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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1899-6-8, Page 2' • 04:14. Ntit,„ ett.,34t11416.10.*Aii 1.6Lo ‘.4. ?id ZNt CHAPTER XXX,Cootinteed. dure this. you, a girl, defending net Re had her head IMev, on his 'arm, I Mast go out. Let me pass." • foul with hie hand was exhoothing her "To certain death( Never!" Maude bands of Kahl hair, while he waited replied, thrusting him baok with a for her to speak. He had dealt hone strength born. of desperation, estly with her. $he woulcj be equally Charlie, who had paused from, hie • trothful with m, ad she answered hiasleep, and fully comprehended what at lash was going on, caught Tom amend the "Oh, Mr. Carleton you don't know neck, and nearly strangled, him, as he bow much it pains me to tell you what eaid: I must. e might have loved you once, "Let Maude alone, Ceptain. They'll but now it is too late. I laroMised not harm her. They would onlyshoot Arthur, if he would be kiwi to the poor you down for nothing." prieoners and help the escaped ones to Thus hampered and importuned, get away, aid, -ole, I don't know what, Tone stood back a little, while Maude but I an to be his wife when the held a parley with her besiegers, dreadful war is over. Pity me, Mr, threatening to shoot the first men Carleton, but don't love me. No, no, who should attempt to pees her, She don't make me more wretched by tell- did not think of danger to herself, and ing me of a love I cannot return, she stood fitraly at her pest; while the "Could you return it, Maude, if there raeu emieulted together es to the best were no promise to Arthur?" eourse to be ,pursued. And while Tom spoke very low, with his lips they talk.ed, and Maude stood watch - close to her burning cheek, but Maude ful and dauntless the flames of Paul did not reply, and Tore continued: Haverill's house rose higher in the "Maude, was the getting me here in heaven, and strange, 03111110us sounds safety any part of the price for which were heard in the distance, - suds you sold yourself' as of many horsemen riding for dear She did not answer even then, but life, with shonts and excited voices; by the low, gasping sob she gave as and Maude became aware of some sad - she shed back from her hot brow the den influehoe working,- upon the crowd heavy hair Tom knew the truth, and to around her. himself he said. "It shall aot be." And Thema band of cavalry cla'shed into then from his heart there went up a sight, and all was wild hurry and sileht prayer that God would give him consternation. But, above the din. of the brave beautiful girl, who drew her- the strife without, Tom Carleton self away from him, and leaning over caught sounds which made his heart her sleeping brother, sae with both leap up, and springing forward pest hands clasped upon her face. They Maude De Vere, he exclaimed: did not talk together much more, and "Thank God, the. Federals have once Tom thought Maude was asleep, come! We are saved! Maude, we are she sat so rigid and motionless, with savedlee her fate turned toward the entance of As his tall form emerged into view, the cave. •a brutal soldier, maddened by the But she was asleep, and her dark surprise and unavoidable defeat,level- eyes were fixed wistfully upon the one ed his gun and fired, racking little bright star visible to her, and which -whether Tom or Maude was the vice seented whispering to her of hope. Per- tine. The ball cut through the sleeve haps Arthur would release her from of Maude's dress, and grazing her arra her promise, and perhaps, -but Maude enough to draw blood, lodged harm - started from that thought, as from an lessly in the rooks beyond. evil spirit, and her white lips whisper- At that sight all Charlie's fire was ed faintly, "God help nee to keep my roused, and the shot which went whiz - promise." zing through the air made surer work The night was very still,and as the than did the one intended for Tom .hours wore on and the faint dawn of Carleton. Tone was out upon the day came over the mountain tops, ledge of rocks by this time, grasping Maude's quick ear caught, the echo of the hands of the blue eoats, who were the fierce shouts in the valley below, a part of a company sent out. to re - and l'a.ying Charlie's head erene her lap connoiten, and who had reached Paul she went out of the cave, followed by Haverill's house just after the rebels Captain Carleton, who wondered to had left it. At first they had tried to see how that one night had changed extinguish the flames, but finding her. The brilliant color was gone from that impossible they had followed the her cheek which looked hag- enemy, most of whom were made pri- gard and pale as faces look sonars of war. when some great storm of sorrow Some months before, john Simms has passed over them. Her hair had had been transferred from the Army fallen down and lay in masses upon of the Potomac to the Army of the her neck, from which she shook