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h; . ' ' "H ' ' \ , ' # 1 YORKVILLE ENQUIRER. ISSUED TWIOE-A-WEEtt?WEDNESDAY ASTD SATURDAY. t. m. GRIST 4 sous, Publisher.. } % ^amilg Beuispger: 4or tft$ promotion of the political, ?oeiat, ^grieuttpat and Commettciat gnter^ts tf the JSouth. {TTGKo" m Sc1, VOLUME 43. YOEKVILLE, 8. O., SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1897. ISTUMBEB 31. THE GREAT TRAIN BY PAUL LEIC Copyright, 1896, by J. B. Lippincott Comp Synopsis of Previous Installments. In order that new readers of The Enquirer may begin with the following installment of this story, and understand it just the same as .though they had read it all from the beginning, we here give a synopsis of that portion of it which has already been published: Chapter I.?Dick Gordon, Yale graduate, goes in for hard work. From the Chicago and Alton railroad repair shops he is gradually promoted and finally works up to the position of superintendent of a western railroad?the Kansas and Arizona. The story opens with an ? trin Ktt rail nf Mr. Cnllen. a owmui u* ? vi wj ?f _ railroad vice president, over the lines of the E. and A. Gordon is asked to meet Cullen and party and pilot them through. In the party are Madge Cullen, with whom Gordon falls in love ; Lord Ralles, an Englishman, in love with Madge, and Captain Ackland, brother of Lord Ralles. Talk turns on train robbers. Madge would like an adventure with hold ups. So would Ralles and Ackland. While horseback riding near Santa Fe, Gordon points out among convicts working on a railroad grade Jack Drute, a train robber under a 14 year sentence. Madge speaks to the convict, who answers gruffly. Chapter II.?The party is joined by Madge's invalid brother. On a special I train all go on westward. While Mr. Cullen, his elder son and the two Englishmen play poker and Gordon and Madge enjoy the moonlight on the rear car the tram is held up by bandits.. Chapter III.?The robbers are fired at and frightened away, taking with them but three registered letters from the mail coach. Gordon telegraphs for help and starts the company's sleuths. He overhears Lord Ralles talking rudely to Madge and knocks him down. Chapter IV.-Mystery of the search for the robbers: only four shots fired by the robbers, ana yet six empty shells are found. Cullen and party go on to the Grand Canyon. Gordon remains to assist me snerm. Chapter V.?Gordon with the sheriff and posse follows to Grand canyon, finds the party in camp, tells them he suspects them of complicity in the robbery and searches them and their effects. Chapter VI.?To find the letters he decides that he must search Madge. When she finds he is determined, she yields up the letters. The motive of the robbery is explained. The letters were proxies for the K. & A. election. Cullen's company was fighting for control. They took a desperate chance to get the proxies. Gordon resolves to pull the Cullens out of the scrape for Madge's sake. Chapter VII.?Our hero in league with the Cullens. Madge is happy and Lord Ralles discomfited. Chapter VIII.?Gordon refuses to deliver the letters containing the proxies to the persons addressed; a mandamus and an appeal to Washington. Chapter IX.?A little lovemaking. CHAPTER X waiting for help. If ever a fellow was bewildered by a single speech, it was Richard Gordon. I walked up and down that platform till I was called to breakfast, trying to decide what Miss Cullen had expressed, only to succeed in reading 50 different meanings in her parting six words. I wanted to think that it was her way of suggesting that I deceived myself in thinking that there was anything between Lord Ralles and herself; but, though I wished to believe this, I had seen too much to the contrary to take stock in the idea. Yet I couldn't believe that Madge was a coquette. I became angry and hot with myself for even thinking it for a moment. Puzzle as I did over the words, 1 managed to eat a good breakfast and then went into the Cullens' car and electrified the party by telling them of Camp's and Fred's dispatches and how I had come to overhear the former. Mr. Cullen and Albert couldn't say enough about my cleverness in what had really been pure luck and seemed to think I had sat up all night in order to hetir that telegram. The person for whose opinion I cared the most, Miss Cullen, didn't say anything, but she gave me a look that set my heart beating like a trip hammer and made me put the most hopeful construction on taat speech of hers. It seemed impossible that she didn't care for Lord Ralles and that she might care for me; but, after having had no hope whatsoever, the smallest crumb of a chance nearly lifted me off my feet. We had a consultation over what was DCS I IU UV U VI LLC, LI Li I U1UL1 II LVIILU UUJ definite conclusion till the station agent brought me a telegram from the postmaster general. Breaking it open, I read aloud: Do not allow service of writ and retain possession of letters according to prior instructions. At the request of this department the