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y W A S H IN G T O N IN A f f i PORTI!. By CHARLES KINO, U. & A, JkwUutrof "The Colonel'* Daughter," “ Thè Dmert.-r." “ From the Winks.” ” I>un raven Ranch,” “ Tuo Soldier* ” ffbt. Iff#), by J B L Jp p in c o tt C om pany , laipb ia. an l pubiutbad b y apeciA J t u r t m ^ y ■MM U witb Uieui,„ Kenyon mHMenly felt a slim white hand gripping his wrist like a vise. Hearn was just turning down a pug© after briefly scanning the dates, but a rustle at his side attracted his attention? T o his amazement Miss Marshall had bent forward oat of her chair anti was motioning aud whispering to him: “ Again! Let me see through that page again.** The court was discussing at this in stant the question rained bv Lawler. Maitland and Thorp protested that Hearn had a right to compare other accounts with his own if he suspected fraud of any kind. Heani himself, with throb bing heart, could only see and hear her. Obedient to her signal, he again raised the leaf, and would have turned the book so that she could read it right side up. but with imperious gesture she for bade. “ Hold it as it is.** she signaled, as still bending low she seemed studying every line of the ]»a|ier thus vertically placed between her and the sunshine fltxxling in at the ojien barrack window. “ Quick, now“ More! more!** she mo tioned. And wondering he turned sev eral pages, holding each a moment or two. But she sh«x>k her head iuq»atient- ly and signaled. “ G o on!” until in suc cession half a dozen leaves were turned: then with eager light in her eyes, again ahe held up a warning hand, and the page was stopped. “ Very well, then,” Lawler was saying at this moment, with sarcastic emphasis. “ On the principle that misery loves company. I suppose we must accord him the privilege o f viewing the accounts of his fellow debtors.” And with this fresh piece of civil legal practice on his lips, the judge advocate turned to the group on his left and stopped short in amaze. Hearn, utterly lost to what was going on, was gazing with all his eyes at Miss Marshall, who. flushed, eager, almost radiant, once more was leaning back in her chair, but signaling to close the book. It was Kenyon now who was half rising and whispering sudden im petuous wo®Is to Hearn. For a moment Lawler knew not what to think or say. Something told him that the cause he represented was in peril. A sense o f disaster flushed upon him. “ At least the accused will have the decency to refrain from exhibiting offi cers’ private accounts to the public,” he said, with sudden return to his old man ner, “ and if lie be through with the ex amination return these exhibits to me, that I may close the case, unless, jx*r- haps. he desires to offer something fur ther upon this subject.” Miss Marshall’s fingers were twisting a tiny slip on which she had hurriedly penciled a word or two. One instant more and it was with Hearn. She had bent forward to pick up a fluttering scrap o f paper; her deft fingers had but for the instant touched his drooping hand. Opening it he read. “ Recall Schonberg instantly.” Surpris*sl. h** glanced at her, but pur|M>scly she had averted her eyes. Kenyon was vehement ly nodding. “ I must ask that Mr. Schonl>erg be recalled.” said Hearn. “ There is new matter here upon which I need to ques tion him.” , “ The accused has already had oppor tunity to cross examine the witness, and has no further right.” said Lawler. “ I rejieat that there is new matter be fore the court in the introduction of these exhibits, on which I have a jx*rfeet right to question.” re]vied Hearn. “ It is * imply delaying matters.” per sisted Lawler. “ When the accused said he had no further questions to ask. yes terday. I excused the witness, and he is now miles away, and cannot l>e had un til morning, if he can then.” “ The man is not fifty feet away at this moment.” said Kenyon with sharp emphasis and a voice that rang through the room. “ When did the gentleman become counsel in this case. I beg to know/* sneered the judge advocate. “ I protest against this disorder and interference with the court.” “ Maj. Kenyon gives us important in formation, Col. Lawler.” said Grace, “ and if the man is here the court desires that he lie recalled at once.” Lawler reddened with wrath. “ If you know where he is, call him in,” said he to Kenyon. Ami all eyes were turned to the door, when» presently, escorted by the orderly o f the court. Mr. Schonlierg appeansl. hat in hand, bowing profusely and politely to the court, yet looking, as Mr. Martin expressed it. “ rather pasty about the gills.” He was scuttling down the back sta in when headed off by the provost sergeant. He had doubtless heard the summons for his recall and had hoped to get out o f the way. All eyes bat Hearn’s and Kenyon’s, Mabel Lane's and Georgia * were upon him. With lightning speed the latter was writing a little note, and this, too, a fo ment later was in the young lieuten ant's hand. He read it. A wild light of wonderment and Incredulity leaped into his face. He hastily raise! the volume between him and the opposite window, h-ld a leaf between him and the sun- shin.