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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-05-27

floor. Without changing the direction of his
fgaze, he asked:
T. Erred, do you understand the situation?"
/" The young man hesitated, nervously
stroked his chin, then said, with an effort: :
r Eyes, sir; I think do.''
"And you know who was buried last night?"
eyes SIR
sand you realize the danger Of my situa-
zion, and the danger of your own?" $3.50
!. 81 think do" was the response. -
Every well, Fred" said the colonel, rising,
"close your instrument for the last time, put
out the light, and follow me. I cannot re-
ward you tonight as should like to, but you
will SEQ that have not forgotten my promise.
Gomez"
!, The colonel walked slowly down the wind
ling stairs to the private office, followed
by the operator, who had closed his instru-
ment and extinguished the lamp.
The colonel opened his safe, in which all
his papers were methodically arranged, and
laying his hand on sealed envelope which
bore the operators name, he pulled it cut,
and handing it to him, said:
''Take this; go to the STABLE tell Juan to
saddle you one of the best horses, and then
leave Buena Vista behind you as fast as you
can, nor ever let it be known that you were
In my employ"
"a Fred took the envelope, placed it in his
breast pocket, and with evident emotion,
shook the hand of his employer, and said:
at was hard place, sir. But told you
when you employed me, that I could keep my
lips closed and my ears open, and have
: done so. And now that the time for parting
has come, can promise you that whatever
fidelity have shown you in the past, shall
continue. Good bye, and God bless you.'
The colonel shook the young mans hand,
but made no response; he opened the door to
let him pass through, then closed it, and
went back and threw himself on the lounge,
and closed his eyes, as though overcome by
fatigue.
+ He had been lying down but few minutes,
when timid rap was heard at the door, and
In response to his "Come mp it opened, and
Mile. Bertrand, his wife's companion, entered.
She was very pale, and was so much excited
that she seemed to forget her English-of
which she usually had a fair command-but
she managed to tell him that Mrs. Morton
wanted to see him.
( "Whatp' be demanded, roughly, "has she
not gone to bed yet?'
"No, STRIP was the response. "She feels
too bad; she is sick and would speak with
you"
"Speak with mel" roared the colonel. "Tell
her to wait till morning! It is after mid
night, and no time for interviews. That is
all, Mile. Bertrand. Good night" and he
waved her to the door and closed it behind
her.
Mile. Bertrand made her way to Mrs. Nor
toms private apartments, where she found
her mistress and Dora, both as ,pale and
quite as excited as herself. Speaking in
French, she said:
81 told him to come; but he will not. All
madam, do not think that this is the colonel
Us you believe. It is the colonel who is dead
and this is Doctor Ellerton."
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4 SUDDEN fOalOaE.
A STORY OF CALIFORNIA OF TO-bar.
Author of "Ne,n. Tales of the Border" sour
= Southern -Nountainee's," "Monteanna,"
The Antipodeans," Etc.
ALFRED r. CALHOUN.
CHAPTER NIX. 4
DRIVEN TO DESPERATION.

= After Colonel Morton had instructed Rob-
erts and his gang of outlaws, he returned
by means of tine underground passage to the
house.
Heaseended to the private office, then to the
telegraph tower. He found Il d, the operator,
asleep on the lounge, and Sita a lamp burn
ing dimly on the telegraph table. The instru-
.ment was clicking v;ciously, but the familiar
AID monotonous sound must have had a
soothing effect on the sleeper. ..
The colonel shook the young man, who
rose in dazed sort OF way, and rubbing his
eyes, asked: .zez-.-
"What is the matter, sir?"
''Ihave come for the news" replied Morton.
what is the last report from San Fran
cisco:"
The operator turned up the lamp, selected
number of papers, which he must have
Eritten before going to sleep, and handed
them to the man, of whose identity he had
never had any doubt
The messages were from French's conf
dental secretary, who was still in possession
of the San Francisco office, though his en-
ployer had fed. These dispatches showed
that the great conspiracy to unload counter
felt and forged stock on the markets of the
country was the one subject that was exciting
all the business centers and keeping the tele-
graph wires red hot in the interest of the
newspapers.
The colonel sat down on the operators
side of the table, While Fred took Up his
pencil, and again began writing. Suddenly
the young man stopped, changed his SWITCH
md tr-n Of
across the table, said:
: Il think, Sir this will interest YOU
Colonel Morton adjusted his glasses and
In his nervous anxiety read aloud, as fol-
lows:
: 1T is now generally believed in this city
and in the East, that Colonel Norton al
though associated in business with many Of
the guilty parties, had nothing to do with
the gigantic conspiracy to defraud the leading
carrying corporations of the country. Sus-
picion, however, strongly points to the col
onel's friend and associate, DR.. Ellerton, who
is said to be the dead mans executor, and
who is now in possession of Buena Vista.
Scores of detectives have left this city for
San Bernal, and Albert Howard and d number
of his friends, who. a few years ago, made a
reputation in Arizona as Vigilantes, when
they cleaned out the gamblers and desper-
ADDE'S at Tucson, are now said to be watching
Buena Vista for reasons of their own. If
this be true, there is hardly any necessity
for sending detectives from this point, as
Ellerton will find it impossible to escape
from Howard and his men,
! Colonel Morton read this paper over
second and third time; then with his
eyes fixed on the ceiling, he tore it into little
pieces. and let them fall like chaff on the
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-05-27

