Gold Hill news., May 18, 1901, Image 3

"But, mother,” persisted Billy, »
c a r » ATfI1 T t / l l I 1 TlITlTXTX
T H E A R TILLER Y ARM .
ceuld generally coax her to do as he liked,
’’It’a enly for a few days, and they’ll not
he much trouble or expense, for I’ll work
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Secretary of War Will Increase It to Its Full
enough harder to make It up.”
Strength.
“ I have said no once, William Bender, H A W A IIA N L E G I8L A T O R 8 D O N ’T
and when I say no, I mean no,” was the
Washington, May 13.— Secretary
LIK E TH E GOVERNOR.
answer.
i Root is a man to whom wide discre-
Billy knew she would be less decided
I tion in the matter of interpreting and
the next time the subject was broac hed,
so for the present, be dropped It, and tak­ D m First Session of the Territorial Legislature administering the laws might have
ing bis cap he returned to Mrs. How­
This is shown in his de­
of Hawaii Comes to an End Without Ac­ been given.
ard's, while his mother started for Mrs.
termination
to
increase the artillery
complishing Anything—President Dole Is
Campbell’s.
corps at once to its full strength.
Next morning between the hours of 0
Ignored-- Charges the Legislature With
and 10 the tolling hell sent forth its sad
Congress, in its abject fear of criti-
Accepting Bribes.
summons, and ere long a few of the vil­
cisrrt, placed a provision in the bill
lagers were moving toward the brown
which looked ¡is if the artillery corps
cottage, where in the »ame plain coflln
Honolulu, May 7, via San Francis­ of the army was to be increased only
slept the mother and her only boy. Near
them sat Ella, occasionally looking with co , May 13.—The first legislature of 20 per cent each for five years. But
childish curiosity at the strangers around Hawaii carne to an end the evening of the men who drafted the hill knew
her, or leaning forward to peep at the April 30, according to Governor Dole,
tlpa of the new morocco shoes which Mrs. and the next night according to a what they were doing, and when it
Johnson had kindly given her; then, when majority in both houses.
The legis­ came out as a law it provided that
her eyes fell upon the coflln. she would lature ended its existence at logger- not less than 20 per cent should be
hurst Into such an agony of weeping that heads with the governor all along the raised the first year, and not less than
many of the v lagers also wept in sym-
af)d w ith o „ t
.
,a
20 per cent each succeeding 12 months
¡tuthy, and a» thf»y atroked her soft hair, .
»
.
a *
a ~
thought, “bow much more »he loved her R’e .° ? e " f th ® *m Po rta n t m easures to until the full strength of the artillery
mother than dl.l Mary,” who. without a w h lch , th,! hon'e rulers were co n )- was reached.
Secretary Root inter­
tear upon her cheek, sat there immovu- nutted, except the county government prets the “ not less’’ to mean that he
ble, gazing fixedly upon the marble face act, which the governor killed,
is not prevented from making the en­
The last act of the house the even­ tire increase at once, and so he di­
of her mother. Alice was not prekent,
for Billy had not only succeeded in win­ ing of the 3<)th, was to pass a concur­ rected that it should be done.
ning his mother’s consent to take the chil­ rent resolution containing a memorial
This is a very good thirg. No
dren for a few days, but he bad also to President McKinley for the remov- branch of the military service needs
coaxed her to say that Alice might come ' al of Governor Dole. Dole is charged men so much as the artillery. The
oefore the funeral, on condition that he with having hindered the work of the
fortifications and the equipment of
would remain at home and take care of session by his hostility towards the
>VAN I DOLE FIRED
C H A P T E R II.- ( C o n t in u e d .)
through a sight, but my time has come at
At last Frank, pulliug the old blue last. Huch a pain in my head and stom­
Jacket front under bla head and passing ach. I do believe I’ve got the scarlet
It to Mury, eaid: “Take It to Bill Bender fever, and you must run for the doctor,
he offered me a ahllliug for It, and a quick.”
