FTER a'l-the Len
ten trial
It was wondrous
sweet denial
Not to wear that
Easter bonnet
Days and weeks
were spent upon
it
All the potenoy of
riches.
Woman's art that
so bewitches.
J" "'A
Made a wondrous combination.
Wrought a work of admiration.
Yet upon that Easter morning
Wore she not ttat crown adorning
Wore her bonnet of last season
Smiled and offered not a reason.
But know. A bunch of roses
Like the west ere twilight closes
Came to her: also a letter
Reading thus:
"Love's gentle fetter
Binds my heart, and I am wearing
Chains for you. Love gives me daring.
Will you wear these buds in token
That the chains shall not be broken?"
Now the roses, fresh and tender.
That he dared that day to send her
Did not match the wondrous bonnet
Spoiled tbe colors that were on it;
But the milliner's creation
Without sigh or hesitation
Was abandoned and the maiden
With the blushing roses laden.
With the bonnet of last season.
Smiled and offered not a reason.
But somebody knew the token
That love's chains should not be broken.
P. S. Mines, In Judge.
USIE BAR
CLAY sat in her
room stitching1
Ibusily, and at
fthe same time
building air-cas
ties, the inno
cent air-castles
of a girl of
eighteen, who is just waking1 to the
consciousness of a heart to be won and
given. She would have blushed with
indignation and wounded feeling', had
anyone told her she was actually in
love, and there would have been no
falsehood in her denial. Yet, since
MBS. BTRNE SITTING
Rev. James Castleton had come to Rose
dale and taken the church under his
care, life had seemed brighter to Susie.
Rev. James Castleton was a quiet,
rather reserved man of thirty-five, not
handsome, not especially gifted with
eloquence. But in his soft gray eyes,
in the curves of his gravely set mouth
lay an expression of goodness, of unos
tentatious piety, that made his simple
language more effective than the most
elaborate oratory. Old women brought
their sorrows to Mr. Castleton, and
went away comforted, blessing him for
an unaffected sympathy that doubled
the value of his counsels. Children
clustered about him wherever he
called, and looked eagerly for his com
ing into the Sunday school. The young
people liked him and trusted him,
wondering a little sometimes that one
o grave and quiet could so thoroughly
understand the troubles and tempta--tions
of youth.
He had shown an interest in Susie
Barclay for many reasons. She was an
orphan and had lost both parents and a
sister within a fortnight, victims of a
malignant fever raging in Rosedale,
four years before. She was poor, hav
ing taken a position as pupil teacher in
a seminary, and been household drudge
as well, to earn an education. At the
time Mr. Castleton came to Rosedale,
Susie was teaching music, was organ
ist at St. Mark's, and in leisure time at
home earned many an odd dollar by
embroidery.
And it was upon embroidery she was
busy on the week preceding Easter
Mr." Castleton's first Easter in Rosedale.
As organist, Susie was compelled to
take part in all the services at St.
Mark's, but, besides this regular attend
ance, she was a devout, sincere mem-
27 WC
ber of the church, and gave her time,
little as she could spare it, to the work
Id the missionary society, sewing1 circles
and festivals of the year.
AniJ the work upon which she was
sewing so steadily Susie called, in her
heart, her Easter offering- Mrs.
Stacey, the richest woman in Kosedale,
often employed Susie's busy fingers,
and it only made the gentle girl smile
scornfully when she heard Bessie Stacey
praised for the exquisite embroidery
her own active fingers wrought.
Mrs. Stacey intended to make an
Easter offering, at St. Mark's, of a new
set of church-linen, and she had en
gaged Susie to hem-stitch and em
broider it, promising her ten dollars
for work she well knew would cost her
three times that sum in any city store.
And Susie had already appropriated
that sum, in her mind. She would buy
a large cross of white flowers, such as
she had seen in her visits to the city,
and present it to St. Mark's. Not one
penny of those ten dollars would she
use for her own expenses; and if
Bessie Stacey let it be understood that
she had embroidered the linen her
mother presented, why, Susie could
give her cross, and so balance matters.
