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'&3 mmmrny i w - VI 3? of the way. Do you want us to ran over those cubs cf yours?" J ' ' mw"""""" L - -.m m. mva-k. m. w wm.TVrj"h W K nHEmflt W A. WWA fell" HOW SEA FIGHTING FOl I l.M is?: IW f- r--'v Mistress Rosemary Allyn By MILUCENT E. MANN Ospfriftit; MM. by I.UCAS-UNOOLNCO. - ? - CHAPTER V Continued. It was bo unusual thing for a huge fellow to be tumbled under the table before his inner man was satisfied; there he at least was out of mischief, for the license was of the free and easy kiad that recks not of the mor row. Indeed they were a rude people. and among them I grew up perhaps as rude ia some things. I had been taught to know my rights and to hold then against all odds. Oae of my earliest recollections was - that I had even as a child presided at these annual feasts and sat at the bead of the table. I bad my two Coasts to say: "God and the right." and "A fair harvest" The men had many. Gil. the heaviest drinker in all Christendom, for the more he drank the whiter and warier he be came, would cry, "The old lord." Noel aot to be outdone e'en before the ale bad. ceased bubbling down their lank throats, or the dripping froth wiped oS their beards, would shout. "The ...young lord." His voice was loud enough to bring the blue vault of heaven down about our ears. Then one and all ringing down the board. flume were not so clean as they might be. for. as I have said, they were a rude people, and those were rude days. But for. all that, we at the Manor house were not common boors, en tirely cut away from the amenities of courtcousness, or the niceties of court life. I spoke French, Spanish and Dutch as my own tcngue. I had also a smattering of Latin. From my father who bad in his, youth served both at Whitehall, and in the palaces c of the Ca.stilian Kings. I had caught a few accomplishments. I could fence with both the broad sword and the rapier. Our wants were few. our family small; a simple household truly. Gil and Noel were factotums of the Ma nor. Master Basil, the chaplain, kept ns in" order. Nance with a maid or 'Now it is out of my two tended to the domestic part. ' I enteied the library it smote me like a sword thrust that in my desire ..-"for enjoyment and London, I had left ."" my lather out of my calculations. I -.never saw him look so ghastly he " deemed strleken with death. "You sent for me, sir?" I softly asked. "Yes," he answered. "At last I have come to a determination I wish you to go to Loudon." "r csiir'i irwinsxl 1w clnfl fnr manv reasons." I said, "but l do not tnius i . ought tb leave you. Are you as well to-day?" '4 "I am a's well as I shall ever be," '. ae replied. "I have something to tell ""- you it is time you should know it iis not pleasant telling, so I shall be as brief as I can, and I beg of you no matter what curiosity you may feel to hold it in check. You see this old .bit of paper?" He picked up from the table at his side a half sheet of paper, yellow with age and held it out to me. He waited with impatience until I had answered ! "Yes." "Take it," he commanded. ' . 1 did -so. "Now it is out of my hands." he muttered, "I may find peace, a little peace, my God, before I die." I felt an overwhelming pity for him rise in my heart. This was my first glimpse of that hideous sore which had festered in my father's brain, and made him what he was an old man. He had been tall and strong even as I. but now his bones seemed but a rack to hang his skin upon, his eyes deep burning wells of thought bitter thought "You may read it but not now," he said. "Hide it away, out of my sight; but as you value my future peace lose it not" I pet It away into an inner pocket "I have brooded over that paper. . God knows, until it has well-nigh driven me crazy," he began in a quieter voice. "That piece of paper wrecked my life. I wish you to ob tain am audience with the King it may be aimcult the name of Waters baa an 111 favor in London but 'thrones the influence of Lord Sand- wick, who is near to him. you will. I thimhv be able to obtain it You will show the naaer to him. It has the F6yal signet attached to it Then will fc know way i tert tung unaries able when he most needed all his friends way I served n man who had right to the throne of Kag- I myself why I left the I loved." He dropped his voice -r -" WJ?' J'JMgy to a whisper. -She haunts me day and night, waking or sleeping. Why. God knows, aaless it be that I wronged her I feel I wronged her. the greatest wrong a man can do n woman I be lieved ia her intdeUty! After the battle at If arsden. where I connived. mar, mace than connived, helped the King to make his escape, feeling that I was aot true to either cause, neith