve gentler usage at your hands.” “If I am to be constantly teased in this manner,” said the young lady, now losing her temper altogether, ‘‘our engagement had better cease.” At this moment Mrs. Lavington came into the room for a book, and perceiving the flushed faces of the young couple, J she paused. | “You are not quarreling, are vou, you ; naughty children?” | “1 never quarrel,” said Ida coldly. | ‘“Then let me see you shake hands. Except match-making, there's nothing I like better than reconciling lovers,” cried the vivacious widow. f “Don’t be ridiculous!” said Ida, snatching away the hand Mrs. Lavington tried to put into Darcy's. *“I prefer to tell my cousin in your presence that until this claim has been entirely set at rest, and its advisers severely punished, I shall covsider our engagement void.” Mrs. Levington looked uneasy, for <he knew how entirely the General's | heart was set on the match, and she i SN (Wit thataffect in “Papa will have no right to be angry with me for refusing to unite myself {o a gentleman who shows so little consideratiom for me as to land a low-mind- ‘ ed actress in my presence.” | “Lestelle is not low-minded,” said Darcy, controlling his wrath as well as he could. | Ida twrned from him with a disdainful gesture. “You hear this, Mrs. Lavington? My chivalrous cousin, secure, I suppose, of my affections, does not scruple to defend himself, and sees no shame in being on terms of intimacy | with one whom I blush to be obliged to name. | Darcy was now fairly roused. | *“You speak in ignorance of the truth, | or you could not say these unwomanly things. I tell you, as Percy has told you repeatedly, that you belie Lestelle. She is as pure and good as yourself.” A rather garbled account of this quar i rel was whispered to Percy by Mrs. Lavington as they sat at chess together in the evening; while Lechlade leaned over Ida’s chair at the other end of the room. Percy made no comment upon the wid- { ow's report, but it troubled him; and when his sister came to his side to say ‘ good night he put his arm round her. ‘ *“lda, dear, I don't like to hear that you and Darcy are at variance. For my sake, make up this silly quarrel.” l “I will not,”” she answered resolutely; “at least, not while he plays the advo- | cate for a creature I detest.” ‘ “A hatred, which. if I remember right--Iy, dates back from the time that some of your school fellows pronounced her handsomer than you. Oh, Ida, I hoped you were superior to such petty malice!” " She colored angrily. “Nonsense! 1 liked her till I knew who she was; and )she has amply revenged herself for any slights I put upon her then. First you are caught in her toils, and now Darey.” “My dear little sister, why will _vnu‘ persist in believing that my acquaint-‘ ance with Lestelle originated through her desire to fascinate me? I had commit- | ted my worst follies before I inew her, and she came to me like an angel of goodness when I was overwhelmed with the consequences of my madness. She, devoted her own savings to releasing me ; from the clutches of a merciless debtor —this Wyett Paulton—who seems to have us all in his clutches.” | “In what manner?”’ asked Ida, curiously. He kissed her with sorrowful tenderness. ‘I may not tell you. Be reconciled to Darcy, and let your marriage take place at once; if the worst comes to the worst, he has his mother’s property, which will insure him a certain income.” 4 Ida’s beautiful mouth took a dissatisfied curve. “And I should have to be economical, and live in the country always! I love Darcy, but I could not support such a life, even for his sake.” “But what if there are troublous days at hand?”’ asked Percy, in lowered tones; “days in which no one could shield you from sorrow as tenderiy as Darcey would? Before it is over you may wish yourself with me in the quiet grave!” ’ His impressive manner affected her. | “You are horrifying me with your wild tsayings. Tell me more! [ will know what you mean.” '. Ida clung to him, and would not be i shaken off. With that imperiousness | to which the more gentle nature of her | brother frequently succumbed, she refusled to leave him till he had explained ! himself. Wearied at length by her persistence, he murmured a few words in her ear, which made the blood recede from her cheek. *“lt is false!” she gasped; “I will never, never believe it!”

