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WwWm^wm THE PENDERS [General*® LEON WILSON ,r9 fc- Copyrlgtai, by Lothrop fablUbhn Company. CHAPTER XVIIL--COSTISCKD. 4 rMIJ.brey gasped. Shepler, who com- anantled markets to rise and they rose, or to fall and thdjLJeJJ--Shepler beg- «ing, entreating a child S"f hi*! Despite the soul-sickening tragedy of it, the situation was not withpit its element •of sublimity. "She will consider; she will reflect?" '"You're guessing now, and you're as •keen at that as 1. Avice is not only amazingly self-willed, as you intimated A' moment since, but she is intensely secretive. When she left me I could .get nothing from her whatever. She rsvas wretchedly sullen and taciturn." ?But why should §,he hesitate? Shep- ger--Rulon Shepler! My God! is the agirl crazy? The very idea of hesita­ tion is preposterous!" < "I can't divine her. You know she &as acted perversely in the past. I "mised to think she mig^t have some affair of which we knew nothing-- eomeHung silly and romantic. But if «he had any such thing I'm sure it was ended, and she'd have jumped at •this chance a year ago. You know .yourself she was ready to, marry young fines, and was really / disappointed •when he didn't propose." ' "But this is too serious." He tln- (fcled the little silver hell. "Find out if Miss Avice will be down breakfast." "Yes, sir." "If she's not coming down I shall go «p," declared Mr. Milbrey when the onan had gone. "She's stubborn," cautioned his wife. "Gad! don't I know it?" Jarvis returned. * • "Miss Avice won't be down, sir, and 4'm to fetch her up' a pot of coffee, sir." "Take it at once', and tell her I shall fee up to see her presently." Jarvfs 'vanished. "I think I see a way to put pressure on her, that is if the morning hasn i already brought her back to her eenses." - - -• At four o'clock that afternoon, Avice Idilbrey's ring - brought Mrs. van deist's butler to the door. "Sandon, is Aunt Cornelia at home?" "Yes, Miss Milbrey, she's confined to tier room h'account h'of a cold, miss." "Thank heaven!" "Yes; miss--certainly! will you go ITup to her?" .• "And Mutterchen, dear, it was a reg­ ular bombshell," she concluded after ehe had fluttered some of the Novem tier freshness into' Mrs. Van Geist's xoom, and breathlessly related the facts. "You demented creature! I should cay it must have been," ; ̂ "Now, don't lecture!"- "But Shepler is one of the richest men in New York." "Dad already suspects as much. "And he's kind, he's a big-hearted chap, a man of the world, generous man to speak of her as he did without positive knowledge. NoW please Rive me some tea'and funny JS?t-tle cakes; I'm famished." \ "Speaking of Mr. Bines," said Mrs. van Geist, when the tea had been brought bjrv Sandon, *1 read in the papepfethlg Iporning that he'd taken a party to NtStn^Carolina for the quail shooting, Edai¥^r»ag0 and his wife and that Mr,Sim4^|«fs. Gammer, «ind of course Florence Akemit. Should you have thought she'd marry so soon aft$r, her <^Rvorc^r.^fiey say Bishop .:fpooHfo^|p(, vexed • with, h e r . " V T ' ' 7 J ' # / . "Reallf I^adri't^hM.Ed?' WhW is Florence tirfapgpr' f ' • * • "Mr. BingsJfo-'be surer,,.Where have, r you beent^Tdu^. was. on^M yacht a^tiple %ionth l^st summer-- the^i^iBp'g w^P ; .with h'er--. highly seandalizechaU by thCL; drinking and gayetjr, and rioV tfvery* one's looking for the engagement \o be announced. Hei$, what did I do With that Town, Topics Cousin Clint left? There it is on the tabourejt.. Read the paragraph at the top at ' the £>age." Avice read: I ; ' "An engagement' 'thatvja rumored with uncommon >ersilstenie will put society on the qui vive when it is definitely announced. The man In the -case is the young son of a mining Croesus from Montana, Who has in­ herited the major portion of his fa­ ther's millions and who began to daz­ zle upper Broadway about a year since by the reckless prodigality of his ways. His blonde innamorata is a recent di­ vorcee of high social standing, noted for her sparkling wit <^|jjd an unflag­ ging exuberance of spirits. Th«rlnter- est of the gossips, however, Centers chiefly