The Daily Herald from Chicago, Illinois • Page 11

By CHARLOTTE M. BRAEME. CHAI'TKH III. It hew life to Irene Dnrey; she never thought in herself it were right nr wrung, wh 'ther she was keep- Ing seerct fr un who loved her best or tnt. Sh.

soim censed to think or ItltUHiibcr nnytb'iii: else exeept that she io see Sir llidbert every day, and him i gruv.ii dearer that! life to her. Sin mad" in appointments with him. she ne'er 'said, "1 shall bo by th- n' Mich an hour;" but It wiis between tliem. Irene i i might perfinued. no "in- would be able lo miy in'LM'eU'd nnythitiii, Every- thini; intrusted i her most care- Iitlly a tn.

ill order (hat she might li.m- limn- nnd so it to 1'iss th.it iu tin' early morning, til'' i i I were unlike, hhe spent inug. i brnnkside i Sir a Ininie. wnit- td on her r.i V'i i sueh i attention, u.id Impjiighly kind In Mrs. (jotrel tb.it eoiild mi Unw Iti her, Then in the sunset hoill'i she a i i i .111 1 ii" "tie ever asked where. nr i she did.

The artist was io stiidm the mi-ti'iss of the house us nId i to rest. There was lin nne lit'l 1 nut a to save her. Sir lier to iiU presence as the tl'inci-s nci'iistomed tu tbe sunlight: i' bud he, nine a necessity to her she it. She i never have understood how it became pnri nt i l.fe but fni' his nbsetie during oue diijr Tde tun wtis UK, and the waters oC th" pretty brook were eritn- in the red glow of the itllti. They Wcro gittini: the drooping boughs the willev.

tree; and he, hulking UJP from the niiKe.s nf the book, said: "Thi-i time tu morrow i I shall br in London." lie knew, for the first time, hmv much cored fnr him when he saw Ihe lovely young face (trow vhite ni death and Ihe ahuiluw of a pniti dim thu blight, sweet eyes. "In she repeated, "Arc you going "Only for day," hastened to reply. I could not remain longer if I would." "I fthnll imt see all day, sho i i i rather 1 whn will not hp replied. "The day will seem to me tbnti it possibly cnti tn you." "I am not sure," sh" said, xriively. "You will h.ive thousand 1 shall have nothing tn do but Ihiiik." "What shall you i nf, Irene';" In: gently.

Her i fitee from hi: us she a "You know that I will think nf you." And the silence thnt fell unnu them both was far mure eloquent ihuu words. When the inn rose on the morrow sho tfi-Hlized nil chut he Imd become to her. The bright sun shuue in vain, and in Yuln did the birds sing; her heart was heavy as lead; there was tin light In her vjva, uo curing: In her step, tin singing over her work she wilt through her duties', no dc'nrlit in hurrying the i ail I'fe seemed blank and Sin- a i murtiing, "i'rrueV" Mrs. Cutrel. "Vmi seem lo have lost al life." is th I matter, asked i i child, a bright- m-ux i Cmiii i i fuee; a ails you?" is th" in.itter i Irette to- rfjjr." asked the nld sen i mil tint set, a the cukes will i seems right th.it jibe iln.

ft a I i a i she, so light nf hear'. s. brilliant, so had uo words tin "Whiif i i i me';" she inked and her i a her tin answer, i i she like (lower without suti u.irtn or raid to nourish h. lie ti.nl bei nine part of boat a it a i she could do she could m't ti II, Oti the iti'irn they itond in the eienr iinm liirht, eac'h mt" nl lie id In I f.i'-" a tin' tnii" had euinc in 'ji he i i safely sny Unit be IM! And a bud th her tthnle hi'iirt to liim "Did ni me. hi- said, looking i i i i i i i t.n e.

un'. I not be a i I shall grew inur, ti'll me, did JIH in ss ui' 1 i i i i I tlmuirht I should yun." she i i And he r. ii ied "I Lou- iloti MTV bright and 'till oC life, I inu tn.iiiv fr.i ii'ls mid iiintiy n-tidly id's. I i 1 sn i i i uu to I b.iek In i "i I did imt tn Din- VHnd i "pt tti'll th" i i I Wi lit to mi" t. I J'i'i Kinirt wh.it nf.