[ She had anwound her arms from hls ! neck, and stood steadily gazing at him, | as if asking herself whether it were pos- : sible that he was deceiving her. A step ; was heard approaching, and she hurried [ away. | 1t was the General, who had bheen ! writing in the library. He did not per g ceive Ida's rapid flight, for his eyes i were fixed on vacaney, and he was mut|tering to himself. But his glance feli i upon Percy, who was quietly retreating. 1 *“My dear boy, you look terribly fatigued,” he said, kindly. *“Have you | forgotten that your physicians advocate ! early hours?” % “I am going to bed directly, sir. Good -night!”’ | Two or three evenings after this, Per- | ey, in defiance of the manager, who t rigorously enforced the rule that no { strangers were to be admitted behind | the scenes, made his way to the door of | Lestelle's dressing room. She came her:svlf to- know who was there, looking I dazzlingly beautiful in the costume of a sea nymph, her long, dark hair and white arms fantastically wreathed with coral, and her skirts caught up with water lilies and feathery bunches of sea weed. “You must not talk to me,” she said, hurriedly; *“I need 21l my strength to nerve me for my part.” “You are ill; I feel sure of it. Don’t act to-night, Lestelle; better disappoint the public than injure your health. I want to say five words tosyou. Why did you bid me tell Darey what is not true? The suit is being carried on vigorously. The tenants on the Lesmere estate have received an injunction not to pay their rents."”’ Lestelle listened to him with dismay; but the voice of the call boy was heard, and she dared not linger except to say, “To-morrow—yocu shall hear from me to-morrow.” {(To be continued.) CUT SOLES OF TO-DAY. Rise and Progress of a Modern Specialty in Shoe Supplies. “It was not so very many years ago,” said a dealer in shoe supplies, *that you saw in every cobbler’'s shop a side of sole leather, or, it might be, a roll of such leather standing over in one corner, the stock from which he cut his supply of soles, as he needed them, in repairing shoes. But now from many thousands of such shops this once familiar feature has disappeared. Instead, the cobbler buys soles already cut out. “Cut soles are made In a variety of sizes and shapes. The cobbler can now buy cut soles and get exactly what he wants for less than he can buy the leather and cut them ouit himself. “About 50 per cent of the cobblers of New York and this part of the country now buy cut soles; in the South now about 25 per cent buy them. In the West about 75 per cent of the cobblers buy them. They are apparently mgre progressive there than the people of the East. ‘“This is accounted for, I supposs, by the fact that there are more new communities there, and towns starting new are likely to start with everything ! modern. If you were going to install a new plant of any sort you would put in the very latest styles of machinery, while in eolder communities they cling { more te old ways. d in the West, too, cut soles are parts of the country there are many thousands who do this. “There are plenty of people living scattered about the land who wouid bave to go twenty-five, fifty, seventyfive milies, to get a cobbler, and this wouldn't pay. Or they may mend thelr own shoes for economy’s sake, “In old times the farmer or other head of a wamlily who did this work had for it an improvised set of tools. But in these days he buys a house hold kit of cobblers’ tools. “In no trade has there been a greater advance than in that of shoe manufacturing. And no trade has been more highly speclallzed. For example, there are concerns that make nothing but shoe counters, and other establishments that turn out nothing but boot and shoe heels; and there is one hig Western concern that makes nothing but kits of cobblers’ tools, turning out of household kits and other sorts a carload a day. “A good many kits of cobblers' tools? Yes, a lot, I know, but this is a hig country with lots of people in it, and there are other lands to supply. “Well, the farmer or other man who mends his own shoes buys in these days a household kit of cobblers’ tools, l and he can also buy cut soles, getting just what he wants, and all handy to use.”