in the uncle of the lad^, a right reverend presiding over a bishopriq. not a'thousand miles from New York, and in the attitude he will assume toward her contemplated remarriage. At the last Episcopal convention this godly and well-learned gentleman was a ve­ hement supporter of the proposed canon to prohibit absolutely the mar­ riage of divorced persons; and though he stoutly championed his bewitching biece through the infelicities that eventuated in South Dakota, on dit that he is highly Wrought up over her present intentionspqnd has signified unmistakably hi/severest disapproval. Howeverf nous vferrons ee que nous Verrons." "But, Mutterchen, that's only one of those absurd, vulgar things that wretched paper to always printing. could write dozens Of them myself. Tom Banning says they keep one man writing them all the time, out of his own imagination, and then they put them in like raisins lh a cake." "But, my dear, I'm quite sure th's is authentic. I know from Fidelia Oldaker that tne bishop began to cut up about it to Florence, "and Florence defied him. That ancient theory that most gossip is without truth Was ex' ploded long ago. As a matter of fact most gossip,, at least about the people we know, doesn't do half justice to the facts. But, really, I can't see toby he Old- I've " 'A woman fancier,' Fidelia «ker calls him." "My dear, if he fancies you--" "There, you old conservative, lieard all his good points, and my duty lias been written before me in letters of fire. Da! devoted three hours to •writing it this morning, so don't, please, say over any of the moral xdaxims I'm likely to have heard." "But why are you unwilling?" "Because--because I'm wild, I fancy ---just because I don't like the idea of marrying that man. He's such a big. lunny, round head, and positively no -neck--his head just rolls around on 3iis big, pillowy shoulders--and then he gets little right at once, tapers right ^ff to a point with those tiny feet." "It isn't easy to have everything." "It wouldh't be easy to h»ve him, either." Mrs. Van Gelst fixed her niece with 4t sudden IOOK of suspicion. "Has--has that man anything to do with your refusal?" "No--not a thing--I give you my word, auntie. If he had been what J once dreamed he was, no one would *»e asking me to marry him now, but ---do you know what I've decided? "Why, that he is a Joke--that's all-- Just a joke. You needn't think of him, Mutterchen--I don't, except to think it -was funny that he should have im­ pressed me so--he's simply a joke." "I could have told you as much long ago." "Tell me something now. Suppose .Fred marries that Wybert woman." • "It will be a sorry day for Fred." '"Of course! Now see how I'm finned. Dad and the. mater both say •the same now--they're more severe -than I was. Only we were never in :such straits for money. It must be Jiad. So this is the gist of it: f ought -to marry Rulon Shepler in order to .save Fred from a marriage that might ^et us into all sorts of scandal.'^. "Well?" ' "Well, I would do a lot for F*red. -He has faults, hut he's always been ;good to me." "And so?" "And so it's a question whether he quarries a .very certain kind of woman or\ whether I marry a* very- different Jkind of man." , • * "How do you feel?" "For one thing. Fred sha'n't get into -that kind of muss if I can save' him irom it." "Then you'll marry Shepler ?*'- , "I'm still uncertain about Mr. Shep- 3er." ?4 "But you say-r-" •TTes, I kn<fw, but I've reasons for "feeing uncertain. If I told /fou you'd :say they're like the most of/a woman's reasons, mere fond, foolish hopep.rM J won't tell you." ' * • Well, j dear, work it out by your nely if you must. I believe you'll do w fiat's besi fof everybody in the end. I am glad that your father and Margaret take your view of that wom- 4U1.' "I was sur$ she wasn't lights-and I Anew |Cr. Bines was too much of a a " AT THE TOP OF THE PAGlL ' fancied Florence Akemit. \ should have thought he'd want some bit 1W fiuttery." "I dare say you're righfe. about the gossip, I mean--" Miss Milbrey re­ marked when she had finished her tea, and refused the cakes. "I Remember, now, one