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THE VIENNA •* 1 TERMS, $1. Per Annnm, “Hew to the Line, Let the Chips Fall Where They May.” JOHN E. HO tfELL, Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XII. NO. 42 . VIENNA, GA„ TUESDAY’, MAY' 8, 1894. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. WHAT ANSWER! BY MH3. J. V. H. KOOKS. Artown thro’ the ages comes sounding the crj The question unanswered that “If a man die Shall he live again?" Who can tell? Who can tell? We know not, hope only that all will be well. If tw.ck to its elements passes the clay That shelters the spirit for only a day, Why may not the sonLas the body, return To its clementi* too? But what do we learn By questioning over and looking thro’ tears To a past full o? idols and blocd-embalmec. years ? Though sweet lines of poesy rnn here and there, Like sunbeams of gold, tbro’ a coJd, leaden air; Though sweet, mournful music from days that aro dead fctill fall on the ear, healing hearts that have bled? Thougn 'tie sweet to believe in the legends of old, To see trees of life bend with apples of gold, To bask in the tropics ’neath olive and palm Where the kind words of Jesus, to the world fell like balm. Though sweet to the heart are the dreams ol our youth, The present is with us, full of stern, arctic truth, P-nll of new revelations for each new-born day. And teacher and learner must both work and pray * or bow light and more light—once candles would do— And truths then discovered will ever be true. But the error must perish, thus sayeth the Lord; Though keen pangs are suffered in severing the cord. 'The ethics of Jesus, broad, soon narrowed down To village theologies." Christian and clown, Inrougli sad years of miscegenation and night, Have loosenod their hold on the anchor of rignt, Have builded a babel from whose crumbling tower r^ball be to humanity given new power, And men shall go forth and shall labor alone, And bread, shall bo given instead of a stone, uod s truth in tho heart made alive then Khali bo From doctrines and dogmas the world shall he free To do right and live right the soul’s highest good, *By their fruits shall ke know them,” this grand brotherhood, Who work in God’s vineyard with hope fixed above, To Him alone looking for life thro’ His love. Muncie, Ind. A Story of Early Colo- nial Days. rrie mnirrer iosx no time in relaxing tnfl J lorest and wended fils way down the c ircumstances of Achsah’s illness, and . village street he saw that a house at the beforo evening all the gossips In the vil- other end was ablaze with fire. With a BY CHARLES C. HAHN. CHAPTER XII. A WILD, WET NIGHT. HE harsh sen- car- tence was ! ried out at once, and the poor young woman was compelled to suffer an in dignity that has left a lasting stain upon the character of our Puritan ances tors. The cruel treatment which his wife received decided Egbert to remove from S a g n a u c li— either to some other place in the colony or to his home in old England. Tli* lat ter place was chosen for him within a few days by an unexpected letter from his father. Egbert's elder brother had been killed while hunting, and the father wrote to recall the younger son, who would now- bo tho next Lord of Oswold. Hut before Egbert Ingram could ar range to leave Sagnauck other events wero shaping themselves to keep him longer in tho place of his wife’s persecu tion. The inhuman sontenco of tho Puritan judges had brought on a low fever, and before a week had passed Dorothea Ingram was insane. Her in sanity was of a mild form, and the vagaries which filled her mind wero of the most elusive kind. Some days dark ghostly clouds swept over her and in tho wall of darkness around, queer forms intermingled with each other, fantastic shapes, distorted faces of men and women. These -would appear and fade and others come. At times some woodland scene would appear its plain as if she wore looking out of her cabin window at the forests which sur rounded her home; the waves of the ocean beat in her imagination and tali towering castles built themselves and iisappenred before her eyes. Hut at all times a light cloud seemed to iioat beforo her eyes, a cloud which slio was ever trying to penetrate and which was so thin that sho was ever in hopes of finding what was behind it. Sometimes tho cloud passed away and then some other object appeared. Now it was Egbert, now tho minister, and sometimes Mark Hillary. At length tho beclouded intellect was able to under stand what the object of its desire was. Hidden by cloud or by tho perplexing ap pearance of other forms was the figure of her mother, whom she could not re- member but whoso portrait she had worn on her breast all her life. Once did sho see the vision, through clouds and darkness, and tho gentlo in fluence of her spirit mother brought a soothing peace, and Dorothea sank intc an untroubled, childish sleep. After that, although the filmy mist hung over liet Still, tho vision never entirely faded. Sho felt that the fair form was hovering over her and tho consciousness brought her rest. During Dorothea's illness, her husband never left the cabin, and yet tho two wero never in need. Every morning, when ho arose, Egbert found by his cabin door some articlo of game, a fish from tho river, or a piece of venison. This soon became known to the buss gossips of tho village, and every effort was made to learn from what source he received them. Failing in this they, fell back upon the old theory that Dorothea was being protected by that unknown person to whom the minister had referred on the day of tho trial. Mr. Granville was not slow to hear these tales. In fact he took pains to in quire daily concerning the young couple, and stored away every possible story or theory as more evidence against the poor woman. Every incident in Dorothea’s life was now a theme for suspicion with him. He remembered when she had given way to anger and knew now that she had been under the influence of the devil; her friends had been won by evil charms; her insanity was tho working of devils in her mind, and the food with which she was fed came from her Master. About this time Mr. Granville received medical advice concerning