more salneo un 'e hnd before he weut!
WiCSiLY'S WOODS)
By II. W. TAYLOR
V JK
ur pap ull git tuck k'yur uv, Llsiy. Ms
uu Joe ICIIct un Bill Shipley ull go over
to-morry ur day alter, un see to 'Int. That
was that ornerry hee-lmwun uu whim
whatmmin feller, Mason, at druv n past
Jlst now, hoys! I h-yurn 'at ho' h-yur
to bid I "II ar moggljls. I've jlst soul
Mm par er nodus at he'll he hiust up
ef he pit a his nose cn-dilo a this town
tho next thee-four weeks, by guml"
THEWEEKLY
i HISTORY
fflljIliTOjfiPw i
CHAPTER VIII. Continued.)
Hilly Bllcr looked Tory much relieved
at something. Probably at tho prospect
of trouble. Or perhaps that tliero waa
no public elm res that any of Squire
Wlckly'e money hud gone Into his pocket.
At the Miuo moment Liny Wlckly wm
saying;
"I don't mind It, father. And you
mustn't. Wo can't mitko It any bettor
by worrying o over It. And so fnr ns
tii bind li concerned" but she could
not go on without it sort of spasm of
tho throat thnt itrnnclcd her for teti sec
onds "why, It Isn't such a beautiful
tract a all that Next tlmo I'll buy n
quarter section In the accoud bottom
prairie. That will b a sensible pur
chase, won't It?"
Mr. Wlckly looked nt her with hU
brows knitted Into tho sort of lowering
fiown that had until to-dny been un
known ujwn his kindly face.
"You don't seen to understand," he
void, harshly and slowly, nud with that
strange flushing of tho whole face that
had made Dr. May shako his head, when
lis had been called In to see the sick
man thnt morning "that I already know
that the mere loss of thoie ugly wooded
bills nnd hollow is nothing! Hut is It
nothing that 1 must lose my fortune of
more than a mfltton three hundred thou
sand, simply because I can hare noth
ing upon which to raise n few hundred
dollars when It is needed to push ray
case I believe that you actually want
mo to fall, or delay It until I die. so
that you can have It. Yes, that's It.
That's the plot that yon are capable of
concocting and carrying forwardl You
and that scoundrel, Mason I Ho put you
up to it! That's what you were In the
woods that day for!"
lie came toward her with his hands
clenched nnd his lips drawn In a sort
of horrible smile that changed and vi
brated between the appearance of ghastly
mirth and fierce anger. She had never
dreamt of such a mood In him. For he
had been the best and kindest of fath
ers never very helpful at bread-win-nine,
to be sure! But so uniformly good
aud kind, and sensible! And now In this
awful mood he surely meant to do her
karral
At that Instant Mrs. Wlckly coming
lo, fortunately announced In her ordinary
cheerful manner that "dinner was ready,
and go on In John; don't keep me wait
ing!" Aa If instinctively, or by force of long
habit, John Wlckly turned slowly away,
and with the menacing look fading Into
a sullen and brooding frown, he went
lowly ont of the room and into the
kitchen, where they heard him moving a 1
cialr as be always did In sitting down
to dinner.
cnArTKit ix.
"Now. Liny, my child," said the moth
er in a hurried undertone, "put on your
sunbonnct and run as quick as you can
ran to Dr. May's and tell him that I
want him to como, and bring some help.
If he thinks best Itun uow!"
"But hadn't you better go with me 7
la It safe for you alone r
The girl clasped her arms convulsive
ly about her mother a neck.
"It will be perfectly safe for me. Liny.
Itun, now."
The girl started, and btr mother ran
after her to the door.
"When you come back, don't come In
where be is, Lizzy. You know what
strange antipathies are often shown by
by by people under great mental excite
ment" She had hesitated at the very word
that was ringing louder and louder
through all the resounding labyrinth of
the brain. She had made a generaliza
tion where the specific object was most
glaringly before them, Lizzy thought,
as she ran through the dry, light, yield
log sand of the street If she had said
plainly what she so plainly meant ahe
would haTe said:
"Don't venture near him! lie Is furi
ously insane, and Is possessed of the
hallucination that you and Mr. Mason
an plotting to injure and thwart and de
stroy hi in. lie may kill you in a sudden
paroxysm of insane fury. Don't go near
him I Don't go near him!"
