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Show :c THE LIONS WHELP A Story of Cromwell's Time BY AMELIA E. BARR. Author of "Ik (CopTricht, rest ui the Other One." f Oimm Ribbon. "I. Thou The Mel4 el MeHen Lone, Etc. MOt. hr Dodd, Rood t Compass. CHAPTER V (Continued.) The men and the time and the place had met and there waa no doubt-in- s It-- Hie words burned this assurance Into the hearts of all who heard him, and when he struck his sword hilt to emphasise them, they answered with the same movement, unconscious and simultaneous. In some remarkable way this tremendous national crisis had become known in every corner of the land. And the. very vafueness and mystery of the conviction Intensified its importance, for generally the Information came as the wind blows, no one .knew whence. At SwaCham and de Wick this fateful feeling was aggravated by keen personal Interests. To Mrs. Swaffham and Jane the coming battle might mean widowhood and orphanage. To de Wick It might mean the extinction of the family, root and branch, the loss to the lonely earl and his daughter of the one love on which their future could build any hope. On the third afternoon, there came rumors of a great Parliamentary victory, rumors that Charles Stuart had been slain in battle, suppositions and sumises Innumerable and contradictory. Jane went as quickly as possible to de Wick, for If Indeed there had been a Royalist defeat, Stephan de Wick might have reached home and life was hardly to be borne, unless some certainty relieved the tension cutting like a tight thong the heart and brain. The neglect and desolation of de Wick Park had in it something unusual; it was that strange air of sorrow, new and unaccepted, which insists on recognition. It hurried Jane's steps; she felt sure she was either going to meet trouble or that trouble All rlihu such emergencies by having stout, firm, iron stirrups placed right and left at very short intervals. "By these you can easily reach the roof," she said. She kissed them both and poured out wine aad made them drink, and then left them to eat and rwarrad.) not of your profession. I can weep for the death of thoee who loved me." With these words Matilda turned sobbing away, and Jane, slowly at first and then hastily, took the road to Swaffham. For she remembered that the news which had reached de Wick was probably at Swaffham. ' So she made all possible baste, and as soon as she reached home she was aware of a change. Her mother came quickly towards her. Her look was flurried, but not unhappy, as she cried, "Have you the news, Jane? Tls the greatest victory that hath ever been in England. Dr. Verity came an hour ago, so tired he could scarcely sit his horse. He has had a warm drink and sleeps, but he says no victory was ever like it" "And my father and brothers? What of them?" Your father Is well; Tonbert and Will have some slight sword cuts. We must be ready to go with Dr. Verity to London on Tuesday morning. Your being father desires it Sabbath, we can do nothing towards our Journey, but on Monday all must be finished." Jane worked rapidly. Her little box was soon packed, her room put In order, when there was a sharp, impatient knock at the door. Before she could In any way answer it, Matilda de Wick entered and threw herself on her knees at Jane's side. "You said you would help me," she cried; you said you would, with heart and hands! Now, Jane, keep your word!" "What is It, Matilda? What is it you wish? "It la Stephen; it is his friend Hugh Belward. They are searching de Wick for them now. I have brought them to you. Jane, for Gods sake In the parlor she found Dr. Verity eating a beefsteak pudding and talking to Jane, who sat with a white and anxious face trying to smile and answer him. Come and rest a little, Martha," he said. "And what think you? Here riders awhile ago, come a seeking young de Wick. They said also that it was thought Charles Stuart might be with him, and they would have searched Sweff ham high and low if I had not been here. I think we will begin our Journey to London on Monday morning, Martha.1 "I cannot If I had as many hands as fingers, I could not. You may and keep watch and ward Monday, and it may be well to do so; for, to tell the truth, I trust neither men nor maids in the kitchen. For a Parliament they would hide the devil. When was this great battle of Worcester fought?" Last Wednesday, on tne third day of this month." Mother, remember how sad we were all that day. You said to me, there is death In the air; and men could not work, and