prey escape him at the last moment, Albert
Howard raised his rifle and fired. At the Same
instant half n dozen shots were fired from the
boat, and Howard staggered back with his
right arm hanging helplessly byhis side.
by this. time the commodore and Ralph had
reached the bay. The yacht had passed the
first line OF breakers and was heading for the
BAR They could distinguish every one on
board, among them Colonel Morton, who
stood near the helm. In his heart the. COM
modore half hoped that the desperate man
might escape. The yacht reached the bar
and rose and fell-iiks a. great bird on the
mountains of white foam tJiShe was we'll
managed, and undoubtedly would have sue
ceeded in another minute, but suddenly from
the hold an unexpected figure appeared on
the deck. This was Mad Inez. With
hatchet she at ence began slashing at the
ropes. The mainsail came down, the yacht
turned broadside on the breakers, was tossed
aloft for an instant, and the next, shrill death
cries came in with the booming of the waves,
and the boat had vanished with all on board
4 * * Il * *
But little more remains to be said. When
the news OF the burning of Buena Vista and
the loss OF the. yacht became known, the
newspapers stated, and all their readers be-
.>Ieved, that DR.. Ellerton was the man who had
fired the building, and who was drowned on
the bar, and no one regretted his fate.
Albert Howard recovered from his wound,
Z but the work of vengeance towhich he had
4, devoted his sGfe being accomplished, he be-
came careless Of himself, grew dissipated,
Z and died, poor and friendless, q few years
afterwards.
What the reader must have anticipated
from the first, actually did happen. To-day,
in the old home ON the banks of the Hudson
two families are living, one that of Commo-
dore West, who, after many years, found that
the love of his younger manhood had not
changed its object in approaching age. It is
! fitting that Mrs. Ralph Holmes should live
= with her mother, Mrs. Commodore West an
arrangement to which Ralph did no. object;
ana it is equally fitting that the faithful
Mile. Bertrand should be the custodian of
the home on the North River, as she was at
.Buena Vista.
And SO the signal is given that the drama
= IS ended, and the curtain falls upon the close
), of the last act.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-05-27

eral Henry D. Wallen next is that Of General
Cuvier Grover, who died some years ago
while colonel Of the First Cavalry; on a line
with Growers an imposing shaft has been
erected in memory of General George Sykes,
commando Or of the Regular division early in
the war, and later Of tho Fifth Corps. So
highly were Sykes services appreciated that
Congress appropriated 81 900 to BRING ais re-
mains frsm Texas, where he d.ed, -7aaraasy
8, $780, % West Point. The ! ny VI t-e
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-05-27
GRAVES OF GREAT GENERALS.
Brave Leaders on Land and Sea
Who Fight No nore.
Tombs That viii BE Buried Deep U-,-
der Flowers on Memorial Bay-The
Last Resting Places of Grant,
Farragut, Sherman and
Others. '1o&"

