V »lU-X ♦ f a r ’ V ♦J LINA ' ìe The \\/hited Oepulchrt L V \ Talc oí vJ Pelee I Lt L E V I N C. T O N C omfort C.*errl«t»«. IVA »r W t tx*iar>«a c-e»-*«« Cosrrtsh«. i«n. br 1 H. Lreeiscorr Cowrssv Ait righto ta t even a worthy accomplice to the isl anted Hteiub.: •»». lie is without speech or valor. What remains when a nmn is neither brain nor brute?" Iler voice had n->t been nuked. and Mrs Stansbury Mi the library before Mrs formed -an •n ewer. The torturing hours crawled by. Ti>. gray afternoon turned Io dusk, and I be dusk to night. The tiortb waa rwldened by Price’s firelit cone, which the thick vapor dimmed and blurrad. The rumbling» were constant. lavra waa suffering tn tight out her battle alone. Rhe asked no more than this A thousand time« «be paced a-rows her room; scores of visits she made to Constable's window, straining her e><-« northward, along the mad through the day and darkne««, to the end of all things the mountain! Uncle Joey came to plead with her, but she beggeed a burden, lie had been beaten in a battle with a woman. Blucher bad roma to Mrs. Stansbury's aid at the last moment. In tbe shape of new»|>apeni from the north. From Lars, however, anil not the mother, had come the moat crippling blow of all. It was Mrs who bad handed him the news|«iper. She did not wait, nor ask. Around thia item. Constable built v gloom structure of baronial proportions. Ills attitude toward Breen was very s tuple. lie would not betray bis guest for all the uews|opera and police in Christendom. Having waived Breen's offer to detail the |M»rt'.culars of bls past, during the first night of acquaintance, < on»! able certainly ceuM not rvproai-b •be other for misrepresenting himself, It was ten thirty in the morning when hr sent a message out to Captain Negley, countermanding «ailing orders, and enclos­ ing a cheerful note to Crusoe, containing a draft for the stipulated amount. At the bank he also left a second sum for Fath­ er I *«mteti. and procured ron»»lersMe cur rent ;>aprr for hia own uses. Ilia mind moved io a light, irresponsible fashion. It 'was as if he were <4w««ed at quick intervale, one after another, by mad kings •»bo dared anything, end whom no one dared refuse. Hia brain kept the great sorrow in the background, and occupied itself with striking artifice«. While aware that in losing Mias Rtanebury and the privilege of protecting her, the meaning and direction of hia life was gone, gflll Constable did not yet sense the fulln.-«« of the visitation. Ilia waa not a wound to heal by first intention; and ia bad hurts pain assumes command Isiaurely «nd in order. Ila plunged into a crowd In the market place, and began to talk to the natives whimsically, but to tbe purpose of start­ ing them toward Fort de Trance, adding that Father Damien would care for them generously there. ”1 do not My that thio ia tbe last day of JPiint Pierre," be ez claimed in French, "but I declare to you that if ever a planet look-I as If she were about to spring a leak. Mother Earth haa • he symptoms kcal lied In relee!" Constable's eyes had Hied upon a car­ riage ps«»ing along the edge of ' th. crowd Now be moved toward it quo k - 'y and veiled the bridle IVsptte the pro- eatatistvs of tbe driver, he led the vehicle ■ nto the gixwl view of all. His face waa • d with the heat and ««bine with laugh­ er and pers.nrstion Alarm end merrl- .»