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from the balcony rail, and clutched her
companions arm.
The intruder had gained the top Of
the pillar and was pulling himself over
the balcony rail. Aroused by the bang
| ing of the gong, Colonel Mendez and
Senior de Cardenas pulled aside a cur
tain from one of the drawing room
windows overlooking the patio. For
one brief instant the intruder's face
was visible to the two who were watch
| ing him. Then he disappeared over
the rail and lay fiat upon the balcony
floor.
Delaigne was intensely agitated.
Louisa" he whispered, Selling both
her hands and pressing them hard, "say
nothing! for my sake. dear heart, say
nothing! He is my friend!"
| The soldiers were scurrying about the
patio, poking into the shrubbery with
bayonetted guns. One, who proceeded
more moderately than the others, saw
Delaigne and Louisa by the light that
came from the drawing room.
Pardon, senorita, pardon, senor," he
said, 1--WE search for an enemy to Spain.
We think he fled to this place"
| Before either could reply the master
or the house spoke from the balcony
above the soldier.
| What means this disturbance"
| The soldier turned. saluted. and re-
peated his statement.
| Father" said Louisa, in singular
ly steady tone, 1--WE have been sitting
here with our eyes upon the entrance
and no one has come in until these SOL
dierS came"
A pause followed, and the soldiers
scattered about the patio ceased theil
search.
1T is my daughter who speaks" said
Cardenas, gravely. do you know who
amp
Your face is in the shadow, Sc.
nor"
Il am Manuel de Cardenas."
Pardon, your excellency. had not
noticed that this was your house. We
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could reach them, but went to the ex-
IRENE end Of the inner balcony and sat
in the corner where the shadow was
deepest.
This is Just as 1t should be-" re-
marked Delaigne, with an accent of
profound satisfaction, as he drew a
chair close beside her.
"Observe how fragrant the air is
here" she said, laying her arms upon
the balcony rail and bending over.
She inhaled deep breath as if it were
! impossible to safe her nostrils with the
rich odor of bloom from the patio be-
low. Intent though his own thoughts
were upon the beautiful girl, and more
than half convinced that she regarded
| him with equal interest if not tender
ness. he yet perceived that her spirit
was not perfectly attuned to his. At
this moment she was under some other
influence; it might be the uneasy alarm
which prevailed generally in spite of
outward expressions of confidence, and
it might be something very different,
some inward communing that it were
proclamation to disturb.
Dela!gne had no wish to break in
upon her meditations abruptly. He fol-
| lowed her example, leaning over the
balcony rail, and trying to distinguish
the outlines of the Towering shrubs that
upreared their foliage from jars and
tubs set on the stone pavement of the
patio. A little light from the Prado
came in at Inc entrance, revealing the
plants there with more dstinctness
and disclosing the porter at his table
in dull silhouette.
See, senorita," said Delaigne, after
a long silence, good old Serafin has
yielded to the heat. l would hardly
have supposed that his fingers could
stop rolling his everlasting cigarettes
even in Sleep"
Louisa laughed lightly as she looked
toward the entrance and saw that Sera-
fms head had dropped upon his breast,
his hands to his sides. Her lips parted
to make some response, but she uttered
only low gasp of fright A man was
rapidly but stealthily passing the sleep
ing Serafin and entering the patio.
"Sh," whispered Delaigne, laying his
hand on hers, "let us see what he means
to do. 1t may be only one of the SER
wants who has been out without per-
mission"
There is so much treachery
dDIOdu- she peSdu, III d UOuDllHB
whisper, and then became still. watch
ing intently, as did Delaigne, the move
ments of the intruder
He crept behind shrub, only to dart
from it to the shelter of another far
Their within the patio. From this he
stealthily made his way to the corner
opposite. 1t was very dark there, but
they could barely distinguish his form
as he slowly but skilfully and noise
lessly climbed balcony pillar.
Louisa's hands trembled beneath De-
laigne's, and it seemed as if she would
cry out.
Wait" he whispered.
From out on the Prado came the
steady tramp of hurrying feet.
''Soldiers!" she gasped, all but maud
IDLY. She stood up, withdrew her hands
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tomary manner. in public places, APP
parently attending to business for the
mythical French concern; now, every
moment was attended with danger. 1t
could not be possible that the loss of
the papers would be long undiscovered,
and when they were missed, suspicion
would inevitably fall upon him. Search
would follow, and certain arrest if he
should not conceal himself until night
fall.
1t gave him a sharp pang to reflect
that Louisa herself would denounce
him. She had respected him for his
frankness in disclosing his true char
acter; how base would his conduct ap-
pear to her! Confessed enemy to
Spain, as he was, she had yet under
| taken to provide for his safety, and he
had shown his appreciation of her gen.