Unheeding the knots and larger
bunches of men that now literally dot
ted all the conjoined thoroughfares of
Sandtown, scarcely stepping a foot out
of the way of the wagon leads of people
that were still coming In from tho south
west by the Hirer road and from the
northeast by the Overcoat road, Lizzy
ran on to the doctor's office, only to dis
cover that be was not there.
"He's done gone down town some'rs,
long go. Reckon' you'll fine 'im raehby
ome'rs whur they're agoun to hole the
meetun on the bank bustun. I'll go down
un scef I kin ketch 'im fur yub, ef you
yawnt me to," said young Billy Dikes,
who was known to be "reading medicine
and tendun to Doc's houses fur 'Im." ay
his father, little Bill Dikes, had said Jo
cosely In explanation of the process by
which young Billy had already achieved
the title of "the youug Doe" upon the
upontaneous motion of the humorous
Hoo.ilers of his acquaintance.
Tho young Doc had clearly volunteered
to "ketch 'im," as an afterthought found
ed upon the signs of great anxiety and
distress In the young woman's face
signs of need of help that bad appealed
successfully to the chivalric hearts of
these rough people of Sandtown ever,
heretofore, and will continue so to appeal
successfully, bo long as one of their
characteristics shall remain unplaned
sway by the smoothing and polishing pro
cesses of advancing civilization.
"You Jlst set right down right b-yur,
In this h-yur chur," contlnuod the kindly
youug Iloosler, exhibiting all the hos
pitable Instincts of all the hospitable
Dlkescs, as far back as anybody can re
member. "Is your pap much worse,
Waxy 7"
All Ilooslerdom has a fashion despis
ed of the pollshod Bast as it Id of call
ing everybody by his or her christened
tiAinot A fashion that It Is to be hoped
will not be planed away In the polishing
processes of westward-advancing civiliza
tion. "I'm afraid he'a itrj much worse in
fUed," Lizzy Mid, taking the offered
chair, and feeling that even this rmlo
sympathy lightened the burden of her
great grief. Site had dreaded to reveal It
to the world. But oho found that the
world of Sandtown knew It already, and
took actlvo and partisan Interest lit do
ing what It could to help her.
"I h-yurn um say at this h-yur feller,
Mason Is jlst about the whole cause uv
yur pap's uhuh sickness 7" "tho young
Doc" said, as he put ou his hat nud lin
gered a little.
"I don't know. I can't think so. 1
don't know what Mr. Mason has realty
done In all this terrible business. Will
you please hurry. Mr. I)lkes7 I left
mother alone with htm. And I'm uneasy,
so uneasy,"
She sat down again aa the young Doc
sprang out of the open oRlce door and
ran down the street throwing up little
arcs of dry, sandy loam nfter each broad,
scraping shoe-sole until he disappeared
In the crowds that still closer and closer
drew to each other and grew and blocked
up all Die thoroughfare of Sandtowu till
not oveu a re-euforclng team from the
very uttermost end of the Overcoat road
dared attempt a parage, but stopped and
hitched farther and farther out.
She sat nnd listened to the low buis
of voiced In the streets nnd in tho court
home, and heard here nnd there louder
tones, and occasionally a wild yell ami
then a shout of laughter that Indicated
soma ludicrous accident to somebody by
somebody else.
Then all at once there was a complete
diminuendo as If all tho voices had sud
denly and steadily slipped away to the
westward, and out of hearing. And then
she saw a two-horse wagon drive away
from her father's door, with a number
of people In it. She had not seen the
wagon drive up. She had not been look
ing that way. But there was something
ominous in the driving away of that par
ticular wagon, that was now far out on
the Overcoat road, tqward the littlo rail
road station. She watched it with parted
lips and widening eyes until It had hid
den Itsolf In the clouds of drifting, light
sandy loam that perpetually rose up and
settled down upon the grayed surface of
all tho jimson leaves and the oak and
tho maple and walnut foliage, that bore
their burdens of earth In patient assur
ance of the rain that must come and
wash them dean and bright again.
