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The Exeter Advocate, 1894-10-11, Page 71,1 Int SELECT STORY TELLER SHORT, WRIGHT FICTION, • lane Latest Stories By Popular Authors, Light Reading For the Young Men and Maidens, • A SNAP SHOT. „. • 0111TE PHILLIPPE 11s ROSNY, a good-looking bachelor of tol- erably easy fortune and morals, had taken to 'himself a wife at five And thirty years; not that he wanted a wife with any par- tieulax fervor, for love or pas - talon he had never known? but solely be- -cause it was th,e custom or the men of his Vrorld to marry at that age: Marriage, however, he found to be -bondag.e, and be was bored to death with Lt, when, approaching his fortieth year; he began to amuse and solace himself -with the pleaseres of photography—a so- lace suggested. to him by the accidental winning of a prime kodalt offered as a 'Trine by a certain journal of Paris to -which, for years, he had subscribed. He -tried it 3 the feyer seized him, and by the time he had exhau.sted the fifty plates -sent with the apparatus, the varied poses and temper of his cook, the patience of his dog, which alsaays moved and spoiled .a"slide " and of his wife and his friend, Vietor Tieroulier, he told himself that at last he hed found his road. From that mement his new-borzi pas- esion took on a character of selfishness, of :personal indulgence in his fad that swept the money from his pockets faster than -once had done the necessities of his stable ,of raeers training for the Grand Prix. ew afilms," new "baths," new 'object - Ives," or a patent "new" something or .other every day of the week, till finally, without the least shame in the world,he 'went to the length of downright refusing Alms. la Comtesse a new ball gown, say- ing coldly and bending his head unmoved to tb.e storm: "For the present, my dear, your old .gown. must answer. I have just bought • a new outfit; an mstantaneousa you :know." A pungent odor of chemicals pervaded the house—turned to a laboratory—from -mansard to cellar; koda,ks were in the :salon, tripods in the corridors; madame's .0\711. boudoir, even, seized to provide him 'with a dark'developing room—a seizure for which she avenged herself by passing • nearly all her time proraenading on the ...arm of his friend Vector, which, of course, set the tongues of the gossips wagging, ..,and was finally, this gossip, brought by a :friend. to the photographer's ears. "Yes," answered he tranquilly, "it is -true my wife and Victor take not the slightest interest in my experiments. But a -what they do, talk of, amuse themselves ar -with or approve of, is their own affair. ..Moreover, if they want to marry each .471her divorce, too, is theirs; but they must first arrangeto furnish me with a :pretext. I ask nothing better than to find myself alone again in my ow -n house, -with no one to mix up my bottles and -upset my proofs." But unfortunately for this philosophic -.husband, friend Victor took his ,precau- tions so carefully to conceal his nest of -.love, if nest of love he really had—for I „atm telling you in this history only of .what I myself know—that in common. „justice to all, this amateur of snap shots -could find. absolutely nothing of which to ecom.plaire Ons day, however—it is always the case --the lovers committed an .imprudence. Yielding to the solicitations of the ma- niac, they had consented to pose for him in the garden, in broad daylight, arm in ..arm with each other. And. while the :husband dallied in an interminable 'sighting" under his square of velvet, 'Victor, forgetting that he could see them .through his black chaanber, bent ardently -forward and dropped. a hasty kiss upon retie temptiug nape of the young wife's milk -white -throat. She uttered a stifled cry, but the opera - Neer under his black square never budged. "He saw nothing, thank heaven 1" -murmured, relieved., the two lovers -clasping tenderly each other's hands. They were wrong ; he had seen and was lleughing in his sleeve at the idea that had suddenly come to him, a capital ; farce! It amused him so much thee he upset his water bath and ruined his proof; 'but this time he didn't care; he had arther things at that moment than. ."apreofs" inhis head. ,_chat same morning at table, Victor, as -usual, lunching with them, De Rosily said to the eulprite : "In weather so beautiful as this the alight is simply superb to operate in the open. air. 