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A Touch of Womanly Grace. SCIO OREGON Comprehensive Review of the Import ent Happenings of the Past Week Culled From the Telegraph Columns. The members of the party composed of federal generals who are touring the country in the interests of the Repub lican party unite in saying that the most pleasing inoident so far of their journey was a delicate bit of courtesy shown by Mrs. Bryan, wife of the Demooratio candidate for president, who, while the procession in honor of the visiting generals was moving past her bouse in Linooln, Neb., displayed over her door a large portrait of Wil liam McKinley, tastefully draped in the national oolors. It was a touch of womanly garoe, beautiful as it was un expected, and General Alger says that he will cherish it as a sweet recollec tion pluoked from an aorimonious campaign until the end of his days. The Idaho mines, located in the Slo cum district, 'British Columbia, have just declared a dividend of $20,000. The owners of the property expect in Match Girls on a Strike. future to receive a dividend of from Rather than have their teeth ex- $15,000 to $20,000 monthly. amined and repaired, half of the 300 The barge Sumatra, the consort of girl employes of Edwin Gould’s big the W. B. Arnold, from Chicago, with match factory at Passaio, N. J., have a load of railroad iron, foundered off gone on a strike, and deolare they will Government pier, near Milwaukee. never work for such a horrid man Four sailors were drowned. The cap again, Phosphorous, which is used in tain, mate and oook were rescued by a making matches, if allowed to act on life-saving crew. decayed teeth, will evntually subject Jennie Love was shot in the head and them tQ disease and leave them crip instantly killed by William Swanson pled for life. Damage suits may re- in St. Louis. The testimony of several suit. Gould, therefore, ordered the witnesses goes to show that the bullet girls to submit to an examination by a which ended the woman’s life was in dentist, but they refused. tended for William Lee, a negro with Will Readjust Wage Rates* whom Swanson had been quarreling. The Carneige Steel Company, of Jealousy about the woman is the cause uiiuyou. ployes in the mills that a “readjust- A vicious St. Bernard dog attacked ment” of the existing wage scale is de a party of school children in Marys sired by the company. This, the men ville, Cal. Laura Baumann, aged 7, say, means another out in wages. Un was bitten about the face and head and der the agreement with the workmen, will probably die; Baby Kuchs, was each side is required to give a ninety almost torn to shreds, its arms and days’ notice of any change desired in breast were terribly bitten, and it can the wages paid. JThe present scale not recover. Albert Kuchs was bitten expires January 1, when the new scale through the wrist, and will recover, will be put into effect. unless rabies follows. A little girl Storm on the Potomac. was bitten in the leg, but will recover. Reports from the upper Potomac “Doc” Payne and Lon Beckwith, middle-weights, met in Cleveland, O., show that high winds did great dam for a finish fight for $250 a side and age to property this side of the moun the gate receipts in Lavac’s gymna tain. In addition to the wind, there sium. In the seventh round, when was a cloudburst that soon ohanged the Payne was all but knocked out, the small tributaries into raging torrents, police burst in the doors and stopped carrying away much farm property and the fight, arresting all .the principals, washing away many bridges. On a seoonds and referee. Two hundred short spur of the railroad leading to spectators were in attendance, and Berkley Springs, thirteen bridges were only ten of them escaped, jumping oarried off. from the windows. All of the patrol The Powers Have Agreed. wagons in the city made trip after trip There is, says a London dispatoh, conveying the crowd, which contained very good reason foi beliveing that an many prominent citizens, to the sta important agreement has been reached tion. between the great powers and that all It is reported that Lewis Gimm, ot danger of a European war has, for the Cleveland, O., the holder of the Ameri present passed away. It may now be can 24-hour indoor biycle record, is hoped that the danger has been con mentally unbalanced from the effects jured by diplomacy, which alone was of his remarkable performance in that capable of dealing safely and ade city last week. Gimm rode 486 miles quately with the problem. and 1,115 yards in 23 hours, break Mines to Be Worked. ing the American record by more than Preparations are being hurried for 33 miles. He would have fallen from the resumption of work in the Bison, his wheel at the finish but for the Little Johnny, Mehala and Resurrec judges, who noticed the movements of tion mines, at Leadville. At least 600 the rider and carried him from the men are expected to go to work soon. track. * A Head-End Collision. Manuel Gregory, colored, was shot Two freight trains collided at Phil-1 in Chattanooga, Tenn., while attempt ing to rob a house. The bullet, fired son, on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, at a distance of twelve feet, struck 124 miles east of Pittsburg, Pa., mak-1 Gregory in the head and flattened out I ing one of the worst wrecks in the his- as it if had "been made of -paste. ■r_iC---------- 1_ tory of the toad. , The [ - ------ TESLA’S LATEST INVENTION. HU New Electrioal Osollator at Last Perfected* New York, Oct. 5.