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CHAPTER V.
Continued.
"Ob. Annie is a few montb* younger
than I. Wben she "was about fourteen
her father apprenticed her in one of
the big drapery establishments In the
West End of London, bat we don't
know which. 8be didn't go to New
Zealand with her father. Farther than
that we know nothing about her."
"Then I am not your youngest aunt?"
"I don't know, I am sore," wss my
reply.
MI am twenty-six," confessed aunt
Gertrude.
"Tnen, 11 awm ? living, i cave au
aunt nearly aewoD years younger. Aa
I uid, she la younger than I by a few
month*."
Aunt G?rtrnde sighed, turned somewhat
abruptly from tbe picture, and
walked through the open window on
to the verandah.
The view from ear verandah Is probably
as good as from any point In Suffolk
distant from the coast Accepting
as truth a popular fallacy some
will think this Is faint praise, but
those acquainted with the county will
nanny bo reguru iu inui ui iwi?Utod
Is less esteemed by English people
than the eastern counties, but this,
Uke many other of our national preju*
dices, does not admit of any explana-;
Hon. The absurd fact remains. A
rolling country, highly cultivated here|
and there, interspersed With abundance
of wild open spaces and -woods
which shelter Immense quantities of
game, with a rainfall the most moderate
in Britain, would, it might well be
supposed, attract many visitors?especially
from London, bnt it is not so,
and East Anglta is left very much to
East Angliana, particularly in that
part of It called Suffolk.
The weather was delightful, the clear
blue sky being streaked here and there
with slowly moving white clouds, the
taoqwrature mild and refreshing, the
sunshine brilliant?a spring morning
inugih whd - e?.?rj lvuuiuvu iv jnwmote
hesflkj/fcpdV'buoyancy of iplrlt
Aunt 0?rtfm^'Aaded her eyas with
tier hand andviboked oat toward the
otd abbey town. Bury St Edmund'* '
eight bIIm distant, could he faintly 1
discerned, separated from us by a line
stretch of undulating country.
"How delightfully green everything
Is In England T exclaimed my sent
enthusiastically. 1
"Particularly the people," observed 1
* vole* at oar bsck. 1
The voice belonged to uncle Bam.
Turning round we saw that gentleman
Jwt within the room, standing in s I
Snooty attitude; his hands in his pock- 1
eta, chewing the end of an onlighted 1
cigar. sr waa with him and IJ
had a paird{ flWd glasses in his h*n<!.
This unexpected interruption ap- J
peared to annoy my soat "You are
not very complimentary to your own 1
people," she sai& slightly tossing her 1
delicately poised head. . i
Her husband perceived her mood. 1
"All right, my dear," he said, in his i
most affable manner, as he stepped on 1
to ti?e verandah. "1 forgot for tbe moment
that some Americans are more
jBgllah than the English themselves.
Just let me look at the boundary line
f this place and I am gone." So Baying
be took the field glasses from my
father, who remained within, and surveyed
the prospect for a coople of minutes.
HaTlng completed his observation
he made no further remark, bat
re-entered^ the room and disappeared
with "his "brotber.
It was not long before my aunt sad
I followed. We went through a number
of rooms, some of them named after
distinguished guests who had occupied
them long ago?Camden, Swift.
IHiilian Stiller Pnrmll ?n^ nlhm at
lean note?tbe lady evincing greater Interest
Id tbe quaint furniture than Id tbe
historical associations to which ]
endeavored to direct her attention.
la this way did 1 amuse my aunt tor
three hours, conducting her at last
through the dean, dry stone crypt,
which formed the basement of tbe
bouse. This crypt was very ancient,
being tbe only unaltered portion of t
Hhe old abbey which supplied tbe site,
sod in part tbe materia}, for Holdenburnt
Ball. The stonework of the ?pav.jUS
arcbcs teemed quite uninjured
by time; and, though they contained
much lumber, there still r? v lined ample
room for a procession ?; monks to
pass through them. Aunt Gertrude
was much interested, and constantly
plied me with questions about tbe habits
of tbe original ecclesiastical occupants
as I preceded ber through this
strange place, lantern in band.
"Why is that last arch briefced up7'
She Inquired.
I looked at tbe object or ber inquiry.
MI huv?>n't the retbntest idea. 1 never
aoticcd it before. It 1b rarely anybody
conns down here," I said.
It wan now time to prepare forluncbcos.
ami we ascended tin s teps
wbicb led iuto tbe house. In tbe ball
we again met my father and uncle.
"Well." asked nncle Gam. addressing
bin wife, "what do you tbink of
tbe old place?"
"Very interesting, indeed. I bave
enjoyed myself immensely."