crosby by playing the thieving spy in
her house. Death might come of it,
and death could not be sweetened by
knowledge that she forgave him. Such
thought was untenable. He had chos-
en- to be loyal to country and by his
decision he must abide.
| He could not lay his plans until he
had examined the purloined papers and
the map that Louisa had given him.
| For this purpose he sought his room.
confident that he could complete his
work before the return of Senior de Car
denas to the mansion on the Prado.
There was chance that he might have
taken private papers, or official docu-
ments that could not possibly be Of SER
vice to his countrymen. So he opened
the packet first. No; there had been no
mistake. These were the papers men,
toned by Louisa. His heart beat fast
as he read and realized that IL he sue
ceeded in getting clear of the city and
to the coast near Mariel within three
days. he would be able to warn the ap-
preaching expedition and contribute, II
not to it's success, at least to it's safety
Mariel thirty miles away a short
distance reckoned by the time con-
sumed in traversing it under ordinary
conditions. BY boat direct from Hav-
ana; or by rail to Guanajay and thence
by carriage; both routes out of the
question. The journey must be made
for the most part, certainly, on foot
and travel must be limited to the hours
of darkness. Even at that there would
be ample time if only one could go will
reasonable directness, but at the best
doubtless, the route would have to be
roundabout in order to avoid capture
by soldiers at outlying posts. More.
over. and at the thought, Delaigne's
heart beat faster, the way of escape
offered by Louisa might be to the east
ward. Mariel lay to the west. If hi
should find himself safely beyond the
line of forts encircling Havana, but ii
the Vicinity of GuanabacOa, for ex.
ample. how should he hope to make
the long circuit among the hills to the
south and west and arrive at Mariel ir
time-to say nothing Of capture on the
way?
His fingers trembled with apprehen-
sion, he opened Louisa's map. 1t was
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map so marked that you cannot mis-
take the way. Follow the directions
upon it and you will be as sure to es-
cape-Ah! you know the chances of
war! but you will be safer than If you
stay in Havana"
She fastened from the room. De-
laigne looked about him. A fearful
struggle was raging in his heart.
A tremendous possibility had flashed
upon him as he had listened to the
girls hurried words. The war plans
If he could take them from Havana
with him he might save the expedition
and thus render his country a great
service. But at what risk to her?
Would it not be suspected that he had
stolen the papers, and that she aided
him?
What folly! In this room, she said
but. of course. under lock and key, so
that taking them was an impossibility.
This mental torment was unnecessary,
gratuitous. If the papers were in plain
sight it might be well enough to con-
slider the pros and cons. Presumably
they were safely hidden in that secre-
tary. De Cardenas had been at work
there this morning, and on Delaigne's
entrance he had shut the cover.
Without realizing what he did, De-
faigne went to the secretary and put
his hand on the cover. To find it
locked would dispose of his doubts at
once, for breaking into it would be out
Of the question. 1t yielded to his touch
and opened! That packet with the bro
ken seal, the official stamp of the Pal
ace, the edge Of a map sticking from
out the end
from his brow and looked around at the
door through which Louisa had gone.
Why would she not return and save
him from a decision? His eyes turned
again to the packet of papers. They
must be the ones she had described. His
trembling hand reached out and
touched the packet. He heard a light
step approaching along the patio bal
cony.
Country flrst!" he whispered.
1t was quickly done. When Louisa
re-entered the drawing room Delaigne
stood where she had left him. The sec
rotary was closed, but the documents
were in his pocket.
You must lose no time she said,
feverishly. This map will guide you.
Farewell
MY darling" he responded, choking,
as he bent and kissed her hand, II shall
never see you again."
Then he dashed from the room and
house, and hurried along the Prado to
his lodging.
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he felt that he must take it into &C.
count.
Accordingly he climbed to a watch
tower built upon the top of house in
order to hire the privilege of looking
through telescope at the sea. The
letting of telescopes for this purpose
had become special business since the
beginning of the blockade, and De-
laigne had often been a patron at this
particular tower. The first person he
saw when he reached the top Of the
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the wall that Delaigne was knocked
down.
Something wrong here" cried the
rider, leaping from his horse.
He fell squarely upon Delairne.
There was a short, fierce struggle in
the dark, and at the end, overpowered
by numbers. for several horsemen came
to the help of their comrade. the
American found himself in the hands
Of Spanish soldiers, a prisoner.
(TO BE CONCLUDED - [
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III.