his children, and was bidden to take them for long walks in the open air. He followed the physician’s advice conscientiously, but ho had become such a monomaniac that each walk always led him and his two daughters by Dorothea's home. One day, as they were passing, they heard a faint cry within the cabin, a cry so faint and yet so peculiar that the three stopped, and Achsah said: “Papa, did you hear the kitty?” The father looked at his daughter, and seeing in her face the signs of her pecul iar nervous fits, turned and hastened home with her. All day long she lay prostrate upon her couch, the ministei kneeling by her side and praying. When Jt became jfpowg tlyit a qhild lage had made etcuses to call upon the young mother and see the baby that cried like a cat. Children came to the win dow, looked in and then ran away as from a haunted place. After a few days Dorothea’s insanity returned, and it was thought best to re move tho child from her. A month passed, during which she lay upon her bed, uttering the vagaries which came to her beclouded mind. At last her memory ind her reason returned, and she asked for her babe as if it had been absent but an hour. This was toward evening, and, after receiving the child into her arms, she lay for an hour in deep silence, as if absorbed in thought; but not a mo tion was made she did not see, and at times, when the babe gave utterance to a low cry, the mother would raise her self upon her elbow and gaze upon it with painful intensity. Sho refused all offers of food, and now and then, as the twilight deepened, hummed a drowsy tune in the babe’s ears or whispered tc it in sweet and soothing words. After a time the babe fell asleep and Egbert sat down by tho open door. The twilight passed into evening. The wind began to moan dismally through the for est, and the rain began to patter on the cabin roof. Tho moaning changed to wailing and then to roaring, and tho wind swept the increasing rain against the window. The day was done and a wet, wild night had set in. Egbert sat for a while and listened to the dreary music, then barred the door, and leaning back in his chair, fell asleep. The brief period of Dorothea’s sanity had passed away and the cloud upon her mind began to settle with the falling oi the night. Tho roaring wind, the sweep ing rain, the beating upon the roof and tho child at her side, became, all alike, creatures of her imagination. Looking upward, through the mist, she saw her mother and was a child again herself. The sound of tho wind and the rain passed away; but, as sho gazed, the vision faded and, instead of tho peace brooding form of her mother appeared the child, which to hei distorted imagination, seemed to rise, as did those other phantoms months before, merely to hide from her tho one face sho wished to see. She changed her position on tho bed, but the infant still appeared. She tried brush away the face with her hand, but could not reach it. She could now hear tho roaring of the wind again and see the warring branchei of tho trees outside the cabin window The wind and the rain and the tree: spoke to her. They were real. They would help her. Had not all her life been passed in intercourse with them, and had not her father taught her their secrets? All else wero mere phantoms. She was a child again, and this was her father's cabin! Wliat was that strange man doing in tho great chair by the table, and whoso was this babe which was lying by her side? Her past life was almost wholly a blank, but a blank blotted by the faint recollection of a life long persecution. What could the child bo but some evil sprite left to worry her? And tho wind and the rain told her to kill it. Once more she looked upward, but could see nothing but a baby face above her in the mist. Sho turned her head upon tho pillow and saw tho little sleeper by her side. Sho watched it for a mo ment and then, as a serpent creeps through the bushes in searched its prey, sho passed her hand slowly over tho child. As she did so, the Wind seemed to die away and the rain ceased to fall upon the roof Slio paused, and a low moan came through tho tree-tops in the forest. It came like a moan from that blot in her past life, a moan .grief-burdened and growing faint with despair. It strengthoned her purpose and she touched tho baby hand. It clasped her fingers convulsively, which caused her to look intently upon the little face. It was the samo which, a few moments be foro had appeared in the mist above her. Still, with a faint dawning of intelli gence, and perhaps of maternal feeling, she paused to wonder if it might not be a real child. But at that moment the babe awakened and gave a faint cry which, even to the mother, seemed like the cry of a cat. There was no more doubtl The child belonged to the evil one who was still pursuing her. A fresh gust of wind came up with its long sough gathered from the depth of the woods, and her brain was influenced by it. Again her hand, which had been withdrawn when the baby’s finger’s clutched it, was stretched out and this timo touched the infant’s head. Her eyes were burning with excitement, but with nerves steady and hand firm as iron, she passed her fingers down the little sleeper’s face to its throat and felt tho warm beating from its heart. Ah! a fine wild night It was, and the wind came roaring and wailing through the dashing rain, and beneath the dark storm cloud. A roll of thunder and out in tho forest a tree had been shivered with the lightning’s stroke! A hush for an instant and then the storm broke forth afresh. The hand was resting on the infant’s throat. Tho fingers closed. No gasp! No sound! But the little hands tugged at tho great one which was taking its life away! The baby breast heaved with quick throes and the legs were drawn up convulsive ly. The struggle ceased, and tho soft baby eyes slowly deadened into a sense less gaze. That instant another roll of thunder passed over head, the whole village was. illuminated by the flash of lightning and a bolt from heaven struck the minister’s house. Then the peal rumbled on among the clouds until it died away in the distance. As if satisfied with the work that had been done, the