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''*-j- ' :?:T fs \ ON C'B" ^^ijf 1 c ROL^NA< MAY ?'t890, * ; R OSOTOLA'g LAST DEKAJL BT BKSBKIAB CTTTK BWOBTB. Pet Ito window* open and oool my vein*. For Im fever of death i* now begun. And hot ?>n my hand* and feet are ay abates, Andtheooesn pants In tho low, red ran. In the Euohoe Anna the Ibis to-night Drifts down on ibe wreck of the dead oanoo, And the Chorokee rores with hearts of white Lite thick as the stars in the seas of dew, And the misty moon looks over the wares Ca the oypress covers of bones and grates. 1 ask but a breath?wbat is left to me lit this treeless prison by hot Tybee7 '1 Listen lo Osoeolac Only the ruin iro * that cries in the fen. Only tho lur in tho werewolf's den, Only the l-oaoH where the hawk has been. But pity not Osceola. 0 Flori<lns far. so near you so?m 1 breal ho the bronth of your orange groves, The Ilres of the wurriors form my dreams, And my bride, the Beautiful, with me rove*. The fans of the palms an in years of old. Ware cooling mo now in those splendors of dreams ?And dance by the firefly'? taper* of gold, m y woh? comwn no toe i'pyvWwpi " 1 "j ?-? , And tho trade-winds Mow my plumes of white, And tho shores ora flllsd with the moonriss i light. " t la all a dream whit is left to ma >f thr polm-crowPed land and tho night-cooled soa What is left to Oeooola? Only the rain crow that ouIIb in the fen. Only tin fur In the werewolf's den. Only the bouos where the hawk has been,' But ptiy not Oeoeola. Ay, pity mo not?these hands are red, Ae red as the forges that linked those chains, And tho merciful Fever waves over my head Tho torch of the Tempest, and throb my veins. Yoar wife is dear to your bosom?well. My forost bride was as dear to me, ^ My Qoart, too, was human?and what befell? Ask tho elavo pens, led In the Msnateo. W Htolcu mid sold for a slave I And whose hand Was lifted for her in all yoar land? Thorv 1 bared my breast of my heart bereft To tho winged riilo? and what fa left? What la left to O&oeola? Only the rain crow that colls in the fen, Only the fur 111 the werewolf's den, Only tho bones whore the hawk has.besn, ' But pity not Osceola. When wnr'swrttd spirit broke in me I cursed the land and It sunk from sight. 7 I called the red plumes from the Manatee. I called from Tampa tho nlnmee of white. I called the young chiefs hom the Kvergladee And the oo.-.y swamps of the dark Walioo, * ram ' tho feathered irails .in the red wood's kbados. * > 4 - .7*-T-?_? , And we fought for our own *0T\bePlferoec do. Ye bound mo once, but I broko my bands. And the raptor cleft with these wedged bands. -And ye hound mo twice, and what remains Bnt this nerveless arm and its load of chains. What is left to Osoeola? Only the rain orow that call in the fen, Jinly the fur In tho wer> wolf's den, { inly the lionos whcie the hawk baa been, But pity not Osceola. Chains? What are they now? On plumes o lbibt My free soul soars o'er the crimson sea. Ye dotes Zeunida, yo Ibises white, 1 sweep tho ctnud* like your pinions free. The Cberokeo rosoe, tho sunbeams' flowers. J .tko llio fallen ouj'B of tbo gods, lie sweet. As In the bliss of tboso starlit hours When my brlJo lay down at my weary feet. . Tbe sunset fndei in my prison bars. But tbe angel of Right 1 see In tbe stars. 1 When Justice you faco with your soul laid bare, Tell me, what shall await yoa there? I listen to Osceola? | Only tbo rain crown that calls In tbe fen, Only the fur iu tbo werowolf's den, i Only tbe hones where tbo bawk has been, rity not usooola. I Yo shall lay my bones where tbe reedy winds i In tbe cool savannahs for ine shall sigh; I Where tbe wandur>n.( lieron the soa-conob finds, i And tbo tears of the Gulf-clouds fill tbe sky< Ye ebnll not bring uio your ftrlty there, Nor add 0110 bren b to the r.Quudlng deep, Nor mo Jk the heavens wllli psalm or prayer? te*~^ln^T<^fonif?nirr??li'SkUf^b?s^des of Qod, Atad in the hoit'bte of the judgment off Ye may ills* a seatenoo more bard to bear Than the doom of Osceola? , Only the rain crow that callfc in the fen. Only the fur In tbo werewolf's den. Only the liones where rho bawk bos been-* Moy tbo God of tbo withered leaves pity yoa then ? rity not Osceola. ft GREAT TREftSURE. The Strap mystery SnrroaQdinc Ti_ n: lis uisaparauce. A STORY OF EXTRAORDINARY INTEREST. BT FRANK BARRETT. ! CHAPliSR XII?[Cohtinokd.J know If Rho htid Hoon tho thief as ho os-' naped by tho window, and could identify him To And Lola, however, was not my solo, object. The protracted absence of Brace and Van. Hoeck excited my misgivings. and, despite',, the Judge's promise. I already reproached; myself with having abandoned my bllndi partnor. The Judge's notions of justice] were pecullnr, and based upon tho roughusage of California minora In the days when; they made and executed their own laws. I believed him capable of applying torture, only stopping short of aoliiui murder, to ' wring from Van Jloock tho secret which he believed him to hold with respect to tho | lost diamond. I retraced my stops to tho spot where I had helped to conceal Van Hoeck. Thrt broken brnkc milrknd a distinct trail, and In a pit a hundred yards from that point the undorgrowth was beaten down, ah if a strug-> gle had taken place. Was It not possible that Brace had gone, further than he intended, and killed Yarn Hoeck? Had he conceuled the body, and^ fled with his daughter to escape the consequences of his act? Asking myself these questions, I followed h * track bom the pjt that brought me Into the bridle-war. Looking for further traces of a nas-age through ttm hrjilfn 1 in*-l? m?r wny'down toward the rood. Auntu I poroelvml the broken brnke. and' I following tholine. I threaded my way be- i tween the trees upon tho slope of the hill until I emorg^ft I om the wood upon the high bank that edg.