NEWS OF THE WEEK.
-QOpne hundred and thirteen new
cases of yellow fever and five deaths
were reported In Jackronville on the
24th. Some suspicious cases are re-
ported in Fernandina. No new cases
of yellow fever, or deaths from that
disease, were reported on the 24th in
Jacksou, Mississippi. The Board of
Health of Meridian, Mississippi, on the
24th, adopted resolutions denying that
there is or has been a single suspicious
case of fever in that city. The Post-
office Department is advised that the
moving of trains on nearly all the rail-
roads In Alabama and Mississippi has
been abandoned, that the only means
of reaching New Orleans with any
certainty is by way of Montgomery,
and even this route is threatened. The
Postmaster at Cairo, Illinols, tele-
graphs that *‘the country below is in
the hands of a howling mob, and quar-
antine is everywhere.
— The ferryboat Jay Gould ran down
a rowboat in the North river, at New
York. on the 23d, drowning two of the
occupants, Matthew Hay,
vears, and Jules Glangande, aged 24.
Easton, Penna,, consisting of himself,
wife and two children, are in a critical
condition from having eaten cabbage
upon which Paris Green had been used
to Kill insects.
{liver Dohannon was arrested in
counterfeit silver money, and $215 in
session, The Secret Service agent who
arrested him says he bas “evidence that
Bohannon
purpose of using the insurance thereon,
amounting to $500, in the purchase of
a traveling boat to be fitted up for the
manufacture of counterfeit coin.”
— Policeman John H., Weinke,
Chicago, on the 23d had a bullet re-
moved from his head which had been
there since the Haymarket riot on May
4, 1856, The bullet, which had Leen
flattened into a shape resembling a
horse shoe, was completely covered
with a bony growth,
— When the night express on the
Fort Wayne road reached Alhance
Ohio, on the morning of the 24th,
Wilham Symns, the baggage master
was found dead in the express car.
The cause of the suicide is unknown.
Francis Trainor, a lunatic, 33 years of
age. committed suicide in the city jail
at Baltimore, on the 24th by throwing
himself from the fourth tier to the
floor 35 feet Lelow. Avery Gardner.
aged 85 years, committed suicide in
Richville, New York, on the 234 by
hanging bimself.
—George Crocker,a son of the re-
cently deceased California millionalre,
Charles Crocker, was severely injured
in Chicago, on the 25th, while nding
in a cab. Toe horse stumbled and fell
and Mr, Crocker plunged through the
glass doors in front and fell Into the
street, A two-story dwelling in James-
town, New York, occupied by Thomas
Loucks and family, was demolished by
an explosion of natural gas on the even-
ing of the 25th. Loucks was badly
burned. The others escaped with slight
injuries, A despatch from Baltimore
says the body of P. G. Petly, a travel-
ing salesman, has been found in Jones’
Falls,
over the bridge he was taken with ver.
tigo. A telegram from Eagle ass,
Texas, says the Sabinas river is very
high, and that a German teamster,
while attempting to cross the stream
on the 23d was drowned,and his wagon
and team of mules were swept away.
While two half-breeds were trying to
Dakota, on the 25th, the colt reared uj
striking one man with his fore feet,
killing him instantly, and throwing the
other and drageing bim about a mile,
When found the man was dead.
arrest William Lyons, in Jellioco, Ten-
nessee, on the 24th, Lyons pulled a re-
volver and fired at Woolwlne,
shot was returned and both men were
fatally wounded. EA. Defuniak
was struck by a strdy shot and severely
injured. Monroe Wilkinson, a notori-
ous negro, entered a colored church in
Scottsville, Kentucky, during service
on the 224, and, flourishing a revolver,
broke up the congregation. Barry
Merriman, an old and highly respected
cologed man, was shot and killed while
remonstrating with Wilkinson, The
murderer was arrested, and the negroes
made three unsuccessful efforts to
lyneh him, Peter Cider was shot and
killed by William Stevens at Petersville,
Kentucky, on the evening of the 24th.
