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XV. XV. 8ANDKKS Vubtlsher.
NEMAHA, NEBRASKA.
THE MOOR LOCH.
Among tlio lonely litlls It Ilea,
Deep, dark, und still:
And mirrors back tho clinngcful skies,
Tho Bun, moon, stnro. tho blid that flies,
The broad", brown-shouldered hill.
Tho world's wido voice Is silent here:
Tho erica of men,
Tho Bob, tho laugh, tho hope, tho fear,
Tho things which make earth sad and deur,
Llo ull beneath Its It en.
.And only ho who conies from far,
Seeking tho deep
'Communion sweet with nun nnd stnr,
Knows of tho calm and Joy that nro
In its vast stlrletjs Bleep.
For hero tho eternal soul holds npcoch,
Yet makes no sound:
"With naught but cloudB which ono might
reach,
Tho black flood, tho untrodden beach,
And hearkening space, around.
'Time and tho things of Tlmo are not;
Tho path wo trod
.Ends with tho world's end here, nnd
thought
Can neither oeo nor dream of aught
Save man's own heart and God.
Robert Bain, In Chambers' Journal.
W',-s',,,,',''
The World Against Sim
By WILLN. HARBEN.
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A. N. Kclloutf Newspaper Company.
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CHATTER XII.
'Twenty minutes later they were in
the sheriff's buggy, on the way to
Danube. Uateliff hail put a cheap cigar
between his teeth, but he was not go
ing to light it till they were entering
'the town.
"Thnr's one disagreeable feature," he
remarked. "At first, my idea was to
hurry up nn' git it over, so you wouldn't
Itnve to go to jail at nil; but it has
just struck me that this is Saturday,
an' it is sometimes awkward work to
have a trial the last day o' the week.
You see the prosecution will want to
Htunnioii Thud Williams, nn' that will
lake time. Then, ns to-morrow is Sun-
day, you may have obleegcd to wilt
over till Monday."
Itona'.d told him that it would make
little dillerenee to him whether he
spent the time in jail or out.
"You feel that away now," comment
ed the sheriff, "but you will feel dif
ferent when you git in thai:, at least
that's my experience with prisoners.
A jail house is like a woman's bonnet;
it has a better look from the outside
than the inside."
.lust before driving into the public
square Uateliff struck a match and ap
plied the ilamc to his cigar, then ho
drew himself up more erectly and
drove on to the office of Judge Iiichard
hon, the magistrate. A man coming
out told Itatcliff that 'the judge had
gone out to his farr to spend Sunday.
"You see," said Itatcliff, as he puffed,
and seemed to view himself from tho
.standpoint, of a group of citizens who
had gathered on the sidewalk and
whose eyes were nsking what had hap
pened. One of the. crowd stepped out
to the buggy and nsked if llouahl wa.s
under arrest, but lie received only a
non-committal grin and a shrug as
Ttatcliff turned his horse towards the
jail, a modern red brick structure ad
joining the courthouse in the center
of the town. When they arrived the
jailer, a short, thickset man, with a
bald spot on his head, was playing
checkers in the yard with the ordinary
of the county. The jailer answered to
his name reluctantly, without looking
up from the board.
"You'd better git up from thar,"
called out Itatcliff, jocirlarly. '"17he
-taxpayers say they are tired ' pnyin'
you fellers wages to draw flies like
sleepin' niggers in the courthouse
square.
The jailer crowned a king and got
up from the grass with a lingering
backward glance at tiie hand of bib
opponent. "What's wanted?" he
asked as he drew near the buggy.
"Mr. Henderson, you remember Mr.
Fanshaw, of lloneycut Destrict," re
minded Jtatcliff. "He's the feller that
helped me out last summer with that.
Jynohin' crowd over our way. Well,
he's settled Syd Hart's hash to-day
an' will have to register at yore she
bang till Monday, I reckon. 1 want you
to make Mm comfortable, Jeff; he's a
friend o' mine."
"I'll do the best. 1 can," promised the
jailer; "but you know all the cells are
, alike."
