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QUESTION. When you are old, and I an old, ^ Aim I K?iuq 3 uxts mc uumcu njcJiiucj.-, And life is as a tale that's told. And only worth what love remembers. If w?* should meet?two quiet folk? And change opinions of the weather, Could word or look again provoke The heart and eyes to speak together? The heart benumbed with so much iche, The eyes bedimmed with so much crying? Do buds long blighted ever break, And green the vine already dying? What hand of skill shall draw the line "TWixi soraia Jove anu xioiv passiuu. What art shall fix the unfailing sign, And bring its reading into fashion? What is the meaning of it all, The chastened woe, the vanished sweetness, If dark Oblivion's night shall fall Forever on its incompleteness? When you are dead, and I am dead, Our faces lost, our names unspoken, Shall then the mystery be read? Can Heaven * bind what Earth has broken? In clearer light and fairer day, With finer sense the impulse proving, Unfettered of this hindering clay. UD, wnat must oe xae joy 01 iu\ uijj. ISABEL; ) OR ( "Prom Shop to Mansion. rhs Romantic Story of a Dress Maker's Rise in Life. RY Mrs. F. M. HOWAhD. c, .. ^ iCopyriq?it6d% 2S59. p|?s!fc r CHAPTER L ' "^F that bow was a "Oil ^tl-e more t0 the jfitf/P' Jj/\ Ti]| right?a half inch, .? '" 5?|i say?I think I should 1 ^ ^ I ^ better." The sP?aker %vas a ^jg imperious - looki n g .. *;3| woman, and the girl 1 tS.M whom she addressed ?^IkLL iia<^ iust tie<* the ~-oS*32h?7 vi/>n ctr*mcrc nf an elegant bonnet for Ip.l \ her inspection in the V i / y " J ,V full-length mirror. \\( * "Very well, mad? am; I can alter it for yoa in one moment." The girl's tone was fully as haughty and cold as madam's own, and there was not a symptom of cringing in the proud face of -that shop-girl." as Mrs. Monteith mentally designated her. She was used to servility and fawning, and of being flattered and told how exceedingly well every thing became her, and, consequently. was not pleased with this quiet atr tendance. Dear me, what an awkward bow you how r? ;inr? Mrs. Monteith petulantly twitched the strings of the bonnet spitefully, as she took it off for the alteration. Isabel Grant looked at her half defiantly, then took the bonnet in her hand, with a strong effort at repression, and biting her lip until it bled to keep tack the words which lonsred to break out in a torrent and overwhelm this aristocratic lady in her violence. She had been in a stormy humor all day, and from the first customer in the morning, : ho fat woman who tried on every hat on the rack, and departed with the purchase ->f a hat-pin, to this haughty Mrs. Monteith at three in the afternoon, she had been rasped and tortured, until every nerve was in a ouiver. "Blessus. Isabel Grant, you look like a thunder-cloud!" said lively Jennie Dewey, is Isabel came back to the work-room for a needle. " Get up your lightning rods, then, if you ire afraid of a storm." replied Isabel, briefly. She was in no humor for joking, ?ven with Jennie. -I'm sure I don't see any need of using Mme. Arnot's needle," saiiianother; "you have pins and needles enough in your expression to supply the whole shop." "For shame, girls; you can't help seeing I hat Isabel is tired and worn out with waittup on those trying customers." * - ^ -T- s3 ~4. Xtie VOlCe was a soi i., xeu tic uuc, <uiu ao its sound the lively girls ceased their tantalizing laughter and looked gently at the speaker; it was sweet Lottie Ford, the lame girl, whose tender sympathies for others was born of int'-ise suffering, and Isabel, having secured her needle, stooped and kissed the white, blue-veined forehead of the girl as she turned to leave the room. ' You have always a soothing word, you little white dove," she said, in a half-whisper, and a gentle expression came over her face as she made her way back to Mrs. ilonteith. It was a very fashionable establishment, its nlate-e'lass show windows were marvels of tasteful beauty, iiung with airy laces and bright designs in ribbons; the show-room itself had Utile to Indicate the character of the establishment except one large rack in the center of the room, hung with trimmed hats, and the row on row of band-boxes on the handsome shelves where the choicest specimens of pattern hats and Parisian styles were kept. Elegant mirrors hung on all sides; easy chairs and little sofas were scattered about for the convenience of the fashionable ladies, whose labors in shopping were supposed to be so exhaustive, but woe to the unlucky shop-girl who should dare sit down on these inviting rests, for Mine. Arnot was a strict disciplinarian and indulged in no inconvenient sympathy for her work people. A mere snop-gtrt was not supposed to be tired, and if she was there were plenty of good, hard chairs in the work room, provided she fount? any time to use one. .._^?