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CHAPTER XXV.
HE receipt of Miss
H e t h e r 1 n gton’s
check seemed to
come like oil upon
the troubled wat
ers of the little
household. Caussi
dlere was certainly
pleased. Though it
was not so much,
he said, as the old
miser might have
sent, It was certainly acceptable under
the circumstances. ,
After taking care to pocket the
"draft, he tossed up the boy and kissed
him, and told Marjorie he looked as
if she coddled him too much. Then he
prepared to leave.
“Shall you be back soon, Leon?”
asked Marjorie, timidly. Whenever
she addressed him now she was al
ways fearful of the reception of her
words.
“I shall not return at all,” answered
Caussidiere; “or rather, I shall be late,
as I dine with a little party of friends.
Do not sit up for me.”
And with another kiss blown airily
to his offspring he was off. ,
Marjorie did not cry or show any
sign that this conduct distressed her.
She was too used to it for that. She
turned in tender despair to her only
comfort—the child. They sat alone to
gether, the little one perched on his
mother's knee, listening opened mouth
ed as she talked to him of her old
home. She told him of Miss Hether
ington, about the manse, and Mr. Lor
raine, who lay quietly asleep in the
little kirkyard. How strange it would
be, she thought, to take the little one
there. How Miss Hetherington would
love him; how old Solomon would
stare and call it “uncanny” to hear
him prattling so prettily in french!
Ah! but would the day ever come
when she could take him there in
deed?
Long after the child had gone to
bed, Marjorie sat by the fire thinking
of those happy days; she wrote to
Miss Hetherington, concealing as well
as she could the dark spots in her life,
speaking cheerfully and happily of her
little boy, and still dwelling upon the
hope of one day bringing him to her
old home.
Then she sat down to wait for her
husband.
V Caussidlere was late, and when he
appeared Marjorie saw at a glance that
all his good humor ,had left him. He
was angry at finding her up; accused
her of wishing to time his going and
coming, and peremptorily ordered her
to bed. Without a word Marjorie
obeyed; she saw that he was rather
the worse for liquor, and that any
thing she might say would provoke
him.
The next morning she rose early, ac
cording to her usual custom. To her
amazement, just as she was about to
give the child his breakfast, Caussi
dlere came down.
He had dressed with unusual care;
he took his breakfast silently, and
when it was over he went up stairs
again to add a few more touches to
his already carefully made toilet; then
he reappeared, nodded to the boy and
to Marjorie—he was too well dressed
to touch either—and left the house.
Though he had said nothing, Mar
jorie was certain from his dress and
mysterious manner that it was no or
dinary work that had called him
away that morning, and as she
thought of the strange, cold way he
had left her, her eyes filled with
tears.
Suddenly there was a knack at the
door. Hastily brushing away her
tears, Marjorie cried “Entrez,” and the
door opened, admitting a woman, none
other than Adele of the Mouche d’Or.
Of all the women of Caussidiere’s
acquaintance, this was the one whom
Marjorie most wished to avoid. She
was half afraid of Adele, since she had
on one occasion heard her singing one
of her songs in a cafe crowded with
men. Marjorie’s strict Scotch train
ing made her shrink from commun
ion with such a woman. When she
saw Adele’a face, therefore, she felt
troubled, and demanded rather coldly
What she sought. ,,
"I seek Caussldlere,” returned
Adele. “Is he at home?”
“No,” returned Marjorie, quietly,
“he has gone out.”
She thought this answer was con
clusive and expected to see Adele dis
appear, but she was disappointed. She
came In, closing the door behind her,
walked over to little Leon, and patted
him on the head.
Leon gazed up and smiled; he had
no fear of her; but Marjorie made a
movement as it to protect him from
her touch.
As Marjorie came forward. Adele
looked up from the boy’s curly head,
and asked, almost roughly;
"Where is Caussldlere, did you say?”
"I do not know,” returned Marjorie,
drawing the boy toward her; “he did
not tell me.
