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QioliJenlui Copyright ISi^L by Bob CHAPTER V. * ?? . Continued. * nnU le o fnu? mAnfhc T*A11T>ffOr I UJJ, aUUiC Id U itlf UiVUlMO J VUMQV* I than I. When she was about fourteen her father apprenticed her in one of the big drapery establishments in the West End of London, but we don't know which. She didn't go to New Zealand with her father. Further than that we know nothing about her." "Then I am not your youngest aunt?" "I don't know, I am sure," was my reply. "I am twenty-six," confessed aunt ! Gertrude. "Then, if Annie is living, I have an aunt nearly seven years younger. As I said, she is younger than I by a few months." Aunt Gertrude sighed, turned somewhat abruptly from the picture, and walked through the open window on to the verandah. The view from our verandah is probably as good as from any point in Suf folk distant from tlie coast. Accept- i in? as truth a popular fallacy some | will think this is faint praise, hut ? those acquainted with the county will I hardly so regard it. No part of Eng-1 land is less esteemed by English people than the eastern counties, but this, like many other of our national prejudices. does not admit of any explanu- i tion. The absurd fact remains. A j rolling country, highly cultivated here; and there, interspersed with abundance of wild oi?en spaces and woods which shelter immense quantities of game, with a rainfall the most moderate in Britain, would, it might well be mippcsed, attract many visitors?espe- j cially from London, but it is not so, J and East Anglia is left very much to i East Anglians, particularly in that part or it cauea suiiou*. The weather was delightful, the clear ' blue sky being streaked here and there j with slowly moving white clouds, the temperature mild and refreshing, the! Sunshine brilliant?a spring morningj fraught with every condition to pro-, inote health and buoyancy of spirit Aunt Gertrude shaded her eyes with her hand and looked out toward the old abbey town. Bury St. Edmund's, eight miles distant, could be faintly ! discerned, separated from us by a fine tretch of uudulating country. "How delightfully green everything Is in England!" exclaimed my aunt enthusiastically. "Particularly the people," observed a voice at our back. The voice belonged to uncle Sam. Turning round we saw that gentleman just within the room, standing in a jaunty attitude, his hands In his pockets, chewing the end of an unlighted cigar. My father was with him and had a pair of field-glasses in his hand. This unexpected interruption np- i 4a onttAtr mr OtlTlt "YaII flfa I not very complimentary to your own i people," she said, slightly tossing her delicately poised head. Her husband perceived her mood. : "All right, my dear," he said, in his ! most affable mauner, as he stepped on to the verandah, "I forgot for the moment that some Americans are more English than the English themselves. Jnst let me look at the boundary line of this place and I am gone." So say- , ing he took the field-glasses from my father, who remained within, and surveyed the prospect for a couple of minutes. Having completed his observation he made no further remark, but re-entered the room and disappeared with his brother. It was not long before my aunt and I followed. We went through a num- : ber of rooms, some of them named af- i ter distinguished guests who had occupied them long ago?Camden. Swift, < Addison, Butler, Purcell and others of less note?the lady evincing greater interest in the quaint furniture than In i the historical associations to which I endeavored to direct her attention. | In this way did I amuse my aunt Tor ' three hours, conducting her at last i through the clean, dry stone crypt, which formed the basement cf rhe house. This crypt was very ancient, being the only unaltered portion of the old abbey which supplied the site, and in part the material, for Holdenhurst Hall. The stonework of the spa'ious arches seemed quite uninjured by time; and, though they contained much lumber, there still remained am pie room ror a procession 01 monies 10 i pass through them. Aunt Gertrude j was much interested, and constantly J plied me with questions about the hah- j its of the original ecclesiastical occu- j pants as I preceded her through this strange place, lantern in hand. "Why is that last arch bricked up?" j he inquired. I looked at the object of licr iaquiiy. ! 