-d the Abbey road at thnt part. It wne hs nearly ge possible the point where Van Hoock bad stopped mo in' tho morntnt upon hearing Braoo In our ( rear. Looking nprhe road I saw ihe fingerpost at the croas-ronds; looking down. I saw thnt which took my breath away with amaxemnnt?Brace was trudging along the road toward tho Abbey, with Van Hoeok holding his arm on ono side, and Lola his hunl upon the other?an incomprehensible picture of unity, friendly nsslstannn and rellnnce. it wan truo tlfat without assistance Van Hoeels could not have found hi? way along thn road, and very poaaibto that, without the restraint of her father's hand, Lola agrould not have walked by his side: bat al\ ' 'woubt sh to iho oxistonoe of n friendly unrJbrHtundlnft between the two men was dls |t?llod from my mind by what followed. - I ( Arrived opposite the brldtc-p ath leading i up Into the wood they stopped, and consultation ensued between the two men. I could not hear their voices at that distance. >ut 1 saw by their gesticulations that tfiey i, ^fe srece discussing iom? point; It'nndod by Brace's going to the side of the road, ana sranlng hie nook to see If any one were In sight. I orouehod dotrn berido the thicket, wnloh partly concealed rae. When I cautiously raised my head and looked again, Draco, still standing oppoilto the bridle-way. was drawing his arm nit of the sandy bank that there skirted the oad. 1 ducked my hoad. as once he poo rod to he right and left. They were all gone, all hreo. when I looked again. Whbn I thought It safe to venture, I went 0 the spot where Brace had stood. There vhs a rnbbit-holo In the sandy cutting, >artly hidden by the training growth from he overhanging edge. I took off my loat. turned back my sleeve, thrust In my irra. and drew out?the lonther case in which he diamond had boon taken from my wristi t was omptv. f again thrust my arm in and explored he nolo, thinking?though it was little Ikoly?that the diamond had isUpped-out of he case or been put In separately. It was 1 Mn<* ot cul-de-sac?(he earth had fallen ?ut I did not glve'up . ibsolutcly certain that the Groat Hospor vas not there. It was not probable they ' vould place tho diamond in such an open llaoe; tho leather case was different. It vas unsafe to keep that, but it whs of littlo sonsequonco where they abandoned it. But why had they taken the diamond from ho case, and what had they done with It? A clow to thiB mystery aUo I discovered >efore long. When I got back to the Abbey. Braco.Van [loouk. and Lola wero In the library with ho polieo officer. Sir Edmund, Mr. Wray? lis lawyor?and a couplo of irlonds, Jusiocs of tho l'cnco. who had been brought t>y the rumors which were already widely spread. Lola was still* under examination. 8ho was Btubbornly silent. It was with tho greatest difficulty that any response to tho inostions could bo drawn from her. But she admitted seeing the man drop from tho oriel; and asked If It was one ot tho (servants. sho ropliod firmly, "No." But more than this could not bo got out of hor 011 this point. To the inquiry how she had discovered tho means of getting from the bay into tho oriel, for it was by that way she had come to my assistance, she replied that she "had seen it done before." but she would not say whom Bho had seen. The police offlcor asked me to go into the ltd joining dining-room with him. "May I ask," he said, "if you havo liny reason to suspect that you were robbed by pour friends?your partners in the diamond? because they profess to have been n the woods ull tho morning, whernas I aavc good cause to believe that they have n the town of Southampton port of tho ,Imo." "Aroyou sure of that?" "I will take my oath that I saw the little lavage in tho red petticoat in the High Street as I started to come here." CHAPTER XIII. "I advise you. sir." said the officer, "to ake tho advice of Sir Edmund's solicitor. Mr. Wray." I agreed, and ho called in the lawyer. I old hfm. without reserve, all that had happened. showing him tho leather case I had :aken from the hole where Brace had placed "A couple of cunning scoundrels!" he exclaimed; "their pretended suspicion of each other was. of course, intouded to blind you to their complicity, white each, by implicating the other, diverted suspicion from himself." "I was never in my life so completely deceived," I said, "liraco seemed to me the ?^5cuv?h?m*n^aittduha^ath^f/ "He Is worse than that. Mr. Thorno: ho is a murderer at heart; for there can be no doubt it was ho who attempted your life; i% was a sheer impossibility ior the otlior man to do it. We hove heard the story of tho robbery rrom Sir Edmund. The intolligenci that planned the attack was doubtless Van Hoeok's. He looks like a man of subtle intellect. I do not see what other part he could have played in this affair. "Sir Edmund told me. sir," said the officer. "that on your return from the left wing, you hoard snoring in Brace's room." "I certainly did." "That could vorv woll have been Van Hoock, who hud taken Brace's place while he slipped off into your room?another proof that the iwo were acting together." "Precisely," said Mr. Wray. And thon, with an air of business, "Well, now. what is to be done? that is the ilrBt question. The evidence is insufficient to ohargo either of the men even with being concorned in the robbery. The leather ohho proves nothing. They might declare they found It empty, and have conc.aled it through fear of accusation, or they might ull throe swear your statement to be false, and absolutely accuse you of being yourself the thief. And until ,we can substantiate the charge by positive proof, we must be careful to conceal our suspicions from them. If they think they are likely to be brought to justice, they will quit the country by the first steamer that leaves Southampton?and we can not stop them. The thing that must be done at onco js to search for tho diamond. That is your /tffnir." he said, addressing the officer; "undoubtedly they have placed it somewhere in Southampton, in readiness to tuke if flight becomes neooasary." "I'll hove all tho kens searched before the morning." "That is part of your business, of course. At tho same time. 1 would suggest that it is of far more importance to watch the men tlicmaelvos. Van Hoeck would not trust tho diamond to the ke.-ping of ordinary thieves' reoeivers; it would bo safer merely laid under a plant in the gardens down by the dock. You may be sure he has the in genuiiy 10 suggoBi a hhio piuce lor lis Keeping." 1 "I'll have some plain-clothes men on the first thing to-morrow morning, and I'd better go and telegraph to Scotland Yard at onco." "As soon as possible. Hut. not to alarm the men. you had better make a pretense of continuing your investigations, and avail yourself of some plauslblo pretext for returning to Southampton. Everything at this momont depends upon keeping Van Hoock and Brace in Ignorance of our suspinion. And with that, view." he added, turning to me. "I counsel you. Mr. Thorne. jto conceal your own feelings. Not one of these three ought to see any change In your demeanor toward them." This was sound advice, and I recognised tho importance of conforming with it; but I am tho worst actor In the world where my feelings are concerned, and my very soul revolted ogalust the men who had plotted together to take my life from tho more insensate K?"