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TO HEAR ALL SIDES Senate Committee Will Consider Railroad Rates. NEW BILL IS TO BE PREPARED T w o M onths W ill Be D evoted to H e a r ing T e stim o n y o f E x p e rts on Q u stion. Washington, April 15. — Railroad rate legislation and kindred topics will again be brought prominently to the attention of the public with the meet ings here, beginning Monday, of the «enate committee on interstate com merce, which w ill assemble for the purpose of ventilating the subject in a manner more thorough than any here tofore on record. The meeting w ill be held in the committee’s rooms at the eapitol and w ill be public. Senator Elkins, of West Virginia, w ill preside. The Republican members are Cullom, Illin ois; Aldrich, Rhode Island; Kean, New Jersey; Dolliver, Iowa; Foraker, O h io; Clapp, Minnesota; and Millard, Nebraska. The Democrats are T ill man, South Carolina; McLaurin, Mis sissippi; Carmack, Tennessee; Foster, Louisiana; and Newlands, Nevada. As a basis of consideration, the Esch-Townsend bill, passed by the house at the last session, w ill be ex pected to serve. The committee had the measure before it many days before the adjournment of the last congress and was urged to put it on its passage. Arguments were advanced, however, protesting against hasty action because o f the alleged radical character of this measure, and the importance of the in terests involved. Chairman Elkins and Senator Foraker were among those who advocated delay, and the commit tee, near the close of the session, after much time had been devoted to hear ings, reported to the senate a resolu tion authorizing 'it to continue the hearings during the recess. This authority was granted and Monday’s meeting w ill be the initial meeting under that authority. Although the house committee on in terstate commerce, which evolved the Esch bill, took sufficient testimony to fill several large volumes, and although the senate committee was not idle in that regard, the investigation of the subject now imminent promises to be most exhaustive. Both sides, in fact many sides, of the case w ill be heard. B U TC H ER S DEN O U N CE PACKERS N e w Y o r k T ra d e U p in A rm s A b out A dvance in Beef. New York, A pril 15.— Prices of all kinds of meat have begun to rise in New York because of a reported in creased cost to dealers of about 2 cents a pound. This advance in dressed beef by the packers means a corresponding increase of from 4 to t> cents per pound at retail on the average grade of sir loin steaks, porterhouse steaks and prime ribs of roast beef. Retail dealers say they received notice of the first advance ten days ago, but postponed an advance to their customers. However, on receiving notice of a further raise next week it was found necessary to make a change in retail prices. Meetings of the Retail Butchers’ and Meat Dealers’ Protective associa tion w ill be held in all boroughs to take action. The Brooklyn branch of the association already has met and discussed the situaiton. Several re tailers bitterly denounced the packers, who were alleged to be taking concerted action. It was declared that while the advance of wholesale prices was attrib ute'1 to falling off in supplies of cattle at the Chicago stock yards, no such falling off hail taken plai-e, and that the raising of prices was entirely un justified. P re p a rin g f o r L o n g Siege. Tokio, April 15.— It is reported here that the Russians are continually rein forcing the garrison at Vladivostok and That the work of strengthening the fortress is constantly progressing. It is said that the plans of the Russians contemplate a garrison numliering 100,- 000 men, with 500 guns. Many addi tional batteries, redoubts, barriers, and pits are in course of construction and enormous stores of ammunition are be ing accumulated. The Russians, it is said, have equipped their fortress to withstanding a siege. S tanda rd A sk s the Im possible. Topeka, Kan., April 15.— The Stand ard Oil company has filed in the Su preme court a motion “ to make more definite and certain” the jietition in the suit filed by Attorney General Cole man to oust the Standard company from the state. It will be absolutely impossible to comply with a motion of this kind, the attorney general says, but the Standard says it is necessary to obtain this information in order to properly defend itself. T e n Million D o lla rs fo r G o o d R oads. Albany, N. Y ., April 15.