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oxwat OT THE BUIU3ER3 OPXHE WfiSX. uu% I 8YNOP8I8. Th« story opens during a trip of the "Overland Mail" through the Rock> mountains. "Uncle Billy" Dodge, stage driver, Alfred Vincent, a young man, and Phineas Cadwallader, Introduced. They come across the remains ot a massacre. Later at Anthony's station they find the. redskins have carried their destructive work there also. Stella Anthony, daugh­ ter of Anthony, keeper of station, is in­ troduced. Anthony has been killed, Vincent is assigned his work in unearth­ ing plans of enemies of railroad being built. Vincent visits town where railroad men are working oh the road and* receives token of esteem from Stella. The old stage driver decides to work close to town in order that he may be able to keep fatherly watch over the young waaftan. She is engaged as & tutor for Viola Bernard, daughter of hotel land­ lady. Vincent visits society circles of en, emies of the Central Pacific Railroad ana learns their secrets. He returns to Stella, each showing signs of love for the other. IPhineas Cadwallader, pushing a railroad Opposing Central Pacific, reaches mining town. She writes to Alfred Vincent his •boast. Stella hears from her lover, •Gideon, and of his phenomenal success. Finds letter of Importance Involving plans of opposition road. Plot to destroy company's ship Flora is unearthed and Incriminating evidence against Cadwalla­ der found. Phineas Cadwallader faces prison on charge of wire tapping. A per­ fect chain of evidence connects him with f ilot to blow up "Flora." Stella and Ai­red show love for each other despite hostility of Gideon. In showing Miss Hamilton, a niece of a railroad official, about the camp, Alfred somewhat neg­ lects Stella, who shows pain at treat­ ment. Banquet in railroad town is scene of more monopolization of Alfred by Miss Hamilton, with determination on Stella's part to change her temperament. Alfred writes passionately to Stella, decrying the attention which he was compelled to give Miss Hamilton. Mrs. "Sally" Ber­ nard announces riches. Gideon makes threat against Alfred's life. Quickly leaves town on best procurable horse in search of Vincent. Race to beat opposi­ tion company's stage a success. Stella fails to hear of Gideon. Stella receives a letter: "Promise to marry Gideon In­ gram or Alfred Vincent will die." After conference Stella decides to flee. Years pass. Stella becomes known as Esther Anthony, becomes a rich woman, edu­ cates herself at Vassar and steps into highest San Francisco "society. Kidnap­ ing changes Alfred greatly and when tie and Stella meet in 'Frisco society, she Ttasses him without recognition. Stella's ove for Alfred and his for her is revived. However, neither shows recognition of the fact to the other. Stella visits Mrs. Sally Bernard, now in top notch society and wealthy, being known as Mrs. Lang- Bernard. Viola finds it impossible to forget love for Alvin, her sweetheart of the railroad town. CHAPTER XXVI. Gideon's Story. Between the social gardens of Sac­ ramento and San Francisco Amabel flitted, gathering the honeydew she fed upon. When Esther met her she was as gay with one cavalier as with another, until Alfred appeared. He was never her escort; yet if he came to party or theater she claimed him at once. Esther became convinced that the barrier that had once separated herself from Alfred now existed be­ tween him and Amabel; that for Ama­ bel's sake he insisted on her perfect freedom in the eyes of society. This conviction did not bring tranquillity; and Esther asked herself bitterly, why, in all the throng that followed her, there was not some brave and honest soul that could dislodge Alfred from her heart. As the winter waned she found herself very weary of the mo­ notonous round, of the days and nights that loomed before her, stretching to blank, gray years. And when the warm sunshine adorned the hills with rioting bloom, more and more she spent solitary hours on the road with her smart team, her most conspicuous extravagance. "Valentine's day," she mused this, morning, as she leaned out of the open window to the brilliant, close-bending sun of California. Fuchsia and nastur­ tium vied with perfumed heliotrope and jasmine in the long climb up the houseside; but purple and white won through their fragrance, and she gathered a feathery