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60 all that. shall send servant to your
room to help you pack your things, and the
stable is at you disposal to help you away.
You understand"
Colonel Morton stamped his foot on the
floor to give emphasis to his words, and Al
medo stood twirling his black moustache.
while he looked through rather than at his
host.
"Oh, yes; I understand, and shall 60.
You think am murderer Very well, that
is your opinion. know you are tl,ief-that
is my conviction. You need not throw back
your hand. know you have ever pistol on
your hip, but there will be more need Of that
when am gone. This house is yours for you
built it; this land is mine, though you stole
It," said Almedo, every muscle Of his 1.-the
orm trembling with excitement.
Fudge I hold title to Buena Vista by sane
lion of the law. My title is that of every
American who has secured Spanish grant.
If you think have wronged you, go to the
courts, and decide the case there. That is
all, and the colonel stepped back and opened
the door.
"No, it is not all! The Americans have the
sourts, and you have the possession and the
money. know my rights, but also know
ay weakness; and, Colonel Morton" Almedo
walked to the door and added as he looked
back over his shoulder, sI also know your
! past and your present. But only Christ and
the Saints know the future. Adios, senor."
He bowed, showed his white teeth, and van.
ished.
r. AS soon as DR.. Haynor and Lord Pelham
started for the wounded mans room, Dora,
who had been silent but profoundly inter-
ested listener to the conference, whispered to
Mile Bertrand: 81 shall be praying for sue
cess and waiting for the news. Do not keep
me in torture, even the worst will be a re-
lief, and she hurried off to find her mother.
: Mrs. Morton rose when Dora entered the
room, and catching her to her heart, said
with choking sob:
my poor darling, the bullet that struck his
head has pierced your heart; but it is ever
SO, it has been ever so. The bullets that
strike men down on the battle field never stop
there, but wing their way to some quiet home
and find their final Judgment in the breast of
some mother or sister, or sweetheart or wife.
Here, rest, my child, there are worse things
than DEATH"
She led the poor girl to a lounge in the sit
ting room, and making her lie down. she took
seat beside her and began to stroke her
forehead. There is nothing brings healing
to the suffering child like the magnetic touch
of the mothers hand, nothing that so soothes
the troubled soul as the sympathetic music of
mothers voice.
al shall wait for Mile Bertrand; she will
bring the news-the news of life or death,
said Dora.
She elapsed her hands and closed her eyes
tightly, as if to shut out vision that tortured
and the pale-faced mother bending over the
one object that held her to life, and sharing
Ill her agony though the intense sympathy
that bound them, whispered:
eff you could weep, my darling, you would
5nd a healing and a comfort in tears
Mrs. Morton did not speak from her own
experience, tears were dim memory or
tradition with her. Her own grief had never,
tfrar-s"' In
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ssNo doubt of il" acquiesced Morton, 1--WE
have full quota of that kind of gentry on this
coast, but we forget the black crimes Of the
past, in the blazing prosperity of the present"
After this the conversation changed to other
topics, though more than once, Colonel Nor
ton referred to the strange case of Leonard
Martin. ts.a=-
When in San Francisco, Colonel Morton was
always the busiest OF men,. He was a mana
ger or director in scores of great ventures.
He was regarded as q mascot, scrt of Pacific
Coast Midas, who turned everything he
touched into gold, He had won the enviable
position where promising new enterprises
were glad to give him stock for the use of his
name. - ghS'5 -
He was on the best of terms with the news
paper men, who III order 10 please him, never
announced his arrival, and SO saved him from
being deluged by preachers and philanthro-
pists, for it had come to be well-known that
he could not resist an appeal for charity or to
convert the heather, and that the only way he
could keep from impoverishing himself was
by keeping out of the reach of solicitors.
Colonel Morton put UP at the Palace Hotel,
and as he kept quarters there by the year, he
did not register. y III
He and Judge Davidson had late breakfast
or an early lunch in his rooms, and then he
called cab and was driven to an old fashioned
building on SAMSON street. He hurried to
the second story, and, after knocking, was
admitted into large room fitted up as an
office, and with the many chairs about that
showed it was used as place for conference.
There was telegraph instrument on table
with young man sitting beside it, and an.
elderly bald-headed man, with long nose
and high shoulders bending over him.
"Hello, French, you see I'm here" was the
colonels salutation, as he shook hands with
the bald-headed man.
