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THE DAYTON HERALD DAYTON ...OREGON NEWS DF THE UEFI A Resume of the Loss Important but Not Less Interesting Events of th* Past Week. Kalieff, the assassin of Grand Duke Sergius, has been condemned to death. Troops fired on railroad strikers in an Italian town, killing and wounding many. The question of broken neutrality by the Russians has aroused keen interest in Japan. Contracts have been closed for build ing an immense steel mill in China. The work will cost close to (3,000,000. Portland is now officially recognized as the leading wheat exporting city of the United States. The department of Commerce and Labor accords Portland first place. The Japanese government baa let • - * — *■- - ■*■ * *- — a / zzbm * MÉM m I ^ÄfS^ for the construction of heavy ordnance. An American firm will do the work. * No women spectators will be allowed at the third trial of Nan Patterson. - A, The Chicago teamsters’ strike against Montgomery, Ward A Co. seems to be losing headway. Riot* continue, how ever. h young man of Muncie, Indiana, has been fined (25 and costs for having cigarette papers in his possession. This is the first penalty assessed in .Indiana since the anti-cigarette law became effective. .> Nevada state health officers report conditions improving at Tonopah, the J new mining camp. The senate committee on interstate. commerce has commenced its hearings on railway legislation-^ • . Commissioner Garfield - a is holding night sessions examining into Standard Oil methods in Kansas. John A. Benson will have to stani) trial in Washington.. on land fraud charges, the United States supreme court having denied his right to be tried in California................................ » à Chicago teamsters’ ay mnathizera have mobbed the negro drivers for Mont gomery, Ward A Co., and other dis turbances ‘ are daily occurring in con nection with the strike. The supreme court of the United States has decidqfl Ihe caae involving the removal of George W- Beavers” from Brooklyn to Washington against Bea vers, holding him subject to removal. The preliminary legal battle is on at Portland in connection with the land fraud cases. Hermann, Mitchell, Wil ______ —. tha-amai lar offatulyrs aza *1 all in attendance! at Judge Bellinger’s court. The beet legal, talent of the state is arrayed against Prosecutor Heney and they will be augmented later by some of the best lawyers ollhe nation. Chicago will own the city’s car lines within three months. Carnegie will soon distribute (12,- 500,000 among 50 colleges in 17 states. Minturn, a small Colorado mining town, has been practically wiped out by fire. Bids have just been opened by the Navy department for the construction of three cruisers. Indiana’s anti-cigarette law is in force and a cigarette cannot be pur chased in the state. Further violence on the part of the strikers has ended peace conferences on the Chicago teamsters’ strike. The revivalists who have just left Portland and gone to Seattle say the latter city is the purer of the two. Russia accuses British ships of spy ing on the movements of the Baltic fleet and reporting to the Japanese. Omaha retailers have had the price of beef raised on them. They are now paying (15 to (20 more per carcase than they were two weeks ago. The Russian army is retreating to Kirin. A nmber of Chicago beef trust wit nesses have fled to Canada and their wive* have been summoned before the grand jury to tell what they know. Another earthquake in India has wrecked two towns. The Russian fleet has changed its course and gone eastward to coal. « •*" 1 w Bloody disturbances are expected throughout Russia on May day. »-- The Winnebago Indians, in Nebras ka, have protested to Washington, claiming to have been robbed of their .ends by agents. The czar has announced hie inten tion of revising the land laws in order to quiet the peasants. A commission has been appointed to decide the dispute on international rivers. The waterways in question are the Rio Grande and Colorado on the south and th* Milk river on the north. WILL USE HIS TORPEDO FLEET. Togo WiA Not Risk Hi« Big Vessels Against th* Russians. London, April 19.—Baron Hayashi, the Japanese minister to Great Britain, expressed the opinion to the Associated Press today that Admiral Togo would not give battle to Admiral Rojestven- sky with his satire gqusdron, but would continue the Mutions tactics which has characterized bis attacks on the Port Arthur squadron, not because he feared defeat, but owing to bis de sire to inflict the greatest amount of damage on the Russians with the least possible loss to himself. _ , While confident of his ability to ac complish the total destruction of the Russian squadron in a big battle, there is danger of Togo losing ona or two of his big ships. Therefore, Baron Hay ashi believes, Togo will employ his torpedo boats and torpedo boat destroy ers, which number more than 100 and are vastly superior to the Russian tor pedo boat flotilla, in harassing the Rus sians while gradually picking off the Russian warships. He said the coasts of Japan, Corea and Formosa lend themselves to night work with ■ torpedo boats, while the narrow channels will make the maneu vering of large war ships difficult and dangerous. BREAKS ALL RECORDS. CRUSHED TO DEATH Four Boys Killed and Many In lured by Alarm el Fire. AFTER FREE THEATER TICKETS Hundreds War* Waiting at Fndianap* oils Masonic Temple Whan 1 Panic Started. Indianapolis, Ind., April 18.