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IIKENSIBE MRS. MARY Aitfcar f 'Bra Dmu." "The Enflltk OrptiiM "Mcailowkrook." " I capes! toi CHAPTER XVII. (Continued.) Guy was a puzzle to himself. He would not admit that during the past year his liking for Maddy Clyde had grown to be tiomething stronger than mere friendship, nor yet that bis feelings toward Lucy had undergone a change, prompting him not to go to her when she was sick, and not to ie as sorry as he ought that the mar riage was again deferred. Lucy bad no Mi.spioion of the change, and her child like trust in him was tho anchor which held him still true to her in intentions at least, if not in reality. He knew from her letters how much she had learn fd to like Maddy Clyde, and so, he argued, there was no harm in his liking her, too. She was a splendid girl, and it seemed a pity that her lot should have been so lmmbly cast. This was usually the drift f his thoughts in connection with her; and now, as he stood there in that cot tage, Maddy's home, they recurred to him with tenfold intensity, for well he fore saw that a struggle was before hiin if be rescued Maddy, as he meant to do, from her approaching fate. No such thoughts, however, intruded themselves on Maddy's mind. She did not look away from the present, except it were at the past, in which she feared she had erred by leaving her grandmoth er too much alone. But to her passionate . appeals for, forgiveness, if she ever had neglected tne dying one, there came back only loving looks and mute caresses, the aged hand smoothing lovingly the bowed head, or pressing fondly the girlish cheeks With the coming of daylight, however, there was a change; and Maddy, listen ing intently, heard what sounded like her name. The tired tongue was loosed for a little, and in tones scarcely articulate, the disciple who for long years had served her Heavenly Father faithfully, bore tes timony to the blessed truth that God's promises to those who love Him are not mere promises that He will go with them through the river of death, disarm ing the fainting soul of every fear, and making the dying bed the very gate of Leaven. This tribute to the Savior was lier first thought, while the second was a blessing for her darling, a charge to seek the narrow way now in life's early morning. Disjointed sentences they were, but Maddy understood them all, treasur ing up every word even to the last, the words the farthest apart and most pain fuHy uttered, "You will care and comfort " She did not say whom, but Maddy knew whom she meant; and without then real izing the magnitude of the act, virtually accepted the burden from which Guy was o anxious to save her. CHAPTER XVIII. Grandma Markham was dead, and the covered sleigh, which late in the after noon plowed its way heavily back to Aikenside, carried only Mrs. Noah, who, with her forehead tied up in knots, sat back among the cushions, thinking not of the peaceful dead, gone forever to the rest which remains for the people of iod, but of the wayward Guy, who had resisted all her efforts to persuade him to return with her, instead of staying where he was not needed, and where his presence was a restraint to all save one, and that one Maddy, for whose sake he stayed. "She'd be vummed," the indignant old lady said, "if she would not write to Lucy herself if Guy did not quit such doin's," and thus resolving she kept on her way, while the subject of her wrath was, it may be. more than half repenting oi nis decision to stay, inasmuch as he began to' have an unpleasant consciousness of biin plf being in everybody's way. In the first hour of Maddy's bereave ment he had not spoken to her, but had kept himself aloof from the room where, with her grandfather and Uncle Joseph, ehe sat, holding the poor aching head of the latter in her lap and trying to speak a word of consolation to the old. broken hearted man, whose hand was grasped in liers. But Maddy knew he was there. Hhe could hear his voice each time he poke to Mrs. Noah, and that made the desolation easier to bear. She did not look forward to the time when he would be gone; and when at last he told her he was going, she started quickly, and with a gush of tears, exclaimed : "No, no ! oh, nol" "Maddy," Guy whispered, bending over the strange trio, "would you rather I should stay? Will it be pleasanter for jou. if I do?" "Yes