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lewis M. GRIST, Proprietor., 31n Jiulcpcwlcnt Tamils Newspaper: <>$oit the promotion of the ^political, Social, ^grimliucal and (Commercial Jntcrests of the .South. | TERMS?$2.,00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE, yojk 37. YOKKVILEE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, .TTJJSTE 24, 1891. . JSTO. 8Q. 1 - - <??innutfic to his ! a?***:*** ! hirt is due to his views on the silver | THE SOFT SHELL TEXAS PECAN. against the rich man as i|nworthy be . AN ARMY BYCAPT. CHAS V j Author of "The Colonel's Daughi Ranks," "Dunraven Ra : - : i ' . [Copyright, 1890, by J. B. Lippincott Coi ment with th( CHAPTER XYL "And yo"Ma^olni Brent Raw* litis, his ion." When, half an hour later, Col. Lawler announced that, in view of circums stances to which the court appeared to attach so much significance, he would rest the case for the prosecution, he had, despite every effort and the professional j bravado assumed for such occasions, all the air of a whipped man. For half a minute after hearing that stunningqueetiou Mr. Scbonberg bad sat glaring at . the judge advocate, his eyes protruding, his month wide open, his face ghastly white. Then he mopped his forehead, recalled to himself by Grace's sharp tones as the president again demanded answer, and faltered out: "I ton't understand the question." "You are called upon to explain to this court how it was possible for you to have made those entries in '83 and '84, as you have solemnly sworn you did, when the paper itself was not made until 1886," ! thundered Grace; "and the court is 1 waiting for your answer." "The paper vasn't made until 1886?" | faltered Schonberg. "No, sir!" fairly shouted the wrathful x old soldier in the president's chair. "No, j sir! You failed to study the water j marks. Here it is repeated on a score of these leaves, 'Sconset Valley mills, 1886.' 1 say, explain this if you can." . "I ton't know anything about that," ; muttered the Jew at last, gulping down , the big lamp that arose in his throat "1 , know when I made those entries, any- ; how." But the whole roomful could see that the wretch was only lying?desperately lying. The pencils of the correspond- i ents were flying over their blocks with furious speed. One excited ambassador of the press had already made a lunge through the crowd for the doorway. * "Mr. Judge Advocate," said the president at last. "I fancy you can now ex- | case your witness from further attend- j ance. Stop, though. Have you anything else you would wish to ask, Mr. ! Hearn?" And now his manner was all j courtesy. "Not a word, sir," was the smilinganswer. "I shall beg to submit the list of my witnesses in a few moments." People seemed to draw aside and make , a wide lane for the wretched Hebrew j and his crestfallen counselor, as the lat- ! ter led his unscrupulous witness to the outer gallery, whither Lawler said he desired to retire for a moment's consultation. So entire had been the confidence of the mass of the people in the guilt of the offioer that Schonberg's shady j reputation had not sufficed to warn them of the possibilities in the case. But among educated and better informed people present there broke forth suddenly, after a moment's breathless silence, a ripple of applause that speedily swelled into a joyous burst of hand clapping i which was taken up all over the room, and for a moment, mingled with angry : hisses on the part of a few pronounced socialists in the throng, who were furious at the sudden turn in favor of the hated official class, the clamor was unchecked. Stern as he was, old Grace , could not deny the audience the right o# o vooofi/Mi Tlion Virx mnruvl fnr order. "You are not ready, 1 presume, to proceed with your defense?" said Lawler a moment after as he re-entered the room and glanced nervously around. All his airy, confident manner was gone. He looked almost dazed. "Certainly," was the prompt reply. "Have the goodness to call in Private Welsh." "May it please the court," said Lawler, "I submit that the accused should furnish the list of witnesses he desires to summon, in order that it may be detertermined for what purpose they are called, and whether the expense will be justified." said Lawler in response. "And as for Welsh, I maintain that that unfortunate trooper has already suffered too much at the hands of the accused to warrant his being subjected to further ignominy, as he would be if the court allowed such treatment as was accorded my last witness." "If he is at all like your last witness, Col. Lawler, ignominy will not inaptly express the idea," was Grace's sarcastic response, whereat "an audible grin" spread over the room. "Do you wish to summon witnesses from abroad. Mr. Hearn?" "Not one, sir. Every man I need will be at the post by 1 o'clock this afternoon; -and except Welsh, who is understood to be under the especial charge of ^ the judge advocate and amenable to orders from nobody else, I will not trouble the court to call on anybody?the others will be glad to come." Lawler shook his head and looked dis- 1 satisfied. If he could only know the men whom the defense was introducing, ana coaia una out waat mey mearn to 1 testify, it might still be in his power to avert at least public catastrophe. Shrewd enough to see the evident antagonism he 1 had created, and knowing that matters were going topsy-turvy at the moment, he bethought him of a ruse by which he could get rid of the crowd: "I beg the indulgence of the court. 