day when we«^net a^ ' place,' and he seemed so much at homj there. Of coui'se, it must be so. JHow stupid of me to doubt it! Now I must run. Good-by, you old dear, and be good to the cold." "Let me know what you do." "Indeed I shall; you shall * be the first one to. know. My mind id really, you know, almost made up." A week later Mr. and Mrs. Hcrace Milbrey announced in the public prints the engagement of tlieir daughter Avice to Mr. Rulon Shepler. TO CHAPTER XIX. UNCLB „ PETER BINES„ COMES TOWN WITH HIS MAN. One day in December Peter Bines, of Montana City, dropped in on the fam­ ily--caine with his gaunt length cf limb, his kind, brown old face with eyes sparkling shrewdly far back un­ der his grizzled brows, with his rough, resonant, musical voice, the spring of youth in his step, ana the fresh, con­ fident strength of the big hills in his bearing. He brought Billy Brue with him, a person whose exact social status spine of Percival s friends were never able to fix with any desirable certainty. Thus, Percival had prfesented the old man, the morning after his arrival, to no less a person than Herbert Delancey Livingston, with whom he had smoked a cigar of unusual excellence in the cafe of the High tower hotel. "If you fancy that weed, Mr. Bines," said Livingston, graciously, to the old man, "I've a spare couple of hundred I'd like to let jHJa have. The things were sent to me, but I find them .rather stiffish. If your man's about tne j hotel-^nr'gtve him a card to my man, and let him fetch them."* "My man?" queried Uncle Peter, and, si^htinge Billy Brue at that mo- mentrr<'^iy.'ye8, herd's my man, now. Mr^Jrcpe, shake lAnds mfh Mr. Liv­ ingston Biliy, go up to the address he givfes you, and get some of these se-garf, YpuTl relish 'em as -much:- as I do. Now dOift't talk to tiny strait- gei run over, and don't la^e" ̂ pipielf." Lifcfngston had surrendered a wav* erlng and uncertain hand to the warm* reassuring clasp of Mr. B^ue. "He ain't much fur style, Billy Uncle Peter explained when thai person had gone upon his errand, "he ain't a mite gaudy, but he's got friendly feelings." The dazed scion of the Livingstons had thereupon made a conscientious tour of his clubs in a public hansom, solely for the purpose of relating this furious adventure to those beat quali­ fied to marvel-at It. 1 The old man's arrival had been quite unexpected. Not only had he sent no word of ais coming, but he seemed, indeed, not to know what his reasons had been for doinjr a thing jo hnusual. Thought I d just drop 4ii on you all and say 'howdy,' " had been his first aVdwal, which was lucid as far as it went. Later he involved, himself in explanations that were bdtih obscure and conflicting. Once it was that he had felt a sudden great longing for 4tfe life of * «ay city. Tbiti tt was that he would have been content in Montana City, but that he had under­ taken the winter In New York out erf consideration for Billy Brue. "Just think of it," he said to 'Per­ cival, "that poor fellow ain't ever been east of Denver before now. It wa'n't good for him. to be holed up out there in them hills. all his life. He hadn't gdt any chance to improve his mind. "He'd better improve his whiskers flr^t thing he does," suggested Per- ciVW. "He'll' be gold-bricked if he wears 'em tfbrambled that way around this glace.' But in neither of these* explanations did the curious old man impress Per­ cival as being wholly ingenuous^ Then he remarked ^isually one day that he had lately met Higbee, who was on his way to San Francisco. "I only had a few minutes with him While they changed engines at^Green River, but he all -atJout you folks-^what a^ fine' time you was hav- in', yachts and card parties, and all like that. Higbee said a man ought to come to. New York every now and then, jest to keep, from getting rusty." Blfick of this Percival imagined foi a time that he had discovered Uncl« Peter's true rea^pn for descending upon them. Higbee .would have re­ galed him' with wild tales of the New Yortt dissipations, and Uncle Petei had come promptly on to pull hi hi up Percival couhL hear the story as Hig­ bee would wofd it, with the injprovinj moral incident of his own, sou snatched as a brand from the "TtjndeA loin," to live a life of impecunious use fulness in far Chicago. But.