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A DlatrtMlag AeeUaat.
Boston, Aug. 5. A distressing acci
dent that baa resulted in the death of
four people and inj uries fto probably
onsen or twenty others, occurred Wed.
Deader evening at the boat house ef
the Chelsea yacht club. It was illu
mlnation night at the club house and
ia consequence there was a large crowd
in attendance, including many ladies
The band was playing on the pier in
Iront of the club house and many peo
ple had filled the balcony directly over
we musicians' heads.
Suddenly the balcony gave way and
ita accupants were thrown upou tie
pier and many of them into the water.
The concusion that followed was In
describable, men and women shrieking
in their attempt to- save themselves
and their friends. A fire alarm was
sounded and the firemen who responded
Old grand work in' rest ling those who
were found floating in the water a j
In securing the bodies of the drowned
Following are the dead ar far as is
known at present, although there mat
be other bodies: J. U. Warren. A. L,
. Femberton, Mrs. Augusta P. Shumait,
Mrs. A. v. I'utman.
Nearly two score people were thrown
from the balcony by the accident and
piled in a struggling and confused mass
upon the float. Many belived their in
Juries were far more serious than they
proved to be later, and it was a long
time before it could be definitely as
certained how many were killed. Three
or four of the injuried are severely
hurt, while the remainder have only
bruises or flesh wounds. The more
seriously injured were taken to the
United states naval hospital and the
Post hospital where their wounds were
dressed while many were able to go to
ineir nomas unassisted.
Cholera Bat; In In Naples.
London, Ang. 5. The Rome corre
spondent of the Central News says:
oince the outbreak of cholera in Na
ples more than 100,000 residents have
fled from that city. The official reports
greatly understate the facts. The re
port for .Sunday last says that there
were nineteen cases and nine deaths.
Reliable private advices declare that
there were fifty-two new cases and
twenty-eight deaths on that day,
and forty-nine new cases and twenty.
- seven deaths on Monday. The official
figures for Tuesday are eighteen new
cases and six deaths. Several cases of
cholera have occurred in Rome.
According to the Lancet, the well
known English medical weekly, chol
era baa been epidemic ia Marcellus for
the last three mouths. The local of
ficials, it is asserted, have carried their
policy of deception to such length that
even the government has been led
astray in regard to the real condition
of affairs. The profecture now admits
that there have been 601 deaths in Mar
cellus since the middle of May. On
several days twenty deaths were record
ed, and on last Saturday the mortal
ity went up to twenty-five. During
the last four weeks there have been 826
deaths throughout France.
Texas heaver Among: Cattle.
Emporia, Kan., Aug. 5 Texas
fever has appeared in Chase county and
many cattle attacked with the disease
have died. It is asserted by the owners
of the cattle affected that no outside
cattle have been contaminated. Never
theless the cattlemen of the vicinity
held a meeting yesterday , and diter
mined to protect themselves.
A meeting of the state live stock
sanitary commission was held today at
Cottonwood Falls, which was attended
by many cattlemen,- who are much
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giiauHi nuuui me spamsu lever cases
among cattle shipped hear from Texas
for pasturage. Baker, the owner of
the diseased cattle; testified under oath
'that only twelve of his cattle had died
of the fever, and that the cattle did
not bring the fever with them from
Texas.
A DlwMtaroaa Wreck.
Morris, I1L, Ang. 5. A disastrous
wreck on the Hants Fe railway occurr
1 at Kinsman, a small town south of
bare last night. A heavily loaded cat.
tie train en rouU to Chicago ran into
an open switch and the engine-crashed
Into W. T. Danisher's warehouse, set
ting it on Are.
The building together with several
thousand bushels of grain was con
sumed. The railroad depot and other
adjacent property was also burned.
A tramp namedRoss was killed oat
right, and two Vndnmen severely in
land in the wreck. Several carloads
of cattle were also killed, while a great
many were liberated and are roaming
over the country. The ion is estimated
at $60,000.
Ha4 for Egaloatlan.
New York, Aug. 6. The Anchor
line steamer Karamenia arrived yestor.
r ii . v . a Ttjr -i- " 7 . -i"wirece ana sister or tiia rirm an
Tfv"'1 'M. C-yM7 delivered of a son I ties was reduced since last Teek from
S ikMBkL 0.A-'-Fifteen hundred
. VI rS ?5C5 - iMt' opening event, one
lapravaa la Tana.
