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WARNINGS PERIL.
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Much Of thistestiu4ony was evoked by
pointed qus rles 81 the O.le4ala, who
seemed sIucwhat familiar with Las
celles' business ami family affairs, and
who then declared that they must
question the stricken widow. Harsh
and unfeeIing rs this may have seemed.
there were probably reasons which
atoned for IL She came in on the arm
Of the old family physician. looking
like n dropping flower. win little Mn
Min clingiug To her hand. She was 50
shocked and stunned that she could
barely answer the questions put to her
with all courtesy ard gcntIcuess Of
manner No. she hao never heard Of
any quarrel between VI. Lasccllcs and
his younger brother. Yes, Philippe
had been nursed by her through his
wounds. She was fond of Philippe,
but not so fond as was her husband.
NJ. Lascellcs would do anything for
Philippe, deny himself anything al
most. Asked if NJ. Lasccllcs had not
given some reason for his objection to
Philippe S being nursed at his house
when he came home the second time.
She said Philippe was an impulsive
boy, fancied himself in love with his
brothers wife, and Armand saw some
thing of this, and at last upbraided
him. but very gently. There was no
quarrel at all. Was there anyone whom
VI. Lascelles had been angcred with on
her account? She knew of none. but
blushed, and blushed painfully. Had
the deceased not recently objected to
the attentions paid her by other gen
tlemcn? There was a murmur of re-
proach among the hearers, but madame
answered unflinchin%ly, though with
painful bushes and tears NJ. Lascclles
had said nothing of disapproval until
very recently; au contrdirc, he had
much liked Mr.. Naring. He was the
only one of the officers at the barracks
whOrn he had ever invited to the house,
and he talked with him a great deal;
had never, even to her, spoken of a
quarrel with him, because Mr.. Warning
had been so polite to her, until within
week or two; then-ycs, he certainly
had. OF her husbands business affairs,
his papers, etc, she knew little. lie
always had certain moneys, though
not large sums, with all his papers, in
the drawers of his cabinet, and that
they should be in SO disturbed a state
was not unusual They were all in
order, closed and locked, when he
started for town the morning of that
fatal day, but he often left them open
and in disorder, only then locking his
library door. When she left for town
two hours after him, the library door
was open, also the side-window, She
could throw no light on the tragedy.
She had no idea who the stranger could
be. She had not seen Philippe for
nearly year, and believed him to be
at Key West
Alphonse, the colored boy, was so
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stitution Of his patient havd pulled
him o1t IN few hours But this time
pills the Less had found Doyle in &
state bordering on terror. even when
assured that the quantity Of his pota-
tons had not warranted an approach
70 :remens- The post surgeon had
been called IN too. and pills the Pitt
less" as he was termed, thanks to his
unfailing prescription Of quinine and
blue mass in the shape and size of
bnckshot, having no previous acquaint-
ance, in Doyle, with these attacks,
pooh-poohed the case, administered
bromides and adTnonition in due pro-
portion, and went of about more i'm
portant business. DR.. Potts, however,
stood by his big patient, wondering
what should cause him 10 start in such
terror at every step upon the stair
without, and striving to bring sleep TO
eyes that had not closed the livelong
night nor all the balmy. beautiful day.
Once he asked If DOYLE wished him to
send for his wife. and was startled at
the vchcTcncy Of the reply: For
God S sake, no." and, shuddering
Doyle had hidden his face and turned
away. Potts got hum TO eat something
towards noon, and Doyle begged for
more drink. but was refused. He was
sober, yet shattered, when Mr.. Drake
suddenly appeared just about stable
call and babe him repair at once to the
presence Of the commanding officer
Then Potts had TO give him a drink. or
he would never have got there. With
