Palmer's Daring Act

Thomas V. Palmer. cx-Uniteil Stater Benator,late euvoy extraordlnary &nd mil ister ploDÍpotentiary to Spain, and do president of the World's (Jolumbiaa com' mlésion, appointed the tiiao womcn wh forui the Chicago board of lady innaac ers yesterday and ;inameüiately took tí the woods of Michigan. It was tbo mosi hazardous undertaking tbs plucky mal Irom Michigan had ever atteniDted. II was an ordeal to try the stoutest heart an an oxperiouce before which etrong mea would quail. Fur montbs the fate hii been overhanging hirn. Women ha4 crowded about hlm as woraen never crowd ed about man before. Wlth but nina places to Uil and 000 women to put inU them, President Talmer ran against an iu exorable law in pbysica. That two bodiei cannot occupy the same epace at the sarui time has come to ba a uuiversally recog nized fact; that 900 boules caunot occupj uiuo spaces at one time cast a dense hadow and hung out over thls proposi' tiou like an outstandinx juror in a crimí' nal court case. Yesterday moroing dawnmg cloar, cold and bracinjj, Pi'esidenl Palmer determinod to cast the die, thougb lt throatened to soal and stamp his fate. Ho arose early. The flrst hours of tha mornlng he devoted to careful prayerful, consideration of the subject. As ths inorn wore on and noon approached bo packed hisgripsack to be in readiness tor sudden departure to another state. Ifi preparations were made with nervuus ness and apparent spprehension. At noon a closed carriae rolled up tot the entrance of the big Pullman building ou Michigan arenue. The time for tho departure of the train íor Detroit wa drawing steadlly ou. Just as the Grand Tronk train was pnfliug impatieutly ia tbo grimy station President Palmer cáme out of the office on tho nioth floor of tb. buiidinff, and, deecending to the eixth, ha banded Col. Dicklnson, the secretary ot the commissiOD, a hugei envelopc and' smiled grlmly. Then he hurrledly departed. A moment, later the horses cA that carriage in waiting down on th smooth boulevard smarted under ths' Etinging snap of a long wbip. The car riage whirled and rolled away. President' Palmer breathed again. A moment later he dropped into the softness of one of the' coaches of the duke of Pullman iu tbat Graud Trunk train. And thus he fled. - ■