I 1 She in 1' un i i Tii" golden tu iriiitn: i i i nit the leaves iu tin' the a i bird the aider He bent his il.irk. h.ind-'Mii" f.ieu hers, as ii" 1 a per a i meaiisV i I -s NS'liJ ihoiilil tir. in 11 v.e a frii'inU," sin. (tu- dv.i'n'ii, i we are now In the a I I neier i i i the light, tny il.irldi.' tn.i' slimi" nn hind or sen, i i gulden 1 1 1 0,1.11, i Us. a be 111) go- i i i i I IIH look Up nt me, ii" i i tin fmiii me; (( is I i a i i i my i ii" i he.ir words'; love Tin i broiU might beentiic a big i i i tide Would beentue 11 th" i i iweep of Inve i 1 i i i girl's a )i I In I i i i I A I un mm'" nuestinti of friend- aliip between i ih.it Sir Unlbert able tn smile nt hinu'elf when In 1 leineiiib'Ted how eniltioiv Ij had a all his adv.itiees under' the rover of i eiitibl have been The gin i lost nil her i i shj she quite her ease with him: had lost all her nervous rutisfrnint and ludiffer- etiee.

i he had petsituded lier th.ij she w.is dn'niit in- iu keeping Uli ct'itidestitle lueetitlt's erel fp'tu her but she w.is (Ining sotiicthitiK brutV- nttd lieroie, tramjilini: tho prejudice of the world under toot. Sn. day a day. the Inve bo- twern them gtevt deeper and dearer, day after d.iy the girl'') face grew more nnd wore lovely, until Sir Hulbt-rt, accustomed as he was to the fairest faces In Europe, wns daxelod by her beauty, It happeped thnt one moat beautiful when the tliallght jMtiiod tUnn ever, Sir Hulbcrt, hating the hour which would part thum, wulkad with her some little diHtiinni home. They had not gone very fur boforo a dark sliadow fell across their path looking up, trcno sow the kindly, shrowd old ftico of Dr.

KiMtn, the doctor who had Introduced her to tliu world, and who had closed her mother's eyes. "I did not i to meet you here, child," lie said. "How are you?" The lovely, Mower-like Jtaco drooped from his, the owuut eyes Ccli, tho little, white hands trembled. She Imd no words In which to answer him. LCo looked from the delk'iue, lovely face to tho dark, lumd- somu one, and something liku 1'i'owa ctnuc over his, "1 i not you once for tho lust fortnight, Irene," hu said; "whenever I have called, you have, been out.

I begun to Wonder I should sou you again. i you i me to your i Irene';" She blu-hod crimson. Sir Hulbcrt ciimo to the be could noth endure to seo her in distress. "I shall be milch pleased, Dr. Keiin," he said, "to make your I have heard wonders i your skill.

1 am visiting Lord Anindiile, and you stund very high in his lordship'!) good graces." It did su a a tln'i'o was no person on earth Cor tho good doctor had so much respect as for I.oid Arundiile; the very name was passport to bis esteem; his facu relaxed, the lust disappeared, as he Bald: "You are a visitor oC Lord Arundale'3? I am most happy to make your aciituilut- ance." It did not occur to the good doctor how cleverly the handsome young aristocrat had evaded the introduction, and how completely hu had forgotten to ask his name. Sir smiled hisffrnnkost smile. "It is Lord Armulnlo that I first had the pleasure of seeing Mist Daroy," he continued, "and a very grout pleasure it was. I met Miss Darcy just now In tliu woods hero, and begged to havo the pleasure ot seeing her homo," lidded Sir Ilulbert. Dr, Kean was the last man In tho World to tell talcs or to make mischief; but In way ho considered himself responsible for this motherless child.

Hi; knew how unprotected sho was; tlm dreamy artist father and the old grand- men; were no protectors for her; he was a hy tho memory of those beau- i faces, the girl's so a i and tender, the man's so dark, so ot tire. Certainly the young had spoken but In the most frank and candid munner; yet It would be us well to know if the a i of the friends his daughter made. When the doctor met Santon Parcy he said to him: "Uld Irene tell you that I met her In tlve woods lately?" "No, 1 do not remember it," was the reply. "I met her with one ot the very handsomest young men I rrver saw, walking in the woods. 1 nothing, I insinuate i if it weru my a I i i i like to know something of 1 said Dr.

Kean, "Whatever I usk Irene toll me," said the proudly, And the doctor, i an expressive shrug of liis shoulders, walked a a Although ho was a i a a dreamer, Santon Darcy roused himself to think the old doctor's words. IIo met Irene as she came in a long, pleas- a -pent a i the sunset. he asked, In a gentle voice ot his, which hud in it always a suggestion of tears, "Irene, where have, you been';" "Watching the sunset in the Woods," she replied. "Have you been alone?" he asked. "No, I was not alone, papa," she replied.