wind died away and the rain ceased falling. Dorothea Ingram took it as an intimation that sho had conquered, -and fell asleep. A lonely wanderer seeking the village, and approaching Hillary’s cabin just a< that time, said next morning that it was surrounded by a halo of fire and that he saw strange-looking devils in the light. cry of “fire” lie sprang forward and ran with all speed to the burning house. Tho villagers, awakened by the cry, left their comfortable beds and followed. The house to which their steps were directed was the parsonage, and it had been struck by lightning. When the stranger arrived he found that the minister and his family had rushed from their burning home, and that the former was already busy saving tho most valuable of his possessions. The wife with her two children stood shivering beneath a tree, from which great drops of water fell now and then, gazing with agonizing looks upon their home, but seemingly unable to lend a helping hand. Even in his haste to reach and assist the minister, who was making quick visits to the house, the stranger noticed that the mother pressed -one child more closely to her side than the other. It was Achsah, who had been torn from her bed where she had been suffering from her nervousness, but now not a trace of her disorder appeared. She looked like one just brought back to life. There wero traces of ill-health in her face, but her countenance had under gone a change. The old-querulous look had disappeared and in its place a look of returning health had come. Her recent illness had been cured in an in stant, and she stood beneath the dripping tree stronger than she had been for years. Either by the flash of lightning or by the tragedy in the cabin in the woods, she had been cured, and, strange as it was, her attacks never occurred again. For an hour the pioneers worked dragging out the minister's furniture, and then stood around while the last beams of the unhappy home fell into the coals below and were consumed. Day had not yet begun to break when tho homeless famijy was taken to neighbor ing houses and the village returned to their beds. In the confusion the strang er was not noticed, and none missed him when he disappeared from the crowd. CHAPTER XIV. THE FINGER OF GOD. When the first rays of morning light broke through the forest, which circled around Sagnauck, tho next morning, they sent dim lines of light between the trunks of trees along tho water-soaked ground. Little grass grew in those dark depths: only here and there a fringe about a treo or a cluster midway be tween, where the sun sliono. But tho dark earth was rich, and here and there a sky-tinted flower grew, with deeper colors and more delicate tints than those which bloomed beneath the sun. The ray3 of light which were grad ualiy penetrating the forest from the eastward, and casting faint shadows on each side, wero here and there obstructed by fallsn trees which broke the light and cast shapeless shadows in its path way. At first, and this was not long after Dorothea had strangled her babe, the rays of light which were goin_ straight upward for the sun beneath the eastern horizon merely made gray the darkness betweeiFand beneath the great trees. Gradually the light increased and gray paths grew between tho trees, bor dered by shadows on either side. The sun rose higher and tho brook was en livened by its rays, and danced in morn ing glee. How gayly tho water dashed over an obtruding stone and how mer rily it rushed around an obstructing bank. The birds, too, wero waking up and rendering distant chirps through the woods. For, was not the wholo world merry again? The sun had risen, and tho brook and the birds wero free. The light shining through the woods was broad at the entrance, but gradually tapered to a point like a great white fin ger stretching along the ground. It was liko the finger of God pointing from the line between heaven and earth, through the woods to Sagnauck. In Hillary’s cabin there was a finger of light, too. The baby fingers were still and stiff, and the cruel hand which had stilled them was at rest in sleep. Eg bert, too, was still sleeping in his chair by tho table when the rising sun sent its rays through the forest. Whoso finger was it that was pointing? Through the cabin window came tho first faint rays of tho morning. A light tho breadth of the window fell upon tho sill and cast a faint gleam upon the floor. The sleepers slept on. Slowly the light grew stronger and crept across tho floor. Inch by inch it moved, until it had reached tho floor beneath the bed upon which Dorothea and tho dead babe lay. A pause. Then a faint light touched the bed. Good God! What does it mean? Gradually but surely the light grew stronger, and as it did so the finger rose inch by inch upon the bed and pointed across the coarse counterpane to where the dead babe lay. The sun was risen. Tho day had come, and the long white finger of God was pointing directly through the cabin window to the- bed, and the tip of the fin ger rested on the throat of tho murdered child. When Egbert awoke, the sun was shining brightly in at tho cabin window and the finger had been absorbed into the broad light of day. Ho arose and glanced around the room, sleepily. Dorothea was lying quietly upon the bed; but the child attracted his atten tion. Its neck was stretched out upon the pillow, long and lank. It required only a glance for Ingram to understand what had been done. CHAPTER XIII. THE HOUSB STRUCK BT LIGHTNING. In the last chapter mention was made of a belated traveler who, approaching the village through the woods, saw the Hillary cabin surrounded by unholy light, and also saw in the light a wall of demons dancing around it. They were of fantastic shape, and yet here and there were voluptuous limbs which would have been a temptation for St. Anthony. Ap pearing here and there like an oft-recur ring thread in a loom, appeared a round ed arm or a delicately curved leg, the shadow of the outline of a woman’s breast and above in the darkness a woman’s face. These would pass in a circle around the cabin, and in their place would appear the shriveled forms of hags, and the fiendish faces