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V xt/ tKe Fowler's . f \ By M. B. MANWELL * v 7K % CHAPTER X. ( Continued. ) "Better send the young people to bed , it Is now daylight almost , " sug gested the aiders , and they carefully avoided looking at each other. That some terrible calamity had 'happened even Lady Jane , whoso flrst fear had been that ttie bride had run away , was fully convinced. "But , Leila , you will stay by me ? " quavered the mistress of the house , suddenly transformed into a broken- down old woman. , "I will , dear aunty , " gravely said Leila. "I shall see little Syb safe in bed , then I shall return to you. " , Leila Desmond , slenderly graceful , soft and caressing , womanly to the finger-tips , was yet one of those loyal , strong natures we turn to lean upon in the "day of trouble. " Gervis gave her one look of rever ence , then he placed his arm round that mother for wnom he and this "perfect woman , nobly planned" had sacrificed themselves so fatally. Every hour was bringing home to him the terrible blunder ho had made in his life. Love between man and woman was God-given , to be prized as sacred ; but under the specious pre text of sacrificing himself for the good of his house , he had torn love from his heart , and then sold that empty shell for gold. That it had been a bit ter , sinful bargain he now knew. Perhaps this impending calamity which he was helplessly waiting for the new day to discover might be 'heaven's ' punishment for what he had done. It was still and quiet in the old house. There was a lull of expectancy until the daylight should come to al low action to be resumed. In Leila's room it was silent as the grave. Beside the whke-draperied bed knelt Leila herself. She was praying , with frightened tears now no one was by to see them praying earnestly for the hapless girl who had shadowed her life. life.That That something dire had happened Leila instinctively knew ; but all she could do was to pray for help from above. "Leila ! Sis ! " A hoarse , shrill voice made her spring to her feet. Close at her side stood Syb , shiver ing in her little blue dressing-gown , her face working convulsively. " ' it from longer "I can't keep you any er ! I dare not , though I do hate her so ! " the deformed girl was saying , her teeth chattering as much , from terror as from cold. "Speak , Syb ! " Leila grioped the thin wrist , her breath coming thick and fast. Syb knew , then ! "I heard a cry , a smothered scream from the old oak chest , as I walked round the gallery ; but I hated her so that I would not speak before ! And when I saw you , through the open door between our rooms , praying with sobs. I knew it must be for her. So I must tell , and you'd better be quick ! " Syb slipped to the floor in a swoon. But Leila was already gone. With , flying feet she was rushing downstairs from the third floor , where her bed room and Syb's were. "Gervis ! Gervis ! Come , and come quickly ! Bring Barnes ! " When she had reached the gallery she shrieked loudly. Her voice , sharp with fear , rang through the old house and made Gervis leap to his feet. "It's Leila ! She has found out some thing ! Mother dear , stay here , I pray you ! " He pressed Lady Jane back on her seat. "No one knows what we have got to face ! " "Bring Barnes ! Oh , be quick ! " Le ila's voice cried again in an agony of haste. Barnes , the white-haired old butler , was stiff and rheumatic. It seemed as though he would never reach the top of the wide , crimson-covered stair case , and yet the old man was doing his best , though Gervis would fain have dragged him up two steps at a time. "Where are you , Leila ? " he hoarsely shouted. "Here ! here ! Quick ! " Round the curve of the gallery they found Leila , tearing frantically the holly and moss decorations from what had been a bank of greenery. The blood was trickling down her hands and wrists , as the holly tore them cruelly. But , unconscious of pain , Leila continued to pull , until the old black-oak chest , which had been the foundation of the green bank , was displayed. "Press the spring , Barnes ! Nobody in Temple-Dene knows the secret but you. Press , for Gladdy's dear sake ! " panted the girl , madly beside herself. "Whatever " Barnes was begin ning , and -fumbling with his specta cles. cles."Man , do as you're bid ! " shouted Gervis , catching the infection of Le ila's frenzy. And he dragged Barnes forward. Something in his blazing eyes made the old man pull himself together. He stooped forward. With shaking hands , he felt along the carvings ; but how slow hewas ! The watchers caught their breaths and shivered. ' "TIs in the shamrock , I do mind me. 'Tis b'und to be in the sham rock , the spring , " he was muttering. In an instant I sila was on her 4 ft * ft * ft * ft * ft * ft * ft * ft * ft * ftft * knees , and there , among the carved leaves and flowers of oak , was a single- dainty anamrock. It was the spring ! Pressing it hard as she could , the carved lid clicked as it opened about an inch. Then Gervis , with strong arms , forced it back on its hinges , and a muffled cry broke from his lips. CHAPTER XI. Lying huddled In the musty chest was a little figure in gleaming silver brocade , stained here and there with bunches of crushed holly berries. It waa Gladdy , stiffened and immov able , but with widely opened , round blue eyes. That she was dead was the flrnt muttered thought of both Gervis and Leila. "No ! 