. “He seems to tell you very little,
about himself, madame,” said Adele!
fixing her eyes strangely upon her
companion’s face; then she added,
suddenly, “Why do you draw the boy
away from me?”
Marjorie did not answer, so, with a
short, hard laugh, the girl con*
tinued:
“I suppose you think, madame, that
X am not fit to touch him? Well, per
haps you are right.”
“I did not mean that,” returned Mar
jorie, gently.
“If X kissed the little one, would you
be angry?” cried Adele, with a curious
change of manner. "Ah, madame, I
am bad enough, but not quite so bad
as you think me. I love little chil
dren. I once had a little boy like
this of my own."
“A little boy! Then you are mar
ried; you have a husband-”
"When my child was only a baby,
before he could walk or speak,” con
tinued Adele, not heeding the ques
tion, “I—I lost him. I do not even
know if he is alive or dead.”
And she lifted little Leon in her
arms, and kissed him wildly.
Marjorie’s gentle heart was touched.
“You lost your child?” she cried, full
of sympathy.
"He was taken from me, madame. I
was too poor to keep him, and one
night—one cold winter night—his
father placed him in the basket at the
Foundling. X have never seen him
since—never! ”
. "How wicked of yotsi; how cruel! To
desert your child!”
“You do not understand. In France
it is the custom when folk are poor.”
Marjorie shrank from the woman in
horror. All her maternal heart was in
revolt, and with an impulsive gesture
she drew little Leon to her and em
braced him tenderly.
Adele looked at the pair with a
strange expression of mingled sorrow
and pity.
“And your husband, madame?” she
asked, suddenly. "Is he good to
you?”
“Yes. Why do you ask?” says Mar
jorie, in surprise.
“Never mind,” returned Adele, with
her old laugh. "For myself, X thinir
that all men are canaille. It is we
others, we women, who bear the bur
den while the men amuse themselves.
Why does Caussidiere leave you so
much alone? Why does he dress so
well, and leave you and the little one
so shabby? Ah, he is like all the
rest!”
“What my husband does,” cried
Marjorie, indignantly, “is no concern
of yours. I will not hear you say a
word against him!”
Adele laughed again.
“You are only a child,” she said,
moving to the door. “Will you give
Monsieur Caussidiere a message from
me?”
“Yes, if you wish."
“Tell him he ii wanted tomorrow at
our place; he will understand.”
She half opened the door.then turned
and looked back.
“Do you know, madame, that in a few
days the Germans will be before
Paris?”
“Ah, yes!”
“Let them hasten! I hope they will
come soon. I shall not be sorry for
one, if they burn Paris to the
ground!"
“Why do you say that?” cried Mar
jorie, shocked at the speaker’s tones
as well as the words.
“Let them burn Paris, and me with
the rest of the people; it will be well!”
said Adele, in a low voice, very bitter
ly. “The bonfire is ripe, madame!
But,” she added, "I should be sorry if
any harm came to you or to the child.
Some day, perhaps—who knows?—I
may be able to serve you. Will you
remember that?”
“What do you mean?” exclaimed
Marjorie. “You are a strange woman;
you-”
“I am what I am; sometimes I think
I am a devil, not a woman at all.
Good-by.”
And without another word she dis
appeared, leaving Marjorie lost in
i wonder at the extraordinary interview
i between them.
CHAPTER XXVI.
N leaving Marjo
rie that day and
coming into the
street, Caussidiere
walked along rapid
ly in the direction
of the boulevards.
He hummed a light
air as he went,and
held up his head
with that self-sat
isfaction only felt
by the man who has money in his
pocket. Indeed, the receipt of Miss
Hetherington’s draft had taken a
weight off his mind, as he had "an ap
pointment that evening with an in
dividual whose tastes were expensive
like his own.
His business during the day does not
concern us, but when it was evening,
and the lights were lit, the cafes
thronged, the footpaths full of people
coming and going, he reappeared in
the center of the city. Lighting a ci
gar, he strolled up and down; paused
at a kiosk and bought a newspaper;
then, approaching the front of one of
the great cafes, found a vacant seat at
a table, ordered some coffee, and sat
down in the open air watching the
busy throng.