—New York Sun. SUPERSTITIOUS CLOCK. Cuckoo Time Piece that Won't Work on Thirteenth of Month, “Speaking of the many curious things connected with the number 13 reminds me of a clock which has been in my family now for some time,” said an observant man, “and the thing I have in mind has gone far toward making me believe that there is something in the claim that 13 is an unlucky number. ‘The ciock in guestion is of the cuckoo variety. Ordinarily it is one of the meost reliable timepieces I have ever seen. It keeps perfect time and never fails to ‘cuckoo’ promptly on the hour, except in the case I have in mind. If the thing had not happened in such regular order I would have paid no attention to it. Buat it has been happening once every month regularly from the very time we introduced the aforesaid clock into the family circle. And it always happens on the 13th of the month. My clock lays off, if I may say it, once every month. It refuses to work on the day which is associated with unlucky things. Somehow it seems to know that 13 is an unlucky number. And it seems to think that it applies as much to dates as to other events and things. I have never been able to understand just why the -clock should stop on this day and up to this good hour I am unable to give any-: thing like a reasonable explanation of" it. I only know my cuckoo clock will not work on the 13th day of the month, and no matter how well it is wound, or what the weather conditions meay | be, when the unlucky day rolls around, | the clock simply stops. It is a curious | thing, isn’t it?”’—New Orleans Times. | Democrat. “ Automobiles made for the German {army Yhaul five to eight-ton loads through hilly country. |

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(2% = W R ‘ vq‘l_’b-). ‘}.: l \*‘-, A ‘:| " v $ 5 ’}‘;%j"%fl\‘ ; R e s () ol 3g i Siowr et i N ; | g o e & > 4 o - — % 4 -.' & P I W &Q | \_.&\ « ! % ~"" o~ -WOM___- o Unique Post Puller. ‘ Pulling posts by ordinary meauns .8 bot an easy task, as any one who has i tried it will admit, but when some simple device like that shown in the illustration is used, the work is much sim- l plitied. A frarae ahout three feet high should be meg'e of iumber four inches square; the 4-ame should be about eighteen inc§es wide. Make a roller | six inches i{ diameter and fasten tol the upper pg of the frame as shown and a chair .uld be bolted to it near one end skdindicated. This chain should be ai¥ at four feet long with a hook fastened to the free end. Near | the other end of the roller bore t“oi holes, as shown, about three inches | apart and each hole one and one-half | inches in diameter. To operate the de- i vice place it near the post, hook lhag chain around the post near the ground, | then use two bars, one in each hole: | turn the roller with these bars and | the post will vield readily, and with | ~ $ - ‘ | )| it -“——._4..—4‘ B | 1 | i ' , § 4 i — L 3 s i ;" . { | / (N N (L We L g ‘»\ & ,’—-:_\‘ rf———js 17y BN i - M) g e— e B ‘f?‘ Si T " e Sl S - L HOME-MADE POST PPULLER. the use of but a small amount of strength upon the part of the operator. Any one who is handy with tools can easily make this device, and it will pay for itself in a single season if many posts are to be pulled.—indianapolis Newws, |& . : b o Profits in 11linois. _ Buat tht®ec n belt advances slowly Idn the wihs of improved metheods ©T cuitivatin iffmr great cereal is indicated by & de records of the Illinois State BoarT of Agriculture for the last t\\'ent_\«fn\_zg yvears. To illustrate: In 1850, 3,830,170 acres were planted in corn, and 115,175,770 bushels wera raised. The total value was S4B, 1.277. and the average cost of praduction was £10.50 per acre. The value of corn per acre was 512.70. In 1903, byway of contrast, 7,900, 080 acres were planted in corn, and 275,735,009 bushels were raised, worth $11.87 per acre, or a total of $94.424.€22, and the cost of prodiu tion was N 9 per acre. In these forty-four yeurs the Iliinols crop has produced a profit in only twenty-three years. The oth er twenty-one years show a joss The last five yvears have lLeen exceedingly profitable, showing an ag gregaie profit of 126000000, The total profits in the twenty-three years are, of course, very much greater than the total losses during the other twenty-one years. The greatest loss was in 1878, when it reached $35,000, 000: in 1873, $20.000.000; in 1876, $25,0000, The greatest prefit was in 1864, SCO.000.000; in 1867, 26,0416, WK in 1888, $30,000,000: in 1801, §32.000, i!