Thev quarretied about a woman. Charles
Lowe, an aged and wealthy farmer,
near Kinderbook, Indiana, was found
on the evening of the 234 with his
skull crushed and in a dying condition.
He was still conscious apd made an
ante-mortem statement, which has not
yet been made public, It is thought he
gave the name of his murdecer. Lozera
Amandor and Graclana Cantu had a
duel with pistols at San Felipe de Sab-
inas, a mining town on the Sabinas
river, on a branch of the Mexican In-
ternational Railroad, on the 23d, and
both were killed. Bix of the eight
Italians who murdered the foreman,
C. T. Hubbard, at Hawthorne, Wis.
consin, on the 21st, have been arrested,
They were armed with daggars, razors
and pistols,
~The Lrat fiost of Lhe season was ob-
perved at Rome, Georgia, on the morn-
ing of the 25th. There was frost on
the night of the 24th in many parts of
Alabama and within twenty miles of
Montgomery. The temperature at
Montgomery was 504.
~John Iiayden, tue confidential
clerk of Kinuey Brothers, tobacco
manufacturers in New York, has been
arrested on the charge of systematically
robbing his employers, Two forged
checks—one for b, the other for &
small amount—were found on him,
He said he intended to eash these and
leave for Canada,
~A gang of thieves in San Francisco
watch letter carriers drop letters into
the box of large business houses, then
walk up, and with a glass cutter take
the glass out of the frame and seize the
letters, Within a few weeks about
$3000 has been drawn trom local banks
on forged checks stolen in this way.
cow, between Falrchance and Union.
town, on the evening of the 25th,
while moving at the rate of 30 miles
an hour, The engine was overturned
and Leander Miller was killed, Engineer
Thompson, Brakeman Rush and Con.
ductor Dinges were badly injured. Two
freight trains on the West Shore Rall-
road collided near West Point on the
25th. Both tracks were blocked, but
no loss of life occurred,
During a baloon exhibition at Ot-
tawa, Canada, on the 26th, Thomas
Winsley, a young butcher, was killed
by falling from the baloon at a height
of over 1000 feet. He was one of the
volunteers to hold down the balloon,
and, when the order to let go was
given, he held on to the rope and was
carried up, the aeronaut being unable
to help him,
--A northeast rain storm ot great
violence, with thunder and lightning,
began early on the morning of the 20th
at Gloucester and other points along
the Massachusetts coast. The wind
soon increased to hurricane force, and
the storm extended along the coast of
| Maine. The schooner Etbridge
Souther, from Philadelphia for Dos-
ton, went ashore on Rainsford Island,
in Boston Bay, but floated In the after-
i noon and was towed to the wharves,
! Two schooners, one a three-masler,
went ashore at Long Beach, near
| Gloucester, The crew of one of the
vessels climbed Into the rigging, but
i no rescuing party could reach them,
owing to the heavy sea. A later des-
patch says five of the crew subsequently
got ashore in a boat, and the other two
{| were probably rescued.
| — At Teacky’s Station, on the Wil-
{ mington and Weldon Rallway in North
{ Carolina, on the 25th, a baggage ras
{ ter named William Patrick was stand.
| ing in the door of the mail car, and,
{ leaning out, held a letter in his band.
{ In some way the hook which forms
| part of the mail catcher caught him
{ under the chin, and he was swung
| clear of the car. In this manner, with
i the hook tearing his throat and sus-
| taining his entire welgnt, he was car-
ried fully one hundred yards before he
was thrown down, Ilis recovery 1s
doubtful,
-Two severe earthquake shocks
were felt at Guayaqull, Ecuador, on
the evening of the 25th, at 8.10 o'clock,
lasting about two minutes, The shocks
were followed by flashes of lightning.