1 have allowed the case for the prosecution to rest rather than infringe longer on time that is so valuable, but 1 find * myself unable to proceed ut this mo- : ment, and I beg that yon take a recess until 2 p. m." The court demurred. It was utterly adverse to a recess, Heara's witnesses were all ready to proceed?four or five | at least. "What is the need?" asked Thorp and Maitland, neither of whom felt like giving Lawler an inch of leeway. But courtesy to the staff officer of the divis- 1 ion commander prevailed. It was barely 11 o'clock when the throng came pouring forth from the court room, and Lawler hoped that, rather than wait three hours, the mass of people would depart. But his hopes were vain. If anything, the number seemed augmented. The noon train brought a couple of car loads from the eastward towns. It also brought a sergeant and private of infantry escorting i a dilapidated looking party in shabby civilian dress whom old Eenyon, the adjutant,, and a file of the poet guard were at tho station to meet. The stran- i ger was bundled- into an ambulance and trotted up to the guard house, into which he slouched with hanging head and an aiy of general dejection; and while the men were at their soldier dinner Ken yon was busily interviewing his I tough looking prisoner, a squad of excited ] ^PORTIA. 5. KING, U. S. A., ter," "The Deserter," "From the inch," "Two Soldiers." npanv, ami published by special armnge3111.] * newspaper men meantime lacking their heels outside and raging at the military assumption which gave the post com* mander precedence over the press. The 1 word had gqpe out all over the crowded 1 garrison that this escaped prisoner Gosa was re-captured, and the commanding officer's orderly had been rushed with a note to the provost sergeant. "Yon bet he'll not get away," mnttered this veteran of Brodie's company, -- _i' j -i u?i? : &8 II tf gutuceu axuug iuu a?wj uivw room, where the big bowls of bean soap were being emptied by rare soldier appetites. "You bet he don't, unless he can carry a cart load of leaiTin him." Twenty minutes after Corp. Greene, of the guard, came to the doorway and sang out: . < \ ? , "Say, fellers, who do you think's captured and brought back? Trooper Goes, , begad, the bosom friend of the patriotic i Welsh." And Welsh dropped his spoon and his j eyes and turned a dirty yellow. He es- j sayed presently to quit the table, but the old sergeant bent over him: "Finish yer dinner, me buck. Don't ; let eagerness to see yer friend spoil yei appetite. You can't see him, anyway, | till he has given his testimony before the court; and they'll want you, too, Welsh, j me jewel, and I'm charged not to lose ' you?d'ye mind that, Welsh??and 1 j never lose anything but an occasional ' slice of me temper. Ate yer dinner, like ; the high spirited American ye are, now." i But Welsh's appetite was gone. The court room was crowded to suffo- j cation that afternoon when, sharp at 2 o'clock, Col. Grace rapped for order. "I suppose you are ready now, Col. Lawler? Call in the first witness." Lawler looked resigned, even martyred. The court had come back from ! luncheon at the Lanes' in high spirits. The ladies ugain sat close to Hearn'u 1 table. Private Goss, with untrimmed beard and an air of general dilapidation, : was sworn by the judge advocate, gave his name, rank, regiment, etc., and responded, in answer to Lawler's question, that he did know the accused very welL i "What do you want to ask the wit- j ness?" said Lawler in a tone as much tis to say, What could you ask that would be of any earthly account? "State where and how long you have known Private Welsh, C troop, Eleventh cavalry," were the words on the pen- 1 UUCU auu uanin irau nucut 51 uu^, ingly. "I've known liim six or eight years. Knew him when he enlisted in the Twenty-third, where he went by the name of Webster. Served with him at 1 Fort Wayne until he got a 'bobtail' | discharge, and when I got mine I went to his home in Ohio aud hunted him up. He owed me money, but he was no good?couldn't pay it His people wouldn't do anything more for him. lie was Mrs. Blauvelt's nephew, but she hrd about got tired of trying to support him, so we came away and enlisted again, in the cavalry service this time, and thon he got things fixed to go into Blauvelt's troop for both of us." "What was your reason for deserting here while awaiting trial?" was the next question. "Well, both Welsh and Schonberg told me I was bound to be convicted. | Everything pointed to my being Corp. Brent's slugger, though I swear to God I never left the barracks that night They said if I didn't get away before the court tried me I might get several years in state prison