"With whom were you, Irene?" he asked, a and sjio answered, a "1 told you that I lind met LoVl A dale, pupa, and this gentleman ia visiting i a i of his, I a seen him "'nice, and he brings me a ot the Way home." To this simple-mindtd man, who livu.l in liis vl-ioiis, i seemed natural and i enough. No a i of a terrible tragedy came to i no a i a tho i i of the crisis of Irene's life was at hand. He thought It was merely a of the politeness of a stranger, wlin believed It an act of kindness to see liis d.umht"r home. "It is very kind of him, but you not accept such acts of attention, Irene; you are not child now; Indeed, it tills me i to lind yjii arc almost a a my Idir. You not speak to strangers ov walk i them, no matter wh" rhey may lie, and I ycni strongly not to go where you are likely to meet i pi r-oii again." "I will do in i papa," she said, gently, As the words all the brightness nf life died inviiy from her.

th" i she realized the Intensity if her love. The a i back to his i Irene went to the pretty i a loom where she could think at over what had happened. "1 will not be a sho thought. "1 i unt be a She decided In her own mind a she would see Sir Itnlbert us usual on tho day follow ints. and tell lilln what her a had It was a a a snui'Hc for her, tin- birds woke her with their singing and the llnwcrs were all rejoicing In thu morning air.

She stood before him, tall, slender and a u.s a lily, so loving a any limn i a laid down his i for her. "You look frc'li and (air as the mom- ing, sweet: and yet there is a shadow over you," lie said. "All shadows," she said, "vanish In the sun. If I had trouble, it has gone, now a I sei, you." "Have you a trouble?" he asked. "iOith- er let me share it, a i or give- It to me." "My trouble Is about you," shn nail.

"About me, Irene? Ah, then I shall end It. There would be no way in which I would allow myself to troublo i i Tell me a It is." He drew tin' slender figure nearer to himseif i a loving clasp. Ah, what haven of rest was this broad breast and loving heart of her lover--what it hiivun of rest the clasp of these arms! It could not he a sdio win to loso thorn? "Tell me a has troubled you, Irene," hu said, and told him. His face darkeend, "I knew there would bo mischief when I s.iw a tiresome old doctor," hu said. Sho looked up nt him In sudden nlarm.

"Shall we be parted?" she asked, while the bountiful (ace grow whito as death. With passionate words he answered: "Never Iu this world. You iova ino, Irene, do you not?" "Bct.tur tbnu my life; better Uxan all world but mart otxy my father," atmwered. "Leave It all to me; I not ifk you to disobey him; I only ask one favor, Irene, Meet mo here again this evening, nnd I will tell yon wbtit I have decided. Will you do this?" The lust hope ot her good angel, the last chance of'her litu died as sho said: "Yes." CIIAPTBB V.

"Wo need never part, It you will consent to one thing, Irene, and that is a secret marriage. In time we can make It known, but ut first, and for the present, wo must keep it dead secret. What do you say?" With these words Sir Hulbor', announced his decision. Slowly enough tho rose bloom died from Irene's lace and a white look of pain came into it; slowly the love-light died from the a i eyes, and tho shadow of despair took its place. Sho spoke no word, but the golden head droopud more heavily on her lover's breast.

"You do not answer mo, Irene," he cried. She broke from the clasp uf his nrm with liltte shudder us oC cold or pain. "A secret she said; "that moans to my a ov grand- inore. I--1 cannot, Sir it would not be right." He understood tho delicacy of hot' na- far too well to a just then to argue i her, but in tho a distance he already saw his i "Not right, my darling. I have novel 1 hoard that a secret mairiiigi! was not right.

may not always be wise; but I will not persuade- you; it shall be as you i I i not urge you to consent to a i in the world yon thought not rignt." Shu looked at him through ix mist of I ears. "You know. Sir Unlbert," feiio said gently, "that I havo not been brought tip iuite as other girls. My father bus held but oue Idea up to me, and it is that onu day I must go to my mother in heaven. Shu loved me so much, yet she hardly saw me betoru she died.

Now, Sir pul- bert, you are so much wiser, so much better a will you toll me it I could go to my mother 1C I should consent to 'a secret marriage? Her face, they tell mo, is full of light, but slip would turn It from me. 1 four shu would say, 'This is not my baby girl, wLioni 1 lett so young; this is a girl i a great, dark secret over her soul; nnd she would not love me, would she now, Sir Ilnlbcrt?" For shame and for pity's sake he should havo fallen on the long grass and buried his face- there. lie idiould have trembled as he stood there, bold, defiant and handsome. As it was, the'question, startled him with keen, sharp pain. This dead mother iu heaven waa liko au enemy to him.

lie did not dare, reckless as he was, to answer her. The girl went on in a low, plaintive voice, "It is not long siuce someone said to me that 'where there is secrecy there is 1C that be true of ordinary marriage, what must it bo of a secret marriage?" "You are too much of a philosopher, Irene, to love very much," he said in a tone ot bitter i a i "How foolish I was to think you would do anything in the world for mu." She answered him only by bitter tears and sobs, lie might a had mercy on her, she was so young and so i'air. "Irene," he said, gently, "do not weep so bitterly. One word at any time will bring to Milu a a i you have but to say 'comu' a 1 i IIy to you. 1'erhaps when yon have thought it well over, a secret marriage may not appear so dreadful to you." She answered him only by bitter tears, and soinuthing like remur.se did come over him when he saw the a i face all wet with tears; -till lie said to himself if ho wore to conquer in thu eud ho must be firm now, "Irene," said Sir Hnlhert, "let us try, before- we decide, lot us try if we can live i each other, Wu need not a yet.