Jsew York, Aug. 3. Wall street
was more cheerful yesterday than for
months past. The improved tone if
due to the reported engagement of gold
in London for shipment to New York
and Chicago. It was announced that
$4, 600,000 was drawn from 'the Bank
of England for shipment of America.
Of this 8500,000 is consigned to the
First National bank of Chicago, 8500,-
000 to the Illinois Trust company of
Chicago, 8250,000 to the Bank of Nova
Scotia, Chicago. It is estimated the
total shipment from London and the
continent for the week will reach
$8,000,000.
A tour-of the leading trost companies
develoved the fact that there were few
defaults of importance in payment of
interest. This is considered remark
able on account of hard times. One
small western railroad has not yet sent
its check for interest and two small
western municipalities failed to pro
vide for their interest. Among the
railroads the Louisville, St Louis &
Texas defaulted on its first mortgage
bond interest, amounting to 1150,000.
The Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern.
which is in litigation, also failed to pay
its Interest. A quieter feeling pre
vailed among the savings banks and
the situation showed improvement
A Diabolical Crime.
Montgomery, Ala., Aug. a The
most diabolical crime ever committed
in this country was perpetrated last
baturday night about nine miles north
of this citv.
A negro named Henry Reynolds en
tered the house of Mr. Marsh, murdered
him, and after dragging his body out
of the yard, returned and broke the leg
of the oldest son, aged eight Years.
fractured the skull of the habv, one
year old, dragged the mother out into
the yard, outraged her aud left her for
dead.
He returned the next day at
13
o clock dooii, and finding Mrs. Marsh
still alive, said he had come back to
tinish her, but was discovered and cap
tured before he could complete Iub
fiendish crime. He was fully identified
and last evening, on the scene of the
crime, by many willing hands, was
swung into eternity.
Burned to Death..
jew l ork, Aug. d. one man was
burned to death and forty other had
narrow escapes with a lire that broke
out In the seven story factory building
28 Broome street at 12:13 o'clock
Monday. Wenzel Reiter. a woodworker
fifth-nine years old caught on the top
story where he worked and burned to a
crisp. He was turning to reach the
scut t e.hole in the roof when the fire
overtook him. Four manufacturing
firms occupy the building where the
(ire aud they employed about D!ty men
The building is owned by A. Eichoff,
manufacturer of cutlery. The damage
to the stocks of the various firms and
to the building will aggregate 825,000.
News From Ilankok.
ondon, Aug a.- -xne l'aris corres
pondent of a news igeucy says that it
has been learned from good authority
that France demands as security from
Siam that the terms of the ultimatum
will be carried out the temporary cus
tody of Chantabon, a town near the
Gulf of Siam, also that Siam shall es
tablish no military stations iu certain
named ports near the frontier of Cam
bodia within a certain distance of the
Mekong river.
A dispatch from Bankok, dated
Monday at 7. p. m says: "The uneasi
ness among the people here far from
lessening, is increasing. Seven of the
French gunboats have arrived at Koh
si Chang, malting thirteen now there
Negotiations are still going on, but the
prosress is not reported. The inten
tions of tho J- reneli are awaited with
fear and apprehension. Rear Admiral
Humann, commanding the French
qnadron, has issued a second blockade
notice to take effect three days from
raiurday. He will order the British
war ships Pallas and Swift, now lying
tr jiankoK, to go outside the blockade
limits. M. Pavie, the French minister
resident, has gone to Siagou and Rear
Admiral Humann is under direct or
ders from Paris. Unless the French
government interposes quickly an at
t.ick on li.tukok fK-rus certain. The
-.railing community is surprised that
Humann is still allowed a free hand.'
The Standard today received the fol
lowing disp.Uch from its Paris corres
pondent: "Owing to the respresentation
made to M. Develle, the foreign minis
ter, by Lord Dufferin, the British am
bassador to France, the question of the
neutral zone between the French pos
sessions in the the .Siamese peninsula
and British Lurmah aud the Shan
states has been settled satis facterily.
It has been agree I that the French
blockade of the Siamese coast shall be
raised immediately."
No confirmation of the foregoing has
been received up to a late hour tonight.
It la a Boy.