-nt mlng'ed in the native throng All eyes fillowMl the towering figure of the tmerlcan. now bowed before tbe »winging I--or of the carriage* and M M mdet "Thia dear friend«," Constable resum­ ed. as one would produce a rabbit front a silk hat 'this, you all perceivw, is vour ilttle editor of lx« Colonie« Is he not bright end clean and pretty? lie is ■■■nd of American kttl Bl* bow the little editor laughs'” The Frenchman waa really afraid. Ilia smile waa yellowish gray and of sickly colour. Hia article relative to the Amer »■an appealed to him now. entirely atrip- ped of ^he humor with whl-h It was 'raught yesterday, as he comi»vsed it in tbe Inner of inner offices. This demon of crackling French and resile»« hand» would stop at nothing M Mon.let tured himself being inched up for dead preaently. As the blow did not fall in »tanianeously, he amended the picture with the sorry thought that he was to lie played with before being di«i-atihrd "Thia is the little man who tells you that Saint Pierre ia in no danger who solti at thi*se who have already gone.” Constable Informed his hearers, now hold, mg up the Frenchman's arm. as a rvfsre- uprai».*» the whip of a winning fighter. "He says there is no m-ir« peril from Price than from an old man shaking ash*» out of bis pipe. Yeatrnlay I pro|HMi«-d to wager my ship against M Mondet’s rolled top ilesk that he waa wrong, hut there was a difficulty in the way. I*o you not see. dear frien-ls. that if I won th« wager. I should not lie able to distinguish I h >. twe-n M Mondet’s rolled top enk« again ! • • • I gh. get in there!” Constable's irritation against the ent -e of editorial opinion breeders must have found an Instant vent at last, M Momlet was chucked like a large soft bundle into the sent of his carriage and the -door slammed forcibly, corking the vials of hia wrath. In any of the red blood«-,! aunea. a stranger who performed suih antic« al the expense of a |*ortly and reap«-ctHj eitiacn would have encoun­ tered a quietus quick and blasting, but the people of Martinique are not swift to anger nor forward at repriMla. "Com«’" Constable yelled, in a voice which jerked up hia hearers. “Who has use tor my offer? Who goes to Fort de France?" A few came forward, perhapa a doaen in all, out of the fifty or silty who had listened. Half in anger, half in adinlra tlon, w hi»'h he did not seek to understand, lie ran bis eye a last time over the dusty, haggard, stilled crowd which he bad failed to move. From their eyes, sullen, atartinl and pitiful, he glanced beyond lu Ibe place where old Vulcan lay, muttering hia ag allies. The sight completed tbe circuit of rending voltage, made him think of Ixra With furious seal be grappled tbe work at baud, forced his way out of Ibe crowd. cruMed tbe lloielane awl burned toward the Hotel dee I'alma. Hia physical en ergy waa inqierioUB, but th« numbncM of his acalp waa a pregnant warning against the perils of beat. The city was silent enough to act like a vast sounding board Voters reached him from far behind, from the harbor front to tbe left, from shut »hop« and I mhism everywhere. At tbe hotel, after mu-h difficulty, he pro-nred guides and a small outfit for the journey to the summit of the mountain. It waa after mid «lay when the party rode into Morns Rouge. The ash hung ralley was behind, ami Constable drank a Bouil- lion to the gorge of the Falaiae. the north­ ward bank of which marked the cb<«eu trail to tbe summit. And now they tnov«*d upward In the tnhlet of the old glory of Martinique. The brisk Trades blowing evenly In the heights wi|ied the eastern slope of tbe mountain clear of etone-duat and whipped the blast of «•«•ph-ir down into the valley toward the shore. Green lakes of cane fille«! the valleys behind, and groves of cocoa polm», ao distant and soy/rd-rly that they looked like a city garden set with hen and chickena. Northward, through th« rift«, glistened the e«a. ateal-Mne and cool. Before them arose the huge, green clad oism of the mountain. Ita corona dim with smoke awl laebed by storm. l>own In tbe southwest lay (ba ghastly pall, the hitiden. torture,! city, trance«! under the cobra head of the monster and already laved in Ita poison Tbe trail toss me very steep at two thousand feet, and thia fact, t-»gether with tbe bsck-tbreah of the summit disturb­ ance, forced Constable to ahandon the animals, it transpired that four of the erven native« felt It tbeir duty, at thia COI ST\ pelnt. to stay 1>eh' I » .th 'he i. nSw lift!