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Hie Advance. A. I'. MILLER, Publisher. WORTH INGTON, MINNESOTA^ The first gold coin of the United States was made in 1795. A whole yean has elapsed since the Chicago anarchists perpetrated their awful crime, and they are apparently no nearer to punishment than they were at the outset of their murderous enterprise. The supreme court has under consideration^ motion for new trials, and no one seems to know when the decision will be- rendered. Nearly 12,000 persons left Ireland last month for this country and Can ada, and the May emigration is cer tain to dwarf that of April. The Poles, Bohemians, Italians, and oth er races that have been gaining on the Celts lately, will have to bestir them selves to beat such a stream of settlers as that which Erin is pouring into th® New World at present. Prof. Wiley, of the agricultural de partment, has just issued his report on the adulteration of dairy products* He says: Tlie chief adulterants used as far ns commercial purposes are concerned are "Oleo oil," fat from pork, commonly known as ''neutral lard," and cotton seed oil. It is ex tremely easy to detect these adulter ants, owing to the iarge quantities used to make adulteration profitable. A new and extraordinarily fine var iety of asparagus has just been dis covered on the steppes of Akhal-Tekiz recently annexed by Russia. Though growing perfectly wild, it attains a size unknown in civilised countries, The stalks are said to be nearly as thick as a man's arm, and they grow to a height of live or six feet. This asparagus is tender and delicious in flavor. One stalk will supply ten Russian soldiers with all they can eat. On the Public Service Review a new weekly published by the Harpers, Ad miral Torter predicts that within two years "our people will demonstrate to the world that they are capable of doing all their own shipbuilding, not only for private individuals, but for the government as well, and that, notwithstanding the boasted suprem acy of Great Britian, we can turn out as good work and furnish better material than can be found in any part of Europe, except, perhaps, Sweden." The New York Saturday half-holi day bill has been signed by the gover nor. No one is likely to object to the act becoming a law. as its provisions iamount to little more than sugges tions, save that one causing public offices to be closed. In future em ployers and employes can arrange as to whether no distinction shall be made between one day and anothdr. As a sample of permissive legislation the bill is perfect. It really enacts that if mutually convenient and agree able business, may be suspended on Saturday afternoon. The understanding of people in gen eral is that Russia, head-over-heels in debt, finds it difficult to raise money to keep the wheels of government moving. The history of the most recent attempt at St. Petersburg to raise money disproves this and indi catesquite a different state of facts. It was at first proposed that the new -poplar loansliould be about $30,000, 000. Subscriptions were called for, and on the 12th ultimo it was an nounced that ten times the sum re quired had been offered. Three days jlater dispatches from St. Petersburg stated that the enormous sum of $1, 200,000,000 had been offered, and that thegnvernment would take only $60. 000,000. In the overshadowing interest of the Irish struggle, a bill now before the English Parliament that affects one of the most characteristic of Eng lish institutions has escaped much attention in "this country: It is the 80»called Land Transfer bill, which has passed its second reading in the •House of Lords, oi which one of the chiefly note-worthy effects is the for faial and final destruction of the prin ciple of primogeniture in English law. [While largely concerned with certain far-reaching improvements of detail in registration, conveying and prov ing titles, the Land Transfer bill pro vides finally that land in case of in testacy shall be inherited in no wise differently from personalty, and for bids in future the entailing of real es. tate. With these provisions it puts a conclusive limitation to the devices by which great estates have been so irrevocably held together for cen turies, and by which land has been made the perpetual barrier of the classes against the masses from gener al ion to generation. The shoe factory of Cushman & Co., at Auburn, Me., is now conducted on the profit-sharing plan and has just distributed 4 per cent, on the wages .earned to its workman. A workmen whose earnings amounted to $400 a year received $16 of the profits and one whose earnings were $500 receiv ed 20. This share is not large it might be more liberal. Still, it is a beginning—and that is something. A tinning establishment in Chicago— Notton Brothers—has done better, dividing 7. 7 per cent, among its work men. The Nelson Manufacturing company of St. Louis has distributed 5 per cent, of its profits among its .employes. The New England Granite Work of Westerly, Mass., has placed Itself on the profit-sharing basis, and will shortly declare its first dividend. The Toledo, Ann Arbor and Northern Railroad company have taken their employes into partnership by much stOQk a rule that gives to each one in the service five years a dividend on his wages, every man's year's wages constitute |0 in the company, GENERAL NEWS NOTES. LumUwhs u4 O'Brle*. The O'Brien meeting at Toronto was very large. Ey«ry utterance from the stand was boisterously interrupted. There was some incidental violence, but the expected gen "oral riot did not materialise* Mr. O'Brien in his speech defiantly demanded an an awer from the Marquis of Lansdowne. Lord Lansdowne, subsequently, on being asked whether he was willing to make any statement for publication in the United States, said: "Mr. O'Brien was speaking on defective information." It was inac curate to say that be (Lansdowne). had ever borrowed money from tho British government in 1881, and loaned it at higher percentage to his tenants. He denied that he had ever been disposed to treat his tenants harshly, and had in vestigated every case of alleged unjust treatment, and would hare continued to do so had not the land league interfered, llis policy toward his tenants was one of moderation, though at times at a consider able sacrifice on his own part. In regard to the accusations made against his grand father in 1847, they wore wholly uutrue, for not only had the revenues declined, but the population was depletsd, and those families on his estate who desired to emi grate had their expenses paid out ot his pocket, while those who remained were maintained almost wholly at his grand father's expense. Trsgle fend of Preach S»blem*A ktfc ftwtoir. A dispatch from Boston sftvB th&t Ah unknown Frenchman in a hightUte of ex citement. only partly tfr^SB&dy boarded ah outgoing New Vo*k train, saying that his daughter WAS'6n board running away with A man. He found his daughter In com pany with an elderi^ womAtl. She refused to go with Wm Anu he threw himself be neath thi Vvheeia while the train was going fifty miles an hour and was instantly Jiill ed. His indetity wasuukndVrn. It ia since learned that the iV.