of demons. All wore themselves into a supple dance in which voluptuous forms and devilish shapes were curiously intermingled. It was a veritable dance of the evil one and his victims. The sight struck the traveler with awe, and he stopped be neath an elm tree which grew by the brook to watch it. For a full minute the light lasted and then the stranger continued his journey. Just as he approached the cabin he heard a roll of thunder and saw a flash of lightning. As he emerged from the *0, Dorothea! O, God!” he cried, •what shall I do? O, Dorothea, Doro thea, what have you done?” While Egbert was still bending ovei the dead babe, a neighbor knocked at the door. He hesitated for a moment and then opened it. The visitor was a woman who lived next to them and who had come at brean of day to tell them of the minister’s misfortune and to offer her service to Dorothea. But no sooner had she looked in at the open door and seen the dead babe on the pillows than she turned and ran toward the village, crying, “Murder! Murder!” The sun was now shining bright and clear about the cabin. The storm was over, and a new^ day had arisen upon Sagnauck. The woman ran the whole length of the village street, and her cry was heard in every home. At the sound, men and women hastened from their brief sleep and ran toward Hillary's cabin, to which she pointed them. It needed no words for them to believe that there was some sad mystery there. On they went, down the woodland path, one by one, without ceremony and entered the room. Within half an hour it was filled with rriends and foes. Prominent among the latter was the minister, who anxiously moved about and tried, with his authority, to quell the ex citement. By his side was the constable and after it was evident to all that a murder bad been committed, the two busied themselves opening drawers, pry ing into nooks and corners, lifting loose planks from the floor and making in quiries of others. It was a godsend to the minister. Heaven, in his belief, had sent relief. During all this tumult Dorothea sat upon the bed looking wildly about. Through the cabin door, now wide open, In the morning light, she could see oth ers coming, men, women and children, walking, shouting, pointing toward the open door. Rude men gathered about her bed and asked harsh questions, while half-dressed women excitedly cried over the little body which, a day before, thev had said looked like a cat. At f , iengtn tne minister Grew near tho oea and said: “I tell yon the day of vengeance has come. The persecutor of my children lias been pointed out to you. I have ac cused Dorothea Ingram of witchcraft, and to this sin another has been added. She has murdered her babe. Last night my house was struck by lightning, and I believe it was at the same hour in which this crime was committed. ” The wanderer in the forest, who, un- abserved, had-entered the cabin, spoke up and said: “Reverend sir, it was at the same hour.” ’ CHAPTER XV. THE TRIAL .OF A WITCH. The little body of the murdered babe was buried in a hollow near Dorothea.'* home, and within three days the unhap py woman was taken to Salem by armr 1 guard, there to answer the double charge of murder and witchcraft. For the crime which she had committed was so terrible tha t not one person in Sagnauck, save her husband and her adopted parent.*, now entertained a doubt of her guilt. When the little party arrived in Salem Dorothea was at onoe consigned to jail, and when once there, her condition be came so precarious that it was feared she would never leave it even to answer to the double charge against her. Mr. Granville, unmindful of the fact that she might be summoned to a higher bar of justice, devoted his time to a care ful arrangement of his evidence against her. The witch fever was just then at its height in New England, and the news that a notorious young witch was to bo tried in Salem now spread through the, country and multitudes flocked to tho city. Besides Egbert and Dr. Lennox, them was a third friend who visited the jail daily. It was an old man dressed as an Indian and so thoroughly disguised that no one would have suspected that he was white. True he never gained ad mittance, but ho was always observed loitering around the prison door when ever either Egbert or the Doctor were visiting the prisoner. The day set for tho trial at length ar rived, and Dorothea, still far from well, was led before the magistrate. A formal charge of witchcraft and of murder we 6 read, and, by the advice of counsel, to both she oleaded not cuiltv. These ore- uminaries uemg over, mo evidence ui her league with the devil was begun. The Rev. nenry Granville was the first witness and minutely he traced the history of Dorothea and her father, and of the strange: affliction of his daughter, Achsah. Other members of the settle ment were sworn also and bore witness to many strange actions of the accused, but the chief evidence against her was divided into two heads—her persecution Achsah and her mysterious visitor who had provided for her at her marriage and during her illness. Both facts were supposed to bo clearly proven by the testimony. But when the defense began and I)r. Lennox was put upon the stand, even Mr. Granville was able to see that tho first part of his testimony would fall to the ground. The Doctor stated that he had made a careful study of Achsah’s trouble and that he was confi dent that she was suffering from a nerv ous disease, not often met with in the new world, but which was not uncom mon in the old. Ho pointed out thatjier most violent attacks had always occurred during a thunder-storm, and drew the deduction that her physical nature was unusually sensitive to tho electric cur rents. To this ho added his belief that an inherited antipathy to Hillary had been fostered and exaggerated until his presence really did have an evil effect upon tho child, but that this effect was due to anything which Hillary did, he stoutly denied. [TO BE CONTINUED.] COXEY’S FAILURE. THE CAPITAL POLICE INTER FERE WITH TIIE PROGRAM. Coxy Not Allowed to Speak and is Forced from the Capitol Steps. The foremost professsor of hvpnot ism in Paris, Dr. Luys, claims for s new method of fascination that no per son can resist it. Instead of losing force by the usual process, the oper ator places a stand in the middle of a group of patients, and sets upon it a revolving apparatus of bits of colored glass such as is used for snaring larks, the patients being instructed to fix their eyes upon it. The effect on men, Dr. Luys declares, is exactly the same as on birds. “On men the rotation of brilliant surfaces produces in predis posed subjects a peculiar state of ret ina, and subsequently of the whole nervous system, accompanied with anaesthesia, immobility of the muscles, ‘suggestionability’—in short, the en semble of phenomena constituting ‘fas cination.’ ” The operation takes fron* five to thirty minutes. ATLANTA MARKETS. CORRECTED WEEKLY. Groceries. CoTee—Boasted—Arbnckle’s 23.60 St 100 IK cases.Lion 23.60c,Levering’s23 60c. Green-Ex tra choice 21c; choice good 20c; fair 19c; com mon 17al8c- Sugar Granulated 41-jC; powdered 5%c; cut loaf 5% white extra C 4c; New Orleans yellow clari fied 4c; ye low extra C 3%c. Syrup— New Orleans choice 45c; prime 35@40c; common 20@30c. Molasses—Gennine Cuba 35@38c; im itation 22@25. Teas—Black 35@55c; green 40ig60c. Nntmeg3 65@S5e. Clover 25@30c; innamon 10@L23<'e. Allspice 10@llc. Jamai ca ginger 18c. Singapore pepper 11c, Mace Sl.00. 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Irish poatoes, 2.50@2.75;>ei Ibl. Sweet potatoes 50a6Jc per bu. Honey— Strained 8-alOc; in tlieco.nb hkil'd^e. Onion $1 50a $1.75 perbu. $3.00a3.50 per bbL Cabbage lal l-2c p_-r lb. Provisions. Clear rib sides, boxed 7>£c, ice-curel bellies 10c. bngar-c ired hams 13;. according io brand and average; California. 8%a9c. break fast bacon 12c. La.r.1, _ leal . Compound 6;<a6ji". Cotton. MarLc; o'o.-ed easy middling 6^£e. It is better to be an April fool than a chronic one. His! A perfect day with a brightly shining sun was the portion of the army of commonweal for. its demonstration in Washington in favor of Coxey and good roads bill. The army broke camp George Washington, seven miles from the city, in the early morning. By 9 o’clock there was no vestige of the camp remaining except a few piles of straw and a general litter which told of the presence of men and horses. Shortly before 10 o’clock Marshal Browne formed the men in a hollow square, and standing in the center, called for three cheers for peace, i hree cheers were given and the Com- monwealers waved their flags of peace and began the march. The route of the procession was down Fourteenth street road to Mount Pleasant, thence along Fourteenth street proper to Pennsylvania avenue to Peace monument, and around the capitol grounds. The Fourteenth street road was very dusty, and the marchers were plentifully besprinkled as they marched along. The common weal had moved at a funeral pace, and ,5 was three-quarters of an hour in reaching the Mount Pleasant suburb of the city. At the head of the dusty soldiers were three mounted policemen. Then came Mrs. Annie L. Digges, of Kansas, in an open barouche, with her husband anil her two daughters; and then appeared Miss Mamie Coxey, typifying “peace,” mounted on a white palfry. She is a blonde girl of six teen. She wore a suit of cream-colored cloth, relieved by a big red bow at the throat, and wore a little blue liberty cap. She seemed perfectly at home on the palfry, but appeared somewhat embarrassed at attracting so much at tention. She nodded smilingly at the people who saluted her. Two old sol diers, one a confederate and the other a federal, both members of the Com monweal, formed her guard of honor, marching on foot. Colonel Browne fol lowed on a large white stallion. Then came seven foot-sore musicians. Coxey, Mrs. Coxey and little “Legal Tender Coxey” came next in a phoeton. Jesse Coxey followed on a spirited horse. The rank and file followed. When the army reached the peace monument at the foot of the capitol it found a crowd of between four aud five thousand awaiting it. The procession then wended its way toward the east front of the capitol. BI.UECOATS ON HAND. The Metropolitan police surrounded the capitol and patroled its corridors. Blue coats were seen everywhere, and visitors were requested by them to move on and not block tho passages and doorways. The main body of the guardians of peace were stationed at the east front, where General Coxey was expected to attempt to speak. By 11 o’clock, an hour before the Com monweal army was due at the capitol, thousands of curious men, women and children had gathered around the building to gain places of vantage to witness the much talked of aud long expected appeal to congress by Coxey and his followers. The parade moved without incident until tho head of it reached Second and B streets, southeast, the end of the capitol grounds. Coxey had dropped out of line at the New Jersey avenue (south) entrance to the capitol grounds,' where he left his buggy and proceeded on foot to tbe main steps of the capi tol. Half a dozen steps had been mounted, when he was confronted by the captain of the police and two lieu tenants. Coxey removed his hat, shook hands with the officers, and started to the head of the stairs. HUSTLED OFF THE STEPS. Before he had time to turn round to face the crowd, in fact, before he could reach the top of the steps, Cap tain Kelley, the police officer inform ed him that he could make no speech there. Coxy entered a protest but was unceremoniously hustled of the steps out into the middle of the broad plaza in front of the capitol. He made no physical resistance, but protested all the while and the crowd gathered around him and obstructed the way somewhat. The whole affair did not last over ten minutes. Coxey was taken by the po lice to the edge of the crowd without any difficulty atul entered his carriage. Captain Kelley said: “Where do you go now, Mr. Coxey?” “To our new grounds in southeast Washington,” Coxey replied. He then gave the army the order to march, and the dis appointed army again started on a tramp for a new resting place. Chief Marshal Carl Brown was ar rested and locked up on the charge of disorderly conduct but was released on a $500 bond by Mrs. Elizabeth