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LOVE IS BEST . 3y Florence Hodgkjn-ton , CHAPTER IX. It was a very happy evening that Beryl spent at Uplands. Mrs. Dyne vor's heart went out to the pretty, graceful girl, who seemed so stianga ly alone in the world; Kitty had taken a fancy to her; and when Harold came £n for tea the three were as much at home as though they had known each other for months. “You must let me take you home," Harold said to the little govern ss, when she came downstairs about eight with her hat on. “Oh, I could not trouble you, Mr. Dynevor, It is so far! And I am not at all afraid." “Harold loves an evening tramp, and it is much too far for you to go alone,” said Kitty. “Mind you come again soon. Mother wants you to, don’t you mother?" “Yes," put in Mrs. Dynevor. “I shall he very pleased to see Miss Lendon whenver she has time to come.” When they were walking down the broad, shady lane which led from Up lands to Easthlll village Harold asked simply. “Do you know you have made a conquest of my mother, Miss Len don? I never saw her so much taken with a stranger.” “She was very, very kind to me. Oh. Mr. Dynevor, when I saw her «.nd Kitty together I could not help wish ing I had a mother.” The voice was so sad it touched his heart. “I wish you would confide your trou bles to my mother, Miss Lendon,” he said gently, “she would know how, to comfort you. The advertisement of fering the reward has not been re peated for some weeks now, and I had hoped you would feel happier.” To his surprise and alarm, he heard her sob. They were quite alone in a little frequented lane. He longed to comfort her, only he could think of no words. “Miss Lendon,” he said, very gent ly, “like you, I have known troubles— one presses on me now whose weight seems to crush me to the earth. Hu man friends can do very little to 3oothe an aching heart; but there is One above who knows all His chil dren’s griefs, and sorrows for th%m. He will comfort you better than any earthly friend.” "I know,” she said, simply yet re verently. “Mr. Dynevor, I had better tell you the truth. I can trust you not to betray me to my father, and I cm not bear to come to Uplands and take kindness from you all when, if you knew my story, you would shrink from me* in loathing.” An awful fear crossed Harold’s heart. What could she mean? Only a little while ago, at the fete, she had assu-ed him she was not fleeing from jus. ice, and he had retorted no one could taka her for a criminal. What did her present words mean? "Whatever you tell me I w‘11 keep as a sacred trust,” he answered. “But, indeed, Miss Lendon. you are mis taken; nothing you can say will make me shrink from you.” “But I am the child of the two who wronged you cruelly. I am your enemy’s daughter—Beryl Lindon.” He started involuntarily. Really the movement was simply surprise, but she thought it was due to aversion. “I never meant to deceive you or any one,” she went on, her voice grow ing a little firmer as she proceeded. “1 ran away from home because my fa ther wrote that he had married again, and his new wife was to have full au thority over me. Mr. Dynevor, that woman had lived in the house for nine months, openly as my maid, really as my tyrant. Last January, while my father was away, she—she struck me. I appealed to the housekeeper, who dismissed her. Do you think I ceuld have stayed to see that woman in my mothers’ place?” “No one could have wished it, he answered quickly—“no one who loved you.” "I took Mrs. Tanner’s situation be cause it was the only one I could gat and the time was all too short. I had only three weeks from getting my fa ther’s letter to the day he brought his wife home. “When I came to Easthill I had never heard of Dynevor Manor. I had not the least idea my father p'ssessad property here, or I should have bean afraid to come. “Mrs. Tanner told me the first night I came to her that the Wilmots, who were her chief supporters here, ob jected to my name. She said th y urged It was a slight to their employ er, Mr. Lindon, that a poor little gov erness should be called by his name. When I found that this Mr. Lindon lived in Elchester square, and his name was Eustace, I knew it was my father, and I was only too thankful to agree to the proposal that I should change one letter of my name, and be known here as