??n 01 gain. i tell more bitterly toward Brace than toward his accomplice, not because I thought Van Hoeok loan guilty, but becuiisn I bad folt more kindly toward tho Judge, to whom I scorned linked by the brotherhood of labor. I kept out of hla way when we returnod to the library, and avoldud looking at him, loot he should perceive that I was no longer his friend. But I knew he had his keen eyes upon me, and was reading tho signs of my newly born a vert Ion, and this made my noting worse. When the officer had oompleted his Investigation he said sagaciously, ae he olot >d bis note-book: "I have suffloient Information for my present purpose. I may not be able to dieoover the perpetrators of this outrage Immediately, but J think I shall be In a position to tell you something about the lost diamond within twenty-four hours." Sir Edmund accompanied him to the door. When he returned nnd took the seat he had occupied at the head of the long table. nrnuo rune, una, piecing mmseii m tne opnosite end, inolined tale head Aral to the baronet, then to the right and to the left. "8<)uire and gen'tomen of this committee," he said. "I don t want to apeak dlsrespeo'ful of the po||0o. but the intelligent officer who has jest left us, as if he'd got hold of the tall end of a rocket, and meant follertn' It right up. and holdln' tight on till It buat. ain't gola' to do any good for htssetf or Any one filse In thla business. Tho big diamond's o3t. and be ain't goln' to And ft in twentyfour hours, nor In twenty-four years. Ef It was a haystack. I don't say but what. witM the help of Pror Idsnee ?and a good lot I it?ne might r>? up to the job he's ondertook. ' Bat it ain't a haystack. End ef he was to grind up the whole of thU country, end every blessed thing upon It. emell. paddled it in clean flume, and sifted the tailtn* . careful, he wouldn't find It. End these bein* my views. It-stands to reason thot<I r.l&'t 'f goln* to bang about here lookfn' at the place whsre I've come to urizlt like an old female what's slipped >.iT tno sidewalk on a bit ol 1 ornnge-p.-el. With your permission, Squire, 1 I'm golu'away right off." c "1 can not stop you. Brace, even if 1 wished to." replied Sir Edmund, who. be it observed, knew nothing of tho suspicion 1 against the Judge. "I am inollnod to think , that you will bo happier in seeking a new fortune than in lingering about with the 1 faint hope of recovering the old. If the 1 diamond is found you will hear of itwher- < ever you may be. Are you going to look i . f<Jr another diamond?" "No. Squire; I'm going to And that, please 1 God," Brace replied; thon. alter a tnomeat's , pause, he said. "There's a matter^of business-to ffhish up before I go, sir r all the 1 money I have in my pocket belongs to you." , . o?k eep^ ituntll^ g h "You're grit. Squire?real jfrltl I won't refuse your kindness. I ajiall noed a bit to start with. But I'll ask you. sir. to hold this till I Claim it," t I' Ho went round to Sir Edmund. , "What is It. Brace?" asked the baronet, taking the paper Brace drow from his * I nnnkai U? .......'? l? ? T?? * |'vvnuv< <10 IVUIIVt IV T? C?0 IIIU ?J O t'UJIJ I of agreement. "Oh. I do not need this, my good fellow." ho protcnted; "I havo your | I O U. and that is us good now as over it was." "If you won't keep it for your own security. Squire. I'll ask you to keep it for my own. it's a kinder co'tif'cate. and if any one lies got anythin' to say ngen mo when I'm not here to dofend myself, I'll ask you to let that up. Oood-by. Bqulre." Ho held out his hand, und said, ns Sir Edmund shook it cordially: "Thank you, sir, thank you 1 You are grit 1" Ho strode down the room, brushing past Van Houck. who sat immovablo- and silont as though he worn carved in stone, and came to whore I was standing. My face must have told him that my heart was hurdoncd. Dut he stretched out his hand aul said hoarsely:' "Saygood-by to us. pardner." I folded ray arms and shook my head. He droppod his hand by his side. "Prehaps you're right," he said, remorsefully, "prohaps you're not. Timo will show (hat I've got a clean conscience, if Heaven is just." He paused, then in a still lower lono. and with an uceent of reproach, he added; "Bay yer hopo so. pardner. say yer hope so." "I hopo so." I said. He shook his headjHiefully. " 'Tain t yer old voice, Gentleman Thorns ?there's no hoart in it. We've roughed it togethor, and we've shared our 'baeea out there, end"?his chin twitched convulsively, and turning away he muttered, "it takes all (he piii<-k outer me to part like this." Lola was standing in a corner of the room by the door, with her eyes fixed upon me. As Draoe was about to pass through on his way out he caught up her wrist savagely in his hand. As savagely she tore It away, Hnd la hor turn came and stood before me. "I'm a-goln'," she said. "And a good riddance." I thought, exasperated by the bolief that she knew where the diamond was, and could reveal the whole mystery .If she chose. _ "You ain't coin' to let nie go like htm. are yer?" sho asked: "you ain't goin'to let me go without sayln' good-by?" There was deep pathos :n her voice. The friendless little savugo loved mo. She had saved my life. Myheact smote me for lyin^biiuH ?uafe juiktu .niir mf two ounus; .< sflft drew ttrcnv round bw sttgliflwd*; inro~ | then, flinging her arms about my neck, eh* 1 whispered, with tender impulsiveness: "Shall I bo good? Shall I tell you where It la?" 'But just at that moment her flne car caught the rustle of n woman's dross, and cntohing a sight of Edith, who was entering from thn dining-room, she startod back. Scowling over her shoulder at Edith, her eyes ailamo with hute. sho said, in a voice from which all tenderness had cone: "For her Bake? Nol" And without looking again at me, she went from the room and joined her father. iTO BE CONTINUED,] Tlic Tiger Plague In Java. According to the administration report of Java recently laid before the Dutoh Chambers, portions of that island are depopulated through tigers. In 1882 the population of the village in the southwest of the Bantam province was removed and transferred to an island off the coast in consequence of the trouble caused to the people by tigers. These animals have now become an intolerable pest in parts of the same province. The total population is about 600,000, and in 1887 sixty-one were killed by tigers, and in consequence of the dread existing among the people it has been proposed to