—Nicola Tesla has explained the principles of the eleo- trical oscillator for whioh he has just obtained a pater t. He has been work ing on the idea for ten years. “The object of my oscillator,” said Mr. Tesla, “is to provide a simple, compaot and effective apparatus for producing greater effects with existing circuits oarrying direct ourrents. Prac tical electricity is too expensive. It must be cheapened so the multitude may have advantage of it. That is all I am aiming at. “My new invention is simply this: In any given circuit I interpose a de vice in the nature of a choking coil in order to give the oircuit a high self-in duction. I also provide a oirouit con troller that may be operated to make and break the cirouit. Around the point of interruption 1 plaoe a conden ser to store the energy of the discharge current, and in series with suoh con denser I plaoe a transformer whioh be comes the source of currents of high frequenoy. “Inasmuch as the self-induction of the oircuit through whioh the conden ser discharges, as well as the oapaoity of the condenser itself, may be given practically any desired value, the fre quenoy of the discharge current may be adjusted at will.” TALE Idiotio OF HORRIBLE CRUELTY. Poor-Farm Inmate Buried Alive. Almost Norwioh, N. Y., Oct. 6.—Floyd Ab bott, deputy superintendent of the poor of Chenago county, has been arrested on a warrant issued by Justice Mc Mahon, of Preston, in which town the county farm is situated. The com plaint was made by Thomas Weaver, one of the most responsible men of the town, who lives at the county farm. He says in an affidavit that Abbott attempted to bury alive George Ma comber, an inmate of the idiot ward; that he forced Macomber into a grave in the oounty farm cemetery and held him there while the grave was par tially filled, and until, in his struggles, his victim finally broke away and es caped. On another occasion Macomber was set upon and beaten by Abbott with a shovel and curelly cut and bruised. He was then compelled to strip naked and was thrown into the oreek whioh runs through the cemetery. Abbott pleaded guilty to the com plaint, and made no attempt to explain or defend his actions. His fine was. paid by his employer, Superintendent Sprague, and Abbott is still retained as deputy. HARROWING TALES. Town of Cedar Key* Said to Be Nearly TV recked. Pensacola, Fla., Oot. 5.—Railroad communication with the eastern and middle parts of the state has just been re-established, and harrowing tales are being received over the peninsula of Florida. It appears that the storm left the gulf and struck the coast about Cedar Twelve tramps have I Keys, which is said to be almost com- negro is not seriously injured. whom were dead. The other six are I Hon. William Collins Whitney and in a serious condition. The two en I Mrs. Edith S. Randolph, were ¿carried gineers and firemen were injured seri at Bar Harobr, Me. It was an in ously and one perhaps fatally. The I ! formal affair. There were no brides orew of the fast freight train lost con maids and no best man. The entrance trol of the train on a steep grade. It to the church was a mass of. roses, was going at a high rate of speed when laurel hydrangeas and potted plants. it struck the other train, every car be D. M. Browning, controller of Indian ing thrown to a common center in the affairs, has made his annual report to collision and ground to atoms. the secretary of the interior. He says It Was a Bold Plot. that with no 'outbreak or disturbance during the year, the progress of the In A plot to ovethrow the government dians in general education and civiliza of Nicaragua and kill President Zel tion has been uninterrupted and sub aya, has been discovered and frustrat stantial. The main effort now, as for ed. Some of the most prominent peo many years, must be to put the In ple are implicated in the plan, whioh dian upon his allotment, teach him to was well prepared. Since the close of support himself, protect him from en the last rebellion, in which Zelaya was croachment and injustice, and educate victorious, his enemies and a majority his children in books and industries. of his former allies, namely, the con The steamer Umatilla, from San servatives, have been plotting to upset Francisco to'Puget sound, struck on the government by force of arms. The the rocks off Point Wilson promon barraoks and palaces were to be as tory, in Discovery bay, near Port- saulted simultaneously, and President Townsend. All of the passengers were Zelaya was to be assassinated. The landed safely by means of small boats. barracks were to be blown up with The starboard bow of the steamship dynamite in case the assault failed. was stove in badly and the steamer is Another Big Deficit. leaking seriously, but rests above the A comparative statement of the re water supported on the rocks. The cause of the disaster is attributed to oeipts and expenditures of the govern the fogs so prevalent in Northern wa ment for the month of September shows the total receipts to have been $24,684,- ters at this season. 