&'n was Count De La Tourasae, member of an old and noble fttmijy that he was an notary and attor ney in France, ruined by a passion fpf gambling, and fled to this country-. He left Franco a defaulter, and "in this country lived under an aaflttitted name with a woth nn not his wife. He s6nt for his daughter, and when she found but thfese facts she started to retttrA %6 Paris. This was what caused hini to take his life. .. During the past few montlis the C., B» fe N. R. R. from St. Paul to Chic- hits had a blank coupon Attached to its adver tisement in the daily papers of the twin cit ies. This blank was to be filled out with the sender's name and mailed to Gener&J Passenger Agent Kenyon. This method was introduced to ascertain how many people lead the advertisements in the pi pers. As prizes, five subscriptions each ,tA the daily papers and twenty tickets td Chicago Were set aside to ba uiven to the holders of the lucky tickets, each of which was numbered. Owingto the removal of all passes because of the interstate commerce law, the result is extremely gratifying. Aside from this it shows ooneluaively that thopuhlicreads theadverVisements. Out of a combined circulation of 81,625 copies, 22,054 replies to the advertisements were received. Viscount Cranborne, member of parlia ment, and oldest son ol Lord Salisbury, was married to Lady Cicely Alice Gore* daughter of tho earl of Arran. The prints and princes of Wales were among those present. Lord Middleton will d«U the famous deer forest of Applecross in 'West Rosshire, Eng., r.6*t month. It extends over 70,000 acres. Fire at La^rert Mass., destroyed the °I1 Np-. 1 Washington mill, owned by ttd'erick W. Low ell. It was of brick and nine stories high. LOEIS, $75,000 insured-. Dr. McGlynn, it is said, has been given forty days in which to appear at Rome be fore Pope Leo. If he does not go he will be excommunicated John D. Rockefeller, president of the Standard Oil Company, says the verdict against the Buffalo conspirators was a "great surprise" to him. It is probable that other surprises of the same kind are in store for Mr. Rockefeller. John E. Burton, C. R. Lathrop and John Kennedy of Milwaukee incorporated the Hidalgo Smelting company. The capital stock is $5,000,000, divided into 200,000 shares ol $25 each. The office of the com pany is to be in Milwaukee, while the works are to be located in the City bf Mexico. The purpose is to mill, smelt and mine ores in the United States and Mexico. Ma}. Charles S. Warren of Butte has been appointed right of way agent for the Montana Central from Boulder to Butte and Anaconda, which means that the lines will be built immediately to Anaconda. The grand jurj/ of Morris county, New Jersey, lias found fourteen indictments against Richard George, his son William Geoige, an assistant superintendent the contractor, John Rosewarne, all connect ed with the And over Iron company, for embezzlement. It is said that they" have embezzled about $1GO,000 of the money of the iron company. The largest single transaction in real estate ever made in St. Louis was a pur chase by a syndicate of New York capital ists ot the St. Louis university property on Washington avenue. The sum paid was $687,734 yielding the owners $225, 000 profit, they having purchased it less than a year tigo. The controller of the currency has desig nated the lo"llowing as reserve banks: Cit izens' National Bank of Davenport the Valley National Bank of De Moines, Iowa First National Bank of Lisbon, Dak. First National B&nk.of Helena, Mont. Second National Bank ol Helena, Mont. First National Bank of Cedar Falls, Iowa Ce dar Rapids National Bankof Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Merchants' National Bank of St. Paul, Minn., and the First National Bank of Monroe, Wis. It has been decided by Assistant Secre retary Maynard that it is in violation of the law against importing labor under contract ^to employ Canadians to work on this side of the border. The state railroad commission say the railroads have the right to make reduced rates for excursions. Col. John Banfil died at Bayfield, Wis., aged seventy-six. He was one of the ear ly settlers of St. Paul, and the first settler and founder of Manomin- now Fridley—a member of bur first state sonate. He serv ed in the Florida war. In the early days of Minnesota he was one of the prominent men of the territory—energetic, enter prising, and highly esteemed for his un yielding integrity ahd sterling worth. The gopher bounties paid by the Dakota ccunty treasurer for the week ending the 13th amounted to $147.67. A coal house and sheds and the United States Express company's warehouses at Albert Lea were burned. Loss, $1,200. A trip over the Carleton college grounds at Northfield reveals the following improve ments: The new observatory building is rap idly nearing completion, the grounds are be ing graded and put in line condition. The i.ew building will have two steel domes,the best that can be made. The instrument in the old building will occupy the smaller dome and will be put in place very soon. The old observatory building will be used lor the library and moBt of the books are there now* A lady cf Minneapolis has purchased the very rare cabinet of ge«locical specimens collected by Dr. H. C. Hovey and presented them to Carleton. This, with the collection from Missiouri, which was presented by the same ady, makes the best cabinet in the North west. The will be placed in science hall, in the space vacated by" the library. The Michigan senate passed the iron-clad oleomargarine bill, making it a misde meanor to manufacture the commodity in Michigan. Grocers selling it or hotel keep ers furnishing it to guests must exhibit a placard prominently stating the fact, or be liable to from six months to one year's imprisonment and from $100 to $500 fine. Dakota crop reports of the 19th, show the damage from high winds in western and central Cass county to be about.10 per cent., and in the northern part of the county 25 to 30. The Grandin farm is damaged 30 per cent., and the Western Traill 33%. Lisbon and Wahpeton report the damage slight. Jamestown,Carrington. Devils Lake, Steele, Bismarck and Dickin son report cropB uninjured and an increase of aereage. In Minnesota, Warren, Hal stead and Campbell report 30 per cent, damage, while Lake Park and Verndale report no injuries whatever. The recent frost has. injured the crops in the immedi ate vicinity ot Fargo from 3 to 5 per cent, Graff, Bennet & Co., iron manufactures at Pittsburg who asked for an extension from their creditors four years ago, and received it, anticipated all the unmatured indebtedness by paying to P. Harvey Mil er and John R. McCune, trustees for their creditors, $556,000 in cash. Their indebt ness at the time ot the failure was $1,250. 000, "J '. Not sinee the forest fires of 1871 have the lumber districts of northern Michigan and Wisconsin suffered by fire as now. West of Michigamme five construction camps of the Duluth, South Shore & At lantic road burned-. Two lumber camps were also bitrned. Over 4 million feet ot standing pine have been destroyed. The people ot Champion and Michigam me vil lages of 3,000 and 1,500 respectively, are fighting in the flames to save the towns. Baraga, Mich., Is in danger. Fires are burning near L'Anse. Calumet. Ne-' gaunre, Antrain, Republic, Three Lakes, Metropolitan and other villages. The losses will be up in the hundred thousands. Paymaster Bush, who was found guilty of carelessness by the court of inquiry at Fort Robinson for permitting himself to be robbed of $7,500 in government funds by'the cowboy, Charley Parker, has made good the amount lost. Senator Logan's widow has never recov ered from the shock occasioned by the gen eral's death. She goes daily to tho vault where his coffin is deposited at the Wash ington cemetery. The critics ot the civil service act who have complained that the effect of the new rules will be to cause aome of the present clerks to tall back to lower grades do not admit that such an operation of the rules would, in many, cases, Bimply be some instances all that ..