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Politics the Current Ncw^ of the'Day. ^ _ __. r . . "ft ' #. "a f , ;^ ' ' " ' -" ...- - ! ? ? - ' ' ? "w??i II w ? M I , I ' *^tfirw?^>i l ."> - ' ' ' " "7 V XX.---NEW SERIES. . UNION P. H.. SOUTH <a*aiilIIttplw.i>WMRvn ?o. ISH'.I. NUMBER 38. DT ATI!' ORAT. I J . It 1* strange how the turbulent, rushing lido ?? Thst swayed oar destinies long ago, R-. Turning all other things aside, ? R-' Should tffvvo Kronn so silent .and calm and flow; r" Should lie In our hearts like n torpid snake: ' - And neither heart nutter nor hopeless broafc. F . Was It live or passion? 1 of ton ask ?& Myself, as I sit heo all alone; Pf.T For net bor of us Irti worn a mask. And neitbor of as has turned to stone. Hff O, 1 sigh for the dream of that other day. *rV And what wo hare lost In this strange, sad way. Rv- Pnaslon or lore?1 care not what BRr- The world may ooll It?fickle or true. Si you remember, or ereu If not. Life norer can give what 1 loaf, with yon ; "* My faith In constancy, honor end truth Has died with bopo ami a blighted youth. 1 wonder. If either should die to-night, t Leaving the other alono and atitl, * If aoine little touch of remembrance might Stir the living heart with a sudden thrill; Or awaken aom > dreain Irom the burled past, JJi _ Or bring resognltion of love at lost. r 1 wonder 1 Bat no. It can never be; |jg?>A I have searched your eyes for the truth for Ba$. years; Hh Thoy have told no story of love for nm. >'' And mine own have grown dim with unshed -THE ~ t LITTLE WAIF: A Story of Absorbing Interest. Oy BERNARD HERBERT. ; (CHAPTEft XI.?Continued. 1 Ho advanced with outstretched hands, but ere they met those of Boyden in n grateful clasp, they fell nt his sides. Something, perhaps the thought that this man had wrecked his happiness, robbed him of the desiro to toucn him. ~ Instead, ho said: ytf- "I kbow'not how to thank you, Mr. ' B<mlen." Boyden rone, thereby expressing n taeit wish to end the scene. "I do not wish to be thanked," he re-1 plied; "I only hope that I havo cured, yon of your foolish infatuation." "It was not infatuation, sir; but gen-' nine, deathless love!" "Deathless! Do yon mean to tell me "That such lovo as mine cannot dio! Though I could noi look upon her fnce again without a shudder until her inno- . cence is proved, sho has n?y love and . will keen it. for all olomitu l" Boyden smiled again that indulgent; smile. 1 > - ; "Yon foreigners will horogjuntic in think yeu -will be culled iffSon to look' tipon her face in a hurry, since slio's rather clever at giving people the slip. "Well, as X am obliged to go to Boston upon important business, wo will de-% fer tho portrait for the present." "As yon please. Mr. lloyden. Good morning." "Good morning, Mr. Arnini." And the moment tho door closed upon' ' the young artist, he added with a grim L laugh, [touring out the remnant in tho decanter into his glass: "There! That's well over. I hopo to the Itord I'm through with that sickening milksop !" The atmosphere of tho bustling streets, together with tho freedom from Boyden's baleful influence, produced n singular effect upon ltupert Aruim. "I won't believe it!" ho mentally ejaculated. "Sim is innocent! My heart tells me so. She is alone in tho world, with every man's hand against her. I told ray mother that in ouse of need I will defend her, and defend her I will 1 But how to find her ? Stay! Perbans-they have some tklings of tllo TiAAT r*nilrl nf ivnlinn hon<lniin?fnvu I" And never pausing to consider the . itonsequences of the set, he turned his fiOe down-town, and after fifteen minutes* sharp walk entered the portals of ' the residence of justice, in Mulberry .. street. In answer to his inquiry as to where he should find the presiding ofH-. ,'oerof the day, he was directed to the apartment on tho left of the entrance '* hall. Hero, surrounded by the majesty of the law, the brave-hearted fellow approached the long table at which - three officials sat. They looked np as he appeared and waited for him to speak. * "?*<> ^ "I come to find out," he began, "if anything hns boon heard from a young girl who strayed from?from her"home fast night?" * ? "What name?" was asked. "Rupert Arnim." "The young girl's name ?" " "Grace Garland." -i 5 ^I'Ka P.onfftin wao ffAtnrr nn In nol. f . - 1 * h<""0 "" I some description of the person in ques- I tion, when he was interrupted by the j - . opening of a door which had stood ajar to the right of the desk, And the face of Detective Bnncker appeared. -'? ^'Will yon step, this wav, if you please, Mr. Arnini ?" he said, and van ished an promptly ns he had appeared. With a start of surprise Armin followed the direction given, and passing ^ through the first private office, m which K sat the most justly celebrated detective this country ovnis, he'found himself in an inner offeoe and confronted by the stranger who had accosted him. "Pleas? 1k> seated," began Mr. ' jb Dancker, Jightl.v jHtsing uj>on tlm edge F A"' of the desk that filled the greater part | of the little room ; "you are in search ' of one Oraoe Garland. Ibelieve?'