For, somewhere in the depths of her
heart, so far down she had never called
it to the surface, Susie knew that there
was rivalry between Bessie Stacey and
herself. She knew that Mr. Castleton
was frequently at Mrs. Stacey' s, to
luncheon, to dinner, to arrange various
church matters in which Mrs. Stacey
suddenly wakened to an interest she
hal never felt when good old Mr. Mur
ray presided in the pulpit.
And Bessie wore the most becoming
dresses right under the minister's eyes,
while Susie's modest dresses were hid
den behind the curtains of the organ
loft As she worked in the passion-flowers
encircling her cross, Susie thought of
the order she would send to her Aunt
Mary in the city for the cross she meant
to buy. She had steadily put away the
temptation to buy a new spring hat or
one new dress, resolving to make over
her gray poplin once more and have
her old hat cleaned and pressed. And,
really, one must be eighteen, with a
very limited, hard-earned wardrobe and
a strong desire to appear attractive in
the eyes of one person, to appreciate
the sacrifice Susie was making. Ten
dollars, with her economical habits,
skill in sewing, would go so far toward
girlish adornment!
But it was to be her Easter offering;
and if there lurked a thought of Mr.
Castleton's words of raise or his grave
eyes looking approvingly upon her
tasteful gift, was she so very much to
blame?
She had finished her work before sun
set and took it home. Mrs. Stacey was
in the sitting-room where Bessie was
opening the parcel containing a new
silk suit for Easter Sunday, and Susie
ON THE DOORSTEP.
was called upon to admire the color,
the style, the general effect.
"It is dark for spring," Bessie said,
fretfully.
"You know very well you cannot
bear light colors," said her mother.
"Your eyes and hair are all you can
desire; your teeth are good, your fea
tures regular and your figure is simply
perfect; but your complexion is thick
and sallow, and always will be until
you stop eating so much rich foot!.
Now, here is Susie, without one really
good feature in her face, with an insig
nificant figure, eyes of no color in par
ticular, a sort of bluish-gray, but with
a complexion like a miniature painting.
She can wear blue and softly tinted
fabrics, but you cannot."
She might have added that Susie's
hair was the color of corn-silk and one
mass of golden waves and soft ringlets;
that Susie's mouth was like a baby's in
its tender curves and sweet expression;
that Susie's eyes were full of intel
ligence and gentle, womanly sweet
ness; but she forgot to mention these
points, and Susie was crushed, as she
intended her to be, in spite of her com
plexion. But Mrs. Stacey took out her pocket
book and from it a ten dollar gold
piece.
"You can buy a new hat," she said,
in a patronizing way indescribably ir
ritating. "No," Susie said, quietly: "this is to
be my Easter offering."
"Oh! And speaking of Easter, would
you mind, on your way home, taking
this linen to Mrs. Byrne's to wash and
iron. Tell her I must have it on Fri
day at the very latest!"
It was growing dark, and Susie re
membered that so far from being "on
her way home," Mrs. Byrne lived at
the other end of Rosedale. but she was
too shy to refuse, and rolled the linen
up again.
Mrs. Byrne was a hard-working
woman with seven children, whose
husband, after subjecting her to all the
miseries of a drunkard's wife, had re
leased her by pitching head-first off
the bridge below Rosedale into the
river. Womanlike, she grieved for
him, as if he had made her life a bed of
roses, and turned to her washtubs for
a living, patientlj and industriously. A
very sunbeam of a woman she was, in
spite of her troubles, and Susie was
amazed to find her sitting on the door
step sobbing like a child. She rose to
receive Mrs. Stacey's message, and
promised to do the work, and then, in
answer to Susie's gentle: "You must be
in trouble. I am afraid," her grief
broke out in words:
"I've no right to complain, miss,"
she said, "for the Lord's been very good
to us since poor Tim was drownded,
but indeed it's a chance lost I'm fret
ting for."