--tTi-uTi ir."» There is one division,at ierist Irt Which first* second attd third-fetyis blerfci tto tnO samfc wdrk. Ih&bnW ol(1the divitj ions, tlerlts are jiaid ttAly $?00 do as good A ork iip those Who receive $1,600. Some ol the second and third-class clerks are hot competent to ao work in their proper grades. Senator James Beqk of Kentucky was in Chicago, a few days ago. He said: While lie had voted for the interstate law,he was not as much in favor pf lit theft lis he is now He ^9 come ^o Ihe conclusion that J-he new law is a beneficial one, much more than he had anticipated, and hereafter he will be a strong champion of it. He Is especially impressed with the power of the new law in putting an end to eertaiiV irtoftojv olies, tue prtncipAl 6i\e being the Standard Oil tt6,ittpany, which .will hereafter be de prived of niahy benefits it now enjoys, for the frailw&ys will no longer be able to pay leeret irebates of 40 per cent of the rate re ceived for freight. .. .. The will of the late Hon. A. C. DePauw, was probated The estate is valued at$7,000,000. He gives $lt000-,000joint ly to his wife and tjkttfchtelr, $32,QOO And $38tp00 respectively^Iri bail) to his tw6 sons besides lands. The D'ePaiiw univer sity bf Greencastle. Ind:, gets $200,000 And various churches,.missionary societ ies and charitable institutions the balance Of the estate. The grand lodge, Knights ot Pythias of Montana, at the third annual, meeting el ected the fbllowirtg. t'J. A". Walker, past granj 'chancellor: J. E. Richards, Butte, grand chancellor: A. J. Seligman, Helena, vice chancellor John G-. Evans, Butte, grand keeper of seals and records. Fifteen men hold np a train in Texas, ii tiraid&te the passengers and secure over $4,000 in cash. Abner G. Cody, one of the most expert passers of counterfeit mony in the United States, has been arrested near Painted Post. He is seventy-two years old, and has been in the business stnee he Was six teen years old.. Government officers hav6 been hunting llini for ten years'. Griice teilie, leading, lady of the Kate Uaetletbn Troupe, was instantly killed iri a railroad accident near Denver. Six persons have beeh killed and robbed ,n the vicinity of Ordran, a small town in ustria Silesia, by a man who was recent released from prison. At the close of the visit of Bishop Ireland to St. Thomas seminary St. Paul, Rev. Mr- Convyt a student irt the deacon's pir: dcr, tendered the bishOfi.a welcome of tl& students. During hid &ojouril abroad Bish op Ireland purchased itiany thousand val uable works-, wliich he haft presented to the seminary library. At Weils, 4 yoting man named Charles Gooding Was assaulted by Gottlieb Was chk while crossing the land of the latter. Waschk threw a heavy sharp-pointed file at Gooding, which entered his back below the the shoulder blade, cutting and ugly wound and piercing the lung cavity. Good ing lies in a critical condition and Waschk is in jail in default of $1,500 bonds. The marriage of Miss Helen, eldest daugh ter of ex-Lieut. Gov: Oilman of St. Cloud, to George S. Rankin of Stillwater is an nounced to occur early in June. W. W. Williams, late editor of the stand ard of Albert Lea, has been appointed weigh master and John Heising inspector of wheat, both with headquarters at Minn eapolis. W. P. Clough, Northern Pacifis counsel, resigns to go to the Manitoba company. The Westminister Presbyterian Chtirch of St. Paul accepts the resignation of Rev^ C. C. Herriott It. R. Briggs, a prominent attorney of Morhead, is dangerously ill bf typhoid pneumonia. .The Reform Schbol Commission in ses sion at St. PauK reconsidered the vote by Which the school was located at Red Wing and commenced to vote again on the towns to be choBem The informal ballot tttood: ShakOpee, 3 Hasting, 3 and Red Wing, 3. But when the last formal ballot was taken there were eix votes for locating the school on the Spates farm at Red Wing, and that settled the contests The farm has about 600 acres of land, valued at $20,000. A resolution was unanimously passed to pur chase it. The buildings to be erected upon it will comprise sixteen in number, and cost about $200,000. l"he following appointments have been made in the general land office: George K. Bradford of Louisiana and Richard C. Wintersmith of Kentucky, fraudulent land entry agents John Mason of Virginia and Authur Grabowski of Georgia, timber de pred&tion. agents Pat Sheedy has stated to a correspond ent in Rochester, N. Y., that Sullivan will fight Jake Kilrain for $5,000, the fight to take place in some park or building, the winner to take two-thirds of the gate re ceipts, and no more than six rouuds will be fought. The story hardly seems prob able, as the challenge is for prize ring rules and six rounds would be a pretty short fight. It is understood that the sentence of dis missal awaits Lieut. J. H. G. Wilcox, Troop A, Seventh cavalry, recently tried by court martial at Fort Snelling on a charge of duplicating pay accounts and absence from post duties without leave. A synopsis of the business in thegeneral land office shows the number of acres of land selected under the several swamp land grants since 1849 to May 14, 1887, to be 77.427,466 number of acres patent ed to the several states under the swamp land acts to May, 14, 1887, 56,743,228 amount of indemnity in money for swamp lands sold and allowed the several states to May 14, 1887, $1,504,609 number ot acres of indemuity in land allowed, includ ing out standing indomnity certificates, to May 14, 18S7, 731,544. The Northern Pacific has reduced Mer chandise rateB out of St. Paul 18 to 25 per cent. Swinburne has completed a patriotic jubilee ode to Queen Victoria, which will appear in the Ninteenth Century tor June. The London Standard Bays it is rumor ed that there is a split in the Parnelite party with regard to its procedure in op posing the crimes bill. An accident happened on board the French ironclad Dugesdin recently, by which two men were killed and seventeen injured. The 'accident was due to the swinging around of a capstan. A. F. St. Sure, one ot the veteran pliy sicians of Sheboygan, Wiss.. is dead at the age of eighty-one yean. He was born in Finland and was in France in 1830 and took part in the revolution ot that year. Ten years later he came to tho United States. Edward Flannigan of the town of Elling ton, Wiss., died at the age of 103 years. He was a native of Ireland, and until a year or so ago had enjoyed vigorous health. At Kington, Ontario, Mr. O'Brien, the Irish orator, narrously escaped with his life from a howling mob. He was struck on the head with a stone, and otherwise maltr eated. Papers in another lawsuit, this time for $40,000 damages, were served on the Mar quis de Mores in New York. The plaintiff Is the Western Dressed Beef Company. The marquis was the company's Western agent. All preliminary arrangements have been completed and the contruct signed for the building of the Aberdeen, Bismarck & «orthwestern railroad to Bismarck this year. William r» Kisselburg, managing editot of tne Troy, N. Y., Times, died of Bright'g disease of the kidneys complicated with heart troqble, THE INTER-STATE LAW. The Chairman of the Interstate Com inission Writes Hanley, of the Minnesota A Northwestern. Important Points Made Apparent, One Being that the Law Mast Be Bigoronsly Enforced. The Commission Has No Power to Per manently Suspend the Long and Short Banl Clause. WASHINGTON, Special Telegram, May 18.