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•CHAPTER XXIII.—(CostisdbdA
“You will oblige me by leaving the
ahouse,” he said, “if you cannot speak
civilly. I have made this lady my wife.
'She belongs now to me and my coun
try, and she accompanies me to Paris
"tonight."
“No, not tonight,” said Marjorie
"Quickly. “You will not take me away
tonight, Leon!"
“And why not tonight, Marjorie?”
“Because I have promised Mr. Suth
erland to go back with him to Annan
-dalo to see my—to see dear Miss Heth
■erlngtcn. She is ill, and she wants me,
’monsieur.”
“I regret it, but we do not get every
thing we wish in this world. I must
leave for Paris without delay!”
Marjorie hesitated and looked con
tused. Then Sutherland spoke, uncon
sciously uttering the thoughts which
A had been in the girl’s mind.
“You can go to Paris,” he said, “if
.yzu allow Marjorie to return with me.”
. The Frenchman gave a smile which
was half a sneer.
“You are consideration itself, mon
sieur,” he said. Then, turning to Mar
jorie, he added: “What does my wife
say to that?”
i—i uuu i Kfjuw, sae stammered.
"'I am so sorry for Miss Hetherington.
It would be only for a few days, per
haps, and—I could follow you.”
Caussidiere smiled again, this time
less agreeably.
“You seem to be tender-hearted,
Marjorie,” he said, “to every one but
myself. Truly, an admirable speech to
make to your husband In the first flush
of the honeymoon. I am too fond of
you, however, to lose you quite so
.soon.”
“Then you will not let me return?”
“Most assuredly I shall not let you
.go; what is Miss Hetherington to you
•or to me? She 1b your mother, per
haps, as you say; but in her case, what
4oes that sacred word ‘mother’ mean?
Merely this: A woman so hardened
that she could abandon her helpless off
spring to the mercy of strangers; r.nd
afterward, when she saw her alone and
utterly friendless, had not tenderness
•enough to come forward and say: ‘Mar
jorie, you are not alone in the world;
•come to me—your mother!’ ”
“Ah, Leon, do not talk so!” exclaim
.w«d Marjorie; then, seeing Sutherland
" I. about to speak, she went toward him
IVwith outstretched hands.
jr “Do not speak,” she whispered, "for
any sake. Since my husband wishes it,
I must remain. Good-by.”
She held forth her hand, nnd he took
it in both of his, and, answering her
prayer, he remained silent. He had
sense enough to see that in the present
instance the Frenchman had the power
entirely in his own hands, and that he
Intended to use it. He had noted the
sneers and cruel smiles which had flit
ted over Caussidiere’s face, and he saw
that further interference of his might
result in evil for the future of her he
loved.
So, instead of turning to the French
man, he kept Marjorie's hand, and
waid:
“You are sure, Marjorie, that you
wish to remain?”
“Ye»,” sobbed Marjorie, “quite sure.
<}iTe my love to my dear mother, and
*ay that very soon my husband will
'V bring Ke home again.”
He lifted her hand to his lips and
kissed Tt again and again; then, with
out another word, he was about to
leave 'the room, when Caussidiere stop
ped hint.
“Monsieur,” he said, “you will also,
if you please, bear a leetle message to
-our mu“h esteemed Miss Hetherington
from ms. Tell her that, though in the
first days of our married life she has
tried to separate my wife from me, I
bear her no ill will; on the contrary, I
■ghall be glad to hear of her prosperity.
Tell her, also, monsieur,” added the
Frenchman blandly, "that since Mar
jorie Anuan and I are one, we share
the same good or evil fortune; that she
cannot now gratify her malignity by
persecuting Leon Caussidiere without
persecuting her own child!”
CHAPTER XXIV.
N one of the nar
row Parisian
streets in the near
neighborhood o f
the Seine, close to
quays and old
bookstalls, fre
quented by the
litterateur out at
elbows and the
bibliomaniac, there
is an obscure caba
Tat or house of entertainment, bearing
■the name of Mouche d’Or. Besides tho
sanded salon, with its marble tables
•and its buffet, presided over by a giddy
■damsel of forty, there is a dining
•chamber up stairs, so low that a tall
man standing upright can almost touch
the ceiling with his head, and so badly
lit by a narrow window that a light of
some sort is necessary even by broad
•day.