Miss Lendon. “When later I heard my father’s story from Mrs. Grey, and the cruel wrong he had wrought you and yours, I felt overwhelmed with shame. Though your sister had urged me to gi and see her, I felt I dared not acc pt her invitation. I should never have come to the Uplands only she fetched me, and all through my visit I fsit as though I were deceiving you all, that if you know the truth your doors woulu be closed against me.” Harold took the girl's hand in hin and held it close under cover of the darkness. “Do you know what first made my mother take an interest In you? Your likeness to her sis.er-in-law, Nina Lon don. You must remember she and your mother were close friends for over three years. My father on his death bed told me he believed flrmiy that my Aunt Nina had never meant to wrong us. He thought either the will had been extorted from her by undue influence, or-” “Or what?” asked Beryl eagerly. “Oh that she was too ill to under stand its real purpoit. I suppose you do not remember her? No, you cou.d not; she died before you were four years old.” “I do remember her,” said Beryl, in a very low voice. “You see, she was the only creature who loved me, so I was not like.y to forget. She was very ill, and very unhappy; but, Mr. Dynevor, I can’t believe she d.d what people think. She was too gentle.” “It was not a happy marriage,” said Harold Dynevor, in a low tone; "from the little we know we always gathered that. My father wondered sometimes if she lost heart after your sister’s death.” “I don’t know.” Beryl felt bewil dered. “Ypu see, I only remember her after.” “Do you mean you were away when Lillian died?” “I think I must have been,” she said, in a puzzled tone. “I can remember /•r little cottage, and a Frenchwoman who took care of me. One day a let ter came, and she dressed me up in my best, and took me a long railway journey, and then I saw my mother. She was in black, and she cried when she kissed me, and said she would never part with me again while she lived. My bonne went home, and af ter that I had an English nurse.” “And you are Beryl Lindon?” “Yes. Will you tell your mother and Kitty? I am sure they won’t be tray me.” “I am sure of that, too; but I do not mean to tell them. I do not see that what you have confided to me need go any further. If you are the child of our enemy, at least he ha3 treated you no better than he has treated us. I am positive if my mother knew the truth she would only feel more kindly towards you. Come to us when you can; you will always be wel come.” They were at Woodlands, and, with a close pressure of the hand, he re leased her. He found his mother alone when he got home again. She had been search ing among old treasures, and had un earthed an album containing photos of bygone days. It was open at the picture of Mrs. Frenk Dynevor as she was when she came home a bride. “I wanted to show it to you, Har old,” said his mother, “just to prove the resemblance is not all my fancy.” He looked at it thoughtfully. “It is a very strong likeness,” he said gravely; “but I hope it won’t prejudice you and Kitty against that poor little girl. I think if ever a hu man creature stood in sore need of friends it is Mrs. Tanner’s governess.” CHAPTER X. Five thousand pounds. The sum seemed to burn itself into Harold Dynevor’s brain as the sum mer ripened. He did not actually know that Mr. Lindon meant to fore close, but he could not doubt- Mr. Proctor’s warning. He felt that if five tnousand pounds were not forthcom ing before the 25th of December his mother must leave her lifelong home, and he himself go forth into the world a ruined man. He had more than one long confer ence with the lawyer about raising the money. Mr. Proctor thought a private lender would be the only source whence he could obtain it. He said that at a forced sa,e the Uplands would fetch very little in excess of the actual sum needed; but he thought any one who knew the property might be inclined to offer six thousand for it, on the understanding it was to be redeemed. The one thousand could be paid back at once, the other five re main at interest. “Only so very few people have cap ital to dispose of,” he concluded, “and those few seem to fight clear of land. I am making inquiries among all like ly investors. Don’t you think General Craven would consider the specula