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BT ROSA XAUCIIETTE CAREY.
4forof "fluAiri Htnihntte't TrUA,"
"(jucenle i Whim," "The. S-jihK
Jar Basil Lyn'lltunV
CUArm t THEVALLEV OF nTMIMATlOS.
"Mwl. I mar be little old fashioned
to my actions; middle-aged people never
adjust their ideas quite In harmony with
on young folk, but ia my d vy we never
paused to count fifty at a Cull stop."
Aaot Agatha's voice startlel me with
it reproachful irritability. Well. I had
dewrred that I'ttle sarcasm, for I mint
eoefest that I had been reading very care
lessly. My favorite motto was ringing in
By ear, Lnborare enl orare.
Somehow the words bad set themselves
, , te resonant music in my brain; It seeoied
- aa though I were chanting them inward
ly ail the time I waa climbing down the
eUeo bill with ChrUtiana aud her bovs.
Laborart at orare. And thu U what I
waa reading on that Hill, snowy Sunday
afternoons "But we will come again to
tfcia Valley of Humiliation. It is the bent
and most fruitful piece of ground In all
these parts.. It is a fat ground, and, as
you see, cooslsteth much in meadows, aud
if a man was to come here in the summer
. Urn as we do now, if he knew not any
thing before thereof, aud if he delighted
himself in the sight of his eyes, he might
aea that which would be delightful to him.
Behold how green this valley is, also how
beautiful with lilies! I have known many
laboring men that hare got good estates
to this Valley of llnmilliitlon."
"Merle." observed Atint Agatha, a little
ryly, "m may as well leave off there,
for It seems that you and I are to have our
state among the laboring men In Ibis
' vsry valley."
iyatt Agatha was a clever woman, and
fold say shrewd things sometimes, but
ha nerer spoke a truer word than this;
bat ror wits were no longer wool-gntjjer-Ing.
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"What a pity yon stopped me in it then!"
, I remarked, somewhat senleutloiialy; "wo
hare mumed the purest. p-T"&t lie alle
gory:
"Flethitlsil
lie that is low no
Bat here a hand w
fosiiion.
sting
"Pat the marker in th pri!, nnd
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spare me lite rest; that is in lavor TT your
argument, not miue;" for a weary dls
cassion had been waged between us for
two whole hours a discussion that had
driven Aunt A ratlin exhausted to the
eouch, but which hail only given me a
tingling feeling of)iclteinnt. such as a
raw recruit miht experience at the sight
f battlefield. Auut Agiitliu's lady like
Ideas lay dead aud wounded round hci
While 1 bad made that last Impetuous
barge.
"I am of age, a free English woman;
' living in a free couutry; and not nil the
nineteenth-century prejudices, though
they .are thick as dragons' teeth, shall
prevent me, Merle Fent on, of suite mind
and healthy body, from doing what I be
lieve to be my duty."
"Humph, I am rather doubtful of the
sanity; I always toff? you that yon were
too independent aud strong-inludcd for a
girl; but what Is the use of preaching to
deaf ears?" continued Auut Agatha, In a
decidedly cross voice, as she arranged the
cushions comfortably.
it was true that I was getting the best
of the argument, and yet 1 was sorry for
Aunt Agatha. I felt how 1 was shocking
all her notions of decorum and propriety,
and giving pjilu to the kindest and gent
lest heart in the world; but one cannot
lead a new crusade without trampling on
some prejudices. I knew all my little
worbl would shriek "fy,"and "for shame"
into my ears, and all because I was bent
on working out a new theory. The argu
ment had grown out of such a little thing.
I had shown Aunt Agatha on advertise
ment in the Mirnihi'i Vimt, and announced
my inlcution of answering It In person the
following morning.
"NlIltsK. Can any lady recommend a
thoroughly conscientious superior person
to take charge of two children, baby eigh
teen mouths old? Assistance given In the
nursery. Mint W a good plain needle-
4 jt womau. l'riuce s outc, n. ."
? - V To the last day of my life I do not
' think that I shall ever forget Aunt Agar
tha's face wheu she heard that advertiee
ueat. "Ton Intend to offer yourself for this
;' situation, Merle to lose caste, and take
your place among menials? It is enough
- to make my poor brother rise iu his grave,
and your poor dear mother, too, to thluk
of a Kenton stooping to such degradation."
But I will forbear to transcribe nil (he
wordy aval he of lady-like Invective
Mat was burled at me, accompauied by
Bach wringing of hands.