441 haven't the remotest idea. I never ; noticed it before. It is rarely anybody ccraes down here," I said. It was now time to prepare for luncheon, and we ascended the steps which led into the house. In the hall we again met my father and uncle. "Well," asked uncle Sam. addressing his wife, "what do ycu think of the old place?" "Very interesting, indeed. I have enjoyed myself immensely." "I am glad to hear it," said my father. "You must be very tired. Luncheon will be served in a few minutes. I have invited the Rev. Mr. Fuller." y -~ ( ' . iv . \LTER; BLOQMFIELD ?t Boxxeb'* So sj. ' "The devil you have!" exclaimed j uncle Sam. "Is he a good fellow ?' I "The rector of Holdenhurst Major has been my friend for ten years." "1 hate parsons," said uncle Sam. CHAPTER VI. CXCLE SAM AND THE REV. SILAS Fl'LLER My father's intimation that he had iuvitod the Rev. Silas Fuller to luncheon disturbed me. I knew Mr. Fuller very well, and I was beginning to know my uncle a little. Two men \ differing more widely in habit and opinion it would be difficult to find, and I feared that a conversation between them might afford my father and me more embarrassment than entertainment. The Rector of Holdenhurst Major was a thin, spare man, a little on the wrong side of fifty, short of stature, neat in appearance, formal and precise in manner and speech. The deference which for many years had been paid to this reverend gentleman by the most tractable but ignorant peasantry iu England, had bred in iiim a somewhat dogmatic style. Like most of his class, he had married early, in life, choosing for his wife a portion- < less lady .about three times his own size. who. iu lieu ot' dowry, had pre sented lier lord with seven daughters and four sous iu the most rapid succession permitted by the laws of Nature. The living of Holdenhurst Major was worth ?220 a year in money, with a tolerable house, and five acres of land* all told. Such were the means at the disposal of this clergyman of the Church of England, and with them he had to support himself, his wife, his eleven children, two servants, one pony, one dog, and one cat, as well as take a material interest in the wellbeing of the poor of the parish?that is to say, of the entire population; for my father and the Rector were by very much the richest persons in the place. I remember also a canary, said to have been the pet of the eldest daughter, that was once u member of this clerical household; but it died? whether from the draught through the window, of inanition", or as prey to the hungry cat, I could never correctly ! ascertain. 1 felt that my worse fears were i shortly to be realized when?introductions over, seats taken, and grace sold ?my uncle opened the conversation by inquiring of Mr. Fuller bow business was looking, hastily correcting h's sentence, and substituting "church matters" for "busiuess." "I tliauk you. Mr. Truman," replied the Keetor, with great deliberatiou. as be slowly smoothed the puckers iu b^s waistcoat with bis left band, while bis right grasped the wine-glass which he had been "about to raise to his lips when addressed; "I thank you, Mr. Truman, for your kind inquiry. It is very considerate of you to ask such a question. Too little interest is taken in the Church by persons not immediately connected with the Churchfar too little interest. Born iu the Church, if I may so express myself (for both my father and grandfather held curacies at Splashinire-on-Orwell), and myself, I trust, a conscientious, hard-working minister of the Church. I fully appreciate the comprehensiveness and importance of the question with which you have been so good as to favor me. It is only on the ocea sion of my visits to the Hall that I find myself in a situation to be so intelligently interrogated. I fear my answer must be somewhat different from that which doubtless your position in life and your proper opiuions induce you to desire. The Church, alas! has many enemies; and among her enemies are some who should be her friends; though I rejoice to inform you that we of this district are rather exceptionally free from such adverse