cluster for her belt. She met her housekeeper in the dining room, and looked over the at­ tractive heap brought by mail and messenger; valentines of the old lace paper sort, hiding tiny mirrors and ar­ dent poetical requests to "look on my fair;" flowers, books, gems which she would never accept--all the what-not of sentimental Valentine's day 40 years ago. One offering charmed her. It was a golden arrow of delicate Mex­ ican filigree, light, graceful, wonder­ fully brilliant, a brilliance Esther did mot at first discover as coming from many tiny diamonds, each hardly larger than a pinpoint, set very close­ ly together. "How exquisite!" exclaimed Mrs. Brockett, who was friend as well as housekeeper. "I never saw anything like it. For your hair, isn't it?" She took it from Esther and shot it through her big brown coil, the feathered end standing high, the pointed shaft shin­ ing just back of her ear. "It's the most beautiful ornament you have. Won't you keep It?" "I see no way to return It," Esther said, searching wrappers and box for a clew to the sender. "There isn't * word, a letter--not even the merch­ ant's name on the box. How did It -come?" "The Chinaman said a small boy brought it this morning before seven •o'clock," Mrs. Brockett replied, as she left the room. The trinkets did not Interest Esther. She took up her paper Instead. At the first glance she cried out. "Gideon Ingram Anthony--His Ro­ mance!" were the first words she saw. She stared uncomprehendingly for a moment, then read on feverishly. It was a strange tale, pieced together from many sourceB, and confirmed by appended interviews with several "old­ est settlers:" "The story of Gideon Ingram, of the well-known freighters, Ingram, Finn & Gould, reads like one of Mrs. South- worth's novels; yet it is only one of the many dramas resulting from the clash of Latin and Anglo-Saxon in California. "In the early *40s a young New Eng­ land teacher, William Anthony by name, sea-voyaging for his health, •dropped into Monterey out of curloai- ty, and remained, entranced by the climate and bewitched by a pair of beautiful Spanish eyes. Influential letters opened the best doors of the capital to him; and his own fine per­ sonality soon won him popularity. Lolita, the spoiled and only child of Senor Hernando Guerrero, heiress to half a, county and the toast of the town, ffell In love with the young Puri­ tan, a ?love he returned as ardently as any swain of her own people. Those who know the Monterey of that day say that the blood of a prairie princess mingled with the blue Andalusian of the Giferreros in Ix>lita's veins. Whether true or not, she had the im- periousness of a dozen royal maidens; and overriding all objections, she set a wedding day less than two months after the pair first met. "Meantime the groom's brother, a lively young officer of a Boston merchantman, hove into port a week before the nuptials, with a budget of news and an appetite for diversion. With characteristic reserve the elder brother did not at once confide his secret, and thereof came the mischief. The young man was caught in the twinkling of two eyes--Lolita's eyes-- league-long ranchoa under Mexican rule. William Anthony came west with the first rush, found and claimed his nephew, mined, traded and grew enormously wealthy; though he lived always in the wilds, visiting cities only as compelled. "On the bleak side of a Washoe mountain he built a palace, the won­ der of the decade; sent for his daugh­ ter, and reared the two children In an isolated luxury that was the source of many Aladdin-like tales. But failure came, removal, wandering; and the Anthonys were lost to the world that had known them. Later the father was killed by Indians; and the chil­ dren, by this time man and woman grown, drifted, unknown and unknow­ ing, into the heedless stream of hu­ manity. "The sequel proves that William Anthony never forgave his brother; for the boy grew up as a dependent, called only Gideon Ingram, and never knowing his right to his uncle's name. Senor Guerrero died some years ago, willing his estate to his grandson and providing for a search for him. Yet It is probable he would have remained undiscovered had not the agents pur­ chasing right of way for the Southern Pacific Railroad company needed his signature. His identity was discov­ ered some time ago, but his story is now for