Atiiens, Aug. 3. The Duchess of
Sparta, the wife of the crown prince of
The Jerarv Wao the Prise.
Chicago, Aug. 4, Chief Buchanan,
in charge of the stock exhibit at the
world's fair, has aunounced the resrli
of the cheese contest which has been
in progress there tor averal week?.
The test is pronounced the most com
plete, most carefully conducted and
the most thourough ever made. The
contest was between thirty-five cows
of the Jersey, Guernsey and Short Horn
breeds each. The result is as follows,
being a decided victory for Jerseys:
Milk ia fifteen days Jerseys, 13,296
pounds, Gruernseys, 10,938; Short Horns
12,18.
Cheese made -Jerseys. 1.451 pounds;
Guernseys, 1,130; Short Horns, 1,077.
Value of the cheese Jerseys. $193.98;
Guernseys 1135.92; Short Horns, $140.14.
Value of whey Jerseys, $9.26; Guern
seys, $7.73; Short Horns, $8.67.
Value of increase in live weight
srseys, 814.72; Guernseys. 827.60:
Short Horns, S31.91
Total values-Jerseys, $217.96; Guern
seys, $164.55; Short Horns. $180.72. De
ducting cost of feed. Jerseys, $98.14;
Guernseys, $76.28; Short Horns, 99 36.
ftet proht in fifteen days Jerseys
$119.82; Guernseys, $88.30; Short Horns
881.36.
The award for the best breed and cow
goes to the Jerseys, Ida Marigold.
owned by C. A. Sweet of Buffalo, N.
Y; the second to the Jersey. Merry
Maiden, owned by O. &C. E. Graves
of Maitland, Mo.; third to the Jersey,
iauj Martin, owned by M. C Camp-
ueu or spring Hill, Tenn.; the fourth
to the Jersey, Signals Queen, owned
by Frank Eno, Pine Plains, NL Y.; the
aim 10 me fchort Horn, Nora, owned
by Daniel Sheehan of Osage, Ia. The
tour next best were Jerseys.
Electric Light Trouble.
New Yokk, Aug. 4. -In the United
states court Judge Lacombe in refus
ing to grant a preliminary injunction
in lavor of the Edison Electric Light
company against the United States
Electric Light company said it an-
peareaxo mm Wat the Edison people
Intended to hold its recently patented
incandescent lamp as a whip over ail
the people in the electric light business
latne United States.
mother words they mean that.no
one should co into the electric huh
oueiness without using that particular
lamp ana if their plant was furnished
Dy another concern, in order to do
business and use the .lamp in question
tney must tear out the entire plant and
put in a new one. He did not think
this fair and orders a peremptory ad
journment until the term following.
World'a Fllr Directors 11,-sponsible
Chicago, Aug. 4. Jmige Stein, in
superior court, decided the World's Fair
directors and otflcers directly responsi
Die for closing the gates on Sunday
July za, and violated the injunction
previously issued by him on the ground
that J ackson park is a public recreation
ground and the people could not be ex
cluded, and they have been cited for
contempt in closing the gates. He
ordered Directors Gage, Hutchinson
Horton, McNalley and Kerfoot to be
fined 81,000 each. Director Lawson re
ceived a fine of 8300 on the ground that
they voted to close in belief that the in
junction had elapsed; Director-General
Davis, 250. President Ilieinbotham
and National Commissioners Mossev.
St. Clair and Forbes were discharged
on the ground that they merely carried
out the directions of the management,
1 he attorney for the fair prayed for
an appeal from the decision.
At the conclusion of the arguments
J udge btein granted an appeal. Peud
ing the hearing in the higher court
however, the parties were required to
give bonds to obey ths instructions.
A Novl Legal Decnment.
Levenwoiitii, Kan., Aug. 4 Prob
ably the most novel legal document
ever made a matter of public record in
Kansas was an action in which Francis
Xavier Kummerle, a veteran eighty
years old is plainitff and the western
branch of the national soldiers' home
is defendant.
The suit which was filed in the 81s.
trict court this afternoon is brought to
recover $386,226,33, which Kummerle
alleges to be due him from the home
for various causes. The petition is a
model of neatnese, covering fifty-live
closely written sheets of foolscaps and
is teeming with railery and caustic
sentences. It sums the matter up thus:
For imposition, fraudextortion, in-,
solence, arrogance, robbery, oppression,
expulsion and libelous slander i 19,130;
for defamation of personal property.
