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THE NATIONAL BUNK OF AUGUSTA I L. C. HAYNS, Pres't. F. O.FOBD, Cashier. Capital, $250,000. Undivided Profile } $110,000. Facllltlos of our, magnificent New Vault containing 410 Safety-Cock Boxes. Differ ent Sises are offered to our patrons and the public at 93.00 to ?10.00 per nnnnrg, THOS. J. ADAMS PROPRIETOR. * EDGEFIELD, S; C., TUE PLANTERS LOAN AND SAVINGS BANK. AUGUSTA, GA. Pays Iatowst on Deposita. Accounts Solicited. L. O. HATNI, President. W. O. WiHDLA'ff, Cashier. DAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1900. VOL. LXV. NO. 7. WEARYIN' Jes' a-wear? In' 'cr von All the time $ i?ellnr blue ; Wlshtn' for yon-wondarin' when . You'll be cumia' home agen, You'll be oo m la' home Restless-don't know what to do Jes' a-wearyin' lor you ! I A Business There was a dead silence as the lawyer's clear official tones ceased and he glanced round st the company as sembled in the - spacious library-an ominous silence, the calm before tho storm; and ;u another moment the storm burst "It is abominable!" cried Lady Ade line Carruthers, with a fierce energy that accorded ill with her handsome mourning robes. "The ?will must be contested; Lord Mountathol was cer tainly mad when he made it" **You would find it impossible to prove that assertion, Lady Adeline," said the lawyer coldly. "Wo will grant that the late Lord Mountathol was eccentric, but he was as sane as you or I; and as there is no direct heir, he had a perfect right to leave his personal property as he wished." "And he has left it to his sec retary and his typewriter, on a condi tion that was doubtless arranged be forehand. A pretty state of affairs!" cried Lady Adeline furiously. A girl neatly but plainly dressed in black, who had been sitting in a dis tant corner, listening with a pale, dis tressed face while tho curious will was read, started np at these words and confronted the irate matron. She was a very pretty girl, evidently a Indy. The color ha I fled from her cheeks and lips, and I er big gray eyes were full of tears; but she held her slight fignre proudly erect and spoke distinctly, though her voice was tremulous with indignation. "You aro wrong, Lady Adeline! The condition was not arranged be forehand, and it will never bo ful filled!" "Indeed!" sneered Lady Adeline, with a glance of withering contempt. "And pray, what does the other inter ested person say? Is Mr. -er - Trevelyan also willingo let this su perb lega y lapse to the crown?*' Everyone except the poor agitated girl turned expectantly toward the secretary, Balph Trevelyan, who stood near Mr. Dentou, but his fine face wore an inscrutable expression. "The term3 of the will have sur prised me as much as anyone, but I think it will be bettor to discuss the matter in private," ho said, calmly. "Do you agree with me, Mr.Denton?"' "Certainly-, certainly," answered the! a wy er. "There is no hurry; you have six months in which to make np your minds." "Mine is made up," murmured Eva Withers, who was making brave ef forts to restrain her teara, "Mri Den ton, I don't think ray presence is re squired here .any longer." *? Bowing slightly to tte lawyer, and ignoring Lady Adeline, Eva Talked to. the door. Balph Trevelyan sprang forward to op?n it, and looked at her eagerly, earnestly; but she passed him with averted face. A minute or two afterward Lady Adeline and the others departed, the former tossing her head indignantly and enunciating disjointed remarks concerning "scheming upstarts" and "doting old fools," while the rest of the company discussed in subdued tones the strange freak that had led the late Lord Mountathol to leave ten thousand a year to his secretary, Balph Trevelyan, and his typewriter, Eva Withers, on the sole condition that they become man and wife within six months of the testator's decease. Mr. Denton had a brief consultation with Balph Trevelyan, and then ho sent a message by a servant asking Miss Withers if she was able to see him. She received him in the pretty sitting room that had been hers since she entered the service of her late employer. "Dear Mr.Denton, this is terrible," Eva said, as she rose to meet the law yer. "Lord Mountathol was always like a father to me. I'm sure he loved me as a daughter! What could have induced him to lay this-this humilia tion on me?" "I don't quite see where the humil iation comes in, my dear young lady," responded the lawyer, with a kindly twinkle in his eyes. "If Lord Mount athol loved you as a daughter-and he did-he loved Balph Trevelyan as a son. Latterly it was the dearest wish of his life that yon two might be mar ried. Now come, my dear Miss Withers,think it over quietly. I have known Balph Trevelyan since he was a boy, and know him for a true gen tleman in every sense of the word, a worthy descendant of an ancient and honorable line, a husband any woman might be proud of; while, on the other hand-well, I can only say that if I had been Saiph's age I should have envied