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M B V W 1 1 I i y - 0 CHAPTER XL Continued What have I done to deserve such happiness he asked himself But just as it happens that at the moment when our passionate joy becomes con scious of itself we find some dark misgivings creep over us of evil about to befall so the bounding gladsome ness of Michael Sunlocks was followed by a chill dread that he tried to put aside and could not It was at that moment that the Xangmann entered the room He was very tall and light and had a large head that drooped like a daffodil His dress was poor he was short sighted growing elderly and silent of manner Nothing in his appearance or bearing would have suggested that he had any Iiride of his place as Judge of the is land He was a bookwork a student a scholar and learned in the old sagas and eddas Langmann said Michael Sunlocks with simple deference I have sent for you on a subject of some moment to myself Name it said the Judge During my absence a man has been tried and condemned by the Bishops court for threatening my life said Michael Sunlocks Jason the son of Stephen Orry and Rachel daughter of the late Governor-General Jorgensen said the Judge That is he and I want you to give one an opinion respecting him said Michael Sunlocks Gladly said the Judge He was sent to the Sulphur Mines said Michael Sunlocks For six months certain said the Judge Can we recall him and have him tried afresh by the Court of the Quar ter or the High Court of Justice eaid Michael Sunlocks Too late for that said the Judge A higher court if it had condemned at all might certainly have given him a longer punishment but his sentence of six months is coupled with a con dition that he shall hereafter take aa oath of peace towards you So have 210 fear of him I have none at all said Michael iSunlocks as my next question will show What is it said the Judge Can I pardon him said Michael Sunlocks For a moment the langmann was startled out of his placid manner but recovering his composure he answered Yes a President has sovereign pow ers of pardon Then Langmann said Michael Sunlocks will you see the needful papers drawn for my signature Surely said the Judge But first will you pardon me he added with a shadow of a smile Say what you please Langmann said Michael Sunlocks It is possible that you do not know the nature of the evidence given at tie trial said the Judge I think I do said Michael Sun locks That this man claims to be your half brother He is my brother That he thinks you have stood in his place I I have stood in his place That he is jealous of you and in his madness has vowed to slay you 1 His jealousy is natural and his vow I do not dread The cold manner Hangman paused a moment wiped his short sighted eyes with his red print handkerchief and then said in a husky voice This is very noble of you Ill go at once for the document He had only just gone from the room when Greeba returned to it She ihad tried too long to conquer her agi tation and could not and now with wide eyes and a look of fear in them she hastened back to her husband the moment the Langmann had left him Michael she cried what has the Langmann gone for For a form of pardon he an swered Pardon for that man she asked Even so he said and I have promised to sign it Oh Michael my love my dear kind Michael she cried in a pitiful voice of entreaty dont do it dont I pray of you dont bring that man back Why Greeba what is this said IMichael Sunlocks What is it trou bles my little woman Dear Michael she cried once more for your own sake think again before you sisn that pardon Ah I see said he my darling ihas been all unstrung by this ugly ibusiness Yes and now I remember What they told me down at Smoky Point It was my love herself that gave the poor lad up to justice That iwas very brave of my darling for lber husband bless her dear heart was before all the world to her Ah yes 1 know that all her love is mine her ilove is first and last with her as with all warm nature But she must not fear for me No she must not worry but go back like a dear soul and leave this matter to me Michael my dear noble Michael I have something to say will you not hear me No no no he answered Not for a moment I have set my heart on telling you Not for one little moment But if you have set your heart on anything else then my darling just think of it double whatever It is and it is yours already But why may I not speak of this pardon Because though I have never set eyes upon this poor man I know more about him than my darling can ever know and because it is natural that lier sweet little iheart that is as brave as a lion for herself but as timid as a fawn for me should exaggerate my AA I There is a sense in which he is right 75he BondirkaLrY By HALL CAINE A Continued Story 34SS38kSS peril So now no more words about it but go go She was about to obey when the maid came to say that dinner was ready And then with a little shout of Michael Sunlocks threw down his papers encircled his arm about Greebas waist and drew her along laughing with her smiles fighting their way through her tears During the dinner he talked con stantly of the dangers and trials and amusing