Evening Star Newspaper, November 1, 1895, Page 11

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Guessers must be women and girls and recessar‘ly they must be readers of The Star, but they may read’the story in The Star taken by any member of the family and need not be regular subscribers themselves in order to enter the competi- tion. While only women and girls may guess and win the prizes, they can receive help as to their guess from any member of ‘heir family or from all the family. scolkiuella a (Back numbers can be obt "INSTALLMENT, ained at The Star office.) CHAPTER XXIII—MARTIN SEARCH. After King had started for Denby with Officer Jackson, the villagers gradually dis- persed from the neighborhood of the War- ren house. Some of them drifted back. however, after they had supper at home, and, in most instances, they brought their families with them. wever much the women folks may. have been inclined In the forenoon to look askance at Mr. Warren, there was now no further question of his entire innocence of the crime that had been laid at his door. Pretty much everything in the way of evil that had happened in Granite for a year past was attributed to the mysterious black man. “He must have been around here a long time to get acquainted with the woods,” they said, nct realizing that it was Wanga’s nature to make his way through a wilder- ness and become familiar with it in a sin- ble trip, just as an experienced traveler 'S PLA OF “By ihe light of a match.” makes the acquaintance of a city in one visit. Nevertheless, they were doubtless right in suspecting the black man of petty crimes that had been laid to foxes and even bears during the past two-or three days, for Wanga was the commissary of the expedi- ticn made up of Sam Meeker and himself, and as Moliere knew his own wherever he found it, so the black forager never paused to question proprietary interests when he sovght for fond. He took without asking, and in his skillful, cunning way, without lezving a trace by which he could be de- tected. Among those who returned to extend meighbor:'y sympathy to Mrs. Warren were Sam Springer and his wife. Sam had al- lowed his business to go to thunder as lit- erally as he could by deserting his store and leaving nobody in charge. He proba- bly lost nothing in the long run, for he had no rival, and what Granite could not buy that afternoon and evening, would have to be bought the next day. More than that, Granite was too much interested in the exciting events centered around the Warren household to think even of such important matters as yeast cakes. Will took Sam aside and asked him if he couldn't manage to put in the night at Nick's house. “Of course," he answered, prompt! I'll have Sue stay, too, if she’s want! “J presume it would be a good ide: Will, for he knew that Mrs. Warren and Mrs. Springer were close friends. “Aren't you going to stay asked Sam. ‘No. Keep it to yourself, but Martin and I are going to take a walk.” “On! Ah!” said Sam, knowingly. ‘The idea that he had been intrusted with a secret and measurably made of more consequence than his neighbors in the painful affair impressed him greatly. Will knew that he could be depended on for any emergency, Whether it required fighting or the exercise of common sense, and the first thing Sam did when Martin reappeared was to plainly urge the friends who still linger- home. Varren needs rest as much as any- yourself?” he said, “and Sue and Will and I will stay and look out for anything she needs. Of course. we're all anxious to see Else again, and p'r’aps ske'll turn up dur- ing the right. If she docs, what do you say, Billy, skell we light a big bonfire out on the ploughed ground?” “replied Will, glocmily, “if she's here before sunrise we'll light a big fire.” ‘So everybody declared that he or she 1 to see the fire, end presently . Sam!" said Will. ht,” added Martin, ybserved by his neighbers. Sam, if nothing don't come of *t want the laugh on me. I know the woods pretty well, and I don't want people te think I don’t. . said Sam, “if any- ry late hour for Granite, 11 the two searchers made Got plenty of ammunition?” asked Mar- his rifle. fingers of buck- swered Will, qui ly, “and there's plenty mere in the pouch d brow, ed with “Good! It'll be just as well for the snake- loving black man if he keeps out of the way. Good-right, Sam.” They walked for some distance up the read in silence. When they came to where the