*, gazed qnickly and earnestly, and then laying the book once more on the table tnnied with swimm ing eyes and , hvkcd full upon her, his lips qnivering. bis f ice aglow with joy. hope, gnui .w h an 1 % fervor of admiration and wordiip n 'n»nu n on earth could fail to see; but fy*i>rgias downcast face was hidden; the ha I drawn her fanlike Spartan shielt hetvwen her glowing cheek and U m kindling eyes ahe dared not meet. It was Lawler'a rasping voice that re called the yenagioldW r to his senses: Veil, *ir. t J " u*es h h**-». * There w i- a silence as of solitude in the great heated room. Obedient to the clumsy formality o f a military court. Mr. Hearn slowly wrote his question on a slip of pajx*r and handed it to the judge advocate; the latter read it. threw it down, and pettishly exclaimed: “ This is mere waste o f valuable time. I say. The witness has practically an swered this all before.” “ What is the question?” asked the president. “ The accused asks the witness to state to the court what reason lie has for be ing so positive about the time these entries were made. So long jus my wit ness is positive I conceive it to be no af fair of the defense why or how he is.” “ Oh. I see no special object in the question.” said Grace, “ yet there is no impropriety in asking it. At all events. I am entirely .rilling to bear the respon sibility. The witness will answer.” Could he but have seen the flash of gratitude in Miss Marshall’s eyes! It was only a flash. Almost instantly again they were fixed on the pudgy features of the witness. “ W hy, certainly, gentlemen. I can answer. Mr. Braine died in the spring o f *85, and couldn’t have told ine to inakt- those entries after he was dead, could he? No. They were made, just as I said, in the winter of *83 and during the year of ‘84. just when he told me to make them.” “ Are you satisfied?” asked the judge advocate, turning sharply to Hearn. “ One moment." answered that young gentleman placidly, as his pencil rap idly copied another question on the slip before him. Finishing thus he arose. “ I beg to ask the especial attention of the court to this question,” he said. There fell a hush as o f death upon the throng. With parted lips Georgia Mar shall again bent eagerly forward until she could see the Jew’s twitching face. Schonberg turned a shade paler and glanced half appealingly up at the law yer. who, with a sneer of assumed con tempt. held forth his hand for the slip. But Hearn looked straight into Lawler’s eyes. The judge advocate took the pa- per. turned it carelessly over, elevated his nose with apparent indifference, leaned back in his chair, glanced at it. started. “ Let me see that book!” he exclaimed, as he sprang to his feet, holding forth an eager hand. “ Presently, sir.” answered Hearn, holding the volume behind him. “ Kind ly put the question first." “ Don’t let that book go!” whispered Miss Marsh;» 11 hastily, her words ail- dressed to Kenyon, yet meant for and heard by Hearn. Mabel Lane’s face was flushing with excitement. Every eye in the room was intent on the scene. “ W hat is the question. Mr. Judge A d vocate?” sharply inquired Col. Grace. “ W hy do you seek to suppress it?” “ I protest against the insinuation, sir. I simply seek to protect an honest man troni insult. I ask the accused for a book that I may satisfy myself he has reason for a question otherwise unjusti fiable.” “ Mr. •resident, I demand the question as ;i right!” exclaimed Hearn in tones thrilling with excitement and ringing through the court. “ The witness lias sworn he made these entries in *83 and *84. Look, gentlemen, look at this page, one and nil, and compel the answer.” He sprang forward and laid the book in Grace's hand. “ Hold it to the light, sir. Look at the water mark. I demand an answer to my question.” Trembling with emotion, his blue eyes fthlaz *. his fingers working nervously, the young soldier towered above the heads of the court.. Every breath in all the great room seemed hushed, though hearts beat and hammered like mad. AH «yet were on Grace now as he adjusted his glasses, held the page aloft and scrutinized the paper. Then, with a auick gleam in hi* sharp old eye*, he beexoned excitedly to Maitland, pointed with his forefinger to the waving lines o f the water marks, and dropped the book upon the table, bis finger between the leaves, a threat ening frown on his brow “ Put the question, Mr. Judge A dvo cate,” his stem voice was heard through the room. “ And you. sir, answer.” Lawler hesitated one minnte. glanced dubiously around. Then, as though see ing the hopeleesneet* of resistance, he read in accents that trembled despite his efforts these words: “ How was it ¡Missible for you to write in *83 and *84 on pape: that was not man ufactured until two years afterward?” C O U N T Y H A T C H E T . THE LOAF OF BREAD. the |»aper ih*dt was not made until 1883.’ thundered Grace; “ and the court is waiting for your answer.” “ The paper vasn t made until 1886V" SUPERSTITIONS OF MANY LANDS CON faltor«*«l Schonberg. “ No. sir!” fairly ahouted the wrathful old soldier in the president’s chair. ••No, sir! You failed to study the water marks. Here it i& repeated on a score of these leaves. ‘Sconset Valley mills. 1883.' 1 say. explain this if v<m can.” “ I tou’t know anything about that.” muttered the Jew at hist, gulping down the big lump that arose in his throat. ” 1 know wlieu 1 made those entries, any how.” But the whole roomful could see that the wretch wus only lying—desjierately lying. The pencils o f the corresjxmd- ents were flying over their blocks with furious speed. One excited ambassador of the press had already made u lunge through the crowd for the doorway. “ Mr. Judge Advocate,” said the presi dent at last. “ I fancy you can now ex cuse your witness from further attend ance. Stop, though. Have you any thing else you would wish to ask. Mr. Hearn?” And now his manner was all courtesy. “ Not a word, *ir,” was the smiling an swer. “ I shall beg to submit the list of my witnesses in a few moments.” People seemed to draw aside and make a wide lane for the wretched Hebrew and his crestfallen counselor, as the lat ter led his unscrupulous witness to the outer gallery, whither Lawler said he desired to retire for a m< unent’s consult ation. So entire had lieen the confi dence of the mass of the people in the guilt of the officer that Schonberg’s shady reputation had not sufficed to warn them of the possibilities in the case. But among educated and better informed people present there broke forth sudden ly. after a moment’s breathless silence, a ripple of applause that speedily swelled into a joyous burst of hand clapping which was taken up all over the room, ana ror a moment. mmgle<t with angry hisses on the part o f a few pronounced socialists in the throng, who were fu rious Jit the sudden turn in favor of the hated official class, the clam or was un checked. Stern as he was. old Grace could not deny the audience the right of such a reaction. Then he rap(>ed fur order. “ You are not ready. I presume, to pro ceed with your defense?” said Lawler a moment after as he re-entered the room and glanced nervously around. All his airy, confident manner was gone. He looked almost dazed. “ Certainly." was the prompt reply. “ Have the goodness to call in Private Welsh." “ May it ph»;use the court.” said Law ler. “ I submit that the accused should furnish the list of witnesses he desires to summon, in order that it may lie deter- tennined for what purpose they are called, and whether the expense will be justified.” said Lawler in response. “ And as for Welsh, I maintain that that un fortunate trooper has already suffered too much at the hands o f the accused to warrant his being subjected to further ignominy, as he would lie if the court allowed such treatment as was accorded my last witness.” “ If he is at all like your last witness. Col. Lawler, ignominy will not inaptly express the idea,” was Grace's sarcastic response, whereat “ an audible grin” spread over the room. “ Do you wish to summon witnesses from abroad. Mr. Hearn?” “ Not one, sir. Every man I need will lie at the post by 1 o'clock this after noon: and except Welsh, who is under stood to be under the especial charge of the jndge advocate and amenable to or ders from nobody else. I will not trouble the court to call on anybody—the otl ere will be glad to come.” Lawler shook his head and looked dis satisfied. If he could only know the men whom the defense was introduc ng, and could find out what they meant to testify, it might still be in his power to avert at lea*t public catastrophe. Slin wd enough to see the evident antagonism he had created, and knowing that matters were going topsy-turvy at the moment, he bethought him of a ruse by which he could get rid of the crowd: “ I beg the indulgence o f the court. 