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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1892-8-18, Page 2THE HOMESTEAD INQUEST. Mob of 'Three Hundred Attacks Sixty Non-nniou Men. HUGH O'DONELL IN TORONTO. A Pitteburg despatch says: The coroner concluded lak inquest on the seven strikers and three Pinkerton guards, killed during the Homestead riots, yesterday afternoon, and, after being out an hour. the jury re- turned with a vercliet, The returns in the vase of the seven strikers were the same. That of Silas Wain follows,: "Silas Wain, about 24 years old, came to Ms death on Tuesday, July 6th, 1892, about 8.30 o'clock a. m, while in company with others in an unlawful assembly upon the property of Carnegie, 'Phipps as Co, steel workers, 3limin township, to prevent the landing of two model bargee loaded with Pinkerton greards to proteot said property; and he bering struck by a missle from a cannon, which had been taken by mid unlawful as- sembly to the Pittsburg side of the Monon- gahela river, and diseharged by them, stalk- fmg and instantly killing the said Silas Wain; and we recommend that said unlawful assembly be certified to the September session of the grand jury." In the case of the three Pinkerton men the returns were also the same. The one 011 the death of Clonnore reads: "That J. Connors, aged 30 years, came to his death at the West Penn Hospital from hock and exhaustion due to a gunshot wound in the right leg, which severed the femoral artery. The wound was received while in a model barge employed as a Pinkerton guard to guard the property of Carnegie, Phipps at eteel works, and being shot by a ball from an unlawful assemblage which had -assembled on said property to prevent the landing of mid bargee, and we find that the shooting was done by a party or partiee un- known, with felonious intent, and we recommend the said unlawful assemblage be certified to the September session of the grand jury." No attempt was made by the coroner's jury in each of the ten cases to designate the persons by whom the fatal shots were fired, inrtlaer than todeclarethat it was an unlaw- ful assemblage on the Carnegie property which led to the battle. A Pittsburger to -day received a letter from a friend, who is now in Canada, which says that Hugh O'Donnell is in Toronto. A Duquesne, Pa., despatch says: This morning 300 men from Homestead attacked a party of 60 non-union men as they were entering the steel works here to make re- pairs. The mob was armed with clubs and -stones, and in the fight foreman of the mill Stagle and another workman were seriously injured and a dozen others were more or lees hurt. The Sixteenth Regiment is now on the ground, and no more trouble is ap- prehended. Two companies will remain to guard the works. It is stated that all except about 50 of the old men will return to work. BLAKE'S GREAT SPEECH. The Liberal Press Well Pleased with His Utterances. A London cable says: The Hon. Edward 33lake's speech at the Eighty Club yester- day produced a very favorable impression. It had been awaited with great interest loecause of the expectationa aroused by Mr. Rlakes distinguished career in Canada, hia arguments before the law lords and his 5peeehes in Ireland, and it is safe to say at the most sanguine of these anticipa- tions was fulfilled. The speech is highly praised in the Liberal press as well worthy crf the reputation which Mn Blake has gained as a statesman and orator. The Pall Mall Gautte says that one of the most influential among his listeners declared that Mr. Blake had said everything that ought to have been said and nothing that he ought not th have said. This describes admirably the combination of boldness and tact which the speech displayed. The Daily News says that Mr. Blake's grasp of the situation was firm and thor- ough. The Star says that the speech more than fulfilled the expectation of an authori- tative review of the inner working of Home Rule. The Times, however, makes a severe criticism, and says than Mr. Blake has no real acquaintance with the problem he purported to treat of. At the beat he was but humorous in his speech. When Mr. Blake was referring to a possible rejection of the bill by the House of Lords he quoted the proverb: "14 is time enough to bid the devil good -morning when you meet him." THE OATH -TAKING. The Members of the British Commons Sworn in Yesterday. A London cable says: The proceedings of Parliament yesterday were of a routine nature and devoted to swearing in of :members and choosing of seats. When the House adjourned 343 members had been teworn in and had signed the roll. It was a