Summit road branched off Martin stop- ped and sald: “Now we'll have to separate, Billy. IN tell you my idea. By the way, have you your compass with you?” “Yes. I'm never. without it.” “You'll need it tonight. It's going to he dar gerous work for both of us, if my idea has got a grain of sense in it. “I supposed so." “I always knew you were the right sort, Biily, and this'll be your night for showing it, I reckon. We're going to the Wilkins mine again. ris John, we looked into every corner “So we did, but, like durned idiots, we didn’t look on the outside. We just went through and then meandered off somewhere else, and I'll bet the black man was laugh- ing at us all the time. You see, it's all my fault, but I overlooked a clue that was nigh perore) my nose when we was in the cave. “What was it?” “A pine torch partly burned. It was ly- irg right in the path, near one of them wide openings, you know. What was it there for? To light that hole, of course. it, but I suppose it-was in my fool head that I'd dropped. it. there some time or other myself, for I've prewled through there several times. It always gives me a kind of pleasure to know that I was in a part of the wilderness that no other man knew nothing about.” “You mustn’t say that you've got a fool head, John,” said Will, “you're the clever- est man round here, and I believe you're right about the cave.” “Well, we're going to find out in about two or three hours. I s'pose you see the difficulties and dangers. In the first place we mustn't give the black man and his partner any chance to see.or hear us, for it would be an easy matter for them to hide Elsie in a thicket duping the night. Next place, we mustn't give them any chance to play hide and coop again. That means that one of us must go in at the cave. and the other at the mine end. And that means that you must get to the mine end at the same time I get to the cave. Understand?” “Everything’s clear so far.” “All right, but that’s only the beginning. Now, if them chaps was keeping watch, cne at one end and the other at t’other, low easy it would be. You'd crack one of "em over the nose, and I'd do something to the other. See? But the chances are that one of ’em’s asleep and the other keeping watch. Tain’t no use thinking that both are asleep. They're too fly for that. Now, do you see some of the dangers?” “Of course, and one of them is that we'll ng at each other.” - “No, we won't do that. We're going in at the same time, you know. I want you to go to the mine, for you can find it easy and sure. Got your watch with you? That's right. I borrowed one for you in case you didn’t bring one. Let’s see if they agree.” By the light of a match they compared timepieces, and set them so that they were exactly together. “Half-past eleven,” said Martin. “I guess that in an hour easy you can get to the mine.”* “Half an hour, John.” “You're going to teke a roundabout way, you know. So be I. You'll go pretty near to the top of the mountain and then come down. That's where you'll find the com- “His band came in contact with a human body.” pass handy. I'll go way beyond on the highway and then come back and up. Let's allow an kcur for getting there and then ten minutes for accideats. So at exactly twenty mirutes to one you are to start in at the mouth of the mine, wade .through the shaft at the end, and get into the cave. I wouldn't light a match in the mine if I was you. They're not there, depend on it. If you have a tussle with anybody in the mine and ccme out on top, fire both bar- rels of your gun. My rifle is a repeater, and I'll give the same signal for the same event. “Now, along Met if you don’t meet anybody, crawl fe cave until you hear somebody. e ‘twill be me. Mebbe you'll be shot at. I dunno; but if there’s any chance that it's me, you say ‘Jac and He flat down. I'll let you know by saying ‘Billy.’” Then we'll have to use our judgment, both before fter. See, Bill es,’ he responded, his Flood chilling as the situation pictured itself in his mind. I don’t see why I should have stepped over. “Believe me, John, I haven't a particle of fear for myself; but there’s Elsie. Suppose she really is in the cave, and they hear us coming? Suppose we have to shoot? Elsie might—" His voice 8hoked and he could not finish his sentence. “Yes,” said Martin, with rough kindli- ness, “that’s one of the ugly chances we've got to take. For myself, I shall take a good many chances of getting peppered