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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-04-20
EsTIMATEs.

Outstanding orders issued..-.--s-. s $50 s.
Estimated Interest ON said orders 500 90
Conrnissioner ana Police. $50 90
ouent "a 400 90
Interest on bonds 22,3f0 co
Sinking fund for bonds.-- .S-......s.. s075 90
Electric Lights. 1sS00 90
Ordinary Street Repairs.s ....sszs. COO 90
cal and surgical attention. 500 90
Jail Services .s..-.. $50 90
General Expense .ss..s-..s... -. q 500 %
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-04-20

EsTISrATED REoEIPTs.
Amount now in hands or VIM. Fo-
glesongs Marshall and due the
town -. - 2 1913 6s
Amount TO be received from fines,
licenses and all sources other
than the levy to be laid as afore-
Evening star., 1898-06-04

mused the other. closing the window and
ente ring his own bed room.
When Bourke had dressed and descend
ed the stairs to the dining room he found
Iolette sitting alone at the table. She
looked up as he entered. There were traces
of tears in her eyes
1T is foolish" she said smiling. 1.-The
cannon have frightened us-Hide will not
leave her room 1 carried chocolate to her.
but she will not even open her door. Has
the siege begun?"
II think it has" said Bourke, lightly.
Perhaps it will be more noise than any
thing else. Where is NJ. Harewood?"
He has gone to the city. He would eat
nothing. Are you also going to the city?''
Yes, said Bourke.
They finished breakfast in silence. Yo-
lette blue eyes wer half raised from time
to time, but Bourke's eyes were on his
plate. Before he rose he looked up absently
Something in the swift droop of Yolette's
clear eyes arrested his own. A light color
touched his cheeks and temples. He made
an unconscious movement to rise and go
the first instinct of q prosaic man who sur
prIses the soul in a Womans eyes
She made no movement. The white sash
curtain behind her stirred in the morning
wind.
Under such circumstances it takes truly
prosaic man ten seconds to make up his
Evening star., 1898-06-04
Chapter XIII.
The Soul of XoIeffe

Bourke awoke with a start his ears ring
ing in din sudden. so frightful that
for moment he lay. half stupefied, among
his pillows. Under his feet, shock on
shock, the earthquake outcrash rocked the
house, the windows shook and clattered as
the cannons lightning. blast after blast,
split the keen al of dawn.
He saw Harewood at the window beck
oring him to come. and he went shvering
and stumbling in the morning chill.
1.-The forts.' moticEed Hardwood with
his lips. Look TEeIe's hell to payn
Far across the shrouded country, in the
pale dawn, five dim forts lowered CROWN
ed with clouds: and through the clouds
heaving, rolling. floating, bright lightning
dGrted. Sudden yellow flares of light, spir-
its of flame, swift crimson jetted flashes
played under the caECpy of smoke. The
81 eat fort of Issy streamed from every en-
brasure: Vanves roared like a Volcano
peal, the reverberationS rolled, until the
humming air. surcharged and overstrainel
with sound. dinned in the ears with muf-
fed. deadened echoes that set the sickenel
senses swimming.
And now it seemed as if the wind had
changed: the thunder blew clear of the
city as clouds blow before a gale. There
was sudden silence filled almost instant
ly by roar from the street in front of the
hcCse-the shril. frenzied howl of a MOB,
The Prussansi'
Harewood ran back into his own room
and looked out into the street. 1t was
choked with people, men, women, children,
Swarming over the ramparts, shouting
screaming, gesticulating. pointing. Officers
stood out against the sky on the bastiou,
the rising sun warming their crimson caps
Evening star., 1898-06-04
How England Took Gibraltar.

From the st. Louis Globe Democrat
Gibraltar was taken by the English I'm
lc4, during the war of the Spanish SUR
ccssion. war which was provoked by the
aggressive policy of France in endeavoring
to place monarch of the French family
upon the Spanish throre. and thus CONSOLE
date the two Kingdoms into one. The fort
ress was then captured, almost by surprise
Trough the Spaniards and French, appre-
ciating the strategic value of the place
made desperate efforts to recover It, bu7
were repulsed at every point. Between the
date of its capture and 1879 repeated ef-
fcrts were made by Spain to recover the
fortress. and in the latter year the greatest
az mament that was ever brought to bear
upon besieged place lay before Gibraltar.
The siege tasted, off and on, for many
months The investing force comprised IL =
oOp troops of France over twice as many
OF the best infantry of Spain, and the fleet
consisted OF forty-seven ships. all three
oeckers; ter great floating batteries es-
teemed invincible, carrying PIP guns: in
Vulnerable frigates, bomb-ketches. cutters
gun and mortar beats. For weeks together
over 6.OOU shells a day were thrown into
the town and repeated attempts were made
t1 storm the works. but the little garrison
of only 1000 men repealed every assault
and finally succeeded i'm beating off the al
lied fleet. The blockade began June 81
1Il9, and lasted until February, 1888 when
the garrison was finally relieved by the ar
rival of a British fleet and army. Since
that time the fortifcations of Gibraltar
have been so improved and increased that
l. is regarded as the strongest fortress in
the world. The British government main
tains there a garrison of from 5000 to TO-
600 men, with PROVISIONS for six months
ard ii is said the supply of military ma
terial is sufficient to enable the fortress to
stand siege of indefinite length.
Evening star., 1898-06-04

