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THE/1T5T fiorenceB\ Aumoc. iof^lhc Mouse l Copyright, 18SE, by I CHAPTER XXII. Continued. "I thought it was Miss Theodora She "was always running in and out o the garden, feeding the chickens o looking for eggs or fetching wood froa the stack at the side of the house o water from the well." "So that you just thought it was she and then troubled yourself no mon about it?" ? "Yes." "Did you hear, or think you heard her come in again?" There was a pause. Then Nell whis pered: "Yes." "When was it?" "It was?a long while after, just be * fore I took the tea into the dining room." Sir Neville laid down the pen whicl he had been holding, clasped his hand: and looked over his writing-table a her with an air of exasperation. "Now, my dear girl, why on eartl dicln't you tell the coroner that?" "I couldn't have told them that ir my answers to their questions?' repliec Nell, earnestly. "Don't you remembe; that all they apked me was whether' had been outside the house, not wheth er I had heard anybody else go in o: out?" Sir Neville did remember. Se aske( one more question. "I have heard a report that a canvai bag containing the money collectet for the shipwrecked sailors on th< night before your uncle went out o: his mind was found in your room. Ij that true?" "No, sir. Meg, my uncle's servant and I found it on the mat at the foo of the stairs. And that is really all ] have to tell you, sir." said Nell, witl an air of relief at having finished th< odious recital. "Well, that is enough for our pur pose, fortunately," said Sir Neville, a: lie rose to ring tne ueii. ahu boa you must come into the drawing-roon and let Lady Neville give you a glasi of wine. You are a little bit of a her ' oine, although you have certainlj not done much to facilitate the cours( of justice," he wound up, with a dig nified shake of the head. But Nell refused to go to be showi off in.the drawing-room, refused ever to have a glass of wine or a cup of tes brought to her in the study before sh'f went. She was white, trembling, mis erable. But she felt that she wancec to be alone, to cry her eyes out nt th( terrible fact that she had been forcec at last to assist the justice which sh( would have diverted from the crim Jnal if she could. One question, how ever, she had to put in her turn befor< Bhe left the presence of the magistrate "They will bring it in that she was mad, of course, will they not?"' sh( asked, anxiously, but with an attempi to appear quite 6ure of his answer. Sir Neville's answer was not reas suring, and the look which accompa nled it was still less so. "That is a matter for after consideration." ' Nell walked to the d?or with stag gering feet. Miss Theodora a murder ess! In danger of penal servitude, il not of hanging! The thought was toe overwhelmingly horrible! Nell tottered to the cab and was driven back to lier lodging at Court stairs in an almost fainting condition a few minutes before the police ser geant who had been her escort to Si] v Neville's started for Shingle End witl 1 a warrant for Miss Bostal's apprehen sion. CHAPTER XXIII. It was the police sergeant who hac taken Nell Claris to Sir Neville Ba? who had brought to Shingle End th< warrant for Miss Bostal's arrest. This warrant he had not, so far, had an op portunity of showing to the Cuionel Now, however, that the lady had dis appeared, and it had become necessary to search the place, and more thor oughly, the sergeant respectfullj turned to the old gentleman to inforn the latter of the authority by which b< acted. Colonel Bostal, divining the man'! Intention, made a gesture of horror and without staying either to hear thi man's explanation or to look at tin warrant, retreated hastily into th< house. Clifford, however, caught sight Of thi paper in the officer's bauds, ana some thing of the truth was suddenly re vealed to hiin. It flashed upon him s< abruptly, this knowledge, that tht shock turned him sick and giddy. I was some minutes before he could ask in a hoarse and tremulous voice: "Is that a wan-ant?" "Yes, sir." "For whom?" "Miss Bostal." And the policeman continued hi search about the garden and the liousi for the lady who had so mysteriousl; disappeared. "Then it is ? Miss Bostal ? whon George Claris wants to see?" The innkeeper, who had now sal) sided into a stolid silence and trau