NEW YORK, May M.-Ulysses s. Grant was
the military as David Glasgow Farragut was
the naval hero of the war for the ipreserva-
ton of the Union, and in death they are not
divided, for while Grant sleeps in Riverside
Park, Farragut's grave is in Woodlawn Gem
etery, only "a few miles away. The site of
General Grants tomb is one of-the finest in
New York. 1t is the highest point in River
side Park, and overlooks a long stretch of
the Hudson River. On the opposite side,
which is in the State of New Jersey, rises a
sheer wall of green, which a little further
northward becomes barren and merges into
the steep rock OF the Palisades All day
long steamboats, and sailing vessels pass up
and down under this wall, and the people
on them Can plainly see the tomb.
Simple and unpretending is the grave of
Admiral Farragut. On a gentle knoll in
Woodlawn Cemetery stands a plain marble
column, and at it's foot, under two mounds
of plants, lie the great admiral and his wife,
side by side. The monument represents
broken mast covered at the top with
shroud. At the base of the mast is row of
Delaying pins, with ropes coiled about them,
and around them ara strewn the tools of
navigation, the compass, sextant, wheel and
pulley. Upon these lie sword, trumpet
and flag and three shields. Upon the ped
estal, which is of granite, are these words:
Erected by his wife and son to the memory
of David Glasgow Farragut, First Admiral in
the United States Navy, born July 5, 1901,
died Aug. IA, 1902; and on another side is
this: Virginia D. Farragut, wife of David
Glasgow Farragut, born Nov. "a, 1924, died
Oct. 81, 1884, At the foot of each of the
graves is small stone bearing the initials of
Farragut and his wife.
General William Tecumseh Sherman rests
in Calvary Cemetery, st. Louis, at the juno
ton of Bethany and the Holy Rosary walks.
The monument which will mark the exact
spot in the Sherman lot is notyet completed,
and the grave is at present tout head
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-05-27

There are three creatures, possibly there
may be more but these three force them
selves into prominence in every country be-
tween the poles and the equator. They are
the common crow, the horse fly and the bed
bug. The latter, despite all the precautions
and safeguards thrown out by the most
vigilant housekeeper, will at'times make his
way into the most closely guarded sanctum
sanctorum of repose. When he is discovered
the better plan is to declare immediate and
relentless war, and the most effective agent
I know for this purpose is naphtha The
naphtha may be sprayed into the cracks and
pores of woodwork using a spring bottom
oil can. All places where the bugs are en-
camped must be saturated with naphtha. But
while you are handling this ammunition,
bear ever in mind that daylight is the only
time it should be used, for the sufficient
reason that it is most infiammable SUBJ
stance, and with a light near, there will be
danger that while you are destroying the
5 bugs, you may be tempting a con1agration
that might ruin their habitation with them
selves.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-05-27
THE END.
Some story Writer'S.

II every managing editor in the land we're
asked what class of contributors gives him
Sthe most annoyance, I think he would
unhesitatingly say s'story writer's" While
. the masters of fiction stand lat. the head of
literature, it is a curious fact that every man
and woman with @ fair education and any
taste for literature imagines that he or she
has special gift for story writing. Such
people shrink with horror from any writing
that requires accuracy and research. It is
comparatively easy matter, so they think, to
plan out a story Of love, travel or adventure,
and dash it off with the hot heat of genius,
certain that the first editor to whom it is
offered will accept it eagerly and pay for it at
the highest price. Sometimes these writer's
attempt higher flights, and write long stories
which are never read except by themselves.
In these days Of cheap literature and cheap
popular publications, the amount of 'swash''
written and actually published is surprising.
= The so=called "fatnily' papers, which make
speciality of serial stories, pay from one to-
three hundred dollars for novels of about
seventy thousand words, or sufficient to
make good sized volume. Not extravagant
compensation this, to be sure, yet the num-
DeT VI story WFlISrS'- Has increased SO rap.
idly, particularly among women, that they
are willing to sell long serial for even
less than a hundred dollars, and often
for the sake of seeing their produc-
ton In print. The work of men story
writer's of this class isabad enough, goodness
knows, but it is pures and wholesome COM
pared with the erotie and corruptingly sug-
gestive work of women. would not for an
instant intimate that men are more moral
than women, for I do not think they are;
but every reader of manuscripts for the
press must confess that he has had stories
sent to him by women which made him
blush in the privacy OF his closet and made
him ashamed of the sex of his mother. It
would be wrong to infer that the lives of
these women story writers are impure;
many of them are good mothers and wives
who try to maintain their homes on the pro-
duct of their pens. It maybe that they are
simply fulfilling the demands of the pub
Usher who grows rich by sending out such
stuff, yet, even where there is not the induce
ment of money among the manuscripts sub
mitted for approval, those of women have, as
rule, the same demoralizing and debasing
tendency.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-05-27