good day's work and was devoid of the imlenanity sometimes associated with the oath -taking. A number of the members :simply affirmed. Several Quakers and Jews took the oath with their hats on. Hardie, the Laborist, walked up the floor of the House keeping his cap 011 until he was ,called to order by the Speaker, when be aeluctantly took it off. He has already acquired in the House the character of a pugnacious lout, but the House has lashed into decorum even worse specimens than be is. Mr. Davitt took the oath without a sign of Conservative protest. The Newcastle 'Unionists have selected a wealthy London merchant, Mn Rani, to contest the seat against Mr. Morley. lir. Bali has consented to run. DEATH AND DESOLATION. Jackals and Hyenas Fatten on the Enbnried Cholnra Victims. A London cable seys : Advices from ,Arabia state that the cholera and famine have depopulated large districts in the Harrar province. Villages are deserted, and no sound is heard in the once populous !Streets except the snarls of hyenas, Jackals and dogs, gorging themselves on the corpses of the dead. The air is polluted with the odor of decaying bodies of the victims. The pits ordidarily used for the storing of millet and maize are now filled with rotting corpses. Tillage is neglected. The country has been reduced to the conditionof a desert. Under the most favorable circumstances it cannot regain its prosperity for several years to come. A Sweet Breath. A lady had just been calling on Katie's Mamma. Katie liked to sit near the caller, whose dreer3 was well -perfumed. Katie had always been very fond of cologne, and when the lady was gone she said to mamma : " How nice her 'dress breathea I" Bank stockholder—See here! late learned that our cashier is living 'way beyond his means. Benk airector—my, my 1 That won't do. We mud give him more ealat7. Of all the methods for capital puniehment the guillotine still takes the head. IllietIODICAL BABIES. A. boy Sutlers Me Fifteenth etecturrenee or laydropitolein Spasms. A Pittsburg cleepatch says : Fifteen years ago this month while playing on the street John Alles, aged 12 years was pounced upon by a large dog. Before Alto could escape the dog tore a piece out of his left leg just above the knee. The boy was laid up for several days with the wound, but it healed up finely and nothing more was thought of it uutil a year afterwards, the day on which the little fellow became sick. As the day wore on he became ex- cited and feverish and could not bear the sight of water and at 4 o'clock, theh our when he had been dtten a year before,he was seized with a terrible epasm. Four men were required to hold hun, while he writhed and barked like a dog and foamed at the mouth. After his strength had been ex- hausted he became unconscious. When he again became conscious he was weak and exhausted, but perfectly rational. Every- thing had been a blank to him from the tirne he had been attacked, and he could not believe the stories that were told of his actions. In a day or two he was as well as ever. Every year afterwards at the flame time Alles suffered a return of the frightful malady, and at each time fully recovered within a few days. As he grew to manhood the attacks became more violent, and it required more force to control him, but otherwise there was no change. He is now undergoing his fourteenth attack, and 12 strong men are insufficient to control him as he writhes in the awful contortions produced by the disease. Alles is a member of a real estate and insurance firm and is now 27 years old. MB. JOHN BLACK DEAD. Mr, Alfred Stroud. of This city, Loses Ills Partner in Liverpool. A cablegram was received in this city yesterday afternoon, announcing the death, in Liverpool, of Mr. John Black, of Fergus, partner of Mr. Alfred Stroud, of this city, in the extensive cattle fattening business in the northwestern part of the city. Just a month ago Mr. Black left this city in charge of a shipment of cattle for London. The following week Mr. Stroud took a second shipment over, going to Liverpool. Mr. Black had disposed of his stook in London and met Mr. Stroud in Liverpool, and the two gentlemen were to have left for home a week ago yesterday. The announcement of Mr. Black's death was a greatsurprise here. No cause is stated. Deceased was in robust health when he left here and felt confident of being very successful with the cattle. The venture did not turn out well, the bottom having fallen out of the market by the time the shipment arrived. Mr. Black was one of the pioneers of the cattle trade and was engaged in itvery extensively years ago. In 1881 he met