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CHAPTER II.
[continued.]
“Y’n'd make a good detective ” re
fdied f the officer. “Well I’ll toll yer •V
What. i . mi I’ll go up and , sort „ o . „• size up
.i Jo i • r. v *i _ „
H U 8 e a e H If’
and s e e the ca p’m the oapht
thinks there’s anything in it, he'll
give you some men. Anyhow y’u’.l
better tell him where I am, so that, T
won’t get fired for not being round
when Rounds comes along ”
“I’ll fix that. What-s your name
and number‘d”
“Jim Sykes Number 422 "
“All right. ’Look out for the
tree and tape,” I said, as I turned to
leave him.
I had not gone many steps when I
heard the rattle of a carriage. I
callert Sykes, and he came plodding
back to meet me.
“What do you want now?”
“See if that carriage is empty, will
you ’.’’ I prefer riding " to walking just ‘
ll0W
“Yer right, young feller. ’Taint no
fun walking from here to
ters this time of night. Hey there!
Hey there, I tell yer!”
“What yer want? I ain’t no t’ief.”
This from the driver of the carriage,
which by this time got opposite us.
“Have yer got a passenger?”
“Naw. Don’t want none. Coin’ to
the stable.”
“Not yet, Pete. Come here and
drive this gentlemen to headquarters.
See?”
“Sykesy, you make me tired!”
grumbled “Peto/’as be slowly turned
the heads of his horses toward the
curb.
I stepped into the carriage, and tho
tired horses plodded away with me on
my errand. Officer Hykes tramped up
Bank street and was soon lost in tho
darkness.
By the aid of a match I looked at
my watch. It was half-past two.
In twenty minutes I was at police
headquarters. A burly doorman ad¬
mitted me and demanded my errand.
I told him I wanted to talk privately
with the officer highest in command.
“This way,” he said. “Captain
Watson is in the office.”
Captain Watson was a grim, gray
old veteran. He seemed to me to be
an ideal man to hold watch Rnd sway
over the poaoe of a great city in the
mysterious hours of night, He
greeted me cordially, and told me to
sit down and tell him my story.
I told him everything. I did not
omit any of the minor details. I talked
rapidly, so he would not get impatient,
but I was determined be should see
the importance of the occasion. I even
told him about the Chinaman finding
me at Phister’s, aud how he acted and
how he looked.
The captian «at with half-shuteyes
during „ this portion of my narrative,
and seemed to take very little interest
—if, indeed, he took any—in what, I
was telling him. I began to feel dis
couraged.
But when I begau to describe the
girl—which I did with a minuteness
0 f detail thjR surprised even myself—
his manner changed perceptibly. His
keen » cold eyes scrutinized loy face as
J > lkei1 ’ a ? d ff med <° 1,0 rendering
his ears valuable assistance in taking
ift all I said. When I had fiuislied
and had told what I had done to make
it possible to identify the bouse, and
had told of my meeting with Officer
Sykes, the captain relapsed into his
old attitude of apparent listlessness.
TTia head seemed to drop down into
his shoulders, aud his eyes, now nearly
olosed again, gave him the appearance
of being very drowsy.
I was plunged into momentary de¬
spair. Surely, I thought, this kind
of tragedy was not so common in San
Francisco that tho police shut their
eves to it.
I bail about mad.e up my mind to
say something, when the grizzled head
began to separate itsolf from the collar
of the coat into whieh it had sunk,
The keen eyes looked at me, through
me, far past mo. I saw that the cap
tain, instead, of being indifferent, was
iu a deep study. He slowly unfolded
his six feet of length, and, going to a
cabinet of drawers in oue corner of tbe
room, he took from a small closet a
photograph
“We have showed this to so many
iu the last twenty-four hours,” he said,
“and always without resnlt, that I do
not even hope for success now. Still,
your description comes dangerously
near.”
He handed me the picture. My first
glauoe at it sent a thrill of terror
through me. In my blindness I bad
stumbled upon a police mystery! A
foeliug of nausea came over me. My
brniu, usually dool, seemed now to
reel. There was no doubt of it. I
held iu my hand the likeness of the
girl I had just left in the Chinaman’s
house. Oh, how I cursed myself for
a fool! Fool! To come away and
leave that girl to the mercy of that,
whelp of Satan! I could not speak
for a moment. Recovering myself,
with au effort, I handed back the pic¬
ture aud calmly said:
“C»ptain, that is the girl.”
