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THE AMERICAN OR THE NAN OF HOHOR. ( BY TOM JOXSON. ) CONTINCED.J CHAPTER VII. When Marie J acquet hereafter Marie Tabor fell back on the pallet after finishing Uncle Joshua's sentence, all that he did to restore her to eon sclousness seemed to have no effect, so he desisted, but remained watching her during the night, only leaving her long enough to prepare a place for Jessie. What a long, miserable night it proved. Old, fond recollections would crowd in upon his thoughts in spite of all that he could do. How vividly did every day's doings rise up. He lived again in Watkins Glen; walked again in the still, clear, de lightful June evenings with a lovely, fair-haired girl; wended again his steps toward the little, modest church; sang again those love-freighted songs, and read again the same books he perused six years ago In the cooling grove, and with him In all these enjoyments ap peared a lovely girl. "I thought those days were burled too deep for resurrection," he mur mured, "and yet here they are. I am weak or they would not come up so vividly. I will crush them down the deeper." But how poorly he succeeded in that attempt. As often as he would try to shut them out of his thoughts, just as often would they return. The hours dragged slowly along, and the light of another day began to ap pear in the east, but the poor, tired being never gave the least sign of life. Gradually the morning advanced. The sun mounted higher in the heavens, and nothing remained to tell of the heavy storm that had passed over the camp. Midday came and went and Btill Marie Tabor remained as one dead, only occasionally lifting one hand and let ting it drop before it reached her poor, aching head. Anxiety was pictured on Uncle Joshua's face as each hour passed, and she showed no signs of ever coming out of that quiet, death-like state. He even began to ask himself whether he did not even now care for her as much as in those days, when they were both young, but as he re membered that her husband had barely been dead a day, he shut out the thought and only watched the more anxiously for the slightest sign that would tell him she still lived. The day was drawing to a close, and all hope for the sufferer ever coming out of that dangerous state was dying with it. Scarcely bad the sun gone down, however, when she moved uneasily, opened her eyes and asked: "Where am I?" "Never mind; you are safe, and Jessie is with you." "Yes; I remember now. It seems like a horrible dream.'' "It is only a dream, and if you will remain quiet a moment I will get you something to eat. It will not be very tempting to a sick person, but it will be the best I have." Without speaking again she laid quietly, looking upward, seeming to be in a deep study. The meal was soon placed before her, and she ate quite heartily, but never offered to speak or sit up until it was over, when she asked: "How long have I been here?'' "Only a day." "And he was drowned? Oh, Jessie, my darling young, innocent and name less child how can I live and know of our shame?" "Do not worry, Marie Mrs, Jacquet it will come out alright." "No, not now. If he is dead, the end for which I have been his slave even worse did not find me as I have been promised it should; but he is not dead, I know he is not, for I dreamed he was carried out to sea by the swift running waters, and that he was rescued from his perilous position, and heard him vow before heaven that our child should not longer be " "Mamma, are you better," asked a childish voice, "and shall we be here when papa returns." "Yes, darling, I am much better, but we will not wait here for your father's return. He may be a long time on the road, or he may not come at all, but will wait for us to go to him." "Can't we start now? It is so lone some here, and the man seems so sorry when he looks at you." "Yes, we will start, but not for a few days yet, if Mr. Smith will let us remain; but perhaps he will not care to give us shelter longer than is neces sary." "Do not say such things, Mrs. Jac quet, " "Call me Marie; I am not Mrs. Jac quet." "Jessie said her name was Jacquet, And he called you his wife." ,,Yes, but I was not." "That is strange. Yon permit man to call you 'hi wife' and yet you are not; what doe this mean, Marie?" "I cannot tell you now; let us not speak of it." "No, it cannot be as you wish; the present is the time to tell why you per mitted it. Do sot ask me to be tatis Sed with simply a promise for an ex planation at some future time, for I will not wait. Go on." "Spare ue the disgrace of a'discloe- ure of all that hat transpired." "I do not wish to cause you pain, but for your own sake, tell me all, and if I can do anything to aid you I will