6 OLD AND NEW. I. © for the old times! We stretch across the distance Eagtr, yearning hands, hot with the heart's tire. O. vanished days! How fair ye are with colors Mixed with imagination and desire! © for the old friends! Their faults arc all forgotten, From the far past their glances woo us bright .As the tixed stars that mock our aspira tions Set In the purple, palpitating night 11. Ours are the new times like fields meet for the sowing; Let the hand be busy scattering precious seed. In their bosom lies all that the soul re quireth, Shone upon by God and quickened to our need. ©urs are the new friends, children of the Father. Let us love them truly for the old friends' sake. JLay up while we may treasures of affec tion. Lest the hungry heart with vain longing break. —Mary F. Butts, in Good Housekeeping. N The Trouble sfc on the Torolito. BY FRANCIS LYNDE. (Copyright ISUS. by Frauds Lynde.) , ! —«a—Winn— CIIAPTER II. — CONTINUED. "flack yonder in the Tennessee hills, wher' 1 come f'om," he said, "ther' was wunst a feller f'om the north 'at 'lowed he was a-goin' to j build him a ho-tell on the mounting i and run a railroad up to it. Nobody never said a blame' word ag'inst it, as 1 ever hear:), but somehow'r •notlier, lie got sorter tired and wo'n out atter awhile and quit; and ther' ain't no ho-tell n'r no railroad on that ther' mounting yit." We both filled in the inferential blanks in the parable, and when Kil g;ore had disappeared in the direction of the corral, I uaid, jestingly: "There's an idea for you. If legal means, fail, you can mobilize your cowboy army and drive them out by main strength and awkwardness." Macpherson laughed good-natured ly- "If you were half as vindictive as you talk, you'd be a holy terror. But I'm not going to fight. At first, I thought I should —with the Win chesters, if it came to that — but they've been figuring around so long that I've had a chance to think It over—and to change my mind." I have pathetically acute memory lor details, and it occurred to me Just then that he had spoken of the •cbool-inistress as a peacemaker. "lias Miss Sanborn forbidden it?" I asked, with malice aforethought. He was singularly embarrassed, for a man who had made me more or less bis fid us Achates since our col lege days in the stuffy dormitory. "You are taking a good deal more for granted—about Miss Sanborn— than the facts warrant," he protest ed. "Of course, ,she is interested on the side of peace, in a general way; but—" "But you would have me believe that she has no personal interest in the matter. I haven't the pleasure of her acquaintance, but if that be the case, I'll venture to say that she is xiof a very discerning young woman." Now when you would sweat out tlie secrets, sentimental or otherwise, of any son of Adam, there is no su dorific like a little, abuse well rubbed in. Macpherson's reply told me what X wanted to know, and more. "Say; you mustn't talk that way about her, old man. I can't listen to It,, you know. She is all that's good ■and pure and sweet; and I'm—that is to say, I—" It would have been needlessly cruel to let him goon stumbling about in the limited vocabulary of -the lover at bay. So I said: "Don't stultify yourself, my dear boy; bring her to me that I may bless you both before I go hence and be no more." "Confound it nil! you will goon taking too nmeh for granted!" he broke in, missing the predetermined pathos in the last phrase. "Can't you understand? She is 'Miss San born' to me yet, and I'm 'Mr. Mao pherson' to her. That's the plain truth of it." "All in good time, Angus, my boy. I can understand that there are mile stones, even in Lover's Lane. And I can also understand that if Miss Sanborn is on the side of submission 1 can't incite you to rebellion. Is that the fact?" "If you will put it that way. I ■han't fight, at any rate." There the matter came to the ground of its own weight, and I took tip the field-glass to train it upon an other miniature whirlwind of dust homing across the valley. "That's Dan Connolly," said Mae pherson, when the dust-cloud parted in the midst. "How can you tell, at this dis tance?" "By the way he rides. He was a trooper in her majesty's Heavy Dragoons before he migrated and he came a cow-puncher, and lie jockeys in his stirrups to this good day. Hel lo!