— The pro posed constitutional amendment au thorising a state issue of $10,000,000 for bnildingjfood roads under the state aid law passed the assembly today. Having passed the legislature last vpar, the proposition w ill now be submitted to the popular vote at the November election. TALK ED TO O M UCH. S e v e re Rebuke G iven to Special Land Agent Leach. SOON LET CONTRACT ______ Washingt in, A pril 17.— Arnold F. | Leach, special agent of the general land office, who is quoted in dispatches from Tacoma as declaring he has unearthed tremendous land frauds in Washington, beside which the Oregon frauds pale into insignificance, has been called se verely to account by Land Commission* er Richards. According to Leach’ s interview, he E n ough M oney N o w on H an d to Build has Sherlock Holmes done to a frazzle. U p p e r L o c k and Entrance He made it appear that he had gath to the C anal. ered evidence which would send to the penitentiary many leading citizens and officials of Washington, who, lie alleg Washington, April 13.— W ithin two ed, had been defrauding the govern ment of hundreds of thousands of dol weeks, it is expected, Major langfitt lars’ worth of timber. will be instructed to advertise for bids In a letter addressed to Leach, Mr. for the construction of the first lock of Richurds says he has examined hie offi The Dalles-Celilo canal, thus launching cial reports to the department and finds nothing in them which substantiates a project that has been under consid- his interview; Leach has omitted to eratien in one shape or another for a notify the department of his sensation generation. The chief of engineers has al discoveries. I f he has such evidence received Major Langfitt’ s plan for be as he claims, Mr Richards wants to see it. Furthermore, Leach is notified ginning construction, but, owing to that special agents are sent out to the fact that several details are not gather information for the general land quite clear, the papers are to be re When they office, not foi the newspapers; that turned for explanation. their reports are regarded as Confiden get back to Washington it is thought tial at all times, and if any part of the plans w ill be approved and author them is to lie made public that infor ity granted to invite proposals. Major Langfitt’ s plans, which have mation will be given to. the press in Washington, not by officers in the field. been carefully worked out in great de Leach is a subordinate special agent tail and with apparent care, contem in Washington. He is not working plate beginning construction on the under the direction of Secretary H itch upper end of the canal and working This is done to enable cock, but of Mr. Richards, nor is he in down stream. charge of land investigations in Wash contractors to make use of the canal as ington state. It is not believed any it is completed, section by section. Major Langfitt has prepared plans further steps w ill be taken in Leach’ s case unless it lie to again reprimand for approaches to the canal at its upper end, for the guard gates for the first him when his reply is received. lock near Celilo, and for a considerable stretch of canal. It is impossible to R O M A N O F F S IN T H E I R C O F F I N S . tell how much work can be done with the money appropriated in the rivers and harbors law, but it is anticipiated C a rto o n in P rom in ent Russian P aper there are funds enough to complete the Sends P rice to P rem ium . Celilo lock and canal entrance, and to St. Petersburg, April 17.— Quite a do considerable blasting and straight sensation was caused this morning by canal work. Near the first lock it w ill the appearance in the Neva, the most be necessary to build an immense em widely circulated illustrated weekly in bankment as the north wall of the ca Russia, of a half-tone picture represent nal. This part of the canal, and in ing the imperial family, including the fact all other parts not cut through empress, holding the heir to the throne, solid rock, w ill be lined with cement. the background of the picture showing, A ll embankments w ill be solid of con in shadowy outlines, the emperor, struction and w ill be faced with im Grand Duke Sergius, Grand Duke mense rocks to prevent washing in sea Alexis, the dowager empress, the heir sons of high water. to the throne and practically all the members of the Romanoff family lying O N L Y O N E FARE. dead in their coffins. The work is done so skillfully that the shadows in the drapery behind the imperial family are Reduced Rate to P ortla nd F a ir fro m A ll Ea stern P oints. discernible with great difficulty. The publishers disclaim any previous know Chicago, April 13.