tion?” “He can’t. His daughter is to* be married in the autumn, and he’ll want all the ready money he can find." The general, indeed, when sounded on the subject, took what seemed to Mr. Proctor a very hard view. “You know, Proctor,” the old sol dier declared, “I’ve no liking for Eus tace Lindon, and I’d not mind thwart ing him; but I think for any one to enable the Dynevors to remain at Up lands would be to do them a cruel kindness. It is openly reported Lin don is coming into residence when we leave. It will be far and away bet ter for Mrs. Dynevor and her children not to live, so to say, at bis gates. I think it is a blessing in disguise that they will have to go.” “And I don’t!” said the lawyer stoutly. “Think of the years the place has been in Mrs. Dynevor’s family! Think how hard her son has worked to keep it up! If he leaves Uplands, Harold goes out into the world penni less.” “He’d be sure to get a good berth as land-agent to a nobleman." “Such posts are not so easily picked up. I think you take a very unsym ! pathetic view of the matter, General.” “Bother it all,” said the old so.dier irritably, “I suppose I had better tell you the truth! I like the Dvnevors, they’re the pleasantest neighbors I ever had, I think Harold’s a son to be proud of; but, Proctor, I’ve got only one boy, and I haven’t much money to leave him. Allck will have to make his way with very l.tt’.e ex cept his pay. Can’t you Eee I don’t want him to marry Kitty Dynevor, a nice girl and a good one, but Without a penny to her fortune?” Beryl saw a good deal of the Dyn evors in August. Woodlands broke up for the holidays, Mrs. Tanner and the twins went to spend a fortnight near their old home, and Kitty came over to Easthill-on-Sea, with her mo.her’s orders to bring back Beryl for the' time of their absence. “You are to he sure to come unless you have a better engagement." “I have no engagement, and 1 couldn’t have a better one; only 6hall I not be in your way?” “We warn you, and we mean to have you!” retorted Kitty. “I tod Harold about it, and. he said it was a famous idea. I think you fascinated him that night when he saw you looking so forlorn at the railway s.a tion, for you are the first visitor we have had to stay in the house for years.” M(3. Dynevor’s welcome was a’moet motherly in its goodness, but it wa3 Harold’s greeting which went straight to Beryl’s heart She happened to be alone in the oak parlor when he came in, and as he took her hand he said gravely: v “Remember, no one here knows your secret—no one ever will know it from me; but if they learn it from another source they will be content, as I do, to remember you are Aunt Nina’s child, arftl forget you are Mr. Lindon’s daughter.” Beryl had been at Up’ands juBt three days when Easthill was thrown into a commotion. Mr. Lindon, the great man of the neighborhood, had arrived and was putting up at his agent’s house while he transacted some busi ness connected with his property. “Will he have the effrontery to call here?” Mrs. Dynevor asked her son. “I should say not. If he does, send Kitty in to interview him. She is cap able of freezing him if she tiies.” “I wonder if he has brought his wife and daughter?” hazarded Mrs. Dyne vor. “No,” retorted Kitty, who always knew everything. “His wife is not well, and his daughter is at school. Perhaps she prefers it to her step mother’s society, but Bhe is the same age as I am, and I should certainly resent being kept at letters.” “Poor little thing!” said Mrs. Dyn evor gently. “I wonder if she is l.ke her mother? What is her name? Did we ever hear?” “It was never mentioned in Aunt Nina’s letters,” returned Harold. “She always spoke of the children as ‘Pet’ and ‘Baby;’ not that she wrote often, poor thing!” Beryl was in the room, and natur ally heard these remarks. She almost forgot herself, and contradicted his last words, for she knew that Lillian had never been called “Pet.” It was her own name in babyhood, and had not been given up till she went to the Burgesses, when, by her father’s wish, she was always called Beryl. No, Lillian could *iot have been “Pet.” Try as she w .uld, the girl could not recall any fond abbreviation of her sister’s name. When she was brought home after Lillian’s death no one ever spoke of the dead child ex cept her mother, and she always sa d “your little