quility, was watching the front doo of the house. It was Hemming wh answered: "Yes, sir. He's not quite himsel yet, but he's not too far off it to hav been of use to us. We've had him ue der our eye these last few days, an whenever he gets the chance he make straight for this house, and clamors t see the woman wlio robbed him. .S we brought him with us to-night t confront her. She wouldn't give u the chance till we got the warrant." "She doesn't seem to mean to giv you a changg now," observed cunorci Hemming affected to think that he capture was only a matter of minute! as he kept to his post, watching tb front of the house, while the othe men searched thepremises at the bad But he hardly looked so confident n might have been expected from hi :words. * . Indeed, he had cause for uneasinesi ' 'f . ER.T- or-TME ^^^^^inimii'iiiimiiiiF^ Varden?K* : or\ IUc A&rsh," crc-j i?bert Bonner's Sons.* | It was he "tvho liad first conceived susI * rni 3 ^^,1 U pJCJOUS OI 1U1SS -LUtrULlUlU, auu n iiau taken all the ingenuity of which he f was master to get together enough evir denee against her to justify him in a asking for a warrant. The sight of an r old scar on one of her little hands, on the occasion of one of his visits 'o . Shingle End, had suggested to him j that she might have been the woman whose hand be had burned with the fuse at the inn. % [t But it had been a long time before he could make out a case?not, indeed, . until he had thought of using the now half-witted George Claris, whom he had got out of the hands of simple Nell under a promise, which had been . faithfully kept, that he should be well . taken care of, and that he should return to her very shortly. Even then the difficulties in the way of the police had been great At first Claris was : sullen and taciturn. No questions would obtain from him a clear answer as to the events of the night which had turned his brain. It was not until that very afternoon that he had accused Miss Bostal by name of the thefts, and this furnished the police with enough data for further proceedings. Clifford listened in dumb bewilderment. 'TVVi?+ non eho hnvo rtnnp it for? Is j she mad?" asked he, presently. Hemming shrugged his shoulders. 5 "Doesn't look much like madness to 1 have shot the man who was going to > inform against her,:' said he, dryly, f "Good gracious! Then you think 3 she " It was hardly conceivable to him , even yet that the prim, rigorous little t old maid, who had been so much [ shocked at his walking along a country i road on Sunday in a light suit, could i have been guilty of the systematic crimes now laid to her charge. In the . silence which followed his words one s of the two Stroan policemen came up. r "She's got away," said he, in a low j voice. "We've hunted all over the i place. There's no way by which she . could have got back into the house." r "How could she have got far with ? that short start of youV" asked Hem. ming, incredulously. "I don't know, but she's done it. i I'm going to search the house, so you i keep your eyes open." l The front door had been left open ? by the Colonel, whom the sergeant . found in the dining-room, sitting with [ head bent over the dying embers of the > fire. !ine man felt sorry for him and 1 bpunt' 111 CL OUUUUCU TV*VV? ? "Beg pardon, sir, but I shall have to . search the house again." The old man acquiesced by a nod, ; and the officer withdrew. From the . ground floor to the first floor, from the 3 first floor to the attics, he hunted in ? every corner. Hardly in vain. For t although he did not find Miss Bostal he found evidence enough of her pre. datory habits to convince any jury of . her guilt of the minor crime of theft at least. Under the boards of the attics, sewn up in the mattress of the lady's own . bed, hidden away in holes in the dis. used chimneys, the officer found a f hoard as varied as it was interesting. > Money, in notes anu silver and gold; jewelry, of little value for the most 5 part and apparently taken new from . shops; half a dozen men's watches, , pencil-cases, purses, pieces of stuff, . scraps of lace, card-eases, suver spoons r and forks. These were a part only of i what he found. . Covered with the dust of years mosl of them were; the gold and silver tar nished and discolored with age and damp. On the whole a fine collection, 1 and amounting in value to some hun: dreds of pounds. ? Nothing less than a sheet was of any 3 use to hold the collection, and even - when the sergeant made his way . down the'stairs with a huge bundle on his back he felt by no means certain 7 that there was not more behind. A bent figure stood in front of him r at the opening of the dining-room i door. 1 "Am I under arrest, too?" asked the Colonel, in tranquil tones. 