'Tain't death ! " quickly said old Barnes , glancing at their white faces. "See ye , Mr. Gervis , there's a row of air-holes down each side o' the chest. I saw 'em made myself In the old squire's time , purpose-like , in case o' this very kind o' thing that's hap pened now ! " But Gervis was not listening. He and others who had rushed to the gal lery were carefully lifting the small , stiffened form. A mounted groom had already been dispatched for a doctor. "But something must be done at once , " said Gervis , as they laid the unconscious girl on an Indian rug on the polished floor of the gallery. Somebody was trying to force brandy through the marble white lips. "Not a drop will go down ! What are we to do until the doctor comes ? " piteously cried Leila , who , kneeling down , had slipped her arm under the little sunny-brown head. "Fetch Mr. Ansdell ! " commanded Gervis , with a sudden inspiration. Surely the American could give some help in the pressing emergency , other wise , what was the value of his so- called scientific reputation ? Mr. Ansdell ! Everybody , then re membered that , oddly enough , the sci entist had not been once seen during the hours of anxious search. It was curious , to say the least of it. And still more curious did it appear that no Mr. Ansdell hurried to the gallery in answer to the summons. "Never mind , here's young Doctor Goring himself , which is better , " ejac ulated Lady Jane , who had struggled upstairs more dead than alive from sheer fright , and looked on helplessly. "It's a trance ! " at last pronounced the doctor , a young man , with all the latest medical and scientific theories at his finger-ends. "She has been hypnotized ! Who has done this mis chief ? " He stood up and glanced round upon the awe-struck group sternly. There was no answer , and Doctor Goring went on wrathfully : "Somebody "has got to answer for this night's work ! The poor young lady has been brought to death's door , evidently , by some vile experiment Now , then , clear out of this every one of you ! Excuse my bluntness , Lady Jane , but this is not a moment for po lite speech. I've got a life to win back if I can , and I can't have a crowd round me. Your ladyship can remain , and , yes , I must have Miss Desmond , if I've anybody. " One by one the spectators departed from the gallery , and the young med ical enthusiast set to work , with the result that in a quarter of an hour Gladdy feebly opened her lips and spoke. "I want Leila , " was the whisper. And when she saw that it was Leila herself who was supporting her head the bride's round eyes closed content edly. "She will sleep now. We must carry her to her bed , " said Doctor Goring , well satisfied. "You are wanted , sir , at once , " came an urgent whisper ; while Gervis , lift ing his wife in his arms , carried her away. "What ! another case ? " The doctor wheeled around , and he was silently beckoned to the quarter of the house known p ' -.e bachelors' wing. Lyin uack in his chair in front oi a writing table , and grasping a folded paper , was a dead man. The room was in perfect order. There had been no assault , no murder , nc suicide , so far as one could judge at the moment. But that death had entered the half- open stare of the black eyes , the dropped jaw , and the marble hue oi the long , lean fingers gripping the sheet of paper spoke all too clearly. Little wonder that Paul Ansdell had failed to join in the search for the missing bride , failed to obey the sum mons for his helpful skill. "He has been dead quite a couple of hours , " said Doctor Goring gravely , secretly wondering what would be the outcome of this double tragedy. "You must keep this business from the ladies as long as you can , " he said , turning to Gervis , who had been hast ily sent for. "There must be an in quest , of course ; and , meantime , 1 should take possession of that folded paper. See , I've managed not to tear it You'd best lock it away until you hand it to the coroner , Mr. Temple- ton. " "Why , " gasped Gervis , as he caught sight of the close , upright handwrit ing , "my wife wrote that ! What vil- lamy is this ? See here ! " "It was the last will and testament of Gladys Ternpleton , and , in correct legal form it assigned everything the testator possessed to Paul Ansdell of Montreal , revoking all fprmer wills and 'odicils. The document was duly ligned , and the signatures and ad- Iresses of two Americans were append ed. Not a flaw was there from beginning to end of the deed. "You hold the key that unlocks the whole of this night's mystery , " briefly mid the young doctor. "This unfortu- late man must be a reckless adven- , urer , whose wits have put in his lands a most dangerous weapon. HP s , we will discover , a criminal hypno tist , a so-called scientist , seeking some v.ool to further his own ends. Yes , yes ; you'll see we'll find out that's what he is was , I mean , " said the medical man. He was right In his surmise , as the Inquest brought out , bit by bit , partly