And then out of the hush, the finished
diminuendo of this general assembly of
the makers of public opinion for this sec
tion of the Wabash country, there drov
a strange and unknown two-horse car
riage, with a driver, whose figure com
ing within the.field of her abstracted aud
unfixed vision Instantly caught and con
centrated her gaze. Beyond a doubt It
was Mr. Mason, this time In broad day
light driving toward her through the
crowd, and going eastward as to the rall-1
way station, lie would stop when he
shonld see her! And there were others
In the carriage one a fine, dignified look
ing gentleman. Was he Mr. Huntley J
She stood In the door and even stepped
down Into the sand outsldo In onler to
make sure that Mr. Mason would see
her. lie had doubtless repented of his
determination to keep Prof. Huntley
away from her; and now he would make
CHAPTER X.
The rain hnd put off Its coming until
every broad black-green glossy Jlmsoii
leaf, and all tho delicately tialmated foil-
age of tho wild hemp, and the maple,
nud tho white oak had long lain under
the common veil of sober gray, thrown
everything over by the rolling wheels and
tramping feet of the Overcoat road In
the light, sandy loam came down at last
In a steady, growing patter that awoke
Llzsy Wlckly for the twentieth time
throughout the hot, feverish, restless
night.
For the twentieth time she lsv and
listened to the southwest wind, sweeping
lu gusty circles thnt dashed the cool,
hard rain against tho window panes with
a shot-like rattle as If It were the dimin
utive pebbles of that threatening, specter-trodden,
ominous Overcoat road, ris
ing up and flying at her In a coujulnod
onslaught of all possible evils.
How she tried to recnll tho almost
perfect happiness that hnd beeu her only
a lew neeus agol And how did she only
"It was aa easy its fulling off a log,"
mill tho young num wltih tliu now
shoulder straps.
"But I thought you luul to go
through West IVilnt."
"You do, If there Isn't nuy other
way. If you've got n long pull nud n
strong pull you ran tnlto n short cut.
I took the o.inmtuatloua, though. 1
crnmititM for them. The chap who did
the cramming s.ild thnt I was n partic
ularly good subject for the operation.
1 illtlii't have anything to unlearn. He
Intimated that my mind was simply
one. largo yawning cavity -a void
without so much as nn nolle In It
ami all he hnd to do was to shovel In
Information of the kind there -would
be a call for on the paper. Ho was
fairly wise to that,, nil right.
"All tho Mine, It was a good thing
for mo Hint pupa was In tho Senate.
I'm lucky, all right. But I was luck-
succeed In fully understanding that she I lint when It catno to the physical e.v
his ungraciousness.
If so she could very, very freely, nay
even Joyously forgive him. Aud that
much the more readily because of the
fact that since so many people. In fact,
practically the whole community, had
Joined as with one voice in denouncing
and threatening Mr. Mason, she had turn
ed alxiut and engaged, passively at first
aud then actively, in his defense.
What had he done to any and all of
the people of Sandtown that was half
so unfair, imj'lt and cruel as what be
had done to ber7 Compered with her
wrengs, theirs were n matter of nothing!
If she could afford to become his com
panion, could anybody In all Itedden
township afford to say aught against
him?
As they drove rapidly nearer, she, was
conscious of something altered about his
look, she could nut tell precisely what.
But it was something that gave him a
totally different air, some way! Before,
he hnd beeu thoughtful, respectful, al
most subservient in all his action In her
presence.
Always watchful, respectful, and con
siderate, at ail events, with a manifest
anxiety to please her. An anxiety so
manifest tMt perhaps It had tended to
prevent her from being pleased with him
at all. Now he had something of tho
cold, hard, haughty look of the man who
I directing a great many men who arc
"under" him In every sen of the word.
She saw this so plainly In that brief
time in which the powerful horses were
walking through the heavy-pulling dry
sand of the Overcoat read, that she com
pared this with his former Iwariug aud
fell that there w as a low almost an un
comfortable loef.
And all those Impressions and reflec
tions nr redoubled and reduplicated,
ami intensified, when to her utter surprise
and unending mortification the carriage
did not stop, awl the driver, Mr. Mason,
passed with only a cold and formal In
clination of his head toward her!