244; expenditures, $26,679,535, leav The Cuban junta has received an ing a deficit for the month of $1,995,- offer from an English syndicate of a 291. The deficit of the three months loan of $6,000,000 for $60,000,000 of the present fiscal year is $25,194,129, payable in twenty years. President T. as compared with a deficit of $9,884,- Estrada Palma and the other members 668 in the corresponding months last of the junta held a conference as soon year. Receipts for the last month show as the offer was received. The presi a loss as compared with September of dent was asked what action was taken last year of nearly $3,300,000 from cus and stated: “We have taken no de toms, and about $680,000 from internal cided action as yet,” he said. “We revenue. have received a number of similar Reviewing Stand Collapsed. offers from bankers, who see that we i During the parade at the Iowa semi- are almost certain to win, and we have them all under advisement. We centennial celebration, at Burlington, will probably accept the best terms, the la., the reviewing stand containing offer of the English syndicate seems to Vioe-President Stevenson, Governor call for a very large interest, but the Drake, of Iowa, and staff, and many fact that they may never get it back other prominent people, collapsed, must be considered. During the last throwing all to the ground and injur Vice President year of the Mexican war for independ ing thirty people. ence Mexican bonds sold for $2.50 on Stevenson and Governor Drake escaped with slight bruises. the hundred.” The dredge Enterprise is now at Part of Fez Burned. Cascade locks engaged in clearing the Band from the upper entrance. The A Tangier dispatch says: The Jew inner wall on the south side has been ish quarter of Fez, the principal city completed, and the conorete foundation of the empire of Morocco, has been for the north wall is done. Several burned. Several persons perished, and courses of masonry remain to be laid many were fatally injured. Five upon this latter wall. It is the gen hundred of- the residents of the burn eral feeling that the locks are nearing ing quarter were compelled to flee in completion, and any further delay an unclad condition to the country would be an unwelcome surprise. With unilt the flames were quenched. It is the completion of this work, The estimated that there were 10,000 Jews Dalles expects-to make rapid growth in Fez, out of a total population oi and attract capital from abroad. 100,000. ________ The supreme court of Washington Burned by Brigands. holds that an ordinance of the oity of Advioes from Belgrade say the Tacoma, preventing barbers from pur brother of the Austrian consul at Ceres, suing their calling for compensation Macedonia, who was carried off by a on Sundays is special legislation, and band of Bulgarian brigands some weeks obnoxious to the provisions of the state' ago, with a wealthy Greek landed pro constitution. It says this class of peo prietor and others, has been murdered ple is singled out while other people- with four of his companions, because are allowed to pursue their work, which the ransom of $50,000 demanded by the is strictly contrary to the object of the brigands as the price of their liberty constitutional provision prohibiting was not forthcoming. special legislation. According to the most careful com Miss Clara Howard is working her putation, only one person in 10,000 oi way through the University ' of Cali both sexes attain the age of 100 years, fornia by selling newspapers. and six to seven in 100 the age of 60. in a northeasterly course, its cnameter being about forty miles across the state, doing fearful damage at the towns of Gainesville, High Springs, Newberry, Lake City, Bronsford, Callahan and many others. Much damage is reported at Jackson ville, but no loss of life, as the oenter of the storm seems to have passed to the north of that oity. The loss of property cannot now be ascertained, but it is very heavy, not only in the towns, but on farms, where the crops were de stroyed. JUDGE GRAY INDICTED. Charged With Carrying a Weapon. Concealed Astoria, Or., Oot. 5.