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BBYAN SPEAKS AT BANQUET. Steadfastness of the Democratic Party His Subject. Wooster, O., Jan. 6.-The Hon. Wil? liam J. Bryan spoke here tonight at the Jackson Day banquet, which was I held this evening, at his suggestion, in order that he might keep engage? ments at New Haven and Boston later in the week. His subject was 4 ' Stead? fastness," and he said in part: "Among the traits cf character which distinguished Andrew Jackson, no trait was more prominent or more -helpful to his country than steadfast? ness. When he believed a thing, he believed it Where duty led, he fol? lowed without questioning. When he decided that anything ought to be done, he did it, and no power could overawe him.- He did not have in his veins a single drop of anything to win blood. When Nicholas Biddle de? clared that through the national bank he could make and unmake congress? es, Jackson replied that that was more power than any one man ought to have in this country, and he then began his war against Bidle and his bank, which resulted in the overthrow of that great financier and the institution which he so autocratically controlled. Others were afraid that Biddel's influence, if antagonized, would defeat the Demo t, eratic party, but Jackson saw in it a menace to his country and he did not stop to consider what effect an attack on the bank would have on himself or, on his party. He won, and we revere his name and celebrate his day. "Benton, in reviewing Jackson's work, said that, as Cicero overthrew the conspiracy of Cataline and saved Borne so Jackson overthrew the bank and saved America. We shall observe this day in vain if we do not gabber from the life of Jackson inspiration and encouragement for the work which lies before us. Today the Democratic party needs to learn from the hero of New Orleans the lesson of steadfast? ness ; it needs to learn from him not only that to be right is more import? ant than to be successful, but that to be right is the best way to insure successs. ""A party must have principles or it can have no claim upon public confi? dence; and how can it commend its -principles better than by standing "by them? Who will have faith in the creed of a party if the party stands ready to barter away its creed in ex? change for the promise of patronage? A halting, vacillating course, not only fails to invite recruits, but it alien? ates and drives away veterans. "Another reason for steadfastness is found in the fact that no one can tell until the attempt is made what obstacles courage can overcome. . The bold and fearless triumph where ttte timid fail. The victor's deeds which live and light us on to the noble deeds are the victories snatched from the iaws of defeat by interpid spirits who preferred death to retreat." Admiral Schley and Congress. Schiey's Counsel Consulting With Members of Congress. Washington, Jan. 6.-Hon. Isidore Kayner, the counsel for Admiral Schley before the court of inquiry, spent some time on the floor of the house of representatives today. He had been at the supreme court and later visited the house, where he serv? ed as a member for some years. Mr, Kayner joined Representative Cum? mings of New York, a member of the house committee on naval affairs, and learned from him the general situa? tion of affairs concerning many bills proposed in the Schley case. Mr. Rayner said later that his visit was without bearing on the admiral's case, although being among old friends he had taken occasion to learn the general condition of affairs. In this connection it is understood that the friends of Admiral Schley have ex? pressed approval of the bill which has , been introduced making the judgment of Admiral Dewey the sentiment of congress. However, the informal talks today led to the conclusion that a bill of this character was not likely to be reported from the naval committee and that if action was to be taken it must be on one of the various other plans pending. ANOTHER RESOLUTION. Washington, Jan. 6.-Another Schley resolution was introduced in the house today by Representative Schirm of Maryland. It provides an appropria? tion of $12,000 for bronze tablets com? memorating six great naval victories beignning with those of John Paul Jones in 1797 and closing with the battle of Santiago bay, ''Commodore Winfield Scott Schley commanding," in 1898. SCHLEY CALLS ON THE PRESI? DENT. Washington, Jan. 6.-Rear Admiral Schley called at the White House to? day by appointment, and spent nearly an hour in conference with the presi? dent. The admiral refused to discuss the conversation, saying that it was of a personal character. The presi? dent also declined to intimate the na? ture of the conference. ! DIUNKEN EMPLOYE KILLS MANAGER Supt. Sadler Almost Instantly Killed by Kenney. Springfield, O., Jan. 6.