er a Soundhead nor yet a Royalist, I resigned and came here to stay. For the sake of that little incident here is the proof of it Charles IL I think wffl let old scores "be." Be handed me a small Jeweled pin. -Charles L gave R to me with his ww haais. and said when I wished I bac oaly to anient ft to claim what I mill What I choose to tw n- '- illMmiiiB a --- i will Mt affect me I am beyond .that but my obliquity will in time be forgotten." He stopped for a few moments. His face was drawn and grey as a dead man's. .,, "From thejAy who was my wife," he continaeBrif she is alive, you will plead tm forgiveness In behalf of your father a dying man, for I now believe her innocent She will not deny it to me she had a tender heart. So shall the earth rest more lightly on my coffin." I begged to be allowed to stay with him for a time at least; later I could go to London and attend to his com mands. ' But he would not listen to me even became impatient at my persistency. "No. no," he said. "You must go at once tomorrow." He was like a person who, having made up his mind about an affair, the doing of which he has procrastinated from time to time, will have it done at once lest he repent He then talked long and earnestly, as one who gives his last earthly in structions to his heir. When he dis missed me. after saying that Master Basil was making all the arrange ments, so that nothing i-eed interfere with our speedy departure, he was worn and spent with the excitement of the interview. Two hours had not passed I was still talking London, money and horses with Master Basil when .Gil's heavy footsteps were heard coming down the corridor. He, thundered into the room. "Too late, my lord, too late," he cried. "Ah! she has gone?" I asked. "Two hours before I reached the castle," he answered. "She is now on the way to London. Only an old hag is left in custody of the house. There was no paper to be found. We searched every room. The old dame yielded ine up all the information I wanted, readily enough. She was like- hands," he mut tered. a wheel which, started down a steep hill, gains impetus with every turn. They stop tonight at tiie Royal Dog. from there on to London by the river road. Which means that they have gone by the main road, and we shall overtake them somewhere between Epsom and Kingston, probably at one of the inns along there." "Are you sure the old dame was not trying to deceive you?" I asked. "She told her tale as she got it from the jade by rote," he answered. "That being the case, the paper is again in my hands," said I. CHAPTER VI. A Man's Jealousy. The next morning our farewells were made. They were not lingered long o'er, for Lord Waters had aftei our talk taken to his bed. I felt never to leave it alive. Ail petty jealousies between Gil and Noel were forgotten, and they were as demonstrative in their leave taking as two Frenchmen of near kin. Their bickerings were of little depth, both being too closely united in the giving of their best brawn and muscle toward the bettering of the house of Long Haut to be at outs long. Nance toughened pine of an up land growth knotted her brow for a moment as she squeezed forth a tear. She thought it befitted her who had occupied the exalted position of nurse to the one setting forth upon a jour ney to show so much emotion. Indeed, there was an inward re joicing, in spite of the house being of so sad a color, that the young lord was at last to have his fling. Our horses were Flemish mares, chosen for their greatest endurance. Soon we were astride them and gal loping down the steep road. We passed the jutted rock, balanced in such away that it rocked when the lightest wind blew. It had been a feature of the road so long, that no man living could reckon back when it had not been the curiosity of the country side. We passed the gnarled birch tree whose few branches were wide extended, and in the moon light it looked not unlike a monster sentinel. Once Noel's horse had shied there and he, taken unawares, bad been thrown. He lay upon the ground with the breath about knocked out of him. He could never pass it afterwards without giving his horse a vicious kick in memory of his shame, for Gil kept alive his mortification by his trite remarks upon the accident We came to a narrow ledge of the hillside where single file was safest The drooping stones kicked free by the horses' hoofs made a merry sound. We clattered over the little bridge beneath which the water fairly bub bled and sputtered in its fierce de light at being loosened from its win ter fastness. Here the road became freer and mud now mingled with the bowlders. Farther on the horses were pushed together, and they gave a glad whinny. We reached