"1 am glad to bear it" said my father.
"You must be very tired. Luncheon
trill be served in a few minutes.
1 have invited tbe Rev. Mr. Fuller."
The devil yon ba%!" exclaimed
nnclc Sam. "Is 1m- a good fellowV"
g\t Unhl/irthiltH;: Vlnlne
* IV* ?W? *?? AtViUI iiUUI P?
haa been uiy friend for ten year*."
"i hate paraon*." said uncle Sam.
' CHAPTER VI.
0SCLC 8AM AND TBE KET. SILAS FTXJXR
My father's intimation that be had
Invited the Rev. Slls* Fuller to lunchcoo
disturbed me. I knew Mr. Fuller
very well, sod I was beginning to
know my uncle a little. Two men
differing more widely in habit aod j
pinion It would be difllcblt to find, i
iratMitHaljfi
2?" ?T
4LTER* BL'OOMFIELD
n Bomi'i Bom.
and I feared that a conversation between
them might afford my father
and me more embarrassment than entertainment
The Rector of Holdenburst Major
was a thin, spare man. a little on the
wrong side of fifty, abort of stature,
neat in appearance, formal and precise
in manner and speech. The deference
which for many years bad been
paid to this reverend gentleman l>y
?h? mn?t tructnhlo hnt lirnnrant TH-ns
antry In England, bad bred In him a
somewhat dogmatic style. Like most
of bis class, be bad married early in
life, choosing for bis wife a portionless
lady about three times bin own
sise, who, in lien of dowry, had presented
ber lord with seven daughters
and four sons in the most rapid succession
permitted by the laws of Nature.
The living of Holdenhurst Major
was worth ?220 a year in money, with
a tolerable bouse, and five acres of
land all told. Such were the means at
the disposal of this clergyman of the
Cbnrcb of England, and with them he
bad to support himself, bis wife, bis
eleven children, two servants, one
pony, one dog. and one cat, as well as
take a material interest in the wellbeing
of the poor of the parish?that
Is to say, of the entire population; for
my father and the Rector were by
very much the richest persons In tbe
place. I remember also a canary, said
to have been tbe pet of tbe eldest
daughter, that was once a member of
thia clerical household; but It died?
whether from the drsugbt through the
window, of lnanitiotf, or as prey to
tbe buncry cat, 1 could sever correctly
ascertain.
I felt that my worse fears were
shortly to be realised when?Introductions
over, seats taken, and grace said
?my uncle opened the conversation
by Inquiring of Mr. Fuller how business
waa looking, hastily correcting
hie sentence, and substituting "church
matters" for "business."
"1 thank yon. Mr. Truman." replied
the Hector, with great deliberation, as
b? slowly smoothed the puckers in his
waistcoat with his left hand, while
hia right grasped the wine-glass which
be had been about to raise to his lips
whan addressed; "I thank yon, Mr.
rruman, for your kind Inquiry. It is
rery considerate of yon to aak such
i question. Too little interest Is taken
In the Giurcb by persons not immediately
connected with the Churchfar
too little Interest Born in the
Church, If 1 may so express myself
(for both my father and grandfather
beld curacies at 8plashmlre-on-Orwell).
and myself, I trust, a conscientious,
hard-working minister of the Church,
I fully appreciate the comprehenslveoess
and Importance of the question
with which jou hare been so food as
to favor me. It is only on the occalion
of my visits to the Hall that I
find myself in a situation to be so intelligently
interrogated. 1 fear my aniwer
must be somewhat different from
that which doubtless your position in
life and your proper opinions Induce
jrou to deal re. The Church, alas! has
many enemies; and among her enemies
are some wbo should be her
friends; though I rejoice to inform you
that we of this district are ratber exceptionally
free from such adverse influences.
The unprecedented depression
in agriculture, however, and the
uncertain, though certainly unchristion,
procedure of One whom I think,
without the remotest exhibition of partisanship,
I may stigmatize aa the evil
genius of England, Mr. Glad "
Mr. Puller had only proceeded thus
rar witn nis answer?toe Dare preliminary
to a fifteen minutes' discourse?
when uncle Sam's Impatience, of
which 1 bad been watching tbo growth
with alarm, reached an unbearable
point, and be cried out:
"Was that your pony I saw coming
up the patb about balf-an-bour ago?"
"It was," replied the Rector, much
surprised at such an extraordinary interrupUtm.
"The qpimal seems in a very bad
condftioDjj' observed uncle Sam.
"Madcap is rather old." said the
Rev. Mr. Fuller, looking very uncomfortable;
"we have bad him a good
many years."