1 can remain at Lord A i It is Tuesday now! take a whole week to i it over, and let us meet hero nest Tuesday, just one wuek from i to decide whether we shall a or never a more. What do you say, my a i "I will do a i i i you wish," she said, Klii' 1 of any pretext that the fatal purling. "Then it shall he so," lie said. "Next week shall doeidu a Tuesday. Wo shall meet here, and it shall be for won! or for woe.

Forever to love each other, or forever to part. Next Tuesday, Irene, how shall I liva until the day comes?" tie kissed tho tears from nor eyes and left her the most miserable anil desolate girl under the summer sun. The following Tuesday she was at the i place, determined to tell him that while she could not boar to a with him, neither could shu consent to a secret marriage. "My darling," ho cried, "how could we fancy wu could ever a She clung to him weeping and sobbing. The pretty, cofiuettlsh hat had fallen on tho grass, the golden hair lay in rich, i i waves over her shoulders, her little white a clung to him.

"I do not know how I have lived," she said, with a shudder, "Sir Hulbwt, another such wool; would i me." "How did we ever dream that wo could llvo a a from each other, Irene?" he said. "This oue week has been like a long year lo me." And then, looking into hot face, he said: "I was lo come for my a to-day, Irene. What is it?" lie kissed the silont lips. "You a no words Cor mo. You know the old proverb, a i that silence gives consent.

May I take your silence for the sweetest consent ever given?" Then she found courage to speak. "I cannot boar the parting," sdio snicl, i "and 1 a bear a secret marriage. You, who 'ire so clever, you must Hud some other course for us." (To bo continued.) Alpine AVnlor Vowcr. watpf power a nre projected in tliu Alps. There are now in tho Kronch Alps forty-three factories supplied by power, electrically gruei'iitc-il.

lOngliieCL's estimate. Unit power Is now running to waste In the Alps. Now Year (jilts. When pins were first i they were I'uvorltc New Your presents, A.C- terwnnls the money wns given to buy the plus, nnil Huts ui'iwc the term "pin money." The wime nceount is given of the plirtujo "glove mi Now Vessels for tlir Nnvy. The vessels i or authorized by Congress since the Spunish war more than equ.nl In tonnuge the regular naval vessels we thon Imd.

The effectiveness of guus hns nlso been doubled. To A.U1 Norwegian Farmers. A law prevails In Norway to aid the people In securing inoil. The Government provides a sum of 5500,000, which Is lent to industrious farmers to enable them to buy farms. THE Ghosts Hauut House nt Hichvicw-- Pont lac Boys Seek Freedom on Technicality--Robbery of Morgan Park Poatofllce--Wreck on Illinois Central StnrtliiiR figures and forms, swords, and pillars ot fire arc the visible i i some occult or other which hns convinced the most conservative inhabitants of the village oC llichview that jrliosts do exist after nil.

The- i'nmilj 1 oil Bomim Kdwnrds formerly scoffed at tho suggestion of such fi thing us ghosts, but when their little one- story home became the center popular excitement, nnd the most practical efforts fulled lo explode superstitious theories, they Tolnolnnlly admitted a mystery they aro a to a The trouble bcsan onu nicht while Kdw.irds was engrossed in a book nnd his wire was playing a guitnr. Suddenly slip became nwiire of a yellow light in front of her that strayed about the room, assumed the form of a gigantic sword, pnsied three 1 times under lici' husband's chair, lind then disappeared. Tlic second oven- Ing after this Edwards saw the sumo vision as he started lo loa've his home to KO to the village store for a few minutes. The great sword oC lire passed across tho road in front of him, then vanished. Other ghostly mnnifostiitions been seen by tho Edwards a i and their neighbors.

Thomas Man in and his wit'o, who live next door, claim lo have seen the figure of a man cmeige through Uic solid outer door of the house, inch by inch. Mrs. Edwards has scon strange faces peering at her from her windows and doorways. A pillar lire hns appeared to her more than once. The Edwards home is known as the "haunted house," and the 'family is preparing to move.

Hope to Obtain Liberty. Damage suits ngainst Wardens Murphy of the nnd Mack Tanner ot tho Chester penitentiaries and Superintendent Mallory and the board oC managers of the Tontine reformatory will be instituted by fifty-five inmates of the latter institution if the Supreme Court gives them their liberty because they were transferred to the penitentiaries. Tho boys and their attorneys are confident that tho Supreme Court will render decisions similar to those of Judges Brentntio and Tnthill oC Chicago, who recently liberated boys on habeas corpus writs because they had been a transferred, and they have prepared the papers and will file them nt once on the announcement of the court's decision. Fifty- five boys who were considered hardened criminals were taken to the and Chester penitentiaries on orders of the Pontlac board ot managers. Four (it thorn appealed to Judges Tilth HI and Brentano nnd were liberated.

