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DOWN TO A CENT A MILE.
Easl,. Railroad Rates to the Worlds S
Fair Take a Big Tumble.

CHICAGO. July 15.-The action of the
MOnon Railroad yesterday in putting iE
operation rates of little over a cent a mile
for the round trip from Louisville and
indianapolis has practically knocked the
bottom out of rates all over the Central
Traffic Associations territory. 1t is more
than probable that one-cent basis will
be adopted, and rates may go even lower,
but it is doubtful. From present indica.
tions there is no way in which demorali-
zation of rates throughout the territory can
be avoided.
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CHINESE EXAGGERATION.
Fallacious Proclamation Issued by
the Government of China.


WASHINGTON, July ia letter recent
ly received at the State Department from
Mr. DENLY, United States Minister to
China. was accompanied by proc
lamation issued by the Chinese
authorities, in which it is stated
tn at the 100000 Chinese who returned to
China from the United States within the
past year would be prevented by law
from again entering this country. In
vestIgation by the Treasury Department
developed that since 1888 less than $1,000
Chinese returned to their native country.
and the exaggeration OF the proclamation
is still more apparent when it ls taken
into consideration with the well-knowD
fact that only a small proportion Of the
Chinese leave this country with the inten-
tiOn of returning.
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OUR FRUIT IN THE EAST.
California Cherries Continue in Great
Demand.

NEW YORK, July 15.-Splendid-look oking
fruit from California continues to fill a
largo space in the show-windOws Of the
Broadway fancy fruitstores and to swell
the profits OF dealers. Plums. apricots and
peaches have been unusually abundant,
the total of about thirty cars Of fruit a
week coming East from tie Pacific Slope.
California Bartlett pears are also coming &
now. and Royal Anne and Tartarian cher
ries are still to be had, although the price
Of California cherries has risen. because of
their growing scarcity. This 10 much
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have money tied up in the canal. This is
especially true of the Southern States.
They want the canal badly. If the COM
pany does not get TINS guarantee from the
Government they might as we'll not issue
bonds. Wall street ha} already sunk be-
-s8nen So. o00, 600 spo St.JU0, ,6600 in this con-
cern. and they won't subscribe now to
SS5, 900, 900 bonds. or any part of them, un-
less they see some chance Of getting their
money back.
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FLED FROM HER HUSBAND.
The Young Wife OF a Nephew of Levi
p. Morton Tells a Strange Story.

CLEVELAND, July 15.-1n obedience to
a telegram from E. Howard Morton of
Chicago the police this afternoon detained
a Young lady on one of the rcom ng trains
from that city. She was taken to the CEN
trail police station. Her husband. she said,
was a nephew Of Vice President Merton.
and they lived in Chicago. Sne said h1 so
grossly i'll treated her that she started 70
90 home to her parents in the East. From
the station she was taken to the Forest
City House to await her husband, who is
expected to arrive In the morning.
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ORDERED TO ALEXANDRIA.
British Warships Hastily Dispatched
to Egypt,

VALETTA. Malta. July 15.-The British
battleship Intiexibie has been ordered to
proceed Immediately to Alexandria. Egypt.
The reason for the hurried order is not
definitely known. but it is rnmored it is
owing to disturbances that have broken
out at Alexandria.
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TORNADO IN OHIO.
Thirty Thousand Dollars of Damage
Done af | einSic

CINCINNATI. July ia Commercial
Gazette special just received from Lima.
Ohio, says: Word has just reached here
that tornado passed through Leipsic this
afternoon. 1t destroyed the Catholic
church. unroofed many dwellings and de-
molished large warehouse at West Nickel
Plate Junction. The loss is $4,000. So
far as learned no one has been injured.
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WIND AND RAIN.
Buildings Unroofed and Cellars
Flooded in Nebraska.