'What do you say to going to - (morrow to eat a fritter at Bas-ieleudon ? I know a cabaret there Ou the river bank evith a glass -inclosed cabinet, just like a 'hot -house. When the boats pass down before us I'll be able to take a shot at 'them with my instantaneous without -meeting, or even deranging the napkin at tiny throat." . And as the day was still young and the .'others willing he set out at once, alone; .for the restaurant to select and rent a ..cabinet. It opened upon a glass -covered ; gralery so arranged, that it formed this gallery, a huge projecting window to the .embinet proper, anri overlooked a wide •expanse of sunny terrace stretching be- tween the cabinet and the river. le °th- ing emild have been better to his plan. lDe Rosny, delighted, demanded of the waiter: ly "This beautiful spot. Has no one ever ratteenpeed a photograph here? No? Eh I hien., then I'll try it to -morrow ; the verictures of some friends of mine. But eel's lieht is not right. I must change ib; it must some from above; yet if I cover • the -whole bay my picture will be too -blank. Bring me a blind, please. Eh? You have none? A curtain, then, a blue murtain preferred, like those I saw down- stairs as I entered." "In the billiard room, monsieur?" " Exactly, in the billiard room." And there, in his shirt sleeves, in the "brilliant sunlight, he worked for two hours arranging and rearranging his ,aurtains, whistling and humraina to him - ;self like a worker whose heart is it his -work, his mouth full of nails and ham- • mering away ardently Then he had brought up from the smoking room below ee,ti old sofa an aneient from a -eobinent prixtieuliar of some gilded city restaurant, sent to finish its days in the -obseurity of the outskirts. With his own hands he *beat and brushed and turned its cushions, knowing how careful his wife always was with her clothes, and install- ed ie invitingly in the corner of the bay directly teeing the entranee to the cabi- net so that it would be the firet thing - visible the moment the door opened• .. Back of the sofa he draped anotherbine -maintain to gave it the "prepared" effect of at- theatrical ''aeoessory," Stood a table the corner, with a braokee above it, an On the braeket again a ot of fieweriag palm, " Capital! Capital 1" he •murmured admiringly, and turned his attention next to the errangemeats in the eorridor, simply the cloaking of the exont spot on the floor where the camera tripod must stand,. getting the proper range of focus by seating the waiter on the diva o and fimshing the business by giving bim a Louis to held his tongue and keep the camera safe in a closet for him until to- morrow. " It le a surprise I am mauaging,".said he, to explain these proceedings 'not a word, not e whisper to a soul, mind you, of what has beau done 1" "The next morning at the moment of eaaing the boat that was to °eery him. to Basil Metalon, De Rosily stopped suddeu- ly, struck his hand to his brow and said to bie wife and Vietor "Heavens ! I have forgotten my acti- nometer. Go on without me. I'll run bacat and get it and. rejoin you in an. hoar." Be climbed to the quay again; waited till the boat had backed from the doek and passed from sight under the bridge ; entered. a neighboring cafe and scribbled hastily the following note ; "Actinometer out of order; must stop at a shop, Lunch .without me. 'Will reach you by 2 o'clock The SUM will still be high enough," The messenger bearing this note arrivecl just as the hun- gry turtle doves—for even turtle doves grow hungry if too long deprived of lunch —were growing thoroughly inipatient. "To table 1 To table at once, then 1" cried Vietor joyously, when this permis- sion. reached them. "And the menu 1" erica madams; "just see what he has ordered—lobster a l'Am- ericaine ! He thinks of everything!" And. the two convives fell to feasting with hearty good will, merry and amused. as two children on a lark. But pleased as they were, they Were still not half so pleased as the husband. behind the door. He had axst thought of waiting e reason- able tiane—an hour at least, say—before putting himself en route, fearing to ar- rive too soon ana give them warning. But impatience ,7,o1 the better of him ; the. train for Bas-Meudon had. hardly pulled into the station when he had leap- ed. the step. And there he was now in ambush, his camera in position, the "film" all in place, awaiting the propitious moment, his heart thumping and. bumping like a hunter's as, with finger on the trigger, he draws a bead upon his unsuspecting game. Through the keyhole he could see no- thing at all; De Rosny listened, then, his ear to the panel, drinking in greedily the sounds from the cabinet, the broken words, long silences, the shock of a spoon against the glasses, listening, half doubled over, twisting with laughter, his hand first at one ear, then at the other, and motioning the waiter, as for the last time he passed out with the dishes'to walk a -tiptoe in