gladly do it." "You will only despise me." "Have I ever done that which would lead you to suspect me capable of de spising the dearest woman on earth to me?" "Oh, cease! Those words will drive me mad. Sometimes I think I have been mad all these years, orthat I am only a ghost of my former self." "Perhapj we have both changed. I, also, have seemed more to exist than to live since I left you for jthat trifle; but now in the name of heaven, Marie, do not keep me in suspense, for-ltlsno Idle curiosity that prompts'me to beg you to give your secret into my keep ing. Can you not trust me?" "I can trust you, but how can I bear the shame that will .bo borne by my confession?" "You know me as a friend. Here after I will be as a brother In my coun sel and shall pledge that no action of mine will cause you to regret placing confidence in me." "Your words are cheering, and yet I tremble." "Do spare yourself and me this need less delay." CHAPTER VIII. If an explosion had occurred in the oftice of Jacquet he would 'not have been more surprlsedthan he was when the bustling individual. asked if he bad not, at one time, lived 'in Watkins Glen. His attempt to appears unconcerned and incredulous was a notables failure. With commendable fact, however, he asked the stranger why he supposed he had lived there. "Well, you see, a youngs follow with exactly your name andcoprofesslon settled in that place about six years ago," replied the stranger, "and was doing well, when'one day he turned up " "Dead!" "Not a bit of It." "What, then, was so: peculiar about how he turned up?" "Nothing peculiar about it; only turned up as any other young fellow is liable to when spending itoo much money on a young flirt." "Then it must have been forgery?" "You are wrong again;but you seem more Interested in my narrative than many a stranger would." "It Is quite natural that I .should take some interest in it, as n the man you are speaking of was my brother. We were twins; so near alike that our parents christened us both 'Jules." "Just what he told me, but I didn't believe him." "Nevertheless itlwas true. But what about him, my friend?" "As I was saying when you Inter rupted me, he turned up missing, and has not been heard ifrom since, but the curious part of the thing is, the same night he disappeared the girl he was trying to button to was also not to be found." "An elopement?" "Some said it was, but oothers said she had been carried off by force, and my boy, so he claims, esaw Jacquet and an accomplice board the west bound train with the insensible Marie Tabor." "It's a lie! No one saw me!" "So it was you. I have been six years on your track, and was peering over the edge of the canon when you cast yourself into the waters. I gave up all hope of being able to convict you then, but to-day, two years after, I noticed your sign and concluded to see if you recognized an ol d friend. Several times when on your track I have oc cupied the room next to that occupied by you and Marie, but when IJfound it out you had flown. I see you do not know me with all this toggery on, but before I mane myself known to you you had better put these on," producing and quickly snapping a pair of hand cuffs on Jacquet's wrists. "Now you may see who I am," remarked the de tective as he removed a wig and false beard. "Herbert Engle!" (To be Continued.) A. P. A, President in Trouble. Topeka, Kan., June 25. A. D. Hub bard, president of the A. P. A. of Kan sas, it is charged, is said to be a de faulter as receiver of the Snow-Hamilton Printing Company. The shortage is variously estimated at from $2,000 to 18,000, but the exact amount will not be known until a referee, who was ap pointed by Judge Hayden, shall have examined his accounts. Hubbard is one of the best known men in Kansas. He is a Republican politician of some note, and has made stump speeches in every campaign for years. He has held numerous positions in this county, and stands high in lodge circles. At the last state meeting of the A. P. A. he was elected president. A. r. A. MIS MEETlMi. Addressed by W. 8. Llntoa, State Pml. deat Stephe as and Ex-Majer Webster IavU. A mass meeting wa held last night at Twentieth and Sallithury streets of councils No, 7, 11, 19, 25 and 2ti of the A. P. A. of the State of Missouri. To gether with the five consolidated coun cils mentioned there was present Ban ner Council No. 13, A. P. A. The hall was crowded to suffocation before 8 o'clock. Every seat In the place was taken, and a mob of people filled every inch of standing room both in the hall and corridor. The "little red school house" stood on a table in the center of the stage. W, S. Linton, together with ex-Mayor Webster Davis of Kan sas City, State President Steveus and others addressed the