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4 VOL. V. NO. 89. CAllDEN, S. C? THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1908. Sl.COPer Year CHAPTER X ? I Continued. "la It possible?" he replied. "Bat what then, did yon expect?* ?he anld. moving away and seating herself composedly In one of the shel tered deck chair*. "Why, I expected a child, a Uttlo school girl; hut I cannot say that I regret It." said Arthur, quietly. "I must confess to some misgiving as to her behavior, and the extent of my responsibilities." "But on what grounds did you ex pect a small child?" ?Your?your father's letter, and also the way he repeatedly spoke of you. He always alluded to you as his little girl, his little child. I now see that It may only have been a term of endearment." "Do you know my father, Mon sieur?" "Yes," answered Arthur. "I met him at my uncle's, Mr. Denstone's, home." "Mr. Denstone Is, then, your un cle?" exclaimed Antoinette. "Indeed, we have, then, both of us, explana tions to receive. I am glad you were not the only one to be deceived. You, for Instance, in no way resemble the Individual I was led to expect. My governess told me that I was to be escorted by one of Mr. Denstone's clerks." "What,.dld you expect then?" said Arthur, laughing a little. "It Is quite true that I am one of my uncle's clerks; or, rather, I am to be one." "Of course, my governess under stood that it would be?In short, somebody-very unlike you. Now that I see the mistake, I must ask you to forgive me for the peremptory char acter of my letter. It was meant for the solemn old clerk. In a snuff-col ored suit with blue spectacles, of my Imagination. Tell me," said she, sud denly, "how did you think my father was looking? I have not seen him for such a long time?such a very, very long time." " "I can be no judge of his looks, answered Arthur, "for I never saw him bsfore. He does not look 111, but he Is nervous somehow. I think he wants somebody to take care of him." MI thought so," ah# feaid quickly. "If he will let me, I will do my very heat to make him happy; hut I have no knowledge of home life. I spent all my holldaya at school; that la not a good preparation." she added, wist fully. "I don't think any preparation will be necessary, Mademoiselle Rlgaud. You will find a father who is old, lonely and in need of you. Your in stincts will be all-sufficient." "Thank you," she said, simply. Arthur felt deeply Interested In his companion. There was something touching, even pathetic in the sound of her voice, which was lower and fuller than most girls' Voices are. i He could not see what she waa like by the fitful harbor lights, even had ahs taken off her veil; but ha fancied that her appearance must be as In teresting as her voice. But it waa growing late, the aea air waa beeom lng bitterly cold, the motion of the steamer increasing every moment as aha danced and bounded, light aheets of spray began to acud over the deck. "Are you a good Bailor?" aaid Ar thur. ' "Oh, yes. I do not mind the toss ing," ahe answered. "But all the aame, I think I should like to go down atalrs. I am not very brava. I would rathsr not see It. Will you take me?" She held his arm with both her hands, and, indeed, waa clinging to him with all her might before he suc ceeded in landing her aafely in the cabin. NI bad no idea that it.wot)14 be ao difficult to move," she said, laughing a little. "And now, thank you, good night, slaap well." Arthur was up and oiy deck by aunrlse the next morning; but early aa it waa, he found his charge already there. The aea had calmed down, , and they were now running fact with the tide, and only plunging very alightly from time to time. Mademoiselle Rlgaud was standing at the head of the cabin stairs when he came on deck, loaning against the doorway. Arthur offered her his hand to help hor to gain one of the deck-seats; aho was evidently afraid of venturing alone, though she laughed at her own fears when she found how much easier It was to walk than it had bean the night before. Antoinette had tied a large black Shetland shawl round her head and over her shoulders. "I must preserve ray hat from the apray," ahe said. "Salt water la vary destructive, and if this hat ware ?pollt It would be long befors I should be able to replace it." "Indeed," said Arthur, who wsa amused at her naivete, and thought It the molt charming thing- he bad ever encountered in his life. "But I ma sure you you need not concern your aelf about, .t, your father it very rich." . ./ . "You are mistaken," she said, cold ly. Quite