A. Haines, a dry goods dealer in southeast Washington. The arrest of Brown happened ou the edge of the grass lawn adjoining the house side of the asphalt plaza, and within sight of the crowds on the capitol 6teps. Christopher Co lumbus Jones, leader of the Philadel phia contingent, attempted to rescue Brown from the officers, and he, too, was placed in custody. When Coxey, under police escort, passed ont of tho capitol grounds to rejoin his army, the party was followed by at least 10,000 people, and tho offi cers found tho passage a difficult one. Finally, the police and their charge reached the head of the procession on B street, directly in front of the resi dence of Congressman Springer, of Illinois. Somebody set up a cheer and thousands joined in as the leader of the army of the commonweal pushed his wav to his carnage. The mob became so dense and noisy that the police had hard work to keep them from running over the common- wealers. A rush was made by the mass of people and many ran pell mell to the plaza, over the lawns, trampling down the shubbery and vines. The ~wbite palfry on which Miss Coxey was mount ed became frightened and attempted to run away, but was held back by a young man who clung to the horse’s bridle. Coxey finally managed to gain the carriage with his wife, aud the crowd cheered him again and again. “Speech! speech!” came fro® hun dreds of throats, and, rising in his phaeton, Coxey started to speak. But his voice conld bo heard by a few only, so he waved his hand for the procession to go ahead. The commonwealers, who had tramped more than five miles to the capitol to find their plans frustrated were conducted quietly to their new camp on M street, between First and Second, southeast. The camp is situ ated about a mile from the capitol. WASHINGTON NOTES WIIAT IS GOING ON AT UNCLE SAM’S HEADQUARTERS. Comment Concerning Transactions in the Various Departments. Mr. Samuel Thanhouser is the first appointee to resign a consulship under President Cleveland’s administration He has written his resignation as the government’s representative at Mata mora, Mexico, and has forwarded it to the department at Washington. Miss Harriet Blaine, daughter of the late Hon. James G. Blaine, was mar ried at Washington Monday to Trox- ton Beale, formerly minister to Persia and to Greece. The ceremony took place at the Blaine residence on La fayette square, near the white house. Senator Walsh will deliver an ad dress in the Brooklyn tabernacle, N. Y., on the 11th instant, the occasion being the national and international reception to be tendered to the Kev. T. DeWitt Talmage, D. D., on com pletion of the twenty-fifth year of his Brooklyn tabernacle pastorate. The advent of Coxey to the capitol steps was witnessed by scores of sena tors and congressmen, and through the crowd could be caught glimpses of fashionably dressed women. It probable that nine-tenths of the im mense throng were drawn solely by curiosity. The army’s march from the camp to the capitol, over seven miles, was between thousands of people. The senate has confirmed the follow ing nominations: James D. Yeomans, of Iowa, to be interstate commerce commissioner. Collectors of customs —Frank T. Shaw, at Baltimore, Md.; William H. Manogue, Georgetown, D. C.; C. Ridgely Goodwin, surveyor of customs at Baltimore, Md.; Ormond Hammond, assistant United States treasurer at Baltimore, Md.; Barnes Campton, naval officer of customs at Baltimore, Md. Consul Edwards, at Berlin, reports that the officials of the German army and navy after an exhauetive set of experiments have decided against the use of peanuf flour as food for the troops and sailors or as horse food. During the experiments no immediate heali h-injuring symptoms were noticed, but the men showed an unconquerable dislike to the food prepared with pea nut Hour or grits. Its frequent use cannot be regarded as healthful or nourishing and the food has been dis continued. The Debt Statement. The debt statement issued Tuesday after noon shows a net increase in the public debt, less cash in the treasury, during April, of $8,950,599. The in terest-bearing debt increased $100,450 The r on-interest bearing debt decreased $2,090. The cash in the treasury de creased $8,852,239. The balances of the several classes of debts at the close of business April 30th were: Interest- bearing debt, $635,041,380; debt on which interest has ceased since maturi ty, $1, 862,030; debt bearing no interest, $380,653,569 — total, $ 1,017, 556, 979. The certificates and treasury notes, off set by an equal amount of cash in the treasury, outstanding at the end of the montd, were $619,989,795; an increase of $5,362,755. The total cash in the treasury was $790,826,660. The gold reserve was $100,000,000. Net cash balance, $25,097,785. In the month there was a decrease in gold coin and bars of $6,263,587, the total at the close being $170,192,457. Of silver there was an increase of $1,307,255. Of the surplus there was in national bank depositories, $16,840,719, against $16,5 58,983 at the end oi the previous monta. BIG TOBACCO TRUST Doin ; Business in Violation of Illinois Law. Attorney-General Maloney, of Illi nois, has rendered a decision declaring the American Tobacco Company, a combination of Virginia, North Caro lina, Rochester, N. Y., and New York City tobacco houses, organized under the laws of the state of New Jersey, to be a trust doing a business in violation of the laws of the state of Illinois, and announced that he will file a bill in chancery against the company and two hundred leading business men of Chi cago, who are acting as its agents. The concern is one of the most gigan tic trrnsts in the world. COXEY IN CAMP. The Array Safely Ensconced Under a Big New Tent. A Washington special says: The 400 commonwealers passed Wednesday night on straw under a canvas awning, and under a large new tent, in their camping ground, and breakfasted on bread and fried fish with coffee. After breakfast some charitably inclined persons distributed cigars among them. A number of the commonweal ers have been sent to the hospital. Two of these and one who refused to be removed are suffering from malaria, caused by