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CHAPTER XXI.
HAD RATSY LIVED.

1t was the last day Of the inquest,
and to many 1t bade fair to be the
least interesting. All the witnesses
who had anything to say had long ago
given in their testimony, and when at
or near noon Sweetwater slid into the
inconspicuous seat be had succeeded
in obtaining near the coroner it was to
find In two faces only any signs Of
eagernesS and expectancy that filled
his own breast to suffocation. But as
these faces were those of Agnes Halli-
day and Amabel Page he soon recog-
nized that his own judgment was not
at fault and that Notwithstanding out
ward appearances and the languid in
terest shown in the now tagging pro-
ceedings the moment presaged an event
full of unseen but vital consequence.
Frederick was not visible in the
great hall; but that he was near at
hand soon became evident from the
change Sweetwater now saw in Anna
bel; for, while she had hitherto sat un-
der the universal gaze with only the
faint smile of conscious beauty on her
tnScrutable features. she reused as the
hands of the clock moved toward noon
ind glanced at the great door Of EN-
rance with an evil expectancy that
tartled even Sweetwater, so little had
e really understood the nature Of the
issions laboring In that venomous
east.
Next moment the door opened. and
ederick and his father came in. The
Of triumphant satisfaction with
ich Amabel sank back into her seat
as marked in its character as her
yiouS suspense What did it mean?
setwater noting it and the vivid
trast it offered to E'rrderick's air
oppression. felt that his return had
b we'll timed.
Sutherland was locking very fee
bI AS he took the chair offered him
thlange in his appearance was ap-
pat to all who knew him. and there
wfew there who did not know him.
AHartled by these evidences of Suf-
ferwhich they could not understand
antared to interpret. even to them
sell more than one devoted friend
stoineasy glances at Frederick 10
see he. too. were under the cloud
whieemed to envelop his father al
mosSond recognition.
Blederick was looking at ANA
bel, This erect head and determined
aspe(ade him a conspicuous figure
In thDm She who had called up
this esSion and alone comprehend
ed 1t smiled. as she met his eye
with tcuriouS slow dipping Of her
dimplech had more than once con-
founder coroner and rendered her
ut once admiration and adherence
Of the I'll who for so long time
had hat opportunity Of watching
her.
FredeIto whom this smile con-
yeyed q hope rs well as a last
threat. II away as soon as possi-
BILE. but efore her eyes had fallen
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TRUSTS MAKE PEAcE.-The following
is published in the Chicago Tribune Of
yesterday morning: Private advices
have reached Chicago that the war be-
tween the great sugar and coffee trusts,
which has cost these trade rivals ap-
proximately $25,OOOOO0, Is to be brought
to a close. Negotiations have been
closed in New York and Chicago where
by the Arbuckles will nominally give
up sugar refining and become dictators
in the coffee trade; Henry o. Have
meyer and the sugar trust will practi-
cally give up the coffee roasting plants,
with which an effort was made to crush
John Arbuckle, and handle only the
sugar business.
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GIVE THE SOUTH A CHANCE.
Remarkable Industrial Progress Made In the
Cotton States In the Last Decade.


The expansion Of the South in the
next ten years is reasonably certain to
be greater proportionately as we'll as
absolutely than it has been in the de-
cade just ended. In several Of the
states Of the South are immense depos-
it's of coal and iron, the possession OF
which determines in large degree a
community's industrial standing in a
country or in the world. OF course its
cotton product is immeasurably great
er than that produced by all the rest of
the world in the aggregate, and even
here there are opportunities for almost
unlimited growth. Of the 14000O,00O
bales of cotton produced in the entire
world, the Southern States contribute a
little over Is per cent. The country is
breaking all records these days in it's
and this, in a great degree, is caused
by the enormous shipments of cotton,
which furnish the largest single item
in the value Of the countrys exports.
Cotton prices at the present time are
higher than the average of any recent
year, the product is larger, and as a
consequence the South is prosperous.
But the South has been learning to
utilize some Of it's cotton prodV
home. While the Northern Stat the
1891 manufactured 2,027,JO0 bales Oft or
ton, and the South $4,000 bales, you
takings of the North were 2,217, ,OOOiYe
1899, and those of the South were Lily
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SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS.

SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS.
In order that new readers of THE EN-
oUIRER may begin with the following
installment of this story, and under
stand it just the same as though they
had read it all from the beginning, we
here give a synopsis of that portion of
which has already been published:
The story opens with the close of a
ball after daylight in the morning.
While the guests are leaving the house
Frederick Sutherland dashes out fran
tically and disappears in the woods on
the other side of the road. Agatha
Webb is found up stairs murdered.
The body of Batsy, the cook, is found
hanging from a window. Philemon
Webb, Agatha's husband, is discovered
sitting before a dining table. asleep.
with a smear Of blood on his coat
the murder, his mind, alrady feeble
gives way completely. All Agatha
Webb's money has been taken. Miss
Page, standing on the lawn, points to a
spot of blood on the grass. Frederick
Sutherland, who has been wild fell
low, promises mis- father to reform; also
to give up Amabel Page, whom he has
been expecting to marry. Miss Page
tells Frederick that she followed him
ol lilC VI IllC dCA oiAo 90 "
him secrete 81, 900 in a hollow tree. She
declares that he shall either marry her
or she will proclaim him a murderer.
She is about to leave him and the town
when she is held as a witness. The
past life Of Agatha Webb. Six children
have been born to her and all died in
infancy. 1t is learned that the money
taken from Agatha Webb was all in
new bills. A storekeeper produces one
of them that a strange man with a
flowing beard gave him the night of the
murder. The problem now is to find
the man with the long beard. Suspic-
ion falls on the label brothers. Fred
erick visits the hollow tree and finds
the money gone. Wattles a gambler
from Boston, demands $3.50 Of Freder-
ick in payment Of a gambling debt.
Frederick secures a check for the
amount from his father, pays the debt
and Is about to leave home when he is
stopped by Miss Page. Knapp, detec-
tive. and Abel, with the coroner; visit
the label brothers. They are obliged
to break into the house, and find both
brothers dead. A spot Of blood Is
found on the clothing Of one Of the
brothers, and a miniature Of Agatha
Webb when young girl is lying on
James labels breast. The party visit
the hollow tree, and Sweetwater who
has oined them, digs under 1t and finds
$3.50. The finder declares that Amabel
Page buried the money. He also de-
clares that he followed Amabel Page
when she left the house on the night
Of the murder and saw her bury the
money. He accuses her oftrying to
throwsuspicion on one Of the Zebel
brothers with one Of the bills. Miss
Page is examined with reference to her
conduct on the night of the murder
and proves a very willy witness. The
will of Agatha Webb bequeaths her
fortune to Frederick Sutherland.
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"lt you auant my ute, | ectll gtye 1t to you
| 1otth Tny olD7l hand"
here swear. Of the effect which my un.
expected presence would have on the
noble woman overhead. slipped up
the narrow staircase and, catching
at that moment the sound Of her voice
calling out to Batsy. stepped up to
the door l saw standing open before
me and confronted her before she
could move from the table before
which she was sitting, counting over
large roll Of money.
"My look land 1t was doubtless not a
common look. for the sight of a mass
Of money at that moment. when money
was everything to me. reused every
lurking demon In my breast) seemed to
appall. If it did not frighten, her, for
she rose. and meeting my eye with a
gaze In which shock and some strange
and poignant agony totally lncompre-
hensible to me were strangely blended,
she cried out:
No, no, Frederick! You don't know
what you are doing. If you want my
money, take 1t; if you want my life,
will give it to you with my own hand
Don't stain yours-don't'-
IL did not understand her. did not
know until thought it over afterward
that my hand was thrust conrulsively
into my breast in way which, taken
with my wild mien, made me look as
If had come to murder her for the
money over which she was lowering.
l was blind, deaf to everything but
that money, and, bending madly for
ward in a state of mental intoXication
awful enough for me to remember
now, answered her frenzied words by
some such broken eXclamations as
these:
"'Give, then! | want manifestation,
sands-now, now, to save myself! Dis.
grace. shame, prison await me If l
| don't have them. Give, giver And my
| hand went out toward it. not toward
her; but she mistook the action, mis-
took my purpose. and, with heart
broken Cry. to save me, me, from
crime, the worst crime Of which hu-
manity Is capable. she caught up dag
| ger lying only too near her hand In the
open drawe against which she leaned.
and in moment Uf fathomleSs anguish,
which we who can never know more
than the outward seeming Of her life
can hardly measure, plunged against 1t
and-I can tell you no more. Her blood
and Batsy's shrek from the adjoining
room swan through NY consciousness,
and then she fell. as supposed, dead
upon the floor. and |. iu scarcely better
case, fell also.
This, as God lives. is the truth con-
| cerning the wound found in the breast
Of this neverto be forgotten woman"
The feeling. the pathOS. the anguish
even. to be found in his tones made this
story, strange and incredible as it SEEM
ed, appear for the moment plausible.
And BatsyY" asked tue coroner
"AIust have fallen when we did, for
| never heard her voice after the first
scream. But shall speak Of her again
What must now explain Is how the
money In Mrs. Webbs drawer came
into my possession and how the dagger
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"Let me be put on my oath. haze testt-
money to gtUc of the utmost Importance
stopped before he had taken a half
dozen steps and glanced back at his IA
ther, who was visibly succumbing to
this last shock.
"Go!' he whispered. but in so thrill
ing tone it was heard to the remotest
corner Of the room. Spare me the an
guish Of saying what | have to say In
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WITHOUT HANDS OR FEET.
Remarkable Achievements of Man Who /:
Full of Grit.