before I shoot, unless I see a man ahead of me.” “I shall do the same, of course,” said Will, ‘but there’s another chance, that these villains may do Elsie harm at the first warning of our approach.” “Billy, it’s the best plan I can think of. It's more for you to say whether we try it than for me, though I don’t mean to shift any responsibility. “It's all right, John,” exclaimed Will, grasping his friend's hand. “The plan has its dangers, but what is more dangerous for Elsie than to leave her as she is? We must try it, John. Perhaps, after all, she isn’t in the cave.” ‘Well, my head's a turnip if she isn’t.” “Good-bye, then. I'll make a long enough circuit.” = “So long. Twenty minutes to one; remem- er.” Martin started along the highway, and Will began to climb the mountain. In a quarter of an hour he passed the spot where first he and Els‘e had seen Wanga ard his white companion. How much that wes mysterious and terrible had happened since then! He tried to think that Mrs. Warren’s suggestion chat Elsie was held as a hostage for something might be correct, for in that case her captors would take some sort of care of her; ont he found it very hard to pin his faith to such a theory. He found more «comfort in reflecting upon Martin’s cleverness. His reasoning in the afternoon had been ap- parently flawless. If it should prove so to- night! He plodded on up the mountain until he was in the open land near the summit. Baker mountain was not so hizh that veg- etation did not flourish at the top, but na- ture had decreed that its encircling forest should stop just short of the peak, and-the summit, therefore, was a great mass of rock, thiniy covered in spots with grass. Will looked at his watch. It lacked one minute of midnight, and he turned to the left and presently plunged into the f.rest, making as straight as he 2ould for the mine, distant, he thought, about a mile. Experienced as he was in making his way through. the woods, he found this task re- markably beset with difficulties. He was following no trail, and in order not to go astray he had frequently to consult his compass, so as to be sure and not veer materially from a straight line. It did seem as if he had chosen a course acrcss which old age and the storms had laid a thousand trees; as if on this line were all the gullies and debris of the biblical del- uge; as if all the water that could ooze from the mountain side had chosen this “He dragged himself up.” slope on which to soak the sod and lubri- cate the moss-covered recks. Now and again, as his feet kicked open the punk of decayed branches, he saw the giow of phosphorus, that brillfant satire on ight, and at other times it needed no disturbance to awaken the fictitious, use- less flame before and around ‘im. He stumbled frequently, and more than once he slipped down, but he plunged on with the energy of desperation, dreading lest Martin should not have given him time’}' § enough. At last he felt himself upon level ground, and he proceeded with caution. Shielding his watch with his hand, he lit a match and allowed it to burn just long enough to show him that it was twenty-five minutes past 12. A few steps further, and he was again in the open, and the Wilkens mine yawned before him. He crept carefully up one side of the ex- cavation and looked down into tt. There was little to see. The night had cleared, but the great hole, even near the surface, was inky black. He lay down upon the ground and waited. With every minute that passed he struck a match and sooked at his watch, each time thinking that surely the hour had arrived, and when at length it came he set forth with a sinking dread lest something had happened to de- lay Martin, lest they should exasperate Elste’s captors to murder. Martin had told him not to search the mine. He therefore hurried through it as fast as he could in the darkness, and stepped unhesitatingly into the ice-cold water of the shaft. It may have heen that the shock of the water reacted upon his nerves; at all events, his head seemed clearer, his confidence greater, as he walked along, and though his heart beat high when he dragged himself up into the drier tunnel of the cave, he felt that his fingers would be steady on the trigger if there skould he need to shoot. He had been at pains to make no splash- ing noise as he waded through ‘the shaft, and now he walked with the utmost cau- tion.. Slowly, very slowly, he. proceeded, feeling with