At this time of yeur lightning has
been unknown neretofore, Reports of
the damage done have not been re-
ceived, The people, however, are
panic stricken. At lieiena, Ecuador,
a shogsk of earthquake was felt the
same night, about the same Lime as at
Guayaquil
—James Mom
a well-dressed
young man was at-~fed In New York
on the 20th, cha: +l with stealing
several coats from « roakway billiard
saloon. It was sis! in court that
Monroe's father was a milllonatre and
lived in Philadelphia. Mrs. Becker,
one of the oldest and most trusted
counters in the Redemption Division of
the United States Treasury, has been
found §044 short in ber cash account
and dismissed from the service after
making good the deficiency. She was
appointed in 1565 by President John
son,
~There were 103 new cases of yellow
fever and seven deaths at Jacksonville,
on the ¥Gth., At Macclenny on the
26Lh, there were three new cases and
one death. The Mayor of Macelenny
has asked for help. He says they have
hundreads of people almost starving,
and that Jacksonville cannot feed
them.
Oliver 8, Powell was instantly killed
in the machinery of his sugar mill, In
River Falls, Wisconsin, on the 26th,
He was Vice President of the Duluth,
Red Wing and Southern Railroad,
About 50 men were excavating a trench
i at Little Rock, Arkansas, on the 25th
! when abznk 20 feet high caved in. Three
of the workmen were killed, A freight
train on the Chicago, St. Paul and
Kansas City Railroad collided witha
working train at Menominee Station,
Illinols, on the 25th, One man was killed
and three badly injured. Wilham R.
Williams, a mining engineer, was
struck by a train at Wilkesbarre on the
evening of the 26th and so badly iojur-
ed that he died in a short time.
~The disease among the cattle near
Wabash, Indiana, supposed to be
pleuro pneumonia, is now pronounced
Texas fever by the date Veterinarian,
Un the 11th ult. aa artificial pond
800 feet long above the level of Valpa-
raldo, Chilia, burst aud the hesdiong
viorrent rushed through several of the
streets, carrying everything before it,
Within three days 57 dead bodies had
been recovered from the ruins and bur.
led, The loss on property 1s estima.
ted 2t $1,000,000,
~Death warrants for two murderers
were signed by Governor Deaver on the
evening of the 27th. Willlam Showers,
who killed his two grandsons, will be
executed at Lebanon on Wednesday,
November 14th, and George Clarke,
the Greene county murderer, will be
hanged on the 21st of November, Fred.
erick Schelling, who stabbed his wife
in his butcher shop, In New York, In
March last, and caused injuries which
resulted in ber death shortly after-
wards, was on the 27th, convicted of
manslaughter in the first degree. At
Medina, Ohio on the evening of the
20th, Mrs. Mary Garrett was found
guilty. of the murder of her two
imbecile step-daughters in November
last, It was rumored in Minneapolis,
Minnesota, on the 27th, that the man
who struck the deadly blow In the fight
at Grand Forks recently wasan Eastern
pugilist, travelling under the alias of
Burnett, and that he had been procured
“for the express purpose of doing Full
james,"
Samuel Craber, David Lewis and
Patrick Gibbons were terribly burned
on the evening of the 27th by an ex.
plosion of gas in & shaft of the Susque-
hanna Coal Company, at Nanticoke,
Penns, They entered a chamber
where the gas had accumulated with
naked lamps.
~Prairie fires have been raging
near Elmdale, Dakota, for the
three days, causing a loss of farm
property estimated at $80,000, ;
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— Tasers were one hundred and
thirty-one new cases of vellow fever in
Jucksonville on the 27th and eigut
deaths,
-A telegram from DBoston reports
that in Agril last, Bank Examiner Get-
chell thought he detected something
wrong in the dealings between the
Union National Bank and the Union
Savings Bank, both of Fall River,
Both banks bad offices in the same
building, and the cashier of the former
held the position of treasurer iu the
latter, Mr, Gatehell has since watched
these institutions closely, and on the
even'ng of the 27th, the evidence of
irregularity being convincing, demand.
