Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, May 17, 1902, Page 7

a ft 2,000 DEAD AT ST. VINCENT AWPUL DISASTER ON THE BRITISH ISLAND WORSE THAN RE- PORTED. LOOTING THE DEAD AT ST. PIERRE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT VESSEL CAPTURES SIX OF THE GHOULS. A FAMINE IS THREATENED STENCH FROM THE DEAD BODIES PIERRE IS OVER- POWERING. AT ST. Fort-de-France, Martinique, May 15. —It is estimated that thé total number of deaths on the Island of St. Vincent from the volcanic eruption reached 2,000. Most of the victims are said to be Carib Indians. Conditions at St. Vincent are said to be La Soufriere was in ,full eruption May 10.. A stream of stone and mud half a mile wide was then is- suing from the volcano. Stones two inches in diameter fell twelve miles At Kingstown, the capital of sland, the ashes were two inches Seven hundred dead were’ re- por Sunday, May 11. It is estimated that the total number of deaths on St. Vincent reaches 2,000, Most of the seven estates on the island have been burned to ashes and it is authorita- tively reported that two earthquakes occurred there. it is believed the sub- marine cables at St. Vincent have been broken by 4d urbances. The present voleanic eruption on St. Vincent is the first since 1812. Awful Conditions at St, Pierre. The United States government tugs Potomac, which came to Martinique fiom San Juan, Porto Rico, cruised aicng the coast of this island yesterday afterrcon. She encountered an inky black column of smoke which made it necessary for her to go five miles out of her course. Words fail to describe the present situation at St. Pierre. A small Getachment of French troops is making every effort to inter the dead, although the government seems to be strikingly unconcerned as to what is to be done. Looting of the dead has be- gun already. While coming to Fort-de-France the Potomac picked up a boat containing five colored anl one white man whose pockets were filled with coin and jew- elry, the latter evidently stripped from the gers of the dead. Lieut. B. B. McCormick, the commander of the Po- tomac, arrested these men and turned them over to the commander of the ‘rench cruiser Suchet for punishment. Potomac also brought a ton of supplies consisting, in part, of codfish and flour. 4 Famine Is Imminent. A famine ‘here is imminent. Tha northern section of the island is de- populated. Provisions are needed here immediately for 100,000 people. A ship- load of lime is aiso needed at St. Pierre for sanitary purooses. The stenca there from the dead bodies is overpow- ering. As a result of the measures taken by the authorities access to St. Pierre is now easier. The ruins of the town have ceased smoking. Two thousand corpses have been found in a carbonized condi- tion. It has been learned that the rain of fire c ed at a distance of 200 years from the village of Le Carbet. ‘Talk with survivors of the disaster confirms previous statements as to the awful suddenness of the catastrophe. It is thought that an enormous quanti- ty of ‘gas was liberated, producing great atmospheric pressure which over- whelmed everything before it. The gases absorbed by the bodies of the victims caused them to burst, and the fire coming afterward, carbonized them. This was followed by a rain of stones which enveloped the town, but there was not, as has been said, any flow of incandescent lava. ‘Tornadoes of Fire. ‘A gardener at the village of Morne Rouge, seven kilometers distant from St. Pierre, saw at the moment of the disaster seven lumirous points on Mont Pelee, He says he had the impression of being violently drawn toward the voleano by a powerful current of air. Then the mountain opened, according to the description of the gardener, and flung tornadoes of fire at St. Pierre. Mont Pelee was still erupting smoke and fire at a late hour last night. The French cruiser Suchet is here and the city of Fort-de-France is quiet. It was reported here yesterday from the British island of Dominica that 300 survivors of the St. Pierre disaster had reached there 'n canoes. Many strange and incomprehensikle incidents are re- counted of St. Pierre. The charred re- mains of a woman with a silk hand- kerchief, unburned and in perfeét con- dit held to her lips have been found, ‘The crisped bodies of young girls have been found, but the shoes they wore were unhurt. 