order not to hinderhis hearing. Decieledly Victor and his wife had a fine appetite; lobster salad, fritters, ices, the platters were all cleared. At last came the scrape of two chairs pushed back at the same time, then steps on the floor, a low, protesting plaint from the springs of the divan, a silence, a soft sigh. It was the instant. Quick as a flash de Rosny stood. up, pulled off with one hand the camera cover, with the other threw back the door, shouting his usual sacramental phrase : "Be still! Don't stir 1" It was 11 o'clock the night of that same day. The lamp in the Commissaire's of- fice was covered with a yellow paper, and with the tell-tale camera stationed be- tween them, the magistrate and Phillippe de Rosny, his liberty—hs thought so. at least—conquered at last, faced gravely each other. "Yes, 31. le Commissaire," said. he, "I insist upon developing the slide here in your presence in order teat its accuracy cannot be questioned; that no one,when. I apply for my divorce, as I certainly shall do at once, can possibly accuse me of having retouched it. The idea, yea pee, is such a new one, so thoroughly fin de sieele, perhaps, also, a trifle American. Instead of stupidly riddling the culprits with bullets from a revolver, I snap a; camera at them, and, viola! the thing is done." The Commissaire listened silently, his air e little thoughtful; the law sail no- thing; of a case like this, and. desiring to do his duty as his lights permitted him, the. Commissaire felt himself considerably perplexed.. "You are not afraid, then, monsieur," said he doubtfully, "of being accused of complicity with your wife and—er—her lover ?" "Complicity? How then ?" "Would they not, the two culprits, have torn themselves from each other's rums at your sudden appearance, unless —er —excuse me, monsieur, it is the law that questions thus—unless they posed. will ingly ?" The photographer smiled. a superior smile. "M. le Oommissaire, excuse me," said he, "I use an 'instantaneous,' the fiftieth part of a second suffices to 'catch' any- thing—" "Ah—h "Yes. a surging sea, a plunging- horse, the flight of a lard; but stay, the result is here; see for yourself?" And. with infinite precautions, he drew the slide from the frame and plunged it into the reservoir. The Commissaire bent to look over his shoulder; the opal of the gelatine was coloring, the image ap- peering— But suddenly the operator tore the proof from the bath, held it between him a,nd the lamp, gazed blankly a second and a strangled cry escaped his throat. Had they moved, had the camera not caught them, had the actonometer really refesed to work? Oh, no; worse than that. The picture was perfect; the window. the bracket, the flowering palm, the big blue curtain, so carefully arranged as a background for the scene only—the curtain, a solid blue wall, without a Wrinkle:, hung now in front of the divan. If Victor was kissing again (his De Rosny's wife) no One was the wiser, for no one could See it. in admiring him. People always at heart every reapeet that we could not 114 admire meat thoee qualities whish they do not possess, / Seymour believed i blood, He had a book of the peerage in his room, in which • the navies of some oa his relatives °our - red, and we used to acouse him dreading that OVerynight instead of lais Bible. We i delighted n staring. him up on the sub - m jeet of caste and soety. He was ready enough to talk of these things, and, xis- ing to feet, wonlci give us, with gyeatory movement, his anstocratie views,he would warn as solemnly above all things never to marry beneath us. He would give as various reasons why we should not do so, and cite eases of people who had failed to follow this citation:aria were miserable ever after. He would go on in this strain for several minute, until someone would laugh and delicately in- timate that he was i'anting. Then his broad English aorehead woala flush, lie would sit dove in hurt silenee, and his unprepossessing face would not relax for the rest of the evening. However, if we did make fan of him at times WO never- theless respected him thoroughly. • Besides ourselves, our establishment boasted of three other persons—first, our handsome man -of -all -work, Charles, who looked so mush like a gondol-min that we were constantly being amused for having people take him for one of us; but though his tailor was as good as ours, and. he was partieular about his cigars, we did not discharge him. As cook we employed Mrs. Blake, a nonnescript, ignorant sort of a woman. with a face like a nutcrack- er, and a clian,cterless mouth no wider 'than the blade of one of the knives she inserted into it at mealtimes. However, she made