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Peter Battersby and Mrs. Peter were early on the scene, in decent black, They had extremely comfortable ex­ pectations. ,To be sure, for the last ten years they had not interchanged many words with the late Carmel, who was Peter's only brother; but as Mrs. Peter Remarked when the news of her broth­ er-in-law's death arrived, "he couldn't for shame leave his money to any one •; else." ' .' Young Walter Battersby, Mr. and Mrs. Peter's only son, did not conceal bis joy in his uncle's demise. He told It is boon companions at the Hen and Chickens that he was in for a good thing. "Blood, you know, as the saying is, is thicker than water," lie said as he drained his fourth pint on.the evening «f his avuncular bereavement. Nor were the three daughters of Mr. • and Mrs. Peter without discreet maid­ enly elation. Their uncle, while he liv­ ed, was such a figure that they never cared to look at him. Besides, he hadn't a very civil tongue; liked to be caustic about their high-heeled shoes and ex­ tensive bonnets and hats, and to be very rude with his inquiries why three Mr. Rights did not press for the honor of their small gloved hands. ., It seemed unlikely, indeed, that a single tear would be shed for the old curiosity man. Of course there was his little servant girl, Joan Smith. But she was only "a workhouse hussy," to borrow Mrs. Pe­ ter's elegant expression. .: & With his usual eccentricity, old Car­ mel had taken a girl from the Moxford Union after the death of his elderly housekeeper, Mrs. Roberts. Joan was that servant, an/1 she had served him truly for the la&t s;x years, being now but 22. A quiet, shrinking, dark-eyed little creature, who had revered her dead master quite unaccountably, and devoted herself to him heart and hand and soui. Save for Seth Perry, who to be present, even if his father and mother objected. Joan had procured'cake and sherry, at the instigation bf Mi\ Ca&ieron. But she had not helped herself to a glass of wine, even in spite of the kindly law­ yer's suggestion; nor yet to a crumb of the cake. "" 1 She continued alone in the kitchen. The tramp of strange feet in the room over her did but make fresh tears well up from the bountiful source insidp IK V. And so the funeral, party aiid the others sat around old Carmel's table and waited.for Mr. Cameron to begin. The lawyer did not keep them waiting. He smiled rather dryly, took.a glass of sherry and drew forth, the paper from its official blue envelope. Never was there, in Mr. Peter Bat- tersby's opinion, a more horrid and dis­ graceful last will and testament. Certainly her husband was to receive a fourth part of the proceeds of the sale of the deceased's goods, but what was a mere fourth V The other three-fourths were left--of all things--to the Moxford Union, "to help them to train up more girls like Joan Smith." Those were the very words. To the three girls of Mr. and Mrs. Peter the three largest mirrors in the establishment of No. 59 were bequeath­ ed, without comment. Walter Batters­ by was not even mentioned, nor was Mrs. Peter. • But the wardrobe taught them no more than the palliassfe and the bolster. "Well, I'm off to the Hen and Chick­ ens," said Walter Battersby at length. "I've had enough of this." So, too, liadMrs. Peter, for there was not an article In the room that she had not thoroughly tested. , The sun was still well above the cem­ etery hill when Seth called at No. 59 in his workaday grime and his workaday grease. . _ "Art ready, lass?" he inquired of Joan. The girl began to make onuses. "It's not right, Seth, to leave the house with no one in it. He wouldn't have liked it," she said. "It's not right, Joan, to make a prom­ ise and not keep ft," retorted Seth. "Conie, now, I'm not going to leave you to mope your eyes out. Do you mean to make me carry you?" She was persuaded with difficulty. Then it was a revelation of-'character to see how she locked one door after another and pocketed the different keys. 'Anybody 'ud think the things were all yourn," said Seth, admiringly. "It's the same to me as if they were," she, answered, with the tone of fresh tears. v ' " ' : ' V , ; ' But Seth hurried her off before she could break down again, and soon had her in the little brick cottage he shared with his mother. ~ . . \ V SENATOR JOHN P. HALE. American Picturesque FiR«re in Public Life. When Hale took his seat in the Sen­ ate he was the only member of that body who defied the discipline of both the old parties, and dared assert his absolute political independence. He stood alone until 1849, when he was joined by Chase and Seward, who were re-enforced in 1851 by Sumner. There was something dramatic in his solitary appearance in the Senate as an avowed anti-slavery man. That body then con­ tained more able and eminent mfen than it had had for more than a genera­ tion, and it was completely under the domination of the slave intei'est. That •nterest dictated the policy of the