it off Cumberland, and he it was who led his impatienly, and tle_n intently listened men to the rescue, doing it the more to the sounds which each moment grew daringly and willingly .whea he heard louder. Shoutings they were, and who was in danger. He was 'a cap - tones of command, mingled with the tain now, and he stood grasping Tom distant tramp of horses' teet, while sod- Carleton's hand, when a piercing denly, above the tall tree -tops which skirted the mountain side, asose a coil sm of oke. Too dark, too thick to have come flora any chimney where the eally morning fire was kindled, it told its own tale of horror, and Maude's eyes grew so black and fierce that Tom shrunk back from her, as pointing he finger toward the fast increasing rings oi smoke and flame, she whisper- ed: "Do you see that, Captain. Carleton? It's Uncle Paul's dwellinget hey have set 1.1 on fire. I never thought they would do that, though I have watch- ed more than one burning house in 1.133s.: mountains, and have almost felt •a of pride as I thought how t ed our soldiers up the hillside to where dearly we were paying for our love to 'Maude held the entrance to the cave. the old flag; but when it comes to my Ho saw her, and. tried to make his own home, the pride is all gone the voice heard, it was lost amid the fire burns deeper, and one is half strife and noise of the.nonflict, and she tempted to question the pricerequired only knew of his presence, when Char - for the Union." lie, with °battering teeth, and a face Tom was alout to speak to her when as white as ashes, clutched her dress frantically, and said: "Come, sister, come this way to afrthur,--somebody-shot him. Do you think he will die?" Quint,: as lightning the remembrance of the thought evhich had yet scarcely ve and War4E. A STORY OF SLAVERY DAYS. MARY J. 1101-M4S. shriek rose on the air, and turning round, the young men saw Maude De Vere bending over the prostate form of a soldier, whose bead,,she gently lifted up, as she moaned bitterly: "Oh, Arthur, Arthur! how came you here?" CHAPTER. XXXIV He had kept his word, and piloted safely across the mountains the pri- soner left in Ratty's cabin His arrival at Paul B.averill's burning home had preceded that of the Federal troops by twenty minutes or more, and when he heard of Maude's danger, he follow - she turned abruptly upon hirn, -and said: "Captain Carleton, do you believe your Northern women, -your Rose, your Annie woald bear and brave what the loyal women, of the South endure? Ihey may be true to the been a thought, of just such a con - Union, -no doubt they are, and they tangency as this, flashed. over Maude, thins: .hey know what war mean; but sweeping away all the pain, the terror, I tell you the.y do not. Did they ever the shrinking she had felt when she see thcir friends and. neighbors driven contemPlatect the fulfillment of her to tlae woads and hills like hunted promise to Arthur Tunbridge. He was beasts, or watch the kindling flames devouring th,.ir own houses, as I am doing now? for I know that is my Uncle Paul's, and whether he still lives, or is hung between the earth and heavens, God only knows, and per - lupe he has forgotten. 1scutetimes think he has, else why does he not send us aid? Where are yoar hordes of men e Why do they not come to save us, when we have waited so long, and our eyes and ears are weak and weary with watching for their coming?" She was talking now more to herself than to her companiun, and she looked a very queen ot tragedy, as, with her bair floating over her shoulders, and her hands pressed tightly together, she walked hurriedly the length and breadth of the long flat rook which bordered a precipice near to the cave. Tom was about to answer her, when a ball went whizzing, past him, while the loud shouts of the men, whose heads were visible beneath the distant trees, told that he had been discovered. To return to the cave and take Maude with him, was the work of a moment, and araid yells of fury the drunken mob came on to where Maude, forgetting everything now extept Tom Carleton stood waiting for them They would not harm her, she knew, and like a lioness guarding its young, she stood within the eave, but so near the entrance that her face was visible to the men, who at sight of her stop- ped studdenly, and asked what she was doing there, and who she had With her. 