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It -i THE SHEPHERDESS. The moon, a slim young shepherdess, Lets down the cloudy bars, ?nd in the purple fields of night, Leads forth her flock of stars. ?Minnie Irving, in Life. ^ THE ^ RICH MAN'S ^ ANSWER. jj "You see," said the blackmailer dededly, "I have you in my power." II The rich man shifted uneasily in lis seat, so that his face was thrown pto deeper shadow, but he made no I "Yes," continued the b'ackmailer, it just amounts to this. You come kere, as if you had never seen the llace before, figuring as Mr. Robert w. Harrison, the great American milionaire; you buy Irvingstone park, Ind think you're a country gentlenan, and your girl comes over from ler Paris school and appears as Miss iarrison, of the park, the great American millionaire's daughter." "Who says I am not a millionaire?" nterposed the rich man. His face ras still in the shade. "Oh, no, Mr?er?Harrison! No >ne says you are not that. I took are to m^ke sure of that before I ame here." "Then what do you want?" "Merely a little share of your proprty, Mr. Bob Wilde." Tr * ?ah 15cvK/\t?f Uor_ II ritt WLIU yi ao nuunu. ao ivuuci b um rison started violently; for a moment his face came into the bright glare 5f the reading lamp on his study table, and there was on it a look of mmitigated astonishment. "You know that!" he cried. Then in another voice: "Well, what of it? [ took Harrison for business purposes, and it is legally my own now." "Well," pursued the blackmailer n ,smooth tones, helping himself !rom a box of cigars on the table as le spoke, "call it business purposes f you like. For the present we can Irop Mr. Bob Wilde, but"?drawing lis chair nearer and speaking in an mpressive whisper?"what about hat robbery in the bank at Carberon, on November 15, some thirty 'ears ago?" "You know ihat, too? You know -that?" * "I know you are the man who abconded with ?300 of the bank funds hat night, and that it's not too late iow to leu me wuuis siuij iu mc o|ice, or for you to be arrested for "Don't?don't be hard on me," beaded the rich man in a faltering "Hard on you!"?with a confident tugh?"I like that. Now, I look pon you as my little bank, and I itend you to help me." "And If I refuse?" ' The*' good-by to Mr. Robert Harson, of the park, and enter Mr. Eob Hide- the bank thief." "Have you no mercy?", pleaded Mr. arrison pathetically. "Who are you? ow did you find all this out? I ive never seen you before." "You'd have seen me dozens of mes before if you had kept your es open. You see, I work at Willms', the saddler's, in the Highreet, Carberton. I've been there a >od many years now, slaving away a miserable ?2 a week; but, naturly. I've always been on the lookout r something better. Well, in the tic at the top of the house there's lot of old boxes; been there good ness knows how many years. I soon found keys to fit, and after going through a lot of musty old clothes and books, I came on a bundle of ancient letters from old Williams' brother in America. Well, of course, I .sat down to read them." "Of course," murmured the millionaire faintly. "In the very first letter I opened I read, 'I do believe I saw Bob Wilde, who robbed the Carberton bank, in -tiie streets here last week.' Further on, in another letter?but here, I needn't tell you how I ferreted it all out; but in the end I made out that Bob Wilde and Robert Harrison are the same person, and you've owned it now." "Well, If I give you ?500 " The man burst into a loud, rough laush. which he instantly smothered. "Five hundred!" he said scornfully, "I want five thousand." "Impossible." "Oh, is it? Just think it over, Bob, my friend. What about your daughter?" "Ah!" burst from behind Robert (-Harrison's hands, in a sudden groan. "Ah! I thought that would rouse you. Here's Miss Molly, you see, engaged to the son of Sir John Brandon. What about that engagement if I go and tell Sir John who Mr. Robert Harrison is?" "Enough!" cried the millionaire. "Enough! I give in. But I can't give you the money now. Come tomorrow night, or, stay?I've a dinner party to-morrow?say the night after." "No, I won't, I'll say to-morrow, it suits ms hpttpr " II. People were always willing to come to one of Mr. Robert Harrison's din, ners. This evening's party had been no exception to the rule. No one was anxious to shorten the evening, but at last one or two prepared to say good-by. "I want to beg you all to stay a little longer," said the host. "I have a little surprise, a?a?kind of entertainment. Will you all follow me?" They all trooped after him to the millionaire's study. Folding doors, covered on the study side by thick curtains, separated the room from another, and opposite them chairs had been