Some time ago Secretary Root sent a
man to the Philippines to make some
confidential observations. He made the
| investigations, returned to this coun-
try, prepared and submitted his reports.
These reports so pleased the secretary
that he wrote a personal letter Of con-
graduation to the confidential agent.
The man who made these reports was
M. ]. Bowling, of Minnesota. So far
there is nothing remarkable about this
story; but there is about Bowling. He
has neither hands nor feet. Some
25 years ago he was a boy and was
caught in one of the great blizzards
which occasionally sweep over the
Northwestern country. He was badly
frozen, and though he battled bravely
to save himself, both feet and hands
had to be amputated. This was pretty
hard for boy; but he was full of true
grit. AS soon as the stumps healed he
determined to go to Milwaukee to Sc
cure artificial limbs. The only way he
could travel was by being laid upon the
seat of a car, where he did not move
during the entire journey. The conduc-
tor punched the ticket which was
tied to him, thinking what hard luck
the boy was in. Then he forgot the boy
and the train journeyed on for miles
and miles, stopped at station for din
ner and again went on. Late in the
afternoon the conductor felt full Of re-
morse because he had given no fur
HIt6,tbe boy without hands
thOuRhf~ryN bio,
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Miseella11euus geading.
A CENTURY POEM

The following poem by Edward Mark
ner in New York on New Years eve:
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TO BE CONTINUED.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1901-1901, 1901-08-01
One Passenger Too Many.

A good story is going the rounds Of
the offices. of the Metropolitan Street
Railway company concerning the Won
derful presence of mind displayed re-
Gently by new conductor on one of
the company's trolley cars. This par
ticular car was bowling along up
Broadway recently when it was hailed
and boarded by a company inspector.
The official hurriedly counted the pas
sengers in the car and found that there
were nine. Then he cast his eye up to
the register and found that there had
been only eight fares rung up. He dis
closed his identity to the new conduct
or and called attention to the discrep-
ancy.
Slowly and painfully the new hand
counted over his passengers and then
scanned his register.
"Begorra, an you're roight, sir" he
said and promptly stopped the car.
Say" he demanded, addressing the
passengers in an authoritative man.
ner, ivan O youse fellows'n how to
git off the car-r."-New York Times.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1901-1901, 1901-08-01
Cleaning OIL Paintings.