Torralne's hut at the foot of the hill. Here he lived with his buxom wife and nine children, as though he were the keeper of the lane which led to the Manor. He stood oat in the road, surround ed by his brood. They stolidly watched ns and begged with out stretched hands for a coin. -Oat of the way." yelled GIL "out Torraine gave the children cuffs to right and to left. It served two pur poses as veil he threw' it would the old fox! took them from beneath the horses' hoofs and sent my hand iato my pocket Then he held up his scrawny hand demanding attention. We reined up. "If ye need me in that hot bed of hell where ye're a-going," said he, "send word, and Torraine and his jolly boys'U be with ye ere the sun has suak twice behind Black Point." "All right, old fox." answered Gil. "But don't imagine that Torraine and his jolly boys will cut much of a swarth in London town; 'tis not as bare of rapscallions as a lady's hand is of hair." He grinned and called out yet again after wc had started: "Remember, ere the sun has sunk twice back of Black Point Good-by m'lord; good-by old ape." When we reached the selvage of the woods where the huts lay thick est, I saw that there was a crowd of men and women and children awaiting us. They had collected to gether at the foot of one of the bines knowing that we must pass that way. Some one has spread the news of our departure. (To be continued.) SUPER HAD HIS REVENGE. Discharged Actor Spoiled Scene for Frederick Warde. "Did I ever tell you about the time my uncle, the actor, played with Fred erick Warde?" said the sailor. "No," said the druggist. "Well, uncle was a super with Warde, and for drinking too much he got fired. " 'You can go,' Warde says, 'at the end of the week.' "That made uncle mad and. he de cided to have revenge. So on his last night, after' he had got his salary all right, he went on the stage with an egg in his hand. ' "Warde was playin 'Julius Caesar,' and it was in the garden scene, where Brutus that was Warde walked about and shook hands with the vari ous conspirators "Uncle was one of the conspirators, and he held the egg in his right fist. He watched his chance, and when Warde, in a lordly way, went to shake hands with him he dropped the egg in Warde's open palm. "Uncle says he never seen such a surprised look on any one's face as he seen on Warde's then. His hand closed immediately and ho glanced, down at the thing that had been given him. When he found it was an egg he looked more surprised than ever. "He couldn't put no fire into the s'cene after that. He didn't do any more handshakin' for fear he might smash the egg. He kept shiftin' it from one hand to the other, and ycu could hear him cursin' under his breath. "At the end of the scene he rushed into the wings yellin': " 'Where's that infernal Musgrave?' "But Uncle Musgrave, you bet, had skipped." Physician to Blame. Some years ago the inhabitants of S , were moved to pity and charity by the appearance in their streets of a cadaverous-looking man. who turned the handle of a barrel-organ, upon which was prominently displayed a large card bearing the pathetic ap peal: "Six months only to live. Wife and children to provide for." For several weeks the cadaverous one regularly raked in a harvest ol coppers, then he disappeared. Four years later a townsman saw him in a distant city, with the same organ and the same pathetic legend on it. "I saw you with that notice four years ago at S ." said the S man. sternly, pointing to the "six mouth; to live." "Very likely, sir," said the cadaver ous but evidently tough and leathery one, coolly. "I ain't responsible for my medical man's herrors in dog's nosing my complaint." London Tit Bits. The Indifferent Bridegroom. The absence of all conventionalities and restrictions in Labrador is alsc very refreshing. A peripatetic minis ter was called on at a place known as Spotted Islands to marry a couple who were awaiting a chance for the cere mony. The bridegroom was an elder ly man who was a kind of king in the place. When the minister arrived at the island he found all the islanders assembled in the little schoolroom awaiting him. It was not till he ac tually entered the building that he discovered the bride was the deceased wife's sister. This being a forbidden relationship, he refused to proceed, whereupon the intending bridegroom quietly remarked: "Never mind, mis ter. One of these others will do." So, turning to the expectant crowd, he selected a suitable partner, and she being willing, "all went as gayiy as a marriage bell." Dr. Grenfell, in Les lie's Monthly Magazine. Not Continuous Customers. A fraud order has been issued at Washington by the postofnee depart ment against the making of fraudu