^when h» tried to hold this belief, and tV prov« it irom his observations, he was bound to admit its falsity. For Uncle Petei had shown no inclination to act th< part of an evangel from the virtuous, wast He had delivered no homilies, no Warnings as to the fate of people who incontinently "cut loose." H« had evinced not the least sign of an disposition even to criticise. On the contrary, irdeed, he appeared to joy immensely in Perclval's way ol life. He manifested a willingness and a capacity for unbending in boon com panionshlp that were both of them quite amazing to his accomplished grandson. By degrees, and. by virtue of being never at all censorious, h< familiarized himself with the young man's habits and diversions. He lis­ tened delightedly to the tales of hit large gambling losses, o^ the bouts at poker, the fruitless venture in Texas oil land, the disastrous corner in wheat, engineered by Burman, and the uniformly unsuccessful efforts tc "break the bank" In Forty-fourth street. He never tired of hearing whatever adventures Percival chose to relate; and, finding that he really enjoyed them, the young man came tc confide freely in him, and to associate with him without restraint. Uncle Peter begged to be Introduced at the temple of chance, and spent a number of late evenings there with his popular grandson. He also frequently made himself one of the poker coterie and relished keenly the %tock jokes at to his grandson's proneness* to loste "Your pa," he would say, "nevei could learn to stay out of a Jack-pot unless he had Jacks or better; he 4 come in and draw four cards to an ac« any time, and then call it 'hard luck >iWhen he didn't draw out. And he jusl loved straights open in the middle; said anybody could fill th&m that't open at both ends; but, after all ) guess that's the only way to have fur at the game. If a man ain't got th« sperrit to overplay aces-up when he gets 'em, he might as well be clerkin in a bank for all the fun he'll have out of the game." The old man's endurance of late sup- pers and later hours, and his unsus> pected disposition to "cut loose" b» came twin marvels to Percival. Hi could not avoid contrasting this be-' havior with his past, preaching. Aftei a few weeks he was forced to tht charitable conclusion that Uncle Pe­ ter's faculties were failing. The ex­ posure and hardships of the winter be> fore had undoubtedly x impaired hit mental powers. V "I can't make him out," he confided to his mother. "He never wants to gc home nights; he can drink more thae I can without batting an eye, and show up fresher in the morning, anti he behaves like a young fellow, just out of college. I don't know where hi would bring up if he didn't have mt to watch over him." "I think it's just awful--at his tim* of Ufe^ too," said Mrs. Bines. ' (TO BE CONTINUED.) Musical Bed. A native ruler owns a musical bed The weight of the body sets the work* in motion, and it plays half an hour, while sife-sized figures of Grecian maidens at its head and foot fingei stringed instruments. Fans are waved by a concealed motbr, which keepi them- going the^wfroie. .nl^t long. Irish Goods from Japan. j "Erin-gc-Bragh" was fftamped on r cup purchased by a patriotic membe TyloDmel (Tipperary)" Industria aS^d^ttoSr^He was surpris^a^^n ex aminiiiff^the cup to find that it h* Mwa ilnafeitn Jap** 'Hf V TONS OF DYNAMITE BLOWN UP AT JELLICO, TENN. ? PICTURE8 0N LEAVES. How They dn Be Reprcd Green Foliage. Many of the young folks will find amusement and pleasant diversion in making pictures on leaves which may be easily skeletonised, causing the pictures to stand out as shown'In the illustrations. The pqpeaga is» Qxceed-y Huntsman ar^d -boge. ingly simple, and oak, maple or chest­ nut leaves--in fact, leaves from al~ mpst any tree, may be utilized. Press thc leaves for a few days in a book or by some other device to make them smooth and stiff.. When the leaves are ready for skeletonising, cut out of