at hard labor, and worse still if he didn't recover. Welsh and ! Schonberg both said that there was no j show for me, the evidence was so clear, | even to the red pepper in the pockets, j Some scoundrel put it there, and wore I my things, too. Welsh got put into the 1 guard room, purposely, opposite my cell, j and threw a stone with a string through | the grating, and I hauled on iband got a letter from him and Schonberg telling ' me how to escape. There were saws and tallow in the package I drew in, and Schonberg was down in the bottom 1 ith a buggy after I got out, and he d ove me nearly all night around by wa of 1 Barclay to the other road, and sent me ' by rail to Omaha, where he promised j that plenty of money would come to me; ! but no money came at all, and I was j recognized and arrested by the police." "Had you any idea that there were other reasons for getting you to desert than the one given?" Lawler bounced up and objected to both question and answer: but both were ordered recorded. "I hadn't?then," was the sullen re- | ply; "I'm not so sure now. That Jew ! got me to go because I. accused him of being a receiver of stolen property, It was to him Welsh gave the papers he took from the lieutenant's desk in Capt ' Blauvelt's quarters. I went there with him one night after taps when the lieu- j tenant was officer of the guard, and Schonberg gave Welsh ten dollars and me five to keep mum. After that Welsh began to run with Schonberg entirely ; and turn against me, and it was through him that I was always getting into trouble." In vain Lawler propounded questions tending to show his witness, thiu3 assailed, in a better light: but the more he examined the more damaging was (Jroes's testimony. At last the witness slouched out under escort of a sentinel. But a greater sensation still was awaiting the patient listeners in the court room. The next man to enter, leaning i heavily on the arm of the hospital stew- i ard, and accompanied by Dr. Ingeraoll, j was Corp. Brent, looking white and feeble, but very calm and self possessed. "Give your fnll name, rank and regi- ; ment," said the judge advocate, without looking up. "The name under which I enlisted is Malcolm Brent, corporal Company C, ?th Infantry." "The court will note, I trust, the sin- j gular character of the witnesses intro- I doced by the accused," said Lawler | promptly. "ine last, oy mt> owu aumissiou, is a thief and a deserter whom Welsh very properly essayed to cut loose from on discovering his real character: and now we have a second who ylainly intimates that the name he gives is not his own." "It is the one by which he is known to military law all the same, Col. I.awler. Please to proceed," said Col. Grace testily. : "You know the accused, I presume, or he would not have called upon you?" was j Lawless snapping query of the witness. . "Only as a soldier knows an officer whom he has every reason to respect. I have never exchanged a word w?th the ; gentleman, but I recognize him a* Lieut | Hearn, of the Eleventh cavalry." Again there was a ripple of applause | in the crowded conrt, which brought I Lawler, angry and protesting, to his feet. ! Silence restored, he presently read aloud | the next question from a slip 'landed , him by Mr. Hearn, which he slowly ; pasted on the sheet before him: "What do you know with regard tc i the amounts charged against the accused ' on the books presented before this court ! and alleged to be unpaid?" "I know that they were paid long ago. ! I heard the story of the whole transaction from the lips of Capt. Rawlins him- i self." "Hearsay evidence," promptly inter- , rupted the judge advocate, rapping on | the table. "But Schonberg's written neknowl* i edgmeut an^ this letter of Capt. Rawlins will not be so considered." answered 1 the witness respectfully, and bending forward he placed on the judge advocate's table a little package of papers. The court room was hushed. Even the pencils of the correspondents were arrested. Every eye in all the throng was on the pale face of the young corporal. ; Members of the court had whirled around in their chairs so as to look full upon the new witness. Old Kenyon, with lifted spectacles, brimming over with eagerness and excitement, was fidgeting on his chair. Pretty Mrs. Lane, all smiles, was keeping her fan in lively yet i noiseless play. Georgia Marshall's heavily fringed lids were drooping over her j downcast eyes; but the soft, summer fabric of her dress rose and fell upon her bosom like the billows of an unquiet sea. She was seated where every word of the witness could reach her ears, but no longer so near the little table where sat the calm young soldier whose trial had nearly reached an end. There was ; no longer need of counsel for the accused; yet his eyes time and again j glanced yearningly at her. Lawler was the first to speak. He j dandled the papers contemptuously as he glanced them over: "These are of no earthly account? mere forgeries possibly. One only parports to be a duplicate, anyhow." "Duplicate of what, sir? The court ' will be glad to look at those papers when you are