— Fren- ziod by * false alarm of fire, several hundred eager newsboys, struggling to obtain their share of free ticket* to a local theater, which were being di*- tributed by a traveling repreaenfetive of a patent medicine company, stam peded in a narrow stairway in the Ma sonic Temple tonight, crushing the life out of four boys and seriously injuiing several others. - Long before the time approached for the distribution of the ticket*, the' stairs of the Masonic Temple, at the southwest corner of 'Washington street and Capitol avenue, were crowded with a pushing, yelling crowd of newsboys, each anxious to be first to receive hie pass. When the distribution began, U m suitemMl becauia more intoosa, In and the efforts of several policemen who had been detailed to prevent trouble were unavailing. Seattle, April .19. — The steamship It is alleged that one of the boys, in Minnesota, of the Great Northern the endeavor to hasten the exit of thoee Steamship company’s Seattle-Oriental who had received their passes, shouted fleet, and the largest freighter carrier “Fire!” Immediately those at the afloat, reached port last night, on her top faced about and almost with super human strength began to force their return voyage from the Orient, having way to the bottom of the stairs. broken all trans-Pacific records on her Shrieks and physical encounters fol trip across. The Minnesota's time from lowed for a few seconds, when from Yokohama was 13 dayw,"2T hours and some cause those near thetopfell head five minutes. long on the struggling mass at the bot Ampng her passengers were a number tom. Immediately policemen from of Russian officers and their wives be- the central station, who responded to a ing sent home on parole from Shang riot call, began the work of rescue. hai, whither they were taken at the Four of the boys were dead when ex- time of the capture of Port Arthur. tricatqji from their position at the bot There were also-a number of -Ainerican tom of the stairs. Others, believed to *npy officers coming fronrManila, have been fatally crushed, were taken either on leave or underYitders to re out as fast as they could be disen port at .Washington, D. C. Altogether tangled from their fremied compan ■ngers, ions, who fought and clung to each the Minnesota brought 162 _ w ere fffet-claM4-*nd • other in desperation. - 'L—— more than 7 000 tons of general freight, of which hemp formed the CANNOT LIMIT HOURS. bulk. Steamer Minnesota Crosse* Pacific MUST HAVE TRIBAL TIES. Supreme Court Declares N*w York Bakers’ Law Unconstitutional. What Indian Children-Can Have Share Washington, April 18.—In an opin ion by Justice Peckham, the Supreme court of the United States held to be unconstitutional the New York state law making ten hours a day’s -work and 60 hours a week’s work in bakeries in that stfite. Justices Harlan, White, Day and Holmes dissented and Justice Harlan declared that no more Import ant decision had been rendered in , the last century. The opinion was handed flown in the case of Lockner vs. the state of New York, anil was based on the ground that the law interferes with the free in Land*. Washington, April 19.—Indian Com missioner Leupp today promulgated the order defining what children of Indian parentage are entitledjto share th lands and annuities of various Western triliee. Under his instructions all children whose parents are both In dians may share, in these benefits, as may all children whose mothers mar ried white men, provided the mother is still a.- recognized member of the tribee and affiliates with its member*. marriage to a white man, has with- drawn and is no longer identified with her tribe, her children are not entitled to lands or annuities allowed that tribe. NEUTRALITY IN PHILIPPINES. Admiral Train is Having All Wafers Well Patrolled. * Manila, April 19.