meeting. It. II. Cunningham (culored) was called on for a speech, which ho gave with a good grace. The crowd varied the monotony of quietly waiting for the ap pearance of the gentleman 'rom Michi gan by frequent outbursts of patriotic cheers. A large band was in attend ance to furnish music. After waiting a while for Mr. Linton the crowd called for Mr. Lyons, who arose and ad dressed them. He knew what they wanted and gave It to them in a char acteristic manner. Judge Pea body then Introduced Mr. Linton. He had not proceeded far when It be came evident that he had no Intention of taking up the Filley banner. He made a good speech. It was politic and was appreciated by the A. P. A.'s present, but it carefully and studiously avoided any reference to either Kerens or Filley. Mr. .Linton was greeted with enthusiasm, and his remarks elicited enough applause to have satis fied Filley himself. He spoke ol congress having appro priated money for parochial schools and how the A. P. A. had headed off the movement for the future. He fa vored the retirement of Crockrell and Vest from the senate and deprecated the placing of Marquette's statue In Statuary hall. He also said that the Mlssourlans should enter a protest against the erection of a statue they could feel no interest in. Mr. Linton told his audi ence to keep their councils together, as heretofore, to preserve order, and keep on growing. Rev. J. Scott Carr followed Mr. Lin ton with a short speech, in which he called attention to the Importance of the A. P. A. factor in politics. State President Stevens, arriving at the close of Mr. Carr's remarks, was cheered, and a speech was demanded. He prefaced his remarks by saying he was proud of having the honor of being in the presence of the man wh had done more to show the people what Ameri canism meant than any other man of the age. This brought out a volley of cheers. Continuing, Mr. Stevens said: "We are on the eve of a great cam paign, the greatest, I believe, in our nation's history. We appeal to-day to the intelligence of the American people. We want to-day leaders. I care not to what party they belong. They must be American leaders. We want men who will discharge their duties of American citizenship, and who will not stoop to Romanism or party bosses." The last man to address the meeting was Webster Davis, ex-mayor of Kan sas City. Mr. Davis was greeted with cries "Davis for governor" and "Our next governor," to which he responded with a gentle smile. He made one of the most unique speeches ever listened to by a large audience. Without hurt ng anybody's feelings or inflicting any serious damage to his reputation or to his prospects, he managed to roll to gether, religious, politics, fashion, poetry, prose and a number of minor accidents which kept his audience smiling broadly. Mr. Davis jumped from a tirade against the codfish aris tocracy of England to an impassioned plea for the upholding of the American spirit with startling suddenness. He closed his truly meteoric address with a poem in which his legs and arms, face, hands and voice all played equal parts. The audience went mad over it and thumped and yelled until they were tired. The crowd dispersed Im mediately after Mr. Davis' speech, and the great mass meeting at which Com mitteeman Kerens' name had been so prominently meant and so scarcely mentioned was over. Si. Louis Re public. Roman Catholic Crime in Proportion to Population. At a recent public meeting held at Worthing, the Rev. E. K. Elliott, rec tor of Worthing called attention to the prevalence of crime through the coun try, as being in far greater proportion amongst Roman Catholics than amongst Protestants. The home truths which Mr. Elliott uttered on that oc casion have made the Romanists very angry. The have attacked him fiercely in the local and other newspapers; but he is not the man to ba easily fright ened, and it is always wise of the Ro manists, in their own interests, to leave him alone. He has more information lodged within his memory than they give him credit for, and, what Is more, he knows how to use the vast stores of information which he possesses. Facts are stubborn things, and in the Worlk- imj IiitelUijrnoer, of April 11th, Mr. El liott produce many facta, in the form of the following letter to the editor, which I well worth reprinting in every Protectant paper throughout the coun try: "Sir. Circumstantial statement made more than once by such a paper as the Time, with references for ver ifying the same, cannot off hand be denied. Neither also can a statement of facta, connected with his own de partment of justice, made In parlia ment by a responsible minister of the Italian crown. The only way, there fore, it would appear, to evade the force of the serious