-John G. Sadler, superintendent and general manager of the Springfield Foundry company and of the Indianapolis Frog and Switch company, was shot and al? most instantly killed today by John W. Kenney, an employe who had been discharged recently. Kenney, who is in the hands of the police, is said to have been drinking heavily and to have made open threats against the life of Sadler, but these threats were considered the vaporings of a drunken man and no attention was paid to them. Mr. Sadler left his office to attend some business in the foundry and in a hall he was met by Kenney, who had been lying in wait for him. There was no eye witness to the shoot? ing. Mr. Saddle's private secretary heard five shot's and his chief dashed through the open door and said: "I am done for ; Kenney did it. ' ' He fell to the floor and died before any one could reach him, A post mortem examination tonight showed that all the five bullets had taken effect. One had pierced his heart, another had entered the body j tc the left of the heart and had grazed I it ; the third struck him in the stom? ach, inflicting a wound almost the same as that which killed President McKinley. The others caused only slight wounds. The physicians express? ed surprise that Mr. Sadler lived long enough to speak after being shot. Mr. Sadler was 50 years old. The Decadence of Rum. While the clergy are making issues with the ladies with reference to pro? hibition and Sunday closing of saloons, attention has been called to the decline of rum as. a drink. So far as tue central and western parts of this country are concerned rum may be said to have come prominently into public notice with the prohibition propaganda. As is well known pro? hibition began in New England, and from that section went out to all parts of the country missionaries who declaimed loudly and long on the demerits of rum. In what was then called the West rum was comparatively unknown. Of the men fond of stimulating beverages perhaps not one in a hundred had any practical acquaintance with rum as a beverage. But the lecturers set the fashion, and it became common even in the West to descant upon * rum as the fruitful source from which flowed ail the evils of intemperance. To speak of whisky or brandy was for a long time regarded as a departure from the conventional standard. Rum was regarded as the literary equivalent for all sorts of intoxicants, and even now the word is frequently heard in that sense. It was the oratorical habit, combined with a fondness for allitera? tion, which caused the Rev. Dr. Bur chard to overthrow the Republican party by his famous allusion to "Rum, Romanism and Rebellion" as Demo? cratic favorites. Q There was a reason for this, though it was not apparent to many of those who habituated themselves to the use of the word. There was a time when rum was a very common, if not the most common, of intoxicating drinks. It was so in Great Britain. In the American colonies it played a great part in connection with the slave trade. New England owned most of the ships and brought molasses from the West Indies to New England, where it was made into rum. Much of this went to-Africa, where it was exchanged for slaves. In this way, as remarked by a New England divine, much "gayneful pilledge" accrued to the thrifty Yankee folk. As late as 1814, after the slave trade was dead, or at least, was no longer tolerated by law, the enormous quantity of 50,000, 000 gallons of rum is said to have been produced in the United States. The New England article is reputed to have been very bad. Artemus Ward said that a few drinks of it would make a man throw ^stones at his grandmother. It was altogether natu? ral, therefore, that when the prohibi? tion propaganda began in New Eng? land, ;he attack should have been mainly directed against rum. It was a cheap drink, so cheap that for a penny or two a man could buy enough to produce intoxication. All that is changed now. Instead of producing six gallons of rum per head of [population, as in ?814, the country now produces something like one-fiftieth of a gallon or less. In re? cent years the production has ranged from a million and a quarter to a mil? lion and a half gallons a year, which is a trifle when compared with a total production of over a hundred million gallons of all sorts of spirits. That which is produced is largely used for cooking purposes, in hospitals, and for flavoring other drinks. Tho im? ports have practically ceased, reaching no more than 20,000 or 30,000 gallons a year. As an intoxicant rum has nearly ceased to exist, and it is time that some other generic term should be selected to take its place.- Courier Journal. LIBERTY BELL ON ITS WAY. Its Fourth Trip-Ovations on the Route. Charletson, Jan. 7.-Since the his? toric dav in 1776, when its defiant clangor proclaimed to the budding na? tion the Declaration of Independence, the Liberty Bell has been the most precious historic relic of our country. With the original copy of the Declara? tion of Independence, it is inseparably linked in the hearts of oar people. Silent for a century, its very mute? ness adds dignity to the prophetic in . scription engraven on its side, and one's patriotism is kindled afresh with thoughts of the part it took in the great struggle with the government of Great Bitain. Its warning to that government, and its appeal to the peo? ple of the colonies to stand firm for liberty, endeared it to every man, woman and child in the United States, for ever and for aye. The present journey of the Liberty Bell to Charles? ton is the fourth trip of the historic relic from its shrine in Independence Hall. Its triumphal tours to the World's Industrial Exposition at Chi? cago in 1893, and to the Cotton States and International Exposition at At? lanta in 1895, proved of such interest to the whole people of the United States, j