Delaigne took it for granted that the
way of escape suggested by Louisa
would be open only at night But for
the theft of the papers there would
have been no especial danger in pass
ing the rest of the day after his GUS
The Delta independent., 1898-04-15

When you can enter the hen house
after dark and hear no vheezins it
proves there are not any roupy fowls in
the flock.
When the edge Of the comb and vat.
ties are purplish red and the move
ment sluggish there is something wrong.
When fowls lie around. indifferent to
their surroundings, they are too fat. and
death from apoplexy, indigestion or liver
complaint will result unless the trou BILE
is corrected.
When young poultry, especially duck.
ling.. appear to have core throat, and
swallowing 10 difficult. it IL the symptom
Of the large gray lice on the head.
A hospital should be part OF every
poultry yard. As soon as fowl gets Ill
remove II to the hospital and connence
doctoring il at once. The trouble with
far too many is that they wait until the
disease 10 in its advanced stages before
giving medicine. A very sick fowl IL
difficult to cure. a nd when cured II 10
seldom OF value afterward.
The Delta independent., 1898-04-15

per head per day; also all the hay they
will eat. Saws the steers on this feed
use only about a ton OF hay per head
during the entire feeding season; says
beet pulp is an especially fine feed FOR
sheep.
That the beet sugar industry sstill In
its infancy. or in the experimental stage
both as to the factory operations and
the growing Of sugar beets by the farm
ers. American inventive genius has not
yet found enough demand for this speci-
al factory and farm machinery to fairly
grasp the problems and solve them,
namely: How to simplify the mechsni-
cal and chemical methods and save the
necessity OF the present great cost OF
beet sugar factories. and how to reduce
the handlabor in the fields or do away
with it entirely.
That sure supply OF sugar beets may
be obtained every year for factory uses,
where raised by careful, thorough farm
ers, having an ample supply OF water
for irrigation.
That many localities in Colorado and
adjoining states have every qualification
necessary to establish a paying beet
sugar factory, excepting the laborers to
raise the beets.
That a single beet sugar factory will
produce enough beet pulp in single
seasons run Of 100 days to fatten 5000
head OF sheep-the pulp filling the place
Of hundreds OF cars OF corn now shipped
to this state every fall and winter. That
this pulp would be produced just when
needed for feeding. aad should be q
stimulus to that industry and profit to
a Colorads factory.
The Delta independent., 1898-04-15
Feeding Sugar Bee.s and Beet Psip.

From the Agricultural College reposs
on sugar beets in Colorado.
Volumes might be written on the val
ue ot the sugar beeis for food. They
are a table delicacy that should be grown
in every garden. As food Tor catue'
sheep and hogs, they may be rohtaoay
grown by every farmer. Ore farmer
per,inen;ly says, there is no better fsc'
tory for the profitable use ofsuGar beets
than running them through the live
stock on the farm and converting then
into milk, meat and manure. An analy.
sis shows the dry material contains
about the same nitrogen. free extract
and crude protein and about one hall
the crude fat Of ground wheat. In Utah
they are largely used Us hog feed and u
is even claimed that their use will pre-
vent the hog cholera.
The beet chips ttops) and leaves are
also largely fed where the beets are
raised for the factories In France The
beet chine are worth e2aI0 and the leaves
81 10 per ton.
- !. :, r.,-,.;.I value n. . food
-. - A, o,h., s,c,or;e. IL ia
Ia %, 70 to-, c.n,s per ton. At or
-, a.. ,.,,o,;. r.,x i.,v. mum.
~. =, ..,,,. .nd .h.ep ar. fed. II isa
nne teeu Tor uairs co"s' WV ee "
be taken not to feed an excess with aIt-
alta hay. as it is too fstteniog. 1t has
- A., ;.i,,, ,,,->d s,,d for
sheep when used Win atats nay.
so pcr cent in weight OF beets, or say lsO
The Delta independent., 1898-04-15
DillS ALLOWED.