influences. The unprecedented depression in agriculture, however, and the uncertain, though certainly unchristiou, procedure of one whom I think, without the remotest exhibition of partisanship, I may stigmatize as the evil genius of England, .Air. Glad " Mr. Fuller had only proceeded thus far with his answer?the bare preliminary to a liftecn minutes' discoursewhen uncle Sam's impatience, of which I had been watching the growth until alarm, reached an unbearable point, and lie cried out: "Was that your pony I saw coming up the path about lialf-au-hcur ago?" "It was." replied the Rector, much surprised at such au extraordinary interruption. "The animal seems in a very had condition," observed uncle Sam. "Madcap is rather old." said the Rev. Mr. Fuller, looking very uncomfortable; "we have had him a good many years." I think it must have occurred to my uncle that the subject of conversation which he had so Unwittingly started could not be effectually dismissed in this unceremonious way, for after a brief pause, lie himself re-opened it. "I suppose there are not many prizes in the Church of England, and that the few which exist are well preserved by the cliques with a present grasp on them. For a professor of religion, if he has brains, I think, after all. Nonconformity ofTerg tha best field; but for a slow man. with a taste for a largo family and a dull < life, doubtless the Church is best.'* 1 These words plunged iny father and ' me into great confusion of mind. It is true they were spoken by one who j knew little <>r nothing of the oircum- j stances of the ltev. Mr. Fuller?who indeed had never so much as hoard of . that gentleman until an hour before? j but their effect was none the less ills- < nstrous. My father coughed. 1 choked. > and aunt (lertrude asked me to oblige her by passing the water. i .r In > rilnna 1 1 I Lit* l uiirruwu.- iu ?? r.MV?. like this arc very trifling." said uncle 1 Snni. ' "We collected ?8 last Harvest Thanksgiving." answered the Rector. "What became of ihe money?" asked 1 ray uncle. "All our collections are givpn away in charity. The i'S of which I spoke? j the largest collection of the year?was < paid over to the Royal Agricultural Benevolent Society." ] "Ob. I see." said uncle Sam. "Sow < this matter of collections iu churches ' is one of the many things which we manage Itetter ou the other side >f 1 the Atlantic. I am not thinking of 1 Iloldeuhursf. for of course there is no money here to collect anyway: 1 am thinking of New York and Londom Why. I remember when I was a boy , iu England in some churches the collecting boxes were fixtures at each < side of the door! Could anything have i '>?<?? tiw.n.. .il>?nr/]? Anv effect which tln> eloquent begging of the preacher i had produced died awav like the mcm? 1 ory of a dream as one walked along the aisles, and the posts supporting '' the inoney-lMJxes were passed as heed lessly as the lamp-posts in the street. After that, if I remember rightly, the plan was to place a plateholder at each side of the door. This was better; | but the plan had two glaring defects: nothing was easier than for the people in the middle of the stream of passers-out to affect not to see the plates, neither was there any cheek on the . doings of the plate holders. The next plan to be adopted, which I recollect, < was the passing of a bag in front of , each person present in church. This plan, though an improvement, was not ? without a serious defect. A penny. ] skillfully dropped info the bag, chinked as loudly as balf-a-erown or a sov- j ereign, and produced as good an effect I upon the other occupants of a pew 1 as would have been produced by one or other of the more valuable coins. 