ed Cashier Danlel A. Chapin’s resigna-
tion, Both banks will probably lose
heavily, but not a sufficient amount to
render elther insolvent. Chapin was
on the 28th endeavoring to make good
a portion of the deficiency. HIis of-
fence was ‘*Yirregularity In issuing
loans.” He had loaned money without
the knowledge of his directors upon
securities not approved by the Bank
Examiner, and, to cover this action,
had transferred securities from the
Union Savings Bank, of which he was
also Treasurer,
~A carriage, containing James
Stone and Clarice Beeker, was struck
by & train on the New York, Penn-
sylvama and Ohio Railroad, near Ken-
nedy, New York, on the 27th, The
man, woman and horse were killed
and the wagon shattered, The (gl of
the roof in a shaft of the Delaware and
Hudson Company's coal mines in
Seranton, Pepna., on the 28th, killed
Martin Mabady, aged 60, and Christo
pber Gabriel, aged 43. An unknown
young man jumped overboard from a
ferry-boat on the Delaware on the 25th
to recover his hat, which had blown
off, and he was drowned,
— Eighty-five new cases of yellow
fever and five deaths were reported on
the 28th, in Jacksonville. Three new
case were reported at Macclenny, and
one death, Three new cases of fever
and one death were reported in
Decatur, Alabama.
-—Waclay Zauelzky, a Bohemian
laborer, shot his daughter, Mrs, Mary
Jelick, in Chicago, on the evening of
the 27th, inflicting a fatal wound,
Zauelzky, who was drunk, began to
abuse his wife, and the daughter took
her mother's part,
50th OONGRESS.~First Sesgion
SENATE.
In the U, 8. Senate on the 25th,
Mr, Stewart offered a resolution call.
ing on the President for such informa-
tion as he has received since the 7th
inst., in regard to Chinese action on
the treaty. Mr. Edmunds suggested
that the resolution had better be con
sidered in executive session, and the
doors were, therefore, closed, When
they were reopened, Mr, Sherman's
Canadian resolution was taken up, and
was discussed by Messrs. Morgan and
Dolph. When they had finished the
resolution was referred to the Come
mittee on Foreign Relations. The
House joint resolution to continue the
provisions of the existing Sundry Civil
blll until October 10th was agreed to,
One hundred and fourteen private pen-
sion bills were passed, among them one
giving a pension of £500 a year tothe
widow of General Sheridan, [ending
action on a bill to pay $32,679 to the
heirs of Jobn Newman, of Warren
county, Mississippi, on a claim fer cap-
tured cotton, the Senate adjourned,
In the U. 8, Senate on the 20th, Mr,
Chandler, from the Committee on
Naval Affairs, reported a bill author.
izing the President to issue a commis-
sion as Rear Admiral to Philip C,
Johnson, to be daled January 25ibh,
1887. and to deliver. the same to his
widow, Mr, Chandler asked present
consideration of the bill, saying that
Commodore Johnson became entitled
to the promotion on his death bed, aud
his widow, as a matter of family pride,
desired to have the parchment com-
mission, which would not affect her
rate of pension, Mr. Edmunds ques-
tioned the power of the Senate Lo pass
such a bill, and, Mr. Cuckrell object-
ing to its present consideration, it was
placed on the calendar. Mr, Daniel
addressed the Senate on the Presi
dent's annual message. A conference
was ordered on the Deficiency bill, and
the Senate adjourned,
In the UU, 5. Senate on the 27th, Mr.
Sherman’s Canadian resolution was re.
ported hack from the Committee on
Foreign Relations and placed on the
calendar. The conference report on
the Sundry Civil bill was agreed to,
Mr, Chandler's resolution, for an in-
quiry foto the Louimana elections, was
taken up and discussed by Messrs,
Gibson, Chandler, Reagan, Edmunds,
Coke and Spooner. Pending discussion,
the Senate adjourned.
In the U., 8 House of Representa-
tives on the 28th a conference was
ordered on the joint resolution in aid
of the yellow fever sufferers. Mr. Rice,
of Minnesota, presented the uname
mous report of the special committee
appointed to inyestigate the charges
against Mr. Stahinecker, exonerating
that gentleman. Mr. Diogley, of
Maine, from the Committee on Mer-
chant Marine and Fisheries, reported
back the resclution ealling on the Sec.
retary of the Treasury to state whether
the Treasury Department has informa-
tion of any violation of the navigation
laws, and if so, whether any steps have
been taken to vacate the Amerloan
registers of vessels commanded by for-
eigners. Adopted, The House then
went into the Committee of tiie Whole
on the private calendar. After passing
several Lills, a recess was taken until
evening, when private pension bills
were considered, The House ad.
