Evening Star Newspaper, January 23, 1886, Page 3

[Whitten for Tue Even nxo Stan] “MUCH ADO”—A NOVELETTE. —o— BY FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT, Author of “That Lass o' Lowrie’s,” “Louisiana,” Ete, Ete. ——— [Copyrighted 1885.] (Concluded) He, too, had neglected an engagement on ac- count of “severe headache,” and he had come to dispel this ailment by promenading the ter- Face, or at least that part of it which lay at the foot of Mrs. Huntingdon’s lawn—tor the rest of the evening. Nell could see his face quite plainly in the moonlight. And it had never been such a beau- titul face in its brightest glow as it was in its sadness and pallor. And why was he there? Bad as he was there must be some strong feel- ing which impelled him to come to the place and haunt it so when there was nothing to be gained. It was what a man with s warm heart and—yes, a tender love filling it—might have done. Nell leaned against the vine-covered trellis trembling, and soon on the leaves near where her cheek rested great drops fell and shone. “Why are you not good?” she whispered brokenly. “Why are you nota gentleman—a man? Ishould—like you—then. I could not heipit. On, I can scarcely help it now!” And at that very instant, as though he had heard the words—thongh he had not—he stop- ped just below whereshe stood and looked up. And then hecame up the steps and walked towards the arbor. There was nothing to be done. It was impossible to goaway. There wasnotime. As she made her involuntary step towards the entrance—a step which brought her into the full moonlight—he reached her and they stood face to face. It was as it he had received an electricshock. A sharp tremor shook bim for an instant, Nell looked up at him and then looked down. “Will you let me pass?” she said in a low votee. “I_I can’t,” he said with 9 desperate, mis- erable effort, “until you teil me why you did that heartless—that cruel thing tome this after- noon.” Nell could not speak. She put her hand upon the trellis to steady herselt. This was too eud- den. “You onght to tell me,” he persisted. “You must. Surely a woman would not do such a thing as that through caprice—a woman like you. I may not be a very attractive fellow— I may go wrong sometimes—I know I’m hot headed and rash—and obstinate—and I have & deuce of a temper—and perhaps you have @ right to dislike me, but you might have spared me that. Why did you do it?” passion- ately. “You—you know why!” cried Nell. “Do not—presume to—ask me!” Yet the words were not spoken valiantly and her voice was not so ¢lear as she had intended it to be. “Idon'tknow why,” he said, “I—is every Ming going to turn against me? I have tried —I have tried to keep things straight—but itis no use—and you might have helped me—if you wou! “I,” exclaimed Nell with pride. “Yes—You!” fiercely. “There have been women before this who have not felt themselves too good to help men who could be helped by their kindness. Even if you had not cared much for me—!f you had been a little kind— but to ki @ man at such a time as this! Do ou think I bave not trouple ¢1 ht Do you Think I don’t feet the di —and bitterness ? I had tried—I gave the thing a fair trial—and I failed. Iecame back here more crushed than you know! I longed fora sight of your face— andakind look. You have never given me one yet, but—it seemed as if pow you meet peraps. And you strack me down—when Was suffering most—you, the woman I love !” Then Nell lifted her head. “How dare your” she said. “How dare you!” Dare!” he echoed with a fire and deflance that almost overwhelmed her. “What, daring, is there in loving a woman? What man, if he isa man at all,cannot dare that much? ‘A dog might love you—the worst fellow alive might love you. Perha} I am not quite the worst, and i teil you again I love you. You cannot ‘ip it—neither”—with a break—“neithercan L” “Let me pass,” said Nell. “I wish to leave you. We have nothing to say to each other!” ‘She begam to tremble. She did not wish to leave him. She wished to stay—to hear him ery out against her and arraign her—to hear him say apything. That was the worst of all— ‘hat was why she trembled. Bat he only saw the tremor and agitation in her face. He stopped short a moment and looked at her ashe had done that day on the lawn. “Is this only dislike?” he sald, as if wonder- ing. “Is it only hatred, or is it something else?” had had less power—ifhe had wrung her heart lees when he upoke she would Have more pitiful. Asit was her only safety Iay tn the: e ing her strength together in one merci- fort, “It is more, than dislike,” she panted. “It is t rou let mi now? “tyes; he answered. And he moved aside, and as she went he turned and stood still, star- ing blankly at the moonlit sea, : ‘When Mrs, Huntingdon returned she did not find Neil down stairs, and hoping that she was asleep, she went to her own room and retired ‘without seeing her. Sue bad ven In bed half an hour, but had not e tosleep, having laid awake, in fact, Sorbed in tought, when she Beard a” low Knock at her door. ‘The moon was still shining and a broad beam ve a.soft light to the room, so that when the Soor opened and Nell came in she could see her as she neared the bed and knelt down by and so seeing her she quickly put out her hand, jalmed. “Dearest!” she ex “Mamma,” said Nell, “now soon ean we go ‘away—how soon?” She began to tremble as she had done in the arbor. “How soon, mamma?” she repeated. Mrs. Huntingdon took the girl’s hand in both of 1, Nell,” she satd, “what is this? Tonight ‘that— “Ob, 3 when'I was at Mrs. "Napier’s I heard ‘Usat—" Nell stopped her. “Yes, mamma,” she sald wearily. “Yes, Mr. Jack Hamilton.” “You have seen him again, Nell? And you have been crying. Ob, be fs worse than 1 thought.” we her hand a fierce little clutch. would you say,” she cried, “if I were ot tosay that, though it is true? say if I were totell you I i clung to he: “Oh, mamma,” she eried, “it seems as if all the world had changed. Tam not the girl you thought 1 Tain not what I thought my- seit. Tam wicked, too. I thought that a girl who was refined ‘and good would hate such a man from instinct. But I-mamma, I do not ate bin. Idonot,I never have hated him om the frst.” Her mother drew her tnto her arms upon the Pillow beside her. “Tell me about it, Nell.” she sald as softly as soothing a child. “You know I will and, daring. We have always under- ch other. It will be better for you to said Nell, “it will be better. And I told myself to-night after what happened that J would not deceive myself or you any longer. Tused to deceive myself at first.” [hated every- thing I heard of him, and I thought I disliked Lim, too, IF told myself he was bold and pre- suming, but, mi, it he were not what he Is We should not call him so beeause—because he would not up without a struzgie, the ed! We should noteondemn him ied to be near her, because he had Leautiful eves and they followed her always. ‘Those are not crimes, marama,” dear; no,” tenderly, I tried’ to think them so at first,” Nell went on. “Ihave always treated him ‘coldl, and disdainfully. I would never hear him. never will bear him; but Ido not hate bim. And if he were not Jack Hamilton all he has Said to me would be just and true.” “And he has sald——?” said her mother. € has said he loves me. He has said I have been cruel to him, He bas sald I ought to tell him why I hate him. He has said he suffers, An¢ itis true. He doestove me. I have been crucl He js sutlering now. He did not lie to me about that. Isaw it in bis facet” “Aud you have sald—t” put in the mother again “I have said that we have no words to say to each other. I have said that he is less tl nothing tome. Ihave said that it is notonly hatred I iee! for him, but contempt, And, de- spise me, mamima—be ashamed of me, tor I am sabamed of myseit_tt| {not truer” “Bat it was best, dear—it was best,” said her