8 Every praise is given United States Consul Ayme. He has worked indefat- jgably to succor the survivors. He has bandaged the limbs of the wounded and has worked without sleep and without food. He is now thoroughly exhausted. Forty persons rescued from the city are now in the hospitals here, away the deep. WARE SUCCEEDS EVANS. New Pension Commissioner Takes Oath of Office, Washington, May 15. — Eugene F. Ware of Kansas yesterday took the oath of effice as commissioner of pen- sions and to-morrow morning will as- sume active charge of his new duties. Mr. Ware has determined for the pres- ent at least to make no announcement of the policy of his administration of the office. Mr, Evans will leave for his post as consul general to London in a few weeks. RELIEF WORK IS RUSHED. Strenuous Efforts Made to Get Sup- plies to Martinique. Weshington, May 15.—The following | was issued from the White House yes- terday afternoon: “The president has appointed a com- mittee 10 receive funds for the relief of the sufferers from the recent catastro- phes in Martinique and St. Vincent. The gentlemen appointed from each ty are asked to collect and receive the funds from their localities and neigh- berhoods as expeditiously as possible and forward them to Hon. Cornelius N- Bliss, treasurer of the New York com- mittee, which committee will act as central distributing point for the coun- tr “The president directs all the post- masters throughout the country and requests the presidents of all the na- tionai benks to act as agents for the collection of contributions and to for- ward the same at once to Mr. Bliss at New York. The postmasters are also directed to report to the postmaster generai within ten days any funds col- lested on this account. “The president appeals to the public to contribute generously for the relief of those upon whom this appalling calamity has fallen, and asks that con- tributions be sent in as speedily as pos- sible. several committees act at orce.” Two Weeks’ Rations. So completely !aid were the plans of the war department Monday, even de- fore the passage of the joiit resolution providing for the relief of the voleano sufferers that there was really very lit- tle remaining for the officials to do yes- terday. The plans of the commissary department, made after careful consid- eration of the news dispatcties from the Antilles, contemp'ate tho supply of 40,- 000 rations for fourteen days. The quar- termaster’s department ‘s purchasing clothing supplies for 40,000 people and the medical department is working in proportion in its purchases. In the navy department the carefully planned relief measures were being 2arried forward systematically and rap- idly. The Buffalo kas been ordered to be put in readincss for immediate use as a food and suprly transport in case it should be decided to send more sup- plies than the Dixie will carry. Action has not yet been taken upon dmiral Bradford's suggestion that water tend- ers be sent to Martinique io relieve the pressing need for fresh water. The ad- miral is anticipating the acceptance of the plan and has; accordingly tele- graphed to Pensacola and Norfolk to have the tenders at those places made ready for immediate service. Ships Quickly Got Ready. The admiral also has tendered the use of his coal navy, as food and pas- senger transports. The 2quipment bu- reau, of which he is the head, has a small but excellent fleet of large col- liers and the admiral has suggested to Secretary Moody that these ships are, by virtue of their great carrying ca- pacity, excellently adapted to relief work. Each of the ships carries from two to three thousand tons of supplies. It appeared by noon that so rapidly had the government’s agents worked that already the war department alone had spent over $10,000 of the relief ap- propriation. It was realized that con- siderable heavy items of expenditure remained to be made, and it was the opinion éf the president and his cabinet that the $2,000 appropriated Monday would not be sufficient to meet the needs in the case. It was decided that an effort should be made to have con- gress accept the estimate of $500,000 submitted in the president’s message of Monday. This decision was com- municated to some of the individual leaders in the senate and house. are. requested to NOT SO SURE OF A STRIKE. Situation in the Anthracite Coal Fields Becomes Clouded. Hazelton, Pa.; May 15.