that all opposition to its removal from Philadelphia has vanished from the minds of those who feared for its safe? ty. Hundreds journeyed to the rail? road stations at which brief stops were made on these pilgrimages. It was impossible in some places to permit the waiting throngs to do more than simply gaze at the precious relic. Proud, indeed, were those who were permitted to touch its brazen surface. The invitation to exhibit the bell at the South Carolina Interstate and West Indian Exposition, has been ac? cepted by the select and common councils of the city of Philadelphia, and a joint special committee of coun? cils appointed to escort the bell to Charleston. The special train ar? ranged by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company will traverse portions of Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Vir? ginia, Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, enabling thousands to pay their tribute to the emblem of liberty. The official escort of the bell will in? clude the Hon Samuel H. Ashbridge, mayor of Philadelphia, a number of the city officials and a comifiittee from the allied business organizations. Mr. Henry Clay is chairman of the exhibit committee. The itinerary of the bell from Phila? delphia, via Pennsylvania railway, to Hagerstown : from Hagerstown, via Norfolk and Western to Bristol, Tenn. ; from Bristol, via Southern railway to Asheville, thence to Colum? bia, thence to Savannah, and thence, via the Plant system, to Charleston, where it will arrive Thursday, Jan. 9th, at 10 o'clock a. m. Becker Leaves Greensboro. Charlotte, N. C., Jan. 6.-A special to the Observer from Greensboro says that as the result of an investigation made by the Knights of Pythias of that town, to whom he made applica? tion for membership, Dr. Al. G. Berg? er, who is said to have several wives, one of whom resides in Sumter, left that town under a cloud today. Berg? er had good recommendations from parties in Sumter, and later going to Greensboro became a prominent church worker. He was accompanied by a young woman who passed as his wife. She is said to be from Sumter. The Ostrich's Lo:tr?. Although the ostrich has powerful legs an? can tick like a mule, his limbs are very brittle end are easily broken. He bas two ices on each foot, ene being ? armed wirb a horny nail which ho ?IS?'S as hi? principal weapon of warfare, j When an unarmed man ls attacked by j me of these birds, the chance:; are i .'erv much against t::cv man rn?.-ss Le caa e'iinb a tree or jump over a live j foot wail. ' _ i I An Alternative COHCITIS?OT?. A Jersey farmer visiting Nev: Yolk stood looking at a sign in a ^Do'^toiv j window, "Dickens* Wei ks AK rbis I Week For Two Dollars." "TTnal." he j remarked, **iny 'pinion is that tl:::; Dickens feiler is either almighty pop) j workman or else he's confounded hard j ap fe:- a job."-Boston Courier. A'*ied Cut the Character. "It was understood that the cash:;*; j ha'l been Iamb in Wail street." ..Therefore." id I, with a happo ! >mik>, "he skipped." - Indianapolis j Press. Studies of the ocean bottom near th." ! coast line of continents have shown j that rivers of considerable size some? times enter the sea beneath the sur? face. The Dii>Io::?nt*s Solution. "And it ai) irresistible force meets I an immovable body?" surest ed his friend. "The situation, indeed, would be crit? ical." admitted the eminent diplomat; j "but. with mutual restraint and rea- j sonable concessions. I see no reason to despair of an amicable settlement."- j Puck. The average man gets angry every time he is in the wrong and knows iL~ Chicago News. co oo co co no co c~< 00 CO GO GO CO 00 CJ GO OO CO OO CO CO oo oo oo co co co ?0 wo HOWARD FIELDING Copyright, 1900, by Charles W. Hooke. oo oo oo OO OO OO ?? co oo OOOO9OO0 0OOO00OO O0 POX a certain evening not long ago I asked two questions of tremendous importance- The answers which I received deter? mined the subsequent course of my life. The first question was addressed to Signor Taglia. He had just come out of the dining room, and I was standing in the hall with an unlighted cigar in my hand. "Can you oblige me with r. match?" I asked. "Certainly." he replied, taking sever? al from the little pocket in his sack coat. He passed along the hall and up the stairs, entirely unaware that the inci? dent possessed any but the most ordi? nary and trivial significance. I heard him unlock the door of his room, which was at the rear of the house on the sec SHE PAUSED A MOMEJiT. ond floor. My own was the small one next to his. while at the front, upon that floor. Miss Latimer had the larger room, and a young man named Crosby, a recent arrival, had the smaller. It was Miss Latimer who must an- j swer my second question, and I waited . for her after putting my cigar back j into my case and the signor's matches into my pocket. Presently she rose from her seat by the small table in the far comer and came toward the door. As she passed the table where Mr. Crosby I sat he addressed'some remark to her? I and she paused a moment The light was bright upon her as she j stood there, and she looked very beau? tiful, though one might guess she had been ill. It was. indeed, live weeks , since she had been out of the house, and only within the last few days had she been able to come down to the din? ing room. Miss Latimer