paper the pictures which are to be reproduced, trimming them closely with sharp scissors. Pa«te the pictures on the leaves^ with common flour pacte or mucilageu Before the paste has time to dry lair the leaves, with paper pictures upper­ most, on an ironing" board or other smooth surface on which a cloth has been spread as for ironing. Take a common clothes brush or £ shoe brush and beat the leaves with the bristles. The paper protects the parts of the leaves covered, and the uncovered parts are skeletonized by the beating. When through beating, The Merry Dancer. * • pull off the paper and the pictures will stand out in the leaves as shown In the illustrations. Illustrated papers and magazines An Oriental 8cene. furnish an infinite variety of pictures which may be thus reproduced, and the leaves may be used for ornaments of many kinds. TRICK WITH PAPER BANDS." By Clever Manipulation They Multiply in a Surprising Way* Try this trick with paper bands. Take three strips of paper six inches long and about an inch wide and^ark dotted lines lengthwise down the INVENTOR OF THE STEAMBOAT. A Peep ln% the Life and Achieve­ ments of Robert Fulton. Many people claim for- Robert Ful­ ton the glory of Steamboat invention, byt t&e fact is Fulton only "gathered up the wasted efforts made by inven­ tive men for the past half hundred years," and, adding his own inventive genius, made valuable use of them. But all Inventions, says "the Cleve­ land Leader, have come to us through long process 6f Improvements, and the last inventor who croWns the feeble first efforts with success wins the glory of the achievement for himself. In 1765 Robert Fulton:was born in Pennsylvania. His ^father was an Irishman--a tailor by trade--who emi­ grated Tropj the Emerald isle while Still in his teens to America, the new world so full of promise. In course of time he married a young American woman of English descent. When Robert was only three years of age his father died. As sqgin as the child was old enough he was sent to the^istrict school, where, it lis said, h6 was not "considered a very apt pupil, for Instead of devoting his time to W;» books^ he busied himself in con­ structing ingenious little apparatus, mlieh to the annoyance of hisS_teach- ers and the amusemen rades at books. As the V>y grew his Robert Fulton. die of each.' Paste the two ends of the first pne straight and squarely, as shown in Fig. 1. , Before pasting the second, directs the Boston Herald,$ give the strip a twist, as shown in Fig. 2. The third jStrip you twist be­ fore pasting. Now cut each band along the dotted line, and you will have as a result two separate rings from No. 1, as in Fig. 4; from No. 2, one ring half as wide as the original, but with twice the diameter, as in Fig. 5, and from No. 3,etwo rings linked together, as in Fig. 6. After Information. Dusty--Hev you got any kind of a Job you want done, lady? Lady--i'm sorry, poor man; to have to disappoint you. K Dusty--Dat's all right, lady. I jest wanted ter find out ^if I could take a sleep in de next lot hjere widout befn* worried by Offers of/work.--Brooklyn Eagkx [ Explorer WV« Farm Boy. Capt. Sverdrup, the Arctic explorer' who recently adde^ l«0,a00 square miles of ice to thife king of Sweden's doi#nions, spent his boyhood days on a forest farki. talent for art became pronounced, and he developed considerable ability with hlB pencil, achieving quite a good deal of success as an artist later in life. He was undoubtedly a most ener­ getic and Industrious boy, for at the age of 21 he had succeeded in saving from his earnings enough money to buy a little farm for his widowed mother, which would Insure her a mod­ est living. Then did the young art enthusiast satisfy his great desire. He went abroad to study under the direction of Benjamin West, who, like Fulton, was a Pennsylvanian, and who at that time was enjoying a weli-deserved celebrity in Europe. But Robert Fulton soon gave up the study of art for that of civil engineer. It was at about this time that the young man conceived the idea that steam could be used as a motor for the propelling of v<»-selB. To