allegations con tained in such statements is simply to pooh-pooh them." Before passing on, may I refer your correspondents to "Notes by a Natural ist," in connection with the Challenger Expedition, ISMit, 2nd edition, 1822, by Mr. U. N. Mosely, late fellow of Exeter College, Oxford? They will find it there asserted that: "Papal indulgences for sins and even crimes are still sold in the Philippines by the government at its oftlces all over the country. The por petual right to sell indulgences in Spain and its colonies was granted to the Spanish crown by the infallible pope in 1750. In 1844-6 the govern ment received from this source of revenue 58,000." Permit me now to prove my asser tion, which you called in question, that one fourth of the criminals in this country are of the Romish creed. On April 21st, 1873, a parliamentary return was presented to the House of Commons, showing that in England and Wales there were 90,017 prlsonors belonging to the Church of England, 38,681 Roman Catholics, and 11,408 of other denominations. The Romanists were then only one-twentieth of the population, but their proportion of prisoners was about one-fourth. Another return showod that at the close of 1872 one-fourth of the entire number of juvenile criminals under de tention in England and Wales were liomanlsts. Will some of your readers work out from these returns what ad ditional burden this large excess of Roman Catholic crime threw upon the rate-payers? The Times, October 27th, 1874, in re viewing the Parliamentary Report of the Judicial Statistics for England, re marks: "By the last census it appears that out of 22,712,200 who formed the popu lation of England and Wales, there were 506,510 of Irish birth, and In this proportion it might ba expected that this contingent would furnish between 3,000 and 4,000 to our prisons, but in stead of that we had 22,100 criminals of Irish birth in our prisons last year unfortunately for the rate payers" A parliamentary return (No. 215) presented in the session of 1880, speci fied 2.1 prisons (county and borough) where the Roman Catholic prisoners numbered about one-third of the whole. The preponderance of Roman Catho lic, in proportion to population, is ad mitted by a Roman Catholic, who, writing in the lmes of June, 1887, states that the Irish in England and Wales being about 2 1-6 per cent of the population, the committals to prison in 188.1-4 numbered 20,232, or llj per cent of the entire, which is more than five times the proportion number according to the population. A writer in the Tablet (a Roman Catholic newspiper), of November 24, 1888, says: "I was astonished to find that the percentage of juvenile criminals of Catholic parentage was out of all pro portion to the relative Catholic popu lation I found that we Catho lics contribute more young criminals than any other religious denomination The stock excuse among our people for painful disclosures in the morning papers is, that we Catholics are such a poor body, quite unable to carry out the offices of religion and and charity to the extent of many Prot estant denominations. But is this so? Are we poorer as a whole body than the Baptists or Primitives or Meth odists? No. We can show a consid erably larger proportion of men of wealth, ability and leisure we are as numerous as the two bodies together. Yet their control of their poorer popu lation is more complete, socially, as well as morally, than our own. Do we find the groups of young men, all of the loafer and criminal class, to be seen daily at the public-house ends of our streets contributed by the Baptists or Primitive Methodists? You will find on inquiry that the majority of these, perhaps with scarcely an exception, for they are select though gregarious, have been brought up at a Catholic school" We pass now to some of our larger towns. On January 4th, 1876, the fol lowing letter was published in the Liverpool daily Courier. It stated that: "During last year the committals to the borough goal were 13,683, of which number 9397 were Romanists, and 4286 Protestants. But the Roman Catholic population is only one-fifth of the whole, while they furnish criminals to the extent of nearly four-fifths. The borough gaol expenses were 17,702 pounds, of which the proportion incur red by Roman Catholic prisoners was 12,981 pounds. It may be said la ex cuse that these people are exceptionally IgnoraU and degraded. But no! The Roman Catholic chaplain has been at pains to tell us that they are well in structed in the principles of their re ligion, lie hat spoken of the notorlout corner-men or " " at being well taught member of the Romish church." The Catholic TiiM, of April 17th, 1885, taid: "The criminal returns of II. M. prison at Liverpool for the