1 think it mnirt hata nMm?rul ?n m*
uncle that the subject of conversation
which be bad so itawlttingiy started
could not be effectually dismissed in
this unceremonious way. for after a
brief pause, be himself re opened it.
"I suppose there are not many prizes
in tbe Cburch of England, and tbat
the few wblcb exist are well preserved
by tbe cliques witb a present
jcrnsp en tbem. For a professor of
religion, if be bas brains. I tblnk.
after tty. Nonconformity offers the
best Held; but for a slow man. with a
taste for a large family aod a dull
life, doubtless tbe Cburch is lK?st."
These words plunged my father ami
me into gnat confusion of mind. It
is true they were spoken l>y one who
knew little or oothiDg of tbe circumstances
of the Rev. Mr. Fuller?who
indeed had oever so much as heard of
that geotleman until an hour before?
but their effect was nooe the less disastrous.
My father couched. 1 choked.
n n.1 nun* i - />*>( rn/1/. tl'Oil ?li/? ?.%.! ?
UUU UUUl II uur Hmvu ?uv tvi VUll^r
her by pausing the water.
"I mppost* the collections in a place
)ik<> this are very trifling." said uncle
Snin.
We collected ?8 last Harvest
Thanksgiving." answered the Hector.
"What became of the money?" asked
my uncle.
"All our collections are given away
in charity. The ?8 of which I spoke?
the largest collection of the year?was
paid over to the Royal Agricultural
Benevolent Society."
"Ob. I see." said uncle 8am. "Now
this matter of collections in churches
mi one of the many things which we
uuutage better on the other side >f
i J&b
the Atlantic. I am not thinking of
Holdenhurst, for of coarse there Is
no money here to collect anyway: I
am thinking of New York and London.
Why. I remember when I was a boy
in England in some churches the collecting
boxes were fixtures at each
side qf the door! Could anything have
been more absurd? Any effect which
the eloquent begging of the preacher
had produced died away like the memory
of a dream as one walked along
the aisles, and the posts supporting
the money-boxes were passed as heedlessly
as the lamp-posts in the street.
After that, if I rememlK'r rightly, the
plan was to place a plateboider at
each side of the door. This was better;
but the plan had two glaring defects:
nothing was easier than for the people
in the middle of the stream of passers-out
to affect not to see the plates,
neither was there any check on the
doings of the plate holders. The next
plan to be adopted, which I recollect,
was the passing of a bag in front of
each person present m cuurcn. iuis j
plan, though an improvement, was not
without a serious defect. A penny,
skillfully dropped infb the baj^ chinked
as loudly as balf-a-erown or a sovereign.
and produced as good an effect
upon the other occupants of a pew
as would have been produced by one
or other of the more valuable coins.
After a while, plates were substituted
for bags, only partly removing this
objection; and this, I think, is as far
as you have got in England."
"How are collections taken in American
churches?" inquired Mr. Fuller,
with evident interest.
"By the envelope system. Two deacons
pass round the church, the first
tarrying a tray full of envelopes and
a pencil; the second an empty tray.
Each contributor places his contribution
in an envelope, seals it. and writes
hi* name on tbc outside. Deacon cum
bcr two collect? the filled enwlopes,
and at the next serVTce the name of
each contributor, and the amount of
his contribution is publicly announced,
the giver of the largest amount first;
and so on. When there are several
persona who five a like amount, their
names are announced in alphabetical
order. It is a perfect plan, and I have
unqualified admiration for the man
who conceived it?he read human nature
well. It meets all requirements,
and nothing in it can be objected to.
The man who wants to advertise himself
Is invited, as it were, to assist the
Church, equally with the simple-minded
giver?for I assume that the motive
for giving signifies nothing so long as'
the dollars are scooped. Fraud Is
checkmated, and It is impossible to
exaggerate the importance of that;
for sorely no one will so abuse his
intelligence as to deny that in every
congregation Ananias and Barabbas
find more imitators than any other
Biblical characters."
"There is certainly a great deal of
villainy in the world," confessed Mr.
Fuller sadly.
"You would say so with greater emphasis
if von were a member of the
Stock Exchange," said uncle Sam. '
t this stage mj father mqde a com- 1
mendable bat not very successful effort
to change the subject of conver- <
Sutton. Aunt Gertrude sat silent aud i
neglected, and every Body In the room 1
except uncle Sam appeared ill at ease. '
As for myself. I was desperately un- 1
comfortable, and desired npthing so
much as the termination of this inem- 1
orable meal. My uncle. I knew, 1
would not prolong it by one minute? 3
that was not one of bis faults?but (
the Rev. Mr. Fuller, who was a mira- 1
cle of slowness, had to be reckoned
with: and tbst gentleman ate as leisurely
as he talked, wliicb is saying a
great deal. After some skilful fencing
my father at last diverted his
brother's remarks from church affairs
to decimal coinage, of which monetary
system uncle Sam was a redoubtable
| champion; and from that moment until
be rose from the table the guns of
his eloquence played mercilessly upon
what he was pleased to call the absurd
English chaos Of fours, twelves.
ana twenue*.