Gov­ ernment at home and abroad, as it had done from its beginning, and made and unmade politicians. Hale knew that his single-handed warfare against It would invite ridicule, sneers, insults and threats.1 He knew that he must face the scorn and contempt of the Sou-th and the chilling neglect, of the North. But he bravely stood in the breach. He took no counsel of his fears, and, would; not be bullied into silence. When he was denied a place on Senatorial committees on the pre­ text that he "did not belong to a healthy political organization" ha ridiculed the proceeding and made it tell in his favor. One of the finest exhibitions of his courage was giveu soon after he took n„.,„ u„j-in i | his seat in the Senate, when he cast Old Mrs. Perry had ;n her votmerer „ i a. , / , *, • • "s • • the only vote against a resolution A LEADER OF JOURNALISM. days been a servant herself. She had a true woman's sympathy for Joan, and discernment enough to know that her son might do far worse than marry such a girl. . v •"*; It was as comfortable a meal as any in Moxford, with the cat purring on the hearth all the time. Afterward the talk turned solidly upon old Carmel and his singular t» quests to Joan. "The money and the furniture'll be useful enough to you, child," said old hanking Generals Scott and Taylor for their victories in Mexico. This vote was :sure to be misunderstood and mis- epresented, and all parties regarded it as suicidal; but it was sufficient for him to know that no other honest and onsistent course was possible for those who had condemned the Mexican war in all its stages. He would- npt belie his convictions to avoid any personal SI rr'i; k worked for the Moxford Tin Plate Com­ pany, she had had no one else to care for. '/£. % ; Mr. and Mrs. Peter found No. 59 nicely prepared for the funeral. There was also a rather clumsy wreath of wild hyacinths and buttercups on the eofiio. "The idea of such a thing as that!" exclaimed Mrs. Peter, touching the wr&atb with the tip of her parasol. Joan was near at the time. She burst Into tears at these words. "Please, ma'am," she so like it to go with him. I picked all myself: onsequences of his act; and when he i tune out of it. Then he asked for the pleaded the high authority of Chatham, J co-operation of the Herald, on the score Burke and Pox, who refused to vote I old-time friendship, and finally he Thanks to the commanders of the Brit- j announced that if the Herald could be- sh army for their services in America 1 little the revolutionary cause, and so n our revolutionary struggle--a strict- j stimulate the confidence of bankers in ly analagous case--no Senator success- j the government bonds, the transaction lully answered him. would be worth two or three hundred Mr. Hale's humanity Was equal to | thousands dollars to Mr. Bennett. At; his courage. While a member of the j this Mr. Betinett smiled grimly. . House he moved an amendment to the ! "It is worth a million dollars to the iaval appropriation bill, abolishing the ! Herald to know these facts," he said. spirit ration and prohibiting flogging n the navy. The amendment prevailed, but failed in the Senate. This motion was renewed in the Senate in 1849, and n 1850, after an-impassioned appeal by Mr. Hale, flogging was abolished, but the spirit ration continued until S62. He was justly proud of these achievements, and they are approprl- tely commemorated on the pedestal t the statue recently erected in the tate house yard at Concord. As an anti-slavery leader, Hale fol­ lowed his own methods of warfare. While Seward, Sumner and Chase wore ioitging their anti-slavery thunderbolts, ind tiring them at the enemy at long range through the press of the North- hi States,-Mr. Hale was using: his THFJs MRS. PETER SEARCHED JEAN'S ATTIC JROM WALL TO1 WALL. said, "I should "C,rafK'0k "" WjftMU!\haa » 1 Dieted them otten pl"!d SCI5SOTS ^WSrP^te, awl _ which contained eoriotts items of newt- It ehalTdo nothing of the kind, then; I faPer i^telligen^urlifg the 3 your place is in the kitchen, not m ***»; mi Mr. Cameron received £100 and so did I Mrs. Perry, "but the idea of leaving you ie deceased's old friend. Mr. Crave**, a thing like that!" pointing to the scrap- book. "I used to be so fond of it," stam­ mered Joan. "The'times we've sat to­ gether, him and me, cutting what he'd marked!" She rose and lifted the big book the Lasily, Joan was mentioned. She was lo have a year's wages, all the furniture of her own bedroom and the tarn; SI and the parlor," retorted Mrs. Peter. Joan retired, crying bitterly; and Mrs. Peter flung the wreath into a corner. "The wench ought not to be alloxyed to leave this house, Peter," she said se­ verely, "without being searched. The idea of her being with all these vally- bles--all aione, too." But Peter was not as cruel as his wife, "Cameron says she is entirely to be trusted,' he replied, "and it's for him to act as he pleases, he says." Mr. Cameron was the Moxford law­ yer who had charge of the old curiosity man's affairs. Two or three others now arrived, in eluding the lawyer, Mr. Hurst, the Methodist New Connection minister, and old Craven, the silversmith. 