»hilling will buy milk for Allie and crack-
"Scarlet fever!” repeated Billy; "why,
era for mother—take It.”
you’ve bad It once,'and you can’t have it
“ No, F ran k /,’’ anawered Mary, “you again, can you?”
would have no pillow: beeidea, I’ve got
“Oh, I don't know— I never waa like
eoiuvthiiig more valuable, which I can anybody else and can have anything a
aell. I've kept It long, but It inuat go to dozen times. Now lie »pry and fetch tho
keep ua froni etarvlog”— and ahe held to doctor; but before you go hand me my
view the gulden locket which George snuff box and put the canister top heapin'
Moreland had thrown around her neck.
full of tea luto the teapot.”
"You »han't aell that,” anld Frank.
IAilly obeyed, arid then, knowing that
“ You miiHt keep it to remember George; the green tea would remove hia mother’s
and then, too, you may want it more aoine ailment he hurried away toward Mrs.
other time.”
Howard's. The sun waa just rising.
Mary finally yielded the point, and Within the cottage there was no sound or
gathering up the crumpled jacket started token of life, and, thinking Its inmates
In quest of Billy Bender.
l i e waa a were aaleep, Billy paused several min­
kind-hearted boy, two year» older than utes upon the threshold, fearing that he
the fortifications with valuable guns
Frank, whom he bad often befriended ahould disturb their slumbers. At last, ber.
legislature, withholding information has l»een far in advance of the in­
and ahielded front the Jeer» of their com­ with a vague presentiment that all was
and reports that were called for, and crease of the artillery. In the Spanish
C H A P T E It IV.
panion». He did not want the Jacket, for not right, he raised the latch and enter­
Scarcely three hours had passed since refusing to co-operate with the law war congress was induced to increase
it waa a vast deal too entail; and it waa ed, but instantly atarted back in aston­
only in reply to a proposal from Frank ishment at the scene before him. On the the dark, moist earth was heaped upon makers. The president is asked in the artillery from five to seven regi­
that he ahould buy it that he had caaual- thundle bed lay Frank, cold and dead, the humble grave of the widow und her the resolution to use his influence in ments, and the last congress was in­
ly offered him a ahllliug. But now, when and near him, in the same long, dream­ »on, when again, over the village of Chic­ behalf of an extra session of the legis­ duced to make the increase to 18,000
he auw the garment, and learned why it less aleep, waa hia mother, while between opee, floated the notea of the tolling hell, lature to transact general legislation men, but with an intimation on the
waa sent, he immediately drew front hia them, with one arm thrown lovingly and immediately crowds of people, with which Dole refuses to grant. In con- wording of the bill that the increase
old leather wallet a quarter, all the across her brother's neck, and her cheek seemingly eager haste, hurried toward elusion, the home rulers ask that Dole was to be made only gradually at 20
money he had In the world, and giving pressed ngainst his, lay Mary—her eye­ the Campbell mansion, which was soon be removed, if the president sees no per cent a year for five years. Every
It to Mary, hade her keep it, aa ahe would lids moist with tears which, though sleep­ nearly filled.
other way of bringing alxiut an extra coast state, every state where fortifi-’
need it all.
ing, she still shed. On the other aide of
On a marble table in the same room lay se88jon o f the territorial legislature, cations are needed, and where they
Half an hour after a cooling orange Frank, and neatled ao closely to him that the handsome coffin. 811,1 1,1 il >**Pt
declaring that the governor has acted have been erected will applaud the
waa held to Frank'a partAted lipa, and her warm breath lifted the brown curia Ella. Gracefully her small waxen hands jn gu<jh * m an n er £ tQ ]oge th e c o n fi.
.
