WORDS, Y cannot tell what I would tel thee, What I wonld say, what thou shouldst hear: Words of the soul that should compel thee, YWords of the near, heart to draw For when thon smlilest, fillest "Tis and are then my lips tongue stillest Knowing he ngs wage is too weak. all In Look in my read there confes sion: The truest love has least of art; Nor needs it words for its exnression When soul speaks soul and Leart speaks heart. ~Xadison Cawein, Popular Monthly. A DEATH-DEALING HAND. JAA Upon the evening of Decembe ' A881, the hand on the Wimbl do 1 station clock was nearing 7, i don train steamed in, and passengers who hited from man wearing a long overcoat, gug over his arm, and carrying a small Mack bag in his hand. fis face was refined and hands Ae was young-—only about 30. Iiis orchead was broad, and mar many lines like that of a m been accustomed to hard study. eyes, beneath delicately brows, were dark and yet tender in whiskers, and a tache helped to conceal a mm feminine mouth. It culated to impress ( pecially when the eyes were lit animated. N however SOW, his way eyes; in Frank Leslie's as 1} it was a with at ali § FEY ked by an who has pencilled eX pPressiolf Yevey ev ML, Wi 16 31 man, not sleep. his would rece i quent i rest, oe tion, a Deaths yd died sudder that time I the large, dark, tender the handsome ti: A don station ated in its school ear named man who himself as Dr. to see his brothes pupils, Dr. chat wii peared boy, laughing trast low or Conld and have wound of sleove is cau se no SOTie i0 mont very was own rried Bedbrook. a lad of entered; Brow ment.” «ol haggard fa him conf room, Percy sf aid Lamson, Florence fo shall pat be here o by the way, Mr. Badbrook, Lamson went to the brought, opened it, small box. “Look at on, opening the and remaine gain 3 look black bag he and took o those ' here!” had ut a he wei box. “These are gules 1 saw in America when 1 there last. Bee. They're just little bags made of sugar and dissolving stuff. Yon put the medicine inside Mike this”"—he walked to the table where there was some white powdered sugar in a basin, and filled sule with it—*then you slip the & ip eap on and swallow the whole thing, And at the word he put the capsule ir his mwanpth and swallowed it. “A capital idea,” exclaimed Mr, brook. “Yeu cannot the capsule containg?” “Not at all. Try Cap was the cap “ey, LT tasie one.” schoolmaster, Mr. Bedbrook took it. “Here, Percy.” exclaimed Lamson filling another capsule with the sugar. *You're a great pill4aker. Now Your turn. The boy took it laughingly and | swallowed it, Lamson's dark eyes wiaitehing him she while “And pow I must go,” he sald. “I've £01 to catch my train. Good-bye, Percy—good-bye, Mr. Bedbrook. 1'ms sorry, Mr. Bedbrook,” be added, as the schoolmaster accompanied Lim to the front door and they were in the pas sage out of the Iad's hearing—"1'm sorry, Mr. Bedbrook, but 1 don't think Percy will last Jong.” That same night, while the pale faced, sleepless man was being whirl: ol away over the dismal, night-clad country In the express train to Paris, Percy Malcolm John lay dying of me mysterious and sudden ailment. best medical aid avaflable was summoned, but all was In vain, and close pon Snldnight death came to unhappy boy's agony. ¢ doctors not due to natural causes, but had been brought about by a murderer's { hand, Dr. Lamsou’s name was men i tioned in connection with t him, Five days later a eab drove up to { the door of Scotland Yard, a gentle i map got out, and then turned to as- sist a lady to alight. The two entered {the Dbuilding—-the headquarters those whose lives are spent In | raveling the mysteries of crime { following with steps of vengeance the | perpetrators of dark deeds. “1 have called,” said the gentlema | “in reference to the case of the death at Wimbledon, who un I wish to see the matter { of a boy i the person hand.” In a or two gpectors was with him, “My name” the sty Lamson—George have been staying in Paris, vead in the an account death a boy named Percy 1 ‘13 Tres Las in moment one of the In inger sald, Lamson, and I} of arp Lienury papers of My IRR has fred with erred Was what fg wi LENG ont BSW Hi - ng night § any him off on that 1 Paris so that, should arise, he it migh iz from abroad, ie ! ghort time sey sONe terribly poor. Only bad bad to raise his surgical instruments was poor a before he money upon | i i was known that need. Mrs. Lamson, wins entitled to some money, which would come to her upon the de of her brother, and she had ’ readily ggreed to her husband's sug gestion that she should execute a making over Ler interest apd it pressing 2 failure, ae was in | however, Cense tlement to