they vowed the beasts trembled and were noi to guide or to hold. "The third of September! said Mrs. Swaffham, "that was Dunbar day. A great victory was Dunbar!" "Yes; and now there is peace." Peace comes too late for many a family. There are the do Wicks. I am sorry for them, and I could be sorrier If they had suffered for the right instead of the wrong. What wilt the young lady Matilda do after her half-a-doxe- n half-crow- n TREATY WITH CHINA RATIFIED. S WEEKLY PANORAMA JUDGE WOMEN come. "What can I do for on, dear? Ob, what can I do?" "I will have nothing from you, not even pity. I never wish to see your face again. And how poor Stephen loved you! And you you have not tear for bis fate. I thank God I am let them In? FEARFUL DEATH. MEET Jump From Windows of Blazing Building Only to Meat Death. Four persona r.re known to have been ki ilod and per ap iliirty others Injured, twelve of them fatally, In a fire at Nashville. Tom., which consumed the Cf't.tml Tennessee College for Young Negro Women, a department of Walden university. It la possible that tlu- v.ilns may contain the bodies of oibc victims. Tbe fire biokc out about 11 o'clock in tbe top of the building, which waa four stories high and without fire escapes. It was occupied by about sixty students. who were asUep when the alarm wna given. Thu wildest panic sr2&)7KZP ensued, women him girls rushing screaming to the windows, from which conleader when the Democrats In droxea, the dead and trolled the house, being chairman o:! they Jumped in heaps where they Injured lying the ways and means committee. He took a conspicuous part In the bitter fell, to be fallen upon by those following then from the flaming winand prolonged fight In tho Fifty-firs- t dows. over the the adoption of congress Reed rules, which Democrats assertMUST CONSULT CONGRESS. ed were framed to gag the house and deprive the minority of its rights. President Has No Right to Plunge he participated In a fight fur the Country Into War. WilBon tariff bill. Senator Morgan has Introduced a After leaving congress Mr. Springer resolution declaring that the president was appointed cblef Justice of the su- has no right to wore war against any preme court of Indian Territory, and foreign power without the consent of his term of office expired in 1899. Since that time he has been engaged congress, when such country la at in the practice of law in Washington. peace with the Unito-- l States; that tbe His mission to Chicago waa in connec- provision nf the canal treaty between tion wltb the drainage canal suit, now tbe United States and Funama Is. in efpending in the supreme court of the fect. a declaration" of wair'wTl)itt, United States. lombla: that the Intervention of the Although Mr. Springer waa born in United States in preventing Colombia Sullivan county, Ind., May 30, 1836, he from suppressing tbe secession of Panalways called himself an Illinoisan ama h contrary to the law of neutraland one with a right to the title of and the law of nations. pioneer. He made his home In Spring-fiel- ityThe resolution of the annate and studied a year or more at the of house at representatives In 1899 la reIllinois state university Champaign, The at with honors his studies qense of this la that the peated. finishing the state university of Indiana. government of the United States looks serious concern and disapproval Judge Springer's college life was with mellowed with romance, While at on any connection of any European with the construction of a Bloomington be met Miss Rebecca government across canal tho Isthmus. , ship Ruter. Before the two had reached commencement they were plighted. A Fixed Money Standard. The courtship resulted In forty-fivThe president has sent to congress years of happy married life. a communication from Secretary Hay Judge Springer returned to Spring-fieland became secretary of the Illi- submitting to him the report of the nois constitutional convention when 26 commission on International exchange years old. He was subsequently as- constituted under authority of consistant secretary of the Illinois state gress to make a! effort to bring about senate. From 1875 to 1895 he repre- a fixed relationship between the sented his district In congress, being of the countries moneys In turn chairman of the banking, ways and the silver-usincountries. The and means, currency and other comIn 1895 be was appointed secretary eavs to rarry this policy to mittees. Judge of the United States court In completion I', yd remains to submit Indian Territory by President