sister.” Mr. Lindon took no notice of Beryl at all. Her moth er’s maid had returned to England, as she had lately heard, to take serv ice with the family at Uplands. Lil lian’s nurse had also left the Lin dons, but of her movements Beryl knew nothing. (To be continued.) NEW BREAD AT PARIS. From Fresh Flour end Greatly In creases Nutrition. Among all the exhibits of bread and bread-making at the Paris exhibition the one which interested me most was a system of milling and baking com bined. It is well known that all food substances when ground to a fine pow der have a tendency to become oxi dized. As is the case with coffee, which is the best when freshly roasted and freshly ground, so it is with cereal flour, which is never so aromatic or so nutritious as at the moment when it is first made. The Schweitzer sys tem, in regard to the milling orpera ti^ns, is a return to the old system of millstones, with the exception that cor rugated steel grinders take the place of the millstones of the olden days, says the Paris Messenger. These grinders are so accurately adjusted as to admit of the making of the finest flour, while avoiding actual contact of the two grinding surfaces. The sim plicity of the apparatus, the cheapness and the ease with which it can be in stalled commend this system particu larly for domestic use and for the sup ply of villages and small communities. Nevertheless, it is capable of being op erated on an extensive scale, as is demonstrated by the large establish ment at La Villette, Paris, where more than 100,000 pounds of bread are made per day from flour not more than 224 hours old. Chemical analysis shows that the flour made according to the Schweitzer system has more than twice as much phosphate material as that made by the ordinary roller proc ess. The importance of this fact in respect to nutrition should not be lost sight of, and we must admit that nu trition, not whiteness of color, is tho ■ principal object of bread-making. I TO PAY OLD WAR BILLS House Passes the Measure for Reimburse ment of Southerners. CLAIMS THAT AGGREGATE $344,480 Moat of Xurm for Sturm and Supplies Tuk«n bjr tke Uiiluu Army Uurln( tha ltcliulliiin — Opposition OrneuBit— Other Waal.inicloo Mutter*. WASHINGTON, Fob. 2.—The house today passed an omnibus bill carrying ciiants ior slon*s and suppl.es taken by the union army during the rebel lion. The claims were passed on by lie court of c.amis and aggregated *J14,4.>0. Pract.caJy ail tlio bonouc iariea reside in toe south. Consldorab.e -^position to the bill was delayed in the day under tho leadership oil Mr. Cannon, the chairman of tha ap propriation committee, but it flattened out later sun tho bill flna.ly was passed without div.s.on. Mr. Southard of Ohio, chairman of the commitiee on dtlnage woights and n:eaour«.s, asked unau.mous consent to consider a lull to establish a national standardizing bureau, which should nave custody of the standards and finn.sh information to any education al institution, firm, coiporatlen or iiidiviuual in the United States. After Borne discusion it was agreed that the biil3 siiou.d bo made a con tinuing order after the disposal of tod bill Jo promote tho efficiency of the revenue cutter service. ihc senate bill to app'-oiiriaLo $30,001) for tho pur chase or const ru-t.on of a revenue cutter for Ho. ton harbor was pass d. A bill to regulate the coming of Chineoe persons into the country ero ded some discussion. Mr. Hitt, chair man of the comm.iteo on foreign at fairs, sa d the bi 1 had been prepared by the attorney general to prevent tho fraudulent entry (f Chinese labore.s, by g.ving 11.« g .vernment, as well as the Ch.namen, ihe r.glit to appeal from the de< leion of the United S ales commlss n-r. Mr Hill snld that lio himself d d not relieve tho Chinese exclusion ad was a Just law. because it was pafe>-en in violation of treat es, but the la v was cn tha statute baok3 and it was the duty of every citizen ro uphold It. The bill was passed. Inis being p-:vate bill day, Mr. Ma hon of Pennsylvania, chairman of the committee on war cla.ma, ca led up the unfinished business, which was a bill f.ir the relief of St. John’s lodge of Masons of Newborn, N. L. The bill appropriates $6 COO far tha use of the Masonic ledge by union troops during ilio rebellion. Alter some opposition a was passed. TLe