-^Ime. Arnot had 110 idea of being a harslfmistress; in fact she prided herself exceedingly on her Christian virtues, and considered herself a particularly amiable [>crson; indsed among a certain class of her customers she was spoken of as that "sweet person," Mrae. Arnot, but the title never extended to the work room. She was a small woman, with blue eyes which were capable of a variety of expressions; to the rich Mrs. Monteith they beamed with good nature and pleasant emotions; to Isabel Grant, the poor shop-girl, a paid pernon, they could flash with a tyrannical gleam that transformed the plump, pretty face completely-. Mme. Arnot had been once poor herself, bitterly poor, and had lisen by various stages to the position she now occupied, and commend me to that person who, with a mean, selfish heart to begin with, rises from poverty to affluence for an example of tbe snob perfect; one who will grind her poor dependents down to the very smallest powder and make them feel her power to the uttermost To say that Isabel Grant felt this amiable quality in JIme. Arnot's make-up is a feeble term; it stuns her, degraded her, filled her very soul with bitterness from day to . day. but as yet she had seen no escape from ; it, for she had her bread to earn. Ttie season was almost over, and only this morning Isabel had received a letter from . her aunt, with whom she had always lived, and it was filled with bitter complaints of ;x>verty, of the husband's drunkenness, and sad bewailings of her hard lot, which sent ;he girl's heart, throbbiu^with pain, down, down like lead, and made her feel as if she had no right in that already over-crowded home. She was no tender-eyed heroine who could yo iuto that disordered household and, with treutle words and saintiy influences, lure coarse John Harmon from his cups ana be a. tower of strength to the long-suffering wife. No, indeed! she felt only too clearly that, harassed, goaded and over-worked as she had been, she would only prove another aieuier.t of discord there, and she longed, with tierce intensity, for some refuge which would take her from it. "Miss Grant, if you can not look more pleasant you had better retire to the wcwk room and let Miss Dewey take your place." >aid Mine. Arnot, coldly, as Mrs. Monteith swept out to her carriage, followed by Isabel's flashing eyes. "Your expression is enough to drive customers away, instead jf attracting them." Taey were alone for a moment, and Mme. Arnot took the opportunity to speak her reproof, but another party coming in she .vas all smiles in a moment. There were several in the party, and dosanding immediate attention, else Isabel u-Duld only too gaidiy have followed Mme. Amot's advice. ar:d retreated to the work room. Upon so small a thread our destinies sometimes ban?, but cno uf Vhem, a bright young lady, who was evidently about to become a b"ide. ciaimed her attendance. Two gentlemen came in with them, a tali. dressed us "Uncle Harvey, ' and a younger gentleman, evidently the bridegroom-elect. It was a pleasant task to wait upon this gentle girl after the rasping experiences 01 the day, and while 5Ime. Arnot smiled lavishly on the elder ladies of the party Isabel brought out the daintiest and most exquisite models of the millinery art for the inspection of the younger lady,who received her attendance with a sweetness and grace which soothed and comforted her in spite of herself. The elder of the srentlemen had thrown himself upon a little sofa, and was watching proceedings with silent attention. Isabel was not a handsome girl. She realized this painfully when placed in contrast with those more favored, but there was in her face an interesting expression which attracted more attention than she knew; her eves, which were large and full, were really fine when lighted up with feeling, or brilliantly electric when in passion: her hair, if allowed to curl, would shapeitself into long, glossy ringlets which well became the haughty poise of her head; but aside from these redeeming features Isabel was undeniably plain; yet few gave her a passing glance, and surely this elderly stranger was not doing so, for he fixeJ his eyes upon her and watched her ever}' movement with intense interest. "Isn't that hat perfectly lovely on Lilly?" said one of the ladies. "I never saw any thing more perfectly in her style." It was indeed a gem, as bonnets go, and was further adorned by the pure, gentle face which it framed. "ilrs. General Lansing ordered one just like it for her daughter; you know they spent their honeymoon in Europe, and the bride was exceedingly particular," said Mme. Arnot; she was all smiles, as these customers were looking at her best goods, and Isabel was redeeming herself in her eves, as she waited on the young bride-to-be with pleased interest. ' How do you like it, Uncle Harvey?" and the young lady whirled gracefully on one toe, interrupting the gentleman in a brown study. '' Me? Oh, I really am not a judge of millinery/' he replied, rather absently. "Besides, the absurdity of asking me for an opinion when Ralph is here." " She knows only too well what my opinion is," said the younger man, gallantly. More badinage was gayly tossed back anil forth, and more hats were brought out and tried on, and amidst the merriment Isabel had forgotten her troubles; even her aunt's unhappy letter had faded from her mind, and she was smiling cheerfully with the rest, and for the moment forgot that she was only a shop-girl, so soothing was Lilly Stanford's gentle manners and pretty speech. Finally the purchases were made, and the party were ready to go. " Why, aren't you going with us, Uncle Harvey f' said Lilly, as the elderly gentleman