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All this the landlord told me with LAST GREAT BATTLE IS BEGUN SENATE AND HOUSE -1 Mistress Bosemai ry Allyn Defeat for Russian Arms, Under General Kouropatkin, Is Taken to Mean Humiliating Peace for the Muscovites. By MIL, LI CENT Copyright, by LUCAS-LINCOLN CO. the grand duke. I am a member of the terror organization, which has vowed death to all oppressors of the liberty of Russia. I drew the lot and had to carry out the deed.

The organization resolved to kill your hus band because of his violent measures in Moscow, and It instructed me to kill him. I was only the tool of the organization-" The grand duchess tried to awake the prisoner's conscience to the hideousness of his crime, but the effect of her efforts is not stated. After twenty minutes she left the prison weeping. The guards, on re-entering the prisoner's cell, found him also weeping. m-, -y i 2fi fi'it'i (' a great deal of gusto.

I assure you It left a vague unrest In my mind that perhaps the old dame of Castle Drout had not tried to deceive Gil; that Mis? tres3 Rosemary Allyn's maid had gone by the river road; and that we were pursuing the wrong coach. It was pitch-black about, though it was yet morning. It was no unusual thing for people traveling from one shire to another, to be lost In the bog. Such an occurrence would not pleasure us, for we might wander about for days until discovered. Our only safety, therefore (for it was next to impossible between the darkness and the slough to keep our way), was in giving the horses their heads, trusting to their instinct.

Now they swam, now their feet touched bottom, and so on, we went but with slow progress. We entered a space where the for est abounded upon both sides of us and the top branches of the trees meet over our heads while the low ones swept the ground in places. It was a narrow path way and secretive enough for lover's trysts. Beautiful too no doubt on a summer's day, but riding through It in the dark was quite another thing. My hat was swept off by one of the spreading branches, and I might have been left hanging there a second Ab-solom, had I not quickly ducked my head.

We could not even look to the prim ing of our pistols, damp no doubt, In their hostlers. The powder, however, was safe, for the flasks were in the saddle bags hanging at the sides of the horses. What a place for gentlemen who take to the road, and have neither respect for time or persons! Fortunately they like nasty weather no better than the rest of us, and on such a day unless in a deucedly tight box, were mostly likely to be found snug and warm, drinking and carousing. fighting and gambling, in some haunt of their own. Gil's head careened first to one side and then to the other.

He gave a sigh of relief. I looked up to ask why. He I saw noth ing, but as we had come out into the open, I supposed that that was the reason. We had traveled at least a quarter of an hour ere I read that sigh rightly. It meant that the flesh pots of Egypt were near to hand.

In front of us there glimmered a light. It was like a lone star half way down the horizon. As we drew nearer it proved to be a candle "burning a clumsy lanthorn, set at the end of a long pole curving over the road. "Ah, 'tis the White Swan!" ex claimed Gil. "I had not thought it was so near." Another sigh escaped him.

The White Swan it proved to be. and the heavens lightening a trifle, showed us many things. One was Jock Swan, the landlord, coming as quickly as his fourteen stone would permit him to welcome us. Another was the magenta colored coach standing In the court yard, and the rain restoring it to its former pristine freshness. "Here is the coach," I said, pointing to it, as we entered the inn yard, and jumped off our horses.

"And as they say in hunt the slipper we are getting 'hotter. Shall wre ever reach that stage in the game known as the 'burning up' one, I wonder?" With a laugh I was about to push open the inn door and enter, when words uttered by mine host stopped me. 'Tis not the old comfort, sir," he was saying, "your raider was used to that you'll find, with the house filled with those damnable hordes of Jef frey's." "Jeffrey's!" I exclaimed, my mind harping to one tune only. "Did Jef frey's men come in that?" I pointed to the coach. (To be HE WANTED TO KNOW.

One Day in the Life of Human Interrogation Point. "But, mother, why?" "Because, Kenneth, little boys who get wet when they play in the fountain, have to have their suits changed. Come along." "Why do little boys who play in the fountain get wet, mother?" because the water is wet, that's all." The small boy trotted upstairs and the suit was changed. "Now, Kenneth, don't go near the fountain again." "Why, mother?" "Oh. because I wouldn't." "But I would.