"A chance lost?" said Susie, her voice
still full of gentle sympathy.
"It's Nora, miss. She's been delicate,
miss, iver since she was born, and the
air here is bad for her intirely. The
docther sa3s her lungs is wake, and it's
a bad cough she's got, and we're too
near the say here in Rose J ale. And mo
sister, who lives at B , she's wrote
she'll take Nora for her own and
give her schooling and not let her
work till she's stronger. She's not
much of her own, hasn't Sister Mary;
but she's no childer since she put four
in the church j'ard, and she'll be good
to Nora, an the child just dyin' here
by inches, for she will help me, and
sloppin' in the washing's bad for he".
She coughs that bad at night, miss,
and the doctor says the air in B
would be the makin' of her."
"But, surely, you will send her," said
Susie.
"There it is, miss! Mary, she can't
sind money out an' out, and it costs six
dollars to go to B . I was up to
Mrs. Stacey's, to ax the loan of it, and
work it out a little at a time on the
washin'; but she told me she could not
spare it. An she rich! I'm thinkin',
miss, perhaps she'd be servin' the Lord as
well as savin' a girl's life, you may say,
instead of buyin' all this embroidered
linen to show off at St- Mark's."
The words struck Susie like a stab.
Was it to serve the Lord or for her own
vanity she wanted to give the white
cross to St. Mark's? Saving a human
life! The thought almost took her
breath.
"You can send Nora if you have ten
dollars?" she asked.
"Yes, miss; but it might as well be a
hundred. I can't get it."
"Yes, for I will give it to you; and you
can ask the Lord to bless my Easter
offering." j
And before the astonished woman
could replj-. the shining gold piece lay I
in her hand and Susie was speeding
homeward.
"The Lord be good to her! The saints ;
bless her bed!" cried Mrs. Hyrne. "An
she t'aching for her own bread and but
ter an' trudging about in all weathers
to earn a dollar!"
"You seem surprised at something.
Mrs. Byrne," said a quiet, deep voice at
her elliow, and she looked up to see Mr.
Castleton standing beside her.. "I
came over to see if you could come up
to the parsonage and help Mrs. Willis
to-morrow. She has some extra work on
hand."
"Yes, sirl I'll come, and be thankjul
to you. An' I am surprised jest dazed
like." And out came the whole story
from the grateful woman's lips, ending
with:
"And it's workin' she is as hard as
meself in her own way, while Airs.
Stacey, that's rollin in money, couldn
spare jest the loan of it, for it's not
begging I'd be!"
Easter services were over, and Mrs.
Stacey had invited Mr. Castleton to
dinner. She had told no direct lie, but
certainly had given the impression that
the lovely embroidery upon the new
linen was the work of Bessie's fingers.
As they drove home she asked Mr.
Castleton, sweetly:
"Don't think me impertinent, but
which of the offerings was Miss Bar
clay's?" "None, that I know of.
''Was there one offering of ten dol
lars in the collection?"
"No a five-dollar bill was the larg
est." "Such hypocrisy!" sneered Bessie.
"It was not necessary for Miss Barclay
to tell you, mamma, she was going to
give ten dollars for an Easter offering,
but she need not have told a falsehood
aoout it!"
"Nor did she," said Mr. Castleton.
"Her Easter offering was ten dollars."
But he made no further explanation;
nor did Susie, when summer time
brought her a letter, asking her to
share his life and labors, know that
Mrs. Byrne had told him the story of
her charity. Arma Shields, in N. Y.
Ledger.
Happy Easter I tolls.
Oh, happy, happy Easter bells!
From each round throat sweet music wells
This perfect Sunday morning.
Dear Bess, I see her 'cross the street;
Just at the churcu door we shall meet
My trembling heart gives warning.
We stop to speak within the door:
A few low, whispered words, no more.
And then she joins ber mother.
A bunch of passion-flowers she wears.