—Admiral Train, determined to maintain the neutrality“ of the Philippine waters, will immed iately dispatch additional vessels to patrol the Basilan straits, as a result of the reports that both Russian and Japanese vessels have been sighted there. Saturday the United, States gunboat Quiros was sent to inspect six Russian colliers which are reported to tie lying in the gulf of Lingayen. A gunboat is also scouting for Japanese vessels. A report has reached .here Uiat 16 Japanese cruisers have been siplWl off Sampalok point. The cruisers are said to be scouting in force for stray scouts, ships and colliers of the Russian fleet. tween individuals. The court of Ap peals of the state upheld the law an«f affirmed the judgment of the trial court, holding Lockner guilty. The law involved in the case is sec tion 110 bf the New York state labor law, prescribing the hours of labor in bakeries in the state. Lockner is a baker in the city of Utica and was found guilty of permitting an employe to work in bis bakery more than 60 hours in a week, and fined (50. The judgment was affirmed by the New York Appellate courts. Senator Thurston is Retained. Bioux City, la., April 18.—Joh’n M. Thurston, ex-United States senator from Nebraska, has been retained to press claims for indemnity on account of the massacre oi several Americans by Yaqui Indians in Sonora, Mex., January 19. The claims will aggre gate 1450,000, $100,000 each for the four men killed, J. K. McKenzie and Dr. Köberl McCoy,' oT ChicagoT “Walter Stubinger, of Kewanee, Ill., and M. H. Cpll, of Sioux City, and 125,000 each for the terrible experience of the two survivors. "By official board I mean the officers and directors of the company. “We expect to have this road in readiness at the time the work of the canal construction begins and managed in a manner so as to facilitate this great work.” RUMORS WITHOUT REAL NEWS. Correspondents Guess at Many Things Beyond Their Vision. London, April 18. — There is as yet no news of a great naval battle in the Far East, or of the whereabouts of the rival fleets. The Hongkong corres pondent of the Daily Mail sends a ru mor of a small engagement, but there is no confirmation of this riport Details regarding the Russian ships in Kanrah bay,.£ocbjn China, are too meagre to be instructive. According to the Daily Mail’s Singapore corres pondent, tha^North German -Lloyd steamer Prinz Heinrich naw several battlèships and six cruisers in the bay, but the dispatches to other newspapers are not so precise. The Daily Tele graph’s Singapore correspondent, like the Associated Press, merely reports “eighteen vessels,” and adds that the captain of the Prinz H*inricK states that possibly more warships were in side the harbor, but that they were in visible from the offing. The presence of the Russian squad ron off the Annam coaA. is raising keen interest here, in view oi the possibil ity of their infringing Chinese neutral ity and of the likelihood of Rojestven- sky having bad to split his squadron. The Morning Post's correspondent at Shanghai telegiaphs that China has in structed the governor of the southern provinces to maintain strict neutrality in view oi I*—ikilily oi Ruaaian ships sheltering there. WHEELS BLOCKED IN ITALY. Railway Strik* May Extend to Other Forms ot Industry. Rome, April 18.—Every railway line throughout Italy is tied up this morn ing as a result of the strike among the employes, who are dissatisfied with wages and hours of labor. The strike is expected to spread to all of the large industries in the several cities, and be fore it is ended bloodshed is likely to result. ~ The strike started in Naples, and a few minutes afterward the heads of labor unions wired to every subordinate organization telling them to notify their members to stop work at midnight. The order was literally obeyed and not a wheel is turning this morning, al though the officials of the roads allege they Will have them in operation be- "fore the end of the‘day • All the station clerks and office em- ployes have been ordered to report to the station masters to aid in moving trains. us. Takes Refuge in a Chinese Bay. Opened by ths President. New York, April 18. — With Presi- dant Roosevelt the chief guest and leading "educators from all sections of the United States among the speakers, the next general season of the National Educational association, which will be 1 held in Asbury1 Park, and Ocean Grove, N. J., next July, promises to be the i most notable in the association’s his tory. The meetings will begin Mon day, July 3, and continue five days. An elaborate program has been completed. President Roosevelt will deliver the , principal address of the meeting. Western Oil'Reducad. Independence, Kan., April 19.— The price of Western oil .was reduced 5 cents a barrel today to 61 cents for high grade and 56 cents a barrel for ea< h half degree under 32 degrees gravity. This makes the price of fuel oil in Kansas 21 cents a barrel. It is the general opinion of the oil men in th s district that the price of high grade oil will go to 30 cents a barrel unless drill ing is suspended. It ia estimated th: t the Western field is now capable of producing 50.000 barrels s day, while there is a market for only 8,000. Hoodoo Boat May Be Accepted. Burned Stores Too Soon. Washington, April 18.