the first time made public." Here followed the interviews. "My cousin! Oh, he's my cousin!" Like an open book Esther read many things that had puzzled her--her fa­ ther's contradictions, his gloom, his reserves; Gideon, tender, cruel, con­ stant, vengeful; a passion, a flame; conquering, yet ever defeated. Poor Gideon! Esther dreamed over the strange tale till she was reminded of her team, waiting as she had ordered, and restless. "I'll drive at once," she said, He Was Haggard and Thin. and by way of trading on the capital his brother had made, told her, in the poor Spanish he could command and in the scant English she could compre­ hend, the story of his life, home and friends, a story that included a certain delicate maiden, his brother's be­ trothed, who embroidered intermin­ ably upon her trousseau and wept be­ cause her lover came not. "The fiery beauty carried the situa­ tion with a high hand. More than one gallant Spanish dandy assisted Senor Guerrero in escorting William An­ thony out of town. And from that hour the younger man was swept for­ ward by an amorous exchantment so adroitly exercised, so imperious, that had his heart not acquiesced he could hardly have escaped standing at the altar in his brother's place and taking to wifei the woman who was to have been his sister-in-law. The spell she wove was deep and lasting. He loved her, endured her hasty temper, for­ gave the love she still bore his brother (though she called It hate), and died a heart-broken man when, two years later, the birth of their child cost her life. The last written word of the young husband was a plea to his broth­ er for forgiveness and a request that Lolita's child, Gideon Ingram Anthony, might find a second father in his uncle. "But William Anthony, melancholy, resentful, was wandering over the un­ peopled wastes of Alta California, vainly seeking relief from a sore heart. And Gideon's grandfather, not trying very hard, it is suspected, failed to trace the baby's uncle. Letters from New England found him, however; told him that the faithful woman of his early love was slowly fading away. Conscience-stricken, he hastened back, married her, tried devotedly and with apparent success to nurse her to health, but buried her one year after their only child was born." "Oh, my poor, poor mother!" Esther moaned. "No wonder you are so sad!" She drew the locket from beneath her dress and gazed a moment on the pic­ tured face. Alfred's ring still hUng on the chain, and she pressed it to her lips before hiding it again. "Like mother, like child!" she whispered scornfully. "Both foolish!" With a sigh she took up the paper and read on: "Then came from Sutter's Fort the cry of 'Gold! gold!'that peopled California and swept away forever the dreamy, pastoral days of hidalgo, fandango and and hastily prepared, eager for the out-of-doors, for motion. She was taking up the reins when a card was brought her--Gideon's. She started back and would not touch it, till penciled words caught her eye. "Stella, I have wronged you; but if you have read the morning paper you know how your father wronged me. Blood makes us cousins. I must see you a moment, must a little atone." How could she see him? Yet she must. Childhood memories, the in­ justice he had suffered, his sorrows, all pleaded for him. Yet not in the narrow closeness of a room. It would be easier out In the open, away from her own house. "Tell him I'm driving," she said to the maid. "Ask him to step to the front door." Esther drove around the house to find him standing, bareheaded, on the graveled road. He was haggard and thin, his shoulders stooped, his eyes gloomy. His clothes were handsome and well made; but they had a bor­ rowed, misfitting look, that was piti­ ful to Esther. He did not speak, but stood waiting, slightly bent, only his somber eyes pleading. "Will you drive with me, Gideon ?" she asked quietly. Without a word he pat on hie hat and stepped in beside her, tucking the robe carefully about her. Every move­ ment had a gentle deprecation foreign to the Gideon she had kuowu. The team was restive, the streets crowded; and she could do no more than drive until a mile or more of hills had taken the first mettle out of her horses. When they were on the road, fol­ lowing the shimmering bay shore around Fort Point to the sea, the plangent waves at their feet, the salt air