And yet the whole thing lay In a nut
shell. I, Merle Fenton, sound, healthy,
and aged twd-and twenty, being orphaned,
penniless, ana only possessing one near
relative In the world Annt Agatha de
clined utterly to be dependent for my dally
oread and the clothes I wore on the good
will of her husband and my ancle by mar
riage, Esra Keith.
No, I was not good. I dare say 1 was
elf-willed, contradictory, and as obstinate
aa a mule that will go every way but the
right way; bat, all the same, I loved Aunt
Agatha, my dear father's only sister, and
I detested Uncle Keith with a perfectly
unreasonable detestation.
Annt Agatha had been a governess all
bar life. Certainly the Feuton family had
not much to boast of in the way of wealth.
Pedigree and poverty are not altogether
pleasant yoke fellows. Jt may be com
fortable to one's feelings to kuow that a
eertala progenitor of ours made, boots at
the time of the Conquest, though I am
never quite sore In my mind that they
had boot-makers theu; but my historical
knowledge was always defective. Hut a
little money is also pleasant; Indeed, if the
pedigree and the money came wooing to
bm, and I had to choose between them
Wall, perhaps I had better hold my tongue
a that subject; for what Is the good of
booking people unless one bos a very
good reason for doing sor
My father's pedigree did not help him
into good practice, and he died young a
grara mistake, people tell me, for a pro
fessional man to commit. Mr mother
waa rery pretty ana very helpless, uiit
the aba had a pedigree, too, and, proba
bly, (hat forbade her to soil her white
bMda. She was a fine lady, with more
haart than head, which she bad lost most
WB wisely to tba handsome young doctor,
Attar bis death, she made futile efforts for
bat Child's sake, bat the grinding wheel
a poverty oaufht the poor butterfly aud
araabad bar to death,
Ky poor, toader-hearted, unhappy moth
eft Wall, tba world ia a crnei place to
la soft, unprotected natures.
- I aboald have farad badly but for Aunt
Agatha: her hardly earned aarlngs were
aii spent on my education. Mie was a
clever, highly educated womau, aod com
manded good salaries, and out of this she
Contrived to board and maintain me at a
school until she married, aud Uncle
Keith promised that J should share their
home.
I never could understand why Annt
Agatha married him. Perhaps she was
tired of the drudgery of teaching; at forty
five one may grow a little weary of one's
work. Perhaps she wanted a borne for
her old age, aud waa tired of warming
herself at other people's fires, aud pre
ferred a chimney corner of her own; but,
strange to say, she always scouted these
two notions with the utuiuat indignation.
"I married vonr nucl. Merle." she
wouia say, witu great oiguity, "oecause
he convinced me that be was the right
person for me to marry. I have no more
idea than you bow be contrived to instill
this notion Into my head, for though I am
a plain body and never had any beauty, 1
must own I liked tall, good-looking men.
Hut there, my dear, 1 lived forty-five years
ia the world without three thiDgs very
common in women's lives wit li out beau
ty, without love, and without discontent."
And fu this lust clause she was certainly
right Aunt Agatha was the most con
tented creature in the world.
If Uncle Keith for never, never would
I call him Uncle Kzra, even had he aked
me as a personal favor to do so If Uncle
Keith had been rich. I could have under
stood me marriage oeiter. oemg raiuer a
mercenary and far-sighted young person,
but he had only a very small incline, lie
was mauaglng clerk in some mercantile
house, and, being a thrifty soul, Invested
til his spare cash Instead of spending it
Auut'Agutha had lived In grand houses
all her life, but she wasijulle content with'
the little cottage at I'utiicy to which her
husband took her. They only kept one
servant; but Auut A gnthu proved linrself
to be a notable housekeeper. She arranged
and rearranged the old-fashioned furni
ture that bod belonged to Uncle Keith's
mother uutil she had made quite a charm
lug drawing-room; but that was just her
way; she had clever brains and clever
Angers, and to manipulate old materials
into new fashions was just play-work to
her.
But for me, I am perfectly convinced
that Aunt Agatha would have called her
self the happiest woman In the world, but
my discontent leavened the household. If
three people elect to live together, the
success of the scheme demands that one
of the three should not smile sourly on all
occasions.
For two whole years I tried to be amia
ble when Uncle Keith was lo the room
and at last gave up the attempt in de
spair, banled by my own eviltempers, tiud
yet I will gay I was not a bad-tempered
girl. I must have hud good in me, or
Annt Agatha would not have been so fond
of me. 1 call that a real crucial test oth
er people's foudnexs for us.
Why Is It so dlillcult to get on with
some folk, very worthy people In their
way?
