The farmers' union., June 14, 1894, Image 6

About The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895

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TKOOPS GUARD CARS.
INDIANA RIOTERS DO NOT
SIST THE SOLDIERS.
RE-
-Hot. Matthew Think that the Trouble
Will IV Hrltir4 Over Wltho.it Itlood
hd Trouble at Cripple Creek Mas m
-tMrlou Aspect.
Quail Before Mllltla.
The situation in the Indiana mining
regions, according to an Indianapolis
dispatch, indicates that the troub o-tat
Cannclburg at least will be upprsed
without an encounter with the militia.
Gov. Matthews received a lengthy
telegram from Adi. Geo. Robbing, the
complete contents of which ho refused
to make public. It stated, however,
that the militia, under c iminandof the
adjutant, arrived at the scene of
trouble. They met with no resistance
from the striker.-, and a conference
was at once ar:ang -d with a committee
ILLINOIS TO THK HAMPANT COAT. HINKIi:
Hold on Tula has 'one far enough!"
representing the minors. The com
mittee promised obedience to the law
In the future and deplored the injury
don to railroad property, which they
said was brought about by persons
having no authority. There were
over .'() miner hanging around the
station and switch ail day, the tele
gram staled. Upon receiving the in
formation that the troop were coming
the majority of them left and the re
mainder di parsed after the arrival of
the militia.
The Sheriff and a detachment of the
militia started to hunt down the ring
leaders, and the company's train crew
began repairing the tracks. Tho few
strikers who remained were "behaving
Mpcniiidlv," the Adjutant tated. Two
.hundred and thirty militiamen march
ed from Sutli van to Shelburn. All is
reported quiet there. Fourteen com
panies are now i;i the mining region,
t At Washington the state troops
; marched into ' ark's station 500 strong
with a Galling gun, to find that only
fifty miners had ttayed to fa -e the mu-
uc
Km
J 'Ad
;ho
for
lae minua was drawn up in
along tho edgo of the woods
Sheriff Lo ring then r ad
warrant against the minors
riotous conspiracy and placed
throe of the leaders, Squire Summers,
Dick Gate, and John Flynn, under ar
rest. As soon as th.) troops were in
line the railroad men at once repaired
the track and tho loaded cars wero
Aiken on west. Tho 1,000 minors who
were reported en route to (.'larks sta
tion did not materialize, neither had
they collected at any point alone the
llaltimoro and Ohio Southwestern.
The certainty that tho officers intend
ed to enforce the law .-coined to quell
the rebellious feeling among tho moti.
The miners say that a soon as tho
fiixrofw ar.- withdrawn they will again
stop all coal cars, but anticipating this
two eompaniea will be stationed at
'lark's until all fear of trouble is past.
It is apparent to-night that the back
bone o; the st. ike has been broken.
lThe militia have done th worn:. The
'Washington miners das uted their ccl
.'.cagi e-Ticre and the Canaelburg min-
ers are too few to do anything
but submit to-night. T.-.e militia mot
so resistance.
. SS n Sall.-nly S-e Car4 Move.
Sullivan- The State militia arrived
in Sullivan from the southern part of
ftho State, in all numbering .' 00. They
topped over here and waited until the
tialamen could get n engine to ta';e
.ho coal out of Shelburn, then as s on
as the trainmen came they boarded
their special train, bound for the Shel
burn district. Sheriff Mills, in com
rmand. stopped the t-ain south of the
depot, got his soldiers all ready, then
made a march and sumumded the
train. No demonstrations were made
by tho few minors who wero pres
ent. One old lady with a pistol
under her apron, who marched out
ready for action with the militia, was
caught and scuffled with bv Sheriff
Mills until ho sec-. red the gun. The
miners had each car branded "scab
coal " The miners made threats that
, this did not mean much to them and
"that the Kvansville and Terre Haute
should not ship coal ualess they kept a
standing army at she!bur i all the
time, and claimed that no more coal
should pass through t! ere until this
wa sett! d. Several hundred people
gathered to see the battle between the
miners and the militia After the
militia had finished their work they
came back to Sullivan and went into
camp at the fair grounds, witn only
one man in tho hospital.
t'l ft'.si Attempt fo Wreck far.