300,050; for attack for por poses of edu
cation, 866.796.33 total $280,229,33.
Kummerle entered the home May 28.
1888, and was dishonorably discharged
with cause, he alleges, October 26, 1892
He produced gold in abundance as
security for the costs.
Amerelaa Stocks Better.
London, Aug. 4 Stocks are quiet
and steady, with American bi t It.
The Bank of England advances the
rate of discount to. The propor
tion of the bank's reserve to its
or. a. & .....i it.. .
Iwes ern man, j
eveJWlli which both men en
ne or the other failed to start
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ipen, won Dy Sanger of Mdwau.
Time, .30 t-fi
LADY MAJENOIE
CnAPTER xxv.
The little party of English made thoir
way to the room in which the concei t
was to be hold, about half -past eight.
They had to cross part of the garden,
for the large room of the Kurhaus was
tho plaoe chosen for tho evening's
amusement.
Lady Armine took Dita's arm, and
began asking her kindly about Nannie,
whom she had thought to be looking
rather frail during tho last two days.
Jack and Mildred walked together,
and the schoolroom party followed.
The room was half full: tho courier
had secured two rows of seats, rather
in the background, where the music
would be best heard.
There were several children present,
and in one of the foremost chairs sat
Dick's little foe, Mademoiselle Her
mine. Dick saw her at once, but his atten
tion was taken up by a fat little King
Charles, that lay by its mistress, pant
ing asthmatically.
"It is a civil little dog.Milly'hesaid,
in a loud whisper, "but it does not
speak English; komm hier," headded,
insinuatingly; but as it only curled up
its face, and showed its gleaming white
teeth, he desisted.
"It wants to listen to the music. Oh:
look Mary!" he cried, "there is the
Banshee in a low gown, with bare arms:
is she going to sing?"
There was a general hush of expecta
tion, for tho Banshee was a feminine
pianoforte player, a professional from
the concert rooms of Vienna.
Her long sonata bored Dick almost
beyond endurance. It was a little
hotter when ' a long-haired young
German tenor sang a nlaintivo chanson
d'amour, it ended gracefully on the
minor D, when to every one's horror
Mademoiselle llermmes voice was
raised in a piercing shriek on the E
flat, and the discord made every well
tuned German ear vibrate with 'agony.
The child was carried off by her par
ents, one on each fjido. kissing and ad
dressing her as'-Ma-cherie.mon ange,"
"mais qu'as tuV"
Jack bent down to Dick and baid se
verely, "What did you do?"
"I only just held lip this." answered
Dick, looking unnaturally innocent: and
ha showed his mother's long bonnet
pin concealed in his hands. It was of
course confiscated: and a pale German
girl, a beginner from the Vienna Con
servatoire, sang Brahm's lovely
"Wiegenlied" quite charmingly, and
was very much applauded.
Dita all tho time sat listcnino- ns if
sho was in a dream. The music seemed
to soothe and lull the sort of aching
feeling the constant excitement, of t.hn
day had produced. A few whispered
woras trom JLady Arnimo had told hnr
that Mildred 's fate was now in her own
nanus that permission had been i-ivn
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w di-.uii w iry iiuti win ner.
. j. no inouirnt came l as umr am-nss
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ner, oiu ttiev know that, if she. had Kn
willed it, she might have boon Jack's
who now.' and she was ha f amused.
Would it have boon a happy fate? Her
heart answered "no." as distinctly ns if
um eu tumi'u morions uark
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earnest eyes actually nresent. and tho
constantly varying expression sho knew
so well. When she thought of t.hp
morning's letter, sho felt sho hsul
gainea mucn; she miirht love him now
auo miuut, ten iierseir mat no one
would ever be to her what ho hiid henn-
she might treasure the knowledge now.
i n t . . .
iucnu uu aim Kept, as a nossession for
life. It seemed a little strange to her
w see now quieKlv Jack had been
cured; but sho felt that Mildred might
be well content, for he was strong and
good and brave, and jiossessed a manly
humility and resignation to tho inevit
able. Yes, Mildred would bo very
happy. ,
Mendelssohn's "duet from thn "r.it.
der ohne Worto" began that lovely
speaking and answering of two sad
airs of which so many interpretations
have been made. It wan lienntifniiu
played by the Banshee so beautifully
that the audience encored it, and
broke the spoil. .