the Earl of Stanhope he wrote in 1793, laying forth his plan. The earl's answer Is given below, valuable for the fact that It proves the date when Robert Fulton gave his atten tion to steam: "Sir: I have received yours of the 30th of September, in which you pro­ pose to communlcatp i.o me the prln ciples of an invention which you say you have discovered respecting the moving of ships by steam. I shall be glad to receive the communication, which you intend, as I have made the principles of mechanics my particular study." In 1801 Fulton had brought his sub­ marine boat to a state of perfection, according to a report made by the French government, which has not since been equaled. TWELVE PERSONS KILLED -Property Loss Estimated at $500^000 --Carelfssness of Two Me^i Re- , suits in the Awful Dis­ aster. • < '» iLLiiiuiS STATESMAN OiES CONGRESSMAN HITT pi ' •' a- Mm AY IN' THE. EAST* * ? Heart Disease Ends Long Period •£ ill Health--His Long and Varied Career. Jellico, Tenn.--Twelve deaths, the injuring of scores of "other persons and $500,000 damage* to property were caused here Friday when a carload of dynamite standing* o» a track near the Southerly depot exploded with a report that was heard for 20 miles. There is a bare possibility that oth­ er bodies may be recovered from the ruins of buildings, but this is hardly probable. Buildings were shattered in the business section of the town and nearly every piece of gfyss within a radius of one mil<s of the scene was broken.' « The explosion occurred at eight o'clock Friday morning. The freight car, belonging to the Pennsylvania railroad lines, contained 450 boxes, about 20,000 pounds, of high explo- sixes consigned to the Rand Powder company, %t Clearfield, Tenn. Near the scene of the explosion there was ruin and Wild panic* ' Men, shrieked and groaned as they died. Buildings tumbled to the ground, and a large part of the business district of the city was reduced to a pile of rubbish. From beneath the wreckage -Tnen and women, maimed and bleed­ ing, struggled into the streets and fled *at a mad pace, without stopping to ascertain the nature of,, the disas­ ter. Two causes are assigned for the ei- plosion. One is that three parties were, shooting at' a mark on the car and that a bullet entered the car and caused the explosion. The other is that while the car was standing on a side track a carload of pig iron was switched against it and that the im­ pact caused the explosion, Without exception every business house in the town is either totally wrecked or badly damaged. The union depot of the Southern railway and the Louisville & Nashvjlle rail­ road, located about one hundred yards from the scene of the explosion, was shattered to splinters. This cut off all telegraphic communication and news of the explosion was handled by telephone. The explosion occurred upon the Kentucky side of Jellico, and in consequence every house on that side of the town is wrecked. Not one was spared. A targe number of resi­ dences located near the railroad on the Kentucky side were without ex­ ception demolished. As/, a result It is estimated that one-seventh of the pop­ ulation of the two Jellicos Is home­ less. The line between Tennessee and Kentucky runs through the town of Jellico. The explosion occurred on the Kentucky sldov but owing to the interruption of wire communication, the dispatch telling of the accident was sent from Jellico, Tenn. Narragansett Pier, R. I.- man Robert Roberts Hitt, of died at his summer home here, after a long illness. v ' Congressman Hitt came here last 'June, and since that time he has been ill, requiring, most of the time, the constant attention of nurses and physicians. ( The congressman's condition was due to advancing years. He was 72 years old. < 111 health, continuing through^ two years at least, which, for the * moat part, unfitted him for his congression­ al duties# had afflicted Representative Hitt so that his demise was not alto­ gether unexpected. In fact, the great- 8AGE WILL CASE COMPROMISED. Where Paper Came From. Long years ago a little, thin Japan­ ese gentleman walked through his pretty