a good salad. Her daughter Bessie waited. on the table. The latter was a young girl perhaps eighteen years of age. I believe all of us considered her good looking, except Seymour, who said that he had never taken much notice of her face, but that her hands worried him when she was taking away his dishes at meals. They were too red, he thought, and tb.e fingers were stubby, and the nails looked as if she were in the habit of biting them. One day, though, he hap- pened to hear a remark of hers that inter- ested him. He and I were standing on the upper veranda, and almost directly beneath us lounged Bessie in our ham- mock, while Charles—supposed to be rak- ing the lawn—stood near her. She hap- pened. to be talking of me, and just after she mentioned my name we heard her say: " Oh, I don't call him so awful smart, Charlie. He don't say such clever things himself. It's a way he's got of spoiling bright things other folks say by cutting in with something mean and sarcastic." Seymour looked at me and laughed. "Old man, she's hit you to a T. I don't believe one of us could have done it so well, though of course we can recognize the description." Both of us looked at Bessie. Her heavy hair was the color of a brown, rain -wash- ed autumn leaf, and her eyes were of a peculiar shade, red -brown, as if live coals were burning under them. "It strikes me, don't you know," said Seymour, exitically, "thee her face 'is really refined as well as pretty. If she were not in service, one might almost take her for a lady." "Under other circumstances she might be so considered in this country," I re- plied.. "Her father was a clergyman, though her mother is what you see. "I wonder," Seymour said, as we walk- ed away, "if she would read some books, supposing I offered to lend them to her?" Seymour never mentioned the books again, but judging from the fact that Bessie's grauunar improved slightly; and that she carefully picked out the best of all our viands for the Englishman, I fancy she received and read the volumes, and profited by the talks he had with ir. It was amusing to watch Seymour when he first began to take notice of her. Ho came to the conclusion that she pos- sessed a fairly good mind, and he wanted to help her cultivate it, but he was much afraid she' amniat forget her place and presume on his kindness. However, she never did. She was grateful for his ef- forts in her behalf, and looked. up to him yet not with humility. There was a sort of dignity about her, always. All of us respected her. We aid not even try to patronize her. Some weeks after this we were all smoking out of doors when Sey- mour remarked. hesitatingly: "I say, you fellows, would you mind letting me have the library for an hour after dinner every night? Can't you take the smoking room ? You see, Miss Bessie is going to study a little with me every evening, and I thought—don't you know." We hastened to cover up his slight em- barrassment; that, is, all but the Donkey. We called this youth by that name,. because he had a distasteful way of stripping all adornments frora truth. and presenting it Gamely as it was. Along with this -habit he com,bined a penchant for devoting himself unnecessarily to other people's business, and a tendency to get himself and. the rest of us into awkward situations. Amused and grin- ning, he nail provokingly : "Miss Bessie! whew." "I call her Bessie when she is engaged in the duties for which we pay her," Seymour said, coldly; "but I fail to see why I should not treat her as a lady when her hours of work are over. I should think the idea was demoeratic enough to suit you." "Too much Browning, and belief that servant -maids, if pretty, have souls, hath made him mad," explained the Donkey kindly to us. "Consider her station," he moaned, turning to Seymour. "Oh, Seymour, don't disgrace us by twisting your aristocratic spine in stooping to a person of such low degree. People must keep in their places. You've said so yourself. Above all, let there be social distinctions, and. fellows, as you value your future happiness, never mar —" Here the chair of the Donkey slipped and tumbled him on the verandah, so I daresay the shrubbery got the benefit of the last part of his speeth. For several months this thing went on. We were really all beginning to stand in awe of the learned Bessie. We always carefully gave her and her tutor the use of the library for an hour or so every evening, and never did any of us intrude for more than a moment, except once. That time it was the Donkey. He was what we will generously call a little ex- cited, and he took a faney that he would like to smoke in the library. So he went in, and I followed him, ntending