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fool, but not enough of a one to put
an end to myself for a woman who
cares nothing for me-"
yet that has been DONE" she sug-
gested
What 1 meant was-and what I In
tended to tell you when I asked you
to come today, was that I am going
to the war
That was to have been expected, of
course. Is your regiment ordered?"
Not yet, l am especially favored"
when do you leave?"
THE day after tomorrow. And now
/ am going to ask you to promise me
something"
They had refined in their horses by
the dynamite guns, and sat looking out
over the whlte-capped blue sea.
$50 that it is not something 1 cannot
promise"
Not that. I shah leave that until 1
come back-if I do come back. If 1 do
not-in short, if I am killed"-she gave
little shudder; he saw that she did,
and repeated-'if am killed, l shall
leave orders that my most treasured
possessions shall be sent to YOU"
DO you mean this mare?'
Il mean the mare. 1t will make me
as happy as it would seem 1 am meant
TO be, to know that if I die you will
have her, and will ride her and be
kind to her. For you are fond Of her,
too"
Miss Leeds knit her brows and con-
sidered. And If 1 should not?" she
said.
She shall not go to any one else.
I will have Dartmoor shoot her on the
day that he hears my death con-
firmed."
Miss Leeds switched at the skirt of
her habit. rs there no one else who is
fond OF her, also?"
mo-" he answered.
But that other girl you told me OFF"
There flashed back upon Lanoaster's
memory how Dorothy had been wont
to stand with her arms around the
arched black neck and her cheek
against the warm, soft nose; how the
mare had followed no other but him
self. Then Miss Leeds turned the sun
Of her questioning eyes upon him.
They were serious now, and their gen.
tie light scattered the mists of mem
cries. She only valued the horse for
the masters sake, and the master is
no longer anything to her. "Wiu you
do as I ask?"
A little, ironioal smile, the smile of
an easy going cynicism curled her lips.
Unto the victor belong the spoils. Yes,
if anything happens to you, I will take
the horse. But you must not be rash.
1 believe I prefer your safety to it,"
Two months afterward Miss Leeds.
bending forward to stroke the glossy
neck of the black mare thai had be-
longed to Lieut.. LancasSer, turned and
glanced up into Ike face of the man
who was riding beside her.
"Whn/Tas the girl that you bowed
to~near the gates? The one with the
big, sad eyes?"
at was Dorothy Terrence" he told
her. Lancaster used once to be en-
gagged to her"
mo wonder, then, that she looked at
me reproachfully." She tried to laugh,
but the laughter broke and she grew
white as she set the mare into q gall
lOp. "There may. you know''-she call
ed to him, mockingly, above the clat-
ter Of the hoofs-"there may Turk the
adder Of remorse among the victors
spoils." -Gwendolen Overton.
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well was such that he could not resist
doing what he did, but he claims he
cannot tell what that influence was.
He asserts that the aged minister in
suited and reviled him every time they
met, and drove him crazy with his
taunts.
He is a pitiable object now as he sits
in his cell fearful of the fate that
awaits him as consequence of his
crime and his keepers think he is up
on the verge Of madness. His only
visitor Is Mrs. Breakwell, who, how
ever, fails to cheer him with her pre-
sence or her words Of encouragement.
Her influence over him is gone.
A STRANGE ROMANCE.
These two constitute a strange cou-
pie. Pethke was the company tailor
in his regiment, and met Mrs Break
we'll at Fort Sheridan when she came
there as a nurse in the families of the
officers. She went out nursing, al
though her husband was rich, and soon
she and Pethke began occupying the
house. He said he built the house
while Mrs. BreakWeH owned the lot
that he borrowed 5000, and that Mr..
Breakwell induced the lender Of the
money to sue him.
This led to the murder. Pethke says
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house and refused to support her, and
that is the away she went to Pethke's,
she having no other place to go. He
claims that Mr. Breakwell used the
V1lest language toward him. and that
he was abusing him when the murder
occurred
The Rev. Mr.. Breakwells life was a
mixture Of romance and hard business
sense. Forty years ago he was a. we'll
to do tradeSman In an English villa ora
His wife dying, he married her sister,
widow named Mrs. Jane Speers, not
withstanding the English law did not
recognize marriage with a deceased
Wife's sister. This wife was the Mrs.
BreakWells who lived with Pethke.
MIXED UP FAMILY.
To further complicate matters. the
second wlfe's son by her first husbapS
married her husbands daughtt by his
nrst wife, and this GREETED dissensions
and quarrelllpes,. Her husbands chill
dren by MS first wife declare the sec
ed wife was grasping and constantly
demanding money. They say this is
how she got the money to buy the
land upon which Pethke's house was
built
THESE. stepchildren also say their
stepmother had a most violent temper.
and, being older than their father, had
great influence over him, Just as she
had over Pethke later on. Her ennlity.
1t is claimed, was particularly directed
toward her niece and stepdaughter,
who had married her son.
Breakwell's estate, worth 500. 900 or
more, will go to his children by his
first and second marriages and his
present wife. He has no children bv
his latest marriage.
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Miss Terrence, going down the line,
watched the girl who was coming to-
ward her. There were three men with
the girl, and only Lancaster was with
Miss Terrence. However, as he was
all the world to her, Heena-like, she
lacked not worlds of company. The
SIX met on the walk in front Of Capt.
Lansing's quarters.
Lansing was cynic who observed
his kind and told the result Of his OBJ
serWatiOns. Sucn are deserVedly ul-
popular, but command appreciatiVe
audiences that are The envy of the
goOd-hearted. 1t was to an audience
of the sort that he reCounted the meet
ing the same afternoon when the band
had stopped playing and the invading
hosts from the town mad scattered and
left the post to its ri5itful owners
dorothy Terrence he began. Law
Ing his sa Der across his knees and set
Ting back to the temporary repose
which alone can fall TO the lot oe the
officer of the day-"Dorothy Terrence
came up the walk. She hao Lancaster
with her. and she was looking harry.
Miss Leeds-the bankers daughter, you
know-came down the walk She had
Kant and Dartmoor and Ferguesson,
with her and she was looking like a
celestial being. They We're both dress
ed in White-but there was a differ
ence. Mrs. Lansing says it lag in a
silk foundation. Be that as it NAV.
there was a fearfully and wonderfully
made hat, all drifts and mlsts and
sprays of white, atop Of Miss Leeds,
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CURRENCY SUPPLY SMALL
MONEY TO MOVE CROPS IS NOT
NOW IN SIGHT