'Then High street enjoyed its lit­ tle sensation as the hearse and three eoaches solemnly passed along to the eemetery on the hill. Joan viewed the start from the back entry with tearful eye. She was peri­ odically convulsed with sobs. She watched the procession as long as ever she could. The void in her life was im­ mense. So much so, indeed, that even the soothing voice of Seth Perry, who had eome upon her unawares, had no effect on her at first. "Never mind, lass," said Seth, "things'll all come out right." She answered him with tears. "He's boun' to hp.' left you summat, Sloan, my lass, to remember him by; and, whether or no, you've only io speak the word, and theer's one as Ml be proud to have you." "Seth, I can't talk with you now." she said, showing him her damp face and bright eyes. "Nor come home and take your din­ ner with my mother, Joan?" "No, no. I mustn't go yet. They'll turn me out soon, I know; but I must Btay till then." * "Well, lass," said Seth. "you know best; but I'm fair acliirg for you, and this night as is I'll fetch you t,o home." He took her in his arms in the pas­ sage, up which so many antique articles had traveled during the last half Cen­ tury, and kissed her wet cheeks. "And now 1 mun get back to work," he said. a hot day even for June, and Th.?re, gentte^ea and ladies, that vs all," said Mr. Cameron, "and now yau must excuse me." I leave you with my cotrustee, Mr. Craven." One moment, sir," interposed Mr. Peter., to whomhis wife had whispered much. "WThat became of all his money in the bank? He must have had thou­ sands." Tb$ balance to bis credit on May 31," answered Mr. Cameron, referring to n note, "was £45 8s lOd. After thp fun­ eral expenses are paid " What's he done with it?' cried Mn*. Peter, redder of face than ever. "I cannot tell you, madam. Good morning." said the lawyer, who then wisely left them to fight the matter out among themselves. But before he went he, with his own hands, carried to Joan in her kitchen the unwieldy old scrap- book, and told her that it was her prop­ erty, as well as the furniture of her room. "Come, cheer up. my girl," be said at parting. "Your master was fond of you, and he would rather see you bright than downcast. And remember that 1 am your friend, if you should ever hap­ pen to want one." Joan thanked Mr. Cameron and then, having reverently kissed the old book, put it on one side. Mrs. Peter, before she r,parted, thought well to trespass in tin*'kitchen and say some cruel things to £oan. But somehow the girl did not mind them very much now. Then Seth looked in again, and said she was to come up to bis mother's that evening. If she didn't he should fetch her. And to make sure of having her he carried off the scrapbook. Mrs. John Battersby did something else before she left No. 59. Together with her disappointed son id darling Walter she climbed the stairs to Joan's little attic and took a immer with her, "It's the very kind of spiteful thing he'd be likely to do," she said, "but I'll not stand it--robbing lib own flesh and blood for a workhouse brat." Mr. Peter left her to her own devices. He, Mr. Craven and the three vexed (indeed, insulted) girls went away to­ gether. ; • J ' _ Then Mrs. Peter studiously searched Joan'* attic from 3fall to wall. She turned out the girl's one tin box, looked when the funeral party reentered the I into the drawer of the witshstand, rlp- hotise Mrs. Peter's face was extremely ped up the palliasse outrageously and v . j threw the stra^ All JjboUt and treated Here they were met by Walter Bat- the bolster with'equal brutality. on the table, untied its string and opened it. "Why, what's this?" exclaimed Seth, as a bank note for £100 appeared. Joan turned pale as she took it up. It was indorsed on the back. "Pay to Joan Smith and no one else." Ere they had finished looking through the book^they found twenty-one other notes of exactly the same kind. "They are certainly yours, my girl," said Mr. Cameron, when Joan called on him in the morning, "and I shall have great pleasure in telling Mrs. Peter Battersby what has become of the money to her brother-in-law's credit at the bank."--Cassell's "Saturday Jour­ nal." LATEST GOLD BRICK SCHEME. The Operator Does a Little Political Arguing on the Side. There is no end to the schemes to which swindlers resort. A pair of them are now working in Pennsylvania, in the vicinity of Susquehanna, who have the very latest in gold brick tricks. They get into an argument with each other on the silver question until they have attracted a good-sized crowd. 1 hey manage to work on the feelings of their auditors until the latter are prepared to take sides themselves. One of the men--he who has boen advoca­ ting sound money--makes the state­ ment that he can pound a double eagle into a shapeless mass of gold and that it will be still worth $20, whereas a silver dollar so treated would not be worth 100 cents. His opponent says it is no such thing. To prove it tiie gold man tajces a .