the aid Of servant he was dressed,
and. accompanied by the doctor,
reached the office. Braxton looked
him over coldly.
Mr.. Doyle" said he, the civil au-
thorities have made requisition for"
But he had got no further when Doyle
staggered, and but for the doctor s
help might have fallen.
For Gods sake, colonel, 1t isn't
true! Sure know nothing of it at all
at all, sir. Indade, indade, was blind
dhrunk. colonel Sure they'd swear 3
mans life away. sir. just because he
was the one-he was the one that"
BE silent. sir! You are not accused,
that know of. 1t is as witness You
are needed. Is he in condition to tes-
tify, doctor?"
''IIe is well enough, sir, to tell what
he knows. but he claims to know moth
ing" And this, too, Doyle eagerly Sec
onded, but was sent along in the am
bulance, with the doctor to keep him
out of mischief, and u parting shot to
the effect that when the coroner was
through with him the post commander
would take hold again, so the colonel
depressed more than the cocktail slim
ulated, and, as luck would have it, al
most the first person to meet him in
side the gloomy Enclosure was his wife.
and her few whispered words only
added to his misery
The water still lay in pools about the
premises, and the police had allowed
certain of his neighbors to stream in
and stare at the white walls and
shaded windows, but only favored
few penetrated the hallway and rooms
where the investigation was being
held. Doyle SHOOK like one with the
palsy as he assembled the little flight
of steps and passed into the open door
way, still accompanied by Little
Pills" People looked at him with
marked curiosity. He was questioned,
requestiOned. cross-questioned, but the
result was only hopeless tangle. He
really added nothing to the testimony
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of the hack driver and Bonclli. In alb
jet remorse and misery he begged
them to understand he was drunk
when he joined the party, got drunken,
dimly remembered there was a quar-
rel. but he had no cause to quarrel
with anyone-and that was all; he
never knew how he got home. He
covered his face in his shaking hands
at last, and seemed on the verge of a
fit of crying.
But then came sensation.
Quietly rising from his seat. the Off
cial who SO recently had had the verba
tilt with Cram held forth a rusty. cross
hilted, two-edged knife that looked a:
though it might have lain in the muc
and wet for hours
"Have you ever seen this knife be
up his eyes one instant, groaned, shud
dered, and said:
'Oh, my God, yes!"
Whose property is it or was it?"
At first he would not reply. lie
moaned and shook. At last:
Sure, the initials are on the top" be
cried.
But the official was relentless.
Tell US what they are and what
they represent"
People were crowding the hallway
and forcing themselves into the room
Cram and Ferry, curiously watching
their ill-starred comrade, had ex
changed glances of dismay when the
knife was so suddenly produced. Now
they bent breathlessly forward.
The silence for the moment was op
pressive.
''If it's the knife I mane," he sobbed
at last, desperately. miserably, 1.-The
letters are S. B. w, and it belongs tc
Lieut.. Waring of our battery"
But no questioning, however adroit
could elicit from him the faintest in.
formation as to how it got there. The
last time he remembered seeing it, he
said, was on Mr.. Warnings table the
morning of the review. A detective
testified to having found it among the
bushes under the window as the water
receded. Ferry and the misera BILE
Ananias were called, and they, too, had
to Identify the knife, and admit that
neither had seen it about the room
since Mr.. Waring left for town. OF
other witnesses called. came first the
proprietor of the stable to which the
cab belonged. Horse and cab, he said.
covered with mud, were found under a
shed two blocks below the French
market, and the only thing in the cab
was handsome silk umbrella. London
make, which Lieut.. Pierce laid claim
to. Mrs. Doyle swore that as she was
going in search of her husband she
met the cab just below the Pelican,
driving furiously away, and that in
the fash of lightning she recognized
the driver as the man whom Lieut..