May I go in the fountain, mother?" "No, Kenneth. Now go down to the porch and see if you can find Christine and Josephine. Run along, that's a good boy." Kenneth went down and after a fruitless search for the two little girls, he proceeded to "play he was a steam engine." At last Christine appeared and with a whoop of joy Kenneth flung himself upon her. "Where were you?" he demanded. "In the hammock." "Why?" "Because I wanted to.

"Will you play houses with me?" "I am busy now, Kenneth; I must get ready for supper." "What for?" "Because." The answer pleased and Kenneth went to look for his mother. Soon after supper this little human interrogation point fell asleep, after a last sleepily murmured, "What for, mother?" First you spend a lot of money to give a boy a college education and then a lot more to suppc-t him i liv tng tip to It. E. MANN "You are a lusty fellow," said he, "and I rather enjoy seeing a bit of a fight when it comes in a day's run. In this case, however, you might have wielded your whip to some purpose; a sound hiding would have been more in keeping.

Why the soiling of your hands on such mud?" "Since when have you become so solicitous about the soiling of my hands?" I asked him. "It Is not so many years, it I remember rightly, when you were ready to thrash me If I did not thrash a certain lad for his 111 manners." "A boy reaches maturity sometimes in a day," he observed. "You have made an enemy, whereas had you whipped him he would only have considered It your rightful prerogative." "Damme Gil, I will settle my quar rels as suits myself," I said, sharply. I knew that he was right. A man, when he reaches a man's estate, should put away childish things but how few of us do? Gil's answer was a shrug of his fat shoulders, unless he meant the words of the old song, which he began to sing, to have bearing upon the case: "They have ta'en young Waters.

And put fetters on his feet! They have ta'en young Waters, And thrown him In a dungeon deep." I could not take exceptions to this, for it was an old favorite of his, and he oft sang it. So we jogged along vrith patience toward our horses, myself somewhat quiet, but who could be sullen on such a morn, when the skylarks were lift ing their songs to heaven's blue as they flew upward from among the grasses In the fallow meadows? Not for one; certainly not Gil, for an other. Soon I joined him in his song, and glimmered a light." we both chirruped as we rode through the lanes and short-cuts, like two "But I'll ne'er ride thro' Stirling town. i' fetters on my feet." CHAPTER VII. We Overtake the Magenta Colored Coach.

I am not going to tell of our journey along that road of sloughs and quag mires except as it has to do with this tale. I might fill page upon page of reading interesting enough to some, for we had a few adventures in which we did not come off second best. We had gone about fifty miles or so, when it began to rain a soaking rain, which came down as straight as a hanging curtain and soon made our camlet cloaks heavy with the wet. The water dripped from off us with an Incessant drip-drip, and even our boots became soggy. Our last stopping place had been the King's Head, that most hospitable of roadside inns.

The memory of its cheer still lingered with 'me in spite of the concern I had In keeping my skin dry. I was so filled with this delicate occupation that I no Ion gee pondered over what I had learned from its host. It seemed that a ma genta colored coach and four with a postillion had stopped at the tavern the night before and taken on fresh horses which had previously been ar ranged for. The iady or ladles had not alighted, but had been served In their coach with curtains down. He affirmed that there was but one lady as far as he knew, for the youth riding with them and tending to their needs.

had spoken of but one. A hostler declared, however, that peeping under the curtain he had seen two. This produced a laugh among the stable men to whom he had gossiped. They Eaid that he had not recovered from his spree of the night before since he saw double. Being a vinous man be had taken their joke In a huff, and offered to any one who doubted his word or sight.

He said that they were any thing but doubles their masks bein: off he needed no spectacles to see that one was bold and black while the other, here words failed him for a space, then he added with a watering mouth: "An angel from the gates cf Leave Thursday, February 23, T905. The senate nassed the bill Drovldinsr a form of government frvr the Panama1 Canal zone after accepting1 an amendment authorizing: the purchase rather than the condemnation or tne remaining stock of the Panama Railroad com- -cany. At 1 o'clock the Swayne im peachment trial was resumed, continu ing until adjournment, with an intermission of two hours. The taking of testimony was completed at 9:20 p. and Mr.