placed. Smiling rather oddly, the host disappeared into the study, and carefully drew the curtains together behind him. p Then the door into the study from th*. outside was heard to open, and a /man's voice said jauntily, "Well, t>?u i TTa.a T n vaii v?,,, Duu; nci'c i am, juu acc. i>u w then, where's the tin?" Was that Robert Harrison's voice that answered in a cricking, wheedling Smanner, "Certainly, Mr. Gregson? of course?only, won't you reconsider it? Do?do let me ff." whined / ' the rich man's voice, and the otheT I took up the strain mockingly, "Let you off? Oh, yes, I'll let you off? when I'm done with you. Pay up or take the consequences." "Is your mind quite made up?" Mr. Harrison seemed to be walking about the room as he said this. "Quite, you thief, you miserable rnhher! Pav me ?5000 or I'll tell the whole neighborhood that you are the man who robbed the Carberton bank thirty years ago." "Then tell them now!" rang out in the millionaire's deepest tones as he dashed the curtains back, revealing "all the neighborhood" in.various attitudes of astonishment. The blackmailer stood holding to the back of his chair, the picture of bewildered rage. "It's just this!" panted the blackmailer. "He's a thief! He left Carberton thirty years ago!" ' "Quite true," said Mr. Harrison smoothly, taking ud the tale. "I left Carberton thirty years ago?ran away, in fact. At the same ?300 of the bank money disappeared. I did not know it at the time, I heard of it more than a year afterward. The fellow clerk who was the thief knew himself to be dying of consumption, and he wrote to me and confessed what he had done and how he had always allowed me to be blamed for the theft. The money had been gambled away almost at once. He told me to show the letter, if I must, after he was dead, but begged me, if I could, to be generous for the sake of the young wife he was leaving. I destroyed the letter and simply adopted the name of Harrison. I had run away simply because I was tired of my life in the bank and longed for wider fields. This is my story. I can only ask you to believe it; I cannot prove it." "But I can!" said a voice from the background. All turned in astonishment. It was Mrs. Cartwright. Deadly pale, and trembling very much, she stood facing them all. "The thief," she said slowly, "was my first husband, James Trevor!" "Mrs. Trevor! Is it possible? And I did not recognize you!" "I did not recognize you, Robert, you have changed so much, or I should not have kept the secret as I have done. It has weighed on my mind all these years; but you had disappeared, and I thought it could not matter. Before James died he wrote out a full confession and signed it before witnesses. 'If ever Robert is in trouble for want of it you can produce it then,' he told me. I have kept it ever since. Forgive me? I " Every one began shaking hands at this point, except, to the general surprise, Sir John Brandon. He stood immovable all this time, with his eyes fixed on the features of Robert Harrison, and an unreadable, somewhat puzzled expression on his own face. Albert Gregson, still holding to the back of a chair, had been almost forgotten, but he had one more card left. "Sir John!" he cried in a high, sharp voice. "Sir John Brandon! You don't know who this man is whose daughter your son is going to marry. You dfcn't know, I say! Why, you knew him well as a boy? he's just Bob Wilde, the son of your father's keeper!" The rich man turned and faced "the proudest man in the country" with a cmilo Hiat lit nn his nlain. strong face. "Master John?" he said softly. "Old Bob!" shouted Sir John, dashing at him and overturning two chairs. "It is! Itfis! My dear, dear old Bob!"?he was shaking both hands at once now?"to think I never knew you all this time! Oh, Bob! How often I've wondered about you! The times we had when we were boys!?and you never told your oldest friend! Here, where's that blackmailing scoundrel Gregson? I'm a magistrate. I'll deal with him!" "Why, he's gone!" said a chorus of voices. And he had, never to be heard of again!?London Answers. Cronson Alcott's System in England. Educational circles inWolverhampton district are interested in a remarkable incident which occurred in a vpluntary school. A boy had been punished by the headmaster, and uuuiyiaiuc uciug mauc tv iuc mauagers the chairman, "who is a wellknown clergyman, went to the school and asked that he should receive the punishment which had been inflicted on the boy, so that he could test and judge of its severity. The headmaster explained that the boy had received six strokes, three on each hand. "Well," said the reverend gentleman, Til take them," and he held out his hand in the conventional boy's | fashion. The headmaster