$20 gold piece from his pocket-and pounds it out of shape with a stone or something. Then he starts out to visit a neighboring bank, only to find that it is closed. By this time there will lie some old fellow in the crowd, also an advocate of the gold standard, who is so anxious to score a point for his side that he will offer $20 for the lump of gold. The money is paid and the rogues skip out, leav­ ing the old fellow to discover that the gold he has bought is only a bit of al loy and not worth a dime. liter artillery on the skirmish line, nd in well-executed flank movementSv In 1850 he was prompted by the pres- nce of a pro-slavery mob in Waslihig- on to introduce a resolution for the re- mbursement of persons whose prop­ erty should be destroyed by riotous as­ semblages. Foote of Mississippi de*- nounced this resolution as intended to protect "negro-stealing." Addressing Mr. Hale, he said: "I invite him to visit tne good State of Mississippi, in which have the honor to reside, and will tell him beforehand in all honesty that he could not go ten miles into the interior efore be would grace one of the tallest trees of the forest with a rope around Ins neck, with the approbation of every irtuous and patriotic citizen; and that, necessary, I should myself assist in he operation." Mr. Hale answered: "The Senator in- ites me to visit the State of Missis tersby and the three girls. This was Mrs. Peter's arrangement. "The more witnesses there are the safer it'll/ be," she said, alluding, of course, to the reading of her brother-in- law's will. "Besides," she added, "they may hear something nice for them­ selves.' he was concerned, how- young Walter had full$ intended There was also a handsome old oak wardrobe that would have graced even a royal bedchamber. This was for Joan's three or four pocv frocks. It was quite laughable We how mother and son tapped and probed this antique piece of furniture. They even knocked off the head of the lion in re­ lief at the top of it, to see if there was any secret cavity behind the head. Savage Warfare. "My voice;1" said the one in whose heart the fires of patriotism? burned "my voice is for war." "And I suppose that in case of actual hostilities it would be your voice you would send," said the desiccated cynic: "No. In such a contingency 1 would send the voice of my wife." The other was also married to a ntu sical woman, and his sympathy, though not outspoken, was expressed by an elo quent glance.--Iudianapolis Journal. Answered, "And why," the teacher continued, "should we hold the aged in respect?" " 'Cause it js mostly the old men that has all the money," Tommy an­ swered, and the teacher wasn't able to offer any better reason. -Tit-Bits. Upright Character of James Gordon Bennett in the Newspaper World. The character of James Gordon Ben­ nett as a leader or journalism is admir­ ably summed up in an interesting ar­ ticle by James Creelman. As an edit­ or, says the Writer, Mr... Bennett is im­ patient of political control or partner­ ship. He scents danger in every ap­ proach, and he will deliberately attack a party to prove that he is,not under its dnfluence. According to him, an editor should be a man in a watch- tower, out of sound and out of reach, Otherwise there would be conspiracy' and compromise. Private promises are to be broken in the public Interest. Friendships are to be regarded as traps for the editorial conscience. So Mr. Bennett is a lonely njan in a crowd, a hermit in the midst of bustling life. I can tell one story that illustrates the magnificent perversity and shrewish­ ness that have preserved the Herald as a historic example of incorruptible journalism. When Gen. Crespo under­ took to overthrow the rotten and tyran­ nical government of President Palacio, he had thirty badly-armed Venezue­ lans to follow liim. The revolution was sanctioned by the people, but they were afraid, at first,- to jolu Crespo's stand­ ard. Gradually, however, lie gathered together a small armyt and advanced upon the government, forces. Palacio and his friends,had looted the treasury, money was needed to crush the revolt, and a sum great enough for the purr poses could only be had in Europe. About this time an old friend of Mr. Bennett called upon him in Paris, and explained that the Venezuelan govern­ ment desired to place loan bonds for many millions of dollars, in the Lon­ don market. He informed Mr. Bennett that he was to be the agent of Palacio in the matter, and would make a for- AROUND A BIG STATE BRIEF COMPILATION OF NOIS NEWS. -- • ILLI- Outlaws Try to Rob a Galena Saloon* Fatally Wonnd an Old Man, and Escape--Sad Eate o*f an Old Chicago Gentleman. .. iJesperate Crime at Galena. At 4:30 o'clock Thursday afternoon two tnen entered Chris Bauer's saloon in Ga^ lena and ordered the inmates to hold up their