Olmstead began the argument for the prosecution, concluding at 10:15. The house passed the river and harbor appropriation bill, carrying an appropria tion or An amendment io strike out the provision providing for the transfer of a government aredgo from Boston to Lake Michigan was defeated. The military academy bill was sent to conference after the senate amendments to appoint Senator Joseph Hawley and General Peter J. Oster-haus brigadier generals on the retired list had been agreed to. Resolutions were adopted calling on the secretary oi the interior for Information as to whether any Indian appropriations or funds had been expended for the support of sectarian Indian schools, and requesting copies of the original Foster oil lease the Osage reservation.

Friday, Feb. 24, 1905. The time of the senate was divided between tho Swayne impeachment trial and the motion of Senator Beverldge to appoint conferees on the Joint statehood bill. In the Swayne case Messrs. Per kins.

Clayton and Powers made arguments for the prosecution, and Mr. Hig-gins responded In Judge Swayne's be half, leaving Mr. Thurston still to speaic for Judge Swayne and Messrs. De Ar-mond and Palmer for the house. Senator Morgan antagonized the motion to appoint conferees on the statehood bill and held the floor in opposition when the senat adjourned for the day.

A large part of the session of the house was devoted to the sundry civil appropriation bill. The appropriation or $130,000 for rental of the old New Tork custom house was stricken out, 93 to 77. after an excited debate, and the measure was still under discussion at adjournment. Mr. Hull presented a fur ther conference report on the.

army appropriation bill, which was ordered printed. The senate amendments to the Panama canal government bill were disagreed to and the bill sent to conference. Mr. Mann of Illinois introduced a railroad rate bill and one to enforce the common law responsibilities of common carriers, and Mr. Hinshaw of Nebraska a resolution for printing 1.000 additional copies or the Jefrerson Bible." A bill was passed making the holder of five shareq of stock in national banks with J25.00 capital eligible as a director.

Joint resolutions were passed authoriz ing a change in the name or the Kegular Army and Navy Union of the United States to the Army and Navy Union or the United States of America, and pro- viding for medals of honor, to union soldiers who. in 1863. after the expiration of their terms of volunteered for temporary service In Maryland and Pennsylvania and who received no pay, Sunday was designated for the delivery of eulogies on the late Representative Norton P. Otis of New York. Saturday, Feb.

25. The Senate heard the concluding argu ment on both sides In the Swayne im peachment case, ex-Senator Thurston speaking for Judge Swayne and Mr. De Armond presenting the case on behalf of the House managers. After a discussion of almost two hours in secret session, an order to vote Monday morning at 10 o'clock was made. The Senate granted the request of the House for a conference on the statehood conferees on that measure and also on the Panama canal zone government bill were appointed.

The naval appropriation bill was considered in part, and while it was before the Senate Mr. Hale and Mr. Gorman united in condemning the rapid Increase of the navy. A large number of private and semi-private bills were passed, Including 355 pension bills. The House divjid its time between legislation and patriotic exercises.

An hour and a half was spent in passing minor bills. The same period was devoted to consideration of the sundry civil appropriation bill, without reaching a conclusion on that measure. Legislation then gave way to oratory, in which many members participated in honoring the memory of Sam Houston and Stephen F. Austin, following which the marble statues of the two, which have been placed in Statuary hall by the state of Texas, were formally accepted. Sunday, Feb.

26. The memories of three deceased members of the Fifty-eighth Congress were subjects of tribute by the House of Representatives in a session which occu- 0. pied that body for nearly three hours. Tributes were paid to the late Representative Mahony of Illinois, the late Representative Croft of South Carolina and the late Representative Otis of New York. Representative Hepburn of Iowa was designated as speaker pro tempore.

Those who spoke to the mem-' ory of Representative Mahony were Representatives Mann, McAndrews, Boutell, "Williams. Foss, Lorimer, Knopf, Caldwell, JSmerich and Foster of Illinois, Sul- zer (N. Hay Robinson Slayden (Texas). Ryan (N. Hunt Van Duser (Nev.) and Broussard Eulogies on Mr.

