The Leader., January 16, 1903, Image 3

HE YIELDS TO FORCE.
Mrs. Ellesmere was erfremaly annoyed
by the suggestion, but, after «nature de­
liberation, she came to the conclusion that Castro Will Make Cash Payment and Give
it was useless to fight against fate, and
Guarantee for Award.
that the ouly thing to I k » done now was
to make friends with June in order that
ca r», as, ja n . io — Ait«r two «ujrmy General Gobin Tells Commission of
the Hall might still be open to her when meetings of the cabinet, all condition*
Troubles During Strike.
she chose to go there after the marriage.
So, very much against the grain, she indit­ set forth in the replied of the powers to
ed a charming letter to her future duugh- President Castro's last proposal in the
ter-in-law, begging her to come to her, matter of rattling the Venezuelan dis­ SAYS HIS TROOPS WERE BOYCOTTED
and promising that she should not be j
drawn into any sort of gayety that would pute through arbitration have been ac­
cepted by the Venezuelan government, Could Not Got Teamsters to Haul Supplies
be repugnant to her feelings.
Did Not Huve to “ Shoot to Kill” —
Tom, not being in the secret of Mrs. j The government considers the condi- I
Bryan’s letter, was delighted with this
The Order had Good Effect.
I
tions
unjust,
but
declared
it
ia
obliged
!
proof of kindness from his mother, and
wrote her a very grateful epistle, over to yield to force. The Venezuelan an- j
which she made a wry face. Still, it was ewer was delivered at the United states
Philadelphia, Jan. 12.— After occu-
as well to have earned his gratitude, as it
: pyiug eight days, during which time
lay in his power to do a great deal for legation here at noon today.
her if he were so minded.
•
The conditiona of the powers cover { they presented about 150 witnesses,
June was ten days in London, and found
cash payments to the alliea and guar- the nonunion men have closed their
them pass very agreeably, though she I
lived a quiet life enough. But the fact anteea for the payment of the balance cdee be,ore ,he coal etrlke commission.
of seeing so many people, of being in the j of their claims.
It can be said on The coal companies w ill open their case
throng and bustle of a town, was suffi­ goal authority that the question of next- 8Iui> according to the plana of
ciently exciting after the country. Mrs.
Ellesmere went out nearly every night, raising the existing blockade will not the operator*, the,com panies will pre-
a*“ 1 their caee in the order of the geo-
and Tom and June were life tete-a-tete to be considered.
their mutual satisfaction. June would
It was learned at a late hour tonight «¡raPhi“ 1 loc» ‘ ion of tlieir
The
not hear of going to the play or even to
the opera. She consented, however, to that, by the terms of the notes of the Delaware & Hudson com pany, whose
drive in the park, and to sit in the Row foreign powers handed to President collieries are further north, will first
with Tom in the morning, and was ex­ Castro by Minister Bowen yesterday present its aitnesses, and the Phil&del-
tremely amused and interested in watch­ and of the Venezuelan answer to them
ing the gay crowd. One day Dallas, who delivered at the American legation to­ phia Coal & Iron com pany, whose
was ignorant of her arrival in town, day, a compromise in the matter of mines are in the southern part of the
dropped in to luncheon. It was an em­ arbitation has been reached.
coal fields, will be heard last.
barrassing moment for every one, except,
Foreign business houses in Venezuela
The principal witness before the com ­
apparently for Dallas, who greeted June
are suffer ii/g exceedingly from the mission for the nonunion men was
with the greatest cordiality and had evi­
dently forgotten that there had ever l>een effe< ts of the continued blockade.
The revolutionary movement under Lieutenant General J. F. S. G obin,
a love passage between them. June re­
covered herself in a moment, and behav­ General Matos is losing popularitydaily, ¿enior brigadier general of the national
ed as though she were equally oblivious; because of the assistance, it is alleged guard of Pennsylvania. Gobin was in
indeed, she was now so devoted to Tom the German blockading vessels are giv­ command o f the third brigade while the
that she felt abnolutely nothing for his ing it in permitting the landing of arms
quondam rival. It was Tom who felt the for the revolutionists near Higuerote. troops were on duty in the hard coal
least at ease.