If there had been occasion to find
fault with Captain Watson for iuat
teution before, there was no oppor¬
tunity to do so now. He strode about
as if on the moment of opening a
tremendous battle. He touched a
button iu his desk that no doubt rang
a bell iu some other room. He rang
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the telephone bell, and hurriedly
called up the superintendent. A dozen
ljl « e -coateil policemen, armed with
^ .clubs, ? B * 110 (loubt
in response .f to the electric summons,
T In a moment ... the reply . ring came on
^telephone A hurried consultation
^ between the captain and
lns r [ ljlet ’ t al “ ^tson in as few
s a « P°«s.ble , told my s ory again.
1 not hear the reply but it was
evidently decisive. Ihe eaptam called
f toue Ber 8 °”! Then lt «f turning d e .andl to spoke he in said: a low
- me,
“There will be no difficulty about
tb ° boUBe ’ w iU tbere? ”
No .’ I T made safe f there Tf If you
are going to send there, I will go along
alld rp? ad
Tbat wll | bette . .. L perhaps, al- .
th ,, ™f tlia ,, ^oa ton, of course, is as
well known to the police as this cor
ner is.”
“Of course. But the houses all
look alike, and have no numbers. I
will go.”
“Very well. Then, sergeant, you
kno '' v ' wi *at to do. Doctor, you had
better comeback here when it is over,
The superintendent will be here and
ma y wa t*t to see you.”
I promised to return, and we wont
out. Near the curb stood a patrol
wagon, drawn by a team of splendid
horses. The driver of my carriage
had, under my orders, waited for me.
Six officers had been chosen to ac
company the sergeant. These got into
the patrol-wagon. The sergeant and
I seated ourselves in the carriage.
“Drive first to the place where yon
picked me up,” I said to the driver.
“I can direct you better from there."
We were soon clattering over the
pavements to the rescue,
Reaching Bank street, under my
directions, we turned toward Sand.
We drove more slowly here, We
turned into Sand street and I showed
the sergeant tho landmarks I had
noted. »
“Policeman Sykes must be right
here,” I said, gazing along the side¬
walk. We soon found him.
“Hello, Sykes!” said the sergeaut.
“Have you seen anything?”
ft Not a thing.”
«i H this the house?” said the ser
geant, pointing to the one in front of
which stood. J
we
“Yes,” said Sykes. “There's the
tape around that tree.”
“Ring the bell.”
The officers had followed us, and we
went up the stoop in a body. Sykes
gave a tremendous pull at the bell.
There was no reply.
“That fellow that brought me here
didn’t ring; he rapped. Let me see if
I can imitate it.”
I gave three quick raps and two slow
ones. We waited. Not a sound
broke the stillness save tho heavy
breaths of the men around me.
“Break down the door,” said the
sergeaut.
The men united their strength in a
grand assault on the door, and the
hinges gave way before them.
“Whew!” ejaculated the sergeant,
as the hot air came into his face.
“What a smell!” said Sykes.
“They’re beasts, them fellows."
The same dingy light was in the
hall that had been there before. But
no peering eyes were there to gaze
on us.
“This way,” I said, bounding up
the stairs. “Here is the room.”
The door was not locked. We poured
in, aud I made straight for the bed.
It was empty.
“She’s gone!” I said, with my heart
almost in my month.
“Search tho house!” commanded
tb o sergeant. “Break down every
Joor aml look into ever - v corner. If
1U W oue offer3 resistance, shoot him.”
With drawn revolvers the officers
charged through the house. I looked
watch. It was four o clock,
■^ ot m< ? re than an hour aud a half had
elapsed since I had left an unconscious
Patient in the room, but she and her
k o®P e rs had vanished as completely
as though they never had existed. I
Slck - I was not accustomed to
this 8 °rt ° f thing. My mind began to
hb with vague bat horrible visions, in
which the girl s probable fate stood
out With awful distinctness. The sly
cunning of the Chinamen and my own
stupidity helped to dismay me and
athled a stiug to the bitterness of my
thoughts.