— The report of the naval board which conducted the recent trial of the Goldsborough in Puget sound has been received at the Navy department. In substance it shows that although the speed is not altogether satisfactory, due probably to the natural deterioration of the ma chinery since its installation, about five years ago, the vessel is structurally sound and otherwise in good condition. The disposition of the naval authorities is to accept her. r ~ , London, April 18.—A dispatch from St. Petersburg to a news agency reports i that General Linievitch has issued an order forbidding officials of the com missariat to burn stores here prema turely and reproving officials in cases that have already occurred. The order directs that storehouses be destroyed hereafter only by permission of the commanders of army corps and divis ions. The Telegraph’s correspondent at Tok io reports that the Japanese re covered 200 of the 500 Russian guns abandoned in the retreat from Mukden. Fifty Boys Were Injured. Death Rate is Decreasing. Chicago, April Iff.—In closing his 10 years of service m commissioner of health for the citj of Chicago, Dr. Arthur R. Reynolds presents in his annual report Significant data showing the decrease of the death rate in the city. During the *10 years from 1885 to 1894, inclusive, the yearly average of death rate was 20.02 in every 1,000 -oLpopulation. During the succeeding 10 years the rate decreased to 15.1 in every 1,000 of population. An unknown malady Is killing many Fifty Hurt in Strike Riot. people at Tonopah, the new pining - Wheeling, W. Va., ' AprH 19.—Fifty eamp cf Nevada. Hundreds Me fleeing men were hurt in a fight between 60 from the deitrict to escape the diseaee. nonunion men from Pittsburg and 150 Both parties in the Chicago Strike strikers from the Whitaker mill. refuse to confer and the employer* have Clube, stone*, knives and pistols -were adopted a plan by which they hope to used, but the nonunion tnen Anally scored in getting into the mill. Shanghai, April 18.—A native Chris tian who has arrived here reports that a band of Chunchuses have murdered an American missionary named Ken nedy at Kuhougnsien, near Hangchau. He could give no particulars of the 11- leged crime. Paul Jones1 body has been found in Paris and will be brought home for burial. Coder Powell has assumed office a* marshal at Nome, Alaska, pending in- veeti gat ion. New York, April 1«. — Secretary of War Taft, who ia here to attend the annual meeting of the di rec tore of the Panama railroad company in thia city tomonow, had thia to say tonight on the affairs of the railroad company: “The meeting will ro*ult in a com plete reorganization of the company. The government is now in control of the stock. It is absolutely euential for the United Statea to control the affaire of the cepapany in the work of constructing the canKL We desire the* affairs of the road conducted in har mony with the commission which will have charge of the general construction work. “With thia end in view, the directors of the Panama raHroad company at the meeting will elect Theodore P Shonta, the new chairman of the Pana ma canal commission, president of the Panama railroad company. “With Mr. Bhonts at the head of the company it is certain that its affairs will be conducted most satisfactorily. His experience as a practical railroad man will enable him to operate the railroad just as the Panama cangl com mission may desire while the work of the construction ia in progress. The entire official board of the company will be comprised of either members of the commission or men who are inter- ested in - the work of constructing the Hong Kong, April 18.—It is reported here that the Chinese government has received information that the Russian fleet under command of Admiral Ro- jestvensky has taken refuge in a bay on the Chinese coast north of Hong Kong. It is stated that the Japanese government has made an urgent de mand that the Chinese government send word to the Russians to get out at once, and also that Japan has told China that she will be held strictly accountable should the Russians use neutral harbors for jmy purpose. “ Indianapolis, April 19.— No deaths have been added to the list of four boys that lost their lives jn crush of newsboys in the stairway of the Ma sonic building last night, eager to ob tain free theater tickets for a perform ance 'kt the theater. The revised list of the injured shows that no fewer than 50 were more or less injured. Of this number, fully 25 were seriously crushed and the death list may be in creased. The Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone company will spend (500,000 on new lilies in Utah, Idaho, Montana and 'Wyoming in 1^05. Sncratary Taft S*ya Ha Will Work With Panama Commiaaion. Judge Upholds ths Law. Denver, April 19.