The following bills we're allowed at
the April meeting OF the board OF county
commissioners. The report OF the pro-
ceedings will appear ne 1t week.
The Delta independent., 1898-04-15
Removal

W. II. Mastin. real estate and
insurance. has moved to TIM lN-
prrryprSr Office, corner Main and
Fourth streets.
The Delta independent., 1898-04-15

ORDINARY FUND.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1898-01-14
COME AND GONE.

| -. = Il q
Cyrus Ersklne returned Saturday from
a cruising trip north.
J. F. Low spent Sunday with relatives
in St.. Cloud 4 ! "
VIM. Won Domarus was in Pelham on
business this week. e"#-
G. W. Denney was in Minneapolis on
business the first of the week.
Mrs Andrews, of Glenwood, was the
guest of her daughter, Mrs P. NJ. FergI-
son.
A. Simouet is in Chicago on business
Mrs. Simonet and the children are in
Saltwater.
R. N. Nichols is inspecting the Pine
Tree Co.'s camps III the northern part Of
the state.
Mrs. Frank Jarboe returned to Brrin-
erd Saturday.
R. Gillette came down from Leech lake
to spend S anday with his family.
Ed. Fordyce came back from Minnea-
polls Monday.
VIM. Tourti|lotte visited the Twin
Cities the first OF the week.
MIR. and Mrs. H. Landau have gone
20 Louisville, Ky, for a visit.
Mrs. Chance, OF ST. Cloud, is the guest
of her sister. Mrs. J. W. Berg.
Mrs. Thos. J. Mathieson returned Sun
day from visit in the south ern part Of
the state.
John B.esto /, ii VI l1,l>)'iS. Il riglt-
of-way agent for the telephonecompany,
is in the city.
VIM. Tubbs, OF Iron River, Wis, vlsi
ted relatives here this week.
E. F. Shaw, A. H. Bryan, John Olson
and G.. E. Vasaly attended the demo-
cratic meeting and banqu%t at Minnea-
polls Tuesday.
Robert Carter Left ior his home at Mus
catine, Ia, Tuesday, after a visit here.
".
the Masonic Grand Lodge in Minneapo-
lis this week.
Id. Brown and little daughter are
visiting relatives IN Saltwater.
R. s. Clark, OF Royalton, was in town
Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Rodney are visit
ing relatives in st. Cloud.
Chas. Cofeld is back from Minneapolis.
Miss Josie Bradish, teacher in the
Perham school, was the guest OF Miss
Frances Woolsey Sunday.
Nick Elvig was in Minneapolis Tue s.
day on business.
Miss Eva Rivard is visi ting with Min
neapolis relatives.
W. B. Jones was in the Twin Cities on
business this week.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1898-01-14

ent crisis by rise in prices, but 9 peri
petuation of the agricultural and in-z
dustrial crisis by giving permanencet to
the era Of low and falling prices.
Now the procedure is plifed.
There is no longer to be work for BIZ.
metallism with the English govern
ment, but for bimeta1lism against the
government of bankers.
The English response of the 18th Of
October, refusing to reopen the Indian
minis to the free coinage of silver, will
lead necessarily to the further appre-
citation of gold, to further fall in the
The terrible crisis which will thereby
be unclaimed upon the world will force
the people of the world to a compre-
hension of the truth that gold is the
instrument that is despoiling them Of
the fruits of their toll to the profit Of
handful of international money lend
ers. The nations that have ever had b.
metallism will hasten to national b.
metallism. Those that had tho silver
standard (as Russia) will be forced to
conserve it or return to It, and they
will thereby be benefited.
The purchasing power of the mona
| tary unit determines the burden Of
! debts. Hence the debtor nations are
interested in the depreciation, the In
ternational bankers in the appreciation
of the monetary unit. By means Of
gold monometallism the money lenders
have succeeded in causing the apprecia-
ton of the monetary unit, or gold. The
wronged nations ask that it be depro-
ciated to it's ancient worth. Obviously
nation which will adopt national b.
metallism alone, if such action IN not
initiated by other nations, runs tho
risk of seeing it's bimetallic system de-
generate into silver monometallism.
Its monetary unit would be deprecated
under the new level asked for. But it
would benefit. The money lenders
would suffer the losses. If the interna-
tional bankers wish to avoid these
losses it is for them to take precau-
tons, it is for them, for the bankers,
in their own interest, who would thus
feel the need, to take care that national
bimetallism be adopted by all the ma
| tons, so that it should thus become in
ternational.
When one is attacked by brigand
who threatens to rob you or even MUIR
der you, if need be, it would be clearly
an excess of courtesy for one to wait
before repulsing him until he left no
doubt by his steps of his intentions.
There would only be permitted him tho
movements that could not be pro-
vented.
This excess of consideration has been
practiced towards the British govern
ment, and the money power of England
has proven by the decisive response Of
October 10 that It is not with studied
considerations of England's wishes and
smooth words that one should UNDER
take to deliver mankind from earthly
damnation and men from the despoil-
ment of their goods by the universal
usurers.
No, decidedly it is to the American
people that history wishes to reserve
the glory of having delivered mankind
from the greatest injustice ersd the
most t.: Die of economic crises that it
has yer endured.-American.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1898-01-14

