Evening Star Newspaper, September 12, 1895, Page 11

THE EVENING STAR, THURSDAY, ‘SEPTEMBER 12, 1895-TWELVE PAGES. 11 Gtornge Ware Houses: 22d st. near M. Our ANNUAL FURNITURE CLEAR- x SALE enda September 20. You ick about buying. -—That UPHOLSTERY SALE is a winner. We're clearing out goods at a rate that is most gratifying—a rate that proves people appreciate our offers and know them to be just as we represent. —tThese few items picked here and there will be your key to the whole list of reductions: Upholstery Goods. 100 yards Wool Tapestry, 50 in. “3 colors. Was $% oo s me $3.25 a Now Baca 150 yards Wool Tapes! 5 col- een Wasi $6 yanks, Noy Da gS yards Cotten and Wool pestry, & colors, Was $2.00 mae Sor > $1.25 100 yards §=©Cotton Was $1.25 yard...» Cretonnes. 150 yards patterns. > 15C ets. yard. Now... . < 190 «yards 50-in. Cretonne—2 pattern. Was $1.50 yard. "Now , 35Ce 100) yards %O0-inch Cretonne—2 patterns. Was $2.75 yard. Now 75C. Table Covers. Fifty 6-4 Table Covers. Were $1.00. Now... c entyfive 6-t Table Covers. Were $1.86, for.. ih ‘Twenty-fye 8-4 Table Cover Were $3.00. Now. ‘$2.00 Sash Curtain Goods. 7 yards 30-inch Ort al Lace.* Was 60e. yard. y 40C. 100 yards 30-inch Tambour Mus- lin. Was 40 and Sec. yard. New 25C. China Silks. mM is 32. Fi pecans Waa sh Sri Noa 6oC. ds 32-1 sured Silk: i Was 1G New: 75C. Jap. Bead Portieres. urtains, worth $1.75, for ' $110 A Few Rug Items. Jap. Mchair Rugs Outwear Anything ale. + $2.00 Now. Siz a 6 feet by 9 foot. Z 7 y 10 ft. 6 in. .$55 Size 9 feet by 12 feet.. it —_— a — ae DEMAND FOR STEER HORNS. Many Pairs Now Used for Ornamental Purposes. Frem the Katsas City Times. Of the hundreds of thousands of cattie brought into Kansas City alive every year, and either taken out dead or not taken out at al! in any recognizable form, it is to be Presumed that the mafority have horns. These horns are not a part of the frozen, carned, corned, or otherwise preserved car- casses of Beef that Téd¢@ the city in the un- ending procession of y#flow freight cars. Neither are they piled up anywaere in the packing house ‘strict as they used to pile up bu‘fald bones out west awaiting the com- ing of the agent who bought them for fer- tilizers, Then what becomes of the tons of horns that are brought into Kansas City every year through the medium of the stock yards? In the first place, it 1s not to be supposed that so utilitarian a business as that car- ried on within the walls of the big packing houses would suffer an important element to go to waste. Same one has sald that when a steer enters the doers of a Kansas City packing house there is no part of him that is not put to some important use, ex- cept, perhaps, the animal's expiring bellow. Even that may be utilized in time. At any rate, the horns of a Texas steer form no in- considerable part of his fighting weight, and if they could not be put to some remunera- tive use the packers would soon insist upoa having more st22r and less horn. rs ago, when Missouri was little more than a densely wooded wilderness, and Kansas did not exist, there was one article that the frontiersman invariably possessed. His hut might be lowly and of unhewn logs, his bunk a miserable makeshift, and bis chairs and table of the utmost simplic- ity, but by the door there hung the inevit- able gun rack In the shape of a pair of branching antlers, and across these reposed the settlers trusty rifle. In many cabins there were perhaps everal magnificent pairs of antlers, and others could be had for the exercise of a little skill and courage. But the passage of time and the advane- ing civilization have changed all this. What might then be had almost for the ask- ing has i The rifle of the sciiier has given place to the umbrella 1 ne of the modern citizen. His primitive shot pouch and powder horn have bad to make way in the front hall for the silk hat and immaculate gloves. But the demand for a rack is still active and unfualfil The citizen of the rural southwest can no longer afford or is unable to procure the proud antlers of the deer, ecome an expensive luxury. and in their place is compelled to take the horns of a lowly and luc! steer. A gentleman stood on the platform at the Union station one night re-ently and count- ed no less than six pairs of mounted horns in the hands of as many sturdy citiz Kansas, Texas and Okl: were beautifully polish ‘ purple phish and yellow ribbon. was intended for a conspicuous place in Some southwestera bank, store, office or home, and each owner believed that he had n of the lot. reet on Union avenue stood ns, a crippled boy. He has bern in iness of polishing and selling horns eral years. His sales, he says, free h pair Across the quently average fifteen pairs of horns a week He knows of several other horn € who frequent various parts of :he one ef them does much less bus! ness than that of the Union avenue stan¢ In the ixchange building, at the stock yards, there is quite an extensive stand of the same kind, where mounted horns of any desired shape cr size may be bought at