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IIKNDERSON & HANLON, Publishers.
Instead of looking for some one to
protect the n from tlio United States,
South American republics should cry
out for somo one to save them from
themselves.
A nation may have too many politi¬
cians, too many soldiers, too many of
almost ever sort of folk, but never too
many good cooks. The more the
better is emphatically and invariably
true in this case.
The pavdon of Dreyfus is really a
revision aud reversal of the military
verdict by the superior civil power.
It clears his fame as completely as au
acquittal, anil disgraces the army as
fully as would a judicial verdict of
condemnation of the whole general
staff.
Attention is called in medical
journals to the desirability of testing
railroad employes for defective hear¬
ing as well as for color-blindness. A
recent examination in F.urope de¬
veloped the fact that out of 82 fire¬
men and engine drivers only three
possessed perfectly normal hearing.
It is suggested that there should be a
standard of hearing power for the ex¬
amination of employes who have to
depend upon sound signals.
The engineering department of the
German navy seems to be in need of
reform. Not long ago the boiler of a
torpedo boat was blown up with most
d sastrous results, and the other day
the boiler of the cruiser Wacht ex¬
ploded, killing four meu aud wound¬
ing an equal number. Such accidents
are most uncommon in the navies of
more experienced maritime powers
and indicate either careless manage¬
ment or defects of material which
good engineers should have discovered
in advance.
Great improvement in public roads
is sure to attend and follow the multi¬
plication of automobiles. One writer
predicts that “before the end of 1900,
the total mileage of macadam aud
asphalt will be increased by fully one
hundred per eejit. More., than
8300,000,600 is said to be pledged
already to the manufacture of this
class of vehicles. Till the storage
battery is perfected aud cheapened,
the means of propulsion are practical¬
ly limited to gas engines aud petro¬
leum products. ..
A system has been established in
Philadelphia whereby teachers are
given permission to take their classes
for one-half day, once or twice a year,
to Fairmount park and to the Zoolo¬
gical gardens, such visits to be re¬
garded as a part of the regular class
duties. In Germany such an arrange¬
ment is a regular part of the program
in many of the schools. Through
the genorosily of the managers of the
Zoological gardens, the superintend¬
ent of public schools is furnished
annually with about 125,000 tickets,
which admit both teachers and pupils
to the gardens, aud to make the visits
of greatest benefit to the children, the
teachers accompany their pupils,
while the information obtaiued by such
visits i3 utilized in subsequent
iustruction in the classroom.
Not many years ago aproposition to
divert some of the head-waters of the
Grand river to the east side of the
Rocky mountains was looked upon as
visionary; now it ha3 been realized,
and it is a remarkable fact that water
which flows naturally into the Gulf
of California has been virtually lifted
over the Bocky mountains, and, after
being used for irrigation finds its way
to the Gulf of Mexico. A number of
small streams on the western side of
Loug’s Peak which flow into Grand
lake and thence into the Colorado
river have been diverted by a ditch
that finds its way through a pass
10,000 feet high into the head-waters
of the Poudre. Some four hundred
cubic feet per second has thus been
-diverted from the Pacific to the At¬
lantic slope. The success of this en¬
gineering feat leads the Denver Re¬
publican to ask for its repetition.
“There is,” it says, “an enormous
supply of irrigation water on the
Pacific slope of Colorado which would
be a mine of wealth if it could be
brought to the Atlantic slope. On
this side of the mountains we have
many times more land than water.
On the other side there is many times
more water than accessible irrigable
land.”
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GREAT INDUCEMENT FOR BUSI¬
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UMNS. TRY US.
THE BURGLAR.
I.