— Judge N. Walter Dixon, in the District court today, up held the constitutionality of the law of 1897 relating to building and loan associations, upder which President E. M. Johnson and other officers of the defunct Fidelity Savings association have been indicted on charges of mak ing false reports. The law was at tacked by Johnson’s attorneys on the ground that the legislative records con cerning its passage were incomplete, a leaf apparently having been torn from the journal of the house. th* fevaan fur three-four weeks. Better ' slip this llnsey sk’yurt over your white drest. White shows too much after night There, lommy pin ut good un tight aoce you kin climb roun en ut ef you wawnt to, thout ut drappun offun SHONTS IS TO BE CHIEF. Tunnel Secure from Strikers. Chicago, April 18.—Labor leaders will hold a conference tomorrow with Mayor Edward F. Dunne, who said to night that he had hopes of an early set tlement of the teamliters’ strike against Montgomery, Ward A Co. The coal teamsters todav decided to refuse to haul coal to the Montgomery Ward building. It is learned tonight that the Chi sego Tunnel company is rushing work on a connection with Montgomery Ward A Co.’s basement. Z American Missionary Slain. " Grand Trunk Station Bum*d. Durand, Mich., April 18.-— Fire to night destroyed the Grand Trunk union station here, in which are located the general offices of the road division West of Port Huron. The building was new and was valued at (125,090 WICKLY'S WOODS Liuy had not had timg.to offer any ob jection, If she had r«*lly thought of objecting to this short aid usually safe walk to town. For in those day* the women of Indiana were safe anywhere, There for many and cogent reaeona. were no trampe. And beaidm, women were strong and courageous by reeson of and hia pantaloons turned up at the bot the hard work they did with their hande; toms until his neat fitting calfskin boots end co were able to make a good defence showed to advantage, had gone cautious of themselvee if Deeds be. ly out,of the front yard into ths side This endowed them with a courage lane, and stepping on bunches of grass thet women lack in later daya For, af •nd chunks of firewood and large chips ter ell, what we call courage is simply as a sort of disconnected pontoon, he confidence in one's own powers, physical passed scatheless over the waters that or mental had spread about the level of the fields ■ The men who knows or deems him- ot ooru aud th« narrow lane—and bo selt deficient in ouch phyeicel or mental joined the proceeslon of wsyferere going powers es ere to b* celled into action to Handtown. I <, In any emergency, is neceeaarlly a cow Conrad Redden did n<>| coei* home to ard. The men who to confident Ip eleo dinner, and supper Was upon the table breve. and waiting at that, when he finally "What if mother should wako^whlla made hie appearance. . we are away, Mre. Redden? Oughtn't , "Whut in the wurl's kep' yuh this I to wake her and tell her?” Llssy said way, Coonrod? Why, 1 'lowed eome-h'n a* the two stood at the front door. must a happened to yuh, relae you’d ben "Oh, we won’t be gone no time at all. home to "dinner, ehorely.” Mre. Redden But mebby you better write a little note said as Coonrod hurriedly jerked his qn leev* ut by the cen'le h-yur awn the chair up. and nodded to his two guests, elan'. She'll be shore to see ut ef she who were already seated in obedience gits Up. I'd hate to wake 'er outeu aich to the urgent request of their kind-heart n good Bleep aa »he's a haven jist now. ed hoatess. Out a pencil? H-yur'a some paper.” The ever ready and capable old “I epos* you give Lum a purty good, reke-un. did yoh?” he said, winking sly H<x>eier woman had found a scrap of ly at his two guests and beginning to plie foolscap paper where she had put It eatables upon his plate, and to hurry nmotig the leaves of a large history of th* dishes around in a way that indicated the world, thst, along with some the extreme pangs of hunger. "Hit dou't almanacs and a book on "The Horae.” do no good, vie womern.,._.A>s s'well let constituted the whole library of the Red the boy 'lone. I'll.git him a plaist en the den family, save the big. brown-backed hnnk when hits fixed bo hit kin open leather Bible out of which Coonrod Red agin, ur when a new un starts. He don't den "loved to read out loud” on • Bun wawnt to farm ut. ' Vn I don't blame day afternoon when he had tired himself him. He's gut a aige-cation aoce he kin with a walk around the farm to see If rneMc a llvun without work. Un uv the “army worm” and the “fly" were course no feller's a go-un to work ef he making their annual incursiona in their kin hep ut. But I’ve gut to eat, uu hurry usual force. Lizzy rapidly wrote a few lines, ex back to towu to-night. I'm needed up plaining their temporary absence by say there." "Whut fur, Coonrod?” said liis wife, ing that she bad gone with Mrs. Redden pausing again with her arms extended, st 11 o'clock, to ascertain what hpd de the points of knife and fork resting om tained Mr. Conrad Redden a»'Jong, and inously upon her plate, while her face that ahe would be bnejt very^poou. (To bo continued.» wag~turn*d with fixed scrutiny toward that of the head of the house. "What