deport the inhabitants of the villages most threatened to other parts of the country where tigers are not so common, ana where they can pursue their agricultural occupations with a greater degree oi security. At present they fear to go anywhere near the borders of the forest. The people at present seem disinclined or they lack the means and courage, to attack and destroy their enemy, although considerable rewards are offered by government for the destruotion of beasts of pray. In 1888 the reward for killing a royal tiger waa. raised to 200 florins. It appears also that the immunity of the tiger is in part dne to superstition, for it is considered wrong to kill one unless he attacks first or otherwise docs injury.. Moreover, guns were always very rare in this particular district, apd, since a rising a few years ago, have been taken uway by the authorities. rrK? ww - ?a - ww j lit; jrvMoiu jrarson. Tust got back from a Northwest trip," said a drummer to hits friend in the presents of a Chicago Mail reporter. "I extended my run and went into Dakota and Montana. Stopped in Bismark the other day, and it was awful cold. Iwae nearly frozen after hustling around town, and stepped into the Sheridan House barroom to get a blood tinkler. A m< ment later a man olad in shiny blaek broadcloth strode into the place. His feet were encased in a pair of immense cowhide boots, from the leg of one of which protruded a razor, a butcher's oleaver and a club, and from the other the half of a scythe blade and another club. "Strapped to his bark was a Winchester rifle; a belt contained a revolver and * ten-ineh bowie. On his left hand was a pair of steel knuckles; his right wrist waa encircled by the loop of a flexible slungshot, and he pointed JfV naltKnr rnnnltrAs *4 ? .W swwnrt?* ?v VUU UlUWUi 44 4Bob Bloomer, you corae hye* 1' he ordered. "The shrinking form of a seven-foot bell whacker advanced from the crowd, and the walking arsenal grasped him by the naok and waltzed him oat and down the street. " 'Your Sheriff goes loaded.' I remarked to my right-hand neighbor. 44 'Sheriff be Slowed t' hs replied. 4That y*K is onr new parson, an' he's a i rustler. No backslider gets away from him."' ? * 4 a. THE ljjw& The Roohee^artyheel Works, at Roehest?r t *. damaged 524000by Are, and three g, f reman were injured by falling from a ladder. Several hnr?> thieves were whipped and j dlloried at Georgetown, Del.?r-Mad dogs n mve been bitting cattle and cansing great excitement in the neighborhood of Lewiston, 111. ?The Misses Minnie and Gertie Pierce were . rilled at Lima, Oliio, by being thrown out-of oil t carriage against a stone wall. An insane tn ronian at Dubuque, la., attempted toburn her di tome and mtirdfercd her children.??A canoe to containing twelve lumbermen, while crossing od he rapids 9n the Otter river, near Calumet, m dich., was rapsiied and two of the men ta Irowned. ujfward Urccawald, a Southern p hearical manager; committed suicide in New fork.?^GraaS and forest fires in jStf Hamp- 4, hire ditk conaldfrablc damaged! Herman jh under arrest o i the charge of seeking a con- .in ipiracy to murder her husband.?-The An- p' ?lo-American Gas Lighting Company has been u, irgauised with a capital of ore* $50,000,000, in ind is the biggest thing in the syndicate line pet attempted. A capital of $20,000,000 will !>e provided for the construction of the South gr Pennsylvania Railroad, nnder the rcorganisa- 1" lion plan. Non-union carpenters in Chi- jj' >ago, who are not residents of Illinois, coming )? [Vom other states, have appealed to the United ou States authorities for protection. Richard Croker, the Tammany loader,and Mayor Grant, c" of New York, were shown up in a bad light in wl the testimony of the former's brother-in-law fo before the Senate Investigating Committee. ^ A large silk mill in the Lehigh Valley, Pa., Df ?peratcd-by a New York firm, was destroyed ill >y fire nnd four person* killed and twelve in. j|| nrcd. A farmer named MoiYison, of Shel>nrne, Ont., drowned hia three children in a tri >arrcl of rain water, and then attempted to |h lrown himself in a creek. During a fire in Perry A Green's picture factory, Chicago, a fo crowded sidewalk gave way, and several boya fh ivere hurt. For three days continuous rains ?ave fallen all over Texas, bridges have been rwept away and the low lands flooded. The pf kVhiskey Trust ha* finally secured possession >f the St. Paul distillery. David Sullivan, jg >f Dayton, Wis., aged seventy-Sir years, was In tamed to death while engaged.-in burning ti< grass and brush off a field on his farm. G. w P. Churchill, managing partner of the firm of gj 3ifTord A Churchill, dealers in art works,Chi* Ji 'ago, has been missing for some time, and is ^ believe to be in Canada. Gifford says he is out 01 about ffl.000.?Fire in the office of Dr. Kean, m under Kuhn's Hotel, Chicago, caused a panic hi among the guests. Cook Bros.' large boiler Bl it Flint, Mich., exploded, scalding Fred Cook h, to death and seriously injuring several others, cc By the burning of their home at Belleville, st Ont., Jane Arthurs was burned to death, and her husband seriously burned about the head ik and arms. Fire in the Shelby Comb Com- a/ pan?f.sr-.-.t.* age. Five hundred men" in the employ of ^ the Southwest Virginia Improvement Com- al pany, at Pocahontas, have struck against a re- d duction in wages, and the minea have been ^ shut down. The cedar works at Elisabeth, w City, N. C., were burned. Losa $15,000. ci Tramps beat a farmer of Franklin oounty, Pa., P because his wife refused to cook a meal for them.??'Thos. Bishop, aged aeventy years, of Petersburg, Vo., was convicted of mnrder in the second degree for beating his wife to death, o( and was sentenced to six years in prison. ? The Mississippi overflow is very disastrous in d the Fointe Coupee parish, hundreds of fami- '' lies being homelcM. Eight hundred miners * went on strike at Bcottdale, Pa., and nearly one b thousund coke ovens are closed. c Samuel Allen, of Neilsville, Wis., who be- * came enamore<l of the wife of a neighboring ti farmer, poisoned him, tried to kill his own wife, b was arrested, and escaped from jail by the aid f! of his mistreat, has been finally captured in K Washington.?