I don't know. I guess it would not be so lonely. Oh. it's terrible to have grandmother dead!" was Maddy's re sponse: after which Guy would have stayed if a whole regiment of Mrs. Noahs had confronted him instead of one. Maddy wished it ; that was reason enough for him; and giving a few direc tions to John, he stayed, thereby discon certing the neighboring women who came in to perform the last offices for the dead, and who wished the young man from Aik enside was anywhere but there, watching tbem all in their movements, as they vainly fancied he did. But Guy thought only of Maddy, watching her so carefully that more than one meaning glance wa exchanged between the women, who, even ver the inanimate form of the dead. i.poke together of what might possibly oc cur, wondering what would be the effect on Grandpa Markham and I'ncle Joseph. Who would take care of them? And then, in case Maddy should feel it her duty to stay there, as they half hoped she would, they fell to pitying the young girl, who Bemed now so wholly unStted for the burden. To Maddy there came no definite idea of the future during the two day that white, rigid form lay in the darkened cottage; bat when, at last, the deep grave made for Grandma Markham was occu pied, and the lounge in the little front room was empty when the Aikenside carriage, which had been sent down for the use of the mourn era, had ben driven away, taking both Guy and Mrs. Noah mhta Um neighbor, too, had gone, lear lag oalj fctraalf and tf UtUa hired girl J. HOLMES " "Honafcad ei the Hllli'st." "Lti liven,' Sunshine," " Otln Mudi," etc sitting by the evening fire, with the grand father and the imbecile Uncle Joseph then it was that she first began to feel the pressure of the burden began to ask her self if she could live thus always, or at least for many years as long as either of the two helpless men was spared. Maddy was young, and the world as she had seen it was very bright and fair, brighter far than a life of laborious toil, and for a while the idea that the latter alterna tive must be accepted made her dizzy and faint. As if divining her thoughts, poor old grandpa, in his prayers that night, ask ed in trembling tones, which showed how much he felt what he was saying, hat God would guide his darling in all she did. and give her wisdom to make the proper decision ; that if it were best she might be happy there with them, but if not, "Oh, Father, Father!" he sobbed, "help me and Joseph to bear it." He could pray no more aloud, and the gray head remained bowed down upon his chair, while Uncle Joseph, in his pecu liar way, took up the theme, begging like a very child that Maddy might be inclined to stay that no young men with curling hair, a diamond cross, the smell of musk, might be permitted to come near her with enticing looks, but that j she might stay as she was and be an old maid forever! This was the subject of Uncle Joseph's prayer, a prayer which set the little hired girl to tittering, and would have wrung a smile from Maddy herself had she not felt all the strange petition implied. With waywardness natural to people in his condition, Uncle Joseph that night turned to Maddy for the little services his sister had formerly rendered, and which, since her illness, Grandpa Mark ham had done, and would willingly do still. But Joseph refused to let him. Maddy must untie his cravat, unbutton his vest, and take off his shoes, while, after he was in bed, Maddy must sit by bis side, holding his hand until he fell away to sleep. And Maddy did it cheer fully, soothing him into quiet, and keeping back her own choking sorrow for the sake of comforting him. Then, when this task was done she sought her grandfather, still sitting before the kitchen fire and evi dently waiting for her. "Maddy," the old man said, "come sit close by me, where I can look into your face, while we talk over what must be done." With a half-shudder, Maddy drew a stool to her grandfather's feet, and rest ing her head upon his knee, listened while he talked to her of the future ; told her all her grandmother had done ; told of his own helplessness; of the trial it was to care for Uncle Joseph, and then in faltering tones asked who was going to look after them now. "We can't live here alone, Maddy. We can't. We're old and weak, and want someone to lean on. Oh, why didn't God take us with her, Joseph