Why do some people Invariably rub up
one's fur until it bristles with discomfort t
Why do these same thoroughly estimable
creatures bring a sort or moral cast wind
with them, scarifying one's nerves? Sure
ly it Is beneath the dignity of a human
being to l)e rasped by a harsh, drawling
voice, or offended by trifling mannerisms.
Uticle Keith was just like oue of my sums
you might add him up, subtract from
him, divide or multiply blm, but he would
ucver come right In the end; one always
reckoned that he was more or less than he
was. He was a little, pale, washed out
looking man, with sandy hair and promi
nent brown eyes. Being an old bachelor
when he married Aunt Agatha, he had
very precise, formal ways, and was me
thodical and punctual to a fault. Next
to Uncle Keith, I bated that white-faced
watch of his. I hated the Mow, ponder
ous way In which be drew it from his
pocket, aud produced It for my special
benefit.
I have said that my detestation of Uncle
Keith was somewhat unreasonable. I
must own I had no grave reasons for my
dislike. Uncle Keith had a good moral
character; he was a steady church-goer,
was painstaking anil abstemious; never
put himself In a passion, or, Indeed, lost
his temper for a minute; but how was a
girl to tolerate a man who spent five min
utes scraping his boots before he entered
his own door, whatever the weather might
be; who said, "Hir-rumph" (humph whs
wiiac ne mourn; oeiore every sentence,
booming at one like a great bee; who al
ways prefaced a lecture with a "my dear;"
who would not read a paper until It was
warmed; who would burn every cinder
before fresh coals were allowed on the
lire; who looked reproachfully at my
crumbs (I crumbled my bread purposely
at last), and scooped them carefully into
his hand for the benefit of the birds,
with the Invariable remark, "Waste not,
wont not" a saying I learned to detest.
I suppose if we are ever admitted Into
heaven we shall tiud very odd people
there; but perhaps they will have dropjied
their trying ways and peculiarities, as the
chrynaiis drops its case, and may develop
all sorts of new prlsm.Mfc glories. 1 once
heard a lady say that she was afraid the
society there would be rather mixed; she
was a very exclusive persou; but Solomon
tells us that there Is nothing new under
the sun, so I suppose we shall never be
without our modern Pharisees and rvid
ducees. The grand idea to me is that
there will lie room for all. I do not know
when the Idea first came to me that it was
a mean thing to live under a mao's roof,
eating his bread and warming ono's self
at his lire, and all the time despising him
In one's heart. I only know that one day
the Idea took possession of me, nnd, like
an Eastern mustard seed, grow and flour
Miiea. hoou alter mat Uncle jveilli nod
rather a serious loss some mercantile
venture in which he was interested had
come to grief. 1 began to notice small re
trenchments in the household; certain lit
tle luxuries were given up. Now aud then
Aunt Agatha grew a little grave as she
balanced her weekly accounts. One night
I took myself to task.
"What business have yon, a strong,
healthy young womau," I observed to my
self, severely, "to be a burden on these
good folk? What Is enough for two may
baa tight lit for three; it was that new
mantle of yours, Miss Merle, that has put
out the drawing-room fire for three weeks
and has shut up the sherry In tba side
board. Is It fair or right that Annt Aga
tha and Uncle Keith should forego their
little comforts just because an Idle girl is
on their bands?"
I pondered this question heavily before
I summoned courage to speak to Aunt
Agatha. To my surprise she listened to
me rery quietly, though her soft browu
eyes grew a little misty 1 did so lova
Aunt Agatha's eyes.
' Dear," she said, rery gently, "I wish
till could have been nrevented: hut for
my husband's sake, I dare not throw cold
wttltr on your plan. I cannot deny that
he has bail a heav y loss, and that we have
to be very careful. I would keep you
with me if 1 could. Merle, for yon are Just
like my own child, but Kzra is not young;"
aud hero Aunt Agatha's fort-head grew
puckered with auxiety.
"Oh, Aunt Agatha," I exclaimed, quite
forgetting the gravity of my proposition
in suddeii, childish annoyance, "how can
yon call Uncle Keith, Kzru? It is such a
hideous name."
"Not to my ears," she answered, quite
calmly; "a wife never thinks her tins
baud's nume hideous. He loves to bear
ine say it, and I love to please him, for
though you may not believe it, Merle, I
think there are rery few men to compare
with your uncle."
She could actually sny this to my face,
lookiiiisat me all the time with those hon
est eyes! I could not forbears little shrug
at this, but she turned the subject, placid
ly, but with much dignity.