-Frederick Kimball, teller of si the People's Savings Bank,* Worcester, Mass., e' robbed the concern of $63,000, and $3,000 reward J is offered for his capture. Lizzie Meyers, of ti Boston, was found dead from an overdose of arsenic in a Troy hotel. Moses Harts's barn, n near Lancaster, Pa., was burned, and thirteen cowsperished.?Daniel Reittman, aged thirtyfive years, while drunk, attempted to murder m the wife*to whom he had been married but a year, at their home in Altoona, Pa., and then committed suicide. During the past week si there were 179 business failures in the United d Btat08 and 39 in Canada. The public school ? at ilartby, Del., closed, owing to an epidemic e of scarlet fever. James Fallon, a pugilist, o received a blow on the side of the head in a * set-to with John Murray, in Boston, whioh e caused fatal paralysis. The Circuit Court n of Roanoke, Yft., has ordered the sale of the n Shenandoah Valley Railroad to satisfy claims ? against the company. Harrison Wagner, a aged eighty-nine years, started from McCon- a nrllsvillc, Ohio, to wheel a wh&lba?rovr to *! Baltimore and return, proposing to make the * trip in twenty days. While P. F. Fisher, of r Mobile connty, Ala., was driving along a road t a negro jumped iuiv >uc reu of i'ue wagon and J slashed Fisher's throat with a razor. Depn- r ty Sheriff Davis, of Newark, New Jersey, is % missing, and reported to be an embeszler. John C. Graham, twenty-five years old,aolerk j of the Pennsylvania Company for Insurance e -on lives and granting annuities, has been ar. ? rested in Philadelphia charged with embes* j Element. , > MARKETS. ; Balthtobk?Flonr?City Mills,cxtrs,$4.26 t @ 4 60. Wheat?Southern Fults, &M@83, j Corn?Southern White, 40@40Je., Yellow y 36@Mio. flats- Southern ana Pennsylvania j 27@32o Rj@-M?ryland and Pennsvlvania 65@67o. Hay?Maryland and Pennsylvania < 13.W@*i.T(?. Straw-Wheat, 7A0@f8.60, , Butter - Eastern Creamery, 19@22c., near-by \ receipts 12@14a Cheese?Eastern Fancy < Crsaan. ll@ll|e~ Western, 0@10e. Eggs? \ i "flood to fine red, 8@|0. Fancy, 10@$18. , Nbw YonK-Vlour?Southern Common to , fair extra, t2A0@2.86.' Wheat?No. 1 White 80J@89J. Rye?flute 68@60c. Com?South- , ern Yellow, 38|@39c. <W-White. State 2#a@20ic. Butter -State, $@174?. Chceee? fliate 8J@10ie. Kggs-14@fl|c. ! Piiii.adki.phia ? Floor ? Pennsylvania fancy, 4.25fa4.76. Wheat, Pennsylvania and Southern Red, 86@?1. Rye?Pennsylvania 68@fl0c. Cora?Southern Yellow, f ilAM1 ; Oats ? 81l@JUc. Butter ? State, < S8@U. . C heese?Now York Factory, 9@9ie.)E??? State, 18*@l*i A WORD jyARM. jcretary Rusk Sends Out a Circular " Letter. ta DImmm Agricultural Depression Mid Suggests Some Rcmedln-Farmcn k.tit l?a Protected. Secretary R'.ak has sent out to the farmers a rcular lette , in which he discusses agriculral depression, its causes and possible remeea. He says much of the depression is due careless culture, waht of business-line meth1s, too large bodies of land, the oppression of ortgages, the troubles arising from transportlon. the intervention of the middleman, laabling in farm products by exchanges and lards of trade, and the opetfctldlfc of trusts or ablnaiions. He saya that our imports of proicta aold in oompctiti^^with^tbea* |r ease, totally disproportionate to onr increase population, of our itfiports of agricultural oducta. in 1850oOr imports of farm products* ere forty million dollars; in 1880 $856,000,000, i increase of nearly 900 per cent., while the crease in population in tne same period was ? than 300 per cent. Over 70 per cent, of ir total exports are the direct products of the il. During 'the past decade, in which the oatest increase in imports lias fallen place, ere has been a steady decrease in the prices home-grown products. The reason for this traces to the competition of the pauper, hor of Europe with our own. The price of ir wheat, of which we grow a surplus, is' reed down by competition with Russia and idia, and regulates the price of the entire op. Farmers have to use their corn, for Inch thcreisan insignificant foreign demand, r fattening cattle and hogs. He continues: "The foreign market for live ttle which exists in Great Hritian is so ham-' >reu ny ine oppressive regulations requiring uighter at point of tanning, as to exercise tie or no beneficial influence on the price of^ a product, while the obstructive measures [opted by several of the Continental couniea in rcgnrd to American pork haa reduced e exports of that product since 1881 over rty per cent, annually. Under such circuminces there can be but one cause assignable r the neglect by American farmers to turn eir attention to other crops In the line of eh agricultural products as we now import, id that is that in^this they would meet an en more overwhelming and disastrous com tition than they are now confronted with, in fe raising of cereals and live stock. The only, hese possible to enlightened statesmanship' to assure to the farmer adequate protection the diversification of his crops and produc?n of ajargcr proportion of the articles which e now'import. "These may be summarised as follows; the ?ures given living for the fiscal year ending ine 30, 1880,and the values those at the porta ' exports: Sugar and molasses, 03,301 .**94; anials and their products, except woo>, 42,263,4; fillers, animals and vegetables, 59,453,936; iscellancons, including hreadstufls, fruits, iy. hops, oils, rice, seed, tobacco, vegetables id wines, etc., 71,254,804. For obvious reasons I omit any reference pre to the ninety millions expended for tea, >flfee and cocoa, but omitting these, we have ill the enormous sum of $266,273,738 imports r agricultural products, the far. greater part r which, amounting probably to not less than 10 or 250 millions, could, with proper encourtement^ be t^J* * a| eifefits of a home market for all that he may b able to produce on our soil. This ineludw >1 the sugar and molasses, nil animal prohots, wool, silk, flax and other fibres, all our readstufls, fruits, hay, hops, rice, tobacco, egetablessnd wines; but many of these things ill never, can never be produced on Ameria?? rn.il :? lb. l.L r r* ouu iiiiuinj/rmi'iTi n llll (.lie IBUtir UI CtfUTO* eah nations, especially when, as in the case of igar, the industry abroad has been helped by beral government bounties. COMPETITION ON OUR OWN SOUOf the seven or eight million dollars' worth FJivc animals imported into this country, the reater proportion were of ordinary marketale stock, as contra-distinguished from purered stock imported for breeding purposes and draitted free. Of all other animal products, icluding wool, there is not one that is not now eing raised upon our own soil, and yet. inlading wool and hides, the imports of these niraal products amounted in the year referred >, to over sixty million dollars; to this add srenty millions for fruits, eight