him. Upon the death of the John, in 1879, first the doo } brother, i Herbert of Percy Jolin, Lamson would benefit | pounds, { tation which had led Lamson to dye his hands in the boy's blood? Upon March 0, 1882, Lamson stood Pin the dock of the Old Bailey to an swer the terrible charge. People were prepossessed in his favor as they looked at the handsome man in Jie black frock coat and black kid gloves, with the pale, care-worn face, who ealmly, and with a certain dignity, bowed to the judge, Mr. Justice Haw- kins, and declared that he was not guiliy. The solicitor general, Sir F. Herschell, afterward to become twice lord chancellor, was the leading coun- sel for the prosecution, and for the defense there appeared, with other barristers, the youthful looking, keen. eved, and slight musiached man whose reputation was greatest in the king. dom for passionate eloquence and acnteness in the conduet of a criminal defense Montagu Wiillams. Mrs, Lamson had stirred every effort and wised every penny she possessed to docure the best legal advice for her husband, took thelr way from the box, and the crowd In court slowly filed out discussing the points of the day's evi dence, Hstening—who shall tell ow auxious ly?-to all that passed, and stole to- ward the dock. Then Lamson leaned the white, hand some face smiled at the faithful wo- man's deadly and gray countensoce turned up to him, his hand awful deed-—the wom pressed it to her lips, The evidence against him was ble enough. A queer accident happened while Lamson was from prison in a cab one day impressed and officials more could, with the wis a doomed man, Ti he his an took It terri to court Bi goalers evidence n than fee] any ing LAAT 8 hie custodians were the door of the oen brought Lam us and at regarded as an h Baye most came whi he day which all, had come to accent inevi that 1 stern am in effort next before God sald wit HIR composure staggered 1 i h on The 1 ai’ anima Judge BREAKFAST WITH GOMEZ an American Correspondent Like Marios Treated the Britisher, todd Feasts 1S ; ~ ir dessert €y aa 5 4 Was black drauk his poe and 1 horn, honey, General ex ge of the On xistence of served General from a cup made oO as omen mug, of a ; I era in gLver ceived a Cow's We sweetened the coffee and sipped Rt old plained to me the working ban civil government, which was such a mooted question io the United States. He assured me that the government did exist, calling upon his adjutant to corroborate his statemet I asked him about capital, and he sald the government didn’t need a capital any more thau he did, They made the laws, and ev- eryone had to respect and obey them, Even himself, Gomez, was controlled by those laws, and he dared pot grade an officer nor hang a © submitting him 10 a martial according tn law, with as the the ex iis. Kicked by Kansas lasect which Kansas ls noted that Daniel Duval, a well-to-do farmer of Phillips County, received a kick in the eye from a grasshopper, with the resait that for some weeks thers was great fear that he would not recover the sight of the eye. This athletic feat on the part of the insect does not mean that grasshop- ix # grow to such a size out in Phillips 7 unty that they can assail the inhabi tants while sitting on the ground. The one of which Mr. Duval is indebted for a badly inflamed eye was consider. ably above the average grasshoppsr in size, and was speeding through the alr when the farmer's face unluckily crossed ite path, The result was timt It struck the farmer in the right eye with as much lon as if shot from a gun by an American naval gun ner. The eyeball way badly lacerated. SOTES AND COMMENTS, The casket supposed to hiold the re nains of Christopher Colimbus was ‘ound to contain some dust and thirty ones, As there are 208 bones in the dult skeleton, Spain appears to have ce more gotten the worst of a traus iction, The Skaguay Lie top of the White Pass, inrd to keep the workmen away whenever they hear aew find. If they sensible will just keep on driving spikes. more gold in working for han there Is In Id mining. It that if 1 but it Is the) ihere miners are i gO is reported the tent Transvaal has expended nearly 1804 In trylog to intin nce the Europenn press and Earops stficials to prevent the leasing of 4 ny Gireat Bri cheerful we for rom gover: he un alin, This will ne the Ultlanders ¢ $4.000.000 was goa to Mr whom th Bijueez «1 in taxes. The noticen A perfect onsalli Iron Age, in dwelling fal Hpon hile tendency, develo lation | of tings. one YH ZOTTIORS bankers livin erin ition 10 put fancy 3 hala of {:reat 3 Yagniv iy {wen Ha su there ins children’s being children nominal a peany th a bully, a good plant, which #t