mischances of his voyage laughing at them all now they were over and laughing at Greeba too for the woeful face with which she heard them And when they rose from the table he called on her for another song and she sat at the harpsichord and sang though something was swelling in her throat and often her heart was in her mouth But he recked nothing of this and only laughed when her sweet voice failed her and filled up the breaks with his own rich tones In the midst of the singing the maid came in and said something which Michael Sunlocks did not catch for it was drowned to his ear by the gladsome uproar that he himself was making but Greeba heard it and stopped playing and presently the Lagmann entered the room A good thing is no worse for be ing done betimes said the judge so here is the pardon ready to your hand for signature And with thai he handed a paper to Michael Sunlocks who said with cheer Youre right Lagmann youre right and my wife will give you a glass of wine while I write you my name A cup of coffee if you are taking it said the judge with a bow to Greeba who saw nothing of it for her eyes were following her husband Michael she said I beseech you not to sign that paper Only give way to me this once I have mever asked you before and I will never ask you again I am in earnest Mi chael dear and if you will not yield to me for your own sake yield to me for mine How is this How grave we are said Michael Sunlocks pausing with pen in hand I know I have no right to med dle in such matters but dear Mi chael dont sign that pardon dont bring that man back I beseech you I beg of you This is very strange said Michael Sunlocks It is also very simple said the judge bringing his red handkerchief up to his dim eyes again What said Michael Sunlocks Greeba you do not know this man this Jason Greeba hesitated a moment and glanced at the Lagmann You dont know him repeated Mi chael Sunlocks She was sorely tempted and she fell For my husbands sake she thought and then with a prayer for pardon she lifted her ihead and said falteringly No no why no of course not Michael Sunlocks was satisfied Why no of course not he echoed laughing a little and then he dipped his quill in the ink horn But I beseech you again do not bring that man back she cried There was a painful pauL e and to cover it the Lagmann said Your husband is a brave hearted man who does not know the name of fear And then Michael Sunlocks said I will ask your pardon Lagmann while I step into the next room with my wife I have something to tell her Come Greeba come Ill leave the document with you for the present Lagmann he added over his shoul der as he passed out Greeba walked beside him with downcast eyes like a guilty thing condemned Now love he said when they were alone it is sweet and beautiful of you to think so much of me but there is something that you do not know and I ought to tell you Maybe I hinted at it in my letter but there has never been a chance to explain Have you heard that this Jason is my brother Yes said Greeba faintly It is true said Michael Sunlocks And you know that when I first came to Iceland it was not to join the Lat in school but on an errand of mercy Yes said Greeba Well the first of my duties was to find Jasons mother and the next was to find Jason himself Jason cried Greeba Yes it was my father who sent me for they had suffered much through his great fault God forgive him and I was to succor them in their distress You know what followed Yes said Greeba softly I came too late for the mother the good woman was in her grave I could not light UDon her son and lent an ear to the idle story that he was dead also My search ceased my zeal flagged and putting aside the solemn promise I made my father I went on with my own affairs But I never believed that he was dead and I felt I should live to meet with him yet Oh oh cried Greeba And many a time since my con science has reproached me with a mis sion unfulfilled and awakening from many a dream of the hour and the place wherein I pledged my word to him that died trusting me loving me doting om me heaven pity him bad man though he was as never a son was loved by a father before it has not apeased me to say to myself Mi chael while vyou are here given up to your ambitions he is there amid the perils and hardships of the sea and lie is your brother and the only kinsman left to you in the wide world Greeba was sobbing by this time And now my darling you know all and why I wish to sign this par don Could I ever know a moments happiness with my brother slaving like a beast at yonder mines What if he is jealous of me and if his jeal ousy had driven him to madness sane he shall not be punished for my sake So -dearest love my darline dry your beautiful eyes and let me ease you conscience the only way I may for I have no fear and my wife must have none Sunlocks said Greeba you have made me ashamed I am no fit wife for a man like you I am too little hearted Oh why did I ever come Why Why And she wept as if her heart would break He comforted her with tender potests enfolding her in his arms and caressing her lovely head Tell me he whispered nay there hide your face in my breast There there tell me