and me, and that would leave you free to go back to the school and the life which 1 know is pleasanter than to stay here with us. Oh, Maddy ! it com forts me to look at you to hear your voice, to know that though I don't see you every minute, you are somewhere, and by and by you'll come in. I shan't live long, and maybe Joseph won't. God's promise is to them who honor father and mother. It'll be hard for you to stay, harder than it was once; but, Maddy, oh, Maddy ! stay with me, stay with me ! stay with your old grandpa!" Maddy had a brave young heart, and at last, winding her arms around her grand father's neck, she whispered : "I will not leave you, grandpa. I'll stay in grand mother's place." Surely Heaven would answer the bless ings whispered over Maddy by the delight ed old man, and the young girl taking so cheerfully the burden from which many would have shrunk, should be blessed of God. With her grandfather's hand upon her head, Maddy could almost fe-l that, the blessing was descending; bi when, in her own little room, the one where she had lain sick for so many weary weeks, her courage began to give way, and the burden, magnified tenfold by her nervous weakness, looked heavier than she could bear. "I will, I will," she cried, while into her heart there crept an intense longing for the love of Him who alone could make her task a light one. "If I were good like grandma, I could bear everything," she thought, and turning upon her pil low, Maddy prayed an earnest, childlike prayer, that God would help her do right, that He would t.ike from her the proud spirit which rebelled against her lot be cause of its loneliness, that pride and love of her own ease and advancement in preference to others' good might all be subdued ; in short, that she might be God's child, walking where He appointed her to walk without a murmur, and doing cheerfully His will. It was broad noon ere Maddy awoke, and starting up she looked about her in bewilderment, wondering where she was and what agency had been at work in her room, transforming it from the cold comfortless apartment she had entered the previous night into the cheery-looking chamber, with a warm fire blazing in the tiny fireplace, a rug spread down upon the hearth, a rocking chair drawn up be fore it, and all trares of the little hired girl as completely obliterated as If she had never been. In her grief Maddy seemed to have forgotten how to make things cozy, and as, during her grand mother's illness, her own room had been left to the care of the hired girl, Nettie, it wore a neglected, rude aspect, which had grated on Maddy's finer feelings, and made everything so uninviting. But this morning all was changed. Some skillful band had been buy there while she slept, and Maddy was wondering who it could be, when the door opened cautiously snd Flora's good-humored face looked in Flora from Aikenside. Maddy knew now to whom she was indebted for all this comfort, and with a cry of Joy she welcoi&ed the girl, whose very presence brought back something of tho life with which she had jmrted forever. "Flora," she exclaimed, "how came you here? Did you make the fire and fix the room for me?" "Yes, I made the fire," Flora replied, "and fixed up the things a little, hustlin that young one's goods out of here; be cause it was not fittin for you to-be sleepin with her. Mr. Guy was mad enough when he found it out." "Mr. Guv. Flora? How should he knov of our sleeping arrangements?" Maddy asked, but Flora evaded a direct reply, savins-, "there was enough ways for thiugs to get to Aikenside ;" then contin uinir. "How tired you must W, an Maddy, to sleep so sound as never to hear me at all, though to be sure I tried to be still as a mouse. But let me help you dress. It's all but noon, and you must be hungry. Your breakfast's all ready. "Thank you, Flora, I can dress my .if" until stennlnir out V noil self!" Maddy said, stepping out upon the floor. nd feelin that the world was not as dark as it had seemed to ber when last night she came up to her hftraber- find was com forting her already, ana m .v. -:,. .lMBi. hJU. she tried to thank Him for His goodness, ana asu ior i v- .,kt f Ha grace to make ner wnac me uui" - ( .... i . t,xA ma whf VOU ' aou nave uut " w be did not know, but that "perhaps came here," she said to D lora, wno was 1 ' busy making her bed, and who replied: some