“Where has that imp taken her,”
growled the sergeant, as he prowled
through room after room, prying into
corners aud closets.
I had never realized before how
ma «y dark corners a house really bad.
The longer we searched the more eager
' va became aud the more weird the
situation became. Every creak in the
old floor startled me, aud the voices
of the offiers as they spoke to each
°t k «’tones made me look
stealthily around. Mystery seemed
to be in every nook and closet,
Officer Sykes was apparently the
most dumbfounded policeman to be
found in California. He knew that
no one had left the house—for wasn’t
he right in front of it! Was he blind,
tka * » .Young woman could be carried
P fl st him by several Chinamen and he j
not know it?
ing “But in you the don’t know ” said what the sergeant. was go-j
on rear,
“This fellow, no doubt, has made his
way out the back-door aud is now safe
in some neighbor’s house. But we’il
peace. But to this day the escape of
that Chinaman is the greatest mystery
of the whole affair. There was no use
looking any further, The house was
empty. sundry orders to
The sergeant gave
his men, under which they scattered
themselves through the neighborhood.
All patrolmen were to be asked if they
had seen any one answering to the de
scription of the girl or the Chinaman.
But I had no hope in all the plans he
projected. I felt a sense of insecurity
in the help of some of the police. I
knew that we were defeated.
I accompanied the sergeant back to
beaclciu - arter8 . In our absence the
8uperiuterdenfc bad arrived, He
beard tbo report .of the sergeant iu
ama 2 e ment. He hastily wrote banded out a
me 88 age, rang a bell, and
what bo bad wr itten to an officer who
responde cl. dispatch port
“Send that to every
0 n the coast,” he said.
Then he told me the pitiful story of
the girI . Her
Her name was Annie Ralston.
father was one of the wealthiest ^and
most prominent men of California,
His power and influence was felt in
po iitio 8 , State aud national. The
social position of the family was of
the very highest. The homestead
was a fine large place at Oakland.
Annie was the belle of her circle of
friends, which was very large, She
was talented. and brilliant. She made
a lasting impression on any one who
saw her. Her father’s bouse was the
constant scene of social festivity.
So me one was always being enter
taineil there. He had once beenHeu
at or, and his stately house at \Vash
ington had been noted for its open
handed hospitality.
In all this Annie shone resplendent,
by wit, boauty and accomplishments.
Potentates of foreign nations had been
6 l ad *° 81 ^ ber feet aud worship
ber. Proposals of marriage Bad been
“ ad e to ber by representatives
°f .European nations, and even
by titled noblemen of wealth. But to
all these she turned a deaf ear. ohe
was an American. She loved America
and Americans. Her greatest love—
the love of her life—must go to an
American. All this, of course, was
from the story that her people had
told the superintendent. There was
not the least doubt as to its absolute
truth.
Suddenly she was missed from her
Oakland home. She left no word
no sign. T here was no leason for ner
going. No whim of hers had ever
been opposed. But she was gone—
utterly and completely. Her father
and her brother had visited the police
of Oakland and San Francisco. It
had been discovered by the Oakland
police that a stranger—an individual
of unknown nationality—with a
wicked pair of eyes and a livid scar on
the right side of his face had been
seen iu Oakland, had spent money
freely, had been in the company of
several of the most worthless char¬
acters of the place and had disap
peared again. It was further learned
that a person answering somewhat to
the description boarded ,of him, train but for wearing San Fran¬ a
beard, a
cisco the night Annie Ralston was
missing, with a woman who’was close¬
ly veiled and seemingly totally help¬
less and very ill.
There the clew ended. No person
had seen them leave the train at San
Francisco, nor at any other place.
The police of all cities had been noti¬
fied of this, and a watch was being
kept. Her mother, so the superinten¬
dent said, was now prostrated with
grief. Her father was well-nigh dis¬
tracted. Her brother, a man of about
thirty, who was moie of a student
than a man of the world, followed
helplessly in his father’s wake, unable
to assist, by J even a suggestion, OD ’ the
unraveling of the awful . mystery. ,
It was not to be wondered atj then,
that my Yfecital of what I had seen and
V.W my identificatinri idem,mention of ot the li ptc.ue niohirn had aa
stirred the police force ot bau Iran
cisco even to its highest officer. Dis
appointment was plainly visible on his
face, at our f&ilur© to capture tlie
Chinaman and his victim. His white,
set lips, left no doubt of his determin
.lion to do hi, utmost. There -»
doubt of his sincerity.