hands. Joseph Bauer, who was in charge of the bar, resisted. One,of the robbers struck him on the head with a re­ volver, and as he fell the other fired, the shot taking effect in his left breast, over the heart, fatally wounding, him. The robbers rifled the cash drawer and then beat a retreat, exchanging shots with a pursuing posse. They crossed the river j from ".the busbies? district jtt a skiff, and overtaking a~ grocery delivery wagon threw the driver from his scat and es­ caped to the country. Sheriff Parker and a posse -of 300 men went in pursuit. The robbers shot indiscriminately at every one they met in their flight. When they had gone several miles they abandoned the horse and ran into the woods. Dark­ ness was coming on and the pursuers could not follow. "I do not quite understand 3rou," said the friend. "It is worth $1,000,000 to support the .other side." "Why, Mr. Bennett, am 1 too late? ! Have the other men seen you?" I "No; not at all. But you have given j me proof that the government of Vene­ zuela deserves to fall. It is worth $1,000,000 to the Herald to be on the right side. I shall back up the revolu­ tion, and let the truth be known to the world." In vain the friend pleaded that his conversation was confidential, and that anewspaperhad no right to take advan­ tage of facts communicated under the seal of secrecy. Within an hour, a cable message set the wonderful machinery of the Herald in motion, and day after day its columns were crowded with dispatches from special correspondents in Venezueala, describing thiev yiwovt the revolutionary army and the weak­ ness of the government. These dis­ patches were reproduced fn all the European capitals, and Pslaefo's bon is could not find a purchaser. Without money or credit, the tyrant fell; and the first act of C'respov after he enter­ ed Caracas at the head! of his victorious army, was to send a long cablegram, at the public expense, thanking the Herald, over his own signature, for Its services in the cause of liberty and constitutional government. Dies In a Sleep Walk; < Benjamin A. Crisler. of Chicago. • 81 years old, while walking in his sleep Sun-, day morying, fell from a third-story win­ dow. .He died a few hours later. Fre­ quently during, twenty years he had walk­ ed in his sleep, but had never before met with 'an accident, Mr, Crisler went to bed Saturday night at the usual hour. All the other members of t lie family were asleep when, he left his bed, and, no one saw him walking in his sleep through the open window of his room fronting the street and forty feet above the pavement. At 12:15 o'clock a passer-by found Mr. Crisler unconscious on the pavement. He was almost on the spot where he had first fallen, and was dressed only in his night clothing. By the open window above the man who discovered the sleep-walker learned where lie resided, and carried him upstairs. A. physician was called. He found only a small cut on the head, but declared internal injuries would prove fatal. At 5 o'clock Mr. Crisler died. He 4*d not regain consciousness. Mr. Cris- ler's death came on the sixty-fifth anni­ versary of his marriage, and prepara­ tions had been made to observe it in a quiet way. He and Mrs. Crisler were married when they were botli very young, and,, the recurring anniversaries of the day were generally celebrated by the family. State News in Brief. "What's the troubTe?' asked Mrs. Jo­ seph Schwichtenberg o-f a man who stood in a crowd at Soutliport avenue and Dun­ ning sireet, Chicago, Wednesday. "A little boy killed by u trolley c.tr," was the man's reply. The woman made her way through the crowd. Lying on the sidewalk, his face covered with blood, she saw her (5-year-old son Joseph, who had been run over and killed. A quarter of an hour before the mother ha'd left the child playing in an empty lot near her--home; Ri a Mining Town. y Clergymen are frequently good st,or> tellers, but as a rule, a proper dignity prevents them from wanting to appear ppi, and kiiiflljf informs me that he that light publicly. The following ould be one of those who would act the assassin and put an eitd to my areer. *• * * Well, In return for his hospitable invitation, I can only ex­ press the desire that he should pene- was narrated to a reporter by a popu­ lar divine: "In the days of my early ministry,.'*' he said, "I thought it necessary to Im­ press thoughts of salvation by evory- ate into one of the dark corners of > thing I uttered, and I am afraid"T was ew Hampshire; and if he do, I am much mistaken if he would not find the eople in that 'benighted region' would be very happy to listen to his argu­ ments and engage in an Intellectual conflict with him, in which tjie truth might be elicited." The popular instinct t once labeled the Mississippi Senator Hangman Foote," and the epithet is still instantly recalled by the men- ion of his name.