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TEE SI3UX C1UJTT JOURNAL.
I. i. SIMMONS, Proprietor
HARRISON, NEBRASKA.
Disappeared Suddenly.
Boston. June 8. Hon. Moodj
1 nil, who for thirty-four years hai
been connected with the business inter
est! o the city as lawyer, street rail
way president aud legislator, has baei
absent from the city for some 'inae ant
bis relatives and friends know not hint
of as whearabouts. It is stated tha
he eft h s business affairs in s ver
b; condition. Attnchnieut suits ap
rr atiiig nearly 82-XUXX) have bee
be in against bis property by variou;
pe jle Jlerri'l s pnviite secretary.
John F. Hooper, says there is nothiiq
mysterious about . his ubseu-e. Twt
ffks ago he said lie whs going away as
a result of a conference with his physi
cian and intended to keep his deslina
tio.i a secret. The secretary say
Merrill's financire all right.
Booth lSrpathed his Last.
Xkw Yokk JuneS. America's greal
tragedian, Edwin Booth, who has baen
hovering on the verge of shadowland
so many weary days, passed away at
1:1- ytsterday morning in his apart
ments hi the Players' club.
The decline in his physical condition
has been very perceptible for severa
da; 'and as long ago a3 .Saturday nighi
nil ..ope of saving hia life was given up.
After a brief examination of the dy
ing man Dr. Smith prepared abulleMi.
jrhich was posted in the hallway, to
;he effect that it wiis doubtful if Mr
Booth survived the night. Dr. Smith
told one of the members of the club
that the trag.dian's pulse was in the
neighborhood of 163 and his temparg.
lure over 105. There was nothing
that could be done except to sit by
the bedside until the feeble spark o
life finally extinguished.
,At 10 o'clock another serious chang
was noted and J )r. SmiCh was agai
lummoned. lie did what he could to
ease the dying mom 'lits of Mr. Booth,
who, although compee'.y unconciou",
appeared to sutler greatly for hick cf.
tir, it being apparently extremely difli
;ult for him to br t ithe. Fran this
lime until lis expired the great aclor
gradually grew weaker, the restlest
motions of his hand- ceased and li'e
anally passed away when his breai li
iiaddied to almost imperceptible
flutter.
At the bedside were the actors
laughter and her husband, Mr. Gross
man, Uooth's brother-in-law, M. Mago
aigle, William B spham, an intimate
friend, aud Charles Farryll.
Died By KUctrlclly.
Dan.vemora, N. Y., June 8.
Sapione Martello, who cut the throat
)f an Italian rival in Saratoga and
then butchered the body, died by elec
tricity in the prison here yesterday.
Two brief contacts ended his life.
When Warder. Thayer, accompanied
ay Deputy Warden McKenna, went to
Martello's cell Tuesday morning to
read the death warrant, he found th. t
the Yale lock on the cell door would
not open. He read the warrant ti
Martello through the window, durin r
which Martello sat up on his cotsmol -Ing.
The warden then left to have tin
lock repaired by the prison mechanic,
but before he reachsd the end of the
condemned mans coridor ba was re
called by a guard and Martello was
seen trying to knock himself over the
head with his iron cell bucket with the
intention of fracturing the skull,
at the same Urns protesting that he
would never be taken to the condem
ned chair alive. Tailing in this effort
he tried to choke himself with his
sands in vain. By this tima a sledgi
hammer and chisel which the warden
bad sent for arrived and ' the lock of
the cell door was broken. As the
Warden entered the cell the prisoner
threw himself headlong upon the flour
but without any evident injury to.
himself. He was then secured, placed
In another cell and a keeper left la the
cell to guard him, the door being left
unlocked. An examination of his cell
ihowed that Martello had taken oue of
the pearl buttons off his undershirt
and stretching his arm outside of the
cell door through the bars inserted the
bntton in the keyhole. He evidently
thought if the door could not be opened
he would secure a new lease of life.
Wrecked the Whole Thing-.