Cleve- the conclusions of the foreign comland, afterwards becoming chief Jus- missioners to the Chinese government tice of the Indian Territory supreme to defray the expenses of which the court. He returned to Washington In secretary says ail appropriation of 1900, becoming chief counsel for the lloO.OiM) will be Tnls recnecessary. Cherokee Indians and, In fact, all five ommendation the president approves. of the civilized tribes. For the last two years lie acted as special counsel Girls Jump From Fifth 8tory Window. for the sanitary district In the suit To escape death by suffocation, instituted by the Btate of Missouri twelve girls leaped from the fifth against the drainage canal. story windows of tho Canby building PROMINENT SOUTH AMERICAN. at Dayton, Ohio, several of them landing on the roof and skylights or a building adjoining. Tlie others were raught by Dr. Lambert, who, by breaking ;hc force of their fall, saved probably six lives. Tbe flames originated in iho bascmcnl of the building ami the dense stroke wont up the shift, quickly filling tip tbe upper floors. Of the injured two will die. - . fathers death?" Her aunt. Lady Jevery, has been written for, more than a week ago. mxm She may be at de Wick even now. I think Matilda will make her home with the Jeverys. "Then she goes to London. I know their great house near Drury Lane, it has very fine gardens Indeed. And now, Jane, dear, little Jane, listen to me. You are going to the great city, to Whitehall palace, to Hampton court, to the splendor and state of a great nation. You will be surrounded by military pomp and civil glory and social pride and vanity. Dear lit tie girl, keep yourself unspotted from the world!" "May God help me, sir." "And let not the tale of love beguile you. Go often to the assembling of the saints and catch the morning dew and celestial rain of their prayers and praise, Jane smiled gratefully, and her eyes were dim with tears as she laid her hands in Doctor Veritys to clasp her promise. Yet when she reached her room and sat qulst in its solitude, no one will blame her because many thoughts of love and hope blended themselves with the piteous ones she sent to de Wick, and to the two weary fugitives under Swaffham roof. w d, CHAPTER VI. Why don't yeu was following after her. She entered the hall and saw a man in his stockinged feet aoftly descending the stairs. 8ht knew his name and hla occupation and her heart stood still with ftar. Is that you, Jane Swaffham?" cried Matilda, running down stairs. "Come and here, come here, come here! seizing her by the arm, she compelled Jane to ascend at her aide. Jane made no resistance to such impetuous, imperative passion, and she waa hurried up the steps and along the Matilda until oorridor suddenly stopped and threw open tbe door of a darkened room. she Go in, Mistress Swaffham, cried, and look your last on one of And Jane shook Cromwell's victims. herself free, and stood a moment regarding the placid face of the dead priest. "Oh, God be merciful! said Jane, end Matilda answered, Yes, for men know nothing of mercy. Come, there Is more yet" Then she opened the door next to the deatb chamber, and Jane saw lying on a great canopied bed the dying earl. Hla last breaths were coming In painful sobs, but he opened his eyes and looked mournfully at Jane for a few moments. Then tbe physician sitting by his side motioned authoritatively to the two girls to leave the room. "He is dying. You see that. He may live till morning no longer," said Matilda; be Is only waiting to ea Stephen, and Stephen will never DEAD. Pneumonia Carries Off Former Democratic Leader of the House. M. William Springer of Illinois, formerly Democratic leader in the house of representatives, died at his residence at Washington, Dec. 4. of pneumonia. Mr. Springer was taken ill In Chicago on Thanksgiving day while attending a dinner party, lie was suddenly seized with s violent chill and from that moment grew steadily worse. He was removed from Chicago and arrived at Washington Nov. 18, and pneumonia soon developed. The former congressman, who was extremely popular lu Washington, was elected to congress from the Spring-fieldistrict in 1874, and served until 1895. He was an extremely active man and was prominent during bis entire public life. He was at one time ... "Jana, Janel W. M. SPRINGER Convention for the Extension of Commercial Relations Criticised by Senator Nelson. Tbe senate. In executive session Friday, ratified the treaty for the extension of the commercial relations between the United