one hand along one side of the cavern, and testing each step before he bore his welght down. He paused just an instant at frequent intervals to listen. Suddenly he heard—something, what, he could not tell. He stopped and listened. It came again, a stealthy footfall. “Jack!” whispered Will. crouching down. “Billy!” came the whispered response, and at the same instant a sound that filled both m2n with horror. It was an inarticulate, gurgling scream, a woman's voice, and it seemed to come from directly in front of Will. Martin had told him to lle flat down, and he was obeying the injunction, and just as the scream rang all but in his ears, his outstretched hand came in contact with a human _ body. (To be continued tomorrow.) ———— GOLF IN FRANCE. A Gallic View of the Game—Drives of Over 400 Yards. From the Figaro. The golf season has just ended with the games of the Dinard Club. The golf week at Dinard has nothing equivalent to it in the sporting world, except the races at Trou- ville. From Dinan, from Saint Malo, from Saint Servan, from Parame, from Saint Lunaire, from Paris, and even from England the Englishmen arrive to play or to be pres- ent at this brilliant autumn meeting. Not only do the English and American colonies of the Cote d'Emeraude furnish their con- tingent of fervent golf players, but also a number of familles from across the water remain on the Malouin shore to be present at this new game. French sportsmen be- longing to the region or ruralizing there make it a duty to follow the phases of the game, and even to take part in it. For instance, last year Count Joseph Roch- aid won the Dinard challenge cup. Golf (pronounced “gulf” or “gueulf”) is a very old English game, which is somewhat like our ancient “soule.” It made its first appearance in France at Dinard In 1890. Since then it has become the great fashion- able game, and it !s even expected that it will completely dethrone tennis, cricket, polo and other games in vogue. There are al- ready four golf links established in France: At Pau, at Biarritz, at Cannes, where the Grand Duke Michel introduced it, and finally at Dinard. The golf links of Dinard are incontestibly the best in France, according to the English professionals. Moreover, the thing which renders them unique in their kind, from the point of view of nature, is the great num- ber of incomparable views which surround them and their position on the seacoast in the midst of unequaled scenery. ———_+e+ The Benefit of the Doubt. From Matron—‘‘Now, is this novel a fit one for my daughter to read?” Bookseller—“H'm. Well, candidly, madam, I think it a book of doubtful morality.” Matron—‘Well, I'll take it. Most of those T've read lately have been of undoubted im- morality.” If you want a cup of good Cocoa or Chocolate you should use Huyler's, All grocers, @ o o ° 4 o co @ @ @ SOOOOOO © © @ “SIO. eD GOCOSG @ Ga NS) v We ward, WOSSBSSS OO SS OSB O688 > Gigantic sale of coats. SOSSSSSSS OSHS The Bon Marche, 314 and 316 7th St. may as wll be frank. The winter season has been very back= and we are heavily overstocked with Coats and Capes. Every garment is of the very latest style, and many of them are in styles not shown by any other house in Washington. week’s business in a single day, and make tomorrow biggest Cloak Day of our business career, we shall gigantic special sale, and have Divided nearly the entire stock into 3 lots. These lots will be placed on separate tables, and an extra large force of clerks assigned to them to insure you a prompt and satisfactory selection. $8.86 _ At $8.86 we shall offer all of our $9.98, $16.48 and $10.98 Coats. About ‘2 dozen different styles, in both smooth and rough cloths, from which to select. Perfect in shape, big sleeves, with and without velvet collar, and were grand values at their former prices. Were $9.98, $10.48 and $10.98. plL1s8 A big table full, embracing the choicest rough cheviots, boucles and smooth kerseys, beavers, &c., in the stylish 2 and 3-button “box” effects, in black, navy blue and brown. Are positively the most stylish Coats and the greatest values ever offered at their regular prices of $12, $12.50, $13 and $13.50. In order to crowd a -Saturday--the inaugurate a S1468 This lot comprises the fall season's choicest Coats, in astrakhans, tate- nagre’s, boucles, rough cheviots, diagonals and smooth kerseys, madé in the stylish “box” reefer effects and our “exclusive” styles, which are cut high around the neck and button diagonally across the front, with two immense buttons. These are cheap at their regular prices. O0SOO9OHGO0SO0OC O08 O98, $10.48 &|$12, $12.50, $13 | $15,916.50, 17-50% 98 Coatsfor|& $13.50 Coats, |18,&19.50Coats,; @ that there are no lower prices. While we havé Capes for less, we call speclalntteshitf? to an Elegant Boucle Cloth Military; Gape, trimmed with ‘Thibet far and satig,lingd. Worth $8.50. Fort $5.68 Sal 22-in, Coney Fur Capes. Worth $10. For $7.48 Immense line of Fur Capes at propor- tionately low prices, SSSSESe ‘CHOICE, $8.86.