— The action of the ledge of the shadowy figures. The cul Trunk Line association meeting held prits, who were students employed on at New York yesterday was supplement the paper, have not yet bren located. ed in this city today by the Central Copies of this edition of the Neva are Passenger association meeting, which selling at a big premium. decided to concur with the former asso The Slova has received its first warn ciation in granting a one-way rate plus ing for the publication of articles en $1 from all points east to Chicago for titled “ The Bureaucracy,” and “ The those desiring to attend the Lewis and War and Reform,” in which the paper Clark fair at Portland. severely arraigned the bureaucracy, the The Trunk Line association at its general staff and the war office for in meeting yesterday receded from its for competency. mer demand for a rate of 80 per cent of the round-trip fare, and agreed to make a one-way rate plus $L from all points S A V E D FO R C E L IL O C A N A L . in its territory on the Atlantic sea board west to Pittsburg and Buffalo. S an d and G ra ve l Pit at T h e Dalles This was to be done, provided the Cen W ith d ra w n fro m E n try. tral Passenger association would take Washington, April 17.— A t the re the same rate from the two latter cities quest of Major Langfitt, the secretary through to Chicago, where the rates of the interior today withdrew from en could be joined with the same conces try lots 1, 2 and 3, in section 2, town sions made by the transcontinental ship 21, range 13, adjoining the Seuf- lines, giving a one-way round-trip rate fert property at The Dalles. This from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The tract contains a large sand and gravel action of the Central Passenger associ pit, and being all vacant government ation ratified this agreement today, land, rt was deemed advisable to secure which makes the one-way rate from it for the use of contractors on The coast to coast certain. Dalles-Celilo canal before it fell into This action assures a large attend the hands of speculators. Major Lang ance at the Lewis and Clark exposition fitt said it was not known definitely from all of the territory lying east of how much sand and gravel was on Chicago, extending to the Atlantic these lots, but evidently enongMo help coast, between the Canadian boundary along with the canal work. and the Ohio river. The Central Pas The (act that the government owns senger association territory take» in all this li-nd w ill tend to materially re the cities of the east, and the rate of duce the cost of the canal. It is likely one fare w ill induce thousands of well- the contractors w ill be allowed to use to-do persons to make Portland the ob jective point in their summer and fall this sand and gravel without cost. vacations. Plans for Tbe Dalles-Celtio Canal Are Almost Complete. WILL BEGIN WORK AT UPPER END C o n vic ts W h o B ro k e Ja il. Sacramento, Cal., April 17.— Pale and emaciated from the effects of the severe wounds received in their break for liberty, and from confinement in the dungeons at Folsom, convicts J. W . Finley and Charles Carson appeared before Judge Hart’s court today and were arraigned on a charge of assault w ith a deadly weai>on with malice and aforethought. Both men are life-term ers, and if convicted on this charge they w ill grace the gallows. These are the convicts who were concerned in the last break at Folsom prison. N ew D e stro ye rs fo r Ja p a n . Washington, April 17.— Information has reached Washington through Eur ope that the Japanese navy has within the last four days commissioned 10 new torpedo boat destroyers built in Japan ese shipyards. It is believed that within six weeks 25 additional destroy ers, building under rush orders, w ill be put in commission. Three hundred and eighty-one mines planted by the Japanese in front of Port Arthur have been taken up and placed elsewhere. Illinois W ill S h o w L in co ln ’s H o m e. Springfield, 111.,* April 1 3 .— The commission which is to have charge of the state exhibit at the Lewis and Clark exposition at Portland, Or., this summer, elected Cyrus Thomj>son chairman and Reut>en 11 Tiffany, of Freeport, as secretary. The commis > sion will hold a meeting at Springfield next Tuesday. Unless objections are raised the commission will make the state building a copy of the Lincoln home. D. was practically decided to exhibit all available Lincoln mementos n the building during the fair. Peasants Seizin g the Land. St. Petersburg, April 13.