remained on the sofa, hat in hand. "If you'll excuse me, I believe I'L do no more shopping to-day. You see you have given me no opportunity to select a hat for myself,'' he added, laughingly, "and I can easily walk home when I tind one to suit me." "Quite likely he is going to look up a suitable present lor ljiiiy," saiu one ui tu? eider ladies, nodding her head sagacicush*, "since he can not slay f or the wedding." Meantime Mr. Harvey Falconer had stepped up to Isabel, as she was arranging the deons of the last invasion of bandboxes, and, as the carriage drove away, he said, gravely: "Pardon me, miss, for such an apparently unpardonable liberty, but I would lilie very much to see you alone, with madam's permission,'' *vith a, bow to lime. Arnot smiling behind uer counter. She would have been supercilious under other circumstances, but this man's family were among her best customers, so she restrained her surprise, and said, politely: "Miss Grant, show Mr. Falconer to the parlor up stairs," but there was a trace of suppressed coldness and disdain after all Vk/vi* emiioc onH ViOT- marital MTTI. ycucau. uuw men: was: "What can Harvey Falconer have to say to teat shop-girl?" Isabel led the way to a small but handsomely-furnished parlor on the second floor, and as her companion dropped into the easy chair which she wheeled out for him. he handed her his card, saying: "I hardly know how to commence this interview, which must seem so very strange to you, but 1 have found myseif taking a remarkable interest in you as I have been watching you in the shop, and I wish to inquire into your history, so far as ii. uecessary for a clear understanding between us, and I, in ,ivr> Txrill trivA vnn mv nxvn." WU. ~ J ^ "My history is soon told," said Isabel, with a half smile. "I am Isabel Grant, an P\v/, )l ote. Mlmm "now DO YOU LIKE IT, CXCLE HARVEY orphan, and my home has been with an aunt who is poor like myself; my home is not a happy one." She wondered at herscif that she could give these particulars so freely to one whom she had never seen before, but there was something in this man's face that was kind and reassuring, and, without being able to explain why, she felt as if there was no strangeness in his request. He looked at her kindly and search in gly. "You are heart-whole?" he said, inquiringly. "Perfectly so," she replied; "I have had no time for love-making. I will not deny I have had my dreams of a home, and my ideals of what that home should be; but, sir, why do you ask me these questions?" She looked at him fearlessly and inquiringly. ' First let me return your confidence, and I will answer your questir " he replied. "T n t-no vif o rrr\ T KhvJa/1 JL rtUi ?v ? Vk *wi. , U > V/ J? VCfci O J. OUl 1VU my life's dearest hopes, in the person of my wife, whom I loved more tenderly even than I knew until I was forced to give her up. ] thought, then my heart was broken, and that I could never love again. I am something of a mind-reader, and while you were waiting upon my niece I studied you carefully, and I saw in your face the index to a m:nd akin to my own. "Never, since my darling Mattie died, have [ seen a woman who seemed, like her, to be a part of myself, and as I looked at you, and felt this mysterious drawing towards you, I resolved that, however strange and unconventional the proceeding might be, 1 would ask for this interview and make your acquaintance." Isabel smiled a little skeptically: " Your interest is indeed strange, sir, toward a humble workwoman. If I were in the higher walks of life, such as I imagine you to be familiar with (he had an air of quiet good-breeding which justified her assertion), the interest would be moT'e natural; as it is, perhaps I am vicious and designing as well as poor." "No, you are not." he replied, positively. "I have made faces a study, and I read no bilitv in yours, true, the circumstances you Vi-1,-.^ mnnTlnn*^ m?V iiaVC ieilt 11 blttei* tlllgC to your character; I could readily believe that, for I do not imagine poverty, dependence or continual strife calculated to bring out the best emotions of the soul, but. Miss Grant, I read unswerving integrity in your face, undeveloped power, :md ;;n ability to control self that 1 am assured will make *- : .o., tiovrt rho nr\. you a nooie woman, n ,n'u ~ v~ portunity for the development of these better qualities.'' "But, sir. granted that this supposition is correct, how can it bo helped ?" This view of her case was an inspiring one, in spite of the fact that it came from one so entirely a stranger; she had groaned in spirit under the knowledge that she was growing every day more un ; amiable ?nd frcuui. Sou- muVa of this was due to mere ; physic:.! disability sha did not, realize, but, ; r.i: imcs, it seemed as if she could not bear another pinic;e of strain upon lier over-1 > strung1 nerves. i The time had been when she could bear j I Mine. Amor's almost intolerable arrog-ance with, gooi nature, could endure,' John Harmon's coarseness with patience, I and help her aunt bear her heavy burdens with tender sympathy, but that time had passed by. and she little realized how near she was to a complete breaking down, both j physical and mental. t: rn"? ?" on incnrvorohlo "ha | - iut; jimtiu j rier; the unhappy home is growing more I and more tangible and unalterable, and my position as dependent upon Mme. Arnot's freaks of temper, or others just like her, seems just as inevitable as before." She spoke bitterly now; the remembrance of her aunt's letter loomed up before her, and all the trials of her lot seemed doubly unbearable in the light of this glimpse of better things, and she dropped her head upon her hands in dejection. ' >"o. Dot inevitable," said Sir. Falconer, slowlv: "there is another life before you where none of these things can come. I ;aa offer you a home," she raised her head f?