—The situation regarding the continuation of the pres- ent total suspension of work in the an- thracite coal fields of Pennsylvania is a trifle clouded. The apparent over- whelming sentiment for a strike which was in evidence Monday is not quite so prominent now and predictions are freely made that whatever the delegates in the convention to-day determine upon, the winning side will have only a bare majority. President Mitchell and his fellow officials still maintain their silence and every attempt that has been made to get their opinion of the situation has proved futile. The indications are, however, that the dele- gates favoring a strike ar> in a ma- jority and will win their fight in the convention, The upper district, it is known, is not 2 unit on the question of a permanent strike, but it is confident- ly believed that the pro-strike delega- tions in the middle and lower regions are numerous enough to overcome the considerable anti-strike sentiment in the upper region. Complicates the Situation. The proposition of the stationary fire- men to.go out with the mine workers if the latter will indorce the firemen’s de- mands for a shorter work day without a reduction in wages has helped to complicate the situation and, no doubt, has had considerable to do with the apparent change in the sentiment of many miners who were for a strike. The radical strike advocates insist that the miners’ union should accept the proposition, which would result in the suspension of work by the engineers, firemen and pump runners, and this would cause the operators a large financial loss through the flooding of the mine workings. It is held by them that the mine owners would concede the miners something rather than see their property ruined. 'The entire region was very quiet. The only colliery that was in operation was the Dusky Diamond at Beaver Brook, near here. Only ten men are employed there and they ate receiving the wages asked for by th? anion. “RUSSIAN PEASANTS STE RVING. Expelled Students Are Agitating for an Uprising. St. Petersburg, May 14. — Enormous numbers of starving peasants from Cen- trak Russia are flocking into Moscow. They are in frightful misery, There is a dearth of work everywhere. Seven ad- ditional freight trains each bring into the city an average of 1,500 persons daily. The proclamation of a state of siege in several districts in the province of Pol- tava has not had the expected result, and a new and violent movement may be ex- | pected. The expelled students are fo- menting a rising. | The gentlemen designated on the | | By Fred M4. wiite nm Crimson CHAPTER VII.—(Continued,) “You wanted to see me, sir? Will you be so good as to state your business?” David turned with a start. He saw before him a slight, graceful figure and a lovely, refined face in a frame of the most beautiful hair he had ever seen. The gray eyes were demure, with just a suggestion of mirth in them; the lips were made for laughter. It was as if some dainty little actress were mas~ querading in Salvation garb, only the dress was all priceless lace that touched David's artistic perception. He could imagine the girl as deeply in earnest as going through fire and water for her convictions. Also, he could imagine her as Puck or Ariel—there was rip- pling laughter in every note of that voice of hers. “I_I,eh, yes,” Steel stammered. “You see, I—if I only knew whom I had the pleasure of addressing?” “I am Miss Ruth Gates, at your ser vice. Still, you asked for me by name. David made no reply for a moment. He was tripping over surprises again. ‘What a foo] he had been not to look out the name of the occupant of 219 in the directory. It was pretty evident that Gilead Gates had a house in Brighton. as well as one in town. Not only had that telephone messege emanated from the millionaire’s residence, but it hed brought Steel’ to the philanthropist’s abode in Brighton. If Mr. Gates him-| self had strode into the room singing a | comic song David would have ex- pressed no emotion. “Daughter of the famous Gilead ; Gates?” David asked, feebly. “No; niece and housekeeper. This is not my uncle's own house. He has | merely taken it for a time. But, Mr. Steel—"” “Mr. David Ste21—is my name famil- far to you?” David asked the question somewhat eagerly. As yet he was only feeling his way and keenly on the lookout for any- thing in the way 2f a clue. He saw the face of the girl grow white as the table- cover, he saw the lurking laugter die in| her eyes, and the purple-black terror dilating the pupils. “I—I know you quite well by reputa- tion,” the girl gasp24. Her little hands i were pressed to her left side as if to) check some deadly pain there. “In- deed, I may say I have read most of your stories. I—I hope that there is | nothing wrong.” Her self-possession and courage were coming back to her now. But the spasm of fear that had shaken her to the soul was not lost upon Steel. “I trust not.” he said, gravely. “Did you know that I was here two nights ago?" 5 “Here?” the girl cried. “Impossible! In the house? The night before last? ‘Why, we were all in bed long before midnight!” “I am not aware that I said anything about midnight,” responded David, coldly. An angry flush came sweeping over the face of the girl, annoyance at her own folly, David thought. She added. | quickly, that she and her uncle had} cniy been down in Brighton for three days. “Nevertheless, I was in this room two nights ago,” Davil