home and inter to be exhibited at a Sowers show organized for the purpose, The East London Horticultural Society has adopted a similar plan and is organiz ing children’s Chrysanthemum Mission, wing aided in the work In the nesistance of the school teachers efforts must tend to brighten a home, in mach need of tening, amd It would soem as might advantageously countries, this included Glasgow, Scotland, is occasionally «1 to in American newspapers as a city that has demonstrated the soe P pay flea fo for Mission, its the the jane wi cholee of cinth they bring are to cultivate bom od ROR Flies BL0® inns some ¢ i: they refern of govern Glasgow has municipal ownership. of is lighting slants, street railways and some other It i= man ging them successfully. system give service at low rates and tis turn into the public treasury con: siderable ams as profit. wo turned in are by vo means sufficient © pay all the expenses of municipal government, however. That policy vould not be pursed in Glasgow, for nstend of making enormous profits for ne city the course taken would be to ower the rates for service to the peo se. Eingland has hrty-nine warships, of which ten are rofi-clads of the first class; on the sonst of the Atlantic she has thirteen, of which nine are first class iron-clads, Wm her own waters she can muster wenty4wo war vessels, ten belong ron clads; and in her dock ya whe hutidred and tty sixtoon; in C hina, twenty. eight; in the Pacific, seven others; and in Australia, two. It will be seen, says La Petit Mavseillals, that this constitute a na vitl force so formidable as to justify Great Britain's pretentions of being in a position to successfully cope with n coalition of the three greatest and best-ocquipped naval powers of Europe. The farmer's Interest roads ‘and agricultural machinery is vital to hls margin of profit, says the York Commercial Advertiser, Caleglations have been made showing that bad roads Increase his expenses for repair of vehicles in improved fi, horseshoeing and repair of harness seriously dimin- returns. His horses wens more quickly, and the dd © X TTR {f caring for them the of from productive work be hig ishing his out increas is ad to that « from able by fn i to by joss fot years’ old itherwise obtained Whether will diendvantages bee thie re hor te hd in 3 1 ost of can be used eapin rying his produce fost lebone preseryy rom (he wings That There in they # Gf domestic i= what are oer this country only fowls, except aEsery have we, the ostrich Ouneer Meomey im Abyssinia few travelers who have and trouble to queer kingdoth of Abys strange tales of it. Besides Theresa, 1.780 dollars, the Abyssinia, for small change of hard crystalized salt, inches long and two inches and a milf broad, and thick, slightly tapering toward the end, five of which go to the dollar at the capital. Peo sle are very particolar about the standard of fineness of the currency if it does not ring like metal, or If i at all ehipped, nothing will Induce them to take it. Then, It I8 a token of affection among the natives, when riende meet, to give each other a lek of thelr respective amolig, and ‘in this the maternal valne of the bar is decreased, For still smaller artridges are gsed, of which three go to one salt. It does not mat ter what sort they are. Some sharpers fee thelr cartridges in the ordinary amd then put in some O78 and a dummy bullet to make up the dif ference, or else they take out the pow. taken od The £4 look into ae ine lek's tell Marie people of ¥ tise a bar Men sifila the is change « unhappy seller will nd that be has such a common fraud that no one takes any notice of it, and a bad car fridge seems to serve as readily as a good one Philadelphia Press, Inexbaustible Cement Supply. It i= stated that the deposit of Pore. land cement discoversd near Owen Sound, Ontario, and the manufachare ing practically inexhaustible, and the dally capacity of the factory will soon be increased to 300 barrels, The pro. | Oo VN IC de SE rm AS A SAS 10° CRUSH FILIPINOS, ——c Gen. Otis is to Move at Once on Malolos. A DECISIVE CAMPAIGN. Cabinet Reaches the Conclusion That Aguinsldo’s Forces Muse be Made te Lay Down Their Arms Hafore There Can be Security and Order on the Islands, Wasmisoros, D. C., (Special) — palgn against the Filipinos is to cuted with vigor, The question was fully discussed at Tues- day's cabinet meeting, and the conclusion was reached that before permanent pescs or security to iife and property could be ob- tained Ia the islands Aguinaldo’s forces must be made to lay dowd thelr arms, It is expecied thet General Otis, In Co-op- eration with Admiral Dewey, will push for- ward at once and give the