‘lfl; in 1901. £33.000000; and in 1902, 240.000,000. Yet, in this time the cost | per acre stood at $10.50 from 1860 to 1880. Thence to 1888 it ranged about that fisure. Since 1588 it has ranged from $£0.75 tn $9, at which figure it has remained for six years. Buying Stock Swine, Never buy an animal simply because !!w has a pedigree, and because he is on sale at a low price. Pedigree alone does not constitute merit, for there are animals! with pedigrees a foot long, whieh wor ]l muin any herd into which they were Jatroduced. The next class —the far Pr's pig—is that which is not gaod Inough for the Yrecdor of high-class f,tock; this animal may be a bit coarse,/and not up to standards, but he is & good growthy or a prolific sort, which the pork producer will be zlad to have. The next kind includes the culls, runts and inferior specimens, which should be turned into butcher's meat as soon as possible; under no cireumstances whatever should they be used as breeders. American Farming, An Illinois farmer says: Comparing the composite picture of the American farmer at the threshold of 1204 with his likeness in 1889, there is good ground for estimating bhis present value as double that of fifteen years ago. Potentially he is the coming man. All roads leading to the farm ar2 being more and more traveled. Intercourse promotes development and the farmer is demanding a larger share in the life of the nation. In response to this demand a rising tide, of effort and accomplishment, is seen on every hand. To Break Up Sitters. The means of preventing a hen from sitting seems like a very humble problem to occupy the throbbing brain of an inventor, but the matter has been recently attacked by a genius of Bri:ish Honduras, who is so sure that he has found a solutlion of this mignty matter that he has gone to the troubl of taking out patent papers in this and other countries,

e T cenER The apparatus consists merely of a ‘ loop of wire adapted to fasten to her leg and encircle the limb in such a ‘ wanner that the fowl's freedom of foot is not interfered with in her ordinary rambles about the barnyard in search of food, but the moment she tries to locate herseM on a nest she finds a yawning chasm betwe2n them. She may hover around and over the nest, but it refuses to receive her rotund form. This is because the wira prevents her from bending her leg, as is necessary to assume the sitting posture. It is said that after repeated es- ‘ forts to find a hospitable nest she gives up her task and forgets her dream cf ‘ maternity, ] Silage Fatal to Horses. ° Corn silage is a natural food for} milking cows and growing cattle, It I is useful in the ration of fattening ani- | mals. It may be fed to horses with probable advantage, but it must be fed with extreme caution. : If fed in regular amounts not exceeding ten to fifteen pounds per day, many experiences have been entirely satisfactory. If fed in wunlimited amounts, and especially if the silage has been poorly made or has undergone some further degeneration, it has proved deadly in its effects. Last winter in Minnesota a man came to us at I the Farmers' Institute with a sorrow- | ful tale. He had filled his silo with ] frozen corn and there was mold on the silage. He had no hay. His horses had been gorged with silage, having no other feed. They ate a bushel or more a day. They gained in flesh for a time. | Then they began myster.ously to sicken and die. Paralysis of the throat { was one symptom. No remedy helped | them. All died, 1 think, and he was | &« poor man, in debt ror his farm. ‘ This winter a friend fed silage. | Whgt they rejected was thrown out lin a yard in a rack. From this rack 2(‘“\"3 gleaned. One day eight horses 5 running in the yard ate all they want|od of this half-spoiled silage. All died. | The symptoms were peculiar, inecluding nervous spasms, and one veterinarian pronounced the disease hydrophobia. It may possibly have been, . but I fear the silage alone was respon- | sible, | This need not deter any ome from { bullding silos. There is abundant use { for silage in the dairy barn, the cattle r vard, the sheep pens, even in the swine | pens. Let the herses have dry forage i or silage in smali amounts.