"I have been a working bee all my life,
aud have been quite contented wiib my
lot; If you could only follow my example,
I should be perfectly willing to let you
go. I have thought once or twice lately
that if anything were to happen to me,
yon and your uncle would hardly be com
fortable together; you do not study him
snflicienily; you have no idea what he
T thought it better to remain silent.
Auut Agatha sighed a little as she wen.
on.
"I am not afraid of work for you. Merle;
there is no life without activity. 'The
Idle man,' as some one oliserves, 'spins on
his own axis In the dark.' "A man of
mere capacity undeveloped," as Emerson
says, 'is only an organized dny-dream
with a skin ou it.' Just listen to this,"
opening a book that lay near her. " 'Ac
tlou and enjoyment are contingent upon
each other. Wheu we are unfit for work
wo are always incapuble of pleasure;
work is the wooing by which happiuc-ss is
won.' "
"Yes, yes," I returned, rather impa
tiently, for Aunt Agatha, with all her
perfections, was too much given to pro
verbialand discursive philosophy; "but to
reduce this to practice, what work can I
do In this weary world?"
"Von cannot be a governess, not even a
nursery governess, Merle," and here Aunt
Agatha looked at mo very gently, as
though she knew her words must give me
pain, and suddenly my cheeks grew hot
and my eyelids drooped. Alas! I knew
too well what Aunt Agatha meant; this
was a sore point, the great difficulty and
stumbling-block of my young life.
I had been well taught in a good school;
I had had unusuul advantages, fur Aunt
Agatha was an accomplished ami clever
woman, and spared no pains with me iu
her leisure hours; but by some freak ot
nature, not such an unusual thing as oeo
plo would nave us uelieve, l.oni rfome
want of power in the brain at least, so a
clever man has since told me I was una
ble to master more than the rudiments of
spelling.
1 know some people would laugh In
credulously at this, but the fact will re
main. As a child I hnd lain sobbing 'on my
bed, beaten down by a very anguish of
humiliation at, being unable to commit
the column of double syllables to mem
ory, and have only been comforted by
Auut Agatha's patience aud gentleness.
At school I had a severer ordeal. For a
longtime my teachers refused to admit
my incapacity; they preferred attributing
lto Idleness, stubbornness, and want of
attention; even Aunt Agatha was puzzled
by It, fori was a quick child in other
things, could draw very well for my age,
and could accomplish wonders In needle
work, was a fair scholar lu history and
geography, soon acquired a good French
accent, and did some of my lessons most
creditably.
But the construction of words baffles
mo to this day. I should be unwilling to
write the simplest letter without a die
tlnnnry lying snugly near my hand. I
have learned to look my misfortune In the
face, and to bear It with tolerable grace.
Willi my acquaintances It Is a standing
Joke, with my uearest and dearest friends
it is merely an opportunity for kindly
service and olTurs to write from my dicta
tion, but when I was growing into wo
manhood it was a bitter and most shame
ful trial to me, one secretly lamented with
hot tears and with a most grievous sense
of humiliation.
"No," Auut Agatha repeated, in the old
pitying voice I knew so well, "yon cannot
be even a nursery governess, Merle."
"Nor a companion cither," I exclaimed,
bitterly., "Old ladles want letters written
for them."
"That Is very triic,"shc replied, shaking
her head.
"I could be a nurse In a hospital In
fact, that is what I should like, but the
traiuing could not bo afforded; It would
be a pound a week, Aunt Agatha, and
there would be my uniform and other ex
penses, and I should not get the smallest
salary for at least two or three years."
"1 am afraid we must not think of that.
Merle;" and theu I relapsed Into silence
from sheer sadness of heart. I had al
ways so longed to lie trained In a hospital,
and then I could nurse, wounded sol
diers or little chlldrea. I always loved
little children. '
Hut this Idea must be given up; nnd yet
It would not have mattered iu a hospital
If 1 had spelled "all right" nith one "1."
I am quite sure my bandages would have
been considered perfect, and that would
have beeu more lo the tioint.
(To be conliniifil.l
Queen Victoria's Kccentricitles.
Ono of her jM'cullanties is her jealous
care about everything1 pertaining; to her
lalo liusliaiKl. Jlis personal property
is in Hie same condition in which lie
left it. His horses died in thuir stalls
without Imvimr been mounted after his
death. His slippers ami dressing-gown
are every night placed in their accus
tomed position, while tho Uuonn sils on
the opposite side of tho lireplaee and
thinks of tho (lays gone by, and, it is
said, believes that his spirit Is present
to commune with mr. l'iilw!vlphuM
Inquirer.