with great re- verses and lost an immense amount of money in the business. He was well known in this city, where he spent muoh of his time, though he lived in Fergus, where he leaves a family. AN OPEN ItEPTERE. Five Encroaching Russians Captured by the Ameer's Soldiers. A Simla despatch to the London Times says: It is reported that a collision has taken place between the Russians and Afghans at Somatash and Keshilkool, five Russians being killed and !sixteen captured. The Afghans, it is said, refused th release the prisoners, declaring that 'in future they would neither give nor take quarter e The party probably consisted of Kirgheez offi- cered by Russians. A despatch from Simla says it is stated there that four or five Russians who were captured in collisions with the Afghanistan troops ira the Hazer& country, have been sent in chains be Cabul, the capital of Afghanis- tan. The serious position of affairs in Afghan- istan has decided the Indian Government to send Gen. Sir Frederick Roberts at the head of a large detachment th meet the Ameer at Jelialabad. The mission will be accom- panied by a political agent, but the main object is a conference th arrange plans to strengthen the Ameer against internal feuds and Russian advances. WHAT KILLED CHAPMAN? A Thornhill Sensation iVhich May Turn Out to he a Murder. A Toronto report says: John Chapman, a young man well connected in the neigh- borhood of Thornhill, had been living for a long time past a life of recklessness, spend- ing the greater part of his time in drinking among the saloons. Last Friday evening he got into a ecuffie with some of his boon corn- paniorer outside of the Skardon hotel. The proprietor of the hotel went out and found Chapman lying on his face in the road. He removed the man, who was quite insensible, into his barn, and, concluding that he was drunk, stretched him, with the assistance of others, in a box-stalL Early the next morning Skardon found the unfortunate man still insensible, andfor the first time he noticed a wound in his head, from which blood was oozing. Dr. Langstaff was called in, but Chapman did not recover consciousness, and on Mon- day he died. There is much excitement over the matter, and the facts of the case have been placed in the hands of Mr. H. H. Dewart, Crown Attorney, and an inquest is ordered th be held this afternoon at Skar- don's hotel. A WOMAN'S VENGEANCE. Blinded 'With Acid a Husband Who Had Degraded Her. A New York despatch says: A tarawell. droned man walked into Ivan Prince's little saloon on the corner of Chrystie and Stan- ton streets, and pushed his way impatiently through the half dozen idlers th the bar. As he was asking for a drink a small, dark- haired, and quite pretty young woman, also well dreseed, entered the saloon by the Stanton street door. She walked quickly toward the etranger at the bar and called some name. He turned sharply at the sound of her voie,e, and as he faced the woman she lifted her hand from her side and, with a quick motion, threw some carbolic acid from a small teacup hill in his face. The man screamed in agony, and, clutching at his 'face and head with his hands, rushed into the street shouting, "I'm blinded, I'm killed." He was Isaac Phillipe, and the woman was his wife. She said be had beaten her, and foreed her to go upon the streetsto get money for him. Two little girls had been visiting an ex- hibition of pruntingd with their governese. On their rettzrri, their mother asked them : "Well, what picture pleased you moat?" "The one that showed the Christians thrown to the lions in the Roman arena," both children answered. " Indeed asaid the mother. "1 suppose it worked on your feelings to look at it." Oh, yes, mamma," said the younger child, "there wart one poor clear lion that didn'thave any Christian to eat 1" A tiny scrap of cucumber rind left in the aided adds a peculiar pungency to its flavor. OPPOSITION OF MARS, Big Teloscopes....Poiated..at the Rod Plant this 'Morning, ONLY 35,000,000 MILES AWAY, But the tick; Telescope Brings IJIm Within Mall' a Million Miles of Vs—. What Flaimntarion lias to Say About Believes that Ile is Inhabited and that Iffarsian Astronomers are on. tiva Lookout to Send Vs Signals that they are Alive and Well. T is safe to say that the astronomers of the world were very busy last night and this morning. They were pointing their biggest telescopes at the great planet Mars, which this morning came nearer to Mother Earth than it.' has done for the past fifteen years, and that was in the year 1877, when the discovery was made of its two singular little moons. The Red Planet as Mars is called, if