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JUT A o V THE MAIOr PI A tvl the inn..* Story of Englis Life. .... --•#* JOSEPH | pi19 .n-mwH-mw* *n *iy«r*fAn T>»f*rm* «ot *now, but whose jnlM they *$***• h< CHAPTER VII.--Continued.) The miller talked the affair over at Hark-to-Rover, his inquiries as to it was "up" not having been satis­ factorily answered at the Star and - Garter. "I dunno," he said, "as the young *pbnt]eman is a wasteer or nowt better Jfkor he should be. 1 dont have much ;DUth In strangers as comes by road r®n fine 'osses and hangs about pretend- :tog they're fishermen, when they don't know how to throw a fly or bait a »ooi; but as the Bible says, they be " Various of the fisher tribe, and the „party about whom I'm alludin' seems 'to know plenty about other kinds of : fishing, to-wit as the constable Bays, riing for a pretty woman. Anu it ain't 'ooked Mary Lockwood, I nev- >«r seed a gal as was 'ooked in *11 my kern days." \ "s?? It was something on this strain of :• \,V1&U>Ught that the 'Squire's reflections (:.y: "*ad traveled as .ha trotted on his way Harrogate. He found himself won- who this young buck could be; stranger who had cut out Jack Headows so completely. He remem­ bered the night of his arrival With Another fellow, whose looks he thought whose appearance was that a rogue, he thought The younger the two seemed a frank sort of •gihap, outspoken, and a decent air and .Jlianner; but what was -he doing in Company with a man whom any Jury, ..Jke being charged with a capital of­ fense, would hang on the evidence of ibis own face? "We shall doubtless ineet again," the 'Squire had said, ^jfcrhen leaving the inn and addressing barker. They did meet again, only too soon •for the well-being of all concerned. CHAPTER VIII. . _ It was a night of storm and tempest "There was a moon nevertheless; but ,^jt only appeared at fitful moments v^from behind the driving clouds. It ^ -,^rould have rained, but the wind was l i C ' h i g h . . ; :.vr^.r There was a damp feeling in the air, .' :A:•'i'~... 4ts if the wind had come across the ^ea. 'Squire Bellingham rode merrily • • through the storm; the noise and bus- ;^le of it rejoiced him. The 'Squire car­ ried about him a large sum of mon- " iy, but it was well known by every- dy that his pistols were heavy, and he would not scruple to use them he was attacked. Indeed, it was 5$aid that the fine old 'Squire-merchant ather courted than feared attack; hough this was not quite correct He was content to be allowed to go on his way rejoicing; but he was a man without fear. There were many In the Yorkshire of those days, as there are now. He little thought, as lie galloped along towards Kirkstall that his courage and his skill were about to be sorely tried. . Not far on the side of the Abbey nearest the high road two horsemen had tethered their steeds under clump of trees, through which the wind moaned and laughed, now like some hysterical demon, now like some fiend In an agony. They were well trained steeds that stood together like sentinels beneath the screaming trees. Neither of them moved a muscle, -except when one of the dismounted riders came from the outer darkness Into the deeper gloom of the wooded cover, and, patting his gray mare, took a brace of pistols from her hol­ sters. He seemed to do this In a sly and secret manner. The truth was, he had •engaged with his fellow-conspirators not to use firearms in^the enterprise vpon which they were engaged. The two robbers had prepared surprise and a trap for the 'Squire, which should have rendered him an •easy victim without the aid of pis tola. Moreover, they had, by a clever strategy, and with the assistance of a nefarious hostler at the 'Squire's pre­ vious halting place, had his pistols emptied.. They had contrived a method of ob­ struction upon the road near the Ab­ bey, an ingenious but cruel contriv ance of rope and wire stretched across the road that could not fail to entangle the surest-footed animal. . The 'Squire was sailing along to­ ward the trap, and two men lay in am- . bush awaiting the result, on this au­ tumn night of our story, and about the same time Mr. William Taylor and Mr. John Wilson arrived at-the Star and Garter inn. §§ Taylor was no stranger to the hos- pltality of the old coaching house; but |&jJ:>Wilson was there for the first time, They found several other customers In the bar, and Morley, the landlord, holding forth upon the prowess of his Mary. Wilson was a young fellow, though an old friend of Taylor, who lived at % '\£JV • .Leeds. " Taylor had been telling Wilson how ^beautiful Mary was, and Wilson was - '•> ' ^anxious to see this paragon of, loveli- ness and virtue. He had traveled and *'-^;j£A|.jknew the world. His father and Tay- Vs .l-'I'lor bad been venturers in their time, young Wilson was a native of •I £51 ̂Plymouth, and although accustomed -?