screwed up his courage, and in the presence of the assistant teachers and class administered six vigorous strokes. The clergyman lost his smile at the second stroke and winced at each of ttie succeeding ones, to tne great joy of the assembled boys. After the .punishment he picked up his hat and hurriedly left the room.?London Daily Mail. I llis Identifying Mark. Viscount Tumour, the Earl ol Winterton's son, was being interviewed in New York about clothes. On this subjecst, however, the young man refused to talk. "You," he said, "are the sixth reporter to talk clothes to me to-day f think you reporters are too persistent. You give me no rest. Yoi remind me of a friend of rniue ai Oxford who used to like to drink t mug of ale at the Mitre. He was al ways very particular about having his own mug. "At the Mitre, one evening, he saic to the barmaid: " 'A mug of Bass, Nellie; and bs I ~~p,, l /I ko it in m v nwn nowtpr L'iUClUl tv-? uiu " *v *** ~ f> Make no mistake.' " 'No fear of making a mistake about your pewter, sir,' the barmaic answered, 'I can tell it with ease.' - 'How so?' my friend asked. " 'By the handle,' said the bar maid. 'It's always warm.' "?Wash ington Star. : SMART 5TYLL New York City. ? The over )louse has unquestionably taken a ' Irm hold upon femin'.ne fancy and is ; o be notea iq almost inuumciauifariations. This one is absolutely ! timple yet chic in the extreme and [ 'an be utilized both for the gown i vnd for the odd waist. Worn with *a <kirt to match, it will be a favorite 'or street wear during the summer, vhlle either so treated or made of i -.ontrasting material, it makes a . really charming indoor waist for imi nedlate wear. In this inctance the naterial is pongee trimmed with bandi .ng and with soutache braid, while the guimpe beneath is of all-over lace, but these over waists, or jumpers, are especially, to be commended for the reason that they can be'worn over any lingerie or lace blouse and also because the guimpe can be varied as occasion may demand. The waist Is made In one piece. It can be cut on either V-shaped or round outline at the neck and the sleeves can be slashed at their upper portions as illustrated or left plain as liked. There are under-arm seams i and the sleeves are held together at I their under-arm edges by means of short straps. The quantity of material required ! for the medium size is two and a I quarter yards twenty-one, one and seven-eighth yards twenty-seven or one and a quarter yards forty-four inches wide with five yards of banding and ten yards of soutache braid. Filet Lace the Tiling. Filet lace rules this season as Irish lac; did two seasons ago. The ; square mesh is the thing and comes I in many forms, from heavy coarse I bands that suggest curtain laces, to i the finest creations of the cushion and bobbin. Tailor Color Scheme. A color scheme for a tailor-made gown, which makes rather a nice . change, is a periwinkle-blue tweed? a dullish shade?with a slight broken skeleton check in heliotrope with a navy tone in it, really the color of a violet. The facings are of plain heliotrope-raced cloth, and there are little flat-pleated rosettes of the cloth with a small tassel hanging from the centre of each. The Tailored Shirt Waist. The new blouses are even more . j elaborate than ever before, but by ; i way of change we have the plain little tailored shirt waists, made sever?j> ly plain with nothing more than a . tiny frill of the same material ap ; pearing on either side of the front i | pleat. The sleeve3 are neither long t nor short and are finished with trim i | little turnback cuffs. j Velvet in Vertical Lines. ; ruui Diiaps ui uai n. vcitct w^touuI ! ing from shoulders to waist In v?rtij cal lines back and front, and joined : j at yoke depth by other shorter ones . ! for the suspender effect to be wore I with an afternoon gown. 1 ' Dainty Wool Negligee. Long loops and ends of soft rib Wat. A r\ frAm tho riahf* hanr UULl UC^UU X.I v/ua v**v *o?w lower corner of the square ODen necl * o? a dainty wool negligee. 