lent whisky, without a still, at a cost of 25 cents a quart, out of logwood extract, cologne spirits, oil of rye and water. It is said that a mixture of these potables in the right propor tions will produce a reasonable bev erage. Certain it is that "whisky" of this sort can be manufactured very cheaply, and, provided it escapes the payment of any tax, handsome profits can be made on it. Dealers in artifi cial products can make money by their production of such stuff so long as they can find stupid customers, but the consumers have an unpleas ant knack of seeking early graves. New York Idea of Humor. Great jokers they have in New York! An Irish schoolmaster, fresh from county Galway, took several drinks directly after landing from the Ivernia, and started out to see the subway. "Some boys," he informed the judge, "told roe to go downt a sewer and I would find the entrance to the trains. .They even lifted; up the covering and helped- me down. I was trying to the policeman ed me." the .entrance when le down and arrest- "If I let you go rill Ton keep out of the sewere?" asket the magistrate. "Yes, your woi lip, and 111 leave your bad America rhisky alone, too." An Utterly lepelees Case. "Do yon enjoy; classical music!" asked the young "Yes, miss," rox. -I enjoy swered Mr. Cum rery much; bat I never can get oi the Idea that the taaes woald-i tter if they were i:hhhi:h aktuhrauA.L. in v uli v bowmififiiA i b ia a'jmt :i.t' ii , i '-I'm, an. . v . e w,szfzmmz.iA BaemsmmMsz -r . ifXJI mmVMffl. MS Vf I'lil IFJjgNi lU ik WwJl- Jim ANT III a lit WmMMsl WmlWtM The charges on which influential clergymen and laymen of the Prot estant Episcopal church are trying to bring to trial Right Rev. Ethelbert Talbot, bishop of central Pennsylva nia, are in brief as follows: Criminal libel, immorality, .false statements, the circulation of a false and mali cious and defamatory reports, falsify ing, breach of ordination and conse cration vows and conduct unbecoming a bishop. In a statement Herbert Noble, a New York lawyer, representing the presenters in the charge against Bish op Talbot, gave an outline of the course to be followed by his clients in the hearing of the case. Mr. Noble charged that Bishop Talbot "has pur sued Dr. Irvine relentlessly," and then quoted from a decision of the su preme court of Pennsylvania in a suit brought by Dr. Irvine against Bishop Talbot and Mrs. Elliott to this effect: "Undoubtedly defendants combined to prefer charges against Irvine in the church court and acted to support the charges. They wanted him de posed from the ministry. That they also hated him, and by their course possibly gratified - less worthy mo tives than those which prompt a true Christian to action, is of no moment except insofar as it might have af fected their credibility as witnesses before the court which tried him." Mr. Noble denied that Dr. Irvine was deposed for immorality, denied that for twenty years he was under the ban of ecclesiastical discipline, and that ho was ever suspended or inhibited as charged in the Upjohn letter. Referring to a statement in the let tor that eight bishops had held charges against Dr. Irvine, Mr. Noble said the presenters disagree with this, and added that Dr. Irvine denies that Bishop Burgess ever m.ide a charge of any kind against him. as aliened according to a copy of the Upjohn letter. It is made clear from the develop ments that the names of several wom en will be brought into the case. Mr. Noble says Mrs. Elliott, over whose church standing the whole controversy arose, had been pro nounced "excommunicated" by Bishop Talbot "because she had married after having obtained a divorce from her husband on grounds other than adul tery." Continuing, Mr. Noble says that hav ing deposed Irvine from office, this bishop wrote on Jan. 25, 1902, the letter complained of to Rev. Dr. Sam uel Upjohn, and two years after its date sent a copy of this letter to Rev. Dr. John Fulton. The letter referred to as the letter to Dr. Upjohn is signed by "Ethelbert Talbot," and charged Dr. Irvine with immorality. Irvine Talks of the Case. "Can a bishop or ought a bishop write defamatory letters in secret in order to injure any member of the ministry? This is the question which will be decided at the meeting of the board of inquiry," said Dr. Irvine in discussing the charges which" have been made against him. "My reinstatement." continued Dr. Irvine, "is of secondary consideration when contrasted with the above query. Political Boss Left $3,000,000. The late High McLaughlin, so long Democratic boss of Brooklyn, left an estate valued at $3,000,000. which will be equally divided between his widow and his two daughters, Mrs. Laura Roch and Mrs. William