I left him with a sad heart. I felt
in some way responsible for all this
failure. It was daylight. My driver,
disgusted at my lung delay, had de¬
parted. I boarded a car and stood
moodily on the platform, stolidly
smoking and ruminating over the
events of the night. Never before
had I seemed so small in my own es¬
timation.
[to be continued.]
Tlie Great Auglo-Indlan Empire.
According to a reoent writer the
great Anglo-Indian empire is com¬
posed of nine large provinces (Assam,
Bengal, Benaree, Bombay, Birman,
Central Provinces, Madras, Northeast
Provinces, Punjab) and about 250 dis¬
tricts. Besides there are more than
600 feudatory states, subject to the con¬
trol of the Governor-General of India.
The area is about 1,800,000 square
miles, and the population close on
287,000,000. India possesses almost
all climates*—cold in the Himalayas,
hot and temperate European climatu
in the mountains, tropical in Bengal,
the Ganges, the Indus and the coast.
An Ancient Colonial Grist Mill.
A grist mill at Watertown, Mass.,
is known to have been in use as far
baob a8 1635 when it is believed to
hare been a town institution. It is
now the property of the Waltham
Savings Bank, and still continues to
grind corn by means of tbe upper aud
nether millstones, using water us a
motive power.
Subject: The Glory of the Navv—NaTul
Heroes Doiei-ve Full Measure n(
I’rnise—Useful I,essoin* Drawn From
Their Bravery anil Devotion.
[Copyright, Louis Klopscli, 1899.1
Washixoto.n, D. C.—At a time when the
Whole nation is stirred with patriotic emo¬
tion at the return of Admiral George
Dewey and ills gallant men on the cruiser
Olympia and the magnificent Rev. reception ac¬
corded to them, the Dr. T. De Witt
Talmage, In Ills sermon, jirenchiug tc a
vast audience, appropriately recalls for
devout and patriotic purposes some of the
vreat naval deeds of olden and more recent
times. Text, James ill., 4, “Behold also
the ships.” about
If this exclamation was appropriate
1S72 years ago, when it was written con¬
cerning the crude flsbingsmacksthat sailed
Lake Galilee, how much more appropriate
iu an age which has launched from the dry
docks for purposes of peace the Oceanic of
the While Star lino, the Lueania of the
Cunard line, the St. Louis of the American
line, the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse of the
,North German Lloyd line, the Augusta Vic¬
toria of the Hnmburg-Amerlcan line, and
in an age which for purposes of war has
launched the strew sloops like the Idaho,
the Shenandoah, the Ossipee, anil our iron¬
clads like the Kalamazoo, the Roanoke and
the Dnnderborg, and those which have al¬
ready been burfed iu the deep, like the
Monitor, tlie Housatonio and the Wee
bawken, the tempests ever since sounding
a volley over their watery sepulchers, and
the Oregon, and the Brooklyn, Iowa, aqd the
Texas, and the Olympia, the the Mas¬
sachusetts, the Indiana, the New York, the
Marietta of the last war, and the scarred
veterans of war shipping, like the Consti¬
tution or the Alliance or the Constellation,
that have swung into the naval yards to
spend their last days, their docks now all
silent ot the feet that trod them, their rig¬
ging all silent of the hands that clung to
them their portholes silent of the brazen
throats that once thundered out of them.
Full justice has been done to the mtn
who at different times fought on the land,
but not enough has been said of those who
on ship’s deck dared and suffered all things.