with Seymonr's help, to coax him out, if it could be done. "Guess It smoke in here," he said • easily to Seymour; "Bessie won't mind, • will you, Bess ?" and he carefully pulled loose etirl Which cuddled on her neck, There was a little cabinet near by, ful- of Japanese porcelains belonging to me, An EXperiMent in Sociology. Taking us as a whole, we six men who kept house 'weren't at all a bad lot. We picked tip that last expression from Sey- mour, who was English. I think we tacit- ly acknowledged him to be the head. of .our bachelor's hall, though he was a re- tiring fellow,enough and never remained any undue authority; bet he was very dignified, gracefully equal to every eniergeney—in short, so unlike ourselves As Seymour knocked the Donkey down the arm of the latter etrech this cabinet end pitched it over. I wailed that ehina and, it went to my heart to see it smash- ed. Seymonr WAS piekiag up the pieeee as Ilea the Donkey off to bed. An hour later Seyln011r 00,1110 to rae in ray own room and said quietly: "Old. man. I don't know what you'll thiak, but I'm going to marry Bessie, She is to attend school for a year, aed, then, the wedding will be in Willie." I was going to ask him if he had. eousidered dozen things, but instead I congratulated him. If Bessie B141E0 WaS to be airs. Sey- mour, daughter-in-law of Sir George Somme, Bart., of course we were going to overlook her mother, and ber finger nails, and the diniug-room serviee and everything else, Bessie went to stay at a house near by, and there Seymour just about lived," as the Donkey phrased it. I never saw a man so happy as Seymourwas the month she was there. I suppose joy, or a little pleasurable exeitement will improve the looks of any of us, but I never realized now raueh of that is possible until I saw old Seymour's plain face fairly glorified by his gladness. Each day of the month she was m her new home he grew hap- pier, He could not seem to get used to his happiness, either, One afternoon Mrs. Blake came to me, white and whimpering: "I wish you'd tell Mr. Seymour." she walled, it's about Bessie. You see he's been awful good to her, and she thought elle could marry him; he knows such a deal, and she's not without ambition herself. But she's been teachin' Charles all he taught her, and she's always liked Charlen and maybe Mr. Seymour ought to have looked higher, and she don't want to seem un- grateful, and she hall thought she liked him best, but when Charles talked to her yesterday why she knew she liked him best. And she thought Mr. Seymour might get tired of her some day, and Charles will set up a store, and maybe they're better suited to each other—" She rambled on in this way for some time but finally I gathered from her at- temPted explanation. that Bessie intended to marry our man Charles. So I was to tell Seymour. I would have giveu a good deal to have delegated the task to someone else. It was. a long time before I could summon up courage to go to him, and then all my ideas left me, and I couldn't think what to say. I had a hard time breaking it to him, but he was plucky, like a true Briton and did not make a scene. All he said was: "I wish he were somebody else's servant; but he's a handsome fellow. Some people prize that sort of thing above brains. And I fancy blood does not tell after all. I believe I'll go back to the old theory." And he actually whistled as he walked upstairs with his usual steady step. But he did not come down to dinner. THE PREACHER'S TRIAL. AN INTERESTING CHAT WITH THE REV. W. J. CHAPIN: In the Strain of Public Labor He Had Overgrown His Health Account—How He Met the Crisis and Returned th His Duties with Renewed Health. From the Sprin-fieid IU., Journal. In the pretty village of Chatham, there lives a Baptist divine whose snow white hair is the one outward sign that he has encroached upon the days beyond the allotted three score years and ten. His elear eye, keen mental faculties and magnificent physique all bear witness to a life well spent. This pioneer in God's eternal vineyard is Rev. W. J. Chapin, whose seventy-two years are crowded with noble deeds in the Christian min- istry.. To a jot -renal representative who asked him something of his, career in the minis- try, Mr. Chapin talked in an interesting strain, and saill that, in spite of the in- dications to the contrary, his life hall not all been sunshine and good health. "As my present appearance testifies, I was fortunate in the possession of a very vigorous constitution. Bat as is too often the case, I overestimated. my physi- cal resources, and when it was too late learned that I had overdrawn my health account. The crisis came about eighteen