to enter the house when the whim strikes
tfem-free to billet their fellow cut-throats
nere-perhaps Speyer, perhaps Buckhurst
himself. And i tell you If any man. SOL
Oler or civilian, offers n word-a look-at
I1lide-IH fling him through the window
"Of course, said Bourke, soberly.
Harewood.. nervous ard flushed, sat down
on the bed again.
Il fear it's coming" he said 1T fear we
shall all be obliged to leave. They have
the whip hand. II they denounce Hide and
folette for aiding the empress-if they de-
nounce them more dreadful charge
VINO Is to help them? Not you-not l.
Irochu Will listen to his soldier -policez-not
to us. Think of the horrible shock to those
young Eirls-think of their helplessness.
suppose Speyer should swear to the lies
he threatens them with. He is staff
captain; he once lodged here: he has a
lying witness in Stauffer. Would it help
matters Ii should shoot Speyer down in
the street, in the house-on the witness
stand itself? This thing is like a night
mare to ME, Cecil
DO you mean to say" burst out
Bourke. that they would not listen to you
that they would not believe you-you who
can swear that Hide is the sweetest pur-
est woman on earth-the woman-Jim-the
woman you lOve?'
Harewood's lips whitened He tried to
answer. His cheeks were smitten with
deadly pallor.
The woman-the woman lover he re-
peated.
DO you not love her?' demanded
Bourke, violently
Still Harewood's white face was turned
to his in silence
Answer me-" said Bourke, stepping
nearer.
As he spoke a vision of Yolette flashed
before him. He saw her blue eyes fixed
CT his own, he saw her hair the troubled
curve of her lips, the quiet. pure brow.
And suddenly he understood that it was
foiette-lt was for Yolette that he spoke
inns he
her. The sudden Illumination his own
heart laid bare before him, the surprise
the emotion the fashlight revelation of a
secret unsuspected-the undreamt-of secret
OF his own heart-staggered him.
Harewood, gazing blankly at him, saw
nothing but parting of his comrades lips,
a dilaion of his eyes, brusque movement
of chest and head.
After a moment Bourke said: "I thought
you loved Hide l only asked because 1
hoped you did" His voice was wonder
fully gentle. He spoke slowly as though
between his own words, he was listening
to another voice-the voice that whispers,
whispers always in the ears of those who
love.
He went on, slowly: "You and she are
SO much together, it might not be the
safest and best thing for her if you took it
lightly-not that L think you dishonorable
Jim-you won't believe that! But some
times l have thought think great deal
about you, JIM sometimes fancy that
tiiiuC SeitSS loi Spu great uedl II
be less cruel for both-both you and Hide
If we went way-unless-unless-"
He stopped abruptly, his face touched
with tender light, the voice again sound
ing softly in his ears.
WHAT" motioned Harewood, with dry
lips.
Bourke smiled at him and touched his
forehead with his hand. dreamily.
What was l saying?" he asked.
Nothing said Hardwood, vacantly.
ITO be continued.)
Evening star., 1898-06-04