3 "No, sir. But we've got to watch , the house." 2 "And what have you got there?" 2 The policeman, by the dim light of 1 the lamp in the passage, displayed his find in silence. In silence, also, the 2 Colonel looked, and immediately with drew into the room. The sergeant left - the house and met Clifford on the lit3 tie path leading to the gate. He ; jerked his head back in the direction t of the house. "Sorry for the old gentleman!" said he, in a low voice. "It's about broke him up, has this. He's moping tbere, all by himself." To be Continued. 3 Sewed Up For the Winter. e This is a true story, and it was P told to the reporter by a prominent ?? nnof t'ulo Cnttl O. W UiUCl IJLi UUU Ul IUC CUCI Oiuv otvv**. 11 inents. The other day a woman living in Rivington street brought her little >- boy to the Settlement House and exi pressed a desire to have him enter the i' kindergarten. The child had a bright o face, but it was woefully dirty, and oue of the settlement rules is that all f pupils must present at least a clean e exterior. So the teacher looked at the little J boy and said: "Why, certainly he can s come to the kiudergarten, but we 0 want all the children to be clean. Give 0 him a good bath to-night and send 0 him to us in the morning." s "Bath!" gasped the mother. "How can I bathe him? I've sewed him up e for the winter."?New York Mail aud Express. r 3, The First Dally Paper. e Germany holds the record for the r first daily paper. It was printed in 1524. s s Silllcus?"Some men are born gentlemen." Miss Pert?"And some girlc 3. have gentlemen thrust upon them." "sr\< ' ' .. J<?-'. . H SPANISH WAS MEDALS jl , P F?R ra NAR || IN expectation of a ceremonial pre sentation of a part of the medals won in the late war with Spain, th< Philadelphia mint is now going right ahead with the wort of fashion REVERSE OF THE MEDAL, SHOWI lng the several thousand medals to be given to the meritorious and the valorous of our navy during the campaign in the West Indies in 1898. Th.ie medals are to commemorate participation in certain naval engagements, principally on the coast of Cuba, and to distinguish those officers and men whose specially meritorious service othfer than the battle is particularly deserving of recognition. From the man behind the gun to the man before the blazing furnace in the fireroom, every one on a ship in battle "will receive a battle medal, and, if in more tnan one engagement, an auaea Dar, instead of another medal, for each additional action ?the bar to bear the name and date of the subsequent fight. The obverse of the battle medal will bear the head of the commander-inchief of the whole campaign, encircled by the inscription, "U. S. Naval Cam USDAZi FOB SPECIALLY MEB1TORIOU8 8EBVICE. paign in the West Indies, 1898," while the reverse will typify the men behind the guns?the young officer and the youth of the blue jackets and marines. The three figures are shown in the fighting-top of a battle ship. The blue Jacket who has just moved his body frnm tho chnnldor nipfo of his Still smoking one-pounder, is watching the result of his last few shots, while the medal will be a wreath-encircled star. The wreath will be of laurel, and the star will bear in prominent relief the badge of the service?the anchor. The bands that bind the relief will bear the descriptive title of the decoration, and encircling the anchor will be the campaign designation. On the plain reverse side of the medal will be stamped the name and rank of rating of the recipient, together with a brief statement of the service for which the medal was given. The ribbon in this case will be red or crimson and young officer, catching sight of a chance for the rifle, is pointing to an opening for the alert marine. In the distance, over the rim of the fightingtop, are seen the Brooklyn and the Texas, partly clouded in their own smoke, while against the extreme left shore line lies the blazing wreck of a Spanish craft. The sea in the middle Is dashpd