& i | . f H$f\) I n h%?\X 1 \\ ^UC-.T i|r t*' ?? ? ' C3L <<* X 1^" SHE SPOKE BITTERLY NOW. -.- _ ? with a startled expression "where there is plenty and peace at least, and through the medium oi' which I hope to win your love in due time. This home is with me, and as my wife. Will you marry me?" CHAPTER II. ' I am aware that my proposition is a strangely startling one," said he, geatlv, as Isabel ioolced at him with clasped hands as if in a dream; ''but I leave the city to morrow, ana 1 wis a 10 iuite .vuu witu me, and release you at once from the hardening influences by which you are surrounded." "To-morrow!"' said Isabel, repeating the words after him, mechanically; release from all these harassing things to-morrow, and through such an unlooked-for medium, no wonder the girl was dazed. " But your family, your friends, what will they say to your marrying ashop-girlT' she said, her mind going back to gentle Lilly Stanford, irrelevantly, because it ready had so little to do with, the matter, but feeling for the moment as if scorn and aversion toward her in that sweet young face would be more than sho could bear; worse, indeed, than her present ills. "My family!" he replied, haughtily; "fortunately I am entirely independent of their fancies, and fuilj- old enough to choose for myself; besides, they are sensible and kind, and if I am happy, will love you for my sake, until they can do so for their own. Take a little time, Miss Grant, and think over the matter calmly before giving me an answer, i can give you undoubted reference as to my character before the marriage." "Onequestion,"she said,gravely; "I have seen what a love of stimulants can do in a home whether it be rich or poor, and I have vowed sacredly never to marry a man who indulged in them, even in the lea:>t degree." She looked at him interrogatively. "Pave no fears in that respect," ho replied, earnestly. *'I despise any thing of the sort as much as you can do, and I honor you the more for your resolve in regard to it. I never use liquor in any form." She raised her eyes and looked in his face long and searchingly; she, too, had a faculty for reading faces, or rather her instincts read for her, and rarely betrayed her; she saw in this case an honest manliness in thrj face before her which inspired her with confidence, and going to him she stretched out her hands, sajing, with a tearful smile: "Mr. Falconer, if you are willing to abide the consequences of this impulsive act, I will accept your offer, and earnestly strive not to disappoint you." He rose, and taking her hands in his, said quieuy: "Jtsaa.u uc (.uc&iuuy <->1 m.> wc w convince you that your informal choice is a wise and happy one. I leave the city tomorrow at 2:15. Shall we fix the ceremony at one, in this room?" , ' As you please/' replied Isabel; she was yet too bewildered to give attention to details. "Very well, I will call in the morning at ; nine, and ask Mme. Arnot for permission to use her room.1 "Isabel Grant, do, for pity's sake, tell us what Harvey Falconer could wish to see : ?/oil for.'' cried Mme. Arnot, who "was in the : work-room when Isabel entered it at last, with a preoccupied, far-away look in her ( eyes. "We are dying to know!" said Jennie Dewey: "has he gone into the millinery business and offered you a position as saleswoman?"' The idea of Isabel and bonnets i seemed inseparable. "HQhas offered me a position," replied Isabel, dreamily, "not as a saleswoman, but as his wife." ..J 44 His wifealmost screamed lime. Arnot ! in her surprise; "Harvey Falconer, the millionaire; nonsense, girl, you're joking." | "The millionaire.'" It was Isabel's turn now to be surprised; she had thought little ' of his position in life, and had supposed him to be a comfortable tradesman, or, to come nearer the truth, she had had no definite thoughts on the subject except as rns woras, "peace and plenty,' suggested a home of comfortable abundance, and she sank into a chair trembling. "I'm not joking," she | said, faintly, "but I had no idea he was " man ot such wealth when I accepted him.M "There will be a fine humming among his aristocratic friends when they hear he has married a shop-girl," said Mme. Arnot, , scornfully; she had married a canal driver in her days of poverty, in lieu of a better offer, and through all her years of prosperity he had remained the same, low, vulgar and illiterate, a creatu ' to be kept out of ! sight o* her present circle of friends, so far as possible, and it galled her and filled her 11 cT-iVi.it & <rirl. hitherto dependent upon. her for lier daily bread, should by one stroke of fortune rise so high above her in the social scale which she would occupy as Harvey Falconer's wife. ' But there's no danger! He's fooling you, girl; he'll ncv?r marry you!" ' Tune will tell," was Isabel's quiet reply. 