the unhealthy location of the camping ground. Delircrihg the Goods. A Nashville dispatch 6ays: The state funding board and the secretary of state, Morgan, left for New York Tuesday night with 81,000,000 of re demption bonds that have been sold to Blair & Co. at 98 ceuts, which is the same price paid for the $600,000 of penitentiary bonds. The bonds bear 44 per cent interest. The proceeds will be utilized in redeeming $500,000 of 6s and $500,000 of 5s and the differ ence will save the state $10,000 per annnm. _ Earthquake iu Wales. A sharp shock of earthquake was felt throughout the Cardiff, Wales, district Thursday. Crockery and fur niture in many houses was upset. The miners in Ponti-Pridd district fled from the mines in terror. Little dam age was done, CONGRESSIONAL. DAILY PROCEEDINGS OF BOTH HOUSE AND SENATE. The Discussion of Important Measures Briefly Epitomized. The house considered the army ap propriation bill Monday. At half past twelve o’clock, Tuesday, Speaker Crisp sent a request to the secretasy of the senate to withhold the resolution of respect to the memory of Senator Stockbridge, until a later hour in the day. The purpose of the delay was manifest. It was desired that the house at least should be in session when the Coxey people arrived, as otherwise the impression might be created that congress had adjourned as resulting from a fear of meeting them. The house at 1:35 adjourned as a mark of respect to the late Senator Stock- bridge. In the house, Wednesday, after the passage of a few private bills, Mr. Johnson, democrat, of Ohio, present ed as privileged matter a resolution di recting the committee on public build ings and grounds to investigate the oc currences on the capitol grounds Tues day to determine whether unnecessary force was used by the police; whether unoffending citizens were cruelly beaten and whether the dignity of the house had been vioalated. The speaker held that no privilege at tached to the resolution, whereupon Mr. Johnson asked unanimous consent for its consideration, but this was re fused. The house went into commit tee of_ the whole on the bill to reor ganize the accounting, branch of the treasury department, general debate to be limited to two hours. At 12:25 o’clock Thursday the house went into committee of the whole on the river and harbor appropriations bill, Mr. Hatch being in the chair. THE SENATE. The senate was again enlivened Mon day morning by one of those scenes so frequently gotton up to irritate the majority members of the finance com mittee. Mr. Wolcott asked Mr. Har ris whether the tariff bill now before the senate was really the bill to be act ed upon, or whether there was not in reserve such a modification of it as would render useless all present action on the bill as it stood. Mr. Harris re peated virtually, what he had previous ly said that he was ready to compro mise any conflicting opinions and was willing to make modifications where there was an absolute necessity. He could not tell, and no senator could not tell, what form the amend ments would take. The death of Senator Stockbridge stopped the wheels of legislation in the senate Tuesday, and oothing was done but to receive the announcement of his death from Senator McMillan, and adopt the usual resolutions of regret, At 12 :07 the senate adjourned. The tariff bill was taken up in the senate at 12 :35 Wednesday, and Mr, Lodge addressed the body. In the senate, Thursday, on motion of Senator Morgan, an executive ses sion was held immediately after the disposal of the routine morning busi ness. At the request of Sentor Mor gan, the consideration of the Chinese treaty was again postponed. After the doors were opened the tariff bill was taken up and the first amendment to change the date when it will take effect passed over by unanimous consent, and the second amendment taken up.' SENATOR STOCKBRIDGE DIEsT He Had Been Complaining for Some Time but His Death Was Sudden. Francis Browne Stockbridge, United States senator from Michigan, died in Chicago Monday night a few minutes after 7 o’clock. The end came suddenly, although the senator had been confin ed to his bed almost all the time since coming to Chicago from Washington, April 2nd. Another Earthquake in Greece. There was another severe shock of earthquake in Greece Wednesday night. It lasted fifteen seconds and was felt in nearly all the districts which had previously suffered. The 6hock completed the destruction of many buildings which had been damaged by former disturbances. There was no loss of life, as most of the people who previously occupied the houses were camping in the open country. The Pythian University. The corner stone of the Pythian university at Gallatin, Tenn., was laid with imposing ceremonies Wednesday. This is the only educational institution in the world to which the supreme lodge has given the right to use the word “Pythian.” The grand lodge and uniform rank of the state were in attendance. Thirty acres of ground are paid for and $100,000 will be ex pended on the buildings. Gold on the Move. The indications are that the usual spring outflow of gold has at last set in. Advices received at the treasury department show that about $1,500,000 in gold was shipped Wednesday by the Teutonic, ~ and $4,000,000 more las been engaged for shipment Saturday. Of course the amount of exportations will depend entirely upon the rate of foreign exchange. Prizes for Hideous Men. ROMANCE OF COTTON SEER ONCJS JJ kS: ' iSED, IT NOW DIVIDB3 KING COTTON’S THBONE. Beauty competitions no longer pos sessing the charm of novelty, some one in Belgium has hit upon the idea of getting up an ugly man’s exhibi tion. A grand prize for ugliness will be given to the competitor who van quishes all comers, by the hideous- uess of his countenance. The men ire to be on view at a place of amuse ment at Brussels, known by the title of the North Pole. It is said in The Daily News that an English timateur of the ugly in nature has promised to add a gift of £2 10s. to the first prize. The wags, of course, are say- _ that he is doing all he can to se cure the discovery of some one uglier than himself. — [Westminster tt* zette. AH Ohio judge has