— The Interstate ootnmlsslon has authorised the publication of a letter ss to the filter^ pretation ot which there Cannot be two oplniona The letter Is addressed tb General Traffic Manager Hanley, bf the Minnesdta A Northwestern road, who had coniplaiiied hy telegraph tilSt His petition asking for relief from the operations of the fourth clause of the act bad not been complied with and iw questing that aot 51 »ona Wa*J)elnff greatlv injured by tHe «nforeen»«9ttfc of the la#. The lettet of the BOthnlissipil ii written (evidence tiydi nil Hsadfl und^r.like Htrcunistartc Snt ,J r- ie ppb- |p irgiierally riiai ti^erstond tHe pdsUictii of 1It .i tiotnuifSsionerA tyith pespectfo Ijhe law. ho following is the langrriage of the com nussioh'a letter:,, vfclrst—It is obvious that Jhe oases the lsw contemplates In which the commission is au thorized to make orders for suspension are ex eeptional cases that is to say, cases whose facts make them stand apart from ordinary cases. The not does not define them. It does' not state the reasons operate the general law shall be left to its ordinary coursc, however serious maybe the consequences in particular cases and to particu lar roads and interests. Second—4t ii sUo made plain by the act that fca$„ iRrendea td bl tch should sit was in fact ex optional, fairly within the Intent of the provis ion made for relief. The Jurisdiction of the com mission to make orders is evidently meant to be somewhat closely restricted. The commission, in its correspondence and otherwise every day is made aware of the prevalence in some quarters of a vague notion that power has been conferred upon It to interfere anywhere and for any rSa* Sons satisfactory to Itself in order to prevent What it may think likely to hp lpar.iflfuli.biit y,ou, pf,£ourge-, iftcJulEo no such baseless notion. The cppiinissioi^ 0s yoii will agree, must find its au thority iii law and not in its own ideas right or poll y. ...... Third—It must, he assumed that congress In tended the general law in it* main.featiires at least, to be a permanent law for the country.» It mast therefore have contemplated that consider able .sacrifices would necessarily be submitted to by some parties and some interests, while the general law was being established, for very obvious reaspns| It would be quite impossible to introduce'considerable changes in the branch of the law which concerns so intimately tho com merce of the country without serious conse quences to some private interests. In all such cases, incidental injuries, however great they may be. must necessarily be borne for the gen eral good, and if the legislature misjudges as to what the general good demands it is to be ex pected that in due time it will provide a remedy. THE FIRST QUESTIONS to confront the commission upon its organiza tion wcro raised upon applications for relief filed by railroad companies under the fourth section of the act. Cases in which companies were charging more for the shoftet than fof the longer haul oVei tlifi game lirie in the sanie direction Jivere to be met witii in all parts of the couritry. The reasous for dping this were, thought by managers in mady cases absolutely .imperative, and to concern the interest of the public quite ns much as that ?f the road.8 themselvei. The Interests involved in the question were very ftreatany and the anticipation of serious. Injury rom sudden change Was in some (juarter* quite general. The commission, therefore had very earnest appeals made to it in support bf corporate applications for relief from boards of trade and other public bodios from repreteiita~ tives of large busitieas interests whigh feared or professed to fear destruction or bankruptcy. In many cases appeals seemed to be made in the belief that the probability of injury was of itself sufficient warrant for the commission to inter fere, and grant a relieving order. It its scarcely necessary to sav to yon that any such belief was without legal support. The ground for suspen sion anywhere of, its ordinary opera tions wonld not in fact be made ground for relief without giving the commis sion such general dispensing power as wonld not be consistent with sound princi ples of government. Congress has not intimated a purpose to give such power. If the law in its general operations wore to prove generally and equally mischievous in all directions, commis sion, instead of having greater power for that reason would on the other hand have no power of suspension whatever, for the simple, plain reason that tbere would then be no exceptional cases for it to act upon. Therefore no cases »ould be referred bV the act to its judgment: uniform effects were of course as far from being possible as they were from being contem plated. There mnt and will be exceptional cases. In the absence of any specification of these in the act itself the commission was obliged to determine as best it might what cases were probably in the mind of congress when EXCEPTIONAL BELIEF was provided for. It also found itself confronted with the question whether railroads might de termine for themselves, but at their peril, whether in any particular case the circum stances and conditions were so far different as to justify a great( charge for the Shorter haul, or whether only upon and in view of such differ ent circumstances and condition^ the commis sion was empowered to act, suspension author ized by the act was to be o-dered after investi gation. This was plainly determined by the act itself. The commission, however, deemed it 'Wise to grant some temporary orders on investi gation not as complete as it expect? to finally make. This was done In the belief that no con siderable mischief could follow from allo.wins the existing conditions of things to remain for a brief period, whether then suffered to stand or not, and that harmful results from a sudden change in the law might thereby to soma extent be averted. This, of course, also gave the commission such opportunity for careful study bf the System which congress undertook to reform as would otherwise have been wanting. This method of proceeding the commission at the time believed had important advantages and still believes will conduce to the Lest results in the end. You speak strongly and earnestly ot reasons for granting your application, but in order to warrant It being granted it is not enough that the application, if considered by it self, appears to have merits. The commission must consider in each ense what effect giving re lief to one applicant- will have upon other inter ests, and your knowledge of railroad matters must enable you to perceive that in some sec tions of country the granting Qf one application may so affect the interests of other roads as to create a necessity for like relief to several mtre the satisfaction of one claim begetting others equally meritorious, until, if all are satisfied, the exception becomos the rule but when such Is the result, the probable reasons for declining to make any temporary order are very conclu sive. The commission cannot consent deliber ately to enter upon a highway where, to all appearance, there will be no halt ing place within the limits of it lawful jurisdiction. If the general suspension of long and short haul clause is not to be made by a single comprehensive order, neither should the same result be reached or approached by granting successive orders in Individual cases. In whatever the commission may do. it must keep In view the preservation of the general rale. It is uot our purpose in this communica tion to eypress any opinion to what onght to be the final conclusion upon your application. The commission is not yet prepared to give its de cision, and the purpose of this answer to your telegram is merely to place before you some of the reasons which up to this time have pre cluded definite action. That injury results to parties interested in yonr road er to any other persons. Is sincerely regretted, and yonr belief that such is tho case will be kept in mind as a reason for action as prompt as shall seem con sistent with duty. In these views the whole commission concurs. The letter is signed by Chairman Cooley. IT IS MAG1NXIS. Xh Man from HotrU Appointed 1»j tHe PrM!dant Bmlmr of the Duluth Iiwid O flier. Washington, Special Telegram, May 18 As has frequently been the case in this ad ministration, the president has had his way in spite of Col. LamonVs declaration that it wonld all be left to Secretary Lamar, and but one appointment has been made at Duluth. As far as that goes, however, the secretary has had his way, and Charles C. Magtnnis of Morris, the man who was recommended by him, was appointed receiver to-day. Whether the secretary will eventually suc ceed in securing a successor to Mr. Marble will depend upon how far Mr. Sparks in sists on the vindication of his dignity, and what fact he can back it up with in present ing his case to the president As to Mr. Ma ginnis, his heartiest thanks are doe to F. Chew of bis own town of Morris. Mr. Chew has been here for over three weeks working quietly but presistently for Maginnis. Not a day has passed that ne has not Been the president. Secretary Lamar, Lamont or the appointment clerk of the interior depart ment in the interest of his friend. He made a deep impression upon the president, the secretary and Commissioner Sparks, and his urgent indorsement did more than anything else to secure Mr. Maginnnis the plaoe. No hope was given him, however, and he left here for home at 11 o'clock this morning with no certainty that his man would be ap pointed. THE APPOINTEE CONGBATULATED. Mobbis, Special Telegram, May 18.