General Grant paid the expenses of the
funeral OF Rawlins out of his own pocket, it
having been reported that the chief of staff
had left his family almost destitute.
'Stonewall' Jackson's grave is near that
of his great leader Lee, in the cemetery at
Lexington, Va. Above it is q statue Of
bronze, heroic In size, and portraying Jack
son with uncovered head. leaning on his
sword and left leg, and looking out upon q
field of battle. The grave of General William
NJ. Pendleton is near that of Jackson. Gem
eral Joseph E. Johnston is buried in Green
mount Cemetery, Baltimore, and Generals,
Pierre G. T. Beauregard and James B. Hood
at New Orleans. General Patrick R. Cleburne
sleeps at Helena Ark, and stately monu-
ment marks the grave of the gallant Irish
soldier who was often called the "Stonewall
of the West" General Jubal A. Early is
buried in quiet Lynchburg, where he died a
few months ago, and General Ambrose p.
Hill at Richmond. General John s. Marina
dukes grave is at st. Louis and that of Gem
erai George E. Pickett at Norfolk, Va. Gem
eral Albert Sidney Johnston is buried at New
Orleans, and fine monument marks his
grave. WILFoRD GRAY, .,
~
General Lew Wallace and Congressional
Librarian Spoford, of Washington, are in
favor of starting an American Academy Of
Letters, that will correspond to the French
Academy. 30 far their proposition has not
met with hearty encouragement The press
does not support them indeed, it inclines to
treat the idea with ridicule. thing may be
excellent for France that would be quite out
of place here,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-05-27

The rumor comes from Washington that
the nude and naughty Worlds Fair medal
designed by NJ. st. Gaudens, has been so i'm
proved by the addition of necessary drapery
as to meet the approval of even such
stickler for the proprieties as Mr.. Anthony
Comstock. The Jacksonville jury that de-
.cided that Rubens' Judgment of Paris" was
E was a very immoral picture, has not yet
passed on the new medal.
Miss Helen NJ. Goudlhas just had built an
elaborate bowling alleyat her summer home,
Lindenhurst, near Irvingtol-cn- the Hudson.
This alley is fitted up in magnificent STYLE
The balls are of Brazilian mahogany, and the
beds OF the alleys are the perfection of car
ipenter work. At either end there is hand
some reception room fitted up with japanese
rugs, rich draperies, end furniture of Aus
trian bent wood. Each room is provided
with huge fireplace, tenders with andirons
and fireirons, in wrought iron Of the most
artistic design. A long veranda runs from
one end of the building toithe other, and
about the reception room are Turkish divans.
During the winter, Miss Gould pursues her
favorite exercises, while in New York, at the
Berkeley Ladies' Athletic Club, of which she
is one of the organizers, and the vice-presi-
dent.
The Industrial Armies are dropping out
OF sight as fast as they came into notice, but
whether they are icing thianed by arrests,
death, desertion, or are. being mustered out
= at the, expiration of their time Of service we
are not Informed, nor, so that they drop
BACK into sieir original obscurity, do we care
TO know.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-05-27

The exodus Of tourists is now in full flood
from America to the shores of Europe. 1t is
estimated that between fifty and one hundred
thousand Americans will visit the old world
during the summer of 1894, and that they
will expend abroad over one hundred millions
of dollars. This outpouring of money in
creases from year to year, and so long as it
continues it will be impossible for the United
States to hold the balance of trade as
against the Old World.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-05-27

By the side of their father they sleep on the
hill,
And that mother, with bowed head, obeying
Gods will,
Set flowers on each grave, and tear-waters
them still.
Now, ye who ne'er fought, but who snarl DER
the dead?
Say, whose was the nobler or Drawer blood
she'd
His who fell on the Ridge, his who at the
r Mine bled?
Oh, mother,-our country! Oh, Spring o. our
.ed skies,
On one breast brothers sleep; at one call
-. flowers rise
Der the blue and the gray-God only is wise.
Brother from the Southland, come, fill to the
- brlm. sl.ht y
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-05-27