years ago. At that time I was preaching the gospel from the pulpit, and I became suddenly so ill that I was compelled to stop before my sermon was finished. It was a bad case of nervous prostration, and. for a time my friends and family -were greatly exercised over my condition. Complete rest was imperative, and Mrs. Chapin and I planned and took a long trip. aly health was sufficiently restored to resume work, but I was not the same man. I felt absolutely worthless physi- cally and mentally. I -had so lost control of my muscles that my fingers would in- voluntarily release their grip upon a pen, and my hand. would turn over with absolutely no volition on my part. About two years ago, to intensify matters, I was seized -with a severe attack of la grippe. I recovered. only partially from it and had frequent returns of that in- describable feeling which accompanies and follows that strange malady. I look- ed in vain for something to bring relief and finally I read an aecount,of Dr. Wil- liams' Pink Pills for Pale People. Some- thing seemed to tell me that they would do me good and I commenced using them. They gave me additional strength from the start, and toned up my system from a condition of almost absolute prostration so that I was able again to resume my duties as a minister. The improvement was simply marvellous and the credit is:due Dr. Williams' Pink Pills.s". Chapin was present during the conversation and said: "I don't think Mr. Chepin could ever have resumed his preaching after he had the attack of la grippe had it not been fax Pink PilIs. They did him so much good that I de- cided to try their efficacy on myself. I have been troubled for years with what our physician, Dr, .Elewitt, called rheu- matic paralysis, and since taking the Pink Pills I have been stronger and the pain in my right ann and hanci is less acute. we keep the pills in the house all the time, and they do me a great deal of good in the way of toning up my sys- tem and strengthening me." - In all eases like the above Pink Pills offer a, speedy and certain care. They a,ct direetly upon the blood and nerves. Sold by all dealers, or sent by naafi post- paid, on receipt of 50 Cents a box, or $2.50 for 6 boxes, by addressing the Dr. Willierns Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont., or Schenectady, NS, Beware of. sub- stitutes and nostrums alleged to be "jtist as good" Call at this office for neat job printing. FROM THE UNITED STATES DOING'S ACROSS TlIE LINE. Uncle eanes Broad Acres Furnish. Quite a Few Small Items that Ace Worth a Varela' Reading. Three French warships are at New York. Bourke Coehran, Tammany Hall's great orator, is arming his voice. Three inches of snow fell in northern, Minuesota, on Sunday night. Jaeltsonville is "still cut off from cam- matnication with South Florida, The United. States public debt inereas- ed 88,052,701 during Septeraber. The grand jury at Obioago has entered fifty indictments against gamblers. • The undergraduates of Princeton Uni- versity have voted to abolish hazing. A lady in Macon, Ga., rejoices in the possession of a new baby weighing forty pounds. The striking clothing workers of Boston have won a complete victory over the contractors. It is reported at Washington that over 15,000 seals have been captured. this sea- son on the islands of Alaska. Mrs, William K. Vanderbilt and her children have arrived at NowYork. Mrs. Vauderbilt declined being interviewed, Tom Moore and Eugene Fulks were executed on. Saturday at Paris, Texas, for murder committed iu Indian territory. Ptof. David Swing died, in Chicago Wednesday night of acute blood poison- ing, brought on by an attack of jaundice. President Cleveland has proclaimed am- nesty to all Mormons convicted of poly- gamy who have o eyed the proclamation of Jan., 'N. Mrs. Jane Lathrop Stanfordhas handled 61,575,000 belonging to the Stanford es- tate at San Francisco between june, '93, and September '91. The coal miners and porters at Massil- lon, Ohio, have agreed to submit their differences to arbitration. There is mach rejoicing at the end of the strike. ja,cob Hurst,convicted at Buffalo of illegally obtaining naturalization papers, has been sentenced to six months at hard labor in Erie county penitentiary. General Secretary Baer, of the United Society of Christian Endeavor, announces that the international convention of 1895 will be held in Boston instead of San Francisco. Miss Lucille Doss, daughter of an hotel proprietor at Courtland, Alabama, the other night cowhided T. H. Abraham, a prominent merchant, until the man begged for mercy. .A. Mrs. Pierce, of Rock Springs, Wyora- in 0., claims to be the eldest daughter of the late