replied. “If you ! know all about it, pray give me certain | information of vital importance to me; | if not, I shail be comrelled to keep my | extraordinary story to myself, for, oth- erwise, you would never believe it. Do you or do you not know of my visit | here?” - The girl bent her head till Steel could | see nothing but the glorinus amber of | her hair, He could see, too, that the! fine old lace round her throat was toss- ; ing like a cork in a stream. “T can tell you nothing,” she said. “Nothing, nothing, nothing!” It was the vcice of one who would | have spoken had she dared. With any- | body else Steel would have been furi- ously angry. In the present case he could only admire the deev, almost pa- thetic, loyalty to somebody who stood behind. “Are you sure you were in this house?” the girl asked, at length. “Certain!” David exclaimed. “The walls, the pictures, the furniture—all the same. I could swear to the place anywhere. Miss Gates, if I cannot prove that I was here at the time I name it is likely to go very hard with) me.” “You mean that a certain incon- venience—"” “Inconvenience! Do you calla charge of murder, or manslaughter at best, in- convenient? Have you not seen the local papers? Don’t you know that two nights ago, during my absence from home, a strange man was prac- | tically done to death in my conserva- tory? And during the time of the out- ! rage, as sure as Heaven is above us, I | was in this room!” ' “I am sorry, but I am sure that you were not.” “Ah, you are going to disappoint me? ‘And .yet you know something. You might have been the guiltiest of crea- tures yourself when I disclosed my identity. No prisoner detected in some shameful crime ever looked more guilty than you.” A The girl stood there, saying nothing. Had she rang the bell and ordered the footman to put him out of the house, Steel would have had no cause of com- plaint. But she did nothing of the kind. She stood there, torn by con- flicting emotto1s. % “I can give you no information,” she said, presently. “But I am as positive one way as yu are another, that you have never been in this house before. I inay surmise things, but as I hope to be judged fairly I can give you no in- formation. I am only a poo~, unhappy girl, who is doing what she deems to be the best for all parties concerned. And I can tell you nothing, nothing. Oh, won’t you believe that I would do anything to serve I were 3 free?” eh gas Blind She held out one hand, with an im- ploring gesture, and the red lips were quivering, and her eyes were full of tears. David's warm heart went out to her; he forgot all his own troubles and dangers in his sympathy for the young creature in distress. “Pray say no more about it!” he cried. He caught the outstretched hand in his and pressed it to his lips. “I don’t wish to hurry you; in fact, haste is dangerous. And there ’s ample time. Nor am I going to press you. Still, be- fore long you may find some way to give me a clue without sacrificing a jot of your fine loyalty to—well, others. I Would not distress you for the world, Miss Gates. Don’t you think that this hag been the most extraordinary inter- view?” The tears trembled like diamonds on the girl's long lashes and a smile flashed over her face. The sudden transformation wes wonderfully fas- cinating. “What you might ca:l.an impossible interview,” she ‘augked. “And all the more impossible because it was quite impossible that you should ever have been here before.” “When T was in this room, two niga‘ts ago,’ David protested, “I saw—" “Did you see me, for instance? If not, you coulcn’t have been here!” A small, mis-shapen figure, with the face of Byron—Apollo on the bust of Satyr—came in from behind the fold; ing doors of the back dining room, car- rying some letters in his hand. The stranger’s pleasing eyes were fixed in- quiringly upon Steel. “Bell!” the latter cried; ‘Hatherly Bell! you have been listening?” The little man with the god-like head admitted the fact, coolly. He had been writing letters in the back room, and escape had been impossible for him. “Funny enough, I was going to look you up to-day,” he said. “You did me a great service once, and I am longing to repay you. I came down here to give my friend, Gates the benefit of my advice and assistance over a large philanthropic scheme he has just evolved. And, writing letters yonder on that subject, I heard your extraor- dinary conversation. Can I help you, Steel?” “My dear fellow!” David cried, “if you offered me every intellect in Eu- rope I should not choose one of them so gladly as yours!” “Then let us shake hands on the bargain. And now I am going to stag- ger you; I heard you state positively that two nights ago you were in this very room.” “fam prepared