year ending March 3 1st, disclose a state of things which the catholic public can not contemplate without a feeling of sadness and humiliation. The dally average of the prison population for the year was 633.45 Catholics, against 327.62 of all other denominations, though our people form less than one third of the population of Liverpool." In his address at the League Hall, Liverpool, on November 12th, 18HQ, the Rev. Mr. Nugent, Ihe Roman Catholic chaplain, alluding in the .Immorality prevailing In that town, said: "Nine out of ten of the girls to be seen at night along were Catho lics. There was no use biding It." Culltolic. Tim?. At the Bristol Roman Catholic con gress, on September 11th, 1895, Mr. A. C. Thomas, speaking of the Bjlmont Road Test House, noar Liverpool, said: "It will not bo pretended that the Roman Catholic population out-numbers the other working class elements of the town, and yet we find at Bel mont Road the Catholic element it largely, very largely In .excess. In ono month a total of 80 Catholic boys was in detention, as against 12 Protestants nTalM,fifpt. llh, l8or. At a meeting of the Manchester School Board, January 27th, 1882, Mr. W. Hughes furnished statistics com paring the relative criminality of the Romish and Protectant population of Manchester. He remarkod: " The Roman Catholic popula tion of Manchester is estimated at 10 per cent. The figures given show that the semi-criminals of that denomina tion roach nearly 42 pur cent, of the number committed In the last batch of juvenile criminals the Ro manists furnish more than 60 per cent. With regard to the inmates of the city gaol, no absolute records are kept as to the religion of tho prisoners, but the city justices, from whom I have asked information, are unani mous in saying, from the numbers at tending the services of the Roman Catholic and Protestant d chapels within the prison, that fully two-fifths or 40 per cent, are Romanists ' Mimkmlcr (lurdiun, January ssth, 13SJ. A somewhat similar statement was made at the London School Board by Sir E. Currio on March 1st, 1885. With regard to Scotland, the North ISrilLsh Diibj Mail in 1870 observed: "Oat of 600,001 pounds spent on criminals In Scotland In 1872, the Ro man Catholics of that number cost 277, 629 pounds, whereas they should have cost only 75,482 pounds had their criminals been in proportion to their population." In 1877, Mr. Cross, the then home secretary, stated in the house of commons "that about ? one third of all the prisoners In Scotland were Roman Catholics." z (Times, July 24th, 1877.)) The Daily Mail also, with reference to the City of Glasgow, remarked that: "But for the presence of the Irish Roman Catholic element in our city, we might dispense with the services of three-fourths of our policemen, might shut up the same proportion of our workhouses and goals, and reduce our assessments for the support of pauper ism, and the repression and punish ment of crime to one-fourth of the present amount. The ratio of the crimes committed by the Romanists is out of all proportion to their numbers." I have briefly referred only to Eng' land and Scotland, but if your readers will turn to Littledalo's "Plain Rea sons against joining the Church of Rome," pp. 203, 204, they will find sta tistics showing that, in proportion to population (for here is the real point to be observed and not to be evaded) Ro mish crime is excessive everywhere. But whence this excessive crimi nality? The Rev. T. Purdon suggests "giving quotations from leading and known theologians." So let mo refer him for an answer to the above ques tion, toLlguorl, Busembaum, Gury (a text-book at Maynooth) and other standard theologians of his church, whose criminal producing teaching was exposed in the French Parliament of 1880, the exposure retulting in the closing by the government of the Jesuit schools in France and in their re-opening in England (contrary to law) and elsewhere. I thank you for kindly allowing this letter to appear in your columns, and am, Sir, Faithfully yours, E. K. Elliott. The Rectory, April Sth, IS;. P. S. I have been unable, person ally, to verify all my quotations, but I believe they will be found perfectly cor rect. Go to Edward Baumley for Livery, 17th and St.