5 FOR SPRING. am. An/l Toaff'or 9UK UUU i Pekin silk and white leather finish a smart black cloth jacket. Embroidery For Natural Linen. The Japanese and Bulgarian embroideries are especially pretty on the natural linen fabrics. A Cuff Variation. A straight band mitred on the outside of the arm to form an upwardturning point makes a pleasing variation of the straight cuff on the short sleeve. Treatment of Beading. If you'd thread the lace or embroidered beading quickly after it comes from the laundry, tack a narrow tape to the ribbon before It is drawn out and then pull the ribbon out and the tape in. When the garment returns from the laundry, tack the ribbon to the tape 'and pull it la A*-- X as me tape gues uui. Airy Mousseline Toqne. The fashion of dining in public has produced in Paris an airy little mousseline toque trimmed with gold, and having either an upstanding aigrette or a sweeping plume. This little chapeau is worn to the theatre after dinner. A kind of Marie Stuart cap is also being worn by a few women to whom it is becoming. Guimpe Blouse. In this day of over waists apd jumpers the guimpe 'fills an important place in the wardrobe. Here is one that can be made either entirely of lace or some pretty lingerie material or of muslin with facings and sleeves of lace as liked. The latter method is, as a matter of course, a bit more economical and when costly material is used is in every way desirable, although the entire garment always possesses certain inherent advantages. In this instance imitation Irish crochet is the lace chosen and the sleeves are cut off at the elbows and shirred to form puffs with frills of thinner lace making the finish. But deep cuffs can be added, making the sleeves full length and every ma. terial that is used for guimpe is ap{ , propriate for this one, the pretty allovers and inserted tuckings quite as well as lace. TV*/* ortn'mno i o mO/^6 TTM t Vl f TATl t 55 T1 fl A uc guiax^o iO tuuviVs fckWMv V.-.-. back and is drawn up at the waist line by means of tape inserted in a casing or can be gathered and stayed with a band. The neck is finished with a-standing collar and the sleeves are made with full upper portions that can be either treated as illustrated or joined to the deep cuffs. When the facings are utilized the guimpe is cut from thin material which is cut away beneath the lace. The quantity of material required for the medium size is three and seven-eighth yards eighteen, two and seven-eighth yards twenty-seven or two yards forty-four inches wide if one material is used, or cne and a quarter yards of foundation material ; n thirty-six inches wide with two and " three-quarter yards all-over lace for 1 facing between vertical lines, two and [ three-eighth yards for facings abova cross line of perforations. ~ MINERS SAVED FROM FLOODED COAL SHAFT I Al T.!l H -J Marvmg toners Kescueu hiici Hundred Hours of Agony. FOUND BY HEROIC COMRADES Tell Their Experience?Economized on Food in Lunch Baskets and Kept Only One Lamp Burning? In Exhausted Condition. ' Johnstown, Pa.?The seven miners who for five days have been imprisoned in the innermost depths of the flooded Berwind-White coal mine at Foustwell were "reached by two heroic rescuers at 10 o'clock in the night of the fifth day. All seven . were found alive and well, but suffering terribly from thirst and the darkless. 9 In the morning when the last of the water had been pumped from the mile of flooded tunnel that blocked their way to safety, they were led to the mouth of the shaft. The names of the two men who reached the entombed seven will go down in the history of mine heroism as the "bravest of the brave." These men are Stiny Rodon and Charles Ream. After one rescue party had given up in despair they swam fifty feet through the pitch-black tortuous tunnel and dragged themselves upon the ledge where the entombed miners sat. The rescuers were more dead than the men to whom they brought the hope of life. When, two hours after the first heroic swim, Ream, half conscious and exhausted, staggered back to the head of the shaft to bring news of the rescue, such a roar of joy and welcome went up from the anxioue crowd in waiting that the ground trembled and the echoes carried for miles. ' ' Earlier in the day a first attempt at reaching the entombed men had been made by a party of four, headed by John Bolya, brother of Foreman Bolya, one of the seven within the mine. But the water was still too high, and though Bolya, frenzied with grief as he thought of his brother's starvation, had desperately dived in an attempt to swim beyond the high water mark, his companions were forced to pull him back by the rope they had tied around his waist as a precaution, and return. At that time the surface of the flood reached the dome of the narrow shaft in many spots along the mile of winding length between the mouth and the little eminence whereon the seven imprisoned men sat waiting. The return of this party emptyhanded drove the thousands, outside half wild with grief and disappointment. Efforts at pumping were then redoubled. At 10 o'clock the watei had so far gone down that it was resolved to make one more attempt tc break through to the overcast, where it was believed the unfortunate men were still alive. Rodon and Ream volunteered fox the service. They made a dash through fifty feet of water filled heading, reached the starving men. All seven were