with Dlunee of hostile shot. The "specially meritorious service" will fall straight dowu oehind the medal so that the color will show through the openings between the star Unrecorded Hlstory===The Tc (PICTURE REPRODUCED FRO The Aged Rip-Van-Kitchener (aslt The only survivor 'coming in' at last!' The Last of the Boers?"Vaid a mc gombleed intebendence??oddervise I points. The design has been made purposely simple. German Trade Secrets. The Germans are very jealous ib guarding their trade secrets, and I find it difficult to obtain Information uuui-'eriJiLiy new luvcutiuua uiiu j;igi cesses of public Interest, which is al? ways freely communicated in the ; United States. The patent laws over here are even more protective in the :ng the men behind the"guns. interest of patentees, but there seems to be an apprehension lest information obtained for American newspapers may in some way be utilized by Yankee ingenuity to the disadvantage nt fJormnnr?Rprlln 'Lettpr. ill ChicatTO Record-Herald. Automatic Kettle Lid. Among the kitchen novelties just placed on the market is a tea kettle of alumnium, provided with a very attractive feature In a method of raising the lid for filling the kettle, without AUTOMATIC KETTLE Lit). the necessity of touching it On one side of the lid is a projecting arm, so that a downward pressure of the handle raises the lid. When the handle is raised the lid falls back of Its own weight. Native Home of Cholera. The marshy ground of the Ganges delta, with its vast masses of vegetation, decaying under a tropical sun, is the native home of the cholera. In that'pestilential region the cholera and plague are found every year and all the year round. Every cholera epidemic which has desolated Europe, every visitation of the plague, is believed to have started from the mouth of the Ganges. Tha Great Staple. Rice forms a larger part of humnii food than the product of any other one plant, being the diet of India, China and the Malayan Islands, and occupying a place on the tables of ninety per cent, of the irMbltants of the civilized world. One . iay safely ven ture the assertion that 300,000,000 people eat rice every day in the year.? New York Press. Very Good, Indeed. "Who says automobiling is not es ercise?" Fishing With Saws and Axes. At the St. Mary's reservoir the recent cold snap has made the ice about nine inches thick and on account of the low water thousands of nice black bass have been frczen in the ice. People come in large numbers and saw or chop out small blocks of ice containing the fish and take them home.?ColumI bus (Ohio) Dispatch. ip of a Boer Kopje, A. D. 1950 M LONDON PUNCH ALMANAC.) i ^ le to his venerable Tommies)?"Aha! I >mond! Vod derms you gif me; meln blelb alivays on gommando." 4 00000000000000000000000 1 WHERE AMERICAN I SCHOOLS EXCEL z Particulars In Which European O Schools Are Deficient. ooooo coooooooooooocoooo Tmii American scuuuiuuy is i inches taller than the a\ age European schoolboy o like age. I am positive in t declaration after a tour of inspect of the various schools of Europe, ? I place the usefulness of the instr tion imparted, from an educatio: and a hygienic point of view, as 1 lows: First, the United States; seeo England; third, Germany, closely 1 lowed by France and Russia. There is a great difference In ' school systems, but in two ways this more noticeable, viz., inspect of school work and its results. 1 system of inspection abroad has be developed to such an extent that it more of a science than an ord'nt routine, as in this country. The spector spends at least a day a moi In each room, making copious notes both teachers' and pupils' work,' cr cising in open class tlTe deficient sti les and commending those that i satisfactory. One rpnnrt that I saw in Kenma and prepared by the regular govei ment officer, had the results earefu tabulated. One copy was handed 1 teacher, another was sent to the Bos 3f Education, and another was retain by the inspector to aid him in his : ture visits, thus leaving something t? gible for the teacher and pupils work on. The report set forth tl the deportment of the pupils was pr< erly maintained, but that the readi of the class was away below p: mathematics was fair, spelling exc lent, penmanship could be improv on, history was excellent, but geog; phy of the Western Hemisphere vi very poor, and grammar was