Donaghue knelt at the door and put
a practiced ear to the keyhole. There
was a faint sound of breathing, so still
that Donaghue pressed his rough ear
still closer to the brassy aperture in
the door and listened even more Intent¬
ly. His small eyes glistened in the dark
hallway like the eyes of a cat (he had
been nicknamed “The Cat" for this
very peculiarity), b’ut there was no one
in the house to see those glistening
eyes save the servants, fast asleep two
ltories above, and the occupants of this
one room. He had watched that house
three preceding days and nights. He
knew that it was occupied by a young
mail and his wife—evidently newly
married and beyond doubt rich. He
knew that the servants wero a cook,
two maids, and a butler, and he had
almost worked out in his mind just
where the pretty wife placed her jew¬
elry when she went to bed In the sec¬
ond-floor room, and just what means
the husband took to secure his proba¬
bly well-filled purse.
Donaghue was patience personified,
and he received the reward that all
patience deserves. His thin face broad¬
ened into a smile ns he realized the fact
that the breathing was that of a wom¬
an, and that she was alone.
When one is in the habit of making
social call3 of the description that
Donaghue was making it is much bet¬
ter to find husbands away from home,
the servants and occupants of the
house all asleep, and the policeman on
the beat quite out of hearing,
Donaghue was not in the habit of
entering the mansions of the rich by
the front door, or being ushered into
the presence of the hostess by a liv¬
eried flunkey, of making polite inqui¬
ries concerning her health, and depart¬
ing, after leaving his card.
The fact was, Donaghue shrank from
notoriety. He preferred a quiet en¬
trance by the window wholly unob¬
served if possible, and, departing, left
not his card nor anything else was of
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value and at the same time portable. In¬
deed, Donaghue was not the tall, hand¬
some fellow that most heroes are. On
the contrary, he was of medium height,
spare, slouch, and had a general ap¬
pearance that was anything but pre¬
possessing.
"Dead easy,” said Donaghue to him¬
self. “A young married couple, as I
thought, and husband’s away on the
loose. She’s calling his name in her
sleep. But I needn’t expect him until
morning, and when he does come home
lie’ll probably be drunk. That’s what
I call dead easy.”
He turned the knob of the door and
opened it the fraction of an inch. His
small eyes glistened in the dark as he
found that the door was not locked and
that in all probability it would not
squeak.
“The easiest thing I’ve struck in my
twenty years’ experience,” said Don¬
aghue, again to himself—a remark that
was noteworthy only because Don-
aghue was little over 20 years of age,
and, therefore, must have begun his
efforts to get on in the world at quite
an early age.
Slowly and with infinite care he
opened the door and entered the room.
Four feet from him. as he stood al¬
most breathless, with his hand still
clasping the knob of the dGor, lay the
sleeping form of a woman, A flood of
moonlight from the window fell upon
her and melted the pink of her cheek,
the cream of her throat, the lace of her
night-dress, and the white sheet that
wrapped her, into one semrigolden hue.
The undulation caused by her breath¬
ing made her look like a drooping lily
swayed by the gentlest of breezes.
“Great heavens!" thought Donaghue,
“what a beauty!” He could hear her
faintly mutter the name “Paul—Paul”
at intervals, and he had a vague con¬
sciousness of a certain disrespect for
Paul, whoever he might he. A man
must be a brute to leave such a wom¬
an alone at night. He lingered but a
moment, though. Beauty was a thing
of little value to Donaghue. His own
Maggie was hardly cursed with the
fatal gift of beauty, and she was quite
as jealous as other wives. Ho stepped
softly and quickly to the dressing-case
at the other end of the room. Ho
picked up a perfumed lace handker¬
chief and threw it away Impatiently,
although in his more youthful days
a lace handkerchief he would have
considered a prize of no mean value.
Below it ho found what he wanted
and expected—a locket and chain, a
jeweled watch, a heavy bracelet, a
pin, and what seemed to him a handful
of rings. He held them all up in the
moonlight and noticed how they
sparkled in his trembling hand, and ho
smiled with delight.
"There’s nothing the matter with
this," said Donaghue, almost aloud.
“She won’t look so pretty in the morn¬
ing, after she has cried for an hour or
two. She’ll cry, of course, but she’s
rich, and can afford to lose them. She
can get others just like them, Her
husband will buy them for her just to
keep her pretty mouth shut about his
being out so long. Hanged if I see
how he can keep away long enough to
give a fellow like me a chance to make
a living.”