secretary of war bus directed the commanding officer at Fort Whipple to furnish you with military protection, and you will call upon him at once, if in your judgment it is necessary. On no account surrender United States property to territorial authorities. Keep department notified. "Oh, splendid!" cried Madge, clapping her hands. "Mr. Camp will find that other people can give surprise parties as well as himself," I said cheerfully. "You'll telegraph at once?" asked Mr. Cullen. "Instantly," I said, rising, and added, "Don't you want to see what I say, Miss Cullen?" "Of course I do!" she cried, eagerly jumping up. Lord Ralles scowled as he said: "Yes. Let's see what Mr. Superintendent has to say." "You needn't trouble yourself," I said. But he followed us into the station. I was disgusted, but at the same time it seemed to me that he had come | 'K.&A. [JOBBERY. 'ESTER FORD. any. because he was jealous, and that wasn't an unpleasant thought Whatever his motive he was a third party in the writing of that telegram and had to stand by while Miss Cullen and I discussed and drafted it I didn't try to make it any too brief, not merely asking for a guard and when I might expect it, but srivimr as well a pretty full history of case, which was hardly necessary. "You'll bankrupt yourself," laughed Madge. "You must let us pay." "I'll let you pay, Miss Cullen, if you want," I said. "How much is it, Welply?" I asked, shoving the blanks in to the operator. "Nothin for a lady," said Welply, grinning. "There, Miss Cullen," I said. "Does the east come up to that in gallantry?" "How much is it, WclplyT" I asked. "Do you really mean that there is no charge?" demanded Madge incredulously, with her purse in her hand. "That's the size of it." said the oner ator. "I'm not going to believe that," cried Madge. "I know you are only deceiving me, and I really want to pay." I laughed and said, "Sometimes railroad superintendents can send messages free, Miss Cullen." < "How silly of me!" exclaimed Madge. Then she said: "How nice it is to be a railroad superintendent, Mr. Gordon! I should like to be one myself." That speech really lifted me off my feet, but while I was thinking what response to make I came down to earth with a bounce. "Since the telegram's done," said Lord Ralles to Miss Cullen in a cool, almost commanding, tone, "suppose we take a walk." "I don't think I care to this morning," answered Madge. "I think you had better,"said his lordship, with such a manner that I felt inclined to knock him down. To my surprise Madge seemed to hesitate and finally said, "I'll walk up and down the platform if you wish." Lord Ralles nodded, and they went out, leaving me in a state of mingled amazement and rage at the way he had cut me out. Try as I would I wasn't able to hit upon any theory that supplied a solution to the conduct cf either Lord Ralles or Miss Cullen. unless they were engaged and Miss Cullen displeased him by her behavior to me. But Madge seemed such an honest, frank girl that I'd have believed anything sooner than that 6he was only playing with me. If I was perplexed, I wasn't going to give Lord Railes the right of way, and as soon as I had made certain that the telegram was safely started I joined the walkers. I don't think any of us enjoyed the hour that followed, but I didn't care how miserable I was myself so long as I was certain that I was blocking Lord Railes, and his grumpiness showed very clearly that my prescnco did that. As for Madge, I couldn't make her out. I had uRvays thought I understood women a little, but her conduct was beyond understanding. Apparently Miss Cullen didn't altogether relish her position, for presently she said she was going to the car. "I'm sure you juid Lord Railes will be company enough for each other," she said, giving me a flash of her eyes which showed them full of suppressed merriment, even while her face was grave. In spite of her prediction, the moment she was gone Lord Railes and I pulled apart about as quickly as a yard engine can split a couple of cars. I moped around for an hour, too unsettled mentally to do anything but smoke and only waiting for an invitation or for some excuse to go into 218. About 11 o'clock I obtained the latter in another telegram and went into the car at once. Telegram received?I read triumphantly?A detail of two companies of the Twelfth cavalry, under the command of Captain Singer, ie ordered to Ash Forks and will start within an hour, arriving at 5 o'clock. C. D. Olmstead, Adjutant. "That won't do, Gordon," cried Mr. Culleu. "The mandamus will be hero before that." "Oh, don't say there is something more wrong!" sighed Madge. "Won't it be safer to run while there is still time?" asked Albert anxiously. "I was born lazy about running away," I said. "Oh, but please, just for once," Madge begged. "We know already how brave you are." I thought for a moment,, not so much objecting, in truth, to the running away as to the running away from Madge. "I'd do it for you," I said, looking at Miss Cullen so that she