thirty to Forty Millions VIII Be
Needed, and There Are but Fifteen
Millions with Which to Meet the
Demand - Surplus Reserve Of
Banks Lower Than at Any Time
Since the Election of 1890.
NEW York, Sept. s.-The New
York f1pancier says this week;
Inc question that confronts the New
YORK banks at present, is how to fur
IOlsh the thirty or forty millions usual
~ required to move the crops on a re-
serve that is below fifteen millions
Ordinarily the situation would be re-
sarded as critical, but conditions are
such that money rates have advanced
barely L per cent and the outlook ia
regarded with equanimity. The surplus
reserve Of the banks is now lower than
al any time since the presidential cleo
tlon Oh 1928. 1t will be recalled that
money during the close Of the campaign
rose to prohihitive figures. and gold
noWed from Europe in consequence. It
Goes not seem possible that specie i'm
ports Will be delayed much longer. but
the incentive Of very high rates will
be lacking.
The domestic money supply was
never more abundant, but the sale of
ponds and. the collection of war tax
coupled With a Stoppage Of heavy ex-
penditures are locking up the money
IN the treasury at the expense of the
banks If this money can be placed in
depository Institutions, the situation
VIII be relieved, but the difficulty of
obtaining bonds as security for public
oeposlls mas operated to retard the
point in It's history, while the majority
Of the New York banks are loaned IN
10 their legal limit, and many are below
the required reserve. 1t was expected.
In view Of these circumstances, that
the loan will have to be called in, but
the statement shows a small increase
in the totals.
The less IN deposits and loss in cash
are almost the same, payments into the
treasury having been the cause. The
movement to the interior, however, has
begun, and will continue in larger
volume for some weeks to come. Be
tween the two, unless some very skill
tuI financing is done, the reserves Of
the banks will shrink rapidly.
An already stated, there is nothing
IN the situation to warrant fear. but
the abrupt ending of the war and the
continued heavy government receipts
have brought about unforeseen results.
The expected increase in bank circula-
ton cannot be made in time TO meet
the emergency, but gold engagements
can be made in a day That is why
money continues easy, but this week
will perhaps witness a marking up Of
loans, considerable liquidation and A
hrmer market generally. This, it Is
needless to say, viii be only temporary,
but congress viii have to deal with
some very unexpected financial prob
lens next WINTER
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and, Selling him by the beard, cut his