OMAHA. July 15-Nebraska was swept
tonight by a severe gale, accompanied by
heavy rain. At Lincoln water fell in
sheets, and the sewers were soon choked.
Some damage was done by flooding stores
and cellars. At KearneJ two business
blocks were unroofed and many windows
broken. No loss Of life. The damage is
estimated at $4,000. Other points report
smaller losses
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NICARAGUA CANAL BONDS.
lhe Company Proposes to Ask the
Government to Guarantee Them

NEW YORK, July 15-It is rumored on
Wall street to-day that the announcer ment
that the Nicaragua Canal Company would
soon issue SS5.000,000 in bonds meant that
they proposed to presenta a bill to Congress
making the Government guarantee the
issue. broker whose dealings in these
securities are large said such bill would
have n good chance of passing. A num-
ber Of Congressmen themselves. be said,
and great many OF their constituents,
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Elopement at Fort Sheridan.

CHICAGO. July 15.-Lieutenunt Ross L.
Bush, of Company B. Fifteenth infantry,
United States army. eloped Monday from
Fort Sheridan with Surgeon-Major Cir
ards pretty daughter, Flora. The pair
we're married in Wisconsin.
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Norris of California Won.

GOSHEN. Ind, July 15.-C. c. Morris of
California won the Columbian 100 yards
sprintng event to-day for the champion
ship of the United States. Time, 9S-5
seconds, beating the record OF 94-5 Sec
onds. There were seven starters. Collins
of Wisconsin mo in close to Morris. The
prize was $1,000 and a diamond medal.
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desired and handsome fruit Ore auc-
ioneer of California fruit says the last car
load of cherries he sold brought $500. or
more than the first carload OF the season.
Eastern fruit is here likewise in onstantly
growing volume.
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Congressman Breckinridge to Marry.

ment Of Congressman w. e. Breckinr idge
to Mrs. Louise Scott Wing, widow Of
Dumsy Wing, ex-Minister to Peru, has
been announced. The wedding is tota Ike
place just before the extra session of Con-
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BLOCKED THE WIRES.
Electric Storm in the East Delays
the Telegraph Service.

CHIC AGO. July 15.-Rrports from points
in Minnesota. Iowa and other parts Of the
Northwest tell of display of the aurora
borelis. 1t was preceded by an elec;ricrl
storm which almost brought to stand
still the telegraph service of the country
The sending of messages, to say nothing
of news matter at all. was difficult and
frequently impossible.
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ESCAPED Brazilian Vengeance.

NEW YORK, July l5.-The Herald's VAL
paraiso cable says that Rear Admiral
Edward Waudenknlk has raised the block
ade Of the city of Rio Grande Do Sui and
escaped from the vengeance of the Bra
lillian Government with the steamer
Jupiter.
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Lawn Tennis Tournament.

CHICAGO. July 15.-The national lawn
tennis tournament closed this evening.
Chase won the championship in the
singles, and the Mccormick brothers won
the doubles. In the consolation final
Hayes defeated Neal.
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Montevideo says that Admiral Wanden-
kolk. the revolutionary leader. has with
drawn from Rio Graz nde do Sui and is
preparing TO attack Santa Catharine. A
dispatch from Rio de Janeiro says the
Brazilian Government announces the re-
ceipt of kilograms saying that the siege of
Rio Grande do Sui has been raised.
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Railroad Accident in Spain.

MADRID, July ia terrible railroad
accident occurred near Bilboa last night
a train ran off the track and went over a
high precipice. Six persons were killed
and thirty seriously injured.
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Backing for Jackson.

NEW YORK. July 15.-Edward Nall, one
of George Dixon's hackers, said tonight
chat he would back Peter Jackson against
Jim Corbott for $4,000 side.
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Won by DelphoS.

LONDON, July 15.-The race for the Ma
tiOnal Breeders Stake of 5000 sovereigns
was won by Delphos. Clare was second
and Matchbox third.
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OVER AN HOUR CUT OFF.

New Bicycle ReCOru TOT f1undred
TILES Made.
ORANGE. N. j.. July 15-The bicycle
record tor the 100 miles road-race was re-
duced more than an hour at a run from
this place to Princeton and return to-day.
j. W. Lineman of .he Press Bicycle Club
of Buffalo (scratch) did 100 miles in hours
40 minutes and 80 seconds. There were
112 starters.
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RAISED THE SIEGE.