now tell me all Sunlocks she said drawing back I have lied to you Lied When I told you I had not known Jason I told you what was false Then you have known him Yes I knew him in the Isle of Man The Isle of Man He lived there nearly five years All the time he was away Yes he landed the night you sailed You crossed him on the sea Greeba why did he go there Yet how should you know I do know Michael it was to ful fil his vow his vow that theoldpriest spoke of in court his wicked vow of vengeance On my father On your father and on you God in heaven cried Michael Sunlocks with great awe And that very night my father was saved from his own son by death It was he who saved your father from the sea Wait said Michael Sunlocks did you know of this vow before you ac cused him of an attempt upon me To be continued FORMER WAGERS Odd Slakes Risked on elections Hold In the Fast Some queer election bets have been made in the past When George Fran cis Train the eccentric lived in Oma ha some years ago at the time when he was prominent in the building of the Union Pacific railroad it came to pass that an election was scheduled Mr Train thought he knew how the election was going and to prove his courage made a wager that if his man was beaten he would wear a duck suit all the year round Mr Twains guess was bad and he lost He lived up to the letter of the bet however and for a whole winter one of those Omaha winters too in which the thermometer takes sudden and unexpected dips to far below zero and blizzards come along over night and freeze everything that is not actually on fire he wore white duck There were those who said he violated the spirit of the bet by wearing half a dozen suits of under clothing under his white duck But Mr Train could stand criticism better than he could stand an attack of pneu monia and refused to abandon his warm underclothing They tell another story of an election bet in the blizzard country It is to the effect that in 1888 Ezekiel Timrock of Hunnewell Kan made a bet in these terms If Cleveland was defeated he would join the church Timrock was a gentleman with a reputation as a tough and a bad man generally He had long scorn ed religion and cursed religionists So his bet was a heavy one Well he lost There were many who thought he would back out and compromise by giving the winner a big farm or some thing of that kind But he didnt He made application for membership in the church It so happened however that the deacons knew of the bet and his application was blackballed Tim rock thought this released him but the man who held the other end of the wager insisted that he had not paid up Timrock considered that he was insulted and promptly there was a shooting match Both were equally quick on the trigger and both were equally good shots and the result was the death of both parties The coroner summoned a jury and when the in quest was over a verdict holding the church responsible because it rejected Timrocks application was returned Puttee Paralysis In soldiers invalided home from the Boer war a new disease has been dis covered to which the doctors have given the name of puttee paralysis Instead of wearing leggins in South Africa many officers and soldiers wore strips of cloth called puttees wound around the lower leg These being bound tight seem in some cases to have pressed upon certain nerves and when the men became weak from fever a paralysis of the feet and toes resulted At first the disease was call ed enteric feet as it generally ap peared in men who were recovering fromenteric or typhoid fever Upon investigation however it was found that the primary cause of the disease was the puttAi so it became puttee paralysis The long marches the tense move ments of the legs especially when in fantry soldiers were mounted and the uneven pressure of the puttees caused such a condition of thing the disease could easily be accounted for Here after leggins will probably never be abandoned for putties New York Press Boya Trained for Foreign Trado In Berlin Leipsic Cologne and a few other large business centers there are special schools for boys intending to enter commercial life where they are taught in addition to all ordinary school subjects those which they will in after life require such as business corresepondence In English French and German reckoning with money of different nations bookkeeping type writing shorthand and so called office work consisting of writing out checks bills of exchange Invoices etc J KHKMK A i Commoner Comment f Extracts From W J Bryans Paper A SAMPLE OF HARMONY It is fortunate for the democracy of the nation that at the very beginning of the fight the reorganized furnish a sample of the harmony which they recommend to the party at large St Louis the chief city of one of the great democratic states Is chosen as the theatre for the exhibition of this model reconciliation A mayor is to be chos en who will hold office during the worlds fair and certain men who did not think it important that the na tion should have a democratic presi dent are convinced that it is a mat ter of paramount Importance that St Louis should have a democratic mayor ut course it was thought necessary that so