Wanted a Itobatn.
A teacher of a private school not far
from New Haven was culled upon to
autiiict something noiu a bill for
a child's tuition. The parent as
serted that the child had been absent
a great deal on account of sickness,
and for other reasons. Finally, as a
clincher, the thrifty patron of tho in
stitution added: "Not only has Johnny
been away many days, but he hasn't
bean on hand at 9 o'clock iu tho ni own
ing three days In the week, and you
uuw ii. icw uaven rauwitum
VWIY LATEST.
Fira hundred cases of influenza are
reported at Salina, Kan.
Natural gas has been discovered at
Red field, Spink county, 8. Ij.
Miss Husan L, Stanwood, sister of
Mrs. James G. Blaine, is dead.
Three hundred New York policemen
are reported ill with influenza.
Jackson has agreed to fight Sullivan
in the rooms or the California Athletic
Club,
There were 164 deaths in New York
City Wednesday 1W from pulmonary
troubles.
Frederick Vinton, librarian at Prince
ton for thirteen years, dil on New
Year's Day.
At Dallas. Texas, nine men were hor
ribly burned by an explosion of molten
metal in a foundry.
Some thirty postoflice clerks at Balti
more are suffering from influenza and
are unable to work.
Much damage has been done to fruit
land by a river overflow in the district
around Los Angelos, Cal.
Fire in a pauper's school near London,
England, Tuesday night, resulted in the
suftocation of twenty-six lioya,
Three men were killed by nn ex
plosion in the show case manufactory
of Scbmitt & Co. at Cincinnati.
Three-fourths of the inhabitants of
Denver and Cheyenne are said to be
suffering from Russian influenza.
J. Monash, secretary of a building
and loan society in Minneapolis, is Baid
lo be short $25,000 in his accounts.
The so-called "robbergas bill," passed
by the St Louis Muncipsl Assembly,
has been vetoed by Mayor Noonan.
Sol White, the well-known annexa
tionist, was on Monday unanimously
nominated for Mayor of Windsor, Can
ada. A mass temperance convention in
Waterloo, Iowa, protested against the
repeal of the prohibition law in the
state.
At Centralis, 111, Sunday night
Stephen Hullahan, an old settler, com
mitted suicide by taking a dose of ar
senic, Andrew Carnegie has presented Bishop
Pbelan, of Pittsburg, with a fine copy
of Raphael's masterpiece, "The Sistine
Madonna.''
During the year about 5,000 miles of
main track railways have been built,
being the smallest construction recorded
since 1885.
It is feared that the sudden fall in
temperature will seriously affect the un
covered winter wheat crop of Siissouri
and Kansas.
It is announced as having been settled
that Sullivan and Jackson will fight in
May in the California Athletic Club at
San Francisco.
Union Pacific oflicials at Boston con
tradict the story that the Presidency of
the road had been offered to General
Manager Clark.
Charles W. Millard, a prominent saw
mill owner in Michigan, was found
dead near Manton, Mich., and $14,000
of his money missing,
Tha state teacher's convention of
Wisconsin has put itself on record in fa
vor of the "Bennett law," providing for
compulsory education,
Eliphalet Kimball, a veteran who
fought in the war for the independence
of Texas, died at Hartford, Conn., New
Year's morning, aged 90.
On account of the mild weather, the
directors of the Carnival Association at
St. Paul have decided to abandon the
carnival and ice palace.
East and West Dallas, Texas, were
merged into onacity Tuesday by an act
of the Legislature. The city now has a
population of over 60,000.
For the year just closing Tirnihlrcrt's
reports 11,719 business failures in the
United States, with $140,359,400 liabili
ties, and $70,599,769 assets.
A stay of execution has been granted
the condemned Japanese murderer
Jugigo, who was taken to Sing Sing
prison to be executed by electricity.
Alexander Hamilton, a grandson of
the tlrst Secretary of the treasury, died
Monday morning at his home at Irving-ton-on-the-Hudson
in his 70th year.
Governor Godell, of New Hampshire,
has issued a proclamation that all sa
loons in the state must be closed and
the prohibitory law strictly enforced.
The Democratic caucus of the Ken
tucky Legislature Monday night unani
mously renominated tho Hon. J. C. S.
Blackourn for United States Senator.
After an idleness of three years the
furnaces of the Chestnut Hill Iron Ore
Company at Columbus, Pa., are being
repaired, and will be put in blast at
once,
Henry Wolford, who had been con
tinuously City Treasurer of Louisville
for thirty-two years, died Friday after
noon, aged 83. He was a leading Odd
Fellow.