He was sitting thus when his atten
tentlon was attracted to a figure stand
ing close by him. It was that of a
young man dressed carelessly In a
tweed suit and wearing a wideawake
hat. He was standing In the light of
one of the windows, talking to an
other man, somewhat his senior, whom
he had just met. Caussldlere caught
a portion of their conversation.
“And hoo lang hae ye been In Par
is?” asked the elder man.
“All the summer,” replied the oth
er. “I came here to study and paint,
and I have been doing very well. How
are all In Annandale?”
“Brawly, brawly. Where are you
staying?"
Caussldlere did not catch the reply,
and the two men moved away with
the crowd; but he had recognized, at a
glance, in the younger of the inter
locutors, an old friend—John Suther
land.
“Dlable!” he muttered. “What has
brought him to Paris? I must take
care that he and Marjorie do not
meet.”
He rose, paid for his refreshment,
and walked away. It was now 8
o’clock. Hailing a fiacre, he jumped
in, and ordered the coachman' to
drive to the theater du Chatelet.
Alighting at the door, Caussldlere
strolled into the vestibule, and paid for
a seat in one of the balcony boxes. He
found the vast place thronged from
floor to celling to witness the' per
formance of a fairy spectacle, then in
its 100th night, the "Sept Filles du Dl
able," founded on some fanciful east
ern story. It was a tawdry piece,with
Innumerable ballets, processions, pa
geants, varied with certain scenes of
horse-play, In which a corpulent low
comedian, a great popular favorite,was
conspicuous. Caussldlere was charmed,
concentrating his admiring eyes par
ticularly on one black-eyed, thickly
painted lady, who personated a fairy
prince and sang “risky” songs, with
topical allusions and dancing accom
paniments, in a very high shrill voice,
to the great rapture of the assembled
Parisians. At the end of the third
act Caussldlere left his seat and
•trolled round to the back of the thear
ter.
CHAPTER XXVII.
ASSING the Cerbe
rus of the stage
door, by whom he
seemed to be well
known, Caussl
dlere soon found
himself "behind
the scenes," and
pushed his way
through a confused
throng of supernu
meraries, figuran
tes and stage carpenters till he reached
the greenroom.
Here he found many of the perform
ers lounging about and standing in the
center of the floor. Dressed in a tur
ban and sultan’s robes, and surround
ed by a group of ladies in all kinds of
scanty costumes, was the obese low
comedian—as loud voiced, low-fore
headed a satyr of a man as could be
found in the theatrical profession, even
in Paris.
As Caussidiere appeared, the actor
greeted him by name with a loud
laugh.
"Welcome, mon enfant, welcome,” he
cried, shaking hands. “The Germans
are approaching, yet behold—we sur
vive!"
The ladies now turned to Caussidiere,
who greeted them by their Christian
names—Blanche, Rose, Ada, Adele,
Sarah, and so on. He seemed to knod’
them well, but, as he talked to them,
looked round impatiently for some per
son who was not present.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
HE WAS JUSTLY DEFEATED.
Came Within Four Inches of Being m
Millionaire.
"I’m not going to give names, but
you all know that I have no imagina
tion that can invent fairy tales. I lit
erally came within four inches of be
ing a millionaire.”
“Go on!” exclaimed the man at the
club who is the recognized story pro
moter in the organization, says the De
troit Free Press.
"I’m telling you right. Some years
ago I secured employment in an im
mense factory that turns out a certain
chemical basic used the world over, and
as staple as wheat It was a rule of
the establishment that a good man
could stay as long as he wanted to In
one department, but under no circum
stances could he go from one depart
ment to another. Every possible pre
caution was taken against the discov
ery of the secret process. By a series
of studied disguises I succeeded in find
ing employment in every department
but one, and that being where the col
oring was done I thought this omis
sion of very little Importance. By
standing in with one of the office men I
succeeded in tracing the parts entering
Into the prlm tpal machines. This was
no small Job, for there would be one
piece made in Portland, Me., andother
in San Francisco, another In Dallas,
and another would be imported. I went
everywhere and mastered the machin
ery. Then upon a guarantee that I had
secured the process I interested capi
tal. When we anxiously analyzed re
sults we found that the stuff was all
right except in color. Then I grew des
perate and determined to dig my way
into the coloring department of the
parent institution. Just as I began
work on a four-inch partition I was
discovered, and incontinently tossed
from a second-story window. We found
it impossible to master the trick of col
oring, and all we had to show for half
a million Invested was a lot of empty
buildings and smokeless stacks. I’ve
concluded Blnce that I got just what I
deserved.”