The leader of the revolutionists is : fields. Ho was questioned 3 % hours,
“ Tell me, my darling,” he said that called “ Matos* the Germ an,” by the and during most of this time was en-
night, with extreme anxiety, “ has—has | prefl8#
! gaged in a recital of conditions as he
seeing Dal made any difference in your |
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¡ found them in the territory he covered.
feeling to me?”
VEILED BY SNOW STORM.
! From his observation, and from reports
June put her hand into his, and looked
frankly into his eyes.
Trains Collide, Killing Three and Injuring made to him by the officers, it was his
“ Not the very, very least,” she answer­
Fourteen Persons.
I opinion, he said, “ that an excited
ed. “ I rather wonder now what I saw in
him before. Tom,” in a questioning voice,
Ada, O., Jan 10. — Three men are state of lawlessness” existed in the
“ could you love two people at once?” then dead and 14 or more other persons were legions; that disturbances were num­
with a lovely, rippling smile, “ I could
injured, one fatally, as a result of a erous ; that the presence of the troops
not.”
collision between two trains on the was absolutely necessary to preserve
Tom’s answer need not be chronicled. Pennsylvania system on the main street law and order, and that it was difficult
In due course the day arrived to which
to maintain the law, even after all the
the young squire had looked forward us of this city at 5 o ’ clock this evening, i ---------- ; — ----------- » — - ------- ,— —
Train No. 35, westbound lor F o r t! troops in the state had been placed in
the one that must infallibly be the hap­
piest of his life—only that general flutter, Wayne, started out, of the station, but ; Hie disturbed territory,
He told in detail of the condition of
turmoil, nervousness, agitation, speechi­ at the Main street crossin* was com-
fying, are not generally very conducive polled to stop on account of some acci- affalr8 ln the coal re* ion dur>ng his
to bliss. Still, everything “ went off beau- dent to the airbrake. A flagman was j atay there> and of the »toning of his
tifully,”
____ as the . phrase
. sent back to notify No. 19, a fast train | troops, insults to his men, frequent
Miss June, ns we know, was a trifle I going in the same direction, wnich was ('aae8 ° f dynamiting, and other acts of
He said th
that
the . sheriff
self-willed, and, in spite of what anyone
^
miiiuteg late.
Gn account of lawlessness.
.t rh
might say, she* declined to be married in
, . .
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of Carbon county refused to call on the
white with a bridal wreath and veil. As » « > « * » « »now storm he engineer of governor for troops. The general said
a matter of fact, she wished to go to «he !
J . he had been asked by the coal com ­
altar in black; but she was not allowed time to slacken his speed, and his en­ panies to protect nonunion men, but he
to offer this insult to the god Hymen, and gine craehed into the rear coach of No.
therefore compromised the matter by 35 while running at the rate of 40 refused because he had not sufficient
troops. He said the situation was
w'earing a charming toilet of silver gray. miles an hour.
He feared the railroad
And sweetly young and modest and pret­
No. 35 consisted of two coaches, the most serious.
ty she looked, with a faint carnation in rear one being a combination baggage men would be intimidated and he
her cheeks, and eyes bright with tears j and passenger car, with another pas­ would be unable to move troops.
that she was resolute not to shed. For I
senger car in front.
Both weie tele­ Threatening letters were also sent to
was she not happy? and would she do dis- j
scoped
and
barely
a
passenger
escaped him.
honor to her love by being a weeping,
During the cross exam ination. Gene­
injury of some sort. The engineer and
mournful-looking bride?