—C. C. Maginnis is receiving hearty telegraphic and local congratulations upon his appointment to the receivership of the Duluth land office. To the Democrats ot the Northwest, it is held here, this appointment is particularly pleasing, both on account of his personal popularity and their high esteem for hit brother, Hon.Martin Maglnniq, who they feel has been slighted by this administration. Mr Maginnis' first intimation of his sucoeaa was in a congratulatory telegram from Mr. Marble. •r. 0*Brln MM the streets ef Terent* O'Brien, the Irish agitator, bad to run the gauntlet of a mob at Toronto from whioh be eseaped without personal injury He was walking |n the" street with *o friends when tM mo|i shoved hint Jostled against Ijnim making, sever* tern pts to jtrike hirafon -^Ike headMrith their sticks. He dodged the blows, how ever, and his friends rallied around him, but they were as one to fltty. The faithful body guard was broken again nnd Mr. O'Brien driven Up against the wall. Hew, with Kilbride, Mdjllganjafld C^hiU, JT 16h shouldbetok^. he little p&fhr itddti lit baft Mft O'Bfieri houtiug at the top ot hie voice: ''Yon, cowardly dogs, don't you see we are not armedi Let ns alonSi" 'Hisses and eriea: ''God saw the queert:" atid "gtoKtisfof the dynamiters," greated this appeal: _Mr O'Brien fttWni{itfld Rtake feidgd itl Bhtil'p s. iatirtdpyi arid, failing in that* tushfcd intd the bicycle fitore of La Louer adjoining A volley df 4ttfne* Jhafc tered thb Miidtfwji, arid the riidb iiiifst itttd the fttote, yelling like demons and shower cring missiles in the direction which Mr. O'Brien had taken toward the end of the store. O'Brien, however, was safely led away by C. C. Gasman an bificial of the crowd i.aiid depattmerit and reached the hotel in S a Treasurer Teefy of the, local bfauch of the, league, sent out the following telegram fio the:, leaders of the league in New York and .Chicago: ... .1 "O'Brien mobbed in the streets of Toron to by Orangemtn." J.,M. Wall, of the .New. York.Tribuno, seriously wounded. Police Sergeant- Adair got a cut in the head, and when bis three comrades saw this .they moved away to safe distance and let the mobdo as they pleased. Upto^ midnight the neighborhood of the liossin house was filled with the mob, who groaned and yelled to their heart's content, but ns there was not at any time an op posing crowd, the rioters grew tired and hoarse, began to abuse each other ^nd figb| ttrilbftg thttnlStiiv&i frnd dispersed at last with cries of "Hang O'Brien," "Away with the traitor," and "CodHave the queen." Mr. O'Brien said to the Associated Press reporter: "Lansdowne has now done his worst. His policemen absolutely surren dered ue to the mob, and had we not taken refuge in the bicycle shop, we would have been killed. Combination asd Actios or Chicago Bosses. At conference .of delegates frm every building interest .in. Chicago, with represen tatives present from theIllifi^is Architects' association, the real estate, board arid kindred bodies, the members of which hire altogether probably 50,000 workmen, a resolution was unanimously sloped that from this time,forth the, signature of -the. following enrd bf principles by tho employe to be made a universal condition of em ployment by all tho building interests of Chicago: I recognize the right of every man to de cide for himself without dictation or inter ference when he shall work or cease to work, where he shall work, for whom he shall work, how many hours he shall work and for what wages he shall work. I recog nize the absolute right of the employer to decide for himself without interference from any source whom he shall employ or rettse to emploVj to regulate and manage his business trith perfect independence .and freedom provided otil^r that lie de/il law fully, justly and honorably with all meji. I rccognize the "right of every father to have his son taught arid bf every sori .tri iearn any lawful trade as ori a, plane witii his right tt a knowledge of reading, writing or any otlier' branch pf learning, and should be subject to regulation only by the laws of the land: I hereby pledge myself in all my relation*! tlnd iriterbourse with my employers and fellow workmen to maintain and ltve up to these principles: The Mnetjr-Mnth General Asaembly. The 99th General Assembly of the Pres byterian Church sommenced atOmaha, on the 19th inst. Over 500 delegates attend ed. On the first day tho principal busi ness was the election of a new moderator for the ensuing year. There were four can didates: Rev. Dr. Joseph Smith of Balti more Rev. Ransom B. Welch, Auburn, New York Rev. Colvin B. Stewart of Col eraine Rev. J. McClelland Holmes, Albany, Now York. Two ballets were taken, The second ballot resulted in the election of Rev. Joseph Smith, who receiv ed 278 votee.: The new moderator was born in 1818 iri Mercer county, Pennsyl vania. He has been in the ministry for forty-five years, and for the past twenty* five years has been pastor of the Central Presbyterian church of Baltimore. He is a tall, commanding, genteel looking gentle man. Four temporary secretaries were then appointed. There are 199 presbyteries, 26 synods, 5,546 ministers, 6,281 churches and 661, 809 communicants in the United States, according to the statistics of 1886, and this year's figures will probably show a riiethbersHip of ovfer 1 000 000: For the year ending April, 1886, the Presbyterian church of _the United States .contributed $1,411,107 to home arid foreign missions and for Ideal church puroses, besides over §500,000 for various other purposes. the Trade of Last Week R. Cf. t)un & Co., in their weekly trade Review of the 21st say: The most import ant news of the week if confirmed is that the interstate commerce commission will revoke all temporary suspensions of the haul clause, terminating them July 1. The revolution, in business must therefore pro gress until Its full effects hav6 been real ized. Some of them are seen in the con tracts taken by the Canadian Pacific to move eastward the wool crop of California and ten million pounds of sugur, and in the mnrked revival of shipments around the Horn. Others appear in the decline of trade at the larger centers of distribution and manufacture, and an increase of dis tribution nt smaller towns, with the up springing of new manufacturing works at many localities. Most of the labor trou bles Beein to grow out of a narrowed field for the distribution of products. There ports are still generally encouraging, with no instance of unusual.delay in collections. Where business is deemed dull it is, in ev ery case, pronounced larger than at the same season last year. Arrest of the Marqoia De Mores. The Marquis De Mores wae arrested in New York on an order issued by Judge Donohue, based upon the affidavit of Sam uel Grimshaw to the effect that, in his be lief, the marquis was about to leave the country, and had disposed of all bis pro perty with intent to defraud his creditors. Mr. Grimshaw lias a suit pending against De Mores for breach of contract. He claims that he contracted to assist the marquis, or the Con sumers' Meat company, to obtain contro of the retail