Sales of land along the Northern Pa
cific and Great. Northern railways are
reported larger than in many years.
A SAMPLE REFORMER
THE PISE AND PALL OP A POP
PATPlOT.
From Roustabout to Politician) Re Be
comes a Free Paws Grabber and Sella
the Pasteboards to Scalpers—Conster
nation In Pop Headquarters In Its Re
lation to Railroad Headquarters.
An Object Lesson.
The rise and fall of Prof. Hendee,
of the Deaf and Dumb Institute at
Omaha affords an object lesson. Hen
dee used to live In Saline county,
where he was knowif as a roustabout
politician of the lower order. When
he had run his course there he dis
appeared, drifted out, and after sev
eral years turned up somewhere In
Kansas. Edmlsten, the state oil In
spector, who knew Hendee and what
he was good for, sent for him a few
months ago to come to Lincoln, for
there was some special work In hts
line that needed to be done during the
campaign.
Just what this special work was no
one will ever know outside of the state
house ring at Lincoln, but Hendee was
provided with free transportation and
sent out over the state ostensibly to
solicit subscriptions for populist
newspapers. He performed his work
so well that after he had been hero
only a few weeks, while his wife was
still in Kansas and he was yet a resi
dent of that state, he was made as
sistant superintendent of the Deaf and
Dumb Institute at Omaha. He had no
qualifications for this important place,
but the poor deaf mutes could not pro
test, and, being backed by the Btatc
house ring, he got the job, not only
for himself, but his wife was brought
up from bleeding Kansas on a free
pass and put on the state pay-roll.
There were several worthy persons,
teachers and citizens of this state,
who had given some attention to the
technical knowledge necessary for a
position in such an institution, but tho
Hendees, by reason of this secret work
performed under the direction of Ed
miston, the state chairman of the re
form movement, they snapped their
fingers at their Nebraska competitors.
For a few months the Hendees flour
ished at this state institution, and
when Mutz, the Investigator, called
to spend a few days and eat a few
meals they took care that his royal
stomach was satisfied with the fat of
the land at the state's expense. But
no man of crooked ways is ever se
cure. His tricks will find him out and
his chickens will come home to roost.
Free transportation, while it is free,
has its meets and its bounds. You
can ride a free pass just as you can
ride a free horse, but you can’t sell it
to some other man who is not in the
free pass ring and whose name is not
written there on the free pass list
without an after-clap that is full of
grief. The railroads, when they are
held up by a reform movement and
commanded to deliver free transporta
tion, generally do so with an affable
grace that comes only with long ex
perience, but they have their way of
keeping tab on the free pass reform
patriots who frolic up and down their
lines, and when they find a free pass
which hau been sold to Home cold
blooded stranger who is no pass re
former at all and no patriot, and who
has no claims whatever on the free
ride courtesy of the corporations,
then they take this free transportation
in out of the wet and they get after
the man who procured it and the man
in whose name it was issued and who
converted it into cash, with an energy
which shows more spirit than you
would expect to find in a brow-beaten
pass-ridden, reform-regulated cor
poration.
Now, when this reform professor
had sold his free transportation and
when It bobbed up in the hands of a
stranger who had never been in the
reform movement at all, had never
been initiated into any of the anti
pass alliance lodges which Prof. Hen
dee had organized in this state, the
conductor coolly took that free trans
portation up and forwarded it to head
quarters at Omaha.