* "Yes, air. Can you tell me anything W:' cfjMfr?" < '"Pifst, ?an you tell me anything of SEh- ..VimV* wm thn imnart.nrltahln vowiimlnr m,;. T*if<>tw?g."r ~~r wgsk t "X)o yon ra?ftn that yon have not the , r.bjlUy Or hot the inclination to tell M&. 'wWt yon know?" "The Ability, air. All that I know of ypynoe Garland ia, that I met her on Ihe Oregon, and that ijinoo her arrival f 'A . In- this country she has l>cen otaying . with my mother. She disappeared*laet . aiftht, and I am acarohing for her." < "Of , all of which 1 am informed. * Arnim,all that lean tell you is that Grace Garland ia in cnstoUyk" MJlo} but out of harm'a way," j7 a dense mystery and have too mueh i stake to be interfe*d with. will ca upon yon later. Good-day." * CHAPTER XII. BANCKEB TO TBS MONT. Poor Rupert, being thus peromptoril dismissed, bowed and toon his leav< passing out through the halls of justic< eyed by a dozen or more stern myi undone of the law. i As he had sat, during his brief intei view with Mr. Bnncker, with his bad to the open door, he had failed to nc ticc the apparition of a messenger wh made a significant signal to the detec tive, whioh virtually was the cause o Arnim's being discharged so suddenly nor did he, being wholly absorbed ii his own thoughts, see the elderly gen tleman, of distinguished appearance who stood waiting for an audience witl Detective Bancker. Had Arnira been of a curious turn ol mind, which decidedly he was not, apt had he chosen to listen at the door ? #*>private office after the elderly gen iliOfrai worTVn ife^'might' have heatc would have been: "Have I the pleasure of meeting Mr, Bancker, the gentleman in charge o: the Clifford murder cose?" "Yes, sir. And you are?" "Mr. Edgar, the lawyer employee hv the late Mr. Orrin Clifford at tin tiibo of his death." "Then permit me to say, Mr. Edgar, ..a,. ? " * ' jv>u uiu urn niiMMiig iihk in out operations! Thank you for calling upon ine." But an Rupert did not ' hear all thii and the mass of vitally important buei nesa that followed, perhaps for the present wo need not b? inqniaitivc; le( us, rather, return to little Oraeie Garland, our long-suffering heroine, where we left her on the preceding night in that upper room of this old building, prostrate upon the lifeless body of her supposed, father. The shock of the information which Nicholas Garland had imparted with his dying breath, coupled with the excitement and fatigue of the night, had bereft tho poor child of her souses for the time being, and like one dead she lay there, heeding not the dazzling ray of tho bull's-eye lantern that encompassed the pathetic picture in its pale of light. It may be needless to state that t he lantern wan held in 'the hand of that astute detective, Mr.'Bancker, since the reador has alrehdy suspected na much. It was he who, by cjhance, came upon Max Boyden, as he came strolling down the avenue to keep his appointment with Nicholas Garland; it was he who ih'tliwuiitkr Awkww .At ?; means of the door which Boyden had left unlocked; it was he who had locked the door on the inner side after little Graeie had found admittance there, and it wus ho who now knew more than was good for certain parties in the case. ? , After the terrible climax bod passed, Mr. Banoker, in his cool, calculating way, attixed the bull's'eye to his belt. approached anil gently raised the girl from her unsuitable resting-place. Almost his llrst touch recalled her to hoi senses. "Oh, what lms happened? "Who nrr you ?" sho wailed in a dazdd way, struggling out of his arms and staling at him wildly. Always methodical and calm, if any thing, lluncker replied to each query. "A man has been murdered here. ] am a friend." It all flashed back upon her now; th< desperate conflict lietween Garland one an unknown man; the dying confession and then the silence of death! "A man!" she cried, glancing invol nntarily at the dark, distorted form upoi upon tfie floor; "he was my fa Oh no. no! Oh. sir. if. as von sav. von ar. a friend, tell me what it all means!" "I know no more nl>out it than you do my poor girl," replied the detective gently; "probably much jlesa. Butw will take time and clear up the matter. "Who has done this thing?" she de manded, shudderingly. "I am not yet prepared to sav," wo the evasive reply; "all that I have t< advise is that we leave the matter jus where it iB for to-night." " What 1 Leave him all alone hure i the dark?" "The body cannot be removed unti the Cojroner is notified." "Then I shall not leave him." "What was he to you?" "My Nothing. She could not accustom herself t the thought that the man for whom sh would have sacrificed her very life, i need bt>, was not her father; and th detective, who was a monument of pi tience in such matters, was not i flio lonut onnnvail V\vr Knv eoutvn/1?