« latsr, when tin* nly one native waa faltering ta-um-i, in­ stead of three. Fascination fur tbe dying Thing took ■*u . stable was ■•»»uscioua of no tear for his lite, but of a fixed terror i««t be should prove physically unable tu go on to tbe end. lie found bituaelf tearing up a handkerchief ami stuffing the sbrnU in bis ears, to demlen the horrid vibrations. With tbe linen remaining, he filled bis tuiutb. shutting hia Jaws together upon it, as the wheels of a wagon are blocked un an Incline. Tbe titanic disorder pla--at««l his own. lie re>vll«d In It. umona,-iuus of pasaiug time, lle did not realise that be was alone, but knew well from tho contour of tbe slope, learned Intimately in past vlaita. that be was nearing the I .sc ■!«• Palmists, which tnark««i tbe summit leveL Y *-t ehangea, violent change«, were every­ where evidenced. Tbe shoulder ot the mountain was sm««r«d with a crust uf ash and aeatiuul with fresh wars The cruet was made by the dry whirling winds playing up»*n the paste formed of stone­ dust and roniienaed steau» Tbe ,-Itching whir, like the clap of wing«, beard at interval«, nccountetl for the scars, Botaba of roch were being hurled from the great tulles. That he sir in the range of a raking volcauo tire did not Inq-ress this ant clinging to the brani uf a giant, t'p, ■ knees and band«, he erawl««l up over the i ! i-r -.'-i mg - tun. to th« l*la*k jsoimled lip ( of the monster. Out of the old lak«» «-»,i'.«d I the furious tower of steam ami rock dust which mushroomed in high sir. Ilk« the , primal nebula» from whuh the worlds i were mad« Pocket» of gas exploded in i the heights, rending the |M*riphery as the > *eil of the tempi« was rent, t»ply this - to ere, hut sounds not meant for th» ears 1 of man. MWin-ts which »e«m«,l to mw his ' «hull In twain tbe thundering enginrs 1 of the planet. Th« r-»kj rim of the lake was hot to ■ Ills hamia and knm. but he could not go ' back A thought In bis brain held him there with thrilling I mh -I» th.- sain-» thought which Hayden Breen evolvvd as , he stood at the edge of th« llr.MiklyU pier, ess |,U| || „„ only a play­ thing of mind the vagary of altitude and Imnirnsity. “DM ever a man clog a lire l*t.| ever suicidal genius e..o- ceive of corrupting su*-h majesty of force • » • l o irreierent query righted the tialam-cs. There he lay. sprawled st tbe edge ot the universal mystery, at the aeeret en- tram-e to the chanilmr of arth's dyna­ mo« The edge of the pit shook with the frightful work going on below, yet he was not slain. The torrent burst |Mme«. Iloti»«- owners are someUuu-a rather tinfortiinat«* In tl»clr scl<-»-tloii <»f unin«*w for their u I xm !«-«, uml hi suburbi« tsiuso naming Is «nx-aalounlly rut her luilicroua. Tims ’Tin* Maple«" hns uever n ma­ ple twatr. “The Rosary" only exists In imagination. “Sunnyside” is Ihe most diq>re«»!|ig »Illa resi-b-nix*. and’ h-uisa named aft«T ilio English Ink«* no nmr« suggest the lake district than Fleet atrr«-t suggests the Boia ile Boulogne. Thè Augi«»Saxon word "hyrst,” atg- lilfyltig n forest or wimm !, lias l-e-i-me "burst" In house naming, ami “wood” am! "holt” have tlie sum«* nw-anlng. All h«iuse names ending with throe termi- nntloiia are pretty and not unsafe to rinxNe. It Is cartona to note that In Hnstlngx and Nt. lx*mar*Is quite a number of houses have typically Naxoti names, |M-rha|Mi to commemorate the great Rai­ on triigvily of which the name ll-iatings Is rr-mlnlM-eiit. Poles of ibe Earth. The circle of the earth's dally rm» lion upon Ite atta Ming the greateat at the equator, the consequent «irai n«.