through with them." said CoL Grace. "I object to their introduction as evidence, in any event, and protest against their admission here. What possible business can a corporal of infantry be i having with the private papers of a deceased officer, anyway? Where did yon ! know the late Capt. Rawlins?even supposing that he did write that letter?" "Any question on that score the court may choose to ask I will answer," was the reply, with quiet self possession, j "But I can swear to the genuineness of j both papers." Capt Thorp had already possessed himself of the duplicate receipt, and ! after a brief glance tossed it over to the opposite member. "Schonberg. without a doubt," he whispered. Meantime, old Grace had received and was conning over the other, which he suddenly lowered and looked in amaze at the calm face of the witness, then handed it to Maitland, who read, started, and gazed too. ?T lunnr thia hand air. I know it as 1 that of an old and valued friend," said I Maitland, witfi lips that quivered perceptibly. "I could almost swear to its j genuineness myself. It is probably one j of the last letters the dear old fellow ever wrote, and it is to his boy at col- j lege. Here, Thorp, you read it aloud." j And, though Lawler would have pro- | tested, protest was useless. Thorp j arose, clicking his heels together as j though on drill, and in a voice that was audible all over the big room, read: Fort Gbjlhxk. N. M., June 14, 1SK j My Drab Mxlcolm?It seems hardly pogdble that , three weeks ago I was with you under the elms of the old campus listening to college glees and seeing the glad faces of your classmates?as manly a set of young fellows as it was erer my tot to meet?and now hern I am again in harness under a biasing sun, with arid, sandy wastes on every side, and Dot a leaf that is not shriveled by the fierce rays. I find the old post much as I left it; j bat I go over to San Carlos in a day or two on court martial duty, and so am writing my letters to-night In the first place you will be glad to know that : the gold leaves are in sight If all goes well I shall become major of ibe Seventh and be or dered eastward within the next six months. Then I shall fit out my quarters In cory style, and as soon as Mamie has finished her next year at ma- : dame's she shall come aad keep bouse for me and turn the heads of the youngsters. Yet I do not j want her to marry in the army, any more than I want you to enter it Think of it Malcolm, for j twenty-five years now have I followed the stand- : ard, and if anything were to take me away what . have I to leave you and May! Little or nothing. : Even if you were to turn over your modest share to her, as you so gayly spoke of doing, and enlisting In hopes of winning a commission she would not have more than enough to keep her from want though so long as your Aunt Eleanor lives she will never be In need of a borne. Ah, well, God spare me a little longer 1 I so pray to live to see you both happily settled before I am w>iiai< hence. After our talk I cannot but hope that you will see how little there is to look forward to In the career of a soldier in our servioe?in peace times, of course. But if the longing prove too great I will not stand in your way. The life has its-attractions. You will never have stancher or truer friends than those who wear the blue. But it has its trials and perils outside of those encountered in the field. I tokl you of the case of young Mr. Heorn,asfine a soldier as there is in the regiment today, yet be was well nigh ruined through failing into the hands of the Jews when young and j inexperienced. Wasn't it lock that I should have ! known of the previous rascality of that cierk, and j so was able to make him come to terms? Here is i his duplicate receipt in full, filed carefully away | rnnnnc mv naners. It was the means of saving a 1 capital officer, too. Your letters bring constant joy to me, my son. j If it bod but pleased God to spore your dear mother, I know well bow proud and bappy a ; woman abe would have been in ber great boy and | bonny daughter; but bis will be done. I may not j write again before lea ring for San Qarlos. but my blessing goes with every line of this. There is such comfort in the frankness with which you told me of those college debts. Trust me fully $ confide in me in any trouble, my son; do man can ever be more devotedly your friend than I?your father. The draft I sent will doubtless hare re mored all care and anxiety and left you a little ' sum to the fore. Spend It as you please, yet "do : not dull thy palm with entertainment of each new j hatched, unfledged comrade." What words of I wisdom spoke that fond old fooll but he loved his j boy as I love mine. Good night, my lad. "This above all, to thine own self bo true; , And it musl follow, as the night tho day, Thou canst not then be false to any man." j Your father, R. F. Raw Lisa I For a moment after Thorp's deep j voice had ceased its task the silence in | the heated room was broken only by j some half stifled sigh, Corp. Brent had : oovered his pale face with his hands. ! Mrs. Lane