—This afternoon the grand jury returned an indictment against County Judge Gray on a charge of carrying a concealed weapon. The oomplaining witness was John Stephen son, one of the witnesses for the de fense in the oase of the Uniontown rioters. The inoident that led to the complaint against Gray ocourred in the early part of August, during the pre liminary hearing of the oases against the alleged rioters, and as the result of a heated argument between the county judge and Stephenson. The latter, Judge Gray asserted, was endeavoring to intimidate Jaoob Jackson, the prin cipal witness against the alleged rioters. Hot words followed, and Judge Gray exposed a six-shooter. Judge Gray oontends that he is a peace officer, and as such has a right to carry a weapon; furthermore, that he had received threatening letters a short time previous to his dispute with Stephenson. Japan to Import American Cotton* Waco, Tex., Oct. 5.—Mr. Tsura- tani, of Kobe, Japan, is here with let ters of introduction to local shippers. The object of his visit is to arrange for direot importation of Texas cotton to Japan. He says there are eighty plants in Japan for the manufacture of cotton goods, and other mills are to be estab lished. Texas Cotton will shortly be shipped from San Francisco to Tokio on a Japanese steamship. Robbed a Paymaster. San Franoicso, Oct. 6.—The Chinn brings news of the robbery at Shang hai of the paymaster of the United States cruiser Boston of $1,122 by two able seamen named Henrickgen and Moooney, both from this oity. The thieves escaped after their bold rob bery, but were captured at Nagasaki. The women of San Farncisco are to give an educational and historical car nival, which will last during an en tire week. A Daring Burglar. Pittsburg, Oct. 5.—It has just been learned that burglars entered the Hotel Norman, near Wilmerding, Pa., Sun day morning, and after chloroforming all the inmates, including eighteen guests, oarried off $10,000 in money, jewelry and silverware. A Flouring Mill Burned. Montrose, Colo. , Oot. 5.—The Farm ers’- and Merchants’ flouring mill burned. The loss is $60,000, with in surance of about $26,000. Spontaneous combustion is supposed to have oaused the fire. I “Mistis! Miss Alice! Jincey never ! spendin of a million dollars can make meant to hurt you!” I him. I know, fer H----- , yo’ know who, [Suggested on reading the resolution passed “She takes yo’ fer her mistis, yo’ great told me dat was in de game. Ef he don’t by the Ladies’ Memorial association of Co lumbia, wherein thev refused to decorate any grandmother. Yo’ ar lik’ her,” the old | git her, most lik’ he’ll quit de country. other graves than those of the Confederate man said in Dare’s ear. Jincey’s hand I say de thing ter do is keep ’em here, soldiers.] was groping feebly under her pillow , keep ’em comfortable, treat ’em lik’ Let the brave and the noble rest !n peace! while her lips moaned: fightin cocks, but keep ’em close till Let the warrors slumber 0111 “The key, the key, find it, find it for they’re willip ter agree ter hold their They are free from the battle’s din and roar, They have waded the river of crimson gore— Miss Alice!” tongues. ” Then leave their ashes’alone. “Is this de one?” Jubilee said, hold “That’d be eenabout always. Man, ’Twere better that only the dews of the mom ing a bit of brass close to the dimming yo’ don’t know them Overtons. Bad as I hate ’em fer their high headed, high ' Bedecked .their graves than that woman’s eyes. scorn ‘Yes, yes,” panted the old woman. handed ways, I know they’re game, tihould snap the garland of blue and of gray ‘ ‘Give it ter her. Papers—in chest—at— I ain’t afeared o’ man ner devil and And hurl the purest motives away de bottom, ’ ’ falling back at the last word I wouldn’t budge a hair from what they . That e’er bloomed in »nation’s heart. I said wus right fer all dis world, with de i with the death rattle in her throat. “Bredren, sisters, sing whiles I pray next thrown in. Talk about makin Then leave their warrior’ couches alone. Let the daisy starred sod and the crumbling fer dis departin soul,” the old man said, | terms! Put it ter vote, I say. Fix er hat, I bone dropping on his knees at the bedside ; somebody. All in favor of makin a sure All mingle and waste away, with rapt upraised eyes and moving thing o’ dis job put erossmarks on their For ’tis better they rest in innocent sleep, lips from which came only soundless pe i tickets. Dem ergin it, leave ’em white. ” For now as they slumber they clasp bands of A little time, and 30. men came past titions. Low and wild, with a ringing _ peace; undernote, the death song swelled out the hat, over which hung their solitary And vile hate is purged away. through the summer night, to end only lantern, each dropping from his hand a But should woman’s hand creep calmly down when the old man, rising from his fluttering slip whose import was life or And cast flowerets only on loved ones’ mounds, knees, laid the dead hands straight, say death. Forgetting the Christian creed? ‘ ‘Mr. Somebody didn’t think whut his Why, the dead bones fain would rise in their ing, with simple solemnity: “Dust an ashes dow art become. De letter wus ter be used fer when he writ sleep And clasp o’er the chasm and blood stained silver cord is loosed, de golden bowl is it, ” Hensley said, with