Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 20, 1888, Page 2

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, MAY 20, 1888 —SIXTEEN PAGES. “Rood and Oarlisle Wind Up the Lengthy Tariff Speeches. PRECEDED BY MR. JEHU BAKER In an Answer to Mr. Breckenridge's “Deep Damnation” Uttsrances— Gossip on the Present Condi- tion of the Tariff Fight. The Last of the Long Specches. WasmnoTox Bureav Trar OMana Bre, } 513 FounTRNTH STRERT, WasHiNGToN, D. C., May 19, To day closed the most thorough and ex- haustive tariff debate that has ever taken ‘Place in the history of the country. When “" the discussion started out it was expected to be dull and tiresome, but as it proceeded it _'turned out to be very interesting indoed, and " its close shows that it presents many sides ‘Which deserve the careful study of the Amer- fean people and their legislators. To-day | being the last day of the dobate, the gal- ! Jeries were filled long before the opening of the session, and many thousands were turned away, unable to obtain even standing room. I The' fricods of Speaker Carlisle especially were on hand very early and formed the "' farger part of the audience, It had become known early this morning . 'that Mr. Jehu Baker, of Illinois, was going to respond to some remarks made yesterday by Mr. Breckenridge relative to the defeat of William R. Morrison, which he charged to cor- ruption and fraud by the protection interests, Mr. Baker is a gentleman of stately demeanor and odd ways, but a man of fine general in- formation and a ready debater, whenever he engages in any controversy. He had care- fully prepared a speech and read it off with | the carnestness and force which characterizes a man who is greatly excited and believes __himself thoroughly outraged. He was lis- . [tened to with close attention by everybody, and though his manner sometimes was rather ludicrous, his words were forceful, and the gentleman from Kentucky, whom they ser- € wed to castigate, evidently smarted under them. At any rate he considered them 7 '“worthy of a reply and closes his answer in - polite and apologetic language. The docu- {! ments by which he sought to prove the truth * of his assertions in relation to the elections 0idn Mr. Baker's district were considered by “‘everybody as very flimsy arguments, . After this introductory scene, Mr. Reed of ,Maive was recognized and commenced what (turned out to be one of the finest speeches /on the tariff that has ever been & “delivered in the house. Mr. Reed is a . great big burly man in figure, and phleg- | ‘matic enough in temperament to deserve the name of & lazy man, and for that reason no | person had believed it possible that he would ' devote the time necessary for the thorough study of the question to this speech, but he » bhada, It was well and carefully prepared, and though he spoke without notes, his ! speech showed a most careful preparation ~=' and logical arrangement. It was unusually bonest, and though the first part of it did ‘mot seem to warm up the audience as much © m8 Mr. Reed's words usually do, the latter half electrified it and round after round of $ mllule greeted the many telling points of argument. It was a great speech in the < opinion of almost everyone, and especially ‘. the leading democrats think that in many re- geou it was a better speech than even Me- ¢ lnlu{ made for the protection side of the . question. Mr. Reed especially devoted him- o Belf ta showing that the Mills bill, taviff re- form and a tarift for revenuo ‘mean free ! trade, and that the democratic party was de- celving the people by speaking of incidental * ‘protection when it was really aiming . ot free trade. To be couscientious and hon- | est, they should wipe out altogether a sys- +. :tem that they believed to be dishonest and disastrous. After Mr. Reed had closed he { 'was loudly applanded, and all the repub- | . ‘lican members of the house, and many demo- ‘orats even, filed past him to shake hands and congratulate him. When quict was finally restored Speaker e was recognized, and the democrats received him with tremendous applause. But, r. Carlisle’s speech was not up to the repu- tion as an orator and a statesman that he has enjoyed. True, he spoke well and his arguments were the best that have been ad- ‘Muced on his side, but they were neither new snd original, nor’ forcible. In fact, he re- ated his colebrated speech of six years ago n many respects, especially so far as the 2 ages on New England and the effect of rotection and tariff for revenue only upon “Ehat section of the country are concerned. Alhe most telling portions of his speech con- isted of the reading of portions of Senator horman’s tariff speceb, made in 1871, r, Carlislc was laboring under a sadvantage, having been unwell this , Imorning, und Kcmapn for that reason he con- umed but an hour and a half, while Mr. . Reed spoke two hours. He was frequently “fnterrupted by applause and when he had ‘finished the democrats paid him the same onor that the republicans had paid to Mr. oed, The tariff is now done with so far as the gmxorul debate is concerned, and the qnes- | Xiou with the leading men on both sides of { the houso is as to whether the dewmocrats #hall be permitted to call up the bill and ask -8 vote without considering the sections for . the purpose of offering amendments, Some of the democratic leaders still pretend to be- o dieve that the bill could pass if put to a vote ,-Bt once, but that certainly is not true. Mr. H &nndul 's speech has scttled that. Kven Mr, Cleveland’s great influence and power vl not be able o force some of the protec- . 