‘Lord God of the rivers and the sea, help
me in this sermon! So, ye admirals, com¬
manders, captains, pilots, gunners, boat¬
swains, sailmakers, surgeons, stokers,mess¬
mates and seamen of all names, to use your
own parlance, we might as well Let get under land¬
way and stand out to sea . all
lubbers go ashore. Full speed now! Four
bells! •
It looks picturesque and beautiful to see
a war vessel going out through the Nai
rows, sailors in new rig singing,
A Wfe on the ocean wave,
A home on tile rolling deep,
the. colors gracefully dipping to passing
ships, tho decks immaculately clean ami
the guns at quarantine firing a parting of
salute. But the poetry is all gono out
that ship as it comes out of that engage¬
ment, its decks red with human blood,
wheeihouse gone, the canius a pile of shat¬
tered mirrors and destroyed furniture,
steering wheel broken, smokestack crushed,
a hundred pound Whitworth rifleshot hav
ing left its mark from port to starboard.
the shrouds rent away, ladders splintered
fl re gasping their last gasp far away from
home aud kindred, whom they love as
munh as we love wife and parents andchil
qj^ rael) 0 f jpg j can navy returned
from Manila and Santiago and Havana, as
well as tiioso wlio are survivors of tlie
naval conflicts of 1863 aud 1864, men of tUe
western gulf squadron, of the eastern gulf
squadron, of the south Atlantic squadron,
ot the north Atlantic squadron, ot the
Mississippi squadron, of the squadron, Pacific squad¬
ron, of the \Ye=t India and of
the Potomac flotilla, hear our thanks!
Take the benediction of tlie churches. Ac¬
cept the hospitalities of the nation. If we
had our way, we would get you not only a
pension, but a home and a princely ward¬
robe and an equipage and a banquet while,
you live, and after your departure a
catafalque aud a mausoleum of seupltured
marble, with a model of tho ship in which
you won the i|ay. It is considered a
hint thing when in a naval fight the flag¬
ship w,ith its blue ensigu bay, goes ahead up a
river or into a its admiral
standing iu the shrouds watching and giv¬
ing orders. But I have to tell you, O vet¬
erans of the America ) navy, if j’ou are as
loyal to Christ as you wore to the govern¬
ment, there is a flagship sailing ahead of
you of whieh Christ is the admiral, and He
watches from the shrouds, and the heavens
are the blue ensign, aud He leads you to¬
ward tho harbor, and all the broadsides of
earth and hell cannot damage you,.and ye
whose garments were once red with your
own blood shall have a robe washed and
made white in the blood of tlie Lamb.
Then strike eight bells! High noon in
heaven!
while we arc heartily greeting and ban
queting the sailor patriots just now re
turned we must not forget the veterans
d 'o miu ?” B ! '* os >’' tals or
spending children’s their old days in their own or
their homesteads. Ob, ye vet
erans, I charge you hear up under the
aches and weaknesses that you still carry
from the wartimes. You are not as stalwart
as you would have been but lor that nerv
ous straiu and for that terrific exposure,
Let every ache and pain, instead of depress
cember 6, 1868, was a mystery. She was
not under lire. Tne sea was rough,
But Admiral Dahigren fron the deck
»>„
Anally she struck the ground, but the
flag still floated above the wave in the
sight of the shipping. sank It from was afteward
found that she weakness
through injuries knocked in previous service. Her
plates had been loose in previous
times. So you have in nerve and muscle
aud bone and dimmed eyesight and diffi¬
cult hearing and shortness of breata many
intimations that you are gradually going
down. It is the service of many years ago
that is telling on you. Boot good cheer.
We owe you just as much as though your
lifeblood had gurgled through the scup¬
pers of the ship in tlie Red river expedition
or as though you had gone down with the
Melville off Hatteras. Duly keep vour flag
flying, ns did the illustrious Weehawken.
Good cheer, my boys!
Sometimes off the coast of England British the
royal family have inspected the
navy. mauoBUvered before them for that
purpose. In the Baltic sea the czar and
czarina have reviewed the Russian navy.
To bring before the American people the
debt they owe to the navy I go out with
you on the Atlantic oceuu. where there is
plenty of room, aud in imagination re¬
view the war shipping of our four great
conflicts —1776, 1812, 1865 and 1898. Swiug
into lino ail ye frigates, meu-of-war! ironclads, lire
rafts, gunboats and There
they come, all sail set aud all furnaces
in full blast, sheaves of crystal tossing
from their cutting prows. I'll at is tlie
Delaware, an old Revolutionary craft,
commanded by Commodore Decatur.