other correspondent can tell." "It's Mr. Guy's work. He thought I'd ; Seven years later on the little wood better come, as you would need help to en track along the Lackawanna creek get things set to rights, so you could go tho first locomotive hod its trial. Tho back to school." Ma.lilv fplt her heart coming up in ner .J.,. .. -n.r ralmlr. "Mr. uuiiai, uui ... . in8 tram on most or tne rauroaas con- Guy U very kind-so are you all ; but. "ting back rUanaaCFlora iCped The first locomotive on the Baltimore her 'bed-making, while she stared blankly ; and Ohio had sails attached. So did at Maddy. "What be you going to do?" ( the cars. These sails were hoisted "Stay here and take care of grandpa," when the wind was in the right direc Maddy said, bathing her face and neck tlon so as to help the locomotive, in the cold water, which could not cool j Tne rivalry between the railroads the feverish heat she felt spreading airufl,ng 1 Bnd those using over them. horses was very bitter. In August. "Stay here! You are crazy. Miss Mad-, dv! 'Tain t no place for a girl like jou, and Mr. Guy never will suffer it, I know," . held between a horse and. one of the Flora rejoined, as she resumed her work, pioneer locomotives, which did not re thinking she "should die to be moped up suit in favor of the locomotive, the race in that nutshell of a house." was on the B. & O., the locomotive With a little sigh, as she foresaw ths being one built by Peter Cooper, who opposition she should probably meet with acted as engineer, from Guy, Maddy went on with her toi- j The & gallant FaTi wa9 ln tue let, which was soon completed as it did of a car Qn R track dJtndain HnTco lar tSefX used by the locomotive. She was not as fresh-looking a. At first the gray had the better of the usual that morning, for excitement and race, but when he was a quarter of a fatigue had lent a paleness to her cheek mile ahead Mr. Cooper succeeded In and a languor to her whole appearance, getting up enough steam to pass the but Flora, who glanced anxiously after bor8e amid terrific applause, her as she went out, muttered to herself, At tnat moment a band slipped from "She was never more beautiful, and I & puUey and tnougu Mr. Cooper lacer don't wonder an atom that Mr. Uuy ated haQdg to rep,aoe thJ thinks so much of her. I enne 8t d tne horae ged It fl The kitchen was in perfect order, tor Flora had been busy there as elsewhere, came in the winner. The kettle was boiling on tne siove, whilp two or three little covered dishes were ranged upon the hearth, as If waiting for someone. Grandpa Marknam naa gone out, but Uncle Joseph sat in his ac-, customed corner, rubbing his hands when he saw Maddy. ana noaaing mySv toward the front room, the door of which was open, so that Maddy could hear the crackling on the hearth. Maddy entered the room known ai mi cottage as the parlor, the one where the , rnpr ws. the six cane-seated chairs and the Boston rocker, and now the lit-, tie round table was nicely laia ior iwo, . while cozily seated in the rocking C-ar. reading last night's paper and looKing very handsome and happy, was Guyl (To be continued.) The Laf Straw. Nobody in Cedarvllle was more gen-. erous than Almira Hanson. Bne " There were so ninny collisions and give an' give, an' without regard to explosions that some Southern rail getting," her neighbors said of her. roa(js introduced what they called a But Miss Hanson had her own Ideas barrler ear between the locomotive and as to the proper limits for generosity, the passenger coaches of the train, and in the case of the Cedarvllle Cor- TnIa Darrer ear consisted of a plat ners' Church Sociable she felt that form on wheels upon which were piled those limits had been overstepped. sx Dale9 of cotton, and It was claimed "I don't want to carp nor to critl- jt WOuld safeguard the passengers ln cize." she remarked 'to an Interested two ways It would protect them from listener; "their ways have never been tne Dowing up 0f the locomotive and complaints of the high-handed meth niy ways, but they've never gone wouia form a soft cushion upon which ods of the grasping railroad corporn against my grain so much as they did the passengers could land in the event' tlons, their defiance of the law of the last night. I of a collision. There Is no record of1 iand and the rights of others, sound "They asked me for a pot of beans now