Naring had beaten that morning on
the levee in front of her place. A
stranger was seated beside him. There
We're two gentlemen inside. but she
saw the face of only one-Lieut.
Warning.
Nobody else could throw any light
on the matter. The doctor. recalled, de-
clared the knife or dagger was shaped
exactly as would have to be the one
that gave the death bow. Everything
pointed to the fact that there had been
struggle, deadly encounter, and
that after the fatal work was done the
murderer or murderers had lett the
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terrified by the tragedy and by his de-
tentiOn under the same roof with the
murdered man that his evidence was
only dragged from him. Nobody sus-
pected the poor fellow of completely
in the crime, yet he seemed to consider
himself as on trial. He swore he had
entered the library only once during
the afternoon or evening, and that
was to close the shutters when the
storm broke. He left lamp burning
low in the hall, according to custom,
though he felt sure his master and
mistress would remain in town over
night rather than attempt to come
down. He had slept soundlv, as
negroes will, despite the gale and the
roar of the rain that drowned all other
noise. 1t was late the next morning
when his mother called him. The old
nanny was frightened to see the
front gate open, the deep water in the
streets, and the muddy footprints on
the veranda. She called Alphonse, who
found that his master must have come
In during the night, after all, for the
lamp was taken from the hall table,
the library door was closed and
locked, SO was the front door, also
barred within, which it had not been
when he went to bed. He tapped at
the library, got no answer, SO tiptoed
to his masters bedroom; it was empty
and undisturbed. Neither had madame
nor Mile. Min Min been to their
rooms. Then he was troubled, and
then the soldiers came and called him
out into the rain. They could tell the
rest
Grams story is already told, and he
could add nothing. The officials tried
to draw the batteryman out as to the
relations existing between Lieut..
Naring and madame, but got badly
''bluffed.' Cram said he had never
seen anything in the faintest degree
worthy of comment. Had he heard
anything? Yes. but nothing worthy
of consideration, much less of repeti-
ton. Had he not loaned Mr. Warning
his team and carriage to drive madame
to town that morning? No. How did
he get 1t then? Took it. Was Mr.
Wari1g in the habit of helping him
self to the property of his brother
officers? Yes, whenever he felt like it,
for they never objected. The legal
official thought such spirit of cam
araderie in the light artillery must
make life at the barracks something
almost poetic, to which Cram re-
sponded: "Oh, at times absolutely
idyllic." And the tilt ended with the
civil functionary ruffied, and this was
bad for the battery. Cram never had
any policy whatsoever.
Lieut. Doyle was the next witness
summoned, and more God-forsaken-
looking fellow never sat in a shell
jacket Still in arrest, physically. at
the beck of old Braxton, and similarly
hampered, intellectually, at the will of
bold John Barleycorn, Mr.. Doyle
came before the civil authorities only
upon formal subpoena served at post
headquarters. The post surgeon had
Strengthened him up during the day.
but was utterly perplexed at his condi-
ton. Mrs. Doyle's appearance in the
neighborhood some weeks before had
been the signal for series of sprees
on the Irishman's part that had on
two occasions SO Frustrated him that
DR.. Potts, an acting assistant surgeon,
had been called in to prescribe for
him, and, thanks to the vigorous con-
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doors locked and barred and e~ca ped
through the window. leaving the desk
riaed and carrying away what money
there was, possibly 70 convey the idea
that Il was only a vulgar murder and
robbery after all
OF other persons who might throw
light upon the tragedy the following
were missing: Lieut. Naring. Private
Dawson. the cabnan. and the uarecog-
nized stranger 20. too. was Anatole' s
boat
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JANUARY ST, 1895