Rice, to che nations OF eastern Asia, oc-
cupies greater place than wheat does with
us. AS with the potato in Ireland, at times
it is pretty much the only food of the poorer
people. The potato, however, despite the
high position in our esteem, and stomachs,
that it has assumed, has never yet aspired to
a place in religious ceremony, and We think
of wheat only as bread pastry or griddle
cakes. But i'll the Buddhist countries, it is
for grains of rico that the yellow-garbed
priest holds out his begging dish, and it
: takes part in religion, being, indeed, the
commonest Offering to the Deity.
1t is said that operators in bituminous
coal have been ordering in Europe as we'll as
Nova Scotia because of the scarcity caused
by the great strike. 49,.
In the matter of electric lighting, the
United States is ahead Of all the rest OF the
!, world, and the Western States are far in adj
vance of those Of the East. Even the South
shows more progress in this means of ium-
q ination than does the East
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-05-27

And SO near of an age they played the same
.. games;
They went to one school, they read the same
books, ". <.
They slept in one bed, till at last, cen in
These brothers were like as the stars in the
~ bro6ks..dJ n
But one day, the drum-beat rang down
= through the land,
John said: 19@By the Union I'm going to
astandn,.. SO
Jim heard him-the brothers then stood hand
in hand.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-05-27
JOHN AND JIM.
A True story Of a Border State.
Il ALFRED R. CALHOUN.

They lived on the line-their father was dead,
man from the South to North woman
wed,
Who brought up her sons to stand in his
stead; ~
Not uncommongb boys, with long, uncommon
The elder. was John and the younger was
James,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-04-26
Mary and John.

John Smith and Mary Woods had
hearing yesterday afternoon before
Magistrate Schroeder John waived
the right to jury trial; was tried
for being an inmate of disorderly
house. and the court took the case
under Amusement. Mary, the lamb.
was then put on the rack and de-
manded a Jury trial, and six men
were impanneled, and the ends of
Justice were met, although just not
to Mary's liking. for they gave her
80 days under the vagrancy act, in
the county Jail.
The jury was composed of Charles
Case, Frank Babcock, William Con-
diff. George W. Henry, Martin Burns
and William House.
Smith was given 30 days under the
Yagrancy act TODAY.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-04-26
Mansfield Tonight.

Richard Mansiield's engagement
at the Burtis Opera house this eve
ming has anXiously been awaited with
pleasant expectations. Mr.. Mans
held has strong talents rs an actor i'll
widely diversified characters. His
literary skill and his great ability as
an artistic producer of plays has won
for him name second to none in
this country. The public admire
and respect Mr.. Mansfeld's excellent
qualities. and that is why he is now
in the midst of the most brilliant and
successful season he has ever known.
The play which he has decided to
produce is his celebrated character
of prince Karl
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-04-26
COrOner's Inquest

\ jury, composed of S. W. Searle,
foreman. j. e. kalk. j. IL. Clelaud.
c. A. Martin, S. j. Guyslnger and H.
5: Powars, was impanneled by Coroner
Halves Yesterday afternoon to make
inquiry as to the death of Charles
Witt. the unfortunate young man in
lured Sunday at the Hennepin canal
lock. After hearing the evidence,
the jury returned a verdict that,
Charles Witt came to his death by
the effects of blow on the head BY
Il falling bucket, due to the acct
dental breaking of steel cable used
in hosting concrete mixture at Lock
No. 36, of the Illinois Il Mississippi
canal, near Milan, at 6:20 a. m. on
April %"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-04-26
Picturesque Worlds Fair Reduced.

THE ARGUS has succeeded in ar
ranging with the publishers of Pct
uresque Worlds Fair for the reduc-
ton of each number to ID cents. the
reduction having been secured for
the benefit OF The ARGUS readers.
who are anxious to secure and pre-
serve this valuable work. Those
who have received copies of Pictur.
esque Worlds Fair at the price of &c
cents Il mum Der. will receive credi,
for . cents for each book they have
already received on those books they
subscribe for hereafter.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-04-26

In Pennsylvania 4 newspaper is
prosecuting man, and it is likely
will send him to the penitentiary,
for giving one OF its reporters a false
news item about a prominent couple
having had born TO them four chill
dren. Reporters of experience sell
dom get caught with such games,
but those do. who do not verify an item
before publishing it. Many weary
steps are taken by honest reporters
at the expense OF some smart person
who Just told the story for a joke,
you know"
A reporters strike is on again st
the chamber of deputies at Buda
Pesth. The reporters are offended
and to get even are refusing to re-
port speeches made by the legisla-
tors.