St. Louis, Mo.June 8. A dispatch
from CatletDurg, Ky., says; Great
sxoitement exists in Breathitt county
over the blowing up by dynamite of
the Hostler office by unknown parties
last a- .about 11 o'clock. The
CiMk m a weekly paper edited by
Key. J. J. Dickey. The entire structure
was wrecked. The Hustler was the
ol cause of the local option law
which was recently passed in that
county. .
Thought It Hll Duty.
Little Rock, Ark., June 8. A few
nights ago the church building together
with the Masonic and Odd Fellows hall
was burned at Cllfty, Marion county.
It was thought to be the work of an
incendiary. Walter Schubert, n mar
chant at said place, was suspected. On
ting arrested Schubert confessed to
the crime, claiming that it was his duty
to burn it and that he intended to born
tv residences there and also tha
r-rt -house t HunUville, Juan
. -" Wnntavili' I . i-.- i
L- . J mi adjadged.hlm insane.
"Mr Unas are not
-$mm sighed the
: ? y-gSyby sndssw
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D Sol A ; I . T- f
Washington-, June 10. General
Tracy of AUuirnr. who is one of the
m ;st conspicuous anti-silver leaders in
congress and who is regarded as one of
the strongest frier ds of the administra
tion ou the floor of the hojse, is in the
ut? and taw the i resident. General
Tra-y says that the Sherman law can be
repealed at the coming session without
the passage of any sui.ti ute measure
or tlie adoption o; iiny compromises
with the ire siiver men. A proposi
tion to rep.-al this law will hr.ve a large
majority, lu s.iys, i.i house, aud there
are forty-live votes lor it in the senate.
lie also tav ii as Ins opinion that the
proposed reiiiii of the 10 per cent tax
on the eireiiiaiiiiii of state banks would
fail of p iss ,-i;e. Coming from General
Tracy ;hes- views are of more than or
'1 n ny va:u '. ll j has carefully studied
;he situ uioii, kuo'.3 every move that
has b.-eii maJe ani evidently speaks
oy the card.
JON US THINKS MKrr.IiEXTLY.
Senator Jo.-.ei of Arfca sas, took an
Ci.ti-ely iiilTerentyie v tro:n that enter
i.i'neilUy General Tracy. "The Sher
man law can never brt repealed in the
tenate unless soinn other measure look
ing to the coinage of silver is substi
tu ed. lam opposed to the Sherman
law and spoke ati i vote 1 against, it. but
I would nor. votu fur its repeal unless
gome other JcgisliiMon w;is enacted fav-
r;ib !e to silver. I would be willing to
have the old r.lm'.d act re-enacted or
some measure like it, and would sup
port the rep 'a! of the, present law with
that compromise a ta hed."
lhcl('iiiim Keully -'ouiul.
Fam, IJivnit. Mass, June 10. 'i'he
jnsatiou in inn city is Assisstaut Mar
ha! Fleet's s or-' regarding tlie axe
found in tli-s .! it leu lions', sunp ised to
have bjn use 1 in the Uordeu murders.
For many weeks stories about the
hatchet and axes have been published
but during all the long ten mouths that
have o apsed he has scrupul nisly kept
the snret that tho weapon was found
on the day the famous bat juries veere
discovered. His description of ths weap
on was so exact, so minute, his reputa
tion for veracity and honorable deal
ing in police and private matters is so
well known here that two-thirds of tho
population believe he has really found
the weapon wiih wtich the deeds were
l ommitted. ilany of Lizzie Borden's
friends feel very much exercised over
the testimony.
Blind Reidar JaUiKtoue Tomi:!.
Hot SriiixGS, S. D., June 10. John
stone, the minder reader, and party
who entered Wind Cave in search of a
hidden pin head Sunday afternoon, was
found yesterday by searchers in an ex
hausted condition five miles from tlie
entrance. The party were eighty hour3
in the cave and traveled over eighty
five miles.
Johnstone found the pin head as pro
posed. During the entire time John
stone was blindfolded and he is now at
the hotel still blindfolded. He has
started blindfolded to Omaha to de
li ver the pin head to some prominent
m tn.