—Breeders | Gazette. Home-Grown Alfalfa Seed. Reports from Michigan farmers on plats seaded to alfalfa show the ! folly of using seed imported from Europe, rather than the home-grown seed, The jmported seed has a lesa ~“vitality and TOES not catch 80 well, and also has a lower per cent ¢f germination. While these fwo proints ar2 enough to enable the farmer to see that the home-grown seed is clearly ;lho best, there is one more serious !Oh}&‘(’(ifln to the impeorted seed. Most i of it is found to contain a large amount gnf weed seed, the most troublesome | ones being dodder and bueckthorn. ; One man invested something over a | hundred dollars in European seed. the | result from wbhich was almost absoiute !fn!'.zm-, although different plats were !snwn in varying ways, some with a | nurse erop, others without. Neighbors g\\'lm used the home-grown seed oot { good resnits, as the past season has ! been an especialiy favorable one to get in good catch, Good Milking Stool. i John Jackson, in the Epitomist, ‘writefi: “I have used a milking stool { made as described in the illustration | for five years. The seat board, A, is i made of a two-inch plank nine inches | == --. K o ! | —_————, | o ) , =\l i e e Y g . MILKING STOOL. wide and fourteen inches long. TTJ.—O stool board, B, is two inches thick and | nine inches broad and long and cut round. A three-eighth inch bolt, C, is put through the middle, the head sunk and the nut left off so the seat will revolve. The seat is eleven inches deep. A hoop is fastened with staples on the upright board, B, to hold the bucket it at a convenient height from the floor to ! its vpper Tim.™ Passing of Saw and Ax. ’ A United States Consul reports that in France trees are being felled by elec. tricity—not struck by lightning, as in the old time way—the work being done by a platinum wire made white hot with a current of eleetricity and used as a saw. A tree is cut down in one-eighth the time consumed by the ordinary methods of sawing or chopping. If trees can be felled in this way their trunks can also be cut inta logs and the logs into boards by a slender wire instead of the cumbrous saw. Is the coming wood or lumber sawing machine or mill to be simply a portable engine running a dyname to generate electricity to heat a wire that will go through tree or log eight times as fast as a saw? Quite likely. Electricity is yet an undeveloped infant; what will it not do when fully matured? When Scalding Pigs. When scalding pigs put three handfuis of pitch in the water and a handtul in each succeeding heat. Little or no shaving of the pig is required. Smoke the meat three days, having a !\'ol'_\' hot fire the first dey and using two pounds of sulphur in the fire the { last two days. Neither tlies nor mice i will touch the meat. Mueninery ors no kind should be alrowed te remaln exposed to the weath. l &r any more than is necessary.

R R R, T e SENATOR QUAY DEAD. ! Long Career of Veteran Pennsylvania Politician Is Ended. l Matthew Stanley Quay, United States Senator for Pennsylvania and for years one of the foremost men in the Repub- | lican party, died at his kome in Beaver, } Pa., Saturday afterncon. Early in t!n:% day he fell into a stupor frem which he | could not be aroused and while in Hiiv’% condition the end came. In his last mo- ; ments- he was surrcunded by m«m}.ersi of his family and many personal and po- | litical friends, ineluding his colleague in | the United States Senate, Boies Pen-i rose of Philadelphia. j Senator Quay had been nnmnsrinus; since 8 o'clock in the morning. Oxygen | was administered several times in the! hope of reviving him, but the physicians | long before the moment of death came | =i \ /'/ g:f/’."’;}":'i- -ji, ‘ lfl(fi"fi i® =) l /i (’{ / ‘T{' -=P ‘ %\ ,_,:i,‘,fl?f//"-" o 5 i eSS == ‘ TaN i e l \\l\_\\: e :,.‘i\? 7 | i\ N ‘ | 3 A -:' . S — //’f‘ A2B RN \F7 ST N \.‘ \_: }," e~ il SN 'r!lt ' \\\ /*}// / ¥ 5 SENATOR QUAY. realized that their efforts were useless and that their distinguished patient could never rallv. The Senator lay as if sleeping peacefully, with no sign of suffering. The breathing became fainter and fainter and at 2:48 Dr. Litchtield announced to these about the bedside that all was over. The immediate cause of his death was exhaustion due o inability to assimilate rourishment. In chronie gastritis and inflammation of the stomach lie the foundations of the trouble. Senator Quay’s illness began about a year ago. It was a reenrrence of the trouble that beset him: during the latter part of 1900 and the