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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-02-13
M u % " The MAID OF
LV1 "A I'M THE INN....
A Story of English
CHAPTER xv.-lcontinued.l
BY JOSEPH HArroN.


Morley had gone to the inn. The
people at the "Hark-to-Rover'' had
come round to Mrs. Meadows to beg
her for good neighbours sake to be pres
ent while they "cut the cheese" one of
the tritiing customs OF the place, and
In memory Of Jack. who had always
Joined their humble board; and they
had pressed her so warmly, vowiDg she
should not be away for many minutes.
I THAT she was induced to put her shawl
over her head and go with them. Her
brother was sitting before the fire.
smoking pipe, and nursing equity
foot. and Mary was lying half asleep
on the sofa, in the chimney corner.
When Mrs. Meadows returned her
Iorother was fast asleep in his chair.
and Mary was nowhere to be seen.
The widow searched for her, called
her BY name. then grew alarmed. and
went back to her neighbors.
They left their cheese and posset,
their smoking ale and currant cake, to
join in the search for Mary.
II would not have been odd to have
missed her in the daytime; but there
was something alarming in the notion
)that she should be wandering abroad
on o cold icy night, and that night
OF all others-Christmas Eve, when, ac-
cording to Kirkstall in those days, the
world was more or less peopled with
apparitions. good. as a rule, 1t was
thought-angels lowering over the land
to whisper glad messages to forlorn
souls.
\ The night was bright and starlight,
the sign OF Bethlehem shining in the
blue heavens. the very star that had
been the harbinger OF peace and good
will to man. The snow had ceased to
fall; but hill and dale, tree and road
way. were white with their winter
clothes.
- II was what they called then, and
what we call now. when we get 1t, an
old-fashioned Christmas.
The good people of "Hark-to-R Rover"
spread themselves about the district.
and they were still searching for Mary
when Mr.. Taylor and native brought
old Morley home In time to hear the
Christmas bells ring out their joyful
message.
Informed Of what had occurred they
drove along the road to the abbey (care-
fully avoiding the grewsome tree by
the plantation). and met Mrs. Meadows
and some others. but without Mary.
II had not occurred to them to look for
the poor maniac where she was found
the next morning.
On the previous day cloud OF car
rion crows had lowered around the glib
bet. finally resting upon the tree. the
figure In chains hanging immovable in
its icy bonds.
It might be that these evil birds had
more than an earthly reputation of
Uleness.
dSuperstitious natives of Kirkstall
10 saw them. believing they were evil
yirits. noted them as Of curiously
MAggled plumage. with fierce beaks,
a.A making strange and hideous cries.
It might have been, they thought. in
their Imaginative blindness--or with
an inspired vision--who shall say?-
that the hosts OF heaven were driving
he carrion crows out of the land. and
nat they had chung to the gibbet as
y cir rightful resting place.
There are no bounds to the Divine
glercy. and the last appeal of good
and pure woman is known to be full Of
saving grace.
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Yorkshire institutions Of charity could
bs-cIted to prove; and on slip Of pa
per he had written, evidently on the
morning Of lie death, Thank you for
letting me sleep in the room where
was happy, as boy. Jack Meadows.@
1.-THE End)
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The man who tries to keep even with
home and foreign news In an up-to-
date Sunday paper. go to church. dine.
and take his constitutional. must read
on the jump. run all the way to church
and back again. eat in snatches, and
exercise by proxy.
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TN matters of taste there can be no
dispute" for every man Is SO firmly
convinced that there is no standard by
which his taste can be measured.
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But I hurl away this darkness.
cannot have you weep. Thanks be
unto God, who giveth us the victory.
at eventime 1t shall be light! have
seen many Christians die. / never saw
any of them die In darkness. What
II the pillows Of death do rise above
our girdle, who does not love to battle!
What though other lights do go out In
the blast, what do we want Of them
when all the gates of glory swing open
before US and from q myriad voices,
a myriad harps, a myriad thrones. a
myriad palaces there dashes upon US
"Hosanna! Hosanna!" Throw back
the shutters and let the sun in" said
dying Scoville McCullum. one OF my
Sabbath school boys. Throw back
the shutters and let the sun In" You
can see Paul putting on robes and
wings Of ascension as he exclaims: st
have fought the good fight! have
finished my course! l have kept the
faith"
Hugh McKail went to one side of the
scaffold OF martyrdom and cried !:
Farewell sun. moon and stars! Fare
well all earthly delights!" then went to
the other side Of the scaffold and cried
welcome, God and Fatherl Welcome
sweet Jesus Christ. the Mediator Of the
covenant! Welcome death! Welcome
glory!" A minister CT Christ in Phila-
delphia, dying, said in his last mo-
ments. 81 move into the light" They
did not go down doubling and fearing
and shivering. but their battlecry rang
through all the cayerns Of the sepul-
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THEIR RIGHTS ARE EQUAL
CAPITAL AND LABOR SEEMINGLY
CAN DO AS THEY PLEASE.
Former Can Combine and Kill Com
Unions Against Combinations.