ArchMshop Zembratowich Mobbed.
Vienna, June 10. Archbishop Zem
bratowich was mobbed by forty polish
students in Lemburg in view of bis
visit to the pope which the poles regard
as treason to the Greek Catholic church
of which he is a prolate. The archbish
op was being driven to the railway sta
tion from his home when the students
attacked him. They threw rotten eggs
at the archbishop and his coachman,
and stopped the horses and tried to
climb into the, carriage. Five men
reached'over the doors and beat the
archbishop with their canes, while oth
ers tossed dirt, eggs and vegetables over
the hack. The archbishop was caught
twice by the collar and half dragged
from the carriage, but each time tore
himself loose. The police attacked
the students, but were driven back.
Keinforcementa were summoned and
after a hot skirmish nineteen of the
students were arrested. The others
lei Uishop I5u jiwski of Stanislaus,
who had come upon the men in the
worst of the light, and had attempted'
o defend the archbishop was severely
cut and bruised on the face and neck.,
L'he archbishops face was bleeding and '
!.e was covered with tilth. Both ho
"iid the liishop were pcompniea
home by the police."
Held Up the Train.
St. Louis, Mo., June 10. A Mobile &
O'lio train was held up by six masked
men at Forest Lawn, a suburb of East
St. Louis, Illinois, at about 9:30 o'clock
a?.t niyht. Meagre particulars just re-i
ueived credit the robbers with making
n s a clean haul of the contents of the
exp ess car, after beating the. messen
i r into- insensibility. The engineer's
cab and the express car were riddled
with builet3, Forest Lawn is the iden
tical spot where an attempt was made
to rob a train about a week ago.
Noted MnthomBtlcleji Dead.
'Des Moines, la., June 10. Dr. J. &
Hendricks, the noted mathematician,
died recently, aged 97.
The Legral Lesion.
St. rvct, Minn., June 10 The
Loyal Legion's quadrennial congress
opened yesterday morning.- After
welcoming addresses by Mayor Wright
and others, the meeting was devoted
to routine holiness and was strictly
executive In character. Delegates
Ytewed the Hill oelebratlon parade and
an open resting was held at the opera
by promloeot
Uncock!
Fire Swept Ijrouth Fargo.
I AliGO, A'. D. June 9. During
heavy wind fire broke out here at 2 p.
m. and the whole city is threatened
Help was asked for from Grand Forks
and promptly dispatched on specia'
trains at 4:40 p. in The burned dis
trict comprises the business portion o!
the town and is bounded by the AVest
em Union telegraph office. Headquar
ters hotel and Xortheru Pacific depot
and along the line of the Great Xorth
Brn railway to the lied river. Two
hundred and twenty-live busiimss
houses and residences are burned and
2,200 people will be made homeless.
CKOSSJ-ID TO THE MINNESOTA -BIDE.
The lire crossed the river to the
Moorehead Fide at. the Farfco roller mil:
which will burn. Among the princi
pal firms already burned are Ilerzman
dry goods; Crane's restaurant; Alemill.
farm machinery; Xortheru l'acific ele
vator buildings; Western Union ofiice;
Morton real estate; lied River National
bank; Daily Eorum; Merchant's State
bank; Opera house; Eystier, re tl estate;
Piano, McCormidk, Walter A. Woods,
Minnesota Chief, Devring and John
Deer implement houses; Cole's livery;
Vincon's restaurant; Grand Intel;
F.'emming's dr:i htore; Yerder & Lew
is' grocery; Chris i iiison's drog Btore;
Sheridan hotel; Appel lros ; Minneop
lis Dry Goons eompa-iy; Logan's studio
Ames iron wor.;s; Couteuaial house;
Van lirunt impiiuent warehouse.
A s roag wind ma id tha lir i trave!
so quickly that hardly any thing was
saved. The flame3 went through brick
buildings as easily as frame ones. The
loss will be over a million, as practical
ly the entire district is gutted aire idy.
THREATENS TO SWEEP THE TOWN.