|CHOICE, $11.13.|CHOICE, $14.63 Equal Bargaims im Gapes. - Capes.are included in this extraordinary “concession” sale. are confident that there is not a more comiplete stock of this seasan’s most stylish Capes to be found elsewhere in Washington. 30-in. Stylish Plush Long Capes, full sweep, trimmed with black Thibet fur. Worth $15. |For $11.03 The Bon Marche, .. — Double Stores--314 and 316 7th St.°" *" Ss, We We know LOGBOOOHTSSIOS OO Misses’ Coats. Children’s Navy Blue Reaver Gretchen Cloaks, braid trimmed, sizes § to 14 years. For $4.89 Misses’ $6 and $6.50 Smooth and Rough Cloth “Box” Reefers, navy blue, blick and Scotch mixtures. For $4.99. eta oe 3 @ e e a ° a WIFE. HE LEFT HIS A New Jersey Farmer's Vow Based on the Result of an Election, From the St. Louis Giebe-Democrat. The Randolph-Blair fight was the hardest political tussle that New Jersey had scen for a good many years, and men who had al- ways before been lukewarm got out «nd showed their colors. : Probably the most remarkable resolution made during the campaign was by Gilbert Strong, a farmer in Cape May county. “Gib,” as he was familiarly called, had a wife who was and is a woman with a mind of her own. She had her political views and wasn’t afraid to express them, She was a democrat; Gib was a republican, Political discussions were frequent between this man and his wife, and they were as choleric as they could have been between two men. One day while at table Mr. and Mrs. Strong got into a political discussion, ¢nd Mrs. Strong stood up bravely for Randolph and his principles. Gib as warmly argued for Blair. One word brought on another, and finally Gib said: “Lizzie, you hadn't ought to cross me in politics this way. I'm the boss of the house, and if you can’t agree with me you ought to keep quiet.” “I've got just as good a right to my opin- fons as you have to yours, Gilbert,” replied Mrs. Strong, calmly, “and I’m going to keep them.” b's temper got the best of him then end he said: “All right, Libby; if Randolph is elected I'll live by myself, for I couldn't enjoy myself while you was crowin’ over me.” Mrs. Strong made no reply and there the matter stood till the day after the election, when the news came that Randolph was elected. That evening Strong kissed his wife good-bye after telling her that he was bound to keep his word. He was a man of tonsiderable means, and he had an unpreténtious house built on the farm, in which he*topk up his residence, and there he has eaten ##€ slept ever since. Mrs. Strong has done éverything possible for ter to do to gct him ‘to'live in the house with her, but he has*refused, saying that he wouldn't do it unttf the republicans elected a governor.: to% Strong and his wifé are now bordering on sixty years of age, and they are as devoted to each other as ewer. Strong carries on the farm and his wife-carries her share of the, burden, but beyonit peaking their relations have ceased. They:are childless, and Strong this year is doingialf he can for the election of a republican governor. Mrs. Strong has waived her political<preferences, and says she will be satisfied if she can gel Gib back to the old home. Friends have tried to In- fluence Gib to stop hig nonsense, but the man refuses to consider {he matter favorably tor an instant. = +o+—____ A Parade of Bridal Couples. From an Exchange. On October 1 the new marriage law went into effect in Hungary, which provides for a wedding by magistrates, the religious wedding being of secondary importance only from that day on. On the Sunday pre- ceding the 1st of this month more than 300 couples were married in the Buda-Pest Cathedral alone, the archbishop having given dispensation from the usual previous announcements from the pulpit to all those who would prefer a Christian to a magis- trate’s wedding. The first marriage under the new law was that of the daughter of a member of