the fourth planet in the Order of distance from the sun and the nearest to us of the superior planets—that is of planets whose orbits lie outside that of the earth. In size the planet is much smaller than the earth, being but 4,400aniles in diameter. Mars travels around the sun in a mean sidereal period of 6,869,797 days, at a mean distance of 139,311,000 miles from the sun, the earth's mean distance being 91,430,000 miles. The mean distace of Mars from the earth at the time when the two planets are in conjunction is about 48,000,000 miles. But without going into scientific details it may be said that at a conjunction near the perihelion of Mars, the distance between the two planete amounts to about 35,000,000. This approach of the two planets occurs once in every fourteen or fifteen years, and at 1.21 o'clock this morning, Mars was only 35,500,000 miles away from us, when the great telescope of Lick Observatory brought it within a seven hundredth part of that space, or at an apparent distance of only 500.000 miles. From the observations that were taken there and at other observatories in all parts of the world, it is confidently expected that great discoveries and revelations will be made, for, as every reader of the modern newspaper knows, the idea is held by scien- tific men that Mars is inhabited, just like our own world; and some people say that these people of the world of Mars have been trying to signal to the stupidities on the earth since centuries or cycles. Other people have the idea that these long, straight lines seen on the map of Mars, extending from oceans to oceans, hundreds of miles in length, in every direction, are the work of the Mammon and the work of skilled hands and intelligent heads. Some of these canals appear at times to be double —that is, they would suddenly become paralleled, though at it distance of seventy or even a hundred miles apart. Some people have thought that the men of Mars dug these double canals especially as a kind of geometrical alphabetical signal to us. But the double canal theoage seems about to be eaploded, and discoveMe just made at the Lick Observatory, are, in brief, a con- tradiction to the supposed doubling or gemination" of the "canals" of the planet Mars. But even if the mysterious canals are in- explicable up to the present time, there are other mysterious phenomena now being ob- served that need explanation. On several nights three weeks ago three or more very prominent bright projections were visible on the southwest limb of Mars, and appear- ently arising from very bright regions in the planet, but whether these are high snow-capped mcuntains or are due to some- thing else it is impossible to say. Are they gigantic signals from Mars th us ? If Mars is inhabited, then the people there know as well as we do that this is the best time to attempt to open up communication with the stupidities of earth. If they are doing so, there is quito a prize offered to the as- tronomer who shall be successful in an- swering and reading the Marsian signals. About a year ago a worthy French lady, Mme. Guzman, was so well convinced that the inhabitants of the earth would yet be able to communicate with their neighbors upon Mars that in her will she left the sum of $20,000 in the care of the Academy of Sciencies in Paris as a legacy to be given to the discoverer of the means of making such communications. All sorts of wild schemes of signalling to Mars by means of electric lights and the making of geometric figures upon the face of the earth have since then been advanced ; but, as a well-known as- tronomer says, " it is safe to say that it will not be in any such ways as these that the future discoverer of interplanetary com- munication will sueceed in winning Mme. Guzman's legacy. Some entirely novel dis- covery in physics must be made, something as wonderful and unexpected in its way as the invention of the spectroscope, before we can expect to have any absolute proof of the existence of intelligent inhabitants on other planate." While the astronomers are busy endeavor- ing to peer through space into the Marsian mysteries, laymen must be content with descriptions of the planet such as have been made for us since its last near approach in 1877. But it is M. Camille Flammarion, the celebrated astronomer of the Sorbonne, one of the most distinguished of French scien- tists, who tells us in the most interesting way all about the planet and the recent dis- coveries connected with it. " What we see," he says, "is like our earth. Continents are lighted by our own sun, dark waters seem to absorb the light. All these