The wedding was a very quiet one, but j fireman of No. 19 were also slightly in ral Gobin had several tilts with Charles
a great festival was given to the tenants. ] jured, but not enough to prevent them L. Harrow, counsel for the miners, but
The rector and Mrs. Ellesmere did the from rendering immediate assistance to they never reached a serious point.
honors of that, while the bridegroom and those who were in distress. The engine The witness said that when he first
bride were bowling away in their earriage- of No. 19 was almost demolished, hot went into the coal region with his men,
and-four on the first stage of their jour- the cars behind it were not damaged in a" a rean^
a r*°f: at Shenandoah, he
✓ ney to Dover. For June had never been the least and none of the passengers was una^*e f° r a time to get vehicles to
abroad, and was to see all those lovely
carry
his
supplies,
teamsters refusing
parts of Switzerland and the Rhine, were bruised.
to furnish them. In Bhenandoah and
which we, who have often seen them, turn
in the Panther creek valley, he said,
CRACK SHOT WITH BIO GUN.
up our noses at, but which to the novices
there was no civil authority at times.
are so entrancingly lovely and charming.
And if ever two young people “ did” the Eight-Foot Object, Three Miles Distant, Committees of the union called upon
him and assured him that the striking
Continent pleasantly, Mr. and Mrs. Elles­
Hit W ith 12-inch Rifle.
miners would give him all the assist­
mere did. Tom was the most liberal crea­
Ban Francisco, Jan. 10.— Extraordi­ ance they could, but, as far as the w it­
ture in the world, and endowed with a
fair amount of w'ealth, and he was sensi­ nary accuracy in marksmanship cut ness could remember, they never gave
ble enough to know that the value of short the heavy gun practice at the him any help, no did he ask for any.
money is the pleasure it can bring you. Presidio reservation today.
The 12 After his entire brigade had been called
The services were secured of an admira­ inch gens were to be brought into play, out, General Gobin said the situation
ble courier (who prevented their having and the target was a wooden structure, became extremely serious in several
the smallest trouble nnd made semi-pa­
parts of the territory, and he feared
ternal love to June’ s maid). Tom’s pock­ pyramidal in shape, about 12 feet long
ets were full of gold and silver and hank at each base line and about eight feet he could not cope with the situation if
He so informed the
notes, which he flung about with the gen­ high. It was towed oceanward by p it grew worse.
erosity and recklessness of the traditional tug with a long towline, and, while governor.
The now famous “ shoot to k ill”
“ rnilor” (less well known on the Continent moving at seven miles an hour, was to
now* than formerly); the best of every­ be fired upon. When the target was order issued by him after his "“ o.vrb
thing was scarcely good enough for his about three miles from shore and under had been attacked by stones ,vltB
his darling; his good temper was imper­ tow it appeared to be about the s i z e d touched upon by Mr. Darrow.
Th.
turbable, and his adoration at its topmost a man’ s hand. It was then that Copor- general raid it meant every word it
pinnacle.
ral Began fired a 12 inch gun. The shot said, and that the issuance of the order
One question constantly perplexed her. struck about eight yards astern of the had a most salutary effect upon the
H ow was it possible that Tom, the apple moving mark. Carefully Began aimed communities which his soldiers covered,
of her eye, the object of her intense de­
the second missile, and scarcely had the It hsd snch a goal effeet that it was not
votion—in whose absence she felt it would
be impossible to know happiness—could roar of the discharge ceased, when the necessary to fire one shot. The order,
once have inspired disgust and weariness | target disappeared. The shot had hit j he further «aid, did not include the
in her? Sometimes she was compelled “ the enem y” amidships and shattered shooting of women and children.
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to say, twining her arms round his neck, it into splinters.
“ How is it possible that I did not always
Murdered and Robbed.
love you as I do now?” and he would an­
Expense of Diplomatic Service.