1 After a while, plates were substituted * for bags, only partly removing this 1 objection; and this. I think, is as far as you have got in Kuglaud." . "How are collections taken in American churches?" inquired Mr. Fuller, with evident interest. "By the envelope system. Two deacons pass round the church, ilie first carryiqgtfl tray full of envelopes and a penofW" the second an empty tray. Each contributor places his contribution in an envelope, seals it. and writes his name on the outside. Deacon number two collects the tilled envelopes, and at the next service the name of each contributor, and the amount of his contribution is publicly announced, the giver of the largest amount first; and so on. When there are several persons who give a like amount, their names are announced in alphabetical order. It is a perfect plan, and I have unqualified admiration for the man who conceived it?he read human nature well. It meets all requirements, and nothing in it can la? objected to. The man who wants to advertise himself is invited, as it were, to assist the Church equally with th? simple-miudcd giver?for I assume that the motive ror giving signines notning so long as > the dollars are scooped. Fraud is checkmated, and it is impossible to g exaggerate the importance of that; t) for surely no one will so abuse his intelligence as to deny that iu every ii congregation Ananias aud Bnrabbas s tiud more imitators than any other Biblical characters." g "There is certainly a great deal of v villainy in the world." confessed Mr. n Fuller sadly. "You would say so with greater em- e phasls if you were a member of the 0 Stock Exchange," said uncle Sam. u At this stage my father made a commendable but not very successful ef- ^ fort to change the subject of conver- * sation. Aunt Gertrude sat silent and neglected, and everybody in the room ^ except uncle Sam appeared ill at easa t; As for myself, I was desperately uu- 8 comfortable, and desired nothing so much as the termination of this mem- T orable meal. My uncle, I knew, j would not prolong it by one minute? t that was not one of his faults?but' the Rev. Mr. Fuller, who was a mira- b cle of slowness, had to be reckoned e with; and that gentleman ate as leis- P urely as he talked, tvhicli is saying a c great deal. After some skilful fenc ing my father at last diverted his c brother's remarks from church affairs * to decimal coinage, of which monetary " system uncle Sam was a redoubtable !, champion; and from that moment until he rose from the table the guns of , his eloquence played mercilessly upon t what lie was pleased to call the ab- s surd English chaos of fours, twelves, t and twenties. L To be continued. Wax .Matches From England. 1 The best wax matches used in this country arc imported, and come from England. Xo other manufacturer in tl the world, it is asserted, lias mastered h the art of making a wax match that o will remain stiff in the warmest ell- fi nutes. Moreover, the English wax j< match lias an ivory finish which others n have never been "able successfully to s imitate. <1 t I Muggins ?"Before they were mar- p ricd she used to sit all over him." t Buggius?"Won by a lap, eh?" * V \ WORLD'S FAIR TOPICS. .. There are 147,2o9 panes of glass, 5 i nghteen by twenty-three inc hes, in the I [ I'alace of Agriculture at the World's [ 'air. Seven thousand lineal feet, or nearly _ i mile and a half of platforms four KUl reet high, are being built for the.unending of exhibits at tlie World's Fair. . Twelve thousand carloads of cxhibts are expected by the director of exlibits ol' the World's Fair. At the 'olumbian Exposition, at Chicago, <000 carloads were received. Night has hern turned into day in all it f >f the large exhibit palaces at the World's Fair. Numerous electric arc ights have been put in place and F scores of workmen are busy night as kvell as day in installing the exhibits. Two hundred of Uncle Sam's ma- C ines, who have been on duty at Panima. are going to the World's Fair to Pat ?ive exhibition drills. The popularity >f this branch of the service is incrensing with youug men who want to be the osmopolitans. The Belgian Building at the World's l" Pair, one of the largest and handsomest in the foreign section. is remarka- 1)11 l)le in that the walls are not broken by i single window. The large structure is well lighted by immense skylights seventy-five feet above the tloor. ^ A pack train of twenty-five horses. not with all of their accoutrements, will be cer >ne of the novelties at the World's to 1 Fair. The unusual spectacle will be as <ent by citizens of Wyoming to mark Wyoming Day. The horses will all be c"a pquippetl as if ready to start on the insi I rail. the A San Diego (Cnl.) woman will ex- see: hihit at the World's Fair butter made effe in ISoS. The butter was placed in the spring house in