from $1 to $40 a pair. The purchasers aie cattlemen, or those interested in the cattle business. In this way hundreds of pairs ef horns are sold every year. Up to a few months ago It was possible for the polishers to get all the horns they Wanted at the packing houses at 10c. per pair. Since then the price has been ad- vancing, until {t Is now I5c. and 20c. a pound. The cause of this advance is said to be contracts made with the agent of eastern novelty manufacturing concerns, by which tons of horns are sent to New York and New Jersey to be used in the manufacture of knife handles, combs, trin- kets, fur ure parts and a multitude of other things. And this is really what be- comes of mest of the horns that the cattle bring to Kansas City. ——_+s. Holmes Indicted for Murder. The Marion county grand jury at In- fanapolis yesterday afternoon returned an indictment against H. H. Holmes for the murder of Howard Pietzel at Irvington. (Copyright, 1805, by A. H. Hawkins.) CHAPTER L ‘In the days of Rudolph the Third there stood on the hill opposite the Castle of Zenda and on the other side of the valley in which the town lies, on the site where the Chateau of Tarlenheim now i situated, a fine and strong castle belongig to Count Nikolas of Festenburg. He was a noble of very old and high family and had great estates, his house being, indeed, second only to the royal house in rank and repu- tation. He himself was*a young man of great accomplishments, of a domineering temper and of much ambition; and he had gained distinction in the wars that ‘marked the closing years of the reign of King Henry the Lion. With King Rudolph he was not on terms’ of cordial friendship, for he despised the king's easy manners and carelessness of dignity, while the king had no love for a gentleman whose-one object seemed to be to surpass and outshine him in the eyes of his people, and who never rested from extending and fortifying his castle until it threatened to surpass Zenda itself both in strength and magnificence. Moreover Nikolas, although maintaining a state ample and suitable to his rank, was yet careful and prudent, ‘while Rudolph spent all that he received and more he- sides, so that the count grew richer and the king poorer. But in spite of these causes of difference, the count was recelved at court with apparent graciousness, and no “The devil spurs and I gallop!” open outburst of enmity had yet occurred, the pair being, on the contrary, often to- gether and sharing their sports and pas- times with one another. Now most of these diversions were harm- less or indeed becoming and proper, but there was one among them full of danger to a man of hot head and ungoverned tm- pulse such as King-Rudoiph was. And this one was dicing, in which the king took great delight, and in which Count Nikolas was very ready to encourage him. The king, who was gefierous and hated to win from poor men or.those who might be play- ing beyond their ‘means in order to give him pleasure, was delighted to find an op- ponent whose purse was 3 long or longer than his own, and thus came gradually to pass many evenings with the boxes in Nikolas’ company. And“the more evenings he passed the deeper he fell into the count's debt; for the king. drauk wine, while the count was content with small beer, and when the king: was losing he doubled his stakes, wheres the count took in sail if the wind seemed adverse.\’ Thus always ani steadily the debt grew, till at last Rudolph dared not reckon how large it had become, nor did he dare, to.disclase it to his advisers. For there were great public burdens already impesed by-reasen of King Henry's wars, and the citizens of Strelsau were not in a-mood to bear fresh exactions nor to give thelr hard earnings for the payment of the king's gambling debts; in fine, although they loved the Elphbergs well enough, they loved their money more. Thus the king had no resource, except in his private possessions, and these were of no great value, saving the castle and estate of Zenda. At length, when they had sat late one night and the throws had gone all the evening against the king and for Nikolas, the king flung himself back in his chair, drained his glass, and suld impatiently: “Iam weary of the game! Come, my lord, let us end it.” “I would not urge you, sire, a moment beyond what you desire. I play but for your pleasure.” “Then my pleasure has been your profit,” said the king with a vexed laugh, “for I believe I am stripped of my last crown. What is my debt?” The count, who had the whole sum reck- oned on hi tablets, took them out and howed the king the amount of the debt. I cannot pay it,” sald Rudolph. “I would play you again, to double the debt, or wipe it out, but I have nothing of value enough to stake.” The desire which had been nursed for long in the count’s heart now saw the moment of its possible realization. He leant over the table, and, smoothing his beard with his hand, sald gently: “The amount is no more ‘than half the value of your majesty’s castle and de- mesne of Zenda.” The king