blowing clean upon them, the vast farness of blue ocean sweeping away petty thoughts, bringing eternal veri­ ties--there Gideon and Esther found a common meeting ground. Gideon freed her from her promise and would have explained, but she ob­ jected. "It's past, Gideon. Alfred is safe, well. Let me forget what I know, hear no more." Her heart bounded, yet was leaden again. Freedom had come too late. Alfred no longer loved her. "Yes, one thing I would know. Did Phineas Cadwallader have anything to do with Alfred's---capture?" "No." "What makes him hate Alfred, then?" "He hates him on more than one score. Vincent knows soine important secret of his, and Vincent has also caught Cad in one or two tricks against the company. Cad's afraid he'll b3 reported. Besides all this. Cad was the last man seen with Vincent before he disappeared; and if the case is ever investigated Cad'll have hard work to clear himself." "Were you--? Did any one find out --? Why were you not arrested?" "There was not a Bcrap of evidence against me. My alibi was perfect." Esther was long silent. Gideon looked out to sea, and waited. "Have you told any one?" she asked finally. "You--you had the thing done, if you didn't do it yourself, didn't you?" "Yes. And I--I've told no one--must not." "Must not?"' she questioned wonder- ingly. She knew he did not lack courage. "Drag you into such a foul compli­ cation--the trial, your heart's secrets exposed, prison! To be sure, I didn't think of that three years ago. Now you are my cousin--my name yours--" "But justice," she began, as he halted. "Ought respect for a name to stand in the way of that?" "I've thought of that. But Vincent is free, as well in health as ever; no trouble or disgrace attaches; and he's better off in pocket than if he had not suffered from me, for I've been able to throw a thing or two his way. There are the lost years, and--and you. Do you think at this late day it would please him if I dragged your name before the public? Wouldn't that rather distress him?" "On account of his own name, per­ haps; he cares nothing for mine." She was thinking of Amabel's face as she had waltzed by her the night before, looking into Alfred's eyes. "Of course! I knew that always," Gideon said dully, and gazed seaward. On the veranda of the old Cliff house they stopped as does the tourist of to­ day to watch the endless flip-flop of wet, glistening seals clambering the gray rocks only to drop into the sea again. The same brilliant, limitless panorama unfolded westward then as to-day--beetling cliffs, the sapphire sky, white, fantastic clouds, twin green promontories guarding the Golden Gate, the misty, enchanted Farallones, the eternal roar of the surf. But na­ ture then was all unsubdued. They lingered a little, both silent, Gideon nearer content than for years. "Where have you been this long, long time, Gideon?" Esther asked on their way back to the city. "Many places. Twice I went to Poughkeepsie. I saw you, though you didn't know it; saw that you were well and happy." "Gideon!" Esther exclaimed, aston­ ished. "I've grldlroned Nevada an^l Utah deserts looking for gold, and for wagon routes; and have found both. The last few months I've spent between San Francisco and the ranch. I've seen you often, Stella." He looked at her wistfully. "Seen me?" "Yes, in theaters, on the street, wherever society notes in the gapers gave me a clew to your goings." "And you never came--never spoke "No. I knew you could not marry Vincent. He loves Charley Crocker's niece. As long as I was silent it--it seemed-- I love* you, Star, Just the same; no, a thousand times more!" he went on despondently, using uncon­ sciously the old familiar name. "But you need not fear me. I shall never trouble you after this. We're--we're cousins, yes, more like brother and sister; and I'm unfit--" His sentence went unfinished. They were nearing Esther's home. "What are your plans, Gideon?" "To see the finish of the railroad, then sell out my holdings and go to my ranch." (TO BE CONTINUED.) Hard Life of Bachelor Seal Has Nothing Like So Good a as Human Counterpart. Time "This skin," said the furrier, "came from a young seal bachelor, a youth ignorant of love and of life." "How do you know?" the lady asked. "By its fineness, its perfection," he replied. "The pile, you will note, is like closecut velvet. Only bachelor sealskin's have