Eighteen carloads ot provisions and
clothing left Witchita, Kan., Wednes
day, for distribution among the suffer
ers in Stevens, Morton and Hodgman
counties, -
The Navy Department has been noti
fied by the contractors for the new
cruiser Baltimore that the vessel is com
pleted. She has been accepted by the
government
Count Karolyl. formerly Austrian
Ambassador to England and Germany,
fell from his horse and broke his neck
while hunting on his estate at Press
burg, Hungary.
Mrs. Delia Parnell says she has re
ceived but a quarter of the $5,000 said
to have been presented to her, and that
the amount received will barely cover
her obligations.
A man named Ingalis. who was ar
rested at Depere, Wis., Monday for
stealing overcoats, made a confession
implicating himself and several others
in the Hurley bank robbery.
Reports from FortSullv. in South Da
kota, are to tha effect that the Indians
at that place are not satisfied with the
treaty, and are. causing trouble. Sev
eral settlers have been killed.
Tha PitUburg syndicate of operators.
called the Southern Coal Company, will
n owsoiTea at once, ana the thirteen
urms in ine commnntion win return
business on their own account
It has just bean decided that the eieht-
bour law, which was placed on the
statute books twenty-one years ago, is
applicable to tho departments of tha
Philadelphia city government
Tha visible suddIv of wheat and corn
la. respectively, aa, 97 1,648 and 8,009,901
bushels. Since last resort wheat has
diminished 118,051 bushels, while corn
has increased 2,243,944 bushels,
Tha Hon. GeorM Starr. President of
tha National Bank of Cold water, Mloh.,
fall from tba veranda of tho sanitarium
at name c-reea ana sustained injuries
from which be died in un hour.
The Academy of Music, in course of
erection at Si. Louis, fell in a heap Mon
day morning, owing it is thought, to a
bed of quicksand under it But one
man was hurt and he, not fatally.
In Windsor Locks, Conn., a small-pox
epidemic has broken out among the
women employed in tlie ra groom of the
Seymour paier mill. The disease was
imported with the rags from Egypt.
Mrs. Elizabeth Price celebrated her
99th birthday at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. K. H. Fell, in Normal,
111., Sunday. Sue is in perfect health
and in the possession of all her faculties.
A te-t has been made by a party of
New York experts of the electrical exe
cution machines at Sing Sing prison,
nnd ihev were found to be even mora
ueadly than lliey naa been represented.
A St Louis paper published a story
Monday evening that E l. Butler, a well
known lobbyist, had offered to secure a
veto by Mayor Noonan of the so-called
"robber gas bill" for the sum of $150,
000. Judge Patterson at New York has
continued the injunction restraining the
Central Trust Co., C. P. Huntington,
and others from issuing stock of the re
organised Houston and Texas Central
Kail way.
Mrs. Victoria Schilling, the mil
lionaire Morisini's wayward child, who
eloped with Schilling, her father's
coachman, some years ago, is dying of
consumption at her father's home in
New York.
Hundreds of the foreign residents of
Brazil have protested against the natur
alization scheme of the provisional re
publican government, by which they
are to be forced to become Brazilian
citizens.
Wlnle suffering from influenza Wed
nesday at Canton, lOhio, Paul Young,
aged 20, committed suicide with a re
volver. He was a son of Colonel J. J.
Young, President of the Bolton Steel
Company.
The recently formed order of United
American Mechanics in 1890 will begin
a crusade against the Hungarian coal
miners and laborers in Connellsville.l'a.,
with the intention of ousting them from
that region.
His Majesty Carlos L was formally
proclaimed King of Portugal at Lisbon
Saturday. The royal party headed a
procession through the streets, and no
disloyal manifestation was made by the
spxetators.
A call for the purpose of organizing
a national association has been issued by
the jrovisional committee of non
partisan W. C. T. U. The meetings will
begin Jan. 22, in Music Hall, at Cleve
land, Ohio.
After nightfall, at Bridgeport, Conn.,
an unknown man makes bis appearance
and annoys unescorted women and girls
in various ways.sometimes even kissing
them. He has thus far managed to
evade the police.
A bill for divorce filed in London bv
Captain O'Shea, a former protege of
Parnell anil an ex-home rule member of
iiarliament, gives room for scandal,
'ainell is stated to be co-respondetU
with Mrs. O Shea,
Owing to a wages dispute with the
typographical union, the Philadelphia
Pre has contracted with the National
Printers' Protective Fraternity for a
new force of men, who will at once take
the places of the old hands.