house then took up the omnibus hill for tho payment of claims aggre gating $344,400, certified to be due by the court of claims under the provi sions of the Bowman act. The c’aims wer* for stores and supplies taken for ihe use of the federal army during the reb dliou. The beneficiaries wore all res d nts of il.e south. After sev eral hours Consumed by opp neufs of the bill, it was passed without divi sion. Bills wore passed to constitute a new division of the eastern distr'ct of Texas; pr'v'd'ng for al’otments of lands in severalty to Indians of tho La Polnte or Bid river reservation in Wash'ngt-m; and to authorize the Mississippi Choctaws to bring suit In the ceurt of c’almc avalnst tho Choc taw na'ion to determ'ne their rights undei the treaty of 1830. KANSAS DlUGJM REFORMS Publicly Announce* That lie Will Destroy His stock of Liquors. HIAWATHA, Kan., Feb. 2.—E. J. Eich-Itz, a k.cal dtuggist, today made pullic bis determination to destroy all the liquor in bis store. This aft ernoon he emptied a barrel of whisky into the sewci and announced that on Saturday he will publicly destroy the remainder of his supply or liquors, including several barrels of wines and whisky. The affair will be made one of re joicing, the local ministers and the public having boon invited to attend. The druggist has concluded that to sell liquor for any purpose i3 wrong. % h!US I ITU* AMENDMENT Iowa Supreme Court Affirms the Decision of the Lower Tr bnnul. DES MOINES, la., Feb. 2.—The su preme court announced this morning that the dc-Lion of the lower court In the Titus biennial election amend ment was nifinne'd. This knocks out the amendment tr the constitution, and results in a s a!e election being held this fall in Iowa. P»i«p(l the Century JI rk. CLINTON, la., Feb. 4.—Martin Duffy cf Wiiton township, is dangsr ous y 111. Mr. Duffy is the second oldest person in Clinton county, hav ing pas'el his one hundred year ma-k last Noven.1 er. Ho came to Clinton county in lho2. Snow Al! Over Kintal TOPEKA, Kan., Feb. 2.—Dispatches from all over Kansas indicate that tonight’s snow storm is general and heavy. The value of the snow to the •vmt r wheat crop is great and it prac tically assures a good crop. Cmkcr Pnjri Incm* Tax. LONDON, Feb. 1.—(New York World Cablegram.)—Richard Croker arrived at Wantage Wednesday and drove in a covered carriage to the Moat house, Letcomb. Ho returned to London yesterday. He has paid his income tax assessment, abandoning liis appeal, in the face of the inquis itorial character of the interrogitcres addressed to him by the assessment committee, false answers to whi h would render him liable to a heavy flne. 1 PRESIDENT SENDS fLOWERS. Three Magniflcent DnI|M for Qaeta’i Funeral Come from America. LONDON, Feb. 1.—A special train this morning brought to the Charing Cross station a number of members of the royal families upon the Conti nent, here for the purpose of attend ing the funeral of Queen Victoria. Among those who arrived were the crown pr.nco of Sweden, Prince John George of Saxony, the prince of Saato Altenburg, Prince Waldeck Pyrmont, and the prince and princess of Sehaunburgh-Lippe, and their respec tive suites. They were conducted in royal carriages to Buckingham palace and the various hotels. The members or the German embassy mot the princes from Germany, but none of the members of the British royal fam ily were present nt the station. His majesty. King Edward VII, was rep resented at the station, however, by Colonel Campbell, one of the grooms in-waiting. The United States embassy will send to Windsor castle three magnificent floral pieces—wreaths from President McKinley and Mrs. Garfield and a cross from Ambassador Choate. The president's wreath is eight feet in di ameter and of solid white camella3, arums, lilies of the valley, tulips and roses, with a cluster of mauve orchids in the center. Mr. Choate’s cross is of the same flowers. Mtb. Garfield's wreath is composed of arums, neapo litan violets and greenery. CIB4NS IN A DEADLOCK. Clausa to Make domes Ineligible for President Arouses Animosity. HAVANA, Feb. 1.