—what's that?" It sounded like the fall of plank ■upon plank, but I was enough of a sportsman to recognize the crack of a heavy rifle. Thereupon ensued a quick-moving and stirring tableau. The horse of the approaching range rider made a demi-volt in air, com ing down broadside in its tracks. I looked to see the ex-trooper flung headlong, but the glass showed him to me flat on the ground behind the living breastwork withers of the bronco. A thousand yards away, at the black gush in the Gringo, a small cavalcade was defiling into the park, and out of it a horseman rode, wav ing- his gun in the air as he came. Macpherson stepped back into the house, coming out again quickly with hia Winchester. "By God," he said, between his teeth, "if they're going to begin by taking pot-shots at us— Now what the devil is that fellow trying to do? Hasn't he got sense enough to know that Connolly's only waiting till he gets in range?" The oncoming horseman had slung his rifle, and was waving something white. The man in the breastwork let him come up until he was within easy killing distance, and then judg ing by the way in which the truce bearer dragged his horse to its haunches, the bronco's garrison had called a halt. There was a brief col loquy of some sort— not peaceful, if the field-glass were to be trusted, and gestures mean anything—and at the end of it the man with the white handkerchief galloped back to his company and led it by a wide detour around the intrenched one. Five min utes later, Connolly ambled up and dropped from his horse at the corral ■ bars. "What was the row, Dan?" Mac pherson called. "Nothin' worth the name of ut, 1 sorr. It was on'y Misther Engineer Wykamp, av the Glenlivat Land Coomp'ny—bad 'cess to 'lll poppin' his gun over the head av me to ask about the tlirail. He was sweatin' heejus, an' for wan eint I'd 've put him out av his mis'ry. I was that near to doin' ut annyliow." Macpherson's smile was the grim mest. "It's God's mercy Connolly didn't kill him," he said. "I've known him to do a \tforse thing on slighter provocation than that." The little episode was to me like 1 the sight of his first battle is j like to be to the soldier, and my bones became as water. More over, the spirit of prophecy came up on me and I was fain to give it speech as one who had advised a thought too rashly "If that's the beginning' of it, ! Angus, the middle part and the end ing will be of violence. I don't know but the school-ma'am is right, after all. What I had in mind was a legal fight." "You mean that I'd better be pros pecting for the new range?" "After you've driven the money bargain, yes. There'll be bloodshed if you don't." He laid the rifle across his knees and the far-away look came back in to the brown eyes of him. "I don't know,"he said, slowly. "Somehow, I don't feel as sure about what I ought to do as I did a few minutes ago. Are we a lot of out laws to be called down like escap ing convicts?" I tried to turn it off in a laugh. "It's doubtless all one to the engi neer. He is probably from the far east, with fictional notions of west ern customs. I shouldn't wonder if he thought that was the accepted method of calling a man's attention out here. Where are you going?" Macpherson had risen to take his saddle from its peg under the wide eaves. "I believe I'll ride up the valley a piece and see what has become of Milt. He isn't quite as hasty as Dan Connolly, but I wouldn't answer for him if that fellow tries to bully him. Shall I put you to bed before I go?" I suffered him; and a little later, through a chink in the ranch house wall, saw him mount and ride. It must have been hours later when he returned. The men were snoring peacefully, and the moon was pour ing a flood of white radiance through the square window openings and the never-closed door of the ranch house. I heard Macpherson stumble in and fling himself into his bunk, which was opposite mine. When I turned over to speak to him, I had a glimpse of his face in the moonlight, and it brought me to my elbow with a sharp ejaculation of concern. "For heaven's sake, Angus, what's the matter wth you? You're bleed ing—you're hurt!" He rolled over quickly and hid his face after the manner of a petulant child, and I heard something which sounded like a mumbled curse. "Never mind me; I'm all right. The bronco stumbled. You goto sleep." CHAPTER ITT. A WORD AND A CLOW. When I awoke on the morning fol lowing the day of episodes it was late, and the bunk-room was desert ed by all save the master. Macpher son was smoking peacefully and reading the papers brought up from Fort Cowan by Kilgore, and his greeting was cheerfully obliterative of the overnight attack of ill-humor. "The dregs of the morning to you; I thought you were going to sleep the clock around. How do you feel this morning?" "I feel as if I could punish a square meal. What time is it?" "Nine o'clock, and worse. Oh, Andy!