/ttA* viiv uv? VI'IIUIBUH.IA/I replies; indeed, he wept on systemal ienlly: " "Wliero i3 your heme?" "I hftvo no home." . "How came you here?" "I do not kuow." "Well, we'll talk of this anothc .time, when you are reated and .leas e) cite<l. In the mean time you had bet ter come with me. My wife wl! make you comfortable for the night i least/ Grocie clasped her hands, and tho he tears courted one after another ovt her pale cheeks. "Mnst I leave him?" she sobbed. "low certainly can't stay here; yo would catch your death of cold, beside doing no good." MI might aa well die! What have 11 live for?" . Mr. Bancker smiled, in spite of hitr self; it was a grim, but an henct smile. "I'm sure I can't say," ho replied "but I should think that a prett i'oung girl like von had n good deal t ive for. But Molly can answer sue icimntne conundrums better tftatl can." "Wlio is Molly?" asked Oracio in a absent way. '* , "My wile." . \ ; j "Well, she rejoined, in ttie very'as haustion ct defqteration, "let us go t her, it you will. i 8? they went, the detective first carc ?* ruiry-wxJ*!hg* TTiT'ihe' hffcti# "'o^1 dftjpR* it and plntiug the key in hie poekot. 11 Some wiscapro hot* said that nature seeks her opposite. The rnle certainly Gv>ved true in the Banckcrs' cave. Mrs. oily BBncker was a plump little robin, with p merry, round face, lighted y by a pair of kindly, round eyes. She ?, kept her little house, way over on the ?, East Side, in Thirteenth street, as neat r- and attractive as alio kept her person; she worshiped her husband, consider - ing him a man of simpiv superhuman k attainments, and was altogether a t- cheery, charitable little soul. Her tall, 0 slender, non-committal husband kuew very well how she would receive his f charge, so that ns ho entered the cheery ; little parlor with shrinking Oracie 1 clinging to his arm, all he said was: "Molly, a young lady to pass the , night." . i Mrs. Molly Bahcker was upon her feet in an instant, f "How do you do. Miss?" she inl quired; then, when Gracie did not ref. ply, Mh? ad<Ud.rVWV>*f"? tirad she does look!" |1 ilin !? fill |??? - I *'*1 ' I womanly tone in which the words were uttered, and the sympathetic glance . proved too much for poor Grade's ovcrf wrought footings. She burst into a torrent of tears, end, throwing her arms about the little woman's neck, she lay I thero weeping out her soul upon tlio ) friendly breast. "Dear, poor, little thing!" mnrinured , Molly; "whatever can have happened r to licr? Well, whatever it is, it's a ; shame! Coino with me; come into the kitchen and get a cup of good hot tea; , that'll revive you and warm you up. . Why, you're trembling liko a leaf! , Come, poor dear." ; And soothing and coaxing her, she led Grade away, while Mr. Banckcr , watched them with an areh expression , upon his expressionless face. "Mollv will get her secret out of her before ifiin time to-morrow night," he murmured, confidently, "and that without asking. I always told her that, if l she were thrown on her beam-ends for i a living, she conld turn confidencewoman, and steer it better than even < 'Hungry Joe* ever did!" ] , The simile was not complimentary to SkmI Mrs. Mollv Banckcr, but it was , e expression of Wr husband's highest j i admiration. j Meanwhile poor little Gracie drank ( i her tea, dried her tears, and was comforted. At last she was put into a com- , , fortable bed, and fell asleep from sheer i exhaustion. . She slept late on the following morning, and it was Mrs. Banckcr alone who j sat by her, while she ate the nicely j -? uicnaiopv, xviier HUIUU Ut^HUI- ] tory conversation, Gracie made bold to. ask the name of her lwnefactors. , "And xnTRT "re?yrrar misunuu D VUDr I ; ness." "He's a deteotive." "A detective! Oh, henvens!" She started in genuino affright, and. turned as white as the snowy tablecloth. . ""Why, what ails tho poor child?" exclaimed Mrs. Tlanoker, all unmindful iin her interest in the girl, that she had been brought to her under suspicious circumstances. ^.Nothing, nothing," replied Gracie, iquiokly, striving to regain her composure. "I'm nervous, I suppose; and? and I never knew a detective before." "Ah, but my Dick is awfully kind." "He seems so, indeed. I owo him my . life." "You don't say so!" [ "Yes, I should have died in that terrible place lost night if it had not been a for him." I "What terrible place, child?" It is doubtful whether Grade would ' have been induced to answer so leading a question.' The fact is, that she x was not obligod to, since at the moment Molly Bancker started to her ^ feet with an exclamation, as the cloning of the street door smote her a.