all tl could be expected. With such a rep< the teacher had some tangible ba to work on before the next appearac of the inspector, before which time was expected the deficiency in stud: would be made up. The inspection of class work in o Chicago schools forms quite a cc trast with this. Here tiie assists superintendent rarely spends over half hour, and no report is made to t teacher that would aid in remedy! defects, but she is left in ignorance how her work compares with otl teachers' efforts. a.i me same Time i am wining concede that it is possible to be mc definite abroad tlian at home, owl to more specific aims in the minds both the educators and text-book wr ers. Text-books are rarely chang abroad, and a student Is taught rath to grasp and retain detailed inforir tion than look for It himself. Blinde: as It were, are placed on his eyes, that he is unable to look sldewii Certainly these schools are more a ranced In theory than ours, but i surely excel them from a practlc Bide. Any one of the foreign schools better equipped, more expensive maintain and better fitted to ex? an influence In the student body thi ours, but the medieval practice of i 'AMERICA. ENGLAND. Btrlctions places them beyond the po Df our work. Omitting the Engli: schools, any one of the others h a distinct advantage over our schoc from the fact that reading and spe Ing are mastered in three years, t cause words are spelled as spoke Many of our pupils are unable to re; English after ten years' steady app cation. Arithmetic is much easi abroad, because the tables are foundi on the decimal system, like our mone and require very little memorizin It is conceded that a boy coming o of the preparatory school on the Co Mnpnt is about two vears ahead aur boy of the same age who is grad ating fronJ our high school. While tL is true, our boy has done at len three years more work in masterii the reading, spelling and grammar ' our difficult language with its barba ous spelling and numerous uregulai ties of grammar. The opennessof mind so noticeable the American youth is totally lackii in the foreign student, and he is lie to the facts in his books until be hi do breadth of range. He spends mu< less time in the open air and takes le exhilarating exercise than our boy Add to this the scientific ventilatit of our school rooms, the dash of 01 methods, lack of desire to cram bo< knowledge, shorter hours of instru tion, more cheerful methods, periods relaxation more frequent, and it no wonder our boys grow two inch taller than the foreign boys wh< taken age for age. We aim as nearly as possible to d velop the mental and physical natur of the student at the same time. Tl success of this plan, I think, is evlde: from the number of young men at ti bead of the many large industrial e tablishments In America successful competing with the product of t] world in every line.?W. E .Watt, the Chicago Record-Herald. Cavtles on the Rhine Itlrer. A German authority states th from the mouth to the source of tl Rhine, 725 castles, formerly the hom of warlike chiefs, are to be found ov? looking its waters. OO No Shoveling Required. S The apparatus shown below alm^t O speaks for Itself as a time and trouble8 saver, for nearly every one knows by O experience the unpleasant work of 8 cleaning out the furnace several times O a week In winter. One ereat annoy 2 ance is the scattering of dust in the O air, to settle later all around the base0? ment, some even bei.ig carried through the flues into the living rooms above, w0 to be deposited on furniture and carer~ pets. George Adams and Walter Howa land have conceived the idea of pro18 viding a receptacle Into which the Io? ashes may be shaken direct from the Ln(1 furnace, inclosing the receptacle In an uc" air-tight chamber, except for the one passage leading through the furnace ?1" into the chimney. Of course the recelving can may be of any desired ?1* sbape and size, and it is possible with its use to allow several days' shakings to accumulate without interfering ls with the ordinary working of the fur5?u nace. As it would be impossible to , lift a full receiving can out of the well >pn i a*. xl. * I ? Deneain me iurnace, ine inventors is make provision for rolling It to the iry opening on a car, and a lifting pulley In* is suspended directly above the trap ^? ' """"* " >?OT ' ' -? * ' AXTI-DU8T ASHES