Journed,
novear
In the House oa the 25th, joint reso.
lutions were accepting Gers
many’s invitation to the United States
to become a party to the International
Geodetic and nesting
the President to negotiate with Mexico
for an international commission to de.
termine the boundary line between the
two countries, naval bills,
among them the Will to regulate the
course at the Naval Academy, were
passed, and the liouse then adjourned.
In the House on the 26th a bill was !
passed forfeiting certain lands granted |
to the Northern Pacific Rallrond Com- |
pany. A conference was ordered on
the Deficiency bill. The Senate joint
resolution appropriating $100,000 for
the relief of yellow fever sufferers was
bassed, amended so a8 to make the ap-
propriation for the purpose of *‘prevent-
ing the spread of yellow fever and
cholera.” Mr. Townsend called up
the bill appropriating $400,000 for an
academic bullding and $100,000 for a
gymnasium at West Point, After some
discussion he withdrew the bill, saying
he would urge its passage In December
next, The Senate jeint resolution giv-
ing the Lafayette Square iron railing
to the Gettysburg Battle Field Associ
ation was passed, Adjourned.
In the House on the 27th, the con-
ference report on the Sundry Civil bill
was agreed to, Mr. Blount, of Georgia,
called up the bill provildng for a gen-
eral superintendent of the Railway
Mail Service at a salary of $4000; an
assistant superintendent at a salary of
$3000; a chief clerk, to be employed in
Washington, at a salary of $2000, and
a8 many chief clerks as may be neces-
sary at a salary of $1500 each, I’end-
ing discussion, without action on the
bill, the House adjourned.
— ——
A Rival's Revenge; or, Victory at
Last,
“My dear uncle,” sald Tom Oving-
ton, “I want to Introduce you to the
most divine woman who ever gave a
man heart trouble,” **And who Is
this paragon of beauty?’’ sald Dr,
Percy Hamilton smiling. “1 know
you are not given to enthusiasm, So
I am curious.
They were standing in the parlors of
the Ocean House, on Long Island
Sound. ‘The Baturday night hop was
In progress, and crowds of handsomely-
dressed men and women were waltzing
to the voluptuous music of Strauss.
*‘She is a sipger. A famous one, I
believe, In New York, Here she
comes now,” as a woman with black
hair and eves and skin flashing white,
drifted toward them in the dance,
For a moment Dr, ITamilton’s eyes
met hers, and be staried perceptibly
while the lady turned away her head,
“What did you say the lady’s name
was?" he asked his nephew,
“Miss Leonbardt, She i8 not stop-
ping at the hotel but at Mrs. Crau-
ford’s cottage, Come, I will introduce
you,"
‘No, not to-night,” said his uncle,
hastily. “The fact 1s, my boy, I am
not feeling very well, So I guess I'll
go home,”' and he left the room rather
Tom thought, and without
ter, There are standards of manly and
of womanly character before our
minds, by which we instinctively
measure those whom we meet,
pote the observed conformity or lack
accordingly.
son of either sex who fully measures up
to our best conceptions of charaeter;
but when such a perion is met, the
realization in actual life of our highest
ideal of ennobled and admirable per-
sonality is a cause of delight and sat-
isfaction unspeakable. Dut there is
one thing better than this In the world, |
and that is to meet a person who gives
us an absolutely new ideal of character, |
bringing before us as In a glance a
realization of noble and admirable per. |
sonality transcending all that we ever
conceived of before. Such an experi-
ence is at once a revelation, an Inspira- |
tion, and an incitement. A new life
opens before ope who is thus blessed |
with a new and more exalted ideal of |
personal character, No earthly gift of
God to man is more precious than a
disclosed and recognized ideal of this
nature, It is a gift that grows in value
with the passing years, and that is not
limited in its scope by the bounds of
time or sense, Happy is the mun
whose maturer ysars are enriched with
the inspirations and Incitements of a
friendship base! on a revelation of
character surpassing all his earlier de-
sires of aspiriogs! And best of ail in
such an experience as this is the ear
pest it gives of yet better things be-
yond, If inan hour a reality trans.