They followed him into the jail und
up the stone steps to a heavy iron door
at the head of the stairs. M'he room
was too large to be called a cell. It
was light, having four windows, which
were heavily barred, and a bed tliat
was faultlessly clean. As Itatcliff and
the jailer were leaving, the sheriff asked
Itonald if he could do anything for
iliini.
Itonald told him he could think of
nothing; indeed, he cou'.d think of noth
ing' nt tho moment but Syd Hart's ejis
Syd Hart's blood.
"You'll have to have a lawyer," sug-
cstcd Itatcliff.
"Then send Mr. lleddlng to me," said
the prisoner.
When they had left him, Itonald
threw himself on the bed raid stared
up at the celling. Hart's corpse had
a way of coining before him with new
foiee each time that it made its ap
pearance. It approached him now in
solitude oftcner and with more tena
cious reality than ever. The afternoon
died blowly. It began to grow colder
ns the sun went down, nnd the light
against the western sky turned from
yellow to gray. Once ho fancied he
saw tho body on the floor by his bed,
in the shadow, Justus it was lying when
lie had last beheld it. Almost with a
prayer for protection he turned his
face away und stilled a scream, and
yet the feeling of actual guilt had not
come to him. Ho tried to draw Evelyn
into his thoughts, but there wns cold
comfort in the memory that he had
blighted her life as well ns his own.
Could he have done so then, he would
have killed her affection for htm that
she might have the pence of soul that
was denied him. He heard steps on the
stairs and a key rattled in the lock
of a little Iron door in the wall, and
through It came a woman's oiee:
"Here's yore supper, Mr. Fanshaw."
It was the jailer's wife, and lie nrosc
and took the plate of food and cup
of hot coffee from her liands.
"Mr. Uateliff stopped nt the door just
now," she said, in a cold, methodical
tone, "nn' he said tell you Mr. Iteddln'
was out in the country, but he'd left
word at his house fur Mm to come an'
see you as soon as-hc got back."
When she had gone, Itonuld put the
plate on the bed (there was no table
in the room) and washed his hands and
face in the tin basin, but somehow the
cold water added to the general chill
thnt wns on him and lie quickly dried
himself on a towel. The sight of the
food gave him a touch of nausea; he
started to drink the coffee, but remem
bered that coffee at night made him
restless, nnd he wanted to sleep. He
went to the window which commanded
the widest view of the buildings round
the prison. A negro on a bony horse
was lighting the gas along thd avenue,
which stretched out till, on a distant
hillside, it lost itself in the clouds. Two
churches were within sight, nnd they
were being lighted. The choirs were
going to meet to practice, for the serv
ice on the morrow. The nenrest bell
was rung. The night fell like a threat
of coming terror.
He had another vision of the dead
man. This time Syd lay covered with
a white sheet in the sitting-room of
his own home. Hound tho walls of
the room sat the neighbors discuss
ing his man" manly virtues nnd his
untimely cnu. He saw a white-hahed
mother, and old man Hart, from whom
Syd had inherited his intrepid, turbu
lent spirit.
"Some men," shuddered our hero,
"could justify themselves in such a
case ns this, but I shall never be nble
to forget. My ideal man the Master
of the World would have found a way
to avoid what I did. If only I hnd of
fered no resistance. Syd Hart would
have been nlive, nnd I and Evelyn "
There his agony overwhelmed him
and he threw himself on his bed again
nnd pressed his hands over his ryes.
The strains of an organ swelled up
from the nearer church and stole into
his room; voices began to sing. The
singers broke down and merry laugh
ter the laughter of free, hopeful peo
ple rolled after the fleeing strains of
music.
Suddenly there was a sound of a kej
being pushed into the lock and the big
door swung open. The voice of the
jailer cried:
"Wake up thnr, Mr. Fanshaw. I've
fetched yore brother up to mo you I"
Dave came in with a candle which
the jailer had given him, and he stood
with it in his hand, nwkwnrdly shift
ing his big feet in their new shoes, till
the jailer had locked the door and
had gone.