—The constitu tional convention is now in tho throes of a deadlock. This conuitlon was brought about during the considera tion of the article bearing on the qualifications for president of the re public and tho old Gomez fight was revived. The delegates met In private ses sion in an ante-room at 2 o'clock. The anti-Gomez faction, led by SangulHy. favored the eliglbl ity of only native born Cubans, while the admirers of General Gomez, headed by Senors Que sada and Nunez, advocated the reten tion of the cl .use in tho original drift making a naturalized citizen, who had feerved two years In the war3, eligible. Three members, Senors Rivera, Genor and Llorente. were absent. After a discussion lasting two hours, Senor Genor, who is a Gomezite, entered and a call was made for the president to reassemble the convention. The op ponents of Gomez, however, refused to take their seats, and after several efforts the delegates withdrew from the hall. COATES OPERA HOUSE BURNS Kansas City’s Oldest Theatre Is De si royed by Fire. KANSAS CITY, Feb. 1—Fire late tonight destroyed the Coates opera house, the principal theater of Kan sas City, situated at Tenth street and Broadway, and occupying a detached bu'lding. Walker Whiteside and his company were playing ‘‘Heart and Sword” in the house and had Just concluded the evening performance when some of the actors discovered that the build ing was afire, the flames enveloping the whole rear part of the theater in a few moments. The company lost their wardrobes and scenery, being obliged to flee from their dressing rooms. The firemen were help e n to check the flames and directed their chief at tention to the Coates hotel, diagon ally across the street and the largest hotel in the city. Wind b’ew great showers of cinders upon the hotel, the guests were notified of their dan ger and heme left the house, but it was not damaged. NOT TURNING PROTESTANT. Krporti About a Religion* Revolution In Philippines Overdr wn MANILA, Feb. 1.—The cab’ed state ment that the movement toward Pro testantism in the Philippines is grow ing with astonishing rapid.ty is exag gerated. The MothodslB, Presbyterians, Epis copalians and British and American societies have worked in Manila and its vicinity for two years and the membership of the four Methodist missions is 400, and in a ccnstltuen y of 1,000 the Presbyterian mission has a native membership ‘of thirty. BOTH WANTED THE SENIORITA. Cottlrmau and M-* cun Fight It Ont and L>Htt«*r la Killed PHOENIX, A. T., Feb. 1.—News has been received here of a duel between Tom Childs and Miguel Lasado at Ajo mine, northwest of Phoen x, in which, the latter was killed. Childs is a wealthy cattleman and Lasado was a Mexican miner. Both were in love with a senorita, over whom they ex changed shots with pistols. The k'll ing was not called to the attention of the authorities and the Mexican’s bones are bleaching on the dssart. Plot F’ttlilonrd After Ovnftfi***. CHICAGO, Feb. 1.—The disappear ance of Arthur R. Barnard, paying tel ler of Dowle’s savings bank, was made use of hy Charles Cedervlade in an at tempt to secure a ransom of $2,000 from C. J. Barnard for the release of his son. Cederv’ade, who Is 19 years old, wrote a letter to Mr. Barnard, de manding money for the return of the son, otherwise he would be put to death. Driven to In«an<ty and Death. DEADWOOD, S. D., Feb. 1.—Myrtle Stanley died today, having succumbed to the fright incident to the attempt of her father, W. C. Stanley of Den ver, to take her home. The girl lived with her mother at Central City. A week ago Stanley, from whom his wife had been separated for seventeen years, came to Deadwood and tried to induce the girl to leave her mother. The strain upon her became so great she became a raving maniac, resulting In her death. Miia'ojaries in China Make Representa tions to Ministers Regarding Note. TSOTECTION f OR THE CHRISTIANS Vila Italian Soldier* Dant on Lootin( Bator tho House of »:t American tinder MlaapprehanBlon and One U Olran a Warm Recaption. PEKIN, Jan. 31.