To be continued.
Mutau How bid to B? Sliding.
la Montana creeping into Ida bo and
Wyoming? There is some evidence on a
tbe affirmative side of tbe question,
but not enougb to cause alarm :n any
of the three State*. . Still, for several
j ears it has been known that there la >
home trouble with Montana's foundations.
which are slipping, and leaving
evidence of the fact on the surface of
the ground.
Railway companies have found quite
plain and strange twists in the alignment
of their roads, and civil engineers
have found "bench marks" changing
their elevation* in a confusing
manner. Quite recently these reasonably
suspected movements have become
apparent, and left large cracks
in tbe earth at several points in the <
city of Butte, extending for a number
of feet, and being in extreme cases <
twelve inches wide. Xbe effect of this '
is not only to throw railways out of J i
line, but to cause much more serioui' ;
damage to gas pipes and water mains, j <
Geologists say that nothing serioui
In threatened, nod that parts of Mon- j
tana are only doing in a more marked j
manner what is going on all over our !
restless world.
Mr*. Palmer's Witty Ketort.
Mrs. Potter Palmer, whose wit it i
equril to her diplomaey. was recently !
asked by a sj>orty old I*rince, who '
iijfHiit to be gallant, whether she j
would not guide him to the fountain
of perpetual youth, where undoubtedly i
she must have drank deeply.
"Your highness." respouded the
American lady promptly, "they who :
have already attained their second
childhood need not to be guided to the j
Fountain of Youth."?New York 1
Times.
Wax Xitrbn Prom England.
The best wax matches uwd iu tbia J
country arc imported, and come from,
England. No other manufacturer In'
the world, it is asserted. Las mustered
tlie art of making a wax match that j
will remulu stiff in the warmest cli-1
mite*. Moreover, the English was
match ha? an ivory finish which others
have never been uble successfully to
imitate.
Munich's Ked Cross Hospital has for
n visiting surgeon the crown orloce of
Bavaria. J
^ y. S . \A. d
tie rev nma ukassam to wi
"THt ftoNrtlcmtL
rt- rttRB?RT<f
W. * . ? ' .
IMING FINE FURNITURE. E
ei
Wood* Nratd From Thalr Grain and pj
Cutting?No Blrd'a Eyo Maple Tn?, ?|?
?
Most of the people who hear the furniture
man talk glibly of blrd'a eye hi
maple, curly walnut and quartered p<
oak. lmaf'ue that theae are the prod- cl
::
bow bibd'b-it* MAPLE If CUT. W
oct? of *ome particular kind of tree
Id each species.
There la an instance on record of a
woman seeking a bird's eye. maple
tree in Central Pars because she was
sure it must be a beautiful tree and
refuaing to believe that there wasn't
i tree of that name. Any tale of that
ort was Invented merely to hide the
Park's shortcomings in the matter of
maple trees, she said, for she had a
bedroom set made of bird's eye maple
wood in the house.
But all thla is pure delusion. The
names are simply invented by the
workers in fine woods to distinguish
particular material. The terms refer
entirely to the graining shown by the
lifferent methods of cutting oak, wal- j
out and maple. ]
Bird's eye maple Is a veneer aet upon
a body of solid wood. The bird's
eye figure ia produced by cutting '
iround tbe log. beginning immediately
under tbe bark and continuing until
tbe log is used up. gg
Tbe tbin shaving tbus obtained Is
imootbed and polished to sbow tbe ?
grain and tben mounted upon rougher m,
material. Furniture made in tbia way, pe
though beautiful, is therefore some- 4
what perishable. th
To cut up tbe log a huge knife and Mi
sot a saw Is used, tbe wood being
peeled off in tbin strips each many
rards in length. Few species of maple
trees produce tbe beautiful grain
aeceaaary and many logs are spoiled re
- wl
BOW QDABTKBKD OAK IS CUT. c,:
? ar
In cutting, so tbe furniture is naturally fo
expensive. Tbe veneer obtained from
tbe sugar maple- tree Is tbe finest prefaced.
Quartered oak is made by sawing a
line oak log into quarters?bence tbe
name?and tben sawing tbe quarters
Into boards, working from tbe circumference
to tbe centre. Tbus tbe flake,
is tbe wood workers call tbe beautiful
Bgure in quartered oak. 1s brought out.