BEMOVINO ARPABATC8 ed ra" door to raise the can to the surface. If ) 38 several cans are provided the ashes 1 iat may easily be stored in the basement )yt until the ashman comes to collect, and ? B1S as the cans are emptied directly into 1 ice the "wagon there is no occasion for the 1 it use of a shovel or raising a dust in the 'es house. i ur Egyptian Arithmetic Flnda. i )n- A book was unearthed in Egypt re- J nt cently which shows that the Egypa tians understood arithmetic over 3000 i be years ago. It is a volume evidently , ng intended for the teaching of pupils at ( of home. The leaves are papyrus, and are ] ter in an excellent 6tate of preservation. Explorers estimate that the book was < to made about the year 1700 B. C., or j re before the time Moses led the children 1 ng of Israel out of the house of bondage, i of In the elementary principles of arithit njetic the system disclosed is not un- { ed like that of to-day. Examples show 1 ter that the main operations of the Egypia tians wi'h entire units and fractions rs. were made by means of addition and so multiplication. Subtraction and divis*e. ion were not known in their present id- form, but correct results were obtained. Examples in quotations were also found in the boot. is The End of a Capital. to A report from Paris is to the effect irt that General Gallieni, the Governoran General of Madagascar, is about to :e- make the port of Tamatave, on the GERMANY. FRANCE. J ile eastern coast of the Island, the capital, * sh instead of Antananarlwo, the present as capital of Madagascar. The reason for >ls this transformation is said to lie in t 11- the fact that the country around An- 1 >e- tananariwo Is not fit for any agricul- c in. tural purposes, while the coast dls- * id tricts are reported to be fertile and 11- rich in mineral deposits, two facts * er which will no doubt induce immigrants c ed to settle down there. y. 0 ' fi g. Molasses an Animal Food. ut Many agriculturists in Europe have j D* long been convinced that molasses is t an admirable food for horses and cat- a V" tie, and their conviction is now E l*s stronger than ever owing to certain st experiments which have recently been I - ' I Je~ tried, and wnicn nave proved emiueiiujr of successful. v LP pi- Obituary CynicUm. ^ ,S I T.ltprarv Traveler (to depressed-look ie Ing resident outside country church-1 j jn yard)?"Interesting old placo this, sir. J t, Any folk-lore or fairy tales connected i with it?" f T Grumpy Resident (who has evidently ? at been left out of a will)?"There Isn't I ? lie any folk-lore in this neignborhood, and ^ es the only fairy tales you'll find are In E ;r- the churchyard?on the tombstones." a ?Moonshine. G o IIHOR EVENTSOFTHEffEEK ' WASHINGTON ITEMS. Representative Kahn, (Rep.) of Call? fornia, introduced the Chinese Exclu-i sion bill agreed upon by all Pacific coast interests as representing thei* yy views. jA. ^favorable report of a $2,500,000 postofflce for New York City was or? dered by the Senate Committee on . Public Buildings. ! ^ Senator Fairbanks is urging an at- . propriation of $10,000,000 to erect new Government buildings at Washington.!" jfresiaent isooseveit airectea xne re? turn to China of $376,000, the value of silver bullion seized by American marines in Tien-Tsin. President Roosevelt selected Assists ant Secretary .of State Hill, Adjutant- *.. General Corbin and Rear-Admiral Evans as a national committee to look J after Prince Henry during his stay la this country. Captain L. J. Allen was retired with1 \ the rank of Rear-Admiral. .^-VhSSH < 1 OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS, /'V Governor-General Wood appropriated ' .* $317,000 for the construction of a pierj and freight house at Matanzas, Cuba. ; 4V, At Manila breakdowns of Govern-. I { ment employes from overwork will I probably result in a Saturday half-j ' : holiday being granted. Senor Gomez, President of the town r\f Dooi/? Prnxrlnna r\f Hondo tttqa ovJ LTi. JL UOlgt A 1V< VI If UO U4^ rested on the charge of appropriating municipal taxes to bis personal nee. ... i The Hong Kong junta gave the insnrgent chief Lukban, in Samar, per?j. Vv mission to surrender. , DOMESTIC. ? " . ^ The transport Grant, with Governor |j raft, of the Philippines, on board, ar-* > rived at San Francisco, Cal. R. Mellis, a chemist In the National ^ Tube Work?, from Boston, and