just refused x divorce to a woman whose complaint against her husband was that he “ob jected to building the morning fire, and did refuse, without love or just cause, to take her to the World’s Fair.” Formerly Cns*: Away as Refuse, AH But the Dirt is Now Utilized—Its Many Uses. S OME of ihe most marvelous and thrilling romances aro such as pertain to actual bus iness life, and recount the achievements of wonderful men, even along purely financial lines. For in stance, tho pen of a master might be worthily employed in writing the ro mance of the cotton seed. Thera is a rebellion in the family of King Cot ton. A few years ago he held undis puted sway and his youngest son, Cot ton Seed, was considered a very insig nificant and comparatively worthless member of the family, his only merit being his ability to propagate tbe royal stock. Now it is quite different, as the youngster has developed unsus pected good qualities, and is making rapid progress toward displacing his father in the affections of the people. Five years ago, when tho Southern planter gathered his cotton and sold it, he paid very little attention to the seed. He saved enough of it to raise his next year’s crop, and, if conveni ent, kept a few bushels more to feed the milk cows around his farm. Some times he carted off a few wagon loads to dump on an old field as a fertilizer, and often he refused to haul it away from the gin at all. The amount that rotted around such places was im mense. When any was sold, it com monly brought five cents a bushel, pro vided the farmer was not ashamed oi taking anything for such a commo dity. Even three years ago, in many sections of the South, eight cents for a bushel of cotton seed was considered a good price. This year the price was often as high as twenty-five cents and occasionally reached thirty-two. When cotton itself sells at six cents or seven cents per pound and seed at the prices mentioned the farmers begin to feel as if they would like their cotton to be all seed. As it is, the seed not un- frequently constitutes one-fourth or even one-third the value of the whole crop. So important a matter has it become that to-day one single com pany—the American Cotton Oil Com pany—has $40,000,000 invested in handling cotton seed products. The seeds themselves are of an ir regular oval shape, measuring perhaps a quarter of an inch in their greatest diameter. They are unprepossessing- looking little bodies, ar.d are covered with short white, hairy-looking fibres. These last are cotton staples that the gin has not picked quite clean. A Northern man might have difficulty in guessing what the seeds are. Bite one of them in two and yon find a white, pulpy substance, tasteless and nearly odorless. How so many products and such different ones can be gotten out of such a seemingly simple body is a mys tery. Perhaps nowhere else do we find so fully illustrated the principle of util izing waste products. Not a single particle of seed goes to waste. When a ton comes to the mill, the thirty-five gallons of oil extracted from it weigh about 272 pounds and sell for about twenty-seven cents a gallon. There are 350 pounds of hulls, worth $4 a ton; 750 pounds of wool, at $20 a ton; twenty pounds of linters cotton, at three cents a pound, and about 108 pounds of dirt, for which there can hardly be said to be any real market. Cotton seed men are said to lie awake at night trying to devise some plan to utilize this dirt, but up to date it con tinues one item that has proven too much for their ingenuity. If the reader will do an addition sum of these figures he will see that every pound in the ton is accounted for; if he will figure a little further he will find that between $19 and $20 is real ized on eaoh ton handled. When the raw materials costs $15, he can judge whether or not it is likely that just at the present juncture the mills are making much money. The uses to which cotton seed prod- ' nets are put are almost innumerable. The oil itself is used in making soap, other oils, lard, butterine and count less other things. We ship immense quantities to Europe—especially Rot terdam—and bring it back again slightly refined under the name of olive oil and linseed oil. The Armours and other pork men use large amounts in putting up lard. Cottoline is the name of a new product new coming into use as a competitor of lard. Many housekeepers use the oil itself instead of lard and claim to like it. The meal remaining after . the oil has been ex tracted is fed to cattle, and is said to produce excellent results. The hulls are also fed to cattle. Twenty pounds of hulls and ten of meal make a full daily feed for beef steers, and the cattle are ready for market in ninety days. The hulls, furthermore, are now being used in manufacturing pa per. Emil Bohn, of Brenham, Texas, has invented a process for so using them, and his ideas may cause a com plete revolution in the paper trai^e. The oil in it3 crude state is a clear, reddish-brown liquid that looks not unlike a substance frequently carried, by men in flasks in their hip pockets. It has a peculiar oily taste aud a very independent, self-assertive kind of odor. If one may judge from the odor, cotton seed oil is capable of tak ing care of itself>- Most mills produce the oil only in its crude state, sending ’ it elsewhere to be refined. There is a refinery at Houston, one at St. Louis, one in Kansas City and others at var ious other places of prominence. The refined oil sells at from six to twelve cents a gallon higher than the unre fined, hut, as the work is one requir ing expensive machinery and skilled labor, it is not generally attempted by the smaller mills.—Globe-Demo crat. Advertising That Paid. It has been asked, “Does advertis ing pay?” A German journal, the Mainzer Nachrichten, replies to this question by giving the following fact, , the authenticity of which it guaran tees : A person advertised that he would pay five marks to the sender of the largest potato. In less than fif teen days the clever advertiser found himself in possession of as many sacks full of the very finest potatoes, which,, after paying the five marks for the largest example, might be reckoned »