early days of January, 1901, when he was undergoing the strain of a des- { perute fight for re-election to the Senate. The death of Senator Quay deprives the Republican party of one of its most skillful political managers. As chairman of the national committee in 1888 he directed the campaign that put Gen. ' Harrison in the White Honse. Senator Quay’s greatest triumph wae his re-elec- . tiou to the Senate in 1901 after the preceding session of the Pennsylvania Legislature, because of the long deadlock, had adjourned without- electing a Senator. Charges of conspiracy to defraud the State were pending against Quay, but he was finally acquitted and sent back to the United States Senate. $5,000,000 FIRE. Recurrence of the Terrible Hoboken Holocaust Narrowly Averted, A dupiicate of the famous Hoboken pier fire, in which scores of lives were lost and many valuable vessels were destroyed, Struck terror to the water front residents of New York Sunday, when seven freight and coal piers of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Rail- [ road in Jersey City were destroyed, en- | tailing a loss of $5,000,000. It seemed for a time as if the flames wounld get ' beyond control and sweep from dock to dock. It was only by the most superhu- ! man work of the firemen and the fireboats that a terrible holocaust was averted. Many thought that the valuable ship- | ping section of Jersey City was doomed, | and the harbor presented an animated scene as tugs hurried to draw the big vessels into midstream. The sereech of myriads of whistles made the air resonant with calliopean discord. | The fire started about 3 o'clock in the afternoon in pier 12, on which a lot of barrels of oil was stored. The flames { spread rapidly. Pier 12 was SOO feet ’ long and was soon ablaze its entire length, and the firemen who were trying E to fight the fire from the shore, were i able to accomplish but little. The flames [ swept across to pier 11 and bevond, | being finally checked at pier 5, which is | a new coal trestle, steel framed and | ironelad. Here the firemen and fireboats i made a desperate stand and stayed the t advance of the fire until the burning | piers erumbled and fell into the wuter. !.\lt}:nngh there was but little wind, sparks fell all along the water front for i the better part of a mile, endangering | the Lackawanna depot and even the i Hamburg-American and Bremen line | piers, where the firemen were kept busy | playing streams of water upon the buildi ings and over the ships at their docks. [ The bullding of the Hoboken Coke { Company, five blocks from the :ain | fire, was set ablaze by burning brands, Ebu[ the firemen responded quickly and the building was only slightly damaged. A number of ecaralboats and several tugs were burned, the loss of small boats being variously estimated at from thirty to 200. The number of freight ears burned is not knewn, but on this eclass of rolling !' stock and on eoal cars the loss will be i heavy. During the fire the Lackawanna moved its passenger coaches from its yards out to the Meadows, and one train of a dozen bex cars were hauled out of a burning pier and saved. Piers 11 and 12 were full of general merchandise, piers 7.8, 9 and 10 were | used for coal, and pier 6 was a crain loading pier. All Aronud the Giobes An unknown woman juemped into the river at Niagara Falls and was swept over the cataract. She left a nete saying: “The wages of sin is death.” The American schooner Irene has been | captured by the Cuban revenue cutter | Arana while iflegally fishing for spenges close to the north coast of Pinar del Rio. | In a wreck on the Buffalo, Rochester | and Pittsburg Railroad, between Ernest | and Creekside, Pa., Engineer James 8. | Sayres was killed and his fireman badly | scalded. ’ Mrs. R. L. Taylor was granted a divorce from former Gov. Robert L. Taylor of Tennessee in chancery court in Knoxville, after the depositions of a few witnesses had been read. ' The possibility of Chinese laborers be--1 ing used in the work of completing the Puanama canal is unfavorably commented upon in the newspapers in Panama. A law prohibiting Chinese immigrativa is ’ in effect. 4 S. Mahuela, clerk of the Hawaiian House of Representatives, has been found guilty by a jury of the federal | court of destroying certain vouchers for | expenses of the House incurred during lthe last regular session.