from papers belonging to the dead man , partly from the unwilling evi dence of Gladdy , who had been more or less under hypnotic influence since the night of the fire in the snow-shed. As for the villain's own death , it was proved to be from natural causes , and due to long-standing heart disease , that caused a breakdown at the cru cial moment of his career. But the jury's verdict was the popu lar one "By the visitation of God. " Five years have passed away. So many changes have happened to Temple-Dene and the Templetons ithat Lady Jane has come to look back upon the days , when she wore faded silka and lived a sorely pinched life as the happiest she has known. Today she no longer wears her fa vorite blue , for Francis Templeton has gone to his grave , his heart eaten out by the melancholy nothing would dis pel. pel.So So Lady Jane wears widow's weeds and has learnt the old lesson Ifcst "contentment is great gain. " The dainty American bride , so fra gile and highly strung , never managed to weather the repeated shocks to her frail system. Like a broken flower she withered , until decline set in. In Leila's tender , supporting arms , her weak hands clinging tight round Leila's soft throat , Gladdy died peace fully. "Take care of my Gervis , Leila. You will do it better than I , " with the won drous intuition of the dying she whis pered at the last. And now that the years have gone round , Gervis begins to think it is time Leila was taking care of him. Between the two there is a perfect understanding , and by and by their wedding bells will ring out ; for though "sorrow endureth for the night , joy is bound to come in the morning. " ( The End. ) CHILD POLITICS. The "Junior Republics" Alarm tlio City of Datrcit. Detroit is learning that the "junior republics" established in the various schools of the city , whick at first thought was a fine thing , is having evil results. The mayor protests and shows a condition that is hardly bene ficial. The citizens of these junior r&- publics , for example , ballotted recently on such questions as these : Do you favor city ownership of the street rail way system at the appraised value of § 17,500,000 ? Do you favor the appro priation of $150,000 for the erection of another high school building ? Do you favor expansion ? ( this involving a discussion of the Philippine ques tion. ) But more than this the "junior citizens" developed so rapidly as to become lobbyists. Children were ask ed to interview aldermen or school inspectors specters to urge appropriations for schools. In short , the junior repuhlics did1 not confine themselves to theory , but got into practical politics with a unanimity and dispatch that was something appalling. * The Detroit Free Press protests that innocent chil dren that are already struggling against ninety-nine fads in learning to read , write and cipher , ought not to have their heads further muddled by an attempt to master the methods and processes by which the people of the country are governed. Indianapolis News. Food's Lowest Da'lly Cost. By actual experience the Ruskinitea , a colony of socialists near Waycross , Ga. , have demonstrated what is prob ably the lowest possible daily cost of food. They live at an actual cost per capita of less than 10 cents a day. Of course this could not hav e 'been ' ac complished except through co-opera tion. Everything they consume is bought at wholesale in large quantities and is cooked in the community. In the community dining room tables are set for 300 people. Those who do not wish to eat with the crowd are allowed the privilege of purchasing company stores and cooking them at home. j i' Ancient Deed In Philadelphia. The flrst deed conveying property to the proprietor of Pennsylvania , Will iam Penn , is written in old Dutch , and is now preserved in the city hall. The property was what is now known as Lemon hill , including the mansion and the Schuylklll river front , where the old Fairmount waterworks was lo cated. There Penn kept his barge and some rowboats , the barge carrying an admiral's pennant. It is said there is only one man in Philadelphia who can read this deed. It is not work that kills men ; it Is worry. Work is healthy ; you can hardly put more on a man than he can bear. But worry is rust upon the blade. It is not movement that de stroys the machinery , but friction. H. W. Beecher. TALMAGE'S SERMON. i FOR THE WORLD'S DISEN- THRALLMENT. A Sermon Kspeclnlljr Appropriate for the Christmas Benson The Million of th Saviour of the AVorltl I'roof That , God la L.OVC. ( Copyright. 