Jay Gould, by his first wife and threatens to resort to the courts unless some of the wealth is handed over. Tuesday night's cyclone wrecked near- ly the whole business portion of Little Rock, Arkansas. The State insane asy- lum was wrecked, two patienes instantly killed and others seriously injured. Whils "brandyang" peaches in New York on Friday night, miss Nettie Lee, daughtar of Millionaire Henry W. Lee, was severely burned, owing to the upset- ting of a pan full of brandy on a hot stove. The United States grand jury at San Francisco has returned forty indictments against strikers on a charge of entering into a conspiracy to obstruct United. States mails and interfere with interstate com- merce. George Appo, the green goods worker, whose evidence against the New York police caused a sensation, was found with his throat cut from ear to ear. He sa,ys that Mike Riordan, another green goods dealer, cut him. The men are out on bail. The coal miners and operators of Mas- sillon, 0. have agreed to submit their dif- ferences to a board of arbitration. The men will probably go to work on Tees - day next, pending the board's finding. There is much rejoicing at the end of the strke. MISS WILLARD'S IDEAS ARE FIXED. In answer to many questions, Miss Francis E. Willard has sent the following; despatch to a white ribbon leader in Can- aria, " Concerning total abstinence, prohibition and woman's ballot, my opinions are fixed as the law of gravita- tion. Politicians try to make it seem otherwise for their own purposes," Several more of the Boston clothing contractors signed the agreement sub- mitted by the striking garment workers Saturday and furnished bonds. Others have signed and expect to have their bonds approved. by th.e first of the week. The contractors are slowly giving in, and. a complete victory for the strikers seems assured. It is believed all the strikers will be back at work by Wednesday night. The children of the late Jay Gould and the executors of his estate have procured an order from Justice Lawrence, of the Sapreme Court requiring the tax corn- nnesioner of the city to show cause why they should not remove the tax assessed against them. They claim they are not residents and are not subject to personal tax. A similar proceeding which they brought some time ago has been hanging fire, and. they now ask to have the matter disposed of. SUGAR NEN ARE INDICTED. The grand jury at 2 o'clock Monday ab Waslaington, D.O., brought in indict- ments agaanst Henry 0. Havemej er and John E. Searles, of the Sugar Trust, and Allan L. Seymoor, of the stock brokerage firm of Seymour G Young, for refusal to answer questions of the Senate Sugar Trust Investigating Committee. The grand jury also brought in an indictment against Mr. MacArtney, of the law firm of Carson & MacArtney, this last, how- ever, merely to perfect a previous report. All of the eases will come up fax argu- ment on demurrers on October 12. A sensation e as created in. Terre Haute, Ind., Saturday when it was learn- ed that George Roberts, Fred, Epperl, Charles Miller, William Tully and Wil- liam Sonrwine were guilty, according to a confession mt de by Robertsi of turnuig the switches, wr“cking the Big Four pas- senger train at Fontamet, fourteen. miles °int of that city, on the night of Ally 12, when both the engineer and fireman were killed. Epperl, Miller and Tully have been in jail since Friday, and Sour - wine was arrested at Fontainet at mid- night Friday. Reberts' confession ex- onerates Ed. Holloway, who has been in jail three months, charged with the crime. HE WAS TIONE67`. And Deplored the Rascality of the Age, to Wblcb 11 a Lived. "Eforiesty in polities?" said it mare who was dieing at the table next the window. "Huh, there isle% any stiela thing. That% a fiction thee was played out long, long' ag.o. Nowadays, it is the man with the biggest fortune who gets the OfaCeS, 1 teli yon thee this country has reaehed a de- plorable state of morals." "Plow's that?" asked the man. who sat across from him, "-Why, there is no horiestyin business, social or political life. The elections are crooked, The Vilest sort of schemes are resorted to in order to get votes. Men are openly bribed. Men who get into office steal everything they can get their hands on. It's the same way inbusiness too. Yon can never tell when to trust a man. People you have dealt with for years do not hesitate to do you up if they get a, chance. They sell you poor goods at high prices, They use all sorts of dis- lion.est means to get your trade, and When they get it they at onee proceed to get even by el.:eating you. And in soelety— why, society is rotten to its core. Honesty is as scarce