In this upper chamber, one foggy af
. ternoon in autumn, three years after
the occurrence of the events described
In the last chapter, a man was seated
alono and busily writing at one of the
wooden tables.
The man was about forty years of
age, corpulent, with jet-black hair and
mustache, but otherwise clean shaven.
. He wrote rapidly, almost furiously,(
now and then pausing to read, half
aloud, the matter on the paper, ob
viously his own composition. As he
did so, he smiled, well pleased, or
frowned savagely. Presently he paus
ed and stamped with his foot on the
floor.
In answer to his summons, a young
woman of about twenty, gaudily at
tired, with a liberal display of cheap
jewelry, came up the narrow stairs.
“Ah, Adele!” cried the man, “is the
boy below?”
The woman answered with a curious
nod.
“Give him these papers—let him fly
with them to the printer. Stay! Is
any one below?”
“No one, Monsieur Fernand.”
“Death of my life, Caussidiere is
late,” muttered the man. “Bring me
some absinthe and a packet of cigar
ettes.”
The woman disappeared with the
parcel of manuscript, and returned al
most immediately, bearing the things
ordered. She had scarcely set them
down, when a foot was heard upon the
stairs, and our old acquaintance, Caus
sidiere, elegantly attired, with fault
less glove3 and boots, entered the
room.
“Here you are!” cried the man. “You
come a little late, mon camarade. I
should have liked you to hear the ar
ticle I have just dispatched to the Bon
Cltoyen.”
It will keep till tomorrow, Huet,”
returned the other, dryly, “when I shall
behold it in all the glory of large type.”
Huet, as the man was named, ripped
out a round oath.
“It is a firebrand, a bombshell, by
-! ” he cried. “The dagger-thrust of
Marat, with the epigram of Victor Hu
go. I have signed it at full length,
mon camarade—‘Fernand Huet, Work
man, Friend of the People.’ ” .
Caussidlere laughed and sat down. "
“No man can match you, my dear '
Huet, in the great war of—words.”
“Just so, and in the war of swords, !
too, when the time comes. Nature has i
given me the soul of a poet, the heart
of a lion, the strength of Hercules, the
tongue of Apollo. Behold me! When
heroes are wanted, I shall be there.”
The two men talked for some time
on general subjects; then Huet, after
regarding his companion with a pro
longed stare, observed with a coarse
laugh:
“You are a swell as usual, my Caus
sidiere. Parb’.eu, it is easily seen that
you earn not your living, like a good
patriot, by the sweat of your brow!
Who is the victim, mon camarade!
Who bleeds?”
“I do not waste what I have,” re
turned Caussidlere, “and I love clean
linen, that is all.”
Huet snapped his Angers and laugh
ed.
“Do you think I am a fool to swallow
that canard? No, my Caussidlere. You
have money, you have a little nest-egg
at home. You have a wife, brave boy;
she is English, and she is rich.”
“On the contrary, she is very poor,”
j answered Caussidlere. “She has not a
coil ** I
uiaDie:
"Nevertheless, I will not disguise
from you that she has wealthy connec
tions, who sometimes assist us in our
•struggle for subsistence. But it is not
touch that comes to me from that quar
ter, I assure you. Mj correspondence
and my translations are our chief re
liance.”
“Then they pay you like a prince,
mon camarade!” cried Huet. “But
there, that Is your affair, not mine.
You are with us, at any rate, heart and
soul?”
"Assuredly.”
Sinking thsir voices, they continued
to converse for some time. A't last
Caussidiere rose to go. After a rough
handshake from Huet, and a gruffly
murmured “A bientot,” he made his
way down the narrow stairs, and found
himself in the sanded entresol of the
cabaret.
Several men in blouses sat at the ta
ble drinking, waited upon by Adele.
As Caussidiere crossed the room the
girl followed him to the door and
touched him on the shoulder.
“How is madame?” she asked, in a
low voice. “I trust much better.”
Caussidiere gazed at the questioner;'
with no very amiable expression. >
"Do you say Madame Caussidiere?