mistaken; on the con trary, ws arc very poor," Arthur ramimbired Jfoulmr Rl gaud's Strang* confide acta. "But." h? . b?fta hastily?th?n checked blmMir. If her father chase to coaeoal the (act of hla gmt wealth from hla daughter. It was scarcely right to .thwart his pi are, but ho felt exceedingly Impatltnt of them. He proposed that they should walk up and down .the deck awhile, and ?he consented with delight. "I think you are altogether mis taken," she continued. "If you ex pect to find a carriage and horses to meet me, and a good house and gar dena, and plenty of servanta, you will he aatonlshed." "I only care that you should find enough for comfort," said Arthur. "To that at least you are certainly entitled." "That we will not dlacusa," an swered Antoinette. "I am quite sat isfied that my father's mode of life Is the only prudent one. It Is not new to me," she went on. smiling. "I was fire years old wh m I left home. I can remember a big old houae, with wings. I remember ^uantltlea of cocks and hens, and an old woman feeding them, whom I called Nanon, and who frightened me by her sobs and weeping when I went away. She waa my nurse, and I shall find her there still, I herr. She and her hua band are most faithful servants." "Are any of your mother's family living?" asked Arthur. feeling strangely uneasy at the idea of this delicate, gentle girl going Into the hands of such a.selfish old miser, and totally without needful protection. He felt that In her sweet, absolute faith In her father ahe would starve herself, and deprive herself of every needful comfort, and oven necessity, to spare him. He felt thankful that he ahould be close by, at all events, for some weeks, but he would be greatly relieved could he hear of any other relative at hand. "I have no relStlves," said An toinette, rather sadly. ' "My mother's name waa Aymar?Jacqueline Ay mar. She was the daughter of a doc tor who lived at Goucy. My grand father died shortly after her mar riage. He had a son, Joseph Aymar. He married, and they both died In an epidemic of cholera when I -was a little child; so no one of the name Is left, and no one of the blood, ex cepting myself." Arthur was looking at her. and as she spoke of her mother's family he saw a strange change pass over her face, a kind of hardness which seemed to petrify the soft flesh and blood, and a peculiar magnetic dreamy stare of the great gray eyes as they looked out to see, almost as If she was entering a trance. The look startled him. "Antoin ette!" he exclaimed, abruptly, un conscious that he had used her Chris tlan name. She started and turned round, the look vanished at once, a soft pink color rose In her cheek. "What Is it?" she said, gently. "Nothing. Forgive me; you looked so strange, so dream-like, as If, somehow, your mind were passing out of my reach, and I wanted it to come back," he said, trying to smile. "Ah! yes; I understand. It Is like that when I think of my mother's people. They have a etrange history. Some day I will tell you, but not now," she added, a slight shudder passing over her. "The sun Is grow ing warm, and yonder, In the dis tance, I fancy I can see the coast of France. Is It not so?" "Yes; we shall soon be arriving. Are you glad to revisit your native land. Mademoiselle Rlgaud?" HYes, for some reasons very glad. But I have been In England so long that Z have almost forgotten to look upon France m my home." CHAPTER XI, The travelers reached St. Maalo without adventure of any kind, drove to the statloD, and found a train1 which took them to Lekaus, where they arrived late In the evening. They slept there, and started the next day for Qoucy. It was a cold day. The sun had not appeared; there was a sharp spring frost and a bitter east wind. The third-class carriage Into which Antlonetto got, without a moment's hesitation, was exceedingly comfort less, but Antoinette said not a word of complaint. As they w*nt. on, It struck Arthur that there was something odd, even unnatural, about this. A young and delicately brought up girl Is not gen erally so callous unless she Is ab sorbed by some thought that over rides all other questions, physical or mental; or else le of euch a robust physique as to be Independent of small miseries. He looked earnestly at hi* companion; the latter certain* ly was not the case. It must then be the former. Arthur fancied that In her attitude, In the fast clasp of her little hands In her lap, there were signs of suffering. He was sympathetic by nature, but toward this lonely, lovely girl his sympathy welled up so Irresistibly, that