pictures observed on Mars remind us of our earth and show us that there is a kind of relationship betwixt that world and mire." But, if we go further, this similarity gradually dies away, and is almost effaced by a strange metamorphosis. A new geographical map of that planet has been lately published by the Revue Mensuelle d'Aspronomie Populaire. This map, drawn by Mr. Schiaparelli, director of the obser- vatory of Milan, Italy, after his observa- tions, wets so remarkable that even the astronomers themselves refused to accept it before new observations confirmed most of the configurations given on it. What sur- prises above all on the map are the recti- linear canals leading from one ocean to the other like gigantic water ways, often in two parallel lines. the canals, Leaving it is interesting to note the formation of the empires, or conti- fleas, of Mars. According to scientists, the planet is bailey:3d to be thickly popu- lated, except at the poles. Schiaparelli's map show st everywhere continents of geo- metrical shape. One of them has been called Hellas, which in quite round, and is intersected by canals in the shape of a Mmes. The canal running north and south outs the continent exactly, in half. Others run east and west, with branches pointing in the direction of Hellas, as if this were a rent commercial centre, Electris is a big araian continent and Eridania, another. Eridania is divided from the central Hellas by Ausenia, and this is connected ley a thin neck of land with Agria. Ihyle II. is the largest of all their continents. The ma of Clyxis divides it from Thyle 1., whioh is shaped like a pear. The great ocean of Mars ie called Mare Auatrale. The big continent of Thaumania thews a ourious configuration, and is apparently out out from the mainland into a huge ball like Hellas, and 111 thousands of miles broad. It is lmost a complete circle, with the straight little canal leading into its centre. Elysium approaches the southern pole of Mars. One canal near here seems to be actually in process of construction. It runs from Oceanus Fluvius straight into t" continent south of it and there stops se denly. The surface of Mare appeare to be as fl as Holland, and it is cut up with canals about the same way as that lowland counts While all other p'anets Show the sat rugged configuration as the earth, w rugged mountains and immense valleys, surface of Mars is flattened out as if throu cycles the mountains had been levelled w the plains. "The first eight of Mars through an or nary telescope,' says a recent Germ writer, "is almost terrifying, even fo person of good nerves. It is as if one s the whole earth, with its icy poles, En solid globe, floating overhead. One d tinguishes clearly the dark blue se and the brilliant, beaming, many -hued dry land—and on this the dry beds of a multitude of lakes, bays'gulfs, streams and canals, these latter either parallel to each ether or crossing one another at right angles. You see that Mars revolves on its axis, and that the ends of the axis are the frozen poles, as with us. Judging the two planets by superficial tharacteristics, how- ever, one must admit a condition implying a higher degree of development in Mars. The continents of the earth, seen from a distance, present a very torn appearance, and occupy scarcely a third of its surface, while Mars is girded on both aides of the equator by one continuous mainland, inter- sected by a network of canals and rivers, the land occupying approximately three- fourths of the whole area of the planet and the water only one-fourth, as a conse- quence of which it may be that its atmos- phere is less clouded and vapor -laden than ours." Mare' moons are very insignificant. The Inner satellite has no larger an area than an ordinary California ranch. It is probably only eight miles in diameter. while the outer is about twenty. The first, Phobos, is less than 4,000 miles from the surface of the planet, and the other, Beimos, about three times that distance. To a man in Mars they would each appear about one-fifth the size of our full moon. They revolve so rapidly aboue the planet that the inner one appeers to move through the sky from west to east, and consequently rises in the west. The smaller one completes it revolution in seven hours and thirty-nine minutes, while the larger takes 16 hours,17 minutes and 15 seconds to make the round. JUST IN TIME. A Wedshne: whioh Met with a Temporary Intemption. HE followed him all day long like a little dog. If he ran, she ran, fell and erubbed her knees, oried and was lifted up again. Thus it went on from the week's beginning to its end. He