Courtenay. Mrs. McLaughlin and William Courte nay have been appointed executors of the estate. Mr. McLaughlin left no will. It was his wish that his wife and children should share his fortune equally. The division will be made by mutual agreement. Hard of Understanding. Queen Victoria was greatly moved on the occasion of the distribution of medals at the close of the Crimean war, but her grief was not apparent to those less sympathetic. "Was the queen touched?" a lady asked Lord Panmure. "Bless my soul, no," was the reply; "she had a brass railing be fore her and no one could touch her!" "I mean was she moved?" the lady continued, and was answered: "Moved? She had no occasion to move." Herrick Also to Practice Law. Judge D. Cady Herrick, the defeat 4 candidate for governor of New York, has made up his mind to join .fudge Parker in the practice of law in New York city. It is understood that he is not to be a partner in any firm. Collides While Crew Prays. The crew of a Dutch ashing vessel which was in a collision in the North sea recently were all down below at prayers whea the disaster occurred. vupnc c Tur ulismr'r cnriAl CTATUiniNft "r I wSsflPmr JZPS 'rZ72Z-j'JT.r.&7T Of course I wish to have this unjust deposition removed, but I wish, also, entirely without malice, to be vindi cated in the sight of God and my friends." Bishop May Not Be Tried. Every one of the six men who live at Huntingdon. Pa., and who are pub lished as having signed the present ment againfct Bishop Ethelbert Tal bot, resulting in Bishop Tuttle calling a court of inquiry, repudiates his sig nature. This vitiates the present ment, as the canens require that at least three of the presenters must live in the diocese of the accused bishop. Not only are signatures repudiated, brtt two of the leading residents of Huntingdon mentioned as presenters John Lansdou and James Bei.i thorne are decidedly opposed to hav ing Bishop Talbot placed on trial. In fact. thy have much sympathy for Bishop Talbot, although Mr. Langdon at lea-t believes the trouble might have bron satisfactorily settled long ago had the bishop cooperated with the vestrymen of St. John's church. Much surprise was expressed by the six men whose names figure as presenters when they saw that they were published as being responsible for having Bishop Talbot threatened with trial before a court of inquiry. Dr. Irvine at Quincy, III. After twenty years the contents of the verdict in the diocesan trial of the Rev. Ingram N. W. Irvine, who was then dean of the Cathedral of St. John in Quincy. III., has been made public in its entirety, although it had remained pigeonholed during all that time, because of an understanding based en the condition that Irvine would not appeal from the court's de cision suspending him from the min istry for one year. The verdict found Irvine guilty of eleven out of twenty specifications which were embraced in the general charges of suggestion of what is false, suppression of truth, intention to de ceive, falsification of an official docu ment, falsehood, false swearing and lascivious conduct. The specifications on which he was found guilty covered all of these gen eral charges, and Irvine was suspend ed from the ministry for one year. He remained for several months after ward in the city, attempted to estab lish au independent church, and held a few meetings in the opera house. wv Ancient Forks. A London jeweler has made a col lection of ancient forks used in Eng land, which show some little known facts about the table manners of a few centuries ago. The forks, which are of solid silver, date from .he six teenth century. In many cases the designs in all this time have scarcely varied in any detail, and the forks look like those which might be bought to-day. The old forks were a great luxury in their time and were only used by the aristocracy. Herbert Gladstone an Athlete. Herbert Gladstone, son of the fa mous English statesman and himself a man of note in public life. Is about 5 feet 7 inches tall, and with his ex tremely boyish face might well be taken for a man of less powerful phy sique than he really is. As a matter oi fact, he is a very powerful and a very muscular man, and is able to do great fes's m athletics when he likes. He inherits his strength from both his parents. They both lived almost to 90. Defied Old Age to the Last. Dying at the age of 93, James P. Smith of Alameda, the oldest surviv ing member of the Society of Cali fornia Pioneers, said to his doctor: "Don't let them say I died of old age. Put it down to something else. Old age has not conquered me." The death certificate said it was pneu monia. Russian Edition cf the Koran. A Russian publishing house is pro ducing