and, Selling him by the beard, cut his
throat, severing the jugular artery.
AS the victim fell the frenzied murd-
erer stabbed him time and again in
the face and throat, cutting his nose
off and in1iicting most hideOuS wounds.
Pethke then gave himself up and
claimed to have acted In self defence,
though the dead man was unarmed
and fully twenty-five years older than
his murderer. Owing, to the excited
state Of the public mind, Pethke was
hurried off to the jail at Waukegan
and a strong guard put over him to
prevent mob violence
What was the influence the aged di-
vorced wife had over Pethhe and what
could have been the cause of her great
liking for him? Pethke says the Rev.
Mr.. Breakwell was so stingy and mean
that his wife was forced to leave him,
and that he took her in out of pity.
She refused to go back to him. and he
obtained divorce ON the ground of
desal'tion. shortly afterward marry
ing a younger woman.
Samuel Breakwen. son of the muir
dered man, says Pethke had exerted
and exercised an undue influence over
nus mother for years, and that had 1t
not been for Pethke the divorce would
never have come about.
Young Breakwel is a believer in
Splfltualism as we'll as hypnOtisn, and
says that he has talked with his faith
er's Spirit several times since the muir
der. He is kind enough to say that
his mother was Influenced by Pethke,
but there are others who say Pethke
was under the influence of the old
woman. The latter did not go to the
tuneral, and as the cOrtege was making
It's way to the cemetery Mrs. BrealSwell
was waiting at the Jail to interview
the murderer. She did not see the VIC
tim after he was stricken down, al
though her children say she would not
have been turned away. She had lived
with the dead man more than thirty
three years.
Mrs. Breakwell always spoke Of her
husband as tvrant, and Pethke came
to regard her as much injured
woman Living in the 4!6same house
with the divorced Wife and hearing
her constant plants, fearing that the
disaster would Overtake them and both
be driven into the street, he brooded
over the situationuntn. as he claims,
he became desperate.
lie says the influence of Mrs. Break
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and fluffy-all-round sort OF parascl
atop of that. Dorothy saw Miss Leeds
from afar, but the latter did not see
Dorothy. They came together in FROM
Of my quarters-'and I with my harp
was there Dorothy moved to one
side. 1t was her instant attitude and,
L fear, prophetic. The woman who
steps aside can always stay there. But
all might have gone well, and this
story might never have been told, if
Kant had not INDUCED his vulgar pro-
pensity for introductions. Miss Leeds
bestowed a sweet and traasitory smile
upon Miss Terrence; but Lancaster is
not the best looking fellow in the Pre-
sldlo for nothing. If any of you hap
pen to share my eD7d fortune of know
ing her, you viii understand What-in
the nature of things and of men-hap-
pened when she turned her eyes upon
him with trick she has Of seeming
TO look into ones very soul. She has
the most beautiful voice Oh side of the
heavenly choir, and she brought it into
play also. Dorothy stood it as long a
she could, and then she tried to get
him away. He never even heard her.
If Miss Leeds had not gazed soul
searchingly at his and told him that
she must be going, but would see him
at the hop. lie doubtless would be
standing there still, with Dorothy anx-
iOuSly watching him. 1t will be worth
going to the hop to see things happen"
Lancaster stood at the door of the
dressing room and watched Miss Leeds
while he waited for Dorothy. He saw
her throw back her gorgeous cloak
and drop it from her with the careless
disdain Of a celestial creature discard
ing some temporary eartni, -" garment.
That it fell on a chair and crushed
other less splendid wrappings beneau h
1t was a detail which escaped him. lie
watched her as the budding feminine
mass made way for her at the mirror,
and she stood unchallenged, leisurely
touching her glimmering brown hair
and pinning a great white rose upon
her shoulder.
Dorothy waited at his side for fully
five minutes before ne saw her Then
she laughed mOckingly UP into his face.
and wished that her laughter might
have been blow.
AS soon as he could leave her he
went running and sliding across the
floor to where Miss Leeds stood at bay
before a besieging group. She was
backed against the wall, and a sun
burst OF sabres was just above her
head.
There are only twenty dances" she
kept repeating, land [ never divide"
Lancaster took two Of his feHow-of-
ffcers by the shoulders and put them
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WAS DUE TO HYPNOTISM
A STRANGE MURDER COMMIT
ED IN ILLINOIS