Michael Lacey, formerly OF Little
Falls, is in the city, just recovering
from Il severe attack OF typhoid
fever. He was in the Brainerd san
itarium for a time. He will return
to his work as foreman of an n. P.
bridge crew in Montana as soon as
restored to health.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1898-01-14
OUR OPPORTUNITY.
The Future Of Bimetallism as Seen in
Russia.

Russia.
Prof. George Boutmy, one of the men
who strives to serve his fellow men.
who feels for the downtrodden, who
strives to uplift them; Russian econ
omist who befriends mankind and re-
fuses to serve the moneyed oligarchy
that is bent on enslaving the world,
though he earn thereby the enmity of
the rich and powerful; noted bimetal-
list who has especially devoted himself
to the demonstration of the blighting
influence that the suspension of the
free coinage of silver rubles has had
upon Russian agriculture, sends us the
following communication, that can
not fail to interest our readers:
Sir: That which one could not fail
to anticipate has happened.
The government of her majesty, the
queen of Great Britain, has capitulatcd
before handful of Lombard street
bankers. The Salisbury-Balfour min
istry has put the interests of the money
lenders in first place, it has sacrificed
to them the interests of agricultural
and Industrial England, the interests
of India, the pledge of the present gov
eminent given to the house of commons
and the whole world on March II. 1896,
upon the honor Of this same govern
ment.
The project of international bimetai-
lism with the assent of England ha:
seemed irrational to me from the be-
ginning. Why wait upon government
of bankers to deprive themselves vol
UNFAIRLY of the advantage of levying
tribute upon mankind by means of the
artificially appreciated gold sovereign
which the world owes to these same
bankers? One would reason that it is
the English bankers themselves who
have invented this irrational kind of in
ternational bimetallism in order to
stave off the danger of national bimet-
allism, which threatened to break their
power last year. Once this danger
postponed until the elections of 1900
and they are the first to find this plan
impracticable.
The producing classes have been
fooled up to this time by this political
treachery, but it has carried it's good
side.
The accomplishment Of bimetallism
by the aid of England was fraught with
serious danger. This was the ques-
ton of ratio between silver and gold.
It is very probable that England
would have used the entirely toe
strongly pronounced desire of other
nations to have her cooperation in a
bimetallic arrangement to impose some
conditions on the question of ratio.
fear very much that the English, il
place of agreeing to the restoration Of
bimetallism at the ratio of fifteen anc
one-half to one or sixteen to one, which
would have restored gold to it's ancient
value, would have insisted on establish.
ing another ratio, say ratio at the
actual existing value of the two pre-
cious metals on the markets. This
would have led not to cheapening but
to fixing of the purchasing power Of
the gold sovereign at its present ap
preciated value, not to a Tightening Of
the burdens of debtors, but to an eter
nalization and legalizing of the burden
of debts fraudulently augmented since
1878 by the artificial appreciation Of
gold, not to an amelioration Of the pres
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been one OF the greatest sources OF
England's commercial revenues. Lom-
bard street is grasping to the utter
most limit, but it always stops just
short of the point of insurrection, and
in this fact may be found the greatest
assurance that the Indian minis will
lat no distant day be reopened to the
coinage of Denver Times-Sun,
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1898-01-14

e. II. Farnham, an attorney for
many years located here, was in
Minneapolis this weak. He is now
living at New Whatcom, Wash. He
will visit here next week.