to testify the fact on oath, anywhere, my dear Bell.” é “Very well; will.you be good enough to state the hour?” “Certainly. I was here from 1 o'clock —say between 1 and 2.” “And I wa8 here, also, From 11 o'clock until 2 I was in this very room, working out some calculations at this very table by the aid of my reading” lamp, no other light being in the room, even in the house, so far as I know. It is one of my fads—as fools call them-— to work in a large, dark room with one brilliant light only. Therefore, you could not possibly have been in the house, to say nothing of this room, on the night in question.” David nodded feebly. There was no combatting Bell's statement. “I presume that this is No. 219?” he asked. “Certainly it is,” Miss Gates replied. “We are all agreed about that.” “Because I read the number over the fanlight,” Steel went on. ‘And I came here by arrangement. And there was everything as I see it now. Bell, you | must either cure me of this delusion, or yo. must prove, logically, to me that I have made a mistake. So far as I am concerned, I am like a child struggling with the alphabet.” “We'll start now,” said Bell. ‘Come along.” Steel rose, none too willingly. He would fain have lingered with Ruth. She held out her Fand; there was a warm, glad smile on her face. “May you be successful,” she whis- pered. “Come and see me again, be- cause I shall be very, very anxious to know. And I am not without guilt—if you only knew!” “And I may «ome again?” said, eagerly. A further smile and a warm pressure of the hand were the only reply. Pres- ently Steel was standing outside in the road with Bell. Tthe latter was glanc- ing at.the house on either side of 219. The higher house was let; the one nearest the sea—218—was empty. A bill in the window gave the information that the property was in the hands of Messrs. Wallace & Brown, Station Quadrant, where keys could be ob- tained. “We'll make a start straightaway,” said Bell. “Come along.” “Where are you going to at that pace?” Steel asked. “Going to interview Messrs. Wallace & Brown. At the present moment I am a gentleman who is in search of a plaze of residence, and I have a weakness for Brunswick Square in particular, espe- cially for No. 218. Unless I am greatly mistaken, I am going to show you thing that will startle even the most callous novelist.” David CHAPTER VII. Hatherly Bell. The queer, mis-shapen figure, strid- ing along by Steel’s side would have attracted attention anywhere; indeed, Hatherly Bell had been an attractive personality from his school days. A strange mixture of vanity and brilliant mental qualities, Bell had almost as many enemies as friends. He was mor- bidly miserable over the score of his personal appeararice, despite the ex- beauty of his face—to be j bee or even sympathized with, almost at No, 219 Brunswick Square. maddened him. Yet there were many women who would gladly have shared the lot of Hatherly Bell. For there was strength in that per- fectly-moulded face, as well as beauty. It was the face of a man possessed of marvellous intellectual powers, and none the less attractive, because, while the skin was as fair as a woman’s, and the eyes as clear as a child's, the wavy hair was absolutely white. The face of a man who had suffered fiercely and long. A face hiding a great sorrow. Time was when Bell had promised to stand in the frout renk of operative physicians. In brain troubles and ment- al disorders he had distinguished him- self. He had a marvellous faculty for psychological res2arch; indeed, he had gone so far as to declare that insanity was merely a disease, and capable of eure, the same as any other ordinary malady. “If Bell goes on as he has started,” a great German specialist once declared, “he will inevitably prove to be the greatest benefactor to mai kind since the beginning of the world.” Bell was to be the man of his time. And then, suddenly, he had fad2d4 out, as a star drops fiom the zenith. There had been dark rumors of a ter- rible scandal, a prosecution burked by strong personal influence, mysterious paragraphs in the papers, and the dis- appearance of th: name-of Hatherly Bell from the ranks of great medical jurists. Nobody seemed to know any- th'ng about it, but Bell was ignored by all except a few old friencs, and hence- forth he devoted his attention to crim- inology and the evolution of crime. It was Bell's boast that he could take a dozen men at hap-hazard and give you their vices and virtues point-blank. He had a marvelous gift that way. ; A few people stuck to him, Gilead Gates among the number. The million- aire philanthropist had need of some- one to pick the sheep from the goats, and Bell made no mistakes. David Steel had been able to do the