not only alive, but well, though greatly exhausted from their long confinement. They were cheerful, too, despite the danger oi mental breakdown. In fact, it was to ward off the phantoms threatening them in the ifnfathomed gloom beyond the small space lighted by their lamp that they kept up their spirits. The rescuers swam under water foi many feet to get to them, and when they arrived in the air chambei where the captives waited for help, they for the moment were in worse plight than the men they had braved all to save. For the rescuers were half drowned by their protracted submersion, whereas the other men were singing with forced gayety when th dramatic reunion unaer grouna oc curred. The entombed miners were sup plied with abundance of- food foi days through the forethought of theii leader, Michael Bolya, the contractoi in charge of the heading swept b> the flood. When the water surged around the seven, mounting from knees to hips and reaching for theii throats, Bolya shouted to his companions to save their luncheon baskets. Half consciously they obeyed him. They needed no admonitior from him to keep their lights dry That they did automatically, with the instinct of their kind. The rescued men are: Michae) Boyla, John Howard, John Cones Stephen Ballard, George and John Meka and Michael Petre. DIED OP REMORSE. Edward Linne, of St. Louis, Struck His Mother and Committed Suicide. St. Louis, Mo.?At the inquest intc the death of Edward Linne, twentyfour years old, who committed suicide, it developed that Linne took his life because of remorse in having struck his mother. He had been out of work and his mother chided him for not making further effort to secure employment. In a rage he struck her in the face. Later he returned and weepingly begged forgiveness, which she granted. Then he shot himself. Suicide From 111 Health. Captain William H. Thompson, for thirty years in the oyster trade at Baltimore, Md., shot himself dead in that city on account of ill health. Germany's Peace Policy. The German Chancellor, Prince von tsueiow, in a speecn oerore tne Reichstag, clearly defined Germany's position in regard to a discussion of limitation of armaments at The Hague. Food For Starring Chinese. The United States transport Bodford sailed from San Francisco for China with 4,000,000 pounds of flour on board for the famine sufferers in ths northeastern part of the empire. Stub Ends of News. Gerald Fitzgerald, a prominent voung lawyer, shot and killed W. F. Dpp, proprietor of a billiard hall in I Friar's Point, Miss., and shot himself ! ?1, ? jli tiitr l 111 1C5. r Fifty service scholarships annually have been given Drake University at 3es Moines, Iowa, by Theodore P. Shonts, his father-in-law having ounded the institution. Believing that he was about to be leld up. E. K, Bodey, a switchman ,t Birmingham, Ala., killed W. A. Cennedy, a molder, who was on his ray. to work. ' MARVIN IHH THEORY Farm Hand Suspected of Causing Missing Delaware lead's Death. Search For Kidnapers Abandoned? Rnrtir Mnv Have Been In Ban Carried Away. Dover, Del.?Through a statement made to Detective Frank H. Lore, of New Jersey, by Horace Caldwell, a farm hand, of Kitts Hammock, Frank H. Butler, who is now locked up in the Dover jail, Is charged with the murder of Horace N. Marvin, Jr., the four-year-old son of Dr. H. N. Marvin, who disappeared mysteriously from Bay Meadows, the Marvin farm, on the morning of March 4. Butler, who was a farm hand employed by Charles Woodall, the maij who sold Bay Meadows to Dr. Marvin, was the last person known to have seen the Marvin lad. Suspicion has been directed against him for several weeks. , Butler a few weeks ago obtained a job as deckhand on the steamer John P. Wilson, of the Dover and Philadelphia Navigation Company. . Lore, Lorenzo D. Wopdrufl and James Hawkins, State detective, of Delaware, went to Philadelphia and boarded the steamboat John P. Wilson, which was about to start for Lebanon. . i After the vessel reached Delaware waters at the mouth of Jones River, Butler was served with a warrant issued by Justice of the Peace E. F. Wood and sworn to by Detective Haw kins. He took his arrest coolly. During the next three hours, up to the time the vessel docked at Lebanon, Butler was put through a sweating process by the detectives. Butler denies knowledge of the disappearance of the child and reiterates that the boy was sitting on a haystack on the Marvin farm when he and several other men, who were moving the effects of the former owner of the land, left the plac?. Butler, Caldwell says, was ordered to go to the barn and load up wheat screenings in bags. This he did, and when Caldwell later entered the barn ho found that Butler had loaded three bags Into a wagon and a fourth was lying on the floor Of the barn. Caldwell says he lifted this bag into the wagon himself and found it heavy, although Butler had said it was filled with corks such as are used by fishermen for nets. 