—is the water boiling?" "Yep," came the answer from the cook-house in the rear. "I'ut the eggs in, and be ready to die if they come out hard." And then to nie: "You like 'em underdone, don't you?" "Yes. When did you put eggs on the. menu?" "Lust night. Milt had you in mind, and he brought them down from the settlement in his hat." A mist not of the atmosphere blurred the homely interior of the bunk-room for me. Self-control is but a crater-crust in a well man, and the hot lava of illness thins it to the fracturing point. "If 1 were a sick child you fellows couldn't be more lovingkind to me." CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1901. "Oil, you be " The affectionate malison stuck in his throat, and he made a hollow pretense of relighting his pipe—which had not gone out. When the air was fairly blue with tobacco-smoke, he said: "I'm going down to the fort to-day. Want any thing?" "Yes; I want to know how the bronco came to stumble—last night." He got tip and began to tramp, with his hands behind him and his head in a dense cloud of the pipe's making. "I had hoped you'd forget that," he said, after a turn or two. "Is it anything I ought not to know?" "Not on my account; but you've troubles enough of you own." "A friend's share of yours won't make mine any heavier." "I'm not so sure of that." "You may be. Besides, it's only the details that are lacking; you had a row with the engineer." "How do you know?" "I'm only guessing at it. How did it happen?" "It happened because it's written in the book of fate that one of us is to efface the other, I think. It be gan to grind itself into me yester day, when that fellow rode out to parley with Dan Connolly. If I be lieved in transmigration, I should say that we had worried through some past avatar as red-dog and wolf." "But the bronco-stumble?" said I. "I'm coming to that. When I saddled El Gato last night, I had it in mind togo and wrestle it out with Selter for not keeping faith with me. A mile this side of the settlement I met Milt, and when lie told me that Wykamp was at Selter's, 1 killed time to give him a chance to get away. What I had to say to Selter wouldn't brook witnesses." "I can imagine." "When I reached the selioolhouse. Miss Sanborn was locking up, and I "You stopped to talk it over with her. Goon." "She boards at the Selters', ycu know, and it struck me all at once that I didn't want her to meet that fellow Wykamp. I don't know why, and I didn't stop to reason it, out. I made her sit down on the step of the selioolhouse, and we talked for an hour or more, 1 should say. When I thought 1 had given Wykamp time to vanish, I drew the line. The moon was up and it was getting chilly, and I can't make Winif—Miss Sanborn be lieve that thin sleeves and pneumonia are cause and effect at this altitude." "Confound your digressions! Will you never come to the point?" "All in good time. We were half way to Selter's when I heard the en gineer coming. He pulled his horse down to a walk when he saw us, and I gave him plenty of room. I saw him bend to staj'e at us as he passed, "I LOST MY HEAD AND STRUCK HIM." and before I knew what was happen ing lie was blocking the way with .a sneer on his face and her name on his tongue. She clung to me and tried to hide her face; and he—he laughed." Macphcrson was living it over again in the retelling, and his hand some face was a study in righteous wrath. I could easily imagine that the engineer would never know how nearly he had laughed his life away. "Yes. he laughed, and said: 'I told you the world wasn't going to be big enough for you to hide in. Won't you introduce me to your—friend?" She began to cry at that, and I lost my head, of course, and struck him. He came back at me—with the butt of his whip, I think—calling me a name that made her out to be—God help me, Jack! I can't go over it all again in cold blood!" "Don't try; I can finish it. You killed him, and you're going to Sort Cowan to-give yourself up. Is there a lawyer this side of Denver with brains enough to defend you?" He shook his head. "No, I didn't. I meant to, but she got between us. She was half crazy with grief and fright, as she had a right to be, but out of her passionate incoherence I managed to pick this: that Wykamp's life was not mine to take—that I, of all men in the world, must spare and slay not, even if the blood of a kins man should cry out for vengeance." Just at this point in Macpherson's narrative, Andrew the Mild came in with my breakfast. When he went away, I said: "Was that all?" "About all. I don't think Wykamp heard much of what she was trying to say. He'd had a look down the gullet of a forty-five, and had lost his nerve. He made out to climb his horse after a frantic plunge or two, and rode away; and then I took Winifred home." "Did she say anything to clear it up?" "Not a word. And I didn't have the heart to ask questions, as you may imagine. She was too deep in misery to talk; and you'll under stand from what I've told you that she has not yet gi?en me the right, to be inquisitive." "There are some things in this world that need to be taken for granted. But what is your theory?" "I haven't any." "I have—or rather, it's a horrible suspicion." lie stopped and put his hand on my shoulder, and I wondered if he had read my thought. "Keep it to yourself, Jack," lie said, with his chin a-quiver; "I've about all I can stand, just now. If you knew her you Wouldn't say 'sus picion.' Are you sufe to leave for a day or two?" "Of course I am. And you'd better be off if you expect to reach Cowan by daylight." "I'm gone. Take care of yourself and just play the outfit's yours. The boys