grew tired of her, and would have liked to run away from her. But he did not dare, for she was his master's daughter, and he was—well, there was the rub—he did not know who be was. He woke up one day and found himself born. The sky was above bim and there if ng OM AS he ars rn ien tle he A BEAL CANNIBAL Escapes From a Circus and Makes a Neal off Three Boys. A New Brunswick, N. J., despatch says: John Lucas, a negro who is exhibiting with Burke's circus as a former king of the Can- nibal Islands, ran amuck in this city yester- day. During the circus parade down Church street it is alleged that some of the boys threw apples at the cannibal. This so en- raged the negro that he sprang from the circus van on which he was riding and charged upon the boys. He caught John Hickey, and true to his nature, he bit a piece out of the boy's arm. He then grasped James Johnston, another boy, and bit him in the neck. The third and last victim he bit in the breast. The affair created great excitement. Lucas was arrested and com- mitted to jail charged with mayhem. Hickey, the boy who was first bitten, was quite badly injured. His arm was swollen to twice its natural size, and blood poison- ing is feared. A "Bed Day" for Children. About once a month I noticed that my two strong, active children grew what was called "cross." I determined to watch for the cause, and discovered that even the in- fant boy can only stand a certain amount of exercise without becoming "worn out." When, therefore'az night I found one or the other partioularly "cranky," I would say to myself: "It is time this child was rested. To -morrow must be a bed day." The children understood that this was in nowise punishment, but a simple sanitary measure. Playthings there were in plenty, but no getting out of bed. How that room did look, sometimes! Cut papers, toys, everything in every direction, but I knew that the little legs and body were obtaining a much needed rest, and what did a little clutter more or leas amount to? The next day they would be as bright and " chipper " as young robins. I firmly be- lieve that by this plan I have warded off many a little attack of actual illness by building up the physical strength so that sickness could not take a hold. Thia plan I believe to be original with me, but I am not only willing to give it away to all mothers, but to send as well hearty good wishes with it —A Mother in Housekeeper's Weekly. The Window Garden. There are few things more pathetic than the efforts at window gardening seen in the squalid portions of the town, where a dusty miller and a sturdy geranium are fighting it out in an old tomato can. There is in London a society for the pro- motion of window gardening and prizes are given at certain seasons for the most suc- cessful effort in this line a duke or prince of the blood being now and again the chair- man of the committee on awards. Not infrequently the prize goes to the Whitechapel district, some poor wretch putting all her love and life and memories of green fields for the window garden prize, which she succeeds in getting. A Practical lesson. Sunday School Teacher—What lesson are we to learn from the story of Jonah and the whale? Pupil—To stay on dry land. Not in Harmony. Little Dot—Mamma, I mus have it new doll right away. Manana—What is the matter with theold one? Little Dot—It's got some scwatohes on its face, an' it looks sorter shabby along side of baby. A Yankee philosopher says that "it true man never frets abouthis place in the world, but just elides into it by the gravitation of his natter° and swings there kilt easily as it star." Penelope—Do you notice anything strik- Mg in this room? Staylate—No ; did I look art though I did Penelope—I didn't know but that you might have heard the clock. ick d. he ind he retire= win uem.ide mountain plains, ate berries, caught fish, set traps and was happy. He hardly thought once, of the little girl down in the valley. One day late in the summer she came up to the dairy with her mother. She was carried up on horseback in a basket. When she saw him she flung herself down upon the grass and screamed with delight. But when her mother had reached the hut she ran up to him and hugged him. While the cattle were being milked he went th look after his things. She followed him, proud in the thought that he tolerated her. " Look here," he cried, lifting up it brown hare, "isn't that a big fellow?" "What is it ?" she asked. " It is a hare." "No, it isn't a hare. A bare is white." "It is brown in summer. It changes its thin." " Has he two skins, one inside the other ?" Instead of answering he took his knife