\r. She peeped into the little hall. "Mercy on mel" she exclaimed, in ' surprise; "what can have happened? ? It's Dick and a?a " Her words were cut short by tho sudden entrance of her husband with s a silencing look upon his face. 0 ^Thoroughly well-trained, Molly t whisked out of the room as Mr. ' Bancker approached and laid his hand n upon the back of Gracie's chair, looking down kindly upon her up-raised q face. "Gracie," he began, when she interrupted him. ! How did you learn my name?" she asked, ip a troubled way. o "Ob, naturally enough; no matter o .how just at prosent. Will you go into if the parlor and see a gentleman ?" e Bhe started up, placing one hand i. upon the edge of the table for support, n bat keeping her eves fixed m?on4he do y | toctive's face. "A gentleman?" she faltered; "who is it?" "A stranger to me, but a friend to yon, so he says." She hesitated a moment; then laying her hand trustingly upon his arm she !r said: i- "Mr. Bancker, yon have beon my t- friend. Will you still stand bjr me II should trouble come of this intervfow ?" it "You may count on me every time!" She bowed her thanks; he opened the tt door and she passed through the little r hall and paused upon the threshold of the parlor door. JTor an instant there was silence; tt then a cry rang through the house, and m staggering forward she oaught good lawyer Edgar's hands in hers and drop0 ping upon hetr knees kissed them fervently. But he raised her qnickly, a k. deep oolor suffusing his kind old face, ,t and placed her upon the sofa beside him. I; "Heaven has brought us together to y ao iw win, my cnild," ne murmured. 0 "Oh, th^n you know all!" she cried, h *1 know that Nicholas Garland is 1 dead; that he was not vonr father." "Oh, then, who ami? Mvdear, good h friend, tell me who I am, in mercy's name!" "Can you l?ear to hear it. Gracie?" "Yes, yes! Anything rather than this o suspense!" "You are the child of the man whom >- Nioboliw Uwlond murdered I ^ou art i CHAPTER xfiTrt , \ ! ] 4 bai or ra?Kr. * - 1 "Thank Qod! Thank God !"\ 1 It was the joyful cry ot a gin -ofut ? heart, a heart too full for-further- tter- 1 nnce. The ono thing iii all the rorld which she would hove wished m< t to ; hear, she heard, and the great jo of it had almost bereft her of her sent s. < but she did not faint; she aim] l.v sat . thero with her sunny head restin< upon , Mr. Edgar's shoulder, his fatherl .arms supporting her, while her big, so; i>yes, , brimful of tears, were fixed up n va- ] caucy, with so hoavenly anexpres ion in ( them, that one would say that tljpy had pierced the limits of mortal Tistra and , were contemplating the ineffablyV$]}uty of the promised Paradise. , Wishing to allow her to fully realize the great intelligence he had imparted, \ the lawyer did not disturb hef Anmut, and bo she sat thera^-to^f in htor day 'iTITffTlifrrn^ J raff nr.?? >? "flWbn Those wore moments of indescribable ecstasy for little Gracie, long to be remembered after the storm-clouds had again gathered, and the sunlight of , hope had vanished. At last she spoke in a low murmur, as though cominun- , ing with herself. "Father! Mj father!?Oh, how j sweet to think of it!" "Yes, Gracie, your father," echoed i Mr. Edgar. ( She started then, the spoil was { broken, and drawing herself out of his T protecting clasp, she asked: r "How long have you kuown this glad truth?'' "I know it only on the night your father died." "Thon perhaps it was to tell mo the secret that he wished to sec mo!" "I am sure of it." s "Oh, blessings on him! Oh, how 1 blind I must have been in all ^hese years, not to have seen what his love "* and protection for mc meant! And yet 1I think I must have known, for I could I only have loved a father as I loved v him." 8 "And he loved you equally in return," 8 rojoined Mr. Edgar. "On that fatal " night I drew up a will at his request, 11 in which he leaves every penny of his f enormous fortune to you." 1 She looked puzzled and hall pained, 8 as she replied: ^ . I * nni snonia 1 do with bo mnch * money? I should have been better ^ pleased, had he bequeathed me some 0 knowledge of my birth, aome explanation of the strange, /Unacknowledged 1 life I have had to livd " . 11 "For that I blame him!" exclaimed 8 ft# uu?> I shall know iy when we meet in the ? next." J 1 "But he evidently intended to tell ^ you all that night, if his life had been } spared. He gave me aome hipta." , "Yes! what did he tell yon?" she _ cried, turning eagerly and laying her ^ j>on^a Mpmt Ilia nmfl "He said that your mother stiftl lived." * "My mother lives! my mother MVeal oh where is she?" ; "Somewhere near Boston, I think, j He told mo that she was beautiful, fa> tally beautiful. That is all I know." c Sloyrly the girl gained her feet with ^ fast looked hands, and eyes into whose t depths the far-away look had returned. "Poor mother!" she cried, "ho# you n must have suffered too in all these long i years when I thought yon Safe in heaven!" Then turning to Mr. Edgar, she added with nervous energy: "I must go and And my"imothorlVthat is 1 my first doty!" "Not yet, Gracie," objected the lawyer rising, prepared to impose his authority now that his time to speak 1 had eome, "There is time enough for t that. First of all, we have duties of } paramount importance to adjust here in i this very city, and this very day!" She looked at him wonderingly, and < ho continued: < "Do you realize that the object of Mr. Clifford's murder was tho theft of ' tho will which establish38 you as his heiress? That will was stolen, and until it is recovered yon are a pauper." ' Her eyes began to light as lie pro- 1 greased, with A strange, intelligent tire, 1 and when he ceased speaking she de- j manded, breathlossly: "In the event of his will never being found, to whom does my father's fortune fall?" "T* his ne*t^-*i- Li Max Hoyden.