garden to his home; his hands were clasped behind his back and he was thinking, as he crossed the bridge to pluck a fresh wistaria blos­ som that hung just over ' his head. This little gentleman had a great many "parcels to send out fromc-his shop every week and he bad always wrapped them in jsllk; but this was an expensive material and he wanted something cheaper for his purpose. All at once a wasp came lilting toward him, but he thrust it away that it might-not nip his nose, and lo! there at his hand was a wasp's nest! My, but he came very near angering the whole family! Think, then, what he might have suffered from these sting- e'rs, for days to come! What a shape­ ly nest they had made, now he came to think of it. It was so strong, too. It was made of thin wood pulp, soft­ ened into a thin paste, by thte jaws of the insect, then formdA^tfrfd left to dry. * "Why can't I do that same thing?" (.thought the Japanese merchant to himself. "Get certain wood, form it .into a pulp by means o^ water from the rfVer near by, and make something like this wasps' nest in consistency, to wrap about my packages." So this was the way paper was first discov­ ered: ' An .innocent wasp flew across the path of a gentleman who walked one day in a vine-clad garden in old Japan. •' Babe Born' In Death Cell. • Frau Bloemers, of Derendorf, Ger­ many, who recently gave birth to a son in a prison cell while awaiting execution of her death sentence for complicity in the murder of a military officer in Glad bach, was refused par­ don. The courts decreed that, she- should nurse her child for eight weeks. The baby was then placed in an or­ phan asylum and the mother decapi­ tated. Moisture Affects Speed cf Burets. A bullet which was Area by a charge sufficient to give it an initial velocity l-"l,70C feet a s.econd in dr* weathrr wculd travel no more V Ul 1,300 feet through mc 1st cir. Heirs to Get Double Amount of Their Legacies. New York.--The will of Russell Sage was presented to the sur» rogate Friday, and proved without contest. Counsel lor the executor an­ nounced that Mrs. Sage intends to give to each of Mr. Sage's relatives who are beneficiaries under the will an additional sum equal to the amount of his or her legacy, provided there is no contest. This was accepted as satisfactory by Senator Edgar T. Brackett, of Saratoga, who was in this city preparing to contest the will in behalf of Edson M. Coonrad, of Watervllet, N. Y., a grandson of one of Mr. Sage's sisters. Under this set­ tlement Coonrad will receive $12,500, instead of $6,250, and each of the 26 nephews and nieces of Mr. Gage who were to receive $25,000, will be given $50,000. DECLARED GtftLTY OF PEONAGE Robert R. Hitt. er part of the work of the Important committee on foreign affairs of the house of representatives, of which Mr. Hitt was chairman during the entire last session of the last congress, wss discharged first by Representative Robert Adams, of Pennsylvania, up to the tfme of his tragic death last spring, and afterwards by Representa­ tive Cousins, of Iowa; Charles Landis, of Indiana, and Perkins, of New York. Mr. Hitt's career was a varied one. embracing newspaper work, diplomacy and legislation. As a young man he was intimately associated with Abra­ ham Lincoln, and as an expert stenog­ rapher reported many of that states­ man's utterances'in the greafc? jolrit campaign with Stephen A. Douglas, as a" representative of a Chicago news­ paper. His diplomatic career began in 1874 as secretary of legation to Paris, and in 1881 he went to Wash- inton as assistant secretary of state. The year following he was elected to the Forty-seventh congress from the Thirteenth Illinois district, and be was serving his thirteenth continuous term at the time of his death. •J SAVES; OWN LIFE; IS FINED* Judge Imposes Prison Terms and Heavy Fiqes on Defendants. Cape Girardeau, Mo.