that year and it dis- au appeared in the quicksand. It was re- spii pently recovered and was fou'i to be aga in a remarkably good state of preser- Lia( iv.tiou. ' . Br; COLLEGE BITS.' tha in t Recent conditional pledges of $11.000 bnve been made to the library fund cf Allegheny College. McGlll University will establish a ^ll< diair of railroad engineering and trans- are portation in general. pro The chemical laboratory at Ohio ti:a State University was recently burned. mo< with a loss of $100, . >0. U A scholarship of $5000 has been pre- ja f ?ented to Brown University l?y Edgar L. Marston, of New York. President Tucker has named a committee to raise a $230,000 fund for froi :hree new buildings at Dartmouth Col- f(?u e&?* UDt It has been discovered by the author- wjj] ties of the University of Michigan hat the gambling fever lias struck the " institution. gov Dickinson College's linest building, eha Denny Hall, has been destroyed by con ire. It was valued at $30,000 and Fin) 'ully insured. Dr. E. B. Wilson, professor of zoology it Columbia University, has been electh1 a member of th* Accademia del ? Ldncei, Borne. The Itev. Joseph II. George, Presilent of the Chicago Theological Sem- Wil nary, lias liecn offered the Presidency >f Rrurv College, at Springfield. III. ^ The rate of interest which the in- . estments of Harvard University arued last year was 4 (18-100 per cent., kirn i decrease of 12-KK) per cent, from the wh< >reeeding year. ena The alumni of the University of t0 j Vnnsylvania in the State of Washing- ^ on have provided their alma mater vith a monster flagpole. the product m'n if the Washington forests. tod; CJeorge Santayana. Ph. P.. assistant he trofessor of philosophy in Harvard 40 ; Jniversity. has accepted the invitation, if the senior class of Oherlin to deliver he coiuincuceiuent-dny address next S:b< u:ie. the goo LABOR WORLO. Jap Railroad baggagemen, of Ruft'alo, ^aP J. Y.. are now organized. cha: Montreal (Canada) firemen have been T i??nitn/1 oti ivw>rn<ti!it ??i" ti.tt not' ?>Ot)t ill ? n.l heir pay. jJJ." Thirty-eight thousand persons work < a various industries in the Chicago took yards. *!ie Coal operators in Wise County. Vir- 'ner inia, have made a twelve per cent. *'?P rage reduction, affecting hundreds of tak< aen. the The garment workers, the painters, igarmakers. bookbinders, doakmukrs. tailors and many otlier unions adait womeu to membership. Si A general defense fund of $150,000 is corn eing raised by tbe Amalgamated Asooiation of Street and Electric Itail- stru ray Employes of America. doll There has been an increase of forty- najj wo per cent, in the membership of lie stationary firemen's unions of Mas- 'nS acbusetts since last August. Atla mi Ml K-% AKnn^AO ?!A T ah X litTt? \\ 111 UC III/ l iiuu^un ju iuc uvu rapes of bricklayers this year. The ate for either the union or employers o ask for a change has passed. Several postal clerks' unions have ^ een chartered by the American Fed- han, ration of Labor, and now it i? proosed to form a national union of the Toir ailing. Ben Owners of the Penaby and Cadeby g Ia ollieries have sued the Yorkshire England) Miners' Association for dam- has pes resulting from the long continued om trike at these collieries in 1902. The mount claimed is $7o0,000. case The Executive Board of the Interna- the < ienal Teamsters' Union has decided hat a local, before it can go out on a ympathetic strike, must have a two- the birds vote of its members, iudt*rsed . . >y a two-thirds vote of the joint c-oherence of tb?t vicinity, and in addi- was ion the eousent of the Executive lo&rtL f!l Mr. Jonathan Hutchinson in a leng- q n hy letter to the London Times venti- pj.jj Jtes his pet theory that the cause of p f leprosy is the eating of spoiled two sh. Although his views on the sub- der set have long been familiar to the a p) ledical profession he regretfully as- duri erts that they have not met with hat indorsement which he had an- seen icipated. Hence he appeals to the ublic, pending a final decision from gatu is scientific brethern. ( i S BATTLE ON ' ? >sians Take One Thousand Eight Hundred Japs , j DETAILS GIVEN OF ENGAGEMENT J lay Have Been an Affair of Advance 1 t iuards?News of the Battle Cornea ^ :rom Purely Russian Sources. j ? j