parliament, Mesey, the minister of justice, Erdelyi, being a witness to the wedding. A large number of engagements between people of different religions are now announcea since there is no restric tion as to faith in the ne Salvation Oll, the wonderful liniment, 25c. EIGHTY YEARS, Oldest Couple in MARRIED in the United States Lives in Wisconsin. From the Chicago Chronicle. Tke oldest living couple in the United States beyond a doubt has for the past forty-two years resided within three miles of Black River Falls, Wis. Louis and Ame- lia Darwin were born in the province of Ontario not far from Montreal. The hus- band was born on Septemter 24, 1788, or one.year before the inauguration of the first President of the United States. The wife was born at La Pero’s Isle cn March 17, 1794, and is now past her one hundred and first year. The aged people are de- scendants from a race which for many generations was noted for remarkable longevity. Eighty years have passed since they were joined in wedlock, and a family of twelve children was the fruits of their marriage. Five are still living in this vicinity, ranging from seventy to fifty-four years. The old- est child, were he living teday, would be seventy-nine years old. For thirty rs Grandma Darwin was totally blind. Strange and incredible as it may seem, in her ninety-ninth year she re- covered her second sight and was able to distinguish her children. Yet during the period of her blindness she performed her household duties without any assistance. The old gentleman has been a remarka- ble man. When he was cne hundred years old he could dance a jig equal to a dancing master, but the past four years he has gradually wasted away, until today he is but a shadow of his former self. —_-se+ Danger. From Truth. First Tramp—“It makes me nervous to sleep in one of dese lodgin’ houses. Sup- posin’ a fire wuz to break out in de night?” Second Tramp—“Dat's so. Dem firemen would turn a hose on yer in a minute!” +oo-—____ A swell get-up.—Life MR. WOOD'S LIVE MUFFLER. It is a Warm Young Wildent and is Not for Sale at Any Price. From the Paducah News. = Those ladies of Paducah who are fond of wearing fur boas around their throats might learn a lesson from F, H. Wood, a riverman, who is now in the city. Mr. Wood has a handsome neck muffler of tawny skin, but he do€s not keep it in a bandbox at night. He locks it in a strong ‘cage, for his boa is a half-grown wildcat, with full-grown claws and teeth. during the last few days by strolling about the city with a young bay lynx or wildcat perched on his shoulder. Old naturalists claim that it is impossible to domesticate a specimen of the “felis catus,” which is the Latin name for Mr. Wood’s strange pet. He has refuted that theory, however, by partial- ly taming the savage little beast. Many scars and scratches on his hands and face bear evidence to the fact that It was no easy job to get on speaking terms with Mr. Wild Cat, jr., and it will allow no one but its own- er to come near it. If a stranger approaches, the kitten will jump straight at his throat. Wood is very fond of the animal. He caught it when it was only six days old, after its mother had slain four large dozs, and raised it by hand. Ever since one night down at Cairo some weeks ago he has been doubly attached to it. On thac occasion he thinks the lynx saved his life. In a cofiversation with a News reporter Wood said he was walking along the river bank on the outskirts of Cairo with his four- footed friend on his shoulder. The evening was dark and he could not see through the gloom, but the eyes of his feline could. Sud- denly the little creature growled and teaped straight into the face of a negro who had slipped up behind the pair. With a howl of pain the would-be robber dropped a huge club and set sail for another neighborhood. “Kitty” got an extra allowance of meat that night for supper. The animal is now about the size of a large tomcat, but is very different in appearaace from the common tabby. It has huge feet, long sharp claws, a head like a tiger’s, the tufted ears which distinguish the lynx family and a short tail, which moves incessantly. ——__-o-+—____ Indian Privilege in Maine. Bergor Dispatch to the Boston Herald. ‘There is trouble among the Penobscot Indians at Indian Island, Oldtown, twelve miles from Bangor, the heme of the larg- est ard most important Indian tribe in Maine, ove: an order of the Maine Central railroad, just