How do you know that there is such a
person?”
The girl shrugged her shoulders.
“Your wife or your mistress, it Is all
the same. You know whom I mean,
monsieur.”
“She is better, then.”
“And the little garcon?”
"Quito well,” answered Caussidiere,
passing out into the street.
Leaving Mouche d’Or behind him,
and passing along the banks of the
Seine, Caussidiere crossed the river
and reached the neighborhood of the
Palais Royal. From time to time he
exchanged a nod or a greeting with
some passer-by, generally a person
much more shabbily attired than him
self. Lingering among the arches, he
purchased one or two journals from the
itinerant venders,and then passed slow
ly ou till ho reached a narrow back
street, before one of the doors of which
he paused and rang a bell. The door
being opened by a men in his shirt
sleoes, who greeted him with a “bon
•olr,” he passed up a dingy flight of
wooden stairs till he gained the second
floor, which consisted of three rooms
en suite, a small salon, a bedchamber,
and a smaller bedchamber adjoining.
In the salon which was gau
dily but shabbily furnished In red
velvet, with mirrors on the walls, a
young woman was seated sewing, and
playing near to her was a child about
a year and a half old. Both mother
and child were very pale and delicate,
but both had the same soft features,
gentle blue eyes and golden hair.
The woman was Marjorie Annan—
Marjorie with all the lightness and
happiness gone out of her face, which
had grown sad and very pale. As
Caussldiere entered, she looked up
eagerly and greeted him by his Chris
tian name. The child paused timidly
in his play.
“You are late, Leon,” said Marjo
rie, In French. “I have watted in all
day, expecting you to return.”
“I was busy and couldn’t come,"
was the reply. "Any letters?"
“No, Leon.”
Caussldiere uttered an angry excla
mation, and threw himself into an
armchair.
“The old woman had better take
care,” he cried. “Nearly a week has
now passed and she has not replied to
my note—that Is, to yours. And we
want money infernally, as you know.”
Marjorie sighed, and her eyes filled
with tears.
“Why are you crying?” demanded
her husband, sharply. “Because you
have an unnatural mother, who would
rather see you starve than share her
wealth with you, or with the child?”
“No, no, it is not that,” answered
Marjorie. “Miss Hctherington has
been very good. She has given us a
great deal already; but we require so
much, and I am sure she is not so rich
as you suppose.”
“She is a miser, I tell you,” returned
Caussldiere. “What she has sent you
is not sufficient for an ordinary semp
stress’ wage. She had better take
care! If she offends me, look you, 1
could bring her to shame before all the
world.”
At this moment there was a knock
at the room door, and the man who
had admitted Caussldiere entered with
a letter.
"A letter for madame,” he said.
Marjorie took the letter, and, while
the man retired, opened it with trem
bling hands. Her husband watched
her gloomily, but his eye glistened as
he saw her draw forth a bank order.
"Well?” he said.
“It Is from Miss Hetherington—from
my—mother! Oh, is she not good!
Look, Leon! An order upon the bank
for thirty pounds.”
"Let me look at it,” said Caussldiere,
rising and taking It from his wife's
hand. “Thirty pounds! It is not
much. Well, what does the old wom
an say?”
"I—I have not read the letter."
“Let me read it,” he said, taking It
from her and suiting the action to the
words.
It was a longlsh communication.
Caussldiere read it slowly, and his face
darkened, especially when he came to
the following words:
“If you are unhappy, come back to
me. Bemember your home is always
here. Oh, Marjorie! my bairn! nev
er forget that! It is a mother's heart
that yearns and waits for you! Come
back, Marjorie, before it is broken al
together.”
Caussldiere tossed the letter on the
table.
"3o you have been telling her that
you are unhappy,” he said with a
sneer. “In the future I must see all
your letters, even to the postscripts.
And she begs you to go back to Scot
land! Well,< v/ho knows?—it may
cofte to that yet!”
(TO BS CONTINUED.)
SALADS AS A DIET.
Uoie WholFiome Food and Should B*
Eaten Every Day.
“The beauty and wholesomeness of
the salad should commend It to every
American housekeeper," writes Mrs. S.