Curly walnut is tbe root and that
part of tbe trunk of tbe walnut tree
just above tbe ground. Tbe logs are
rawed In tbe ordinary way. Curly
walnut Is obtained from all tbe species
?Iia trnoa
Curly bircb is tbe same kind of wood
obtained from tbe bircb tree. And so :
It migbt co oo through all tbe illustrations
of trees which under the skill- A1
ful hnuds of tbe trained worker pro- _
due? totally different kiuds of wood* co
for the attractive furniture which in th
these days adorns almost every home, th
?New York Sun. ke
th
THE FIRST AMERICAN COLONY. tu
mortal Shaft to Nark Historic Spot in
MaMichnwlti. ]
A memorial shuft is being erected ha
on <Josuold*H Inland. in Cuttyhuuk jU|
rood. .Musk, where Bartholomew (Jos- |U<
OOIU UUU Ul> (.-OiU|)Ulllui:i> IU 1UU. I><?> 1LJ
ed tiie tiibt European colony in Ainer- ju
lea. is
(Josnold first stepped ashore on Cut- jU
tybunk Island, says the Chicago Trib- ai
une. but it was ou a small islet mow M
know as Cosnold's Island), in a fresh- j,r
water pond at the west end of the
Inland, where he built a fort and storehouse.
and traded with the Indians.
This storehouse is supposed to have tr<
S>een the Urn habitation nuin ou iui* iu
coast by Earopeans. ch
Gosnold was accompanied by thirty- Hj;
two men. eight of wboiu were mariners. eh
Among the others a clergyman, tia- :x*
briel Archer, a journalist, and James an
Rosier, who wrote an account of the of
voyage and presented it to Sir Walter tw
Raleigh. Gosnold discovered the uii
llltndi known as the Elizabeth Islands
and named them in honor of the Queen
of England. co
The memorial is to be a pic in chaff, lt>
sixty feet high, to high above the iur- ih
mm anb ns akucaii wife
Jjmjk
ttofl- MR3\%2
MERPErKT '[
innding objects at the wedge-like !
3int of land between Buzzard's Bay
id Vineyard Soand as to be ad instable
landmark for every vessel
isslng through those waterways,
he shaft will cost approximately |
WOO.
The first section of the shaft will
ive a diameter of eighteen feet, tafring
to twelve feet. The interior
lamber will be nine feet In diameter
t tiie Date, wnne tne lower is aclall.v
bollow, It is practically solid
id Impervious from the outside.
At the height of twelve and a half
et from the base will be falsa win*
jws on all four sides. The wall rises
xteen feet two inches farther before
>e second windows are reached. The
alii arches of the base are to be ten
et high and Ave feet wide These
ill be recessed about six or eight
ches and backed bj flat-faced rough
one. Inside one of them win be the
mer-stone, containing lead plate*
Uing the story of Oosnold and the
ectlon of the memorial shaft. The
hole aim has been to raise a mono
17T TO MAJtX FIBST COLOYT 01
UfXBICA.
?nt which shall be aa nearly lm*
riabable aa poailble.
\ftor ita completion and dedication
e memorial will be turned over to ibe
aaaachusetta Historical Society.
Miile Stand tad Lm( Tara?r.
rhe automatic leaf-tunier baa al*
ady been attached to the piano,
tier? It bai been found very useful
adjusting the pages of music withit
loss of time on the part of the
oyer, and now Otto C. Zerck has
plied practically the same arrangeent
to the music stand used by orestra
and concert bands. In the first
ace, it will be noticed that the stand
Ids into small compass by the action
the lazy-tongs at either end. these
Ing controlled by a thumb-screw,
le mechanism for turning the sheets
music is very simple, there being
i? o itriM nt anrlnir NtrliM and an
tutting finger. Each of the itrlpi
provided at its outer end with a
ock having a spring steel or rubber
imp. in which the individual sheeta
e inserted. To net the turner ready
r use the pages are Inserted in their
rorCH OF THE FINOEB TTTBNS THE VXQM
rresponding slots Id the blocks, and
e arras ere then bent around untiS
ey are locked buck of tbe releasing
jr. Tbe player has only to touch
Is key to release tbe spring strips in
rn.
Find of Platinum.
Platinum in commercial quantities
s been fouud in two places in Washgton.
riatinum. one of the rarest
L'tals. Is especially valuable for ebernil
apparatus, because it is not inred
by acids; the demand, however,
larger than the supply, for the mines
the Ural Mountains afford only
out 12.0U0 pounds a year, which is
arly the total world's output. Its
ice tauges from $150 to $175 a pound.