§xto see men do brave things, it was 4;«°methlng new for him to meet a girl ^SSjwho had, as Taylor said, all the great '*>• >vp-jquklltles of the masculine hero with the sweet and gentle virtue of a beau­ tiful girl. "You are talking of Mary," said 'ir^Taylor to the landlord. #11 "Yes, Mr. Taylor," said Morley; "I fear I am alius a talking of her, bless "ie lass' heart" ^ "I have brought my friend, Mr. Wil- on, to stay the night. This is Mr. orley, our landlord," he Baid, intro- ucing Morley and Wilson in an lnfor- lal kind of way. r: to see any friend of Mr. Tay- '%|or. You riding? Has Tom put your .v^piorse up?" ; "Yes; and now we propose that you -V &hall put up a bowl of punch; and if r ^Jjthe company will Join us in doing Jus- ^•;%®tlee tntebmr, wealiall tMft hon- The company consented. Taylor and Wilson sat down, Morley called Mary, and presently the girl, with the aid of a servant, and Morley himself, had set upon the table a bowl of rum punch that filled the atmosphere with a delicious perfume. Mary had never looked more beauti­ ful than on this fatal night There was a touch of sadness in the expres­ sion of her face that rather height­ ened than diminished the interest the young stranger felt in her. He did not attempt to disguise his admiration, which set old Morley off on >er strength, he Old Morley dve hit. '. • Mary was more or less sa she had parted with Richard Parker not for many days, he had said; but she had a strange foreboding that this first parting might be their last He had ottered her marriage, but he pro­ posed that their wedding should be secret. His father would not consent to his marrying out of the aristocratic families in which he had sought to make an alliance for him. If he dis­ obeyed his father he would be disin­ herited; and Mary herself would not or of that. Neither would she lis­ ten to the proposal that they should go to Leeds, be married privately, live secretly as man and wife In som mote cottage which he would provide, or travel into foreign lands, until such time as in the course of nature his father should make way for his ac­ cession te title and estate. Hia father was fin old man, and although he loved him very much, he could only live few years longer, and it might be that perhaps In the meantime he would forgive him and take his dear Mary, his beautiful wife, to his castle, and forget and forgive. Mr. Richard Parker, under the Influ­ ence of his consuming passion, had done his best'and his worst to induce Mary to go away with him. But she was as firm in her refusal as she was in the confession that she loved him and would never marry if "she did not marry him. He was obliged to be con­ tent with this declaration, and he was obliged to Join his companion,, Foster, as previously arranged. When he left Mary he took a ribbon from her neck. "The knights of old," he said, "fast­ ened their ladies' gloves in their hel­ mets, their gages of battle, their love- tokens. Let- your dear little Sagcrs fasten this ribbon upon my chapeau, Mary, and it shall be my talisman of love and luck/' Unhappy boast! She stitched the ribbon upon his hatband In the pffape of a rosette, half biding it behind the silver buckle that already ornamented the young fellow's picturesque head­ gear. When he rode away she had sat at her window, watching his retreating figure until It disappeared along the London road. She did not see the horseman change his course an hour later, and make for the distant towers of York. But to return to the punch, the rev­ ellers, and the stormy wirfd at the Star and Oarter. Mary and her uncle had retired to their little room behind t&e bar, leaving the guests to their own conversation, which had turned upon the state of the roads, the safety of the Yorkshire highways as compared with those in the south, and had drifted back to Mary, the maid of the inn. "She certainly does not belie your report, Taylor," said Wilson. "I have seen many fine women in all parts of the world, but never so superb a crea­ ture as the landlord's niece." "It is not her beauty only, it's her courage, her daring, that makes her so popular in these parts,' said Tay­ lor. ® "For my part," said Wilson, "I ad­ mire beauty more than pluck in a wo­ man; but I shouldn't mind having some proof of the girl's daring." "Well," said a man who had not pre­ viously spoken, "she ain't afeard of ghosts. I've knawed