mother, caressing’ her. “And you were brave and in the right when you did it. It is true that you hate his wickedness, It is—it is What he might have been that You eate for.” “Ob,” said Nell, hidéen upon her shoulder, you—do you think it ist” _ es, dear.” “And you are not—not ashamed of me, mamma?” ‘Mrs. Huntingdon kissed her hair ip rather a as It Wo give herseif a moment's " she said, “I could not be without be- Ing ashamed of myself, too. II must confess iso, my, dear,” raiber weakly “I amolder than you,and it bas been agulist my principles, bat~bat I have liked hit, too. none wasa yh eae lifted her face. No t was needed to tell her mother that dooded with warm color. ee “Oh, mamma!” she eried, “ "and she clasped ber in ier arms and her ugain and ie ber soft tears (ailing. wen nik Say, Cen it Aree teeta she said. “You may—Thiak iy if you can, cause J may not.” = The day after North Brabant was surprised by arumor that the Huntingdon cottage was close , and that the mother and daughter haa gone sway. ‘This rumor Mrs. Maria Hunting- Teceived in a spirit of severe disbeliet, “It is impossible,” she said. “They mentioned it to mef” And making & inquiry and finding only servants at the he returned to Owlet’s Nest dumb with Proper indignation at not having been ‘cOb- sulted. “It was quite sudden_ma’am,” said the woman she saw. “Miss Huntingdon had been quite unwell. Mrs. Hunt n was anxious aud thought she needed a c! ge. That was ‘they did not return to North Bmbant. 1e arn ‘Their fronds heard of them occasionally as being sometimes at one mountain resort, sometimes at another. They did not seem to an — than a few days any WOT, oy “Are you trom some a Hester’ Beverl p Swrote once. Pxtario and I have decided that you are ‘in hiding’ as Jack Hamilton was when he was in London. It seems that Prof. Chatterton recognized hi when he was here, as a young man who im Londos thatne carey secaped’ ‘the, penalty in yo that barely Bort tore, oo ewehkek nose or ie at lon’t ‘It was very late in the season. The last scar let, yellow and brown leaves had fluttered to thé ground and disappeared, when the Han- tingdon’s town house was opened, and at first there was some doubt as to whether it would notsoon be closed again, as Mrs. Huntingdon had spoken of a halciGrmed, plan of going abi ‘Miss Huntingdon was not exactly Strong, and the vovage and change might be beneficial to her, But this plan was abandoned ene a announced his in- mn of com! ome. It was an intention announced quite sud- denly, and the letter containing the news ended by saying that he might follow un the next steamer. ‘A. year before Nell’s pleasure at hearing this would have amounted to delight, but now when her mother closed the letter and looked up at her she saw a new shadow in her eyes. ‘She un- derstood ite meaning later, when in the course of the day Nell, standing near the fire with her back towards her, said: “Mamma, you’ are very clever, you know. You can always arrange things.” . «Is there anything to arrange, Nell ?” “Yes, if you will. Will you arrange it that Donald shall not” speak “ol—that person, OF tell any of the stories about him when I can hear them? 1 should not like to hear them, Twill arrange it, Nell,” her mother an- = jell,” her mot swered. That was all. They rarely referred to what had passed. ‘The next few days Noll found abandance of occupation. She unaer- She made masy changes in thew and many ne le many chan; i im ant y additions to thelr ‘adornments. She made 4 grimages to town and filled every hour. The Tooms were very charming and complete when she had finished, and, indeed, the whole house wore an air of greeting. As the arrival might be expected almost any day, it was her habit each day to spend half an hour in the lower rooms arranging fresh flowers in the jars and so it hay med that one after- noon, ‘about * week a she receipt of the letter she was in parlor when a serv: did not know she was there opened the door and ushered in a visitor. She turned, her branch of yellow roses in her hand; the servant had retired without seeing her; the visitor himself did not see her until he had advanced towards the fire-place. There he stopped with astart, quickly putting kis hand on the back ofthe chair he had been the agitated fece of Jack Hamnitons the agitat face nm. it was even more agitated than it had been when she had seen it last; and there was, as he looked at her, such a dumb sort of misery in his great dark eyes that she could almost have cried out, “For pity’s sake,” he said, “don’t go away for afew minutes. I asked for yourmother. I did not mean to force myself apon you again, but since you are here don't go just yet. 'You wouldn't if you knew how desperate I feel.” He came a step nearer and looked at her more closely. “You don’t look as if you had been well,” he said. “They told me you were not strong; they said you were going abroad; that was why came.” He came still nearer, and Nell unconsciously shrank back. “Don’t do that!” he exclaimed, with a touch of his old flerceness. Then with a sudden ham- bleness, “I beg your pardon, but you don'tknow how deep it cuts. I have thought of this thin Untill think sometimes I'm not quite myself You don't know what it is to be od by a feeling that tortures you—something you can’t get rid of day or night.” Nell made a slight movement again. “After you sald your last words to me,” he went on. “I told ‘mysel! I should be a fool to Tet myself be stabbed to death again. I vowed I would get over it. I tried, but it was stronger than Iwas. I never shall get rid of it, And those last words, I kept thinking them over; and arguing about them untill had frantic fancies. It seemed as if, after all, I didn’t de- serve them. I was in love with you and when oa seemed to dislike me so could not give up. Yeoutdn’t help it, but that wasn't contemptible, Any man who loved you would feel itgo bard with bim to give up all hope. And so at last. T began to think, perhaps, you had heard some- thing against me which was not true. And iff could know I might explain it. Jt ‘may seem like vanity—perhaps it is vanity but, great Heaven, {i you knew how] have suifered! Somehow he seemed so much at her mercy. she bad never seen in any human face such a pained, pleading look as there was in his—it seemed impossible that such earnestness should cover such wrong. “1 thought I would come to your mother,” he sald. “What!” ‘There Was a sofa just behind her. She made ‘one desperate effort to control herself—to look at him steadily and speak in a calm voice—her lips parted, but only toguiver. She sank on to the sofa and dropping her face upon her arm burst into tears. ‘He flung all caution to the winds then—he actually dropped on one knee by her side. “Have I said too much?” he cried, implor- ingly. “Yes, I have. Don’t do that—don't. I never saw a woman cry before and to see do it—. Only say one word and I will go, Have you heard anything against me—” She interrupted him. now-"you might linve spared me te telling. know—you m! ve 8} me Dg. Do you think man ean be dishonored aid base—base—” He sprang to his feet. “Base,” he almost shouted. “Dishonored! ‘Tell me what you mean! What have I done to be dishonored? I swear some one has lied! Ask your brother—ask Donald if Tam such a seoundrel—" Nell lifted her proud, tear-ewept face. “It was Donald who told us,” she said. “Donald,” he cried with flashing eyes, “Donald against me!" And then the door opened _and some one else tall, young man, whose keen blue eyes regarded ‘the scene through his eye glasses with an expression of some bewilder- ment. ‘Neli started from her sofa with @ little cry. She made a movement towards him, but Jack ‘Hamilton was before her. As the hew comer advanced he met him haif way. “Tell me what this means!” he demanded, towering toa magniticen and it musi be contessed wearing something of the manner of a