She fairly sunk down upon the ofilcr
door sill with a feeling of shame, sur
prise, almost angry resentment! She
looked after the carriage as the new
paint on its wheel glittered in tho sun.
She saw them whirl the light sand up
into little settling clouds, and she felt
absolutely like screaming at the very ton
of her voice and starting in a wild chase
after tho rapidly disappearing vehicle.
So engrossed was alio with these feel
ings and reflections that she waa un
aware of the approach of Dr. May along
with "Coourod" Redden, and a constant
ly Increasing posse of followers.
"Lizzy, you un your mother better git
into vaj calrge, nn Lum will drive you
down to my house. lilts no use ub
mekun a furso 'bout things 'at caln't be
hept Yur pap's Jlst plum, slap dab
crazy, Un we've jlst started 'im to tha
asalo-um. That aaslo-um Is jlst tho plast
fur 'im. IIo'U git k'yored right uway
cf they' airy- a k'yore fur 'im. They
sont Billy Beaseley over to that asalo-um
bout thee-four weeks ago, wasn't It Doc 7
Un by gum; he's back at homa now with
had then been really happy and hnd not
known It. The angel of bliss had tar
ried with her for nights and days, and
she, too, culpably unaware!
Her brain pictures enmo and went It,
one unvarying triangle of great troubles.
Her father's dreadful mental disease,
with all the divergent ami dependent
misery of this more than living death,
blighting aud destroying their happy lit
tlo homo nt one terrible blow. Her
strong and growing passion for n man
whom she had never seen face to face.
and whom she only know through tho
partial word pictures of his friend and
assistant; together with the attitude of
tliat friend and assistant toward her.
And finally, as the smallest angle of
this triangle of constantly pressing griefs
the loss of her property upon which
sha had built her hopes of future suc
cesses to be achieved In the great city
that was so fsst spreading down and
across the prairies, that Its subtle at
traction had long ago reached the wooded
hills of tho Wsbash country, and wns
drawing to Itself alt of the ambition, the
daring, the discontent, the spirit of ad
venture of these wide valleys and shaded
hills, and wood-hedged prairies.
Cutting Into the secoud angle of this
triangle, and even Into both the others
was a perplexing mixture of regret and
Indignation centered upon Mr. Mason.
Ilegret that she had been left, so far as
he kuaw or could know, In the attitude
of having treated him with Inexcusable
rudeness aud lack of feeling.
What did he think of her; what could
be think of her In the light of that last
evening when be bad appeared for a brief
time endowed with god-like attributes
that enabled him to defy the vary demon
of the hurricane?
What a magnificent msn must his prin
cipal be, Indeed, to have developed such
heroic qualities In this underling the
man who labored with him for a stlnu-
la ted price, as he hsd confessed to her!
How had he slipped awny like a thief
nuder cover of the night with all the
gossips of Sandtown wagging their heads
and smiling the knowing smile of absolute
faith In the certain villainy of the flee
ing man! Why had he not taken time
to come to her openly and without fear,
amlnntlou. It Imdu't occurred to the
folks that my path would Iwve to be
smoothed lu thnt dlnvtlon. and I was
cocknuru myself tliat I was all husky
In thnt respect. I never did pride my
elf on my Intellect, birt when It come
to chest owiiln I don't take u iwck
seat fur ntijUvly.
"dust s soon ns I laid eyes on the
aawbone. I was ordered to rr'strt to I
figured that If he Imd n chance to turn
tne down he'd do It. lie was an old
duck probably hniln't had a promo
tion slnco ho wont Into the service
nud iinttirnlly felt erc to sec a bright
young man shluiriim over the alley
femv liiMctut f wnlkliu; around to the
front gate. 1 saluted In my best style,
but It didn't seoiu hi prvpltWitc hUn
worth a. tvit.
" .Strip,' he barked.
"'You meftti that you wish mo to
disrobe? 1 lii)iilrtvl.
"'I mean atrip,' he says.
"Well, I didn't cart? to nrgiie with
lilin on the felicity of Uic I'Miresslon.