Croft were pronounced by Representatives Finley, Lever. Johnson and Aiken of South Carolina and French of Idaho. Tributes to the memory of Mr. Otis were spoken by Representatives Sherman, Goulden. Smith.

Ryder. Payne, Alexander and Dunwell of New York, and Currier (N. Cooper (Pa.) and Bonynge Castro's Envoy Explains. Washington dispatch: Dr. Jose de Jesus Paul, special diplomatic envoy of Venezuela, called on Secretary Hay to present the merits of the asphalt controversy from President Castro's point of view, and probably will have another conference later.

Dr. Paul said the recent decision of the Venezuelan Supreme court was only on a collateral issue and id not finally decide the case. This corrected a misapprehension here and imggests the possibility of a satisfactory legal adjustment of the difficulty. Icing Charge Decision. Washington dispatch: Railroads by compelling shippers to pay Icing charges established by private car Hne3 make these charges a part of the cost of transportation and bring the private lines under the Jurisdiction of the interstate commerce law.

This important decision was rendered by the interstate commerce commission in the case brought by the Southern California Fruit Exchange and the Consolidated Forwarding Company against the Atchison, To-peka and Santa Fe and the Southern Pacific systems. Full Pay for Miles. Washington dispatch: The conferees on the army appropriatfon bill perfected an agreement which covers all points of difference. The amendment regarded as most Important Is that affecting the pay of retired oSicers. The effect of the agreement is to give General Miles his full retired pay, without reference to any compensation he may receive, for service on the staff cL' the govera-i or of Massachusetts.

The long expected battle is believed to be on. It is Russia's last throw of the iron dice of war, and defeat. It is almost certain, will mean humiliating peace. Details of the battle are told in meager bulletins. It Is known that a Japanese army has turned the Russian left flank at Tsinkhetchin, fifty-five miles southeast of Mukden; that the Russians have abandoned their military base at Beresneff; that the enemy has occupied Tsinkhetchin, and that the Russians are falling back.

A great circling movement around the eastern flank apparently is in progress, the Japanese force engaging in it having advanced from Sai-matze. The strength of the enveloping force is not known, but the Russians held Tsinkhetchin with two divisions (40,000 men), and as they were driven out of that place the Japanese force is believed to be not less than 60,000 strong. As the scene of the fighting is forty miles east of Kuroki's center it Is believed by some here that the army that drove the Russians out of Tsinkhetchin is one that advanced from Saimatze, and that it is commanded by Lieut. Gen. Kawimura.

It is not conceivable that Kuroki has been able to swing his army so far eastward. The movement was precipitated by the Russians, who last week sent out two divisions and occupied well-advanced positions. The Japanese attacked these positions in force. The Russians retired slowly, fighting, and Thursday evening were driven within their fortified line. Orders Hospitals to Prepare.

It is reported that Gen. Kouropat-kin has ordered the Red Cross, depots at Mukden, Harbin, Tieling and Irkutsk to prepare to receive from to 100,000 wounded. Czar Yields 'to Strikers. Strikes and political agitation apparently are becoming effective as a means to wring reforms from the Russian bureaucracy. The governor of Warsaw has been notified by the Warsaw and Vienna railway that the railway council at St.

Petersburg has consented to increase the wages of employes of the road this year by $325,000. The men have been notified that their demands have been acceded to and a resumption of traffic is expected. Mobs Attack Policemen. A policeman was shot and killed by a student in a disturbance at the Vienna railroad station at Warsaw. The police attempted to disperse great crowds which had gathered there and arrested a student.

A mob tried to rescue him and a policeman drew his sword, whereupon a student killed him and disappeared in the crowd. A police patrol in Alexandrova street was suddenly attacked by a mob and two of the policemen were fatally wounded by revolver shots. Activity Along the Front. Manchurian reports to the war department say that the shelling of points in the vicinity of the Shakhe river and collisions between scouting parties of both armies continued on Feb. 22 and Feb.

23. Commencing at 1 o'clock on Feb. 23 a Russian battery of heavy guns posted west of Litajentun began shelling Lapatai and its vicinity. Investigate Army Frauds. The Japanese diet has been Investigating alleged frauds in connection with contracts signed in May last for the construction of barracks to be used for as a depot for the Seventh division at Hokkaido.