a grim smile, as broken, de soul has gone back ter God the ballots fell in. deep That pardoning hand of peace. “Reckon it wouldn’t ’a’ bothered him who gave, an blessed be de name er de ’Tis better disturb not their pure, peaceful Lord.” much if he had, ” his opponent remark- Dare’s eyes were brimming. She knew 1 ed. The teller raised a hand, saying la- sod. * They are garlandef already by garlands from how these simple souls interpreted her i conically: “Ye better be fixin. Thar’s 20 God, ’ appearance. To them it was evident that, For the blue tinted violet and grass tuft of hearing the old woman was dying, she ¡crosses.” gray T “We’ll draw lots who’s ter do de job. Will rest on both "mounds free from strife or had come as a last kindness to one who De rest kin go erway, ” Hensley said, had been her grandfather ’ s slave. It was display. no strained interpretation. She would speaking thickly in spite of his sense of And tho pearl on Memorial day Are1 always t'hat’spiHte maypay' not undeceive-them,.. Jnbilee-.weultLput-, necessity. , “ ’Twon’t take but_ two— To their crumbing caskets that dwell with the her in the road to Ridgeley, and weary one erpiece, ye know. ” Inside Major clay. as'she was it would not take so very Overton talked in low tones to Dare. “It was a miracle, your escape, and to , But, oh, should those heroes, now brothers in long to reach it. As if obedient to her thought, the boy think you are thus brought back,” he God, said, breathing hard. See strife and emtention made over their sod, came to her elbow and whispered: See mothers and sisters they once deemed as “Miss Dare, I know de box dat key | z“There is fate in it, I am sure,” Dare true fits. Hit’s in de bottom er de big chis’. , answered. “Do you know, grandfather, I believe Jincey had made the path I Now shatter the jarland of gray and of blue, I’ll git it. Deii yo’ better go home. ” They’d turn froifthe scene, with their pinions Following him in silence, Dare saw i found tramping to this place. What mo bedewed, s him fling up the lid of a huge coffer that i tive could possibly have brought her so And plead for foffiveness from Father and God set against the wall, saw him delve deep often over such a weary way?” That he would ii pardoning pity look down “Maybe we will know soon, Jincey And pluck out tip:thorn from the garland and in its heterogeneous depths and bring up ' a small pine box, most incongruously was a mystery always. We are at the crown! G enie O rchard S tovall . fastened with a wrought brass lock. gate of mysteries. I wonder why they Trembling through and through, she i are so slow?” T n Dare pressed his hand hard and said iTI turned the key in it, saw the lid fly in his ear: qpen, and within a long, thick, folded : “Hush! I hear hard breathing. Some paper, with a seal at one end. one else is in the room. ” As she thrust it within her bosom a ; “If it is the scoundrel who lured you By MARTHA Ï0ULL00H WILLIAMS. confused noise of hoofs and trampling : here, let me throttle him before I die, feet came from the outer dusk. Three ! [Copyright, 1894, Bi American Press Associa- I or four tall, roughly dressed men came | and death will lose half its sting, ” the old man cried aloud. B tion.l Through niiiutes that seemed nours into the cabin and stared curiously i Instantly a light flashed out, the light Dare recognized the foremost i of a dark lantern in Royal Clove’s hands. she crept paiaully along, her hands I I around. a hillman who often did odd jobs for Weary with his fruitless search for scratched and Bleeding, her bare head I as catching ever aid anon some vagrant her grandfather. Now she stepped eager Dare, he had come back and at last forward and spoke his name. dropped into sleep so sound that only twig, some dovn dropping bough. The ly Instantly he fell back a step in blank within the last few minutes had he path was the nerest trace, hardly a foot amazement, then said hurriedly: awakened from it. He walked directly wide. Even 4en at last she followed it upright, hertwas a snail’s progress, “Ch, Miss Dare, your grandpa’s out over to Major Overton, saying as he so thick, so cliigiug, so interlocked were side. I—I think he wants to see you. ” held out a revolver: “I deserve that you should shoot me, the briers and angle on either hand. sir. But pray postpone it until I have Slowly, blinily, she followed it. She CHAPTER XXL had no idea whence it came, whither it “My girl, we can show them the paid my respects to those scoundrels out ran, by what feet it was made. ’ All her Overtons know how to die.” side. ” “You do well to turn against them, thought was it nust lead her somewhere. Dare had indeed found her grandfa If she persevered, it would take her out ther with the mob, found him bound and sir, after inciting them to their present of this wildenpss that might otherwise Jielpless, yet sitting as upright and fear- course, ” Major Overton said, with curl be her grave. | :ess upon his horse as though for the ing lip. “By contrast with yourself