will nurse you to the queen's taste, if you'll let them. Good-bye." fTo Be Continued ] THE SUSPECTED CUSHION. Experience of a Young American l.mly with n German Cun toniH Official. A friend of mine had a most em barrassing experience in Freiburg im-Breisgau. She had received a no tice announcing the arrival of a package from England, and request ing her presence at the headquar ters of the octroi, writes the author of "Continental Chit-Chat." The lady with whom she was staying was un able to accompany her, and Miss G , being in a hurry for the ball dress which the parcel contained, started olf boldly alone, notwith standing her exceedingly limited knowledge of German. After keep ing her waiting some considerable time one of the employes deigned to hunt up the package. She watched the unceremonious handling of her dainty gown with in ward qualms as he shook out the folds. Suddenly a vivid blush over spreifd her face as she saw the man examining a small cushion which was sewn under the back drapery of the skirt —ladies who recall the fashions of a few years ago will remember the article in question. The pres ence of two students in the office, and the evident interest they were taking in her affairs, did not lessen her embarrassment either; had the cushion been stuffed with all manner of contraband goods instead of in nocent horsehair, she could not have felt more uncomfortable. Every word of German seemed to fade from her memory, and not a syllable could she utter to allay the official's sus picions. The burning flush deepened as he ripped open (lie cushion, and I exposed the horsehair to the public gaze, and an intense longing took possession of her to box the ears of 1 the two students, who were in con | vulsions of suppressed laughter. "I never felt such a fool in all my life," she said to me when recount insjMier adventure; "and if those two fellows are at the ball I don't know what I shall do." I believe they were there, but Miss G , who was a very pretty girl and always had hosts of partners, managed to enjoy herself amazingly all the same. SHE FOUND THE RECIPE. It llu«l Hoon I,oat In the Family llible uiid the* Minister llrouttlit It to Mailt. "My wife will be careful hereafter how she takes liberties with the truth," said Jones, with a grin, re lates the Detroit Free Press. "We had our minister with us the other day for dinner, and the conversation turned upon absent-mindedness, and my better half had to tell her story. "'1 am dreadfully absent-minded,' said she. 'I remember some six or seven years ago a friend of mine gave me her celebrated recipe for mak ing jam. When I reached home I carefully put it away where I would be sure to find it when I wanted it. But, do you know,- a few weeks later when I needed it I couldn't remember for the life of me where I had put it, and to this day I have never been able to find it.' "After dinner she turned to Her. Mr. Thirdly and said, sweetly: " Would you mind reading a chap ter in the IJible? We make it a rule to read at least one chapter every night.' "This statement caused me to look at her in surprise, for it was news to me. "The reverend gentleman consent ed graciously, and she brought the family Bible, which she had carefully dusted and placed in a conspicuous spot before he had arrived. "As he turned the leaves a paper fluttered to tbe floor. "'Goodness!' gasped my wife, as she picked it up, not realizing how her words were going to sound, after her somewhat pious statement, 'it is that recipe fofr jam!'" CUIIMP for Tlinnkfnliiran. "Prev'us to de amalgamation ob dis yer collectshun," observed the pastor, "ah spoke at some lengf upon de sub jec' ob Thanksgibbing - . "In mah po' way ah endeavored fo' to p'int out de various whys an' whar fo's dat dis yer flock should be raisin' its voice in praise dis glorious mawnin', an' ah hed hoped de result would hab been a trifle mo' apparent in de size ob de offerin'. Howebber. "But, in reoouutin' de many lings fo' which members ob dis gadderin' oughter be thankful, it seems dat ah neglected one sinner." Here the reverend gentleman looked about and held up in full view a shin ing suspender button which he had taken from the plate. "Ah refer," said he,"to de gemman what put dis in de collectshun. He oughter be thankful ah don't know who he am."