--Century. A Kussian Artel. An artel is an association of persons who agree to throw their lot together and stand by each other for better or for worse. If the artel is "productive/' the members work together and divide equally what money they earn; if it is 'consumptive," they share equally in the expense incurred. The most mark­ ed characteristic of these associations is the perfect equality which1 prevails among their members. No matter what may be a man's personal gifts or defi- A Story of Senator Hawley, eieneies, from the moment lie enters an Sitting by my side at the convention artel he is simply on a par with his 1 which nominated Lincoln for Presi comrades. He must bear the burdens | dent, writes Isaae H. Bromley, was a they bear, and he receives the «ame re- j newspaper editor who called me "Ike," wards. In his turn he will be the ar- as I called him "Joe." He telman, or chief of his artel; in his turn, j nmg over with enthusiasm. sometimes not altogether discreet. "My first work was in a Western mint­ ing camp, and I bad to remain-over night at a rough hotel to wait for a stage to convey me to my destination. At the table a savage-looking man said, gruffly: " 'What might be y.erdine- young fel­ ler?' " i " 'Saving souls,' I said, solemnly. ".'Ugh,' was the only response.* "After supped, a- coarsely dressed man approached me and' said': " 'Pardner, le' 's make some kind o^ dicker. We're in ther same line, an' thar ain't room fer botli. Thar's a camp furder up the crick whar yo* could1 do well.' "'I think you are mistaken, my friend,' I said, 'I am a minister of the Gospel.' i " 'Sense me, parson; I thought yo' Was-a cobbler."" was run- When the too, he' will be as hewer of wood and i nomination was made he interrupted 3ui S- drawer of water. As the former he will be neither richer nor poorer than as the latter, for the only emolument attached to the office of artelman is shoe money --that is, a4small sum granted as a com­ pensation for the shoes worn out while tramping'about transacting official bus­ iness. " . ... • ;• A Woman Hater Indeed, An opulent gentleman- in the north of England', who had for years shut him­ self out from female society, died not long since, leaving a will the terms of which displayed in an unmistakable manner his hatred of womankind. Ig­ noring females entirely, all his male relative^ were provided with legacies, but on this condition, namely, that the single ones were to forfeit fclieir inherit­ ance the moment they were married, and the married ones were not to come into theirs while their wives were liv­ ing. • . Interested. "My family," said Miss Antique, "came over with the Pilgrims on the Mayflower." "Did they, really?" explained Hicks. "How very interesting! And were you seasick?"--Harper's Bazar. r himself in his hurrahing to say to me, who looked on in wide-eyed silence, "Why don't you hurrah?" I don't know why I did not; but I remember that I felt queer and only said, "I can't hurrah; I should cry if anyone touched me." I came nearer crying when, in less than twel e months, I saw him in uniform at the head of the first Connecticut company that an­ swered the call for troops. He was afterward a brigadier general, Gover­ nor of liis State, and member of Con­ gress, and has lately been elected to his third term as United States Sena­ tor. There were probably other similar cases. It was Joe Ilawley who sat at my elbow. Would Fwanip Him. Ethel--She sails immense; but is she liable to swamp anyone? Beggy--I guess she'll about swamp pa when lie receives the bill for her.-- New York World. Strance. He--I can't get my wife to use the telephone. She--That's strange! I thought your wife liked to have a voice In every­ thing.--Whim-Wham«.. Edward Turley was arrested at Kock- ford on complaint of Thomas Root, who charges him with having robbed him of nearly $1,0(S) in the last few months. Turley formerly worked for Boot and knew the combination to his safe, he also having a key to the front door to his place of business. The safe has been robbed pretty regularly Sunday nights of amounts ranging from $20 to $200. Sunday night bills wer1 marked, which were taken during the night, and Turley was caught passing them. James Muir, who was shot by Ben Dun­ can Saturday night at their private board­ ing house in Kinmundy, died at 10 o'clock Sunday. The evidence in the case devel­ oped the fact that the murder was delib­ erate. The two men had an altercation over some minor affair, and hot words passed between them, but it was thought by those who witnessed the affair that all was settled. A few minutes later Dun­ can went upstairs for his revolver, and, returning, shot Muir in the abdomen. Duncan has not yet been captured. A damage suit which promises to be interesting is on the Circuit Court docket at Fairbury. The complainants are Judge Pillsbury and W. T. Anient, against James Blackmore, Thomas Rich­ ard and James Tyrell for $15,000. The defendants are president and trustees of the village of Cullom, and the complain­ ants, who are attorneys, recovered a judg­ ment in a damage suit against