"Diamond Spcclnl" Is Wrecked. Two poisons met death and five were injured In a collision between tlic ''Diamond Special" of the Illinois Central road and i train No. 51! nl a point five miles north ot Ijitchfi'old, nnd was remarkable in that the fast passenger was abend of the freight and tliat both a i wove moving. The "Diamond Special" wns i at a rate of twelve miles an hour when the freight crashed into the roar sleeper. A heavy fog hung over the and both a i flicking their way carefully.

It is siiu! the passeneer would have traveling faster had there not been some trou'oit with Iho locomotive's mci'hiniKm. Tlia engineer on the i engine declared that the tVg was so thick he could not see 100 feet ahead. Fos'oflico Bobbed Again. The Morgan Vark postofllcc was robbed for the t'liiril "-'me in eighteen months Hie other day. The thieves secured but were frightened away before they could bio xv the MI to.

At 3 a. in. Will eh- a (ieorge W. Amis saw a liglil iu i i and man on the outside, app a standing guard. As the watchman approached the man sol.

oft some blue fire, which was i a signal to his companions who vevo working on tile inside. The wnlehnnin i lo home of VoiUmiister David Hernott, lut when Iliey relumed the rolihers had escaped. A large iimintily of stamps and- regNlered a i had been taken, besides the $-10. I i i Is Gone. A.

I a proprietor of a private bunk ill a left on recent night, mid i has boon heard of him since. His a i cannot account for his actions. The bank hns been closed ever since. I a i i i i i came to a one your ago I'riun Chicago, and was a successful business a well liked a popular in cliui'ili circles. whose accounts several thousand dollars, aro at a luss to account the si range conduct.

They havo taken no a i Brief Stntc A new theater, to cost Jtilio.OOO, will be built at Arcola. Aeord, a farmer, hanged himself near Xorris City. Kiro nt Ottawa damaged the Masonic Temple and the Bee Hive about $1,000. Thomas Searle of St. A township, the oldest i a i a of Tvankak'-e County, died, aged 105 years.

Charles U. I Chicago, has been appointed by Yules director ot the State 1'awnoi's 1 Association. Mrs. lOwiug, wife of a fanner living near Urban cut her throat with a rasior while Iu a tit of despondency. i Clerk William I''.

Clawford of Bloomhiglon committed suicide in lo submitting to an operation on his 'liver, Dr. Charles A. Nichols lias entered suit against K. A. Shaw of Urhiuin for $10,000 damages tor a and conspiracy.

Both men are i citizens of Ur- Iaua. The as.vlnm for incurable insane at South Uartonvillc was opened the other day, when 100 patients arrived from the a i asylum. The patients were transferred without tile slightest accident, these being the best behaved oC the Initiates of the Jacksonville institution. The iiexl day train load came from the asylum ami on the third day a from Elgin. Sheriff Mart Ilnnkius of Johnson County while in Metropolis became engaged In a qmn'rel with Pete OT.rien in front of Khan's saloon, lie was struck in the head with brick nncl his skull crushed.

In falling lie slipped uti the icy pavc- jnent and broke his leg. The coroner's jury in the over Wallace Mnrkley, the boy who wns killed in a coasting accident at Pcuriii. returned a verdict iu which the city is held responsible for his death, and the street car company is exonerated. The claims that the city authorities fhmihl have enforced tho oi'rtimmcsi prohlUHng coasting or should have furnished police protection. Elmer Klioger, aged thrown In front of a car and killed while coasting at Peoria.

Additional returns from Vermilion County Republican prMaries show that Allen has defeated Wise for the Legislature by 1,000 votes. Charles H'endrcn is a prisoner in the McLean County jail because he married his first cousin without the knowledge or consent of her parents. Fire destroyed the University apartment house at Sixty-first street and Bllia avenue, Chicaso, driving tlws occupants of Hats into the street. Jilvs. Nancy E.

Gordon, aged 81, who was at the time oj her death the oldest person born within the limils of the present State of Illinois, died nt Ava. Charles M. Edmunds, aged 30, traveling for Xolson Mortis was killed by nn Illinois Central train at Centralia. He recently lived at Petoskey, Mich. Tlie posloflicc at Sharpsburg was robbed, the burglars securing a large amount of cash and stamps.

The safe was entirely demolished by use of dynamite, Gov. Yntes has appointed A. ,1. Anderson of Kocktord secretary of the Illinois commission to tho Ixniisiana Purchase, Exposition, with a salary of $1,300 a year, The Bottlers' Association closed its' convention lit lloek Island after lecidiug to hold the next meeting at Chicago and electing Otto Lonx of Petersburg president. A.