—Harper's Bazar. INCREASE CAPACITY. VHM Improvement!) to be .Tlade lly lulled M«Cr> Mori Corporation In Its I'lunta I lilted State* 1% 111 l(e< <>■■■» Create*! Tin I'late Itlanulaetiirluz Country In ibe World. Pittsburg, Dec. 13. —The Chronicle- Telegraph says: "Some extensive improvements and enlargement of the various plants of the United States Steel Corporation have just been de cided upon by the advisory board of the biff steel combination. It has been developed that the sole object of the inspection tour of President C. M. Schwab and other officials last month was to consider suggestions made by the district managers. The most important action of the board was a decision to largely increase the steel producing capacity of the cor poration as the output of finished material is far in advance of that of the Bessemer converters and open hearth plants. One of the plans is to equip all the open hearth furnaces of the Carnegie fciteel Co. at Duquesne, that the steel may be made by the Monell process, which already has proved so success ful at Homestead. It is estimated that the monthly output can be in creased thousands of tons by adopt ing this process at all the open hearth plants of the company. "It lias been decided by the Amer ican Sheet Steel Co, to install addi tional mills for the rolling 1 of heavier gauges, and the work is to be begun I at. a number of plants in a short time. "The American Tin Plate Co. will also, in the near future, install ma chinery for the ruling of black plate for tin mills that will be largely au tomatic. It is said on reliable au thority that machinery in (this pro cess will do from two-thirds to three fourths of the work now done by hand on the hot mills and the output will be materially increased. "With the new method it is esti mated that the American Tin Plate Co. will not only be able to compete with foreign manufacturers at home without the aid of the tariff but will also be able to compete with the foreign manufacturers at home with out the aid of tariffs, which would result in the I'nited States becoming the greatest tin plate manufacturing country in the world." HOTEL FIRE. One Hun Itnrnad to Death and Sev eral I'crnoiiN Injured. Ford City, Pa., Dec. 13.—The Fifth Avenue hotel, of this place, was de stroyed by fire at an early hour Thursday morning. One man is miss ing and several employes and guests were injured by jumping from the second and third floors to the ground. Those most seriously injured were: K. E. Hammond, night policeman, i burned about face and body; A. A. Aronson, Pittsburg, injured internal ly by jumping; George Riekards, bad ly burned about hands and face; James McLaughlin, burned about face and hands; James Karl, broken leg; ValeAtine Debold, proprietor of the hotel, face burned; Michael McCart ney, leg broken. A man named Da mont is missing and it is feared was burned to death. The tire was discovered about 1 o'clock and the flames spread so rap idly that the guests were rescued with difficulty. i tie building and contents were valued at $20,000. Later the charred remains of John Dumont were found in the ruins. Du mont was a molder and carried a card of the molders' union at Wheel ing, W. Va. Victims of Whiter up*. New Albany, Ind., Dec. 13.—News reached this city Thursday of an out break of white caps in Crawford county. During the past week Wil liam Cunningham, a former justice of the peace; Jesse tyre and Miss Alice Haycock, all of Sterling township, have been taken from their beds by mobs of masked men and whipped with hickory switches. The victims were accused of immoral practices and had been warned to desist. The better class of people of the commu nity is indignant at the outrages. Wnnla $4,500,000 i'or Army Washington, Dec. 13. —The secre tary of war has sent to the house committee on appropriations an es timate of $.">00,000 for the construc tion of barracks and other necessary buildings at the army post at Manila, P. L, and has asked that the appro priation be made immediately avail able. He has also sent in another estimate for $2,000,000 for posts in other parts of the Philippines. Fire I»e*troyrd Valuable I'liper*.' Cincinnati, Dec. 13.—8y the burning of the store of Lowry & Goebel Thursday, Arthur Goebel lost the pa pers relating to the death of his brother, William Goebel, and the trials of ex-Secretary of State Caleb Powers, James Howard. Henry Yout sey and others who have been tried or indicted in Kentucky for the tragedy 4t Frankfort almost two years ago. These papers included affidavits, con fessions, and volumes of testimony. Indiana Bank Suspend*. Laporte, Ind., Dec. 13. —An attempt made two weeks ago to rob the Wan atah bank, of Wanatah, Laporte coun ty, owned by Julius Conitz, caused a run on the institution, which has re sulted in its suspension. The assets are $91,000, of which $40,000 is in the stock of the Eastern & Northwestern Railway Co., which is constructing a line between Toledo, 0., and Ilenton Harbor, Mich. Depositors and credi tors will be paid in "full. IN OUR OWN COUNTRY. The first of the states to hold an election in 1002 will be Oregon. The locust or grasshopper plagues of Kansas, Nebraska aud Minnesota oc curred in the years 1873, 1874 and 1875. The Boston Journal reports its dis covery of 818 couples in New England still enjoying married life after 50 years or more of it. The city of Spokane, Wash., has paid in recent years thousands of dollars for damage suits resulting in injuries retxuvsd on defective sidewalks. THE fflf CM Tlio Report of the Court of Inquiry. THERE ARE TWO MADE. Benham and Ramsey Concur in the First. A SEPARATE REPORT In Hade by Admiral Deivey—Tlie For mer < oiidrmna Scliley oil lileren I'oiilik, While (hit Latter Sustains film lu .flout I'urlliulur*. Washington, Dec. 14.