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.
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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.