such a pile. "The bachelor seal," he went on, "has a rather sad life. The big bull seals in the seal islands have each a household of 16 or 20 wives, but the young bachelors must herd by themselves. Let one of them attempt to marry, and straightway a bull slays him. Not till he is big enough to fight and conquer a bull--not till he is 14 or 15 years old--can he know the de­ light of settling down in a home of his own. "He is not like the human bachelor, the favorite of the chorus girls, the reveler in all sorts of club luxuries; but he, leads a hard, ascetic, celibate life; only in the end, as like as not, to make a lady a very fine coat. All the very fine coats, I repeat, are made from the unhappy bachelor seals." Daniel Up to Date. Jimmy, aged five, was told the story of Daniel In the lionB' den, by his grandmother. When she had fin­ ished the story she asked Jimmy what he thought Daniel did the very first thing when he found he was saved from the lions?" "Oh, I guess he telephoned home to, his wife to tell her he was all right," answered Jimmy." JUULRg 9 9 9 9 9 9.9.9.9 9 9 9 ,g.9J_0JLgJU»LB g g g g g O P O O O O Q O O Q P O O Q Q Q °JUL s State Capital News g B r e e z y G o s s i p , N o t e s a n d Doftntfa of interest at Springfield. fsnnnnnrg a &6 6Tnrrir5TSTVTrmT6mi°6 6 a a B o a 6 o o a a a a a a m r a Springfield.--The Illinois Manufac­ turers' association unexpectedly with­ drew all opposition to the new uni­ form bill of lading, and has issued a circular asking all shippers to use it. This action was taken unexpectedly and came close upon a verbal notice by the association to some of the eastern trunk lines that the shippers belonging to the association would de­ mand a receipt with carrier's common law liability. The association started the movement three years ago when the eastern roads endeavored to force the shippers to pay 20 per cent, extra if goods were to be taken at carrier's risk. A petition was filed with the interstate commerce commission, which resulted in the appointment of committees by the railroads and the shippers and many subsequent con­ ferences. The present bill of lading was finally agreed to and was sub­ mitted to the commission, which in turn approved it. It represented the best that the shippers could get from the railroads at that time. Later the western roads gave the shippers a great deal more than Is given ley the uniform bill of lading adopted in the eastern territory. This made many of the shippers in the association dis­ satisfied with their bargain and there was talk of repudiating the agree­ ment. The National Industrial Traf­ fic league, however, refuses to indorse the new bill owing to the ten per cent, additional rate which it pro­ vides if the goods are shipped without the shipper signing the bill of lading. In his circular letter Secretary John M. Glenn of the Illinois Manufactur­ ers' association says: 'The associa­ tion's committee believes that the great advantages gained warrant it in appealing to shippers for their co­ operation in putting it into effect. It is the result of the best thought and effort we could command, supported by able legal advice and by the bank­ ers of the country who are interested in safeguarding the negotiable feature of the bill. It is a safe bill of lading and every shipper is urged to use it in forwarding freight." State Board of Agriculture Elects. The Illinois State Board of Agricul­ ture met at the fair grounds and elect­ ed John M. Crebs of Carmi president to succeed J. K. Dickerson of Spring­ field. Members of the board were elected as follows: C. F. Dike, Nun- da; A. J. Lovejoy, Roscoe; J. E. Tag- gart, Ridott; E. David, Aledo; James K. Hopkins, Princeton; Lafayette Funk, Shirley; J. A. Cunnningham, Hoopeston; J. T. Montgomery, Charleston; A. O. Auten, Jerseyville; C. M. Woods, Springfield; John S. Culp, Bethalto; Joab Doodall, Marion; Thomas S. Marshall, Twenty-third district; Martin Conrad, C. E. Randall, Ira McCord, James Brown, Robert Dwyer, F. M. Blount, J. J. McComb, Louis F. Wilk, J. E. Rehm, M. Davis, John W. Shaw, Saline; Geeorge A. An­ thony, Kewanee. Ex-Captives to Meet. The Illinois Association of Union Ex-Prisoners of War will meet at White Hall on October SI and 22. The association comprises the Illinois sur vlvors of southern prison life during the civtt War, and the coming meeting promises to be