1 have allowed the case for the prosecu tion to rest rather than infringe longer on time that is so valuable, but 1 and myself unable to proceed at this mo ment. and I beg that you take a recess until 2 p. m .” The court demurred. It was utterly CH APTER XVL adverse to a recess. Hearn’s witnesses were all ready to proceed—four or five at least. “ What is the need?” asked Thorp and Maitland. neftLe* o f whom 1*11 like giv ing Lawler an inch o f leeway. But courtesy to the staff officer of the divia- ion commander prevailed. It was barely 11 o'clock when the throng came pouring forth from the conrt room, and Lawler hopod that, rather than wait three hoar*, the mas* of people would depart. But his hopes were vain. If anything, the nnuil>er •eemed augmented. The noon train brought a couple o f car loads from the eastward town*. It also brought a ser geant and private o f infantry escorting a dilapidated looking party in shabby civilian drees whom old Kenyon, the adjutant, and a file of the post guard were at the station to meet. The stran “ And you are?*'— “ Malcolm HrerU K i tr ger was bundled into an ambulance and ina, hi* non ” trotted up to thq guard house, into When, half an hour later. Col. Lawler which he slouched with hanging head announced that, !n view of circum and an air >f general dejection: and stance« to which tli* court aooeared to while the men were at their soldier din attach m much significance, he would ner Kenyon was busily interviewing hi* rest th** case for the prosecution, he had. tough looking prisoner, a squad of excited doMpite every effort and the professional newspaper men meantime kicking their bravado assumed for such occasions, ail heel* outside and raging at the military the air o f a whipped man. For half a assumption which gave the post c«.Do minute after hearing that stunning ques main ler precedence over the press. The tion Mr. Schonberg had sat glaring at word had gone out all over the crowded the judge advocate, hi* eye* protruding, garrison that the escaped prisoner Goss his mouth wide open, hi* face ghastly was re-captnred. and the commanding white. Then he mopped hi* forehead, officer** orderly had been rushed with a recalled to himself by Grace s sharp note to the provost sergeant. “ You bet he’ll not get away.” rant tones a* the president again demanded answer, and faltered ont: tered this veteran of Brodie** company, “ I ton’t understand the question.** a* he glanced along the lively me*- “ You are called upon to explain to room, where the big bowl* o f bean eonp this court how it was possible for you to were being emptied by rare soldier appe have made those entries in *83 and *84, as tites. “ Yon bet he don’t, unlem be can you have solemnly sworn you did, w hen , carry a cart load of lead in him.'* Mo n oonTu a m : NECTED TH EREW ITH . Origin or the Signing of the f r o .. What . Crack A ero- the Loaf Me— -T h e Or.n n Snored OI|)ect—Omen. Kelntlng to Birth. Mnrrlnge nnd llenth. Oue morning last rummer, wheu I was speuding a few days at a farm house in eastern Ohio, the good house wife showed that she was troubled. Naturally I inquired the eau.se. "Oh. she said, " I ’ m afraid something dread ful w ill happen. This morning I put a batch of bread into the oven, aud all the loaves except oue cracked across the top.” "W hat if they did?” I replied in tones of curiosity. “ Don’ t you kn ow ,’ ’ she said, with an air of surprise, "th a t when bread crack» across the top it means misfortune to som eone in the family? t would not have had it happen for the world. As I left a few days after this mishap to the bread I never learned whether the sign was a true omen or uot. However, the housewife had contributed to my stock of information aud had given me an item of folklore that led to further investigation. One of my German friends tells me that in many parts of his native country the housewife still believes that cracks on the top of the loaf of bread indicate the death of some one in the household, or perhaps misfortune to a dear friend, while cracks on the lower side of the bread are taken to indicate a birth. As many of ns know, our bakers mark the sign of a cross upon the dough be fore placing it in the oven. The reason for making this sign becomes plain wheu we know the origin of the custom. Almost all our superstitious about bread date back to old pagau days, though they have been greatly modified so us to conform to Christian beliefs. With the ancient Romans the baking of breud and cakes was often invested with a re ligious significance, especially the cakes offered to the gods and goddesses. These cakes were prepared in a particular way, and after being marked with the symbol of the deity in whose honor they were offered they were supposed to possess supernatural virtues. The old domestic practice was modi fied wheu Christianity