- tlon there of the centrifugal force dur­ ing the period when the earth was a yielding ni -a pmlurvd a bulging out of Rie surface In the equatorial region, with a consequent flattening nt the pole«. Thun we have an oblate sphe­ roid. with the length of the axle of Hit pplr» about twenty ala and a half miles lews than the equatorial diameter. lack Kl«kl tgwalltlee. Mrs. Ills Mrs. June strike« me ■ a being entirely too masculine for woman. Mrs. Dig—Tee. Indeed Why. every time site has an ache or pain she mak<-i as much fuss about It as a man would Kmltb's Weekly FRÍE OF CHOLERA. Merchants’ Axxoiiabon of Manila it» sues Statement, Newsy lie ns Gathered from All Parts of the World. __ PREPARED I0R THE BUSI READER Manila, Nov. 10. The Merchants’ association of this city has issued the following statement; "Manila ia reported by the health authorities to Im practically ________ free ol t ’, Nou ti.l . r . 1 _ i:, _ a I ■ cholera. I Sit.- ______________ lation of nearly 250,000, on« ease daily ■ haa occurred. These cases were fount! ' in outlying districts, unusually visit«*«! The late visitation proved Less Important but Not Less Inter by white*. to be of a very light character since its esting Happenings from Points beginning, and in the month of July Outside tho State. were only 22 cases among th«* white population. Of these but 10 proved It -..» v. 't will give a dinner to lai or fatal. There was not a «ingle case among the 12,000 city school children. leAilera. Since th«* American occupation tn 1H9R Kiln,’ F-lward has just celebrated bls the number of whites tn the islands at- d'th birthday. tu- »• ! l-> ch- -I*-ra is .’ I .'. <>f I!-<■»• • .1 < 'ortclv ou, remain in cases were fatal. The majority of the cabinet the Irene deaths occum-d in 1902, when there ury. were 110,000 troo|M in th«* islands mu! It is sai«l Xcervtary R-»»t w ill be s ! no precautions existed for protection candidate for senator from New York . against th«* epidemic." ■ n Plat I'a place Soldiers from Fort McKinley and The supreme eonrt has dcrl< lad that sailors from the Asiatic squtulron ar<- states may forl'1,1 tbe coeducation of now entering the city freely an«l tie w kites ami blacks. citizens arc anxious that Rear Admiral J. J. Hill says that within six years Sperry will |M*rmit them to carry out the l'nite-1 Stat«» will <-*nsume all the th«- plans for th«- recepition of th«* At­ lantic battleship fleet. wheat rai»«'d in this country. If these plans are not carried out Mr» l*bl|>|*«. of Denver, ex wife of *h> I’ll: -! org mill uair«'. has rceeive-l It is feared that a fats«' and harmful x demand f r « ii.imo or I •• dynamited. impression will be given to the World of th«- sanitary condition of Manila, Twenty io - rs east their l-allots for which unquestionably is better than i d* >1 man in I’ir«ka e*-iin-<■ -I«* bofors elect ion A wreck was prcvcntml on the North REDUCES FREIGHT RATES. f' ■ ‘ Montana by breaking Several ears a switch lock with an ax broke loose and started down hill Nippon Yusen Kaisha Begins Fight toward au approaching train By tele for Trade. graphing ah«a,| they were «idetraeko'L | Victoria, B. C'., Nov. 10. The Nip­ The Chicago city council may pro- pon Yuaen Kaiaha has «lecided to begin pose a law to restrict divorces. the struggle with th«- Canadian Pacific Many Japan. ■><■ seal |>oachera have (men «’«pture-l ami killed by Russians. railroad for the premier position in tlie carrying trad«- of the North Pacific. Six Pasadena high school Iwvya were Since the ruling of the Interstate injuretl in a football game. One of Commervc commission, by which ship them may die. The First National bank of biew coin|*anies ativanced their rates, tho Kensington, I’a., has been closed by lines connecting with Unlt«al States rail