— The peas ants at OrgelelT. near Odessa, recently seized the land of some of the big es tates and proceeded to divide it. Troops have been dispatched to the Scene. Near Byeloetnk the peasants demanded that the landlords cease to use agricultural machinery, and as their attitude became threatening. C'os- sacks were required to dis|>eree them. An additional force of Cossacks has been dispatched io keep orijer. C h e rrie s T e n D o lla rs a P ound. B ritish S team er C a p tu re d . Sacramento, Cal., April 17.— The Tokio, A pril 13.— The British steam first box of ripe cherries shipped out of the state by the Earl Fruit company on er Henry Bolckow was seized by the April 7 was sold in Philadelphia today Japanese guardsliips off the island of for $100, being $10 a pound. Manager Hokkaido. April 7. The character of George B. Katzenstein says this is the I her cargo has not lieen divulged and highest price ever realized from the her destination is not stated in the sale of the first box of California eh er-1 official announcement. It is presumed, ries, which is the result of the fierce however, that the vessel was bound for rivalry among Philadelphia dealers. I Vladivostok. I her only hope o f sleep lay In tiring her- ' self thoroughly by walking, arose, dress- | ed herself, and slipped noiselessly down J stairs, intending to go through a aid* i hall and let herself out on the long shel tered south porch where she might walk and walk until the was tired enough, without disturbing any one. N. W. TAYLOR In fact, there was very little danger of being heard, once sbe succeeded in reaching the long, wide-roofed and lat ticed porch, cut off aa It wus from all the sleeping apartments, ao far aa she knew. But scarcely had she reached the foot o f the stairway, when the “ front C H A P T E R X.—(Caatiaaad.1 unplctureaque, and even cavalierly, drap She could not believe it. This man ed aa they were, in variously colored door” opened, discloeing Mrs. Redden who had stood Sunday after Sunday in horse blankets and Hilary counterpanes, also dressed and holding a candle in her band. the little white church, and had talked whose variegated colors and cunningly “ Is that you, I.iiay? E f I ’d a ban «> earneetly o f the after life in relation woven ornamentations are marvels of the to the infinitely smaller queations o f this ancient housewifely skill in many In shore you was awake, I'd a ben upstair^ life! this man who had firat given her diana homes. And very efficient “ water after you to go with me. I caint atannut so lofty a perception o f the character and proofs” they were, too; the fine long any longer. Some-h'n must a happened, persou of his principal, by revealing a wool o f which they were closely woven ur Coonrod wouldn't a staid out this- surprising breadth and depth In himself! “ shedding” the water of an ordinary rain away. I wush you’d put awn this big It could not be that he could slink and the coldest wind of any winter day shawl over yur head, and come along. away from all of them for the base pur In a mauner that secured the wearer Is yur shoes all right? I ’ ve gut a pair pose of perfecting a villainous scheme to from these inclemencies of the weather a good una h’ yur ef youru wont keep rob the people among whom he had lived to a very satisfactory degree indeed— the worter out.” continuously for nearly half a year; and considering all things. "M ine are proof against any moder whose kindly acts of confident, trustful Directly after breakfast Columbus ate amount o f water, Mrs. Redden. And hospitality had fallen about him like the Redden donned his own long-cagied over beaidea, it doesn't hurt me in the least coat, and with au umbrella in Ilia hand to get my feet wet.” dews of heaven, aa he had said. It had been said that she had become and his pantaloons turned up at the bot "Oh, dear! I dasn’t to get mine the his only defender. But she could do no toms until hia neat fitting calfskin boots least bit wet. Las' fall I gut one foot less than believe that- the assistant and showed to advantage, had gone cautious wet en a puddle, out en the cow yard, confidante of Prof. Huntley could be ly out o f the front yard Into the side en hit thode me ento a chili un I had nothing less than a sincere and honorable lane, and stepping on bunches of grass the fevers fur three-four weeks. Better man in all his dealings. aud chunks of firewood and large chips slip this finsey sk’yurt over your white But why! why! could he not come to as a sort o f disconnected pontoon, he dreat. \\ hits shows too much after her and tell her all? H e had shown, and passed scatheless over the waters that night. There, lemmy pin ut good un had Bpoken in hundreds of ways an nd- had spread about the level of the