of common interest over the state. Unusual importance is attached to this year's gathering from the fact that Gov. Deneen has just announced the appointment of a commission for the erection of a mon­ ument at Andersonville, fof tyfaich the last legislature appropriated $15,000. The commission will soon organise to carry out the purpose for which it was created, and its first meeting will doubtless be held in this city at the time of the gathering of the prisoners' association. Many 8«nt from City. Undesirables that flocked to this city to stay during the fair were gathered in by the police and sheriff's force, with the result that the jail and city prison were crowded. Many of those arrested were taken before the different justices of the peace, where they either paid a fine or were given hours to leave the city. In Police Magistrate Shipp's court 20 were given hours to leave the city. They were arrested on disorderly charges and could give no satisfactory reason why they should be permitted to re­ main in the city. Methodists Are Assigned. The forty-second annual session of the Illinois Conference of the M. E. church, south, which was in session in Murphysboro, closed. The official re­ ports show a substantial gain in near­ ly every department of church work. The following additional list of ap­ pointments was read by Bishop Gallo­ way: Waverly district- W. T. Mathis, presid­ ing ejder; Eldra, S. K. Hogan; Girard. J. E. Garrett; Marietta, supplied by H. Murphy; Ru.shville, C. S. Smith; Schiler, supplied by W. D. Humphrey; Buckhorn. C. P. Dlllji; Sherman, A. E. Thomas; Clarksdale a.nd Pana, supplied by W. P. Atkins; Tioga, supplied by W. L. Inabin- Jt; Waverly and Barr, R. J. Watts; Bor­ den and New Douglas, Curwin Henry; Gosport, Ind;. to be supplied: Nash­ ville, Ind., to be supplied: Waldron, supplied by S. D. Hawkins; Mount Zion, to be supplied. Conference mission secretary, Curwin Henry; conference evangelist, supplied by C. A. Hoy. Transferred to Los Angeles, Cal.. con­ ference, I. W. Longacre, Murphysboro; L. J. Mlllikan, Marion, and T. B. La ven­ der of Nashville. Transferred to Missouri conference, M. L. Shemwell and C. L. Hicklin. STATE NEWS NOTES ACCOUNTS OF HAPPENINGS ILLINOIS FOR A WEEK. ILLINOIS BANKER INDICTED James W. Qulllan, Owner of Private Institution, Accused of Receiving Deposits After Insolvency of Ipava Organization. * ; .. Many Chicago Women Honored. The thirty-second annual conven­ tion of the Illinois Equal Suffrage as­ sociation was held at the state fair grounds and the following officers were elected: President--Mrs. Ella B. Stewart, Chi­ cago. First vice-president--Dr. Anna E. Blount, Oak Park. Second vice-president--Miss Anna Wad- kins, Chicago. Corresponding secretary--Mrs. Anna B. Godard, Chicago. Recording secretary--Miss Ada May Kreicker, Chicago. Treasurer--Miss Ellen E. Poster, IGvi anston. Auditor--Miss Katherlne Gridiey, Ev- anston. Superintendents--Legislative, Mrs. Cath­ arine Waugh McCullough. Evanston; medal contest, Mrs. Eva Munson Smith, Springfield; press, Mrs. iva G. Wooden, Chicago; enrollment, Evalyn Turner,. Ev­ anston; church work, Mrs. Anna E. Wright, Chicago; fair work, Mrs. Louise Turner, Winona. The last two departments are new departments. Peoria.--James W. Quillan, owner of a private hank at Ipava, a small town In Fulton county, was indicted the other day on ten counts for receiving deposits after he knew the bank was insolvent. Quillan, who has run the bank for years, recently was caught short of money after lending the Ipav* Woolen mills over $90,000. The mill* were recently closed by creditors and the plant sold for $5,000. This sale was up for approval by United States Commissioner Henry of this city. MORE WARNER FIGHTING. Indicated by Answer Filed In the bate Court by Executor's Sister*. Clinton.