understood this time what I meant without using any emphasis, "but I don't see any need of making myself uncomfortable when I can make the other side so. Come along and see if my method isn't quite as good." We went to the station, and I told the operator to call Rock Butte. Then I dictated: Direct oonduotor of Phenix No. 8 on its arrival at Rock Butte to hold it there till further orders. Richard Gordon, Superintendent. "That will save my running and their chasing," I laughed, "though I'm afraid ' -a "n?i a long wait at xvuc*. uuttc nuu ? improve their tempers." The next few hours were pretty exciting ones to all of cis, as can well be Imagined. Most of the time was spent, I have to confess, in maneuvers and struggles between Lord Ralles and myself as to which should monopolize Madge, without either of us succeeding. I was so engrossed with the contest that I forgot all about the passage of time, and only when the sheriff strolled up to the station did I realize that the climax was at hand. As a joke I introduced him tp the Cullens, and we all stood chatting till far out on the hill to the south I saw a cloud of dust and quietly called Miss Cullen's attention to it She and I went to 97 for my fleldglasses, and the moment Madge looked through them she cried: "Yes, I can see horses, and, oh, there are the stars and stripes 1 I don't think I ever loved them so much before." "I suppose we civilians will have to take a back seat now, Miss Cullen?" I said. And she answered me witn a demure smile worth?well, I'm not going to pnt a value on that smile. "They'll be here very quickly," she almost sang. "You forget the clearness of the air," I said and then asked the sheriff how far away the dust cloud was. "Yer mean that cattle drive?" he asked. " 'Bout ten miles." "You seem to think of everything!" exclaimed Miss Cullen, as ijf my knowing that distances are deceptive in Arizona was wonderful. I sometimes think one gets the most praise in this world for what least deserves it. I waited half an hour to be safe and then released No. 8 just as we were called to dinner, and this time I didn't refuse the invitation to eat mine in 218. We didn't hurry over the meal, and toward the end I took to looking at my watch, wondering what could keep the cavalry from arriving. ' 'T V?rvr-.r\ fViQ-r** ionn rJonrmT* rvf t.Vio frraiTl X U 4Q iiV WMig)V* VA vuv v* i..? arriving first, is there?" asked Madge. "Not the slightest, "I assured her. "The train won't be here for two hours, and the cavalry had only five miles to cover 40 minutes ago. I must say they seem to be taking their time." "There they are now!" cried Albert Listening, we heard the clatter of horses' feet going at a good pace, and we all rose and went to the windows to see the arrival. Our feelings can be judged when across the tracks came only a mob of 30 or 40 cowboys, riding in their usual "show off" style. "The deuce!" I couldn't help exclaiming in my surprise. "Are you sure you saw a flag, Miss Cullen?" "Why?I?thought"? she faltered. "I saw something red, and?I supposed, of course"? Not waiting to let her finish, I exclaimed, "There's been a fluke somewhere, I'm afraid, but we are still in good shape, for the train can't possibly be here under an hour. I'll get my fieldglasses and have another look before I decide what"? My speech was interrupted by the enfranco /vf fVto cVioriff nnH Mr P?mn TO BE CONTINUED. HOW TO TKLL PURE FABRICS. Wool or Silk Containing Mixtures May Be Readily Discovered. A simple but effective practice is iu vogue in Germany for determining, without the aid of a chemist, whether a fabric of 6ilk or wool is free from admixture of cottou fibers, of flax, china grass or other vegetable constituents. A piece of the stuff to bo examined, say about three inches square, is, after careful cleaning, plunged into strong sulphuric acid, water being afterward added, and the whole boiled In about five minutes the fluid is poured into a clean vessel and made strongly alkaline by a saturation with caustic soda; then are added a few drops of dissolved orchil,and the mixture is warmed for several min utes up to a temperaturo of 180 degrees P. Now, if only 1 per cent of vegetable fiber exists in the fabric, the reddish vio let color of the orchil is precipitated, 01 if this takes place only after heating for five minutes the quantity amounts to less than 1 per cent. It is absolutely necessary, however, that starch should be removed carefully from the stuff to be examined, as the presouce of that substance vitiates the result In testinc goods alleged to bo silk the result is attained more easily by plunging the sam pie into hydrochloric acid, the liber of silk being very soluble in such acid, and if the material contains wool or cot ton it remains behind. How to Care For a Lamp. Oil in a lamp should not be allowed to get down to less than one-half the depth of the reservoir. The wick should be soft and completely fill the space for it,but without crowding. A lamp should be neither suddenly cooled nor exposed to