At 1 1 p. m. tha city of Fargo is still
in llames and the mammoth blaze i:
being bjovvn by a terrilic wind. The
lire is completely beyond control and
seems sure to burn all the buildings
along the river front. The loss is a'
ready two million dollars. The bridges
between Mooreheid and Fargo have
been burned and all telegraphic com
munication is cut off. Assistai.c i .has
arrived at the scene from Graiu Porks,
aud Duluth and Crookston have been
asked for help. The fire departments
of the latter tiwns, however, can be ol
no assistance as they must reach the
scene by making a long detour and
crossing the Red Itiver at East Grand
Forks. James J. Hill has just tel-
graphed from St.Paul ordering the
immodiate opening of the Grand Pa
cific hotel for the use of the hundreds
of homeless people in Fargo. Many
firemen have been injured, some of
them seriously, but no names can be
obtained owing to the confusion which
reigns everywhere.
The flames were under control short
ly alter midnight. The loss is estima
ted at three million dollars. Six per
sons are thuoght to have burned to
death.
Escaped Hie Sheriff.
Rogeks, Ark., June 7. The bandits,
who successfully robbed the People's
bank at Bentonville. Monday, seem to
have made good their escape with their
booty, amounting to about 610,000. As
soon as possible after the robbery had
been committed, the sheriff and posse
started in pursuit of the robbers.
About twelve miles west of Henton
ville is a postollice and a couple ol
stores, froming the village of Decatur,
liere the robbers continued their de
predations by robbing the stores.
While thus engaged iie sheriff and
posse came up. A running fight en
sued, three of the citizens' horses being
shot, but no one was injured. The
sheriff and most of his men then gave
up the pursuit and returned to J!en
tonville. Three cr four men, howevir
continued in pursuit, but it is not be
lieved they will meet with success, as
the robbers were malting for their
haunts in Indian territory. While ai
Decatur the leader was recognized as.
one of the notorious Starr brothers.
The looted bank opened its doors and
is doing business. Citizen Stone, who
was shot, is still alive, with fair chances
of recovery.
Five Fcrwin Poisoned.
Chicago, Juno 9. As the result of
arsenical poisoning five members of"
the family of J. W. Hibbard are lying
critically ill at their home in Evanston,
The victims were attacked with acute
suffering immediately after lunch yes
terday afternoon and it is supposed tea
was serve? containing some form of
arsenic. A domestic who prepared
the tea is being watched by the police.
Fatal Electrical Storm.
New Yokk, June 9. An electrical
storm of extraordinary violence passed
over this city and Brooklyn yesterday
afternoon. It was accompanied by a
high wind and blinding rain and much
minor damage was done. One man
w3 killed by lightning In Brooklyn
and one of the buildings of the New
York Warehouse company in that city
was sot on fire by lightning, entailing
a loss of 8100,000.
Two Indiana Hanks Suspend,
New Albany, Ind., Juno 9. The
New Albany Banking company sus
pended payment yesterday morning as
a-esultof the suspension of the Bed
ford band at Bedford, Ind.
A Wat rjr Grave.
RruiNO valley, Minn., June A
snd accident befell a picnic party who
went for a day's outing at Kummcr's
Springs about- six miles northeast of
here. Luther Turner, Otlto Stevens
and daughter and Mrs. Morrow,, in
turner's carriage went to a spring for
water. They had driven alongside the
soring, which was very deep and the
team becoming frightened, lumped off
the bank and upset all into the water,
wowoing wem ana ine team.
7
LADY MAJEND1E
CHAI'l'EK XV.- nntliiiK'.l,
The singing continued. "Mere's a
health to all Rood lasses" in a shrill
treblo all out of place; and a very un
certain bass began something about a
bumper toast The accompanist took
her hands off; and tho unlucky man was
heard to roar out "lads and lasses fill
your glasses'' before ho could stop his
ponderous vo;co. lieing verviyoung, his
voice was uncertainly powerful, and
burst out like tho notes of an irregu
larly blown organ.
Then the door opened, and thero was
a bustle of fresh arrivals. Lord and
Lady Armine, and Miss (irethard, their
daughter, and behind them Mr. and
Miss Lovol.