Then came a sharp letter from the
railroad headquarters at Omaha to the
reform headquarters at Lincoln. Now
you understand when the railroad
headquarters and the reform head
quarters put their headquarters to
gether in a co-partnership for the pur
pose of regulating the corporations
and the politicians of the state, and
when they start in to ferret out any
crookedness, they generally find their
man. And so the letters flew back and
forth, thick and fast, and the reform
movement at Lincoln fairly sweat in
its efforts to purge itself of the guilt
which should rest on the professor,
for it was he and he alone who had
sold the transportation to a scalper in
Omaha and had pocketed the money,
every dollar of it, not turning so much
as a penny into the reform campaign
fund.
Edmundson was innocent, and he
did not hesitate to declare himself so,
not only to the railroad officials, but
also the other members of the anti
pass reform ring at the state house,
each of whom went about for several
days from one department to another
with a sort of Cock Robin inquiry on
their faces, for they realized how em
barrassing it would be for the reform
movement if a coldness should spring
up between their headquarters and the
railroad headquarters at Omaha.
Edmundson admitted candidly that
he had found the professor wandering
over bleeding Kansas’ wind-swept
plains, where whiskers take the place
of brains, and had brought him to this
state to do some special work for the
reform movement; that the professor
had been provided with free trans
portation, as all active reformers are
in this state, but they had conjured
the professor that under no circum
stances, however urgent, must he sell
the transportation to a scalper.
Soon after election, a year ago,
when a fusion had been effected be
tween the fusion headquarters at Lin
coln and the railroad headquarters at
Omaha, the railroad people said:
“Now, if we must, we will arrange to
furnish all the free transportation
which is necessary to run this pass
reform movement, but you ■will par
don uh If we suggest that in this re
form gang which you have organ
ized there are a good many rag-tag
and bobtail scallawags, who will not
scruple, when they have bidden this
free transportation as far as they
want to go ,to sell it for whatever
they can get, anu we want to stipu
late that this shall not be done.”
Edmisten, tapping his gold-headed
cane on the carpet and considering his
proposition gravely for a moment, ad
mitted that It was no more than fair
as between one headquarters and an
other, and he agreed to it “We are
honorable men,” said Edmisten. “We
are not as bad as our enemies have
painted us. We are all, ail honorable
men.” And now, because the honor of
these honorable men was at Btake, and
because it is a matter of principle with
them that whatever promises they
break they will keep faith with cor
porations when once they have given
their word, it was Incumbent on Ed
misten and Eager, who had been the
Joint chaperones of the Kansas pro
fessor, to make it hot for him .
“Write to him,” said Edmisten, “and I
roast him in the paper if necessary.
We must do something to clear our
selves of this breach of faith, for we
never can carry the next state elec
tion w.,.u a coldness between us and
the railroad headquarters.” "I’ll write
to him,” said Eager. "I’ll blister him.
I’ll cartoon him. We’ll burn him at
the stake. We’ll do anything but dis
charge him. Rather than that this
pass reform shall fail and the com
mon people be left without protection,
naked to their enemies."
And they did make it hot ror me
professor. He had writhed In the blis
tering simoons of Kansas. He ha.l
groaned and sweat under the pressure
of the money power, but now as Ed
misten and Eager fired through the
malls volley after volley of red-not
stuff the professor wriggled and twist
ed and realized that he had never had
real trouble before. Looking through
the dim vista of the coming years he
could distinctly see himself wearily
counting the ties from one town to
another, and never again as long as
he lived would he gambol over tha
state on a free pass, for the railroads
had a blacklist and his name was
written there.
At first the professor denied that he
had converted the free transportation
Into money, but when confronted with
the evidence he collapsed and con •
fessed that the financial stringency
had made him desperate and he had
yielded to the temptation of ready
cash.
The passing of the professor Is a
solemn object lesson to all pass re
form pass grabbers. It meana, you
can grab, but you cannot sell. The
benefits of a free pass Bystem are not
a3 far-reaching as they might be.
Like all other earthly joys, they have
their limitations and their penalties.