'My brother Charlie and Captain Carleton, the Man whom you sought at Ilnele be answered, fear - as she held With a firm grasp the dangerouselooking weapon, which she knew hoW t� Use. • "And pray, what may g oul he doing with the Thaikeeasked one of the coarser of the inane and Maude replied "I aiim standing betvveen him add juet such ore:Alms as yore are," White Tain grasping her shoulder, eel& 'Step aside, Mende; 1 otnnot en lying there at her feet, and the grass beneath 'him was all a pool of blood, while his dimeeyes showed that the ob- jects around him were now but faintly discerned. He saw Maude, though, and when her loud cry met his ear Jae smiled a glad, grateful sinile, and said to her, as she knelt beside him and took his heacl in her lap - "You are sorry, Maude. It was a mistake. You did love me some." She pressed her quivering lips to his and said again, "Oh, Arthur! Arthur I how came you here?" Arthur knew he eva.s dying, but, ehalcian off all thought of his own Pain, he explained to Maude how he carae there. "The man -you remember. I got hen through, ahd I am, not sorry, for he told me of a blind mother and eix little children dependent upon him away off sometvh.ere among the Ohio hills. Think if they had been left without support. I am glad I saved hira even if it east my life. And still it is hard. to die, Maude, just as you are' beginning to love me, fax you are, and if I had lived you would have kept your promise to "Yes, Arthur, I would," artd. Maude's white fingers threaded the bloody hair and moved softly over the ghastly face, "Who did it Arthur ?" she asked and Arthur's face flushed to a purple hue as with a M0011 he said.; "'Don't ask me -there was a mistake, had taken no part in the fray, except to knock denvn the ruffian who fired at you. I was standing right behind him Yes, there was a mistake. Oh, Maude, it was a ntistake." lle kept repeating the words, while 'Mande tried to stop the blood flowing eo freely frotn the evound it his temple.. The ball had entered there, blit boa not penetrated to the brain, and he re- tained his consciouenees to the last, entiling once kindly on Cherlie, who half free:die, bent over him, and said: "Yee, Arthut, it was a mistake, oh Arthirr, oh Maude, and you two ware engaged, I did not know it before." ti! '1111‘1 S IThele a 'bright flush mixt into nIatine's evhite face, for she knew the tall ateedow oo the grass beside her be- lohleed to Capt. Carleton, and. be, ehe gamete, wee thinking of lest nightdet the cave, He did thihk of it, bat onlA Lor 4 mome4t,. am, then hth ie oaghter were merged 14 his great anxiety for Lieutenant Arthur, who he saw was dYing. Arthur knew lie was there, and smiled when he asked if he felt Math paen. "Nolte with Maude beide me. She was to have been my wife, weren't You Mande ?" YO'll'Yr(IsIA.1'lfAe.""th". I w" to jalkve j"en She epoke it openly, frankly, as if by so doing she was seeking to atone for an error, and the eyes lifted. to Tom's face had in them something de- fiant, as if she woultlesay °I xnean it. I woalcl have been his wife." But she xnet only pity in Tom's looks -pity for her, and, pity for the young man dying among the mountains on that soft, summer m.oraing, when the whole world seemed, so at variance with a death like that. It was a strange scene, and one which ittitose who wit- nessed it never could forget. The broad, level plat on the mountain side, the mounted horsemen, the group of prisioners, the beautiful, aueenly girl, whose lap pillowed the head of the dy- ing wittier, while her brilliant eyes wept floods of tears which, with quick, nervous moveroents of her fingers, she swept away. Beside her was Charlie hie face whiter than that.,of the dyin man and hie muscles working pain fully as le he was forcing back som terrible pang or cry of agony. Tom Carleton too, and Paul lia-verin, wh had later joined, the group and stood looking sadly on, while toward the south the smoke and flame Of his own hou.se was ascending, and in the east the early morning was bright and fresh with the summer's golden sun- shine. And there on the raountain side they waited and watche.d, while the youag lieutenant talked faintly of his distant home where the news would earry so much sorrow. ''Tell father I died believing in our cause, and. were 1 to live ray life over I should join the Southern army ; but it's wrong about the prisoner's. We ought not to abuse those who fall in- to our ha. I've loved you Maude, so long. Remember me when I am gonte, not for anything brilliant there was about nee, but because I loved.you so well, and died in carrying out the work you gave ine to do." "Oh, Arthur! Arthur! speak some word of conatort to me or I shall surely sdlidee.. It was a mistake," Charlie whis- pered, as he crept close to Arthur's The dying xnan's e.yes rested inquire ito.gly for a moment in Charlie's face, then lighted up with a sudden joy. "Charlie! Charlie! come close," he whispered. "Bend your ear to my lips. Maud must not hear me." His head was still lying on Maude's lap, but he spoke so low to Charlie that she did not hear the genstion ask- ed. She only knew that Charlie start- ed quickly, and throwing one arm across her neck as it to save her from some evil, said, promptly, energeti- cally: "No, no, Arthur; no 1" Then the quivering lips went down agate to Arthur's ear, and. Maude caught the word "mistake," and that was all. She did not know or think what it really meant. It was all a mistake, the terrible war which had. brought her so much pain and. suffer - Leg. "J: die easier now. It was so horrible before. Poor Charlie! Don't let it trouble you. Care for Maude. She would have been my wife. Stick to our cause. You never forsook it," came faintly from Arthur, and his eyes, when again , they rested on Maude's face, had lost the strange, frightened look which she had observ- ed when she first came to his side. He was dying ver fast and h' mind seemed groping for some form of pray- er weth which to meet the last great foe. * o "Pray, somebody," lie moaned, and Paul Haverill, who, wholly overcome with all he had passed through during the last few hours, had stood durab and motionless, replied .in a choking voice: "I am not a praying man, but God be with you my boy, and land you safely on Vother side, where there's no more fighting." "Yes but that isn't Our Father.' I used to say it at home," came feebly from the white lips, and then Tom Car- leton knelt beside the youth whose path had crossed his own so often and 00 strangely, and with deep reverence and. earnest entreaty commended the departing spirit to the God, who deals more gently, and mereifully-, and lov- iiegly with his children than they dealt with each other. Tom thought of Isaac Simms, and the noisome, filthy room in Libby where he had first learned to pray, and the thought gave fervor to his prayer, to which Arthur listene,d intently, his lips motioning the amen he could. not speak, for he had no power of utter- ance. Once again they moved with a pleading kind. ofof motion and Maude stooped over to kiss them 'her long hair Ailing across the palid brow,he where tblood stains were, and when she lifted her head up and pushed back her heavy locks, there was the 1 seal of death on Arthur's face. (To Ile Continued.) i DOMINION 11E11AI/1E11T. What the LegiSlater$ or the COUntry ape Dein at Ottawa, YUKON Liguou PERMITS. Lieut.- Col, Prior, Vietoria, drew the govenunent's attentthon to thm e atter ot the lame of leuleall liquor permit, by Wee. Ogilvie, Since he has been in ebarge several permilts have been is- sued, some being disallowed by the government here, The result had been great hardship to those who had. already perchased the liquor. In one attee, kr. C. ManCouley, who was '13. Dawson and obl,n taed a permit from Ogilvie,,MIMS down to the east and purchased. two carloads of beer and two hundred cases of beer, whieh were,paid for. was naturally aux- lathe to know whether this permit would be disallowed, Ool. Prior also asked whether the government was aware of the existence of a brewery ba Yukon. ; Tlee Minister of Inlahd Revenue stated that he knew of no brewery in Yukon. A brewery outfit which is being taken into &din will be seized at once g MAILS TO YUKON. Mr. Hector, McDougall, Cape 13reton, O called attention to a package of pa- pers addressed by him to Dawson which had been returned through the dead letter office. The Postmaster -General replied. that during the winter only letters had been carried, owing to the diffie eulty of the service. During the setae sun of navigation, however, the ser- vice will be weekly and all classes of mail matter will be taken in. PETROLEUM INSPECTION. Sir Henri Joie,' de Lotbiniere intro- duced a bell to amend the act respect- ing the inspection of pertolemn. The main feature of the new bill is to pro- vide for the inspection of petroleum at the refineries, and. so to do away NNNN:iittla 'the 15 fonuenociessiintyostforineboanrvreenlilizt: more especially in the North-West. Petroleum can now be stored in tanks as long as it is needed. Naphtha will also have to be kept in red barrels. PACKING OF APPLES. Mr. John McMillan, South Huron drew attention to certain statements atteubuted to the Minister of Agricul- ture and Prof. Robertson, to the effect that Canadian farmers were ruining the reputation of Canadian apples in Britain by improper packing. Mr McMillan felt that the charge was an unjust one so far as the farmers are 'concerned, for the reason that the packing is not done by them at all. Mr. Clancy took a similar view of the ease. The Minister of Agelculture felt that the matter was one which should be drewneto the publit attention. The evil is one which should not be glossed over as grave injury has been done to the country thereby. -So far as the state- ment that either he or Prof. Robertson had reflected upon the farmers of Can- ada, the charge was wholly without foundation. TO AMEND THE BANKING ACT. The Minister of Finance obtained for his bill to enable Canadian banks to issue notes in the currency of other British colonies, the sanction of the Haase in eoranaittee. BOUNDARY OF ALASKA. Lieut. -Col. Prior, Victoria, quoted the Washington despatch appearing in papers which alleged that Canada has preferred a demand that in the terms of arbitration on the Alaskan boundary, whatever' the result, Can- ada shalt be entitled to Pyramid Har- bor and a strip of territory along the Lynn canal, and that, further, the re- ceipt