■ y
/ it
1
/ action of Secretary Root, as it means
Mary said, “ Brink, brother; I’ve got two from hia brow, wn< Ella. But there were were folded one over the other, while .
more heavy artillery, and fortifica­
white,
half-opened
rosebuds
were
wreath-
d‘
n
ce
°
f.
a
'n
»
jo
n
ty
of
the
people
of
more, besides aoine milk and bread,” but no tear ataiua on her face, for she did not
tions already in place and fortifica-
ed among the curls of her hair. "She ia tli«- territory.
the ear »be addressed waa deaf and the yet know how bereaved ahe was.
eye dim with the faat falling shadow of
For a moment Billy stood Irresolute, too beautiful to die, and the only child, I The concurrent resolution passed : tions to be erected will have artillery
death. “ Mother! mother!" cried the lit­ and then, aa Mary moved uneasily in her too,” thought more than one aa they look- through Ixith houses by large majori- placed upon them, and received the
tle girl, “ Franky won't drittk, and hia slumbers, he advanced a step or two to­ ed first at the sleeping -lay and then at ties, all the native home rulers voting , care of trained and efficient men, a
It did not get to the senate ' care that very valuable defenses have
forehead la all sweat."
ward her. The noise arouaed her, and the stricken mother, who, draped in deep- for it.
Mr». Howard had been much worse instantly remembering and comprehend­ eat black, sobbed convulsively. And yet until the day after the end of the not received during the past three
that day, but agony made her atrong. ing the whole, ahe threw herself with a she was not one-half so desolate as was session, as calculated by the governor, yean.
Springing to hia aide, ahe wiped from bitter cry into Billy's extended arms, os the orphau Mary, who In Mrs. Bender's but on that day the native party in
Another thing where Secretary
hia brow the cold moisture which had if he alone were all the protector she now kitchen sat weeping over her sister Alice, the senate passed it.
Root
showed his judgment was in
ao alarmed her daughter, chafed hia had in the wide, wide world. Ere long aud striving to form words of prayer
Governor Dole created a sensation construing the stupid provision of
which
should
reach
the
God
of
the
father­
hand» and feet, and bathed hia head, un­ Ella, too, awoke, and the noisy outburst
by saying that one of his reasons for the Spooner amendment to the army
til he seemed better and fell asleep. which followed the knowledge of her loss less.
“ My mother, oh! my mother,” she cried, not granting an extra session was bill, relating to the Philippines.
Fuat the ahadea of night came on. and made Mary still the agony of her own
when all waa dark in the ali-k room Mary heart in order to soothe the more violent os she stretched her hands toward the that he had been reliably informed There were two amendments, one pre­
aobbed out, “ We have no candle, moth­ grief of her excitable sister.
Billy's clear blue sky, now that mother's home. that bribery was taking place. Both pared by Senator Spooner, giving the
houses passed a resolution demanding president authority to control the
er, and if I go for one, and he ahould tear» were flowing, too, but at length “ Why didn't I die, too?”
There was a step upon the grass, and proof.
d ie---- "
Philippines, and Senator Hoar se-
rising up, he aaid to Mary, “Something
The Round of her voice aroused Frank, must be done. The villagers must know looking up, Mary saw standing near her
i cured the adoption of another regard­
NEW ORDER OF T H IN G S .
anil feeling for hia aiater'a hand, he aaid, ef it, and I shall have to leave you alone Mrs. Campbell’s English girl, Hannah.
ing franchises, which would prevent
She had always evinced a liking for Mrs.
“ Don’t go, Mary; don't leave me—the while I tell them.“
anything from being done to improve
moon ia »hilling bright, and I gtieaa I can
In half an hour from that time the Howard's family, and now after finishing Interior Department Will Require Important the condition of the islands. Soon
find ray wny to'God Juat aa well."
cottage was nearly filled with people, her dishes, and trying in vain to speak
. after the Philippne amendment was
Reports Regularly.
Nine—ten—eleven and then through some of whom caine oot of Idle curiosity. a word of consolation to her mistress,
' cabled to the Taft commission, a
the dingy window» the »livery moonlight But there were others who went there who refused to be comforted, she had
Washington, May 13,—A new order I reply was received shown ig that
stolen
away
to
Mra.