I peeled light there. Then ho went
lo work on me. He punched me In the
rlli and then hauled off iiml lauded on
my chest. Ho wrenched lity .'awn
npnrt and looked at every tooth I own
cd. lie made mo bond forward nud
backward nud do various feat of
ground tumbling, He tried my car
with the tick of n wnteh nml my eye
sight with a basket of Berlin wool
skclus. Then he got out a rdotho
ncox and prospected for pulmonary
symptom--unsuccessfully.
"Ho looked more nivd mom disap
pointed every minute of tho time un
til ho work ixl hi way down my rluht
leg. Then his face htiirhlcncd. 'I Id
lo!' he nay. This le;; Ipia been
broken.'
" 'That doesn't cut any lee.' 1 snld.
'I can kick n hard ns ever I could.'
'"You must lot me be the Judgo of
that, yoilliK limn,' lie said gniltly, 'The
tmuo ha knit, but It 1ms been set Iwd
ly, nml I doubt whether tho limb
would be eUal to the strwln of n
twenty live mile forced uiHivh.'
"or ploet) of work, eh 7 I wild
"'A IniU'Ii,' he replied, plemssntly.
'I'm afraid that I thall ih1 be able to
psM you lu till examination.'
" 'lather alwn.VM nald It was a
botch,' 1 told Win. 'but I inner expect
cd to liHMryou own up to It. It's ymr
ou u Job, doctor. Do you roiiHMtiher a
kid fulling off the roof of (he Hit
trader" shed when you wore slMthHicd
nt Blley7 That was me. I'ntlior Iwd
tho Imy contract at that time. You
didn't examine tlml old fracture nuy
too carefully. Feel It again ami hv If
It Isn't III better shape than you
thought, won't you, ph-aw, doctor?
"So he felt It ngnln.
"'I don't know but thnt leg's sou ml
enough for nil prnctlcnl purpoM-,' ho
mild. 'It was nn ugly fracture,
though, and mot Mirgrous would hIiii
ply have amputated ami let It gu nt
tlmf "Chicago Dnlly News.
MAVWS
nil nnwiurr n.t nnultila .mpnrl, fnr nil I as he had done often and often before?
.inn coinii ii or irue ns more man In
timated by Conrad Beddcn, that he was
now In the neighborhood for the base
nnd heartless purpose of purchasing all
the heavily mortgaged property of the
Sandtown people for one-tenth of Its real
value. Just at the time when a series of
unfortunate speculations had crushed the
Snndtown Fanners' Bank, and thus put
It out of the power of the people to bor
row money with which to save their
homes?
(To b continued.)
WORLD'S RICHEST MEN.
List Shows Where the Millions Are
Distributed Here und Abroad.
No two uompotttont have made sim
ilar IUU of the millionaire of tiio
world. Ohlnn, ICnglnnd, Trance, Bus
Hla ami the United .States each clulm
to be tho home of tho richest man.
The Hat compiled by Jnine.i Burnley,
tlio English author, is as followa: Al
fred Belt diamonds, Loudon, $,'),.
(XjO.OOO; J. It. Itoblnson, koI.1 and dtu
niondx, Iudoii, f 100,000,000; J. D.
Kockefoller, oil, New York, J2W),000,
000; W. W. Aator, land, London, JliuO,
000.000; I'rlncH Denildoff, land, St.
I'oternbtirK, J200.000.000; Androw
Carnegie, steel, New York, $ri5,000,
000; W. IC. Vanderbllt, railroads, Now
York, 5100,000,000; Wlllln.ni Bockofel
lor, oil, Nojv York, $100,000,000; J. J.
Astor, land, Now York, ?75,000,000;
Lord BoUiHchlld, money landing, Lon
don, $"r,000,000; Duko of WoKtmln
Hler, land, London, $75,000,000; J.
I'lorpout Morgan, Imuklng, Now York,
?7.',000,000; I.ord Iveagh, beer, Dub
lin, $70,000,000; .Swtora Isldon Cou
nine, nilnea und railroads, Culler, $70,
000,000; M. Heine, Hllk, 1'nrin, $70,
000,000; Huron Alplioiiso Uotiischlld,
money lending, i'arls, $70,000,000;
Baron Nathaniel BotliHclilld, money
liuidlng, Vienna, $70,000,000; Arch
duko Frederick of Aimtrlu, land, Vien
na, $70,000,000; (ieorne J. Gould, rail
roudu, Now York,. $70,000,000; Mrs.