There may come a time when the re-'
form movement will have achieved
such sway as to be able to remove
these unreasonable restrictions, but at
present writing the railroads are hold
ing on to this one cinch with a tenac
ity which baffles the tremendous reg
ulating energy of even the Board of
Transportation.
A few years ago a pass grabbing
politician in Kansas attempted tp
make a few hundred dollars by pro
curing passes and selling them for one
hundred dollars each. If the reform
ers now in the state house were al
lowed to sell and if they could realize
at the Kansas rate on their annuals
for 1898, they could roll up a pile of
thirty-six thousand dollars. Think of
the governor jingling $1,600 in his
his pocket, and. Marpt $1,700, for the
little secretary Is able to show one
more annual pass than any other re
former In the state.
If the Populist ring at the state
house could realize a hundred dollars
each for every annual which they pro
cure and send out under the state
house postage to county sheriffs and
county treasurers and their political
strikers over the state, they could re
tire rich, and they would no longer
have reason for the little jealousies
which they are now whispering
against Bryan because he gave only
$1,500 to the national campaign fund
while pocketng $150,000 from the com
mon people.
But, brethren of the reform move
ment, as the new year ushers in up
on us, let ub be thankful for small fa
vors. If we can’t sell ’em, we can
ride ’em, for they never get tired, and
when the reverberations of this great
reform movement shall have died out
on these western plains, "end when f-.t
last we have junketed the last junket
and taken the last farewell view of the
red apple country and the rolling
plains of Texas; when the names now
newly written on these bright paste
boards are faded and dim with age. wo
can bequeath them as souvenirs to
our children, and future generations,
looking through the family albums
and seeing these tokens of greatness,
will realize that there was once a
great pass reform and a time when
"the common people’’ were in the sad
dle .
Let us, brethren, be thankful for
small favors. These limitations which
the corporations still hold over us but
serve to remind us that the work of
regulating the railroads is not yet
complete andithe people’s movement
has not yet ranched the full meridian
of its glory. These passes which we
get for ourselves give us free rides
and free beds. Each one that we
send out brings us a political crony,
who sticks closer than a brother. Our
poor relations who hav9 never trav
eled before can now plank themselves
down in the soft cushions of the new
chair car, can gaze out through the
plate glass windows on scenery which
is new to them, can gather in family
reunions that never could have taken
place without this reform movement,
and the few of us who have more than
we can use, although we cannot con
vert the surplus into ready cash, yet
each clean lettered pasteboard as it
nestles sweetly with its companions in
the little morocco pocketbook, whis
pers softly and tellB us that we have
much to be thankful for.
There is room for everybody in this
big world, but we can’t all have front
rooms.
AFTER CARL SCHURZ. J
CONGRESSMAN CROSVERNOR 'I
ON CIVIL SERVICE. ;i
Will Not Be Brawn Into Any Entangle* v,
ment With the President—His Bmpeeta
to lhe Civil Service Lesge Generally aad
to Carl Schnra Particularly—CartlsanA -Vs
Other High Priests Denounced.
- ■
The Hoase Yesterday. ^
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—The houm .
yesterday promptly resumed he .le- ^
bate on the civil service question, and ’
Mr. Grosvenor, of Ohio, took the floor
for an elaborate speech In opposition
to the law. In opening Mr. Grosvenor
disclaimed any leadership of the anti*
civil service reform forces and any
purpose to speak for any officer cf the
government, executive, lejlslatlve or
Judicial.
"AH efforts to entangle me in x
collision with the president,” he said,
“were as so much powder wasted. It A,
I believed that my relations to tho
president would be changed because I
differ with him In any representative :
capacity, I would despise him as he ;
would despise me If I faltered in my
convictions.”
Mr. Grosvenor said that he halt 3;
watched with admiration the presi
dent's public career, and one of hie
most prominent characteristics ha:l '
always ben that he not only did not ■
demand subservlencey, but despised ft : >
man who sought favors by sycophancy.
Mr. Groavenor proceeded to pay hl» I
respects to the National Civil Service
Reform League and to Carl Schurz.