T. P.orer in the Ladies’ Home Journal.
"I no not refer to those highly se?
soheil combinations of hard-boiled eggs
And mustard, but to dainty dinner or
luncheon salads made with a dressing
of olive oil, a few drops of lemon juice
and a light seasoning of salt, garlic and
pepper.
“The salts necessary for the well be
ing of our blood are bountifully given
in these green vegetables. Then, too.
It is a pleasant way of taking fatty
food. All machinery must be well
oiled to prevent friction, and the won
derful human engine is not an excep
tion to the rule. Look carefully to it
that you take sufficient fatty food,
“The Americans do not use enough
oil to keep them in perfect health.
While butter is served in some families
three times a day, and is better than
no fat, its composition is rather against
it as compared to a sweet vegetable oil.
Fats well digested are the salvation of
consumptives, or those suffering from
any form of tuberculosis. For these
reasons a simple salad composed of any
green vegetable and a French dressing
should be seen on every well-regulated
table 3G5 times a year. Those who live
out of town can obtain from the fields
sorrel, long docks, dandelions and
lamb’s quarters for the cost of picking.
Where desserts ,are not used, and I
wi3h for health’s sake, they might be
abolished, a salad with a bit of cheese
and bread or wafer or cracker, with
a small cup of coffee, may close the
meal. Where a dessert is used the
salad, cheese and wafer are served Just
before it, to prick up the appetite that
it may enjoy more fully the sweet. At
a large dinner the salad Is usually
served with the game course.”.
Corn ting done on a tandem ought to
result In • double safety match.
BOOSTING IRRIGATION.
& Circular by the Secretary of the Board
of Irrigation.
The secretary of the board cf Irri
gation has Issued a circular letter,
which he is sending to every irriga
tion ditch owner In the state and also
to a large number of those who are
using water from these nltches, about
800 copies of the letter having been
sent out. He says that in some parts
of Nebraska there is great lack of in
formation as to the importance and
extent of the irrigation work, and in
some localities prejudices exist. For
this reason the irrigation interests are
prevented from receiving proper at
tention by the legislature, and he
thinks the only way this can be over
come- is to spread before the people
through the newspapers correct and
timely knowledge of the progress and
extent of irrigation. He calls attention
to the fact that some of the newspa
pers of the state are muen interested
in the irrigation question and will
cheerfully give the desired information
to the public. Accompanying each let
ter is a postal card with blanks to All
out and mailed back to the board. The
questions asked are: "What is the
number of miles of completed ditch?
What is the number of acres suscep
tible of irrigation from your ditch?
What is the number of acres actually
irrigated in 181*7? What is the cost cf
works to date?" The persons to whom
the letters are sent are asked to an
swer as soon as possible in order that
all the reports will be in early in
January, and are told that by attend
ing to the matter promptly they will
help the cause of irrigation.
Hearing; o Land Case.
Last week Judge Klnkald held a
term of court In chambers at this
place, says an Alliance dispatch, to
hear an equity case which involved
the rights of every person living and
owning land in township No. 24,
range No. 27, near this place. A man
named . Duhan, through ex-County
Surveyor Hazard, located and squatted
upon a tract of land belonging to the
Kara Cattle company, claiming error
in the description of the land as
claimed by the Kara company. The
(tract is a piece of hay land and has
been deeded for nearly ten years and
was inclosed with a fence. Every
quarter action of land in the town
ship has been settled upon and lo
cated from regular government cor
ners in said township and no dispute
ever arose until Hazard run in a line
and built his own corners (admit
ting on the witness stand that he did
so) and located this man Duhan. Tho
court took the case under advise
ment.
After the Railroads.
A complaint ha3 been filed with the
state board of transportation by the
commissioners of Pawnee county. In
which they ask for an order to com
pel the Kansas City & Northwestern
Railway company to provide and open
out a safe highway along the track
of that line on the section line be
tween sections 16 and 17, in town
ship 2, range 9, we3t. The railroad
is built on and crosses the original
highway in such a manner as to ren
der it unsafe for public use. The
citizens of Shubert, Richardson
county, have also complained to the
board and ask that the Burlington
give that town better passenger 'train
service.
A Daring Bobbery.