which the Seine frothed and sparkled in
the wake oS somE river gunboat. ploughlng
its way under white arches Of masonry.
On every height, every tower ana
dome and farraeas people clustered to look
off at the hills where the Prussians Jay.
The Buttesof Chaumont, the hill of Mont
narte, the TroSadero, the Viaduct were
black with. people. Ladies in carriages
surrounded the Arc de Triomphe. gay col
crs dotted the crowd on top of the arc. 1t
was so amusingAfeally delightful sensa-
ton to watch the shells tall curve, TO see
the cloudy explosion, shot with lightning,
to watch the shredded vapors float away,
Whlte as heecy Wool 1t was new sensa-
ton and thrilling one to know that those
smells were aimed at men hiding among the
blue woods 9and hills. And so the ca -riages
fiasned past through the trees, bright with
ceior, slittering With painted wheels, silver
chains ringing Changing rhythms to the
tinkie OF steel-sbod hoofs, and the gay
sunshadss and boEnets and scarfs bright
ehed the autumn grays and greens OF the
Bois de Boulogne until the brilliant city
seemed to be en- fete, and the soft thunder
or the guns was but a feu-de-joie announc-
Ing the triumphs of peace and of the
brotherhood of man.
Bourke lunched on the ramparts. survey
ing the scene with cool, optimistic eyes.
The Prussians will never get in, he
unused as he munched his bread. 'Thare
Will be an assault or two and then a Sortie,
yet"
In the early afternoon he sent his dis
patches by way of Bordeaux, for the
northern and western wires were not work.
Ing. and about 3 o'clock he strolled home
ward wondering where Harewood mad
spent the day. There was nobody in evil
dence excepting Red Riding Hood when
he entered the house
Il think she said. that Mile. Hide has
gone to market with Nile. Yolette.'
And M. Harewood?"
He is lying down in his room.'
Bourke looked pleasantly at the child.
He wished to say something kind and
cheerful, but he did not know how. He
realized this and 1t embarrassed him. 1t
was always so with children-his awk-
wardness stifed his affection.
You are washing-er-dishes?" he in
quired.
Il am" replied Red Riding Hood, serenely.
Evening star., 1898-06-04

and striking dazzling sparks from brass
tipped field glasses. Drums We're beating
everywhere, down by the Porte Rouge In
the parade of the Prince Murat barracks
on every baStion, in every guard house
The line battalions filed at double quick
from their caserne; the cannoneers of the
Prophet clustered over the empaulement
and glacis. scanning the distant hills
toward Virof1ay, Velizy and the plateau of
Chatillon.
Up in the window Bourke knelt, his ma-
rine glasses fixed on a hillside below Cha
vile, where a single horseman stood i'm
movable.
The horseman was Prussian Uhlan.
Presently Harewood's glass brought mora
CElans into focus.
Cecil" he muttered, they're riaht this
time. The PrussiaEs are here"
1t was true. The first Uhlans Rad an
peared near Versailles like buZzards above
| a wounded thing. When the rest arrived
they would sit around patiently waiting
for the end of the city lying at their feet.
There's hell to pay at Point de Jour. too.
II anybody should ask you." observed
Bourke, shiTeTing in his nightshirt THE
gunboats are firing-look-do you see?"
Il see," replied HARDWOOD soberly He
tcrEed with sudden gesture. THE siege
OF Paris has begun at last" he said
Bourke nodded.
After silence Harewood burst out: .'I
wish to heaven We were out of this"
What's that?" asked the other, sharply.
But Harewood turned away weariIy, say
| ing:
! You can't understand. Never mind. I
wish were-I wish 1 we're"
What?" demanded Bourke
| dead, snapped Hardwood sulkily and
went out of the room.
WHATS the matter with him now?"
Evening star., 1898-06-04

ing the oiled paper to sheets of palest gilt.
He could not sleep. He crept from the
warm bed to the window and opened it Il
little way.
Vast masses of silvery clouds swept away
into the north, trailing in their wake f1ecks
and hlmy tatters. In the midnight velvet
or the sky rare stars twinked like dia-
monds. dimmed by the splendid white lamp
of the moon.
The black ramparts. sharp-cut against
the sky. stretched out their angles east and
west; the crimson and sapphire lanterns
ghttered like gems, staining the wet side
walks with their colorS. Over the baStion
the Prophet rose. detached from the mass
ed ramParts- colossal shape, up-tilted,
printed clean black against the horizon.
Even the wind subsiding now, leav-
ing a clear. fresh odor of distant winter in
the air. The moon, too, sparkled with a
wtntry radiance; the stars went out in its
white luster.
On wall and pavement the etched foliage
no longer moved. Hardwood leaned from
the window ledge, scarcely breathing: for
the beauty of the night was upon him and
upon his soul was spell.
He did not know it; he knelt heavily in
the moonlight chin on clasped hands, eyes
dreaming. For him the breath of war was
Iar away alarms. rumors. the dull dscon-
tent of expectancy. all had vanished in this
placid shadow world, passionless unreal
as Il pale sweet vision.
And so. pensive, dreaming. he rose and
moved about. unconscious that he was
NH''ii'S' hhtpHStiOuS why ne passed
through the door and down the dusky
stairs, deeper. deeper into the silent house
AT last he stood before a closed door at
which he had not knocked. 1t opened si-
lently and he went in.
Moonlight silvered everything. The white
bed, the curtains clustered overhead the
polished faience Sainte. smiling her set
smile through the shadows; but Hide );
hair, clouding brow and neck, veiled her
pale face In shower of silk and gilt
They did not speak; she stood silent and
white before the Sainte; he knelt beside
her. holding her hand against his eyes
and closed.
A clock licked through the silence; after
a long time the weights slid. creaking and
an hour struck. There was an impercepti-
BILE movement of the hand he held pressed
to his eyes, a soft stir of a family fra
grant garment, delicate as lace When he
stood up she was waiting: he held her
waist imprisoned now, and her silky head:
sne put both arms around his neck
When he passed again through the door.
the perfume of her lips on his, she sank
before the corner where. in the meshed
N noonliSht. Sainte Hide of Carhaix smiles
And there she lay. faint with the sweetest
happiness life holds for maid or man.
AS for the man she loved. he went blind
ly up the dusky stairs. cropping for his
comrades door. And he entered and sat
by his sleeping friend.
Evening star., 1898-06-04