Thero was a great coming forward
and shaking of hands, and oilers ot tea,
and then every one subsided into their
place tho gentlonieu with their backs
to tho firo (for it was September, and
the evenings chill.) and tho ladies taking
off their gloves and driuking'tca.
Dita sat closo to Mrs. Arthur (as she
was always called,) a pretty little com
fortable woman, whose great wish was
that every one should te happy round
her, who thought that her greatest con
tribution toward tho entertainment of
her mothor-in-law's guests, was to take
them up to see her lour fat children in
Led. She was very kind, and In a soft,
purring voice put Dita at her ease; for it
is formidable, even to tho experienced,
that arrival in a hot room at tea-time,
when every one is at home and amused,
and the guests come in dazzled from tho
darkness outside, and finds it difficult to
recognize friends in tho glare of light
and the tea seems superuaturally hot;
but Mrs. Arthur's soft remarks enabled
her to swallow tho tread and butter she
was too shy to refuse.
Sir Edward's eyes, in spite of himself,
wandered to Miss Lovel; hut sho sat
with her back to him, and ho could only
see a large sombrero hat, the shadow of
which hid even her hair. Ho was not
acquainted with the Armines, and he
did not think It 'vorth while, -after the
first civil riso from his seat on their en
trance, to move from his comfortable
chair.
Sooner than u?uai, Mrs. Leo Aston
rose, and said in her cheery volco. "As
dinner is at 7 to-night, I am sure you
will like to go up and rest a little now; I
have ordered the carriages at U, for
Lady Waldon Is very anxious that her
ball should begin early. Mary, my dear,
if you aro going up stairs, will you show
Miss Level her room?"
l'erdita followed Mrs. Arthur up
stairs to her comfortablo room, where
she found her maid already unpaeKine.
"Do wo dross beforo dinner, or after?"
she asked.
"Oh, as you like; a muslin or some
thing slight for dinner for you young
ladies, for Huffy ball-gowns get so
crushed. I shall dress betore;" and tho
good little woman trotted away.
hen the gong sounded, Andrew came
for his daughter, as sho had made him
promise to do, and she followed him shyly
down stairs.
Most of tho guests were assembled,
and Mrs. Leo Aston said, that as dinner
was at an irregular time, they would
wait for no one, but they had better go
In without ceremony. Tho result was a
little gentlo rush, and Perdita found her
self taken in by Jack Leo Aston. Thero
was a vacant seat on tho other side, for
one ot tho unpunctiial guests, and this
remained empty till tho soup was nearly
over when Sir Edward Norton camo in;
he looked hastily round tho table. thero
was no escape, and he sat down by her,
and unfolded his napkin.
'Please go on, said IJita to her right-
handed neighbor, who was telling her
the names of all the party.
'Mow far did I got? tho lady in pink
silk you know, my sister-in-law.'-
"Yc3. and then Mr. drevllle with tho
basi voice, and then Miss lirothard I
know them, of course; and then?"
'Thoso two men aro Captain John
stone and Colonel Palmer; thcn.ol courso,
my brother, Lord Armine, Major Steele,
a brother officer of Arthur's, and then
my aunt, Miss Ashuurn."
"And next to me, whispered Dita.
Xorlon. 1 think you aro not ac
quainted witu Miss Lover Sir lidward
Norton Miss hovel, said Jack, aloud;
.Norton bowed very stillly, and turning
to Miss Ashuurn, asked her if she had
Lien out driving.
Miss Ashbiirn was very deaf, with one
ear, and Jack Iclt himself revenged
when she produced a long tubo from her
pocket, and thrusting ono end Into her
iir where It stuck or Itseli.slin presented
the inonth-pleco to her neighbor.
lack could not suppress a little gigglo,
ami Dita pursed up her mouth vigor
ously, not to smilo.
Sir Ldwaru s question produced along
disconnected answer, and then ho set
himself to eating and between dishes to
examining tho menu with so very decided
an Intention not to speak, that l'erdita
ouhl not but perceive It, though Jack
kept her employed tho whole time listen
ing to li( in.