started and forced a laugh. “Aye, Zenda spoils the prospect from Festenberg, does it?” said he. “But I will not risk Zenda. An Elphberg without “God give you joy of it.” Zenda would seem like a man robbed of his wife. had anything or been anything. I should not seem king without it.” “As you will, sire. Then the debt stands?” And he looked full and keenly into the king’s éyes, asking without words, “Howw will you pay it?” and adding with- out words, “Paid it must be.” And the king read the unspoken words in the eyes of Count Nikolas. The king took up his glass, but finding it empty flung it angrily on the floor, where it shivered to fragments at Count Nikolas’ feet, and he shifted in his chair and cursed softly under his breath. Niko- las sat with the dice box in his hand and a smile on his lips, for he knew that the king could not pay, and therefore must play, and he was in the vein and did not doubt winning from the king Zenda and its demesne. Then he would be the great- est lord in the kingdom and hold for his own a kingdom within the kingdom and the two strongest places in all the land. And a greater prize might then dangle in reach of his grasp. “The devil spurs and I gallop,” gaid the king at last. And he took up the dice box and rattled it. “Fortune will smile on you this time, We have had it since we have sire, and I shall not grieve at it,” said Count Nikolas with a courteous smile. ‘Curses on her!" cried the king. ‘‘Come, my lord, a quick ending to it! One throw, and I am a free man or you are master of my castle.” “One throw let it be, sire, for it grows late,” assented Nikolas with a careless air, and they both raised the boxes and rattled the dice inside them. The king threw. His throw was a six and a five, and a sudden gleam of hope lit up his eye: He leant forward ia his chair, gripping the elbows of it with his hands, and his cheek flushed and his breath came quickly. With a bow Count Nikolas raised his hand and threw. The dice fell and rolled on the table. The king sank back, and the count said, with a smile of apology and a shrug of his shoulders: “Indeed I am ashamed. denied tonight. For Count Nikolas of Festenburg had thrown sixes, and thereby won from ‘the king the castle and demesne of Zenda. And he rose from his chair, and, having buckled on his sword that had lain on the table by him, and taken his cap in his hand, stocd looking down on the king with a malicious smile on his face. And he said, with a look that had more mockery than respect in it: “Have I your majesty’s leave to with- draw? For ere day dawn I have matters to transact in Streslau, and I would be at my castle of Zenda tonight.” Then King Rudolph took a sheet of paper and wrote an order that the castle and all that was in it and all the demesne should be surrendered to Count Nikolas of Festen- burg en his demand, and he gave the paper to Nikolas. Then he rose up and held out his hand, which Nikolas kissed, smiling For I cannot be ccvertly, and the king said, with grace and dignity: “Cousin, my castle has found a more worthy master. God give you joy of it.” And he motioned with his hand to be left alone. Then when the count had gone he sat down in his chair again and remained till it was full day, neither moving nor yet sleeping. And there he was found by his gentlemen when they came to dress him, but none asked him what had passed. Count Nikolas, now lord of Zenda, did not so waste time, and the matters that he had spoken of did not keep him long in Streslau; but in the early morning he rode out, the paper which the king had written in his belt. First he rode with all speed to his own house of Festenburg, and then he gathered together all his followers, servants, foresters and armed retainers, and he told them that they were to ride with him to Zenda, for that Zenda was now his and not the king’s. At this they were greatly astonished, but they ate the fine dinner and drank the wine which he provided, and in the evening they rode down the hill very merry, and trotted, nearly a hundred strong, through the town, making a great noise; se that they disturbed the bishop of Modenstein, who was lying that night at the inn, in the course of a journey from his seé to the capital; but nobody could tell the bishop why they rode to Zenda, and presently the bishop, wearled with traveling, went to his “(fo be continued in Friday's Star.) coe AN UNUSUAL MONUMENT. Mark of Respect Shown a Dumb Animal by Appreciative Citizens, The man trom the limitless and uncul- tivated west was lolling back gracefully in a chair at a comfortable hotel when The Star writer approached him and asked him how he did. The westerner looked up in surprise, made a half hitch, as if he were going back to his hip pocket, threw up both hands, and fired a string of oaths of greeting at the intruder, with a vehemence that would have unsettled a native of the effete east. They had been acquaintances years before in St. Louis, and had gone their different ways to meet again in the shadow of the Capitol. Then they sat down