became trium phant, and in place of a pagan symbol the early Christian housewife uot only used to make the sign of the cross when she began to knead the dough, but she marked that sign upon her loaf before placing it in the oven. Why? Simply because the sign of the cross is the rec ognized Christian protecting mark against the attacks of evil spirits, witches and the like. Hence bread marked with the cross is supposed to be witchproof, w ill bake all right, uot crack across the top, etc. Just as the Jews have passover cakes and other peoples have had specially prepared food for their religious festi vals, so the Christians have cakes for certain seasons. Our hot cross buns on Good Friday are simply modern repre sentatives of the cakes used at some old pagan festival. In days gone by the cakes and buns baked at Easter were supposed to possess great virtues. Thus it is an old belief that the observance of eating cross buns on Good Friday in sures, so to speak, the house from fire for the coming year. I d truth, to study the superstitions about bread is to take a wide lesson in folklore. These superstitious relate to the kneading trough, the oven, bakers and bread. For instance, in many parts of France the arche, or kneading trongh, is more than a rude kitchen utensil. It is often a pretty bit of furniture. M Sebillot, wbo has collected many of the superstitions o f the French folk relative to bread, quotes the story of a thief who entered the window of a bouse with in tent to commit bnrglary, but refused to step on the trongh still containing the dongh, believing that to do so would be an impiety. A writer in one o f the recent unin- bers of an English magazine says that in Gottland the cross is still signed be fore the oven fire is lighted or the dough kneaded. This practice is very common In the country districts all over Europe. In Brittany the housewife makes the sign of the cross with the right hand while she places the left hand in the trongh. After the dough is kneaded, the lid of the trongh is shot, and so is the door, for if the cat should enter the room the bread would not rise. Certain charms or invocations are used to canse the bread to multiply itself. Thus the peasant housewife adjure« the dongh to imitate the leaven, the wheat the miller and to rise. She wonld be very angry if any one should sing or whistle in the room while she is making the loaf. In some parts o f Europe the bake oven is almost a sacred object. In certain places of Brittany, for example, it is dedicated with ceremonies. The wood is sprmkled with bleesed water. The prop er heat is attested by the melting of a bottle, and finally an egg is broken for luck. Besides there are certain nays on which bread must Dot he baked, as nu Holy Friday or during the night of All SaiDts, when the ghosts would be sure to eat i t The loaf of bread itself is connected with a whole crowd of superstitions. A long time resident in France informs me that the custom of marking the bread with the sign of thecross before cutting It is very general. Sometimes the first monthful of bread is used to make this sign. According to an old English su perstition, if a loaf accidentally parts m »be hand while an unmarried lady is cutting it this may be taken to indicate either that she w ill not be married dur ing the Dext 12 mouths, or, what is worse, that there w ill be dissensions of some kind in the family. -« flume folks have a fear of turning a loaf upside down after cutting it. o f course it is everywhere regarded as bad luck for a piece of bread to fall oa the buttered s id e — New York Poet A r o w in g Valter B. Fee«’* BECAUSEOFANKURO in v e n t io n W "“ ('<>*<-hi ng o f Crrw». *h# Rowing is uow getting down to such a fine point that file introduction of uew devices toward aiding the coaching are always of the greatest importance ill turning out winning crews. \S alter B Peet, Columbia's noted coach, has just takeu out a patent for an invention that he tried on last year's Colombia varsity with great success. It is an appliance that enables the coach to see the post tiou of the sliding seat upon the outside Of the shell. The seat ordinarily is com pletely hidden from view, aud thus the amount of slide it covers, which is of vital importance in coaching, can only be approximately determined. The uew device consists of an indi cator attached to the hack of the seat aud reaching over the side of the shell. The indicator, which is bluck, can he easily seen when it moves over the white scale on the outer surface of the shell. The scale is graduated so as to enable the coach to note exactly the po sition and various movements of the sliding seat. By means of this inven tion it is very easy to coach a crew to a uniform length uf slide, ami it is an ac curate device to detect the slightest er ror in regard to the use of the seats. Peet's invention is of the greatest im portance to towing from the fact that the proper use of the sliding seats in a shell by the crew has considerable to do with fast rowing, and in ortier to teach a crew well the manner of sliding it is necessary that the coach shall always know exactly what the men are doing witb their seats.