In an address to the throne Chief Quartermaster Tomatsu takes tho responsibility for the contracts, although his predecessor awarded them privately and without tenders. Jans Have 44,400 Prisoners. The Russian prisoners in Japan number 44,400, of whom 616 are officers. Russians Destroy a Bridge. A daring Russian raiding party under the command of Col.

Slensmidt completely destroyed with explosives the bridge south of Haicheng, about ten miles east of Newchwang, Feb. 21, blowing up seventy feet of it. Russia Buys Ten Steamers. Ten of the Hamburg-American line steamers are reported to have been sold The Valesia, Assyria, Bel-gravia. Canadia, Castilia, Granada, Hersynia, Numidia, Phoenicia and Palatia.

The sales are said to be only formal, and for the protection of the Hamburg-American line In case the steamers should be captured by the Japanese. For this eventuality the price is fixed for each vessel, which Russia must pay if the steamers are captured. Sergius Widow Sees Assassin. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the London Daily Mail says that Grand Duchess Elizabeth, accompan- ied by an aid.

visited the assassin of i Grand Duke Sergius in his cell at Moscow and asked him why he had killed her husband. The prisoner said he could not talk in the presence of a third person, whereupon the grand duchess directed her aid 'to leave ttem. Then she repeated her question and the prisoner answered: "1 Lad 'no personal jrrievanco agaiast CHAPTER VI Continued. A comely mother held up in her arms her young babe. Its fat fingers clutched frantically a nosegay of wild blossoms, and its round face was screwed into wrinkles of earnestness lest he drcp it.

I took it from him and put in its place a gold piece. The mother bobbed her thanks, while the glen rang with the shouts of good luck to the young lord. All were Intent upon wishing me honor and prosperity. No, not at all, for I caught words the reverse of honor and betterment words which made me leap from my horse as quickly as a stone is shot from a catapult. I caught the fellow as he slunk behind the women.

It was Jim Scrugs a jealous fool. 'Sdeath! if a man dance a few twirls upon the green with another man's sweetheart, need he make an ass of himself because or it? Meenle's eyes were black as night, and upon the occasion when I singled her out to dance, they twinkled like a thousand stars merged in one. It was no doubt more because she saw her to-be lord and master lividly green with jealousy watching her (diablerie Is, I think, in every woman), than delight at the honor the young lord had conferred upon her. "You need a lesson, sirrah," I cried. I jerked him out into the open.

"The young lord will take time to teach 5ou to put, as It were, a bridle to your tongue," I said to him. "A little excitement will not be out of the way." I called to the men: "What do you say to a fisticuff bout?" "Leave him to me," said John, our sturdy farrier, a young stripling, with arms of ponderous weight. "I'll ettle him." Jim Scrugs face went white as a 'In front of us there clown's floured face seen at a county fair. He was the sneak and bully. I was so filled with disgust at his cowardliness that I would have let him alone, but the men having begun preparations were not to be balked of their entertainment.

One formed a ring by marking out a circle with the heel of his boot, others forced the crowd back. You the primitive mode of settling disputes was still enforced at Long Haut. I could as Lord of Sackett and future Lord of Long Haut have used drastic measures an I chose; but I humored them by stooping to their level in this as well as in their merry making, and I think they loved me accordingly. The men forcibly pulled off his coat and amid much jocularity helped him with an undesired assiduity. They were in their element.

It was like a pack of well-fed hounds worrying one mean hare. An upward cut, and the fellow lay prone upon the sward; so soon was it over. Had 1 known he possesed not as much science as the smallest urchin about the place, I had left him alone. Most of our men were good fighters and boxers, and they practised daily among themselves to keep their hand in. Gad rooks! there was no fun in so easy a victory.

He had but floundered his bulky arms about like a wind mill on a stormy day. A man's passions soon blow over. When I saw the fellow. lying as helpless as when his mother bare him I felt sorry for the mistaken wretch. I knelt and felt hi3 pulse.