1900 , Louts Klopsch , N. Y. ) Washington , Dec. 23. In this dis course Dr. Talmage describes In a new way the sacrifices made for the world's discnthralment and deliverance. His text is I. John iv. , 16 , "God is love. " Perilous undertaking would It be to attempt a comparison between the at tributes of God. They are not like a mountain range , with here and there a higher peak , nor like the ocean , with here and there a profounder depth. We cann'ot measure Infinities. We would not dare to say whether his omnipo tence , or omniscience , or omnipresence , or Immutability , or wisdom , or justice , or love is the greater attribute , but the one mentioned in my text makes deeper impression upon us than any other. It was evidently a very old man who wrote the chapter from which I take the text. John was not In his dotage , as Prof. Eichhorn assert ed , but you can tell by the repetitions in the epistle and the rambling style and that he called grown people "little children" that the author was probably an octogenarian. Yet Paul , in midlife - life mastering an audience of Athenian critics on Mars hill , said nothing stronger or more important than did the venerable John when he wrote the three words of my text , "God is love. " Indeed the older one gets the more he appreciates this attribute. The harshness and the combatlveness and the severity have gone out of the old man , and he is more lenient and aware of his own faults , is more disposed to make excuses for the faults of others , and he frequently ejaculates , "Poor human nature ! " The young minister preached three sermons on the justice of God and one on the love of God , but when he got old he preached three sermons on the love of God and one on the justice of God. Christ's Descent to Earth. If high Intelligences looked down and saw what was going onthey must have prophesied extermination , complete ex termination , of these offenders of Jeho vah. But no ! Who is that coming out of the throne room of heaven ? Who is that coming out of the palaces of the eternal ? It is the Son of the Emperor of the universe. Down the stairs of the high heavens he comes till he reaches the cold air of a Decem ber night in Palestine and amid the bleatings of sheep and the lowing of cattle and the moaning of camels and the banter of the herdsmen takes his first sleep on earth and for 33 years invites the wandering race to return to God and happiness and heaven. They were the longest 33 years ever known in heaven. Among many high intelligences , what impatience to get him back ! The Infinite Father looked down and saw his Son slapped and spit on and supperless and homeless , and then , amid horrors that made the noonday heavens turn black in the face , his body and soul parted. And all for what ? Why allow the Crown Prince to come on such an errand and endure such Sorrows and die such a death ? It was to invite the human race to put down its antipathies and resistance. It was because "God is love. " Now , there is nothing beautiful in a shipwreck. We go down to look at the battered and split hulk of an old ship on Long Island or New Jersey coast. It excites our interest. We wonder when and how it came ashore and whether it was the recklessness of a pilot or a storm before which nothing could bear up. Human nature wrecked may interest the inhabitants of other worlds as a curiosity , but there is nothing lovely in that which has foundered on the rocks of sin and sorrow. Yet it was in that condition of moral break up that heaven moved to the rescue. It was loveliness hover ing over deformity. It was the life boat putting out into the surf that at tempted its demolition. It was har mony pitying discord. It was a living God putting his arms around a re creant world. Our World's Wickedness. But for this divine feeling I think our world would long ago have been demolished. Just think of the organ ized wickedness of the nations ! See the abominations continental ! Behold the false religions that hoist Moham med and Buddha and Confucius ! Look at the Koran and the Shastra and the Zend-Avesta that would crowd out of the world the Holy Scriptures ! Look at war , digging its trenches for the dead across the hemispheres ! See the great cities , with their holocaust of destroyed manhood and womanhood ! What blasphemies assail the heavens ! What butcheries sicken the centuries ! What processions of crime and atrocity and woe encircle'the globe ! If justice had spoken , it would have said , "The world deserves annihilation , and let annihilation come. " If Immutability had spoken , it would have said : "I have always been opposed to wicked ness and always will be opposed to it. The world is to me an affront infinite , and away with it. " If omniscience had spoken , it would have said : "I have watched that planet with minute and all comprehensive Inspection , and I cannot have the offense longer con tinued. " If truth had spoken , it would have said , "I declare that they who offend the law must go down under the law. " But divine love took a dif ferent view of the world's obduracy and pollution. It said : "I pity all those woes of the earth. I cannot stand hsre and see no assuagement of those sufferings. I will go down and reform the world. I will medicate Its wounds. I will calm Its frenzy. I will wash off its pollution. I 111 become Incarnat ed. T will take on my shoulders and upon my brow and into my heart the consequences of that world's misbe havior. I start now , and between my arrival at Bethlehem and my ascent from Olivet I will weep their tears and suffer their griefs and die their death. Farewell , my throne , my crown , my scepter , my angelic environment , my heaven , till I have finished the work and come back ! " God was never con quered but once , and that was when he was conquered by his own love. "God is love. " Christ the Comforter. If one paragraph of the creed seems to take