*** Vrv* Tn:; "Ah!" she oxolaimed, ~ x I Bnt my mother! She is living; whyshould she hot inherit her share ?" "That is a mystery which I have not yet been able to probe. All that I kqow is that bhe is not mentioned in the will. Every penny is left unconditionally lo yon." Littlo Oracio walked slowly to the window and for a few moments stood looking down into the quiet, sunny street-, lost in the deepest thought. Suddenly she turned, asking: Is Mr. Bancker still in the house ? If so, please call him; I have something to say>o you both." The detcotive having been quickly summoned to the little parlor, Graoie continued: "My good friends, until tha, present moment my lips have been etfded concerning the past. 1 see nowihat I must speak in justice to you both, and assist yon all I can. On th^^gtift^ that my lioor father was irttrrdcrod, murdered by the man whom from early childhood ! } bad been taught to regard as my father?I was it> tho adjoining room wifeh the nurse, Waiting my chance to g?> to my father, is requested by Mr. Edgor. We had V>th partaken of tho "ragged tea, she having taken more than I, and half dared from the effeots of the drng, I was tfpon my knees be2??d her eTiair trying to wake her, when Nicholas Garland en Vbred by the window, and stealthily efftered my father's chamber. A few ropfcents later came that terrific death-cry i followed by the violent ringing of thepell An instant later Garland rusks >d Ant with several papers crashed In his hands, and simultaneously Ma* Brg/del appeared at tlra window,1* '+9 M. / 1 1 "Yea." He demanded money, and Oai Land handed him a quantity of Eoglis bank-notes, and telling him that tie ha bad to do the fatal deed, hurried hii nut of the window, seorcely a momoi boforc Mr. Edgar appeared." "And the will?" demanded tho lav jrer. "I know nothing about it," replie Gracie. "Ah it hat* been stolen, 1 hii) pose it was among tiie papers whie GLarland carried." She paused, and for an instant a nminbus silence fell u|>nn the group, t lie broken at last by tlie lawyer's ej claiming: "Oh, Gracie, my child I Wliy didyo not sjK'ak at once?" "I liclieved Nicholas Garland to b my father," she said, firmly, "and woul you expect a daughter to send herfathe to the. scaffold?" Lawyer Edgar looked at Detectiv Uancker, and it was. U? **" the odd RK> against us, we must set to wm> nn do the best we can with the liglit w have. Tho body of the inau Gar Ian lias been taken" to the mortritn Til sooner Clraeie identities it, the bettor. At tho words the poor pjir 1 reeoile* ivitli ii low cry. "Musi I look upon him again?" sir faltered. "Oh, yes," replied Mr. Banckcr, ii lis most business-like way. "It is nh lolutely indispensable that, you ahoufi !Htablish his identity. Besides, vol nust ho present when any papers tho nay have been upon his body aro ex tminod." [TO DE CONTINUED.] Paddlug the Instep. A lady, who was crossing Fourteenth troet, in taking partieular care thai tor skirts were not soiled by.cuniad ritli the mud, opposed to view ? Coot rblch at first glitnee seemed to Ik K>ftutifullv formed. It was noticeable, lowever, that the beauty lasted onlji tdiile the person was in motion. When he remained standing her feet looked s if there were bnnehes, like bunions, n the instep. The writer mentioned lis observations in the family circle, nd was promptly informed by a feninine relative that the feet which had itracted his attention had been covred by a shoe with a padded inntcp. le was also told that all ladies like tr i?**3 ? |11K11 inBvepi mat it is consulred almost a requisite of licautv, i Itt order to ascettiin how such Heitious amendments to tlio works ol iature wero accomplished, and how ;enerally the practice of pvhling inteps was carried On, a visit of inquiry H she \newabout il. ,n?Or<?oWM?;'Tir] adies like to have a high insten," sh< aid, "and we can and do furnish then: o the order of thoso to whom nature taft glvetl A flat, ungainly foot. How s it done? Simply enough, I assure 'on. When a lady lias lior foot meas ired for a pair of shoes allowance it nade for a certain amount of fuUnest cross the instep, and a high, upward ind very stiff curve is mndo between he heel and the hall of the foot, the leel beltlg made high and set Well for ratd. A little pad of douhlo thicknes; ?f sheepskin, between which is a stuff ng of felt or cotton, is then placed or he instep, the shoe is drawn on over it ind when it is buttoned the wearer has is high an instep aa she could wish for \ year or bo ago we had maiiy callB foi ihoes made iu this way, hut lately th< age for them baa considerably moder traded."