States and China, and then removed the Injunction of secrecy, although Mr. Nelson (Rep., Minn.) made a long speerh in which ho criticised the convention aa making csufficli'Pt provision for the trade of the United States. He said It indicated that the hand of Russia ftd lieen shown against thla country, making St Impossible for the United States to receive tbe concessions needed lu the way of open ports. He ssld that the ports of Mukden and An Tung, wbieh aro opened under the treaty, are In fact inland ports, accessible only to vessels of light draught. He blamed Russia for this ronditlon of affairs, and warned the senate that we may yet have trouble with that country ever (lie Manchurian question. On the Tide Top. The great day of triumph was over, Cromwell had entered London at the head of hla victorious army, and ths city waa safe and Jubilant Standing at her mothers aide, Jane had witnessed from a window In the crowded Strand the glorious pageant of Liberty. And in the midst of thla Joyful tui bulence she had caught sight of her father and brother! and lover; her father's face sternly glad, like the face of a man who had fought a good fight e save them; not for my sake, not for plty'a sake, but for God's sake save them! They are now outside this door. Jane, Jane! Why dont you let them Id? Oh, for God'a dear sake! How can I do what you ask me, Matilda? Think of what you aak " "I know; I aak life for two poor aoula ready to perish. Jane, there la no time to talk. Let them through to assured victory; hla sons Imitating the door. hla beariag, as well as youth could "I will call mother," she said; let copy age; and the youag lord not far them in until I bring her here, Then from them, proud and radiant and she opened me door, and Matilda carrying aloft tbe colon of the Combrought the wayworn, bloodstained, monwealth. fainting fugitives within the sanctuAa yet they had not met, nor had ary. Mrs. Swaffham was not long in an- Cluny any certain knowledge of the location. Mn. Swaffham swering Matilda's petition. "Surely, Swaffham'a that Cluny Neville was learned had surely, my poor lads, she said pitipersonally objectionable to ber fully, I will find hiding for you. and sons, and, as she could aot "God Himself thank you, madame," sobbed Matilda. Father said you see clearly what road to take, she very wisely stood still, waiting for would." Yes. dearie, and Will shall saddls some light and guidance. And seemed unnecessary to trouble Janas a horse and take you home. It would then be heart until there was a positive reap "No, no, no! known I had come here In the dark. son for doing so; yet her depression fretted No ope must know. I can find my and evident disappointment mother. her I must now and way go. What Is the matter with you, "Tell your father that they who would hurt the young men must hurt Jane?" she asked Irritably one mornme first. ing; you look as If you had lost "It will be the greatest, the last everything in the world Instead of be comfort he can have in this world. log as your father thinks, right on thi Then she kissed her brother, and with road to many a good day. I woulda a glance of farewell pity at hla com- throw such a damp over things if panion, went quickly and quietly were you. "You seem to have forgotten Cluny, away. Go downstairs. Jane," said Mrs. mother. and if Dr. Verity la wait Swaffham. He seems to bsve forgotten us; ha lng, order supper to be served. I will might hsvs called, I think. Does he know where we are? bestow our friends In the oak room, "He could have found out And, or the west side of the house. To this room she took them, and Jane, it Is not maidenly to take any then brought water and wine and young man so seriously ds you taks PORF1J10 NELENDES bread and meat, and some of her son's Lord Neville until your father and clothing, showing them, also, that ths brothers are satisfied." Now Governor of Colon, In the New wide chimney had been prepared for (To be continued.) Republic of Panama. d gold-standar- d g . hue-ban- -- d one-stor- y ola-vato- Colombia r Will Go to War aa a Last Revert. The United fV! im'dan ron;mitiee at Paris pave our a sta'eimr.l on Friday, saying that CnhunWn wo ild fir.t seek through a commission to Induce the United Sis!p to Colombia's rights under the treaty of TRIG; second, if the commission fails Colombia will ask for tbe submission nf tho question to The Hague arbitration court; third. If its suhmis Ion to The Hague court is refuse'!. Colombia will go to. war and rely nn the I.atin republics to come to bur aid |