Ttra 41 - A desperate effort was ma le
-io wreck freight train No. 2.". sup-
ix)ed to bo hauling coal, just east of
icre. The Vandalia found two c up
Jine ;ins wedged in s itch frog, but
luckily the train was running slow,
and was stopped quickly after striking
tho pius. The engineer eteims that if
ho had been running at the usual rate
the entire freight would have been
ditched. The work was undoubtedly
that of strikera
to il. FAMINE AT HOONK XMM1XKNT.
asnall Mined Forced to C!oe hr Striker
and ffooply Running Minrt.
Ibxme, fewea. Since tho miners'
atrike the loeai demand for coal hos
been supplied bv about fifteen small
mines, operated by the owners andem-
, ploying fiN.ni tire to fifteen men each.
. Now the small mires have cease i work.
1 'okj-s the troubles are fixed up be ore
long the water wcrks, e ectric light
4daar, mills. -etc., wilt be eenteeliad to
shut down. The brick and tile fao'ories
ae already clo-ed lor want of coal.
Oskaloosa. - Most of the !' 0 striking
miners who wore in camp near Evans
left for their h';me. .Sunday's barbe
cue was to 1x3 the signal for a monster
ma-s meeting oi miners, but less
than
10 were in eamn. not enough to eat
the roasted ox. T is failure is thought
to foreshadow tho collapse of the
strike.
KIDN'AI'KD HY MIM.RS.
Cripple Creek Striker furry II. It. Wood
to Their Fort.
Cripple Creek, Col). II. R. Woods,
President of tho Wocd Investment
Company, was taken in charge bv a j
largo l ody of miners and carried up to
the fort on Bull Hill. His wife was
present when he -was taken, and i- al
most frantic. Business men here look
into each other's faces and see n thin:?
but dread and fear. The cause of the
kidnaping is not known. At Victor and
along the south side of Rattle Mount
ain the miners are maintaining only
their usual guard, but around Bull Hill
on the east and north the guard has
teen douh'el. whi o the pi -ket lino
has been thrown out to within a short
distance of Midland.
Colorado Springs. The Governor
will not call out the State troops to as
sist the Sheriff. The cit.- continue to
be guarded. The Sherilf oitinues
making preparations for the Imttle
with the miners which will undoubted
ly occur in a few days. Another train
1 ad of deputies was started for th j
front, and later was followed by two
companies of cavalry.
Denver. Detectives assisted Sheriff
Bowers in a search for John Calder
wood, President of the Victor Miners'
Union, who came up from Colorado
Springs with Gov. Wajte. When the
party arrived Calderwood was taken
into a carriago with the Gove t nor and
conveyed to some secluded place,
where no one but tho Governor's party
knows, sheriff Bowers arrived with a
warrant for Calderwoods arrest upon
the chargo of inciting to riot. He had
not been arrested in Colorado Springs
becau-e then ho was tho Governors
guest. Detectives shadowed Gov.
Waito in tho hope that they might
lind their man. but Sheriff Bowers had
to return without tho head ollieial ot
THE COAL MINERS'
Entrenclied position of the strikers at
they have stored arms and dyuamito
surrounding country.
the minors now in belligerent attitude
cn Bull Hill.
DEMAND THAT SO COAL HE HAILED.
t'nlem the Railroads DenUt. Ohio Mine.-
Slay Muko Troud.
laekson, Ohio. Tho miners of this
county have for tho past two days c n
gregated in large numbers at the vari
ous railroad towns in the county. Fach
crowd has its leaders and kt o;s the
American Hag floating to tho breeze
while they are inspired on by a band
of mus'e. Freight trains on the Colum
bus. H eking alley and Toledo were
held up and crone through. All coal
founl was cut off and side-tracked.
Tho cr wd assembled at Ham len has
disbanded, leaving in charge a patrol
committee that holds up every freight
train that passes. Tee m nors in their
demands of tho Baltimore and Ohio
Southwestern ask that not a lump of
coal be hauled on tho Parkaisburg
division, but agree to allow two cars a
day over the Pirtsmouth division, to
bo' used in tiring that company's pa -songor
engines.