highwayman, “some one shall tell me! She says I am a dishonorable scoundrel, that I am a contemptible vitlain.” “My dear Nell,” interposed her brother mild- Jy ,wrbat langage. But Jack liton did not seem to hear jm. “She says are against me, too,” he went on. “She says you tid them ail tote; thet you warned them against me,” Donald Huntingdon’s eyes lost their smile. He began to look serious, “ly” he exclaimed; “there's © mistake some- where. He walked over to Neli and took her trem- bling hand. “Nell,” he said, “what is the matter? Don’t be Soagitated. What is it?” Nels head fell upon his shoulder, “Donald,” she sald. “let me go. I ean't bear it any longer. Mamma will tell le Was a charming tellow, id. Hunting- don, and he hud ulways been Nell’s friend, ad- viser and protector. He put his arm around her in kindly, caressing support, “No,” he said, “I won't let you go, Nell, until this iS explained. Such, thtnige ia always be set right at once. Somebody has made a mistake. Let us find out about it When did Tsay anything against the best fellow I ever knew—the fellow with the b tue most stupid habit of sacri {hone who don t deserve It. I may have sald he was an idiot, Neil; he has heard me sa; it himself; he Is. a mistaaen, blundering giant, but when’ in Heaven's name did I say any- thing else against Will Hamilton?” She almost started out of his arms, “Donald,” she eried. “Ob! Donald!” “Yes.” he replied, patiently. “That means something, of course, Nell, but it is not ex- actly an answer.” * “We thought!" she exclaimed in tones of ‘uish and humiliation, whieh wr very soul of the injured Hamiltonesoe u hi—we ht he was—tbe other!” ‘ett onsia see Hamallton started then vio i meat” isd, Donald, you thought be wag ¥ saddled on" him with Jack Hamilton's and adorned him with Jack Hamilton's rescue But Will no a highwayman. looked 1 subdued; @ sort of colossal tt him—a tender timidity—bis pised eyes yearned towards Neil ant her face and shrinking, “Mr. Johft Hamilton,” replied Mrs. Hanting- don with a touch efentbarfussmente en “You do him an injustice,” sald Donald. “He ts m; will ‘whom I reoom- DER gag ee beon apparently the most ill-nsed man on the continent.” re alco no brge to Nell—she gave ‘Efgotingdon, sarned to “Neil, dear,” id, “Bertha wished to see ony dear she og, porta winked tp oe 0 to her.”” And Nell went, feeling the release from the ly d atinospherecame not s moment too soon, did not go to her maid, she went to her room, hurrying with beating heart. Ina fow minutes she was kneeling by her pillo she could scarcely tell why. She was sobbing & ttle, strange, hi mate “ObI" she sald. knew that you were not Wicked; my heart knew It. Somet ning Delisted: in you éven when I suffered so and tried and fried. Oh! how thankful, how thankfal—how , bow, owe ‘stairs the mystery was explaining “We are very much to blame,” Mrs, Hunting- don was saying. “I scarcely knew how it # and then I am afraid we did the most unjust thing we could have done, but it seemed na- tural to avoid the subject—and—and you. And then when we knew your cousin—I_am obi to say he must have known. We used names so that he must have understood, and of course that left no room tor doubt, And you Were always together when we met you—and Prot. Chatterton spoke so severely—and we thought we saw him remonstrating with you—” “He was remonstrating with me,” said Ham- fiton, biting his Re “He thought I was Yoocg in the course I took with my cousin, Isee Was now; but we were boys together and he Was always smaller and weaker. And his mother believed—” he stopped. “His mother belleved no one else could save him,” put in Donald, “and you made burnt offering of yourselt. Go o1 Hamilton lifted his stag’s eyes to Mrs. Hunt- ingdon's. ‘His mother was very fond of him,” he said in a low tone. “She was a little creature and fullored a great deal. She had been kind to me. “Simm Huntingdon hed pl irs. Huntingdon quite flus! with pleas- are. She begun to adore him, “Oh, how cruel we were to you,” she said, “Monty only Sata Ht will nly—only,” said Hamilton, “that you think better of me.” But his’ eyes implored something else also, and happiness leaped into them as she held out her hand. ‘When Nell came down to dinner the first, thing Hamilton saw was that her air of cold disdain had fled, the next that she wore the dress he had seen’ in the moonlight. Her loveliness was so softened that it was a new thing. Ifhe had been Jack Harnilton and had dared to neglect his dinner and look ut her a8 hedidon this occasion he would have been stigmatized as a presumptuous criminal. As it was, Donald and Mrs, Huntingdon were very good w him and exhibited in thelr kindness the most beautiful tact. Was it Donald who took his mother up stairs after the meal was over and they had sat talking for an hour, or Was it Mrs. Huntingdon who took Donald’ to show him his apartments? It mattered notin the least to Hamilton when the door closed and he found himeeif alone with Nell. He had always been an impetuous person, and he was no less impetuous now. And yet it was Nell who spoke first. There was one thrilling moment of silence and then she looked up at him with the most lovely appeal in her eyes. “I know I ought to ask your pardon,” she sald. “You cannot know how wretched I feel—how in the wrong—how—oh, how sorry—" He rose from his own seat and came-and took the one her mother had left close to her own. “Don’t be sorry,” he said, “his voice low with impassioned happiness. There has been sorrow enough—you don’t know—it you are sorry I must be. “ Let me have nothing but happiness.” “Oh! but,” said Nell, “think what I said to you—what’ cruel, untrue things—when you Were in such trouble—when all the world Should have been kind to you. Ican’t bear it!” She put out her hand’in a pretty, pathetic gesture, To say that the next instant Hamilton held it pressed close within his own seems almost unnecessary. He locked at her a second adoringly. “Weil,” he said at last, “be sorry—a little, since it makes you look at'me like that. ‘Then Nell ceased to look at him at all. eyelids fell and she me a rose in bloom. ‘No,” he implored, “don't do that. You owe me something; pay me by being kind.” Which ‘was perhaps a trifle unworthy. Yet there are Qeeasions when man is but dust. “You must! You—you will.” He held the hand closer and closer and his own was tre: “I shall say too much,” he said rashly, “I know I shall, but Ican’t help it. You have ‘abhorred me so long that you can’t think of me as I—as I wish you could. But you said those things—the things you said that night—were untrue. You know you suid you hated me. Will you tell me now that—you didn’t?” He bent over her—unconsciously drawing her a little to him with the hand he held—and yet he could hardly hear her low voice as she an- swered: “Yes—I will,” she sald; “I did—not.” “Ab!” he cried, “if co only knew how bappy you make ine. I you could only say— a little more. I know it's too much to asi, but—” There was a little, breathless pause, and then Nell slowly lifted her eyes, their lashes wet, the ‘Sweetest, softest, dearest look in their depths that ever a woman's eyes wore. “I know I owe you something,” she said, tremuiously. “No woman has the right to make a man suffer when he does not deserve it, and then not try to pay him afterwards. I do owe you something, and I want to pay ou. And if you—it what say makes you so appy, perhaps I can a little. IL will tell you— “What?” he whispered, because her voice fell. “Tell ms “I said,” lower still, I said—“that I hated you—beciuse I did not.” He swept her Into bis arms and held her trem- bling against bis breast, “Because you did not,” he cried. “A word more —one word, Nell! “Beeause I never did—because I thought I ought to—because I knew Fcould not-—because I was unhappy--because I did not know what to do—becuuse I think—I loved you! Have 1— have I paid