"1 come on, Iton," ho snid, "ns soon
ms I could after I got homo, nnd Miss
llnsbrooko had drove up the second
time to tell me what you'd said. She
Mowed clip had took you to tho slicr
iff's house. She was n-cryin' as if 'or
heart ud break she could hardly talk.
She begged me to come on nn' offered
me money to buy nnything thnt might
Le needed."
"1 hope you didn't take it, Have,"
burst from the prisoner's lips.
"No, i didn't take it; somehow I
didn't think you would want help from
a woman you are not that sort."
"What do people think nbout it,
Dave?" itonald took the candle from
the poor fellow's quivering hnnd and
placed it on a little shelf dn the wall.
"Sympathy's always with the dead,
at first," nnswered Dave. "I never
have heerd as many good things said
nbout George Washington ns- I have
about Syd Hart In the last three
hours."
Itonnld sighed despondently.
"I presume that they blame me?"
"Some few Mowed that you ort not
n-bucked agin Mm that night nt the
swamp."
"Hut the boy was innocent," said
our hero.
"That's a fact, Hon; but mountain
folks don't reason Hint way; they only
remember how mad you made Mm
when you turned his cake to dough.
They don't admit that you wns right,
knso they don't want to know how
nigh they come to murder that night,
The nigger that did tho deed has long
ago met his God, but somo of 'cm
try to believe he was innocent. Let
a body have even u spludlln' excuse,
nnd he'll elenr his own skirts. Do you
reckon they will let you out on ball?"
"Mr. Uateliff is going to help me
try for it," replied the prisoner. "We
shall not know what can be done till
after tho trial Monday."
Dave moed towards the door, as if
he were ready to go, but lie lingered.
"I reckon," he said, as his eyes
roved about tho bare room, "that you
feel a little lonesome lieer." llccctv-
ing a nod from his brother, he went
on: "You needn't look to pa for help.
Hill Tygh hinted to Mm this eventn'
that folks would naturally expect him
to sign yore bond, an' it made Mm as
mud ns a wet hen. He swore like rips
fur fully .tho minutes on a stretch, an'
said somo'n about yore bcin' no son
o' his'n. Ma run out to him an'
slapped 'cr hand smack dab over his
mouth, an' tol' Mm to shet up ur she'd
make Mm regret it to his dyln' day.
They both went off in the smokehouse,
jowerln1 like cats n-flghtln'. I slid up
agin the wall o' the smokehouse to see
ef I could niako out what wns wrong.
Thar they had it up nn' down fur half
an hour, but I couldn't catch head uur
tail of it. Hut it seemed like pa had
committed some crime or other durin'
the wnr, up in Tennessee, an' she vas
threatcnln' to give him away. They
kept bringing yore name into the
fuss, but I couldn't tell why they did
it. You was too little durin' the wur
to 'a' done anything wrong."
Ilonuld made no comment on these
remarks; indeed he had caught only
nbout half of what his brother was
saving, so fur away were his thoughts
from any row between his mother and
father.
Noting his inattention, Dave shook
the iron door, the signal agreed on
between him und the jailer to indicate
his readiness to go. "I've got a long
ride before me,'' he c.Vplnincd. "I'll
be in Monduy sure."
And when the jailer and Dave hnd
departed with the candle, Itonald lay
down on his bed to spend ills first
night after killing a roan.
CHATTER XII 1.
When Evelyn reached home, after
leaving the message with Dave, she
found her sister waiting for her in the
garden. Cnroline llnsbrooko snid
nothing until the groom had led awuy
THE NIGHT FELL. LIKE A THREAT OP
COMING- TEUltOH.
the pony, then, with a mnlieious
glance at Evelyn, she opened up:
"I guess you've heard about Ilonuld
Fanshaw."
Evelyn nodded; she could not trust
her voice to culm utterance just then;
besides, it behooved her to dissemble.
"He has murdered Sydney Hurt."
Evelyn drew a quick breath and re
torted: "He did it in self-defense absolute
ly in self-defense!"