1 It seemed to her now, in the family atmosphere of the work room, that it was all a dream, and that Mme. Arnot's disdainful words were only too reasonable, but, as she had said, time would tell, and a very short time, for Mr. Falconer's last words bad been: ' Expect me at nine to-morrow." ' In case of such an absurdity occurring, I will give you just one year to get behind my counter; no good resulcs could possibly 11 J come from suc& a strange auiance,-- auu Mine. Arnot flounced out of the room far from gracefully, and tho girls were left alone. "The spitefulold cat 1" said Jennie Dewey, indignantly; "it's no wonder she envies you, Isabel, in comparing Mr. Falconer with horrid John Arnot; but do tell us all about it." But Isabel could not; she was not, a gushing or effusive girl, and her deeper feelings especially were inexpressible. Mr. Fal Tsr*_? '-tiese in his conversation, and she could no n.^.? ^ve repeated it than she could have brought out loT^r'-^ection the tenderest of love making. ' It ail seems so unreal," she pleaded; "all I can tell is that he propos ed to me and I accepted him." ' For Miss Grant," said Ellice Ryan, coming in from the shop at the moment with a small package. ' That certainly looks hke tangible proof," said Jennie, as Isabel undid the package and disclosed a plusti box which, when opened, revealed an elesrant diamond ring. Mr. Fal oner must have studied the slender white lingers to advantage during his stay, for the ring fitted her engagement finger to a nicety. A new, sweet feeling stole into her heart with the gift; she had not been used to being considered and cared for, and a new world was opening up before her; one of responsibility also, for she held this man's i happiness as ivell as her own in her hands,; and the question -whether or not she would; fail in the trust committed to her was a serious one. 'Dear me! you wouldn't catch me looking so liiie an owi it i naa some one to sena mt; diamond riDgs," cried Jennie, as Isabel! turned the briiliant slowly around on her; finger. "Dear Isabel, I am so elad for you," said gentle Louie Ford, rising and limping over to her side, where she stood caressing the waves of Isabel's dark hair, as she whispered softly: "I believe he is a good man, and that is worth more than gold or dia monds." "Yes. Lottie," replied Isabel, in a whisner also; "yet that seems to De the last thing others think of. If I could not have felt that he was good and true, I would never have consented." Nine o'clock precisely brought Mr. Falconer to the shop, where he proffered his request with the air of a man who knew what he was about. Madam was all smiles, and seeing that the affair was a reality and near at hand, began to alter her deportment toward Isabel materially, in hope of gain to herself: the future wife of a millionaire being a person cf much more importance in her eyes than plain Isa el Grant. She cou:d not forbear one little malicious shot, however, and she asked with a touch of sarcasm in her honeyed tones: "Do your friends, the St-m fords, attend ttie wedding ?'' "Mrs. Falconer will make the acquaintance of my friends in her own home, mauam," replied Mr. Falconer, coldly; he understood the sarcasm perfectly, and resented it. "I observe that the ring fitted, Miss Grant," he said, gravely, taking her hand; there were too many curious eyes about to indulge in aught but commonplaces. "I wonder you could have guessed so accurately," she replied. "At one, then, you will be ready," he continued, still holding her hand. "Yes." How strong he was; how his presence swept away all the objections which, t>iA flarknfiss and solitude of nicrht had surrounded her, came trooping to her mind, suggesting a thousand tormenting thoughts and fears. "If there are any expenses to be met you will allow me to defray them," making a motion toward his breast pocket Mme. Arnot had withdrawn her fharp eyes for the moment. "Oh, no, no," and she shrank back hastily; "1 have been frugal and am well supplied for the present." There was little accomplished in the work room that morning, the prospect of the wedding in the afternoon effectually dissipating business ideas. Isabel would almost have preferred leaving her life at Alme. Arnot's where she had taken it up, in tne worn room, dut; sne Danished the idea as a sentimental one. All the girls were to be present at the ceremony, and Kiuv Ray remarked that they owed Isabel a vote of thanks for gcttingthem a srlimpse of madam's parlor, which, though nothing grand in itself, she held sacred from the intrusion of her shop-girls, but in this instance she could not refuse therequest of the rich Mrs. Falconer to be. She was too busy during the short time remaining to have many ideas aside from packing her slender wardrobe into a trunk several sizes too small for it. "I suppose the next time you travel you will have a Saratoga :runk with a cupola on it," said Jenn;e, as she dextrously fitted Isabel's ' v'st hat into a box. "The future looks like a vast untried sea." veuiied Isabel. uso entirelv vaerue that I make no calculations on what may or may not come to me." "Not even in the prosaic matter of a