One blossom frail drops next tbe stairs.
Which near my heart I smother.
Ah, glorious day 1 I wait your flight:
She promised I might call to-night.
King, happy bells! entrance her I
I pray she may not tell mo no.
She looks, she smiles, she blushes. On,
That yes may bo her answerl
lone L Jones, In Judg.
1.1 rt Vp Your Kyes.
What means this visit to the tomb
So early Easter morn?
What mean these spices, rare and sweet.
By loving hands now tnirne?
It means that faith and hope have fled.
And now they seek a Christ that's dead.
But no! "The stone Is rolled away.
And Christ, the Lord, is risen to-day."
And. so, we often often think of Him
As crucilird and dead.
And fail to recognize that He
Is now our Living Head.
-men mi your eyes, ye saints, ana see
Your King in wond rous majesty:
For angels "rolled the stone away, I
And Christ, the Lord, is risen to day!"
P. 8. Shepard, in Young Men's tra.
THE DOGS OF WAK.
They
Appear to Have
Chained at Denver,
Been
Pending Proposed Aetlon by the Supreme
Court on the Cause of the Trouble
The Sanity of Gov. Walte
Is In Question.
, THE SITUATION STILL CRITICAL.
Denver, Col., March 19. Gov. Waite
went home Friday night, having
promised a delegation of citizens,
headed by I. N. Stevens, that he would
give a definite reply to the arbitration
proposition, and it was more than like
ly that he would agree and withdraw
the militia from further service. The
proposition is to submit to the supreme
court the question as to who are the
legal members of the fire and police
board. This was strongly urged by
the attorneys who had been employed
by the new members, seeking through
Gov. Waite's military prowess to get
the coveted seats. They sent an ulti
matum in the afternoon that they
would withdraw from, the case unless
Gov. Waite gave up his ill-advised ac
tion in calling out tbe militia.
There has yet been no apparent move
menton the partof the governor to again
order out the militia, but Gime War
den Callicott swore in 150 deputies,
who, under the state law, have the
powers of deputy sheriffs, to guard the
governor and do his bidding.
When a committee waited on Gen.
McCook Friday afternoon to inquire as
to his plans he told them that the regu
lars would remain indefinitely until
peace was declared by the governor
and the city hall factions and there
was no further evidence of insurrection
or riotous conduct. The men have ra
tions for ten days.
Gov. Waite was indignant at the
stand taken by Gen. Mk:Cook. He says
some one told him that the troops
would assist him to maintain the law.
which, defined by the governor, meant
to assist him in capturing the well-defended
city halL When he found that
the course to be taken by Gen.
McCook was to keep the peace
and prevent bloodshed he felt
that he had been basely be
trayed by some one. He talked the
matter over with the experienced war
rior Friday morning and came away
satisfied that the general's stand was
legally a righteous one, but decidedly
humiliating to him, the commander in
chief of the national guards. He was
not pleased to find that McCook
would not agree to the proposition
to assist the militia, and did not en
joy having the chief of police assured
that the troops would aid that side
also to keep the streets from running
deep with gore. The official corre
spondence is published showing that
Gen. McCook had already stated his
position Thursday night. Friday morn
ing, after the conference. Gov. Waite
officially withdrew his request for j
troops. "Now," said he, "the troops i
may do as they like. I shall pay no ,
further attention to them." j
A meeting of prominent citizens was '
held in Judge Yeamans' office Friday
night, at which the question of the
governor's sanity was seriously dis-
cussed. At 11:30 the meeting ad- i
journed until morning. If it is :
decided to procure a lunacy in- 1
quiry affidavits will be filed with ;
Judtfe Le Fevre of the county
court, who will issue an order and it '
will become the duty of the sheriff to :
arrest the governor and hold him for a
jury trial. The governor's office is !
guarded by personal friends, heavily !
armed, and his house is similarly !