together and talked it over, the westerner doing the bulk of the talking. “What became of the gentleman who shot that hole through your ear?” in- quired The Star writer, after he had heard a number of lurid and livid tales. “Him?” said the westerner, sticking his finger through the aperture, reflectively. “Oh, we buried him.” ‘Did you get him ready for the funeral?” “Me?” in amazement. “Me? Bet your life I didn’t. No man livin’ could have done that for Jack Gummit. He had been in scraps from Denver to the City of Mexico and repeat, and his track looked lke pic- tures you used to see in our old geographies of the desert, with skeletons about every hundred yards. That was Jack.” “How did you happen to miss being skeletoniz2d like the others he had met? Was it Providence?” “Providence, nothing,” he said, con- temptuously. “Providence wasn’t in it with Jack. He was struck by lightning three times to my certain knowledge, and got off with only a few burnt streaks every time. No, siree. It was just Jack. I had done him a favor once, before we had the fall- out, and he shot that hole there to show me he wasn't ungrateful. That's what he told me when he kicked my gun out of my hard and had me stood up against the wall, unarmed and in his power.” “He wasn’t so bad after all, was he?” “Bad? Bad wasn't any name for it. He was the very worst and getting more so every minute. He bulldozed the town and the county, and nobody dared raise a hand unless he ordered them to raise them, which he did so often that it got rneuma- tism started in the community.” “But who Killed him?” “Nobody.” “Did he die a natural death?” “Of course not. Jack wasn’t that kind. It was a mule. The dern thing was stand- in’ as meek as Moses hitched to a post in front of a saloon, and Jack come across the street from the other side. I suppose he had been in a million more dangerous looking places than that, and he wasn't thinking, when, juSt as he got within range of the mule’s heels, the lttle devil let go and they both lit square in Jack’s face, and laid him out cold in less time than it ever took Jack to pull his gun when he meant business.” “What became of the mule?” “The town bought him and kept him in ease at the public expense till he overate himself and died one night, and then we built a monument to him of marble that we sent clean to Italy for. It was the fin- est monument in our graveyard, and it had this inscription on it: ‘Sacred to the mem- ory of a public benefactor, that got there with both feet, and never said a word about it. Go thou and do likewise.’ That last,”” concluded the man from the west, “was meant for a hint to one or two of Jack’s pals that had been hanging around after his departure.” as The Record-Breaking Run. ‘The official time of the run from New York to Buffalo yesterday is: Left Grand Central station, New York, 30 a.m.; arrived East Buffalo station, 12:34:54 p.m. Elapsed time, six hours fifty-four minutes twenty-seven seconds. The actual distance traversed was 436% miles, and the actual running time (ex- clusive of stops to change engines), six hours and forty-seyen minutes. This makes the average rate of traveling sixty-four and one-third miles an hour. The English record was sixty-three and one-quarter miles an hour. Col. Forney’s Court-Martial. Col. James Forney was placed on trial at the Brooklyn navy yard yesterday before a court-martial, composed of Commodore Montgomery Sicard, president; Commodore Wallace, Capts. Reed, Chester, Farquhar, James O'Kane, C. B. Robson, Wm. B. Hoff, Silas Casey, B. J. Cromwell and Louis Kempf. The charges relate to the alleged mismanagement of the marine barracks at the navy yard. Lawyer W. H. Layton and Congressman Bartlett represented the accused, while Lieut. Littleton Waller acted as judge ad- vocate, The proceedings of the day were largely technical. é AFFAIRS IN ALEXANDRIA A Woman Instantly Killed by » Past Many Other: Laval Notes of General and Special Interest—Personal and Society Items. A north-bound €hesapeake and Ohio pas- senger train struck: and instantly killed a colored woman at Waterloo, on the Wash- ington Southern ‘railway, about five miles nerth of this city, yesterday. Her name was Kate Ford, and she-was about thirty- eight years of age. She was walking on the south-bound track and saw a local train coming toward her. She became con- fused, evidently, ‘and stepped on to the ncrth-bound track when the C. and O. train was within a hundred yards of her. The train was two hours late and was Turning at the rate of sixty miles an hour when it struck her. The mangled remains were picked tip by people living near by and carried to the station. Justice Pollard summoned a coroner's jury, which brought in a verdict to the effect that the deceased came to her degth through the reckless running of the engineer. Would Not Go to Congress. Ex-Mayor Strauss positively denies the rumor that he will be a candidate for congressional honors. He says he is at a less to know how the rumor originated. He has no further political ambition, and