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LADY 01 THE SEQUEII BY MRS. C CHAPTER V. (i | Continued. Janet, who had never any words in which to convey the discoveries, and no one to say them to if she had found the words, saw it more clearly, and knew that something had happened, though what she could not divine. There were some faint changes scarcely perceptible, but developing gradually in Lady Car's habits, too. She was less in the library with fiter husband, abandoning this custom very slowly in the most natural way in the world, compelled by the other duties which with a daughter growing up became more important every day. CHAPTER VI. Lady Car did many things after this period which she had previously disliked to do; but there was one thing which she did not for a long time consent to, and that was to open the house in the North which was called the Towers, which Tom had been used to speak of as "my place," and which Beaufort thought it foolish of h<?r not to inhabit. He did not know the ghosts that dwelt there. He did not consider that it was the house of her first husband, the house she was taken to as a most wretched bride after the marriage into which she had been forced, and that the dreadful time of that bridehood, and the years she had lived with Torrance, and the moment of awful agony when she had heard of his death, all lingered there waiting for her. Mr. Beaufort only thought it was foolish, when she had a handsome bouse in Scotland at her command, that the family did not go there in the autumn, when it was natural that families should go. But he was not a man to bore" her by any repetition of this counsel. He had been a little surprised, and even it must be allowed a little disconcerted, to find himself so much more at His own disposal than of old, and now that Carry was not always at his side his habits, too, changed imperceptibly. His beautiful library was still his chief haunt, but he read the papers there and all kinds of profane things. And he went a great deal to Cordelton, where the county club was, and spent a part almost of every day there. It was not that he had any great liking lor the gentlemen who found it such a resource. He kept the position among them of a man who was not as they were?a person superior in many ways, a writer (though he never wrote anything.), a philosopher. No doubt he was entitled to that last character. He was very civil to them all, but regarded them from an altitude, making notes of what he called the "humors," and making them the subject of many satirical descriptions when he went home. Sometimes he went up to London for the day, at first to consult books, but latterly without alleging any such reason, and went to many places where were no books to consult. But it was very rarely that he did not return home in the evening. He had no desire for dissipations of any kind. He was far too much a philosopher, not to say a gentleman. Tom, perhaps, described it best in his schoolboy language when he said that Beau liked to loaf. So he "id. He had no twist In his character. Had Lady Car followed him in all his excursions she "would have found nothing to object to, and indeed he would have enjoyed them much more if she had. But he liad, as a matter of fact, no mission such as she had credited him with; he had no eosnel to Dreach. nothing at all to say. If there had been anything more than youthful excitement and ambition in his plans it had all evaporated in his listless life. He might have pushed on?many young men do?and insisted upon marrying his love, and saved her from Tom Torrance and the dreadful episode of 'her first marriage. He might have Tealized at least some of his early promises and anticipations. He might at least have roused^ himself from his sloth, and written tuat book upon which her heart was so set. But, indeed, that last was doubtful, for he might only have proved that he could not write a book, which would have been harder on Lady Car than to think he would not. The end of all things was, however, that he was immensely relieved, and yet vaguely insensible, by the change that had now come over his life. There was a change. The secret and constant, if sometimes a little exacting, companionship of those early years was one which gave him a vague ache as of desertion, especially at first. And Carry was changed. Her questions, her arguments, her constant persuasions and inducements to go on with that book (expressing always a boundless trust in his powers which 1t pained him to part with), were all over. On the other hand, he had regained his