an art edition of the Koran. performed a couple of marriages, and other priestly functions in defiance of the decision of the diocesan court, but fiinally gave up and went East. The most serious charge against Ir vine was made by Miss Maria W. Sea body, a young woman with whose family he had become acquainted in Long Island City, where Irvine was once connected with St. James chtirch. On Aug. 25, 1SS4. she was married to J. J. Miller, organist of the Cathe dral of St. John in Quincy, III., and two weeks later told her husband of Irvine's alleged conduct toward her while in his home. Miller caused his wife to write a statement to the bish op, and this, coupled with other al leged reasons, caused him to ask Ir vine to leave the ministry. Irvine re fused and the trial followed. At the trial Mrs. Miller testified at length. The verdict of the diocesan court found the following on the specification relative to alleged "las civious conduct, lustful actions, and attempts," covering a period from May 1, 1883, to July, 1884: "Guilty as charged." Mrs. Elliott Defies Her Enemies. "Bishop Talbot is a good, honorable man and I am his friend. I want the world to know the truth and nothing but the truth. I shall be pleased if the newspapers will contradict the cruel things that have been published about my relations with the bishop, and will show, in his true light, the man who has made such outrageous insinuations." Mrs. Emma Desha Elliott in her home at Huntingdon. Pa., made this statement in reference to her connec tion with the controversy between Bishop Ethel! ort Talbot and the Rev. Dr. I. N. W. Irvine. "I want to defend the bishop." she continued. "I am only a woman, and an old one at that. Why, I even stood as godmother to the daughter of the man who is now making my life one of misery. I have three grown-up sons and they and the good people of Hunt ingdon are ready to defend my honor. "Could one innocent of such un truths as have been laid at my door have a better and grander defense? My husband is with me. I've every thing to make me strong and brave, but when scandal knocks at one's door it seems as if the world were trem bling." Career of Mrs. Elliott. Mrs. Emma D. Elliott, one of the' central figures in the Talbot-Irvine sensation, has had a varied social and matrimonial career. She is 60 years of age, is the daughter of Gen. Desha of Alabama and a half-sister of Mrs. Oliver H. P. Belmont. Thirty-five years ago she was an acknowledged belle of 'Newport and other society centers, and later as the brilliant Mrs. Cochrane she reigned in the high so ciety of Philadelphia. Still later, as Mrs. Coolidge. she was a welcome member of the New York exclusive set. It is said that she was divorced from her first two husbands and that later her last husband. Alexander El liott, was divorced from his first wife. It was this divorce, on the grounds of desertion, that led to the refusal of the communion to Mrs. Elliott by the Rev. I. N. W. Irvine and to the scandal following. fWWWWSAAMVM Col. Greene Adds to Interests. Col. Willi :n C. Green, president of tho Greene Consolidated Copper com pany and other corporations, defter of the redoubtable Lawson of Boston and in his earlier days hero of encounters with sundry "bad men" in the south west, is about to add to his present manifold interests membership in a New York Stock Exchange firm. His partner is to be Bird S. Coler, who is the Stock Exchange member of the house of W. N. Coler & Co., and one of Col. Greene's closest friends. Guard Your Temper. I wouldn't give much for a man that hasn't temper, says D. L. Moody. Steel isn't good for anything if it hasn't got temper. But when temper gets the mastery over me I am its slave and it is a source of weakness. It may be made a great power for good all through my life and help me; or it may become my greatest enemy from within and rob me of power. The current in some rivers is so strong as to make them useless for navigation. Look for Larger Salmon Catch. The restriction that salmon may not be taken from the waters of southeastern Alaska until after July 1 of each year has been removed, and in view of this it is expected that the catch will be very much larger this year than previously. Punish Jap Perjurer. The first Japanese ever brought back under the extradition treaty was sentenced at Honolulu on Dec. 5 to imprisonment for perjury. OF THE CCBJ4A2friO976 Btrct-.azaoo TONNAGE OP PARIS RESUMES OLD GLORY. Session of North vSea Tribunal Re vives Its Diplomatic Prestige The tribunal which is dealing wi the controversy relating to Russia's sinking of English fishing craft in the North sea has just opened at the French capital. Paris is resuming A old glory as the