'This, bag, Caldwell says, disappeared. Acting on the theory that this bag ^contained the body of the child the detectives decided to charge Butler with murder. It is the theory of Lore and Hawkins that Butler accidentally ran over the boy, and, rather than take the dead body to the house, concealed it in a sack of corks and removed it to the woods, a mile and a half from the Marvin farm, where he burled it. ONE RHODE ISLAND SENATOR. Legislature Adjourns With the Deadlock Unbroken. Providence, R. I.?Despite the pressure brought to bear by the Republican organization, tne Rhode Island Legislature adjourned without having elected a Senator to succeed George Peabody Wetmore. Only one 1 ? U?v fVia flnol affAPtfl vote was cuaugeu uj uum vu<n ?of the party leaders, and on the eighty-first and last ballot the vote stood: Colonel R. H. I. Goddard, Providence, (democrat,) 41; Colonel Samuel Pomeroy Colt, Bristol, (Republican,) 39; George Peabody Wetmore, Newport, (Republican,) 30. Thus until the Legislature meets next January Rhode Island will have only Senator Aldrich in the upper house of Congress. ( SLAIN ON WEDDING EVE. Belle Stroup Lures Ross, Shoots Him and Commits Suicide. Oil City, Pa. ? While discussing with his family at the dinner table plans for his wedding that night to Miss Edith D. Sampsell, Thaddeus Stevens Ross received a call to the telephone. He left the house, saying he would return soon. He was found dead an hour later in the office of a prominent physiciafc. with the body of Miss Belle stroup, a former sweetheart, lying at his feet. Miss Stroup was twenty-eight and Jtoss thirty-flv?. He was a postofflce employe and a veteran of the Spanish-American war. Miss Sampsell, the bride-elect, ia well nigh crazed with grief. VILLAGE JUSTICE A SUICIDE. Found by Wife at Other Woman's Door, Gardner Shoots Himself. Paterson, N. J.?When confronted by his wife, Frederick W. Gardner, a wealthy resident of Ridgewood and Justice of the Peace, shot and instantly killed himself at the door of the home.of Mrs. Benjamin Eglin, the young wife of the village blacksmith. Gardner acted as Justice of the Peace and Town Collector, not because he desired revenue from these offices, but because he had a hobby of serving as a public official. His father, who died several years ago, left him a fortune. He was fifty - 1 * TT* 1? nriA nnr nnH O years oia. ne icuvca a w mu >? fourteen-year-old daughter. Territory For Negroes. Governor Broward urged the Florida Legislature to ask Congress to take steps to purchase territory for the isolation of the negroes of the United States. Amnesty For Cubans. Governor Magoon signed a decree granting amnesty to the members of the armed forces of Cuba who have been found guilty of committing offenses in the recent rebellion. i Elg Vermont Maple Sugar Crop. Reports from Vermont indicate that this year's crop of maple sugar in that State will be 20,000,000 pounds. Baseball Brevities. Manager Cantillon, of Washington, favors young players for his team. Ollie Pickering is making good in batting with the St. Louis Americans. Lord, centre fielder of the Athletics, had three assists in a recent game. He threw out two men at the plate, and they were no less speedy runners than Magee and Titus. A1 Orth differs from some pitchers regarding the spit ball. He does not think it injures his arm in the least, but he says the pitcher who has a wind-up delivery and lets his arm go at full leneib never should uae it. m I FfJEED BY <'UNWRITT?NIAWfr \m n n - i A l. v. strong, a macc-n mercnani, Killed Man Sister Accused. ^ Tragedy Followed Indictment of 9 Georgia Printer Said to Have Attacked Woman Employe. , ? Macon? Ga.?Within three hours after his slaying of Henry D. Smith, a \ wealthy printer, here, L.? D. Strong, manager of one of the largest stores in the city, was released from arrest , following a verdict by a coroner's jury of "justifiable homicide." The unwritten law was the justification. The tragedy aroused tremendous 91- v ^ ; citement throughout the city, chiefly by reason of the prominence of the principals, and the fact that Strong had fired, as he believed, in punishment for the wronging of his sister. When Strong stepped out of the coroner's courtroom a free man he was received with enthusiastic cheers. Smith lived just long enough to deny, the accusation against him. He said he knew he was dying, and that he was innocent. ' - \* Strong fired five bullets into the body of his victim. The murder was