ST. LOUIS, Dec. 23.-"Capitalists have a
right to do they please with their
money, so long as they do not become pub
lie charges. A man without capital may
labor or refuse to labor, so long as he keeps
out Of the poorhouse. Capitalists have the
right to combine capital in productive en-
terprises and by lawful competition drive
individual producers and small ones out of
business. Laborers and artisans have the
right TO form unions and fight this COM
petition of capitalists by lawful means
This statement of the right of combina-
tion the part of capital and labor was
handed down by Judge C. c. Bland, of the
Court of Appeals. to-day in a decision in
favor of Joseph Z. Walsh, who sought an
injunction to prevent members of the
Master Plumbers Association from COM
bining in the refusal to sell him supplies
because he was not a member. Judges
Barclay and Goode concurred in the de-
cision, which was a reversal of decision
in Judge Woodss court. The case was
remanded to Judge Woods, who had denied
an injunction asked for by Walsh and the
right of answer is left to the association.
The Appellate Court, while holding that
the association should be restrained, as
Walsh asked refused to dissolve the or
ganization as he had requested. 1t was
stated that the association was a lawful
one.
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LONDON, Dec. A.-In a dispatch from
Tangier dated yesterday a correspondent
of the Daily Mail says the Sultan's troops
have entered Taxa and that the pretender
has fed to the Ghiatta hills.
The correspondent adds that the situation
caused by the rebellion undoubtedly is Sc
rious. The pretender to the throne has
had great success, but Morocco appears to
have a charmed existence. and this rebel
lion probably will prove as futile as have
previous risings. 1t Is a curious thing,
writes the Times correspondent, that the
mystery surrounding the personality of the
pretender has not been solved. At the be-
ginning of the rebellion he was supposed
to be an educated Moor of the lower class
es, native Of Zarahun, who gained rep
utation for sanctity by conjuring. To-day
under the same title of "Bu Hamara," the
pretender is an unknown person, whose
identity has entirely baf1ed discovery and
whom to the natives of Zarahun is play
ing the subservient role of vizier.
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greater. This is the universal judgment
of the merchants. The trade has been di-
rected toward all sections. OF course the
demand for straw hats and duck trousers
has not been great, but there has been no
counter in any of the big stores that has
not felt the tremendous activity. 1t has
been an overwhelming trade but elastic
enough to fit all the conditions. Which is
one of the surest indications that it was
cosmopolitan.
The most important feature of it the
trade from out side the city. This trade
was detected by hundred little incidents
Patrons urged haste in order TO catch a
particular interurban car that they
might have ample time to reach the Union
Station. Others said they had tried to get
in earlier but could not get foot room on
the crowded interurban cars. But even il
these incidents had not disclosed the out
side trade the appearance of the cars
themselves they came into Washington
street loaded to their extremties was suffi-
cient, and the waiting crowds as each hour
passed indicated the numbers that had
done their trading and were returning as
they had come. Yesterday was day to
appreciate the significance of the interur-
ban development of Indianapolis. To-day
will be another. If the judgment of the
merchants is correct il is but a small pre-
sage of the future.
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1t is intimated that an attempt will be
made at the approaching session of the
Legislature to amend OF repeal certain sec
tions of the laws enacted four and two
years ago pertaining to the regulation and
Incorporation of fraternal beneficiary as
sociations, societies or orders. These laws
make very rigid requirements of all such
orders that do business in Indiana and the
enforcement of them has barred a number
of so-called wildcat companies from the
State These companies are extremely
anxious to get into Indiana, and IL Is SAID
that representatives of some of them have
been working on many of the members OF
the Legislature with a view OF Influencing
them to support measure materially
changing the law in question
This attempt will meet with vigorous op-
position, not only from many members OF
ance societies that are now doing business
I'm the State. The Indiana Fraternal Con-
gress includes twenty-five of the strong
est of these societies, and II is taxing steps
to fight any proposed change in the present
laws A meeting of the executive commit
tee of the Fraternal Congress was held last
night at the English to consider the mat
ter and to outline a campaign that Will de-
feat the plans of the outside companies.
Milo Meredith, of Wabash, one of the
prominent officers of the congress, Is dis
cussing the matter, said:
I'VE do not anticipate that we snail nave
much of a fight on our hands. because we
know that we have the present state Of
ficers and fully three-fourths of the MEM
bers of the Legislature with us The orders
that are now in Indiana have complied
with the strict requirements of the pres
ent laws and they will not consent TO see
notifications made so that the weaker COM
panies can get in.
1.-The Indiana Fraternal Congress Is not
seeking any legislation this winter. We
are satisfied with the present laws and
CONTINUED ON PAGE 3, COL. A.
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Casualties at Cincinnati.