Hetty Green, bunkliig, New York, $!5.V
000,00); Jnmwj II. Smith, banking,
Now York, $fiO,000,000; Duko of Do?
onHhlre, land, London, $50,000,000;
Duko of Bedford, land, London, $50,
000,000; Henry O. Hnvemeyor, sugar,
New York, $50,000,000; John Smith,
mines, Mexico. $45,000,000; Claus
Spreckels, sugar, San Francisco, $-10,-000,000;
Archbishop Conn, land, Vien
na, $40,000,000; Itussell Sage, money
lending, Now York, $25,000,000; Sir
Thomas Upton, groceries, London,
$25,000,OOO.r-KnnM8 City Journal.
Our grand business Is, not to see
what Ilea dimly at a dlstanco, but to
do what clearly Ilea at hanL Corlyla.
Two-third of the malo population
of tho world. It Ls estimated, wxs to
bacco. The children of the United States
each year consume toy that cost nt
retail SI.'.OOO.OOO.
Within the last fifty years, Hamburg
and the coast of Germnuy In It neigh
borhood Im sunk live feut nine Inches.
A atone lions-1 I not so durable ns
one of brick. A brick house well con
structed will outlast ono built of gran
ite. The population of Bangkok I esti
mated nt 500.000 wnils. among wUniu
arc about 000 Kuropouus and Ameri
ca ns.
The IVipuan native village constable,
with ten shillings n jear ami two uni
forms, ta tho cheapest iollcvman Aus
tralia lina to jmy.
Sweden ami Norway aits tho only
countries whore praetkaHy crwy
grown ma,n can read and write. Ba
varia cowo-t next hi Ula rwfpect
A curlou plant Has rewtly Imh-h
found In Mexico. It Is slmlkr to a
pumpkin, wltli a rough, corky lark, re
sembling that of nn oak. It haa been
named "pahim."
Uncle Sam U dealing with two kinds
of IndlaiM In the Indian Territory
Um real Indian, uukitown In the liant.
and the picture Indian, unknown to
th Wct. St. loul Gtolxt-Democrat.
Tho Austrian ICmijwor la a man of
the atniplesit taste, but atlll he I said
to Meml $'iT0,000 a year on the palace
tables). The dally cot of ftirnlahlug
the Imperial table U from $'.'00 to $W).
Tho Kaiser haa Just been npolotcd
sh a captain general In Uie Spanish
.riny. There ruimilnti now no ISuro
hui force, military or naval. In which
he doot not hold honorary rank. He
KjteHM4-H ut leant 150 uniform.
The SlamoHe capital la the terminus
of four llnoti of railway. It bus a Hue
ftorvico of electric trains nml la well lit
by electrlolty. It nlso joemon one
of tluj lliumt race couraoM lu the Kant
and haa nwiiy eliilw, tine hotels, Mev
eral banks, good hoapltnl, etc.
The xedUon of women la high In
Slam; they enjoy Iwtli In ImalitoMi
matter ami social life it great lude
peiMlHiicc Though ixilygnuiy 1 per
mitted, It dooa net exkst among the
groat iimm of people, and In no way
affecta the poattlou of women.
It waa a New York house that print
ed the IkiikU for the recent JnpHiieae
loan. Tho Loudon baukH Unit lasued
the boiula uro wild (o have discovered
n curious error In them. A number of
the '-"00 Ixinls liuvo different iimouutM
In tho wittonimrk and lu the text.
No foreign iwvo reign known the Hug
llsli language better than tho King of
Italy, who, when a small lmy, wna
made to speak It In placo of Ida na
tive tongue. Aa n youngater King Vic
tor ISmmanuol III, kept n diary, In
which ho recorded the events of his life
in Bngllsn.