and cut the hare's skin. " No," he said, "he hasn't got more's one." The time came when he had to go to the parson to prepare for confirmation. It so happened that she went the same year. But, though he had a coat now, it was a cast-off one of Jeus Oesturo'e, which was muoh too big for him. His boots, too, and his trousers had seen better days hefore they made his acquaintance. He walked aside from the rest; his ears burned when any one looked at him. But if any one dared to mook him, he used a pair of fists which inspired respect. He wawa handsome enough lad and finely made'but his clothes and his frosvsy hair madehim look ugly. Heavy thoughts came to him, and a fierce, defiant spirit was kindled within him. It was at such a time that Birgit sought him and spoke kindly to him. " You mustn't mind the girls," she said ; "they laugh at everything. They don't mean anything by it. It's Just a way they have." "Somebody will come to harm if you ever do it," he answered, fiercely. "That is foolish talk," she gently remon- strated. "1 know you too well, Ola. Yon wouldn't harm me," "Ah, you don't understand me," he said. "14 is no use talking." "Oh, yes, I do understand you 01a," she replied, With a smile "and I wish you would let me say one thing to you before I go." " I wish—I wish she stammered, while a quick blush sprang to her cheeks. "No, I think I won't say it after all," she finished and turned to go. "Yes, say it," he entreated, seizing her hand. " Well, I—I wish you chid do as the hare, change your shin." She drew her hand away from his and ran down the hillside, so that the stones and dry leaves flew about her. - That night he picked a quarrel with Thorger Sletten, who was said to be atten- tive to Birgit, and he thrashed him. Allthe following winter he kept watch of her from afar, and picked quarrels with everybody whom she seemed to favor "Ch ange my skin," he pondered. Change my skin, like the hare.. How, oh, how can I do it ?" This thought followed him dayand night. One day, in the spring, an emigrant ship bound for America appeared at the mouth of the river. Ola packed together his few traps and went up to Oestruo's to say good -by. He met Birgit in the birch grove behied the barn. It was the time when the buds were bursting and the swallows had just returned. " Well, Ola, where are you going?" she asked, as she saw him coming with bundle and staff in band. "To America." " America 1" she cried. "America !" The answer seemed to frighten her. She turned pale and caught hold of a birch tree for support. He watched her nar- rowlyl "What are you going to do in America, Ola?" she asked softly. " Change my skin," he replied with a vigor that startled her. "And if I come back within five years with a changed skin will you promise th wait for me ?" I promise," she whispered, weeping quietly upon his shoulder. * * Five years from that day a young man was seen hastening up the hillside to Oestruo. He had a big Slouch bat en his head, and he was well dressed. His face was strong, equare and deter- mined, his eyes danced with joy, for in his pocket he had it royal marriage license, with which he meant to !surprise some- body up at Oestruo's farm. It was five years to -day since he bit her, and it was five years she had promisedto wait for him. For this hour he had toiled, saved and suffered for five long. weary years. He had been a silver miner In Leadville when the place was yet new,and he had sold his claim for $50,000. As he was hurrying along an old woman, who was sitting by the roadside, hailed him. "Gentlefolks ottt walking to -day ?" she said, holding out her hand for it penny. " Gentlefolks ?" he cried, with a happy laugh. "Why, Gurid, rm Ola, who used to herd cattle at Oestruo's dairy." "You, Ola 1 who was on the parish? Then you must have changed your skin." "That was what r went to America for," he answered laughine. walked far and was tired. Preeently he heard mud° up under the ledge of the, fore et ; there was one olarionet and severe. fiddle, A bridal party ! Yes, there was the bride, with a ailver crown upon her head and shining brooches upon her bosom. The procession came nearer. Now the master of the ceremoniee opened the church doors wide and went to meet the bride and, groom, Ola sat atill like a rock ; but it strange numbness came over him, As the party drew near to the gate of the churchyard he arose and stood, tall and grave, in the middle of the road. Then came Birgit, Oestruo mad Thorger Sletten. She looked, pale and sad, he defiant. "You didn't expect me to your wedding. Birgit Oestruo ?" he said, and stared hard, at her. She gave a