says with the return of good times and plerty of business he will be satisfied. Fraternal Visit. Champion Castle, No. 5, Knights of the Golden Eagle, of this city, received a visit last night from Jacob H. Aully of Balti- more, supreme chief. He was accompanied by 100 knights from Washington. Speeckes were made by a number of members, and altogether the visit was a very pleasant one. ‘They returned to Washington on the 11:08 train. Death of Mrs. Monroe. Mrs. Amanda Monroe, widow of John T. Monroe, one of the best known old residents of this city, died at her home on South Lee street, after an Illness of several months. She was.one of the most popular old ladies among a large circle of acquaintances, and her death is deeply regretted. ‘The funeral will take place at 3 o'clock tomcrrow afternoon. Notes. The sloop Father and Son, Capt. Wm. Leycock, while coming into the Prince street dock yesterday afternoon under sail, rar her bowsprit through the side of the warehouse and stuck fast. It required some time to get her loose. Capt. J. V. Davis, superintendent of the National cemetery, is having the stone wall around the cemetery repaired and a num- ber of other improvements made. Seventeen new names have been added to the roll of the Alexandria Kindergarten Association in the past few days. Mr. Polk Miller of Richmond has been engaged to deliver one of his celebrated humorous lectures for the bénefit of the association at the Opera House in the near future. Mayor Thompson: took his oath of office before Judge Norton yesterday. Mr. W. G. Chapman, formerly of this city, but now of: Linden, Va., passed through here yesterday, on his way to New York on business: Mr. J. David Lannon, who Is spending the summer at Linden, Warren county, V1 is in town on business. Mr. Alvin Powdli; the popular letter car- rier, is visiting ‘msPhiladelphia. Mrs. J. H. D. ‘Smoot and her daughter, Miss Ella, have-returned from Colonial Beach, where they have been spending sev- eral weeks at thetmcottage. oS TRIAL OF THE KATAHDIN. The Course O¥ét' Which the New Ram Will Be Probably Speeded. The Navy Depdrtment ts ‘busy arranging for the trial of the'ram Katahdin, which is now set for October 3 next. President Hyde of the Bath iron works, where the vessel was built, has requested that, if pos- sible, the trial be run over such part of the Minneapolis trial course, from Cape Ann to Cape Porpoise, as may be necessary, and {t fs likely that the department will comply, although it has not yet been de- cided whether the course shall be straight- away or with a turn. The Katahdin is required to show a speed of not léss than seventeen knots per hour for two hours. _ ~ THE DURRANT TRIAL. Trying to Fix the Crime on the Ac- cused. In the trial of Durrant at San Francisco yesterday the district attorney proved the death of Blanche Lamont and establish- ed the fact that the body of the girl in Emanuel Church was her corpse, and that the clothing hidden in the rafters of the church was worn by the girl on the day she disappeared. The prosecution is now putting in evidence connecting the prisoner with the crime. The witnesses for the people will be call- ed in chronological order, the intention be- ing to form a chain, the links of which will be testimony showing the movements of the murdered girl and the defendant on the fatal night of April 13. Mrs. Noble, aunt of Blanche Lamont, on croqs-exiamination said: “After Blanche disappeared, Durrant came to my house with Dr. Vogel to consult with me about her absence. He turned to me and said: ‘Blanche was such a good girl, she be- lieved every one clse was as good as her- self, and in that way she might have been carried off.’ ” Maud Lamont identified the ring with a chip diamond as hers. She had exchanged with Blanche, each wearing the other's, This same ring was positively identified at the preliminary examination by a second- hand dealer as one offered him for sale by Durrant after Blanche disappeared. PENNSYLVANIA DEMOCRATS. Ticket Completed and Platform Adopted at Williamsport. The ticket was completed by the demo- cratic state convention at Williamsport, Pa., yesterday as follows: For judges of the superior court,Harmon Yerkes of Bucks county, J. S. Moorehead of Westmoreland, C. H. Noyes of Warren, P. P. Smith of Lackawanaa, Oliver P. Bechtel of Schuyl- kill and Christophér Magee of Allegheny. The platform praises President Cleveland, and says: ‘“‘As vindicating the principles of tariff reform; to which the democracy is unalterably pledged, we challenge espe- cial attention to, the fact that such pros- perity and the ;consequential increase of wages has been most pronounced in the in- dustries whose existence our opponents claimed were dependent upon high tariff duties.” The platform reaffirms the national demo- cratic platform of 1892 as regards gold and silver. ——__ -+0+ Private Bittner’s Sentence Approved. Gen. Miles has approved the sentence in the case of Private Edward Bittner, troop H, sixth cavalry, convicted at Fort Myer, Va., of fraudulent