issued, that they must pay full fare when traveling on that road. For sixty years the Indians have been allowed tom having its origin here. When the Bangor and Vesie, the first railroad in Maine, was built, the read carried many Indians up river, and Gen. Samuel Vesie of this city, then the wealthiest man in Maine, who was president of the road, al- lowed the Indians to ride at children’s rates, and for the sixty years since the custom has continved. The Indians declare that if the Bangor and Aroostogk railroad follows the example of the Maine Central they will bring suits for heavy damages against the company. They claim that the road, formerly the Bangor and Piscataquis, was allowed to cross Orson and Black islands without paying damages, provided Indians were allowed to ride for half fare Free to Bald Hénds. We wiil mail on application free information how to grow hair upon a bald head. stop falling hair ve seaip diseases, Address ALTENIIEIM LL DISPENSARY, 127 E. 3d st., Cincin- Ohio. '012-3m ‘Wood has attracted considerable attention~ to pay th: same fare as children, the cus- j THE CHARLESTON EARTHQUAKE, Seenes of Death d Desolat! Svuth Carolina Recalled. From the New York Tribune. The iast previous earthquake shock of any importance in the United States was the famous Charleston disaster, which oc- curred on the night of Tuesday, August 31, 1886. The day had been sultry, and as night came on there were ominous noises, which the people did not understand. At a little before 10 o'clock the earth rose and fell like the swell of a wave. Buildings tumbled down with a tremendous crash. Many persons were buried in the ruins of their own houses, and either killed or bad- ly injured. Those who were able to do so fied to the streets, and the wildest disorder ané confusion reigned. Shock after shock oc: curred during the night, and as the people did not dare to return to their dwellings even for the clothing they needed, the streets were filled with half-clad men, wo- men and children, seized with dread, and expecting worse disasters to follow those which had already taken place. When the morning dawned the situation did not improve. Business was absolutely suspended, telegraphic communication was shut off, no newspapers were published, many of the dead were still under the debris, and a large proportion of the wounded were nor properly cared for. This chaotic condition continued for several days, during which the shocks continued. On the third day an official list of the dead was given out, showing that thirty-two persons had been killed, of whom ten were white and twenty-two colored. The seri- ously injured numbered about a hundred. Several other persons were either killed by the subsequent shocks or else died from wounds or exposure. The mayor of the city estimated, after it was possible to form a clear idea of the damage done, that the loss would be between $5,000,000 and $6,000,000, et An Unfinished Story. From the Chicago Tribune. “What is the present condition of the city’s finances, Mr. Mayor?” inquired the alder- man from the umpty-second ward. “The city Is heavily in debt, replied the mayor, “and at the present rate of expendi- ture it is running behind several hundred thousand dollars a year.” In the midst of a dense silence the alder- man from the "steenth ward rose up. “Mr. Mayor,” he said, “and fellow alder- men, there Is only one thing for us to co. . As members of the city council, chargec with the duty of looking after the interests of this great city, a solemn responsibility rests upon us. We cannot evade it. We should be less than men if we sought row to shirk the issue forced upon us in this crisis of the ci I propose, fel- he continued, in a voice that trembled with excess of earn- estness, “that we come as individuals to the relief of the city! I suggest that we con- tribute from our private purses ten per cent of the profits of the aldermanic business this year—" The council rose as one man. Deafening cheers drowned the speaker's voice, and the entire body of sixty-eight aldermen came forward to the city clerk’s desk, each nan opening his purse as he came. “At this point,” explains the narrator, “I awoke. It was only a dream.” : eee Rather Difiicult. From the Oakland Times. A soldier leaving barracks is stopped by the corporal of the guard. “You cannot go out without leav “I have the verbal permission of the cap- tain.” “Show me the verbal permission.””