Its president. His excoriation of tb«
latter was the most scathing that had
been beard on the floor of the house
in months. He denounced unspar- |
ingly those who sought to read out of
the republican party those who believ
ed In the repeal of the civil service
law. With vltrolic language he de- :l
plcited the political career of Mr.
Schurz, which he characterized as the ;■
"checkered, spotted, leprous career of •
one who betrayed by every party and* *
every duty to which he was bound. 1
and whose betrayals have been his only
stock In trade In the arena qf poli
tics.” J
He traced Mr. Schurs’s political hi*
tory and defied any one to point out * j \
place in the trail which waa not taint
ed with political corruption. Yet, ha
said, thlB was the man who, with
other “foul political demagogues at
Cincinnati, under the nsms of .Na
tional Civil Service League, had c"e
nounced him and those who thought
■with him on this question.” He read '■
the resolutions adopted at the Clncin- - ,
nati meeting, branding them as In- .
famous beyond description.
Grosvenor denounced George Will- , t
lam Curtis and other high priests of
civil service reform, who, he said, had
been traitors to the republican party, v
and argued that as Mr. Cleveland ex- v j
tended the civil service system enor- ■
mously after the St. Louis platform
was adopted, republicans we e not
bound by the platform as regirds
these extensions. He warned reDuhli- V
cans that the people wfre overwhelm- . ’
ingly opposed to the law.
Mr. Grosvenor’s description of the
habits of the ‘cuckoo’ teemed with 4
humor and .kept the house In a roar.
Mr. Grosvenor, in replying to the
charge made against himself and hia
colleagues that they were betraying
the republican party, adverted to what
the calls the list of traitors among the
high priests of civil service reform, at
the head of which he placed George
William Curtis, who abandoned the
republican party in 1884. He review
ed the platform declarations of the
republican party to show that the
present position occupied by the ma
jority of the house was not inconsis
tent with these declarations. “For I
give the members of the civil service i
committee notice,” said he, “that we
have a majority on this floor and you
cannot strangle a majority in the *
American congress.” (Apiause.)
He denied that when the St. Louis
platform was adopted the extension*
contained in the Cleveland order In
May, 1896, had been understood. -It
was not until November, 189-I, that the
enormous scope of that order, cover
ing 46,000 officials, was publicly de- ‘
clared. The republicans, coming into '
power on a platform adopted before
theso vast extensions, were not in
honor bound to ayrej with them, and
it was proper that the president should
announce in his message to congress
that there were portions of these or
ders which never ought to have been*
made.
The Tragedy Near Falrbury.
FAIRBURY, Neb., Jan. 7.—William
Baker, who killed his brother Georgs' 1
and the latter's wife Tuesday morn
ing, completed the triple tragedy by /
taking his own life. Bloodhounds were
procured as soon as possible and put
on the tracks leading from the win
dow where the murderer had stood
and they followed the trail to a bam
on the farm of an uncle of the Bakers,
some distance from the scene of ths
murder. The posse immediately sur
rounded the barn and took every pre
caution to prevent the escape of the *
murderer but it was an unnecessary
procedure. On entering the barn the
dead body of William Baker was
found, having taken his own life with '
the same weapon with which he*<had
killed his brother and sister-in-law.
Suspicion was first directed toward
William Baker because of the fact ■ '
he had repeatedly threatened to kill
his brother. Inquiry at the place
where he had worked elicited the fact
that he had left there about 11 o'clock
the night before the tragedy and had
not been seen since. Feeling was very
high in the neighborhood and had the
murderer been caught while living ho .
would very likely have been lynched.
A Million Dollar Bobbery.
NEW YORK. Jan. 7.—The Eventn* ;
Telegram prints a report which has
not been verified, that the Amrlcaa .
Express Company was robbed last
night of $1,000,000, which had been
given it for transportation.
The money was said to have been
taken from one of the cars in its V ,
through western express while tbs
train was being made up in the yards
at Forty-eighth street
The officers of the csmnany refuss
to talk regarding the robtmy. They
neither affirm or deny.