this experiment worked out I strangely familiar to-day. Van Nor- for the supper, and I made em samej Horatio Allen states that when the as I do for all three of the churches. South Carolina railroad was complet "Now you understand me, I was glad e(j with Its 100 miles of track, opera te do It I didn't begrudge 'em the tlon over such an extensive line was beans, nor the time it took to do 'em then unprecedented. In making ar- when I had company come unexpected three cousins and a woman I'd never set eyes on before. "Nor I didn't begrudge carrying that neavy poi nowu mt-ic " mm m uie uuacu ui a umuiijui ue and then paying twenty-five cents to DUnt on an open platform car stationed eat some o' my own cooking. iQ front of the locomotive, a fire of pine "But when I was ready to come knots surrounded with sand, which home, and begun to hunt round for furnished the requisite illumination of that iKt, and found Mis' Deacon Hard- the route traversed. Ing had sent her boy home with it. and j on most of the other lines no substl sald she knew I'd rather pay five cents tues for headligihts were used. The to him for the church debt than to lug trains traveled slowly through the It myself, well I didn't say anything dark. Night trips, however, were . . ,i,AHA a tfr n trnf but thinks I. 'If this Isn't the cap-shea; I don't know what would be!" The Servant Problem. Smith Excuse me, Jones, but may I ask how you manage to have such de- Ing a protracted period, before the in lleious things to eat? (ventlon of spark arresters, the flybag jOIies ifs quite simple. I always sparks caused a great amount of dam- klse the cook tefore dinner, and hold age and annoyance. Interwoven with her on my knee after dinner. j this difficulty waa a necessity for using $:mlth But what des your wife smokestacks many times larger than Bay, j those now In use too high Indeed to jonPB Oh, she doesn't object She's pass under overhead bridges or the ibe cook. Brooklyn Life. Wedder'v ' The only way'to cure ,..ir f n attack of love Is to run aWSliigleton-W-hy didn't you do that ben you were courting the girl you married? Wedderly-I dld-I ran away wlt her. Sam Effect. "Wus you ever in love, Eddie?" "Naw, but I fell out of er second; . story window onctl" i EARLY RAILROAD DAYS pt Charter in Country Obtained In 1832 Sails Attached to Engines. OCCIDENTS WERE VERY COMMON j . Barrier Cars as a Remedy DIffl culty In Getting- Wood and Water. In 1822, the first charter was oh- talned. for a railroad In the United States. It was for a line from Phlla - delphla to a point on the Susquehanna river, but was never built. On the an- nonneement of the nroteet some one .... ' ' ' r." " bed one of the Baltimore newspa- j flrei They presented a very motley ap rs. "What is a railroad, anyhow?" Ipearanco on arrival at the first sta The editor was forced to reply that tion experiment was far frocn successful. . f nnnvhni. nf mn oftaa,.i TV .. T iL ,, V j "- luic irac uu uina.es uu iue early trains, they used to stop and start with Jolts which threw the pas- gengers across the car. The coupling waa witn (.jing having two or three ! fee. Qf slaek whIcn the englne ln start. , , tQok w,th & ; Btonmln was even 3s. The shoe k : on stopping was even There were no whistles In the old ' days. Signals were given by mishlna up tue vaiVe on the dome by hand and ietting tue steam escape with a loud hlsSng j,, Qn the New Castle and Frenchtown railroad when the signal was heard the slaves around the sta tion would rush to the arriving train, seize hold of It and pull back with all their might while the agent stuck n pIece of through a wheel rangeinents for this unusual undertak one Qf the first things that occurred to him waa that the locomotives would have to run at night as well as day, a i - . v v ,. - V, .4 11 U a. i. a ' avoided as much as possible. The first headlight on a locomotive was used by the Boston and Worcester ln 1840. l'ne original American locomotives were nearly all wood burners, and dur- roofs of covered wooden bridges. To overcome this difficulty the I l.nnt.Mr. lf m O T1W tt f V1 fUVllnA. tlves were Jointed or hinged so that they could be lowered when trains were proceeding over or under bridges. This naturally greatly increased the danger of setting fire to the wooden bridges, and wa9 OTSt0imai7 for a watchman to follow every train over or nnder the Driuges, carrying