M. Wiol ot Kvnnsville, president of the I'eoria Pottery Company; Vice-Presi- dont Coclirnii of Indianapolis and Mr. Flcutke oC Evansville announce that the Peoria pottery will opened for business within a few days. Over 000 will be given employment. The strike of employes the Sattley plow works in Springfield, which has been on for almost three months, was declared olT at a meeting of the Plow Workers' Union.

The settlement ivas brought about through the efforts of the Springfield Merchants' Association. The private bank of OzmV Jt, located, at Stouefort, was robbed and $3,000 in cash secured and various papers and securities to the amount of $10,000 are missing. The vault and safe are completely wrecked. A number of citi- xens of the village heard explosions during tho night, liut none dared to venture upon the scene. A couple of bloodhounds were placed upon the trail, but tlieir work was unsuccessful on account of the slcot and ice.

Adolph Schooler, formerly of Cleveland, Ohio, is on trial in Knukakeo County Circuit Court for a particularly atrocious murder. Nevertheless, prior to the crime he possessed a good reputation, as witnesses from Cleveland and Chicago will testify. Schooler is charged with the murder of friend and companion, Olto Ijunk, or Lang, on the morning of Oct. 12, nt Otto. The crime was committed In a tool car.

Schooler, it is charged, cut his companion's throat and rifled his pockets of $84 and a An original petition to test the constitutionality of section 15 of the act creating the State reformatory at Ponti.tc, under which a number of boys were transferred from the reformatory to the penitentiary at Jolict, was filed in Ihe Supreme Court nt Springfield. The peti- tiouer is Kalph Dorscy and he seeks to regain his liberty by habeas corpus proceedings. Borsey is one of the boys sent lo Iho penitentiary in September, 1900, and transferred to the reformatory Jan. 11, 1002, with thirty others on an order adopted by the board of managers of the reformatory 8. section 15 is declared unconstitutional all tho thirty boys transferred with Dorsey will regain their liberty.

There is a movement among business men's associations iu several of tho larger cities Illinois to put a stop to what is considered nn imposition in the matter oC advertising. The ciibtom of fraternal, church and other societies and organizations of soliciting advertisements for programs has grown to such an extent that the merchants have found it necessary to take some united action in the matter. The business men Peoria have agreed among themselves that they will take advertising space (outside the newspapers) in but one program, that of the annual corn carnival. Springfield and other towns, not only in Illinois, but in adjoining States, nre agitating similar movements against all classes irregular advertising. The experiment of Iclcphoning over telegraph wires from a railroad engine without interrupting the regular business was successful on Ihe southwestern branch of the Illinois Central, between Knnkakee and Kempton.

The experiments were made with telephone instrument in an engine cab. A number of stops wcro made between KanUakee and Kempton, along the route and at stations, wire wns strung from the engine lo the telegraph line and telephone communication was established with tho train dispatchers olllcc in Knnkakeo. It is i to furnish all Illinois Central I a i with telephonic equipment, the in- slrmneiits to be placed in baggage cars of passenger trains and engines or cabooses ot freights. The Chicago Theological Seminary and numerous other educational and religions institu''0iis arc beiK-ticiaries in the will ot the Into Thouins Koberlsc-n Uoek- Cortl. The total bequests amount to $30,000, divided as follows: lloek ford Beloit College, Kock- ford Hospital Association, American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions Massachusetts, American Sunday School Union, American Bible Society, Chicago Hhcological Seminary, Congregational Homo Missionary Society of New York, American Missionary Association, Congregational Church Building Society, $1,000.

The remainder the estate, with tho exception of small legacies, is divided equally among the members his a i The estate is worth about $500,000. Hereafter all men who take on the bonds ot matrimony in Kiinkiikec must present tho minister with not less than $5, and for more pretentious functions as much more as they consider the affair worth. The Protestant Ministerial Alliance of that city has formed a trust. The other day the pension money duo Mrs. Dilly Byrum was paid by the government.

Mrs. Byrum died in Holly Springs township a few dayn before. She had been drawing this pension since 1834, being tbe widow Ransom Byrum, who served as a private in dipt. Evans' company in the war of 1SU2. What is claimed to bo the handsomest church in Illinois, outiile of tho largo cities, was dedicated at Stanford.

It was recently erected by the Cumberland Presbyterians at a cost ot $25,000. The morning sermon was preached by Rev. AY. Kogors of Knoxville, and the dedicatory sermon proper by Kcv. D.

l)nr- by of Evansville, Ind. A unique feature was the serving of a dinner to all who came by the ladies of the congregation. Hamlin has decided that Mrs. May Dennis, acquitted at Qiiin- of the charge murdering her hus- bintd because she was insane at the time the deed was be sent to a Suite insane PADEREWSKI'BRINGS HIS BRIDE WITH HIM. MME.