The men muttered, "Dead," and from the huddled group of women there came a faint scream. "Dead!" I said, "not so. Give him air; he'll live to make trouble enough In the world. With a fling I was in the saddle. I set off at so lively a pace that I outran the approving yells of the men, and the admiring glances of the women, but not the flash from Meenle's black eyes.

That flash betokened undying enmity to the man who had bested her Feminine logic! for while they rail at and abuse their own, they want no ono else trespassing on their preserves. They should learn that what they themselves hold up to dicule, all men, like carrion-crows, will flock to peck at. Gil me after he had dene some bullyragging on his own account, an. rost-ibly, more on mine. WBMaa rz s' sS "i 'V'" A 0 Political Strike at Moscow.

The employes of the Moscow municipal council are threatening to strike in order to show their sympathy with Prince Galitzin, prefect of Moscow, whom the imperial government has censured for having sanctioned resolutions adopted by the municipal council and provincial zemstvo demanding liberal constitutional reforms. The employes regard the prince as their special advocate. If the strike takes place it will be the first purely political strike. Railway Wages Are Increased. The manager of the Llbau-Romny railway says that Emperor Nicholas has ordered the establishment of a nine-hour day in all, railway stations and workshops, and that the employes will be allowed to elect representatives to report upon their grievances.

An increase of pay is also promised. Work on the line has been resumed. Battle Beyond Da Pass. Fifty miles southeast of Mukden, beyond Da pass, an important defile commanding the road to Fusan, a heavy battle is in progress. General Kouropatkin's left flank is being slowly driven back.

The losses are enormous. In an official report the Russian field commander declares that the "percentage of killed Is very lai ge." The Japanese seem to be using the troops from Port Arthur and General Nogi is in command of the advance movement. That the reverse of General Kouro-patkin is decisive is unquestioned, but it is also true that the Mikado's troops have suffered severely in killed and wounded. All of the advantage is now with the It is not known wheth-ed the victors will try to drive the Russian left further. General Kouropatin evidently has been trying to establish his Jeft flank far in advance, to command the crossings of the Taitse river, the operation being a counterpart of General Gripenberg's movement on the right flank to secure the fords of the Kun river preparatory to the breaking up of the ice in the spring.

-The Russian commander evidently planned to Inaugurate widely sweeping operations on both flanks, but the Japanese countered hard. Regarding the operations of Feb 25, which were a part of the present movement, General Kouropatkin has telegraphed the emperor as follows: "At 5 o'clock this morning the enemy occupied Tsinkhetchen. "Exact reports of our yesterday's losses have not yet been received. There are twelve officers and about 300 men wounded in hospital at San-lunyu. The percentag of killed is very large.

The commander of the detachment reports acts of bravery by many detached bodies of troops." General Kouropatkin instances many cases of close fighting and bayonet charges, and concludes: "This morning a battalion of the enemy advanced in the direction of Papin pass, six miles southwest of Sunlunyu, and this evening he enemy's optposts commenced to approach the passes occupied by us." Repulses Infantry Attacks. Manuchurian army headquarters reports to Tokio that two infantry attacks by the Russians in the neighborhood of Maiton mountain Friday night were repulsed. Japan to Build Vessels. The statement cabled to the United States from London that Japan has ordered four battleships in England is incorrect. It is probable, unless circumstances dictate otherwise, that Japan in future will construct all hei vessels at home.

She has equipped extensive yards, shops, and gun and armor foundries, ard there is a strong and growing sentiment in the navj and among the people generally in fa vor of home construction exclusively. The yards are already engaged in an extensive building program, which Includes two large armored vessels. Expect to Seize Ships. The identity of the steamer which Is caught In the Ice north of the island of Hokkaido has not been determined. as It Is Impossible to approach her The vessel is firmly held In an Ice floe and is drifting about propelled by wind and tide.

It is reported that two other vessels while attempting to pas La Perouse strait off Cape Soya, the northernmost point of Hokkaido, have also been caught and held by the Ice. It Is understood Japarese warships are watching the vessals, and the all cf them Is expected wen they sre frrei from the The Ocru steanerRemulus. bound for VI a carro of Cardiff ws seized on the night of Feb. 25..