--Further litigation in the Dr. John Warner will case is indicated In an answer filed in the probate court by Mrs. Minnie Warmer Mettler and Mrs. Arabella Warner Bell to the pe­ tition of their brother, Commissioner of Pensions Vespasian Warner, ex­ ecutor of the estate, asking permis­ sion to sell valuable securities belong­ ing to the estate. The answer alleges that the execu­ tor has already taken credit for ex­ cessive fees and compensation beyond the total amount to which the execu­ tor is or will be entitled to under or­ der of court. United Brethren Church Meets. At the annual conference of the Uni­ ted Brethren church for the Northern Illinois district, which closed at Quincy, Rev. O. O. Inman was as­ signed to fill the pulpit in the United Brethren church in this city. The other assignments* In the Springfield district are as follows: M. B. Spayd, superintendent: Argenta, I. W. I^owailayh; Adair. A. Rigney: Astoria, D. E. Baer, As­ toria circuit, J. H. Davis; Bay lis, Sheri­ dan Garman; Boody. R. Edwards: Can­ ton. W. T. Kessinger; Cuba, W. B. Shinn; Colusa, J. B. King; Dalton City, T. A. Barton; Decatur, Centenary, E. H. Shue.v; Decatur Second and Third, J. U. Kreu; Downs, G. E. Cremaine; Elliott. C. E. Sayre; Fisher, J. W. Milstead: Pindley, A. K. Johnston; Glasford, F. W. Engle; Gibson City, M. B. Leach; Good Hope, W. G. Metsger; Latham, I. H. Ade; Lexington, R. I. Fletcher: Locust Grove, II. D. Hudson; La Brarie, M. Weigel; Ivondon Mills, H. Essex; Maysvllle, W. G. Hamilton; Monroe Creek, T. B. Har­ ris; Oakley, A. E. Kosht; Quincy, H. W, Trueblood; Saybrooke, V. W. Overton; Tayiorville. C. c. Harvey; Teheran, R. L. Lundry; White Health, W. N. Whitney. Hair Saves Her Life. Bellevilfe.--Her heavy growth of hair, worn in a knot on top of her head, probably saved the life of Mrs. Maude Schaumieffel at her home. See­ ing her husband, Attorney Herbert Schaumieffel, coming home, she went to the rear porch and stood in a shadow. As he started up the steps she jumped forward and said "Boo!" She had forgotten that a trap door leading to the cellar was open and she plunged through. She alighted in the cellar on her head. The floor is granitoid and physicians say that, bat for her hair, her skull would have been fractured. Three Held for Crime. Belleville.--Three indictments Hf murder were returned by the grand jury at Belleville in its final report to Judge Charles T. Moore. Tony Maxas was indicted for the murder of Charles Buckmann on August 25, 1908. Laurel Johnson was indicted for the murder of Daniel Lucas on August 10, 1908. Henry McDonald Is charged "with the murder of Charles Brooks on Septan? ber 20. Carnival Crowd Throngs Streets. The Illinois state fair closed in a blaze oi glory. Wonderment and ad­ miration marked the countenances of the Illinois state fair visitors who re­ mained In the city to witness the free carnival program which has proved a source of such great pleasure to the city's visitors. The courthouse square presented its usual solid mass of peo­ ple throughout the performance of the individual acts, and the crowd, while struck with amazement at many of the stunts given, did not neglect to give evidence of their appreciation by applauding heartily the efforts of the carnival performers. Beside the car­ nival, the illuminations as usual called forth much favorable comment, for the visitors to the fair were just as much taken with the brilliant dis­ play as have been the visitors of pre­ vious days. Sues Minister for Llbef. Mount Vernon.--Rest Title, pastor of the Sugar Camp Baptist church, is the defendant in a $5,G<jO slander suit brought by A. J. Lowery, a parishioner. The suit is the outgrowth of an elec­ tion in that church for moderator, and the pastor is charged with tampering with the ballots, and he isalleged to have called his accusers hard names. First Matt'oon Mother Dies. Mattoon.--Mrs. Syan Cartnell Hart, the first white woman ever In Mat- toon, its earliest white woman settler, and the first mother of the early set­ tlement, died in the hospital for the insane in Kankakee. For 50 years she had lived in the first house ever bul|t here. • <1̂ Fifty-Three Years Married. Hillsboro.--Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Klrk- land of Litchfield celebrated the fifty- third anniversary of their wedding at the home of their daughter, Mrs. Henry R. Crawford. The couple were married in Walshville township and have made this county their home con­ tinuously. State Gets $153,158 Interest. According to information given out by State Treasurer John F. Smulski, the interest on state funds, covering a period of one year and nine months ending with September 30, 1908, amounts to $153,158.55. Great Contrasts in Temperature. Temperature extremes, with an av­ erage rainfall above the normal, marked the weather conditions in Illi­ nois, according to the climatological bulletin issued by Wtlliam G. Burns, director