Yonder goes the Constitution, Com¬
modore Hull commanding. There is the
Chesapeake,, commanded by Captain
Lawrence, whose dying words were,
“Don’t gi\-9 up the ship,’’and the Niaga¬
ra of 1812, commanded by Commodore
Ferry, who wrote on the back of an old
letter, resting on bis navy cap, • • We have
met tbe enemy, and they are ours.” You
der is the flagship Wabash. Admiral Du
pont commanding; yonder, the flagship
Minnesota, Admiral Goldsborough com
mauding; yonder, the flagship Philadel¬
phia, Admiral Dahigren commanding; yon
d-r, tlie flagship San Jacinto, Admiral
Bailey commanding; yonder, Forter commanding: the flag-hip
Black Hawk, Admiral
yonder, the flag steamer Benton, Admiral
Foote commanding; yonder, the flagship
Hardford, David G. Farragut command¬
ing; yonder, the Brooklyn, Bear Admiral
Schley commanding; commanding; yonder, the yonder Olympia,
Admiral Dewey the
Oregon, Captain Clark commanding; yon¬
der, the Texas, Captain Philip command¬
ing; yonder, the New York, Rear Admiral
Sampson commanding; yonder, tho Iowa,
Captain Robley D. Evans commanding.
All tflose of you who were in the naval
service du the wur of 1865 are now in
it
r t 11 tl«* nr
■k’" •Istians, 1 gresr (idmifals FoP and of I' „ *
/ellglon 1 ' .ooffaifll
Christian been a fro
ttfmg ,• they wt/tbl have they had lived nothin.' and to died.
with it. Tn if faith Admiral Foote
In Brooklyn navy yard and conducted a re¬
held prayer meetings North Carolina
vival on the receiving ship followed
and on Sabbaths, far out at sea,
the chaplain with religious exhortation.
In early life, aboard the sloop-ot-war Chris
Natchez, impressed by the words of a
j.inii sailor, be gtivo liis sparo time for two
weeks to ttio Bible, nud tit the end of tlitit
declared openly, “Henceforth, under all
oircumtftancefl, I will net for God.” Iiiu
last words while dying at the Astor House,
Now York, wore: "I thank God for all His
goodness to me. He has been very good
to me.” When he entered heaven, ho did
uot have to run a blockade, for it was
amid tlie cheers of a great wel eoiiiG. Tint
other Christinn admiral will be honored
on earth until the days when the fires from
above shall lick up the waters from be¬
neath and there shall bo no more sea.
Oh, while old ocean’s breast
Bears a white sail
And God’s soft stars to rest
Guide through the gale,
Men will him ne’er forget,
Old heart of oak—
Farragut, Farragut—
Thunderbolt stroke!
According to his own statement, Far
r igut was very loose in hts morals iuearly
manhood and practiced all kinds of sin.
One day he was called into the cabin of his
father,'who was a shipmaster. going His father to he
aid, “David what are you
anyhow?” He answered, “I am going to
foi’low the sen.” “Follow the sea,” suid
the father, “and be. kicked about the
world and die in a foreign hospital?”
“No,” said David; “I am going to father; com¬
mand like you.” “No,” said the
“a boy of your habits will never command
anything.” And his father burst into tears
and left the cabin. From that day David
Farragut started on a now life.
Captain Tennington, an honored eldor
of my Brooklyn church, was with him in
most of his battles and had his intimate
friendship, and he confirmed, what I had
heard else where, that Farragut was good
and Christian. In every great crisis of
life he asked and obtained the Divine, di¬
rection. When in Mobile bay the monitor
Tecumseli sank from a torpedo and the
great warship Brooklyn, that was to lead
the squadron, turned back, he said ad¬ he
was at a loss to know whether to
vance or retreat, and no says: “I prayed. hint
‘O God, who created man and gave
reason, direct me what to do. Shall I go
on?’ And a voice commanded me, ‘Go
on,’ and I went on.” Was there ever q
more touching Christian letter than that
which he wrote to his wife from his flagship
Hartford? “My dearest wile, I write and
leave this letter for you. I am going into
Mobile bay in the morning if God is my
leader, and I hope He is,.and in Him I
place my trust. It He thinks it is the proper
plnco for me to die, I am ready to submit
to His will iu that as all other things. God
bless and preserve you, my darling, and
my dear boy, if anything should happen to
me. May His blessings rest upon you and
your dear mother.”