fields tight, soce you kin climb roun en ut ef. ■uiratlon and fondness for her that had o f corn aud the narrow lane— and so you wawnt to, thouy ut drappuu offun given Snmltown the undoubted right to joined the procession of wayfarers going yuh.” say that he was “ head-over-heels in love to Sandtown. Lizzy had not had time to offer any ob with her.” Conrad Redden did not come home to jection. i f she had really thought of She had been jestingly cruel to him in dinner, and supper was upon the «Able objecting to this short and usually safe that respect, it is true! But he knew that and waiting at that, when he finally walk to town. For in those days the was because o f her love for the man who made his nppearance. women o f Indiana were safe anywhere, was his master and employer. H ow could “ Whut in the wurl’a kep’ yuh this for many and cogent reasons. There the slave and the hireling expect more way, Coonrod? Why, I ’lowed some-h’n were no trampe. And besides, women of her? must a happened to yuh, relse you’d ben were strong and courageous by reason o f But at last it was daylight, and Mrs. home to dinner, ehorely.” Mrs. Redden the hard work they did with their hands; said aa Coonrod hurriedly jerked hia and so were able to make e good defense Redden was calling them to breakfast. “ Coonrod et hlsn a good spell ago.” chair np, and nodded to his two guests, of themselves if needs be. Mrs. Redden said in explanation of the who were already seated In obedience This endowed them with a courage absence o f the head of tbe house from to the urgent request of their kind-heart that women lack in later days. For, a f the head of the table. "H -yur, Miss ed hostess. ter all, what we call courage is simply W eekly! you set right down in this chur " I spose you give Lum j i purty good confidence in one’s own powers, physical closte to the stove. H it's kine uh damp rake-un, did yoh?” he said, winking sly or mental. on chilly this mornun. Lizsy, you set ly at his two guests and begiuning to pile The man who knowa or deems him down thar. Your’e young un hearty, un eatables upon his plate, and to hurry self deficient in such physical or mental kin stan’ the damp better’n your mammy. the dishes around in a way that indicated powers as are to be called into action How did you sleep? I was certain at the extreme pangs of hunger. “ H it don’t iu any emergency, is necessarily a cow you wouldn't have enough kivvers on do no good, ole womern. Jis s’ well let ard. . The man who la confident ia also yur bed las’ night. H it's been so sweltry the boy 'lone. I ’ll git him a plaist en the bra ve. fur the lust three-four weeks. You take bank when hits fixed so hit kin open “ What if mother should wake while cream un sugar both, don't yuh? I do! ngin, ur when a new un starts. H e don’t we are away, Mrs. Redden? Oughtn't I don't wawn't no coffy less hit’s gut wawnt to farm ut. Uu I don’t blatqe I to wake her and tell her?” Lizzy said good frnish cream un sugar, both. Hep h<m. H e ’s gut a aige-cation soce he kin " » the two stood at the frout door. yursef to the fry, Lizzy, un pase it to meek a llvun without work. Un uv "Oh, we won’t be gone no time at all. yur mammy. That aait-risun bread haint course no feller's a go-un to work ef he But mebby you better write a little note as fraisli ui hit ort to be! When did you kin hep nt. But I ’ve gut to eat, un hurry un leave ut by the cae’ le h-yur awn tbe fust nodus anytheng outen the way with back to town to-night. I'm needed up stan’. She'll be shore to see nt ef she there.” John Miss W eekly?” gits up. I'd hate to wake 'er outen alch "N ever till yesterday morning, after “ W hat fnr, Coonrod?” said hia wife, a good sleep aa she's a haven jiat now. we had heard the news of the bank pausing again with her arms extended, Gut a pencil? H-yur’a some paper.” breaking," said Mrs. W ickly, who was the points of knife and fork resting om The ever ready and capable old sitting at the right o f her friend and inously upon her plate, while her face Hooaier woman had found a scrap o f neighbor, trying very hard to show her was turned with fixed scrutiny toward foolscap paper where she had put it appreciation o f the friendly offices o f the that of the head of the house. “ What among tbe leaves of a large history o f kind-hearted old Iloosier woman, by nib yon needed up thar fur? You haint n the world, that, along with, some bling a very little at almost every bit of go-un a step to town, ef they's go-un almanacs and a book on “T h e Horse,” delicacy that was heaped in almost un to be a rukus up thar now.” constituted the whole