cending our highest ideal was disclosed
to us, what may not be in store for us
in the directios thus indicated? Eye
hath po! seen, nor ear heard, neither
has entered into the heart of man, a
true conceptionof that which is a re.
ality in the Friend of friends. We |
shall be satisfied with his likeness when |
we awake to its peroeption, |
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Victoria's Private Telegrapher,
I had quite aa Interesting talk a few
days ago with Join Lester Murphy, the
queen's private telegrapher. His posi-
tion 1s decidedly a sinecure, He trav-
els about in her majesty’s retinue and
does nothing «se bul attend to the
queen's telegnphic correspondence,
which does nol amount to very much,
Murphy said the queen never talks to
him direct when she dictates a tele.
gram, but do@ it through one of her
private secretaries, On the occasion of
Emperor Frederick ’s death ber majesty
and a secretary entered Murphy's room
at Windsor, Victoria began to dictate
a message to the dead Kaiser's widow,
but the secretary falled to understand
her. she finally became impatient, and |
sald in German to the operator:
“Murphy, I'll dictate this to you,
You seem to te the only man of sense
in the house.” Considering that his
royal highoess the Prince of Wales,
and hia highoess Prince Battenberg
were at Windsor just then, it doesn’t
seen stranze that Murphy feels Bim.
self highly honored.
A New Kind of Dog.
—
A dog aboutas big as a tat, with no
hair and pink kin and eyes as blue as
sapphires was airing itself on Fifth
avenue the other morning. It was in
charge of a nume maid and a small boy
with more bulions on his jacket than
hairs on his head, and if it had been a
young prince they could not have ex-
nibited more wlicitude about it, The
small boy informed me that this prize
animal came from *Honelulu, or some-
where out thers,” and added that he
was ‘one of them kind of dogs as peo-
ple eats.’ Whether it Is to deck a
banqueting board on the avenue and
introduce society to a new dellcacy hie
did not explain,
MW ssid
Quack Dentists Abroad.
ee was
American dentistry Is generally held
in good repute in Germany, and Amer-
jean dentists were used to call them.
selves “approved in America.” A good
deal of quackery “approved.” Prussian
authorities now require every dentist
not in possession of a German diploma to
use the real title obtained a foreign
schools of dentisicy, such as ‘‘doctor
of dental surgery,’ after having proved
the actual possession of the diploma to
the satisfaction of the authorities,
Without {such proof not ons will in fu-
ture be allowed to practice dentistry.
ee AI I Sa A
An Ingenious Soarl Pin.
-
An expert mechanieian has devised a
soarf pin, which is a marvel of
nuity nll iAnlCEAtS: It has a 's
head witters as you press
a concealed rubber ball
it, a neck
*
The next evening it happenad tha
Dr. Hamilton bad a patient at th
Ocean House and he took Tom Oving-
ton with him for compapy. IL was
late in evening before they re.
As they pasted Mrs. Crau-
ford's cottage they were surprised to
hear a scream from within and {0 see
a man dart out of a lower window
and run away. In a moment the doc-
tor sprang from the buggy.
“Drive after him!” hs called to
Tom, while he ran toward the house,
He shook the door violently, but it did
Turning to the broken
window-frame, he raised it and climbed
into the room, starting with an ejacu-
as his foot touched a prostrate
Mrs, Crauford,
the
figure upon the floor.
“What is 1?’ she gasped, with
rembling lips, gazing at the strange
tableau, weird and spectral in the
moonlight.
“It 1s Miss Lhe an.
Leonhardt,”
upon the sofa.
“There's been mischief here, She's
been struck on the head.”