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WOMEN WHO MAKE THE BEST WIVES

Probably there is no one old enough
to be Interested in the question
L" What women make the best
wives?' who has not some personal
ideas on the subject; but whatever
our ideas on any topic may be, 1t Is
always interesting to know the
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If they are "brainy'-ou the same
matter. In DemOrest Family Mag
azine for June the vital question
about good wives is discussed by
Susan b. Anthony, Clara Louise
Kellogg, Mrs. Darlington Booth,
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Wilcox, Ellen BatteIle Dietrich, and
others, all qualified by experience or
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make 1t possible for us to learn of
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Biography and Crime which tells of
the application of the wizard art to
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about how IL become successful pro
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Plants furnishes important hints for
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Stories the "Puzzles' will afford
amusemeuts for the children; all
the numerous departments are over
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Every issue of Demorest's Mag
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and is published for 81 year by W.
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COxE'S BILLS.

The CAUCASIAN has been requet-
Ell to publish the bills that Coxey
wants passed by Congress. They are
as follows:
A Bill for the building Of good
roads.
Be it enacted by the Senate and
Rouse Of Representatives IL Congress
assembled, that the Secretary Of the
Treasury Of the United States is here
by authorized and instructed to have
engraved and have printed, immedi-
ately after the passage Of this bill.
five hundred millions Of dollars Of
treasury notes, legal tender for all
debts, public and private, said notes
to be in denomination Of one, two,
five and ten dollars, and to be placed
in a fund to be known as the "gen-
eral county road fund system Of the
L nitcd States. " and to be expended
solely for said purpose.
Sec. :. That it shall be he du-
ty Of the Secretary of War 10 take
charge Of the construction Of the
said general county road system in
the T'nited States, and said COnstruc-
ton to commence as soon a8 the Sec
rotary Of the Treasury shall inform
the Secretary Of War that the said
fund is available, which shall not be
later than---; when it shall be
the duty of the Secretary If War to
inaugurate the work and cXpend the
sum Of twenty millions Of dollars per
month, pro rata with the number Of
miles Of road in each state and terri
tory IN the United States.
sec. 3. That all labor other
than that Of the Office Of the Secre-
tary Of War, "whose compensations
are already fixed by law" shall be-
paid by the day, and that the rate
he not less than one dollar and fifty
cents per day for common labor, and
three dollars and fifty cents per day
for team and labor, and that eight
hours per day shall constitute a day :
labor under the provisions Of this
bill.
SECOND BILL.
\ Bill for issuing non-interest
bearing bonds.
BE it enacted by the senate and
house Of representatives, III congress
assembled, that whenever any state,
territory, county township munich
palitV, or incorporated town or vii
lage deem it necessary to make any
public Improvements, they shall de-
post with the secretary of the trea,-
ury Of the United States nOn-inter-
est bearing, twenty five year bond,
not to exceed one-half the assessed
valuation of the property in said
state, territory, county, township,
municipality, or Incorporated town or
village, and said bond to be retired
at the rate of four per cent per
annum.
Whenever the foregoing section .of
this act has been complied with, ii
shall be mandatory upon the secre-
tary of the treasury of the United
States to have engraved and prin ed,
treasury notes in denominations of
one, two, five, ten and twenty dollars
each, which shall be full legal ten
der for all debts, public and private,
to the face value of said bond, and
deliver to said state, territory, coun-
ty, township, municipality, or incor-
porated town or village, ninety-nine
per cent Of said notes, and retain one
per cent for expense Of engraving
and printing same.
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5000 REWARD

For any man who voted the Popu-
list ticket at the last election and
who is ashamed of his vote now, or
who has changed his mind and would
not vote that ticket now. This re-
ward is offered by man who was
told time and again by his neighbors
who were Democrats that be would
be ashamed of voting the Populist
ticket. Some Of said Democrats are
ashamed now that they voted the
Democratic ticket. Said man must
prove of good, sound mind and that
he voted the whole ticket from Jas.
B. Weaver down.
IS" Care THE CAUCASIAN.
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SPRINGFIELD, Mo-. Aug. 14th. 1893.
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THE WHY AND WHEREFORE

lSenator Pettigrew voted against
the Mckinley bill in lS9O.-ED. I
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-10-10
What of It?

Fargo Forum: Printers Ink, well
known and responsible New York pub.
LEGATION, has been called on to pay 800
because the Farm, Stock and Home,
Of Minneapolis, claimed to have a
larger circulatio than it was entitled
to, which claim was certified to by H
X. Owen, who is the Populist nominee
for governor Of Minnesota. W. T.
Cole has produced sufficient proof that
Mr.. Ovens certificate is untrue to Sc.
cure the 500 from George P. Rowell-
who neve: fail, to keep his word. We
are sorry for Mr.. Owen, who has i'm.
pressed us as different sort of a
man.
In the first place H. X. Owen is not
the Populist candidate for governor,
and if he did lie about the circulation
of his paper (Which we don't admtt(.
what has S. M. Owen to do with it:
And in the next place, where is the
editor that does not exaggerate his
list of subscribers? "Let him that il
without sin cast the first stone." The
honest paper in America is the REP.
REsENTATIvE; and that claims nc
larger circulation than is vouched FOL
by the fila that does its press-work
Nothing but modesty prevents u.
from saying, that. II you find
Diogenes, With his lantern, hunting
for an honest man, just direct him tc
3Q6 Boston Block; or to Ninin-but We
refrain. Id.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-10-10
False CHARGES.

Hills Crescent: The Peoples party
met in state convention, and with
characteristic stability named full
state ticket to be slaughtered at the
coming fall election. S. M. Owe n
heads the list for governor, and the
balance of the ticket are all good men
too good for the purpose. The only
Holy 1gnatius was named for United
States sen atOr.
Now what is the use in lying in that
way? It must hurt you. was not
named for United States senator by
the convention, nor did ask them to
name me. Neither do I pretend to be
either holy or righteous;-I am simply
plain, average man; no better and
no worse than the multitude. But
suppose this chap knows that I haven t
stolen anything, and in this age of
pine-land robberies that is enough to
exalt man to saintship. Thus vice,
even in it's sneers, pays unwilling tri.
butte to modest virtue. See? I. D.