was weeping:silently. Hearn's j eyes, swimming, were turned toward : Georgia Marshall, who was bending : over her friend, quietly fanning her. i The effect of this letter was not unex- j pected; she had heard every word be- j fore. It was Grace who spoke at hist, aftey | no little preparatory clearing of his i throat: "And have you other letters from j Capt Rawlins?" ' Many, sir, but this was the last," ' was the almost tremulous answer; "he ! was killed within the week that fol- I lowed." "And you are?" "Malcolm Brent Rawlins, his son." i CHAPTER XVIL IIml him ^Iki ui ^rt ) 11ii t iinj stalwart Uv~ iunlrymen. The court had finished its labors and gone. The correspondents had gone, but presumably only to renewed labors. The various journals throughout the northwest that had so confidently predicted the summary dismissal of the offending lieutenant weronowin a somewhat difficult iKtsition. They had started in to prove the officer a blackguard and the private a martyr; the result was exactly the opposite, and the problem was now how to get out of the pickle. To the average man, soldier or civilian, the consciousness of having publicly wronged a fellow beiug would have proved a source of distress so deep that nothing short of retraction as public and apology as far Teaching as the affront would satisfy the offender. But, in its Jovelike attitude as censor of the morals and man ners of the people, the press nas no bucu qualms of conscience. As one eminent journalist expressed it, "Of course we are sorry we are misled somewhat, but we can't take back what has been said; that injures the paper.'" And of course as between injuring the paper and injuring the man it is the man who must suffer. Another gifted editor,, in whose eyes no benefit was quite to be compared with free advertising, expressed himself as considering that "That young fellow really ought to feel very much obliged to us; nine-tenths of the people might never have heard of him at all if it hadn't been for this." And he spoke in all seriousness. Of course the correspondents themselves had long since seen the inevitable results, and had duly prepared their respective papers for the crash. Some of these journals promptly dropped the matter at once and for all as no longer worthy of attention; others transferred their assaults from the array of lieutenants to the array of courts martial Others still, too deeply committed to extricate themselves, threw open their columns to any damaging story affecting the army which their correspondents i - - a xi ulk coma laoncaie; ana tuoso papers wumu made any reference to the facta elicited before the court did so in the smallest type, but head lined the item in sarcastic or explosive big capitals. The Palladium, or rather its editorial head, when explaining matters to a knot of men at the club, quietly justified the course of his paper by saying: "We did not send Mr. Abrams there at all. He had gone to Central City on some personal business of his own, to look into some property, and while there this Mr. Scbonberg, a wealthy, prominent, and. as we snposed, reputable business man, told him about the offensive manners of the officers to the people, and offered to prove that they would be insulted and ostracised if they ventured to visit the garrison; and Abrams got warmed up and telegraphed to the manuging editor that he was 'on to a good thing,' and so we wired him to go ahead." But a junior member of the editorial staff frankly admitted that he, in common with other journalists, had for sixteen years been "laying" for a chance, as he expressed it, to get in a good whack at the young West Pointer, and here they thought they had it. Meantime the record had gone to department headquarters for the action of the general cominauding, and Lawler went with it to tight the case to the last There was not a soul at Ryan that did not know that, though the lips of the court were sealed, the finding had been "not guilty" on every possible specification. All Lawler could hope to do now was to persuade the general to pick the proceedings to pieces and rasp the court in his renew of the case: but even this proved futile. The general, it seemed, would do nothing of the kind; it was even hinted that he rasped Lawler for the very one sided investigation that he made at the outset. For two days following the adjournment of the court Fort Ryan was fairly in a ferment. Schonberg, terrified by the jeers of his townspeople into the belief that he was to be prosecuted for perjury, had slid away on a night train ?"gone to purchase goods in St. Louis," said his unhappy spouse. Welsh, the martyr, had essayed to desert the same night, and, as a cat plays with a mouse, old Kcnyon hod let him go until the intent was made plain by his boarding the eastward bound train in civilian dress, and then had had him hauled off by two stalwart infantrymen and, incidentally, by the nape of his neck, and once more Welsh was remanded to his familiar hannt?the guard house at Ryan. This time a still more serious charge was hanging over his head?that of assaulting a non-commissioned