liberty, was now free to do as he pleased?an indescribable boon. Whai he planned to do was always quite gentlemanlike, comme il faut. There was no reason why he , should be restrained in doing it. He liked to read, and alsc to think, without it being supposed to be necessary that anything should -"ime of his reading and thinking. He liked to go to his London club now and then and have the stimulus of a little con Vt/-v IiUa/1 -rwr rt r% vciaauuu, uc imcu yyucu luci c waa nothing else, to go into Cordelton and talk a little to the country gentlemen and the smaller fry about, who were sufficiently important to belong to the j county club, and to come in occasion- . ally to sit with his wife in her draw- , ing room, to read to her, to tempt her j to talk, even to give Janet a little lec ture upon literature, which she cared \ nothing about. He was on those oc- | casions a delightful companion, so \ easy in bis superior knowledge, so i Unpretending. In their rich and easy ] ......II...It^ C* Af?? ? ^ Ci ?. d L OS= A SJFE. I li HIPHANT. s P rzrz r ti life, without cares, without any em- a barrassment about ways and means, li or any need to think of to-morrow, o he was indeed an admirable husband, d a most charming stepfather, pleasant d all round. What would any woman n have wished for more? b There was one period in this easy Si and delightful life which brought the ^ change home to Beaufort with curious e force for a moment and no more. It s' was the period just after the publica- ? tion of a book which went over his . ground?the ground which it had al- 11 ways been supposed he was going to ? take. It forestalled him on many points, but in some went quite against him, contradicting his views. He j brought in the volume with some ex- e citement to his wife, and read to her ^ those portions with which he dis- v agreed. "I must do something about ^ this," he said; "you see the fellow a takes half my argument, and works jt out from it quite a different conclu- w sion. I have been too supine. I t< must really get to work at once, and 3j not suffer myself to be forestalled ^ and contradicted like this." g "Yes, Edward," said Carry gently. w She smiled very sweetly upon him, with a curious tender smile, but she i, did not say any more. n "You speak as if you did not think tl it worth my while," he said, a little f( annoyed by her composure. d "Oh, no; I think it quite worth t] your while," she said. He went off w a little disturbed, vexed, half angry, Sj halt sad, out certainly sumuiaiea oy f( her. Was it indifference? What was a it? Had she responded as of old, a they would have talked the matter n over between them and taken away f; all its interest; but as she did not d respond Beaufort felt the flre burn, p He went off to his room, and got out ti all his preparatory notes and the be- n ginning of the long interrupted man- f? uscript, and worked with vigor all ^ night, throwing his opposite views f, hastily upon paper. Next day he an- -y nounced to his wife that he meant ^ "to ruin that fellow's book"?as the tl quickest and surest way of express- n ing his dissent. "Yes," she said g once more, but with a little rising c color, "when, Edward?" a "Oh, I'll send it to 'Bowles,' " he a said, meaning "The Nineteenth Cen- e tury" of that day. Of course, "The j( Nineteenth Century" itself had not <3 yet begun its dignified career. And ^ he did an hour's work that morning, 0 but with softened zeal; and in the g afternoon he repeated to himself that y it was scarcely worth his while. The a people who had read that fellow's C( book would not care to read a review; ? they would be people on the other g side, quite unlikely to pay any atten- c; tion to the opposite argument. And as for the general public, the general t, public did not care a straw tor all the ^ social philosophy or political economy tl in the world. So after another hour's (, deliberation he put all the papers w back again?what was the use?? jj and went into the county club, and n brought back a very amusing story a of the complicated metaphors and p confused reasoning of some of the j? geuuKLuen mere. it uiu uui sume tl him that Carry never asked whether 0 he had finished the review, or how tj he was going to treat the subject. But he remarked her smile with a v curious sensation which he could not ^ explain. It seemed to him something new?very sweet (her smile had al- ^ ways been sweet), very patient, indulgent, with a look of forgiving in z It, though he did not know very well what there was to forgive. He for- jj got in a short time about the answer he had intended to