even at the risk of offending her he felt that he must ask her what ^caused her depression. "Barely, tar Mademolaetla," hm aald, bmUj, "you must hm sosso thins on your mind, or,* ho added, smiling,." I hardly think yon would bo so tntflfferent totho draught that la paaatns /town the backs of onr necka. or to tho Incessantly rattling door, or tho clouds of Infamous tobacco and fumss of abslntho which our lata fel low-trat?l?rs hare Is ft behind them." She care a slight start. "I aa very sorry that yon are uncomforta ble," she said. "Please do not slay With me. Doubtless- your means would enable yon to travel in a Tory different way. I am most selfish to allow It At the Tory next station then * "Not for worlds!" cried Arthur. "It was only for your sake that I thought of complaining. Please for give me. I cannot help fearing that something of a sad nature Is absorb lng your thoughts. Perhaps I ought not to say so; It Is presumptuous of me." "No." said Antoinette. "Ton are ?ery good. Tea, you are quite right. Something le occupying my thoughts ?ery greatly and most painfully, but I do not know that I can tell It to you; you would perhaps laugh at me." "Laugh pt you? Good Heavens! What do you take me for?" he ex claimed, hurt. "Have I said or done anything to make you think that I could be bo unkind, so unfeeling, and especially toward you, for whom, since the first moment I received you into my charge, 1 have felt the deepest In terest, the utmost " He stopped himself, or be might have said too much; but his eager face and earnest manner touched her. "Then you will not think me very foolish?" "Try me," he said. She looked at him doubtfully for one moment. Then she said: "Mr. Denstone, I have known you a very short time. Indeed, but 1 am singu larly friendless, and you hare been so good to me, It makes me venture on more, perhaps, than I ought." *? Anything In the world that I have, or that I can do. Is at your service," he said, quickly. "Thank you," she answered, a smile of rare beauty lighting up her sweet face. "Then I will tell you the strange, terrible secret that over shadows me not only with Its own weight, but with the most dire fore bodings." She paused a moment as it to shake off some feeling of op pression, drew a long breath, and went on. "Did you by chance ever hear of Aymar? Jacques Ay mar, of Crole?" "No, I do not think I ever heard of him; but stay, I cannot be quite sure. Tou do not mean the man who waa expert with the divining rod? I re member reading about him once, ages sgo. If I remember right, his power had this peculiarity, that in his hands the rod was not only efficacious In the ordinary way of dlscovsrlng tha existence of water In any place, or minerals, but he pretended that It also enabled him to point out thosa who had committed crimes, and to detect criminals. My fsther was at one time very much Interested In mesmerism and all mysteries of that nort, and he got together curious Information respecting Jacques Ay inar, who, after all, I believe turned nut to be an lmposter. Can It bs that man you mean?" , "You think he was an lmposter?"! she asked, very eagerly. "I cannot ssy; It Is impossible to judge," he said, astonlshsd at hsr eagsrnees. "I think mediums, and tudh people, are sometimes In tho position of finding their natural gifts fell them, and thsn they have re* course to imposture to hide the fact, It itiay have been so with Aymar." "I do not believe it was imposture," she said, nervously, twisting her hands together. "But Heaven knows how gladly I would think so If only I could. You are astonished; but perhsps you will better understand my Interest In him when I tell you that my mother's name was Jacque line Aymar, and that In may cases In our fsmlly, and I very greatly fear In, my own, the faculty has proved her?| edltary." "The um of the divining rod?" cried Arthur. "I* It possible that 701a can really believe such nonsense? Pleass forgive me (or saying so." "I told you that you would moolc me!" she said, sinking baek in her ??at with so dejected an air that Ar* thur felt the greatest compunction (or having spoken so hastily. "I heg your nardon," he exclaimed, earnestly. "Indeed, the *ea o( laugh* ing at you never entersd my head (or a moment; but, oh! dear Mademoi selle Rlgaud, do allow me most strongly to warn you agatnat allow | Ing auch an Idea to gain possession 'of your mlrd; It might prove moat< dangerous to your wholo future hap* plness and peace." | 44 It has already proved so," she said, aerlouply. I "I suppose there Is no mistake," said Arthur; "that It Is a fact that your mother was descended (rom Jacques Aymar? It must be difficult to ascertain It really, (or, a(ter all, his notoriety was only local, and Crole was an obscure little place." I "There is no proof, but the (act of the similarity o( name Is singular. Jacques Aymar was (rom the Midi my grandfather was Nantals; but? I and this Is the thing that frightens me?