"I don't believe n word of it."
Evelyn bowed her head, and passed
on up the steps, realizing that even If
she could justify her lover in Caro
line's 03 es it would not benefit his
cause in the slightest, mid she hnd
heart for nothing that, could not light
en his woe. Hut Miss llnsbrooko wus
not satisfied. Nugging was an amuse
ment to which every brain-cell she
possessed was ndupted. She followed
Evelyn into her room nnd closed the
door with significant enre and soft
ness. "So you see what you escaped." MMiis
was her first shot, nnd she coolly
ranged her guns again on Evelyn, who
stood at the dresser, removing her
gloves und hut.
"I don't understand you," said Eve
lyn. Cnroline enme n step nenrer, her sharp
eyes flashing.
"You enme within an inch of falling
in love with him last summer. Capt.
Winkle hns told me n thing or two. J
intended to report it to father if you
hnd not changed your tncties. Suppose
you hnd let your silly romanticism run
on, how would you have felt now?"
Tills sort of goading was maddening.
Evelyn turned upon the offender. "I
don't see how T could be more miserable
than I am," bhe said, with sharp frank
ness of voice and look.
(JPy
Tho elder girl grasped the speaker's
arm and her bony fingers tightened on
it. "Evelyn," she said, raspingly, "you
are not in love with timl man?"
"More deeply, Caroline, than you will
ever love or ever could love anybody
with that stony heart of yours. Yes, t
love html If it would give him one mo
ment's relief, I'd go to his cell to-night
und share his sufferings."
"Evelyn llnsbrooko!" Caroline stood
like a figure of stone. "You cannot
mean it I"
Hut Evelyn simply sunk into n chair
in the scml'durkuess of thuroom. Her
sister's voice sounded ns if it enme from
a great distance.
"1 shnll not tell father," Caroline wns
saying. "It would humble him to the
dust. 1 1 would simply break his heart."
She paused. The plantation bell rang
for the last time. It wus a signal for nil
loiterers in the fields to come into the
quarter, a custom which hnd been kept
ulive since the dnys of shivery. MMic elder
sister drew up a ehnlr ami sat down
near Evelyn.
"Tell me how it came abou.1," sho
said.
For a moment Evelyn seemed drawn
out of a stupor of gloomy reflections.
"He hnd thrcntcned to kill Itonnld,"
sho began "to kill him on sight und
Konuld's brother gave him n "
"Oil, .1 menu how did you ever hnp
pen to fall in love with buch a creature
ns he is?" broke in Miss llnsbrooko, al
most angrily. "How enn you admit
such u thing, when you remember who
nnd what the Husbrookcs nrc?"
"I have necr thought of them ns be
ing gods, nor even nngels," Evelyn
blurted out, and then she lnld a firm, de
termined hnnd on her sister's uriii. "1
must beg you, Cnroline, to leave me
alone this evening. 1 cannot benr to
hear you run him down for what he
cunnot help. Tlensegol"
Cnroline drew herself up from her
ehnlr nnd moved to the door with u step
full of dire prophecy. "I shall not tell
father," she repented. "No, 1 shull not
tell him."
"Hut I shnll," nnswered Evelyn. "I
nm helpless to aid the mnn I love the
man I'd die for willingly, but 1 shall
not concenl the truth from a single
soul. At least 1 can do thnt much. 1
can be true to him. I shall not deny
him."
Caroline leaned on theswlngingdoor,
her cold, vindictive face rested on her
nrm. It wus on the tip of her tongue
to make an nilgry retort, but she ei
dently thought dumb silence on her
part would be more crushing, so with a
look of forced incredulity on her fnee
she turned awny. "I shnll not tell fa
ther," enme like u belnted echo from
the hall. "I shnll not be the one t to
break Ills heart."
MMie colonel had come In from a tire
some ride across his domain and Hut in
ids study looking over some legal pa
pers. The soft light of a German stu
dent lamp brought his fine face out
strongly nnd clearly from the durkness
round him. He hnd spread tho papers
on the top of his mahogany desk.
