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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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Bloody disturbances are expected
throughout Russia on May day.
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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.
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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
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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. -
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.