"Yes, and I'm glad you've come," replied
French.
"Any news from Buena Vista?"
eyes, the patient is doing we'll, and your
guest, Lord Pelham, has gone to Monterey
But sit down and let us talk" Then turning
to the operator French nodded and added,
'Be within reach, Todd, if should want you"
The young man bowed and left, and the two
men, although there was no one .else in the
room to overhear, literally 'sput their heads
together" and, in whispers, discussed the
giant scheme that was to make the fortunes
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list Girl9 You walk lame Susie; corns?
I'D Girl) No characterization.
All the overhead wires in New York from
Twenty-third street to the battery have been
taken down and buried. 1t is said, though
not firmly believed, that all the wires will be
underground in another year.
The health department of Brooklyn pays
its public vaccinators $75 each month. It
has recently appointed two women to this
position, the reason being that girls object to
being vaccinated on the arm.
The New Zealanders claim that the reason
they do not feel the hard times like the rest
of the world is because they have woman
suffrage, the land tax and are too far re-
moved from the old world to get the over
flow of its paupers.
When Sir Walter Scott was boy Robert
Burns, who had already won the laurel
wreath, said to him when he had named the
author of some verses of current literature
Young man, you have begun to consider
these things early" Young Scott flushed,
whereat Burns took him by the hand and
emit, "This boy will be heard of yeti"
In this season of house placards an anec-
dote of the Sheridan's is recalled The two
were supping together one night after the
opera, and Tom, who was candidate for
parliament, said, 81 think, father, that many
men who are called great patriots in the
House of Commons are great humbugs. For
my own part, if get into parliament, will
pledge myself to no party, but write upon my
forehead, in legibe characters, TO Let"
"And under that, Tom" retorted the pro-
genitor, sswrite -sUnfurnished.'
"Pat'' Walsh, appointed to succeed General
Colquitt as United States Senator from
Georgia, is an Irishman by birth and type
setter by training. He is under the medium
height, stoutly built, slightly pox-marked,
and has good sized mouth and genial gray
eye. He has long been the editor and pro-
prietor of the Augusta Chronicle, and has
served in the house and state senate. He is
personally very popular with men, and al
though skirmishing round sixty, he continues
to be great favorite with the ladies'. Unlike
most self-made men, he does not worship his
creator.
There is, probably, no Joy as accessible and
practical as cycling, and with it comes health.
Wheels are cheap, too, and there is hardly
any good reason why the rare sport should
not be INDUCED by everyone. While there is
only one seat on the bicycle yet it is like the
old family carriage, it has room for all-in in
dividual turns, of course. The adjustable
saddle and handle rod, and the removable bar
of the woman's wheel, render the vehicle one
of general utility for man, woman and child.
And now that the divided skirt has been in
troduced there Is really no excuse for
"gender" in the construction Of the bicycle.
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CHAPTER XII.
OUT OF THE JAWS OF DEATH.

\. Doctor Haynor was an educated, sef-reli-
never been called ON to trepan mans skull,
and he did not care to undertake 1t without
the presence Of some Of his professional
brethren. but the fact that Ralph Holmes
was sinking fast and that Lord Pelham ap-
peared to be cool and to have more than @
,ayman's knowledge of the necessities Of the
case gave him a confidence to try it at once.
Pelham wanted Colonel Morton and Doctor
Ellerton to witness the operation, but both
stoutly refused, the former saying with
shudder:
81 have horror OF blood!"
After all the preparations were made, Mile
,ertrand, whose quiet manner was in striking
contrast to that of the people about her, said:
doctor Haynor, I have practeece to nurse
in re war my countree ave wiz re German.
Eef you shall not object, viii stay near"
The doctor did not object and Mlle. Ber-
trand, in the operation that followed, proved
herself to be most efficient ally.
Twenty minutes after Doctor Haynor, Lord
Pelham and Mile Bertrand had entered the
wounded mans room, DR.. Castillo. one OF the
physicians who had been sent for, arrived,
and his own appearance and that of his pant
ing, foam-fecked horse showed that he had
come in O hurry.
Captain Almedo tried to draw this man
eside, but Colonel Morton, who understood
Spanis.., interfered, and insisted that the new
arrival should join DR.. Haynor at once.
When DR.. Castillo had compiled with this
request, the Colonel drew Almedo into the Ii
brary, and closing the door behind them, he
said, in low kissing voice and with blazing
eyes:
! "And SO this is your work, Senior Almedo?"