Cheerful to the end, he said on board the
Tallapoosa in the last voyage he ever took,
“It would be well if I died now in harness,”
The sublime Episcopal service for the dead
was never more appropriately rendered
than over his casket, and well did all the
forts of New York harbor thunder as his
body was brought to the wharf, and well
did the minute guns sound and the bells
toll as in a procession having in its ranks
the President of the United States and his
cabinet and the mighty men of land andsea
the old admiral was carried, amid hun¬
dreds of thousands of uncovered heads on
Broadway, and laid on his pillow of dust in
beautiful WoodlawD, September 30, amid
the pomp of our autumnal forests.
PS We bail with thanks the new generation
of naval heroes, those of the year 1898. We .
are too near their marvelous deeds to fuily
appreciate them. A century from now
poetry and sculpture and painting and his¬
tory will do them better justice than we
can dothemnow. A defeat at Manila would
have been ‘an infinite disaster. Foreign
nations not over-fond of oar American in¬
stitutions would have joined theotherslde,
and the war so nytny months past would
have been raging still, and perhaps a hun¬
dred thousand graves would nave opened
to take down our slain soldiers and sailors.
It took this country three years to get
over the disaster at Bull •Bun at the open
ing of the qivil war. How many years it
would have required to recover from of the a
defeat at Manila in the opening
Spanish war I cannot say. God averted
the calamity by giving triumph to our
navy under Admiral Dewey, whose coming
up through the Narrows of New York bar
lior day before yesterday was greeted by
the nation whose welcoming cheers will
not cease to resound until to-morrow, and
next day in the capital of the nation shall the
jeweled sword voted by. Congress be
presented amid booming cannonade and
embannered nosts. and our autumnal
nights shall become n conflagration of
splendor, but the tramp of these process
sjod.s ana the flash of tbat sword and tij jjfo r
huzza of that gieetin# and the roar
those guns and the illumination of thowi
nights will be seen and heard ,as long as a
page of American history remains inviolate.
Especially . let the country boys of
America join in these greetings to the
returned heroes of Manila. It is their
work. The chief • character in all the
scene is. the once country lad, George
Dewey. Let the Vermonters come down
and find him older, but the same modest,
unassuming, almost bashful person that
they went to school with and witli whom
they sporteu on the playground. The Don
ers of all the world cannot spoil him. A
few weeks ago at a banquet iu England
some of the titled noblemen were af
fronted because our American minister
plenipotentiary associated Lord the name of
Dewey with that of Nelson. As well
might we be affronted because the name
of Nelson is associated with that of our
most renowned admiral. The one man in
all (becoming ages will stand as high as
the other. So this day sympathizing
all the festivities and celebrations of tlie
past week and with all the festivities and
celebrations to come this week, let us
anew thank God and those heroes of the
American navy who have done such great
things foe our beloved land. Come aboard
tbo old ship Zion, ye sailors and soldiers,
whether still in the active service or hon¬
orably discharged and at home having re¬
sumed citizenship. And ye men of the
past, your last battle on the sens fought,
take from me, in God’s name, salutation
and good cheer. For the few remaining
lights with sin and deaths and hell make
ready. Strip your vessel for the fray. Hang
the sheet chains over the side Send down
the topgallant masts. Barricadethewheel.
Big in the flying jib boom. Steer straight
for the shining shore, and hear the shout
of tlie great Commander of earth and
heaven ns He cries from the shrouds, “To
him that overcometk will I give to eat of
the tree of life which is in the midst of the
paradise of God.” Hosanna! Hosanna!
Atvp abreast of these stirring times t> j,
■■.iibscribing for your home paper. The price
■ s Wide, and you. cannot afford, to be without
‘-t.
BRIAN GREETS M’KIULEY.
Both Appear I11 the Town of Canton.
Ill., tlie Same Day.
Colonel W. J. Bryan sat directly be¬
hind President McKinley Friday after¬
noon at Canton, Ill., while the presi¬
dent delivered a brief address to the
citizens of that town. A street fair
was in progress and Colonel Bryan had
been secured to deliver a two hours’
speech. tbe first
The Nebraskan was among
to greet President McKinley as he left
the train and ascended the platform.