'tion democrats to voto for the bill in its resent ehape, because they mu ve hemsclves by securing amendments n- g the leading industries in their respective {Mlistrict. A more carcful canvass of tne Votes on their side of the house will probably :onvhm: the leaders before Monday morning hat t0 ask o vote on the bill would be a bad move on their part. For thatrcason it is lmost cortain that the committee will again “take it up on Monday, consider it section by section, in which case the democratic man ers will seck to conciliate enough protec- Jtion democratic representatives to secure the ge of the bill in the house. This can be ‘done, but 1f the Mills bill of to-day will dif- fer very materially from that which will be . @ent to the senate, the republicans are ready ffi:\m bill of their own which they will move ,£o substitute for the Mills biil, and it will em- y the leading ideas of the republican party without going iuto the details required or & thorough revision of the tariff, which etails thoy donot feel compotent to uct on the absence of any evidence by which they can arrive st results. They have had no ‘opportunity to investigate the question snd they have noue now. Of course, the re- eulnlrun substitute will be voted down and he Mills bill is in danger of failing, but an ‘Sicipatiag the passage of the Mills bill by the ouse, thie republican senators are already ard at work perfectivg a bill which will Fevise the tarift and reduce the isvenucs to _$he necessary extent, ‘I'he demogratic members of the committee on ways and means had a couference this evening, and it was agreed that the tarifl hall not be called up noxt Monday, but that he whole of next weels shall be devoted to |ppropriation bills. 05T OF AND PLANS FOK INPROVING THE Mis: SISSIPPL, At the meoting to-day of the committee for the lln‘:ruvenleul of the Mississippi river #od its tributaries, of which Senator Paddock chairman, Captain Sith 8. Leach, of the ited Statds corps of enginecrs, occupied the stand for three hours. All the committee, with the exception of Seunator Bustis, were d ut, aud in addition Captaiu John ' Cow- en, with three Mississippi captains of the (oid time were in attendance. Captain Leach sented a written statement of objections the Lake Borgue outlet plan, He insisted Ahat auy possible beneiit which could be de- ved from opening the Missisaipoi at Lako P Rue would be simply temporary, while @ permancat effects would be lasting aud sastrous, One of the first effects, he said, \would be to swoop New Orleans into the Mis: ippi river. @ urged that at present all resources of an‘f |smount of Ppresorve the maering and o large money - wero required 1o backs &l that . point, oand that under such a {hn a8 that proposed by Captain Cowden the veloc- ity would be inereased fully 25 per cent, when no systom of engineering kuown to man or (God and no amount of expenditure of money, could prevent the caving in of the banks. The captain then entered into an ex- tended and detailed explanation of the sys- tem now adopted by the commission in its work on the Mississippi, which, he said, consisted—first, in the building of lovees; second—the construction of revetments ; and third—the adoption of means for ‘‘contract- »_channel through dikes and other- Under a vigorous cross-examination from Senator Chandler, Captain Leach gave it as his opinion that an expenditure of $2,000,000 would thor- oughly levee the Mississippi river from New Orleans to Cape Givonda, and_that a total expenditure of £30,000,000 would give it an average depth of ten feet from its mouth to the head of navigation. MISCELLANEOUS, Representative McShane returned to-day from Nebraska. William A. Paxton, of Omaha, was at the capital to-day, hearing the tariff speeches. Patrick Gibbons. of Keokuk, Ia., is at the Ebbett, Ben, G, Davis, of Nebraska, was to-day promoted from a 1,000 to a $1,200 position in the war department. Perry S. Heari. et A VERY STRANGE VISION. And a Very Queer Story Told by a Raillroad Man. R. M. Sturgeon, the able Harrisburg, Pa., correspondent of the New Yor! Times, sends his paper the following dispatch: A veteran engineer on the Pennsylvania railroad was speakiong the other day of singular sights and inci- dents he had met with in his long ex- perience on the road. “The queerest that T ever knew,”said he, ‘‘jvas the vision that Bill Sandusky had a few Jours ago. There are things that you know have happened and are still re- luctant to tell about because you know youw'll be laughed atand pooh-poohed for your pains, and this vision was one of that kind. Bill Sandusky was an en- gineer on the Philadelphia and Erie railway, and is yet, I think, and lives in Krie. A betterengineer never handled the throttle. About ten years ago a young fellow named George ‘Watking went to work on the Philadel- phia and Erie as a brakeman. He was a stranger, and noone knew where ne came from. He was twenty-one or twenty-two years old, but he had a much older look. He had a very dark complexion, and he was tall and lean. His eyes were intensely black and deep- sunken. He had but little to say to any of his fellow-trainmen. It came to be a common remark among them that if at any time Watkin’s peculiar eyes were fixed on them for a moment they under- went curious variations of color, and that the person upon whomthe gaze was fixed experienced sensations which he found it difficult to describe, but which were referred to in a general way as decidedly uncomfortable. Some of the men said that with Watkin’s eyes on them they found it difficult to keep their minds on their work, and some went 50 far as to say that they could re- move themselves from the strange in- fluence of his presence only by the ex- ercise of all their will power. Those who had heard of mesmerism decided that the stranger was pgossessed of pow- erful mesmeric influence, and he was avoided as much as possible. “It was plain from the bearing of* ‘Watkins that he was either the victim of some great trouble or haunted by unpleasant recollections, and also that he was a man of education and intelli- gence. He performed the hard work of a brakeman with faithfulness, and early attracted the attention of the superin- tendent. Watkins had been on the road almost three months when Jimmy Green, Bill Sandusky’s foreman, was killed while saving the life of a little child that was playing on the track. The train was dashing along at the rate of about forty miles an hour when the child was discovered by Bill and his fireman 200 or 300 yards ahead, as the train rounded a curve. Bill whistled for brakes aud reversed his engine, but there wus no possible chance of stop- ping the train before it reached the child, which did not seem to be aware of its danger. Quick as a cat Jimmy Green drew himself through the cab window and ran out along