Only the day before he hnd insured his
life for another large amount, nnd he
was thinking of making n will which
would divide his property equnlly be
tween his two daughters. One of the
servants nppronched with u curd.
"Tell Capt. Winkle," suld lie, as lie
glanced at the card, "that 1 cannot see
him to-night, unless it is something of
importance."
"He suid it wns very Important, bull."
The old man fumbled his papers with
nervous fingers.
"it has come nt last," was the thought
in his mind; "but. she shall not be co
creed. I shull never usk u child of mine
to marry against her inclinations, nnd
Evelyn hns ncted strangely in regard to
him.
"Well, send him In here, Nebo, nnd
then see that we urenot disturbed."
Col. llnsbrooko opened the door of a
big Iron safe und thrust into It his pa
pers. He remained standing, his eyes
on the door. Capt. Winkle wore riding
boots und held his gloves and whip in
his hands us he entered.
"I dropped in only for a minute, colo
nel." That wns his greeting, but it
wus a cold one, unlike the young olll
cer's usual suavity. Indeed, his tone
seemed almost to carry n mennce. M'he
colonel's perception was keen, anil he
fell to wonderingand drawing hasty de
ductions. "You nro always, welcome at Carn
leigh, Capt. Winkle. Nebo, take the cap
tain's things. What will you drink,
sir?"
Winkle waved the servant awny, and
stood watching him till he hud gone,
then he leaned on the back of achuir.
"I called to sec you in regard to your
daughter," he said, still coldly. "I hope
you will pardon the informality of my
visit, colonel."
"I must admit that I suspected thu4.
you might wish to speak of her of
Eveljn," answered the old mnn, now
renshiired as to Winkle's intentions,
To Bo Continued.
Oflicrx Similarly Allllctrd.
"I want you to tell me plainly, doc
tor," Buld the man with the fut gov
ernment position, "what is tho mutter
with me."
"Well, sir," answered thd old doc
tor, leaning back In his ehnlr and
looking ut his beefy, red-fuccd pa
tient, "you are suffering from under
work and overpay." Chicago Tribune.
REPLY TO HARRISON.
Senator Fornkcr Takes Exception
to Ex-Prcsldcnt's Speech.
Argue Tlmt Hni l'orto Itlcnn Turin Wn mi
IiullnpoiiHuhln Neoemlty mid linn
l'rovcd llli'Mlng tit tlio
Inlander.
Cincinnati, Dee. 29. Scnntor .7. It.
Fornkcr has ninde a reply to the recent
speech nt Ann Arbor, Mich., of Former
President. Henjumin Harrison, iu
which Mr. Harrison criticised tiic l'or
to Iticnn policy of the government,
characterizing it ns a departure from
correct principles. Senator Fornkcr
said on this point:
All tho questions arising upon tho l'or
to Illcnn legislation nro coon to bo paused
upon by tho Hupremo court. For thnt
reason I do not enro to dlncuHS them nt
thin tlmo hut It Is In order to sny that
tho view taken by congress, nB reflected
by thnt leRlslntlon, was crcdltublo to tho
gonorontty, tho pntrtottHm nnd tho Indus
trial spirit of tho American people. Wo
found l'orto Itlco ns poor an poverty
could innko her. Sho hnd no money, no
credit, no system of taxation of any
Kind, sho wanted a civil government
and a revenue to support It. Wo gnvo
her a far mora liberal civil government
than wnn over given to any territory prior
to tho civil war, so fnr as participation
In It by hor pcoplo Is concerned, nnd wo
dealt by her mora gonerouHly In pro
viding support for that govornmont thnn
wo havo over yet dealt with any terri
tory. In requiring hor to pay tariff duties on
Imposts from foreign countries wo did
only what wo did With Loulntnnn, Flor
ida, California and nil our other territo
ries; but In allowing her to put theno
duties, when collected, Into her own treas
ury for tho support of her locnl govern
ment wo did wlint was novor ddno be
fore for anybody else; for In all other
cases wo havo not only required tho pay
ment of theno stimu duties but wo hnvo
nlso required them, when they wero col
lected, t" bo paid Into tho national trenn
ury at Washington for tho common bene
fit of tho whole country: and. ns to duties
on commerce between l'orto Itlco nnd tho
United States, wo did not levy 1C per
cent., but wo remitted 83 per cent, of tho
existing rates on a number of nrtlcles.