California'* Farm Froflla.
riio groves of citrus uud other sub>
jpktl fruits in California produce
value but half as much as the orJirds.
The oranges, lemons, olives,
;s and grape fruit bciug the tir?t
ixs. and apples, apricots, peaches,
ais and plums in the second. Hay
>d grain furnish thirty-four per cent.
the income of the State; fruits
rentj-sevcn per cent.; live stock
oeteeu per cent.
rhe Union Stock Yards of Chicago
ver 500 acres of ground. Last jear
,000,000 head of cattle were received
ere.
#
ROW IH SfflTt CUMBER
Bailey, of Texas, Says He Choked
Beveridge, of Indiana.
WHATLEDUPTOTHE ENCOUNTER
Bailey Utnudtd That BtTrrids* With
draw Rrmirk, Which the Latter ICefaitd
to Do, and ScaOe Kollowrd?
Conflicting Testimony Concerning the
Ami a It?Senate Had Adjourned.
Washington. D. C.?A# the result of
a sharp colloquy to the Senate. Senator
Bailey, of Texas, made a violent as*
fault on Senator Beveridge, of Indiana,
after the Senate adjourned. The
affray occurred in the Senate Chainft\Al>
A/t^nlin(ii /if Krotniiffuftu Arwl tlio
r~*- -?? '"v
participant* differ as to details. Senator
Bailey says be caught Senator Beveridge
by tbe throat with both band*,
and was choking him when he wax
pulled off by Senators Spooner and
McComas. and the assistant doorkeeper.
Mr. Layton. Senator Beveridge.
though averse to discussing the affair
at all. which be laughingly characterlies
as "too trivial an occurrence to be
talked about seriously," cays the Texan
did not seize him by the throat. Mr.
Layton. who was standing close to
Mr. Bailey when the assault was made,
agrees In the main with Mr. Beverldge's
statement as to this detail of
the affray. Senators Spooner and McComas
are unable to say whether or
not Mr. Bailey had Mr. Beveridge by
the throat when they pnlled the Texan
away.
The chamber was almost deserted at
the time. A few minutes after tbe
Senate adjourned, which was about
C.30, Mr. Bailey walked over to where
Mr. Beveridpc was tsittiac and demanded
that he retract what Mr.
Bailey said was an hiKtilting remark
Mr. Beveridge bad made about blm
In the course of a speech in which the
Indiana Senator defended Judge PenOcJd.
Solicitor of the State Department,
from an attack the Texan had made on
him at the opening of a speech charging
the State Department with not havIng
shown proper diligence in dealing
with accusations against Powell
Clayton, Ambassador to Mexico. Mr.
Bailey and Mr. Beveridge conversed In
low tones for fully five minutes, when
the other occupants of the chamber
were startled to ,hear the Texan exclaim
In angry tones:
"You will retract It or 111 hurt
you."
Mr. Beveridge was then heard to
say: "I have done all I'm going to do
about It."
Then Mr. Bailey sprang at the In*
dlanian, who Is neither so tall nor so
stoat as the Texan, and grabl>ed at his
throat The impact tipped back the
chair In which Mr. Beveridge was sitting.
and this circumstance doubtless
accounts for the Texas Senator not
getting a firmer grip on the Indiana
R?natnr'? thmnf Then trui wn*
a desk between them, which prevent??d
Mr. Bailey from getting closer than
arms' length. As the table wan tipped
over the contents of a bottle of ink
were poured over Mr. Beveridge's
trousers and some of it pot on Mr.
Bailey's band and coat sleeve*.
Just at the most interesting juncture
of the "scrap" Messrs. Spooner. MeComas
and Layton seized Bailey and
pulled him back. Senator Beveridge
rose from his chair, somewhat besmeared
with ink. and calmly walked
out of the chamber to his committee
room. As the Indianian came up
smilinp the infuriated Texan screamed
something at him ffbich Mr. BeverIdge's
friends say was. "I'll kill you."
but which Mr. Bailey's friends say
was "I'll make you retract."
Senator Bailey frankly admitted that
he did not know what he said to Senator
Beveridge at this point.
The combatants did not try to meet
again after they were separated, ea'^ii
going to his hotel alone.
SLEEPING BOY'S HORRIBLE DEED.
Discover**! fcy HU Mother Hacking With
u Ax* at HU Krotlwr.
Dublin. Ind.?Somnambulism was the
cause of a tragedy near Beck's Grove.
In this county. Grover Snyder, uged
sixteen, was almost chopped to pieces ;
by hi* brother Oliver, aged fifteen.