write to that book, and about the review into which his intended answer had so . soon slid?in intention?but he was ^ haunted for a very long time by I Carry's smile. What did it mean? u Tom and Janet were just as little aware how it was that their mother tj was so much more with them than of old, but this had come on gradual- ^ ly, and it did not strike them except by moments. "Why you're always with mother now," Tom said, when he came home for his holidays. He was now at Eton, and, though he had been in several scrapes uad managed to keep his place and wis in high hope of getting into the boats, which was the only distinction he had any chance of. n; "Yes," said Janet, sedately, "for I'm growing up now, and mother says ^ I want the most?" "Isn't it awful sop?" said Tom. which was Eton (at that time) for London and hard work. He had the 7 grace to speak low, and Janet gave him a glance upward with raised eyelids, and they both laughed, but softly that no one might ask why. "She thinks of such a lot of things g that no one can be expected to know," said Tnm "T rlnn't tav fallnwa Tnr she lets me alone now. I suppose ^ you have got to road books all day." "Oh, no; oh, Tom, we oughtn't to 11 talk like this and laugh, for Bhe's? n mother's very kind. She is indeed. She sees in a moment if I'm tired." r) "She'd need to," said Tom; "buu I don't suppose girls mind. You J51 come out now and have a game. Will * she let you? If she won't, just steal away?" "Oh, Tom," said Janet again, "how 1 can you speak of mother so? She ' never stops any fun. now?when there is any," the girl added after a m pause. Lady Car was at tbe other end of the room, seated in the recess of a broad window which looked on the re wide landscape. She had been wait- t0 ing for Janet, who had asked her assistance in some work she was joing?trumpery work such as dis- , turbed all Carry's prejudices. Janet di was painting flowers upon some little w three-legged stools for a bazaar, and P1 though she only copied the "patterns," she required in the execution some hints from her mother, who bad once made considerable orogreaa i the study of art. Janet was e rely unaware that Lady Cai reamy landscapes, which were fi f distance and suggestion if nothi: Ise, were in any way superior er "patterns," and had made h all for aid with the frankest con ence that what she was doing w xcellent art. And Carry had pi ared the stool from which the da as and red geraniums were to ainted, with as much care as if -ere to be used by Raphael. Wt he saw the two suddenly disappe< erhaps she was not altogether sori t is possible that the painting lie stools was "sop" to the moth iso Rh<> smiled at them with ttle wave of her hand and sha f her head as they passed the wi ow, in mild allusion to the aba oned work, but perhaps she was luch relieved as Janet was. She la ack her head upon the dim-color atin of her chair, and watched t ivo young creatures with their rac ts, Janet carrying in her apron apply of balls for their game. Se nteen and a half ? fifteen and alf?in the bloom which was h? ifantile, half] grown-up, all fre bout them, nothing as yet to brii 1 black ears. They were not han )me, but Tom had a sturdy man ess and strength about him, a: anet, her mother thought, look verything that was simple and tru! 'orthy?a good .girl, not clear, b ery good-natured and kind; a: om was not at all a bad boy?rouj little, but that was mere high sp ;s and boyish exuberance. Th ere neither of them clever, she sa ) herself with a faint smile. He illy she had been! How she h rorshiped talent ? no, not talei enius?and had hoped that th rould surely have had some gleam ;?the two whom sne naa Droug ito the world. They had been si Dunded with beautiful t'lings i aeir lives. When other people re Dolish nursery stories to their ch ren she had nourished them upi le very best?fables and legen rhich were literature as well tory; yet Janet liked the patter )r her stool better than all the prir nd pictures, and Tom never open book if he could help it. And wta latter? she said to herself, with tb lint smile of self-ridicule. The ch ren were none the worse for thi [er fantastic expectations, her fa istic disappointment, what did th latter! She was altogether a mc intastic woman?everybody had sa ; all her life, and she recogniz ully the truth of the accusation no Vho should be so happy as she? H usband so kind, always with hi tiinking of everything that wou lake her happy. Her children ood (ueally so good!), wise, we onditioned?Tom so manly, Jar 11 that a girl should be, very, ve ifferent indeed from Carry