An art journal suggests raw potatoes
to clean oil paintings. Have a few po-
tatoes at hand, each cut in halves. The
fresh surface is dampened slightly with
cold water and used to rub the canvas.
AS the potatoes show soil the surface
Is sliced off and the rubbing continued.
This process will create little lather,
which should be wiped or as fast rs it
accumulates with a clean, damp sponge.
When the whole canvas is cleaned, it
should be washed over lightly with
clean water from which the chill has
been. taken and finally the water
carefully wiped Off with an old clean
silk handkerchief. Raw potatoes to
clean paintings are frequently in hear
say evidence, but this description Of
the process may be of value. 1t is sug-
gested by way of reasonable caution
that the experiment should be tried
first upon canvas Of trifling value
and upon one corner of that.
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A M1xht Deficit.

A weather stained, creaking wagon
drew up in front of photographer
establishment in Georgia town. Be.
meath its body lean hound came to a
standstill. A man clad in jeans trou-
sers, homespun shirt and guiltless of
coat or vest emerged from the vehicles
anterior extremity. Settling his soft
SLOUGH hat on the back of his head. he
adjusted his lone gallus and gave the
lines to the wife and baby within. Be-
hind these, from the dome Of canvas
beyond, peered. big eyed and solemn,
numerous editions of the lord and mas.
ter.
Entering the shop, the stranger paused
before a case of sample photographs
and, pointing to one, said, "Mister,
what dyer charge fer takin picters like
that?'
"Three dollars a Dozen" replied the
clerk.
Thrusting his hands into his pockets,
he turned thoughtfully toward the wag-
onful Of offspring. "Waal, l reckon I'll
have ter wait a bit" he sud softly to
himself. II amt got but 'leven."-
Harper's Magazine.
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The professors at Chicago UNIVERSE
ty must certainly be curious aggre-
cation. Every week or two one of
them breaks out with what is probably
intended for grave announcement
on some abtruse subject and by it's
announcer calculated to cause us to
halt and consider. But somehow the
effect is to cause us to halt and snick-
err, and a ripple of innocent merriment
steals across the hills and dales and
permeates even to the alleys and by
ways. The latest discovery is that
Americans are fast reverting to the
type of the primeval Indian, not only
in looks, but in manners" Perhaps
this weighty opinion will appeal to
Auginaldoites and such like, who will
promptly discover In the Philippine
affair an evidence of the tendency to
revert to the natural predatory in.
stinct of the red man and to his peri.
odical desire to take to the war path /;
but to convince people of ordinary
perspicuity, especially those who have
| seen LO on his native heath, of the
soundness of this Solon's conclusions
would require hypnotic as we'll as de-
ductive powers of character probab
ly lacking at even such a brainy insti
tuition as Chicago University.
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SETTLING THE STEEL STRIKE

Now that the steel trust and it's
employees are getting together in an
amicable spirit and there is prospect
that the next day or two will see the
strike declared off, the general public
are hearing what the real trouble is
that has caused all the row. There
is generally SO much exaggeration and
One-sidedness about strike statements
at the time the men go out that it is
difficult to arrive at a reasonably lust
understanding of the causes. The i'm
portant question to be decided at the
conference now in progress, we are
told, is what constitutes a union mill
The Amalgamated people claim mill
is union as soon as they have secured
a foothold in it. On the other hand
the steel people argue that a mill is
not union until at least a majority of
the skilled workmen have joined the
Amalgamated association. On the
settlement of this question it is
thought will hinge the settlement of
the strike. While what constitutes a
union mill may be q matter of con-
siderable importance to some agita-
tors and trouble hunters, which is the
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witness NY Hand.

In the early days only a few schol-
ars, priests and clerks knew how to
write. 1t was then customary to sign
document by smearing the hand with
ink and impressing it upon the paper,
accompanied by the words, witness
my hand" Afterward the seal was in
troduced as a substitute for the hand
mark and was used with the words
above quoted. the two forming the sig
nature. This is the origin of the ex-
preston as used In modern documents.
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The Collection.

While lecturing his congregation
rather strongly on recent Sunday
about slack attendance and small col
lections a minister of a church In an
English city used the following elo-
quent and forcible sentence: Eyes,
brethren. our collection Of a little over
f3 last Sunday included no fewer than
500 halfpennies. We all know about
the Widows mite. and am sure we are
very glad to receive it; but l don't
think there are 500 widows in this con-
gregatiOnw
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THURSDAY, AUGUST l, 1901.
THE CASE AGAINST EAKRIGHT.