CINCINNATI, Dec. 23.-Fire in a three
story fiat in block on Erie avenue, Mount
Auburn. at O'Clock this morning imperiled
the lives of the three families in the build
ing and sent eight persons to the hospital,
one or two of whom may not recover. The
fire started in the cellar among some rub
bish under the gas meter, causing gas
explosion which tore up a portion of the
first floor The fire then caught the stair
way and the frightened inmates running
down the stairway, were painfully burned.
Mrs. Thomas and her son and daughter in
the third floor were rescued by fire ladders
Theodore Aylward and family, wife and
three children, on the second floor, were
all seriously burned. Mildred, aged nine
inhaled fumes and is in a serious condi-
tion Garland Thomas, aged seventeen, is
likewise in a critical condition. Edward
Werder and family on the first floor, es-
capped by jumping out of the window. All
the injured were taken to Christ Hospital
The damage by fire was small.
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Has Renounced All Connection with
the Austrian Royal House and May
Wed a viennese Companion.
sAxoNY's PRINCE ALSO BAD
HIS CONDUCT THE CAUSE OF QUAR-
RELS WITH HIS WIFE.
Denounced as Beast" by the Fugi-
tive Princess Because of His Inf
delity-Divorce Probable.

GENEVA, Switzerland. Dec. 23-The
crown princess of Saxony is here under
the name of Fraulein Won Oben. Her
brother Archduke Leopold Ferdinand, and
Professor Giron are. at the same hotel.
The archdukc has assumed the name OF
De Buriano. The party is living quietly
and proposes to spend Christmas here.
BERLIN. Dec. 23.-A dispatch from Drcs-
den this evening TO the Lokal Anzeiger
confirms previous advices from Geneva to
the effect that the crown princess of Sax
ony is in Geneva with Professor Giron, a
French teacher of language. whom she met
during her last trip to Paris. He is de-
scribed as twenty-four years of age and a
striking personality with large bright
eyes" All the theaters in Dresden are
closed tonight. The court of the fugitive
princess has been dissolved.
The Tageblatt's Dresden correspondent
says: 1.-The dificulty between the princely
couple dates from prior to King Alberts
death. They had several painful scenes
during the Kings illness. 1t is reported
here that the crown princes recent act.
ostensibly the breaking of one of his legs
while hunting in the Bavarian mountains
near Salzburg was an invention. the fact
being that he had fight with his brother
in-law, Archduke Leopold Ferdinand. and
the crown prince was so badly haudled
that he had to take TO his bed. The Saxon
ministers say the AFFAIR Is definitely closed
so far as the Dresden court Is concerRe1
The letters of the crown princess have been
seized. She Is expected 10 give birth 10 a
child in May"
MUNICH, Bavaria. Dec. 23.-It is an
nounced that Archduke Leopold Ferdinand
left here TO find his sister, the crown prtn-
cess of Saxcny. the view held at the Ba-
varian court is that the princess may yet
return to Dresden. The court at Munich
excuses her conduct. alleged that the prin-
cess was terrorized by Professor Giron
and yielded 10 his threats.
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JUDGE OUT OF JAIL.
st. Clair County Recalcitrant VIII
Spend Christmas Mt Home.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Dec. 23.-Judge
Thomas hewitt, OF st. Clair county, Mis-
souri,. who has been in Jail in Marysville for
failing to obey a mandate of the United
States Court. was released to-day by Judge
Philips so he could spend Christmas with
his family After the holidays he will re-
turn to the Marysville Jail.
Judge hewitt is the presiding judge of
the County Court of st. Clair He has been
in Jail ever since he was elected. For many
years judges of that court have refused
to order the payment of railroad bonds for
which judgment was obtained in the
Federal Court, and Judge Philips has kept
them in Jail. A week ago Judge hewitt
wrote to Judge Philips and begged the
privilege of going home for Christmas He
promised Judge Philips that he would not
hold court in st. Clair county, but would
return after the holidays.
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Girls Forced to Jump.

ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, Dec. 23.-Fire broke
out at 6:45 o'clock this morning in Chase
G. Sons candy mandatory and destroyed
it, Sophia Mintus, aged fifteen years, and
Matte Leslie, aged twenty, employees,
jumped from a third-story window and
were fatally hurt. Miss Mintus's right leg
was broken and her head badly cut. Miss
Leslies skull was fractured. There We're
fifty girls employed in the factory and
many others jumped from second and third
story windows. some suffering slight in
juries Laura Crawford. May Dakin, and
Rosie Kraus were injured about the head
by jumping, not fatally. The origin of the
fire is unknown. The factory had been
orders, and the night and day forces were
changing at the time the fire broke out.
The loss on the candy factory is 500, 900.
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CONTINUED ON PAGE 5. COL. A.
CRUEL WAR in MOROCCO
SULTAN DEFEATED AND FORTY OF
HIS SOLDIERS KILLED.
Later Put the Pretender to Flight
After Ordering His Troops to
Spare No One at Taza.

TANGIER, Morocco, Dec. 23.-The imper-
ial troops have been totally defeated after
a sanguinary battle with the rebels headed
by the pretender to the throne. The latter
decapitated forty of the Sutan's soldiers.
Their heads are now ornamenting his tent.
Imperial reinforcements have been sent to
attempt the capture of Taxa, the head
quarters of the pretender. Incensed by the
successes of the rebels. the Sultan has or
dered his soldiers to spare no one at Taxa,
in spite of the advice of the chiefs. who
counseled him not to indulge in excesses.
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met officers in this inclfpation toward ac-
ceptance Is their conviction that an in
ordinate length OF time would be consumed
IL the issue is taken before The Hague
tribunal. The machinery is sufficient. but
ponoerous and difficult to put in motion
FIRST there must be arranged a basis of
arbitration. then arbitrators must be Sc
iected oy the parties to the case and these
IN turn must choose an umpire or umpires,
ana Wnile all this Is going on the blockade
would continue with its ever-present dan
ger or active hostilities and bloodshed that
might render nugatory all attempts at ar
dent undertakes the settlement he can get
rid of all red tape and start the work of
arbitration within few days.
Great Britain's response TO the Presi-
dents suggestion that the issues involved
IN the Venezuelan troubles be referred to
The Hague tribunal for arbitration had not
been received In Washington up TO 8
O'Clock tonight. II is expected the first
thing tomorrow. the delay in transmitting
the reply, which Is presumably quite long.
no doubt being due to It's reduction in
cipher. 1t was stated tonight that the
administration Is anxious the whole mat
ter of the settlement of the question shall
go to The Hague tribunal in preference to
the President acting In the capacity of ar
bitrator.
The State Department to-day received a
cablegram from Minister Bowen, the first
for several days. recording the establish
ment OF the blockade lines, according to
the proclamations already issued, and stat
ing that the Port of Coro is not yet block
AIDED. He also announced that the Rev. ID.
Schneider, the only Protestant clergyman
In Caracas. Is dead.
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LIKE THE CALv0 DOCTRINE.
Plea Of the Wabash Company I'm Suits
Filed in Behalf Of Foretrner.