as purity. There is nothing that is too mean for these people who pretend to be the leaders of the social sets. I am disgusted with the whole busi- ness. I had a good mother who tau&ht me to be honest and I have always tried to live up to her teachings. I can lock any man in the faee and say that Tam an honest man. But— Let's get out of lone and back to the office." His frienll picked up the cheek ana passed it over to him. As he did so he remarked: "That fool of a waiter has made a mistake of 69 cents in our bill. "Too much?" inquired the honest man. "No;• too little." The honest man grabbed his hat. "Hurry up," he said, -"and perhaps -we can get one of here before he finds it out. That's just so much money saved." TRANSATLA.NTIC DOINGS. ALL ROUND THE GLOBE. Pointed Paragraphs .Practically Putter Busy Beings to Obtain an Intelligent Idea of Foreign Facts. Nimes, France, wants bull fights. The Oorean war has caused a scarcity of silver in Japan. The Czar's physicians disagree as to the nature of bis George Turner will be Premier of the new Ministry in Victoria. The Italian cruiser Piedmonte has been ordere,d to Japanese waters. East Prussians will tender a Monster ovation to Bismarck October 20. The city of Sagua, Cuba has been flooded and many residents downed. Sir Julian Pauncefote, British .Ambas- sador, will return. to Washington Novem- ber 15. Mr. Gladstone has written another letter announcing his cohesion to local option. The reserves of the Imperial Guard of Japan have been caned out for active service. ICiviatowsld has been sentenced. at Kid to life imprisonment in Siberia for treason.. Sir Henry Frederick Ponsonby, private secretary to Queen Victoria, has resigned his position. -Wholesale arrests of German non-com- missioned officers, on charges of Social- ism, have taken place. A. serious fight between Armenians and Turkish officials and gendarmes has taken place at Toka.t, Turkey. The Czar of Russia is so ill that his physicians say his life cannot be pro- longed for more than a few months. Lord Edward Pelham Clinton has sue: eeeded the late Gen. Sir John C. Cowell as blaster of the Queen's Household.. Professor Leyden, the Berlin. specialist, says that the condition of the Czar is not sucb as to justify immediate anxiety. The value of the cargo of the Britith steamer Doranda, whieh went ashore at Penichi, is estimated at over $1,000,000. In recognition of his eommanding po- litical genius, an eccentrie old lady has left Lord Randolph Churchill her man- sion and estate in Oxfordshire. Owners of tb.e British steamer Pathan., seized off the Island of Formosa, by a. Chinese warship, claim through the Bri- tish Government the vessel's release and compensation for her seizure. The primate of Spain is about to issue a pastoral against the late consecration of a Protestant bishop and church in. Madrid, claiming that those acts are an infringement of t3in rights of the Spanish. episcopate. Mr. Gladstone is out in a letter affirm- ing his adhesion to local option, though, he says, he hoped further steps might have been ta,ken to cope with the fri.,,cia.t- ful evils of drink. This letter from the ex -Premier has restored the equa,nimity of the temperance people, the ornatins of • which advoeated the issue of an -ultima- tum by the Goverum.ent on the subject. The statement contained in a cable despatch received inLondonthat the war- shipMaine, of the 'United States navy, having made 17.55 knots, had provsd. herself the lfastest vessel of her class in the world, is denied. Clyde builders as- sert that the new Spanish cruiser of it, similar type to the Maine, though with heavier armament, lately built on the. Clyde, had resently made 21 knots. Archbishop Croke, of the diocese of Cashel, in an interview during the past week, said that he thorouzhly agreed with the views expressed in the recent letter of Dr. Thomas A. Emmett, presi- dent of the Irish National League in America, to Mr. Justin McCarthy, in which the writer strongly eondemn.ed the public discussion of dissensions which might arise in the party. The advice of Dr. Emmett seems to have been taken,, for throughout the week the voices of the leaders have harmordzed on most points., and internal dispalcm have not been heard. Mrs. Henry Irving is an Irishwoman„ as her maiden name, O'Callithen, effectu- ally proves. She lives very quietly in London with her two tOilS on the $5,000 a year whieh her distinguished actor lits - band allows her. ThePope's income amounts toe4,90,00Ch yearly, exclusive of special gifts like those of hiS itibilee year. Peter's Pence provide two-thirds i:/f the erriount, the remainder being the interest of VO,riOne:,, investments.