Up hill, dovm dale, it ran, now cross chase. It had all passed like a dream, they are almost respectable. They have ed by other an« fainter tracks, now cut the sight of him, the mounting behind at least the palliation of ignorance and ting sharp thrjugh a disused cartway. one of the leaders, the tramp into the necessity. ” Cleve fell back in amazement. Dare had lived enough in the fields to wilderness, from which she had but just “Can you think, believe,” he asked, know its smooth surface meant the ha escaped. Now the hillmen had halted in bitual tread oj human feet Evidently I front of the house Cleve had phosen for “that I had any hand in, any knowledge they went upol a secret errand, else the j her prison, had. hurried the two within of, this outrage?” wild growth VQiiltl not be so left to I it aaid. -were deep. in connsei outside. ‘ ‘Why not? You are guilty of worse, ” lines . through the waning day. More than one | shall "die innocent. We have never ruffed grouse flew up from the thicket I harmed; but always helped as far as lay as she came too near. A fox stopped and in our power, these lawless men. What looked her full in the face on top of a I charge can they bring against us?” “That we are Overtons, ” the old man high hill. A wild turkey, with young half grown, went with wide skimming | said bitterly. “Overtons, ” he repeated, “the rightful owners of this whioh oth wings adown a ’-wg narrow valley. er men wish to sell and buy. At sun Sunset came on, full of red, stormy down as I sat in my study these fellows light. At the very last a bloody rim | came upon me, demanding that I give rested upon the hill crests. The sky yas up my rights. In their phrase, ‘Take it full of warring clouds driven hither and or leave it and let men who have money yon as flawy winds swept up from south set the wheels turning. ’ They were tired or north. Dare shivered at the sight. of waiting and starving if I was not. If There was thunder in the air. What if I dared to refuse, I must take the con she must face it, the storm, the night, sequences. I did refuse, then and for alone in this wild waste I The dread lent ever. I was alone in the house, almost wings to her feet She almost ran so upon the plantation. Gagged and along the path, which was now broader, bound, I was sat upon my horse and better trodden, less encumbered with headed for this place. I know it well, hindering boughs. the loneliest, the wildest spot in all the Bats came out and circled low above tract, so wild and lone murder might her head. She listened hopefully, but be done here a hundred times with no in vain, for the whippoorwill, whose risk of detection. All the way I was crying means no rain. Sunset faded out thanking God that you were safely away. in dusk; dusk fell to black darkness. Tell me, my child, how it happens that Still the path stretched endlessly before you, too, are entrapped?” her. She had climbed a long hill, and Dare told him, keeping back nothing had been for some minutes descending, save the scene in Jincey’s cabin. The when a log by the wayside caught her more than midnight darkness of their eye. It lay, a mass of fox fire, gleaming prison house hid the old man’s face as through the dark. Spent and breathless, he listened, but his hand lay on that of she sank down upon it, saying under her his grandchild, and amid all her stress breath: • of feeling die noted the surging leap of “I cannot go much farther in this his pulse as she told of her peril; her es darkness. Maybe I had better stay here cape. until morning.” “Oh, for one more day of life to meet Suddenly she started to her feet. A that gentleman!” he said through his wild droning chant was borne upward set teeth. “My child, my child, it seems to her ear, the sound of many strong I let you go into the very lion’s den. voices pitched in a minor key. It came Forgive me, my girl. I have not been from the right, evidently below where tender and thoughtful of you. I shall she sat. After a minute she knew what love you more through our little inch of it was—the death song wherewith ne time than in all the years of your life. ” groes seek to ease the passing soul. Feel “There is nothing to forgive,” Dare ing each step in advance, she went for said, laying her cheek softly against his ward a little to; find the path dip hand. A quiver of lightning played sharply in tflifrection of the sound along the floor and showed her big tears and at last run into the small clearing dropping from the brave old eyes. about Jincey’8 cabin. “I have not shed a tear before since Door and window stood wide, letting Margaret died,” the old man said, with big blurs of faint light fall outward a gulp over the name. athwart the dark. A dozen were within, “You must not cry now. We need all men and women, standing about the bed our spirit, ” Dare said, nestling closer. where the old woman lay, her gasping “Keep a good heart, grandfather. These breath coming shorter, shorter, with men surely dare not murder us outright, each cadence