DETROIT. Dec. 2S.-In the twelve suits
for damages begun in the Circuit Court
in behalf OF the estates of Italians killed
in the head-on collision at Seneca. Mich.
a year ago Thanksgiving day. the Wabash
Railroad has filed a plea setting UP that
the Italians were aliens and outside the
provisions of the Michigan statutes relat-
ing TO death by wrongful act and further
more that they were contract laboreres and
therefore. when killed were engaged in an
ofrense under immigration laws. Each case
II for $4,000.
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Big HOSPITAL BURNED
PATIENTS HAD NARROW ESCAPES
AND SOME MAY HAVE PERISHED.
Eight Persons Injured at Cincinnati,
Five or More at st. Joseph, Mo-,
and Four at Bradford, Pa.

ALBUQUERQUE. N. NJ. Dec. 2S.-The
big hospital of the Santa Fe-Pacific here
is mass of flames, and there is no hope
of saving 1t. Twenty-Five patients, some of
them very ill, were in the institution.
Superintendent Cutter believes all were
saved. but he cannot be sure, they were
cut off from access to the wards in a brief
time. The fremen are taking great risks
in hopeless effort to save the handsome
addition. There have been several hair
breadth escapes. The fire caught in a room.
which was in flames before discovered. The
loss will be covered by insurance.
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READY FOR PEACE OR WAR.


NEW YORK, Dec. 23-The recent order
OF the Navy Department to hurry up the
finishing touches on the battleship Maine
has been followed out at Cramps ship
yards. says a dispatch from Philadelphia.
With steam up the battleship lies in the
Delaware river ready to go into commits
sion. Her hull is painted a dazzling white
from stem TO stern. while at night hundreds
of tiny electric lights make her decks as
bright as day. The following big guns
have been placed on board the Maine: Four
twelve-inch breech-loading rifles, six
teen six-inch rapid-fire guns, six three
inch rapid-fire guns. eight six FOUNDERS. six
one Founders. two colts. two three-inch
rapid-fire field guns and two submerged
torpedo tubes.
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SHIPBUILDERS IN STRAITS.


RICHMOND. Va, Dec. 23.-The William
r. Trigg Shipbuilding Company, of this
city. was placed in the hands of a receiver
to-day. The order was issued by Judge
Grinnan. of the Chancery Court, upon a
bill filed by s. III. Hawes & Co., coal deal
ers, for supplies furnished the company
amounting to $2.04S. Judge Grinnan ap-
pointed L. T Myers. vice president of the
company, receiver, under bonds of $4,000
The amount of the claims and liens already
filed Is about $150.O00.
The receiver issued tonight a statement
saying that the work would be resumed
and steps had already been taken for re-
organization. The indebtedness as repre-
sented by bonds and preferred and common
stock amounts to $3.75000O
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ST. JOHNS. y. F.. Dec. 2S.-Marconi has
sent telegram to Premier Bond ANNOUNCE
ing his complete success in the transmits
sion OF wireless messages between Cape
Breton and England. and referring with
gratitude to the encouragement he received
from Newfoundland year ago. In his
reply Premier Bond expressed the hope that
when the charter OF the Anglo American n
Company expires in April. 1904, Marconi
would establish a wireless station here.
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Other Losses by Fire.

BELLAIRE, o., Dec. 23-Fire that
started in a mysterious manner this morn
ing destroyed the wholesale produce house
of Boyd & Co, the new plant of the Camel
Brick and Tile Company, the warehouse of
Stewart & Goode. Touring mill and four
dwellings. The loss is estimated at 800 000
ESCANABA, Mich, Dec. 23.-The butter
dish factory and warehouses of the Es-
canada Woodenware Company were de-
stroyed by fire at noon to-day. Loss esti-
mated at $4,000. Several hundred men,
boys and girls were employed in the fac
tory.
BEATRICE, Neb., Dec. 23.-Fire early
this morning burned three business blocks
and the Masonic Temple. The loss Is estl-
mated at $125,000.
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PROGRESS TOO SLOW.
Cable to Hawaii May Not he Laid I'm
Time for Christmas Greetings.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 23-AIl hope
that the cable ship Silvertown will arrive
at Honolulu during Christmas day is dis
PEELED by the following cablegram from
the Associated Press correspondent on
board the vessel: During the last twenty
four hours l07 knots of cable have been
laid, making the total up to noon to-day
1677 knots. The weather is partly clear.
A strong southwesterly breeze has some
what retarded progress. Latitude, 26 north,
longitude, 1924 west