He turned and looked at her. He
felt like adding a stolen ki3s to the
other jewels he had taken. He almost
laughed aloud at the thought of such
a man as he kissing such a peerless
beauty as the woman who lay on the
bed before him. And he was just about
to depart as peacefully as a social
caller, when suddenly he heard the
slamming of the front door in the hall
below.
"Her old man,” said Donaghue, for¬
getting that he v,’as probably a young
man; "and I’m caught. Caught—bur¬
glary—ten years at least. I’ll kill him.
But I’ll he caught w'hether I kill him
or not, and” (self-upbraidingly) “I
could have got away easily enough if
I hadn’t stopped to look at her.”
Again lie- stepped quickly to the door
and listened. He Jieard footsteps in
the hail beneath. The man had stepped
into the back parlor, or library, which¬
ever it was. Perhaps the man had been
out on business and would stop there
for a minute or two at his desk. Per¬
haps there was, after all, a chance for
escape. He was cool and careful. He
dropped the jewels on the bed. It would
not do to be caught with them about
him. And he went out.
II.
The door squeaked this time, and the
young wife started in her sleep, awoke,
and half-rose in her bed.
Donaghue, at the same time, heard
the shuffle of feet in the room below'.
He paused and listened at the top of
the stairs.
Even though the man had heard the
door squeak he had not left, the back
room.
Donaghue tripped down the stairs as
softly as a cat. He had been in a tight
fix before, and he was never cleverer
than when he knew that he was in
danger.
But luck was against him. There
was a fur rug at the foot of the stairs.
The floor beneath was polished. He
slipped and fell, and in spite of him¬
self he uttered an exclamation that was
profane enough to be unmistakably
masculine. He heard the man rush
from the library, and how it all hap¬
pened he hardly knew, but some way
or other he managed to dash into the
dark parlor, to throw open the window,
and jump out.
He expected to fall at least eight or
ten feet. He did not fall two. He had
Jumped out on a porch, evidently, for
he could see the railing in the moon¬
light. There was one thing to do—to
hide directly beneath the window in
the shadow and wait He knew his
pursuer would be there in a moment.
He knew there would be a hue and cry.
Still, there was a chance.
True enough, the man came to the
window—but, to the infinite surprise
of Donaghue, he made no outcry H«
heard the man utter a half-articulate,
"Heavens has it come to this!” He
heard him walk a few steps and strlko
a match. He saw the light of the gas-
jets from the window—and thon he
knew that he was safe, and he cursed
himself for a fool for leaving the jew¬
els behind.
It was tantalizing. He raised him¬
self cautiously and looked in the room.
The man was sitting in a groat arm¬
chair in the center of the room sobbing
as though his heart would break. Don-
aghue almost laughed aloud at the
sight. There was something in it ail
that he could not understand, He
wanted to And out the real meaning
of it. Besides, he had a sort of dare¬
devil idea that perhaps after all he
might get the Jewels. He waited.
He had hardly time to scratch his
head in perplexity when the door of
the room was opened, and the woman,
whose beauty had been unconsciously
the cause of Donaghue’s folly, entered.
She was still in her night-dress, but
she was very pale and very frightened.
She ran to the sobbing man and fell on
her knees as she cried out:.
"Ob, Paul, Paul! what is the mat¬
ter?”
To Donaghue’s surprise the man
pushed her roughly away.
“How can you look me in the face?”
he cried. “How dare you come to me
after this?”
Calmly the woman raised herself to
her feet, and, looking at the man, said
in a forced whisper:
“What do I mean. Y r cu know what
I mean,” answered the man. “He has
been here at last—perhaps not for the
first time. But I have found it out. I
have found you out.”
Donaghue heard a stifled moan and
the crash of a body as it fell on
the floor. He began to gather a crude
idea of what it was all about. He had
some experience with Maggie. He had
been jealous himself once. He raised
himself a little higher and peered over
the eill of the window'.
The woman was not moaning now,
but in a dead faint, and, with her face
as white as the sheet that covered her
in the room above, she lay motionless
nt the feet of the man who accused
her.