library of the Red limited variety aud profusion upon her “ They haint a go-un to be no rukus up den family, snve the big, brown-backed plate. town if I kin hep ut. I don't know leather Bible out o f which Coonrod Red “ W ell, well, I do say! Why, I sez to whurrer l ken or nut. But I ’ve kine a den "loved to read out loud” on a Sun Coonrod two weeks ago. Miss Weekly, kept ut down all day. But they's a lot day afternoon when he had tired himself ‘They’« soine-h’n the matter with Sqnsr a the Dikeses un the Sparkses un the with a walk around the farm to Bee if Weekly. H e's a do-un work at he’d Ellets un the Shipleys, un I don't know the “ army worm” ami the “ fly” were ortn't to do,’ s’zl. ‘ I nuvver see a man who offun Big Rattlesnake Crik, jiat making their annual incursions in their a do-un uv weemun’a work, but aome-b'n come en, this eveutm. Un they’ re fur usual force. wrong.’ Why, I ’d git down un crawl hossun that feller Maaon up. Un he’ll be Lizzy rapidly wrote a few line#, ex on my hnn's un knees, Miss Weekly, hosst up, too, ef I caint keep up down." plaining their temporary absence by say "Is Mr. Mason in town?” Lizzy asked. 'fore I ’d, uvver theuk a lettun Coonrod ing that she had gone with Mrs. Redden go out un milk one uh ar cows. H e She did not know what it was to be at 11 o'clock, to ascertain what had de haint nuvver done no weemun's work “ hosst up,” hut she knew enough about tained Mr. Conrad Redden ao long, and senst him un me went togyuther, so he tbe impetuous people upon the Big R at that she would he back very soon. haint. W hy, when Lum thar was a tlesnake Creek to know that he was men (T o ha continued.* buby----- •" aced with a real danger. Artd the very “ Now, mother,” said Columbus Red uncertainty of its nature made It perhaps A L IB R A R Y 8 ,0 0 4 Y E A R 8 O L D . den, wnrningly, “ please don’t say any more threatening— more to be dreaded. thing about that interesting period of “ I don't know jiat whur he is nt. He'a my existence, on this occasion, will you? scme’rs up awn your lan’ I thunk. Camp T a b le ts T a k e n fr o m One a t N lp p n r D ata Rack 7,000 H. C. I don’t care for those reminiscences my ed up there, no I b-yenrn. They's two T h e oldest city public lib rary In th « self, having heard them twice a week companies uv railroad fellers up thar for, say fifteen yeurs.” wntchun one unuther, l low. You see United States is that o f Boston, which they both wawnt your lan.' I.ize! Un this was founded in 1851, says the N e w feller Mason’s gut some-h’n to do with York M all. T h at makes It very old, C H A P T E R X I. Un one com according to our standards. But P ro f. Columbus glanced a little confusedly nt sotne-way urruther. at Lizzy Wickly. His mother paused in pany's tryun to sk-ycar the other'n off; An gelo H llp rech t o f tlie U n iversity o f the very act of cutting her fried ham, uu hits a tryun to sk-yenr tliam. Un ao Pennsylvania lias been exam ining a and sat ominously stiff with both arms they have ut." library, nnd a public library o f som e extended and tlie knife and fork hold sort, which is a little older than that. ready to resume operations so soon as C H A P T E R X II. she could get sufficient com mand'of her There was perhaps ns much o f ill omen It conslsta o f a mass o f doeumenta, in self to turn her head away from the di in “ Coonrod" Redden’s information as scribed In cuneiform letters on tiles. rection of Columbus Redden's chair to to make Mrs. Redden visibly uneasy, and In a w ing o f the tem ple o f Baal a t ward her own plate. so. by nntural and ohviona processes, to Nippur, the ancient Babylonian city “ You don’t k-yur! Huh! W ell, I communicate her uneasiness to one of which lies between the T ig ris and the reckon you don't k-yur. H it haint lien her two guests, at least. no trouble to you, e f hit has ben to me, Mrs. W ickly, perhaps, having no other Euphrates. WICKLY’S WOODS uh! H it's mighty lino to have some body to work fur yuh! un sen’ you to collige, un pay fur your aige-cation so your kin set roun’ uu make fun uv the way your mother un your father talks. A t's about n hus nige cation's good fur. Miss W eekly! H it's a good tlieng you ain't gut no hoys to rnise un alge-cnte! A g'yurl haint a go-un to set up un meek fun a tbnr mother's way a talkun right to thur faint.” “ You don’t happen to have any girls, mother.” retorted Columbus Iteilden. smiling in a very S"lf-posse*scd and ex asperating way. “ I wush to thuh Inn' I had g-ynrls, Instid a the kine uv a boy I'v e gut. Bo I do! W h ur'did you stay so late las’ night, my larkey?' I wnwnt to know some-h’ n ’limit whnr you put in so much time. So I do!” broke in Mrs. Iteilden, in n fury. Mr. Columbus Redden smiled, and winked deliberately at Miss Lizzy Wickly before proceeding in a calm and pleas «fitly mischievous manner: “ Oh. these secrets of ours are not at all to be intrusted to the keeping of women, mother. There never was a woman who could keep a secret, you know. And, o f course, 1 couldn’t for a moment entertain the idea. Indeed, I couldn’t. I ’d do anything to oblige you. But really----- ” And Mr. Columbus Redden smiled again and winked at f.izzy Wickly, with quiet, enjoyable humor. “ Yes. you’d do lots to uhbleege me.