the guard rail to the pilot. He dropped down flat and leaning over as far as he could, he seized the child as the engine dashed on the spot where it sat. He caught the little one and scooped it clear of the track. The child was saved, but the brave fireman lost his hold in making the effort and fell across the rail and was cub to pieces. George Watking was taken from the brake wheel and promoted to the place which Jimmy sreen’s death made vacant, He got along with the work from the very start as handily as if he had been at the job all his life, but Bill Sandusky said that the atmosphere of the cab chuugcd the minute Watkins set his foot in it. He declared, after the first trip with the new fireman, that Watkins would hoo- doo him suve. *44 feel so queer when he turns those sunken eyes of his on me,” Bill used to say, ‘that I daresen’t stand still under his gaze. If I should stand still,” Bill said,’ ‘believe I'd let my engine push right on,no matter what might happen, if that fireman said the word.” “Bill’s uneasiness under the mysteri- ous influence of the fireman was such that he at last told the superintendent that he was sure something would hap- pen unless the fireman wastaken off. The superintendent laughed at what he called Bil’s foolishness, and Watkins staid on the engin He had fired for Bill a month or so, then the engincer went to the superintendent and told him positively that he must remove Watkins, He couldn’t give any reason that had weight with the boss, and he suid that the fireman must stay, Then Bill told him that his next trip would be his last. He said he would not run another trip with George Watkins. “The Philadelphia & Erie road runs through some very wild country in northwestern Pennsylvania. One of the wildest spots was just west of Kane, in McKean county. The woods are deep and unbroken for miles, and a fel- low passing through them feels as if he ware out of the world. From the first trip that Watkins made with him Bill noticed that in going through that wild streteh the fireman seemed to be seized with terror, and at times he would turn and Bill frequently saw him ouching 4t the side of tne cab and glaring wildly, and his strange eyes seemed to be guzing into vacancy. On the trip that Bill had declared was to be his lust with the new fireman the engi- neer had not been {mying any attention to Watkins until they had entered the wild piece of woods uear Kane and had run some distance through it, Then Bill happened to turn his eyes toward the fireman. Watkins stood against the side of the cab. His eves were staring at the engineer, and Bill's eyes met the queer gaze straight and full, Bill said that instantly he felt a numb sensation run through him like a flash. He tried to take his eyes away from Watliing', but couldn’t do it. Sense of the faet that he was on his engine run- ping the Penusylvania & Erie railway never left him, but there he stood, en- tirely helpless' to Bmove Lis eyes away from Watkins’s. “rmsclllly the fireman turned and looked off into the woods. Withiout power to help it Bili looked in the same divection. He said that he didn’t believe that Watkins saw or noticed hiw, or knew that he was held under that strange influence. The look of terror came to the fireman’s eyes as he gazed, and suddenly tho entire scend was changed as Bill gazed out upon it. Instead of the deep Kane woods the train was glid- ing through a flelifmfiul valley. On one side was a lofty ridge; on the other a level stretch of fertile farm land _was bounded by a line of low woods. Pres- ently the train passed a town—a beauti- ful village, with remarkable growths of willows where the site sloped down to the river. Setting far back in terraced grounds was an old homestead, to which a green lane, on either side of which were thick clumps of willows, Jed from the main road. Beyond, rising back of the trees, was a church spire. As Bill Sandusky gazed in amazement on this transformation, an elderly man, astride of a large horse, rode down the lane toward the village. As he was passing a clump of trees a tall man stepped out from behind a large willow with a gun in his hands, He raised the weapon to his shoulder and fired at the man on the horse. The old man threw up his hands and tumbled to the ground. e murderer fired twice into the pros- trate body of his vietim, and then ran away and disappeared among the wil- lows along the river. Bill said he could not distinguish the features of either the murderer or his victim, but the horror of the scene aroused him. He uttered a cry that startled the fireman, wlo was crouching down in the cab. Watkins sprm\i to an erect position. Bill jumped to his lever and was abont to reverse and call for brakes when the strange scene faded away and the wild Pennsylvania landscape once more stretched away on either side. In a second’s time the fireman was himself again, attending to his cuty as cool as ever. **Was there something on the track?’ he asked. as the engineer dropped he signal cord. ““It was some time before Bill could reply, and then he told Watkins of the extraordinery vision. As he described it his firoman grew paler and paler and became greatly agitated. When Bill came to the scene where the old man was murdered Watking was a picture of terror. He threw up his hands. ““*My God!” he shrieked. ‘There is no escape!’ ; “With these words he sprarg from the cab, and Bill saw him tumble out of sight in the bushes. Thetrain was run- ning thirty miles an hour. Bill brought her to a stop as soon as he could and backed down to where the fireman had jumped off, expecting to find him dead or badly hurt. Not a trace of Watkins could be found except the broken bushes into which he had disappeared. The woods were searched, but the missing fireman was not found. “Of course Bill's story, the singular disappearance of Watkins, and the mys- terious circumstances connected with it, created a great sensation along the line for some time, but the matter was at last forgotten. A month or so afterward Bill Sandusky took a vacation. He went on a trip through Ohio. One day heread in aCin- cinnati paper that a young man named ‘Walters, who had appeared in one of the small Kentucky towns a month be- fore and confessed to having murdered his uncle six years before in that vil- lage and gave himself up to justice, was to be hanged for the crime. Bill San- dusky could never explain the reason why atthe moment he read the item his fireman Watkins, the murder he had seen in his vision, and the fireman’s disappearance, came into his mind and connected themselves with the con- fessed murderer, Walters. Bill found that he could get to the Kentucky town in a few hours by rail, and he jumped on the train and started for the place. As the train approached the place there was no need of the brackeman calling out its name, so far as Bill Sandusky was concerned. There was the valley, there was the river, there stood the hills, the sloping village site, the willows, the church,the old homestead in the terraced ground. There was the green lane down which he had seen the old man riding, and there was the clumpof trees where the assassin had appeared and fired the fatal shots. Bill had no trouble in ob- taining a look at the condemned mur- derer, Walters, in his cell,and of course Walters was Bill’s old fireman, George Watkins, Walters was his right name. He had shot his uncle just as the en- gineer had see the tragedy in his vision that memorable day from his cab win- dow. The murderer had been un entire stranger in the Kentucky town. He had visited his uncle to borrow money and had been refused. That was the sole cause of the murder. “Walters said he had struggled for six years anainst some strange influence that was constantly drawing him back to the scene of his crime and to confes- sion, but feeling that no human being knew of his guilt, he had conquered the influence. He never passed through the dark Kane woods while firing for Bill Sandusky that the whole ne of the tragedy did not rise before him, When that scene was revealed so mys- teriously to the engineer the murderer believed that the terrible secret was no longer hus own. He gave up the strug- gle and went uureuistius]y to his fate, He was hanged three days after Bill visited him, But how can any one ex- plain that queer vision of Bill's?” e The Colonel Was the Boy. At the Hoffman house, New York, the other night, Colonel Tom Ochiltree glecfully told the following story of his last visit to Washington to the New York Graphic: “There was a dinner party at Chamberlain’s, and Senator Hearst of California was there., As cigars were lighted the senator was moved to relate an incident of his earlier experience. There had been a freshet in California, and the senator’s party stood on the banks of a swollen stream, not daring to cross. As they watched the rush of the swollen waters they were startled to be- hold a man drifting down the river on a broken fence. Just opposite them the fence caught on a snag, and the r fellow, already almost exhausted, clung feebly to his support, from which the mighty current threatened instantly to wash him. No help was possible from the party. They had no line with them and it seemed death to plunge in the river. Suddenly a lad appeared on the opposite shore with a rope around his waist. He tied the other end to a stum p and sprang fearlessly into the seething torrent. After incredible struggles he reached the drowning man, and the lad’s companions drew him ashore, The senpator’s voice trembled as he told this story. A tear rau down his cheek and a profound hush fell upon the jovial party, At length the senator said: “‘Gentlemen, I've got more money than I had then, and I give you my word of honor that if I could find that boy I'd give him a ceeck for $10,000. '{‘hcro was a murmur of approval. Not a man doubted the senator's sin- cerity. Colonel Ochiltree slowly arose. His eyes were cast down, His form was as shrinking as possible. He hesitated a moment and then he faltéringly said: *‘Hearst ought not tb mention it, But what you have said embcldens me, old fellow. Noble heart, your hand ! I was that boy !” ——— The fraternal organization, Orderof the Iron Hall, is now growing rapidly. Branches are springing up all over the country. There are now nearly 750 branches instituted, with & mwombership of 81,000 iu good standing. BROWN FA SKELETON. Some Startling Revelations in the Famous F ing Case. A NEBRASKA MAN DISAPPEARS And His Friends Fear Ho Has Been Murdered—Supbrior and Rails ronds—An Idwa Liquor Seller Raided. The Closet Door Opened. Masox Crry, In, May 10.—[Special Tele- gram to Tre Bre.|—Coroner MoFarland has just returned from the scene of the Brown poisoning affair, where he has for the past six days been conducting an examination. It is understood from a reliable source that the jury will return a verdict criminating either Mr. or Mrs, Brown. It has developed during the trial that for several years past there has been considera- ble domestic trouble in the family. During the winter the child that is now dead fell into the river and Mr. Brown and a hired man rushed down to rescue him. When he was taken out of the water he was conveyed to the house and because Mrs. Brown had not assisted in the rescue he said that he would be d—d if he should ever rescue her if sho should fall into the river, She retorted: “Nobody would ever ask you."” Once dur- ing the winter he attempted to frighten her into signing a deed transferring some real estate, and because she would not sign it, he arose in the middle of the night, took down a double barreled shot gun and threatened to blow his brains out. LTrs Brown gives evidence that she believes Brown to be guilty, but the accused protests his innocense, and at the same time_doclares that he would rather suffer than have his wife suffer for the crime. Mr., Brown was once a wealthy farmer, but it is now under- stood that he has of late had considera- ble financial trouble. Evidence of jealousy ‘was given before the coroner's jury. Mrs. Brown also testified that her husband was a hard man to live with, and thatshe was noth- ing worth living for. During the time Mrs, Brown was giving her testimony Mr. Brown crowded to the door and attempted to listen to what she had to say. The constable forced him to go away, whercupon he grew indignant, and declared_he would listen to his wife's testimony. Mr. Brown otherwise conducted himself in a very suspicious man- ner. They have up to this time been living together in the house, and Mrs. Brown has asked the jury to place a man in the house, and her request will be granted. It is thought that matters will develop in a short time and the real perpetrators of the heinous cuime be discovered. et PR They SBuspect the B. & M. Superior, Neb. May 19.