you , like a child , out of the arms of a father , let the next para graph put you in the arms of a moth er. "As one whom his mother com- forteth , so will I comfort you. " Oh , what a mother we have In God ! And my text Is the lullaby sung to us when we are 111 , or when we are maltreated , or when we are weary , or when wo are trying to do better , or when we are be reft , or when we ourselves He down to the last sleep. We feel the warm cheek of the mother against our cheek , and there sounds in it the hush of many mothers : "God is love. " This was the reason the Bible was written. The world needs no inspired page to tell it that God will chastise sin , for that is proved in the life of many an offender. You can look through the wicket of any prison and see the fact which the world under stood thousands of years before Solo mon wrote it "The way of the trans gressor is hard. " The world needed no Bible to tell It that God Is omnipo tent , for any one who has seen Mont Blanc or Niagara or the Atlantic ocean in a cyclone knows that. The world needed no Bible to tell it of God's wis dom , for everything , from a spider's web to the upholstery of a summer's sunset , from the globe of dcwdrop to the rounding of a world , declares that. But there was one secret about God that was wrapped up in a scroll of parchment , and it staid there until apostollic hand unrolled that scroll , and let out upon the world the start ling fact , which it could never have surmised , never guessed , never expect ed , that he loved our human race so ardently that he 'will pardon sin and subdue the offender with a divine kiss and turn foaming malefactors into worshipers before the throne. Oh , 1 am so glad that the secret is out and that it can never again be veiled ! Tell it to all the sinning , suffering , lying race ; tell it in song and sermon , on canvas , and in marble , on arch and pillar ; tell it all around the earth "God is love. " The Domination of Fear. Notice that the wisest men of the na tions for thousands of years'did not , amid their idolatries , make something to represent this feeling , this emotion. They had a Jove , representing might ; Neptune , the god of the sea ; Minerva , the goddess of wisdom ; Venus , the goddess of base appetite ; Ceres , the goddess of corn , and an Odin , an an Osiris , and a Titan , and a Juggernaut , and whole pantheons of gods and god desses , but no shrine , no carved image , no sculptured form has suggested aged god of pure love. That was beyond human brain. It took a God to think that , a God to project that , a God let down from heaven to achieve that. Fear Is the dominant thought in all false religions. For that the devote-ss cut themselves with lances and swing on iron hooks and fall under wheels and hold up the right arm so long that they cannot take it down. Fear , brut ish fear ! But love is the queen in our religion. For that we build temples. For that we kneel at our altars. For that we contribute our alms. For that martyrs suffered at Brussels market place and at Lucknow and Cawnpur and Pekin. That will yet bejewel the round earth and put it an emerald on the great , warm , throbbing heart of God. Proof That God Is tore. Do you want more proof that "God is love ? " Yea , disinterested love. No compensation for its bestowal. No re ward for its sacrifices. But I call that back. The world did pay him. It paid him on Calvary , paid him with bram bles on the brow and four spikes , twofer for the hands and two for the feet , and one spear for the side near the heart ; paid him in execration ; paid him with straw pillow in a barn and a cross on a hill ; paid him with a third of a cen tury of maltreatment and hardship save one year yea. is paying him yet in rejection of his mission of mercy. Having dethroned other kings , the world would like to dethrone the King of Kings. But he knew what he was coming to when he left the portals of pearl and the land where the sun never goes down. Yes , he knew the world , how cold it is , and knew pain , how sharp it is , and the night , how dark it is , and expiation , how excru ciating it is. Out of vast eternity he looked forward and saw Pilate's crim inal courtroom , and the rocky bluff with three crosses , and the lacerated body in mortuary surroundings , and heard the thunders toll at the funeral of heaven's favorite , and understood that the palaces of eternity would hear the sorrow of a bereft God. What do the Bible and the church liturgies mean when they say , "He de scended into hell ? " They mean that his soul left his sacred body for awhile and went down into the poison of moral night , and swung back its great door , and lifted the chain of captivity , and felt the awful lash that would have come down on the world's back , and wept the tears of an eternal sacrifice , and took the bolt of divine Indigna tion aganst sin into himself , and , hav ing vanquished death and hell , came out and "came up , having achieved an o aternal rescue if wo will accept It. Road It slowly , read It solemnly , road It with tears , "He descended into hell. " He knew what kind of pay ho would et for exchanging celestial splendor for Bethlehem caravansary , and ho ' .lured all and crime , the moat