“ retorted his mother with great scorn, nnd going on to cut and eat her fried ham with great vigor. In spite o f a downpour o f rain, cool and even chilling in the mere suddenness of its fall of temperature from ninety de grees to sixty-eight decrees, there was al most a continuous procession o f two- horse farm wagons along the Overcoat rond in the direction o f Bnndtown. Little troops of horsemen went scurry ing round these wagons at every point, goiog this w »jf and that, and looking not sorrow pressing upon her save the one involved In her husband's enforced ah sence on account of his dreadful malady, had. even in that, some return of satis faction. “ Your father would never have dreamt of such n thing ns mortgaging your land without your permission, Lizzy, if he had not been actually insane then,” she said, as the two undressed for bed. leaving Mrs. Redden trying Ihc front door to see if it had unlocked itself within the last ten minutes. “ What a great pfty such a dreadful disease cannot he known ill lime to prevent it. like other diseases.” "Y ou remember that he was wakeful, mother. He slept very badly for weeks," Lizzy said, thinking of her own wakeful nights of late. “ Yes, but we thought he was only studying about the fortune that we have been making fun of him about. Poor man! I wonder 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.” Bimple and unemotional ns were her mother's words ami gestures, Lizzy knew that they indicated a depth of feeling that no one else would suspect. Bo she set about the task o f reassuring her mothce. with all that Mr. Redden had suid to her on the subject. They talked together in low tones for a long time while the wind nnd rain bent upon the resounding weatherboards snd shook the window sashes in the win dows, snd psttered drops of rain sgainst the panes, with a sound that might have been made if the Overcost road had thrown its coarsest sands in showers sgainst the farm house, in n burst of anger i t the innovation that put a new and painted building in the place o f the old log cabin that now leaned lonely and dejected against a bunch of dreary, *«.b bing. soughing pines a quarter o f a mile away. Finally Mrs. W ickly aank Into a deep and restful sleep, and Lizzy- feeling that Prof. H llp recht had already dug out o f the ruins o f this temple about 30,- 000 com mercial, legal and literary ta lr lets, and this Inst summer he hue found 4,000 more. T h e tablets which bo has discovered this year nre the old est ever, so to speak, fo r he d ecla re« that they date back as fa r as 7,000 years tiefore Christ. ’17ils discovery is startling In more senses than one. I f the fam ilia r and s o cal led Biblical chronology Is righ t the Nippur people had a library o f doc uments and stories, probably free to those who could read them, som e 1,- 33(1 .vein’s b efore Adam was created—■ or, according to Archbishop Ussher’e chronology. 1.102 years before it; fo r tills learned man supposed that exact ly 4,004 years had elapsed from the creation o f Adam to (he birth o f Christ, and 11)01 years are supposed to have elapsed since that dnttv Th is chronology has twsm som ewhat discredited since Archbishop I ssher made his computations, and discredit ed largely as the result o f such (lts- r o v iT lis as lli's p made by I ’rof, 11II- preclit ill Babylonia. It Is to be said, however, that the more the old A ssy rian or Babylonian records are hxiked Into tlie more they Increase the re spect o f students for the H eb rew scripture«. R everence auJ au thority must alw a ys go w ith the record which survives in men’s lives and thoughts. Ages a fte r the tem ple e f Rani and it* great library had lieen “ a possession fo r the bittern, and pools o f w ater.” and a fter the very «lust o f the last sur v iv o r o f the old librarian* had van ished from the Interior o f Ita toiult, the stories o f Genesis w ere still told by the livin g successors uf the pra-sta w ho com piled them.