specialist some slight service a year or two be- fore, and Bell had been pleased to mag- nify this into a great favor. “You are a fast walker,” David said, presently. “That's because I’m thinking fast,” Bell replied. “St--l, you are in great trouble?” “It needs no brilliant effort on your part to see that,” said David, bitterly. “Besides, you ne.1rd a great deal just now when you—you—” “Listened,” said Bell, (coolly. “Of course I had no intention of playing the eavesdropper; and I had no idea who the Mr. Steel was who wanted to see Miss Gates. They come, day by day, my dear fellow, garbed in the garb of Pall Mall or Petticoat Lane, as the case may be, but they all come for money. Sometimes it is a shilling; sometimes £100. But I dnid not gather from your chat with Miss Gates what your trou- ble really was.” “Perhaps not; perfectly well.” Bell patted his companion approving- ly. “It is a pleasure to help a lucid-mind- ed man like yourself,” he said. “You go straight to the root of the sore, and cut all the superfluous matter away. I was deeply intersted in the coversation which I overheard just now. You are in great trouble, and that trouble is corected with 219 Brunswick Square—a house where you have never been be- fore.” - “My dear chap, I was in that dining room two nights ago. Nothing will con- vince me to the—” “There you are wrong, because I am foing to éonvince you to the contrary. You may smile and shake your head, but before an hour has passed I am go- ing to convince you, beyond all ques- ticn, that you were never inside No, 219." “Brave words,” David muttered. “Still, an hour is not a long time to wait.” “No, But you must enlighten me, if I am to assist you. I am profoundly interested. You come to the house of my friend on a desperate errand. Miss Gates is a perfect stranger to you, and yet the mere discovery of her identity fills her with the most painful agita- tion. Therefore, though you have nev- er been in 219 befere, you are pretty ecrtain and I am pretty certain, that Ruth Gates knows a deal about the thing that is touching you. On the contrary, I know nothing on that head. Won’t you let me into the secret?” “Tl tell you part,” Steel replied. “And I'll put it pithily. For mere ar- gument we assume that I am selected to assist a damsel in distress who lives We will assume that the conversation leading up to the flattering selection took place over a telephone. As a matter of fact, but Miss Gates knew “How on earth—" he gasped. “Do you mean to say that you know — “Nothing at present, I assure you,” Bell aid, coolly. “Call it intuition, it you like. I prefer to call it the result of logical menta¥ process. I'm right, of course?” “Of course you are. I'd claimed that case for my own. I had cut my initials inside, as I showed Marley when I went to the police station. And therf Marley tells me how I paid Mossa nearly £1,- (90; how the mon2y must Lave come into my hands in the nick of time. That was fretty bad, when I couldn't, for the life of me, give a lucid reason for the possession of those notes; but there was worse to come. In the pocket of the injured man was a receipt for a di- amond-studded, gun-metal cigar case, purchased the day of the outrage. And Walen, the jeweler, proved beyond a doubt that the case’I claimed was pur- chased at his shop.’ Bell nodded, eagerly. “Which places you in an exceedingly awkward position,” he said. . “A mild way of putting it,” David replied. “If that fellow dies, the police have enough evidence to hang:me. And what is my defense? The story of my visit to 219. And who would believe that cock-and-bull story? Fancy a drama like that played out in the house of such a pillar of respectability as Gil- . ead Gates?” “Tt isn’t his house,” said Bell. only takes it furnished.” “In anybody else your remark would be puerile,” David said, irritably. “It's a deeper remark than you are aware of at present,” Bell replied. “I quite see your position. Nobody would believe you, of course. But why not go to the postoffice and ask the number of the telephone that called you up from London?” ‘The question seemed to amuse David slightly. Then his lips were drawn hu- morously. . (To Be Coatinued.) “He Growth of Socialism. Of special interest is the growth of Socialism as a political factor in Ger- many. It must be borne in mind that Germany is the birthplace of Social- ism, and that !t has|attained a higher development there than anywhere else. First, as to its commercial develop- ment. In 1887 the Socialists cast 493,009 votes at the reichstag elections, as against, the Center's 1,341,000 for in- stance, and against the National Liber- al’s 1,468,000. In 1878 and 1879, owing to Bismarck’s repressive measures, the So- cialist vote dropped