of the wailing chant. At and help must come before long. ” ‘ ‘You don’t know them as I do, daugh the bed’s foot stood Jubilee, Jincey’s sole living descendant, his wide, solemn ter, ” Major Overton said, with a sigh. eyes fixed hard upon her withered face. “They have gone too far to draw back As Dare paused for a moment in the now. Our lives are the price of their own door, she caught the eye of a tall, white safety no less than their prosperity. My haired old man, evidently the leader of wonder is that they have not given us the watchers,] who beckoned her to come shorter shrift—indeed that we came forward as though her presence was ex into this room alive, ” The hillmen themselves wondered not pected and said as the rest fell back: “Speak to her, Miss Dare. She’s most I a little. In truth, there was a division gone, but I reckon she’ll know you. of opinion among their heads. Seems like the fam’bly’s been all day on “I tell ye, both must die, er we’ll swing for it, ” said the man Dare had her min’. ” J “Granny Jiflcey, do you know me?” recognized. “I tell ye, ye might ’a’ Dare asked, taking the withered clammy knocked me down with a feather when fingers within her own. The song had I seen thet thar gal in ole Jincey’s cabin died to a brooding hush, broken only by an she spoke up so, ‘Why, this is Mr. the far muttering of thunder, the tick of Hensley!’ I’d ruther take er year’s whippin ’an ter tetch her rough, but the deathwatch in the wall The old woman stirred uneasily. Her whut’s er man ter do? -She knowed me. I lips moved, but no word came, and still I tell ye thar ain’t no safe way but the | the lids lay heavily over her eyes. Dare bloody one. ” bent almost to her ear and said clearly: | “An I tell you, you fool, ’ ’ said a deep- I “Granny Jincey, can I do anything for er voice, “if harm comes to her, ter so you? Is there any message I can take far much as a hair of her head, we’ll .all have our trouble fer our pains. The fel- ; you?” The young voice pierced through the ler dat’s got most er de money we’re so gathering mists of death. Jincey’s eyes anxious he should spend here is plumb flew wide; her hands clinched; she sat crazy about her. The man dat touches her is as sure ter swing fer it as de 1 convulsively upright] crying aloud: Wftii‘iWWMfWy DyM and said, half timidly : “I think, sir, Mr. Cleve is innocent of this. I know, too, he will save us from all harm if only we do not thrust his help aside. ” “Whether you will or no,” Cleve said, striding to the door. “Open, open, ’ ’ he shouted. ‘ ‘Open, you villains, or the last one of you shall hang. ” There was a noise of unbarring, arush and intrampling of many feet, a volley of shots and shouts and curses, but no foot came inside. Royal Cleve had barred the way, and as they recoiled from his rapid fire swung the door to, calling huskily: “The bar, the bar! Keep them back! They shall not touch”----- Quick as thought Dare sprang to his side, shot the inner bar in place and called aloud: “Help, grandfather, he is falling!” “He is—dead—almost, ” Cleve said, reaching for her hand. By the lantern’s glimmer Major Overton saw that blood was pouring from his breast. Outside a babel of rude speech, more than one deep groan, undervoiced the wild roar of a swiftly coming storm. “Listen! I hear horses galloping. You are saved,” Cleve said as Dare bent above him, trying to stanch the blood. He went on huskily, “Throw—the light oh—her face. I have not much longer— to see it Let me—see it plain.” One Instantly Killed and Another Wounded. THIRD ESCAPED WITH THE LOOT First Bank of Joseph, in Wallowa County, Oregon* Raided and Two Thousand Dollars in Coin Taken. La Grande, Or., Oct. 5.—At 2:80 this aiternoon the First Bank of Joseph, in Wallowa county,was robbed of about $2,000 by three men, one of whom is dead, another is badly wounded, and the third is being pur sued by a posse of citizens. At the time of the hold-up, there were four customers in the bank. Cashier Miller is in La Grande attend ing the fair, and D. J. McCully was acting in his plaoe. In waiting on hie customers, McCully had occasion to go into the vault. When he came back and looked up, he was confronted with a shotgun in the hands of one of the robbers, and was told to throw up his hands. The customers had already, complied with this request, and Mc Cully did likewise. One of the robbers leaped over the railing and opened the private door^_ through whioh the men in th^flj(|Bfc were made to pass, and then they wer^®^" lined up against the wall. One robber took a position at the outside door and compelled all passers-by to halt and throw up their hands. In the meantime the third robber had gone into the vault. He took all of the cur rency and coin, even to nickels, and placed them in a saok that he oarried. Coming out, he put every thing into the saok that he could find on the counter. He then demanded from McCully the keys to the private boxes, and ran sacked them. By this time the report that the bank was being robbed