trunk,*' laughed Jennie ;-'now, I should have a whole wardrobe, hung with elegant dresses, and half a jewelry store blocked out in my mind if I stood in your shoes." Isabel dressed herself in her best, a plain brown silk, suitable for traveling, with bonnet and wrap to match, and she looked quite as stylish as ilrs. Stanford herself, and Mr. Falconer looked at her in pleased surprise as he, in company with a clergy ~ HiiilJ, Uaiuu iuiu tuu paiiUi, uo iiau uuaj seen ber in her plain shop dress, and to-day she had let down her hair and allowed it to take its natural bent, the little tendrils curling about her forehead and quite transforming her x>lain face. "A decidedly finelooking woman," was Harvey t^coner's inward comment, "and will fit into her surroundings like a charm." . The solemn service was soon said, the heavy wedding ring slipped into its place, and after bidding the girls an affectionate good-bye, Isabel Falconer -was handed tc the carriage in waiting, and bade adieu forever to her life at Mme. Arnot's, and it remained to be seen whether Harvey Falconer had read her character aright, or had mad? a falsft mnvfi in th<> mitib nf lifA. [To be continued.] | A Stormy Session. St. Paul, Minn., July 8.?The State executive committee of the Farmer's Alliance met here yesterday and later a conference for the purpose of organizing a new people's party in Minnesota was held. Donnelly, who had been appointed chairman ofthtfMinnesota committee by the Cincinnati convention, presented the ame of the full State committee. Sen"iA isv/wIa*. /\f onfi_TlnnnolW tllUJ. ULV1-L1 jJC, icauci ui iuv Alliance faction, objected to the new committee. Debate prew warm and finally a compromise was adopted, Lhough Donnelly objected strenuously. A compromise committee of five announced a new committee late in the afternoon divided between two factions. Another fight then arose on some member of the committee. Ex-President Pt. J. Hall denounced Editor Fish of the Great West as a traitor and called him a liar, when the latter attempted to defVm/l Mmcolf Thp. rpnnrf, was adonted and the new State committee met last night. Horrors of Heathendom. San Francisco, July 3.?The steamer China arrived this evening: from Hong Kong and Yokohama. The threatened riot at Nanking took place. The Meth odist girls'school was attacked, pillaged and burned on May 25 bv a Chinese rabble. Several other mission buildings were attacked and would have been demolished but for the interference of soldiers sent bv the vicerov after urgent appeals from the missionaries. Further rioting is expected at Kin Kiang. The outbreaks are said to be the work of secret societies, the prime object not being to injure foreigners, but to entangle the Chinese Government in foreign complications in the hope that thereby a successful insurrection may be started. At Tanlang on June 1 a mob pillaged the mission building, overpowering the mandarin and soldiers. The Christian cemetery was dug up, the heads piled in a heap and the man darin dragged to the spot Dy His queue. The Governor of Annan reports beheading of twenty-live ringleaders in the troubles at Nichu. The Storm at Galventon. Galveston, July 8.?The loss on Galveston Island from Sundav night's storm did not amount to more than $1,500. The^citizens were more scared than Hurt, xne nsuing smacK jjama, commanded by Capt. Robert Frankovich, was wrecked off Smith's Point, on the north side of Galveston Bay, during the squall Monday morning, and five of the six men aboard of her were drowned. Those drowned are: Robert Frankovich, Frank Millovich, Fete Strangel, Jack Speech, and an unknown man. News of the terrible disaster was brought to the city Monday evening by Vincent Sagovitch, the solo survivor or the iittie craft. The sloop Mattre left last night to search lor the bodies of the unfortu at a Dance. Washington, Pi*., -'.uly 8.-An incident occurred at McDonald, Washington county, in which a young girl T^Ajjied Margaret O'Hara lost her life. A nura* ber of young folks were holding a dance at McDonald and had the platform lighted by coal-oil lamps, hung above the heads of the dancers. One of the lamps became detached, and falling at the feet of Miss O'Hara, exploded, which her clothes caught fire, and^^ was soon enveloped in flam?^E^ dames were soon extinguishec^B^HE late to save her liie, as she^^^Rt night in the most terrible ag|iffl||Pr KILLED BY ELECTRICITY j FOUR MURC?*ERS ELEC*ROCUT?0j A*!' :sN<2 SiNG Pf.lSO.v. Tlirre VTa* u T?fr!o!?i ?'jo<-k :?? > i jn is O-jllyion?Nothing So 'itTrjf t!)i* tors?'The Men Died Without, a Strug- j Cle. Sing Sing. 2s. Y., July 7.?The four) miserable murderers?Sloe urn, Smilcr, | Wood and Jugigo? wfre put to death J here earlv this morning in the electrical i chair; the first named at 4 20 y. rn. and the others later, at interval of about i half an hour apart?Jugigo, the last! victim, receiving the deadly lightning j stroke at 0.05 a. in. Most of the men were awake when, [ shortly before 4 o'clock, the priests and j the chaplain appeared. Chaplain Ed- i gerton spoke a lew words of comfort to Jugigo, when he told him that the end was near, but the Jap did not receive them in a grateful spirit, and the chaplain passed on to Smiler's cell, while the two priests busied themselves