?New York Times. A Chemical Experiment. One df the kimlest-hearted of hiCi vas the late Isaac T. Hopper, of Bos ;on, a member of the Society of Friends His fondness for practical chemistry i llustrated by the following anecdote yVlicn he mot a boy with a dirty f.ic ind hands, he would stop him and in piire if he ever studied chemistry. Th< l?oy, with A wondering stare, would an IWcr no-. "Well, then," said Friend Hopper, " will teach thee how to perform a cnri ous chemical experiment. Go home tftke a piece of soap, put it in water and rub it briskly upon thy hands an< face. Thee has no idea what a beauti ful froth it will make, and how nine l>etter thy skin will be. That's a chew |cal experiment. I advise thee to g home and make it." Chinese Custom0. 'B**?.|Uanton, China, some 250,000 pet pie livo continually upon l>oats, an many never step foot 011 shoro froi one year's end to the other. The youn children have a habit of coiitinuall falling ovcri>oard, and thus cause great deal of trouble in effecting u rei cue, while in many instances this is in |>oKsihlu and a child is drowned. Chin is an over-populated country, and tli Chinese have profited by this drownin t)roclivity in reducing the surplus popi at ion. They attach fioais to the mal children so that they can bo fished o\ when they tumble into the river. Tl: females are without Much protectioi and are usually left to drown. Forgive"* A very busy Chicago banker was \ be married to an Omaha girl. Tl (lay came, but the groom did not mi teriolize, and at nine a. m. this telegra was received: "For Heaven's sake (ell us what the matter. This is your wedding da and the hour approaches." He was scared half out of his wit and bounced around like a hen with h< head cut off. Then he rushed to tl telegraph office and sent this answer: "Thought I had three days of grac Don't' let it go to protest. Coming < the next train." The wedding was late, but it was mierry one, and all was forgiven. An ounce of silver may now be pr elirvsed in England for 41 j pence, t lowest price of the present century. Inventor Edison is quoted as sr ing that lie would give all hit* fame be rul of Ueufneaa. lilt WgfVS. r* Isaac Armifljng. n^e I eighteen year*, '' jumped from on ixctits 01 Iriin and was In* ^ itantly kilto.l at Atiant e City. C. L. K ?llj die, a prominent luwyrr of Elizabeth City, N. C.t tl eJ of typhoid fever. Christopher Oatz and wife, while cioniu^ tho truck of the Ubio River ltuilroad at Mvuirlsvilie, W. Va., were hit by auexprts* train, mil in' stautly killed. Duriug the past week one ^ thousand |>u Idlers in the several iron works in the Schuylkill Va ley have had their wngis n raised.?^-Leua licrt/.?K, aged s Venicen 0 years, leaped irom a INow York terry boat and fought desperately with James Kelly, who, lu trying to s ivo her, had to best her U into submission.?Fifty p oplo w.-r asoriously poisoned by eating chueseat the village of e Bettsrille, Ohio. At n temperance birbeil cue in Levy county, Flo., a quarreixicjurrod r between J. A. Williums und Wi igl.it II. JiUis, in which the latter was killed. An Italian - a secret society (Worge Bush, a negro, * l|jM?i i "OS win taken from Jail at Columbia, Mf\, and hanged. In York 'j coUnty, 8. C., W. B. Boy.l shot his wire and 0 tWn killed himself. S'eve Brodio, tho j bridge jumper, went over Niagara Falls in a I ] rubber suit and canto out alive, but badly shaken up. Sylvestero Morales, a notori r> out California outlaw, has been captured, and a young girl whom he abducted froin her 1 homo rocovered. A mob attacked tho sheriff s officers in Butler county, Kansas, In I an attempt to lynch Hob?rtSnyder, who bud i murdered bis mother-in-law, aul theorise, t nor was shot during the fight Germans in the W est are agitating tho question of a nttional German-American holiday, to bo celebrated annually by German-Americana ' all over the country. Tho Republicans of the State of WnsblngI *?n held the r first convention, and after t odopting a platform, nominated E. F. Kerry J for O >vernor, and John I. tyjlimn.fnr r-?- - arvma. ??TiCh btrbce haibeon made in tbo > Eastern View mine io New Mexico. A G. i ; 3toley, of South Bend. Ind., was poisoned ' by taking morphine in mistake for quinine, i Henry Fountain accldently shot and killed his friend, Horace II. Stratton, while deerhunting In the wilds of Sullivan county. N. ^ Y. Manuel Congdon killed Thomas S'.ok cum in West Exotor, 11. I., during a quarn * ' over somo cblckcfs. In I'.ttsburg, Win Smith, a colored cook, killed his wife and then attempted suicide. Jealousy was the ( cause.??H. P. Ferry, a lineman, wns killed in Buffalo hy an electric light wire while a* work. In a fit of jealousy, Sherman Ciwswell, living in Montpeiler, Vt., shotaway the f jaw of George OojId, who had mnrrio 1 thu ' woman Cass well loved. Mrs. Blanobe l/oy, wife of a Chinese laundry man. in Chicago, has applied for a divorce. Henry Weinl ^rrtrnltid^{al^S^inrtteT1fb'ln?n?, Hjl#H bus notified tbe Stato Department that the 1 Mexican government purpose to put a tariff 1 on dressed animals and all animal products, in retaliation for the duties imposed by the Untied States government on oxen. The postmaster at Spokane Falls has notified the Department that, t.he emn'oyea in that office i will strike uules* their pay is raised. Sec, retary Tracy has designated Lieut. Adam I Ward, naval attache to the United States legation at. Paris "to renr ?