In Kansas during 1889 the sugar
manufactured from sorghum aggregated
1,293,275 pounds, against 698,274 pounds
in 1888. In addition to the 1889 crop
full 200,000 pounds more will be ob
tained from the "seconds."
The membership of the Economite
Society in Pennsylvania has been re
duced to twenty-nine, through the
death of Gertrude ltapp, daughter of
the founder of the society. Another
member is reported fatally ill.
Immigrants arrived at Castle Garden
last year to the number of 315,228, which
is a falling off from the year before of
68,367. The character of the immi
grants, however, is much superior to
that of those who landed In 1888.
The rapid increase in the number of
cases of influenza at Wurzburg, Bavaria,
has rendered necessary the erection of
several temporary hospitals. There are
40,000 cases of the disease in Munich,
and the epidemic is spreading in Dres
den. A west-bound passenger train on the
Chesapeake and OhioRoad was wrecked
by a broken axle two miles west of
White Sulphur Springs Saturday morn
ing. A frightful wreck waa the result,
ten persons being killed and ten in
jured. To a reporter at Nice. Miss Mary An
derson, the actress, said: "I have no
intention of returning to the stage, at
least for an indefinite period." It is
rumored that Miss Anderson is engaged
to the son of Mrs. A. de Navarro, of
New York.
An exciting election of officers was
held Tuesday at St. Louis by the West
ern Commercial Travelers' Association.'
The "opposition" ticket, beaded by
James Bannerman, was elected. James
C. Miller.of Chicago, was elected Second
Vice President.
At St. Louis Monday the United States
District Attorney caused surprise by en
tering a nolle prosequi in the case of
Charles C. Crecelius, ex cashier of the
Fifth National Bank, indicted for caus
ing the failure of that institution by
manipulating the books.
Peach trees are in nearly full bloom in
several orchards in Hunterdon county,
Delaware. The owners are old peach
growers, and they av they never be
fore saw the like in December. Pear
trees in different rtarta of the countrv
oegin to snow strong inaications ot
bloom.
The accounts from New York trim tha
number of victims of the influenza at
50,000. There is also an unprecedented
death rate from pneumonia, bronchitis .
and consumption. At Boston a similar
state of things prevails and a large
number of deaths are reported aa due to
the epidemic.
At a firemen's exhibit at Havnna
Cuba, Sunday twenty-two fireman were
injured, three of them fatally. After a
wooden structure which had bean emeu
ed for the occasion had' been set on fir
was iounu mat ine water auppiy had
been tampered with, and the men trnrA
obliged to jump for their lives.
L. P. Moore of Louisville. Kr ),
had tha work of allotting tha land of
the Yankton Indian reservation to tha
Indians, savs that out of 400.000 mm
of land in the reservation tha Indiana
have taken 200,000 acres, iesvinir the
tame amount to be taken up by settlers
winn mo reservation is opened.
l he attorney of Wyandotte county,
Kan., hasirlven tha nnininn that V..wl.
issued by that countv under tba Rnnk.n
road law are void. It is said that John
vuiver. renaerea notorious hr tha Oa-
nin jury s eratct, na aispoaae ot a
great many of these securities. Steps
will be taken to protect purrliaaeia
At Merrill. Wis., WedaeadaT Bight
George Hendler shot and killed Dave
Sarvu, a salooa -keeper who re fused to
trust him for a drink. Polios men Hotx
and Truax attempted to arrest him,
whan ha ahnt thorn tmiti lnfltn
wounds which are thought to bo fatal
uenaier narrowly escaped lynching.
Robert Garrett ia in noor health. At
times he ia Bnuh Hniimml anufl w.
ionally becomes quite excited. Ha ia
..in . , . . . . . .
in i at nis country no me, ''uplands
near Catonaville. His friends have not
been encouraged by reports from his
physicians, especially aa ha baa bean
unwell off ana on for more than two
years.
As a result of the collapse of tha
Western Paasenger Association a rate
war has been begun, and tha St. Paul
Road baa cut the first-class rata from
St. Paul to Chicago $2.50, and has made
a cut of 70 cents to Milwaukee. Tha
Wisconsin Central ia charged with mak
ing secret immigrant rates with steam
ship companies.
At the annual meeting of tha National
Builders' Association in St. Louis next ,
month, steps will be taken to oppose the
eight-hour movement proposed by the
American Federation of Labor. It is
said that a united stand will be taken
by the builders on May 1 against the
movement, if the employ attempt to
enforce it.
