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20
Month
November
Year
1896
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St. Louis, Nov. IS.- The ast day's j session of the W. O. T. U. national convention opened Wednesday with the usual prayer meeting in Schuyler Memorial hause. After pinging and prayer at Music hall the minutes of the sessions of Tuesday were read and approved. THe rerort of the exeeutive committee, eontaining the names of organizers, superintendents of departments, evangelists, editors and business managers of The Union Signal, president of the board of temperance hospital, and members of the standing committees, recommended for appointment, was read. It was approved without división. Mrs. Matilda Carse, president of the Woman's Temperance Publishing association, made a report. She stated that, despite the financial depression the association had weathered the storm, and tne treasury showed a net gain for the year of $316. The cash receipts for that time were $125,337, and expenditures $125,131. Remarkable Oceurrence. Mrs. Carse said that when it was considered that the receipts for 1898 were $14,462 less than the preceding year, it was remarkable that the association had been able to hold its own. Miss Willard read a letter from Titiana Tolstoy, daughter of the Russian count by that name, in which she said: "Tour nephew said you and Lady Somerset were perhaps coming to Russia. My father and I were very pleased to hear that news, and we hope that you will then pay us a visit if your voyage will take place." In connection with this Miss Willard spoke of another letter she had received from the same source in which the writer said she and her father were intercsted heart and soul in the work of the "W. C. T. U. After the receipts of some W. C. T. U. doeuments by the count he and his whole family became total abstainers. Miss Willard reported. Miss Francés J. Barnes of New York, memorial secretary of the Young Women's branch, reported on the work done during' the past year, during which there had been an increasc in thirty-three states.Maryland leading with the greatest number of new recruit?. Invitalions from Cities. Telegrams of greeting were ordered i sent to Julia Ward Howe and Governor Upham of Wisconsin. Invitaticns were received from Portland, Me., and Portland, Or., Milwaukee and Nashville, to hold the next national convention in one of those cities. Action on the question was deferred. It is probable that the convention will be held in one j i of the lake cities, possibly Buffalo. The international convention of the W. C. T. TT. will held in Toronto next year; it is the desire of Miss Willard and other members to hold the national convention previous to that, in some place near the Canadian city, so that delegates can go from one to the other. The reporta of a number of organizers closed the forenoon session. Tuesday night several members of the W. C T. TT. made a sluming tour singing and praying with habitués of dives in the tenderloin district. Artillery Captain in Coban Army. Lawrence, Kan., Nov. 18. - A letter was received here Tuesday f rom Frank Funston, son of ex-Congressman E. R. Funston, who departed for Cuba several months ago. The young man writes that he is now an artillery captain in the insurgent army, and tells of several hot engagements with the Spaniards in Puerto Principe previous to Oct. 16. the date of his letter. There are a number of Americans, he says, in his company. Calumet and Hecla Dividend. Boston, Nov. IS. - The directors of the Calumet and Hecla Mining company have declared a dividend of $5 per share, payable Dec. 17, to stockholdrs on record Nov. 19. This makes the fourth dividend declared during the fiscal year, and the flfth for the calendar year, or $25 per share. It also brings the aggregate disbursements by the company up to $46,750,000. Woman Appointed Librarían. Jefferson City, Mo., Nov. 18. - The supreme court has appointed Mrs. Jennie Edwards, widow of the late Major John N. Edwards, to the office of state librarían for a term of six years. The office was formerly held by W. J. Zeverly ofthe Democratie state committee, who resigned to accept a place under Secretary of the Interior Francis. Army of the Tennessee. St. Louis, Nov. 18. - Wednesday forenoon the twenty-eighth annual reunion of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee convened in the parlors [ of the Southern hotel. General Greenville M. Dodge of Iowa, the president, called the meeting to order. Declares Bitterly Committed Suicide. Kansas City, Nov. 18.- Mary E. Bitterly, widow of August Bitterly, thewealthy old farmer who was found dead in his home, near Leavenworth, Kan., several daya ago, and whi was thought to have been murdered, is in this city. Mrs. Bitterly asserts that she left Bitterly because he was demeuted, and says that he committed suicide, shooting hlmself. Judge !Iyers and tlie Snta Fe. Topeka, Kan.. Nov. 13.