Pittsburg, Jan. 12— Andrew Overick,
swer, pressing her to his faithful heart:
Washington, Jan. 10. — The honee proprietor of a Polish boarding house,
“ It seems more wonderful to me, dar­
ling, that you should enre for me now committee on foreign affairs today con- a broker and a money lender, was found
than that you should not have cared for eluded the diplom atic and consular ap- unconscious in Mulberry alley last
propriation bill, which will lie report- night, with his skull fractured.
He
me before.”
ed to the honse.
It carries approxi- never regained consciousness and died
( r f be continued.)
mately
1,900,000, which is less than today at the West Penn hospital,
the estimates and less than the appro- Overick always carried a laige sum of
A R iv e r that Is Not.
* One o f the most remarkable freaks priation of last year. Bulgaria is in- money, and as hiB pockets were rifled,
o f nature occurs in New Mexico. It is eluded in the territory of the minister the police are inclined to think hie
a river that Is not a river. No one has to Greece ami a secretary is added to murderer made a rich hanl. A former
ever seen It. The be<l o f It lies In a the legation in Switzerland at a salary boarder is suspected and the police are
valley betw eer the Rio Grande nnd
f 1,500 a vear. »T h e consulate at looking for him . Overick was 32 years
Pecos RiveTs. I. I# wedJ defined, and Canton is raised to a consulate general of age and married.
many travelers have followed Its and the salary advanced trom to M .000
SOLDIER’S VIEW
up; he is suffering mortal agony and try­
ing with all his might to conceal it.
June takes a book after dinner. She
will not bestow one look upon Tom. He
tries to rend the paper, but glances cov­
ertly at her from behind it and wonders
if this awful thing she has told him can
he true—wonders why she should bo an­
gry, which she evidently is, and, most of
all. longs to take her in bis arms and say
he forgives her, and to hear from her that
she really and truly consents to I k » his.
Mrs. Ellesmere, waking from her dose,
goes off to her boudoir to write some let­
ters.
Tom sits for about ten minutes
thinking how' he shall approach his lady
love, when she save»« him the trouble by
turning round, luying her book down and
saying coldly:
“ I have made up my mind to leave this
house to-morrow’ .
Under the circum­
stances it will bo much the best thing I
can do. I feel that I have already tres­
passed too long upon the hospitulity of
Mr. and Mrs. Ellesmere.”
Miss June, who has such a love of jus­
tice, can be a trifle unjust herself under
the influence of anger. June in a tem­
per is quite a new spectacle to Tom; he
is positively daunted by the manner of
this slim young girl. He springs from
his chair in a moment, crying:
“ What do you mean, my darling?”
“ I am not your darling,” returns June,
waving him off as she sees, w’ ith her
quick woman’s instinct, that she is going
to get the best of it. “ I shnll never be
anything to you now'. As for your pre­
tending to care for me, it wras a farce.”
A farce! For a moment Tom is speech­
less. Then he cries:
“ Don’ t talk like that! Don’t be angry
with me, darling. It was such an awful
quence!
A t last, making a tremendous effort blow.”
June’ s eyes blaze; the blood mounts to
over herself, June goes back to the sofa
sits down at a little distance from her cheeks.
“ W hy need I ever have told you?” she
exclaims. “ I have humbled myself in the
‘ I have something to tell you,” she says,
dust,” and here she begins to cry, half
in :i trembling voice. “ No, do not come
from pride, half from shame, “just be
near me, do not touch me, until you have
cause I thought it was right and honora
heard it; perhaps, afterward, you will not
ble, and you treat me like this.”
H n t to.”
Tom feels himself the most utter brute
™A feeling of stupefaction comes over
on earth, ns men do the first time they
>m. What can she mean?
make the woman they love madly, cry.
He essays to take her hand, but she
Then June turns her face from him and snatches it from him; she turns her back
login s to cry piteously.
upon him; she refuses to accept the ex
1 | “ Oh,” she sobs, “ how can I—how can pression of his penitence.
IItoll you?”