Bellaire. A reporter has just ai
rived from the seat of the miners'
troubles at Wheeling Creek. All the
conditions are ripe there for a bloody
encounter. Four hundred minors are
in camp there at that point a;:d will
allow no trains hauling coal to pa-s
over the lino. The c ompany is mak
ing preparations t execute its coal
shipping contracts. The Governor has
refused to call out the troops unless
there sho-ild be actual violence.
Allian e. The coal miners of this
city, who struck three weeks ago in
sympathy with the Fnited Mine Work
ers, held a meeting in this city and
after a prolonged discussion con ,uded
to accept tho operators' terms of 81.0-3
for mining and return to work to-morrow
morning.
Wellston. The miners refuse to talk
to outsiders on the situation. It is
generally understood that outside in
fluences have been brought to bear to
cause the strikers to make an attack
on the Norfolk and Western.
Ironton. Twenty-five stalwart men,
all heavily armed. "are standing watch
on the great bridge that spans the
Ohio River at Keuova.
KEFl'SE TO ACCEPT THE REDUCTION.
Mobile and Ohio Ritlliray Employe De
cline President Clark' Proposition.
Murphysboro, 111., representatives of
the conducters, brakemen. and switck
mens' orani ations ot thsj St. Louis
dlvisicn of the Mobile and Ohio Kail-
road held a conference here relative to j
tne proposed cut Li wages. President
Clarke made the men the same propo
sition that has bo n accepted fcy the
men south of the Ohio: that is a 4 per
! cent, reduction to hold good "or one
i year. The men declined to accept
this. Tho reduction the railroad of
I rlcial3 now propose to mako is equal to
J 7 per cent., a d they claim that the
' scarcity of busines positively requires
I tno reductit n. No agreement was
j reached and the meetine ad ourned.
: Tho company's shops at Murphysboro,
- i
employing about 100 nen. Here closed
down.
Cairo, 111 -The scarcity of coal and
the conf-e-:uent high prices is causing
much anxiety in tniscitv. l ast week
the Iron Mountain local between airo
land Poplar Bluff, Mo., a- reduced to
half-time, running only on alternate
days, and the Delta Electric Company
and several manufacturing establi-h-ments
have been burning wood for ten
days. Coal has been advanced $2 a
ton and now retails at $."". There
are at present l,O.vO,0GU bushels in har
b r. mostly the property of the Cairo
City C al Company and the Browns of
Pittsburg, but it is being daily shipped
to Chicago
END OF TARIFF NEAR.
It Is Kxpected That llnrualon Will
Br
!ov Within Two WVek.
A Washington correspondent assures
the country that the ta' irt debate in
the senate" will elese within the next
two weeks. The bill, he says, cannot
now be beat n. The Democrats will
all vote for it with the possible excep
tion of Mr. Hill. The incomj tax fea
ture of tho bill is reasonab y icrtain to
be retained, a'thoujdi the campaign
; aain.-t it has been quit " vigorous of
; lat . The New-Yorkers are especially
i b.tter in their opposition and the re
i cent meetings in New York City
1 a . e served t inspire Senators
j Hih and Murphy vo renewed
j efforts ai,ruin t it. Nobody olse in
! the Senate, however, is paving the
slightest attention to the c amor of op
position from New VorU. for the fact
is recognized that those interesting
themselves in these meetings of pro
test against the incoe tax are mainly
persons connected with corporations.
All of the Populi t Senators will vote
for the ret nti;i of th income tax, so
that, with the s did Republican
strength cf thirty-eight votes against
it, there wo .Id still be needed live
Democratic vots with t e opposition
to insure its defeat. Ti e only L'emo
catic opponent-: now counted upon are
Hill. Murphy, Smit i and Brice, so that
the income tax is likely to have at least
a ma ority of one.
Speaker Crisp and tho Democratic
leaders in the Bouse are expecting the
tariff bill to ei mo back to them soon.
STB I KB IN COLORADA.
llml Mountain, near Cripple Creek, -where
and from which they command miles o' the
and to that end thy aro hastening the
ponding measures in the lower branch
of Congress. Tho bank tax bill is now
before, the House, but notice has been
served npen its friends that they must
get it out of the way at once.