Bender's,
ostensibly
fell, aa if Indeed to light the way of the for the sake of comforting the orphans
of things has been inaugurated in
early loat to heaven. Mary had drawn and attending to the dead, and by noon to see all the orphans, but in reality to the Interior department and its sev- ! if it was adhered to strictly, it
her mother'» lounge to the aide of the the bodies were decently arranged for see Ella, who had always been her favor­ | eral branches, relative to making I would mean great hardship to the
1 people of the Philippine islands.
ite.
trundle bed, and in a Jtute of almoat per­ burial.
The sight of Mary’s grief touched Han­ public ce.tain reports that are de­ After mature deliberation the sec­
fect exhau»tion Mra. Howard lay gaap-
“There will be no trouble," said one, “In
Ing for breath, while Mary, a» If con­ finding a place for Ella, she ia ao bright nah's heart, and sitting down by the lit­ sired from time to time by the retary decided to allow the regu­
Here­ lations for the cutting of timbei
scious of the dread reality about to oc­ and handsome; but aa for Mary, I am tle girl she tried to comfort her. Mary Washington correspondents.
cur, knelt by her aide. Once Mr». H ow­ afraid ahe'll have to go to the poorhonse.” felt that her words and manner were tofore the geological survey, which which the Philippine commission
ard laid her hand» on Mary'» head, and
“Were I in a condition to take either,” prompted by real sympathy, and after a is one of the bureaus of this depart­ had enacted to remain in force and
prayed that ahe might be preaerved and replied Mrs. Johnson, “I should prefer time she grew calm, and listened while ment, has been allowed to run along not to be interfered with by the Hoai
kept from harm by the God of the or­ Mary, for In my estimation she la much Hannah told her that “as soon as her with comparative independence, and amendment to the army bill.
Il
phan, and that the aln of disobedience the beat girl; but there ia the baby, who mistress ¡v>t so anybody could go near in a way it gave general satisfaction.
would
have
been
well,
perhaps,
t<
reating on her own head might not be must go wherever Mary does, unless ahe her, she n Amt to ask her to take Ella , Under the old regime the newspapers
Howard to fill the place of her own were given access to the many reports give the secretary some authority it
vlsited upon her child.
can be persuaded to leave her.”
modifying affairs in Cuba, for he hat
daughter."
A fter a time a troubled aleep came up­
Before anyone could reply to thia re­
that are prepared by the »v.r.ey trom a way of making such modification»
“They look as much alike as two
on her and »he alept until rouaed by a mark Mary, who had overheard every
time to time, Hfteu when the reports of the best interests of the government
low aob. Raising herself up, ahe looked word, came forward, and, laying her beans,” said she, “and s’posln’ Ella How-1
anxioualy toward her children.
The fnce on Mrs. Johnson’s lap. sobbed out, ard ain’t exactly her own flesh and bleed. were still in manuscript form. Now and the people who aregoverned.
moonlwama fell upon the white, placid “Let me go with Alice; I told mother I she would grow into liking hci, 1 know.” this is changed, and no reports will
That night after her return home Han- j be accessible until they are in galley
face of Frank, who aeeined calmly Bleep­ would."
A U S TR A LIA N P A R L IM E N T .
ing, while over him Mary bent, pushing
Billy Bender, who nil this while had nah lingered tor n long time about the proof, or even a more advanced stage.
The objection to the new ruling lies
back from hia forehead the thick clus­ been standing by the door, started for par'ai door, glancing wistfully toward
tering curia, and striving hard to smoth­ borne, never once thinking, until he her mistress, who reclined upon the sofa just here. The survey sends its par­ First Under the New Federation Opened by
er her aoba, ao that they might not dis- reached It, that his mother mure than with her face entirely hidden by her ties out in the summer. During the
Duke of Cornwall.
turb her mother.
six hours before, bad »cut him in great cambric handkerchief.