officer in discharge of his duty, for Corp. Brent had recognized him as his assailant the instant he heard his voice. So liad another witness. It was Georgia Marshall who turned to Kenyon the moment Welsh had finished his testimony and said, "I have heard that man speak before," and who unhesitatingly declared after Goss appeared that though by sight she could identify neither man, by voice she knew that tho one who had assaulted the corporal of the guard that night was not Goss, but Welsh. Then Welsh himself broke down. Such was the feeling against him among the men, such were the threats which he could not but hear as he lay in his barred cell, that he begged to be allowed to see the commanding officer. He was in fear for his life?poor devil! and indeed nothing but the discipline so derided of tho newspapers saved him from the tarring and feathering and riding on a rail that the soldiers were wild to give him. In piteous accents he implored Kenyon to have him sent away, even to prison at Leavenworth. He would plead guilty to desertion, gnilty to thefr. guilty to assault, guilty to anything. if the major would only get him away from the terrible scowls and curses of his erstwhile companions. Only if the major would but believe him, he really had never struck the corporal at all; he had hurled the pepper in his eyes and run. Brent, blinded and raging, had rushed in pursuit, and had struck his head against the sharp edge of the brick pillar at the south end of the troop barracks. Very jwssibly this was true; for tho gash was deep and jagged. And Brent was convalescing rapidly, but between the ladies of the Lane, Brodie. Cross and Graves households stood in danger of being killed with kindness. TV??rf> was inst the least little snark of jealousy among the women of the infantry because it was to a comparative stranger that he should have revealed his identity, and by her be brought to the front at so supreme a moment. But it was Miss Marshall who had been greatly interested in his ease from the [ very night of his mishap, and she and Mrs. Lane had been most kind and assiduous in their attentions to him during his days of suffering. When he heard of the charges against Lieut. Hearn, and of the outrageous falsification of the- W, Schonberg, his determination to conceal his name was at last overcome, and to Miss Marshall and to Dr. Ingersoll he told his story. His father's sudden and lamentable death at the h;uids of the Apaches had left him no alternative but to make over to his sister every cent that had been hoarded up and set aside for his education?every cent that was his by the old soldier's will?and then, leaving with her the little box that contained the captain's papers and letters, and quitting college he went to New York and enlisted, choosing the infantry service rather than the cavalry, because his father's old friends and associates were mainly in the latter, and though he hud seen none of them : since his lxiyhood days, he thought recI ognition not impossible, and he determined to make his own way and owe nothing to any man. "I'm glad ho came to us," said old Kenyon. "I'd do pretty much anything to see him in any other profession, but as he is bound to bo a soldier I'll do all I can to place 'candidate' alongside hit ! TiftniH on our muster roll, and then it would bo just iuy luck to find him commissioned in tbo cavalry." But if there was excitement at Ryan, j just fancy the feelings of the officer* and men in the Eleventh, now 200 mile? ' away in the Indian Territory, when tht J letters came detailing tho events of tht last day of that court martial?Sclion j berg's exposure, Brent's unveiling Welsh's disgrace, Hearn's undoubted I acquittal, Lawler put to confusion ami I flight, and Georgia Marshall the heroine ?f the whole thing! " 'A Daniel come to judgment; ay, t i Daniel,"' ijuotli Martin, as Lane reut i aloud Mabel's enthusiastic description oJ ! what she termed tho "trial scene." "Tht Whole regiment sends heartfelt congrat ulations to Hearn and love to Portia,1 was tho telegram that camo flashing back to Mrs. Lano. Morris lost no tiint [ III UlUUtblt-l^ %m absent subaltern, expressive of his desire to welcome him back to duty after so i complete a vindication. But Morris felt ; I very ill at easo, and was not surprised . ; that no answer was vouchsafed. He re. i tired to his tent, and was not seen for ; some hours after learning of Brent's > identity. ? ; . Meantime, just when one would suppose that all was plain sailing, balmy > breezes, sun kissed wavelets, etc., just When nothing should have stood in the , way of Mr. Hearn's rejoicing with all his 1 ; heart, and just, when the course of his true love ought to have been smooth and sweet, the very imp of perversity seemed to have suddenly developed in Georgia Marshall's breast, and. she who had done i so much to clear his name of "the clouds that lowered over" it, and had for two ' | weeks been the young: soldier's most val i ued friend and ally, now most unuccounti ably held aloof and fairly shunned his society. She met him only in a crowd. She simply