Taking a leaf out of tho book of
Mary Queen of Scots, tho ISmprojw
Dowager of China, It ls a:4d, Is going
to have her handmaids In the ihiIhuo
taught to now and spin. In lieu of tue
tambour framo they will bo nupplled
with looms and learn tho useful art of
weaving towels nml other domestic
llnon.
In Uie fashionable West ICnd of
Iondou a teacup especially made for
fortune telling U being sold. The cup
la riigrnicd on the itwttde with the
mystic symlwla of tiio fortune teller
a It'll, heart. )orcnhoc. aiul mi nn.
The ton leaved at the bottom are swirl-1'"1? Yeara Ago.
One) Hundred Ycnrrt Ago.
Sweden was ulillKvd by the ti'Iiioiv
(trance of Prussia lo decline the prof
fered subsidy of Kughlnd.
The city of l.nbeck. lernmny, wn
surrounded by French troops lo pre
eiit Huglbdi pntducta fmiu being lu
trodiieed, IHghtii'n American vessels were at
the port of AiiiHtetdHiu.
The French wnveruiuent pnnaeil a
law grunting pension to alt emigrant
from Santo iMiulnjei).
Three thousand French triMips were
onlensl to The Hague o prvienl an
uprising which was daily expected
Itc-cuforcetiieut of Frem-h trixip ar
rived at Snuto Domingo and elTeclunl-
ly repulsisl Uuinir Destinies' army.
I'ortugal purt'liHMNl wllli the cuiiriir
rence of I'hglaiiil the suff ranee of
Fmucu to remain neutral In (he war.
Scvcnty-flvo Years Ago.
V lieu til ll dei'lnntt Itself Independent.
l'nstlirllig of ciwm ou the Boutou
common wa forbidden by law
Sioux IiKllnni annihilated the Hnt
and Fox trlttes near Dubiiipie, town
The first light or the lllncknx-k tight
house nt I.lverjMxil nppeanxl
0)iigres provhliMl for a iMiundnry
linn to I hi run N-imc-ii ,oulslim ami
Arkansas territories.
I'otntleum was discovert! In Ken
tucky, ami a It was siipjmhmsI lo have
healing properties It waa Ixtlllod and
sold throughout the t 'lilta-sl Stale and
Kuropo for medicine
The first gohl from Georgia mhiev
wa recsdved at the United Mates
mint
ed round the cup. ami according to
the oaltion or obJcti on which Uiey
stick ao is one" fortune.
All kind of dny hnve bern cele
brated nt rxooaltlons nnd fairs, but
for originality of Idea the promoters
of n fair at Mncon, On., hnve the rt
of tho country put to sleep. Tills fair
Is to hnve a "Smith day," nml all the
Smiths of Georgia are Invited to at
tend. There are two Smith nt thn
head of th show and there are -100
other Smltha In Macon, it Is comput
ed tlait Georgia contains .in.Ooo Smiths,
more or le. Including Uoku Smith
of Atlanta. Mobile lleglstor.
It la a curloiM fact that a loyV
i.. i. ..... i i ....
uu ,'' wm-iHiii siower iiinu a
girl's. In loya the averagt rate of
growth Is threo feet thret Inchea In
six ytr. Iehig an average of .01 h
Inch a day. During Uie twenty-first
and twenty-fourth year a man' hair
growi (iiU-ker than at any oilier pe
rlsxl. It take an cytlatt4i twenty
weeka to n-ach a length of .VJU imIi,
aial tliett It life Is from l(i to J no
day. By iifHan f H i,WM,ra. the
wink of an ayeHd haa befii measured,
ami It wa fouml that twenty wink
can be MMMle In four whiiwIh.
Uitcoim'louHly, HHHtt ICugtish men
ami wtrttien Iwve Ihimi thinking in mill
ions ever since the American ami min
ing millionaire Imve come in the front
ami that is one" of Uw main cause
of Uie illtrtreH which exist tltroiighoni
the country, in the Vit Kml mmt
tnen of moderate mean hate Imhi liv
ing as If a vast fortune waa awaiting
tlimn In the ImuuslkHle fulure, their
wives and daughters have drotcd ism
aldurnbly latyond their nllowiince; and
In'the city the average business man
will not coiishler a propiaal thnt f.
fonls no prospect of proiit on a lame
Hoalc Imdon Graplilc.