million for arley, over two millions for liay and hojui, tree and a-h&lf millions for rice, eleven milons tor tobacco, three millions for oils, two nd one-half millions' worth of vegetables, the ime for eggs, over a million dollars' worth of heese?these represent some of the imports, ggregnting nearly one hundred and fifteen mlion dollars, whichl in spite of the produciveness of our own soil, arc brought into this Duntry and sold in competition with our fari era. FOREIGN MARKF.TR. If there are products grown to better adv&n?ge in other countries, remission of duty on rnich would seem to be in the interest of a irge portion of our population, such remisions should only be accorded as the result of eciprocal concession in the way of a remision of duties by such other countries ou proacts more readily grown there. Many of those ountries which would be sDcciallv benefited y a remission of the duty on sugarl>y our govrnment, would afford an excellent market for ur breadstuff's and dairy and meat product*, rem it not for the high duties imposed thereon >y them. Bo with other products, aud whenver duty on such products Is lowered br reloved and protection to our farmers thus dlninished. it should he as the price of concesions made to us in the tariff"of other countries a favor of our own farm products. In this way, nd in this way only, can our farmers be dequately protected, new markets Ming thus hrowo open to them for those products which hey can most easily and cheaply produce. To farmers producing, as do ours, a vast aureus of agricultural products, the question of oreign markets is and should be deeply interS-lilg. Kui o.ily do they oOi:l >5: Cut-it for his surplus, hut if untrammelled by irksome estrictions and uncontrolled by combinations uch as I have referred to elsewhere, they erve as useftil checks upon those who might itncrw tee succeed in oontromngour Home markets. Unfortunately, irksome restrictions do exist, and especially is this the case with reference to our live stock industry. Evidence is tot wanting that a demand oxists in Great [Iritian for our live stock, and but for the opiressive restrictions imposed by the British {.ivornniont, and said to be necessary owing to he alleged existence of contagion* dinesso imong American cattle, there ia little doubt nit a large proportion of our product of lira tattle would find there a profitable market, hua greatly relieving our noma market*. So rith our pork product*, oppressed by the em* Mrgoea'pfaoed upon them by certain Luropean viwers, with the result of an enormous decrease during the paataix rears in oar exports tf bacon and ham*; for whereas these exports n 1879, 1889 and 1881 average about 745,000,jOO pounds, they had fkllen in 1868 to leas than 00,000,900, and until last rear never exceeded 130,000,000. The effect of thie has naturally [>een to greatly restrict competition among pur3 ha sera, and to aerionaly depress the price of >ar hogs. V1 "The national government orjes it to the farming and oattlo-growing community that no efforts shtll he spared to aecure a removal of those restrictions upon our live stock and meat I rade. w? muit maintain an anno lute and efficient control of cattle diseases, and pursue with the utmost energy the course which has resulted to-day in the almost complete extirpation from American Soil or the most dreaded disease of all, contagious pteiiro-pneumonia. As to o?t meat prod nets, I can see but one. way to accomplish the desired results, and that Is by the enact m?pt of a thoroughly efficient meat The Secretary thinks our system of taxation also needs Improvement in certain directions He calls upon the farmers to stand firmly together, demand their rights and resist all enmaanhmaat Upon them. It**' " ' *' , FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS enate RcmIob*. 89th Day.?The bill providing r site for the Supreme Court building wan reconsidered, and was amended by giving the Supreme Court of the District poaer to hear testimony in contested cases of valuation. As amended, it was again passed. Mr. Mitchell addressed the Senate in favor of the constitutional amendment"proposed by him for the election of senators bv popular vote. At the conclusion of Mr. Mitchell's speech, the concurrent resolution was referred to the Committee on Privileges and Elections. Mr. Morrill, trom the conference cominitte on the bill for the organisation, improvement and maintenance of the National Zoological Park, reported that the committee Jiad been unable to agree; and he moved that the-Senate recede from its position and agrot to the House amendment, which requires half the expense,to be paid by the Dutrict government. - After some discussion,-tfca motion, mmm tswtH lAud the bill now goes to the President for his signature. A/Wt ? short executive session the Senate St The reading of the report, which is iii the form of a substitute .for the entire bill and covers fifly-twc printed pages, occupied over an hour. After some discussion the report was agreed to?yeas /SO; nays. Butler, Cockrell, Pugh, Quay and Vest The bill now goes to the President for his signature. Among the bills passed were the House joint resolution ns to an appropriation of $10,000for the office of the second assistant Postmaster Sneral; the House bill increasing to $250,000 e limited cost for the public building at Wilmington, Del. The Senate then adjourned. 9 1st Day.?The Pension Appropriation bill was reported and placed on tne calendar. The bill appropriating #50,000 for a Stark state at Manchester, New Hampshire, was passed?37 to 15. The House bill to transfer the revenue cutter service to the Navy Department was considered, and the amendments of the Naval Committee were agreed to. Pending consideration of this bill, Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Privileges and Klections, reported a Federal Election bill, and it was placed on the calendar. The consideration of the Revenue Cutter bill was resumed, but at 2 o'clock the Land Forfeiture bill came up as unfinished business. Pending its consideration theSenate went into exccutivosession.and when the doors were reopened, adjourned. ? 