PADKKKWKKI. Mmc. Paderewski, wife of the great Polish pianist, is traveling with her husband on his present Amcric.ui tour. Mine. Paderewski is of i height, not too slender, and ill coloring a decided bru- Her soft brown hair is usually worn parted and waving earjlessly away from tlie face iuLo low, artistic coil sit Ilie nape of the neck.

Her eyes are hazel, large and liquid. Her lips, red and full, part over teeth even and white, ROOSEVELT AGAINST SCHLEY. President's Decision Is Adverse to Acl- jfresidenl Roosevelt lias decided against Admiral Schley in his controversy i Admiral Sampson on all the material points in thu a a i Au epitome of tha chief executive's findings on Scliley's appeal from the findings of the naval court of inquiry is as follows: That the battle before Santiago when the Spanish fleet was destroyed was a captains' battle and the credit of the victory belongs first to Admiral Sampson, who planned and bore the responsibility of the engagement, and then to the olhcr officers of tho American fleet, among them Commodore Schley. Although Sampson was not present during the battle no other ollieer assumed command beyond that of the ship on which he stood, aud thorofoie all credit must be apportioned according to work and responsibility. Schloy's part in the battle was confined to the Brooklyn and was creditable, except the loop, which was mistake.

Schley's mistakes while in independent command ot the Hying squadron hi May rc enumerated as the dilatory operations, the retrograde movement, the disobedience of orders aud the "inaccurate and misleading reports." SETH LOW'S SUCCESSOR. Nicholas Murray Butler, New President of Columbia University. When President Setu Low of Columbia University resigned his educational post to accept the mayoralty i a i in New York last fall, the trustees appointed f. Nicholas Murray Butler acling president. Since the election ot Mr.

Low they have made Prof. Butler the permanent president. Mr. Butler, though only 3D, h.i years been connected with Columbia, as student, assistant professor and professor. He is of New Jersey birth, and was fitted for college at Puterson, entering Columbia in 1878.

lie has been prominent in literary work and club life. President Roosevelt is au intimate friead. IICTLUH. SHAMAKA DISASTER GROWS, Two Thousand Perished in Kurth 1 qliulcc. Details, which nre slowly arriving at Baku from Slmmaka, show that 2,000 persons, mostly women and children, perished as a result of the recent earthquake and that 4,000 houses were destroyed.

Thirty-four villages of the country surrounding Shnmnka also suffered. To add to the terrors of the neighborhood a volcano near tho village of Ma- rasy, eastward of Shnmaka, has broken out into active eruption. A great crevasse lias appeared, whence immense tlames and streams of lava arc being thrown out. The course of tbe River Geonchaika has been altered in consequence of its bed being dammed with earth, which hail been disturbed by the earthquake. Battalions of guards and detachments with tents have been dispatched to Sha- maka to aid in the work of rescue.

The Ked Cross Society is active iu alleviating distress. The Rev. Henry Purdue of Meuomi- nee, has accepted a call to St. Paul's 13piscopnl Church, Beloit, Wis. Bishop Cameron Mann, recently to Ihc Episcopal diocese of North Dakota, is now formally in charge of his diocese.

Jubilee services marking tho fiftieth anniversary of its establishment were held in Washington Avenue Baptist Church, Brooklyn. The Rev. V. 15. Allcyne lias resigned the rectorship of Kmmanuel Episcopal Church, Alexandria, to become as- sistnnt al St.

Mark's Church, Cleveland. Firsl Methodist Episcopal Church, Sioux Falls, S. claims to have the largest Bible club la the Northwest. Tho club hna a membership of seventy-five. T)r.

Hiram C. Haydn has severed his relation as pastor of Old Slone Presbyterian Church, Cleveland, after serving the church for forty years. He now becomes pastor emeritus. Plans for the new St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church South, St.

Louis, have been adopted, the contracts let, and tho work will bo commenced as soon as the ground can be cleared. The new church will cost about $25,000. W. R. Peters, brother of Dr.

John P. Peters, rector of St. Michael's Episcopal Church, New Xork, lias given to complete the new parish house which building. New Zealand will soon have Us first Unitarian Church, a new building for that denomination being in course of erection at Auckland. The building will 'be of kauri, lined with rimu from Mamaku.

Archbishop Kcane of Dubuque has or- gauized the clergy and the laity for the enforcement of the Iowa mulct law, particularly for the Sunday closing of saloons. It is that saloonkeeper! will organize to resist. A young lady culled at the hall of the House of Representatives and. presenting to one of the assistant doorkeepers a ennl upon whieh was her name, said: "Please take this to Representative Mudd." The doorkeeper did as directed, and Mr. Mudd.

glancing at the card, noticed that the name was prefixed with Miss. "Tell tho yo.ing lady," said "th.it I have not a single vacant phu-o at my disposal." The doorkeeper ret to the young lady nnd informed her of what Mr. Mndd said. "Thero uiu-vt be some mistake about s.iid lin i -Gii back and tell him that 1 to him personally." Again the doorkeeper went into tlie Ilon-o, called on Mr. Mudd, who replied: "Toll her I .1111 not in the House." Again tho doorkeeper performed his missiion, and the woman, who was by ibis time ihoreughly angry, said: "You go and tell my f.ulier that liis daughter wants to see Mm." Mr.