—[Special Tele- gram to Tie Bee.|~The Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley right of way ana depot grounds and that of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, which is being purchased jointly by the companies above namea, has all been secured except some half dozen lots belonging to William London, & non-resident grain dealer who has applied to Judge Morris for an injunction with a view to prevent the con- demnation of the ‘property. The business men of Superior are very well satisfied that he is being agsisted in his oppo- sition to the entrance of these two companies into the city by the B. & M. railyway company. Believing this to be true they to-day notified Mr. Holdrege that such actiop on the part of the B. & M. could not but result disastrously to the latter company’s'intérest. A prompt and emphatic denial was i from Mr. Holdrege, but it failed ‘Alrsll sfy the people. Judge Morris’ well known opposition to schemes of this kind on the part of railway corporations against the best interests of the people at large, will certainly make this case'no exception. amigge S Opened the Bids. Lixcony, Neb., May 19.—[Special Tele- gram to Tue Be.)—The board of public lands and buildings held a session this after- noon to open up the bids on the new kitchen and dining room of the deaf and dumb in- stitute at Omaha. The following are the bids, all the bidders being from that cit J. P. Cracy & Co., $10,055; Joha Cully, $17,235; H. Elljacr and James Skow, $11,14 Robbins & Co., $10,011; F'. L. Recves, $11,99 Arthur & Herd, $10,7000. The last named bidders except the steam heating and plumb- ing. The estimate for the building was an even $10,000, and no bia came below 1t No award was made. Selling Liquor on the Sly. Masox Crry, Ta,, May 19.—[Special Tele- gram to Tire Bee.|—Thore is great rejoicing in prohubition circles at Charles City. Last night the sheriff and deputy raided a “dive" operated by Gertig. With considerable difi- culty they secured a bottle which was in the possession of Fertig and after taking up a carpet in the dining room and hfting up a trap door they found two kegs of whisky and three barrels of bottled beer nicely stored away. Bound Over to the District Court. GraxT, Neb, May 19.—|Special Telegram to Tur Bee.]—The trial of the alleged rioters at the February election at this place, was continued in Judge Hastings’ court yesterday and to-day. The three defendants tried were E. J. Devinny, D, Pink and B, F. Smith who were bound over to appear at the dis- trict court, A COrazy Woman Suicides, MasoN Ciry,May 19.—[Special Telegram to Tur Beg, —Alice Wheeler, a demented inmate of the poor house took poison with suicidal intent to-day. She will die, — DOCTOR MARTIN. A Legend of Coot Hill By Laz in New York Mercury. A vivid flash of lightning accompan- ied by a deafening peal of thunder— then darkness and silence, So sharp was the lightning, so loud the thunder, that eyes were blinded and ears dulled. From the tavern, kept by the Widow Wertz, a tongue of flame leaped up. Words passed from honse to house: “The tavern is on fire.” There was a rush of eager men. Soon the fire was out, Then search was made for the widow and her daughter. Both were found id their bedroom senseless. 1 Dr. Martin was called for, but he was away on a professional visit, He came- in a little while, and uynder his treat- ment the widow revived, but the beau- tiful Emma lay dead. “The poor docto#! Tt will break his heart. See how hé looks!” one woman whispered to another. He stooped over the body and his face was weary and aged in, its exsmasiun, while his shoulders. seemed bowed under the wenihl. of many years, Aged and infirm he had suddenly rown, for he had loved the beautiful Jmma Wertz and she had loved him in return, much to the disgustof burly Ben Fluke, a teamster, who stood at the foot of the couch. Ben's grief had no consolation, but Dr. Martin had the solace of love reciprocated. Dr, Martin turned from the couch and tottered from the room without glane- ing at the widow, and munning; *Alas! M{’dau hter! M'y daughter!” en followed him into his room and demanded the meaning of his words, *You loved her, Ben. I kunew it, but she loved me and I could uot pre- vent it.”” Strange words, these, they puzzled Ben sorely, for in his honest "heart he had believed Dr. Martin honorable in secking Emma's love, but he finally oconcluded with the other villagers that Emma’s death had crazed the doctor, Tt was a queer fancy, though, his thinking Emma his child. The Widow Wertzgot well, but she became morose and surly, After her death Dr. Msrfln always roferred to Emma as his daughter, but never spoke of the widow as his wife, Curious neighbors by sly gestures could not get an explanation from him., On all other subjects he was frank and sen- sible; on this he was mysterious and silly. One day a thunderstorm threatened to burst over the village,and the doctor calling for the widow found her hidden between two feather beds. She was much frightened and very nervons. The storm passed over and she was persuaded to come from her hiding. “I never was afraid of lightnin’ till Emmy was killed.” She seemed to have forgotten that she herself had been knocked senseless :ly the flash that had killed her daugh- er. “I saw Lew last by a flash of lightnin’, and it's took Emmy, and I git scared when I see the big thunderclouds with their black faces. I'm fearder of them than a boy is of ghosts.” “Lew Wertz,'" she continued, “my husband, drew crazy Dr. Pyle over the mountain a night jest like that Emmy was killed on. I coaxed Lew not to go, but he wouldn’t listen to me. He jest acted as if he was in_a spell the crazy Dr. Pyle had worked on him and went in spite of me. I watched them by the lightnin’ till they were hid by the woods, and I ain’t seen him since.” The horse came home and the