important an office at so im portant a time should be filled by a man of eminent respectability but it is strange that among the many thousands in St Louis who are In the habit of voting the democratic ticket not one could be found who measured up to the standard set by the reorgan izes Mr Rolla Wells the gentleman who was nominated by the democratic city convention renounced his allegiance to the democratic party in 1896 and resigned the presidency of the St Louis democratic club He actively co operated with the bolting contin gent who supported the republican ticket that year and in 1898 he open ly opposed the democratic candidate for congress in his district In 1900 his influence was given to the republi can national ticket and he has not since that time returned to the demo cratic principles as set forth in the party platform The resolutions adopted by the lo cal convention which nominated him include an indorsement of the funda mental principles of democracy but Mr Wells if elected will be able to define and construe those principles to suit himself Mr Wells is personally no doubt a good man According to the Republic Mr Carpenter of the National Lead company a republican gives Mr Wells a certificate of good character and Mr Walsh of the Terminal Rail road company indorses the certificate Even the Globe Democrat cannot withhold its testimony to his respect ability It may be that the situation in St Louis is such as to make it necessary to disregard party lines but if such is the case the candidate should run as a non partisan or as an independent Mr Wells has been affectionately de scribed by his friends as a man who can win but what if he can win It would not be fair to hold the demo cratic party responsible for the ad ministration of a man who by his own act severed himself from his party and repudiated its principles A party must have principles as well as an organization and a national con vention is the proper body to declare those principles If after a platform is adopted any member cannot con scientiously support that platform he has a perfect right to leave the party and no one can justly criticise his ac tion if he is honest with himself and with his party But a man cannot be outside of a party and inside at the same time Those who remain inside the party have rights as well as those who desert it They have a right to insist that any one who leaves his par ty and opposes its platform and candi dates shall return in some open and formal way before he can again con sider himself a member It is not enough that Mr Wells condescends to accept a nomination and a chance of election to an important office that is merely an acceptance of a benefit from a party which he repudiated and spurned Before he is entitled to be called a democrat he must in some way manifest his willingness to ac cept the party creed He may be will ing to have the party accept his prin ciples but not willing to accept the partys principles He may think it humiliating to return to the party but is it not more humiliating for the par ty to surrender to him The democratic party showed in the campaign of 1900 that it was ready to welcome any returning democrat and it Is doubtless just as ready now to ex tend a welcome to those who opposed the ticket in 1900 provided they ex press a willingness to accept the prin ciples of the party and give some evi dence of their intention to support the partys candidates in the future The prodigal son is always well treated when he sees the error of his ways and rejoins the family but he ought not to demand a deed to the house as a condition precedent to his return The nomination of Mr Wells may in St Louis be attributed to his pri vate character or personal merits but outside of St Louis it is everywhere hailed as a triumph for the reaction ary elements of the party The Louisville Courier Journal says of it This action of the party in St Louis the democratic nomination of a gold bug for mayor is evidence that the process of reunion is going on It also shows how rapidly the silver issue is pas8ingfrom public viewin such an extreme democratic state as Missouri It is a mo3t auspicious indication of the decline in party strife and the re turn of the masses to the old leaders under whom it was led to victory in former years In the campaign of 1900 the demo cratic party stood for the Declaration of Independence an- for industrial in dependence as well as for financial in dependence and the democrats of St Louis gave loyal support to the ticket The republican party stood for an im President McKinley says A portion of them Filipinos are making war against the United States Does it take 65000 men to subdue a portion of the Filipinos By implication Presi dent McKinley makes charges against American troops that would bring down upon his head the epithet of copperhead if he did not happen to be a republican Mr McKinley expresses great con cern for the preservation of the con stitution Perhaps this concern ex plains his reluctance to stretch it over Porto Rico perial policy and trust domination as well as for the gold standard and Mr Wells gave his influence to that party The more prominent he was as a man