“ Aunt Mary» will be glad to have me,”
[ |“ What do you mean?” cries Tom, at sobs Miss June; “ she will not find me a
Ms wits’ end, unable to believe a breath trouble; she will not want to get rid of
against her, but unutterably pained and me.”
M y stified by her words and her agitation.
This shaft, as we can well understand,
B “ Po you remember,” she says at Ir.st, is intended for Mrs. Ellesmere, but Tom
4*§rhen—when your cousin was here in feels it and the truth of it most keenly.
th*1 summer?”
He cannot find words with which to
S p a l l What is this? Tom feels liter- answer it, therefore he tries once more
# > * turning to stone. He cannot speak. to put his arm round June. To avoid him
! ® ‘Y ou went away for a day or two, and she jumps up and runs to the fireplace.
^ B n d I saw a good deal of him, and I
“ You need not come and see me there,”
fancied” —oh, poor, poor June, the agony she adds. But this is too much for Tom.
o t this confession!—“ that I was in love He approaches her w’ ith resolution, he
with him and he with me, and” —suddenly takes both her hands in one of his and
<^|ecking herself, and spenking in a strain- puts his other arm about her; she may
•eed, unnatural voice—“ he kissed me.”
resist if she pleases, but it is of no avail
Tom is dumb; if any one had plunged against his strength.
the knife up to the hilt in his heart, be
June does not hurt herself by strug­
does not think the agony could be dead­ gling; she has a more potent weapon than
lier. June, this model of purity, on whose Tom’ s strength in that sharp little sword
.apotlessness he would have staked his which Providence has given her not only
MOul, kissed by Dallas!
to defend herself with, but to wound her
She has buried her face in the sofa adversary.
•cushions and is waiting with a beating
“ Of course I am no match for you if
heart'for Tom’s answer. There is a huge, you use violence,” she says, coldly.
Hng silence, and then a voice, distorted But even this taunt does not cause Tom
it of all likeness to Tom’s, says:
, to relax his hold.
‘And—you—let him!”
“ I have never loved any woman but
ilence, utter silence,
you,” he says, in a voice that is not quite
t is enough. She does not deny it.
steady. “ My one idea of happiness is to
And, after giving her a full minute in have you for my wife; my one idea of ut­
which to reply he gets up and walks ter misery and wretchedness is to lose
aw ay, and June hears the door close upou
you. But,” and here his emotion is al­
llim.
most too much for him, “ I would rather
‘ She has lost him, lost the truest, brav- lose you ten times over than that you
«•t. kindest heart that ever beat. She is should find you had made a mistake—
dibite sure now that she loves him, that that after you married me yor. should feel
wh*1 would joyfully have been his wife, you might have cared for some one more.
that she has lost the chance of immense You only saw Dal a few tin*»* and
figippiness, and that a blank, lonely life yet----- ”
•reads itself out before her.
“ Don’t speak of him!” cried June, ve­
She trembles at the bare thought of hemently. “ I hate the very sound of his
leeting him again. How will she look name!”
in the face after this?
“ But if you saw him again----- ”
Mrs. Ellesmere is not surprised at din- “ Never! never! I despise him.
Oh,
to remark that June’s eyes are red Tom,” and the girl looks up in his face
i crying—that is not an infrequent
w'ith eloquent eyes, “ you need not fear
•ent—but she is surprised, very much him or any one else now. When I—when
irprised at the change in Tom’s man-
I thought I fancied him, it was because I
Ijer toward his beloved one. The ex- did not care for you. I did not know you
weine tenderness which has characterized then, dear, dear Tom, nor how kind and
it ever since June became an inmate of good you were. I may tell you frankly
th* Hall is gone, and is replaced by a I never believed I could love you then;
edreful and studied politeness. Tom’ s but now I do—I do with nil nxy heart.”
flpother hopes and believes that June has
“ Are you quite sure you loVe me?” he
fce<>n refusing to give him any definite cries, passionately.