his good fortune-the personal,not the financial, part of it," he concluded with a gallant little bow. The ghost of a smile flitted over Eva's wan face. "Ah, you would have been differ ent, Mr. Denton," she said gracious ly. "But my mind is .nade up; I will have nothing to do with this scheme-it is hateful to me. " "Well,well," rejoined Denton good humoredly, "I'm hot going to try to influence you in any way; after all, it rests between the two of you. But I think you ought to give Mr. Tre velyan an opportunity of-shall we say, stating his view of the case?" Eva hesitated for a moment and then answered, "You are right I .will see him now, if you will send him to me. The sooner it is over the bet ter." Left alone, Eva paced the room restlessly. "I -will not be bought and sold like a bale of goods," she murmured pas sionately. "If he had cared for rae it would have been so different-but now - She paused by the window and stood looking ont with affected nonchalance as Balph Trevelyan entered the room. Ho advanced as far as the table and then stopped, looking at the-slight FOR YOU. Room's so lonesome with your choix, Empty by the fireplace there ; Jes' can't stand the sight ot it! Go oat doors an' roam a bit ; But tho woods is lonesome, too Jos' a-woaryin' for you ! .?>-Louisville Courier-Journal. Arrangement. figure standiiig so haughtily aloof, a ti ci the defiant poise of the shapely head. "This is a vory ridiculous and em barrassing affair," Eva snid coldly, finding that she was expected to speak first; but she did not turn her head, and the remark really might have been addressed to the birds outside. "Embarrassing? Yes," he assented lamely. "You heard roy decision in the li brary jost now?" Era continued, still H(? dressing herself to the windowpane. "It is impossible that the condition can be fulfilled." A spasm as of pain crossed his hand some face, but L;s voice was calm and steady as he replied: "Yes, it seems rather impossible, but is it not a pity that Lord Monnt athol's generous intention should be frustrated-that practically no one sHbuld benefit by this magnificent be quest?" Eva turned at last and faced him with flashing eyes. "What do you mean?" she de manded haughtily. He drew a step nearer to her and spoke earnestly and impressively. "Miss Withers, you, like myself, know what poverty is. You have told me what your lifo was before you ob tained the position our late benefactor offered you. Are you willing to re turn to that life? To sit at a desk all day and go home at night to a lonely, cheerless room?-perhaps to want work and not kuow where your next meal was to come from? Forgive me if I speak plainly; you know I speak truth," "Yes, I know, but I say again I would rather-a thousand times rather -go back to that wretched life. 1 would rather starve than fulfil tin conditions of this hateful will!" "But you forget," he persisted. "You are. not the only person con cerned. I am equally interested in the matter." "Yon!" Most men would have winced under the scorn, the utter contempt con veyed in the monosyllable, bat Kalph T; ovelyan met her glance steadily. His face was palo and sad, but it ex pressed no shame. "I propose that we should fulfill the terms of the will-no, pray hear me ont-as a mere business arrange ment. If you will honor me by goiug through the marriage ceremony with me l swear to relieve yon of my hate ful presence that hour. Instead of earning a precari JUS pound a week you will be absolute mistress of five thousand a year. Think what that means, Miss Withers, ere you give your decision. Think of the good you can do to others with such means at your disposal before you come to a hasty decision. He had touched the right spot. During the last minute or so Eva had been sweeping up and down the room with the mieji of an outraged queen, endeavoring to master her al most uncontrollable indignation. She paused again at her former post at the window and remained for a minute in silence. "Very well," she said at last in a hard, constaioed voice. "I accept your terms, Mr. Trevelyan. The de tails can be arranged at leisure, I pre sume? I-I need not detain you any longer." She bent that haughty little head ever so slightly, aud taking this as a sign of dismissal, he went sadly away, whereupon Eva sank down on the window seat and cried as though her heart would break. The business arrangement was con cluded in due course at a registrar's office, for both bride and bridegroom taeitly shrank from the mockery of a religious ceremony. Eva maintained her attitude of proud reserve, aad parted from her husband-in name only-without be traying the slightest- emotion. Soon afterward she went abroad under the chaperonage of a widowed gentle woman, a friend of her early poverty stricken days. They traveled on the continent for some time; then, as the winter came on, they drifted to Ma deira, a d from thence Eva decided to take a trip to the Cape. "And I shall assume m .