>nt lha H.?* i partment at the Jutorn atioual Meteoroligicai Congress to bo hold ,ln Faris- The Pueu? matic Gun and Power Company, of Wash ton, has proposed to build a pneumatic car* riage for fP*,OJd. It bos l?een decided to elect ex-Senator Piatt to fill the vacancy ^ caused bjr the death of ex-Governor Drown 3 as president of the Tenness.-e Coal, Iron and Railroad Company. More trouble is expected at Sewall, W. Va. There Is a great demand for coke, and th ? price is grcdu ally advancing. John Johnson, a Swedish cnr1 pehtef, living In Chicago, hacked hia wife to death. His mind is unhinged. ^ Tho race troubles at Green wood Miss., have terminated. Four colored men were killed in p the Bhootin,; on Sunday. L. S. Brooks' banking office, at Creston, Iowa, closed, and ? Brooks and bis cashier have been arrested. - L. Ifc Clauson, a real estate broker, was folind murdered at Wichito, Kunsxs. t ' Max Jacobsen, a clever European sharp,was - arrested in Chicago charge! with extensive 'i ertlbextlernent on the Fidelity and Casualty Company, of that city. The money was lost 1 in betting on horsa rnces. Two children of I. I n u n ?t,;iA ?! ?;?#* with mnlpliPM (it I'.ivm virii) , ninig (jinjiu* ...... a l?arn at Blue Springs, Nob., set fire to it, '* and Were burned to death.-'?The postofBco ? at Moline, III., was robbed of f'i,IOJ worth of postage f-tanips. The towns of Sudbury and Wayland. Mass., celebrated the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the incorporation of Old Sudbtny, ono of the moat -an cieut of Massachusetts towns, having Lean n settled in 1G3S, receiving its name in l&W. K Hudbury was the nineteenth town in the y Massachusetts Bay Colony, and the second 11 situated beyond the flow of the tide. Thi ( millionaire packers, Armour and Swift, ignored the subj m in to appear before the Sene atorial Committee investigating the dressed l>?ef trade in Chicago. ^ i A twelve-yoar-oldson of John A. 8Mclcley? le of Purghtsville, W. Vo., w.?s accidentally tt killed while bundling n pistol. Dr. David in Tilton Brown,?retired farmur, hanged bim0, self in hie harn, neor Bitavia, I 1. Tiio roof of the casting-house at the Stewart Iron Compiny's works, Sharon, f.i., fell in, fatally injuring Austin Moreford,seriously into Juring several others. V train on the ie Pennsylvania Railroad, near Elizibethtown a- N. J..struck and kille<i two boys who were m driving across the track in a wagon Ie a wreck on the New York, Pennsylvania and is Ohio Railroad at Youngstown, Ohio, severe y, passengers were injured. (frost it Missouri and Kansas Wednesdajr night. 8< Washington Billiard, a farmer near B.-thle pr hem, Pa., was shot and killed by an unknowi 10 chicken thief. In a fight between tramp and railroad brakemen, on th9 1'onnsylvanii railroad near Pittsburg, Foster Co*, a brake man was fatally injured, and Jessie Nicholi ft anomer nraKoman, uaaiy nurc. Hire colored convicts wore, killed by o dynnmit explosion near Atlant), Oa. Fourteen col ,r. ored men were brutally whipped by whit ha men, near Atlanta, Ou., r\nd the poverno has offered a reward for t :e capture of th ruffians.?All the South American nation! l>- excepting San Domingo, have acc pted ih Invitation to participate in the congress tiej jaoatb. - ?> -Terrible Dynamite ExpI<Mbn* in Antwerp. . A Thousand Persons Injured?Hundreds of Casks of Oil In Flam s? The Shipping Endangered by the Gonflagratioii. Two hundred p.T.-ous were killed and Are hundred inoro or less injured by an explosion of dynamlto ill a cartridge factory in the vicinity of the Bourse, iu Antwerp. That building was set on flro by bl iz'ng timbers hurled against it by the explosion, and a panic prevailed in that emtio i of tbocity. i Hundreds oilmen and women were engag' el in along, low building br nking up old ! cartridges when an explodon occurred ' among a pile of cartridge*, which In turn exploded a lot of dynamise. '1 lions inds of deadly m ssiles flow in every direction. The hundreds of f?et away from tho spot. Portions of a girl's body were found two hundred yards away from the ruins of the cartridge factory. Tho lire caused by tho exp'osion destroyed what remained of the factory and burned I the bodiis of many of Ih > victims, Th military were ordered out to check tho panic and prevent pillaging. After s-veral large buildings hnd twsen destroyed, the fl itn-s caught the great Itussinn oil tanks, and in a few moments eighty thousand barrels of oil were nolo*. Mr.-.