Mis? Nellie Coursin. daughter of former . n Mayor B. B. Coursin. were drowned! \j in the river at McKeesport, Penn.J rM cvhile skating. Burglars entered the residence of ' ; Fames McCune at Columbus, Ohio, and robbed a safe of $18,000 worth of registered United States bonds. John Garwood was shot and Instantly killed by John Bauman, a farmer, J at Van Wert, Ohio, to whose fifteen-, / pear-old daughter Garwood had beenj ; . saying attention. Bauman gave him- vJJ* self up. Professor w. c. crossman ana hi? Ifteen-year-old son were caught on &[' :restle near Brenham, Tex., and nml lows by a passenger train. Both were' nstantly killed. J' ? The German Consul at Chicago calledlpon Mayor Harrison to require guar- ; mtees of protection from Anarehigts In the event of Prince Henry's visitng that city. The King of Korea's second son, ft student in this country, was sued forj in alleged promissory note of $30,000. j The Globe yarn mills, in Fall River, Vlass., were damaged about $200,000] . ' >y fire. Suffocated by gas,-George F. SmithJ ' 'ather of the Iowa Congressman of] , hat name, was found dead in Council, Bluffs, Iowa. A cave-In at the new Stock Exchange! frj, mllrilncr Jn Vew VnrIr tdlfid Hvtv lien. George F. Stone, a brother of BUM 3elen Stone, who is held a captive >tn Bulgaria, died at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, aged ally-three years. John Howard Bryant, the only re-)' , naining brother of the poet, William! 3ullen Bryant, and himself a poet, pol-j j tician and business man, died at hiw lome in Princeton, 111., afeed nlnetyh *i our years. 'General William J. Palmer donated >50,000 cash and 100 acres to tcrjx>l ? 1250,000 sanitarium at Colorado Springs, Col., for consumptives. A itock company is forming. William Marshall Scribner, widely mown as the author of penmanship opybooks, died at Chicago. His name is author, it is said, has appeared on -i, iQ,000,000 copybooks. President Roosevelt made arrange-j cents to visit the Charleston ExposP ion on February 12. Directors of the Louisiana Purchase! exposition voted against postponing] he opening of the St. Louis World's 'air until 1904. v . 'i i ^ Sheriff Frank Smith and his deputy,} ^ Seorge Beck, were killed by highway- " nen in the vicinity of Anadarke,j )klahoiua Territory. * : FOREIGN. A French priest named Julien and, * wo Chinese converts were murdered; n Kwangsi Province, China. Chinese! ifflcials said the murderers were rob-j ters. if A wall of the Smithfleld flax mills,i Jelfast, Ireland, collapsed, burying the! iperatlves, who Included many womenj The proposal submitted by the Swe- > lish Foreign Minister to the Norwe-; flan Minister of State for the appoint-; nent of a committee from Sweden and s or way to consider the abolition of j he present joint consular system, was dopted and the committee was aptointed. ~ \';4, Lord Cranborne, Under Secretary for "oreign Affairs, said in the British; ? ^ lOUSe OL V-ULULUUlls IUU.L vrieui cnium kb bough she agreed before tbe Spanish H rar to a joint note urging further ne-~ ;otiations, declined later proposals im- flH ilying pressure on the United States. H Transvaal war affairs were consid- M red in both the British and French 'arliaments, Mr. Chamberlain declarag in the former that extermination of Hj he Eoers was not England's policy. The Prince of Wales will represent ting Edward at the coronation of ling Alfonso of Spain next May. B| Herr von Benningsen, Landrath of Q lanover, Germany, who fought a duel nth Herr JbaiKenncgen, aiea as a reult of his wouuds. BB III feeling between Albert Graves ad George Gillon at Alberton, P. E. Jflfl caused the fatal shooting of Graves Hjfll y Gillon. It is said Emperor William may visit BP Lmerici later; meanwhile preparations re being made on both sides of the cean for Prince Henry's tour. ; bB The duelling controversy in Germany ^B ras renewed by the Von Benningsen- HB "alkenhagen alfair. ^B Property owners at St. Croix, D. W. Bfl .. objected to -the sale of the Island ^B o the United States. flw Arthur Balfour. First Lord of the ^B reasury and Government leader in the BH louse of Commons, announced in the louse that if Colonel Arthur Lynch, lember-elect from Galway, landed in MB Ingland he would be arrested iinmedi- HH tely. r? ^ BB Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Le^H iuay Ueaiy was appouueu uoveruw