witnessed by a score of Smith's em^ , , ployes. Among them were six women, , an ut wflum ien to iue uuur laiuuus. Five minutes before the shooting the Gran<J Jury had handed up an in- ^ dictment against Smith charging him with an attack on Miss Lillian Strong, sister of the murderer. The girl herself was the chief witness. In a short hearing before the coroner's jury it was told that a week < ago the young wdman went to her brother and made a statement reflecting on Smith.. She was employed in Smith's office. The statement Inflamed Strong, and he got a revolver /With the purpose of immediately killing the printer. His sister restrained him, and finally ^he promised to take i no action further than to carry the I case to the Grand Jury. Strong went to the store where he is employed as usual. But he had; resolved to kill, and in his pocket carried a revolver with every chamber loaded. He betrayed no excite- ' ment while doing business. He received several salesmen, and from them purchased large quantities of goods of various kinds. Smith was sitting at his desk in his office on the first floor of his printing plant when Strong entered. He heard the footstep behind him, and turning \and looking at Strong, . he realized his purpose. \ . "You've come to kill me?" he said. Strong stood silent, watching, with his hand grasping the pistol in his pocket. "I'm innocent," continued Smith. "Before God, I'm innocent, and I'm helpless before you, Strong." "You're not innocAt," replied Strong with au oath, and, drawing the pistol, fired the five shots in1 quick succession. Two of the bullets pierced the man's heart and he fell. Men in the office stood as if trans- , fixed untili Strong started to walk toward the street; then two of them hurried and caught the slayer by the \ arms. "Don't get violent," said Strong. "I'm not going to run away. Call a policeman." A large crowd followed Strong to the police station and cheered all the way. The coroner decided to hold an inquest without delay, and he swore in the jury Just two hours after the shooting. The formal proceedings and the taking of testimony took about fifty minutes, and in ten minutes the jury announced its verdict. One juryman said that the verdict was reached on the first ballot, but that there was a delay by mutual agreement in returning 'to the courtroom. Just as Strong was released he was informed of the indictment having been found against Smith. SAID THE GOVERNOR OP N. C. " >? To tbe Governor of S. C.: 41 We're Both Prohibitionists.'" New Haven, Conn.?Governor RolHn Woodruff, of Connecticut, rfe- ; turned here from Jamestown, declaring that it is now a longer time than ever between drinks for the Governor of North Carolina and the Governor of South Carolina. Governor Woodruff stood talking with Governor Heyward, of South Carolina, at the Exposition, when Governor Glenn, of North Carolina, came along. Learning that they had never met, Governor Woodruff said: "Governor Heyward. of South Car- . * olina, let me introduce Governor Glenn, of North Carolina." Then he added, facetiously, "and I expect the usual salutation when the Governor of North Carolina meets the Goverhor of South Carolina." Governor Heyward moved restlessly, and responded: "I beg your pardon, gentlemen, but I'm a teetotaler." Governor Glenn oame to his rescue by saying: "Don't apologize, Governor, for in that event we're both Prohibitionists, I, too, am opposed to drinking." 700 SHEEP BLOWN UP. , . | ~~~~~~~ a Wyoming Range Raiders Use Dynamite to Destroy a Herd. , ; Cheyenne, Wyo.?An explosion of dynamite at John Linn's sheep camp in Trapper Creek, Big Horn County, killed 700 sheep and d?stroyed the moornno *J T1 Olltflt TT UjjWiiU MUU A herder said next day that a band of masked men raided the camp, and, , after binding him, set off the dynamite. $300,000 Fire at Union City, Pa. Fire destroyed the Union City Chair Company's plant at Union City. Pa., and several small structures and damaged the Union City Electric Light plant, causing a loss of more than $300,000. 2200 Spaniards For Hawaii. The steamer Heliopolis has arrived from Malaga at Honolulu, Hawaii, with 2200 Spanish Immigrants. On the voyage there were fourteen births and nineteen deaths, all children, whc died of measles. Newsy Gleanings. Spain plans large improvemeat ir her navy. King Edward and King Victor Emmanuel met at Gaeta, Italy. The Constitution of Oklahoma was signed by all tlTe delegates. The Aki, launched by Japan, is th? largest battleship in the world. The Ancient Order of United Workj men has been ousted from Ohio. President Roosevelt is appointing young officers to army commands. Over 16,000 immigrants arrived al JCftw York p.jtv in two daya. , ' r-v, . \ I (1 J