world's political cen ter. It was at Paris that the repre sentatives of the United States and Spain met to settle the issues grow ing out of the war of 1S9S. It seemed just as appropriate a place for the United States and Spain to meet in that juncture as it did in 1S36 for England. Russia. Prussia, Austria. Turkey and the rest of the European powers to deal with the issues grow ing out of the Crimean war. It was at a congress at Paris in 1783 that England recognized United States in dependence. Twenty years earlier a treaty of Paris brought the seven years' war to an end. Between 17G3 and 1904 more important internation al gatherings have been held at Paris than in all the rest of the world's cap itals. St. Louis Globe Democrat. TO THE LAND OF THE FREE. Table of Immigration Shows Arrival of Millions. A recently published table shows that from 1821 to 1903 (both inclusive) the total number of immigrants was 21.265,723, of whom Europe furnished 93 per cent. Or the total immigra tion into the United States during eighty-five years Germany and the United Kingdom furnished 56 per cent, as follows: Germany. 21 per ceut; Ireland, 19 per cent, and England. Scot land and Wales, 13 per cent. During tho same period Austria-Hungary, Italy ami Russia and Poland furnished 21 per cent, as follows: Austria-Hungary. 7 per cent; Italy, 8 per cent, and Rusisa and Poland. 6 per cent. Of the total immigration in 1903, Ger many and tho United Kingdom fur nished only 12 per cent, while Austria Hungary. Italy and Russia and Poland furnished CS per cent. NEW COMMISSIONER OF LABOR. Charles P. Neill Soon to Succeed Car roll D. Wright. On Feb. 1 Charles P. Neill will suc ceed Carroll D. Wright as commis sioner of lalor. Mr. Neill has ac quired a reputation as a statistician d&S &JVEZIZ and has the confidence of laboring men as well as the administration. Mr. Neill's home is at the capital. He is thoroughly familiar with the work of the bureau. Tuberculosis Infection. Tuberculosis is a house infection. We don't pick it up on the streets as we may pneumonia or smallpox; we never inherit it; seldom is it contract ed from diseased milk or meat. Occa sional contact with a consumptive en dangers no one: the disease is not contagious in that sense. But every house in which an ignorant or care less consumptive has lived and coughed up the deadly bacilli; every close and foul-aired workroom in which he has labored becomes a peril to those who live or work with him or follow after him. McClure's. Railroader to Take High Office. Isaac Thomas Parker, who will soon be inducted into office as lieutenant governor of Delaware, is conductor of a passenger train running between Philadelphia and Delmar, Del. He is already quartermaster general on the staff of the present governor, but this is the first elective office of Import ance to which he has been chosen. Mr. Parker has no idea of resigning his position on the Pennsylvania rail road, but declares that as soon as the legislature adjourns he will be found on his old run as usual. Czar Has Verestchagin's Pictures. It is said that the czar has bought all the paintings of Verestchagin, the great artist who perished in the sink ing of the Petropavlovsk. These paintings are mainly devoted to the horrors of war. Verestchagin entered upon the exposition of war as it ac tually is in the Russo-Turkish conflict of 1877-8. He had the definite pur pose of making the representation so horribly truthful that it should clear from the minds of the people every where the glamor of heroic achieve ment. In Fear of 13 Hoodoo. When the Occidental and Oriental Steamship Company's Gaelic sailed from San Francisco for the orient re cently she carried thirteen passengers and the city government awaits the next news of her with misgivings. New Gem From California. The new California gem, kunrite, Is on show in a Bond street jewelry store. London, and is attracting much attention, particularly on account of its quality of fluore",nce. 0k y -IF IB sUl I marn I - " -r & bt BBsVtI ft fit a Hg IsfaWPsi mfffmWmnffsC "Pgal! mSm? MS ill. -PVtTBnTrm'f bJmngmV 3 Psr-sm-J lK IBLmnCJ mgtm gmammaB flMLg Dtm3b3LMgmM31 ' SgmaHSesaHHR-Mr m - ir "!3mgmflgmm NATIOl COMPARE SNttAMiat4COJ U4JSQI6B aaiis how BwioiNq COOLIES IN SOUTH AFRICA. World Waiting to See How Expert- '" merit Turns Out. Not much has been published of late concerning the employment of coolies in the South African mine. Presum ably it did not prove a telling causo in English parliamentary elections. ,and there seems to be a general feel ing that, now that the coolies have been Imported, people should wait and see how ihe experiment turns out be-' fore making further attacks on it. "Up to the 1st of December more than tp. 300 Chinese had been landed in South Africa for work in the mines. The last shipment was of 2.24. 