Nebraska City dispatch; At an early
hour Sunday morning two men with
faces blacked entered a house in the
burnt district kept by Sadie Jennings,
and at the muzzles of pistols com
pelled three of the inmates to hold up
their hands, after which they were
bound hands and feet. The landlady
was compelled to give up $64, after
which the men went to another room,
where a man was sleeping, and ho
was compelled to give up $265. The
men went out, a wagon came for them
and they disappeared. It was one cf
the most daring robberies ever per
petrated in the city, and there is uj
clue to the thieves.
Tl»© Moore Cane.
Attorney General Smyth Is said to
be preparing a motion for dismissal
of the appeal cf cx-Auditor Eugene
Moore in the supreme court. The mo
tion will ask dismissal on the ground
that Moore’s attorneys have failed to
file and serve briefs within the time
allowed by rules of the court. Moore’s
case was filed in the supreme court
November 30. Rules of the court pro
vide that briefs shall be filed and
served within twenty days after tna
petition is filed.
Trim Carbolic Acid.
Miss Jennie Young, daughter of
William Young, an old and respected
farmer living seven miles south of
Plattsmouth, died at her home from
the effects of a liberal dose of car
bolic acid. In a note left to her fa
ther she encouraged him in his old
age, but gave no reason for her rash
act. Deceased was 40 years of age
and unmarried.
Died for Hlj Girl.
Hyannis dispatch: Jesse Stanton,
who committed suicide by shooting
himself with a shotgun some fifteen
miles south of Hyannis, was buried
here some time ago. The young man
was from near Warsaw, Mo., and it
appears that upon investigation it was
on account, of being slighted by a cer
young lady of this county, with
whom Stanton was deeply in love.
The football teams of Cozad and
Gothenburg will play a game in the
enow on New Year's day. ■
A Gratifying Kexponse.
The governors of Utah, Texas and
Arkansas have complied to the re
quest of Governor Holcomb that all
the states furnish part of the contem
plated arch of the states at the Trans
Mississippi exposition. The letter was
seat ■ out only a few days ago. The
three governors named expressed
themselves as heartily in accord with
the project and the governor of Ar
kansas says, although his state has
no appropriation, he will use his most
earnest endeavors to see that Arkan
sas is properly represented at the ex
position.
U.P. REORGANIZATION
NO NEW DEVELOPMENTS OF IM
PORTANCE.
The New President Likely to Take Hold
on the Fleet of the Coming month—■
Subject* That Are Now Agitating Rail
way Companies—Contracts With Bleep
ing Car and Express Companies.
The Reorganised Road.
OMAHA, Dec. 30.—No new develop
ments in the matter of the Union Pa
cific organization has developed here,
but the period of transition is believed
to be close at hand. The date of the
inauguration of the new president has
not been announced, but in Chicago it
Is said1 by persons supposed to know
that the change will take place on
January 1, 1898, which falls on Satur
day of this week. This seems to be
substantiated by a report t^at a meet
ing of the new directory of the Union
Pacific will be held in New York city
on Friday morning, and that further
announcements regarding the new
officers may be expected after the ad
journment of that meeting.
With the actual reorganization close
at hand there appears two subjects of
considerable interest that are now agi
tating several classes of railway and
kindred companies. Far more inter
esting than the gossip concerning ex
pected changes in the official makeup
of the company is that regarding tho
probable contracts with sleeping car
and express companies to be made by
the reorganized Union Pacific railroad.
It is accpted that new contracts will
have to be made and the question that
is being discussed by railroaders and
other companies is what companies
will get these contracts.
wnne the familiar statement that
the reorganized Union Pacific railroad
will be a Vanderbilt line seems to be
dissipated by the personnel of tho
directory, it is nevertheless conceded
bv most railroaders that the Vander
bilt Influence will be strongly felt in
the reorganized road. This being true,
the question of whether tho Vander
bilt influence wi.» be strong enough to
force a contract with its own sleep
ing car company, the Wagner Car
company, superseding the contract of
the Pullman Car company, which is
not represented on the new directory,
is a matter of some concern. The of
ficials of the Wagner Car company
have been watching the reorganization
of the Union Pacific, and there are
those who look for nothing but Wag
gner sleeping cars to be operated by
the Union Pacific, as now on all other
Vanderbilt lines, within a year from
the reorganization. At present both
Wagner and Pullmancnrs are operat
ed on the Union Pacific’s main line
from Council Bluffs to Ogden. Al
though the Union Pacific's contract is
with the Pullman Palace Car com
pany, the through cars that leave Chi
cago over the Northwestern are all
Wagner cars and are sent over the
Union Pacific and the Central Pacific
to the coast.