watched at night He repeats that he j
expects to be assassinated, and his I
doings during the last few days have ,
been extremely erratic He has is- j
sued orders and changed them, and '
made promises and broke them in j
the most extraordinary way, and even I
his closest friends are ;n ignorance of !
what can be looked for next At least j
twenty people have called on the dis-
trict attorney and urged him to have '.
the governor tried as to his sanity. It
is said that Drs. Eskridge, Pfeifer and
H. E. Lemmon are vilhng to swear '
that he is insane. I
Up to this morning Gen. McCook says
he is without orders from Washing- ;
ton. Gen. McCook says there is :
no doubt that had a gun been fired
Thursday the governor would have
been lynched withiu half an hour, to
the state's lasting disgrace. Gen. Mc
Cook says he has the United States
troops here only to protect public prop
erty, and they will remain in town un- j
til the excitement is over, especially j
since there is a large number of des- I
perate men in town ready to foment i
riot so as to make robbery possible.
The governor has not ortlered the
outside militia to come to Denver, but
they are under orders and drawing pay.
He has instructed livery stable men to
have 100 horses ready for his use. This
strange order has added to the general
uneasiness. The old board holding the
city hall says it will defy the whole
state militia, which cannot muster
much over 800 men.
The state troops at Durango, Boulder,
Colorado Springs, Grand Junction and
other centers have been uniformed and
under arms all day. ready to take
special trains to Denver, and the state
troops in this city have been on call.
Exciting reports have been flying all
over the state. Many people regard the
governor's military demonstration as a
big bluff to show his contempt for
Judge Graham's injunction and compel
the judge, if possible, to arrest him.
FRESH SPROUTS OF EXPERIENCE
GrvE Boston market lettuce time
enough and you can grow fine solid
heads under glass.
A Success, No Doubt. The water
bench must now be considered a
necessary greenhouse equipment. It
makes a sure thing of the prompt ger
mination of seeds sown in flats.
Suu-ntRiGATiojf may be an assured
success for the greenhouse bench. For
outdoor crops it has not yet outgrown
the experimental stage. Many diffi
culties and disadvantages are gradual
ly coming to light.
KILLED HIS SISTERS.
or ThU Awfril Crime John Hart la
Hanged at Kookford, III.
Rockford, I1L, March 19. John
Hart was hanged here Friday, the drop
falling at 11:04 a. m. Hundreds of peo
ple flocked from all sections of the
country to witness the execution, and
the streets in the vicinity of the
jail and stockade were blocked two
hours before the hanging took place.
Dart remained up and visited with
friends until 4 o'clock a. m., when he
JOHN II ART.
retired and slept soundly until he was
aroused at 7 o'clock. Three guards i
were with him all night and he talked
freely of his impending doom.
"So help me God," he declared to his
watchers, "I know nothing of the
crime that I have been charged with.
My mind is a complete blank on the
subject. I am not afraid to meet God
and will die feeling that I am morally
innocent of any crime."
When the procession which escorted
the doomed man to the gallows reached
the scaffold Sheriff Burbank led the
prisoner to the deathtrap, over which
the noose was swinging. He placed a
chair for Hart to sit down. Said the
latter: "1 11 stand." Without a tre
mor Hart stood erect and faced the
crowd in front of him. There was no
perceptible change in his demeanor.
He moistened his lips occasionally, and
his eyes wandered from one part of the
yard to another.
When offered a chance to say what
he wished Hart replied that on the ad
vice of his spiritual adviser he would
THE MURDERED GIRLS.
say nothing. Sheriff Burbank placed
the noose about his neck. Not a tremor
was observed and the murderer was out
wardly not affected. The sheriff then
bound him with three straps. Hart
offering no resistance, and a long
white shroud was passed around his
form and a white cap was drawn over
his head. All .was ready and the
sheriff stepped back from the death
trap. There was an instant's pause,
awful in its intensity. Then there
was a dull, grating ound, and the
death-trap fell at 11:04 with a loud
noise, and the body of the murderer
shot downward. His neck was broken
instantly.