the village In favor of Mrs. Justice. The attorneys tried to collect the judgment from the de­ fendants as officials of Cullom, but they refused to pay, hence this suit is brought against them as individuals on the ground that where a public officer refuses to per­ form his duty, whereby others are in­ jured, such official is personally liable for the damages sustained. ...f, The twenty-second annual banquet of the Itockford College Association was given the other evening at the Lexington Hotel, Michigan avenue and 22d street, Chicago. Covers were laid for 100 guests. .Harriet Wells Hobler was the toastmis- tresS. The invocation was by Dr. Gun- saulus, and the president, Adele Smith Strong, delivered the opening address. The other formal addresses and responses were made by Miss Sutliff, Mary Talcott Pettibone, William A. Talcott, and Car­ rie Spofford Brett. "The Bachelor Girl" was the subject of Catharine Waugh Mc- Culloch's talk, and she was- followed by Elizabeth Ballard Thompson on "The Bachelor Girl's Husband," May Walcott on the "Bachelor Girl's Children," and Jane Addanis on "The Bachelor Girl in Settlement Life." Piano solos were ren­ dered by Alice L. Doty and Otto- Pfef- ferkorn, and vocal selections by Birdena Farwell and Arthur Burton. W. R. Smith, wanted in Chicago on the charge of larceny, has been arrested in Fargo, N. D. Karl Seeberg. employed by Harlow N. Iliginbotham, of Chicago, as a house servant, was found dead in a bath tub in the servants' quarters in the stables Sun­ day afternoon. Seeberg started at 12:30 to take his bath. No one thought of him until over aiK-hour later, when the coach­ man, Paul Lippert, entered the bathroom and found him apparently lifeless and half covered with water. Seeberg was ly­ ing on his back and his head was inclined forward with the mouth under wr.ter. Fred Mogluxe, an employe of the West Chicago Street Railway, was marched into the Harrison street station the other night without even having a barrel to cov­ er his legs. Besides being "slugged" and robbed, of $i5.S0 his trousers and shoes were taken by the robbers. Mogline was -found by Policeman Malley in an alley in the rear of Weber's pawnshop, at. Clark and Harrison streets. His negligee attire consisted of a hat, an abbreviated shirt, a frock coat, and a pair of socks- He. was smuggled through alleys to the. sta­ tion, where his appearance created a sen­ sation. After Mogline hr>.d told his' story lie was taken to a cell until his friends could be notified to bring him clothing. v-.:^ v.- The Star clothing-house, of Freeport. failed, the sheriff taking [-ossession under nine confessions of judffment, aggregat­ ing $0,800. The principa • preferred cred­ itors are the German Ban!=: and Charles Niemaa. There are a cumber of other creditors of the concern, chiefly jobbing- houses, but the amount of their claims could not be learned, nor any statements of the assets, though th*> latter are sup­ posed to be sufficient to, secure the pre­ ferred creditors The business had been established a number o? years. . Two employes of the firm gf Longley, Low & Alexander, hat ini^giove manu­ facturers. at jChieago, nnd ^he keeper of a second-hand store and his clerk, are Prisoners at police headquarters, as the result cf a long series of alleged thefts. While the manager of .the big hat house is unable at present to give a definite esti­ mate of the firm's loss, it is believed that it will reach several thousand dollars. Hats,^ caps and gloves of the value of $..>00 nave already been recovered by the police :-n various second-hand stores. » • Thgmas Lehman, a 0-year-old Chicago )vas the victim of a peculiar accident, wltmh resulted in his di>ath. From the rear of the house hung ~a long rope at­ tached to a pulley, and young Lehman, to show his boyish strength, attempted to haul Ernest Jacobs up to tlio< second story. The tackle was old and broke under,the strain before Jacobs had been lifted six feet. He fell to the ground and escaped injury, but the pulley, which had been pulled loose from its fastenings, struck yougg Lehman op the head, kill­ ing'him instantly. Jennie Parks, a 17-year-old girl hailing from Marion, Ind., ciad in male attire, was taken into custody by Officer.Ma- honey at Cairo. Sh.v Was accompanied by a boy about the same age, who did. libt suspect her sex. The gill's parents sep­ arated during her Chlidlood, her father goingio .Quiiiault,Wash..where he became prosperous. As she grew up she assisted her, mother to earn brena. both working very hard, and they wsrn often separated. A short time ago she thought of her father in his Western home and comfort, and she determined to brnve all obstacles and go to him. Accordingly she cut her*1 hair short and arrayed herself in brother's clothing and so. out. She made her wiy, riding on freight trains. Twice she was put off trajns, , .§l,ve- lia.^ j'no trou­ ble in procuring foot!. '.