lici>e or to discuss the subject of mar­
“ Quite sure,” she answers, softly.
riage. The change in Tom’s manner has
After that there is no more talk of
one way a beneficial effect on June; doubt; indeed, there is very little talk at
f l makes her angry. She feels that he all. But yet neither of them has ever
it unjust, and she resents injustice more been so happy before.
i B a n anything else in the world. She has
C H A P T E R X II.
tbld him this shameful secret of her own
The wedding day was fixed for the
j j!r* e will. He is welcome to give her up
1( he chooses, but he has no right to treat middle of the last week in August, and
r in a way to arouse the suspicions ! of Mrs. Bryan wrote to her sister-in-law,
Mrs. Ellesmere, and suggested the pro­
hers. June’s conscience being guilty,
[he fancies that the impression his be- priety of inviting June to go to her in
ivior may give is that it is he, not she, London for the purpose of selecting her
hd has broken the tie between them, trousseau.
iuft poor Tom has no idea of giving her
C H A P T E R X I.
February had come», bringing some
»ring-like days; the feathered lovers were
serenading their ladies; primrose«
crocuses were springing to meet the
]Mf«mik» of their god. And June was
_“ ledly growing less wan and white,
er fetep was more elastic. Grief was still
’’er master passion; but, already, Time
ras doing for her what Jie does for the
pSng, and indeed for the old, too, only
'»or e slowly. And Tom had bravely aided
B p .
if ^Should you be very angry if I were to
jay something to you?” he asked June
ne day.
f fN o ” answers June, placidly, with a
olera bly good intuition of his meaning.
► “ I have been afraid to say a word yet,”
rj»e utters, still much perturbed in his
¡nind. “ But—but—oh, »my darling, will
fou some day come and live here for good
ind all?—do you care enough for me to
^ B r y me?”
June does not answer in words, but she
jB es a little pressure to the hand which
lohls hers.
$'A fter that, what could any man do
tailor the circumstances, especially a man
utdly in love, but snatch his darling to
pis breast and cover her face with kisses?
June trembles violently; this time it is not
jm m horror or disgust, but because the
■jfeden remembrance of Dallas’ kiss
Smites her, and with it the awful neces­
sity of confessing her shame to Tom. In
k. moment she tears herself from his arms,
and, starting up, rushes over to the fire­
place. He dares not pursue her* already
fie is accusing himself of indelicacy to
her grief; the moment of delight is being
punished by remorse—too frequent se­
X
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windings to learn, If possible, what be
comes of the great volume o f water
which should be there. It Is not a dead
or dried-up «dream. It Is simply lost
Numerous hrfg tributaries flow Into li
j from
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the neighboring
mountains J Im-
me<liately. howeror. they reach the bëd
,
,
or the main rtreom they disappear
from sight. Thas. for some reason or
another, a river which should be three
hundred mile« n length has no exist'
noce which couzi he provisi.
Arrested at Seattle.
Huge Swindle Alleged.
Houston, Tex., Jsn. 10.— A. Wetter-
| mark, head of the Nacogdoches banking
) firm, which was forced into liquidation
by alleged extensive forgeries, was to-
I day arre" ,ed on hi* arri**l at Houston
n n A a a w a a n t o K a r a i n a K i m a rifK K a t r in a
on a warrant charging him with having
received deposits after he knew the
hank to he insolvent. It is claimed at
Nacogdoches that the forgeries will ex-
ceed |500,000.
Seattle, W ash., Jan.
12.— John
oyle, John M orphy, William Carter
and Tom Kennedy are ord er arrest in
this city, suspected of holding op a
N rthern Pacific train in Western
Montana October 24. Engineer O’ Neill
utaa K illa rl «
-1 t k n .
was killed and
the safe in the baggage
car was wrecked. Detectives claim the
gang was tracked to Seattle, and here
for a time disappeared from sight,
Descriptions are aaid to tally cloealy.