The crime for which Hart was executed
was the most atrocious ever committed in
this part of the state. On September 5, 13,
Hart was alone on the farm 6 miles west of
llockford with his mother anil two sisters,
MaJf,' and Nellie. During the afternoon the
mother left the house for a short time,
going to the potato patch in the rear
of the residence to get some pota
toes for the evening meaL No soon
er had hw mother lert the house than John
Hart called his sister Nellie to the barn, telling
her that the granary Coor had sprung a leak
and was letting oats into the basement below.
When the unsuspecting sirl had reached the
bottom of the basement
steps Hart i
turned on her, and after choking her i
severely forced her to drink par is preen
out of a bottle. Ho then struck
her on the head with a hammer and shot her in
the stomach with a revolver, leaving her on the j
floor for dead. Going to the front yard where
his elder sister Mary had been recking in a '
chair Hart shot her four limes after a struggle I
that left the porch besmeared with blood, j
When the victims were found Mary was '
dead, but Nellie recovered sufficiently to I
dictate a dying statement which was admitted
as evidence in the trtal and doubtless con
victed the murderer. After completing his '
work Hart changed his blood-stained clothes, j
and mounting a swift horse rode to Kockforu,
where he was arrested in a barber shop, the I
man who shaved him just telling the murderer
of the crime when the police entered.
DEATH BY DYNAMITE.
One Member of a Minnesota Family Killed
anil Five Other Injured.
Dn.UTir, Minn., March 19. Edward
Wagner, a German laborer living in
the ouskirts of the city, put three
sticks of dynamite iu the oven of the
family cook stove to thaw out while he
was eating breakfast Friday morning.
The house is now in ruins and the fam
ily in mourning. OttoWagner, a 13-year-old
boy, wA killed, and Ed
ward Wagner, his wife and two
other children were badly hurt.
The house was a total wreck.
Heavy Failure In St. I.ouis.
St. Louis, March 19. Felix H. Hun
icke, doing business as Jlunicke Broth
ers at TOO Lucas avenue, and dealing
wholesale in hats, caps, etc., made an
assignment to W. C Jones for the ben
efit ot creditors. The failure wps
caused by pressure of a claim for $1'J,
000 borrowed money. The assets are
about 75.000; liabilities, including the
claim, about $175,000.
ConfesKKS to Fraud.
Grand Bapids, Mich., March 19.
Amherst B. Cheney, a well-known
banker of Sparta r.nd for several years
the leader of the prohibition party in
Michigan, has confessed in the probate
court that he had twice sold a mort
gage held by a feeble-minded woman
of Sparta and had spent the money re
ceived. Cheney was the woman's
guardian.
Oxford Wins.
London, March 19. In the annual
boat race between the crews of Oxford
and Cambridge over the Thames course
the former won.
A DAM GIVES WAY.
Vast Section of Idaho Sub
merged by Rushing1 Waters.
Banchra and Towns Flooded Live Stock
Drowned and Many Buildings Ruined
Two Men Maid to Have
Lose Their Llvee.
SWEPT BT A TORREXT.
Boisb, Idaho, March 16. News was
received in this city Wednesday even
ing that the Indian creek reservoir had,
broken and was sweeping down upon
ranches and villages, carrying de
struction and ruin in its path.
This reservoir was constructed of
solid masonry at the head of In
dian creek by Hyde & Jackson,
Kew York capitalists, to irrigate an
orchard of 640 acres. The reservoir
Covered r00 acres. The dam cost $"0,
000. The country between Dysuka and
Caldwell is all under water. Every
railroad bridge between Nampa and
Bysuka is washed out and many miles
of railroad track is submerged, which
will prevent trains from running over
the Shore line for many days.
The dam broke about noon and mes
sengers were sent at breakneck speed
on horseback to warn the settlers and
urge families to places of safety. A
mighty wall of water came sweeping
down Indian creek, bearing houses'
sheep, calves, barns, farming utensil aus
suoraergiug wnoie iarins. a lie citizens
of Nama, a little town on the Short
line, saw the approach of the devastat
ing water and fled to high ground.