In a similar manner the express
contract of tbe road that Is now going
through the process of reorganization
is attracting a great deal of attention.
At present the Pacific Express com
pany enjoys a monopoly on all ex
press matter handled on the Union
Pacific lines. On the Northwestern
and other Vanderbilt lines the Amer
ican Express company enjoys the ex
clusive right to carry on business. It
is believed by many railroaders who
are in a position to command respect
for their statements that the Ameri
can Express company will displace the
Pacific Express company on the Union
Pacific within the eventful railroad
year that Is about to begin.
Hostility to Americans.
NEW YORK, Dec. 30.—A special to
the Journal and Advertiser from New
Haven, Conn., says: Captain George
L. Kelsey, of the schooner Wallace
Ward, which has just arrived here
from Barcelona, Spain, insists that the
American consul at that port fears
mob violence and Is unable to keep
the American flag flying from Uncle
Sam’s vessels. He put into port there
September 16, remaining three days.
At first the Stars and Stripes floated
proudly from the masthead, but the
Spanish loiterers were attracted by it
and gathered by the side of the ves
sel, threatening violence. The Ameri
can consul heard a rumor that the
crowd proposed burning the vessel,
and he sent word to Captain Kelsev to
haul down the flag. Captain Keisey
defied the Spaniards, but the next
day the consul repeated his advice
and Captain Kelsey was reluctantly
persuaded to store the Stars and
Stripes below decks during the re
mainder of his stay.
Alger a Very Sick Man
CHICAGO, Dec. 30.—The Post’s
Washington special says:
General Alger, secretary of war, Is
a very sick man. He Is lying critically
111 at his home on K street from an
acute attack of the grip, with typhoid
symptoms.
It is only within the last few hours
that his condition became such as to
disturb his family. Up to yesterday
afternoon he continued to discharge
some of his official duties. He did this
while in bed and against the wishes of
physician. Since then, however, he
has become very much weaker.
General Alger has not been in ro
bust health for some time. It has been
his practice to give too much atten
tion to the details of the business of
the war department, and he has,
really, done a greater amount of ac
tual work than he has been obliged to.
All this has, told on him, and he is
now suffering from the effects of too
close application to his official labors.
Prince Committed for Trial.
LONDON, Dec. 30.—Richard Arthur
Prince, the super who assassinated
William Terries, the actor, on Decem
ber 16, was formally committed for
trial today at the Bow Street police
station.
Authority to Levy Taxes.
VIENNA, Dec. 30.—An Imperial de
«ree has been gazetted authorizing the
government during the prorogation of
parliament to levy taxes and provide
for the state expenditures from Janu
ary 1 to June 30 next.
GAGE NOT TO RESIGN.
.'ha Story Started at Washington OState,
ly Dented.
WASHIOTON, Dec. 30.—Assistant
Secretary Vanderlip, when asked con*
cerning a report that Secretary Gags
had tendered his resignation and than
Mr. McKinley had refused it, said*
“There is nothing in it.” The report
in question gave Mr. Vanderlip as
authority for the assertion. Secretary
Gage himself left for New York this
morning. Mr. Vanderlip, when ques
tioned further, said that so far as h«
was quoted as authority for the asser
tion he could say that there was noth
ing in it, for he had never so stated
to any person. As to whether or not
Mr. Gage had offered to resign, and
Mr. McKinley had refused to accept
it, he (Vanderlip) could say nothing,
for he did not know whether it were
so or not .
It is believed in some usually well
Informed circles that the report Is
substantially correct, but that there
was no formal tender of a resignation.
It is regarded as probable that in some
conversation with the president, Mr.