roads, and mon- particularly those the bunk examiner. under th«- United States ting, were Frvr» Stanford univrraity student« place-l at a disadvantage. The Cana hav, b. cn »u«| 11»!, d for ridiculing the dian Pacific railroad naturally took faculty in theatricals. advantage of its position and declined The American Tobacco company haa to advance its freight rates. When the conference at Seattle de­ been declare I an illi'gal trust by the I'nite-I States Circuit court of New cided to inervaae the rates, the proims- •d increases were cabh d to Japan, York. where a meeting of Japanese shipping The reported discovery of a subter­ interests was called. Advices receive»! ranean lake on the site uf the Gatun by th«* Royal Mail «tcamship Empress dam hak been pronounced a fake by of India were to the effect that the Colonel Gin-thala. Nippon Yusen Kaisha witlulrrw from Ilollund has revoked the treaty of thia conference and has made a general I- '1 .'. h \ ■ m zurla and this will allow reduction of about 17 per cent lower unr«*stricted import of arms and am- than th«* form*-r freight rates. Th«* munition into Castro'« country and Japanese steamship company proposes to bear th«* burden of the incr<-as«-d opens th«1 door to revolution. railway charges and will give n lower There is a resumption of activity in rate across the Pacific. A reduction many induatriea. of 25 cents per 11)0 pound« will l*e Russia has forced Servia to abandon math* un silk and other valuable freights. ita warlike attitude. KÍLLEÜ BY ASSASSIN Edward Carmack Slain in Nash ville by Political Enemy. S'vooting Was Done br Robin Cooper, Whose Gather Was Criticised in Car-nacK's Newspaper. v * • ■ > *-, I , N 1 " Kx Nena l«*ry F-lward < nrui , k, « -liter of the I < nn * can, w -s Ati-I killed at 4 j’cl**ck ye»t«i.|ay afternoon -n Novanti» iveaiie North, in fr-nt of the I'olk tl.it, 1« II.-I n t .. -per, a li •>( t’ul,» e| Duncan li « • -|-**r. Mr Carmack was going north on Seventh nt onue in front of the flats, an-l Colonel Cooper tu.I In» son, ll»l*.n, were approaching Hevcntb avenue on I'nton street. Noon after they r ime into sight of one nil •tber th*- »h -oting waa begun, Robin | -r. it ia said, drew hia pistol, l-ut dl«l not fire. Nenntor < nrui.it-k fell to the ground, lying instantly. Robin Cooper was -h -t in th« right shoulder, I ut was not on-lly woumlrd. It is understood th-it the trouble wa« ..tie of the r- »nits ef a recent lh*m ratte gul crnntoria) primary, in which * urmaek was defeated Carmack, ain<*o h«» I,,- auu- editor ->< the Tcnn«*as«*ean, had been caustic in crieising what lie all*-I th«- Deni-icrxti in * bine, an-l had printed several editorials about Colonel l.'oopef. Wtibin the last fen dava, it is as -••rted. Colonel < ■ -|>er notified Carmack that these editori il criticisms must cease Another editorial referring to th«- colonel s|-|--iri-l in the paper ye« terday morning, an-l this ia supp.-»*»l to «vi- be. n the itniiu-li ite --auso of the trouble. A« Henxtor earmark fell at tho edge -f tin- «tree* Col io I Duncan It Cooper put his arm «round ............ It'd •» f,...|>er — and both walked a few feet down Seventh avenue to Dr. Il <1 ford '• office, where the slight wound in Robin'a shoul ler was examined and treated. An ambii lane-- i-ir* - I th.- I ly of Mr Carmack to an undertaking I’staldishmrnt. DIREC I PRIMARY WINS. Carr-es Four to One Throughout ths Slate ot California, N«n I’rx' -i» i. N v. 10. California hns jo n*-1 flrcgon, Washington and ■lher states th.it have adapted the ill reel primary, mid the vote cast last Tin • '»v in that state in favor of the •1» w system is so emphatic that it can lint I.- Wunder-.| that even a boas rid l*ii legialnture wav compelled to heed •he demand that a direct primary iniendment 1.