you now?” He thought so. How he told her that he thoughtso—with what torrentof words—with what passionately happy tenderaess does not vncern us. All that hud passed was pothing— for them ai least a new wurid was made. “My dear mother,” said Donald later in the eveulng, “you mustexcuse my saying that I cannot refrain from contemplating you two most eharming women with admiraiion and delight. When IJ think of the high moral tone you took in this matter, of the loity seorn you dealt forth to the wrong young tnan, of ‘the persistent and laudable manner in which you enfolded the right one in your embrace, 0 to speak; when I think of that guileless looking, slippery little cad’s quiet enjoyment of his post. tion, for he hasa siy sense Of humor by no imeuns despicable—and when I remember above all thut you accepted the flowers which IL find the maligned vietim chose—und, of course, paid for—and drove haughtily past said victim ag he humbly toiled along the dusty roud while you splashed him with the mud from his own chariot wheels. I will confess that [ Testrai my pleasure in the humor of the situa- ation with difficulty.” “My dear,” answered Mrs. Huntingdon, “you make me absviutely unhappy. I cannot think of it. It was unpardonable.” “It is rather too bad,” said Donald, “that the fact is if you bad not been such’ charming vomen—if you had been a trifle less fastidious and refiv and would have condescended to ip a little und listen to gossipers you would flavelound out your mistake, Tuwes bores You felt Ht better taste, to exclude this repre- ensible young Inan and all discussion of him from yout presence that you were enabled to remain in @ state of blissful ignorance. But ee you repented hare enone Why you pick out that particular young man as being the wicked one?” = “Well, in the first place,” sald Mrs, Hunting- don, I thought that Mrs. Dalton looked at hin when she was pointing out the hero of the stories, and then—” “You thought” said Donald. “But why did youthink? Was it a matter of looks? Upon the whole I think he has the advantage of ihe origtoal Jack Hamilton,” “Oh, Donald!” exclaimed Nell with a enarm- ingly involuntary indignation. “Oh, I think he has—a little,” said. Donald, considerately. “Come, what was it, mother? Gontens. Was It because, he looked fess inter. esting—or more so’ vi N speak for Rerselt first. Which wane Nell Neil hesiiated and reflected, Then she blushed a little. “I don't think,” she replied, “that it was be- cause he was lest interesting.” neMy dear mother,” said Donald, turning to r Mrs, Huntingdon hesitated longer than Nell had done. She reflected more deeply. She begun to feel herselt obliged to coutfont s Most confusl, jubtiety and remissness, “Lam afraid,” she said with @ most self-re- Proachful air““My dear Don, I'm afraid—it Was becuse he was—more #0.” Aud Donald broke Into a shont of leughter— reprehensible and eplored, Teast of it, =a THE END, Comforted. ‘a time when Grief with me ‘and tireless company; ty es Hy REEE t H i & é : 4 F E . HT EE 8 : i Fa e E ry 3 "TEER ge i # A SOUTH AMERICAN NAPOLEON. mM Gen. Caceres, With His Ragged ‘Army, Captured the Feravion Capital, Correspondence of Tax Evaxrve Stat. : Lrma, Perv, December 15, 1685. ‘The cable had long ago doubtless informed you of the remarkable changes which have taken place in thiscity during the pest fow weeks. On the 15th ultimo, great suocesses wore reported to have been gained over Gen. Caceres by Col. Relayze, at the bridge of Huari- Pampa, The latter reported the army of Caceres to have been surprised while crossing this bridge and dispersed for the greater part while retiring by the right bank of the Jauja river, This news was confirmed by Col. La Rosa, prefect ot Junin, in his official reports of the 28dult, Three of Caceres’ ministers be- coming discouraged by his last defeat, besought him to make terms with the govern- ment. Falling in their request, they re- signed leaving him and his little army to their fate, It was that Caceres determined to march upon Lima; but he confided his secret to nO one. Over the summits and through the valleys of the mountain range which separated him from the capital he led his little army. By forced marches they made ten leagues a day, the ammunition and artillery being carr upon the backs of the horses, the officers walk- ing alike with the men. A devoted little army Jie that which made fis eppearance in Lime, the garments of men and officers in rags, with- out shoes on their feet, ‘There was an’ air of quiet determination about them as they shout dered the Remingtons they knew so well how use, ‘The news of the victory at Huaripampa cre- ated great excitement in Lima. The supporters of the government were delighted, and the Caceristas correspondingly dejected. What, then, was the surprise and consternation of thé government when, on the night of Tuesday, the 24th ultimo, a dispatch reached Lima stating that the trains at Chichla, the terminus of the Oroya railroad, were being attacked. ‘The tele- graph lines were cut soon alterwards, and no lurther communications received. ‘Ten cars with one locomotive com} the captured train, which had on board, besides uniforms and provisions, ten thousand silver soles, in- tended for Col.'Relayze. It was learned aiter- wards that a group of fourteen officers com- Posed the entre force that captured Chichla, ‘THE MARCH TO LIMA. On the morning of the 25th all the army was concentrated in Chichla and Col. Del Solar ad- vanced on the railroad as far as Matacana, On the 26th the army was reported at Chosica and on the 28th at San Bartolome, a station on the Qroya railroad in the immediate vicinity of ima, ‘The attack on the city commenced on the 80th with skirmishing on the Vasquez moun- tains, From this time we could well see the battle from the roof of the United States lega- ticn, The advanve of the attacking army was Temarkably rapid, the troops of Caceres care- fully reserving their fire and making only tell- ing’shots, a quality which had great effect on the opposite side, who fired rapidly with but little apparent result. We could see with our glasses the lines of the Caceristas, distin- guishable by their red caps, as they captured position after position, the government troops Making for the city in full retreat. At sunset the outskirts of the city were in the bands of Caceres. Atsunrise of the morning of the 1st his army, divided into two columns, ENTERED THE CITY. The first came in by the old gate of Barbones and the second by that of Maravillas and Mer- cederias, ‘The first serious encounter inside the capital apart from the light resistance of the skirmishers was in the immediate vicinity of the Butta bridge. As the line advanced across it they caught the full force of the fire of the gov- ernment troops from the neighboring heignts, This, however, did not check the advauce, the battle belng short and decisive and conclud- ing with the defeat of the government forces, The tower of San Francisco was captured by a number of the alumni ot the university, led by a retired naval officer. This was a most im- portant point, as 1t overlooked the alace. Of the day's fight we could see very litle. The constant shower of shot and shell ing over the house warned us to keep close. Occasionally one of our party, more venturesome than the rest, would} push the shutter partly ‘open, but’ the, ‘whizzing of (a bullet | pu t his head told him of his danger and he prudently withdrew, ‘The government troops were weil supplied with ammunition, and were very willing to expend it, even upon aquiet civilian. In the early morning one ot our number ventured out in search of excite ment, and passed near the palace a the firing began. ‘The first warning of his danger was the peculiar rattle of a gatling gun, a shower of bullets striking the house In front ot which he stood. His life was spared, but it