the draft. In extinguishing the flame the wick should first be turned far down and then a sharp, quick puff blown across and not straight down upon the flame. IfUsccUaneous Reading. HISTORY OP POSTAL STAMPS. Id 1837, Mr. Rowland Hill first proposed cheap postage. After two years' hard struggle with the government and with parliament, he succeeded in getting the penny postal system carried into the statute book in 1839. In December, in that year, a uniform charge of eight cents for every half ounce conveyed in the mails was instituted. On January 10, 1840, a uniform rate of two cents per half-ounce permanently came into operation. In 1847, this postal reform was adopted by the United-States, and every civilized country has followed suit. There are now thousands of postal stamps in various parts of the world. Mr. Hill was rewarded by a life pension of $10,000 a year, a parliamentary grant of $100,000, and about the same amount by a general subscription throughout the Britbish'islands. His purpose from the first was to reform the general postoffice system and management, and also to institute a uniform and low rate of postage, with prepayment, and moderate charge by weight. The prepayment was to be either by stamped envelopes, or by adhesive stamps. This was by no means an original creation, thus realizing the truth of the old adage that "There is nothing new under the sun." After Mr. Hill bad suggested the great postoffice reform, to be effected by a low and Uniform charge for the transmission of letters and newspapers through the mails, but before the project had passed into a law, it was claimed, in a pamphlet, written by one of the officers of the postal department in Paris, that ^be proposed payment, by means of penny etamps affixed to postal matter, was a mere reproduction, in essential points, of a plan which had been adopted and acted upoD, in France, in the reign of Louis XIV. At that time and place, M. De Velayer, who had friends in the royal household, was permitted to establish a pennypostv through which envelopes, obtainable for one cent each, were delivered, according to their addresses, in town or country, if "postpaid printed slips were tied or fastened around them. These slips were on sale at the king's palace, and the turn-tables of the principal convents, and by the porters of colleges. The practice was to drop all letters thus franked into locked boxes, placed at the corners of the principal streets in Paris. The postal street-pillars, which were not adopted until 1855, would appear to have been, whether designedly or not, a reproduction of what was in use in Paris two centuries earlier. M. De Velayer also introduced a species of letter paper, for the use of persons in business, partly printed, with blanks for the insertion of figures, to show the day's prices, with a blank space below for ordinary correspondence. In the general postofiice, in Paris, one of these billets, so filled up by Pelisson-Fontanier, the histdrian, and addressed to Mademoiselle Scudery, the romancist, has been carefully preserved, and is sometimes shown, by special favor, to curious inquirers. This is presumedly the oldest of all existing penny-post letters and prepaid euveiopes. With De Velayer's death his postal service ended. Nearly a century later (in 1758,) M. De Chamouset, a rich Parisian, re-established it, selling twocent stamps, much resembling those the present day, for the free delivery, in Paris, of letters under two ounces in weight. That was in the reign of Louis XV, whose minister of fiuance, regarding such an establishment as a source of public revenue, bought it up by granting a considerable pensiou to its proT prietor. In the hands of the government, however, letter-stamps soon fell into disuse. The next country to issue postal stamps was Spain. From 1716 to 1800 they were used?exclusively, however, upon official letters. In the kingdom of Sardinia, stamped postal paper and envelopes were in use from 1818 to 1836. For a few months, what were known as "the Mulready envelopes," because their somewhat pictorial design had been drawn by Mr. W. Mulready, an eminent artist, had to be generally used by the British public; but as they were expensively gotten up, on fine paper, for which a slight extra charge had to be made, there was a good deal of grumbling?the com plaint being that, from this fractional addition to the price, this was not "the penny postage" that had been promised to the public. So the pictorial envelope was soon superseded by the small adhesive stamps, still in use. It was said, when this envelope was issued, that Queen Victoria had herself made the drawing, which Mr. Mulready, a royal academician of great ability and high reputation, had worked up. This may or may not have been the case; but the prize that had been offered by the British government for the best design was awarded to Mi. Mulready. Its object was to represent Britannia distributing letters to all parts of the world by means of the penny post. In the summer of 1840 a two