wagon was found in the woods, but since then Lew and the doctor's’ not been And now Emmy’s dead.” 2 ‘‘You look awful like Lew at times, doctor,” she continued. *‘Not as I last seen him, but when he was young an’ came courtin’ me. If sech a thing could be iu this here world I would say you was him made over agin.” The doctor did not laugh asone might think he would do, but said sorrow- fully: “I must be somecody else than myself, for L am always thinking of Emma as my daughter, and not as my promised wife.” ]{‘}foor man, yer out of yer mind,that’s all. “Yes, T am, but whose am T in?" “*Must be poor Lew’s, sence yerthink- in’ Emmy was yer daughter,” “But tell me why Lew took the crazy Dr. Pyle over the mountain on so had a night.” “*Co¥ the doctor said his life depended on it and Lew knowed he’d never git over by hisself, so he drew him, but the wagon never got over, and nobody knoy:'s what became of Lew and the doc- B heard on. ““Was the doctor a stranger to Lew?” *‘Oh, my, no; he boarded with us jest like you do.” “Why didn’t he wait until the storm was over?” ‘““He got crazier’n ever and said he must go. So Lew humored him. It's aller’s been my belief the doctor killed Lew and then run away.” *‘Most likely that is so. How long ago was it?"” ‘‘More’n twelve year.” The clock got ready to strike six and the doctor left the window. He hast- ened to his room, and as the clock was striking he took a dose of black mixture from a vial he carried on his person. *‘So I look like her husbaud at times. Couldn’t have a better disguise, and then this talk about Emma being my daughter deceives them all the more. b some old story on her. No, bet- ter not; that might betray me.” Dr. Martin to all appearances was not more than thirty, but there were times when hi d as if streaked with g were old lines in his fa nkles about the eyes that were much like crows’ feet, and deep grooves in the cheeks that sugge: the furrows years plow. But these were only for thé moment and disappeared 80 quickly that the obs would be inclined to think them imaginary. Two years before this evening he had come to Coot hill and secured a room at the Wertz house, becoming the first resident physician t he village had had sinco the disappearance of Dr. Pyle, almost a dozen years befove. e soon began to pay decided attention to Emma Wertz, a beautiful girl of twenty-six, who had always had many beaux, but fancied none in particular, except per- haps big Ben Blake. She’ soon forgot him when the doctor came. They wore to be married, and twice the day had been set, but for some plausible reason Dr. Martin had asked for a postpone- ment, much to Emma’s chagrin. She was beginning to think of Ben Blake as a means to bring the doctor to his senses when the lightning, apparently so di- rectly concerned with the Wertz tunes, cut short her time for mar and giving in marringe. And now Dr. Martin spoke of Emma us his daughter, while the villagers, even Ben Fluke, pitied him,but they thought themselves ~peculiarly unfortunate to have been inflicted with two crazy phy- sicians in succession, notwithstanding a period of eleven years had intervened between the going of one and the com- ing of the other. About his antecedents Dr. Martin was exceedingly reticent, the shrewdest questioner being unable to obtain any reply thut could receive a positive con- struction. So the villugers were left in doubt as to his earlier carcer, while the successful treatment of two cases of ma- lignant fever firmly established hisvep- utation as a trustworty physician, We left him in hisroom where he was chuckling over an asserted resemblance to Lewis Wertz, and congratulating himself upon having thus a complete disguise as to his own identity. He soon went out to make a professional call,and on his way he muttered: **Alus, my poor daughter! woe is me! my daughter is dead.” Ben Fluke heard him and pitied him from the bottom of his big heart, but when the doctor had gone out of Ben’s hearing he said maliciously,quoting the Widow Wertz: ** ‘It's allers been my belief the doctor killed Lew and ran away.’ “Some women guess well,” he com- mented with a sneering laugh. The next day, between 6 aud 6 in the @ ing, a great commotion arosein the village. It was rumored that Ben Fluke's wagon had come from the quarry with an unusual stone on it, being nothing more or less than a petrified human body. The wagon had stopped in front of the Wertz house, and a crowd of cu- rious men, women and children had surrounded it, Dr, Martin, attracted by the clamor left his room, where he was waiting for the hour of six to strike, and came down stairs, The Widow Wertz appeared at the front door with him, having met him in the dining room. The crowd made room for the doctor and the widow. They approached the wagon together. 5 HMy!"” excluimed the widow, “‘it's the crazy Dr. Pyle, natural us life.” S *That's my opine,” said an old vil- lager. “And I've been thinkin’ all these years he must hev killed Lew, but it seems the other wa Will trouble never cease?” und she began to moan. In the commotion she excited by her ready solution of the disappearance of Dr. Pyle and Lewis Wertz Dr. Martio was overlooked. When attention was again directed to him he was clasping the wagonbed with both hands for sup- port, while his eyes, become glassy in their appearance, were fixed on the stone body. Soon the widow, who had tetired to the house followed by the women of the orowd, rushed to the door and cried out: “*Oh, Dr. Martin, it's past six. Did you take yer med’cine? The doctor, hitherto uninterrupted in his fixed study of petrification, gave a start at her announcoment and reeled 80 that he would have fallen had not Ben Fluke caught him. ‘“Has the clock struck six yet?” he gasped / id Bon, “‘more’n ten minutes ago.” With apparently great effort the doc- tor stood erect, and assumfng a defiant manner startled his hearers h‘)‘r saying; “It’s past six. My death knell has rung. am not Dr. Martin. Iam Lew Wertz.” He censed for a moment, then began azain, speaking as Lew Wertz would have done: “The crazy Dr. Pyle had the 'lixer of life. Iknow’d he had it but didn’t let on. I know’d too, the night he wanted t0 go ’cross the mountain it was fur to @it the bottle filled ata drug store. I made up my mind to git that lixer. So when we got opposite the quarry I caught him by the throatand made tell me what the stuff was make of. He didn’t want to, bus I told him he'd have to or die. He told me over and over again till T got it and the directions for takin’ it in my memory. Then some devil hinted he had fooled me and I jest got mad and killed him, takin’ the risk that I had the right thing. I throwed his body in the quarry and covered it up with stone. Then I hid in the woods for days with the little bottle with ’lixer in it in my pocket. but I didn’t think it much good,else T wouldn’t have killed the doctor. But after a while I got mnear afarmhouse, and when the clock struck six I took some of the ’lixer. Then T begged somethin’ to eat. Next day I took some more ‘lixer and began feelin’ young. 