and the more influence he had the more valuable was his support to the republican ticket and the greater the loss to the democratic cause If Mr Wells has changed his views let him publicly announce his conversion to democratic principles and his sins though they may be many will be for given Of course if the conversion did not occur until after he made up his mind to seek the nomination for may or some might doubt the sincerity of the change but so far he has failed to give even that much comfort to the democrats If Mr Wells has undergone no change of opinion what reason is there to doubt that he will use the in fluence of his office to defeat demo cratic congressmen in 1902 as he used his individual influence to defeat dem ocratic congressmen in 1896 1898 and 1900 Is there any reason to believe that the environment which led him out of the democratic party has lost its controlling influence over him If he is the same man that he was in 1896 1898 and 1900 official position will simply increase his power to do harm and weaken the party in its ef fort to overthrow republican doctrines Mr Wells nomination is a part of the plan of the reorganlzers national in its extent to capture the organiza tion by stealth and then make the democratic so much like the republi can party that there will be little choice between them The democratic party now stands for definite principles and it aggres sively opposes republican policies The Kansas City platform embodies the principles of the party and the rank and file of the party are attached to those principles Those who oppose the Kansas City platform will not make an open fight against it even Mr Wells would not have been willing to risk a nomination on a platform re pudiating the Kansas City platform but under the pretense that success can be won under the leadership of the reorganlzers men are being pushed forward for local offices who have no sympathy with democratic principles The election of 1894 gave some in dication of the fate which awaits the party if it becomes the tool of organ ized greed and bids only for the favor of the plutocratic element of the coun try Democrats cannot afford to lose sight of democratic principles in their eagerness to secure a local victory which when secured is nominal rath er than real THE FIFTY SIXTH CONGRESS The record of the Fifty sixth con gress is completed and it is not an en viable one For extravagance it has never been equaled and no previous congress has ever shown anything like the contempt for American principles and traditions The republican party in 1896 promised international bimet alism and this congress redeemed the promise by retiring the greenbacks and giving the country as large a dose of the gold standard as it thought the patient was able to bear It has fastened a large army upon the United States an army larger than the president would have been willing to defend during the iate cam paign It has violated the solemn promise made to Cuba and demanded a supervi sion of Cuban affairs which amount to a denial of independence It has conferred upon the president authority over the Philippines as un limited as arbitrary and as tyrani cal as George III ever exercised over the colonies In addition to its sins of commission it has sins of omission to answer for It has failed to respond to the de mand of the wage earners for relief in the way of shorter hours and it has neglected to abolish government by in junction TthflR refused to eive the people any relief from extortionate railroad rates and has declined to enact anti trust legislation although a billion dollar trust was organized while it was in sBSSlOU It has repudiated the partys prom ise in regard to the inter oceanic canal For years the republicans advocated the Nicaraguan canal in 1900 they substituted an indorsement of an Isth mian canal but the trans continental railroad lines have sufficient influence with the republican party to prevent its carrying out any canal project It has failed to recognize the desire of the people for election of senators by a popular vote and it would have committed the country to the infamous ship subsidy legislation but for the filibustering resorted to by the demo crats populists and silver republicans A fifty million dollars river and har bor bill was also defeated by a few filibusters led by Senator Carter of Montana This is the record not all of it but enough of it These things are known to the reading public and yet republic can farmers continue to vote the re publican ticket republican laboring men continue to defend theirparty and republican business men raise no pro test agains what is going on Great corporate interests furnish campaign funds dictate platforms make nomi nations and dominate administrations To what extreme can the republican leaders go before they provoke remon strance and repudiation It will be noted that Russia is not the first to cry for quarter in the lit tle tariff war In a recent number the Commoner attention was called to the fact that it was customary for the outgoing president and the incoming president to ride to the inauguration together and as Mr Hanna was chosen to rido with Mr McKinley the