her to walk about the abbey at nightfaw' when I wouldn't a' done it for a wager. And I've seen her walk t' abbey on All E'en by hersen, when it's been as dark as It is now." "Aye!" said the others. "I wouldn't mind walking with her now," said Wilson, laughing, 'Tm not afraid of ghosts." "Mayhap you'n never seen one," said the previous speaker. "No, I have not--at least not to my knowledge." "That makes all the difference," said Mr. Taylor. "I shouldn't wonder you might like to keep her company," said a native, referring slowly to Wilsoa't remark, "but she be engaged a'ready as far as I meks out; but I'll lay a wager she would be willing to go t' abbey this mlnit, if old Joe Morley axed her, and you made a bet on it of a wager, the brass to go to poor folk as lives up to Hark-to-Rover." "Aye," said several voices, "aye!" "Then I'll wager she does not" said Wilson, who had drunk more of the second than the first bowl of punch, and was a little nettled at the remark that Mary's affections were engaged. "I'll wager she does not go alone to the abbey--that is, if it does not rain." There was a loud laugh at the pro­ viso. / "In the first place," said the native "there will TO no rain wl' that wind, and in the next our lasses i' Yorkshire l8na sugar, they doan't melt" "I don't think it worth while making the wager," said Taylor to his friend, "if you bet you wijl lose." "The object 1b charity," said Wil­ son, "the money goes to the poor, and if she is engaged, as you say, at least she may not object to wear the silken gown PI! send her from London." Wilson was piqued In aome way that he could hardly explain even to him­ self. His pride was hurt; and in his eaps he actually began to feel a little resentful towards Mary, as weak peo- iiear sung on all hands. The wager was made as summoned. He would give insent if the girl's could be Had he no fear for her? Not he, 1 was nothing, he said. He inclined to think the been taken in. This raised a little discussion, al most a controversy, almost a row, fO: the noisiest of the natives lnsister upon construing Morley's remark intr reflection upon the honesty of the en of Kirkstalfc v This trouble over, Mary was eallet into the room. Mr. Taylor, as being the most im­ portant guest among those whom hi knew, was selected to explain the dls- islon that had arisen about her He was cautioned to do it in such r way as not to let it be seen that the: had been talking her over except with the greatest respect. Mr. Taylor ac quitted himself of the difficult tasl with diplomatic skill, and when h.' me to the wager, the whole room hr.sg on bsr srerfis sa4 JcoJtsi at JSary for her reply. "Oh, yes," she said, "if it will p you, gentlemen, and give something to the poor, I will win the wager for-- "Me!" said the native, who had laid his money down against Wilson's. "And in that case," said Wilson, looking at the girl, and wondering af her calm demeanor, "you will have to do me the honor of wearing a eilkon gown I shall send you from London, for that is part of the wager." "Do you live in London, sir?" was Mary's odd reply, an interrogatory answer that was remembered and wards. "Yes, -toy pretty one," he said. "Is it a grand place?" "Yes." he said. "It Is; but theft la no grander woman there than--" (he paused, as if he suddenly thought thi compliment he had intended was toe coarse for her) "than there are ir Yorkshire." "I Bhould like to' see it," she said, as if speaking to herself. "And so you shall," said old Morley in his squeaking voice, "some day." (To be continued.) SVEN HEDM / POLING FOR TR0VT. SCOUTS TRICKED BY IT" Corn STORIES OF OAWLYLE. Vatermn BMtor T«lia of Carlyte'a DetM- , tettoa of Selene*. The Rev. A. G. W. Blunt, who ha< resigned the rectorship of jChelsea London, after a service of |orty-on« years, is one of the few people livlni who knew Carlyle intimately. "Car lyle," he said recently, "had the kej of my garden and he used it. He would sit afte^ dinner, pipe in mouth, and hii reflections would flow in a brilliant and incessant stream. When be--begat to abuse anybody or anything it wai no use trying to stop him. In particu­ larly he bated Huxley's writings and detested all science. I remember Hux­ ley--whose character grew sweeter and sweeter as years drew on--telling m< that it was no use contradicting him He was so great and so old." Carlylt did not often go to church, but some­ body once took him to see Westminstei abbey. He was impressed with th< building, but not with the service, "and as for being buried in it," he growled, "I should want a Jail delivery first be­ fore I'd lay my bones there." The Rev. Mr.. Blunt also knew Rosetti and Hoi- man Hunt, and tells the following story of Rosetti: "When his wife died he cast a volume of unpublished poems into her grave and it was buried witb her. But later, the argument of hia friends as to the loss which the world suffered thereby induced him to hav* the poems dug up again and they were then given to the world."