respectively with Slocum and Wood. The condemned men took very calmly the announcement that the sentence was about to be executed. They were dressed when the chaplain and the priests entered. Their clothing was much alike?a suit of dark diagonal, white shirt and collar and black tie. About 4 a. m. the witnesses distributed themselves about the death chamber. The electrician was in charge of the at?Daratus for measuring the cur rent, which was fastened to the shle of the closet opposite the entrance to the cell room. It consisted of a volt-meter, a resistance coil, and a row of twenty incandescent lamps, each measuring 100 volts. A heavy switchboard formed the connection between the wires from the dynamo room at the other end of the prison grounds and the wires in the executioner's closet adjoining. A push button communicated with a signal bell in the dynamo room. When the witnesses had ranged themselves about the room, the electrician touched this button once. The engineer responded to the signal and start* d the dynamos. They had been tested up to 3 000 volts during the morning. "When the current bad been turned on the electrician threw the switch which turned it into the row of lamps above his bead. They burst into a glow of light that rivalled the daylight shining through the canvass covering of the the windows about the sides of the improvised execution room. The testing apparatus showed again a satisfactory strength of current. The electrician advised"the warden of this fact. The warden went to the great iron door at which stood one of the assistants, whom he had appointed under warrant of the law, and it was opened to permit him to pass through, ile was cone onlv a couple of minutes. In that time he had notified Head Keeper Connaughton. who was iu the condemned cell room, that the chair was ready for the first of the condemned men. The death warrant was not read to the coodemned mea in the cell as was done in the case of Kemmler. The warden had said that he did not know anything in the law requiring hiin to read the death warrant. As a precautionary measure he would read it, tut not at the time of the execution? sometime before, if possible. It was ? - -?""ant t liu mpn nib WISfl IU piCYClilr Uli VV4JVA. knowing that the first man had been taken from his cell if it was possible to do so. So the exit from the cell room was made as quietly as possible. The warden and the head keeper walked ahead, then the condemned man, between the two priests, Father Creeden and Father LyDcb, then the two guards. When the witnesses had gathered m the chamber some of them appeared wrv nervous, and ail showed signs of great strain on their sensibilities, islocum had been selected *s the lirst j victim, and as soon as the good priests i had finished their supplications, he i said he was ready and stepped out of j bis cell with alacrity. The walk to death began. Following the Warden and his deputy came ^locum, between two priests, who held aloft in front of him a crucifix, at which he steadfastly gazed. Two keeper deputies brought up the rear of the fatelul procession. Slowly the heavy doors swuug back, and with a solemn tread and mien the little procession walked into the room There silence of death prevailed. They had but few steps to take. The chair was directly in their front. As the leaders parted the chair stood out in all of its awfulness before the man about to sit in it and die. Slocum halted at the Warden's command just on the edge ot the rubber mat which was to protect those who were watching his life go out. The doomed man's gaze was riveted on the chair. Then it wandered to the dangling wire and the closet from which it was suspended. Back to the chair it came like a needle to the magnet, and he started as though he had received a shock from the wire when the Warden began reading the death warrant, while the reverend men engaged in silent prayer. The witnesses were grouped to the left of the chair. The scientists stood in front of! the switchboard watchiag the current, which they read like a book as it Hashed in the lamps and through the recording instruments. The executioner was heard to rise from his chair in the closet and place himself ready to do his duty. With an attempt at a smile Slocuin 1 ^ * L ~ r,r?r] IAOT?DH seated niinsen m me wan ?uu n_am.u his head back against the rubber rest as though he was simply preparing to be shaved. The forced smile remained on his face, and as Fathers Creeden and Lynch took up their position iu froni, of him he again directed his gaze ! at the cross while Connaughton began fastening the straps. Slocum's eyes were clear and he appeared to be" in perfect physical condition, lie took his eyes from the cross long enough to aid Deputy Warden Connaughton in his task, and then until the shield was placed on his face, his lips moved in prayer as he looked fixedly at the cross. Straps crossed and re-crossed his body an,} his lees were tightly bound to the foot rest. ~ Then hisarms were Listened and iSlocum could no longer move a muscle. Finally an oddly arranged set of straps that oound his chair in one position and covered his eyes were put in place. Now Doctors MacDonald and Rockwell and Professor Laudv approached to attach the electrodes." The positive electrode was