There seems to be a disposition in
certain quarters to condemn Officer
Eakright in advance of the judgment
of the courts, and in opposition to the
verdict of the coroner's jury which in
vestigated the circumstances sur
rounding the unfortunate killing of
the Chinaman. 1t is current talk that
the dead mans countrymen in and out
of this town are willing and able to
spend oceans of money to railroad
Eakright to the penitentiary. Not
content to depend upon the efforts of
the county attorney, who has shown
a commendable disposition to see that
the law is indicated and that FAX
right is punished if he deserves pun
ishment, additional counsel have been
engaged for the prosecution. Twenty
thousand dollars is the fund reported
to be on hand to see that Eakright
gets the worst of it, and while there
may be no truth in the report, it is
current just the same.
The Muscular in an Incorporate
editorial reference to the matter
classes the killing of Wong Fong by
Officer Eakright along with the assas-
sinatiOn of James Winters by the Cur
~ gang. Tho comparison is most I'm
happy and unfair. The killing If
Winters was a premeditated murder
Of the worst degree committed by out
laws upon whose heads a price had
Ieen set. The killing o. the Chinaman
was an unfortunate mistake. at
worst, committed by an officer of the
law in the discharge }; IS duty
The Bee hss no purpos, to defend
Eskright beyond his deserts, but he
certainly is entitled to fair play in
ii is matter. Within the .,ast year two
officers of re law nave bneo shot
down by law breakers because they
took chances. Public opinion classes
such officials as foolhardy, but when in
an excess of cautiousness, as in FAX
rights case, the killing happens to be
on the other side, there are too many
individuals and newspapers ready to
jump on the officer and condemn him
off hand.
The charge against Eakright is to
be investigated by the courts, and un-
til that is done, fair-minded people
will be careful to see that he gets at
least a fair show for his liberty.
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general though perhaps in some cases
mistaken classification applied to
leaders of labor organizations, and
while it may also be of some slight i'm
portance to the steel magnates, the
trouble looks very much like the old
story of a sentimental grievance on
both sides, the men holding that they
have certain inherent rights and privi-
leges in the conduct of the different
manufactures with which they are
connected, and in many cases have
been connected for years, while the
employers hold that their workmen
are merely parts of a gigantic ma
chine and are entitled to no more
consideration than a flywheel after
their wages are paid. Workingmen
nowadays, and students of economic
conditions as applied to mills and
manufactures of all kinds, have SET
tied convictions that the feelings and
manly spirit of employees are deserv-
ing of equal consideration with money
compensation from employers, and it
is these convictions, which the other
side practically ignores and holds
have no reasonable basis, which con-
stitute stumbling block in the way
of lessening the number of strikes and
their often disastrous effects, and
which also aho-,l over.zralo;s labor
leaders the opportunity for fomenting
trouble whic1 they are popularity cup
posed to lose no opportunity to grasp.
Pit the steady impr 1vemrp1 in the
&c cal en- nonment Of Morlingmcn
in this country during the past quar-
ter century, both in and out of the
shop, gives good ground for the belief
that while labor agitators may not be
in every case on the most fair side in
strike troubles, they often are, and the
improved conditions referred to may
be largely attributed to their efforts.
There must, however, remain in the
minds of people who survey the scene
with disinterested Indifference
strong suspicion that the strike was in
the nature of pre-arnanged affair, if
not actually at least tacitly. The men
are said to have enjoyed a much
needed vacation during the recent hot
spell and do not seem at all worried,
while the interval of idleness has
cleared up good deal of accumulated
stock at the mills and warehouses and
has been viewed by the trust with
calmness bordering on satisfaction.
Now the leaders will get together and
smooth matters over, the men will
take up their work with renewed ener-
gy, bustling demand for it's product
will make heavy the pockets of the
trust, and another great strike will
have passed into history.
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ANOTHER TWlN-SCREW STEAM,
SHIP.

One of the finest vessels on the
great lakes is the twin-screw steam
ship Miami, sailing twice a week
from Duluth to Mackinac island in
connection with the Eastern Railway
of Minnesota.
Illustrated information. rates and
berth reservations from agent of the
Great Northern Railway.