Soldier of the Fifteenth Infantry
Kills a Clergyman He Claims
His Victims Divorced Wife Hyn-
notified Him, While 1t Is Contand
ed That He Influenced Her
Romance Connected With Case.
From the New York Herald.#
Covering in abject terror in q cell
In the little jail at Waukegan. I'll. sits
Carl Pethke, formerly a soldier in tbe
Fifteenth infantry, u. s. A.. who III &c
charged, as the result of hypnotic in
huence exerted by the divorced wife
of the Rev. Samuel Breakwel. cut the
throat of the preacher on the Dublie
street of the village of Hollywood last
week. On the other hand. Pethke &c
accused of having exerted g. s,n,ilar
influence over the divorced wife Of the
murdered man, and was the cause of
the separation of the couple.
1t Is strange and in manv resnaots
a revolving story The divorced Mrs.
Breakwell is seventy-eight wears Old
and the skin on her face rs nucI,eraS
lIlto thousand wrinkles. She was
the second wife Of the murdered man
VINO was many years younger thar
she, and, after the divorce. the his
pand married much younger woman
VINO survives him.
The second Mrs. Breakwell was the
mother Of three children, one son and
two daughters, who are married and
i've In the vicinity. Pethke is a surlv
Fellow, forty-6Ve years old. and lived
In the house with aged Mrs. Break
well. In fact, the couple have resided
In the house for several years and
Mrs. Hreakwell lived there when her
nuspand OBTAINED the divorce on the
ground Of desertion. r.
Inc victim was a Baptist minister
and for year past had charge In
Dar1en, Wis. He was a retired[cSSar-
chant and had accumulated consid-
cradle property in the Town of Hieh-
wood and the surrounding country.
me house IL which Mrs BreakweIl
ana PSsnke lived was built with the
taeIsy of Mrs. BreakWell and her hus-
band, but, after the divorce, Mrs.
BreakWell decided or signed her share
TO Pethke. Mr.. Breakwell claimed his
snare IN the house, on the ground that
he had loaned her money with which
to complete 1t, and it was the old cier-
gyman's attempt to obtain possession
OF the property that led to the muir
der.
A FTENDISH CRIME.
A constable notified Mrs. Breakwel
and Pethke two weeks ago that thew
must vacate, and Pethke claims he
was driven to desperation because the
minister would show him no mercy.
The murder was one Of the most
fendish atrocity. On Wednesday, Aug.
IL, the aged clergyman came down
from Darien to visit his children. AS
he was walking along the principal
street Of Highwood, his Bible under
his arm, Pethke stole UP behind him
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letters to Gen. Miles and Gen. shafter, as we'll
as 70 Admiral Sampson and several officers
or the neet. She got near enough the front
to see several strong skirmlahes and to hear
the crack of the Mauser rifles before which
the Americans fell. She met Gen. Shafter
and number Of the officers of the army, and
was treated with all the gallantry of Which
the Yankee soldier is capable. Miss Reason
or saw enough Of war to be able to ind0rse
the famous dictum of the great Sherman. hut
just missed the surrender of Santiago, ieay-
ing Cuba. as she did, q few DAYS before
the capitulation She will write about the war
will no doubt be OF peculiar interest.
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NEW YORK. Sept. S.-NIiss Elsie Reasoner
the boys in blue to Cuba. She Is only IS,
pretty as can be, and has all the self-re-
lance and breeziness of q girl Of Kansas.
where. in fact this little heroine was born
and reared Her father, John Calvin Reas-
oner, was formerly an editorial writer in
Leavenworth, and was afterwad connected
with the press in Chicago When the bugle
BOUNDED Miss Reasoner was in charge OF the
bureau of publicity at the Omaha exposition.
She threw up her position and went to Cuba
Just to see" as she says herself, whether
war Is hell. " as Gen. Sherman said. She
sailed to Kingston from New York bearing
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brought his name TO this country. Later re-
ports in regard TO his sacred compositions
made the young priest still better known
From different Italian cities in which his
works have been sung come reports of his
continued trlumDhs.
All the musical geniuses Of Italy are young
nowadays. One of them is only eleven, and
he is pupil OF Mascagni at the conserva-
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In Realm of Music.