The man stood over her with burn¬
ing cheeks and clenched hands.
“And the cur ran away from you?
He didn’t even stay to fight me like a
man! He’s a coward. I knew it when
we met him in Baden. He’s a villain.
I knew it when he followed us to Lon¬
don. He can take you now. I don’t
want you. And some day he’ll run
away from you, poor, beautiful, miser¬
able fool, just as he has run away from
me.
There was considerable human na¬
ture in Donaghue, even though he did
make his living in a peculiar way.
This was a little more than he could
stand. I-Ie jumped up and leaped back
through the window. •
"Look here," he shouted, and then
was suddenly silent, for a pair of 1
strong hands were clasped about his
throat, and the heavy weight of the
larger man had borne him to the floor
in a moment.
"You, such a being as you, my wife’s
lover!” roared the man.
“No!” screamed Donaghue, making a
desperate effort to free himself.
"Well, who are you?” said the man.
“Let me sit up and I’ll teli you,”
answered Donaghue.
The man released him, still keeping
him within arms’ reach in the corner
of the room. Donaghue felt his throat
tenderly.
“Well?” said the man, peremptorily.
“I’m the man that was in the house,”
said Donaghue sullenly.
“What do you mean—why were you
here?” asked the man.
“Well,” answered Donaghue, regain¬
ing some of his customary bravado,
“I wanted to add some of your
jewelry to my collection. See? If
you don’t believe me, you’ll find it
where I threw it away, up in your
wife’s room.”
“I shall send for the police and have
you arrested.” said the man, quietly.
“That wouldn’t be very fair,” said
Donaghue. “I came back here because
I wanted to clear things up between
you and your wife. I could have got
away easiiy enough. If I were you, I’d
send for a doctor, and even though I’m
a thief, I’d ask my wife’s pardon. You
may not get a chance, though, She
looks as though she were dead.”
The man turned and dropped to his
knees by the side of the prostrate
woman. He put his ear to her heart,
and when he raised liis head again
Donaghue saw that there were tears in
his eyes.
“Thank God, she has only fainted!"
said the man. “Bring me some water
from the library.”
Donaghue brought the water in a sol¬
id silver pitcher that made him sigh
with a vain wish that he had got away
with it and the jew-els above.
“She will be all right in a moment,”
said the man; “and you may go.”
“Thanks,” said Donaghue, noncha¬
lantly, going toward the window.
"Perhaps it is I who ought to thank
you,” said the man, “for, after all, you
have proved that my wife is true to
me.”
“Don’t mention it,” answered Dona-
gliue, as he disappeared—“at least not
to the police.”—Spare Moments.
Hla Business.
Ida—W’ho is that man we saw In
front of the cave? .
May—He takes tourists under-
ground.
Ida— Goodness! he must he an un¬
dertaker.
Readers Becoming More Numerous.
There are now published In Paris
2,585 periodicals, nearly 100 more than
wero issued at the corresponding date
last year.
JOUBERT SLAIN
IS A REPORT
News Comes From Durban
Announcing- His Death.
REPOST NOT CONFIRMED
Ollier Belated Information From Seat
of War In South African
Republic.
A dispatch from Durban under date
of Sunday, November 12, says: “The
Times of Natal publishes a telegram
from Lcuvenzo Marques saying that
General Joubert was killed in action
on November 9th.”
London advices of Wednesday state
that the most interesting, and, in fact,
the only news of the war now comes
from the western frontier, the ac¬
counts of Colonel Baden-Powell’s bril¬
liant exploits at Mafeking forming
quite lively aud encouraging rending.
Trench work is quite novel in Boer
tactics, and some curiosity is evinced
as to who may be directing aud as to
what is still to be shown.
Nevertheless, both at Mafeking and
Kimberly, conditions seem altogether
favorable. So far as Natal is concerned
the British must possess his soul in
patience and trust to General Buller.