butcher stores in New York, nnd was to be paid ih stock and made a director of the company. He alleges that he carried out his part of the agreement, and spent large sums in advertising the great co-operative scheme, but has found that the marquis had no syndicate of syn dicate of capitalists backing him as claim ed, and that the whole scheme liad fullen through. He therefore seeks to recover damages. The marquis furnished $2,500 bail aud was released. Hereditary Influences, Dr. Mays, superintendent of the Stockton Insane asylum, California, sayB that one third of the population (the foreign born), produce two-thirds of the insane, and yet the proportion of insane in California is not tn excess of that in many states—about one to every 360 inhabitants. The doctor thinks that the prime causes of insanity are intem perance nnd neglect of the laws of health. "It is in the second generations that theevil works its most harm. One-half of the insane and per ha ps in ore, wo their derangemen tto hereditary influences, indicating an ances rial taint or predisposition. Thefamiliesof intemperate parents furnish tho recruiting grounds for insane-asylumns. These unfor tunate children, if not idiots, or epileptics are liable to grow up with explosive teni pers, feeble powers of self-guidance, weak in temp tation, unstable.self-indulgent, vicious,hys terical. They form the bulk of what is known as the defective classes."—Foote's Health Monthly. A Boaarkable Speech by a Minister. At a meeting in Cooper Union hall New York, held under tho auspices of the Knights of Labor, Dr. McGlynn made a somewhat remarkable speech. After denouncing Americans who toadied to aristocracy and ridiculing the idea that the czar was ever in favor of freedom, Dr. McGlynn said: "I do not stand here to justify the assassination of the czar, but I may as well confess to you, and there aro enough of you to keep the secret, that if I were to read in tomorrow's papers that th" czar had been killed I would not put crape on my hat. But while I am not her* to defend the assassination ol the czar, -1 am here to do honor to the man who feels it his duty to kill the czar. For there are honest, heroic men who think it their duty I to kill the czar," MINNESOTA NEWS. $he city' of Rochester, has asked for tho Introduction of the free delivery system, and KChicagQjpostqfllce inspector has been instntted to -procMd there and inquire in fc qnaUfiftttidtigr ^I Minnesota patents: E. 8. Mead, Winona, corner plate for vehicle bodies H. Kirk, Minneapolis, weather strip W. F. Parish, Minneapolis, adjustable cut-off. Pensions have been granted Minnesotians asipllows: Original—8. Dearborn, Minne ttptHiS) & £ehroedeh Dodge Center W. R. Livingston, Chairi L&kti C%titef J, Bullet, Green Isle. Increased—-F. Brown, Clintofl Falls H. H. Wallace, Spiing Valley. Preparations are begun by the Winona Ibiiht# tbttiihiftsiohers for a stone Court House to Eo6t $lGO(00di Elder it Stewaft bf itfnft£&t>tifs ha6 fcoinmenced another libe! suit. lig«iin#t thd 1 lion W1 a ^V^aki fT^l.<p></p>This A 1 .. AM MiHnetipb'lis Tributie. time he sues tor $30,000 aatri&ge3j itnd hfS par grievance is an article which ftpftaared in the Tribune of March 27, 1887, comments ing with the words: I find myself wholly unable to do anything with my old friend Elder StewaH:. .The old man is evidently in bis second childnoou.' Miss Ella McKysick and Dr. C. W. Merry of Stillwater, were married at the home of Hon. John McKu»ick( father of the Wide. W. H. Dunham of Chatfield, & pioneer, settler and for many years landlord of the Madsifa house of Rochester is dead. Miss Murdochtdaughter b? Hon, John N. Murdoch, who has been in change of the high school during the:past year, at Wa basha has accepted the .position of pro^ feasor of mathematics iri Tabor college, Iowa. Miss Murdoch is a graduate of Wel lesley, of the class of 1883. After lingering for several days in a semi conscious condition, J. A. Presley, Jr.,died at Mankato from the effects of suffocation at the gas works. In the supreme court tiecisidri wad handed down which has an interesting bearing on the question of the division of a town for election purposes. The follow ing is a syllabus of the case: 'An act of the legislature assuming to establish a second election district in an organized town, held to be Unconstitutional in the absence of any provisions of law under which an' t'le.plion 6aii bo held in Said district/' Th& deiililft bf .thjp Du'luth' S frori Range sale are made piiblic tit Inst: The stocks and bonds of the railroad company nnd 20,000 acres of land in Minnesota on June 5 are to be transferred to H. H. Porter, of the Pullman Car company J. C. Morse, of the Uuion Steel company. Ciiiengo .Mar shall,Field, Chicago I).' 0. Mills', New York J. D. Rockafeller, of the Standard 011 company,. and pthers. The securities, including $500,'600 citp ital stock and $1,750,000 rii6ftgnge bonds nnd also deeds to iron ore de posits near Vermillion Lake are now being deposited with the Fidelity Trust Com pany of Philadelphia, with whom the formal transfer will be made. Charlemagne Tower, who made the sale, according to a dispatch from Philadelphia, will receive $6,000,000 in cash and certified checks for the above mentioned properties. At Montrose, fire destroyed the depot and the Sowle elevator. The loss on the depot- Is $lj000 on the elevator, 13,500. trithSl 900 insurance ,itt the Fire and Marine df St Paril S. P. Fleming,' fofsefrerai^eafs.prominent in Northern Minnesota,' dife'd at Bi"iirierd ol heart tro'ubles. He was from Nc\V York state, and was at One time inMinneaipclis: Deceased was a member of the city council of Bra inerd, and prominent in the Masonio fraternity. At St. .Peter, Mrs, Em ma, wife ol Samuel Dunning died at her home ol heart disease, fcjhe was sixty-two years old, was.born at Gosport, Ind:, and had lived in St. Peter thirty-two years. At the school land sale 200 acres were sold in. Burnsville, 520 in Lebanon and 160 in Rosemount, Dakotacounty,at prices averaging at $5 per acre. Ferdinand Newton, aged seven years, younger son of Thomas Newton, living south of Le Roy, Mower Co., was killed by a mule. The old fair ground property at Minne apolis. which after years of litigation was recently awarded to Thomas H. Can field by a decision of tho supreme court of the United States, has been sold by Mr. Can field to E: Si Holmes and 0. D. Brown of Detroit for $400,000. The grounds com prise about 80 acres, and the sale was therefore at $5,000 an acre. The proper ty is to be platted outand put on the mar ket. Ray Jones, 14 years old, was drowned while bathing in the Rum river. His boJy was recovered. The boy's father, Albert Jones, has been very ill of cancer, and is now sinking rapidly. State Auditor Branden says that the re duction from 18 to 12 per cent in the in terest paid ihc state On ia± sales was not working well in the state. The reduction was made by an sifct.o? the last legislature. The stateaiiditbr thinks the law \vill prove a boomerang. Tjio people who have been in the habit of buying land nt tax sales are now afraid to invest. Reports that are coming in from the county auditors say that where there used to be brisk sales hOw the lalitl goes a begging: The coinmandery of the Stato ol Minne sota of the military order of the Loyal Legion of the United States is approaching the second anniversary of its organization. ,On Wednesday evening, June 1, the coin mandery will celebrate its second birthday by tendering, at the Hotel Ryan, St. Paulj a reception niul supjier to the ladies and families of the companions atid officers of the army and navy. During the past nine months the average number of inmateB in the two insane hos pitals of Minnesota, the schools for deaf, blind and feeble-minded, the state public school, reform school and state prison was 2,388.5. The total number April 30,1887, was 2,559. The total