Illus trious example In all the ngcs of dlaln- Kclioliig Hack DUIno Ixivr. Now , the only fair thing for human hearts to do is to echo back that sov ereign love. You and I have stood In mountainous reglous where , uttering one distinct word , the echoes would come back with a resonance startling and captivating , and from all our hearts there should sound unto the heavens responses glorious and long continued. Let the world change Its style of payment for heavenly love. No more payment by lances , by hammers ; no more payment by blows on the cheek and scourging on the bnck. an < l hooting of mobs , but payment In ar dors of soul , in true surrender of heart and love to the God that made us. and the Christ who ransomed us , and the eternal spirit who by regenerating power makes us all over again. Alexander the Great , with his host , was marching on Jerusalem to capture and plunder it. The inhabitants came out , clothed In white , led on by the high priest wearing a miter and glit tering breast plate on which was em blazoned the name of God. and Alex ander , seeing that word , bowed and halted his army , and the city waa saved. And If we have the love of God written In all our hearts and on all our lives and on all our banners at the sight of it the hosts of temptation would fall back , and we would go on from victory unto victory , until we stand in Zion and before God. Leander swam across the Hellespont guided by the light which Hero the fair held from one of her tower windows , and what Ilellesponts of earthly strug gle can we not breast as long as we can see the torch of divine love hold nut from the tower windows of the King ! Let love of God to us and our love to God clasp hands this minute. 0 yo dissatisfied and distressed souls , who roam the world over looking for happiness and finding none , why not try this love of God as a sohico and inspiration and eternal satisfaction ? When a. king was crossing a desert in caravan , no water was to be found , and man and beast were perishing from thirst. Along the way were strewn the bones of caravans that had pro- ceded. There were harts or reindeer in the king's procession , and some oiif knew their keen scent for water and cried out , "Let loose the hurts or rein deer ! " It was done , and no Boonor were these creatures loosenM tlrm they went scurrying in all direct Join looking for water and soon found it. and the king and his caravan Wf-r > saved , and the king wroce on some tablets the words which he had i' * .ul some time before , "As the hart pantfMi after the water brooks , so pantuli my soul after thee. O God. " Some have compared the lov of God to the ocean , but the comparison fails , for the ocaan has a shore , an-l God's love is boundless. But if you insist on comparing the love of God to the ocean , put on that ocean four swift sailing craft , and let one sail to the north , and one to the south , and ono to the east , and one to the west , and let them sail on a thousand years , and after that let thorn all return and some one hail the fie l : and ask them if they have found the shore of God's love , and their four voices would respond : "No shore ! No shore to the ocean of God's mercy ! " FASTEST TRAINS. America Lends the "World In the Matter of Quick Transportation. Statistics recently published reveal some interesting facts regarding the fastest regularly scheduled railroad trains in the leading countries of the world. The United State * ; heads the list with four trains run from Phila delphia to Atlantic City. Two of thes < , running on the Philadelphia and Read ing , attain a speed of 6G.C miles pel- hour for a distance of fifty-five and one-half miles , being the fastest regu lar runs in the world. The two other trains , on the Pennsylvania line , nt" at the rate of 6J.3 miles per hour , the distance over its line being fi ty-nin > miles. The Midi of France , In a rim from Morceaux to Bordeaux , a distance of sixty-seven and three-quarters miles , maintains a speed of Cl 6 rnile per hour. England brings up the rear with two trains , which are scheduled to make the run between Doroheter and Wareham , a distance of only hf- teen miles , at the rate of CO.l mil s per hour. The fastest long-distanco run is made over the Orleans and Mill railway , in France. The run is from Paris to Bayonne , a distance of W1/ ! miles , and is made , including six stops , at the rate of 54.13 miles per hou Then follows the New York Central's empire state express , running from New York to Buffalo , -140 miles , includ ing four stops , at 53.33 miles per hour , and finally again England , with a tram on the Great Northern , running be tween London and Edinburgh , 303MJ miles , at 50.77 miles per hour.- Chicago cage Chronicle. American Honored by Italian KInfi > General W. F. Draper of Milford. Mass. , has received from the king of Italy the grand cordon of the Order of SS. Maurice and Lazare as a token of appreciation of the general's serv ices during his mission in Italy. The grand cordon is one of the highest dec orations conferred by that court. Lord Rosebery's mother , the Duchess of Cleveland , is 81 years old , but in the beat of health. She is one of the most active "woman politicians" of England.