Most of the appropriation bills are
through the House. Among tho few
remaining is the Indian bill. Assocn
as it is out of the way the House will
be ready to resume consideration of
the tar If bill. The Houso members
genera' ly now believe the Senate is in
earnest about hastening the bill, and
it is eonse .uently expo -ted to comts
back to the House within the next two
or three wecka
FOR THE PYTHIAN CONVENTION
Prep-iriitlons for the Rienntat Oattiering
Ht Washington. D. C
1 The biennial convention of tho Su
preme lodge and the biennial encanip
u;en of the uniform ranic Knights of
Pythias will convene at Washington,
I). C Aug. 'SI. Tho popular features
of t e event will be the session of the
Sut rem lodge), tne ;-treet parade and
! revie v by President Cleveland of the
uniform rank, the dress parade on tho
'' white lot. a competive drill between
about forty-live infantry and cavalry
divisions o: the uniform rank and a
ball a !id reception at Convention Hall.
Excursions to vario. s poin about the
. city have also been arrange .
Preparations for the event are being
hurried through by the local commis
' sioner. The hxecutive Committee has
j announced that the encampment fund
1 must be ?50,tXX). a large percentage of
which has been subscribed. It is esti
j ma'e l that JS,00 uniformed knights
: will visit Washington, and tne number
of other visitors will be between 150,
! 000 and :0 ,000. The camp will oe u
I py thirty acres of the Mall and will
i form a s jiiaie around the Washington
' monument. Tents will hi piovided for
1 18. 00 men. The camp streets will be
I named after the States and military
j rules of camp lLe will prevail.
Canada's Bad Boy.
"Please Uncle Sain, I was cnlv
fooiin.
THAT
FRIEND
Written for This
Alle
CHAPTER III.
When I reaehed our own sitting-rot m
a painful sight met my gaze unexpect
edly. Maria wa- seated on the sofa,
with her eyes as re 1 sis a lobster, and
Sylvia was leaning across her, with
her head on her mother s shoulder,
dissolved in tears and sobbing vio
lently. "Oh. papa, papa!" she cried in a pet
as I entered, "how could xou'f how
could you? You've been so dreadfully
cruel! so dreadfully rude! I don t
know how Hugh will ever lie able to
forgive you. "
"Hujh." I exclaimed, bewildered.
"Hugh! Hugh! who is he? And where
have I met Hugh, pray? And what
have 1 ever d no or said t Hugh that
Huirh has ot any right on earth to for
give me for?"
Sylvia Icoked up at me in a torrent
YOC'VE BEEN SO DUE AOKITI.L.T Rl'Dt"
of tears. Eeautiful girl, ray Sylvia,
even when she's crying.
"Why, you quarreled with him so at
dinner," she sobbed out. "You put
him down so dreadfully. And tho
worst of it is, tana, Hush was quite in
the right, only he was a rreat deal too
much of a gentleman to n ake a scene
In the salle-a-manger by explaining to
you when you were s violent.''
I stood aghast with horror. Had it
come to this, then? Mie called him
outright by his Christian name? I
cculd hardly believe my ears. The
girl was wrecking t:er life.
"Do you moan to say, Sylvia," I be
gan sternly, "that the person you call
Hugh is "
She broke me off with a short hys
terical little laugh.
"Is Mr. 'Ampton," sho answered, in a
convulsive sort of a giggle. "Mr. 'Amp
ton, of Mghtield."
"Sylvia," 1 said, with dignity, draw
ing myself up once more, "this is most
unbecoming, most unseemly, most ir
reverent. That you should call this
man by his Chi istian name to my face
is bad enough, in ali conscience; but
that you should make fun of hi-; infirm
ities and his vulgarities iA the self
same breath, and laugh openly at his
perversions of the Queen's English, is
simply unenduraule. My child, I'm
ashamed of you; for the 'first time in
my life, Sylvia, I declare I'm ashamed
of you."
"ilut, papa," Sylvia put to, "if only
you'd listen to me! 1 do assure you
that Hugh is the most prifect gentle
man and the most chivalrous
friend "
"My dear," I said, putting my fK)t
down. "I won t hear such trash. 1 won't
attend to it. I won't listen to it. The
man belongs by origin to tho lower or
ders. Hit father was no doubt the son
of a ea-cook. He may look very well
on the outside, but I detect at once in
his speech the flavor of th great un
washed, the mob, the cdmmonalty.