as a gi tut what a good thing that wa anet would have no silly ideal, wou esire no god to come from the skii rould not torment herself and eve ne about with fantastic aspiratioi he would love some , good, horn oung fellow when her time can nd would live the common life, t Dmmon, happy life, as the family !aston were doing now. Edwai one over to Cordelton to the coue lub?the natural resource of a m 1 the country; the brother and s ;r playing tennis on the lawn?t oy expecting to get into the boa ae girl delighted with a new patte Dr her stools. And no cloud ar rhere, no trouble about starting th? i life, no embarrassment abo loney or anything else. How hap family! Everything right a; leasant and comfortable. As Car 1 * ??? . ly oacic in ner caair, luiu&iug < liese happinesses over, her eyes r ver with sudden tears, for satisfj on and joy. When the tea tray came in t oung ones appeared with it, ve ungry, and ready for the good thin hich covered the little table. La ar watched them consume the cak rith the same smile which had pi led Beaufort. "Would you real ke so very much," she said with ttle hesitation, a lingering in li oice, "to go to the?Towers for t ext holidays, Tom?" "Should I like!" said the be limping up with his mouth full read and butter. "Why, moth< etter than anything in the world! "Oh, mother!" Janet cried, tfith low upon her face. She had pass le bread-and-butter stage, and w utting herself a piece of cake. T nife fell out of her nand for excit lent and pleasure. To be Continued. Memorials For Poe and Randall. The late James R. Randall was 3n of Maryland, native and to t lanner born. Edgar Allan Poe w n adopted 3on. It has been sb ested that the bodies of these gift len be buried in Baltimore in tl ime mausoleum. This suggests i prompted by a worthy sentimer ut its appropriateness is open uestion. Poe died in Baltimore on Octob , 184-9, and his body was buried lis city. His gr^ve, often neglect* tid perhaps forgotten at times, e jpt by a few faithful admirers o? b enius, has long been a reproach altimore. There is now in existed a association organized for the pu jse of rearing in this city an ad iiate memorial of Poe. This raon ieot should commemorate the grea ess of Poe alone, for reasons whi< re obvious and convincing. Edg; llan Poe was not only a poet of tl [ghcst rank?pronounced, indeed, 1 ime eminent European men ol le irs the greatest poetic genius tl nited States has ever produced?bi s was also a master in the field < :tion and a literary critic of powi id distinction. For these rsason lereZore, he is entitled t?. a separa' emorial.?Baltimore Sun. What Slie Broke. Marion, wno had been taught ' port her misdeeds promptly, can her mother one day, sobbing pen ntly. "Mother, I?broke a brick i e fireplace." " Well, that is not vei lrd to remedy. But how on eart U JUU UU IC, 1-lliIU . *. puuuucu Lth father's watch."?Youth's Con inion. William T. Stead's latest; hobby : le bacteriological regeneration < irren land in England. fi- -sC ',m a8 New York City.?"Ehe plain, man.e_ nish shirt waist is one of the latest and smartest of the season and prombe ises to be even more popular in the *jj( it near future. This one can be en made with or without the yoke ir> at the back and allows a choice of y. regulation sleeves with over-laps or of of these that are made with short gtl of openings only, the edges of which ara op< ht hemmed. In the illustration striped frc ir- madras is the material shown, but pr< ill linen, flannel, silk and the inexpen- me ad Blve printed wash fabrics, indeed; all wi' II- the waisting materials are appro- a ? on priate. ! als ds The waist is made with the fronts tai as and back, and when the yoke is used | ua Tflf*' j( * ' !t ,8 ai7Di,ed over back. Tltere la \ cm a pocket on the left front and the sib edge of the right is finished with a caa wide box pleat. The sleeves are per- are fectly plain, in shirt style, without use gathers at the shoulders, and are fin- ars a~ Ished with straight cuffs. The quantity of material required ba* for the medium size is three and five- tuc eighth yards twenty-one or twenty- l0*1 four, three yards thirty-two, two and 86' . one-eighth yards forty-four inches dei . ' | wide. t0 j om Gowns Not Over Tight. fln | ah j in Very many gowns worn by dressy . Parlsiennes show that the best dressed women, while they have rei3 stricted the number of their garments t0 to next to nothing, and while draping ce the bust, but leaving the entire arm r_ and shoulder absolutely nude and one e_ ankle in coquettish evidence, do not, u. however, drape their gowns with the