you needed up thar fue? You haint a” A LIBRARY 8,904 YEARS OLD. go-un a step to town, ef they's go-un to lie a rukus up thar now." Tableta Taken from One at Nippur Date “They haint a go-un to be no rukua up Back 7,000 B. C. town if I kin hep . uL I,don't know Th* oldest city public library In the whurrer I ken or nut. But I've kine a kept ut down all day. But they’* a lot United States Is that of Boston, which a the Dikesee un the Rparkeee un the was founded In 1851. says the New Ellete un the Shipleys, un I don't know York Mail. That makes It very old, who offun Big Rattlesnake Crlk, jiet according to our standards. But Prof. eon»« en. thl« even«». U* they're fur Augeio Hllprecht of tho University ot. hoaaun that feller Maeon up. . Un- he’ll Le Pennsylvania lias Iwen examining a hoB«t up, too, ef 1 caint keep up down.” library, and a public library of sotn* “Is Mr. Minim iu town?” Lizzy asked. sort, which is a little older than that. She did not. know what it was to be It ronsists of a mas* of documenta, in •;hoeat H(l," but she knew enough about the impetuous people upon the Big Rat- scribed In cuneiform letters on tiles. tlcsnake Creek to know that he was men In a wing of the temple of Baal at aced with a real danger. And the very Nippur, the ancient Babylonian city uncertainty of Ite nature mad* Ft perhaps which lies between the Tigris and tbs T more threatening—-more to be dreaded. Euphrates. , ef. “I don't know jiet whue he Is at. He's Prof. Hllprecht had already dug out sonie'rs up awn your ian' I thenk. Camp of the ruins of this temple about 30,- ed up there. *o I h-yearn. They's two 000 commercial, legal and literary tab companies uv railroad feller* up Ihar watchun on* unuth*r, I low. You see lets, and thia laat summer be has tb*y both wawnt your Ian,' Liz*! Un this found 4,000 more. The tablets which feller Mason's gut some-h'n to do with be has discovered this y*ar are the old ut some-way urruther. • Un one com est ever, so to speak, for he declare* psny'a tryun to ak-year the other’n off; that they date back a* far a* 7,000 un hit* a tryun to M-y*ar than». Un so j ears l>efore Chri*t they have tiK" Thl* discovery Is startling in more W H w. TAYLOR "CHAPTER X.—(CeaUaa*d.l She could not believe it. This mau who had stood Sunday after Sunday in the little white ehurch. and had talked so earnestly of the after life iu relation to the infinitely smaller questions of this life! this man who had first given her •o lofty a perception of the character end person of hia principal, by revealing a surprising breadth and depth In himself! It coiild not be that he conld slink away from all of them for the base pur- poee of perfecting a villainous scheme to rob the people among whom he had lived continuously for nearly half a year; and whose kindly acts of confident, trustful hospitality had fallen about him like the dews of heaven, as he had said. It had been said that she had become his only defender. But she could do no lesa ihan hellana that th» ■**i*tant nd confidante of Prof. Huntley could b* nothing leca than a yinc*re and honorable man in all hia dealing. But why!'Why! conld h* not come to her and tell her all? He had ahown. and had spoken in hundreds of weys an ad miration and fondness for her thst had (Iren Sandtown the undoubted right to eay that ha was "head-over-heels in love with her.” ' She had been jestingly cruel to him In that' respect, it Ie true! But he knew that was because of her love for the men who wae his master end employer. How could the slave and the hireling expect more of her? But at last Ft was daylight, and Mrs. Redden wae calling them to breakfast. "Coonrod et bisn a good spell ago," Mre. Redden said in explanation of the absence of the head of the house from the head of the table. "H-yur, Mies Weekly! you set right down"In this chur closte to the stove. Hit’s kine uh damp un chilly this tnomun. Liasy. yoq sef down thar. Your’* young un hearty, un kin etan’ the damp better'» your mammy. How did yon sleep? I was certain a[ you wouldn't have enough kivvers on yur bed las' night. Hit's been so sweltry fur the last three-four weeks. You lake cream un sugar both, don't yuh? I do! I don’t wawn’t no coffy less hit’s gut good fraish cream un sugar, both. Hep ynreef to the fry, Llssy, un pass it to yutamammy. That salt-rieun bread haint ■a fraish us hit ort to be! When did you fust nodus anytheng unten the way with John Mise Weekly?” “Never till yesterday morning, after we had heard the newB of the bank breaking,” sai<| Mre. Wiekly, who war sitting-at 4hie„righi_0t her friend and neighbor, trying very hard to ahow her appreciation of the friendly offices of the kind-he*rted old Hoosier woman, by nib bling a very little at almoet every bit.of delicacy that wee heaped In almoet un limited variety and profusion upou~l»*r plate._ “Well, well, I do say! Why, I sex to Coonrod two weeks ago. Miss Weekly, They's some-h’n the matter with Squar Weekly. He’s a do-un work at he'd T nuvrer see a man ortn't to do,' » do-un uv weemun's work, but some-h'n wrong.’ W’hy, I’d git down un crawl on my han’s un knees. Miss Weekly, ’fore I’d uvver thenk • lettun Coonrod go out un milk one uh af cows. He haint nuvver done no weemun's work wnit hlni un me weut togyuther, so he haint. Why, when Lum thar was ■ baby------” "Now, mother,” said Columbus Red den, warningly, "please don’t say any thing about that interesting period of my existence, on this occasion, will you? I donT’car* for those reminiscences my self, having beard them twice a week for, **y fifteep years.” CHAPTER XL Columbus glanced a little confusedly at Lizzy Wickly. His mother pauaed in the very act of cutting her fried ham, and eat ominously stiff with both arms extended end the knife and fork held ready to. resume operations so soon as she could get sufficient command of her self to turn her head eway from the di rection of Columbus Redden's chair to ward her own plate. “You don’t k-yur! Huh! Well, I reckon you don't k-yur. Hit haint ben no trouble to you, ef hit hae ben to me, uh! Hit's mighty fine to have some body to work fug, yuh! un een' you to collige, un pey fur your slge-eation co way your mother un your father talks. At'a about whus alge-catlon's good fur. Min Weekly! Hit's a good theng you ain’t gut no boye to raise un eige-cete! A g'yurl haint a go-un to set up uu meek fun a thur mother's way a talkun right to thur feist.” “You don't happen to have any girls. mother,” retorted Columbus Redden, smiling in a very aelf-pomessed and ez- t asperating way. “I wush to tbuh Ian’ I had g-yurls, Inatid a the kine uv a boy I've gut. So I do! Whur did you stay so late las' night, my larkey? I wawnt, to know Bom*-h'n 'boitt whur you put'in so much time. Bo I do!” broke in Mrs. Redden, in a fury. Mr. Cotambus Redden smiled, and winked deliberately at Mise Lizzy Wickly before proceeding In a calm and pleas antly mischievous manner: “Oh, these secrets of ours are not at ell to be intrueted to the keeping of women, mother. There never was • woman who could keep a eecret, you know. And, of course, I couldn't for a moment entertain th* Idea. Indeed,' I couldn’t. I’d do anything to oblige you. But really--- ” And Mr. Columbua Redden smiled again and winked at Llssy Wickly, with quiet, enjoyable humor. “Yee. you'd do lota to uhbl«*ge me,” retorted hie mother with great scorn, and going on to cut and eat her fried bam with great vigor. , * In eplte of a downpour of rain, cool •nd aven chilling in the mere euddennesa of ita fall of temperature from ninety de greea to eixty-eight degree«, there was al most • continuous procession of two- horse farm wagone along the Overcoat road in the direction of Sandtown. Little troope of horsemen went ecurry ing round these wagone at (very point, going thia way and that and'looking not unpictureaqn*. and even cavalierly, drap ed as they were. In variously colored horse blankets and llnsey counterpanes. whoB* variegated colors snd cunningly woven ornamentations are marvele of the ancient hone*wifely eklll In many ’ In diana homes. And veep efficient “water proofs” they were, too; the fine long wool of which they were closely Woven “shedding" the water of an ordinary rain ,*nd the coldeet wind of any winter da? in a manner that secured the wearer from these inci*m«nclee of the weather to a very satisfactory degree indeed— considering all thinga. Directly after, breakfast Columbus Rodden donned his own long-caped over coat, snd with an umbrella in hia hand CHAPTIR XII. „ 1 There wae perhaps a«'much of ill omen In “Coonrod” Redden's Information as to make Mre. Redden visibly uneasy, and ao, by natural and obvloua processes, to communicate her uneasiness to one of her two guests, at least. Mrs. Wickly, perhaps, having no other sorrow pressing upon her save th* one involved In her husband's enforced ab sence on account of hie dreadful malady, bad, even in that, some return of satis faction. “Your father would never have dreamt of such a thing as mortgaging your land without your permlasiou, Lizzy, if he had not been actually Insane then.” she said, ss the two Undressed for bed. leaving Mrs. Redden trying the front door to see If it hed unlocked iteelf within the last ten minutes. “What a great pity such a dreadful disease cannot l>e known in time to prevent It, like other diseasea.” “You remember that he wae wakeful, mother. He elept very badly for weeks.” Liszy said, thinking of her own wakeful nights .of late. "Yee, but we-thoufbt he wae only, studying about the fortun* that we hqye been making fun ’of ’Ura about. Poor man! I wondef how he is faring? I wonder if they are kind to.him? Mr. Redden assured me that they would treat him very kindly. But I'm afraid they won't understand him.” Simple and unemotional as were her mother's words and gestures, Lizzy knew thst they indicated a depth of feeling that no on* *lee