Wandenkolk Reported to Have Re-
tired From Rio Grande.
LONDON. July ia dispatch from
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Six Deaths by Sunstroke in Chicago.
CHICAGO, July 15.-There were six deaths
from sunstrokes in this city yesterday
and dozen serious cases from prOstration.
There were two deaths from sunstroke to.
dow
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There was new significance in Rich
ard Monklow's touch upon her arm, light
as it was. She felt it in her blood. There
was a sudden shyness in her glance. She
drew back, a new recognition startling
her, and looked intently at the bronzed
face under the shorn white hair. How
composed it was, how earnest and gentle!
"You know who that was" she said;
"yon've heard father revile him often
enough" She paused, and again a bit
ing mist swan across her sight. poor
Toni His bitterest enemy might pity
him now"
"Perhaps you would like to follow
him. Would your If he lives alone.
has no one to help him
"What do you mean?" And her burn
ing hand was ON his arm.
HE seemed to me on the verge of a
collapse. I saw sailor once whose face
wore that look. He shot himself. If he
hadn't, think he would have gone mad"
She threw out her hands in gesture
of pain.
"Yes-come. We can get his address
at the box Office. If not, l know where
the manager lives. Come. You will go
with me, won't your"
He made no answer in words, but gaz-
ing down into her questioning eyes a
food of fealty poured from his, long,
yearning, inspiring glance of passion
that thrilled her to the core of her trou-
bled soul.
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CHAPTER XIV.

Virginia, at the door of the box, stood
facing the crowd where Tom had disap-
peared. A shudder shook her from head
to foot. She still seemed looking int a
pair of tormented blue eyes alight with
shifting flame; the choked, broken ac-
cents of familiar voice were in her ears.
And yet-oh, could it be?-was it real
ly Tom who had stood there? That
gaunt figure and sickly face, the disso-
Lutte eyes and coarsened mouth were
like travesty ON the memory cherished
so tenderly. The pity of It'll
Her raised arm dropped against the
curtain in the shadow, and she laid her
face upon it, closing her eyes and letting
the slow, heavy tears fall as they would.
A love born of long association is not
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San Htratnta In a lo1per bog.