number Aug. 1,1886, was 2,086. This leaves an increase of 473. Out of this number 221 have return ed to the deal, blind and imbecile schools since Aug. 1, from vacations, leaving the net increase 252. Of this number, *105 were insane. This increase in insane amounts to about 7 per cent for nine 'months, and it would amount to about 10 per cent in the year at the same rate. The average in past years has been apout 12 percent, which would show that tliereis a slight falling off inthenumber of insane. While attempting to extinguish a brnpj fire Mrs. Ellen Goldsmith, in Shieldsvihe Ricesounty, was burned todeath. Shelatys arrived fgom Bohemia and was quite agel. Wilkin Post No. 19, G. A. R., of Mantoka hold special services on the presentation to the post of the picture of Col. Alexander Wilkin, colonel of the 9th Minnesota, by his brother, Judge Wescott Wilkin, of St. Paul. Gen. J. H. Baker was delegated by Col. Wescott Wilkin to make the presenta tion nnd speceh, and delivered a very elo quent one, giving his military life and career, as well as his life before entering tho service. Judge Severance, in behalf of the post, made a speech in reply, in eloquent and fitting terms. Carleton col lego has just received as a donation from Nathan Ford of St. Paul a Knabe grand piano, valued at $1,500, It will be used the first time for commence ment exercises, which will he held from June 11 to 16. Gov. McGill, members of his staff and in vited guests left St. Paul on a special car and went by the way of the Minnesota & Northwestern and Baltimore fc Ohio rail roads to attend the national soldier's drill at Washington. The party was mado up as follows: A. R. McGill, governor F. W. Seeley, adjutant general Wil- (onal iain Richeson. surgeon general na guard C. E. Lindberg, commissary general William Blakelev, assistant com missary general M. J. Daniels, assistant ins|ector general W. H. Caine, assistant quartermaster general George A. Whitney, aide-de-cainp Hon. II. B. Strait, Shnkopee C. R. McKenney, editor of Sentinel, Lake City Miss Francis Seeley, Lake City: G. W.Culberson, Taylor's Falls, Minn. Com pnniss A and of the First regiment went in another car by the same train, to be joined in Iowa by other companies of that state. A Burse Plain (Mont.) dispatch to the ileletm Independent says: W. Baldwin, deputy sheriff fromRnthdrum, Authorized by William Martin, sheriff of the same place, undertook to arrest an Indian here who had murdered a white man at Spok ane Falls three years ago. He resisted arrest and jumped through the window of McGown's store. Baldwin pursued him ami tired rhots to stop him. He ran a quarter of a mile and turned on Baldwin with a large bowieknife. Baldwin ordered hiin.to stop or he would shoot him, buthe did not heed the warning and was within six feet of Baldwin with the knife upraised, still advancing, v'hen Baldwin shot him tiepd. mssammmm a rnimcii Far in the night, and yet no rest For him! The pillow next his own The sweet wife's face in slumber pressed— And be awake, alone—alone! In vain he courted sleep—one thought Would ever in his mind arise His harsh words that at noon had brought The tear-drops to ber eyes. Slowly on lifted arm he raises And listened. All was still as death He touched her forehead as he gazed, He listened yet, with bated breath Still silently, as though he prayed. His lips moved lightly as she slept— Por God was with him and he laid His face with hers and wept. —James Whitcontb Riley ANDRE THERIOT. It was an old French chateau on the Daiiks of the Loire and when it wad drst built, or cottqtiered, by the ances tors of the Comte de Maupassant, no knew. But the beautiful domain Df Beaujola?£ had descended to the Maupassants for centtfries iii ait un broken line. The present owner, Count Guy, was perhaps the wealthiest and proudest 9t his race, as he was also the lost/ His onljr child Blanche, a little girl ibout ten year# was the sole sci on of that once numerous fiild pow erful family, and what affection hef lather had was lavished upon her. But, like all the Maupassants, he was ?cfld:liearted and haughty, and when iiis wife, whom he had married from motives of interest, drooped, faded* and died, in the uucongenial atmos phere of the old chateau, he gave her Scant mourning. As for the little Countess, she had her governess and her bonne, and, be* ing extremly wilful, was allowed t& do? pretty much as she pleased. Her lather, who spent the greater part of his time in Paris, was quite content, §n his visits to the chateau, to se* iiis beautiful little daughter healthy itnd happy, and the greatest little des pot in the household, which Was wholly" submissive to her wildest whims. What a life she led them'! She re belled against the constant watchful ness of governess and maids, and nothing delighted her more than to runaway from them, and pass long ours in wandering alone through the deep forests and broad fields of Bealijolttis. Her governess, a good, indolent woman, was in utter de spair at these escapades.. "But,' mademoiselle, I forbid you £o go alonfe!" 6h6 cried. "It is not comme il faut for the Coffntess de Maupassant to wander afcotft alone, lik« one of th$ common children." "Then I wish 1 was a common peas ant child!" the littlelady cried, stamp ffig her feet angrily. "They have got children to" pl&y with them, and I ve got nobody but yftft and Bonne Marie and you are old, old, atid you can't jump .arid rnn and play. I will go by myself and if you watch me or try to follow nie, madame, I will go outside the gate and ruii Away to Paris. There now!" Poor Madame Duloc shook and shivered at this threat. She knew the child would keep her word, and then what would happen? As for punish ing her refractory charge as she de served, that she knew was utterly im possible, and would cost her an easy aiid lucrative situation. So she weakly strtfve to.compromise. "If you would flrily take Celine, mademoiselle, then you might stay out as long as you please." "But I am running away from Celine and everybody!" she cried impatient ly. "I hate to be watched, and if you will do it, I will run away. I will go where I choose." Poor Madame Duloc raised her hands and eyes lit despair, but before this will go she knew she was power less. See did what she could she ex acted a promise from Blanche that she would never go beyond the park pates. Wiltul and ungovernable as the little Countess was, she had never broken her word, so Madame Duloc was forced to yield the point. She would climb laboriously to the high tower, and watch the child through the fields, and until she was lost in the recesses of the forest. But after a time, when Blanche came in regularly, glowing with health and ready to study more sedulously than she had ever done, she ceased her espionage. The lonely little girl found her life full of intrest now. She made iriends with the birds and squirrels, and all the wild things of the field and for est. She was a warm-hearted, loving little creature, though her best impul ses had been repressed by her arti ficial life, and it was her greatest pleas ure to stop and chat with old Theriot, the gardener, and his assistants, who were always busy about the grounds. One beautiful spring morning, in her wanderings through the spacious gardens, Blanche came to an arch twined with the fragrant Provence rose, then in full bloom. They were high above her reach, nor was there a foothold on the arch where she could climb. She looked around. No one was in sight but a tall lad, who was weeding one of the beds. "Here, garcon, come and get ma some roses." He came obediently, and gathered her a large cluster. "You are very tall," she said, "to reach up there. Where do you live, and how old are you?" "Iain sixteen," and, mademoiselle, I live here. I am Andre Theriot." "Ah, you are the the gardener Ther iot'sson. I like him," nodding her liead gravely. "He is a good man. He lets