--Chicago News. Travelers Are Learning. The London Mall figures it out thus, after making a more or less careful study of the subject: "As the Amer­ ican tourist increases in numbers he Increases also in thriftine&a." Cab­ men, porters and hotel servants, it aays, agree in the opinion that "the average American 1b the least remu­ nerative of their clients." Possibly there has been an increase of knowl­ edge A bank in one of our smaller cities once charged nearly 4 per cent commission for transferring a sum of American money to Europe. The bank vemployed that rough method of calcu­ lation whereby 4 marks, or 5 francs, or 5 lire, are equal to |1, and $5 are equal to £1 sterling. This method is easy, but the inaccuracy is costly when it is applied to a sum of several thousands of dollars. Possibly American travel­ ers are also beginning to take account of another fact, namely: That in Ger­ many 80 marks are 80 marks, in the estimation of Germans, and not a lit­ tle more than |19, according to our estimation: that In France or Switzer­ land the franc Is not merely a sum less than 20 cents in our money, but really, and in the practice of those countries, Just the same to the people there as the dollar is among u£. That is to say, Americans are learning to treat the mar)i as the German dollar, the franc as the French or Swiss dollar, the lire as the Italian dollar and the pound sterling as the, British dollar. This rule works In a costly manner In England, but in the rest of Europe Its applications are wholly satisfac­ tory.--Hartford Courant n*kM of Nile. W. 8. Loat, the superintendent of the survey of the fishes of the Nile, has returned to Egypt to continue his work. It is proposed during the ensuing sea­ son to explore the Blue Nile from its junction with the White Nile to Ro- saires, and ever farther if the steamer can ascend the river. On completion of thifr river Mr. Loafs instructions are to ascend the White Nile from Fa- shoda to Gondokoro, in Uganda, es­ tablishing flatting stations on his way up. BUm Danced with Lafayett*. At the age of 101 Mrs. Annie Cath­ erine Brown died in Philadelphia re­ cently. In the early portion of the last centry she was one of Philadelphia's leading belles and had the honor of dancing with Lafayette when the French soldier wpr making « tpar<-«f this country. ̂ o Dr. Sven Hedin, the celebrated Swed­ ish explorer, who has Just reached the Vale of Cashmere on his return from J* is two years' visit to Thibet and the Gobi desert, was believed to have betfn lost in the land of mystery and lamas, which has been the death of so many bold spirits. Sven Hedin is one of the most interesting men in Europe. He was born in Stockholm in 1866, and at 23 he had already been honored with doctorates of philosophy from the uni­ versities of Upsala in Sweden, Halle in German and Oxford in England. These were only the beginning of a long line of honors from every country in Eu­ rope. Russia, the land most benefited by Dr. Hedin's discoveries in the Orient, tendered him extraordinary1 honors. Dr. Hedin's career as an ex­ plorer began in 1885. ^In 1898 he made his second Journey to the remote east, and was unheard of for four years. Then he turned up in Peking. On his return to Sweden King Oscar appeared in public arm in arm with the re­ markable young man. Dr. Hedin is of a retiring disposition and hates all kinds of ostentation in his honor. The results of his present journey, in which he was financially backed by King Os­ car, will be read with interest. Poachers in. the Adirondacks and other wild sections of New York are taking trout by means of a hook tied to the end of a stick. The poacher lies down upon a log or stump above some deep pool in a trout stream and brings the stick close alongside the fish, working it ever and ever so care­ fully lest the fish should be frightened away. When the pole is only a hair's breadth from the side of the trout the fisher gives a jerk, and, nine times out of ten, hooks the fish. The method is specially destructive to good sport, for the reason that it enables the poacher to take the wary old trout that are shy of the hook. Closely allied ifl the method of Btur- geon catching which is practiced in the Detroit river and some of the streams running into Lake