and tho wholo duty on nil tho rent, und
provided that tho 15 per cent, should
bo remitted on and after March 1, V.tifi.
or sooner If tho legislature of Porto Itlco
shnll so provide, nnd that In tho mean
while nil collections of this 15 per cent.,
both there und In tho United Stnten, shall
'bo paid over to Porto Klco for hor own
support. Wo nmdo thin provision becnuso
It was tho eanlcnt nnd lenst burdensome
wny possible to ralso Indispensable rev
enue for their govornmont, nnd not be
cause It was In any sense of any benellt
to either our government or our people.
Tho l'orto nioun legislature In now In
Reunion, but neither that body nor any
member of It nor anybody olno. tian ta
ken any step to repeal or niter tho tux
system so Imposed by congrens. On tho
contrary, all concerned allko testify to.
tho highest satisfaction with what con
gress has done, nnd tho request will bo
almost unanimously mudo thnt tho pro
visions enacted may bo continued, If not
Indefinitely at lenst until somo satis
factory system of prnpur taxation may
bo submitted. In addition It should bo
stated that congrens, also In tho snmo
generous spirit, exempted Porto Hlco
from all Irregular revenuo taxationan
other favor never before extended on
nny part of our people nnywhero.
Yen, It In truo that tho leglnlntlon for
Porto Itleo was a "dopnrturo," but It Is
not truo that It was a departure "from
correct principles."
SHIP BRINGS STRANGE NEWS
VuMiiI from Now (lulneti und QiiouiihUiuiI
(liven Account of Vlglitn with I'lniton
unit of Citiitillmli.tm.
Victoria, II. C, Dee. 29. Thnt pi
racy is not dead in New Guinea Ih
shown by advices brought by tho
Miowera regarding a raid on tho Brit
ish possessions by the piratical na
tives, tho Tugarl tribe, from Dutch
New Guinea. The police wero wnrnod
by a messenger that a despernfo at-'
tuck was to be Hindu on villages under
their protection, nnd u squad 6f police
met the pirates from Tugarl at tho
mouth of the Morchend river. A ho1-"
vere light on tho wuter ensued, tho
police capturing or sinking five, junks.
No prisoners were taken, und It Is suid
that in this encounter over fiO were
shot or drowned. Afterward the Tu
garl made another raid on the More
head river villages, killing ut lenst
15 persons, whose remains were
found. M'he police discovered tho
heads of the victims In canoes. M'he
Miowera nlso brings ndvleen from
Queensland thnt a prospector named
T. Killuiip hns been killed, and, ac
cording to the belief of thu ship's peo
ple, eaten by the natives. A report Ik
brought of the discovery of gold In
Samoa.
Many Find it Wntnrjr (Inivn.
Victoria, H. C, Dec. 2!). M'he steam
er ltio Jun Mum brings news that tho
Japanese training ship M'su Kishlma
Mum has been lost with all hands,
numbering 121, near Nainad.u, Japan.
M'he steumcr Iniishimn Muru was lost
on December 8 by striking a rock in
Aluska buy. A man wns saved by a
passing steamer, but the others wero
lost. From Osaka comes news that
the bark Katokugawa Muru wus lost
off M'osa province, with all on board
on December 0.
railed to Curry IIIh 1'olnt.
Lexington, Ky., Doc. 29. MMie resig
nation of D. W. Hatson, dean of Ken
tucky Wesleyun college ut Winchester,
wus accepted, His retirement is duo
to his opposition to the fontbull team's
playing on other grldironn', He asked
tho faculty to expel the members of
the team. It refused and ho resigned.
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