"My rife was discharged. If the bullet, It
.1it this man Holmes, it was an accident But
J do not know. you do not know that it was
Che same bullet. Why should want to hurt
him? If cared to kill this Holmes, could
do it and no one would know"
Almedo was very pale, there was foam
about his thin lips, but the most careful stu
dent Of physiognomy would have boon puz-
zled to tell whether his excitement were due
to fear or anger.
"Bah Do you think I'm fool? You fired
that shot with your eye along the rifle bar
rel, and you meant it to kill! Now, Amedo
If this young man dies by-you will not
survive him many hours. Perhaps I did on
courage your insane suit for my daughters
hand, at least saw nc reason at the time to
positively discourage it, but this puts an end
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sporty.-"Can you tell me why Overdoo
wears tan shoes all winter?'
Softy.-"Can't imagine, unless it is that he
has no others
Sporty-"Gussed it first time, my boy.
Have one with me-
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in all the years since her discovery of her
husbands treason, been 80 light as to find
relief in tears. The blow that brushes and
destroys draws no blood. and the hot soul
torture parches the fountain of tears; yet
through all the years she had prayed for their
healing, but they never came.
"If the shot had only been aimed at mep
groaned Dora.
"But it was, my child, what matters It
which the lead struck? Think you the curse
that has blackcned my life through all these
years, has been felt only by me? No, no. the
man for whom was stolen has suffered
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"Memory-memory signs our poet.
"Yes-one of those old crank organs-hand
instruments, turned by swarthy, greasy
son of that country which Byron says has
the fatal gift of beauty-has given me the
fullest measure of delight. I have closed my
eyes in a deliciousreverie, and have seemed
under Italian skies where the soft melody,
strained through the palpitating air. has
lulled me into sweet repose.'
When Sydney Smith visited Paris he was
pleased with the profusion OF wall mirrors,
then an art confined exclusively to France,
and when he saw himself reflected on every
side he said of the occasion-"I took it for
meeting of the clergy, and was delighted, of
course" In these latter times of bar-room
mirrors he might mistake, if he were yet liv-
ing, the assemblage for men Of a very differ
ent character.
Aaron Burr was The typical beau of his gen.
GRAFTON, and an adept in repartee. When he
returned from Europe in 1872 he met friend
in Broadway, maiden lady of sensitive age,
who said to him:
"Col. Burr, you do not recollect me?"
81 do not, Madam was the renlv- >
"It is Miss f., SIR
"What! Miss K. yet? -
eyes, Sir, Miss Il. yeti" reiterated the
piqued woman. ~
The delicacy of the situation with the un-
fortunate slip prompted the gallant Burr to
remark most emphatically, as he took her
assuringy by the hand
"Well, Madam then venture tc "ssert that
it is not the fault of my sexl" y
Ina Broadway car. A tired-looking mid
dle-aged woman, poorly but clearly clad,
strained on strap-for she was not tall-and
with difficulty maintained the perpendicular.
The young man, and the old man, and the
man of forty, each kept his seat. At Becker
streeta girl of seventeen, with witchery in her
black eye and dimpled cheek and rosebud
mouth, entered the car. The young man, the
old man, and the man of forty. rose stimuli
taneously. The girl tossed her pretty
head saucily and sat down plomb. The
young man, and the man of forty, each
resumed his seat. The old man and the
tired looking middle-aged woman strained on
straps. The car boWled on.
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oBDs AND ENDS

Qst Girl0 You walk lame Susie; corns?
I'D Girl.) No Decentralization
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almost old age for girl of the people. But
the profile had remained fine and pure; the
black dress looked as though it had just come
out of handbook, and her countenance was
SO good and SO modest! Palette still retain
ed something of the look of young girl.
Over two years ago she had been recommend
ed to Madame Cladat as an irreproachable
person and worthy of any interest. But the
pretty woman, though employing her, had
perhaps never addressed ten words to her.