t 'he Koo, March 19.?A private dis- (1 | J ch received here from Mukden j j tes that a battle has taken place on j i Yalu in which the Russians claim ( have captured eighteen hundred j soners. j t Japan to Levy War Taxes. c 'okio. Special.?The government has ! I fully disclosed the proposal con- i 1 ning the war taxes to be submitted ; t the special diet, but it now appears j v thmierh it will nnt nrnnnsp anv ! C nge in the tariff in sugar, but will S teail recommend a domestic tax on I basis previously stated. It now c ms probable that the only change t cted in the customs tariff will be inc reased duty on kerosene and j f its. No discrimination will be made r inst Russian kerosene, because that ie is chiefly in the hands of the ( tish merchants. It is anticipated < t there will be a serious contention \ J he diet over the taxes on sugar and j ; and dealers in the former com- j t lity are strongly agitating for a re- e tion in the rate. Party committees ( meeting daily discussing the tax j v posals and the belief is expressed ; d t. the government will be forced to lify several features of their plans. ' the tobacco monopoly is enacted it estimated that it will be ten years F are it is finally completed, although" j government counts upon earnings i 9 n it in 1904 amounting to twenty- a r million yen, gradually ncreasing s 11 1914, when it is estimated they a I amount to forty million yen. i : is estimated that it will cost the p ernment eight million yen to pur- i a se the plants and stock required to a summate the combine and fully j * e million yen to compensate the j 1( lers. ! 'UNCLE SAM" TO THE RESCUE i I o II Interfere In Behalf of Japanese a in Siberia. : 9 Washington. Special?Russia will be ed by the United States to treat dly the Japanese non-combatants ) have been left in Siberia and to ble them to make their way back fapan. ' c Ir. Kogoro Takahira, the Japanese ; t lister, called at the state department j 1 ay and informed the officials that ; ** had received reports that between j? and 50 Japanese non-combatants n e in suffering condition in several o ?rian towns. The minister requested | ? , b Washington government to r.ro its I v d offices to assist the suffering , c anese to reach Berlin where the I" anese minister will take them in 1 I &V. he state department acted promptly > a cablegram has been sent to Mr. J i p ?ormick the American ambassador I n St. Petersburg inviting him to call 1 v attention of the imperial govern- ; s it to the matter in the confident j a e that the Russian officials will ^ ? immediate steps for the relief of j c Japanese. I n In flarbte Hall to Dwell. avannah, Ga., Special.?The city v acil has let a contract for the conction of a new quarter of a million g ar marble city hall to the Savan- ^ Contracting Company. The build- a is to be completed in 12 months. inta, New York. Augusta and St. h is contractors were among the bid- u Sister Urged Brother to Kill ashville, Tenn., Special.?Death by i S ging is the sentence passed upon tJ i Cox for the murder of Policeman I 0] Dowell, on the nignt or uecemoer j ^ st. Cox is the first white man that ; 11 ' s< been sentenced to death in this I i A lty for nearly thirty years, and the | s] is one of the most remarkable in T criminal annals of the State. j M jwell arrested the sister of Cox on ; ^ afternoon of the killing for inter-; lg with an officer, and the woman I w e< charged with inciting her brother 01 Murderers of Negro Hanged. eveland. Miss., Special.?A mob rasked men stormed the jail here ay night and secured possession w 'ayette Sawyer and Burke Harris, b' negroes, charged with the mur- ui of Sid Killum, a negro porter on ai issenger train, near Hushpuckna, ju ng Christmas week, le prisoners were taken to the in e of the killing and hanged from bi railroad bridge, where their life- ei bodies were found dangling on ar irday. et ' > ^rm >.