Dr. Hamilton's bead was bent low,
looked at each
other in surprise,
“Why, she knows the wreleh who
struck her!” Tom Ovington exclaimed
utier unconsciousness, **i hope there's
no ugly mystery wrapped roand this
business, He'll be trapped! Flynn's
after him, and if be should prove’ —-
Dr, Hamilton made an Impatient
gesture,
“Imagination, as usual, Tom. Bring
me more water, De qu ck sbout it,
and don’t talk.”
It was broad daylight bel:
re the
Miss Leonbardt had fallen asleep al
last,
Miss lLeonhardt’s Injury and the
As she sal beside the
Was
Ali-
Was
for a long time,
window of the room in which she
still a prisoner she opened with l
guid interest a little nole which
handed to her.
“Will you please give me permission
to see you As 500n us you are able—
long enough for me to explain a grea!
wrong done years ago to you and Percy
Hamilton?"
It was her verbal reply to this com-
mumcation which brought the doctor
to the cottage on the afternoon of the
following day.
Miss Leonhardt, too weak to rise
from the armchair in which she was
seated, acknowledged his entrance by
a slight, grave bow, She was white to
the very lips, but her iliness might
“At jeast.” Dr. Hamilton said, in a
one of the exquisite flowers upon the
little stand, “at least you have not for-
gotten. It Is sixteen years ago this
went to you with the biackest lie upon
his lips that a man could utter,”
She shook ber head slowly.
“I did not know it--that was mere
chance And I did not know what
work you had chosen in the world,”
“He quarrelled with me again as
soon as we entered the army.” Dr,
Hamilton resumed, passionately. “I
told hin the truth, He swore he wounld
be revenged upon us,and we know how
he kept hisword, The man whostruck
you down in this room that fatal night
«J saw him a fow hours after in his
cell, He has confessed to me what I
have just told you, for 1 found in him
the wretch who has ruined both our
lives. But in your delirium that
night,” he continued, as she shrank
back under his rapid words, *‘vou sald
something that made me hope—ihat
made me strong to walt, My God!
how I have waited all these years till
1 could come to you! You have kept
the little cross, the tragic emblem of
our betrothal, which" =, His voice
broke, and he paused for an instant,
“Oh, Eleanor--Pansyl"
And the old name, so dear to both of
them, came impulsively from his lips,
For she had half risen from the chair
in which she sat. In her trembling
hands she held up to him tho blossoms
whose name she bore,
“It is you who have sent them!’ she
erled. **Oh, my husband!’ And with
a divine light shining in ber eyes, she
fell forward into hus outstretched arms.
wai, A. Field, H. B. Ww hit 1
Bagg, Herbert and Froderich, She
were dro on the morning of the
93d, five miles west of Brockville,
Ontario, by the sinking of a sail yacht
in mid-channel, A gale was blowing
#t the time and the yacht shipped con.
siderable water, and being hea
paliaged tho sunt. At Gibson's Land-
of the 22d,
positions, and eyslids which
shit with a startlingly re
THE
NOISY TICKER.
How the Little News. Teller Clicks
Out Irs Information.
On a table are two instruments that
look like keyboards of a young plano,
There are fourteen white keys and
about as many black ones. On each
key is a letter and a figure or a frac.
tion. On the first white key is the ab-
breviation “let.” and on the last one
“Fig.” If the ogerator pre:ses down
the first letiers are recorded on the rib-
bon, If on the last figures or frac-
tions, :
The licker differs from the {elephone
in requiring two wires for each mstru-
ment. In fact, the ticker 18 never
happy unless it can make things as ex-
pensive as possible. One wire is called
the ‘*“icker” wire, the other the
‘‘press wire. The latter has no rela-
tions to the daily press, as the name
wonld seem to Indicate. It merely
means the wire which carries the cur.
rent that presses the ribbon
against the type wheel,
There are two type wheels in the
ticker, one with twenty-six letters on
in raised type, the other with numerals
and fractions, On the one wheel comes
the vitally important news of how the
base ball game is going and on the
other, assisted by the first, the come
paratively trivial information al
fluctuation of the stock market,
the type wheel revol
wheel and under the former ¢«
intermittenly moving paper
wide,
sits down fo
motor, with
revolves at
a cylinder
pape I
Veg an
mes the
ribbon,
When the operator
write he starts an eleclric
a strong governor, whic
a great speed. This works
inside the small plano, which
the eylinder of a wusic box. The op-
erator then presses down the key la-
beled “Ist. As each Key is pressed
the type wheels of the tickers all over
the town revolve until the letier 1s be
low, then the other wire sends a cur-
rent that presses the ribbon of paper
against the freshiy inked bit
and the letter is recorded.