When the president concluded his ad
dress he turned and heartily grasped
Colonel Bryan’s outstretched hand.
“Goodby, Mr. President,” said
Colonel Bryan, and the president re¬
sponded with a word of farewell. This
short meetin g Jj etween the
there fnrtv isears. has been
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BRITISH REINFORCES
Massing of Kruger’s Tro«i|
Is No Longer Fenrb
Britain. <
A London special of TWj
to the effect that nothiq|
developed as to the Trans-®
during the day. The Dail®
dispatch announcing that til
invaded Natal and seized 11
now seems to be without J
The government has rece
ing to justify the rcpcAtS,
such a move on the part of
would naturally cause littli
The British position ini
considerably strengthened! Indian]
rival Thursday of
with reinforcements of a
infantry, cavalry and artil
which will be promptly j
front by train, and with tj
at Gleneove and Ladysmit
ish advanced camps
munication will be praetu
guarded against the risk o)
ful dash across the iron!
Boers.
The military authorities
no longer fear the mass
Boers along the border j M
lias been provided that ■
uot make a sudden invasil
territory. The Natal nut
rather pleased tension with this, waita tij
argue the of
severely on the Boars’ soonjj discj
moreover, they will
little and be forage compelled there to is fall nefSj H
base, because, iu view of ■
commissariat, they are B
advance in Natal leaving®
a forageless veldt.
Advices from Aldershtj .
interesting information
Sir Redvers Buller, whoM
the chief command ofH
forces in South Africa, iH
the presence of a large nB
correspondents with hiBI
twelve wants to representatives limit the corrM^
British, Tndiau and
and newspapers,
number the foreign
A dispatch from
West Australia,
government of the
to dispatch a West Genei®| Aiisha
gent to the cape.
Buller arrived at
Thursday night as the fl '
Victoria, to bid her ) ®a
on his departure.
GRIGGS’ OPIUM!
1 n the Celebrated Carter Case !|
At 'Washington.
The opinion of, Attesin e
Griggs in the case of
M. Carter, of the arinBI
the president a PP r °ve®ff
the courtmartial, was wUt
Washington %. Thursday!
After dismissing . . cert
charges as unproven, seui® tl aru
eral took up the more
involved, ■ , «..„<■ mSt ____
that the charges upon
Carter was found
S ru °US.*' He Ha says rovs thni that, J
ctinary criminal proceyn
tary usages and procecij ol
an indefinite number m,
and , the , same procejfc
0De
“It is not necessary,’*
discuss whether this prtf 1
°. r whether , - L : 18 prejucj *
rights of the - accused, col fl
be established by "i long jj
tlce ’. am l > s ° /■ lar *” „ y 1 am J
vestigation . to discover Jl
vious challenge. ” objr/^1 9
But even if this % ■
founded, . , . the , attorney ,
m*
does not think the himse® actufl
allowed to avail
T1 ,. , Decause UeM
on now,
trial without objectioif® permit
misjoinder, and
on mvestlgaBB • a
brought different forward specificatioij^M hisT®
f 9 1 tuem 1 lle JW
nave been promptly ’ , tiw^ QS
available.
BURGLARS USED CH
Dvuggert Woman While
t and Robbed the
A sensational burgl^ryj
Knoxville, Tenn., at i s
Wednesday morning,
burglars entered the re
A. Trainum and held h' :
Kimbrough, while they,,
her. They then search
where Trainum, who 4L
the Brotherhood of
gineers, had several sect®
concealed. They
but Mrs. Kimbrough >■
larger part, which th® '■$&
cover. e
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CAUTOUITES GREK-* j nr
Ohio People Accord Chi<
Warm Xtecepti
his President old friends McKinley’sjBiq and nei® J
special train passed Cantd thro
of Alliance and
especially warm. Whis’J
and aud the bells stations rung as the t| 1
were Til
flags and bunting.
at these places were M m
length to permit any
Banker Buys (’VI
The Hartwell, Gn^^|
sold a day or two mm
Hodges, assignee, fat Kl
Witham, the bM®.'-%
>ay? he 'vilLatffl®g||||
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