1If the clock had been wrong the stuff wouldn’t have took effect. “I got work there and tool the 'lixer by that clock, windin’ it myself every day. There was enuff 'lixer in the bot- tle to make me feel very voung, but it didn’t make me look young. I soon quit that place and reached the drug store. I must 'a’ changed on the way over the way over the mountain, for the druggist dudn’t know me. He filled the bottle and to this day I've taken it reg’lar, but I've missed once, and now it's no good, and I'm old Lew Wertz again. “‘Most of the time I thought I was Dr. Pyle, livin’under the name of Dr. Mar- tin, but sometimes I know’d I was Lew Wertz all the time. ThenI felt mighty bad, coz I was goin’ to marry my own daughter. Then I put off the weddin’ and made Emmy worry. After Emmy died I lived more of two lives than ever before. I was Lew Wertz whenever I thought of her, but Dr. Pyle the other times. That’s all I've got to tell. You’'d better take me and hang me. I ain’t long to live at best.” ‘‘But the ’lixer,” asked a quavering voice: ‘‘hev yer got it?” ‘*Yes, old man,” Lewis replied, and, taking the vial from his pocket, he broke it on the tire of the wheel, and the black fluid, to possess which he had become a murderer, stained the spokes as it trickled down them and collected in a little pool on the hub. The old man who had asked if Lewis still possessed the elixir staggered to the wheel and dipped his fingers into the fluid and put it to the tip of his tongue. Lewis laughed grimly and said: “That ain’t accordin’ to directions, Job.” Here the widow Wertz appeared at the door of the hotel. She had come for another look at the petrificatiou. Half way she stopped and, utering a cry of horror, buried her face in her hands and turned to flee, but stumbled and fell “It’s me, Jen—Lew. I've come back to die on Emmy’s grave.” Lewis, leaning on Ben Fluke, stood over her, but she would not look up. So Bell was compelled to lift her and carvy her to the house, she moaning and crring the while that she had scen Lewis’ ghost. Ben Fluke, being constable, by virtue of his office, made Wertz his prisoner. There was some talk of lynching the murderer, but Ben refused to give up the criminal. Finally the crowd dis- persed and the village grew quict A little old man struggied to raise a ladder against the Wertz house. Ho got it up part way. Itfwas not yet mid- nightand Ben had uot gone to sleep. He was in Dr. Martin’s room; where Lewis had asked to be tak for the nmight. When he heard the ladder he looked out of the window and then whispered to Lewis that old Job Poters was trying to get into the room. *Tell him that all the ’lixer in the world wouldn’t make him young, for he don’t know the directions fer takin’ 33 Ben deli xd the message to Job, Job, who sneaked away like a detected thief, Then Ben fell asleep. At dawn he woke, Lewis Wertz was gone. The ladder had been pulled up to the win- dow. He had gone out that way. Ben followed and traced his footsteeps from the bottcm of the ladder. They led to the graveyard, There Ben found his prisoners free from the shackles of this world, He lay face downward on Emma's grave. In his hand he grasped a bottle of his elixer. It was a grim sarcasm on efforts to prolong his life. His widow, although bowed down with grief and shameat having been the wife of a murderer, died many years after him. the man’s - Didu't Know Acdam. San Francisco Post: As Artemus Ward was traveling in the cars, ding to be bored, and feeling miscrable, a man approached him, sat down, and said: “Did you hear the last thing on Hor- ace Greeley?” “Greeley? Greeley?” said Artemus. “Horace Greeley! Who is he?” The man was quiet about five minutes. Pretty soon he suid: “George Francis Train is kicking up 2 good deal of a row over in Lngland. Do you think they will put him in # bas- tile?” 3 Francis g ain? Train? George Train?” said Artemus, s olemnly. never heard of him.” This ignorance kept the man quiet for fifteen minutes; then he said: “What do you think about General Grant’s chances for the presidency? Do you think they will run him¥" “Grant? Grant? Haug it man,” said Artemus, **you jappear to know more strangers than any man I ever saw. .’ The man was furious. He walked up the car, but at last came back and said: **You confounded ignoramus, did you ever hear of Adam?"’ Artemus looked u was his other name?” R Pittsburg Royal Arch chapter, No. 268, was constituted last Monday afternoon by Com panion Mathias H. Henderson, M. E. G. high priest, assisted by the grand oflicers. There were fifty-five charter members present, as were also the presiding officers of the four grand bodies in Pennsylvania. and said: “What HE DIED WHILE AT PRA YER. A Startling Incldent of the German Baptist Conference. ) STRICKEN DOWN WITH APOPLEXY, Widening of the Breach Between Methodist and Ministerial Lay Del- egates—Varions Church Con- ventions in the Country. A Sudden Summons. Wanasn, Ind,, May 10.—The first regular service of the German Baptist conference of the United States was held in Hunter's grove, at North Manchester, to-day. About five thousand of the brethren are already on the grounds and the incoming traius on all roads are heavily laden. It is expected that nearly twenty thousand membors of the church will be in attendance by Monday evening. Immediately after the opening sormon in the great tabernacle this afternoon Elder James Guintar, editor of the Gospel Mes- senger, of Huntington, Pa., and president of the normal college at that place, lead in prayer. While upon his knees on the ros- trum in the center of the tent, surrounded by an audience of 8,000 people, ho was suricken with apoplexy and died almost instantly. While praying it was ob- served he grew incohorent, and as he uttered the words: “We are glad to meet again.”’ he expired. Elder Quinter was probably the most pro- minent man in tho church. He was born in Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, in 1516 and entered the ministry at twenty. He was il when he arrived here, and engaged in the service under protest. His remains will be sent to Huntington, Pa., where he has a wife and two daughters. Below is a partial list of the bishops elected for the various districts censtituting the board of management: Northwest Kansas and Colorado, Isanc Studebakor; South Kai sas, Lemuel Hilbry; Northeast Kans: George My North Missouri, C. C. Root; South Towa, J. S, Gable; Middle Towa, A. M. Dickey ; North Towa and Minnosota, Marcus Fowler; North Illinois, J. G. Rogers ana D, Eby ; South Illinois . Lyon, Tne Methodist Conference. New York, May 19.—When Bishop Nind called the general Methodist conference to order it was evident that the breach between the ministerial and lay delegates occasioned yesterday by the recommendations of the committee on ministerial and lay delegates concerning the equalization of representa- tion was widened to-day. When the report of the committee was taken up yesterday the time for adjournment had arrived. A minis- terfal delegate demanded that the vote be taken by orders and the lay men got back ‘at the preachers by calling for the ayes and noes. Dr. Buckley, who yosterday spoke against the adoption of the report, to-day voted in its favor; this brought other ministers who yesterday voted against the report, to vote for its adoption. The result of the change of these votes was that tho roport was adopted. Dr. Hunt then offered amend- ments suggesting the division of the confer- ence into separate houses, which was carried. The conference then took up the order of the day, which was the consideration of the re- port of the committee on_episcopacy on mis- sionary bishoprics. The report’ was a lengthy document and practically settled the much mooted question that a mussionary bishop is a bishop in the true sense of the term. After a lengthy explanation several resolucions concerning this matter wore adopted. After the reading of the greeting from the centennial general aasemqly of the Prosby- terian ehurch reciprocating the greeting of the general conference sent g yesterday, the conference adjourned. p The Northern Presbyterians. Privaverrnia, May 19.—In the general assembly of the Presbyterian church this morning the discussion on the report of the committee on education was resumed. Gov- ernor Beaver, of Pcnnsylvania, read the re- port of the committce on ministerial relief. He spoke warmly in favor of pensions for ministers disqualified by age and long ser- vice, not as charity, but as a recognition of labors in the cause of Christ's church. The supplementary report of of the committee of arrangements for the one hundredth meeting of the generai assembly was read. The state- ment of the treasurer was submitted as a part of the report. 1t showed that so far more than §500,000 had been subscribed. The assembly then adjourned. Two mectings were held after the adjourn- ment. One was under the auspices of the Presbyterian Sunday School Superintend- ent’s association, and the other in_the inter- est of theological education. Both were well attended. The Southern FPresbyterians. BALTIMORE, May 19.—At to-day's session of the general assembly the southern Presby- terian church committee reported favoring a’ stricter observance of the Sabbath day. Chattanooga was chosen as the place for the next general assembly. At the evening ses- sion the tomperance question was referred to a committee which is to report at the next general conference. The hearing of of the case of Rev.D. James Woodrow, of Georgia, was set for Monday. Hels clmrmy with teaching the theory of evolution, A journed. Ol1d Ofticers Re-elected, WasmNGTox, May 19. — The American Baptist publication society to-day unani- mously re-clected the present officers and managers. African Methodists, INDIANAPOLIS, May 19,—In the African M. The follow- Gaines of Georgia, rner of Ohio, I ‘anner of Penn’ ania, amd A, A. ( A Good Story The Washington correspondent of the New York Tribune says he heard a stor; the other duy of Mr. Conkling which if- lustrates that he did not always treat newspaper men unkindly, There is in Washington a cripple who earns a meager living by peddling news among the regular correspondents. In the last presidentinl campuign he saw Mr.Conk- ling at Chamberlain’s and asked him for an interyiew. Mr. Conkling replied with his usual abruptness that he never permitted himself to be intorviewed; that he was out of politics and nothing that he could say would be of vhe slight~ est interest to the publie. *You are mistaken about that, sen- ator,” was the reply of the cripple, *“‘If 1 could 1 good interview with you it would be $25 or $30 in my pocket. Kvery correspondent on the *row’ would buy it of me.” *Do you want to make that amount of Y nator. do, indee was ) the reply. gs are preuty dull in Washington y well,” said Mr. Conkling. I you an interview, although I have not done such a thing for a time, and have frequently declared that I would never talk with a reporter again,” Tuviting the cripple into his room,Mr. Conkling called for a pen and paper and wrote out his views on the political con- tost, which were widely published and attracted a great deal of comment at the time. As he finished he handed the manuseript to the cripple and said: “There is your interview, and I have only two conditions to make, One is that you sell it for the very highest pos- sible price to as many newspapers as possible, and the other is that it be printed exactly as it is written.” i some talk of m’nulln( Grand Jeorge I°. Howard, of the 1. 0. O. F. of Ilingis, Lo resign his position ic the order. 4