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- 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
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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
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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-
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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