Superior, says the New York Times. The stur­ geon has a way when it run& up a stream in spawning season of rubbing against every bit of wood that may be fixed in the water. The fisherman goes out in. a boat or takes his place at a bridge with a pole, on the end of which are tied three hooks pointing in three different directions from a common center. This end of the pole he plants on the bottom of the stream, while the other he holds in his hand. When he feels the movement of ths sturgeon he jerks. The sturgeon is hooked and a grand fight begins. May Find Cradle of Gold. In 1720 a certain German prince sent to Quoen Ulrica Eleonora of Sweden a cradle of solid gold as a christening present for her child. The ship con­ taining the gift was driven by a ter­ rible gale on to the shores of the Is­ land of Tjorn, where it became a total wreck. The inhabitants of the island massacred the shipwrecked mariners and pillaged the ship, but the cradle, by a curious chain of circumstances, was saved, and now lies burled in a lonely part of the island. The story having been revived, the present king of Sweden has offered 10,000 kronen to whoever recovers Queen Ulrica's cra- dl of gold. 'OML Bloemfontein dispatch: Foax ban- Ared men of Driscoll's scouts left Springfontein Dec. 20 with the ohject of clearing the country in the lis district of armed Boers. On mas day the scouts sighted a numt of burghers attached to Herzog's com­ mando. When the Boers saw, the scouts they immediately took flight Colonel Driscoll, with the greater part of his command, gave chase. The rest of the scouts were left to guard the wagons. These were soon after at­ tacked by another body of burghers from the rear, and a stiff figfc ensued. Bpfore Colonel Driscoll's main body could return to assist tljfe escort the Boers captured and burned the wagons and their contents, saving only the liquids. When Driscoll's main force returned the Boers scattered. The Boers had five killed wounded. Eight While the fight was proceeding Com­ mandant Niewhoudt with 250 men, watched the operations from the top nf Heneweer's kop, near Fauresmith. Colonel Dumoulin recently captured twenty-eight prisoners near Fienburg. Of this number twenty-four, including Field Cornet Dutoit, arrived hers on New Year's eve. A force of Boers *1* tempted to cross the railway line be­ tween Springfontein and Kuilfonteifl on Monday night, but were repulsed by the blockhouse garrison. The Boers came from the direction of Bethulic. A commando of 400 men under Charles Niewhoudt, Munikherizog, Pretoria's and Thanessin is now hovering in th« Fauersmith district This force is be­ ing looked after by Weston and Driscoll's columns. „. ^ OUR PUBLIC LANDS The title to over 60 per cent of the area of seventeen western states still lies in the government, and is subject to entry and settlement under the land laws, and the great commonwealth of Texas, owning its own lands, also opens wide its doors to the homeseek- er. This statement is true, but, after all. misleading, for those who occupy the remaining 40 per cent of the area of these seventeen states are so forti­ fied in their holdings by climatic con­ ditions, by obsolete and unjust laws, by lack of restrictions as to their pow­ er, and by the apparent unwillingness of congress to disturb illegitimately acquired rights, that they now control the other 60 per cent of the area almost as if they had title, the same. By owning the land about the water sup­ ply, and by the few combining against the many, the use of the public domain 1b divided up among those *t|k» have purchased or appropriated the most favorably situated acres. Theoretically; all of the 600,000,000 acres o^ land are open to settlement. Practically, there are not 1,000,000 acreB to-day upon which a settler of limited means could file an original claim under the present land laws, with the intention of permanently es­ tablishing himself and his family, and not starve to death or be driven from his precarious foothold by more pow­ erful interests. The man who owns but one shirt is, necessarily, short of change. ARGEST SNAPPING TURTLE EVER HEAR-D OF > > V Here is a photograph of the largest snapping turtle ever known. He was caught recently In a swamp in south­ ern Texas, and weighed 155 pounds. His length was 5 feet 4 Inches; length of shell, 30 inches; girth, 62 inches; length of tail, 22 inches; measurement around the head, 27 inches; around the neck, 22 inches; around the tail at the root, 18 inches. What a wonderful tur­ tle this w$b may very readily be judged from a remark in the Century Dictionary, which says that the-snap­ ping turtle