And all the while in the rosy gloom
thrown upward by the footlights Vir-
ginia's face shone like star. And all
the while the old passion grew with the
seconds, no longer single and pure, the
ideal love of mans youth, but reck-
less, dominant craving for her, the fruit
of past experience and present despair,
He remembered nothing more until he
stood before her, their hands locked.
Oh, that momentl
He was dimly conscious of strange
man with Virginia and of an introduce
ton to him, but he seemed an intermin-
able distance away through madden
ing red blur. The crowd, the music,
too, had receded, and Virginia's appraised
eyes, her warm, confding palm, were
the only realities.
What he said to her he never knew
something muttered, incoherent-words
seemed of such little value then beside
the longing to crush her to his sore heart
Then for moment he looked away,
his eyes drawn upward as by spell.
A cry wavered from his paling lips;
he reeled backward and flung her hand
from him. Above, among the sea Of
faces, was Felix Dawson's, the light
from his eyes shooting through Toms
guilty heart like a vein of electricity.
To his blinded, maddened senses the face
seemed distorted by terrible menace
His doom was written there.
In a moment he was fleeing from it,
pushing through the waiting crowds in
the aisles as a man breasts a sea.
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He was not forgotten. No, no, not
even in this first moment Of her new
happiness. 1t was for him her gaze tried
10 pierce the deep gloom, for him-poor
wanderer-the light burned brightly in
her window, as if she knew, who knew
him SO well, he might stray back that
night.
He stepped into the deeper shadow,
but his spent heart felt one quivering
thrill of hope. A tumultuous, anguished
craving to live again swept through him.
II he were worth her remembrance, if
she wanted him back, might he not yet
make something of the ruins of his
youth-not the marvellous structure he
had once dreamed of with turrets in the
clouds-yet something-something-
He covered his face with his crossed
arms, and the bitterest moment of his
life was upon him.
A picture seemed to rise before him,
thrown outward in bold lines upon a
misty whiteness. He saw disheartened
miner laying down his spade before a
worked out mine which had failed in its
golden promise. Before him into the
west and the falling night stretched a
new road, and toward this his face was
set. But he looked back once over the
blue prairie, back to the east, farewell
in his eyes. 1t was moments halt-a
little space for dreaming and regret.
Toms nerveless hands fell down. He
gave a quivering sigh, like man COM
ing up to breathe after the water had
passed over him.
His artistic life was complete in its
terrible incompleteness. This was his
moment of transition. Was there new
road for him? Its beginning might lie
in shadow, but did it lead anywhereF
Could he go on? Where2 How? He did
not know.
But Virginia in the window still
watched for him, and now the chimes
were pealing like mad. Oh, their rise
and fall, their winged clamor, their &C.
static repetitions reasoning down his pit
iful hesitation!
He turned his face from where the
river lay and walked eastward through
the falling snow. His heart was bathed
in a strange, warm peace. The chimes
followed him-a silver, celestial voice.
THE END.
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Tom felt a numbness seize him. He
sighed again and again, at length tear
ing away the white folds of cloth from
his breast in an effort to ease its burn
ing.
"What place is thisT faltered from
his dry lips.
Virginia did not answer. She seemed
stricken dumb with grief.
Before door leading to an inner
chamber an old man stood on guard.
His shoulders were curved as if he had
toiled with the spade. His hairy, labor
twisted hands were crossed upon staff.
One sentence only left his lips in a mo-
notonous sing song:
"The Hall of the Sinful Copy"
Tom hesitated before him, joy yelling
In his heart. The simple, trusting, ador-
ing old man was his father. Oh, here
he would find love unspeakable.
"Fatherl" he whispered, with vehe-
ment tenderness.
But the worn, gentle face took on a
look of hatred it had never worn in life.
The gnarled fingers flung his arms away.
II sacrificed myself for you. Hunger,
despair were my portion many time
that you might be happy, free and some
day great. This I did for you, but you
have poisoned eternity for me-" were the
words that left his lips with the fury of
q malediction.
Tom could not linger to question or
appeal. The throng pressing behind him
bore him on to the center of the inner
hall, where a presence, awful in its aus
terity and grandeur, hung like shadow,
with eyes Of fire above a parchment out
spread upon a marble ledge. Around
this the crowd circled, looked and moved
on one by one.
He bent over it eagerly. Here lay the
explanation, the quest Of this vast throng
He looked, and his breath seemed to
cease. Before his eyes lay the stolen play.
1t pages were charred as if it had been
passed through flame. 1t was blotted
with tears and smeared with blood. His
name was written there for all to see,
and far of he still heard his fathers
quavering, husky voice-the voice that
once sang lullabies to him-repeating to
the curious thousands:
"The Hall of the Sinful Copy"
The dews Of terror for some unknown
but approaching disaster broke from
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with a yearning sob Tom made a

With q yearning sob Tom made
movement forward and then retreated.
He could see the whole room. A man
had entered. He remembered him as
Virginia's companion at the theater. He
carried a bunch of flowers as white as
the snow clinging to his broad shoulders,
and as Virginia went toward him he
took her hand and gave them to her.
What words was he speaking now2
Tom could see his strong, quivering face,
his moving lips, his submissive yet i'm
FASHIONED attitude.
He loved Virginia. Yes, and the en-
chanted whisper of his love seemed to
steal out to the watcher through the
drifting snow.
A moment they stood closely together,
then Virginia was in his arms, clinging
to him, and he had kissed her.
A sharp breath of longing broke from
Tom: To shut out the picture he turned
his face to the wet bark of the tree,
shuddering and sobbing like woman.
Virginia another's. He not the slight
est influence in her life ever again-fall-
en- into darkness, utterly forgotten.
Family the first chimes foated from
the belfry, and he looked up.
Virginia had left her lover, who stood
Just behind her. She was again at the
window, still under curved.kands look
ing into the darkness, and now he could
plainly see the pity, the tender, search
ing look in the wide, clear eyes.
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CHAPTER XVI.