Every woman should realize that her
health is like bank account At the out
set she has SO much deposited to her credit
in the bank of health. If she draws out
more than she puts in she will soon over
draw her account. An over-drawn account
in the bank of health means one of two
things, life of hopeless suffering or an
early death.
The woman who negiects her health in
womanly way is making big drafts on her
account with the bank of health and will
soon be physical bankrupt. Disorders of
this description wreck a woman's general
health quicker than anything else in the
world. They soon transform a healthy.
happy, aniable woman into q weak, sickly
fretful and Respondent invalid Thev ut.
terly unfit woman for wifehcod or mother.
hood. For all disorders of this nature DR..
Pierce's Favorite Prescription is the 5es,
of all medicines. 1t acts directly On the
delicate and important organ. Concerned
in maternity, giving them health, strength,
vlgor and elasticity. It relieves pain.
allays Inflammation, checks debiIitatipp
drains, and quickly subdues all other syrup.
toms. 1t at once stops the dragging pains
and sinking spells, the nervousness. the
digestive disturbances and other conplica-
tons that arise from the same cause. Taken
during the months Of expectant maternity.
1t bantshes the usual discomfort and
makes baby's advent easy and almost pain
less. 1t insures the newcomers health
and plentiful supply of nourishmeut
Thousands of women have testified 10 its
marvellous merits. An honest dealer will
not suggest an inferior substitute for the
sske Of extra profit
Evening star., 1898-06-04

girls, two or three years old. dressed alike,
out taken from the river at a distance from
each other, and exposed here. with their
smiling baby countenances for many
weeks II was never known whether they
mad been simply drowned 10 get them out
OF the world where they troubled some one.
or as many Thought, If the unhappy moth
er had not thrown herself with them into
me river and been separated from her
ehiidren. whom she would not leave behind.
py death and the force OF the waters
STERLING HEILIG.
Evening star., 1898-06-04

COrenn Women MOnOpOIixe Latchkeys
from the Bombay Advocate Of India
A curious custom in Seoul, Corea, is the
law which makes it obligatory for every
man to retire to his home when the huge
bronze bell of the city proclaims it to be
the hour of sunset and the time for closing
the gates. No man,is allowed In the streets
after that hour under pain of fiogging, but
the women are allowed 10 go about and
visit their friends.
Evening star., 1898-06-04
Impossible, to BE Sure.

From Life.
There is no marrying or giving in mar
riage in heaven"
mo: IT is promised that We shall know
each other there, you remember"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-04-07
SITUATION IN THE FAR EAST
japan Excited, but Has No objection tc
the British Having wef-Hai-Wei


the British Having wei-Hai-Wei.
London, April THE Yokohama cor.
respondent of The Times says: For the
first time public opinion in Japan is ve-
hemently excited There is no general
opposition to a British occupation of
Wei-Hai-Wei; but there Is a feeling
that Japan must exert herself and Sc
cure some other foothold on the Asiatic
continent. The government is ham
pered by financial considerations. but
will probably be obliged to yield to pub
lie pressure. Sober people and the off,
cials generally favor British occupation
of Wei-Hai-Wei and an Anglo-Japanese
entente, pour parlers for which are pro-
ceding favorably."
London, April THE Daily Mail says
this morning: We learn from an au-
thoritative source that England and ia
pan are in complete accord regarding
Wei-Hai-Wei, but secrecy is entailed
until complete settlement has been
achieved, which it is believed will in
clude an arrangement whereby Eng
land will advance the money to enable
China to pay the indemnity in full, and
thus to obtain a japanese evacuation
Of Wei-Hai-Wsi
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-04-07
cUBAN REBELS WOULD FIGHT Us
straight-Out Assertion of the Counsel of
the New York Junta.