1t was out of the ordinary that Palette was
installed to-day in the dining room The
sewing room looked upon the courtyard, and
under somber November sky it was impos-
sible to get enough light to sew by
Madame Cladat, worried at the thoughts Of
her rendezvous, had no appetite. She could
hardly drink cup of tea. She glanced at
the clock on the mantel. A quarter to one
alreadyi
II will go to the Louvre she thought "It
is not crime. My husband leaves me alone
SO much. Remember that when he is with
her.she finds him insupportable.) But this
young man! Do love him? Oh, how much
I am to be pitiedP'
But at the very moment of mentally pro-
nouncing this words, GLOW much I am to be
pitiedr' her gaze fell upon Palette, absorbed
in her work, intimidated by the presence of
the mistress of the house, and making her
self as small as possible in her corner. In
spite of her many vanities and foolish ac-
tons, Madame Cladats heart was still in the
right place and she was accessible to pity,
and that is how the idea came to this pretty
woman that poor Palette might not be very
happy either. Palette was q woman who
seemed to have suffered, and Madame Cladat
who lately had become very sorry for herself
liked to feel sorry for another. She said,
turning suddenly to the working girl: ~.
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The New Zealanders claim that the reason
they do not feel the hard times like the rest
of the world is because they have woman
suffrage, the land tax, and are too far re-
moved from the old world to get the over
flow of its MANNERS
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money. 80 Iar ne mas pracClceQ the same
principle in trying to clear out the nests OF
his political enemies. Like Mr.. Whitney, he
believes that money is necessary when cleo
tons are to be won. He has plenty of that
article himself and he is not afraid to use it.
Personally, outside of politics, Mr.. Grace is
q most genial man. He is a sturdily built
man, with strong face and head and his
manners are frank and bluff in their way He
strikes you at first glance as a man who goes
into political fights for the fun there is in
them. Like most adroit men he never un<
der estimates his antagonists. For that mat
ter, he seems to have no personal ill-feeling
toward them-even including Hill, for whose
genius for politics he seems to hold high
admiration.
The millionaire politician is the most DEM
ocratic of men in his private and business
life. His offices occupy large building near
the piers at which his ships tie up. He can
see them loading and unloading from his
office window. He sits in large plain room
divided from the small army of clerks only
by small wooden railing. He is easily seen
by any one having business with him, and
these are legion. He is hard worker, mas
ter of every detail Of his great business in
the management of which he is assisted by
his brother, who has charge of the firms af-
fairs outside of New York.
Mr.. Grace is not society man. He is like
majority of the prominent business men
of New York in that he seems to find his
chief pleasure in the management of his bust
ness. He is seen in the theatres now and
then in company with his wife and daughter,
but his chief amusements are business and
politics. The first of these two he has sue
ceeded famously in. His career in politics
is by no means ended. He has money and
brains and ambition. He is strong physi,
cally. He is in the prime of life and he has
powerful friends. It would be unwise to at
tempt to forecast his future at this time
But he is man to keep your eye ON all the
time.
FOSTER COATES.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-11-29
THE INTERNAL nEyENur.


Its, Cigarettes, OleomnrgnrIne.
Washington. Nov. 9s.-The annual
report of Joseph S. Miller. the COM
missioner OF Internal revenue. shows
the total receipts from all sources for
the fiscal year ending June 30. 1894,
to have been sii7. lGs.ii9. decrease for
the year of sla,ss6.5IO The following
table shows the receipts from the sew
eral sources during the last fiscal year
and the Increase or decrease as compar-
ed with the year next preceding:
Spirits, ss5,259,2 52, decrease ss,iGi.oo
Tobacco. s2s,6l7S9s; decrease sS,27l,-
Sl3.
Fermented liquors, ssi,iii7ss; de-
crease. Sl,12l1ej.
oieomargarine. si,723,4T9. increase
$50, sss.
Bankers, s22s; no change.
Miscellaneous, Sl4Il6s,4i9; decrease
S1s.S36,5s9.
Quantities of spirits etc, on which
tax was paid during the last fiscal year
with the increase or decrease as COM
pared with the fiscal year 1893, are Civ
en- as follows;
Spirits distilled from apples, peaches
and grapes, 1,iSO,553 gallons; decrease
2569sS.
Distilled from other materials. ST.
4S6, s3I gallons: decrease l0lll,5li.
Fermented liquors. 33.33i,7S3 barrels;
decrease l.2l9,53i.
Number OF cigars, cheroots and Gig
arettes Weighing over three pounds per
thousand, 4066 .lsS; decrease, 747,-
e79.6si.