Fortunately for Sir Edward, dinner
was hurried over, and tho young ladles
went away 4o dress. Tho gcntloinon
amused themselves by knocking about
the bllllard-t alls in tho hall, and the
cltler Indies wannec' themselves and
rnnk coffee; llttlo Mrs. Arthur stole
j way to tho nursery.
At nine o'clock, the carriages wore an
nounced and tho 'young ladies reap
pRfircd, their beauty bidden by cloaki
and iliuwls. Mrs. Leo Aston wrapuod
THE
up Miss Ashburn first in a .Shetland
shawl, then in an Indian chuddar, and
lastly in a huge fur tipped, and they
started.
l'erdita 8 feet were dancing the whole
way, and her eyes sparkling: no excite
ment in her hitherto tranquil life had
ever equaled this going to her first ball.
t'lIAITKK XVI.
That first sound of music on the stair
rase which announces that dancing has
begun what a thrill of excitement it
produces in the heart ot tho young de
butante! Dita followed Mrs. Lee Aston, and her
flock of ladles into the ball-room. Sne
felt quite bewildered with tho brilliancy
of the scene, and was only aroused
Dy Mr. Lovel leading her forward and
introducing her proudly to their hostess,
Lady Waldon; and sho saw the face of
a very pleasant looking old lady smiling
kindly at her and saying, ' l hope you
like dancing, my dear; all young peoplo
should like dancing."
Then sho was hurried off by Jack, and
whirled Into tho valso.
- l'erdita excited extreme admiration:
her kind hostess was literally beseiged
hy gentlemen, all asking to bo- Intro
duced to her, and eager for the privilego
of dancing with her.
"Do you never dance. Sir Edward?"
said Mrs. Arthur, in her cooing voice.
"Very se!dom--I cannot sen the pleas
ure of skipping about for nothing."
"Oh, dear! but tlieu young people
must to amused."
"It is not a rational amusement."
"Were you always so rational? What
a dreadful boy you must have been!"
said Lady Waldon, coining up to them.
Edward was forcod to laugh, and tho
laugh dissipated a little of his cross
humor. "Come," she went on, "I think
too well of you not to think that you can
bo irrational sometimes. Why, the
Spartans themselves unbent "
"Only when the period of decadence
commenced," answered Sir Edward,
"lint I am no Spartan, perhaps more of
a philosopher "
"Then you must be driven Irom your
tub! A tub at your age, goodness me!
Lot mo secure you acliarming partner to
exercise your fascinations upon."
"No, no. Lady Waldon: ennriuests aro
for Alexander" and he pointed to Jack,
who was again dancing with Dita "and
philosophy for me "'
"Ah! is not that as good as saying
that were you not Diogenes you would
be Alexander? It must need all your
philosophy to resist the chance of danc
ing with anything so lovely."
"I have -scarcely seen Miss Lovel."
said he, very coldlv.
"Oh, Diogenes, still in thy tub!" and
sho laughed and left him, determined on
revenge,
lie was still standing where she had
left him when Lady Waldon suddenly
camo up to him and said
"Sir Edward, allow mo to Introduce
you to Miss Lovel she is disengaged for
this danco."
He could do nothing but ask her to
dance, which he did In tho most formal
manner. To his astonishment she re
fused. He bowed, and stepped back.
At that moment the music began, and
Major Slcelo came swiftly through the
crowd, with his head in tho air, as if
seeking some one, and seeingMiss Lovel,
asked her todauce, and sho went gayly
away with him.
Edward Norton feltexcecdingly morti
fied. She had refused him and accepted
tho commonplace little oflieer at once.
It was tho Lancers, and l'erdita was
close to him In tho danco. Very much
displeased, ho watched her, and In snlto
of himself could not, help udmitiing that
sho was pretty.
Edward Norton's taste was very fas
tidious, and it was gratified by tho per
fection of Dita's whole appearance. Her
dress, made by tho very best French
dressmaker, had that degree of finish
about It which is so rare In England;
gloves, shoos, and fan all of ono tint.