He's a cad and a nobody."
Sy.via tried hard to speak again, but
I wouldn't allow her. Thank heaven, I
know the resources of cCi mother
tongue, and I poured them forth upon
her head with orat i ical rapidity.
"The fellow s a boor," I continued,
raising my voice, as 1 went on: "a peas
a clown, a hind, a clodhopjy?r ever
shall I see you talking with a yokel
like that; a Philistine, a cockney, a
bumpkin, a chaw-bacon. Htj's a (loth,
a Vandal, a Hottentot, a Yahoo: a
common, mean, low, base, vile, :-nob-
bi h, scrubby, beegarly, uncivilized
H'tian. A lout who strews his h's all
over the floor! an outcast, a savage, a
tramp, a vagabond! and you call him
Hugh: It's disgraceful! It's preposter
ous. If you choose t associate with
the mob. the herd, the scum of society,
the dreg of the people, the ignoble
vulgar, the brutish proletariat, the
rifl-raff, the rout, the tag-rag-and-bob-tail.
you may do as you hko; but don t
try to drag me down with you in your
fa 1 to t .e dunghill. Tne man's a
mu.-hro m. a b xby, a lout, absolutely
destitute of taste, or !-e lse, or educa
tion or feeling; an underbred snob, and
I forbid you to speak to him. So you
know my wishes." With this last re
mark, lired sideways at her head. I
went over to the door. I will aimit. in
perhaps a somewhat excited and heat
ed condition.
Sylvia rose as I went and stood up to
her full height in her long silk train
and pretty evening dres. i w n t den1,
that she coked beautiful, and queenly,
and indignant. Her nostrils quivere..
"Papa," she said, vehemently, like a
self-willed puss that she is, I love him.
I adore him, and say what you will, I
mean t marry him""
1 shut the door behind me with per
haps s me little unnecessary forte
not to put too fine a point upon it: in
fact. I believe I slammed it and went
off in high dudgeon to my own bed
room. CHAPTER IV.
Next morning, after a good night's
rest, I woke up in a rather m .-e con
tented frame of mind. I gazed out of
my window It was a glorious day.
The hotel looks out upon a garden of
palm- and hearv eucalyptus
tees, with
arid the
the blue bay mst in front,
iagjged peaks of the Est ere! in the
purple distance. It is a lovely scene.
1 was appeased by its beauty. I flung
open the window, it was so mild ani
warm, and proceeded to dress myself.
Voices flowed in upon me. as I ut on
my clothes, from the veraada just ;
low me. One of them, c'sar and dis
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By Grant
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tinct. I recognized at nee as that fel
low Hampton's. Against in . w 11. some
how, I caught what the ma 1 was sav
ing. "He was at Eaton with me at first,
you know, and after that at Christ
church." The fellow's Impertinence! A born
adventurer, no doubt! Trying to palm
himself otT upon the world a a mau of
education and means and position!
1 began to .-have. A minute or two
later t caught the voice agal u
"Oh, ye," it said softly, w th a rather
aristocratic drawl, "he's a city man. of
cour.-e. and not very brilliant and he's
a peppery old fellow, too, wh w n't
listen to reason. Hut stih I like him.
A harbitrary geat, of o-o.irse, but we 1
meaning enough in his way for all
that. How he flared at me iike a
Bengal-light at dinner lat evening.
I'm teallv afraid he made poor Miss
Wo: t hist in feel most awkward and
uncomfortable ! "
My blood ran cold. I fo va talking
of me. And what wa more, thoogh
he called me "hat-bit ary with an ua
necessary h. tic had positively the
audacity for all thjt to patronize me.
I breakfasted alone. Maria and
Sylvia sent down word by the maid
that they were tired that morn.ng.
The cHjft'ee w; s capital. Alter break
fast I strolled into the ground by my
self mo t charming ground-, too and
c m os-d my s mi for a few serious
words with that fellow Hampton.
Comim? back from the cliff- after a
while, by the side path, 1 stumbled un
expectedly from behind upon a garden
sett, overhung with rose bushes and
other scented southern shrubs, whose
names are unfamiliar to me. Sylvia
was sitting there, half in tears nee
more, and, oh, horror: by her side that
fellow Hampton. I won't le quite cer
tain, but I almost b lievo his arm was
ar und her waist, or something like it.