Cigarettes Weighing not over three
pounds per thousand. 3,ls3,57S,I6O; In
crease. 6,Ssi,0G0.
pounds per thousand, 20S.SIO; increase
snun. 1t,s27O92 pounds; decrease
Chewing and smoking tobacco, 1885,
45l sos pounds: decrease. lG,9i1,94i
oleomargarlnc, 66,42T9OO pounds; In
crease 1,G6G,l95.
OF the receipts by states Illinois IS al
the head of the list. sSO942.2S3; Ken
tucky next with S2i,30s,630' New forI
next with slS,922,1l1; Ohio with sl2'Aoi'
sos; PENNSYLVANIA, 81. ll9b.
The cost Of collecting the interna
revenue during the last year was 81,
| OH. 9Oi. or go per cent OF the collec
The total number of Chinese regis
| trutlnn certificates APPLIED for unde
I the act OF November g, 1898. was lu6,hll
AZ n cost, up 10 June 30. 1884,, Of A2,Ss
The estimated expenses OF interna
revenue service for the fiscal year ena
ing .Iune 30, 1896, are given at N's9''
$40. u,o ,,,orl, a
,he bureau is IN excellent condition botl
in the office OF the commissioner ah'
In the field. .a.o,
Twenty-one thousand seven nuhare'
and twenty nine Violations on ~ ~ ,ha
i,,roau agent during the year, 6S2 PET
sons were arrested; property 70 W
value OF s2l6, 19l was reported ior sei@
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-11-29
Monn mos nA,A IImaArloN.
rrcilminary steps rnicn 20 invc-u-
nate tiiowea.sns.

Indianapolis, Ind, NOV. es,-I, IL
probable that the allowances In tho
Iron Hall rceelveiship Viii be inves-
tigated and preliminary steps aiken
Ia secure the CONTRA action In tho
matter II viii come before Judge
AicMastrrs or the superior bench Who
has just succeeded Judge winters.
who made the allowances. II Is re-
ported thnt q petition rccltine tho
facts and alleging eNtravReauees. cN-
cessive payments 90 both receivers
and ATTORNEYS. pay for services mat
were unnecessary tlnd incNpelicnt.
interest On The deposits In the bank.
hnR been prepared and Win be pra-
scented to the court. The removal ut
Mr.. falley IA receiver viii BE- asked.
and the reduction OF expenses ltencr-
ally demanded.
Daniel Wnio Howe, attorney for
the defendants or the Iron Hail nti-
cation. has filed petition of q Hper-
lnl nature before the supreme court.
II protcata ngainat the indulgence
shown by the court to the attorneys
for tho appclleea md tho pornliAslon
allowed thcm TO take the papcra on
the Mes ana kcrn them. The petition
concludes as follpws.
M what the daily papers report ~
true. The fund Ia controversy has been
plundercd IN open court In the court
below, while this appeal has hccn
hanging IRE here but there N stlll. lt
aeenA. over S10O,O0O cash In the hande
OF the receiver. which IN worth saving
to my clients. I again inHist that
this cUutt order the papers returned
10 the nlrs and to ask that II keep
thom until the appeal IL decided"
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-11-29

st. Louis. Mo. Nov. s7..-Gcnerni A..
j. Warner OF Ohio presided over "A
meeting OF the executive committee
OF the bi-metallic league which was
held behind closed doors today. Hon.
John Devinc OF Nebraska acted as
secretary, and the conference was also
attended by large numbers OF silver
mon who We're brought together By
the TranH-Mlsslasipp congress. II
will last Two days. and according to
one Of the members of the committee
Ii expected 10 outline the policy Of
the silver factions ~ the Republican
and Democratic parties and the silver
policy OF the Peoples party for the
next two years This 10 thought to
be preliminary meeting called Ia
outline the work OF convention that
will be held some time later IN the
winter TO form IA silver party by abb
horblng entirely the POpuiist party
and drawing from the two older par
Ties their free silver advocates Cen
eral Warner in his opening speech
announced that tho conference would
place before the friends OF silver a
plan to pursue In this country 20 OBJ
tain the free coinage OF silver by the
United States and unite the silver
men 81 each party. Governor Waite
Of Colorado. q. &. Collin OF Little
Rock. Judge Miller OF Chicago. Hon.
". j bryan OF Nebraska. Hon. Rich
ard r. bland ef Missouri aud j G.
Slbiey 81 Pennsylvania, also made
speeches along the same line. Before
ailournlnK until Wednesday morning
committees were appointed 70 devse
plans OF action.