Soon all the lower part of the town
was under water from 5 to 20 feet deep.
Fifty houses arc ruined and manj- fam
ilies are without shelter and bedding.
Merchants are loaning blankets to des
titute families, and provisions are be
ing furnished to fhose in need.
It is reported here that two men
were drowned, one while attempting
to save his property and another who
rushed to his assistance. The cause of
the disaster was the sudden turn of
the weather, coupled with heavy rains,
which caused the rapid melting of the
snow in the mountains. Snake river
rose 8 feet Wednesday. This part
of Idaho has had the heaviest
fall of snow this winter knowa for
years, and this melting rapidly filled
the creeks and burst the dam. The
property is a total loss. So far Moun
tain Home reservoir is safe, but fears
are entertained that it will share the
fate of its Indian creek neighbor.
UNDID ITS WORK.
The House of Commons Finally Krpeals
Laboucuere'e Amendment.
London, March 16. The house of
commons on Wednesday undid the
work of Tuesday. When the house
met Sir William Vernon Harcourt,
chancellor of the exchequer, an
nounced that the government had de
cided to move the rejection of the
amended address in reply to the queen's
speech and to substitute another short
address in reply.
Sir William Harcourt announced
that the government had taken
advice from all available sources
and bad decided to make the declara
tion that the judgment given Tuesday
evening the vote to abolish the house
of lords did not show a mature
and well-considered decision of the
house of commons. This was a grave
question, he said, and the government
would not present the address as
amended to the queen. Consequently
the government proposed to bring up a
new address, amounting merely to an
acknowledgment of the speech from
the throne.
Henry Labouchere, the radical lead
er. 6aid that the amendment to abolish
the veto power of the house of lords
was not intended as a vote of want of
confidence in the government, but it
was intended to quicken its actioa
in the execution of what the major
ity of its supporters in 'the coun-
try demanded. Mr. Labouchere added
that the radicals were satisfied that the
majority of Tuesday evening was the
best they were likely to get, and there
fore they would not oppose a s ubsti
tute for the address. Mr. Labouchere
was received with ironical cheers and
laughter throughout the course of hL
remarks. He said:
You may withdraw this address and brlr?
In another, but the first one remains the de
cision of the house. We are the represent
atives of the peorlle and the govern
ment are our representatives. I do not rec
ognize that the government are my mas
ters. I always regarded them as the serv
ants of the majority of the house. Whether
you take the majority of the members on this
side of the house or the views of the majority
of liberals outside the house, they are with
me in this matter and demand prompt, speedy
and drastic action. Outside the house they do
not care whether you abolish or dest roy the
house of lords."
Finally the house of commons re
jected the amended address in reply to
the queen's speech and passed the ad
dress substituted by Sir William Har
court. A NEW PARTY.
Formation at I'i t tshurgli of the Feople'e
Progressive Orgnnizstloii.
Fittsbukgh, Pa., March 16. Old
Lafayette hall, the cradle of the repub
lican party, was the scene Wednesday
of the formation of a new political
organization. It will be known as the
people's progressive party, and is in
tended to amalgamate and unify all
the reform parties now in existence.
A committee of 100 was instructed ti
push the work of securing signature
to a call for a general national conven
tion in 1SU6 to nominate candidates for
president and vice president of Un
United States.
Killed by Lifhtnlng-
St. Louis, March 10. A special to
the Tost-Dispatch irom Damascus.
Ala., says: Charles Thompson and his
wife were struck by lightning and
killed while driving to church Tuesday
night during a storm. The lightning
struck the vehicle, tearing it to pieces,
setting fire to it and also killing the
man and his wife and burning their
clothes off them.
Abandoned.
Chicaoo, March 10. The plan to
move the Manufactures building front
the world's fair grounds to tbe lake
front has been abandoned.