-the power has existed more or lees in one or two members 0( the family, and I myself have had slngu lar proof that I possess, at all event* in some degree, this hateful power." To be Continued. Norway's seaweed, used as fuel, yields a greater revenue than it* fisheries OUR. SCHOOLS Bt Pbov. Wouam B. Haws, Pilwntfar at Carolina. FiMr Hnabtr Seren. Study?There i, , nuU bat turbulent elui of other XT ?IS!**" 7ho, P?riodi?^y belabor "ehoolt. la their aight marea they tee thousands of tender children murdered or maimed ia the publio aehcola, sod fire vociferous ut to. 80 "">ch wild nonsense , V hava but on? affact?making Ijople refuse to heed them even when they point out some real defect. Some or these writers have warned us against one great evil which we have gone on ignorinfi^-that of an over crowded course of study. To be brief, some years ago our educators realized the poverty of our common school course of study, confined almost ex clusively to the three R's. A just demand was made for an enriched course, giving a wider range of sub jects to the pupils. A number of sub jects has been added. Now. in order to encourage individual initiative, 1 Jake it, the State Board of Education has never prescribed a maximum or a minimum number of subjects for anv course. Instead it has adopted text books covering a rather wide range J subjects, and grouped these into yearly grades, leaving each school to Ust UP * COUr># ?r Courses from thi8 The building of a well-balanced course of study is the work of an ex pert. Comparatively few teachers lay claim tp that stage of fitness. Yet each teacher, or at least cach princi pal, experienced or inexperienced, sets about to make his own course, theories, prejudices and tastes begins to clash for the mastery. One teach er is an arithmetic crank, and his course has but little else in it; an other s favorite subjeot is grammar, and he makes his pupils analyze aiu. parse everything in sight;; another has no taste for geogrnphv, and he practically omits it; another "dotes on poetry, and the whole school is put to memorizing and reciting gems; while a lot of thorough-going teach ers who take everything litcrallv, put the whole adopted list into one course, and give it to every pupil in the school. . A. great deal of ignorant and un just criticism is made against the frequent and useless change of text s'* + would be ueitlier wise nor defensible to have a child use the same reader through two or three grades, or to use the same geography through the 4th, 5th nnd 6th gratJe for instance. If the book is suited to his advancement when he begins it, " **o??nable to say that it is not suitable two or three years later in nis life. And if a teacher were to keep the child of one o fthese watch ful guardians of the schools in a fourth reader, for instance, for three years, this same guardian would make the columns of the local newspnp-r smell of sulphur in declaiming against the outrage (then fail to sign his name). On the other hand, many of our schools do needlessly tax the pat rons for books, and burden the chil dren with books. Let me givo eon er?? I have just examined the published course of study in a ten grade school in one of our towns. In that eourse are prescribed fifty-five separate texts, exclusive of copy books, drawing books, scratch pads, Pte. In the school are ten teachers. Jn another ten-grade school, with four teachers, there are sixty-four texts prescribed. In the first men tioned school there are ten separate texts required in the seventh grade; in the second mentioned school elev en texts are riven in the eighth grade. Everv child ought to have the best obtainable book in every subject he pursues, and he ought to have all the books he needs?books suited to 1:1 a age and advancement, but I protest that the above mentioned courses are ?Jlt reason. To undertake to tench all these books to any one child in the ?Hotted time would make old Soo rates catch his breath.