enlistment, and sen- tenced to be disl:onorably discharged, and to three months’. imprisonment at hard labor. He will be confined at Fort Colum- bus, New York harbor. ——___— +e +—___—__ No Hope of Relief. From the Chicago Tribune. ‘How much will you take for that in- fernal accordion?” demanded the red-faced eltizen who had thrust his head out of the second-story window. “It wouldn't do you any good to buy it, mister,” answered the dejected-musician on the sidewalk. I’ve six more of ’em at home.”” And he went on playing the “Honeymoon March.” FOR SICK HEADACHE Take Horsford’s Acid Phospbate. It removes the cause by stimulating the action of the stomach, promoting digestion and quieting ‘the nerves, ‘WAS IT A SUICTD! A Question Still Agitatin; of a Wa An up-town physician appeared to have a few minutes off, as a writer for The Star passed his office, and the writer went+ In to ask him a question. 5 “It isn’t about a matter of health and there isn’t any money in It to you, said, with the confident air of*a man who knew he didn’t have the price of a con- svltation, “‘but I've been a-reading a book; and I want to know if the author is put- ting up a job on the community or not.” “What is the story?” inquired the disciple of Galen or Aesculapius or whoever it was that invented pills. “It’s about a woman marrying a man to reform him and—’ “It can’t be done,’ sician. interrupted the phy- “But it was in this case,” insisted the: writer, “for the woman hypnotized him and made a model men of him. “Um—um—er,” hesitated the doctor, “I never heard of that being tried, and it might work.” “Do you believe it could be done? That’s what I came to ask you about.” “If you have time to lsten, I'll tell you a story in illustration,” said the phy- | sician. “Bushels,” replied the Starrior, and sat down forthwith. “My story, while it illustrates,” went on the doctcr, “is not a case of reform ex- actly, and it may not be a case at all, but I believe it is, and I am waiting to see if time won't bring out the explanation. About a dozen years ago there was among the usual. winter contingent in Washing- ton a woman of great beauty and remark- able personal fascination. She was thirty years of age, perhaps, and her husband was a man of sixty and of a weak and yacillating character, though in robust health. It happened, after a month of the scclety round, that she was threatened with pneumonia, and I was called in. My services were required a week or more, and in that time I learned that the domes- tic life of the lady and her lord was not the most rosy. I also learned that if it had not been for his money she would not have married him, though he was much in love with her. They had been married two years, and notwithstanding he was the most obedient hushand I ever saw, she would not be satisfied. The couple re- mained here for four months, and I be- came a friend of the family, so to speak, and the wife did not hesitate to show her dislike for her husband whenever she felt that way. He, on the other hand, was meekness and submission itself. In fact, his manner toward her so impressed me that I began to suspect she exercised some sort of a ‘spell’ over him, and I set about watching my new friends. “I think she never suspected that I sus- pected anything, for on one or two oc- cesions she talked to me about hypnotism, and once she asked me to take her to an exhibition by a well-known manipulator of the magnetic currents, if I may-be allowed to so express it. I went with her, leaving her husband at home with some friends of his, and during the evening I had an op- portunity of watching her closely. By the time the performance was over I was con- vinced that she knew a great deal more about hypnotism than I did, at least in its practical workings. I wanted to speak to her about it, but feared I might say a word too much, and so confined my remarks to the subject in general, she asking more questiors than an ignorant school girl. Several times later the subject came up between us, and I told her I thought she Lad the power and that I was a good sub- ject, and insisted on her trying it on me, tut she threw up her lovely hands in horror and assured me she wouldn't do such a thing for the world. Just the same, I wes sure she was controlling every movement of her husband and was increasing her mysterious power over him every day. Shortly after Lent the couple bade me good-bye and started for Europe, going first to their home in the west to put into shape certain papers of his with reference to his property and its disposal in case of accident. This I had from the lady herself. They sailed away, and after three months on the continent, they came back to Amer- ica. That is to say, the lady did; the hus- band failing to do so by reason of having walked overboard one night during a half gale that was prevailing. Nobody saw him go over, and the lady herself gave the alarm an hour or so after his disappear- ance. The story she told was to the effect that he had left their room at midnight saying he -could not sleep and believed he would fo on deck and see if anybody else was in the same fix he was.’ The shock was especially terrible, because only half an hour before she had told a gay party good- night in the cabin and retired, and a few of the later ones had seen him as he passed through on his way above. Of course, that was the end of him, for no ship could put about and look for a passenger under such circumstances after so lorg 2 time had elapsed, and the widow was the object of the deepest sympathy and whole floods of tears for the remaining two days of the voyage.” + The physician paused to take breath. “Did she do {t?” asked The Star man, rather aghast at the dreadful possibility. “That's what I am waiting to find out,” replied the physician. “All his fortune went to her; within a year she married the man she wanted to marry, and he was drowned two years afterward, and within a year I have received a letter from her, which to a man who was without suspicion would not mean much, but which to one who thinks as I do means a great deal.” “Who is she?" inquired the writer, as guileless as an infant, and the physician never sald a word. . > 3 News of the Windward. A dispotch to the London Globe from Christiania says that the yacht ‘Windward of the Jackson-Harmsworth expédition has arrived at the island of Vardce, having broken out of the ice belt between Franz Josef land and Barents sea. Three of the men had succumbed. The Windward started with Mr. Jack- son’s arctic expedition for Franz Josef land over a_year ago. Franz Josef land was to be Jackson’s base of operations during his attempt to reach the north pole. The Windward was to have landed the party and returned to England a year ago, but nothing has been heard from her until now. —__+ e+ ____ The New Army Bullet. The effects of a bullet from the new army rifle, the Krag-Jorgensen, were illus- trated for the first time on a human being in this country Tuesday, near Chicago, when Sentinel Kress at Fort Sheridan shot and killed a military prisoner who was try- ing to escape. The prisoner, Frank Coffey, was running at full speed when Kress fired at a range of about thirty yards. The nickel-pointed bullet passed through Coffey’s head and then through the trunk of an oak tree eight inches in diameter, after which it buried itself in a knoli to a depth of 3 1-2 feet. Officers at Fort Sheridan say the Krag- Jorgensen weapon is merciful and cite the wound made in Coffey’s head to prove it. The hole made by the thirty-caliber bullet with its thin covering of nickel steel was scarcely larger than the bullet itself. Naval Orders. The officers of the Mohican have been crdered to the Marion at once. Lieut. J. L. Purcell, from the Atlanta to the Amphi- trite; Encign A. Rust, from the Pinta to the Philadelphia; Ensign H. A. Field, from the Philadelphia, and three months’ leave; Ensign T. S. Wilson, from the Vermont to the Ranger; Passed Assistant Surgeon J. E. Page, from the Philadelphia and to Mare Island Naval Hospital; Assistant Sur- geon B. K. Smith, from the Vermont to the Philadelphia; Naval Cadet H. I. Cove, from the Atlanta to the Maine; Naval Cadets W. R. Cushman, F. H. Brumby, J. B. Walker, from the Atlanta to the Texas; Chief Engineer A. Kirby, from the Texas and ordered to treatment at the Norfoll navy yard; Chief Engineer J. 8. Ogden, from the Atlanta to the Montgomery; Chief Engineer H. Main, placed on the retired lst; Medical Director A. L. H. Gihon, from the Naval Hospital, Washington, Septem- ber 28, and placed on the retired list from that date; Medical Inspector G. A. Bright, from the New York navy yard, and ordered to take charge of the Naval Hospital, Washington, on the 28th; Medical Inspector A. F. Price, from torpedo station to New York navy yard; Surgeon L. G. Hene- berger, to marine rendezvous, New York; Surgeon F. B. Stephenson, from the marine rendezvous, Boston, to the Wabash; Passed Assistant Surgeon J. F. Urie, to the marine rendezvous, Boston, Mass.; Surgeon J. N. Steele, from the marine rendezvous to the torpedo station; Assistant Surgeon J. M. Moore, from the Atlanta to the Constella- tion. BUCKINGHAM’ DYE FOR THE WHISKERS IS @ popular preparation in one bottle, and colors evenly a brown or black. Any person can easily apply it at home. he: RACING WITH A SHE BEAR. ming Woodsm: Who Carried Of One of Her Cubs. From the New York T-ibune. The habits of the American bear have ‘long ‘been carefully studied, and found to _be generally objectionable. For instance, its habit of sleeping all winter is quite absurd. Ne-animal needs 80 much rest as that all at.once, and, even if it did, it ought to be ashamed to take it on account of its evil exarnpié-to-other*animals. Then, there is its habit of sucking its paw. It outs the paw in its mouth late in November, and does not take it out till early in the ensu- ing spring. The most hardened naturalist Will not venture to assert that it is a healthy or respectable habit. That it is a vicious and immoral one is shown by its | effect on the animal itself. When it first in- serte tts plantigrade member into its mouth and curls up for its six months’ nap it is ‘@ plump’ and well-conditioned bear, even a wadaling-and-pingsid one, showing the ef- fects of a liberal diet and healthy assimila- tton?