of the Illinois section of the weather bureau, United States depart­ ment of agriculture. Summarizing con­ ditions, Director Burns says: "Great contrasts in temperature obtained dur­ ing the week. The week opened very hot, with maximum temperatures over 90 degrees in all sections, and closed with freezing temperatures. Deserts Husband for Another Man. Married in Italy and then deserted by his wife after the couple moved to America, Is the tale of woe recited by James Sasso in a petition for divorce from his wife, Mary Sasso, which was filed in the circuit court. The couple live at Pawnee, but formerly were residents of Springfield. The bill as­ serts the couplfc married January 31, 1891, in Italy, and came to America a few years later. The woman is charged with unfaithfulness and also with having gone back to her native land with another Italian. James to Write Book on Life. Religion seems to have conquered Joe James, the negro slayer of Clergy A. Ballard, who will pay the penalty for his crime upon the gallows in the jail October 23. He has commenced writing a hook telling of the influence religion has on a person. He will make his case the example. James has pro­ fessed conversion and from now on until the day he meets death he will be busy writing the history of his life. His only topic of conversation since his conversion is religion. With the jail officials he discusses the prob­ lems of the teachings giv%n him by his minister. Rev. Mr. Doawell. The book will not be very large, but will contain some of the incidents of the prisoner's life. Athletic Association Is Formed. Tayiorville.--The athletic associa­ tion of the high school was formally organized after school when the boys met and elected the following officers: President, Tom McKean; vice-presi­ de rft, J. Elliott; secretary, F. Marry; treasurer, Dorice Shumway. Germans Hold Big Fete. One of the largest German gather^ ings ever held in Illinois was held in Chicago, when the Illinois League of the German-American National Alli­ ance was formed. It also was the oc­ casion for the celebration of the founding of Germantown, Pa., in 1683, which marked the beginning of the German immigration to this country. Every town and hamlet with a Ger­ man population of any size in tbo state sent delegates to the meeting in Chicago. The program was carried out at Riverview Park. Parted 28 Years; Now Wed. Sterling.--A romance that began SO years ago in the hills of Pennsylvania finally resulted in a wedding when Miss Ethel Moore of Strasburg, Pa, and Willis Burg, a farmer of Carroll county, were married. Taylor L. Smith Dies. Beardstown.--Taylor L. Smith, tor many years master mechanic In the local shops of the C. B. & Q. railroad, died after a week's attack of appen­ dicitis. He was 54 years old. Three Wolves Killed In Hunt. Sterling.--A wolf hunt In Gold township. Bureau county, netted s dozen men three wolves, four cubs and two coons. Would Revoke Saloon Licenses. The revocation of the licenses of eight saloonkeepers was asked in a communication sent to the council by the Springfield Local Option league. The letter was read to the aldermen and referred to the license committee. The communication charges that the liquor dealers kept their places open on Sunday and after hours. Among the saloon proprietors listed were two aldermen, D. C. Kearns of the Seventh ward and Kim Hayes of the First ward. Shoots Woman; Takes Own Life. Shelby ville.--Word was received here that Arthur Bland died at his home in Livingston. Mont., following an attempt two weeks ago to take his own life by shooting. His attempt at self-destruction was the sequel to an alleged altercation in which he shot a ranch woman four times. * -* Backward Student Kills Self. Bloomington.--Failing to attain sat- J isfactory grades In his studies. El don r. ' Taylor, 18 years old. committed snf- cide at his home in Yates Citjr. Carrollton Man Reported Missing. Alton.--Miss Edith Boirum of Car­ rollton wrote Chief of Police Maxwell to help look for her brother. John. $4 years old, who left home to go to A!ton and St. Louis and has not sines communicated with his family. He ex­ pected to return home at once and his unexpected absence has aiarmed his family. Find Diphtheria at Waverly Waverly.--A case of diphtber^/%*#. reported at the home of Henry Linraa^ jaan. One of his children is afflicted.