would auap*ct. So ah* set alw>ut the taak of reassuring her mother, with all that Mr. Reddeu had said to her on the isubject. They talked together In low tones for a long time while the wind and rain I>eat upon the rewounding weatherlHmrds and ehook the window sashee in the win dows, snd pattered drops of rain against the panes, with a sound that might have been made if the Overcoat road had thrown its coareeet aanda In showers against the 4»rm house, in a burst of anger at the innovation that put a new and painted building* in the place of the old log cabin that now leaned lonely and dejected agalnat a bunch of dreary. Bob bing, soughlug pines a quarter of a mile sense* than one. If the-lamillar mid so-called biblical chronology 1* right the Nippur people bad a library of doc ument* and «torie*, probably free to thoae who could read them, *ome L- 33« years before Adam was created— or, according to Archbishop Ussher’s chronoDogy. 1,192 years before It; for thia learned man supposed that exact ly 4,004 years bad elapsed from the creation of Adam to ths birth of Christ, and 1904 years are supposed to have elapsed since that date This chronology has been somewhat discredited since Archbishop U’saber made his computations, and discredit ed largely as the result of such dis coveries as those mad* by Prof. Hll precht in Babylonia. It Is to be said, however, that the more the old AsBy- rlan or Babylonian records are looked Into the more they Increase the re- »l>ect of students for (he Hebrew scriptures. Reverence and authority must always go with the record which survives in men’s Ilves and thoughts. Ages after the lenTple of BaaT and Its great library had Iteen “a possession for the bittern, and pools of water,” and after the very dust of the last sur vivor of the old librarians had van ished from the Interior of Its tomb, the storieB of Genesis were still told by the living successors of the priests who compiled them. Knows When to Quit. “I can shine and entertain for just fifteen minutes, but not for one sec ond longer,” was the naive admission of a well-known club woman the oth er day. The statement came as a surprise, for her vivacity and ready wit have long been the envy of her friends. But that she was wise In her knowl edge |of her limitations and the strain her reputation for brilliancy placed upon her is shown by the fact that she has reduced the matter to a ays-- tern. “I apply a time limit to my Finally Mrs. Wickly sank into • deep social calls as well as my club ad and restful sleep; and Lizzy, feeling that dresses," she s*ys, "and I should hes her only hope of sleep ley in tiring her itate for my reputation if I trusted self thoroughly by walking, arose, dress ed herself, and slipped noiselessly down myself for longer than fifteen mln- stairs, intending to go through a side -ute*., ( hall and let herself out on the long she]-, • “No matter how much I may feel tcred south porch where she might walk like talking, no matter-how hard I and walk until she was tired, enough, am persuaded by my hostess, I always without disturbing inf on*. leave a house at the expiration of fif In fact, there was very little danger teen minutes and then proceed to the of being heard, once she succeeded In reaching the long, wide-roofed end 1st- next place wltlj_a-ww stock of enter tired porch, cut off ss It was from Sil Ralnment reAdy for the next set of the sleeping apartments, no far as eh* victims. To following this met^l knew. But scarcely had she reached the alone I attribute the reputation for foot of the etairway. when the "front vivacity which has been accorded me? door” opened, dUoteaing Mre. Redden ■ Iso dressed and holding a candle In her hand. “Is that you, Llssy? Ef I’d a b*u shore you was awske, I’d a ben upstairs after you to go with m*. I csint etannut arty longer. Bome-h'n must a happened. ur Coonrod wouldn't a staid out this- away. I wush you’d put awn this big shawl over yur head, and coma along, la yur shoes all right? I’ve gut a pair a good una h’yur af yourn wont keep th* worter odL” , "Mine are proof agalnat any moder ate amount of water,- Mrs. Redden. And besldeo, it doesn’t hurt ma in ths least to get my feet wet.”f '* ' “Oh, dear! I daan’t to get mine the least bit wet. -L as ’ fai! I gut one foot wet en a puddle, out en the cow yard, •u hit th ode me ento a chill an I had Ttee Difference. An Atchison man lost five dgUare In making change, and when he went home told bls wife about It This hap pened six years ago, and she has never forgotten It, often telling him what luxuries they could afford If he hadn't lost the money. A few weeks ago their son dropped two thousand dollars in a poor Investment. “Don't say n word to him about It” she said to her husband. “Poor boy,' he Yaels bad enough as it Is."—Atchiaon Globe. Do not despise any opportunity be es ub * it seems email. The way to make an opportunity la to take bold of it and us* IL—Bacon.