Mudd, upon receiving this h.i.-tily hi" hat and took Mudd to tho House restau- i.iiii where ln gave her a nice luncheon and asked her to "forget 1 "Vrele" Joe Cannon was "drilling" up to the Treasury Department the other a i one of the assistant secretaries pushed him in a carriage driven by a coachman and ornamented with a fot- niiin. "Pretty prosperous lor a $4.500 job." mused the chairman of the com- mittee on appropriations. "Guess I'll look into it." Mr. Cannon discovered that the government owned the and carriage and paid for the feed. The coachman a ou the pay roll as a messenger in the Treasury Department and the footman was a laborer in the department.

It had been supposed by members of Congress that Ihe horses were employed in hauling supplies to the department. Investigation' showed that many of the assistant secretaries who are not furnished with horses and carriages by Congress had resorted to the same means as the treasury otlioial lo provide themselves with free equipages. Now the assistant secretaries have a good prospect of again becoming patrons of the street car lines. Officials of the Senate are congratulating themselves upon the modest aggregate of the expenses of the late Senator Sewell's funeral. The whole amount will not be over $1,200.

The most expensive senatorial funeral ever known cost the government over $21,000. This was when the body ot Senator Hearst was conveyed to California. The average coat of a senatorial funeral is about and, up to the present time, considerably over $100,000 has been expended In paying the last tribute, to dead Senators. The cuslotn of paying for senatorial funerals began away back in 1820, but at that time, according to the records of tha Senate, three Senators were buried for the small sum of $877. Not until Henry Clay died in 1832 did the expenses begin to approximate the figures of the present day, for Clay's funeral cost the government over $3.000.

It cost to bury the body of Charles Sumner. The commendable movement for a change of the presidential inauguration lay from March -1 to a season of greater clemency lias met its first official etttoilr- ngement iu the Senate. The adoption of a joint resolution proposing the necessary constitutional amendment experienced no difficulty in securing tlie required two-thirds vote in the uppor chamber. No valid or forceful objection-has been raised to the proposition in the House, and it is to be hoped the resolution will carry there also. There is uo reason why the Slates should not ratify this action, strong as the prejudice is against tinkering the constitution.

The joint resolution names the last Thursday in April for Ihe inauguration of Ihe President and Vice-President ami for the ending and the beginning of Congress. Au appropriation of $7.500.000 for the extension of the rur.il free delivery service was incorporated in postal appropriation bill by the committee having the matter in charge. This is an increase of er the appropriation made last year, and it will enable the Postmaster (ieneral lo increase materially die number nf routes and to reduce the number of fourth-class post- offices. The so far as tbe law is concerned, is still regarded as an experiment. se---ion an attempt was made to make the -ei-vice permanent, but this was a Another attempt will be made year, and it is believed it will be Senator Tillnun so good in monologue as iu debate.

IIo is like a piece of Hint that needs the eoutact with tho steel to make tlie sparks Hy. says a Washington i In the Senale the steel upon whieh Tillman Hashes most frequently is Senator Spooiier. The tw. men love to cla-li. and yet there are no two Senators who like each, other bet- ler.

admires Tillman's frankness and and Tillman re- specls Spoomu-'s great legal ability. The men are crmpleme to each other. They fit in together. Indeed, as soon as their bOnts are over, they meet in the cloak room and laugh at the sharpness nnd readiness uC each other's "Nit. Former United States Senator Samuel Pasco, now a member of the islhmian canal commission, testified before the Senate committee ititerooeanic canals that he had carefully investigated tho proposition made by the new Panama Canal Company for the sale the Panama canal rights, and he was fully convinced that under the French laws am! the usage of the French courts, that company has a valid title to th" franchises and right of way to the canal and could therefore make .1 transfer to the United States whkh would hold in law.

Senator Pettus, who will be SI years old in July, never employs a watchmaker when his timepiece gets out ot" order, nnd has. on several occasions, been seen to take works out of the cas-e at his Semite desk, and after poking around un- lil Ihe machinery started up again, would replace them and return his watch to kis pocket. Tho report of the board of high ranking army officers, headed Lieut. Geu. Miles, winch the questior.

of army was n.adipublic at tho Department the othe? day. The sites fir the four permanent camps of instruction are In the vicinity ef Park. Georgia: at Fort Riloy, in tin- Cone-wago Valley, in i.ebanon. Dauphin and Lancaster counties, Pennsylvania, and on the Nacfe- mento ranch, in Monterey and San Luis ObUpo Wixties. Ca'iforuia.

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