was a miracle, In looking over the place afterwards It did not seem possible that he could have escaped: The ringing of the bells in the church tower told us when the position was ylelded to the Caceristas. Through our peep- hole in the shutter we could see the party of skirmishers at the corner of the Street. hey fought bravely, without seeking shelter, calmly sinoking their cigarettes during the lulls of the firing. At 7 o'clock in the evening the lamp- lighter,“ who was in the act ‘of lighting the street lump {n front of the door, was killed by one of the skirmishers, THE ARMISTICE. At one o'clock in the morning the bugler from the palace sounded for a parley, an armis- tle being coneiuded till noon of the same day. In the early morning we were out inspecting the strect barricades, both parties permittin civilians within their lines, ‘The citizens stoo in front of thelr houses, taking the air, realy like prairie dogs to take to shelter at the first alarm. During all this time the negotia- Uons were going on, the diplomatic corps being very active in thelr efforts to bring about an agreement. ‘They were successful af last, a pro- yisional government being established, The troops of Iglesias withdrew to Chorilias and those of Caceres to Santa Clara, ‘Thus succeeded one of the most remarkable feats of generalship that the world has ever seen. By a single stroke this remarkable sol- dier converted defeat Into victory. Leaving a well-equipped army of the enemy hundreds of iniles in the Interior, happy in thelr ignorance, the rugged army of Caceras holds possession of the capital, calmly awaiting the chanco to give them a warm reception should they decline to accept the results on thelr return from their fruitless campaign. BHM. eee —___ Alex. Hamilton's Pamphlet. From Ben: Perley Poore’s Re-ollections. Alexander Hamilton, when Secretary of the ‘Treasury, had on indiscreet filrtation with the wife of one of his clerks, whosuccessfully black- mailed him, His political opponents heard of it and started a rumor that he was speculating in stocks through the clerk. When this came to Hamilton's ears he published an account of the whole transaction in a pamphlet, admitting that h been the dupe of a designing \d her rascally husband, but denyin that, while Secretary of the Treasury, he ha 8] ih 2 2 peculated in stocks, basing his operations on is inside knowledge, of government fluancos, In an appendix he published the letters of bis fair friend, leaving uncorrected her queer blun- ders in spelling, as, for example,when she wrote that she hoped soon “to se’her dear Col. harmilton, she is alone, and begs he will rite to her whos grateest fault Is Lovin’ him,and clear up her doubts.” ‘he publication of this pamphlet gave Mrs. Hamilton great sorrow, and when she came to Washington to live in her old age she had pur- chased a considerable portion of the edition from second-hand booksellers, paying them a dollar tor euch copy. All at once she began to recelve u dozen ot even more every week, and it leaked out that a New York bookmonger had caused the reprinting of the pamphlet, thus receiving a dollar for what had cost him’ elght orten cents. There 18 » copy of the original painpbiet In the Congressional brary at ington, ‘ashe Susan and Elizabeth. From the Boston Record, One of the daughters of Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton gives an amusing account of the way her mother and Miss Susan B. Anthony work together on their “History of Woman Suffrage.” the suffrage movement, and Miss Anthony is punctillions about dates. The two dearold ladies ‘often get into excited discussions over their sub- ject, and aip their pens into their mucllage tiles and thelr mucilage brushes into their ink bottles in their excitement over thelr work. They, sit at ‘opposite sides of Toray, and ‘occasionally they. Ad cactretiee rary, and occasionally they find each other a0 penlitent in opioion ‘that they sit back and stare at each other ina silence that Is very near anger. Once ina while they will march out of the room by different doors, and there seems forty "yearn ia about to be broken Wat aiibr forts rears nat rol I ro while “they will be found peaceably at work again together. T! never take time to do any ee up,” but cover their ments with the mantle of dignity and silence, —_—_o ‘The Prince and His Mother. From the London World. Ifit be true, as stated by acontemporary, that the Prince ot Wales hasbeen “‘sherply rebuked” by the queen for going toa theater at 2 time when the court was in mourning, {t is a most absurd fact. ‘To think that a man, going on for Its said that o of “Faust” the prince endeavored to rvation, and remained as much as ble at the back of Lady de Grey's box bat was there, in the theater; and the reporters, Sync etn i as a ‘surrou ted to divine his desire’ for privasgr ‘Mrs. Stanton is a stickler for the philosophy of | £, RELIGIOUS NOTES.- CHURONES HERE AND ELSEWHERE —The Garfield memorial window at Wi- lame college has been comploted at a cost of ‘asories of successful ‘tera- poranes macetings at ME ae —The Metropolitan M. E. church last Sunday sionary fu of the church, ‘McCabe was present and presented the sal ot — The executive and legislagive branches of the government will be represented in the gen- eral conference of the M. E. Church South, Secret Lam: a Senator Colq ving eon elected members Saar —The St. John’s guild of this city consists of three chapters: the visitors’, to assist in seeking ‘and ministering tothe poor; the brotherhood, Providing a Ubrary and reading-oom for men, ring th iter, kly lecture concert, und Bt” Margarete for the altar atid chancel under the supervision of the — Rev. Harvey Wilson, president of the Oak- dale (Nebraska) seminary, |timore tosolleit aid for the schost, Now ™ BA —The Rev. 0. 8. Barten, rector of Christ church, Norfolk, Va., celebrated the 20th annivereery of his rectorship last month. —Church sittings in Philadelphia are only Provided for 310,000 people and the population is about 1,000,000. The average attendance, itis sald, is only about 160,000" —The expenses of the parish house of St. Paul's church, Baltimore (Rev. Dr. H a new house is in process erection near the Fector), last year were from $1,500 to $2,000 —The presbytery of Philadelphia recently declined to receive into the Presbyterian chureb the well-known Cor tionalist, Rev. Dr. Bacon, who has been called to the Woodland chureh, West Philadelphia, —The work of the clergy house of Mount Calvary P. E. Church, Baltimore, (the Rev. R. H. Payne, rector), has cost upwards of $4,000, and the chancel ‘has been enlarged and’ im: fore ata cost of nearly $5,000, the gift for he most part of one individual. —Thirteen years ago the Young Men’s Chris- tlan association of New York started a branch society in the Bowery, called the Bowery branch, and during that period 60,000 young men have recelved the asuistance the associa tion gives in temporary shelter, meals and clothing, —Ot the income of the estate of $150,000 left by Harriett H. Littell, one-tenth is devised toSt. John’s P.E. church, Wilmington, Dela- Ware, while her brother, the Rev. T. C. Littell, shall be rector, and in case he becomes rector of any other parish the assigned income is to go with him, — Last Sunday the members of the ploneer Sunday school, of Hillsdale, presented s fine crayon life portrait of their superintendent, Mr. Solomon G.Brown, to the pioneer institute, ‘The presentation was made by Mr. Albert Brown. Mr. 8. G. Brown has devoted 18 years of service to this Sunday school, —The Rev. W. E, Griffis, of Schnectady, re- cently delivered an interesting address at Rut- gers college on the Rutgers graduates in Japan, which has now been published by the alumni association of the college. Owing to circumstances a large number of Rutgers col- Jege graduates have engaged in missionary