Lt. tightness that some of the sensational dressmaker's models would lead one ar to suppose. Though the draperies ie are close and everything is weighted )y to hang flat and straight, nothing is stretched into a tight wrinkle. Flesh 1e colored or white tulle is inevitably inside the corsage, as the corsage line r)f runs straight about under the arm or jr extends in a deep point or square 3> quite to the high belt. i te " ~ ( Long Sleeves. \ | The long transparentsleeveof net or ( chiffon, which has to so considerable to a degree replaced tne snori commnale tion sleeve of the dressy frock, is more i- chic in color matching the frock than n In white. It must, however, match y the guimpe, and a dark guimpe is al:h moat universally unbecoming. it 1- Pink a Leading Color. r Instead of the touch of black or for light- blue which we have had with U6 is f is for so long there is now a touch of hal pink. The new shade is hard to de- hal scribe. It is just off the coral. wit gQ-WlMN'f The New Scarfs. Some of the newest scarfs are made satin or chiffon in black, instead ol 3 softer shades. They are finished either end with elaborate fringeNew Striped Goods. The beauty of many of the new iped materials will protract the gue of the stripe, but in suitings a vague, indefinite plaid and check 3igns are newer and are receiving ire favorable attention in Paris. Match the Shirt Waist. The separate waist is still permis IJL IL Hid LU11 CO. VCi J OUiai b, JLU~ ed, are some costumes showing en-' ely separate blouses made of tucked t which exactly matches the cloth ed in the skirt. All of the shops ; showing these heavy nets in the w colors of the season, and very tie trimming is used with the net >uses, unless it be flat pipings or >chet buttons. Dotted and plain ussels net is in favor, but most popir is the coarse, square-meshed, it. Misses' Naval Waist. The naval, or sailor, waist is al.ys a favorite one for young girls, d is admirable for school and col;e wear. It is just the right thing which to take exercise, and it Ib al;ether satisfactory and becoming, is one is made after tLe latest style d can be finished with just the neck ening or with a longer one at the int and laced together aa may be slerred. In the illustration It Ib ide of blue flannel,! and is banded th braid, while over the left front Is strip of red flannel and red flannel 0 makes the chevrons, but such dels can be arranged to suit indlvid1 taste, although the girls like to I A' . ':' ty the sailor boys as closely as poale. Flannel, light weight serge, ihmere and all materials of the sort i appropriate, and the waist can be ;d with the skirt to match or sep> itely as liked. The waist is made with front and :k. The one-piece sleeves are :ked at their lower edges and fined with straight cults and are ved to the armholes before the un -arms seams are closed. The fac; over the blouse can be used or itted as liked. The sailor collar ishes the neck and the separate eld is buttoned into place beneath rho quautity of material required the medium size (aixteen years) 'our yards twenty-one, three and a f yards thirty-two or two and a f yards forty-four inches wide h five and a quarter yards of braid. WILLETT'S SPEECH EXPUNGED^ Unanimous and Non-Partisan Vote in House at Washington. Report of the Committee Raps President Roosevelt For Undue Criticism While Defending Him. Washington, D. C.?By an overwhelming and non-partisan viva voce vote Representative Willett's speech, criticising and ridiculing President Roosevelt was ordered stricken from the permanent record of the House. There was uo debate, and the resolution adopted was reported unanimously from the select committee appointed to investigate the matter. Only four or five Representatives sitting around Mr. Willett voted against the resolution, which is as follows: > "Resolved, That the speech of Mr Willett printed in The Daily Congressional Record of January 18, 19.09, contains language Improper and (in violation of the privileges of debate, and that the same be stricken from the permanent record." . "Since, under the Constitution." said the report, "the members of the House may not be questioned elsewhere for speeches in the House, and the President ought not therefore to criticise or comment officially upon speeches in the House (laughter), it becomes especially the duty of the House itself to protect the President from that personal abuse, innuenuo or ridicule, tending to excite disorder in the House itself and to create personal antagonism on the part of the President toward the House, which is not related to the power