« sul milted to a V"te of the people. In Nan FYnne'sco a majority of nina to one was piled up in favor <>f tho amendment, an-l «cross the lav in <>ak land. Ah....... la, and B«rkcley the vfir diet was almost ns strong. I’ndcr the new law California will In fllti -c ■■ it - I n:i* >1« by direct vole, and party eonventions wi!| l-n The fight for speakership of the virtually almlishe-l. •■«-•,q-t for tho eon FRANCE STILL FIRM house has already begun. •rol of part»- nffa is and adoption of tdalfurm» The t-e-tl vote of the stato The re-election of Governor Deni-en, Government Confident Germany Will is n,*t yet available, lot complete re­ of Illinois, will be contested. turn from the sig rountiss casting tho Meet Her Demands. A Manitoba farmer start«-d the fire large»! vote indi-ste-l that the primary Paris, Nov. 10. No word has coms with coal oil and tho family of seven amendment carried al -mt four to one in from Berlin with reference to the Ger­ the state as a whole. are dead. Employes of the Lackawanna rail­ way in Brooklyn are accusetl of «tent­ ing 1100,000 during the past three months. The Australian suggestion that the British flent mak«- a tour around the world has been frowned down by the admiralty. State Senator l.ivoey, of Maryland, say« Tuskegee institute ia a failure. This is the leading colored institute of the United States. All buxines« wa.« suspendt-d in Cuba and the entire populace participated in the funeral of Tomas Estrada Palma, rx-pre«ident of the island. Schwab has boarded up hia $7,000,- 000 palm e in New "York, saying he cannot afford to keep it up. In a year he hope« to have his finances straight- ene«i out. Bulgaria ia considerably irritated by the delay of Turkey. A crisis seems to be approaching in the Franco German quarrel alxiut Mo­ rocco. Wilbur Wright haa been presented with a gobi no-iial by the French Aero club. Th*- Ecuador congress has ended in a riot in which several tnemlx-rs were in- jure-l. Railroads throughout the country ar«* making arrangements to greatly Im­ prov« their line«. The Ruef jury has l*een complete I after a little more than three months and the trial has I egun. Judge Gr**sion every step France has taken and fully share thia government’s view, and in addition are prepared to give material as well as moral support to France. Record for Tunnel Work. I-o« Angeles, Nov. 10. William Mulholland, chief engineer of the lx*s Angeles acqueduct, reports that all American records for tunnel boring in hard rock were broken dur ng October by the city forces at work on the Elis­ abeth tunnel. A distance of 466 feet was made in 31 days, thua surpassing the record on the Gunnison tunne’, made in January, I90R. by 17 feel The Ixm Angeles acqueduct ia th« mu­ nicipal project by which the city will procure a daily water supply of 260,- 000,000 gallons from the Owens rive’. OLD CASE SOON ENDS. Virginia and Wot Virginia About to Smile Long Standing Troubla. Richmond. V«., Nov. I1' After drag •ring along fur years, the end of tho fa motta Virginia West Virg-nin debt question is now In split. Eminent counsels representing tho two states ••c'nldrd b.-rc yi-ster'sr f-r the first formal hearing in the «««■* before Charles E Littlefield, of Maine, ss been appoint«*! master in tho cee-lings Tbe Virginia \V««t Virginia debt nule afuse »ut of tie creation of «tote »f W- -t \ rginia out of the orig uni doma n of Virginia, and th«» proper • t*i'ortionmcnt of the then bonded in b l !eperst<>ra at Tstoosh Island, estab Teo Kd'<-d, Many Hurt. Habed a 23'*o mile re« >rd Rstnrday Mauntrban, France, Nov. 10. An night, when they ricked up an order pmaa train was derailed today near from the armored emisor West Vir­ G r isela, Ten persona were killed and ginia, of tho Pacific fleet, for lumber many injured. ith which to construct targets. J ! A * * > d’ A v- !’ > .