a uunci ui ier for the purpose of extinguishing fires. Notwithstanding this precaution the burning of bridges was a common oc- rarrence. On moat of the early railroad the cars were at first entirely tineoverod, being In fact merely platform enrs with a row of Heats along earth side, i The passengers were entirely unpro- tacfful from Hia anri rain sm-wtlm 01 cinders. A passenger who took a trip over the Mohuwk Valley rallrond when this convpony had opened Its line be tween Albany and Schenectady thus describes his experience; "They used dry pitch pine for fuel4 and there being no smoke or spark catcher to the chimney or smokestack the volume of black smoke strongly Im pregnated with sparks, coal and cin ders, came pouring back the whole length of the train. Each of tho pas sengers who had an umbrella raised it as a protection against the smoke and fire. "They were found to be but a mo mentary protection, for I think in the first mile the last one went overboard, ; fl1 hflvlnr hnA thoir t,,rnt tr by the flnmeB( when a eml mel.te took phlce among the passengers, eac , . . . .. i W"'PI"B ueigmoor to put out tne tlon." Telegraphic sen-Ice available' for railway service was not established un til about 1850. In the absence of the telegraph and the lack of any estab lished system of signaling the early I raiiroads adopted novel methods for ... j conveying information, The New Castle and Frenchtown railroad had a primitive telegraph ln operation as early as 1837. A descrip tion of it says that "the poles were of cedar, quite like those now In use, and had cleats fastened on them, forming a sort of Jacob's ladder." The operator would go to the top of the pole forming his station and with his spy-glass sight the next sta tion ln the direction of the approach ing train. If the train was coming and the signal sliowed a flag, It meant that all was well, and the operator would pass the signal along to the next station below. If a ball was shown, and no train In sight, if signified an accident or a delay of the connecting steamboat. These signals were methodically ex changed until an understanding waa had all along the road. The facilities furnished by the rail roads were at first much more fully appreciated by travelers than by the shippers of freight The speed of the trains, amounting at times to as much as twenty-five or thirty miles an hour, was a source of unabated wonder to the passengers, who had hitherto trav eled on the slowly moving canal boats end stage coaches. In the matter of freight traffic the railroads were ot first unable to com pete with the canals. Of a prominent Massachusetts railroad it Is said that a motion was made at an annual meet In gto let the privilege of carrying freight on Its lines to some responsible person for $1,500 a year. There are many accounts of the piti ful Btate of impecunloslty to which some of the railroads were reduced. , Cash being exhausted, and receivers' ' certificates having not been Invented. when oj)eration8 proved unprofitable there was no basis for credit Men were sometimes put on the ten der with a saw-horse and saw, and when the engine ran out of wood these men would take up their saw and cut up a new supply of fuel from the near est woods. Often the passengers would get off the train and help in the cutting of the wood. The railroads were often too poo to pay for the fuel thus secured, and there are many stories ln the old news paiers of encounters between train crews and the fanners who caught them cutting down their trees. Tho den Magazine. EAT SOUR MILK AND LIVE LONG Doctors Dwell on the Merits of 7.0 burt, a BnlRarlan Pood. The latest producer of long life dis covered by Eurojiean physiologist Is j zoghurt, a preparation of sour milk, says the Washington Star. Prof. Ellas Metchnlkow of the Pasteur Institute was the first to direct attention to It, but no sooner had he done so than Prof. Belnhardt of Vienna announced that he had known all about it for years and that it was a food ln general use ln country'parts of Bulgaria. Prof. Metchnlkow's theory Is that the ferment contained In the milk attacks certain bacteria which develop ln the human system and have poisonous ef feeta He has proved by experiment he says, that the zoghurt has an abso lutely disinfecting Influence and that by destroying the polaonons germs it not only prevents actual disease, but