of this demand on our part has practically broken off an agreement which was already under way, The Prime Minister was at a loss to accoent for the series of articles ap- pearing in the American press, whose purpose seeme to .be to create the im- pression trot Canada has assumed an attitude of unreasonableness in the negotiations. It had been suggested that the 'Washington au th ori ties must be interested in tied- publication, but it was his duty to say that they are free Irene blame, and cannot possibly &motion the expression of such opin- ions since they know otherwise. The position of the negotiations lenday is, exactly w -hat it was when they were ,a djo ar /led last whine. The govern- ment's proposition was the same to -day as it was then, and so far as this gov- ernment was eencerneci there would be no change. , Commons. The investigatioe le not yet 0043.00(ed, as the coMmissioner ,states that lie has yet to hear , evia dense en the eherene Preferred aeainst (Air0 O2fipin1S, ILSSI'S, Norwood and. Wad,. The first meeting wee heln on Veh- ruar,v 615, anti it was decided to issUe notiees to all and sundry to formelate, in writing, by lelarele1515, such charges as they might have to prefer. The xnhiers committee sainnitted it series of claerges. E, C. Alien, of the Klondike Nugget, elm preforeed cer- tain charges, and these weee investi- gated, The parties making the (Merges were given access to tbe records isa the Gold Commissioner's office, Mr, Ogilvie dict not seetain the charge preferred by Dr. liourlee against Gold Cornmi ed. ner Fawcett respeo.tnee the title of a company to eertain claims on Bonanza Creek. A cionstable named Villeneuve was found guilty of having accepted beibes in admitting people to the Gold Cpennissioner's offiee. Some of the evidenoe also showed that tee clerks in the office had re- ceived pay from outsiders for attend - hag to work done before and after of- fice hours. In reference to tha charge against Mr. Faweett of having im- properly closed Dominion Creek, the evidence, Mr. Ogilvie says, ShOWS that Mr., Faiveett was not responsible for the; closing of the creek in the manner charged against him. Mr. Fawcett closed the creek in November, 1897, owing to the numerous oomplications that arose through different appli- cants having staked over each other, there having been several, points of be- ginning for the staking of claims on the creek. Before work could pro- ceed on the creek, Mr. Fawcett deter- mined it wan necessary that in all these cases an investigation should be held, and the title to the claims ascer- tained in that way. As he was very busy ih the office, and as there were numerous cases to be investigated, Mr. Fawcett determined to close the creek until such time as he could take the matter up. Major Walsh approved of this course, and Mr. Ogilvie says the creek stands still closed from Upper Discovery to 120 miles below Lower, comprising about 150 nilles. Mr. Ogilvie says there, was not any evidence to show that Mr. Fawcett had benefited by the closing of the creek. Mr. Fawcett, the commissioner states, did an act improperly in granting a prospect permit to Mrs. Emma Koch, but' the eaidence showed that as she did not speak good English, the Gold Com- missioner had misunderstood her. There was nothing to show that Mr. Fawcett or any of his friends in any way benefited by the permit, Mrs. Koch, being an utter stranger to him. The editor of the Ellondike Nugget, in his charge, alleged that Mr. Fawcett, through undue friendship for Mr. Alex. ' McDonald, the Bonenza King, secured the payment of 12 COO which it was alleged. was due McDonald on a cer- tain claim, and that he did so impro- perly. The ttansuction in connection With this case occurred after August 2515. No wrong -doing, a.chording to Mr. Ogilvie, has been made manifest in Ibis case. STEEL AND IRON BOUNTIES. GRAIN STANDARDS. Mr. N. F. Davin, proposed a resolu- tion direeting attention to the unsat- sfactory state of the grain standards, and the evile resulting' 'rem' the mix - ng of whea.t at Font William, and other termirial elevators, i,vhich tend- ed to seriously injure the name of our rain in the foreign markets. The matter was one calling for' immediate action, and Mr. Davin was pleased! to beerve the eneasure introduced by the government, which would., he under - toad, remedy the evil complained f. The blinister of Inland Revenneseg- gested that if Mr. Davin. would. ex - mine the government bill he would ind that an ea,rnest effort is being xnule to remedy the evils complained of. The bill provides that in future no certificate riliall be given for talked wheat. D. C. R. AIM 31, C. R. 'CONNECTIONS. The Minister of Railways gives take of a resolution to eortfirne a ninety- nine Years' lease from March lest of that portion of the Grand T1'1" 't from Ste, Rosalie to Montreal/ /or the use, of the Intereolonial Hallway On payment of an manna rental of $140,... 