of the House under the Constitution to examine into the acts and conduct of the President. "Your committee has carefully considered the. remarks of the gentleman from New York, and, testing the same by the foregoing principles, finds that his remarks concerning the President are not justified by any considerations of the constitutional duties or powers of the House; that they transcend proper limits of criticism in debate; that they are destructive of that courtesy, respect and dignity which ought to be preserved, and that they ought not to remain in the permanent official record of the proceedings in the House. "Your committee finds it impossible to separate those portions of the gentleman's remarks which are open to objection from those which may be parliamentary, and that the only way to eliminate from The Record the remarks which were improper and out of order is to strike the entire speech frofn the record." The reDort closed with a letter from Mr. Willett to the committee in which he said that he had been entirely within the rules and precedents of the House: A POE TALE IN REAL LIFE. Canadian Trapper Accused of Murdering and Eating Companions. Montreal, Canada.?The AttorneyGeneral of Quebec province has been Informed of the capture of a Belgian trapper named Grasset, who is accused of murder and cannibalism, and his detention at Fort Albany, a Hudson's Bay Company post on St. James Bay. Orders have been forwarded to detain the prisoner until spring, when he will be brought up for trial. Grasset and a French companion named Bernard started for the Chibbagamee country a year and a half ago to trap game. They took with them a guide named Lemieux. A few months later Lemieux's body was discovered by a party of hunters, and Investigation revealed that the man had been killed and parts of his body used for food. Several months la,ter the body of Bernard was also discovered, and it showed evidence of the same usage. What remained of the hn/iw wao hrmipht tr> Roherval. Ber nard's home, and a thorough investigation was made. Grasset denies 'guilt. MINE DISASTER KILLED FIVE. Explosion and Fire in a Coal Mine at Boswel], Pa. Pittsburg, Pa.?Five men are dead as the result of the gas explosion and subsequent fire in the Merchants' Mine of the United Coal Company at Boswell, Somerset County. ' The dead are J. G. Logan, of Pittsburg, mine superintendent; George Morris, assistant superintendent; John Cole, day foreman; Andrew Shulock and his son, miners. In spite of persistent reports cir- i culated during the day that a score or more of persons were still in the J mine and probabty dead, it is believed I this is the complete list. Divorces a Nagging Wif<\ At Worcester, Mass., Channing Smith, a wealthy woolen manufacturer, got a divorce because his wife nagged him into nervous prostration and he was threatened with insanity. His wife was Mary A. Montgomery, of Philadelphia, when he married her In 1BQ4 Find Button In Man's Heart. An autopsy on the body of Fred^ Pompleitz, at Denver, Col., who was found dead under circumstances indicating foul play last week, revealed an ordinary black waist button lodged in the right auricle of Pompleiiz'3 heart. Gas Company Contends. The Consolidated Gas Company, of New York City, petitioned the United States Supreme Court to rehear the eighty-cent rate case, alleging the decree maintaining the eighty-cent rate is inconsistent. Wall is' Name Withdrawn. Governor Hughes, at Albany, N. Y., withdrew the nomination of Fred erick A. Wallis as State superintendent of Insurance at the request of Wallis. China's Ruler Has Smallpox. Cabling from Pekin, the correspondent of the London Times says that the infant Chinese Emperor is suffering from confluent smallpox. Smoke Costs Chicago $50,000,000. Chicago is the smokiest city In the world. The Smoke Inspector says so. The annual loss to manufactured articles is said to be $50,000,000. Want Lobbyists Tagged as Such. A resolution has been introduced into the Senate at Lincoln, Neb., compelling lobbyists to wear badges. - r}f Tr^-~-Wtftt Latest News. BY WIRE. Wages Advanced to 1200 Hands. Pawtucket, R. I.?Announcement was made to the 1200 employes at the Royal Weaving Company's mill here that beginning February 1 their wages would be increased one-quarter of a cent a yard on all qualities of goods. ' r; J Prince Wins Quebec Girl. Quebec, Canada.?The engagement Js announced hero of Hugo Ferretti Tortonia, son of Prince Augustus Tortonia, Prince of Civitella Cesi, Italy, to Miss Margaret Duchesnay, of Quebec. Indian Killed in Kentncky. Harlan, Ky.?Sherman