92P DAY.?The consideration of the Land * or nature on r t over without action until Monday ncxtr* At" this point (3:15) the Vice President announced that ne had signed the joint resolution appropriating $160,000 for the relief of the suflercrs hy the Mississippi overflow, and the joint resolution wan sent to the President for his signature. Mr. Gihson ottered a joint resolution declaring the profound sorrow of the South at the announcement of the death of lion. Kdward J. Gay, lnte a representative from the State of Louisiana, and suspending the business of the Senate to giveopportunity for tributes to Mr. Gay's eminent public and private virtues. Eulogies were pronounced 1>y Senators Gibson, Coekrell and Fust is. The resolutions were agreed to, and as a further mark of respect the Senate adjourned. . 93 kd Day.?The Senate bill tocarry out (in part) the term of the agreement with the Sioux I ndians of Dakota for the sale of a portion of their reservation (and appropriating $1,800,000 for the purpose) was reported and passed. Other bills on the calendar were passed as follows: House bill approving, with amendments, the funding act of Arizona(with amendment). Senate bill to amend the interstate commerce act ln? to mode*of procedure). House bill to pay $60,000 to Albert 11. Emery, of Stamford, Conn., for the use of his patents by the government (with an amendment increasing the aniout to $125,000). The Senate then proceeded U> the consideration of executive business, and at 3.10 a<\journcd. IltKH teutons. 97th Day.?Mr. Chandler, of Massncnu gstts, moved that the House concur in thi enate amendments to the World'a Fair bill This being agreed to,the bill is finally passed and will be sent to the President for his action The House went into committee of the whole Mr. Payson, of Illinois, in the chair, on th< Legislative Appropriation bill. After a lont debate, the committee rose and the House ucf journed. 98th Day.?The House went into commit tee of the whole?Mr. Payson, of Illinois, ir the chair?on the Legislative Appropriation bill, the pending question beingon the motion of Mr. Dnnnell, of Minnesota, to 6trike out the clause providing clerks for senators. Th< subject was discussed at length by Messrs Bayers (Tex.), Cannon (III.), Breckinridgt (KyO. ByttcrFQrthiPJ, Kerr (Ik-). Cwtcheon and Allen (Mich.), Holman (Ind.) And others Mr. Butter worth said if he had a clerk h< would be worth $10,000 a year more to hit constituents. Mr. Breckinridge said senator! needed clerks more than representatives. The motion to strike out was lost?yeas Ro nayi 87. Pending further discussion, the House adjourned. Oftrii Day.?The joint resolutions for the appointment of Charles Devens, of Mnssachu' setts, and James ('.Welling, of the District oi Columbia, to All vacancies In the Regency ol the Smithsonian Institution, was passed. The Legislative Appropriation bill was considered in Ci mmittee of the Whole. The question ot civil service reform received a large share ol attention. Without disposing of tne bill the committee rose and the House adjourned. 100th Day.?Itr. Cannon, of Illinois, from the Committee oa Appropriations reporter! a joint resolution appropriating $16(1,000 t? enable the Secretary of War to distribute rations for the relief of destitute people in the district overflowed by the Mississippi hiuI itf tributaries. The resolution was passed. Or motion of Mr. Butterwoth, of Ohio?yeas 120 nays 100?the Home went into committee o: the whole (Mr. Payson, of Illinois, in thi .u? i .wt-i.ti... a :-.i?I '" iimii j vii mo iir^iinmn c a^i'iuj/imuiiii mill Without completing the consideration of th< bill, the committee roee, and the House at fiv< ' o'clock took a receea until eight o'clock the evening session to be for the considcratior of private pension bills. IOIrt Day.?By appointment of the Hpcak er, Mr. Burrows, of Michigun, acted as Sneak er pro tern to-day. Senate hill making Rock port, Maine, a port of deli*. ry was passed House hill appropriating $7000 to construe a road, from Alexandria, Vu., to the Nationa Military Cemetery, near that place. Th House then took up the legislative appropria lion hill, and there was a spat between Rep resentatlvea Enloe and Evans, of Tennessee Finally the committee rose and reported th bill to the House. On ordering the previou question no quorum voted, and this point wa raised by Mr. Bynum. A count failing to d? velop a quorum, a call of the House was 01 dered. After five hours consumed in thi manner further proceedings under the <?1 were dispensed with and the question recui red en ordering the previous question. Th vote stood 136 to 16,add Mr. Bynum raised th point that there was no quorum present. Th Speaker protem, thereupon counted the Hons and announced that there were 167 member S resent? more tlan a qnorum. Mr.Bynur cmanded tellers, and no quorum votlqg, th' jreae and naya were ordered. The vote r< suited?yeas HI, nays 20, the Speaker coustin Messrs. Abhutt, Breckinridge (Kentucky, DeHaven, Enloe and Goodnight to make quorum, and declared tne previous queetio ordered, and the Honsethen adjourned. QUAKE IN CALIFORNIA. * R?Wl?? Several InobM R?llr?M bridge Wr?kra*d. One of the moatsc verc shocks of carthquak experienced in California for a long lime wi felt in Ban Francisco and neighboring local tiea n little after 8.30 o'clock in the morninj The buildings were, shaken perceptibly,an Orson* aronaed from their sleep. Vlaaterin I from the walls in places, tint no serioti damage haabeen reported yet. A dispatch froi i Mayncid oars the shock was very severe thei The railroad bridge was rendered fmpaasohl . as the piers, slaty fret high, m-i tied a few inche . and the rails spread apart ahont a foot. Th groend iu places settled aia to twelve Utcbc SUNDAY SCHOOL. ! INTERNATIONAL! LESSON FOR MAY II. I<c?aon Text 3 " Feeding the MnltlImlf," Luho lx., 10-17?Cioldoit Trx'i Joint vl., Sfl?(ommrnt* nry on the Lr??oii. The sanding forth of the twelve, find tha beheading of John tho Baptist, briefly referred to in the opening vertei of this chapter, are more fully recorded by Matthew and Mark. In connection wit i tho first, it is worthy of note that Ho had just taught th9m to pray that the Lord of the harvest would send forth laborers into His liar vest; then He called tho twelve and sout them forth to answer their own prayers. When wo pray let us remember that. Uod expects ua to b> willing to be used by Him in nnswcriuj our prayers. taught. He had sent them for tli to preach that the k ingdom was at haud and to heat the sick. He had sent them only to Israel, forbidding them to go either to GeuUloa or Samaritans (Matt, x., 5-3): so that tho kingdom tuey preached must have bom the kingdom promised to David nnd spoken of by alt the prophets, which would make - a restored Israel with Jehovah dwelling in their midst, n center of blessing to all the world. Tito miracles of healing which accompanied their preaching were proofs that the Messiah of the prophets had actually come (Isn. xxxv., 5, ?). "And He took them, and wont aside privately." There were so many coming and going that they had 110 leisuro oven to cat, and He took them asido to rest awhile (Mark vi., 21). While we continue in these mortal bodies we cannot work unceasingly, but tho time will come when we shall be uole to servo unwenricdly (Ucv. vii., 15). 