"Papa was so unreasonable," Sylvia
was sobbing out as I came up: "s
dreadfully unreasonable. He wouldn't
a low me even to explain. And, Hugh
dear, he called you all tho dreadfulest
names in tho English dictionary."
My tongue itched to correct her, and
substitute for that incorrect superla
tive, "most dieadfuL" but I waited to
! hear what the fellow would answer, so
1 interposed n otl ing.
He lifted her hand to his lips b'fore
my very yes, and Kissed it tenderly.
My darling." he said, in his soft,
low voice, very winsome and seductive,
"don't let thi- worry you for a moment
at all. It didn't matter in the least to
m . i a-sure you. I love you ten thou
sand times too well, Sylvia, to think of
being angry with your father about a
mere misunderstanding. I'll explain
it all to hini by handing him my card.
That's the nly way. It's extremely
natural. You know you yourself went
wrong at lirst about it."
He drew a card from his poek-t as he
spoke, and glanced at it carelessly. I
could stand it no longer. I burst forth
from ambush and discovered myself
openly.
"Give me th-it pasteboard, sir!" I
said, In my sternest voice.
He laughed and handed it across to
me.
I stared at it in surprise. Impossi
ble! Incredible! It bore on its faco
the words. "Mr. Hugh Ampton:" then,
down in the corners. "1 field Hall. Sus
sex." and "United Universities Club,
St. James ."
"Excuse me," I said, gasping, "am I
to understand that your name's Amp
ton. without any H at all in the world
to it?"
"So my ancestors decided for me,"
the youn man said, bowing.
"And you live at a place called Ifield,
equally without an H?" I cried.
He bent his head slightly again.
"I'm squire of the little village," he
answered modestly.
"Step a Bdement." I exelaimed. taken
aback. "This isn't cleared up yet. I
must yet at the bottom of it. Where
did you say some one lived in Philadel
phia?" He started and laughed again.
"What a curious coincidence!" he
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1 "lr&"
HE DREW A CAKD
FROM HIS
SPOKK.
rOCKBT AS HS
cried, in his pleasant musical voice
he was really a very gentlemanly young
man. and extremely handsome. "Mrs.
Fortune's husband. I happened to re
mark, lives in T street, Philadelphia.'
The streets there are lettered, you
you know, A street, B street, C street,
and so forth down to
A, i . Z streets:
and Colonel Fortune's
house is in I
rtreet. near Chestnut. You thought I
meant High street. I dm i eadily un
derstand how the word misled you.
"One second more," I cried, panting.
There was one mystery still. "And
how ab ut the "are. " The 'are that tan
across the hills behind Cannes. You
can't jfet out of that you lemember
in the smoking rocm."
"Oh. the heir!" he replied, smiling
and twining his mustache as before.
"Yes. the heir is a young Frenchman
who s to inherit the Due de 1 Fstel's
pro; erty: and everj-body calls him tbe
heir, don't you know, because he thinks
such a precious lot of himself on the
strength of I is prospects. He hap
pened to be on of the hares in ur
paper c ias . Y-m thought I m ant
) hare. I understAnd your miscuneei -I
tion " 1
"But the harbitrary gent?" I went
I on. pushing him hard this time. "I
don't bear malice, but you called me a
; harbitrary gent you remember."
! "A quotation from Thackerey." he
answered, with a broad smile. "It's a
i well-known phra e. Jeames de la
j Plnche savs it."
I stared at bi n and pan-od. It all
broke upon me with a burst.
" Vou are a gentleman of property."
, I said slowly, trying to take it all in.
"You liw at I fieid Hall. Vou were
educate I at Oxford. Yon don't drop
J your h s. And Sytvfa is in love with
you. .Niy child, "my child, don t cry.
You are his let him tike you."
Sylvia flung herself upou me with a
; torrent of tears.