natives no chanes 10 recover from thelr defeats, licllo is to be occupivid at once by the American land aod naval forees, and General Otisis to move immediately on Malolos, the insurgent capital, and capture or disperss the so-called Filipino government. Malolos fs about f- teen miles from Manila, The more closely the Filipinos ars pressed and the more rigorous and determined rampalgo, it is suid, the sooner peane be expected, General Miller now has with him at Holle the Eighteenth Infantry snd a battalion of artillery, It is likely that be will be strong- ¥ reicloreed, though he now bas enough nen to capture the city, Becretary Aloer Las sent cabiegram tu General Otls: Accept my best congratulations ups magnificent victory of Busday, & creditable because you were not sor. Naval officers The came be prosse the may the following i your il the more the aggres- Ascen. bave watched with pride the achievements of the warships during the recent fighting, and they were gratified when Secretary Long sent the following cablegram: Dewey, Manila Congratuiations, Though the Filipinos seek to erente the impression that the Americans, by firiog upon natives who were running the guard ines, really took the initiative fn the figh!- BE, Do person conversant with military aw, itis said at the War Department, could ion the duty imposed upon the Ameri- can guards of firlog upon the natives, Just f Week prior 10 the outbreak some Filipinos who bad gotten through the llues sought to usssssinate some American soldiers, Loxa uest EAGAN NOT TO BE DISMISSED, Nentencs Commuted to a Suspension From Hank and Duty for six Years. Washington, D, ¢ dent cuused to be pr in the case of General ~The Pres- gated the sentanen iL Charlies P, Eagan. The court-martial sentence was dismissal from the army, and the President has com witied this 10 six years’ suspension from duty, which covers the remainder of the time prior to General Eagan's retirement, io Jenuary, 1908, The following is the text of the the President; ecinl, - order of "The nocused, after a trial by a ecouri- i, composed of officers of high rank di iatingulsh od serviees, bas been found of conduct unworthy an hold Of a commission of the United Btates and woxions, Iu the highest degree, 10 the discipline and good order the military Buch behavior is especially of conde ia an officer holding bigh rank in the army asd charged with the performance of difficult snd portant administrative duties is & time aud from whom, eriticism, an ube usual degrees of restraint asd constant and unlalling self-control are confidently ex- pectad, “The proceedings, findings and sentence in the case of Brigadier General Charles P. Eagan, commissary general of subsistence, United States army, are, therefo We, approvy- sd. In view, however, of bis gallant eon- duet in baile, upon mors taan one oo eal tion, which merited, asd has roceived the warm commendation of bis superiors, asd of his long and honorable record of servige, extending over a period surpassing io durs- Hon that usually alloted to a generation: the mitigating circum- stances which were developed during the irini of the case, and in deference to the recommendation Yo clemency submitted in bls behalf, the sentence imposed by the coutt is commuted to suspension from rang and duty for six years, “Witrian McKixnny, “February 7, 1800." It was stated by the Adjutant Geperal ihat Geoeral Eagan's suspension earries him 10 wiiuia a few days of his retirement ander the age limit. He will be reinstated in time to retire with the regular rank aod pay provided in such caves, The sentence of suspeasion, according to the legal officers of the department does not deprive General Eagan of any part of bis pay, but, as the sentence reads “without rank asd duty,” be loses his allowances, which include commutation of quarters, rations and foel and his horse allowanocs, This is quite a large foanciail tem, DREYFUS INQUIKY ENDED. Criminal Section of Court of Cassation Decinres Unse Closed. Paris, (By Cable.) ~The criminal sestion of the Coast of Uaseation has concluded its Inquiry lato the Dreyfus trial and tormaliy deciared it closed, 1s will now refer the whols matter, with the now light developed during the inquiry, to the procurator-gensral, who wild be ros quired to report his opinton 10 the eriminai yection of the Court of Cassation, whien wil pronounce & decision unless the Bovern- ments revision bill is adopied, In that case the matter will go before the United Courts of Cassation, instead of be fore the criminal Section eetion alone, Profits of of a - Miltton Doll Dollars. offi var of mation ii of
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