was the plaintiff in a great lawsuit She had been sold out and defrauded by her own counsel, had triumphed over this disaster only to be cheated by his successor and now, by virtue of her own shrewdness and hard work, was in a position to press the case once more in the courts, but with slender prospects of success. It was a question whether she should have $2, 000.000 or nothing, whether her late fa? ther's honor should be established or smirched forever by a band of scoun? drels who had been enriched by the fruits of his business sagacity to a point where they could have afforded to be honest had they possessed the moral capacity for it. Personally I admired the girl beyond measure and would have given my right hand to help her. but could not feel that I had won her confidence. "Miss Latimer," said I as she came out into the hall. "I have a very imper? tinent question to ask you.'but I really can't see any way to avoid asking it" "If it is necessary," said she. "it can't be impertinent." "Is there any one in this world whom you trust?" Her face flushed, and th^re was a look of pain in her eyes. "1 shah have to say no." seo answer? ed. "The worst that these dishonest people have done to me is to roi) me of my belief in human integrity. You have no idea how lonely one feels." "If you had anything especially pre? cious." said I, "you would keep it your? self. You would not intrust it to an? other." "Yon are quite right." she said. "I should keep it myself." At this moment (.'rusby appeared upon the threshold of the dining room. "I suppose you'll attend the concert I this evening?" he said "Miss Latiner j will occupy her reserved seat on the third stair, and there is every promise ! of a large audience." The "concert" was Signor 'Paglia's piano nra et ic<- It appeared to b?> a habit of the pianist to aevote an TToiir or two after dinner to rhe perfection of his technique. At any rate. Dis piano had squealed and roared for mer? cy on the two previous evenings that "ne had been in the house, and some of us bad gathered at the foot of the sec? ond staircase to hear the performance, j incited by Crosby, who declared that the signor was a wonder. When the young man had passed on. Miss Latimer confided in me that she thought Signor Taglia played like a man of wood, without sense or discre I non. ana mat she should join the group because she craved human companion? ship after th? loneliness of her illness and because she was amused bj Cros? by's absurd praise of the music. "We were speaking of confidence in human nature," said I. "Yes," she replied, "and it seemed to me that you were pleased to learn that ! I had none." "The information gratified my intel? lect and saddened my heart," said I. "Taken in connection with something that had happened immediately be? fore, it proved to me that I had reason? ed rightly upon a very complicated sub? ject. But my heart would rather you would trust-some one." "Do you refer to a young man who was kind enough to send me a good many pretty flowers when I was ill?" she asked. "Please don't mention my poor little posies," I protested. "It was good of you not to have them thrown out of the window. But to return to the subject. I wish you would trust me enough to do one little thing that I shall ask." "And what may it be?" "When we are up there listening to the music," said ? earnestly, "will you do me the honor to keep an eye upon me, and when I take my gloves out of my pocket, this way, will you get right up and go to your room?" "A secret signal! How romantic!" she cried. "Of course I don't under? stand in the least, but I will do it be? cause you ask me to." "Splendid."' said I. "You take a great weight off my mind. Now let's go up stairs. Our great pianist is beginning to play. I see you have the key of your room in your hand. That's right. Please keep it there. By the way. people are quite careful about their doors in this house. Have you noticed that Signor Taglia locks his behind him when he goes into his room?" "No." she answered. "Does he?" "Always," I replied, "and that isn't all. WThen he and his piano arrived Monday afternoon, the first thing the signor did was to drive a big screw into the door between his room and mine. The screw missed the casing and so did not hold, but the door was locked, and the key was in the landlady's pocket. After the signor's experiment with the screw I tried a key or two upon the lock just to satisfy myself, and by pure accident I left the door unfastened." We bad paused at the foot of the stairs. "Well." she asked, "what happened afterward ?" I had not intended to tell her any more at that time, but her question de? manded some sort of reply, and so I stumbled along with my story. "That evening after dinner," said I. "when you were in the hall and the sweet strains of Chopin's nocturnes were being banged out of the signor's piano I was industriously putting on a dress suit in my own little cage. It happened that 1 leaned against that door, and it opened. I couldn't help seeing into his room. He wasn't there." "But I thought you said" "That the piano was performing? So it was. but without human assistance. My first impression was somewhat un? canny, and then I remembered that there are electric attachments by which pianos can be played. As you remarked a few minutes ago. the si? gnor's interpretation of the great works* of the masters Is somewhat mechan? ical." "What is his object in this ridiculous fraud?" she demanded. "Where was he when you looked into his room?" "Softly," I whispered, and I drew her into the parlor. "Ile was just com? ing out cf that big closet between your roon: and his. Singularly enough, lie was eoming out backward and did not perceive me. 1 gently closed the door an:l locked it, and he was none the wiser." "Ile could get into my room that way." she said. "The closet was orig? ina ?ly a passage, and there are doors on both sides." "Precisely." 