winter months the field forces are oc­
Melbourne, May 13.—The opening
“ It's most too soon, I guess,” thought cupied in Washington writing up
“ Boca he aleep?” naked Mr». Howard, haste for the physician. Bn entering the
of
the first federal parliament which
and Mary, covering with her handa the house he found her, ns he expected, rolled Hannah. “ I'll wait till to-morrow."
their reports, which are generally took
at noon was a most im-
Accordingly next morning, when, as she
face of him who slept, answered:
up in bed, apparently in the last 6tage of
profusely and valuably illustrated. It presive place
ceremony. The capacity of
“Turn bwmv , mother—don’t look at acarlet fever; but before she could re­ hnil expected, she was told to carry her
is well into the spring before these the exposition building, the scene of
¡1^' Franky ia dead. He died with his proach him he said, “Mother, have you m istress’ toast and coffee to her room,
she lingered for awhile, and seemed so reports are completed in the manu­ the ceremony, is 12,000 people, but the
urins around my neck, and told me not heard the news?”
It very often happens that
to wake you."
Mrs. Bender had a particular love for desirous of speaking that Mrs. Campbell script.
space was taxed to the u t­
the reports of a past season’s obser- available
Mrs. Howard wns In the last stage» of news, and now forgetting "how near to asked what she wanted.
most. The decorations consisted of
“Why, you see, ma'am. I was going to vat ions, if made public in the spring, regimental standards,
consumption, and now she lay back, half- death's door" she had been, she engerly
trophies of
fainting upon her pillow. Toward day­ demanded, “ What news? What has hap­ say a word about—about that youngest will be of great value to prospectors arms and floral festoons.
Howard girl. She's got to go to the poor- and others in the season immediately
light a violent coughing fit ensued, and pened ?”
The doors were opened to ticket
she knew that she wns dying. Beckoning
When Billy told her of the sudden house and it’s a pity, she's so handsome, following the scientific examination.
holders
at 9 o’clock in the morning,
Mary to her side, she whispered, “I am denths of Mrs. Howard nnd Frank, an Why couldn't she come here and live? Under the old order of things, when
leaving you alone in the wide world. Be expression of “W hat? That all?” passed I’ll take care of her, and 'twouldn't be manuscripts were temorarily availa­ and by 11 o’clock tlie auditorium was
except the royal dais. This
kind to Elin and our dear little Allie, over her face, and she said, “ Bear me, nigh so lonesome."
ble, the newspapers could get at the filled
was
located
beneath the great dome.
At this allusion to her bereavement
and go with her where she goes. May m.v snuff, Billy. Both died last night, did
facts at a comparatively early stage, It held a single
Mrs. Campbell hurst into tears, and mo­
row of chairs, the
God keep ami bless you my precious chil­ they? Hnin't you nothin' else to tell?”
and when much of the information largest, in the center, being sur­
dren—-and rewurd you as you deserve, my
“Yes, Mary Judson and Ella Campbell, tioned Hannah from the room.
"I'll keep lit her till I fetch it about." was fresh and newsy.
darling----- "
too, are dead.”
mounted by a small gold imperial
But now the assistant secretary of crown.
thought
Hannah. But further persuasion
The sentence was unfinished, and in
Mrs. Bender, who, like many others,
The whole was overhung
unspeakable awe the orphan girl knelt courted the favor of the wealthy and from her was rendered unnecessary, for the interior, who, in the absence of with the royal standard.
In front of
between her mother and brother shud­ tried to fancy herself on intimate terms Mrs. Lincoln called that afternoon, and ! Secretary Hitchcock is the “ whole the royal chair was a small table,
dering in the presence of death, and with them, no sooner heard of Mrs. after assuring hef frieud that, she never thing,’’ sets out at once to exert his
on which was a telegraph key, by
then weeping to think that ahe was alone. Campbell’s nlfllction than her own dan­ before m w one who was so terribly af- authority by issuing an order forbid-
which the Duke of Cornwall and
gerous symptoms were forgotten, and, flicted, casually mentioned the Howards, ding the publication of extracts from
York
wns to flash the opening signal
C H A P T E R III.
springing up, she exclaimed, "Ella Camp­ and the extreme poverty to which they the manuscript.