—The most prolonged interesting - and important naval tribunal ever held in this coun try came to a close Thursday having', in open and secret session, lasted three months lacking one week, when •Secretary Long was handed the find ings of the court of inquiry which inquired into the conduct of Hear Ad miral Schley during the Santiago campaign. For seven weeks the court heard testimony and for fully a month it deliberated upon that mass of evidence, finally reaching the con clusions announced yesteruay. The result was a complete surprise, and it is probable that no prophecy lias approached the truth. Instead of one report there are two. Both are signed by (ieorge Dewey, president, and by Sam C. Lemley, as judge ad vocate. This is a form said to be recognized in all courts of inquiry, the signatures of the other members not being necessary. Hut it is ex plained that Admiral Dewey signed the.second report, a minority report, to express his qualification of or dis sent from the views expressed by the court, comprising- beside himself Ad mirals Heni.am and Hamsay, in the tirst report. It is said at the navy department t/iat there will be no further proceed ings in this celebrated case on the •department's initiative. Secretary Long' and Judge Advocate Lemley positively declined to discuss the find ings in any phase. The secretary re ceived the reports at 5 o'clock last evening and he has not yet acted upon them. It is probable that he will simply append his signature with the word "Approved" to the whole rec ord. The court itself recommends 110 further proceedings owing to the lapse of time. The majority report condemns Ad miral Schley on eleven points, while Admiral Dewey sustains him in most particulars. The majority opinion finds in brief that Admiral Schley should have proceeded with the ut most dispatch to Cienfuegos and maintained a close blockade; that he should have endeavored to have ob tained information of the Spanish squadron there; that he should not have made the retrogade movement; that he should have proceeded 10 San tiago with dispatch; that he should have obeyed the departments orders; that he should have endeavored to capture the Spanish vessels in Santi ago; that he did not do his utmost to destroy the Colon; that he caused the squadron to lose distance in the loop of the Brooklyn; that he thereby caused the Texas to back; that he did injustic to Hodgson; that his conduct in the campaign was characterized by vaeilation, dilatoriness and lack of enterprise; that his official reports of the battle were misleading and in accurate; that his conduct daring the battle was self-possessed and that he encouraged in mi own person his subordinate officers and men. Admiral Dewey in his report says that the passage to Cienfuegos was guule with all dispatch; that in view of his coal supply the blockade of Cienfuegos was effective; that he al lowed the Adnlla to enter Cienfuegos to get information; that his passage to Santiago was witli as much dis patch as possible, keeping the squad ron together; that the blockade of Santiago was effective, and, finally, that he was the senior officer off San tiago, in absolute command, and en titled to the credit due for the glori ous victory that resulted in the total destruction of the Spanish ships. Baltimore, Bee. 14.—'Mr. Isidor lia.v ner showed keen disappointment when the findings of the court of in quiry were communicated to him last night. He announced that lie would go"to Washington as soon as his en gagements will permit, probably Monday or I'uesday and he will coun sel Admiral Seliley to fight the case to a finish by every appeal that is pos sible. Itlrcted OHiecr*. Scranton, Pa., Dec. 14. —The Associ ated Labor Press of American held its fifth annual meeting here and elected officers Friday as follows; Presi dent. John M. MeDermott, of the Chi cago Chronicle; and for vice presi dents the following: John F. Sul livan, Boston Globe; W. K. Klapeney, Barbers' Journal; H. J. Nelson. Phila delphia North American; Eva Mc- Donald Valesch, American Federa tionist; William F. Seal, Richmond (Va.) News; John Bogart, New York Journal, secretary-treasurer, Mason Warner, Toledo Bee. Accepted llic {'lmlieiijce. Lexington, Kv.. Dec. 14.—L. \. Ilarkivfe.ss has accepted the challenge of Boss & Dickerson, of Madison, tnd., for a match trotting race between Gavatta and any candidate to be four years old next season. Harkness is willing to make the prize $50,000 a side. _ /n; *1 Itrokcru Aailgn. •Boston, Dec. 14. —The assignment of Wainwriglit Pros. & Co., brokers, was announced Friday. The assign ment is attributed to the decline in copper stocks. The firm had been do ing business for upwards of 20 years.
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