is "common in the rivers and streams of North America, and at­ tains large size, being occasionally twenty and even thirty pounds in weight" Evaded tli* Taxes. A party of Englishmen staying in A SOUTH AFRICAN PORTRAIT llii France went for a drive which ex­ tended beyond the Italian frontier, where they purchased a basket of fruit Upon their return a revenue official stopped the carriage and said the tax must be paid for the fruit. The Eng­ lishmen at once told the driver to stand still for awhile. Then, with the disgusted official looking on, but un­ able to interfere, they calmly and de­ liberately ate the contents of the bas­ ket and went on their way untaxed and rejoicing. London Children Marry. Boy bridegrooms are growing in number in London. There are four under twenty-one in every hundred bridegrooms. About sixteen girls un­ der twenty-one per hundred get mar­ ried. *> POWERFUL BATTLESHIP new British battleship London, when ready for commissioning is to succeed the Majestic M senior flagship of the channel fleet. The London will be one of the most powerful warships afloat. Her four twelve-inch barbette guns are each capable of throwing an 860-pound projectile a distance equal to that which separates Calais and Dover. In addition she will have twelve of the newest pattern six-inch quick- firers, the most formidable weapons of their caliber, and thirty-two smaller guns. Krupp steel plates nearly thirteen inches thick cover ten gun positions, and should, according to present knowledge, render them invulnerable. Her sides are armored with eigh-inch Krupp steel, and twelve-inch Krupp steel bulkheads run across the ship. The London will carry 2,000 tons of coal and her crew will number 755. General Lord Kitchener of Khartum, G. O. B , K. C. IK. O. Didn't Want to Disturb Them. A recent public speech in London wherein the speaker - took occasion to dwell upon what hejsald were the two peculiarities about Scotch highlanders --their great devotion to the national drink and their power of absorbing whisky without apparently getting the worse for it--recalls to an English writer the old story of how the laird of Garscadden took his last draught. A considerable number of lairds had congregated for the ostensible purpose of talking over some parish business. They talked well and drank still better, and one of them, about the dawn of the morning, fixing his eye on Garscad­ den, remarked that he was "looking unco gash" (very ghastly). Upon which the laird of Kilmardinny coolly replied: "Na wonder, since he has been wi' his Maker these twa hours! I Baw him step awa', but I didna like to disturb gold company!" Ink of the Anolenta. Hie Ink of the Greeks and Romans was merely lamp black mixed with gum, in the proportion of three parts of the former to one of the latter. No Torpedoes on War Ship*. The sea-going officers of the navy are congratulating themselves upon the recommendation of the naval board of construction that torpedcf tubes be omitted from the new vessels recom­ mended for early construction, and the further recommendation that in the fu­ ture torpedoes be omitted altogether from armored ships. It has been held for several years by those conversant with the subject that the retention of these adjuncts to the fighting ship is worse than useless, imposing extra care and requiring val­ uable space which can be used to much better advantage.--Army and Navy Journal. U(i That Does Oood. Conspicuously posted near the exit Of a Rumford Falls (Me.) dry goods store is the query in bold print: "Have you forgotten anything?" In the half- dozen odd years that the sign has hung there it has saved innumerable e- turn trips for forgotten parcel* and done away with months of worry on the part of customers with short mem- orleo. Blind People of Spain. Norway, Ireland and Spain have more blind people in proportion |o population than any other European countries. Spain has 216 per 100,000, Norway 208 and'Ireland 111. Sunday School Attendance. So far as scholars are concerned, Sunday schools in England are attend­ ed mainly by the poorer classes of chil­ dren. In this country no such distinc­ tion is found. In our public day schools the children of the rich and of the poor sit side by side and study together, and the same custom is followed In the church Sunday schools. But with a membership of 633,349 in our con­ gregational churches, for example, w« have a Sundaj school membership ol only 671,743, while the English year book for 1901 reports 257,435 congre­ gational church members in England and 510,445 in the Sunday school, near­ ly twice as many. Evidently English congregationalists at least are much more active in missionary Sunday school efforts than are their brethren In this country. Canada to Have a Mint. It is said that Canada is sooto to have her own mint, and tliat the gold coins will be called "beavers." In val­ ue the "beaver" will correspond to our eagle, $10; double "beaver*" fW; ami half "beaver." 