had reached the citi zens, several of whom armed them selves and awaited the appearance of the robbers. As the robbers made their exit from the bank, Alex Donnelly, a man 25 years old, opened fire, killing one of the robbers instantly, and wounding another, hitting the latter twice. The third robber,who had the sack contain ing the coin, succeeded in reaching and mounting his horse, after dropping his gun. He then made off over the hills toward Prairie creek, afterward turn ing toward Cornucopia. The robber who was killed was. named Brown, and the one who es oaped is Cy Fitzhugh. The latter had been working for Mrs. Proebstel, on Prairie creek. The name of the wounded robber is unknown, although he is recognized as having b6en around: Joseph for some time. The esoaped robber is described as being a low, heavy-set man,with sandy hair and mustache, of medium weight, 5 feet 8 inches in height, weighs about 150 pounds, and is about 28 years, old. He wore a blaok coat and small slouch hat, and was riding a small horse. A reward of $500 has been offered for his capture and the return of I th — I with the bank, as nearly all of its busi ness was transacted by exchange. IRELAND NOT A COUNTRY. Therefore Her Flag May Float Above American Buildings. Lawrence, Mass., Oot. 5.—Judge Hopkins in the superior court has quashed the somewhat famous green flag case against Contractor Patrick O’Brien. O’Brien was arrested July 6 for displaying an Irish flag on a portion of the staging of the new ward schoolhouse on Independence day. As there is a statute forbidding the display of any foreign flag upon a public build ing, O’Brien was found guilty and Judge Stone, of the police court, fined him $10. An appeal was taken to the superior court, and a decision given. Judge Hopkins ruled that Ireland was not a country in the meaning of the statute governing the case, and had no flag except that of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The case was accordingly dismissed. A Bold Robbery. Pittsburg, Oot. 5.—News has just been received here of a crime of unusual boldness committed at the little vil lage of Wall’s station, situated on the line of the Pennsylvania railroad, four teen miles east of this city. The affair took plaoe last Saturday night or Sun day morning, but has been kept a secret in the hope that the guilty men might be captured. The safe in the* hotel at Wall’s station was blown open with dynamite and nearly $1,000 in coin was secured. Before beginning operations on the safe the burglars chloroformed the twenty or more per sons in the hotel to prevent interrup tion. Alaska Mall Contract. Washington, Oot. 6.—The postoffioe department has awarded a contraot for oarrying the mail between Juneau and Circle City, Alaska. The distance is 988 miles, and the contractors are to make four trips between November, “Throw the light on her face. Let me see 1896, and May 81, 1897, They receive it plain. $1,700 for each trip. “Don’t talk, ” Dare said, pressing her hand hard against the welling blood. Paola, Kan., Oct. 5.—George B. Slowly, painfully, Cleve laid her fingers Anderson, alias Snyder, was billed to upon his mouth and panted rather than make a parachute drop by being- fired spoke the one word “Forgive!” from a cannon attached to a balloon. “I do forgive you fully, freely, as I When 3,000 feet in the air, the assist hope God will forgive me at . the last ant on- the ground fired a signal. day,” Dare Said; then, answering the Either this was not heard or something appeal of his eyes, put her mouth to his was wrong with the cannon, and two in a tender kiss. I more signals were fired. The cannon [CONTINUED.] 5 was then fired, but before the para chute opened, the rope that was tied to Andersons’s wrist broke, and he fell to A Mothers* Club* An illustration of how a good work the ground dead. Negro Robs a Ticket Agent. must extend itself and its influence is given by a “Round Robin” mothers’ Chicago, Oct. 2.—Mrs: Addie Way, club of over 40 members in St. Paul. a ticket agent of the Illinois Central Their work is thorough and earnest; railway at Midway Plaisance, the old they read at home on lines mapped out world’s fair station; was robbed and by the Philadelphia center and hold beaten by a negro,- after opening her most interesting weekly meetings. Now office today, her injuires being so se- they have gone a step farther and are vere that she will probably die. G. forming mothers’ clubs throughout the W. Eilenberger, who came into the city, and next year plan a school alliance station just as the man was about to which will bring mothers and teachers strike the unconscious woman again, together. A more important movement grappled with the negro, but after a than this last is not often undertaken struggle was rendered unconscious by by a club, although it is the natural re a blow from a piece of gas pipe. The sult of thorough work and well directed negro, after wrenching a diamond from enthusiasm.—St. Paul Correspondent. Mrs. Way’s finger, fled.