- own name," she said to her complacent companion, to whom her word was law. "If I have to be Mrs. Trevelyan in Europe I shall be Eva Withers in Africa." Of Balph Trevelyan she had seen nothing since th6 morning when they parted at the registrar's office. On one delicious evening in No vember she sat on the veranda of the Grand hotel at Port Elizabeth, gazing wistfnlly out over the sea. She was alone, for Mrs. Mathieson >'a- enjoy ing a post-prandial nap in the drawing room. She did not perceive a tall figure ap proaching her in the moonlight, and started when the newcomer, Colo el Lennox, a recent arrival at the hotel, had halted beside her chair and spoke to her. "A delightful night, isn't it, Miss Withers? I don't know who would winter in England when they could come out here to this sort of thing." Eva murmured something polite and innocent, for the colonel was a griz zled old veteran, and did not interest her particularly. "There's no accounting for tastes," continued the colonel cheerfully. "Now, I know a follow who might have come out with me, but who pre fers to work himsel* to death in Lon don. Balph Trevelyan always was an obstinate young dog." "Balph Trevelyan!" gasped Eva, "Yes, do you know him?" "I know his name," she murmured. "Ah, possibly you have heard the story about him; most ladies love a bit of romance. No? Well, Balph Tre velyan-may I smoke? Thanks!-as I was saying, Trevelyan-he's the son bf mt best friend/ God bless Lim; ha ?was shot down by i?y side at--" "Yes, yes," Eva interrupted ur gently; "but what about-ob, you said be was working himself to death." "Ralph? Well, yes,something like it. You see, after be took bis degree at Oxford be became secretary to an eccentric old nobleman, who died and left bim a pot of mousy ott condition he marri a a little typewriting girl and ehftred tlia Spoil with her," "Well?" breathed Evtt; "The girl hated him, though he's ? decent lad enough; but lad es-well, well, we won't go into that-auyhow, Ralph persuaded her to go through a form of marriage, promising to take him?elf off immediately afterward. So the git'l weht gayiy" oft" with her' fine' income, brit Ralph refused to touch a penny of bis. He is n w living in wretched rooms in a poky street off the Strand, 48 Stratford s re-1, top floor, poor beggar, tryiug to keep body aud soul together by doing liter ary work. You see, bo acted entirely in the girl's interest throughout, and this is where the romantic part comes in-he was in love with ber nil the time, and is breaking his heart about it. Goad heavens! are you ill, Mies Withers?" "No, no, only I-I must go in. It's -it's getting cold." "Well, shall I see you in the morn ing to arrange the picnic to Emer ald Hill?" "No. I-I'm afraid I shan't be able to go. Wo-we start for England to morrow. Good nigh1", Colonel Len nox." And the agitated girl went in, while the colonel chuckled audibly as be lighted a fresh cigar. "That's the girl, right enough; I felt sure of it Now I hope tho young fcols will leave oT playing at cross purposes, and take the goods the gods provide." "Fog and frost-ugh! the r?gulai London Christmas," murmured Ralph Trevelyan with a shiver as he looked at the window, obscured from with out as with a murky yellow curtain, and then, turning to tho table, drew a manuscript wearily toward him. "Come in," he cried, in response tc a timid knock. "vVell, what is it?" He turned his head and then started np with a cry. "Eva! No, it cannot be!" "Yes, yes indeed," . murmure.l the girl, who came toward him with out stretched hands. "It is I. Ralph,dear Ralph, I have been so unhappy. I never knew-I never dreamed until Colonel Lennox told me, ami then I came to find you. Ralph, is it true? Do you-do you love me?" He took the beseeching bands in bis and drew her to bim. "I have loved you all the time," he said hoarsely. "And you-" "And I've loved you," she sobbed; "only I thought you didn't care, and I was so angry, so ashamed-" But Ralph stopped the confession in an eminently satisfactory manner. "And we'll go back to the Cape for our honeymoon, and find the dear old .-colonel- aad-tell-bJxa-?ll a'iont it,-won't we, Ealph?" said Eva some half hoar afterward. "So we will, darling; bat what about my publisher?" "Ob, bother your publisher; you'll have to disappoint bim. After all, there's nothing between you but well, just a business arrangement!" The Conscientious Coachman. .'John, I'd like to know what makes your back so straight," said a rich man to his coachmau the other day. "And how do yon stand the fatigue of sitting BO beautifully erect while you drive for hours at a stretch?" The coachman blushed with pleasure as he led his master to a light and airy corner of the carriage house. "I'll show yon the kind of exercise I take every day, sir," he said, "so as to be a credit to your livery, and your equipage, and yourself and lady." The man then lay down on his stomach and drew upward bis body and legs uptil be formed a V, the point of which, his abdomen, alone touched the ground. "I do this 200 times a day, sir," he said. "It gives correct carriage." Then, on parallel bars, he dipped. "One hundred of these, daily, sir, expand the chest and give a robust grace to the upper arms and shoulders." He put his arms, well stiffened, at his sides, and then slowly raised them till the hands met ovo: his head. "I do about 500 of that movement for a chest broadener, also for straighteners." He then nearly touched his back with the crown of bis bead and quite touched his chest with his chin. "That straightens the neck, sir, and gives the head a proper poise. And so on, sir, I continue for an hour or two every morning, and I don't believe, as long as I keep it up, I'll ever lose my figure."