* ?v>? ci|)iiwnms occurreo, and tho (1 uiies continu d to sweet lo th ? docks, nnd soon several large vessels were burning. Th> loss will le m-my millions or francs. The cartridge factory was situated In the rear of the docks, upon which millions of cartridg e In boxes were being loaned at the tim-j. As the fire exp'oded these cartridges tho liremen were compelled to run for their lives, and many of them were wounded. Tho iutost estimate is thnt there are 300 dead and 1,000 injjro J. Th j explosions continue. At the American docks all the ships have l?een saved, owing to the favorable direction of the wind. The stained windows of the Cathedrol an-unwuiMS, -~s IflfriWYt that the sltspl* TfjlLiilllMlH lli iiliii li ilii ils Xlul'liydraulic cranes are grateiy damaged. Tue soldiers of tho garrison and a large number of citizens are assisting the llrnien. Many are dropping from suffocation. The scones at the hospitals are henrtrending. King l,?ol old has sent a telegram expressing sympathy and asking for particulars. The people aro incensed at the Deputation I'erinate for allowing work to continue In tho cartridge factory which had been eondoniueJ. CABLE SPARKS. Four of tho largest mills In Blackburn, England, have shut dow, owing to the dullness of trade. A severe shock of earlh?pinko was felt throughout Greece, and serious damage was ono in several towns. Baron bchimmelpinninck Van Dor Oyo, president of liie First Chamber of t tie States liouernl, died at the Hague. The council of the French Legion of Honor *??? -r,?B' i??i u?i ?ired to maintain friendly relations with Bulgaria. All??rt Nicolet, an engraver, has confessed to the authorship of tho unarchist manifesto recently circulated throughout (Switzerland. Ho w^ll lyj lyrjed fur tljtr offense at borne. Tho remavi%pf.i^ayca\ Di Paoli.tbo famous Corsican patriot, who,died in exile near Ixnidon in 1S07, have been exhumed from St. Panoras Church btiryiajj-ground and shipped to Corsica. 1 1 The United States corvette Entei priso has arrivod at l'lymoutb, England, wuere she will await'tbe arrival of the Unit-.'d Status steamer Dolphin- from (Gibraltar, when both will proceed to Ireland. The mission sent by tho King of Shoa, an independent State of Abyssinia, to the Italian government, was received in the throne-room at Roiue by King Humbert with great pomp and coremony. A royal order which Iuib just been issued at Berlin sauctious the creation in Jerusalem of an evangelical establishment with corpo rate rights to preserve existing evangelical institutions, and to add to their number. The jury of the Paris Exposition has recommend-* I that a gold medal bo awarded to tho University of Virginia, Cornell University and the city of Boston lor educitiouul exhibits. It court circles at St. Petersburg it is said that the Russian govt r.imet.t has discharged the debts owed by tho Prince of Montenegro to varies Austrian hanking limn, amounting to over 1,000,000 roubles. William O.Brion was sentenced to two months and James Gilhooly to six weeks' imprisonment, without liaril labor, in Cork (Ireluud) jail for holding a national meeting which had beeu proclaimed by the Ku^lisU government. Dispatches have Itoen receive 1 at Paris to the effect that I he people of the New Hebrides Islands and forty-two Kn;lish residents have petitioned the Governor of New Cahdonia to annex the islands. Two engineer olHcers have l>oen sent from Constantinople to Crete to inspect the various fortifications there, with a view of strengthening them agaiust ntUick incases of futuro insurrections. The Gorman government is preparing a hill for submission to the coining session of the Reichstag for credits to augment and reorganize the army in view of the continual increase of the French and Russian armaments. The Bultan of Zanzibar has signed a concession giving to the British Kist Africa Company the Umu Island and the Benagir coast-line from Kipini northward, including Kismayu, Brawn, Merkn, Mugndish and Uruti. m * The collapse of tho Magdeburg RUgar syndicate has seriously affected the sugar refineries at Btettin, Prussia, and the Hamburg authoriu<s navu oruerea an invunngatiuii iu discover why (he proper old ml* had not coutrollrd the brokers' trading. Mrs. Florence Elizabeth Maybrick, tinder a lite sentence at Woking prison for poisoning her husband. James Maybrick, a Liverpool broker. Is |>ermitted bv tha prison authorities to take exe.-clse in the prison yard. Her health is improving, and she still maintains iter cool demeanor and seems to be neti Ming into the routine of prison life. ! A BOGUS BANK. i ' Daring; Fraud, Involving Pennsyi' vnninnN, in Lynchburg Va. A daring bank fraud lias been uneartl.e 1 in Lynchburg, Va.. Iu December last JuJge * Latham, of the Corporation Court, granted 8 a charter to certain people to conduct the 1 "American Insurance and Hanking ComH l>any," capital tlOO.OOO. In January bust* '? ness was Itogun, with H. M. Brown, of 8 Lynchburg, president; C. C. Welliner, tec rotary, end treasurer; the two mentioned, I- Morton Brown, of fl iia, Vs.; VV. II. Welliner, Lock Haven, I'a., and H. J. Browr, ? Klemington, I'a., board of directors. ?" A lively business was car. lad on until ree oenily, when the Commonwealth Attorney i secured sufficient evidence to induce the ? . m,?i furl to find indiotmenta against Browa ie I and Wol liner for fraud, when the officers it I went to serve warrants ou the indicted par* 9 ties, it v?i found they b<*4 skipped.