— New York Sun. H Y P N O T IS M IN SURGERY. A Can« Showing How It Can It* Macle to Super*«*tit* Auwathetlo*. A striking example of the efficacy of hypnotism an an adjunct to surgical sci ence was demonstrated within the past few days at the Johns Hopkins hospital. This case— a difficult one of long stand ing aud obscure symptoms— wan that of a young lady, into whose side an incision was made aud a diseased kidney was treated. 'T h e incision was then sewed up, and she is now recovering, suffering no pain or inconvenience whatever. This difficult and painful as well as dangerous operation wus done while the patient was under hypnotic suggestion, being hypnotized by oue of the med ical staff. The patient was in the hyp notic state for about half an hour, and when seen at the hospital was delight ed with the success of the experiment, declaring she felt no pain or conscious ness whatever wheu the operation was in progress save that she had a confused and not unpleasant impression that some one stood by her side and was cutting paper with a pair of scissors. After consciousness had returned she said she felt the natural pain consequent to any surgical operation done while un der ordinary anaesthetics. Hypnosis, in her case, was limited only to the time it required for the operation. It is, how ever. possil f to continue the suggestion until the patient is out of all pain.— Baltimore American. A N A T IO N A L U NIVER SITY. A n o t h e r B i l l I n t r o d u c e d I n C on g reita F o r T h a t P u rp on e. Another bill to establish a national university at Washington has been in troduced in both the senate and the house. It provides for a university of the highest type; vests the government of the university in a board of 16 re gents, with the president of the United ¡States at its head, and a university council embracing said board and 12 eminent educators representing as many institutions of high rank aud belonging to as many states, the regents to have charge of all business affairs and the council of all else. It further authorizes the university to establish co-operative relations with other institutions of the country, pro hibits partisan and sectarian preferences in any form, makes admission depend on competency only, and so guards the degrees to be granted as to protect the interests of all collegiate institutions entitled to recognition. In consideration of the financial con dition of the country it appropriates for the fiscal years .if 18»7 aud 1696 barely enough to euable the board of regent's to organize aud do such preliminary work as should not louger be delayed, at the same time opening the door to all such as may desire, in imitation of George Washington, to contribute in any way to the great enterprise originated bv him. V e n e s u H a 'g C a p it a l. Caracas, the capital and chief city of v eneznela, has a population of 70,000 or less than that of Fall River. It is built on an elevation of 8,000 feet above the sea level. It was founded in 1567. Caracas is an Indian name, the name of the Indians of the neighborhood which the Spanish pioneers affixed to the orig- iual title of the new town. Santiago de Leon. In 1812, the year of the latest American war with Great Britain, an earthquake in Caracas hurled 12,000 persons in the ruins of a part of the city. The date of this earthquake was March 26. T o I m n , bT Cor bolls Arid. In Germany the view obtains that the execution of criminals should be bv some means more certain even than the elec- tric chair. Dr. E. Cnhmann. a celebrat ed t hemist. suggests the use of carbolic »Cid. According to his plan, the crim inal would he carried to a cell which cau be fillet uotselessly with carbolic acid Basen, form from floor to ceil- ug. When the gas reaches the delin quent s mouth and n. se it callWs in. Man, paialyris of the ln„ ^ alld nncoo. sc.ousue*. , od Jife departs without pre- vious pain. K ■Gi* T ie T h a t R in d * . The bonds which bind us t0 Englani ! I’ ,D,WM of * P " c e « State Register. LIFE IMPERILED T H R O U G H MIST* IN IDEN TIFYIN G A CORPSE. B o a s t in g ° r W i l l i a m N u ieJd eth HI. Id en tity—C olu m b u s 11. Syk* s Life Sentence T h ro u g h Circus Kvtdeoce. A most remarkable and roniantiei