Her beautiful wavy hair was braided in
very largo soft plaits; on her brow it
rippled and curled naturally. Her com
plexion was brilliantly white, with a
wild rose tincre nn r.hn ohfiU4 nnri tins- !
but tho most remarkable feature was
that wonderful pair of dark eves like
the eyes of a gazelle shaded by dark
lashes, and full of varying expression.
Norton's "pretty," was but hesitatingly
pronounced, for ho was truthful even to
himself, and it seemed to him, In spito
of himself, that his eyes had never
rested on anything more lovely.
When tho danco was" over ho went
across to whero Dita had seated horsclf,
and said, very sternly
"May I have tho pleasuacof this valso,
Miss Lovel?"
"No, thank you," 9he said, quietly.
"Aro you already encaged?"
"No; that Is, not vet."
He stood gloomily beside her tor a mo
ment and then said, "So I am the only
person with whom you refuso to dance."
Sho opened her eve? very wide, but
said nothing. Ho repeated ins words In
the shapo of a question. "Am 1 thcoiily
person with whom you refuso to dance;
and If so, why?"
"Because you do not really wish to
dance with mo," said Dita, with spirit.
"1 saw you did not, and only asked mo
because von could not help It, Indeed I
do not raro for dancing so very much
that I would danco with von against
your will," and sho blushed at ttio length
of her explanation.
"But I do wish you to danco with me,
very much," said Sir Ed ward.hauclitllv.
"Merely tho spirit of contradiction,"
answerd Dita, as haughtily. Sho wis a
spolltchlld, and could not brook hU tone
or superiority. Sho sat whllo thatdlll
t ious valso went on, tapping her foot on
tho Uonr. No ono asked her to dancf,
for seeing Sir Edward by her lide-they
Imagined hor to Lo engaged to him, but
ho did not move.
"I am sorry that you should think
iich a thing," he laid, slowly; "my face
must bn one very easily read."
lie dIJ not percolve that he had be
trayed himself, but the did.
"Yes, very easily," sho said.
He did not like It at alL He stood bj
her without speaking.- looking at the
dancing, and she be.'aiuc more Impatient.
At that moment Jack Ie.e Aston came
back from taking a lady down to supper,
and springing toward Dita. he said
"You are not dancing, and this is such a
perfect valso. May I have the pleas
ure?" and the? plunged into the maze.
"They arc well matched," said Edward
Norton to himself; and he bit his lips aud
asked Mrs. Arthur whether sho would
have soma supper.
' (ill, how Borry I am that it is over,"
cried l'i;a. as, mullled in her white fui
cloak she was put into the omnibus by
ber last partner.
Hood night good night," and thej
started on their way home.
"Have you enjoyed it much, my dear?"'
said Mrs. Leo Aston, kindly.
"Oh, more than I can possibly say."
"She is silly and frivolous," though)
Sir Edward. "What .a fuss to make
about a ball!"
All tlin elders, excepting Mrs. Log
Aston, hud already gone on, and the last
carriage contained nothing but young
people, and their hostess.
"it has been a capital danco," said
Meta; "tho Waldons' Lai Is are al way
good. "
"I don't think they ever gave so good
a one before," said Jack; "by Jove! It's
half-past four, and awfully light"
By degrees tho re-narks grow fewer
and fewer, and at last ceased; most ol
the party dozed, and there arose a deli
cate little lady like snore from the cor
ner in which Mi'ta reposed.
There wore about live miles to drive,
and when they had gone at outthrce,they
had to pass a railway bridge, and drive
alongside of the line for about ton yards.
Sir Edward was at tho end of the
omnibus, very far from sleepy, and look
ing backward he saw the train coining;
there were the two brilliant, red lights ol
the night express, and as it drew near
there arose a hrlll whistle from the en
gine. Jack wo!;e up instantly, saying in
a low voice
"These horses won't stand that."
Dita sat up and looked at tho two
men; the pace of tho .carriage was in
creasing, tho horses first cantering, then
galloping hard.