penny stamp, for letters under one ounce in weight, was first issued. Since then, numerous varieties of the adhesive stamps have been introduced, as well as stamped blank covers for the transmission of newspapers and periodicals through the mail. In 1870, postal cards were first adopted into use by England. At present, under the extensive Union Postale Universelle, now generally adopted by the nations, postal cards, at two cents each, are current among all civilized nations. It must be well remembered that as recently as the year 1840, when postal reform was first adopted, and even later, the postage on a single letter across the Atlantic was an English shilling, almost equal to 25 cents. Of lot^n ueora t.hin Vina heen reduced to five cents, and, last of all, there is the 2-cent postal card, under Union Postale Universelle. This may be regarded as almost next door to no postal charge at all. It may be here observed that envelopes, now so general, were little used in correspondence by letter UDtil they were adopted under Rowland Hill's postal reform. Up to that period they were mainly used in the government offices, whose correspondence passed free, by franks, through the postoffice. As the old rule was that a letter, inclosed in an envelope, was subject to double postage, the public at large may be said not to have recognized the envelope. Members of both houses of parliament, who had the rponkinn ni>iitilanrn olmnot. ATnlllBIVAlv """"'"b ? j , employed them. Now, and for many years past, the manufacture of envelopes has been an important branch of productive industry among the nations. The much increased consumption of cards is another branch of trade that has been much augmented by the postal consumption. When the adhesive stamps were about being issued, to supersede the Mulready envelopes, the postoffice authorities were perplexed, at first, by a difficulty connected with the gumming of them. It was found that gum arabic, the best medium in this case for adhesiveness and cleanliness, was verycostly, as only the finest quality could be used. In this instance, the government offered a handsome reward to the person who could get them out of the difficulty. A young clerk in the London stamp office remembered and stated hovq his mother, in Ireland, had been accus tomed to employ for domestic use, not the English starch made from wheat, but a substitute prepared from potato, which yields the purest and largest supply, Carolina rice ranking next to it in this particular. From this Irish starch, thus introduced into postal employment, a gum is made, by manipulation with water and heat, which, being good as well as cheap, was pronounced to be the best vehicle for giving the required adhesive quality to the postal stamp. I have no reason to believe that any substitute for this has been adopted in the English postoffice. It may be asked?were Rowland Hill's sanguine expectations from postal reform fulfilled? The answer may be brief: In 1839, before the penny postage was instituted, the net annual sum realized for the British revenue was $12,000,000. This proportion of the national income had reached $31,000,000 in the year 1879. The author of this great change died at the advanced age of 84. Regarding a "Close" Shave.? "What makes my face so dry and dusty?" asked a man in one of the chairs at the hotel barber shop. "You shave too close," replied the barber. "You get down under the skin and irritate it." "Well, I have to shave close. I don't want to bother with shaving every day, so I get a shave every other day, and then get a good close one." "There's no need of that," replied the barber. "There isn't so much difference between a single going-over aud a very close shave. After the razor has been over your face once, you can still feel a fiue stubble. By a second or third scraping you can get the face feeling perfectly smooth, but in three hours' time the beard has grown out to where it was after the first going-over. What I mean is that you save only about three hours by getting what we call a "close' shave, and for a man who shaves every other ion'f mitnli nf nn aHvantAirft. } iuav ,o" " "*"v" "* ? ? o? Besides, it irritates the face, and is liable to make the skin hard and scaly. A man who shaves himself simply goes over his face once, but in a barber shop the customer thinks be is not getting the worth of his money unless the barber scrapes for about 10 minutes to get rid of that extra three hours' growth of beard." Marriageable Age.?In Austria a "man" and "woman" are supposed to be able to be capable of conducting a home of their own from the age of 14. In Germany the'mau must be at least 18 years of age. In France the man must be 18 and the woman 15 ; in Belgium the same. In Spain the intended husband must have passed his 14th year and the woman her 12th. In Hungary, for Roman Catholics, the man must be 14 years old and the woman 12; for Protestants, the man must be 18 and the woman 15. In Greece the man must have seen at least 14 summers and the woman 