11. "And the people, when thoy know it, followed Him." John says that Jesus crossed1 the Sea of Galilee, and tho people followed' because they sow His miracles. Matthew and Mark say that Jesus wont by ship, and thnli tho people followed on foot nnd outwent' , Him. In the boat He would bo an hour or. two alone with His disciples, and thoy would have a lilllo rest ; but wuat n busy lifo Ho Mark liotli say that He was moved with compassion toward them. No pity for Himself, nut full of pity for these sheep without a shepherd, even though Ho know their motives in following Him. "And spake unto them of tho king loin of God, and lienled them that had need of healing." Both body aud soul Ho ntteudo 1 to, for Ho is a Saviour for both, and tho time will come when ovory saved soul shall havon redeemed body in wnicli to dwell. 12. "Send the multitudo away." So said the twelve as the day began to woar away, and ok thev. wearv nnd Iminrrv. saw no I prospect of rest, and not much prospect of even a bite for themselves from their U.w loaves and fishes, If that hungry crowd remained. Not all the glorious tilings of the kingdom, of which Jesus had boon speaking, could make even the twelve forget that thoy were hungry men. They had scon Him still the storm and raise thodoad, but thoy seemed not to consider that tho same power could feed tlieso hungry thousands. Thoir wisdom was to let thoai scatter where thoy might, and ftnd food and shelter as thay were ablo in the towns and country round about. 'Tho old question still lived, Can God furnish u table in tho wilderness?" (Ps. lxxvlli., 10.) 18. "But He said unto them, Give ye them to eat." Ho had nskod Philip, "Who.1 vj shall wo buy bread that these may eat?" and Philip had replied that thoy would need about two hundred pennyworth to give every one a little. Ann now whon He snyR "Give ye thorn 5 to eat," thoy reply: "Shall wo buy two hundred pennyworth " (John vi., 8-7; Mark ' vi., 37). Mosos had said that tho coming Messiah would he a prophet like unto him ? (Deut. xvlil., 15, 18). and had thoy remeni5 bored that's they might also have remem> bered the rood from hoavon, which fed millions of people daily for nearly forty years. "Wo have no more but flvo loaves and two Ashes." When He asked Philip, He did It to 1 prove him, for Ho Himself know what Ho 1 would do (John vi., G), just as Ho so often [ lets us get into a strait plaoo to prove us, ' while all tho time Ho knows tho way out and ' just what He will do. 14. 15. "And Ho said to His disomies: Mako ' them ait down by fifties in a company. And 1 they did so, ana made them alf sit down." Mark says: "Upon the green gross." John > says: "There was much grass in tho placo" ? (Mark vi., 89; John vl., 10). Matthew I says there were 5000 men besides women and ! children (Matt, xiv., 21); so there may have > J?eeal20 companies of fifty each, or ton com> panies to each of tho twelve disciples. But observe tho order, and remember the pre cept: "Let all thiugs be done decently and in order,'' for God is not the author ot con[ fusion (I Cor. xiv., 83, 40). A disorderly home or room or wardrobe or bureau drawer ? or office or store is no credit to a Christian. 1 Confusion, disorder, tumult, unquietnees are f none of the things of the Holy Bpirit. F 1(5. "Then He took the five loaves and the ? two fishes, and looking up to He&veu, Ho blessed them, and brake, and gave to the disi ciplee to set before the multitude." He took t just what they had and used it. He took tho i rod that was in Moses's hand and wrought . wonders with it. He took the widow's pot of t oil and multiplied it. Ho does not ask us to t waste time in vain regrets about what wo ! have not, or in wishing that wo had this or that. Ho simply says, "What have you! | Bring it to Me/' Aud anything placed unre* > serve,lly in His hands can be inado to do wonder for He has all power. Thonsands ? of oye* are upon Him as Ho takes in Uls ; luiir.ii toe loavoe sou Ilium, auu uiuug , His face to heaven, acknowledges before i tho:n all thdfc thence comes the power and th 3 blessing. Ho never Bought His own glory, but iu all things gloriflel Oo I. , 17. "An I they did eit, an I were all filled.* Philip thought that two hundred penny; worth might be enough to jri"e every one n i Httlo. but Jesus does not give that way. His I invitation is: "Bat, O friends; drink, yea, e drink abundantly, O beloved," (>Song of Sol. v.. 1). And oven thoso poor shepnerdless _ sheep He delights to 1111. As tho disciples pass around from company to company pressing more food upon them tho answor comes front all directions: BatisQod, abundantly satisfied. "And thoro was taken up of fragments that remained to them twelvo baskets.' Instead of a little for eac't disciple, which would have been all that twelve inoit could obtain from five loaves and two fishes, hero is n basketful for each. Had tboy selfishly kept what they hod for themselves, how lite tie they would have had, but by giving it awav what abuudancs becomes theirs. Z I Afraid to give to God lest wo havo not ? enough for ourselves, wo contlnuo poor; bat when wo cheerfully giro Him that which is all HU owa any way, then Ho makes fun to enjoy His fullness, And our cup runneth over. "Tho blessing of ttao Lord, it msketh rich; and He a ldeth no sor* row with It" (Prov. x., 23). HogavoHlmself to bo broken and poure-l forth for us; why should wo hssitate to plaoa oursolvoo in tlW nanoamos* unreserveuy, vnv. wo may 1*3 bro'toti an 1 passed roun.l l?y Hli hands for tho life of others? It may not be pleasant to tho (tosh, but it will ba wonderfully A profltablo. "Except a oorn of wbaat fall Into f.a ground and die, it abldotli alone: but if it die, It brlageth forth muoh fruit*' (John xii., 34). Who is willing to be passed round m for the good of other*, not loving hla life here, : bo thAt he may keep it unto life eternal?? Lctson IMper, ' d ? g ' it A 0A?* of transmission of Infeotion to n an nnborn ohild hoe occurred in Paris. '* A ohild born during the convalescence of the mother from pneumonia was af* 9 'footed with the same malady, and died a? at the end of five days. Hfl