- In the first it would seem that the eontse given was measured by the physical endurance of the teachers? ten teach era pitted against ten ?eta of children. In the geeond case the phviical en durance of the teachers was no limit ?four teachers pitted against ten acts of children. I am tcr from advocating only the three R'a in the common schools, but our schools are undertaking too mnch. in the quantity of work and the kind of work. School work must be cir cumscribed by time, space, and the ability of the pupil. Take the eighth grade course already mentioned. Of 1 tho eleven texts prescribed, nine are to be pursued at the same time. It is no figure of speech to say that if a child's time is the dividend of a| long division, the quotient, or result, must be small. For instance, in the first two years of a child's school life I the schools very properlv devote mnch J time and energy to oral reading. But by the time he reaches the fifth grade so many things are crowded upon him that he does but little oral reading wbils under insrueti+p?a few min utes each dav, perhaps. Hence when ho reaehca the high school his oral reading it scarcely intelligible, and he 'B often unnblo to gel through frcrr. the printed page. Indeed, ronnv a collcge student and not a fcjw tcacho *rs in our common schools cannot rea^ they should real on entering Mgh school. These crowded courses of study bflvc another fatal weakness. In the same aehool and in the aame clauses is a wide range of ability, taste snd opportunity, among the pupils. The bright and precocious mind, the slug gish but retentive mind, and the dull mind are found side by side. The pupil of robust body aqd vigorous health, the one of feeble body atd delieate health, and the one with am ple time for cvcrv task and the one with aeant time for anv task all go to the same school. The unpardon able sin of the schools is to buucli them together, give them the ssme work, and require all to measure up to a common standard. God made them in different melds, and it ia use less for the schools to try to ignore the differences. It is unnatural and it is wrong. To max eh abreast twenty five children in one grsde up to a given dead line is neither possiblo nor desirable. Children with diverse abilities, taste*, and., - opportunities should not be required to progress with even step through such divcise subjects as mathematics, language, history, and drawing. If a boy can do the language work of the sixth grade, but is prepared for onl* the 4th in mathematics, put him just where he is fitted to go. "Oh, he would not fit into my program," says some one. Then make the program fit the boy. The possibility of doing this is one of the great advantages th.i* the small country school has over th* closely graded school. There is another thing which needs to be dinned into the ears of our people?both teachers and partons? that it is folly for a school with nine grades and two tcachers to undertake to do what a school with nine grades and six teachers accomplishes. The two-teacher school may be the better school within its limitations, but it must keep within those limitations. A one-horse farmer who would claim to bo nble to grow as many crops *md as large crops as a four-horse far mer would grow. would be laughied rt. Little David could not fight in big Saul'8 heavy and cumbersome ar mor, hut with a sling and a pebble he did effective work. Effcr*. at Suicide Successful. Rpartanbnig*, Special.?Will Bur nett, a well-known ycunj?* white man who shot himself in the head with a pistol in:-t Sundav, died at his home as a rrsal* of the wound. Burnett was on? t f ten men 'who were ar rested a short time ago fyr taking part in the inch that sought to lynch John Tiby, the negro charged with attempting n criminal assault upon a young white woman." Korean Insurrection Over. Tokio, By Cable.?The so-called in surrection in Korea is pructically i ended. The troops are still on active duty, but the insurgents have dwin dled to merely a disorderly element. It is stated that Prince Ito, former resident general, a Steoul will prob r.bly return to Korea cnily in No vember. Two thirds of the Japanese trccp3 in north China will be with drawn in r. "few (lavs. Textile Wer!rsrs to Hold Next Meet ing in Oharlotte. Schenectady, N. Y., Special.?The eighth annual convention of tho Unit ed Textile Workers of America, which has been in session in Cohoes, closed Friday. Chailotte, N. C., was select ed cs the place for holding the next convention. John Goldon, Fall River, Mass., was elected president. By Wire and Cable. President Roosevelt has signed a contract to become associate editor of the Outlook on his return from his African trip. Philndelphia doctor to prove his contention that vaccination does not prevent