After tbe boys bad retired for the
night tbe mother wax awakened by
cries of distress. Sbe hastened Into
Grover's bedroom, where sbe discovered
that Oliver bad left bis bed. obtained
an axe and was hacking uway
at bis brother. The mother could not
arouse Oliver, ns he was sound asleep.
John M. Snyder, the boys' brother,
was murdered near Champaign. HI.,
two years ago. Tbe murder weighed
heavily on tbe mind of the lad. and
during bis sleep Oliver often dreamed
some one was attempting to kill him.
It was while tflus dreaming, it is
thought, that he attacked his brother.
35.000 l)ima|M Awarded.
Patrick Markey. formerly an engineer
on tbe Chicago and Alton Koad.
has been uwarded. at Mexico. Mo.. $35.QUO
damages in a suit a^aiust the
Louisiana and Missouri Kailway Company
for injuries sustained in the explosion
of bis locomotive in October,
ll)OU.
Kank Clerk** Shortage 90500.
Frank Jones, correspondence clerk in
the National Commercial Bank at AlImnv
X Y w.iK arrMti-J. diarized with
a defalcation of $UT?<iO. The shortage
was discovered while he wim away on
a lishlup trip. Jones lias a wife ami
two children.
Rnitlaa Students tiring Freed.
Russian student* wLo were arrested
last March at tlw- time of tlu student
diw>rdern in St. Petersburg ami sentenced
to imprisonment for two or
three months, are now returning to
their Jjoines.
Fatal Stmt Car Collision.
A head-on collision between two
heavily loaded <ars at Marlboro. Mass.,
resulted in the death of Motortunn
John A. Harris and injuries to about
fortv tinx*eni:<>t-x. several of whom v.eiv
taiun to hospitals.
Frnoaal Mrulloc.
President Koosevelt will visit Kan.
sas City on bis western trip.
Western Reserve University lias been
Riven Jl-MJ.OOO by Colonel A. A. Pope
for college buildings.
Secretary of tbe Treasury Sbaw and
family go to Thompson's Point, ou
Lake Cbamplain, to spend tbeir vacation.
Hooker T. Washington bas refused
numerous offers of bigb pay to go on
tbe lecture platform, preferring to devote
bis time exclusively to tJ&e interests
of Tuskegw.
1HE COUHTRY'S FIHAHCES
Treasury Surplus Larger Thai irt
Any Year Since 1888.
A DECREASE IN EXPENDITURES
Available Caah Balance Stands at
CSO.ett, L?rg?r Than Km Before la
the Qlstory of the Goverameat?Htork
of Gold. SOO?,l?3,?lX, Blncrr Thaa
That of Any Coaatry la the World.
Washington. D. C.?At tbe end of th<
fiix-al year the available eaiib bnlnnc#
in tbe United States Treasury is large!
than ever l?efore in the history of th?
Government. It stand* at $208,ff>U.??'.!2I
The exces* of receipts over exp? ?:dl?
lures for the year is also very large,
tbe Treasury surplus of $rj.10".:t90
being larger than in any year xiw*
jrw*. ana exceeaeu in oniy ten ysn
since tbe foundation of tbe Gcv<*rn?
nient. In nearly every one of ilica*
ten year* tbe revenue* of tbe Govern*
im-n't bad l?een swelled by extraordi*
nary taxation to meet tbe expenditure!
pt a past war period. At thin time,
also. tbe general fund in tbe Treasury
Ik enormously larger tban ever l?-f?>re^
tbe amount l>elug more tban $2&M)0(M
000. as against about $1(18,000,000 on#
year ago.
Tbe United States Government now
ban a stock of gold in the Treasury be?
Ik-red to be larger tban any similar
stock anywhere in tbe world. Tb#
amount of sold coin, bullion and rertifb
cates in the Treasury Is $60S.1?S3.412?
Added to this is gold in circulation
throughout tbe country which raise*
the total amount to not less than $1,?
200.000.000.
Aside from tbe great Increases in th*
available cash balance, tbe Treasury
surplus and tbe stock of fold, the not a'
ble things in tbe condition of tbe Treu>
nry to day are that since a year ago
tbe amount of national bank currency
in tbe Treasury has increased by nearly
$2,000,000; tbe amount of standard
silver dollars, silver certificates, bullion
and subsidiary silver coin from alMint
$32,000,000 to about $39,000,000, and tlx
Government funds in national banlf
repositories from $101,000,000 to $127^
000.000.