washington, April :. - Next to the
sensation caused by the delay in send
ing in the presidents message was one
which was the result of the statement
made by II. S .Rubers at New York
Rubens is the counsel OF the Cuban
tunta and his statement in brief. but
at the same in full so far as it is i'm
oortant is that the Cuban provisional
government and the Cuban army would
reject absolutely intervention by the
United States unless 1t should be pre-
ceded by recognition of the indepen-
dence OF the Cuban republic; that if the
United States persisted in intervening
without recognizing Cuban indepen-
oence, the Cuban government and MILL
tary forces would refuse to co-operate.
and that if United States troops should
be sent to Cuba upon the basis of in
tervention without recognition. the Gu
ban army would. in the last resort. turn
its arms against the United States.
When the dispatch containing Rubens
statement was shown TO Tomas Estrada
Palma. of the junta. who arrived in
Washington yesterday. Palma turned
the dispatch-after perusing it atten-
tively-over to Senor de ouesada. who
read it carefully and Slowly. Then Palma
said: Il cannot say anything about
this dispatch until / communicate with
Mr.. Rubens.' It was made eviden.
from the manner of the two gentlemen
that they did not for a moment con-
slider the possibility of such an unwise
statement being made by their asso-
ciate and counsel. Quesada at o'clock
went to the telegraph office and sent
an inquiry to Rubens. Messrs. Palma
and Quesada think Rubens must have
been misquoted.
The statement of Rubens. excited
considerable interest among the men,
bers of the house. Henry of Indiana, a
member OF the foreign affairs commit
tee, said he cared nothing about the
views of the junta. He favored the in
dependence of the people of the island
from Spanish dominion, but he did not
believe 1t wise to recognize a govern
ment which he had no knowledge ex-
listed except on paper. Berry OF Ken
lucky, member of the foreign affairs
committee, declined to credit the state
ment. but added: IF il is true there
are probably some bonds or some in
terests the junta seeks to protect. But
We will know the truth. At my sug-
gestion Mr.. Adams, acting chairman of |
the committee, has decided to call Mr..
Quesada, the representative of the junta |
in this city, before the committee to- |
morrow"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-04-07
TAKES ISSUE WITH WEBSTER.
Coudert's Comments on the Matter of the
Paris Declaration.


New York. April :. - Frederic r.
Coudert, an authority on international
law, referring to the statement made
two days ago in the British house of
commons by Sir Richard Webster. said
yesterday: 1T is plain. as stated by
Sir Richard Webster, that the rights
of Spain and the United States respec-
lively as belligerents should not be af-
fected by the declaration Of Paris. This
Is truism. They were neither of them
parties to the congress. and cannot be
bound by its results. I cannot agree.
however, to the proposition that the
United states has last any rights by
expressing opinions in the past upon the
subjects now coming up in practical
shape.
The rights Of the United States must
De regulated by the measure of her
obligations. Her obligations and duties
aV not to be increased in the one case
or diminished in the other by express
sions Of opinion on the part Of those
who might happen to be temporarily
at the head Of the government. Espe-
cially is this so if those expressions
were not acquiesced in by Spain. It is
certainly an untenable proposition to
hold that the United Safes have
estopped themselves from the exercise
of right which Spain continues to
possess because the former has ex-
pressed opinions against and the latter
IN favor Of such supposed right"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-04-07
Girl Kills Her Own Chilli

Lacrosse, Wis.,, April Miss Chris
hana Nicholson, of Houston, Minn
has been arrested charged with murder
ing an infant child. The girl was employee
as servant here for the past eight
weeks. The child, had evidently been
smothered, and its dead body was
found in a satchel in the room of the
girl, who was at once arrested and put
IL, iai1
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-04-07
An Important Abolition
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TO the worlds most valuable medi.
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iufalli5le in its action. it is undou bt-
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known today Of curing coughs. colds,
aud kidney diseases. Good druggists
sell it at 25 cents on q guarantee.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-04-07

Colorado Springs. Colo, April &c.
II. Baker Jumped under the wheels Of a
Santa Fe train as it was leaving Foun-
tain yesterday. He was ground 10
pieces. A note was found in his grip
on the train saying that he was losing
his mind and would take his life at the
first opportunity.