smallpox challenges an advo cate of it,s efficacy to sleep with him with a smallpox patient between them, the challenger never having been vaccinated, while the challenger has been. Vewi In Brief. Charles Elliott Morton, philanthrop ist, scholar and teachcr, died at Cam bridge, Mats. That the United States will ask for a new treaty with Russia was made known in a letter from Secre tary Root to Jacob H. Schiff. Three persons were burned to death in a New York tenement fire. United Rtntcs Supreme Court de rides fltot H. Clay Pierce must go baek to Texn* to answer an indict ment for perjury. PROSPECT!VP! BUSINESS. "I'll take your damago case," said the lawyer, helping to his feet the man Just hit by an automobile. ?'Thank you," replied the victim. "I'm not much hurt, but I recogniz ed that measly chauffeur. He may have a case for you later."-?PhlU delphla Ledgor. FLEET LEAVES TOKIO| After Splendid Reception Cy the Japanese People VESSELS HCMEWARD BOUND Tb? D?putsn of tli ?if Ships the Frettieet Feature of the Week? Tokjo Resumes Normal Condition After t Week of Delirium. Toldo, By Cable.?After a week's suspension of almost every kind <f business, because cf the presence of the Ameriesn fleet in Japanese waters *Bd so that fitting welcome might be given to the Ameiicau officers ami ssiwrs, Tokio is resuming its normal conditions. Already many of the de corations have been taken down, al though every one is yet discussing I he remarkable features of the past low days. President Roosevelt's messages to the Emperor was presented to him through Count Komura, the foreign minister, and the Emperor probably will make a reply rcon, but there is no reason to expeet that the Em peror's message will contain other than a graceful acknowledgement and an expression of gratification nt the President's worm words of apprecia tion. Nothing could possibly exceed in the public mind in Japan the sig nificance of the Emperor's previous message. The departure of the fleet Sunday morning was one of the prettiest fea tures cf the week. The flgsliip Con necticut slipped her cables at exact ly 8 o'clock. She steamed past the Louisiana and saluted and was fol lowed by the remainder of the first squadron. When the eight ships hod passed, the Louisiana led the second line, and the entire fleet then formed in single column. As each of the American battle ships panned the head of the Japanese column the crews of the ships of both nations cheercd enthusiastically, and the band of both the American ships played the Japanese national hymn. When the last of the sixteen ships was 9alutin'i*, the Connecticut was in visible en the hori:on. Within exact ly fifty minutes the entire manouvre had been completed. Seven New Cases of Cholera. Manila, By Cable?Seven new oases of cliclera weic reported in this city for the day ending Sunday night. The slight increase in the spread of the disease is ascribed bv tlie au thorities to the many gatherings of the people on Saturday night Mid Sunday and the feasts that accom panied the assemblies. The situation is not considered to be grave and the health department feels as though it has the epidemic well under control, expressing no alnim over tha in increase. It is probable that the gov ernment will further restrict the gath erings of the natives and also the sale of dangerous foods. It is be lieved that cock pits located in the subinbs of the city where it is diffi cult to maintain a strict wntch over the sale of foodstuffs are responsible for tho slight increase in the num ber of eholcra eases noted at eucli week end. Crville Wright Improving Nicely. Washington, Special. ? Orvillc Wright, the acroplanist who narrowlv escaped dcatli In the accident to his aeroplane during a fl:>;ht at Fort Mycr. Va., five weeks ago, will soon be ablo to leave for his home at Dayton. 0. His most serious injury was a broken thigh and the splint was removed from this Sunday. It was found upon measuring the left leg, tho one injured, that it is but a quarter of an inch shorter than the other. An X-rav examination of the fracture showed that the knitting of the broken bones lias beeu perfect. Chepel Hill Man Elected. President of Peat Producers' Society. | Toledo, 0., Special.?The second annual convention of the American Peat Producers' Society has adjourn ed to meet in Poston next year. Joseph II. Pratt, Chapel H'H, N. C., was elcctcd president, nobcrt Han som, Jacksonville, Fin.. was elected vice president for the Southern States. To Have Lobbyist at Capital. Paltimore, Special.?William II. Anderson, superintendent