|3 YATUIMR Jap Tobacco Monopoly. St. Petersburg, Special.?The repra%p irritations of United States minister to lapan, Mr. Griscom, concerning American interests by the creation of a iapanese tobacco monopoly, will. The ^'ovoe Vreraya says, sharpen Ameri an-Japanese relations. It considers the obacco monopoly absolutely necessary or Japan in the present condition of ter finances, but says the eompeneaion claimed by the Americans would nore than eat up the income from the ronopoly in the first years, but creat ng for Japan a situation, the "full neaning of which it is probable is juite appreciated at Washiagton." ' Newspaper Men Turned Down. Tokio. Special.?The British miniser refuses to endorse the application >f Hales, the correspondent of The ">sily News, to accompany the Japalese army, giving as his reason that he reports Hales sent from the Trans aal during the Boer war were slander:us of the British army. The Japanese jcvernment requires that all corres>ondents should have the endorsement t" the resident minister of the counries they represent. Hales will therefore be excluded iom all connection with the army ccvements. Pallada Badly Damaged. / St. Petersburg, Special.?The corresinndent of the Associated Press learns hat during the last bombardment of >ort Arthur two Japanese shells fell in he works of the dry dorit but failed to xplode and did not damage the dock. The hole in the Russian protected ruiser Pallada. the repairs on which rill soon be completed, was 17 feet in. liameter. Datto Put to Flight Manila Special.?News of an imlortant military engagement has just >een received from Catabalo. Orr larch 7 detachments of the 17th and 3d infantry, troop B of the 14th cavIry and Gateley's battery, in all 450 trong. under command of Gen. Wood, ttacked and captured the eotta fort) which was held by the Datto ill, who resists the anti-slavery law. lis defensive works were destroyed, nd their abandonment forced by the .ccurate fire of the battery. 2.000 loros made their retreat with a loss f 100. The Americans sustained no osses. Severe Penalties for Pillaging The army organ publishes an order f the day issued by Viceroy Alexieff. hreatening the most severe penalties gainst soldiers injuring private property or officers permitting the same. WORLD'S COTTON CROP Estimated at 17,179,765; Valued at $750,082,451. Washington. Special.?The world's otton crop for 1902-'03 is estimated ~y he Department of Agricutulre at 17.-/v l_ -1 1 1 r'vfldSO CM 00 uaitrs, ittiucu ?< Tivv,w.,w.. 'his is based on the latest data availble, the figures in most instances repesenting the cotton appearing in comlercial channels. With the exception f 2,687,813 bales of the East India rop, which averages 400 pounds per ale. the bales are of an average .eight of 500 pounds. The total inludes estimates of the Chinese and Korean crops. White Cappers Convicted. Helena, Ark., Special. ? Federal udge Jacob Trieber on Saturday assed a penittentiary sentence upon hree white cappers who were conicted in the Federal Court of a conpiracy to intimidate negro workmen t a saw mill. Appeal to the Sureme Court of the United States was aken, the purpose being to test the onstitutionality of the 14th amendlent to the constitution. Positioned Again. Washington, Special.?The cases inolving the suffrage provisions of the ew constitution of the State of Virinia were reached in the call of the inited States Supreme Court Saturay an hour before the regular time of djournment. but owing bo the fact hat the court will not meet again to ear argument until April 4th. the earing in those cases was postponed ntil that date. Earthquake in New England. Boston, Special.?An earthquake * unday morning caused a tremor iroughout the entire eastern section f New England. Beginning at St. ohn, N. B., the seismic vibrations aversed the State of Maine, causing )rae slight damage to buildings in ugusta, Bangor and Portland. The lock was felt plainly as far south as aunton. in this State. Reports from [anchester, N. H., and Springfield, [ass., state that the vibrations were >lt distinctly in those two cities. At Augusta, Me., lamp chimneys ere broken and crockery was smash* i. The vibrations lasted several secids. Living Bridge to Save Women. New York Special.?During a fire hich broke out in the furniture store" " ouse of R. J. Horner & Co., on Satrday, one man was badly burned id another was seriously injured by imping from a window. Annie Helwig was working alone i the rear of the fourth floor of the lilding, near the stairways, and the nployes carried her to a window, id, by forming a living bridge, help1 her to a nearby building.