--The Jury lb the Smith case Friday returned a ver­ dict of guilty against Charles M. Smith and Charles M. Smith,• Jr., and the five tenants of their farms on the eleventh count In the peonage case. Judge Pollock pronounced sentences as follows: Charles M. Smith, three years and six months in the peniten­ tiary at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., and a fine of $5,000 and costs; Charles M. Smith, Jr., two years in the peniten­ tiary and a fine of $5,000 and costs; Ben Stone and Ben Fields, each one year and six months and $100 fine; W. Lee Rogers and William Woods, each two years and six months, and $100 fine; Floyd woods, two years and six months and $100 fine. Twelve Known to Be Dead. London.--Twelve persons are known to be dead and 17 were injured in the wreck^of the Scotch express bn the Great Northern railway at Grantham. It Was stated that there are other bodies under the wreck. ^ Thieves Invade Bavarian Mint. Munich---The Bavarian mint was robbed of $32,500 in newly coined ten- mark pieces. The thieves got into the ini^l by creeping through a dry underground canal which, had been o p e n e d f o r c l e a n i n g . . Connecticut Man Punished for Killing ^ Adder on Sabbath Day. New York. -- A Danbury (Conn.) diBpatch gives an example of the workings of the Connecticut blue laws. Peter Zarcone, 18 years of age. while walking through a swamp on his father's farm Sunday was attacked by an adder. He had a shotgun with him and shot and killed the reptile. A policeman heard the report of the gun and arrested the young farmer. When Zarcone was arraigned before Judge Scott he was fined $10 and costs. The judge said that he had no doubt from the nature of the evidence before him that the prisoner had used his gun only to protect himself against the snake, but the laws of the state made it a crime even to carry a gun in the open air on Sunday and conse­ quently he had no discretion under the law and was obliged to punish him for carrying his weapon across the farm. The judge arraigned the law severe­ ly and suggested that it be brought to the attention of the general bly for amendment or repeal. LINCOLN CONSPIRATOR IS Min Who Aided in Plot to Abduc« President Passes Away. Baltimore, Md. -- Samuel Bland Arnold, who confessed hthat he was a party to the conspiracy to ab­ duct President Lincoln, which culmin­ ated in the assassination of the presi­ dent by John Wilkes Booth, died M- day at the home of a relative in Waverly, a suburb of this city. He was 72 years of age. Arnoli}, with three others, was sen­ tenced in July, 1805, to life Imprison­ ment at the Dry Tortugas. All* four were pardoned by President Johnson in 1869. our Law Extended. Oyster >Bay.--President Roosevelt Wednesd«ty extended the eight- hour law to apply to all public work^under the supervision of any de­ partment of the government. This or­ der affects more particularly work on river and harbor improvements. Bennington Boiler to Aid Students. Vsillejo, Cal.--The boiler which ex­ ploded on board the gunboat Benning­ ton in San Diego harbor in June. 1905, is to be shipped to Annapolis for illus­ trative purposes in the Instruction of midshipmen for engineering work. To War for ftaoe Millions. New YorK.--a contest ror the mil­ lions of Russell Sage, who died last Friday. Senator Edgar T. Brackett will file the papers. He will act for several ef Utu Sage relatives. Four Killed In Collision. St. Paul, Minn.--In a Great North­ ern railroad rear-end freight collision at Cut Bank, Mont., two stockmen, whose names have not been reported. Roadmaster Dinton and Rrakenian Critchell were killed. Irrigation Project Und?r Way. Phoenix. Ariz.--Supervising Archi­ tect Hill has laid the^corner stone of the Roosevelt storage dam, an im- nic$se rock weighing six tons. Thin is the beginning of real construction of the enterprise. " ^ -- 1 ----y Death of Empress Denied. Brussels.--The rumored death Carlotta. widow of Emperor Maxipll* , ian, ia*without foundation. Although ehe has made no improvement wental- TyHtier health otherwise is excel- ienA i ,- ' FJ Membk of Dental Board Deed, il Dental Board Streator, 111.--Dr. Charles R. Taylor, member of the. state board of denfesl July, will begin iu the local courtA.^**®1'1101^ an<* one most pross-j ineut numbers of the profession Illinois, died at his home Thursday (uorning Croat typhoid i