-wlen it wakes up it is thin as a soda .crackerand.so.weak that it can hardly ‘crawl out of its hole. If it had been around ing the winter:like the other animais ‘and taken wholesome exercise it would come out.ef-its. dormitory almost as ro- bust as when it went in. Then there is its habit of carrying-off pigs. While the farm- er is asleep it visits the sty and tucks one pig ‘under one“forzarm and another under the other, and, thus burdened, makes its way to-its forest Tair, the pigs screaming piteously all the way, with no moral effect on “thie bear whatever. No one has ever pretended to justify this sort of conduct on the’ part of the beast. and many of its other customs are equally censurable. New studies of its habits are constantiy beirg made, some of them, pursued while the student is pursued by the animal, be- ing thus extremely-accurate and realistic in their conclusions. One of these is de- scribed by @-trout fisherman of Otter Run, a tributary of Pine creek, near Cammel, in this state.-He was occupied in fishing in the former estuary, and while so en- Beged got a bite which disciplined experi- erce immediately identified as 2 big one. He, therefore, at once proceeded, according to lecal custom, to hang the fish in the top- most branches of a neighboring tree. While preparing to recover it by climbing fhe tree, another local custom, he heard a fow grow] proceeding.from the underbrush ncat by. Listening again, he heard two growls. The first one proceeded from a young cub, which its ursine mother had deposited there; the second one proceeded from an- other. Both were on deck and ready for business, but they were of tender age aud the fisherman, leaving his suspended trout amid the boughs, had little diffieulty in placing one of the cubs under his arm and starting for home. There was a narrow- gauge railroad nearby with a platform car and a Steep down grade, and the captor thought if he could reach it without being discovered and pursued by the maternal bear his escape with his whimpering quar- Try would be easy and assured. Wut that bereaved animal was prematurely aroused and was almost upon him when he rem»m- bered that he had in his pocket a handful of salt and pepper, with which he had in- tended to-sauce his frugal brookside repast of onions. Without pausing in his flight he threw these mingled condiments direct- ly into the eyes of the pursuing bear, im- posing upcn the animal considerable con- fusion and delay and just enabling him to reacn the refuge of his rolling stock, which was.at once started down the hill, fish- ermianh, cub, trout basket, unconsumed onions And alley. <r But the bear, having pawed the saline and peppery irritents*ut of her eyes, and got her second wind, was again upon their trail following the“ear down the incline With barks gnd, howls.of rage, the speed of beth being about equal and the space Letween-them-seing*t@o"narrow to rank as a first-class seg Uribyetyt as the declivity pre ‘Began to fall at a sharper angle, the car drew gradually away from the pursuing animal and was soon so far in advance that the latter cave up the pur- suit, and when last seen-was sittinz on the cross-ties Howlins bitterly and pawing the remainder of the salt.out of her eyes. The lesson of the occurrence Is that cub hunting fs most safely pursued in forests adjacent to narrow-gauge railroads, with a ready platform car at hand, ard a steep grade dropping away toward the habitable regions, and .canine and ethnological re- inforcemer.ts. It also goes to show that the ursine eye is rensitive to the most commonplace table condiments and that, while under their infjnence, its most vio- lent maternal emotichs may be transiently interrupted. These are not very important facts, but in the study of bears every lit- tle helps. They widen our knowledge of the animal a trifle, but do not greatly increase cur respect for its habits. If it had stayed at home and paid proper attention to its young, No such occurrence would have hap- pened, -and by the time of the autumnal equinox they would favé become suflicient- ly ablebodied to. defapd,themselves against any trout fisherman in the western range of i “Mishe-have left a record forable. stalin equal. tg her own. ——— oo Death of a Consul. Word has been’ réceived at the State De- partment from Vice Consui Dawson at San Salvador, saying that Consul Munchmeyer died of yellow feVer yesterday, and that his wife has been attacked with the same disease. Consul Munchmeyer was appointed Feb- ruary last from West Virginia. His pre- decessor, Consul Pollock, also died of fever. ONE ENJOYS Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys- tem effectually, dispels colds, head- aches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. 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