would not meet him alone. Onone i pretext or another she avoided him, and i poor Hearu, wounded, utterly unable to i account for this sudikn change, utterly incapablo of fathoming a woman's whim, was now plunged r^jrae depths of a (lis1 tress exceeding that from which he had ' just emerged. She had rescued him ' from the toils only to plunge him into [ ! worse entanglement. It was the fourth day after the adjournment of the court when Maj. Kenyon came to Mr. Hearn's rooms with a i telegram just received from division , i headquarters, and found that young geni tleman dejectedly reading a long letter in the handwriting of Judge Hearn, his i j father. Kenyon had grown to know it ! well. "Released from arrest, hdl That means you can go and join the regiment i as soon as you like. What- does the 1 judge uay now?" i . "Read that page," was the answer, as Hearn placed the .'letter in tho major's i I hand. And with knitted brown Kenyon i i read as follows: "And now again ;[ urge upon you, my i 6on, the step 1 bo e.'irnestly cotoiseled in , my last. Maj. Kenyon's telegram just received suys that your acquittal is assured and that your vindication is tri^ nmphant. This I felt would be the case, i But what reparation have you for the ; wrongs aud insults heaped upon you by the northern press? What proportion of the people who have had you portrayed to them as a low bully, a drunken brute, i I?w1 a on-inillnr will PVPr lmflW the COn trary? What paper that has vilified you ! will have the decency or the courage, now that it knows the truth, to make , the faintest amends? Not one. "The time has come for you now to quit at once and for all a profession which the j>eople of the north so little i appreciate and so persistently decry. I am aging fast, and shall be glad to have i [ your strong arm to lean upon. A year or two in my office will fit you for the i bar. Meantime you can have nearly double the income that the government , pays you. and when I am gone all I have, I practically, will be yours. Come back , | to us, my boy; come to the mother, the father, and the people who love you; come home to us who know and need yon; you are not wanted where you are." For some time Maj. Kenyon stood in. silence. At last, seeing that he was ex| pected to express his opinion, he slowly | spoke; "I feared that that first letter would ; come, and I might have known that this would follow. When will you answer?" "Not just yet. I must think it over. | Not?not until after to-nighl;, anyway." I That evening Mrs. Morris insisted j upon everybody's coming to her house "to celebrate." The news :hat Hearn had been released by telegraphic orders was all over the post in half an hour, and that he would start to rejoin the regiment in the field was of course a foregone conclusion. Only, said that all im| portant personage referred 1o generally as "everybody"?only he will probably want to delay a little while ou Miss Mar. shall's account, lor if they are not alj ready engaged it is solely her fault Any | one can see he is utterly in lo ve with her. Once in a while "everybody" makes a | mistake. This lime "everybody" was I practically right. No one more thor! oughly than Heirn himself knew how ! utterly he was in love with Georgia j Marshall, and nobody but E.enyon knew that, yielding to the plea in his father's ' letter, Hearn might not return to the I regiment at all. It was a joyous gathering at tne mor; rises', and yet there had been a singular 1 conversion at the Lanes' before Mabel I could induce her friend to go at all. i "Mr. Hearn will certainly come and , ask to be your escort," said Mabel the moment Mrs. Morris was gone. "How : can you say no?" "He will ask you, Mabel, as I shall not be visible, and you must accept. If ! you will walk over there and back with | Mr. Hearn, I will go; otherwise I shall have a splitting headache and be confin ed | to my room." [ "How utterly absurd, Pcrtia! Everyi body expects him to escort you. No other man in this post will ask you so long as j he is here. It is a foregone conclusion j that Mr. Hearn will." "That is why I want you to go with him. If I go it will be with Maj. Kenyon." And then Miss Marshall took the J flushed, perplexed, but lovely face of her j hostess between her slender hands and kissed it. "Mabel, I must, not go with j Mr. Hearn. Some day Til tell you why." And then she ran to her room. "Tell mo. indeed! I know too well," was the almost tearful answer. "You ! are prouder, far prouder, than I ever , was." j .And so, though she gamed her point for the time being, though Hearn had to j offer his services to Mrs. Lane when he ; called and could not see Miss Marsliall, J though Mabel went or. that moody young gentleman's arm and Miss Mari shall followed, with her stanch friend the major?Hearn raging: with jealous i pain the while?the timo came when she : found her precaution of no avail. Mr. i Hearn was too much in earnest, too ; deeply in love, to be longer held at bay. "M^s. Lane," he stauunered at last, as they were walking home late at night, i "I must speak to Miss Marshall. Surely you know why. Have