This means that
throughout
the commonwealth, when
Just on the corner of Chicopee Com­ bell dead! What'll her mother do? I were reduced.
I the repOrt8 will be held back until late
the Union Jack was to be simultane­
mon. nnd under the shadow of the cen­ must go to her right away. Hand me my
Here Mrs. Campbell commenced weep- •
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.
.
, i
.
1 i Y
m th e su m m er or fall, an d possibly ously raised in every settlement of
tury-old elms which skirt the borders of double gown there in the closet, and give ing, and ns Mrs. Lincoln soon took her . . . .
. • .
, .
J
leave
She
was
left
alone
for
several
t
" d o the next,winter, and in Uns way the federation.
the grass plat called by the villagers the me my lace cap in the lower drawer, und
“ Mall,” stands the small red cottage of mind you have the teakettle biled agin I hours. At the end of that time, impelled the public will be prevented from get­
The majority of the audience was
Widow Bender, who in her way was get hack.”
by something she could not resist, she ting the benefit of the most impor
composed of ladies, mostly clad in
quite a curiosity. All the “ills which flesh
“Before you go anywhere, suppose you rang the hell and ordered Hannah to go ant facts for a whole year, in effect,. mauve colored costumes, but many of
is heir to” Widow Bender, if she could stop at Mrs. Howard's and comfort poor to Mrs. Bender's and bring Elin to her
The Appetite Crows.
them were dressed in white. Bril­
nseertnin the symptoms, wns sure to have Mary, who cries nil the time because she room, ns she wished to see how she ap­
Berlin, May 13.—The Berliner liant scattered groups of army and
in the most aggravated form.
and Alice have got to go to the poor- peared.
Tages Zcitung, which prints a Wash­ navy uniforms gave color to the
(To he continued.)
On the morning following the events house.”
ington dispatch asserting that the scene. Facing the dais was a slightly
narrated in the last chapter Billy, whose
“Of course they'll go there, and they
C le v r - O H p m a k e r .
raised platform, where seven rows of
dreams had been disturbed by thoughts ort to be thankful they've got so good a
F riend—Why do you dum p all the United States government is think­ chairs accommodated t)ie membrers
of Frank, arose early, determined to call place.”
ing
of
securing
one
of
the
Azores
as
a
at Mrs. Howard’» and aee If they were
"I want to ask you," said Billy, “can't d irt Into your soap kettles?
coaling station, says that “ the appe­ of the commonwealth parliament.
Soap M anufacturer—If folks don’t
In want of anything. But his mother, we—couldn’t you tuke them for a few
The lofty north transept was de­
tite grows with eating. ’
who had heard rumors of the acarlet fe­ days, and perhaps something may turn And the w ater dirty Hfter washln* they
voted to the members of the state par­
Dublin Paper Seized.
ver, wns up before him, and on descend­ up?" '
think the soap is no good.—New York
liaments. East and west of the dais
ing to the kitchen Billy found her sitting
“ William Bender," said the highly as­ Weekly.
Dublin, May 13.—The police to­ were grouped the ministerial staffs.
before a blazing fire—her feet In hot wat­ tonished lady, “ what can you mean? A
night seized William O’Brien's week­ The remainder of the hall and the
The man who m akes a short speech
er and her head thrown back in a manner poor, sick woman like me, with one foot
ly paper, the Irish People. It is re­ galleries were packed with a well
full
of
long
words
I
r
Just
about
as
g
reat
plainly showing that something new had in the grave, take the charge of three
ported that the seizure was made on dressed, earnesst, expectant crowd.
taken hold of her In /m d earnest.
pauper children! I sha’n’t do it, und you a nuisance as the one who takes •
account
of reflections upon King Ed­ A great orchestra enlivened the ante­
“ O h, W illiam,” aaid ahe, “I'va lived needn't think of it.”
long while with short ones.
ward.
meridian hour with operatic airs.