and educational work in Japan nd this pamphiet gives a very entertaining and vaijuable sketch Of thelr labors, and of tho leading Japane @ a Statesmen. of the age with whom they were associated, The Good Effects of “Local Opti From the Montgomery (Md.) Advocate. We are informed that during the three years and elght months local option has been In effect in this county but six arrests have been made in Rockville for drunkenness and disorderly conduct. Belore the passage of the law the average numbef of arrests was about twenty-one a month, or 252a year. Cold Weather in the South. From the Thomson (Va.) Journal, When Judge Hardaway came into town last Saturday morning his most intimate friends failed to recognize him, and every horse along the street broke loose and stampeded to the country. He looked like a forked cotton bale with a hat on the top end, and a decided incli- nation to wabble. When Col. Bush and Joe Jones unwound him they found that he had on four suits of flannels, three pairs of pants, two vests, three coats, ten pairs of socks, one pair of boots, then more socks, three overcoat shawl and ten yards of bagging, then another overcoat and a blanket and a duster and some more pants, and a bed quilt wrapped around his jaws avd head, anda small black hat and two pairs of glovesand his hands In bis pockets, and you couldn't see any of him except one eye and the end of his nose. The surplus duds taken offof lhim exactly filled an empty crock- ery crate. He was speechless when they tin- ished shucking him, but when he recovered he Stated polntediy that ‘he intended to ‘keep it warin if it Involved this country ina clyil war. wroteon ee Estate Titles in Chicago, ‘From the Chicago Mail. . The abstract books of Handy & Co. are esti- mated to be worth $1,000,000, They are owned by a firm made up of such of the old convey- ancers who were fortunate cnongh to save their records from the fire. There were a half dozen ofthem, and they went in together pooling their records and pooling their business, ‘They now own the only complete set of real estate records trom ante-fire time down to date In ex- istence. The legislature once ordered the pur- chase for $400,000 of copies of these records, but the Cook county judge prevented the con- summation of the trade on the ground that the records were very much better off in the hands of their present Owners, “We never carry any insurance,” said Mr. Jones, one of the owners. ‘This would look extraordinary to one who Knew nothing of the precautions taken by the concern. It was the big fire that made these records’ worth a million and their owners rich, The first step taken after getting the ‘records together was to build @ plice of safety jor them, Handy’s place on Washington street 1s now a fire-proof vault. He himself sits in a vault, brick under- neath him, arched brick above, brick all around him. His seventy-five men work in a vault. If all the buildings around fell on him he could keep right on working. Ifthe whole town were burning up this place on Washington strect, ‘with au area of about fifty fect square and about twenty feetin height, would be asafe enough refuge. ‘The concern opens and shuts at regu- Jur hours like # public office, Handy always Jocks the door himself carries the key and’ un locks itin the morning. It he is sick or pro- poses leaving town he sends for one of bi: gare hers, and he must take charge of the key. There is no such concern holding the titles of the property of a bulf-million peopte in their control anywhere else in creativn, use RO~ wuere else except at Chicago has a great fire Swept the public records out of existence.” A competent man tells me that with one ex- ception ull the good abstract men in the city are cither members of the Handy firm or in the firm’s employ, It is its policy to tapers in all the best men in the cliy by paying the best salaries, In the concern itself are a hali-dozen gentlemen well along in years, all of them with memories chock full of family histories, and ot real estate romances. “Mostof the trouble in real estate,” said one of these gentlemen, “arises out of dower rights, ‘The owner of & five-story building on South Water strect a few montl point in the title the grantor had not been joined by the wife. “He came to meand asked It I knew the man, I did. Was he married? Yes. Was the wile alive? es, thought, so and that she was living at Detroit. Would fget him a release? I did not want to rob the old lady. Would he treat her fairly? He said thatifne could not get her release any cheaper he would give her two years’ rental—$16,000., Would be give $4,000 in any event, withgut any dickering, and be perfectiy led? He said he would. I found the old lady at Detroit, explained the situation to her; and found that I could get her release for $500. Igot ner deed; came back, got acheck for her for $2,000, a check for one of her boys for $500, The London Lancet quotes John Hunter's statement that the decay of the teeth is a dis- ease which seems to be “peculiar to youth and middle age; the shedding teeth are as to it, 1 not more to last through lite, 8 E iE z H i E H 5F g & i 5 g g3 ge Hl Hi i Bue me FS He Hee i 4g H i ace 3 A gE 3 i Ta &, Ble i i 28 PROF. DANA, OF YALE, DELIVERS AN INTER- ESTING LECTURE ON THE EARTH'S ORIGIN. tion which we have is this first ‘of Gen- eais, and this mast be inspired. “Phere Deno object in putting this description of the creation in the Bible had it been untrue. The order of the creation must for scientific ry creation. Of the st Inorganic matter’ the (et tute woreneseios atter; last tl matter, “On the first of each of these divisions light was created: in the first cosmical tight, and in the second the light of the sun, moon, and stars. On the last of the serles plants were created, and of the second series man was made in God's image. * Proves that everything which ex- ists must have a beginning. Science accords with the Bible in that light must have first ex- isted, plants must have existed before animals, tok them and to absorb the carbonic acid in the air, The word ‘day’ in the way of many, the earth could not have been created ih six days of twenty-four hours. But to narrow down to such @ Umit is trivial. Itis improbable that Moses, who of God that ‘a thousand yearsin Thy wight aie out an s yesterday,” could, in his deserip- tion of the creation, have meant daysof twenty- four hours each. There is no reason to suppose that in the creation of plants all plants were brought into existence at once, but that there was @ growth hero as in everything from the lower to the higher order, which agrees with science. The question is open whether one form of matter can change into an- other form of matter, but the evolution of matter into man is not possible, If by evo- lution man could have been foimed from any of the existing creations, there would have been no need of any such special flat as was made, ‘and so God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him.’ All the revious creations were to be subject to him. le was to be a creation of continued growth, And, as Is the case, man has progressed antll hé has most of the elements at his command. No evidences have ever been found of any inferior race from which men could be sprung. The similarity between the recent study of nature josaic law ought to satisfy the doubt- ing students of nature of the truth of the creation as related in the first chapter of Gen- er The lecture was very largely attended, —— Ses Jack Gaylord and the Elk. THROWN ON THE ANTLERS OF AN INFURIATED BEAST—A LUCKY SHOT, From the Sait Lake Tribune. A tew weeke ago Jack Gaylord wason a hunt in the Wind Ri¥er mountains, among the toot- hills of which his ranch issituated. From a closegrown pine thicket one morning there leaped the largest elk he had ever seen, As the huge animal paused a moment the hunter's ready rifle cracked. The elk was evidently hit, but only slightly, and away he went, crashing through the brush and over the loose shingle of the mountain side. ‘The dogs were put upon the track, and soon the cliffs and chasms echoed to their opening music. ‘The royal elk headed straight for the brakes of the Sable mountain, ahuge peak, one of the loftiest of the range, that rose some five miles distant. On the sum: mit of this mountain rises a crest of rocks that, ata distance, exactly resembles ee table, Atthe end of a two hours’ run the elk found himself at the foot of the peak, with the hunter and hounds close on bis haunches. The hunted animal at once began. the steep ascent, and tried hard to shake off his pursuers amid the tangled thickets that line the mountain side, Leaving his blown pon’ the base of the peak, the hunter followed the chase on foot. Hall Way up the mountain the elk was sighted. The clamor of the dogs was redoubled.” The hounds were now close upon the noble game, and, under the giant shadow of the table, it turned at bay. As the foremust of the dogs emerged from the last copse and sprung full at his throat, the branching antlers were sud- denly lowered, the keen tines pierced from side to side, and all that was left of the stanch hound Was tarown high in the air and fell tar down the steep inelin Nothiug daunted, the remaining hound, too, made its flerce spring and shared the fate of its comrade. The bushes parted, and the hunter stepped into the open attle ground, where just perished his two gallant hounds. “With a hoarse bellow the ani- tal rushed at him. The hunter fired, and the next instunt was whirled aloft on the broad antlers. His stout buckskin bunting shirt turned aside the sharp prongs, but they had be- come fastened in the garment, and Gaylord bid fair tu be thrashed to death against the rocky ground. As fora second time the elk dashed im to the earth he manuged to catch hold of a stout bush and kept his grasp long enough to enable him, with bis other band, to draw his revolver irom his belt and sent a bail crashing through the bruin of his savage foe. Electricity as a Domestic Agent. From the New York Mail and Express. Unique among the dwellings of the city Is that of Edward H. Jobuson, at 139 east 36th street, the only private residence in thiscountry, and probably in the world, which has in its cel- lar a plant for electric lighting. The home of the owner, who fs a friend of Edison, is interest- ing because the electricity is utilized not only for lighting, but for numerous ingenious labor- saving appliances and for decorative purposes, He produces a very pretty effect in the dining- room by stretching a finely desizned and highly colored Japanese screen In front of the grate, in the bottom of which are two electric lamps. First he extinguishes the lights on the chundelier, and then suddenly turns on. the lamps in the grate. As a result, the screen seems a beautiful transparency, The change is 80 quickly effected by the push-butions and. switches controlling the lights tuatit is most startling to the novice, ‘The chandeliers on the parlor and first floors ‘are especially adapted to electric lighting. The |" urms represent the stems of flowers; the pend- ant cutglass globes of a lovely ruby tint, and the petais and electric lamps the pistils.’ Mr. Johnson will dispense with chandeliers and yet obtain a uniform Ight, He will run a frieze of mirrors around the room and suspend on them, by silk cords, electric lam} the light from which will be reflected to its tail value by the mirrors. Where the chandelier now is will bea unique centerpiece. It will consist of a highly ornamented brass bowl studded with glass jewels, applicd to the ceiling. Inside will be elecirle lamps and reflectors, so Ubat the rays ol light will not be visible. ‘As aresull a soit glow will be diffused through the room, Should the temperature of any room rise above 110 degrees the mercury in the thermo- stat would rise, electrical connections would be made and uioud firealarm sounded, Mr. Johnson also has.a novel burglar al It is connected by special circuit with eve ‘ight in the house, 80 that the moment a house-breaker forces @ window or dvor every eleciric lam and gas jet islighted and the building bril- Huntly illuminated. In the nursery is an elec wic railroad for the children, and a telegraph, on which they are learning teiegraphy, runs from the nursery to the besement. Th: the large sitting-room is an induction coil, the bat- tery for which, though in the cellar, is con- led from the room, With this coll pretty fireworks are made by means of Geisler’s tubes and other apparatus. A drum, beaten by elee- tricity and coutrolied by a push-bution in Mr. Johnson's room, at one time awakened tne family in the morning, but the contrivance has now been removed for repairs. ‘The sew. ing machine and implements for poilshing and grinding cutlery are all worked by electricity. ee ‘The Lime-Kiln Club. From the Detroit Free Press. “Am Pickles Smith in de hall to-night?” anx- fously inquired the president as the notes of the triangle died away. “Yes, sah,” was the prompt response. “You will please step forward; I hev afew words to say to you.” Brother Smith walked forward in an uncer- tain way, wondering whether he was to be com plimented for clearing the snow off the side-- walk or censured for trading off'an old wheel- barrow for a sixth dog, and the president said: “Brudder Smith, it ain come tomy knowledge dat you believe youhas amishun on alrth. You ‘believe it am your solemn dooty to be on hand at ebery funeralin your nayburhood, or strangers, an’ ofler your ser” vices an’ consolashun, You stand ready to knock off work in de day time, an’ to rout out of bed at night, an’ itscems a I somei | exported 39, Jerks and then talking “a long pull,a omnibus bouts, with the story that @ Minneapolis a not | church one Sunday because the ‘minis &nd the glass shattered in a room adjoining. In the first room the balls had gone complete- ly through the glass, and a part of # bullet was picked up on the floor. “He ‘Could not account r the manner in which the transom glass was forated, and believes the balls were fired an air pistol of some sort with a malicious intent. “The damage is over $30,” said Mr. Andrews, “and I would like to catch one of these rascals who take pleasure in golng about the building and stealthfully raining the prop- erty of the state, Tam afraid it would go hard —————+9e_____ A Child Dies From Hydrophobia. TORTURED BY TERRIBLE CONVULSIONS. From the New York Tribune, ‘Rhode Hall is a small country hamlet seven miles south of New Brunswick. Near it lives Samuel Applegate, a well-to-do farmer, with a wife and three children, among whom was ® son, Samuel, age six. On December 24th, early in the afternoon, the children were playing in the public road, when a large brown hound came toward them, trotting along by the fence, with its tongue hanging out. Asitcame near, one of the children shouted at it to scare it away, when it made arush at them, and bit Samuel on the face near the bridge ot ‘the nose, Little was thought of the wound, which was small, and the tamily believed that the child had received the scratch when he was knocked over by the dog. The wound healed and the matter had nearly passed out of mind, when, last Thursday, just twenty-one days after be was bitten, the child, when it tried to take a drink of water, was suddenly attacked with a spasm. Mrs. ‘Applegate, becomi farm sent for her husband, who called in Dr. Var Zandt, of Jamesburg. "The spasms continued, increasing in number and violence, until there ‘was no longer a doubt in the doctor's mind that a fully developed case of hydrophobia was be- fore him. He applied all the remedies within his knowledge, but the child soon began to froth at the mouth and bark like a dog, going