'Oh, is it to bo oil over arain?" snirl
Dick, piteously. Jack charitably sui
nlfad him wit.h n. niVr if atinrr 'ru
piled him with a piece of string. Tho
last chords were still soundim?. whnti
there was a little commotion in the
crowd gathered round the door, and
Perdita saw the face of Mrs. Lovr.l's
maid looking anxiously in, yery pale
ana aigiurnoa. &no ntffiped niKnd
touched Andrew, f
"Daddv. biie're is Summers: ehn lnnka
as.iiffhe wanted us. Iam afraid that
mother is not so well!"
"Shall I come with you dear?" said
Lady Armine.
"Oh, . no thanks; it is Very likely
nothing worse than usual. Ploasecome
when the concert is over:" and thoy
went hastily away.
"What is it. Summers?" asked Per
dita, as they reached the Bellevue; for
tho maid had run on without waiting,
and met thnm at the floor of Miti.
Level's room.
"Mrs. Lovol is in a very bud faint,
miss," she- answered. "I w.'iit and
asked Dr. KcIjiHiuis to como in, and
ran to fetch you."
Thoy went in. Nannie, was in a
death-like luinting fit, ynd nol'i'.ijr
scorned to revive her,
Tho doctor shook head gravely
when Perdita looked ut him. "It is
the beginning of the end," he said to
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S I her in Gen:.
:ti. which Amir, '.v di.i not
lVi-.titafcitusif ht-i- :.t-art
!i it she whs quit-- calm.
If to do v. h:.t the doctor
understand,
would brebk
HtlJ set he;t
told her.
Aft-ra'Kiiit an hour Xunnie open d
her eyes with u liinjr .ft -'t:li. S.ie
was silent, and her eve wand, tvd fiwu
one to another with j wrali ris;,
scarcely -ni.-eioi.s exprenior..
'Her strength is at its lowest el.'i,"
whispered the doctor. "Yoii must try
to set it up hv every means.-'
About helf-psst ten Lady Arniine ; r-
lved. and offered to Slav all u
and offered to Slav all ui" :i
I which they thankfully accepted. J no
doctor desired that Summers shouiu go ; ing on tho water; it is so blue, and it
to bed, that there might be one c,t.;te seems as if I must sink; but He is call
fresh in the morning. Andrew s -em-d ing mo, and I must go."
thoroughly stunned: ho said nothing, j "Nannie wifo!''cried Andrew, "wait
but sat holding Xannie's hand in his. for me! a little while!"
and looking at her without moving,! "I cannot wait," she said, slowly; "I
and they let him stay. j seo Ilim on the shore, and voices are
Every now aud thenthedeadlv faint-!
ness came back, terrifying the watch
ers. Perdita felt as if she should not
have known how to bear it without
Lady Aniline's calm experience and
active help, who told her what to do,
and who was full of resource. When
morning dawned they trusted that the
worst was over, for Nannie slept.
Lady Arraino and l'crdita urged
Andrew to follow their example and
go to bed for a few hours, leaving Sum
mers and the doctor both with the pa
tient; and he allowed himself to bo per
suaded. Perdita did not wake till two o'clock,
and she found Lady Armine already
back in the Bellevue. Her ladyship
would not let her return until she had
eaten something, and made Mildred
see that she did so,
Nannie's condition appeared to have
changed; there was a pink flush on her
cheeks, and a light in her blue eyes
and she seemed to be wandering. It
was piteous to seo how Andrew seemed
in that ono night to have become quite
an old man, looking helplessly front'
Perdita to Lady Armine for comfort
I and encouragement. The doctor said
that nothing more could be done but to ;
watch for every change. Her vmlso I
was fast and irttermittant, Hnd she was
not conscious.
They sat by her all the day, fore
stalling with strong restoratives the
tendency to fainting. In the evening
they were startled to hearing her say,
almost in her natural voice. "Andy, are
von there?"
"Yes, wife. 1 am holding your hand."
"I have asked mother, 'honey, and
she says we may walk together after
church, and take the children after
blackberries; there are so many jthis
year by Goodman's stile. Daisy does
nothing but low all day, and I cannot
make her happy: she had better
back to the islands."
go
"She is wandering," said
mino, softly.