The tickers can run
rate of speed if required.
circuit actually opens and clos .
times in a minute, the type wheel re
volving eighty times a minute,
There are special wires frog
principal cities of the country, and the
quotations are oul on the tickers the
moment they are received from those
cities,
The susceptibility of the tickers
prove the truih of the adage that mis.
fortunes never cone When
there are storms about country
then is the time that crops suffer and
the grain markets fluctuate, Brokers
at such times are most anxious for quo-
tations, and it is just these occa-
sions that the wires go wrong. Storms
interfere with the wires as they do with
the crops.
is like
Singiy.
the
on
ot
Caroll Johnson's Reminiscences.
awial ald hast rnint vor . i
AWIill GG COESLNUL WAS Serve
this way on the old minstrel
One
up in
stage:
“Bones, | meant to ask you about
your people, but it shipped my mind,
Now, | knew your father very well,
but I haven't seen him lately. Where
is ha?"
*He is pushing clouds, Gone up
higher. You see my father was a
whaler. He used to stay out all night
and come home in the morning and
and whale us boys. But he was a real
whaler, too, and gol drowned down
near Barnegat.”
“Well, your mother |
old home, isn’t she?’
“*No, she is drowned, 100."
“But you have your rother
left, haven't you?"
“Bill is gone, 100. He wasdrowned. ”’
“Well, well, Bones, let me give you
a bit of advice. Never go near the
water, It seems to be hereditary in
your family to be drowned. ”’
““That’s good advice, Sam, but what
has become of your father?”
“He 15 dead.”
“Where did be die?”
“Why, at bome, in bed."
“And your mother, where 1s she?”
“She lived to the good old age of
76 years and she died.”
“At home in bed?"
“*She died in bed, 100.” Now, Sam,
jet me give you a piece of adviee.
Never go to b=l, because it seems to
be hereditary in your family to die
there.”
living at the
Bill
Not a Very Clear Idea.
A very pretty commentary upon the
intelligent way in which much philan-
thropic work is done was afforded the
other day by a vivacious lady who is
often concerned In such labor. She
was relating to a friend how much dif-
ficulty she and a few other pious souls
had in raising a sum of money sufll-
cient to send a female missionary to
Constantinople, **We did have to work
80 hard,” she sald pathetically. ‘Peo.
ple absolutely refused to be interested.
We held fairs and made people buy
things, and we had parior concerts and
actually forced our friends to take tick
ets; and we sewed, and we begged sub
scriptions. But now we've got the
money it is worth all our trouble to see
the zeal of the young lady we are going
to send out. Of course she won't in-
troduce religion at first, until she’s won
their regard; but she’s bought a Turk.
ish grammar, and she is so eager to be-
gin to civilize the Turks, and she has
such clever Ideas about how to goto
work, too,”
“But bow will she go to work?" the
friend inquired. *“*What will she teach
them Orsi?”
**Oh, all sorts of nice things, the
other returned rapturously., *“‘Things
that tend to plevate, She'll teach
them to--to-~why, to eat with Knives
and forks and not to have harems and
sit on chairs,”
Her {riend asked no more questions
~In a street quarrel in Wilkesharre,
Penna., on the evening of tie 220 Oa
stable Dennis Gallag her shot and
ly wounded Thomas Ryan, of Syracuse,
ew York. Ryan died on the evening
of the 234 in the City Hospital. An
Italian railroad shot and killed
their foreman, C. F. Hubbard Haw.
Wisconsin, on the 20
ward 70 comioitted
ward Cromer. or ee
tia