1 responded, "and that is why 1 asked you whether yon trusted any one. I did not like to ask you out? right if von had something concealed in y '.vir room." She pa hf J suddenly, and then the coi HE WAS COilING OCT BACKWARD. or rushed back to her face. She looked at me a moment, I can't say how, but tears of tenderness came into my eyes. "I am glad you asked the question," said she. "lt shows my need. I am go? ing to trust you and tell you the truth. I have ?ounll The ?r?gTna? contract "be? tween my father and the people I am suing. It bears all their signatures, and it will win my case. They think it has been destroyed, but I have it ii: my room. I had made up my mind to trust no ene with it, but to put it my? self in the hands of the judge when the case is called. Do you think this Taglia is a spy?" '"I know it," I replied, "for I havo proved that he has been in ycur room." "How could you prove that? You could not see him." "By a study of the beast's habits," said I. "He has one that is peculiar. He never goes by a matchsafe without helping himself. So I marked a lot of matches and bribed the chambermaid to put them in the box in your room and set it in a conspicuous position. This evening, after dinner, I asked the signor for a match, and he^gave me quite an assortment, including. I rejoice to say, one of those that I had marked. So we have him." "What shall I do?" "Be patient," said I. "There ls one more thing to do." "But at this moment he may be de? stroying that document." "My child," said I, "he is only a hired man. They have offered him a price if he will get that paper. Do you fancy he will destroy it before he has shown it to his masters and obtained the ut? termost farthing? I assure you he is not so simple. Now let us go up stairs and hear the music. Remember our signal." There were half a dozen young people in the hall above. Crosby, leaning against the banister rail, was explain? ing to on? of the ladies the use of a sil? ver whistle which was attached to his watch chain. J "We call cabs with them in London," said he. He had explained it to me on the pre? vious evening and had even been so kind as to blow the whistle for my sat? isfaction. It had a very clear and sharp note. ?he signor's electric pianist mean? while finished a nocturne and began upon a long concerto of Bach's. It was murder, but Crosby seemed to like it. As for me, I put my hand into my pock? et and pulled out my gloves. Miss Latimer instantly rose from the step upon which she had been sitting. Crosby put out his hand to help her, while he urged her not to desert us so? soon. Then, seeing that she would go,. MY LEFT HAND WAS ACROSS HIS MOUTH. he said jocosely, "We'll call a cab for Miss Latimer." And be raised the whistle to his lips. "Permit me." said I, laying my hand suddenly upon the whistle. "No; I'll blow it," he cried. But he could not get the toy out of my hands. I saw his face flush. He exerted all his strength, but he had not enough. Recognizing that fact he tried to whis? tle with his own lips. Instantly the palm of my left hand was across his mouth, and he feil back into a corner. I fancy that the spectators of this scene thought it rough play. Miss Lat? imer, if indeed she saw it, paid no at? tention. She had almost reached her "door when Crosby gave up trying to wrest his silver whistle from me._and just as I closed his mouth I he?rd the -lick of her key. The next instant her piercing scream drowned the signor's loud fortissimo. She sprang into her room, and I threw Crosby backward upon the floor and ran after her. I found her struggling with Signor Taglia. who struck at her with one hand, while he held aloft a folded pa? per in the other. I had that paper in a flash, and I passed it to Miss Latimer as she sprang back. Then all the strength of my love for her and the strength of my hatred for curs, thieves and persecutors of women were joined in one blow. I infer that it must have been a good one. for the doctor who subsequently restored Taglia to consciousness asked me with considerable evidence of curi? osity what sort of a "weapon" I had used. At the moment however, I paid nc attention to the signor. I ran out into the hall and caught Crosby, whom i tied neck and heels with all kinds of queer cord furnished by my fellow boarders. We had the two "detectives" in court the next day. and I think there is a law by which they and some of their principals in this affair can be made to break rocks for the state. At any rate. Miss Latimer will get her two millions. But money is a tri ile. Though the dear girl knows the value of it as well as any one 1 ever saw. she isn't half so glad to win it as I am that I have won her The darker the cloud the brighter the sun when he breaks tl. rc-j gb ?he rift