also arrests the process of aging. In a paper published ln the Austrian Review Dr. Belnhardt tells how the Bulgarians prepare the zoghurt. Cow's or goat's milk Is boiled In an open ves sel until it Is reduced to about half its original volume. Then It Is cooled and when it reaches a temperature of about 115 degrees . amA t ltTl II ffr f) 1 TOW fl V TirMMI rPil III stirred into it and It Is left to ferment. The germ, which the doctor calls maya fungus, acts quickly and the eoghnrt Is ready for use In a day. Dr. Reoinhardt thinks the health giving qualities of the preparation are amply proved by the fact that Bul garia, ln a population of 4,000,000, has 3,800 zoghurt eaters of 100 years of age and upward, while In the whole German empire, with 01,000,000 people. there are only seventy-one centenar- Ian. . AgK RELEASE OF GIRL SLAYER . . Jessie Morrison, Who Killed Her Rival, Said to Be Dying in Prison. I Interest in the tragic life story of Jessie Morrison, of Eldorado, Kan., 1 revived through the efforts of influ ential friends to secure her release from the Kansas State ienltentlary ' for the murder of her sVhool girl friend, Mrs. Olln O. Castle. The young wom an, once known throughout the State as a beauty, Is said to be dying as a result of her confinement lu th wom an's prhwn, with sixteen years ef a twenty-year sentence yet to serve. The crime for which Miss Morrison Is paying the penalty was committed when Bhe and a successful rival la love Hs.oltk engaged ln a razor duel. Her eppo nent was Mrs. Oliu G. Castle, who, as Clara Wiley, was married to young Olln Castle, clerk In an Eldorado store. Byth girls had lu turn been wooed by him. July 22, 1900, nine days after the wedding of Clara Wiley and Castle, Miss Morrison vbtited the young wife and the fotal battle ensued. "I was called to the Ciujtle home by Mrs. Cas tle, who coinmmiced a furious tirade against me," she says ln telling the story. "She attacked me with a razor. I snatched the weajmn from her and slashed her." Mrs. Castle died a week later. Miss Morrison had three trials, In each of which she was found guilty. The first time she was sentenced to three years In prison, the second to en, and the third time to twenty. The prominence of the principals of the case made It one of the greatest In terest throughout the country. The con victed woman's father was at one time a member of the Kansas Supreme Court. W. R. Boggs, an American, was slain by Mexican laborers who demandc4 their wages. ' Two bombs were found beneath the box of King Carlos of Portugal in the RoyaJ Theater of Lisbon. Brigands tortured Marquis Cito of Na ples and forced his wife to write a check for $20,000 for his ransom. The death sentence of Prof. Karl Hau, convicted of murder in Germany, waf commuted to life imprisonment. Empress Alexandra of Russia became go ill that special consultation of court physicians was deemed necessary. In the effort to gain the mastery ot the Pacific, Japan forced every foreign shipping line out of the China trade. Thousands of native troops who attack ed the French forces on the Algerian frontier were driven back into Morocco. A steamer went on the rocks of the Nova Scotia shore in a blinding storm, but the GOO persons aboard were taken off. r- Oscar Erbsloeh was forced by German authorities to pay duty of $.'S0 on the James Gordon Bennett Cup he won in the balloon race. Herr Lange, a well-known translator, predicted a famine in white paper and urged America to look to the preserva tion of her forests. Finance Minister Kokovsoff, in an nouncing the budget In the Duma, Tues day, said that it would be nei-essary to get $93,000,000 on credit to meet the ex tiaordinary expenses. Nicholas Tschaikovsky, known as the founder of the first revolutionary circle at St. Petersburg, and Mme. Breshkov skaya, one of the first aristocratic con verts to the terrorist program, both of shorn have msny friends in America, have been arrested and thrown into the Fortress of 8S. Peter and Paul at the Russian capital. Recent reports from South Africa were to the effect that the Cape Government was arming in the expectation of another uprising of the native Zulus, whose lead er, Dinizulu, was defying arrest in Natal for certain murders in connection with the rising last year. Now it sppesrs that Dinizulu has surrendered to the sutbort- ties aad has demanded a trial