"You dtuir. stupid old thing." she
I cried, hugging me n und the neck to
an ut. p ea-ant degree. "1 tried to ex-
i plain, but you wouldn't lot ate. How
ever, it's all right now, and you un-der-tand
overytniujr. and Hugh s so
good and kind he's quite ready to for
give yon "
I tin i Itield Hall, where I write the-e
words at my future son-in-law s dek.
i one of th- most charming country
; seats in the county of Sussex. Mrs.
1 Wort hi -t an agrees "with me. We are
! here awaiting Sylvia's marriage nest
i Wednesday.
Ithk rsn. i
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The Face at the Window.
One fall, some fears ago, a series
of revival meetings were held in a
country school house in Western
Maine. The presiding elder was a
most earnest, blunt-spoken mau. and
withal near sighted. At the close of
hU prayer one evening a noise of
s-uftling feet was heard outside, and
a face was Indistinctly seen peering
in at the window. "Come riht In,
my boys." called Klder Smith, heart
ily, "there's plenty of mom inside."
The invitation was not accepted,
but the fate disappeared from the
wm low. A few minutes later, how
ever, in the midst of an lamest ex
hortation by one of the deacons, the
lace again Looked in.
The elder saw it, and began to
make violent gesticulations that the
individuals without should come in
and take some vacant chairs near
the platform.
"Don't stand out there skulking
like cowards, tools for Satan," said
the elder, in stentorian tons, as the
deacon sat down.
As if in contempt of this objurga
tion the face lemained at the win
dow, bobbing up and down and seem
ing to make grimaces. The congre
gation were looking that way, ani
two or three children snickered out
right. The elder was becoming in
censed. "Deacon Jones," lie said, "will vou
step outside and lead that tinregen
erate youth in here? He shall not
disturb our meet ing, for Nitan de
lights in such works."
Deaeon Jones went outside, but
soon returned, empty-l auded. He
said something about "no hoy there."
"No boy there!" cried Elder Smith.
sharply, "why. there the
rascal it
the win-
this minute, peekin
in al
dow. "
some of the children tittered again.
"That's Deacon Stetson's old white
boss: he's hitched theie, I guess,"
spoke up a young man who sat next
the window.
Everybody smiled then, and even
the elder had difficulty in keeping
his face composed.
"Well, well, let us proceed," he
said, severely, "and not let our risl
bles lie aroused by such a carnal crea
ture as a horse.
The services proceeded, but the
gravity of the occasion was several
times disturbed by the smiles of the
younger members of the congrega
tion. Grant's Precedent for Gladstone.
1 should not be at all astonished if
Mr. Gladstone should decide to pay
a visit to this country this summer.
He knows the regard in which be to
held by Americans, and that his
journey would lie a triumphal
progress absolutely unparalleled by
any other foreigner who ever has or
who ever will visit this country, with
the single exception, perhaps, of
Lafayette. His time would lie
practically his own, and by going to
the south of Prance by the way of
Holland and Belgium he will avoid
the terrors of the English Channel
and tie enabled to take a southerly
route across the Atlantic, with a good
chance of avoiding sea sickness. The
program of exercises in such an
event is interesting to speculate up
on. Without office, coming in no
representative capacity, and simply
as a commoner it would be puzzling
sometimes t define his exact place
in the official etiquette of receptions.
He would probably solve the question
as Gen. Grant did when invited by
the Cjueen to dine at Windsor on his
trip around tbe world. He was
traveling simply as a private citizen,
ex-Lieutenant General of ths army,
and ex-President of the Cnited
States. He had no rank that would
give him precedence oxer many noble"
men and diplomats who were present,
and yet it was obvious that he could
not go in to dinner after them. The
monarch solved the question by tak
ing tbe arm of the man whom she
regarded as the first citizen of the
United States. Gen. Adam Badeau
has always taken upon himself much
credit for this incident, but I have
the best reason for believing that It
was done with fine tact on impulse
by the Queen. New York Press.
In Washington there is a crane
whose mania is to hujr such unpro
tected females as he may meet on
the street. Those subjected to the
process have been very angry. Re
cently the crank seized a woman,
dragged her to a lamp so that he
might rea.ie the fullness of his bliss,
took one look, and then let her go
unhugged. Yet beside the anger of
this fortunate woman the wrath of
the women who had been rudely em
braced appears of Insignificance al
most pitiful. It does not seem alto
gether easy to please tbe ladies.