-Mary's Avenue. i ILLITERACY IN THE NATION forooBtaf Mw Ofnitr la Now Ba From the Minneapolis Time: T report of the commlsaloner of educe tloa present tome curium and Inter esting fact with regard to Illiteracy la tb United State. Tbls Information I derived mainly from official records and drve careful attention. It ap pear that the number of person ovt 10 yean of age who can not read and write It 6,324,702, or 13.3 per cent of the total population, according to the latest autistic. In 1880, the rate of Il literacy was 17 per cent, and a de crease of 3.7 per cent since that time I gratifying In the sen Be that lmpllta gradual Improvement, but the situa tion Is still lnmentable, and no goo4 citizen can contemplate It without ex periencing a certain degree of humil iation. The government It based upon the Idea of popular Intolllgence as an as surance of political safety and pros perity, and vast sums of money are expended for eduratlonal purposes. There It really no excimo for Ignor ance In a country whero free schools abound and Instruction Is within easy reach of alt cIhsspb. Nevertheless, over thirteen out of every 100 of the people are unable to road and write. This great army of Illiteracy It a standing reproach as well as a menace, and there la no more Important duty than that of reducing it as rapidly as pos sible. There was a time when New En gland led all the rest of the country In the general average of popular In telligence, but this la no longer true. It la now In the west, and not In the east, that the best showing la made of the education of the masses. Ne braska stands at the head of the state In point of literacy, only 3.1 per cent of Its population being unablo to read and write. No state west of the Mis sissippi river, with the exception ol tho four southern states, ranks as low as Massachusetts In the number of il literates In Its population. This means, of course and the fact Is a very significant one that a large per centage of the educated clement of the east has removed to the west, thereby materially modifying Its "wild and woolly" condition, and It means fur thermore that the west has been doing a great deal In the enlargement of Its educational facilities. The public schools of such states as Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and the Dakotas are equal in every respect to those of any of the eaBtera states, and their academies and univer sities are rendering effective service la the sphere of higher learning. So far as the south Is concerned, allowance must be made for the presence of the colored race, the Illiterate members of which constitute nearly one-half of the total number of Illiterates in the United States, but even with this serious drawback, tho southern states are making substantial gains In educa tion, and the conditions promise an ac celeration of such progress from ysat to year. A Funn? Story. Miss Klngsley, tho famous Afrlema traveler, In an Interview with the rep resentatlve of an English paper tells the following amusing story about sue adventure with a hippopotamus) "We were going down a river in a boat," she said, "when we saw ahead of us a herd of hippos, and I, being nervous, asked my guide If the ani mals were dangerous In this country. " 'Sometimes they are, ma'am, and sometimes they're not; you can't tell till you're past 'em,' said he. "We went on and Just as I thought 'savedl' one came under the boat and we were In the water. I always go. conscientiously to the bottom and when I returned to the surface I saw out crew making for the bank and heard a voice saying: 'I)o you happen to survive, ma'am?' 'Temporarily,' said I. 'Then hang on to the canoe.' 'I am,' said I; 'hang yourself and he hung, I suggested the bank. 'No,' said he, 'not yet; wait till the canoe carries us past the land. If they can get a foot hold they'll stamp you down. They can't do much in deep water.' But the worst of floating along like this is, the chances are a crocodile will come along and sample your legs." New York Re corder. Salvation Army T.ockd cp The other evening, the entire Sal vation Army at Decatur, III., was ar rested and locked up la the city prison, This Is the culmination of a crusd which the city began to stop the opea air meetings of the army under the or dinance which prohibits the blockad ing of streets and causing a nuisance. The army went out on the streets and held the usual meetings, stopping oC a prominent corner, and attracting a big crowd. The police then made the ar rests. The merchants In front of whose places of bnsiness the arm; stopped were the first to enter com plaint and appealed to the city to stop the meetings. The officers Rave the army the privilege of parading, but ordered it not to stop anywhere. Should Try the Trick on tho Man. There Is a man In Des Moines wha hitched an old pair of horses In a bara and left them to starve to death, as aa asy means of ridding himself of them. When found by the society officers, the horses had with their poor old teeth gnawed away a good part of the wool of their stalls. A Raco of rycmlM. The smallest race of humaa befngs known are the inhabitants of the An daman Islands. Their average stature 1 three and one-half feet, and few ol them weigh mora than 65 pounds.