Lady Ar-
"She is living again in the past," said
Andrew dreamily. "Nannie, wife,
Daisy died long ago."
"I remember, "she said, "I was mak
ing a cowslip ball, for tho wine was
finished, and mother gavo me tho rest
of the flowers, I remember Daisy would
not touch her food, and I gavo her tho
cowslip ball, and she ate that "and she
laughed faintly.
"Those were bright days, Nannie,"
murmured Andrew.
"It is very pretty, Andy," she went
on, her eyes wandering around. "And
iu is iiko j on to have filled that jug
with wallflowers. I shall get used to
town after a bit. Let me put out moth
er s loaf, nothing so pure as home-made
bread in London."
"You weVe happy, wife?"
"Oh yes, I'll be hiirrnv ofto,.
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but it comes strange when you've been
used to the country; and you'll put up
with mo if I am dazed-liked at first1"
'I was not patient enough, Nannie "
Never say that, honey. I am not
clover I can t always understand what
yon say, but you aro rarely good to me,
and I would not have cried over a hasty
word if I had not been so muddled to
day, l am a silly and ignorant body
for you to love, Andy." s
"No, dear, dear, wifo."
Still her fancy went wandering on
sometimes ahe was walking in tho lanes
with her clover young London lover,
sometimes fretting over tho blacks that
would sully tho white curtains sho
prized Aud so for three days it went
on, Andrew always sitting by her. and
answering as though ho sfiared and
followed her thoughts in a very stran-o
way. Ono day was very sad- she
thought she hefd her littlechild in her
arms, and rocked it, and spoke to it as
though it lived, and then hold it dead
to her breast, and fouo-ht. ti,f
work she reneated oimni
hymns ono after anot.W
village
And there was nothW t i a
nature had broken rtn:,r.rc!
Jy the waiting till tho feeble light
should flicker out. K
Mildred came one morning to the
door of the chalet and knocked viv
.iiy. i-erdita camo out. l(mUn
j. oavo canoci WTjtUi, mamma is
comma-, and nh Ui,'TrrS-rT:,i,4!i4"-l
1T 1 i. .
out for a little while w th me Dita""
8h,1l Lona'tely.
- ., ... ww.u, uiutnur is very oulot
now, and Summers is with hen TiUnk
yon, dear Milly, it will do me goodV'
one weni lor ner hat, and thev
walked together up into the wood, and
sat down on a bencli. It was very hot.
but a gentle breeze played among the
trees, and brought a sweet scent of
syringa on the air.
A memory of what scorned long ago
fhishod across Dita. and ah i.?,i,?j
looked
round at
her comnanion.
Mildred's
grave sweet face was full of thought
"Dear Mildred." nu. ."Al..
u ,v.n I ""y i auer that
it was always the same soft babbling
of green fie ds and ni ,... " '?
all settled now?" ' "
"Ididnotlikoto disturb you with
niy happlnoss,.'she answored, kissing
"I am so glad, so wry gkd," said
Perdfta. "You will be verv .
Milly;endl " '
The words escaped lnvoluatArTry, bat
Mildred did not hear them.
The two girls waadaredoa; tbe wood
was alive with ineect-life; the birds
Ban?, the grass-hoppers kept up their
merry chirp. Ther stood for a moment
over a tiny pond, bait choked with its
growth of tangled wstr-lilies; the
fni-s croaked hoarsely; and great
dragon-flies whirred peat, their steel
like bodies gleaming in the sun.
Then l'erdita turned from this world
of lijrht and love, and went back to the
monotonous pain of watching that life,
so dearly loved, wane slowly.
; -N'iffht erne, and Nannie's voice
j ceased, ani nho liecame very still.
I Lady Armine, very tired, had gone
i home to ret, leaving Perdita and An
i drew that night-watch. For the last
i two nights Andrew had refused to
; leave his wife.
i Eleven o'clock etruck twelve and
! she still seemed to sleep. The lamp
; was b:irnitir very low, and Dita went
softly to trim it.
There waa a slight movement; Nan
' use's white hand, groping outeide the
', sheets, till it met Andrew's, and there
I rested. Presently she spoke, and her
faint whisper sounded clearly: "Andy,
some one told me that there were crim
son oleanders on tie shores of the Lake
of (iennesarot, where Uhe Saviour is
waning u) neui me sick, i no sun is
setting, and He bids me go to Him walk-
bidding m5 come. Good-by, honey
good-by!"