scream • the crown fell from her head • 8110 rushed forward and. flung her arms about his neok. "Now come," he cried, " whoever daree, and I'll make a merry bridal." Sens Oestruo stepped forward and spoke. His voice shook with wrath and the veins, swelled upon his brow. "Here I am," he said. "11 you want the girl you shall fight for her." "Not with you, old man," retorted Ola ;„ " but with Thorger I'll fight. Let him come forward." The bridal gueste made a ring on the green and the bridegroom came slowly for- ward. " Hard luck," he said, " to have to fight, for your bride on your wedding day." Fight? Birgit, who in her happineee had been blind and deaf, woke up with a. start. She unwoued her arms from Ola's neck and stepped up between the two men. "Oh, do not fight, do not fight 1" she. entreated, holding out her hands hut to one claimant and then to the other. "lou know father, for whom I have waited for these five years. You know �r whom I have loved since I was a child. But you used force against nee and threats. Now he has come back. I am no longer afraid of you." "Whoever will be my wedding guest. let him follow," shouted Ole, "for I have 01 myhand a royal license to be married to Brigit, Jens Oestruo's dreighter." All that money can buy you shall have," he added. "I'll make a wedding the fame of which shall be heard in seven parishes around." He took the bride's arm and marched boldly into the church. The wedding guests looked at Teas Oestruo, who was venting his wrath upon the groom. "You coward !" he yelled, " you let the girl be snatched away before your very nose. I am glad enough to be rid of such it son-in-law. Come, folk ; we'll have our wedding yet. A girl belongs to him who can catch her." With a wrathful snort he stalked in through the open church door, and the wedding guests slowly followed.—Bostern Globe. kittens at Saratoga. A Saratoga letter says: "Dogs and duden, will have to be relegated to the rear as they. have been superseded by youthful felines.. Two or three of the fashionable belles, when, going outeto drive, take along with thein. their pet kitten, which is generally erne mented with a ribbon of some bright hue. The new feline fad attracts no small amount of attention, and frequently may be heardt the expression: 'Well, there 1 Look at - that young woman in that carriage, holdinak' a young cat, and the kitten has a ribboma around its neck, too.' "Black and Maltese kittens seem to be. the fashionable colors, especially among' those seen on 'Union and Ballston avenues. The pet kitten mania, as a carriage com- panion, may not be new elsewhere, but it r has just made ite appearance here. The discarded pets—degs and dudes—look sad." Be Thinks He Is Made of aiase. In one of the fashionable suburbs of Edin- burgh lives a gentleman who imagines that, he is it piece of glass. It is the delight of all the boys to knock up against him, and he then slowly drops to the pavement, no. matter in what condition it is. Nor will he - get up, but wait e for a policeman to take, him home. Little Johnny Makes a Guess. Girls is awful lazy. We've got it tennie ne tan' croquet set an' lots of things to have fun with, but my sister would rather it in a stuffy room a listenin' to a young man. talkin"bout dead poets than come out an" have fun with me. She didn't used to be. that way. Maybe she ain't really lazy. Maybe it's only old age. An Excellent Relish. Cucumbers, lettuce and onions make as relish that will tempt the appetite. Place the lettuce leaves on a dish in layers, then, put thin slices of cucumbers and Imitate on the leaves. Sprinkle over them a little sugar, mustard, pepper and salt; then putt. vinegar and oil over just before eating. Husbands Must Be Humored. Atchison Globe : Men are BO peculiar that as a rule a man tells his wife the most when she asks him the least questions. Aa, turtle will keep its head in if it is poker:al:- • and bothered, and a man is a great dealt like a turtle. As another proof of woman's inability to, keep a secret we notes() that while a man covers his suspenders it woman wears hers. openly. Tourist—Why are your rates higher in fairly than any other time in the summer ie Summer Hotel Keeper (significantly)—Sea, serpents cost a good deal of money. ARE1 NOT e, Pur- e -a gotive Medi- ctn.% They ere a BLOOD 13171T.DElt, TONIC, and ltxcort. 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Por sale by all druggiSts, or 10111 be sent apon The church lay half way up the hillside. teeeipt of price (00aper box 1, by ruldressios There Ola sat down to rest, for he had allgia DR. eilLZZa tee' Arlen, ea rfrocionatA cloge.o, '