000. . This piece of line will form' the conrtecting link between the Driamj- mond County road. and the new T.10. R, terminns in Montreal, , OGILVIE'S REPORT.' , Cerniaissioner Wm. Ogilvie'S repert on his enquiry into affairs!' In tile Yukon WaS anbnOtted ter the TiOuse of QUININE USED BY SOLDIERS. The consumption of quinine by Am- ericae soldiers suffering from one southern fever or another during the pa& year is said to exceed 125,000,000 s grains. In some instances men in the o bospitaIs of Cuba and Puerto Rico weee dosed regularly with 300 grains it week, and tbere was hardly a man a in the field who aid not take the drug f at one time or another. Fully one- third of the entire quinine sapply of the world is consumed in the 'United Statee. NO CAUSE POR SUICJIDE. Miss Dreamier -When you stood on the brink of Niagara, and looked into the 'seething, eurgieg, unfathomable depths below, did you not feel that you would like to jump in? Mr. Tourier-No, I hadn't receivedi my hotel bill then. ----- AN EXTENDED EXNA AMITION. m—Aro you sure I am, the conlY man you ever scally and truly loved? She -Perfectly sure, I -went over the whole Iist only yeeterday, The Government proposes to gradu- ally reduce the bounties on steel in- gots, meddled iron bars, and pig iron made in. Canada. These bounties to- day are practically $3 per ton. From April 23, 1902, to June 30th, 1903, the b bounee are to be 90 per cent. of ; for the following year, 75 per cent.; from July 1st, 1904, to June.30th 1905, 55 per cent.; for the year following the bounties are to be 35, and from July 1st, 1906, to June 30th, 1907, 20 per cent. On the latter date these bounties will cease altogether. If any steel ingots are made from meddled iron bars manufactured in Canada., no bounty is to be paid on the ingots. DEEDS OF JESSE FREROY nig FIENDISH WORK OF A NOTOR- 1011S BOY MURDERER. Itadiced HD Victims 10 Pieces After Death -All MI Cillitt Say Was That S OO t ll ethltig impelled 111111 to Do It -SC110114:041 to 1:c "gauged, But lt Was Commuted tO Solitary Coneneintest for Imre. On a rainy evening in April, 1874, a man who was digging for clams on the marsh south of Washington village a suburb of Boston, Mess., saw a lit- tle way from him, about at- the mouth of the sewer, whlit in the gloaming t looked like a child's form huddled up 1 on the. mud. It was then getting dark, and he called out. There *as no an- d swer, and so he put down his spade t and ran over to the, sea. where the ti little dark form lay. The clothes were saeureted 'with blood, antithere was a pool about 'tbe, bead on the ground. The throat was cut from ear to ear, ahd evidently nest from one side and than the other, for the arter- ies were so completely severed that THE HEAD NEARLY FELL OHIO When tha body was moved. The clone digger yeas almest dumbfounded by the discovery of smell an atrocity. The clothes were torn end out, and upon opening the child's vest he found no less than 21 stabs around the child's heart. The poor little body was inutile ated in other ways which euggested a depth of human depravity in the inter- • darer that exceeded even the brutal desire to kilt. There was a double track all the way fro ra the station to the spot Where the body was found, which removed all doubt as to the child having been led there. There ware the imprints of a pair of little feat by the side, of the imprints of a pair of larger size. CRIME FASTIINED ON F'OMEROY. The deteetivei made plaster casts of the tracks, and'ebtairting the shoes of the murdered child franfthe tindertak- er's, fitted them to the tracks in the marsh, Th the meanwhile the body had been identified as that of Borate R. Millen, a child between 4 and 5 years of age. A. tensaltation of the leadiOg deteetives of the neighborhood Was then held. Chief Savage, of the , Dostoo police, Made the diseeverY ii sd :tat 117.1e:oatket'evlil ei "al hieXlikeile:iteltee:oiebl sartea. LioinfoAentfullt,pee:Sn' 4:11 et olnua'4dei dtt ifalJlt.soate' luPPonarzlellrYoyde:aasne4 outp:P;r41LsoNtlow2 sheuld say that Jae had committed this Murder," The boy had heeo eemmit- ctoerdetfoora aremtginrrnor SoeibfeQoulsee:oule tiele be - A PeiratY, who was present, eetcleittn- ed: "Why, that bo' is out of pris He was pardoued a little time ago f°. 91r good conduct." The deteedves hired a hack and drove as fast as Pessible to the Beath Boston Station. tenon ar- riving' theY found, that Jesse had bee brought to the station. DlateediatelYn theTyOOK OFF- THE BOY'S BOOTS And examined them. 