Gage, in an Informal way, said that he
would resign if his financial views
were embarrassing the administration
and that the president in reply stated
very positively that he did not want
the secretary of the treasury to do
any sach thing.
It is learned, furthermore; that at
the time of this conversation the
president informed Mr. Gage that
their views - were in accord and be > ■
must not think of resigning. It Is re*
garded as certain that Mr. Gage will
continue in office.
Secretary Gage was seen on his re
turn front New York and questioned
as to the truth of the published report
that he had tendered his resignation
to the president, and that it had
been firmly declined with many ex
pressions of confidence and apprecia
tion of his abilities as shown in his
administration of the treasury de
partment.
Mr. Gage was not inclined to dlscuse
the matter at length, but said that
he had not tendered his resignation,
nor had he any reason to believe that
he and the president were not in sub
stantial accord on the great questions
now before the country. The report,
he said, probably sprung from a re
mark he had made to intimate friends ' ~
to the effect that not for anything
would he embarrass the president, and
if he saw that he was doing so hs
would resign at once. He added;
“A cabinet officer ought always to
stand ready to resign his office at ths
request of his chief, but I have no
reason to brjieve that such action
on my part is even remotely desired
by the president. The desires of other
people in that direction I am not dis
posed to consider.”
Hanna'H Campaign Begin*.
COLUMBUS, 0., Dec. 30.—Major
Charles Dick arrived from Cleveland
last night to assume charge of Sena
tor Hanna's personal interests in the
senatorial election. Mr. Hanna is not
expected here before Sunday. In the
meantime Major Dick will shape ujn
affairs to combat the opposition to the
re-election of his chief.
The rooms at the Neil house have
been secured for Mr. Hanna. Major
Dick will have a corps of lieutenants
to assist him, and the prospects are
for a very lively skirmish. But few of
the members-elect of the general as
sembly have arrived and the majority
will probably not come to the Cap
ital City until Friday, the day previous
to the caucuses for the organization,
of the upper and lower houses. The
list of members claimed by Charles L.
Kurtz in opposition to Senator Hanna
as given out tonight contains the
names of two senators and six repre
seentatives, but Major Dick does not
concede that any of these members
will vote against Senator Hanna.
The Requisition Denied.
DENVER, Dec. 30.—Got. Adams €
has refused to honor the requisition of
Governor Black, of New York, in the
case of William H. Griffith, of Lead
ville, Col., proprietor of the Herald
Democrat and Evening Chronicle of
that place, who was Indicted by the
New York City grand jury on a charge
of larceny. The indictment was found
on the complaint of Richard J. Bolles.
of New York, who claims that Griffith
secured a loan of $14,000 from him in
1892 by false representations.
Governor Adams refused the requis
ition because it appeared to him that
the criminal prosecution was not be
gun in good faith, but was an effort
to force Mr. Griffith to pay the debt.
Mr. Griffith announces that he wilt
go to New York next summer nre
nared to stand trial on the indict
ment.
President Sl(na the Seal Bill.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—Ex-Secre
tary Foster had a brief conference
with the president today, after which
the president approved the bill pro
hibiting the killing of fur seals In the
waters of the North Pacific ocean,
passed the day congress adjourned
for the holidays. The act prohibits the
killing of seals by American citl
sens, except as they may be taken on
the Pribyloff Islands by the North
American Commercial company. It
also prohibits the importation of pe
lagic seal skins into the United States
raw, dressed, dyed or manufactured.'
The penalty for violation of the law-f»
a fine of not less than $200 or more
than $2,000, or imprisonment for not
more than six months, or both, for
each offense, including the forfeiture
to the United States of the vessel,* Its
tackle and cargo.
The Merchants and Traders’ bank
of Atlanta, Ga., failed to open its -
doors. Capital stock, $llft,000.
Arkansas Populists.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Dec. 30.—The
populist state committee met here
yesterday. Resolutions were adopted
instructing the national committee
men to be present at the St. Louis
middle-of-the-road convention. The
resolutions were strongly against
fusion and opposed the nomination of
a ticket this year, as has been pro*
posed.
The will of Mrs. Henrietta R. False
Baker, who died at Philadelphia. be>
queaths $2,000,000 to the Pennsylvania,
hospital. ,