PerosI, he's already reached this country
The Italian, who is priest, twenty-five
years old, Is winning daily greater recogni-
tlon from his countrymen, who are just now
er on their heroes It was the first perform
ance Of his orator4o 1.-THE Passion Of Christ. !"
sung IN Milan in the early spring, which
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Nowhere

So delightfully."- cool and pleasant 90 trim
on the water. Only one line does IT. A onep
nights ride and then 30 hours on the water
ana few hours rail ride through the most
popuious section of Ohio to Cincinnati, the
G. A R. encampment CITY. Very low aycu r
sion rates also to all ports on Lakes Huron
ana Erie. Secure berths today, 1893 Robert
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PROMISED TREATS.

Mr.. Onets recital, which was to occur
this month. has been postponed to Dot. 6,
owing to the concert complimentary TO Mr.
Quesnel, to be given Sept 20.
Among the good things promised to st. Paul
music lovers this season. will be a pro-
gramme rendered by Rosenthd, Nine. Blan-
EisDham
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Only Fourteen Dollars

To the G. A. Il. National Encampment At
Cincinnati and return. Get tickets via Bur
nngton Route and secure the best service.
Ticket office. AGO Robert street Hotel Rvan1.
Telephone So.
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Cincinnati and Ret,,rn

Via Burlington Route. only $14O. The fin
est train or earth. Call at 400 Robert street
QIotel Ryan, for tickets and information.
Telephone SO.
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Only $500

70 Chicago via Chicago Great Western. the
IsVorIte route. Ticket Office, corner Robert
and Fifth streets. st. Paul.
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STATE FAIR VISITORS

tory in Pesaro. His name is Orlando Saliva
tore. and only short time ago he conducted
IN Messtna a symphony Of his own compost
ton. Mascagni heard him and offered him
free scholarship in the conservatory. The
boy had been for two years member of the
municipal orchestra in Messina, and he &C
cepted Mascagnis invitation with delight.
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Sgr. Leandro Campanari, brother Of
Giuseppe Campanari, the well-known bari
Symphony orchestra, has just finished an en-
gagement at the Imperial institute, London,
as leader of an orchestra. SCR. Cam
has been playing some of the newest music
OF the young Italian school, besides COM
positions OF English musicians.
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Nine. Media is very fond of the upper
Thames. She has her own house-boat the
Ferlea, and on that she spent eli the time
she could spare during the past two months
from her operate and concert engag ements
in London. She will be iattered to hear that
'Melba Choral Society" has been organized
in Los Angeles, Cal.
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The German emperor. though an enthusi-
a special prediction for the historic eie-
ment IN music. He has revived some Of the
beautiful cd military marches which had al
is said to be the old German ''WiIheimus Won
Nassawe de Held Won Duitschem Blod" One
of his favorite operas is Weber's Fret
schultz" and he is devoted to German cham
Der music.
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Beethoven was not noted for his pollteness.
Berlin actor, H. Heinenlann, has the man.
Beethoven, who. on receipt of the letter, had
seized his pen and written on it: Stupid,
coneeited asinine fellow The idea of ex-
who steals ope's money! Instead Of that, che
ought to pull his donkey ears" This Is the
first page; and on the second page Beethoven
your own errors due to ignorance, vanity,
eonoeit-that will be more sensible than try
ing to teach me, which Is just as If a hog
wanted to teach Minerva"
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The Royal Italian Grand Opera company,
which is rehearsing in New York, will open
will extend through thirty live weeks, and
will include all the principal cities of the
country from Boston to San Francisco, and
from st. Paul to New Orleans. The roper
tory, in addition to Pucoinrs LA Boheme"
end ''Manon Lescaut," includes. Lucia di
Lammermoor," ''Otollo," Faust" I'll Tro-
vatore," "Cavalleria Rusticana," 81 Pagli-
acci," "Un BalIo in Maschera,' - Carmen"
"Rigoletto" and other standard operas.
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Miss Zelie de Lussan will be a member Of
Mime; Meiba's opera troupe for the impend-
ing American season.
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1t will be remembered that when Brahms
died, his Will left the sum OF $1C0 COO to the
Viennese society Of the "Musikfreunde."
There was some doubt as to whether, owing
to the composers carelessness In regard to
legal procedures, the sum would not fall to
his native city OF Hamburg. The tribunal to
whom the question was submitted has now
decided in favor of the terms of the will, so
that, although there may be an appeal the
chances are that the musical society named
will secure the bonanza.
Prince Victor puleep Singh is the latest
of the titled composers, an album OF eight
songs from his pen having just been pub
lished in London by Messrs. Chappell. Some
Of these songs We're sung with success in
London drawing rooms during the past
season,