into severe convulsions at the sight of water, though in bis more lucid moments he cried onl for water, During the convulsions the chili bit himseit horribly three or four times, and 80 quickly that his movements could not’ be pre- Yented. When able to speak the boy eried out that the room was full of dogs that were to tear him to pieces, and when the convulsions seized him it required two strong men to hold him, while bis ertes and contort fal." The child’s sufferings continued from Thursday until Sunday morning, when he died. The dog which caused the chiid’s death, believed, passed back of Now Brunswick’ and was killed near Bound Brook. Within the last six weeks fully a dozen cases of alleged hydro- phobia have been reported in the same neigh- ————_~++e+______ Growth of Oleomargarine. From the Troy Telegram. Oleomargarine is a greater enemy to the farmers, and through them an injury to our prosperity, than is generally imagined. The figures of the growth and sale of this bogus butter are truly alarming. In 1880 the count 36,655 pounds of butter and = 000,000 pounds of oleomargarine, but in 1 the exports of oleomargarine nearly reached 38,000,000, while the exportation of butter declined to 21,638,128 pounds, Fifty million vunds is the present magnitude of the manu- facture of the bogus article, out of which dis- honest men are evidently making enormous fortunes. The law prohibits the fraudulent sale of the imitation product, but it goes on nevertheless despite the exertions of the au- thoritles to prevent it, the claim being made that the law Is so tull Of loopholes that it is al- most impossible to secure a conviction under It. The perpetuation of the dairy interests of this stite can only be secured by the most com: protection in this particular that can be given them, and the present legislature ean under take ho more necessary task than is involved in filling the gaps in oleomargarine legislation, —_—o A Dearth of Aristecracy. + Traveler (to clerk in Georgia hotel)—Do you know if Col. Blood is in town? Clerk—No, sir, he is not. Traveler—Is Major Barrack? ck fo, sir, he is away also, ‘Traveler—H-m; well, do you know where I Se Sea pnaee Smith? the J lerk—I haven't seen the judge fora weel The fact Is the prohibition “movement ts Sweeping through town just now, and there 1s nobody left but plain m‘nsters, ee Earthquakes at Venice. From the Pall Mall Gazette, ' The news of an earthquake—should we not rather say a seaquake—at Venice is not a little alarming. No damageseems to have been done as yet, butearthquakes have an unpleasant habit of giving one or two slight preliminary mM ‘and a pull ail together.” There are ‘wae where an carthquake could do more irreparable damage than in Venice, though some lovers of the Queen of the Adriatic would doubtiess feel @ certain melancholy consolation if she found grave in the waters which gave ner birth be- fore her final desecration and vulgarization is consummated. If a convenient seismic dis turbance would but engulf the smoke-belehing Testoration-loving municipality on board them, there would be heartfelt rejoicing in some quarters. But, alas! the elemental forces have no reverence for beauty or antiquity, and an earthquake might Possibly eave only the two detestable iron ridges* and a few omnibus steamers to tell where Venice once stood, ussian Sadness, ‘From the February Atlantic, ‘What is this quality in the sad tones of Rus- sian writers, as in all Turgenef’s stories, for ex- ample, so different from that of any other peo- ple? The sadness of the German, in literature, often appears weak, self-indulgent, sentimental; the sadness of the Frenchman, is a little too neatly expressed; toe sadness of the Englishman or American is gitenestonly a dramatic and im ined one, for his own genuine sorrows he is not apt to express, openly and directly. “In Ruslan’ mournfuiness “there lies somethiee heavy, oppressive,—terrible in its reality, ant in tie simple, honest expression of it; as if the dark mood were the natural air of the country, that all men breathed, and that no one need &é reticent about; as if some weight of national Wrong and hopelessness were added to all indi- vids sorrow, 80 as to make it the common ex- perience, and’ even the common bond. eff’ seems to me one of the greatest figures “of our time, and in all the most figure. A friend of wrote me some years ago ‘ ree ane seats Tarpon nt real Sri te Sn cetera. e mecost in sivas oad ‘except for this he did not geton with human Ii Saturday Smiles. Gen, Johnson, of Minn the Atlanta Bs ts his text irom St, Products of Protected Commonwealth.— Pennsylvania has produced two ‘of Massachi —Dr. John F E Fi i i tf : rt] ge 5B i ‘ i HE iil | Ir Wu Cratamcy Pay You TO EXAMINE OUR LIXE OF PIECE GOODS, FROM WHICH WE ARE MAKING SUITS TO ORDER AT WONDERFULLY LOW PRICES. THESE GOODS ARE NOT A LOT oF “ODDS AND ENDS," BUT FULL LINES OF GOOD QUALITY ANDSTYLE. HEAVY WEIGHT THAT WE DON'T WANT TO AT THIS TIME OF THE YEAR “CUSTOM: HANDS" ARE WILLING TO WORK aT LESS THAN “BUSY SEASON" PRICES BY REDUCING THE COST OF MAKING AND CUTTING OFF OUR PROFITS WE ARE ABLE TOSELL THESE SUITS aT FROM $5 TO $12 LESS THAN WE HAVB EVER SOLD THEM BEFORE WE HAVETAKEN A LARGE VARIBTT OF THESE GOODS AND PUT SPECIAL PRICES ON THEM, RANGING FROM $99 ‘To 923 a SUIT. THE FORMER ARE REDUCED @ ABD THE LATTER $12 WE BELIEVE THE LATTER TO BE THE BEST GOODS EVER SOLD AT THE PRICE IN WASHINGTON. THE BOR ‘BESIDES OUR REGULAR GOODS ‘we purchased a large lot of SAMPLE PIECES, one Blece of kind, atprices which we feel eure will sap rise you, and, knowing they will interfere with | Torun tc on acount of pic we ave otra to close out as soon as possible. Will sell today ‘every day until ALL are disposed of, 15c. EDGINGS at 6 ota. 200 EDGINGS at 10cts, ‘25e. EDGINGS at 12% cts. ‘30¢. EDGINGS at 15 etn ‘35e. EDGINGS at 20cta, 400. EDGINGS at 25 eta, INSERTINGS EQUALLY Low. ‘We know it is rather early for you to tavest tn Irish Point Edgings and Insertings, bat a look at our @tosk ‘Will convince you that NOW is the time to bay. “INCH WIDE IRISH POINT EDGINGs 2g 2m OUR MUSLIN UNDERWEAR SALE STILL COs» TINUES. ~"""- CLOAKS AT CUT PRICES S> ~=—> $8, cut price. Norfolk Jackets, Boucle and Home ‘Spun Cloth, sizes 32, 34, 36. Regular price, @11.50. $6.75, cut price, Boucle Cloth; double-breasted, least front, Ugut-fitting back, sizes 32, 34, 36,38. Regulae Price, $9. $7.48, cut price. Ladies’ Visites of Boucle Cloth feather trimming all around, sizes 34,36, 38, 40. Ray ular price, $12. 87.75, cat price. Visites of Bison Cloth,with feather or astrakhan trimming, sizes 34, 36, 38, Regular Price, $10.75. $10.98, cut price. Brown Brocaded Velvet Visiten, feather trimmed. sizes 34,36, 38, Regular price, $16. $7.98 cut price. Silk Matelasse Visites, black fur trimming, sizes 34,38, Regular price, $10.98. £18, cut price. Seal Plush Visite, with feather trim- ming, satin lined, sizes 34, 36,36. Regular price, @25. $23, cut price. Siciliienne Silk, tape fringe, silk lined (@ mourning garment), sizes 36,40. Regular price, $29. $3.50, cut price. All-wool Newmarket, double breasted, box-plaited buck, sizes 34, 38, 40, Regular Price, $5. 86, cut price, Berlin Twill Newnarket, double- breasted, plaited back, sizes 34, 36, 38,40 Regu- lar price, $9.75. ai $11, cut price. Berlin Twill Newmarket, astrakban: trimming, plaited back, sizes 34,36, 38,40. Regular Price, $14.50. $14, cut price. Berlin Beaver Newmarket, allver fox trimming, sizes 36,35. Regular price, $16.50. $19.75, cut price Brocade Velvet Newmarket, Plajtea back, sizes 34, 36,38 Regular price, PRICES aT THE BON MAR GHE. Gaur Bisa Ix SEAL SKIN GACQUBS. FINE PLUSH SA0QUES, FUR-LINED CIRCULARS SATIN-LINED CIRCULARS, ‘BEAVER, LYNX, AND OTHER FUR MUPEB ‘We have just returned from New York and open the above garments to-day, offering them ai 25 per cont ‘less than the regular prices