ef mistaken identity by which tt of a man was almost placed in the has been brought to the atteuHo, Governor Molntire o f Colorado; matter was brought to light a few since by the receipt o f a package if ters aud affidavits from Florence, and they all relate to a peculiar state I affairs which was responsible f<g| I lnmbus B. Sykes being in the petit | tiarv under a life sentence for mi in the second degree, the second being only changed from first .legreei a slight doubt which existed it minds of oue or tw o jurymen. March 3, 1894, a charred and In slv was found in the ashes oft stack on the ranch of William Smell at the little town of Dallas, near Snieideth could not be found, am: was believed that he bad been mi and his body placed under the which was then set afire. An «iuJ tion of the corpse showed whiti deemed sufficient proof for bellii that it was Smeideth’s. A peculiirj on the left side o f the head and alaj twisted leg irom a poorly set fractal the hone which had beeu broken! identified as the same peculial which had been noticeable in themJ man. There were hundreds of who were w illing to swear anddi^^™ swear that the body was that of the ranchman. Suspicion of fonl play was at confirmed by other marks on the and it was found that the man hid murdered by stabbing, aud that hit had been placed under the stack evidence seemed to point to Coin B. Sykes as the murderer, aud arrested. Circumstantial evidenrtL j e gathered which seemed to prove a doubt tliut if the body was Ik Snieideth Sykes was the murder«,! if tile body was that of some otherJ thou Sykes was innocent. nor The trial went on. aud witnes8at,beye plentiful who wanted to swear sbonl. Ixxly was that of Snieideth, and!} wa« finally convicted of murder ii second degree aud sentenced oilmen! for life Ho protested his itriot cence and made application to the of pardons for an investigation inti case, maintaining that the body that of the man whom he was of murdering. The case was invei ed by the board, and relief want* the imprisoned man. Several days ago u laborer urrii Florence looking for work, aud j number of newly found companwi related a peculiar tale. He paid I down in Oklahoma he had met a| who, one night w hile diunk, hadb| ed that out in Colorado there was rrong in prison fur killing him. TMgbt. thought it was such a funny joketU man .should be accused of killinfl when he was alive and had bw|g#d I ohnek full of tanglefoot. Herrf#ecti\ however, to give his name or o d y o l false one. More about the circm: f the lie also refused to relate, and tbf«Bisti the circumstance remained in Iht^d grt of his hearers. liliati On reaching Colorado the ratal inuot he would investigate the matter « « t i l t anti lie told some people about Iterly also described bis informant, lb*»0 riv scriptiou tallying precisely w ith tl^ ^ ^ Smeidetlt Sykes’ brother lives cuce, and the matter came to bis* tion. He looked np the man until that the story was apparently trWH he at once took steps to la v the a before the governor. But whils« laying ont bis plans he came into* siou of another important bit of | matiou. At Brookside, near Florenctl Mrs. Bnniford, a lady who kne»l detli very w ell aud the Sykes boji incidentally. This lady liad uev*J of tile murder and tbe disapp Snieideth, aud she was very nan prised when she learned that SytJ in jail. Then she recollected aol taut circumstance. During the | part of March, 1894, her boyb away from home, and she had I Canon City and brought hiJj She had remained at Canon CWJfc April 18. when she finally iDdn« yonng man to accompany her MJ Soon aftor she entered tbs • knock came at the door, and I a man there whose appearing** miliar, yet she did not at once*- him. After he had called her# she found that it was WilliamS und that he had altered his I by letting his beard grow and« mustache in a peculiar mai deth told her that he bad beeo b Dallas for some time, and that! then on his way south, where 1 not tell, as he did not seem f communicative. Mrs. Bund* him dinner, and he remain house possibly half an h<lUh | stranger came to the door, »¡"J denly took his departure, t to his hostess. This was jns* < after the tnnrder, and Mrs. I from the fact of her arrival! City that day w itb her boy. i*’ tive about the date. As soon as Mrs. Bumford I Sykes was in ja il and the cin of the crime she at ooce o with the brother and told hi® had last seen Smeideth aud I circumstances. This put a on the rnat'er, and the f»«**J gathered together and put 1*^ of affidavits and tbe whole < to the governor, w bo w ill at< tute an investigation. Sh< nM* be fi innd to be true the man' be liberated, for his whole fi ed on whether tbe dead man uot Snieideth.— Rocky Mo