—The ministers’ punishment committee met this morn ing to continue the discussion of the punishment to be demanded from pro vincial officials where foreigners have been killed. The ministers refused to furnish any information as to the re sult of their deliberations. A meeting of all the ministers probably will be held tomorrow. Three Italian soldlere entered a house occupied by Mr. Jamesoni an American, close to the legation, posing it was inhabited by Chlnit and Intending to loot. They insul Mr. Jamesons guests and Mr. Jam ^ son sent for the guard stationed t the legation. In the struggle a. Italian was wounded. They were at arrested and turned over to the Italia authorities, who have requested at? explanation. V The missionaries last night met and prepared final resolutions, which were presented to the British minister. Sir Eruest Satow, and the United States minister, Edwin H. Conger, today. The preamble Bets forth the fact ‘‘not sufllcicntly emphasized in the note,’’ that the Chinese attacked ev^ryth.ng representing progress; that there waa been no adequate rebuke for the fla grant violation of treaties and that no indemnity is asked for the Christian Chinese who sulTered heavy Iobs. f’inally-the missionaries say nothing has been inserted in the note safe guarding the missionaries, and they earnestly request Sir Ernest Satow and Mr. Conger to Bee that the former treaties protecting missionaries are reaffirmed; that the government should be forced to allow Chinese of any rank to accept Christ'an.ty with out injury to their prospects; that the missionaries should be allowed to live in the interior and to possess pass ports; that friendly intercourse be tween the missionaries and officials be encouraged and that relief should be found for the suffering native Chris tians, The missionaries earnestly hope that Great Britain and the United Slates will take part in tha coming transformation of China, help ing the rulers to enter lineB of reform which alone can save the country. SMASH FOUR IN ANTHONY Doun W. C. T. D. Women Accomplish Crusade There. ANTHONY. Kan., Jan. 31.—Mrs. Carrie Nation was outdone here today, when a band of Woman’s Christian Temperance Union women, headed by Mrs. Sheriff of Danville, Kan., com pletely wrecked the fixtures in four “joints," smashing plateglrss windows and mirrors r<ght and left and turned gallon after gallon of i.quor into the gutters. The women, who were of the best families in Anthony, were accom pan.ed by Ineir husbands and sons or brothers, who assured protection. No arrests were made and the band w 11, it is said, start out tomorrow on a tour of destruction through Harper county, which is prolific in saloons AWFUL CONDITION IN CHINA. German Correspondent Reports a Bad Condition of Affairs. BERLIN, Jan. 31.—A special dis patch to the Cologne Vo.ks Zeitung from China relates horrible details about the warfare in that country, and says: "Wo hope the awful coadt.ions will soon cease. The deprav.ty and bestiality also among our troops is enormously on the increase. Largo numbers of old soldiers are sentenced to long terms in the penitentiary and jail for minder, cr.m nal assault and burglary. Our losses are greater that \vay than by death. Knows Cnpltnl Is Ester. WASHINGTON, Jan. 31—Neither the State -department nor the German embassy so far has received any com munication from the German govern ment urging the enactment of the Spooner Philippine resolution, as in dicated in the latest Manila advices. But the government here is fully ac quainted with the earnest desire of foreign capitalists, not only German, but British, to begin immediately the investment of large sums of money in the development of the Ph..ippines. Amending Ranking Laws. WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.—The sen ate committee on banking and cur reeny today acted favorably on the bill “to amend the national banking laws so as to permit national banks to consider and treat the'r surplus as capital in the restrictions on loans and amending the banking laws as to tho designation of public depositories.’" Mere. r*. Omnibus Me sure. WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.—Repre sentative Mercer of Nebraska, chair, man of the committee on public build ings and grounds, today introduced an omnibus bill increasing the limit of cost of public buildings In various parts of the country. It carries about 31,500,000. KNOX HAS FIGHT WITH DEWET Credited with an Intention to Take Force Into Cape Colony LONDON, Jan. 31.—Lord Kitchener reports to the War office under date of Pretoria, January 29, as follows: Dewet has been engaged by Knox forty miles north of Thaba ’Nchu. No details. Dewet intends again at tempting an invasion of Cape Colony. Smith-Dorrien has returned from Car olina, having dispersed the Boers. A lorce of Boers entered Berisburg ant damaged two mines.