A belated dispatch from Ladysmith,
dated Nov.7th, tells of a languid bom¬
bardment and of a native rumor that
the Basutos are on the warpath,which
is supposed, according to one corres¬
pondent, to have had the effect of in¬
ducing somo of the Orange Free State
troops to abandon the siege and to re¬
turn to their own territory and also
to be accountable for the slackness of
the attempts of the Ladysmith de¬
fenses. Another correspondent says
that it is reported that in the attack
upon the Free States at Dewdrop the
Boers had 300 killed and wounded.
If the reports that the Free State
burgers are tired of the affair and are
going home should prove true, the
fact would bo most important, as their
retirement would probably compel
General Joubert to withdraw north¬
ward. The statement that the Boers
are entrenched so closely to Lady¬
smith is held in some, quarters to in¬
dicate that they are running short of
ammunition for guns.
All of General Buller’s arrange¬
ments for the advance from Durban,it
is ruraorod, are practically completed,
and news of it may be expected in a
few days. The war office has received
several dispatches dealing with mili¬
tary details, but it is not likely that
these will he published. The where¬
abouts of General Buller is not pub¬
licly known in London, but he is be¬
lieved to be up country somewhere.
Belated News of Boer Activity.
A dispatch receive-' 1 in Capetown
from Bnluwayo, dnt - d Friday, No¬
vember 3d, soys an armored train pro¬
ceeded south close to Machudi, where
a culvert was found damaged.
The Basuto police, the dispatch
adds, report that a party of Boers has
been looting and damaging property.
A Fort Tuli dispatch, under the
same date says:
“There is great activity in the Boer
camp south of here. A reconnoitering
party sent along the line heard heavy
firing in the distance. The party re¬
turned to Colonel S.preckley’s campon
which the enemy was advancing in
force. It M-an shelled at noon, stam
peding every horse aud mule, but not
touching a man. The Boers number¬
ed 400. The Boers surrounded Bych
store, where a small party stubbornly
resisted, ultimately retiring to the
bush and gaining from Tuli. An offi¬
cer and five troopers are missing
from Spreckley’s force, which has been
out somo days reconnoitering the ene¬
my’s force, and which had several
skirmishos on returning to fort Tuli.”
Fever Report For Miami.
Miami, Fia., reported eight cases
Tuesday and three Wednesday. Total
cases, 125; total deaths, 7. Neither
Key West or Port Tampa City sent in
reports for Wednesday.
TO SUE ROADS.
Chattanocgans Will Attempt to Col¬
lect For Overpaid Freights.
The merchants of Chattanooga are
preparing to bring many suits against,
the Southern, the \\ estern and Atlan¬
tic, the Nashville, Chattanooga and
St. Louis railroads to recover from
them money overpaid on freight.
The decision of Justice Harlan
at Cincinnati that these roads could
not charge Chattanooga more for
freight than they did Nashville
merchants, is the cause of the suits.
They wifi sue for all amounts over¬
paid since the first decision in favor of
Chattanooga was given about six
years ago.
COUNT IN fUSSISSIPPI.
Official Figures of Recent Election Are
Made Public.
The secretary of state of Mississippi
made au official announcement of the
returns of the state election Thursday.
Longino, Democratic candidate for
governor, received 42,227 votes against
6,421 for Prewitt, Populist. Lougiuo’s
majority, 35,806. The vote on the
Noel election amendment was: Yeas,
21,169; nays, 8,643.
STEAMER BURNED;
PASSENGERS SAVED
American Vessel Destroyed By Fire
Off English Coast.
MANY SOULS ON BOARD
Crew of the Vessel Proved Them¬
selves to Be Heroes.
A London special says:'. The Ham-
burg-American steamer Patria, Cap¬
tain Frohlich, which left^New York
November 4th for Hamburg and passed
the Lizard last Tuesday, caught on
fire near Dover. All the passengers
were rescued and landed at Dover.
The Russian steamer Ceres sighted
the Patria, showing signals of distress
and demanding immediate help, about
twelve miles from North Hander light¬
ship. The liner was enveloped in
smoke. Putting on full steam the
Ceres soon reached the Patria and
Sending a boat learned that Captain
Frohlich was in urgent need of assist¬
ance.