'There was 'a break in the upper of the left 'beet in the ball of the boot, and a hanging piece which in shape and size corres- ponded to the indentations in the marsh mud; On the soles of both boots there was the pequliar tap which had attracted their attention in the im- pressions in the mud. They also found that the bottom of the boy's trousers were caked and stiff with dried marsh mad, evidently of recent date, and in- disputably: marsh and not street mud. SOMETIIIhIG URGED HIM ON. Pomeroy was take h to the undertak- ' er's and Wood held his head in such a position as to force hirn to look at the poor mangled body before him. "Oh, do you know this little fellow, Jesse?', The boy trembled violently, but did not answer. Wood repeated his quest - Lion again and again. Finally the boy got excited, ahd tried to wriggle away, but finding he could not, he said,: "‚Tes, I know hira." "Did you kill him ?" in a half sobbing way the boy said, "Yes, I did." "What made you do it?" "I don't know. Soruething told me to do it." "How long have you known hien?" "I never saw him un-, til yesterday morning, when I took him down on the marsh." "Where did you see him first ?" "He was playing on one of the lots near Dorchester ave- nue, South Boston, and I ASKED HIM TO COME WITH -ME." 'And how did you get him to go down on the marli?" "I told him Pa show him something." "And what did you kgi hint with?" "My knife." "Hoy' did you get the blood off your knife? The blades and the case of the knif were perfectly clean when it Was tak en from the boy's pocket at the sta tion "I stack it in the mud an washed it in one of the ditches in th marsh." rAnd had you no reaso for killing this little boy?" "No, bu something told me to do it." "Well when you started off with the boy the flats had you any intention of kill ing him?" "I don't know, I think meant to stick a knife into him, bo. I do not know whether I jntencted t kill him or net." CONFESSES ANOTHER DEED. After that Pomeroy would not sa another word, and the next dey, whe taken into Court, he pleaded no guilty. He was then committed t the Charles Street Jail, for the Sup erior Court. After he had been thre clays in jail Father Coole, the prison chaplain, visited the jail end had a long conversation' with the boy in hi cell-- During this conversation Jeese made a fun statement, and he gave Father Cook it plan of the cellar be neath his mother's store in South Bos ton, and told him that if they dug un- der the stairs they would find the body of Nellie Curran, a little girl aboun 5 or 6 years old,,who had, mys- teriously disappeared about three weeks before the murder of Horece Milien on the marsh. His mother had left him in charge of the store while she was u.beent making &erne purchases in the city. The little girl came in to buy some candy or some other lit- tle thing, and he told her he had some kittens downstairs he would show her. He opened the cellar door invit- ingly, and the little -girl stepped down in front of him. At the bottom of the stairs, he grabbed bar by the hair, and pulling herhead violently hack, he cut her throat. Then he buried 'the body under the stairs and covered it with ashes and rubbish - IMPRISON',ED FOR LIFE, Jesse Pomeroy is now in the State Prison at Cbarlestown, Mass., under a sentence of emprisonment in solitary confinement, He was 15 years old at he time of tbese murders, in April, 874, so that he his now been in prises for 25 years, and he is rapidly ut- ining middle life. He was fiest cc/l- e/ailed to be hanged., as the meclieal estimony brought in at the time C0r- fled that he was sane, although he had the, cruntnal defect ln naoral bal- ance, and was responsible for his acts. The whole country was excite.d over the cese on account of ite unusual atro- city larirn(.11bleblceonn°1eroleraslyi clVanO'lea rr the decision of the Court. Governor Gaston was overwhelmed with peti- tions for and remonstrances against the cotannufation of the •sentenee of • the Courn The matter was undecided wben ,Governor Rice sucoeeded to the head of the administration, but it was finally decided in Council in 1876 to change the decree of the' Court to soli- tary- imprisonment for life: TIIE VERY WORST SAILORS. •ARE THE MEN -0' -WAR OF THE: ORgAT W11TE CZAR. The MISSSIltit 11Titi/t Is tit a Wel Stale oIJu 011101ency - Men Drafted and h111" 101V 1311Ipathy bite Cause -Few Doellt Seau*es ti tbe bekvteei It has not beeo generally imagined" -not since Salamis at 1eastz-t13,at ate Asiatic (multi be dangerous on tile sea, Yet the Persian and the Turk hay,. beaten the Slav repeatedly. The Prus- Sian lacks the quick -eyed energy essen., tial to a good gunner; he ,does not move with sufficient celerity to make, a good saelor; and he 18 so uncomprom- isingly sullen that cheerful obedience perhaps the first requisite in time ot. trouble, is oot to be hoped for from, He has rto liking for a seafaring, life. The only subjects of Russia who, live along the sea are subjeets who would throw off Russian yule to -mor- row if they dared. The true leu,ssiten is an inland man. He is born on the, wide, waving steppe, He hates to bce cramped up in the email space on s board. Agana he fears the sea as he fears nothing elee on earth. His an- cestors had the same word for sea and death, and he regards the rolling wate ers with othe same awe. He will not get on his sea legs, let autocrats storm