-Philadel phia Record. Collateral for Car Fare. An amusing incident happened on an Indiana-avenue street car recently. The car was going south, attached to the Cottage Grove cable. At Van Buren street a big, portly womau got aboard. On her arm she carried a large market basket that apparently was filled with "bargain" purchases from some department store. Three minutes after she bad sat down and deposited the basket between her feet on the floor, the conductor came along with the usual cry; "Fare, please!" The old lady opened her purse and began rummaging through its various pookets for a nickel. Again and again she went through it, but no ch auge was to be found. Theu she turned to the conductor and said: "I was sure I had saved car fare, but I cannot find it. I live at the end of your Hue, and will pay yon then." "That won't do; must have your fare now," said the fare collector. "Well, I haven't the money. " "Well, give me something the value of a nickel and you can redeem it at the end of the line." The old lady hesitated a moment, then put her hand down into the bati ket and drew out a bar of laundry soap and handed it to him. Everybody in tho car laughe 1, but the conductor took the soap and raDg up ber fare.-Chicago Nows. The Freuch statistician, Dr.Livrier, says that half of all human beings die before 17, that only one pwson iu 10,000 lives to be 100 years old, and that only one person out of every 1000 lives to be 60. THE NATIONAL BUNK OF AUGUSTA I L. C. HAYNS, Pres't. F. O.FOBD, Cashier. Capital, $250,000. Undivided Profile } $110,000. Facllltlos of our, magnificent New Vault containing 410 Safety-Cock Boxes. Differ ent Sises are offered to our patrons and the public at 93.00 to ?10.00 per nnnnrg, THOS. J. ADAMS PROPRIETOR. * EDGEFIELD, S; C., TUE PLANTERS LOAN AND SAVINGS BANK. AUGUSTA, GA. Pays Iatowst on Deposita. Accounts Solicited. L. O. HATNI, President. W. O. WiHDLA'ff, Cashier. DAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1900. VOL. LXV. NO. 7. ?or," lie says, "ie one of the best in $h6 Weet Indies, admirable for naval .?bufposes, and fully equal to the re |rdirenient9 of the commerce of those JBeas. The entrance ia narrow and capable of being obstructed. The .hills on both sides have a command ing elevation, sufficient to place the batteries thereon above theireauh of the ships' guns, while an attacking fleet would bo subjected to their plunging fire. The harbor on the land side is covered by similar emi nences. These are conditions which, together with its small area and in sular position, give satisfactory se curity for a naval depot. The eminent strategic, geographical and commer cial position which St. Thomas occu pies arrests the attention of the most casual observer of the world's chart." In the hollow of the hills, its back against the central ridge, and suck ing its feet in the.placid waters of its peerless harbor, lies Charlotte Ama lia, the capital and only town of St. .Iii HARBOR OF ST. THOMAS, THE GE3J Thomas. Hereiu are congregcted the bulk of its total population of perhaps 13,000 people, most of whom are col igeaV It is one cf the prettiest towns ;,ti the Weat Indies, and that is flaying , muci^tfhen one has se??i~th?nr rflt; T For it has, first, the ' advantage of un surpassed situation, built upon and between three rounded hills, which buttress the backbone aforementioned. Along the shore are straggling rows of palms leaning lazily above beaches of doubtful cleanliness and color, like some of the inhabitants. But above the mom street, which runs around BATTERY OF ST. THOMAS, DANISH WEST INDIES. tho bay, there are others leading up the hills, and many flights of steps And stairs, wandering among gardens of fruit trees and fragrant Howers. Plainly B Novice. Mrs. Fogg-"A gentleman called to see you, David, this afternoon." Mr. Fogg-"Did he have anything to say?" Mrs. Fogg-"Only that he would call again." Mr. Fogg-"H'm-evidently a duu; but to give warning of his second coming betrays inexperience. Reckon there's no great danger from him." Boston Transcript. President McKinley's 'irrlago Pair. The new pair of carriage horses that President McKinley will drive in the future were bred at Fox Lake, Wisconsin. Both the horses are chestnut geldings, five yews old, standing sixteen