&he was placed in charge of the Sisl^s of^tbe Holy Cross at Stt Mary's^-uifirinary. ' Some charitable ladies are1*'interesting them­ selves ;n her behalf and will tiommunicate with her father. ; Upon the confession nr one man, three prisoners besides himself fijv held on the charge of being respons:t«L*- for two of the many fires which have occurred in Blue Island within the last year or more. Though the confession does not cover all the fires of suspicious origin which have been taking place in the village, nor does it include the great conflagration of last May, which destroyed $100,000 worth of property, the authorities feel confident they can establish other, eases against them* in a number of instances. The ac­ cused are all ex-members of the volunteer fire department, which has been supplant­ ed since the destructive blaze of last spring by a paid department, and to aJi appearances their alleged motive in start-; ing the Jires was their desire to bring about tfielatter result. They succeeded so far as the change was concerned, but their own connection with the fire light-., ing^crew-was discontmuedT The names of the prisoners are: George Duchene, Tony Madd.v, Emil Pohlson, a saloon keeper, and Fred Vogt, a. tailor. James R. Wyatt, of Cuba, convicted of grand larceny, committed suicide in the county jail at Lewistown Saturday. He left a confession that is sensational. He asked that William F. G'ilham, of Alton, be seat for. Mr. Giilham was found at Chicago and went at once to Lewistown. To him and to a fellow-prisoner named Clifton Clapp Wjyitt confessed that six years j* go he murdered Di T. Giilham, father of William F. G'ilham, at Alton. When Willard L. Giilham read the al­ leged (.oufession he said that he was not surprised at the suicide, but that the confession was absolutoly false and the conclusion to which it led. that the wrong men had suffered for the crime, entirely mistaken. John Brown and George Starkey were charged with the crime. Wyatt was also arrested, and turning State's evidence said he held the horses of the two men while they committed the deed. They were sentenced to thirty years at the penitentiary. Starkey has since died and Brown is still confined. Starkey and Brown stoutly denied the statements of Wyatt r* the trial, and contended throughout that they were in­ nocent men. The voters throughout the State are reminded that the Legislature at its last session resolved to subm.t to the people on Nov. Jl, 1890, an amendment to the Constitution authorizing amendaJw^ to three different articles ~f that instrument at one session^ instead of to one only, which is the present restriction. There are many objections to revising the State Constitution as a whole, among which are the fear of removing the restrictions upon the amount of debt that can be contracted by cities and counties, and up­ on the rate of taxation in counties. It is thought if amendments to three articles are authorized at one session,^the people will liave an opportyn-'ty of correcting administrative abusos or deficiencies without interfering with the general structure of the Constitution; tliafc.is, they can. adopt beneficial changes and reject any that are detrimental. The subject should be thoroughly discussed in the public press, and in the local clubs, it should claim the attention of all candi­ dates for the General Assembly and other State and county offices. It is an entirely nonpartisan measure, and has j b«en adopted by the Conventions of iK&tfr' pd* litica l parties. As the case now - stands, any amendment, ipatter, ficial, is sure of in­ terferes. with some otii^r, j0f<-1>er- haps equal importance coming froai gome- other part of the State. Three amend­ ments tire enough at a time, but not too many to satisfy reasonable demands. A beggar who h'ad $91 in his cap was one of the sensations lis Oak Park the other day. Morris Fraukasto was the man, and he pinned his beggar's permit to his coat and in a whining tone tried to sell envelopes and pencils to Oak Park- itcs. Policeman Wall, however, didn't like the appearance of the man and took hhn before a justice, to whom the beg­ gar explained his case and told how very poor ho was. In the process Frankasto doffed his cap out of respect for the law, and this was his undoing. The $91 rolled' out and the Justice arose to the occasion by fining the beggar $10, and costs. At Elgin, 111., Oct. 12, Rev. Charles Stewart Bain, alia- Charles Wilson, was bound over to the grand, jury on a charge of embezzlement. He a graduate of McCormick Seminary. Several weeks ago Hie widow of the late State Treasurer, Rufus N. Ramsay, filed claims in the Probate Court at Car- lyle, against her late husband's estate ag­ gregating $59,000. Of these claim^ two, amounting lo $24,000, were allowed. The local,creditors of the defunct bank have taken an appeal to the Circuit Court for the purpose of testing the validity of the claims. A spirited 'egal contest will, ensiuf. The Ramsays now reside, in Sj fashionable portion of St Louis. %' "' - --: - ' ' 1. \