96. GIVES FULL AUTHORITY. of the Protocol wttll Nicaragua DlMloted, Washington dispatch: Some of the main features of the protocol between the United States and Nicaragua re­ ferred to In President Zelaya's mes­ sage to his congress have been made known in recent press dispatches from Managua. But there are many other important features which ha^ not yet been disclosed, one of these being the complete American jurisdiction and the establishment of American courts, civil and criminal, throughout a zone six miles wide and extending from ocean to ocean, and including the proposed terminal, Greytown on the Atlantic and Brito on the Pacific. The entire policing of this large tract - also is placed in the hands of the United States, so that it has the power to preserve order and after that to is­ sue judicial process extending through­ out this zone. Besides the authority of American courts and of the Ameri­ cas. pc"cs on tic zi~ rsiilt r chief features of the protocol are in giving an American guaranty that the independence, sovereignty and integ­ rity of Nicaragua shall not be dis­ turbed by the rights thua conferred tipon the United States. 'm May Postpone Tariff Revision. Senator Cullom, the new chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee in the Senate, hopes to call up the re­ ciprocity treaties now pending in the Senate before that committee when Congress reassembles after the holi­ days. Senator Cullom does not look., forward to any general tariff revision <• at this session of Congress. "I hope- to get the treaties up before the com­ mittee," said Senator Cullom at Washington Thursday, "but what the : policy wfll be with reference to these treaties I am unable to say, as I have no conference with the members^ <pn this subject The treaties now« pending are in line with the sugges­ tion of the late President McKinley. I consider it my duty to try to ascer­ tain at once what it will be advisable to do wihi these treaties, and either to try to secure their ratification or dispose of them In some other way." Fight Over Bible In Sekook Lincoln, Neb., dispatch: The nak> damns suit to prevent the reading of the Bible, singing hymns, or offering prayer in the public schools of Nebras­ ka has reached the Supreme Court on appeal, and is expected to be argued at an early day. The plaintiff is Dan­ iel Freeman of Gage County and the defendants the directors of School Dis- , trict No. 2. For three years Mr. Free­ man has made an energetic but un­ successful fight against the use of the Bible in this school. One of the sig­ nificant statements in the answer on behalf of the school district is that Leon Czolgosz repudiated the Bible and 1 blasphemed the hymns sung in the school, and which were among the favorites of William McKinley. BrltorB See Trade Is Loet. Government statistics showing that of the total trade with her colonies Great Britain only possesses 42 per cent, while the United States have 12 per cent and that the latter are rapidly increasing their trade not only with Canada, but with Australia, caused dis­ quietude when published at London Monday. The Standard in an editorial:- expresses its disappointment in this re­ gard and insists upon the necessity ot the country bestirring itself. ! • • >• Died a Be*r AdalnL ̂ Boston, Mass., dispatch: Inforinifftti) from Washington shows that "aptain Richard P. Leary, U. S. N., who died at Chelsea recently, died a Hear Ad­ miral, without being conscious of the fact. It was a promotion which he had looked for, and it is said to have been the one thing which troubled him in his last moments. The appointment was made the day before he died, but it was only when his brother-in-law, Dr. Fairfax Irwin, returnea from his funeral at Annapolis to Chelsea that the appointment was found Iilqntd at U* Temperatwra* Paris dispatch: "Petroleum ethsr," jt liquid absolutely uufreezable at a temperature of 205 degrees below lero. beating the record of liquid air, is the discovery which will be announced by Dr. Arsene d'Araonval at the next meeting of the Academy of Sciences. This discovery will permit the con­ struction of thermometers of a pre­ cision not hitherto attainable. Dr. d'Arsonval is said to be experimenting with a vie^r tcy lV* use of the ether as a aheap bm£m summer. Wi iL<