The snow was falling through the black
night. Chelsea square was silent, and
the wind among the line of trees stand
ing sentinel wise came like tremendous
sigh ascending to a moan. The year
would die and the new year be born in
whirling whiteness, winding sheet and
baptismal robe in one.
The lights in the lamps fared lone
somely or bent to the rush of the wind.
Their uncertain flicker fell upon Tom
and sent strange, leaping shadows across
his face. He walked as one without pur-
pose and kept close to the palings.
Following his confession had come
Delatoles attacks in the press, each word
an adder bite. He had expected them,
but they drove him mad, and for week
he had been hidden in the neither circles
Of the city. Such weekl-a confiagra-
ton in which he had tried to burn every
vestige of honorable manhood left him.
But he had not succeeded. No. for he
was here in this last hour of the year,
making his indeterminate way for last
look at the peaceful old square he had
once thought so stupid, last look at
the walls that had frowned on his fro
ward hopes, perhaps last word with
Virginia. And thenP The rivera sleep
In the snow-an end somehow.
At the tree where the knowledge Of
his love and power first came to him he
paused. His arms were loosely folded
on his breast. His eyes were shadowy
and grieved as those of beaten animal
thoroughly cowed.
Suddenly the shade at Virginia's win
dow was raised, and she stood with her
body pressed against the glass, her hands
arched over her eyes as she peered into
the night. Oh, was she watching for
him? Oh. had she one Thought for himi
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TCoNrINUED. COMMENCED SEPT. STH.
morbid, feverish days. He drank heavi-
ly, trying to find in the flaming odors Of
brandy an Arrangement for the ache in
his heart.
This was Toms life now. And across
this waste, like a pale ray trembling
from pure, open skies, came longing,
persistent as thirst, to see Virginia.
He could not account for it. 1t was
not that he fancied their friendship
might be in any degree renewed, indeed
he never seemed farther from her than
at this period, never more undeserylng
of a glance from her eyes. But the de-
sire was there, not forcible enough to
send him seeking her, yet with him al
ways. While fearing, half expecting to
come face to face with Dawson, he was
unconsciously looking for her on the
streets, in shops and at the theater.
Two years had passed, and he had new
er CHANGED upon her. Such a thing could
only be possible in a city like New York,
where interests lie so widely apart and
life rushes in great circles, one within
another, never meeting. Virginia was
scarcely a mile from him, yet not seek
ing each other they could not have been
more separate had they lived in different
towns. Bohemia and Chelsea square are
antithetic-the one all fever, struggle,
laughter, frailty, the other somnolent in
an odor of sanctity, rufled only by trem-
ulous chimes as the days walk demurely
on.
Yet, SO strange is the affinity between
thought and sequence, Tom felt scarcely
any surprise when one night at the thea
ter he lifted his languid eyes and saw
Virginia in lower box.
There she was as he had so often pic
tured her through these useless, feverish,
fear haunted days. His sick soul ragged
with yearning, and in all the crowded,
half lit house he only saw her face. He
scarcely seemed to breathe. His eyes
devoured her. The dear facet There
was no other like it in the world.
The light was in her eyes, the red in
her arching lips, the soft fire of expect
ing, exulting youth not one whit
dimmed 1t is only in books women
show upon their faces when they have
passed the first milestone on the path of
pain.
Would she sec him? He hardly knew
whether he most longed for or dreaded
her glance. How would she look if she
knew the truth about the play she
watched so earnestly? What would her
eyes say then?
A GOODNESS began to steal over him, a
desire to shrek. His head was whirling.
Was he going mad? This dull, inarticu-
late grief preying upon his heart-oh, if
he could sigh it awayl