hands high. Both horses are sired by Damascus, a grandson of the Barb stallion Linden Tree, who, with the Arab stallion Leopard, was presented to General Grant by the Sultan of Turkey. Their dams are sisters, by Clay Pilot I, by old Clay Pilot. According to a writer THE NEW WHITE HOUSE TEAM. in the Rider and Driver, these two horses have a very high action and, as may be noted in the cut, are very evenly matched in regard to ?izo and mark ings. President McKinley's physician has ordered him to take exercise, and it will be a common occurrence in the futuro to see him driving about the suburbs of Washington behind his new team. Although both horses have flowing, long tails, the appropri ate style for the speed horse in light harness, President McKinley will drivo his horses in heavy harness to a phaeton I W?m BAY, THE I BOERS' OfHiY PORT. I PEL AG OA BAY is a name ren dered drearily familiar to newspaper readers by the ar bitration proceedings of which it has been tho subject for more than twenty years. All eyes arve now turned toward Delagoa Bay io? a^iea Bon of an infinitely more sensational character in connection with the Boer British War. Delagoa Bay belongs to Portugal, which is too weak to defend it against any act of aggression on the part ?itber pf the Boers or of the English. Not oniy is it the sole port worthy of the name and offering any harborage to men-of-war and to merchantmen along the entire East Coast of Africa, but it is the enly port by means of which the Boers aro receiving both the men and the war material that en able them to continue the struggle against tho English. True, English cruisers have the right to atop and ex amine upon the high GOBS any foreign shipping which they may suspect of carrying contraband of war for the Boers. But any real search at sea is out of the question, since it i3 mani festly impossible to shift the entire freight of a big trading steamer in or' der to ascertain whether guns and war material aro secreted at the bottom of the hold. So long as the Boers aro able to draw unlimited supplies of war material and all tho reinforcements they need from Europe via Delagoa Bay, the English will be to such an extent handicapped in their efforts to got the better of the Transvaal that the war is likely to bo indefinitely [ OP THE DANISH WEST INDIES. prolonged. On the other hand, were Delagoa Bay to be suddenly closed to the Boers, and were the latter in this manner entirely cut off from the outer world, tho war could be brought to a ?peedy conciusiou- by^?h:eat?-Britain.- . Now that everything connected with 3outh Africa is of paramount interest, the accompanying picture, showing Dative signalmen on the Netherlands railway, running through Komati Poort into the Transvaal, is not with out timeliness. It was up this rail way and through this pass that the ammunition consigned to the Trans vaal by way of Delagoa Bay had to pass before it reached General Joubert and his men. Owing to the wildness of much of the territory through which this railway passes, a large corps of watchmen and signalmen are necessary all along the line. The responsible duties of signaling and guarding the roadbed are left to Kaffirs. Dr. Leyds. the Boer agent in Eu rope, says that the war material ac cumulated in the Transvaal will supply tho republican armies for several years, and his opinion is supported by facts that have come to light since the war began. We know now that 3ver since the Jameson raid theTrans raal Government has been buying in Germany and Franoe rifles, ammuni tion, and light and heavy artillery, to tho amount of over a million dollars a KAFFIR SIGNALMEN IN SOUTH AFRICA. year. This is proved by the general ized statement as to the expenditures of the Transvaal war office beginning in 1896, in January of which year the Jameson raiders were captured. Every dollar's worth of these munitions passed through Dolagoa Bay aud over the railroad to Pretoria. The Delagoa Bay route and doubtless the port authorities at Lorenzo Marques have thus been of inestimable service to the Boers. They made it possible for them to strain every nerve to place their country on a war footing and at the same time to deceive the British completely as to the magnitude of the preparations. What Two AV o me- Did. Mrs. Jesse H. Sewell, ?vho came to Texas from North Carolina after the death of her husband, twelve years ago, bought land to-day for whioh she paid cash with money she mado by raising bees and poultry. Mrs. Sewell and her daughter, the latter a grown young lady, aro preparing to Btart a blooded-stock farm. The ladies say they will not give up bees and hens, but will also raise cattle and sheep now that they have ceased to be renters.-Dallas Nows. Thc Needless Oiifitlmi. Peaceful Idiot-"Are you insured?" Irritable Mau-"No; I used to be, but I'm not now." Peaceful Idiot-"Oh. really! Did you let your policy lapse?" Irritable Man-"No, you silly fool! 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