to 312,000. But from that time until the !ast general electio2, that of 1898, the Socialist vote rose steadily and rapidly, and in 1898 it at- tained to 2,107,000, while the vote of all the other parties gridually went down. and to-day some of those parties poll barely one-fourth of their former vote. The Socialists to-day are, in point of numbers, by far the largest party; and at the next election they will reach the 2,500,000 mark, ang sibly exceed it,— North Ametetin Réview. bi Former Perfumes. é Our forefathers were great people for scents, perfumes, fragrant herbs and spices, and the astounding amount of seasoning they put in the simplest dishes prepares one for almost any combination. When, to-make a cherry tart, they found it necessary to make a syrup of cinnamon, ginger and “sawn~ ders,” and to add rosewater to the ic- ing, one can imagine how they set tu work to cook a cormorant. Perhaps if we remind our readerg that many of the chambers were provided with “draughts,” that occasionally required cleaning, and that rushes took the place of carpets, they will realize one of the reasons for perfumes. “Sweet waters” were occasionally sprinkled under the rushes in great houses, or for revels, or on the mattresses and bedding.—Good Words, t Limi¢e to His Capacity. ‘ Senator Mason of Illincis, when last in New York, was asked if he thought that Senator Morgan’s reputation of being the longest-winded speaker in the United States was founded on facts. The Illinoisin replied: “I am not certain that senatorial courtesy will permit me to answer that question; and, being a candidate for re-election, I will dodge it. But this T will say: I once asked Senator Mor- gan how long he could talk on a sub- ject he didn’t know anything about, and he replied: ‘It I didn’t know any- thing at all about it, I don’t think I could talk more .han three days about it!’’"—New York Times. . In the Wrong Department. In the millinery show room of one of the large department stores in Phila- it did take place over a telephone. The delphia a customer inquired of a sales- thing was involved with so much secre- cy that I naturally hesitated. I was offered £1,000 for my services; also, I was reminded by my unseen messen- ger that I was in dire need of that mon- ey.” “And were you?” “My dear fellow, I don’t fancy that I should have hesitated at burglary to get it And all I had to do was to meet a lady secretly, in the dead of night at No. 219, and tell her how to get out of a certain difficulty. It all resolved it- self around the synopsis of a proposed new story of mine. But I had better go into details.” David proceeded to do so. Bell, with his arm crooked through that of his companion, followed the story with an intelligent and flattering interest. * “Very strange and very fascinating.” he said, presently. “I'll think it out presently. Nobody could possibly think of anything but their toes in Western Road. Go on.” “Now I am coming to the point. I had the money, I had the lovely cigar case, and, subsequently, I had that bat- tered and bleeding specimen of human- ity dumped down, in the most amazing manner, in my conservatory. The ci- gar case lay on the conservatory floor, remember—swept off the table when I clutched for the telephone bell to call for the police. When Marley came he asked if the cigar case was mine. At first, I said no, because, you see—" “T see quite plainly. Pray go on.” “Well, I lose the cigar case; I leave it in the office of Mossa, to whom I pay nearly £1,000. Mossa, to spite me, takes or sends the case to the police, who ad- vertise it, not knowing that it is mine. You will see why they advertise it pres- ently—” “Becai woman what they charged to clean feathers. “Ten cents apiece,” was the answer. “Oh, I could never pay that price!” gasped the lady. “How many have you? If you have a sufficient number, we might make a reduction in the price.” “Why, I couldn’t count them, for I have two beds full.” Needless to say, she was in the wrong department.—Philadelphia Times. Credit Where It Is Due. “I understand,” said Mr. Meekton, “that I was alluded to at a meeting of the Feminine Emancipation league, as one of the most docile and obedient of husbands?” “Yes.”” “Well, I shall not pretend ‘to be a self-made man. I will frankly say that I owe this prominence entirely to. Hen- rietta.’—Washington Star. Never Satisfied. Hoax—Bijones is always kicking about something. Joax—That’s right. Five years ago he was cursing his Yuck because he couldn’t save enough to get married. and now he is bewailing his fate be- cause it takes all he can scrape togeth- er to pay alimony.—Philadelphia Rec- ord. x ‘ Of Course Not. “My wife doesn’t seem to be pro- gressing, doctor,” remarked the anx- TID