lnsley. killed an Indian giving his name as Hatfeather, a fugitive from Oklahoma, where he was charged with killing a man. Insley, a private citizen, sought the $1600 reward offered! for capture of the Indian,, who offered a desperate resistance and Insley killed him. Father Was Son's Best Man. Chicago, 111.?A father acting as beet man at the wedding of his son was the unesual feature at the mar-, rlage of MIsb Kathryn Charlton, of Oak Park, and Lloyd R. Steers, of Chicago. George S. Steers served his son as best man. For years the father and son have been almost Inseparable chums, living together at the Union League Club. Lincoln's Portrait on Stamps. Washington, D. C.?To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, 100,000,000 two-cent postage stamps bearing his portrait will be Issued. Cannot See Trust Books. New York City.?Judge Noyes, of the United States Court, denied a motion by counsel for the Pennsylvania Sugar Refining Company in its suit for $33,000,000 damages against the American Sugar Refining Company for the production of the defendant company's books. $50,000 to Survey Lincoln Way. Washington, D. C.?By r. vote of 1 46 to 24 the Senate adopted Senator Knox's amendment to the Lincoln /lAnfAnorv foanltiHATi annro^HftHnfl? WUWCUai J i VDVtUVAVM ?It* F ~ f " *" ? ?r~F ?50,000 for a survey of "the Lincoln way" between Washington and Gettysburg. Boy's Death Follows Blow. Fall River, Mass.?George H. Maynard, a ten-year-old schoolboy, died as the result, it is alleged, of a blow In the stomach infiicted by Elphoe Cardin, a fourteen-year-old playmate. . Morgan Buys Washington's Sword. Baltimore, Md.?J. Pierpont Morgan has purchased from Miss Virginia Taylor Lewis the sword worn by George Washington and will give the relic to Mount Vernon. Bryan's Daughter Sues. Lincoln, Neb.?Mrs. Ruth Bryan Leavitt has sued for divorce on the ground of desertion. ( ' | BY CABLE. Austrian Boycott Lifted. Constantinople,Turkey.?The Government has Issued instructions' to the customs authorities to take meas ures to suppress the existing boycott on Austrian and Bulgarian goods. , t Shaw Announces His Death. "V London, England. ? George Bernard Shaw, the dramatist and author, who was to have delivered a lecture before the Fabian Society, was unable, owing to illness, to keep his engagement. In reply to a note inqnir. ing as to the state of hiB health Mr. Shaw said: "Inform the public thatl am dead. It will save a great deal of trouble." A Diplomatic Shift. Berne, Switzerland.?Dr. P. Rlt? ter, the Swiss Minister to Japan, has been named to succeed Leo Vogel, at present Minister of Switzerland at Washington, D. C. Mine Planters Leave. Rio Janeiro.?The United Statei mine planters Armistead, Captain Ferguson, and Ringgold, commanded by Lieutenant C. P. Corbin, which are proceeding from Governor's Island, New York, to San Francisco by way, j-*-- ?j. U ~ O frAtfll 01 ID6 dirau UJ. ;uagcimu, aau^u l.uu1 Rio Janeiro for Montevideo. Margherita Going to Japan. Rome, Italy.?Queen Margherita, mother of King Victor Emmanuel, is going to Japan next August and will remain in the islands for three months. She will receive a hearty welcome from the Emperor and Empress of Japan, who will both meet ber when she arrives at the Tokio railroad station. Mine Flood Drowns 160. Johannesberg, Transvaal. ? Ten white men and 150 natives were drowned in the Witwatersrand gold mine, which became flooded by the bursting of Knight's Dam:."'*' Heavy rains caused the dam to give way. The water from the dam flooded also the lower sections of the town of Elsburg. Many houses were swept away and thirteen persons were drowned. Korean Emperor on a Jannt. Seoul, Korea.?The Emperor, accompanied by Prince Ito, the Japanese Resident-General in Korea, decided to start on a tour of the north ern portion of the empire on January 27. The Emperor will visit all the principal cities and towns in that part of Korea. Fail to Form New Cabinet. Belgrade, Servia.?All efforts to form a new Ministry have failed, and the Ministers, at the KiDg's request, have consented to remain in office. Major-GenernI AlexiefY Indicted. St. Petersburg, Russia. ? MajorGeneral Alexieff, retired, was indicted for peculation and having received bribes while in the service by order of Minister of Marine Dikoff. Carrie Nation Arrested. Newcastle - on - Tyne, England.? .Carrie Nation, the American anti-saloon crusader, was arrested here while engaged in a raid on a saloon. Ernst Von Wildenbruch Dead. Eerlin, Germany.?Ernst von Wildenbruch, the German poec and dramatist. is dead. He was born in 1843. i