It wan estimated early In 1001. at tlx
time the measure for repealing the wag
taxes was under consideration by tbe
Senate Finance Committee, that the
proposed amendments would muse a
falling off in internal revenue receipts
during tbe fiscal year of not less than
$10,000,000. The prosperity of bu'luet*
has been such, however, that tbe re*
duction ]d internal revenue receipts lot
tb" fiscal year ban been only a llrtle
more than $84,000,000. Tbe total re*
ceipts of tbe Government from all
source* during tbe last year were
$563,406,187. Of tbese $251.456.92?
were from customs. an Increase of
nearly $10,000,000 over tbe record of
tbe year before; $272.503214 from internal
revenue, and $30,445,010 from
miscellant-oua sources.
The increased surplus for the year
wan due. however, not so much to increased
revenues as to decreased expenditures,
tbe total disbursement*
being $471,211,707, as against $5<M,907.353
last year. Owing to tbe practical
cessation of fighting in tbe I'hilippines
and tbe consequent le*? expensive
admiuiKtration of the War Department.
the military establishment,
called for an expenditure of only about
$112,000,000 during tbe last fiscal year,
as against about $145,000,000 in tbe
it-?? ? ~ ~r irwii /pi? v....
UM'UI } *"111 (II JilVl. 1UC ? !/ 1/rjMii iment.
oo tbe other band, cost ahout
$.*>.<J00.(K)0 more this year tban last. bat
the payments on account of Interest on
tbe national debt were about f4.000.000
less. and on account of pensions nlx?ut
fl!.000,000 less during tbe last year.
The Treasury official* believe that
tb:> outlook for tbe new fiscal year i*
entirely hopeful. Tbe additional repeal
of war taxe*. which took effect
July 1. is estimated to reduce tbe grow
income from internal revenue by about
?7r?.?Ki0.?MK) in the next twelve month*,
but on the basis of this year's receipt*
and eX)H'uditures there would still Ik* *
surplus on June 30 next of at leaat
$17,000,000.
"
ARMY PROMOTIONS WERE COSTLY.'
Boot Oi*w Hit of TIiom lUtind Hon
After H?w Rank.
Washington. D. C.?Tbe Secretary of
War has prepared a statement in response
to tbe resolution adopted by tbe
House directing bim to furnish the
name* and rank of officers of tbe army
promoted since April 1, 185#. "who
have been retired within one year of
their last promotion with a higher
grade than that held at the time of
their promotion."
Tbe list contains tbe name* of forty
officer* promoted and retired ax Irigadier-generals.
thirty-eight of whom
were promoted from the grade of colonel.
In c Btatement prepared by the Pay*
mnster-(tcn?ral it is shown that tlx- to*
tal increased expense of the**- advanced
retirements is S2MJIT2, iliat
sum representing the differem-e i?e|
tween the {my tbe officers named will
receive by reason of tbeir promotion
Ijefore retirement and the pa.v they
would have received had they retired
regularly on reaching tbe ape of sixtyfour
year*.
Trade's Volume Rtatarkalilf Lirt?.
Domestic trade is quieter in wime
lines. Inn ItM general volume continue*
remarkably large considering the near
approach ot midsummer and the <!;*
turbius effect upou many Industrie* of
the prolonged suspension of tin* anthracite
coal intput.
TUr Drvibund U Kmrnnl.
fount von Ruelow. the I tun- rial
rbameJloi. and the Austrian and Italia
u Ambassadors at Berlin, have -Istied
tlx- treaty providing for the prolongation
of the alliance between Jienuany,
Austria nuugnry and Italy tli?* Iirelbuniit.
The alliance was renewal in it#
original forut.
W atrlifi i rp t"o i D?ad Prlnrm.
Watcb tires Were hurtled for th? re<
Iiose ot the soul of Mary Well*. ih?
gypsy princess, who died near WatLong
.Mountain, at Morristown. X. J.
lt.'il IVnilon Kllta P*?rd.
In tin- trailed State* Senate a sT.it*1n;?'Ut
ax to tin- pension work of tin >es. HB
tiioi) wiis presented by Mr. <?;ill:np>r ?
iKep.. N II ?. < iiiiirtuau of the <'ouiiuitj H
In1 on Pensions, showing tin- total
number of private |teiuiion hill* iutr<4
dtleed in flit* !Iotis*' to Ik* 7ft Hi. and ni K
the Seiinti St'C. total. 10.07<?. of uimJi Hjj
] l.'il w?*n passed by Ik>ili houses. Off ^3
tIns?- 't.'U have beeu approve*! by 11:0
President, and 217 await his aijrunture. H
JulT Ulviilentla In Boston tl.39K.OW6. SSB
The M-uii annual dividend* to l* pauj H|
in Button in July totul $-1 3t0\"Ni. '