as they will. He is always drafted, or else he would not serve; and he re- gards a term of service in the fleet of his lawful lord and master, the Czar as a punishment. • STUPID AND SOTTISH. The Chief characteristic of the Muse covite man -ca' -war's man is stupidity, and this results in punishments ea - humiliating and degrading as they are frequently useless. Beyond obeying or trying to obey orders he has no ideas or ambitious ideals, and in no cir- cumstance is he capable of aoting On his own initiative. Sullen as a caged. beast, the Muscovite at sea never ex- . hibits a cheerful demeanor except when his extremely generous allow- , anep of grog, or rather the all -con- suming vodka, is served out to him, and his one serious purpose in life is to get as drunk as his commander. On shore he generally accomplishes this purpose, for he will save up his pay, for enonths in order to intiulge in a drinking bout with his mess -mates at some convenient port, and* actually calculates in advance hoW many glass - t es oe liquor his savings will buy. To O some little riumlei shopkeeper he will surrender his money after specifying the number of glasses he is to receive, „ and then sit him down to swilt and • swill Until the contract has been ful- t filled. It is nothing unusual in a Ruse e sten seaport; town to see an honest 'thy- _ ern keeper pouring glasses of riumki e down a sailor's throat long after he has drunk himeelf into a state o2.un conseiousness io order to make up tie O requisite total. DRAFTED RECRUITS REBELLIOUS Ear • her naval recruits she must - draw upon the Baltic coast, the shores - of Courleeed and the Battle provinces, so designated, and the Fhanish Sea ."-he line., In these regions.' are thousands and thousands of muscular fishermen, who, it would appear at a glance, possess all the reqairenaents for Crate crass men -o' -war's men.'but they are not Ressia.ns, nor have they any syin, pathy with the Slavonic race which ,goveras and, as theyput it, oppresses them. in origin and sympathy they are Geiman, the Finns excepted. They differ from the letts&ans in their rein, gion, and the treatment which they have received from the Czar's officiali on account of their strict adherence tn the Protestani faith is such that au unconeuerable hatred of the Muscovitn burns in their breasts. Thus, the Ter. exult from the Baltic loathes his in-. structors and superiors, because they ars the Slays who persecute him, so he holds, and 'suppresses or destroys hie churc,hes. He mey submit for the nonce to discipline, because his Teutonic in, • stincts urge obedience; but the duties of the seevice are performed by him in perlunctory, lietless way', which pre- cludes all idea of his effectiveness as a sea -fighter. Ile is totally without that pride in the service which distin- guishes the American or English man. o' -war's ra to above all others, anil witb eageiness he louks forward to the tome when he will be discharged and may return to his home to forget his' period of service in the iMperial marine. NO AMUSEMENT PROVIDIeD, In th Arne ic .11 n 1 English ial.v:0 as much aztention is paid to the env • ployme.nes of the mett in their' leisure hours as at other tiniest. Many forum of amusement are _permitted and the hours of recreation are respected as fax as possible without detriment to discipline, Mitt:lacy is rare,and many of ow: men improve their spare mo- menta to fit themselves for' highee sta. tione in the service. They read an4 write and appAciate the fact that sobriety is one path to promotion:- n the Ruesion man -o' -war's man, unable to read, write or think intelligently, has no recourse, in his spare time at sea. All he can do is drink and gam- ble,, as he saes his superiors doing when off , duty. CURE FOR INSOMNIA. Doctor, said he, rna, a vfetim of in - somata. I can't sleep if there's Um least noise-snch as a cat on the back fence, for instance. This powder will be effeetive, re- plied the physician, after compound- ing it preseription. ' When do I take it, doctor? You hlan't take IteeGiee it to„the' cat in a little milk. ALLOWANCES. • Mrs. Ca,dger. They tell me, Hen- rietta, that your husband is unkind to you. Mrs. Howes, Yes John is not very gentle in his manners, I musk adrait; bat there is one thing 2 will say for hiria-he never kicks up it rug or creases a tidy. • A SURE SIGN, leaks. That baby of yours ought to be a good tennis player later on. /Ones. What makes you think so? Jenks, oh, ,the wa/ he keeps up his racket. • DIDN'T WANT TO TALK SHOP, Accepted Suitor. And now, dearest, about tlie ring. What kind do - She, a telephone girl. 05, mercy met let s don't talk shop VERY SELDOM VISITS THE Mr. • ]Ds De 'Style. Has your baby cut any teeth yet? Mrs De leadhloh. Really, noW, haven't heard .the nurse say. DEAD. SHOT., Amateur SpOrtsitan. What, bring doeh, Pat? Pat. Yer dog, stir; blew his head all Amateur Sportsman, Where s bird? Pat. Picking at t e deg, mar, aie