The boats were got out and with
difficulty the Pntria’s passengers, num¬
bering ICO, were transferred to the
Ceres, which proceeded for Dover.
Among the saved are many ladies
and children, as well as six babes in
arms. The hurry of the rescue was
indicated by the fact that most of the
passengers were enveloped in blank¬
ets only.
They were rapidly distributed
among the hotels or sent to the sail¬
ors’ home and everything possible is
being done for their comfort.
According to interviews with some
of the passengers, which elicited the
fact that most of them were American
citizens taking a vacation in Europe.
Crew Worko<l Heroically.
The crew, according to several pas¬
sengers, worked like heroes in their
endeavors to keep the flames under,
but the great quantity of linseed
among the cargo and the oil supplied
by this made all their efforts hopeless.
There was very great excitement
among the women and children, but
the example set by the coolness cf
Captain Frohlich and the crew had a
calming effect on the passengers gen¬
erally.
The boats vrere promptly got over
the side, the crew working as if they
were at drill. The safoty of the ladies
and children was the first considera¬
tion. As the fire had by this time
consumed the greater part of the pas¬
sengers’ belongings, they had to get
into the boats as they had come up
from their bunks, and some were in
very light raiment.
POSTMASTERS FOR GEORGIA.
Department Gives Out a List of Re¬
cent Appointments.
A Washington dispatch says: Fourth
class postmasters for Georgia have
been appointed as follows:
Abernathy, Bartow, A. G. Mor-
gin; Adgateville, Jasper, A. M.
Brandon; Aunie Delle, Floyd, W. O.
Edmondson; Bayard, Harris, M. J.
Pate; Cobb, Sumter, W. J. Hill;
Corbin, Bartow, M. L. Findley; Dug-
road, Pickens, W, I). ’.Ruddell;
Laston, Bulloch, J. A. Braunen; May-
haw, Miller, J. E. Spooner; Nettie,
Forsyth, J. L. Hansard; Paynter,
Fannin, M. J. Gilreth; Pooler, Chat¬
ham, Joe Heidt; Rural Y’ale, Whit¬
field, Julia Cline; Sehrenkville, Bryan,
Zaclsaria Shuman; Short-pond, John¬
son, J. T. Moxley; Stratbam, Jackson,
W. J. Ross, Sr.; Talona, Gilmer, YV.
V. Russell; Tybee, Chatham, V. H.
Wortham.
HEASURE IS UNCOMPROMISING.
Features of the Prohibition Bill Be¬
fore Georgia Legislature.
The Willingham prohibition bill,
which is now creating so much inter¬
est and excitement in the house, is a
bill providing that intoxicating liquors
shall not be manufactured or sold in
the state of Georgia. It is a complete,
uncompromising prohibition measure.
It was introduced at the last session
and prohibitionists in the house are
now awaiting au opportunity to have
the bill placed upon its passage. A
constitutional majority of the house is
apparently in favor of the measure and
the minority,those opposing the meas¬
ure, are now adopting filibustering
proceedings to keep the bill from
passing._______
EASY PREY FOR BOERS.
They Glory In Destruction of British
Armored Trains.
Thursday’s dispatches from London
stated that misfortune steadfastly pur¬
sues British employment of armored
trains, the fascination for which has
given the Boers their first and
victories. On this last
British seem to have walked
deliberate trap with the result mht,
according to the last accounts, ninety
meu are either killed, wounded or
missing. Of these Fusileers claim
fifty and the Dnrban infantry forty.
It is believed that few escaped, and
that the others are prisoners in the
hands of the Boers.
PARIS PAPER REJOICES.
Publishes a Report That Ladysmith
Has Surrendered to Boers.
A Paris paper gleefully Ladysmith, announces
the fall and capture of but
reports from this source no longer
cause a ripple of excitement in Lon¬
don. Nevertheless, there will be con¬
siderable anxiety, however, until the
war office or somo independent version
of the latest developments at Lady¬
smith is known.