12. In Portugal a boy of 15 is considered marriageable, and a woman of 12. In Russia and Saxony they are a little more sensible, and a youth must refrain from entering into matrimony till be can count 18 years, and the woman till she can count 16. In Switzerland the men from the age of 14 and the women from the age of 12 are allowed to marry. In Turkey any youth and maiden who can walk properly, and can understand the necessary religious service, are allowed to be united for life. "OLD HICKORY'S" INAUGURATION. Mr. Joseph B. Bishop has an article on "Inauguration Scenes and Incidents" in the March Century. Mr. Bishop says of President Jackson's inauguration: "An eye witness, who took a somewhat jocose view of the day's events, wrote that the most remarkable feature about Jackson, as he marched down the aisle of the senate with a quick, large step, as though be proposed to storm the Capitol, was his double pair of spectacles. He habitually wore two pairs, one for reading and the other for seeing at a distance, the pair not in use being placed across the top of his bead. On this occasion, says the eye witness, the pair on his head reflected the light; and some of the rural admirers of the old hero were firmly persuaded that they were two plates of metal let into his head to close up holes made by British bullets. When he appeared on the portico, we are told that the shout which arose rent the air and seemed to shake the very ground. The ceremony ended, the general mounted bis horse to proceed to the White House; and the whole crowd followed him. " 'The president,' says a contemporary writer, 'was literally pursued by a motley concourse of people, riding, running belter-skelter, striving who should first gain admittance into the executive mansion, where it was understood that refreshments were to be distributed.' An abundance of refreshments had been provided, including many barrels of orange punch. As the waiters opened the doors to bring out the punch in pails, the crowd rushed upon them, upsetting the pails, and breaking the glasses. Inside the house the crush was so great that distribution of refreshments was impossible, and tubs of orange punch were set out in the grounds to entice people from the rooms. Jackson himself was so pressed against the wall of the reception-room that he was in danger . of injury, and was protected by a number of men linking arms and forming a barrier against the crowd. Men with boots heavy with mud stood on the satin-covered chairs and sofas in their eagerness to get a glimpse of the hero. Judge Story wrote that the crowd contained all sorts of people, from the highest and most polished down to the most vulgar and gross in UJtJ uanuu. "X UCVCI out* ouvu a U11Alure,' he added. 'The reign of King Mob seemed triumphant. It was glad to escape from the scene as soon as possible.' " sea captain and a lawyer lived next door to each other. One very windy night the lawyer was reading a book in bis study, when a terrific crash up stairs startled him. Upon investigating, he found that a chimney had hurled itself through his roof, doing considerable damage. He discovered it was the sea captain's chimney. Hastening down to his library, he pulled out his law books and hunted up similar cases, devising and scheming how he could secure satisfaction from the detestable captain. While thus engaged, a note arrivedfrom bis enemy that read as follows: "Sir:?If you don't return those bricks at once, I will put the matter in the hands of the law." True Politeness.?An excellent suggestion was that contained in the remark of a little 10-year-old girl from the country, who had been visiting a summer friend in her city home. "Did you have a good time ?" asked the child's mother when the girl came back from her week's visit. "Beautiful!" replied the little traveler, with great enthusiasm. "Why, they were so polite tbey made me feel just as if I was the one that was at home and they were visiting. I had a beautiful time !"?Youth's Companion. t8T An eloquent but short-sighted Aberdonian divine recently occupied the pulpit in a rural parish in Scotland. As only one person attended the service, the minister felt called on to apologize for the length of his discourse, but as the congregation unanimously signified its approval of his preaching, the minister continued with renewed vigor and prolixity. The preacher's feelings may be imagined when he learned that the solitary listener consisted of his driver, who had been engaged by the hour. i T Missouri legislators propose makiog it a misdemeanor for any railway conductor, engineer or brakeman to flirt with female passengers, and the corporation will have to pay a fine of $25 for each conviction. This is class legislation in a new form. B6T "Pay weddings" are not uncommon in some of the rural districts of Germany. All the guests pay a fixed sum for the entertainment, and the receipts are used to furnish a home for the bridal couple. W3T Measure not men by Sundays, without regarding what they do all the week after.