me pick the nectarines myself. Do you want a rose, Andre?" holding out one, with the air of a young em press. Andre put out his hand for it, when she drew it back, with a mis chievous laugh. "Come, now, I'm going to treat you ns madame does me, when she gives mo bonbons. You must spell 'rose' before you get it." The lad's handsome face flushed crimson. "Hut, mamselle," he stammered, "I can't .spell. I don't know my let ters." "Don't know your letters, you, a big, strong boy of sixteen! Oh, you must be very lazy! Why don't you learn?" "But, mamselle, my father is too poor to send me to school. I wish I could learn. Ah, mon Dieu, if 1 could only learn to read, I would be so happy!" clasping his hand, with the big tears in his eyes. "You shall earn to read Andre!" Pity and sympathy were at work in that warm little heart. "I will teach you myself. Meet me to morrow morn ing at the summer-house on the lake.. I will biing books, atid I will teach you." "You, mamselle!" Andre cried stu pefied. If an angel from heaven had offered to tench him, he could not have been more astonished than at this condescension from his beautiful ittle chatelaine. "And why not? Of course I shall ot tell Madame Duloc pr anybody. for ther would make sncK a feu*. But be in tne summer-house to-iqonvr#." Of course Andre did not fail to'obey He never dreamed, of disputing her or ders, and the laa was wild to' learn Blanche was an exacting and iropa-' tient little teacher, but Andre was so bright and eager that in fire months he had almost reached ths limit Of Blanche's owp small acquire ments. She had grown extremely fond of the handsome lad, so ready and willing to amuse her and as for him, fte was her abject slave. All dis tinctions of rank were forgotten in this pleasant companionship so soon to cease. One morning the Count returned un expectedly from Paris. "Where is Blanche?" he asked Madame Duloc. "Mademoiselle is out in the grounds," she said, tremulously. "I have sent Celine for ber." •'Without you, Madame Duloc!" he said, sternly "do you tell me my daughter is allowed to wander about alone?" "Ah, mon Dieu, but 3he will let no CTre follow her!" the poor governess cried, desperately, "Since you cannot control the Countess, madame, allow me to te?i yon, your services are no longer need ed at ife&tijolais." The Connt strode off in search Ot his daughter in a ter rible fury.- It did not lessen when, aft er a half-hour's search, she was not to be fftfnd. When near the lake, he heard voice* and laughter in the little summet-hous*. .Pushing open the door, he saw a sight which nearly struck him dumb. Side by side on the bench sat the rep resentative of the Maupassants and a peasant boy. They were bending over the same book, and the golden curls of Blanche mingled with tha black hair of her companion. "Blanche!" cried the Count, in a voice of thunder. The little girl sprang to her feet, turning pale, but she did not tremble. "What are you doing with that boy?" "I am teaching him to read, papa." The little girl's tones did not falter, thdtigh she was horribly frightened. "Teaching him to read!" the count Was so furious that his voice trembled. "Back with you to the chateau.you tvicked child, and I will settle with you later. But you, you base-born, insolent peasant, I will lash you like the hound you are!" He raised his riding-whip, but Blanche seized it and confronted him with a pale face and flashing eyes. "Yon shall not strike him, papa!" she cried. "I made him come. He dared not refuse. If you strike any one, strike me, for I did it." Andre through his whole life never forgot that picture. The man with his face convulsed by fury, the little girl looking up with her brave eyes, ready and willing to suffer in his stead. After a minute tne Count seemed to recover himself. "Go away from here, boy," be pried, "for if ever 1 meet you again I will cut off your ears and your tongue! You to want to learn! Bah!" This was no idle threat at that time iti France. The grand Seigneurs had the liberty of mutilating, or even kill ing their vassals at their own free will, and the boy knew that his father's house was no longer safe for hui. But his thirst for knowledge, begun by the lessons of his little mistress, led him to a Jesuit college, where his uncle, a priest, was one of the pro fessors. ITiere he remained for six years, while the thunders of the great Revolution were growling in the dis tance. When Andre left college, the guillo tine had already cut off many of the greatest and noblest names in France. His education and ability and hatred of aristoracy soon secured him a posi tion ol confidence with Petion, one of the Revolutionary leaders. Andre shuddered at the bloodshed and violence which had turned France into a butcher's shambles, but then he dreamed that the outcome would be liberty. %-i He had heard that the Chateau ol Beaujolais had been burnt to the ground, and the count and his daugh ter had escaped. Where the count had gone he knew not and cared less but he knew that Blanche had been con cealed by old Theriot, his father, who had been loyal to his young mistress in ner hour ot peril. He had never seen her since that fateful day when they had been stir prised by her father, but his gratitude and almost adora tion had never lessened. One day in Petion's office, he overheard a few woids which made his heartbeat fast. "So that old satan, De Maupas sant, is in the last-batch of prisoners? They will all 'kiss the basket' at noon to-day," "Good!" Petion answered "has the viper any brood?" "One daughter, as handsome and insolent as an aristocrate can be. She is hiding, tiiey say, with one of her old servants but that blood Jiound Caresse aoes in search of her to-morrow. He never fails, Caresse does not, and she will be in La Force before twenty-four hours." As soon as the visitor left, Andre presented himself before Petion. "General," he said, "I want a pass to absent myself for several days, an to go where I wish. Give me onr, too, at the same time, for my sister.' "Aha, Theriot, of course, my boy! Something for the good of the State, hein? Good partriot that you are! Describe your sister, and let Niccl there draw up the passes." I have no space to tell of Andre's journey to Beaujolais, and how, in disguise, Blanche escaped with him to the nearest seaport, where he took passage for her in a vessel bound for America. Andre had a cousin settled on the Teche in Louisiana, and it was to these humble folk the Countess do Maupassant was going. "Farewell, mademoiselle," said the young man, as they stood together on the deck of the vessel. "You have money for your present wants, and I will forward more to you Perhaps, too, I may come and see you." Blanche raised her face all stream ing with tears. "Come with me now, Andre!" stw cried, in her^old impetuous manner. "How can I go alone, alone to a 3trange land?" He went. Two years alter this, tl young Countess married thegarder er's son, and their uuion was a happ\r one. Their descendants are nume.-oi now on the Teche, and you can hear this story more graphically told by them than in this short sketch. In their graves the Countess Blanche an 1 her devoted husband lie side by side, on a green knoll near the silver water® of the Teche.—Youth's Companion. "It is surprising to learn," says "The Louisville Courier-Journal," "that Louisville's population has increased much more rapidly in proportion tha*i Chicago, but tht» surprise disappeai a when it is learned that business has increased in a greater ratio, and 11« enterprises alieady on foot point to a growth during the next 18 months that will greatly exceed all that has gone before." A man near Gieeley, Col., had thirt acres of land which he could neithei sell nor mortgage, and in despair h« went out and struck a coal vein thit* teen feet thick and sold the land foi $58,000. The Georgia liar h'rffe founi his match on a Denver paper.