The flood in the vicinity of Loa
Angeles has caused the river to change
its course a few miles below tho city
and cut a new channel, turning the
water on the fruit lands, and owners
claim that their property has been thus
damaged to the extent of $500,000 by
bulkbeading the stream, and that tha
city of Loa Angelea is responsible.
Carnegie's Lower Union Iron Mills are
closed down on account of a strike of
the puddlers, who refused to work the
iron furnished by tha firm, claiming
that the material was too strong. Pend
ing a settlement of tba trouble exten
sive improvements will be made and
the mills will not resume until some
time in January. About 350 men are
It is reported that mora than 800
deaths from influenza occur in Paris
every twenty-four hours, but the local
newspapers claim that the figures are
exaggerated. The Czar of Russia, who
has been a sufferer for some days, is re
covering. The Vienna hospitals are
crowded with influenza patients, and
there are over one hundred cases of the
malady at Prague.
Over $9,000 has been raised by the
young men's committee of Atlanta, Ga.,
for the monument to Henry W. Grady,
and only a few subscriptions hare been
received from outside of Atlanta as yet.
From all parts of the state come tele
grams saying that the people want to
help in the work, and doubtless many
of Mr. Grady's friends north and south
will desire to aid in building this monu
ment, and for that reason the commit
tee in charge has decided to hold the
lists open for some days.
In the town of Huron, Mich., where
only a few days ago two women and
a babe were burned to death and nine
buildings destroyed, another terrible
fire occurred early Sunday morning in
which eleven persons lost their lives,
ten of them being members of one fam
ily and the eleventh a young lady visi
tor. Theodore Grass, with his wife and
family, occupied a small frame house,
which, it is supposed, was set on fire by
an explosion, although the exact origin
of the fire will never be known. Of its
thirteen occupants eleven perished in
the flames.
A mob of several hundred masked
men broke open the Barnwell county,
S. C. jail at 2 o'clock Saturday morning
and overpowered the jailer. They
seized Ripley Johnson and Mitchell
Adams, the two murderers of James
Uellerman, and six men held for the re
cent murder of Robert Martin at Mar
tins, Barnwell county The prisoners
were taken out of town and shot to
death. The jailer was tied and forced
to go with the lynchers. After the
lynching the jailer was released. The
citizens of the town were ignorant of
any attack on the jail.
The influenza is atill pursuing its
course in Europe. At Paris the scare
continues, and the alarming increase in
the death-rate, which jumped from 120
per day to 586, is attributed to the
epidemic. In Monte Carlo the epidemic
is so bad that gambling has stopped.
The king of Portugal is still in the grip
of influenza. The condition of Minister
Freycinet, of Franca, a victim of the
grippe, has changed for the worse. In
Berlin the epidemio is also raging.
Over 200 operators in a firearms factory
are down with influeuza. In Stock
holm, Sweden, the reports are as bad.
Colder weather has set in, though, in
Europe, and the doctors hope for a
speedy cessation of the epidemic.
French And His Turtles,
A Frenchman in Siam has recently
written to a French sporting paper an
account of his experience with turtles
as beasts of burden. He bought two
big follows for $10 each and harnessed
them together by means of an elabor
ate wire and chain arrangement. Theu
no uiicneu mem io an eighteen-foot
rowboat in a neighboring harbor, got
into the boat, and let the turtles go.
They, started off with a rush that upaut
everything in the little craft, including
the Frenchman, and made for the oneii
sea at the rate of speed of a man walk
ing fast. They paid no attention to the
reius with which tho frenchman tried
to guide them. Alter four hours of
vain tugging and pulling the French
man was obliged to cut loose from thera
in order to keep within sixrlit of land.
The hint ho saw of his $20 turtles as he
rowed back to land they were atill
torging ahead in their double harness.
He will repeat the experiment shortly
in an inland lake where the turtles can
not got away from him He is confident
that a little training would make any
big turtle a cheap and sufficient trac
tion power in the water.
Reserved Beate In Mexico.
You don't have to bother securing
reserved scats in some of the Mexioau
theatres, for there are no aeata at ail,
You just send your servant ahead with
one of your own chairs, and he does all
the hustling necessary to secure a good
position. If you don t have a servant
or a chair available, you can hire a
chair at the door for o cent from an
old woman who, aa you pay her, will
murmur, "Give mo a cigarette, senor,
for God's sake," in llould Castillaa.
She doesn't mean to be irreverent: he
is only using a common Idiom. '
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