Tlio New Alnltl.
Th greenness of the newly arrivtsl
H-rvant girl Is froahly IHustrHttsl. ,
certain maid who hail Just come over
.from Ireland was engaged by a Brook
lyn liollHiikeHr. A bell hung lu the
girl's room, and the morning nfler ur
arrival her mistress rang I hla bell to
get her up. But the miild did im get
up, though the bell rung ami rang.
Finally, therefore, the mUtrisss roo
herself, nud slipping on a dressing
gown a!. lmsteneil to the new er
van'ta room. There, wide awake, the
maid lay, laughing tit tho top of lmr
lungs. '
"What on earth are you laughing at,
Norahi" said the mistress.
"Faith, mum," Norah answered.
"I'm Inughln' nt that boll. As sure as
I live I Imvon't touched It, an' -Just
soo It's wnggln' yet."
IKn t'nrlis. the Spanish pretender,
illrsl at Trb-st.
The Nlagnrn suspension bridge was
completed.
A free) public school system was es
tablished In Illinois.
Tho Atlantic nud St. Lnwreure rail- ,
mad waa leased to the Grand Trunk
railroad Mr WW year.
Nassau hall nt 1'rlnccton university,
built In I7.VI, wns dmiroycd by lire.
Several persons were killed by tho
falling In of the floor of the town hull
at Meredith. N. II.
The pIculiMitcntlarle at Vienna ex
changed power ami commenced pro
ceisllng townnl agreeing iiMin the
terms of l(Uo-Tllrklli pisirn.
Unite Nnturul.
Mlfkln Did that policeman you
spoke of die u nntiirnl dith?
BlfkJns Yoa; ho just wont from ono
sloop Into nnother until ho fell Into
his Inst steep.
It Is evory child's demand thnt n
parent should provide him with every
luxury AND savo money.
Happy la tho man who ls too busy to
find fault '
forty Years Ago.
The panic In irld carried quotation
down to lfVi. a drop of iyt oliil
In three days.
The Parliament at Onebeo adopted
the confederation m-Iwws by a large
tote.
Itejtorts ef Mhsrldatt aud Sherman
aUi'cenam nmtl gbl down to IMI' A
stnrt time before It Wits quoted at '.".
aal over.
News reached the North thnt th
(ilifelernfe Congees hsil pssxil a
bill to arm and wpilp the n.-.-rues as
Hihllers.
Itlchutoiet (Va i aiers publuhed an
exiswiure of an alleged eom.plrii.-y to
oust Dnvl and Stephen, make lluntrr
lireskleut, nml end the war
('resident Unmdii Isaunl a proclama
tion onlering tliat nil cltlscu or doml
died ngmits trnllleklng with riife.l
erutea be arrested and hold ns prison
ers of war.
Thirty Yearn Ana.
The Hawaiian treaty was helm
fought lu tlio Senate by sugar Inter
ests, At a consistory hold nt the Vatican
Archbishop MeC'loskey of New York
was made n cardinal.
The French Assembly passed tha
military reorganisation bill, (ho i-ousll
tutkiu hating litHui adopted several
Weeks previously.
A tornado devastated the town of
llleiul, Miss. The river bottoms In
the Northwest States were lloodisl.
Quite a sensation was caused lu
r.iiglund by the outcnum of the Mur
daiint dlvorco uasn In which Iwuly Mor
daunt was decreed guilty,
Twenty Years Ago,
The militia was mobilized nt Sedalla
and oUier points In Missouri lo sup
pruss rlola Incident to tho railroad
strike on tho Gould systom.
Indon papers admitted that tho re
lations between Knglnnd and llussla
wro strained almost to tin. im.niin.r
point over the hitter's Afghan frontier
aggression.
President Cleveland Issued a procla.
matlon barring the "boomer- from,
Okluhomu.
Ton thousand Of tho 1U.000 cnnl .nln.
ers lu tho Pittsburg district struck for
hlghor wages.
Tlio poww ngrcAxl to n conforonw
to bo held In Paris to doternituo tha
status of tho Hue, canal.
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