of the Maryland anti-saloon league, has been chosen by the national head quarters committee to represent I lie rational league at Washington an acting superintendent during the coir.ing session of Congress. Sup?. S. E. Nicholson, of Pennsylvania, who has been serving in that capacity, ow ing to the fact that the Pennsylvania legislature will be in session this winter, will be compelled to give his entire time to looking after legisla tion in that State. A ROYAL WELCOME Sfcow.i the American fleet By Japanese Government. ENTERTAINED IN GREAT STYLE Trtmtadoos Procession of HUm if KwHy-Chcering People Eerirwed bj Addnl Spetr/ m4 the Ameri can licet OiHotxi. Tokio, By Cable.?The ccpitol ?? Japan witnessed Thursday night the most extraordinary evidence of the spirit cf tbe new Japan. After hav ing an audicr.cc of the officers of the American battleship fleet on Tuesday the Emperor issued an ord?r directing the people to increase in every way {possible, the enjoyment and pleasure of tbe American visitors, who came, he said, r.a historic friends of the Japanese nation. The response to this imperial mandate was seen and heard at night. Originally a torchlight procession of 15,000 people was planned as part of the day's programme, but thia feature went far beyond expectation! und developed into a great popular demonstration. Japan's war oelebra tions after peate with Russia, "Lon don's Mafeking Night," and even New York's election night revel would seem almost insignificant com pared with Tokio's celebration. Mile cftcr mile through madly cheering people, the great procession wound its way. Representatives cf various guilds, universities, schools of every elates for boys and other organizations took part, each individ nal carrying a lighted ,lantern held high on a long pole with American and Japanese Hags interwouud. Admiral Sperry and the other ehief officers of the American fleet viewed the profession from a special grand stand, standing with bared heads above the sea of waving lantcrs, the deafening roar of cheers aud the clash of the music from scores of bands which played the American national hymn continuously. So donse became the crowds around the stand that the entire procession was blocked until Admiral Spcrry was forced to leave in order to keep an engagement at the dinner given by Minister of Foreign Affairs Koraura. Again nt the American embassy tbe great procession halted and the climax cf the enthusiasm was reach ed. When the head of the procession arrived at the embassy aud halted Mrs. O'Brien Bnd the other Indies cf the embassy appeared upon the vo randa and received a prolonged ova tion from the crowds, every man and boy among the paraders lifting his hat to the Indies, while there were continuous shouts for the American ambnssac'rr, who hnd also left to at tend the dinner. The entire grounds surrounding the embassy were lighted with a sea of lanterns and the demonstration last* ed. for two hours. Kver.v band in Tokio turned out for the parade aud their favorite airs were "Yankee Doodle" "Dixie," and "John Brown." thousands of the paraders wore fantastic costumes characteristic of Japanese celebrations. Every foreigner in Tokio was deep? l.v impressed by the night's remark* able demonstration, coming as it did from an ordinary undemonstrative people. The entire dav waa tnken up by a series of e'.^ornte entertainments to Admiral Sperry hnd the other ud mirnls of the American floet and their aides. Construction Foreman Decapitated, Kingston, N. Y., Spooial,*?>Fre4 Bowen, o forman employed by the New York water supply department in the construction of a biff shiphon at High Falls, was decapitated and two negroes were mortally injured when a huge rock fell into a shaft in which they were working to Adjust A floating pump. iAHt Reception to Fleet. Yokohama, By Cable.?The series of the brilliant functions which have eharactei ir.ed Japan's reception of the American battleship fleet eatne to n close here Friday nitrht with a din ner on board the battleship Fuji, the guests cf which were confined to the American ambassador. Rear Admirals and other officers. There wns also a brilliant reception on the battleship Miko?a to which all the prominent Americans here were invited, with the accompaniments of an illumina tion of the fleet, fireworks and torch light proccKsicn on shore. SURE CURE for All PinMM if STOMACH* ^Rtilok K?ll?f and Can for Itftd* Th? but tonic, CurtHtt V imn * y Hm uht, BteUeli** DlfttotM, Mtdlelat tor lh?s? dlf> MVER 8 lilDNClS BH ta4l|?itlM, MiUrta, ?to. tut*. lOo. (hurutMd*