placed on Slocum's head, the same as in the Ketnmler electrocution. The negative electrode was attached to his right ieg, the trousers having been folded up for this purpose before Slocum was bound in the chair. When the electrodes had been satisfactorily adjusted and the wires attached the three scientists glanced at the switchboard, said the current was steady and registered 1,(500 volts. Doctors Mac Donald and Hockwell then stood on either side of tfts chair. Other physicians among the witnesses drew near, while the laymen stood back as though not sure of their nerves. Doctors Daniels, Southwick and "Ward took special interest in these preliminaries ana with watch in hand waited the signal. Warden Duston of Auburn prison stood alongside Warden Brown and offered suggestions. All this had taken less time taan it has to i "Ptv\foccrtr T.qnrlr's h:inri frrasDs.'i I the handle of the switch which turned the current into the wires in the eiecirocutioners closet. Warden Brown raised his hand and Professor Laudy turned the switch. Then the Warden tapped on the closet. The unknown inside gave a quick pull to his rubber covered lever. The electric fluid was released before the sound of the tap reached Slocum's ears, and like lightning's flash it sped through his body. 'There "was not a tremor of the body as a physician counted the seconds, and when Professor Laudy turned off the current Slocum sat rigid and lifeless in the chair. Wliin !'ae electrodes were reicijY.-ci it was dis-'-ovtred that his skuli tin*! the ilcbh */f hi> lej had been si]y i-"t T':?-re ?vns no 3ti!6ll * - * ?- !. o . o /.ii. 1 a- v.iv J Kraj.-:!.rr i.U e'roeur.^i. oc horrible ] 'i'iiP .strs-.-s vVi re ;2i:ii>--se.i and ;;e ij' dy { Cirri; d bick i;-*o the rear room. Su:i er :: i-"i, hesitate ?vh?T! tolt? j hi:.. LuUl had CO'-.r, but wht-u ilie death chair appeared before him he almost fell to ihe lloor. His knees knocked together and but for the suppoit of his spiritual advisers he would certainly have collapsed. Warden Brown quickly read the death -warrant, and hauler was hastily seated in the chair. Ilis lace tooK on a ghastly hue and Connaug'nton got no assistance from this victim in arranging the straps. Smiler was bound and the electrodes applied in a much briefer time than Slocutn.and in a lew seconas trailer also was <leid. The same slight burning under the electrodes was noticed as in Slocum's case. Wood had been prepared by Fathers Creeden and Lynch while Smiler was jroing to his death and he was all ready, lie uttered no word when the time catne. He walked to death supported b< liie priests. Wood betrayed 110 emotion when he gazed upon the chair, but kept his eyes fixed on the crucilix. He sat down in the chair diffidently and his binding was accomplished so quickly that it was only twenty-four miDutes trom Siniler's end until death came to Wood. It was becoming easy to kill men. The witnesses displayed no emotio-j. There was nothing to cause nausea, and death came to its victims so quickly that it was all over before they realized it. Jugiro at first refused to leave his cell, but when Connaughton said'Come on, Joe, be a brave man,' the Jap walked out quietly. Two additional keepers marched one on each side of the Jap, while the chaplains followed behind the warden and his deputy. The Jap did not seem to comprehend the purposes of the chair and seated himself without a protest. A keeper assisted Connaughton in binding tbe Jap and the last act was quickly accomplished. ullmvorl tr> remain in the Jap's body about three seconds longer than with the three others; accordingly his skull and leg were strongly marked by the electrodes. Jugiro's body was taken away. Six beils were struck as a signal to the electrician in the dynamo room that all was over, and tise witnesses returned to the Warden's room. The approximate time of turning on the current in each case was: Slocum. 4.40: Smiler, 5.10; Wood, 5.30; Jugiro, <5.05. The prisoners had received some intimation beforehand that the execu tions were to take place this morning and tliey were prepared for them. {They went to the execution chair bravely and met their late without a straggle. They offered no resistance, but rather assisted the keepers when they were bound down in the chair. The electrodes were not applied as in the Kemmler case to the top of the skull and the base ot' the spine, but were bound to the forehead of the condemned men and the calves of their legs. The. current was turned on in each case for twenty seconds. The voltage was about 1,500 and 1,600. Iu each case there was apparent evidences nf revival ms in TCemmler's case, and in eacli of these four cases the current was turned on a second time. In spite of the fact that the sponges were kept constantly wet all of the executed men were burned oy the current, and especially about the calves of their legs. Medical men present agree that death came 011 the lirst contact and that the seeming revival was mprely reflex muscular action. None of the witnesses was overcome by fright and ail of them who have spoken have nude the statement that the electrodes were successful and that death in all cases was in stantaneous ana paimesa. A Total Accident. Charleston. S. 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