, Mrs. Leo Aston started up in terror,
and clutched hold of her daughter and
Miss Orethard.
"Jack, Jack," she said, "why are wo
going so fast? Tell ISolton 1 will not'; be
driven at this pace. Can't vou toll him?"
"Hush, mother." said Jack, "don't be
afraid; the horses havo been frightened
at the train they will stop in a mo
ment." i
Meta began to cry and Miss Grothard
and Mrs. Leo Aston clasped each other;
only Perdita said nothing, but sat quite
still. Tho pace increased more and more,
tho omnibus swaying frightfully from
Side to side.
Meta gavo utterance to a wild scream.
Dita leant suddenly forward and whis
pered to Sir Edward
"Would It not bo better to open the
windows?"'
. . "Yes, you aro quite right;" and ho
proceeded to do so in spito of the rush of
cold air which camo In.
' There is a goodish piece of straight
road up to the homo farm." said Jack
between his teeth to Sir Edward; "but
the corner is bad, if he cannot pull up
there."
The carriage rushed on more and more
wildly. Something dark seemed to flash
by them.
"That tool Jvtmos bafyOiinpod off!" ex
claimed Jack, "lie must be killed at
this pace." Ho loaned across Miss Oret
hard, stretched out of tho window, and
shouted out
"Any chanco of pulling up, Bolton?"
There was no answer, for tho man's
whole strength was required; but a side
view of the horses with their heads well
down and the foam Hying from their bits,
told its own tale.
Jack drew his head in, and looking at
Sir Edward, gaye an almost impercepti
ble shako of tho head. Perdita saw, and
her face grew paler still; she suddenly
bent forward and touched Sir Richard's
hands, and stooping very closo to him,
whispered
"Sir Edward."
"Yes."
"I did not mean to te cross." .
His answer was to squeozo her llttlo
fingers very tight there was a violent
rocking, they were pitched from one side
to another a terrilic crash, and sho
knew no more.
.lack Leo Aston was tho (irsttoomergo
from the wreck of the omninus, and be
ing very active and slight, and moreover
having had the good luck to bo on tho
uppermost side, howasabloto scramble
sideways out of tho door. With the
helpof tho coachman, who limped very
much, but had escaped without serious
injury, ho succeeded in freeing tho
horses, who remained quiet, trembling
violently. Then they proceeded to ex
tricate the ladies ono after the other.
Dita was takon out quite Insenslblo and
laid on the Brass, then Miss Grothard
and Mela tho latter screaming fright
fully. TO UK CONTIN-UKD.
Who Killed Teaimseh!
In tho campaign of 183G, Martin Van
Bui-en, ot New York, and Col. lliehard
M( Johnson, of Kentucky, were the
LVniocratie candidates for President
niul Vico President. Ono of the "bear
iiif; questions" of tho canvass was, "Who
hided Tecumseli ?'' " The friends of
Johnson claimed that lie charged up to
the great Indian leader, whilo sur
rounded by his warriors, and shot him
do d.
The Whigs, on tho other linnd,
derided Johnson's claim to )o the hero
of tho battle, and -brought forward
Rcveval claimants for that honor.
Among others was Col. Hkinnev, who
had emigrated ti Texas. The Colonel
wjr put upon tin Western stump to
settle tho disputed nuostoii, and ho did
it in this style;
"I-'elW-citi.ens,'' said the Coloool,
with a knowing look, "Ijtasv at. tho
battlo whero TeeuniHcy . was killed I
was ! I commanded a regiment there
I did I I'm not gwine to say who did
kill Tectunsoy I von't But tUU
much I will say, Tecumsey was killed
hy ono of my pistols. Gentlemen, I
lenvo it to your knowledge of human
nature to siy if a man would bo upt to
lend out his pi dols on an oecasion of
Hint sort."
To thoir credit, tho "boys" wore not
convinced by that way of putting tho
case.
Wiikn a man acts and speaks ac
cording to the dictates of his con
science, ho Is generally regarded as a
crank. '
A mam with plenty of money cau af
ford to marry for love.