question was asked whether Mr Hanna represented an outgoing or incoming president One reader suggests the answer Both and another things that he may be in the middle of his term Tie leferences to plain duty in the inaugural address are conspicuous by their absence TO ffllffl IN APRIL American Troops Instructed to Withdraw Prom China Next Month ONLY LEGATION GUARD REMAINS Chaffee and Entire Command to Go Leaving Bat 100 Men This Will Prac tically End Occupancy by American Troops WASHINGTON March 16 An or der was sent to General Chaffee today for the evacuation of China by Amer ican troops leaving only a legation guard of 150 men The troops will be removed from China the last of April The dispatch to General Chaffee in Pekin is as follows Adjutant Generals Office Marqh 16 Chaffee Pekin In reply to your telegram secretary of war directs you complete arrangements to sail for Ma nila with your command and staff offi cers by the end of April leaving as le gation guard infantry company com posed of 150 men having at least one year to serve or those intending to re enlist with full complement of offi cers medical officers sufficient hospi tal corps men and if you think best field officer especially qualified to com mand guard Retain and instruct officer quartermasters department to proceed to erect necessary buildings for guard according to plan and esti mates you approve Colonel Charles F Humphrey on arrival will make an inspection of quartermasters depart ment Philippine islands until July 1 when he will be assigned to duty as chief quartermaster at Manila and Miller ordered to the United States All stores and supplies not required for legation guard to be disposed of in your best judgment of course Serviceable supplies needed in Philip pine islands will be sent to Manila Di vision of the Philippines will furnish supplies for legation guard MacAr thur notified CORBIN It was said at the war department that this clears up the Chinese situa tion so far as the war department is concerned as the protection of the le gation can in no sense be taken as an occupation of Chinese territory and the guard cannot be used for any other purpose The transports Sumner and Indiana will be sent to Taku to take the troops in China to Manila These troops con sist of the Ninth infantry four troops of the Sixth cavalry and the light bat tery formerly commanded by Captain Reilley Two transports will bring away the 1100 animals which have been used by the army in China General Chaffee has advised the de partment that the best place of em barkation is Taku which no doubt will be clear of ice on the date fixed for departure f IXED BAYONETS IN f R0NT Knssians Entrenched in Disputed Ter ritory LONDON March 16 A dispatch re ceived here from Tien Tsin by Ren ters Telegram company dated from that city today at 320 a m says The Russians are now entrenching in the disputed territory A company of the Honk Kong regiment with fixed bayonets is in front while two com panies of the Madras Pioneers under the command of Major Johnson are held in reserve Both the Russians and the British are awaiting instructions from their governments TIEN TSIN March 16 The British and Russians are still disputing over the limits of railway property in the Russian concession and the guards of the two nations are in close proximity to each other The British have been strongly reinforced and trouble is im minent unless the Russians retire NEBRASKA 0RATARS LOSE Minnesota Defeats the University in 3 Speaking Contest MINNEAPOLIS Minn March 16 Minnesota won the oratorical contest held in the University chapel this evening from the University of Ne braska gaining first and third places Guy L Caldwell was marked first by the judges W E Hannan of Nebraska second L H Johnson of Minnesota third and N M Graham of Nebraska fourth The judges were Dr Charles M Jordan and Rev Marion D Shut ter of Minneapolis and Dr Bridgeman president of Hamline uiversity Dr Frank McVey presided Each orator was given fifteen minutes for his ad dress Miss Morrow Gets Bond ELDORADO Kan March lo Jes sie Morrison charged wctn killing Clara Wiley Castle today furnished a 5000 bond signed by reputable business men for the continuance of her case The bond wa3 accepted and Miss Morrison will be released to morrow The trial of ihe case will Le held during the June term Missouri to Tax Beverages JEFFERSON CITY Mo March 16 The senate today passed the house bill taxing whisky brandy rum gin distilled spirits of all kinds wines and vinous liquors sold in the state The house bill levied a tax of 20 cents per gallon but the senate reduced the rate to 10 cents per gallon 825000 OOO From Carnegie PITTSBURG March 16 The dis patch says Intimate friends of An drew Carnegie say it is the intention of the steel master to give at least 25000000 for the erection of build ings and for the endowment of the proposed technical school for Pitts burg It is declared by those who have talked with Mr Carnegie that he in tends to make his school the finest of its kind in the world and that it will lend as much fame to Pittsburg on the theoretical side of Iron and steel mak ing as his famous works have done in actual practice - - I