Perdita and Andrew bent over her
in terror. Sho murmured something
about the. lK-autiful crimson flowers
then suddenly a light came into her
eyes, us if a flash of returning con
sciousness. Her voice was very feeble
now.
"Andrew, sweetheart, I am going
fast."
"Nannie, darling Nannie, have pity;
do not go."
"Ki.su me, Dita, darling! Go leave
mo with him now."
Solemnly Perdita bent down, 'and
gave a long utill kiss, then sho stole
away.
"Open tho window, Andy," gasped
tho dying woman. "Give me light
and air!"
He rose to his feet, and drew up tho
wooden blinds; a palo light, half from
the moon, half from the first tinge of
daylight, stolo into the room.
"Andy," sho said, her worhs coming
slowly, "it is hard to part."
"I cannot let you go," he moaned.
"Nothing but death could part us
two, Andy." Sho out her feeble h.nd
on his lwwed neck "hold me in your
arms there, closely, closer still raise
me. e aro together still. Look out
tnere, when all is over, you will see the
sun rise up again, and the world go on
as if I was with vou with vou stilL"
"And I, Nannie! I?" "
"Come soon."
Tho pale light flooded into the room,
the night-lamp flickered up and went
out suddenly, and there was perfect
silence.
Perdita had awakened Summers, and
they had sent for tho doctor, for her
heart told her that the end was near;
and when they heard no sound, they
waited a while, and then went in.
All was dim, and tho doctor hastily
stepped back and brought a light.
Nannie was lying with her sweet lace
looking toward the window, and Ad
drow with his arms still round her, as
he had laid down, and his head was
buried on the pillow.
Ho rose up when they spoke to him,
with a smilo on his face, and let Per
dita tako his hand.
"Sho has gone before," hesaid, "but
only for a little-while." And she led
him away.
TO BE CONTINUED.
How "Tamales" Are Made.
There are no hot-corn men in the
streets of Sau Francisco at night, but
instead, a number of picturesquely clad
Spaniards who liasvfe n micar rfilo .
food, locally known as "tamales." The
men take their stands punctually at
half past 8 o'clock in the evening and
remain until midnight. One of them
thus describes the manufacture of their
merchandise: "To make tamales, we
taken a chicken and boil it. When it is
cold we cut it up as they do meat to
make Hamburg steak. Then we take
coin husks and dip them into cold
water. The next step is to grind the
corn. Then we grind fine some Chili
peppers and stew with a little flour and
lard to confer flavor, and after a little,
take it off and let it cool. The corn
husks being all ready, and tb meal
made into a thick paste, we take a pieoe
of chicken, two olives, a tablespoonfol
of pepper, and some meal and arrange
it mi a husk. Then we take a knife
and, as ono butters bread, spread the
meal paste on other husks and finally
wrap oneJiusk so prepared aroriad the
m, ..u ana Keep on until the tamales
are as big as an ear of corn, when we
tie the ends and middle with a narrow
piece of husk and it is done. As soon
as enough tamales are made they are
placed in an oven and steamed until it
is time to take them down town. For
corn husks I pay $7 for six pounds:
chickens cost 95 cents each; olives.
for four gallons; Chili pepj)ers,60eenU
a pound, and corn, $1.95 a sack of 160
pounds. There is 5 per cent profit,
and my sales aro such that I get alow
without other bnsiness. Do yon know
that a tamale will sober up a drunken
man?" ,
Thb trustees of the old part of
ropf of the Basilica of
St, Paul, in Rome, a contemporary re
marks, wore framed so far back as the
year 816, and were found to be perfectly
sound and good in 1814, after he lapse
nearly a U.onsand "ear. These
trusses are made of fir" The timber
!rk ,of the external domes of the ',
St" St- Mark, in Venie UmoTe
than 840 years old, and it is still ia a
good state of preservation. Timber
under favorable oiroumstanoss lasts
are dug out of bogs from time to time
!nd?flteSl,,0Tbwl'ator"
It is well enough to be risk, tat to
parade your riches is oratesBSCj A
man may be proud of bis kswe tat It S
not necessary to rids o s f.;-r.
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