- .Tudge L. A. Mycrs, in the Santa Fe re eivership hearing at Oskaloosa, Kan., yesterday ordered theamended petition stricken out and refused to allow llie case to be carried to the federal court. He also stated that had he the time he would proceed agaiust Attorney Goddard for contempt. Want the Jewish. Sabbath Kept Holy. New York, Nov. J8. - In the Council of Jewish Women yesterday a resolution was adopted unanimously urging that members of the council use their influence to stop the desecration of the Jewish Sabbath by shopping, social gatherings and visitlng. liis things away from the house that riight auci sleep at the hotel in order l uot to disturb the ladies ia the early morning. He made a great deal of noise while packing, slamining the doors, l dragging bis trunk aud his sword along with a olatter - in fact, letting the invalid know that Jjo was really going off the premises. Tïïu hours later, when it was jü?t getting dusk, he retnrned by a nariow etreet to the other side of the garden, cliinbed the wall and then dropped down among the rosebushes. His hope vas thiit whon Mme, Primean thnught' that he was out of the way Bhe wou ld aliow her nieco to go out iuto the garden I for a breath of air after being oncd for two or three days. The youug man waited. liis eyes fixed eagcrly on the house door, dreading every instant that the servant would appear and close it for the night. But at last the youug girl appeared. As soon as she had passed his hiding place and ' was nearly at the end of the path he i came out and followed her. When she turned in order to retrace her steps, siie saw him and nttered a cry of surprise. He ad vaneed to rneet her, his oap in bis hand, and then, when he was once face to face with her, he told her all, hurriedly, eagerly, mixing everything up together and yet fixiug her attention in spite of his incoherency of all he said by the passionate look in his eyes and by the tender inflexión of his voice, in which his whole soul vibrated. Khe listened to lam in astonisbment. Her face was paler than ever with emotion, but sho could not find a word to say to hiru - her ideas ,?eemed to be hopelessly scattered. Her hands wereelasped . together, and sbe shuddered perceptibly. It was as though invisible winga were hovering around her in the still blue of the siirnnaer evening. Just like some visión she retreated slowly aud then faded from his sight in the gatheriug darkness amid the trees. As she was going, though, he said hurriedly: "I understand it has been so sudden you cannot answer me . Do not teil me now, but at daybreak, when our detachment passes in front of the house be there make some sign smile or, at any rate, let me see you open the wiudow even nothiug else but just that and I shall know that yon are uot augry with me, that I may come and see you again. " When once the youug girl was back in the sickroom, she took np her usnal place on a low sofa near the bed. The invalid was breathing more regularly and seemed to be sleeping. Now that she was calmer and could think it all over deliberately she feit deeply tonched as she remembered all he had said, and presently a íeeling of pride carne over her. She was proud to have won the love of such a man, and great tears of happicess gathered in her eyes and rolled slowly down her pale cheeks. Suddeuly, at daybreak, Louise was awakened by a bugle blast, bold, clear, victorious, rousing from slumber the eilent fields and the whole country round. The youug girl started np, and she saw a faint, rosy light penetrating through the olosed venetian blinds. In the distance she could hear the confnsed murmur of men's voices. An iuvincible desire took posse9sion of her to break away froru her ruonotonous existence, to live and breathe and to answer the appeal to her love which had so bewiklered her yesterday. She went quickly to the window and stretched her two hands up eagerly to open it, fearing to be too late - when a cry of distress stopped lier short. The sick woman, livid and shivering, was sitting up in bed, and seeing what her niece was just going to do she cried out in a hoarse, desperate voice: "You are opening the window, Louise. Whateverpossesses you? lam cold - oh, socoldl Come here to me. Don't leave me. Oh, what pain I ain in ! I an terrifled. Child! I am dying- Í know I am. " Just at that moment Louise could hear the nieasured tread of the soldiers; but, nevertheless, she went to her aunt. As soou as she reached the bedside the sick woman seized her in her arms and kissed her over and over again. But for the first time Louise was impatieut and tried to disengagc herself from her aunt's embrace. It was as though she were attracted toward the window by some hitherto unknown force, powerful and alniost unearthly. The sick woman took the girl's hand and placed it on her own heart, which was beating wildly. It was enough. A deep, an infinite, pity overéame the young girl. She resistcd no lougor, but quietly and submissively sat down on the bed, and, tukiug the invalid in her arms, she kissed the poor, wrinkled face and soothingly promised never - never to leave her. The two women remained thus, with the blinds still down, while with a nieasured traad of heavy boots on the pavcmuut and a olanging of steel the soldiers marched on, and on, and on until finally Lonise heard nothing more but the beating of her own hcart. In front of the old gray house, holding his sword loosely, Maurice Tournier had feit a terrible pang as he gazed up at thoseclused blinds. When the detachment had passed, he had stopped short, and then, walking back ander preteuse of inspecting his men, he had gazed and gazpd at that window. When at last the thick screen of poplar trees hid from hiru, first, the house, then the square, and last of all the little ohurch, he clincbed his teeth tightly together, for he feit sobs rising in his throat, as though they would choke hiin. Suddeuly, ashamed of his weakness, bardeniug himself by a tremendons ' fort of his will agaiust his grief and emotion, he tried to feel anger instead, and he kept repeating to himself: "It is all her pride and vanityl" And two lives that might have blessed each other were divided forevur. - Strand.

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