s ! THEWEEKLY i i - |/ HISTORIAN Bvl e § ; f'?'.;;" (<-.‘-~' ”k‘;i’i, dithaly - | LR e a1 11| # ;“%/s‘//""} i 2 Cavw ‘l 'f ? q‘k‘};:; S '.j;. AL e =R /7"‘,;;‘*\ He&s T A A ;t [ ! A A AR ! S, ; fors 4?‘\’ Iy = HRE 37 e #fl VMo *__;M/ | = NG s ! :; Py s R TR \' N== i@—m——-z ‘4. | N —~———O=— COne Hundred Years Ago. | Arrangements were made for the es- ;‘r | tablishment of a French army in Al | ! sace and also in Hanover. : As a testimonial of the country's high esteem for Lieut. Decatur’'s gallant conduct in taking the frigate Phil- | adelphia a commission as captain in ‘ the navy was issuad to him. The Secretary of the Navy ordered all officers at Baltimore, Philadelphia,f and New York to close their recruiting offices and report at once to their re- | gpective ships. 5 The King of Prussia refused Napo- | leon’s request to allow the French to i occupy Embden. Bonaparte was declared Emperor of France as Napoleon I. By order of Napoleaon the beautiful cemetery of Pere le Chaise at Paris was laid cut. The American minister to France was in England in pursuit of agricultural information; also, some said, with the view to obtaining a loan for the purchase of Florida. Seventy-live Years Ago. Seven steamboats began the navigation of Lake Erie. l Roman Catholics in ths country celebrated with much joy the passage of the Catholic relief bill by the British Parliament. Trial by jury in civil actions was introduced in Australia. Nicholas I. of Russia was crowned | at Warsaw as King of Poland. | The Dutch government decided on | energetic proceedings with the Bel- | glans, whose country they had recent‘_lly acquired as one of the spoils of : l war. r A cotton factory was established at ' | Pendleton, S. C., the second in the State. ) Gold was discovered in Burke County, N. C. Quicksilver was also found. 1 RN Fifty Years Ago. i The new <‘reaty of alliancs between | England, anceandw .| ed at St. Cloud. = o l The allied powers declared Greece | In a state of blockade. | The first railroad was Inaugurated |ln Sardinia, running between Turin - | and Susa. The king and queen and a ) | great concourse of people participated -| in the ceremonies. - | A French squadron arrived at Cuba under Admiral Duquesne. : Negro battalions were enrolled in , | Cuba for the defense of the island. | Queen Victoria attained her 85th E year. - One division of the French army left Malta in order to occupy Athens. | e : ferty Years Ago. k J. Howard, Jr.. a Brooklyn (N. Y. 4 l newspaper man, was arrested and conE ‘ fined at Fort Lafayette, charged with ;’the authorship of the famous *“bogus ; proclamation” calling for troops. 3 John W. W. Andrews, leader of the | | anti-draft rlots in New York, was senJ i tenced to Sing Sing prison. : The women of Chicago met to organ- : ! ize a dress reform movement, the ob- , | ject of which was to taboo imported - | fabrics, and thus keep money in this | country. *| The Union army had advanced sis--2 | teen miles beyond Spottsylvania court- : ‘ house in its movement on Richmond. { Sioux Indian warriors to the num- * | ber of 6.000 were encamped on the ! | upper Missouri River. Union troops i ] under Gen. Sully were being mobilized |at Sioux City to give the redskins | | battle. i , By an agreement between the New | York Central tmd Hudson River raili | roads through express service batyeen ' | New York and Buffalo WIS 2 '] ; :for the first time. ‘ l The British steamer Young Repmub- | | lic, captured ,while-trying to run the t | coast blockade, was taken into the : i port at Boston. l !Thirtv Years Ago. ’ After a long trial on the charge of ' | heresy, of which he wsas not convict%ed. David Swing withdrew from the i Chicago Presbytery. ) | Ten thousand members of the Dun- : i kard sect met in conference at Girard, Bl : g The Episcopai convention in Phila- . | delphia passed a resolution opposing , | the introduction of a Romanizing ritual ; f in church services. » ‘ The marriage of Nellle Grant, daugh- : ftm‘ of President Grant, to Algernon - | Charles Frederick Sartoris took place ' %m the White House at Washington, in ¢ : | Bishop Cannon, AMormen delegate in ; ; the House of Representatives from . | Utah, declined to testify before the | House Election Commititee in regard . | to family affairs. J A national eivil rights bill was pass- [ ‘ ed in the United States Senate. | ' Twenly Years Ago. | Lightning set fire to a Philadelphia | oil reflnery and 28,000 barrels of oil | burned. | Gen. Butler, at Lowell, Mass, ac- ‘ cepted the nomination for President by the Nuational Anti-Monopoly par{y.