2.23$ being landed, the remaining eleven having died on the voyage. That would ap pear to be a very large percentage of loss for coolies who are all carefully inspected before their shipment, and who are all men in the prime of life. Some of the tramp steamers that have been engaged in this work, while controlled by certain government reg ulations concerning the carrying of the coolies, must have, in bad weath er, presented a scene below decks that was somewhat reminiscent of the old days of the middle passage. Boston Herald. IN AND OUT OF CABINET. Sensations of Members Well Described by Senator Fester. Postmaster General Wynne, who used to lie a newspaper man in Wash ington, bears his honors with becom ing dignity, but does nut in any way feel uppish over his advancement. The president one day asked him: "How does it feel to attend a cabinet meeting after having spent so much time on the outside trying to find out what occurred at similar gatherings?" "Oh. it is not so much how he feels." said Secretary Wilson, "lis how tho rest of us feel " Wyrne has Irish blood in his veins and ready wit at the tip of his tongiv. He came back in this fashion: "That reminds me of what Secreary Foster said when he took charge of the treasury de partment. I was his private secre tary. One day he remarked to me: 'Wynne, when I first came to Wash ington as a member of the cabinet I gazed in awe at the distinguished men who were my colleagues and won dered how I got there. After I had been in the cabniet three months I wondered how my colleagues got there.' " GET FOOD TO PORT ARTHlR. How Chinese Junks Successfully Elude Blocknders. Tho modium-ieir noithern Chinese junks make fir-t ete-s blockade run ners. They are hii'it very low in tho water, with the docks almost awash when loaded so that onlj the bow md stern um noticeably above the water line. Th are strong. Ilat-lmt-tomed and ot unpainted. dirty wood, with no bright color.? about them. Pro pelled by from t-n to twenty oarsmen, if the sails fail, they yllde through tho water with no noise or smoke, and are very dillicult of detection. IM.Iglng along the shore and among the nu merous islets, whleh extend from the Shan-Tung peninsula across trie mouth of Pe-('he !. gulf, they close ly resemble the low, brown rocks and during the past months hundreds of them have evaded the Japanese watchers and carried tons of fresh provisions ami vegetables to the be leaguered Tort Arthur garrison. Simple Home of Rockefellers. In Mr. Rockefellers home in New York little elfort is made at preten tiousness. There are no elevators, no elaborate system of electric bolls, no frills about anything. Mrs. Rocke feller laboriously limbs the stairs rather than have an elevator put m. Simplicity- and economy sound the keynote. Mrs. Rockefellers kitchen in her New York house would be con sidered extremely old-fa.-hiowii by the standard of her rich neighbors. She does not care much lor the pleas ures of the table. I'lain poking suits her best. Her husband, of course, is most careful of his diet. The list or dishes he is obliged to pas unnoticed would make a very large bill of fare. Mean Fling at Senator Depew. Senator Depew says that the mean est remark he ever heard about him self came from a passenger on a sight seeing automobile in Washington. The automobile was going past tho senator's house in H street. "That tree In the yard, ladies and gentle men." said the megaphone man. "was planted bv Senator Depew himself al most six years ago." "Say." piped up a passenger on the back seat, loud enough to be heard by the senator and his wife, who were standing in front of the house, "I'll bet it's a chestnut." Tamagno Declines Honor. Tamagno. the tenor, has followed the example of Mascagni. the composer, and refused to be nominated as candi date for the Italian parliament. Ta magno has thews and sinews which might have been useful in those per sonal encounters which sometime en liven the tedium of debate tn the leg islature of the I-atin peoples. In hi early days he was a butcher boy. with solid muscles and a taste for gore. But as an operatic hero he is the mild est mannered man who ever handled a "property" sword. Prince Is a Boar Hunter. Boar hunting is the favorite sport of the prince regent of Bavaria. At 'Kohrbrunn he has 1.700 wild boars, about 600 of which are killed each year. It costs the ruler more than $10,000 a year to keep up this pre serve. Russian Deserters in London. Hundreds of Russian deserters have found refuge in London lately. Most of them have taken to the hawkar'a', trade. played by a .or banjo dab."