I not your good wishes? Will you not help me?" ' How could Mabef Lane refuse? Once i the gate was reached she bade both men come in, though Miss Marshall would ( have dismissed the major; and theu slipping from the parlor along the hall! way to the dining room Bhe left Miss Marshall to entertain her guests, while with nervous hands she set forth wine, j and then presently called Kenyon, as i though to her aid. He came instantly, i and Miss Marshall would, have followed, J but Hearn was too quick and sprang be; fore her to the doorway. For three? four minutes,' 'nervously, incoherently, Mrs. Lane strove to kee:> up a laughing 1 chat with the bulky major; but he, too, saw the ruse us he sipped his wine, and i neither was practiced iri the art of dissembling. , Suddenly Hearn'sfoot steps, quick and I firm, were lieard in the hallway, the I j front door closed with sudden bang, | I and without a word to his hoetesa ho ; was gone. Mrs. Lane's heart sank with; ; in her. Conversation was at an end. 1 j Kenyon stood for an instant in awkward i j silence. Then Miss Marshall's skirts : . were heard as she fairly rushed up the stairs, and the major took himself off as quickly ais a clumsy ina 1 could effect an | escape. An instant later Mabel Lane 1 i stood at Georgia's door. Ikwus closed. ' | "Portia." she called, ia low, pleading ! tones, "Portia, mayn't come in?" ) For a moment no answer at all. > i "Georgia, dear, do speak to me." At last a quick, impetuous step: the i door was tbrowu open. All .was dark[ | ness, but as Mrs. Lane entered with onti } stretched arms there cume a low, almost wailing voice from the bedside: 5 "Oh. Malx;l. Mabel. !iow could you?' j [i ll JIK COXTI.NTKM XKXT W KKK.] I ? * | teiT Wlien any one wanted to make 1 1 (Jen. Lee a confidant lie would exclaim, * j "Don't vou tell me a secret. I'll give ] it away to the lirst person 1 meet. I ! don't want any seeiets. Devilment ' I lu'gins with secrets." gctlpwiuwftup gMwuuiij* SERVING ON A JURY. Prtatiee Malford Telle of an Interminable lewialt [Copyrighted by the Author.] ! j vni. after year and vlHAy term after term the.i ' mm great caae of Table J? Mountain Tunnel v?. IS New York Tunnel . v used to l>e called in i'tfjl * the court held at So- ; ;(? nora, Tuolumne coun- , ty. The opposing fG*] claims were on oppo- , site sides of the great mountain wall, which here described a I semicircle. When these two claims j were taken ap it was supposed the pay f 1 j streak followed the mountain's course, j ' but it had here taken a freak to shoot 1 straight across a flat formed by the 1 i curve. Into this ground, at first deemed worthless, both jjarties were tunneling. ' The farther they tunneled the richer ; j grew the pay streak. Every foot was worth a fortune. Both cluimed it. The 1 | law was called upon to settle the diffi- i ' culty. The law was glad, for it had then many children in the county who 1 , needed fees. Our lawyers run their tun- i nels into both of these rich claims, nor did they stop boring until they had exhausted the cream of that pay streak. Year after year Table Mountain vs. New York Tunnel company was tried, judg- : i ment rendered first for one side and then for the other, then appealed to the sn! preme court, sent hack and tried over, J until at last it had become so incumbered with legal barnacles, parasites and j.; cobwebs that none other than the lawyers knew or pretended to know aught of the rights of the matter. Meantime the two rival companies kept hard at work day and night. Every ounce over the necessary expense of workiug their claims and feeding and clothing their bodies went to maintain , lawyers. The case became one of the institutions of the country. It outlived several judges and attorneys. The coua try town throve during this yearly trial. Eventually jurors competent to try this case l>ecame very scarce. Nearly every one had "sat on it," or had read or heard ! or formed an opinion concerning it, or | said they had. The sheriff and his deputies ransacked the hills and gulches of Tuolumne for I new Table Mountain vs. New York Tunnel jurors. A; last, buried in an out-ofthe-way gulch, they found me. I was presented with a paper commanding my ' i appearance at the county town, with various pains and penalties affixed in case of refusal. I obeyed. I had never before formed the twelfth of a jury. In my own estimation I rated only as the twenty-fourth. We were sworn in; i sworn to try the case to the best of our ability. It was ridiculous that I should < i sweex to this, for internally I owned I , had no ability at all as a juror. We | were put in twelve armchairs. The j great case was called. The lawyers, as I usual, on either side opened by declar I ing their intentions to prove themselves j all right and their opponents all wrong. I did not know which was the plaintiff, | which the defendant. Twenty-four witnesses on one side swore to something, j ; to anything, to everything; thirty-six on the other swore it all down again. They ' thus swore against each other for two days and a half. The court was noted j ; for being an eternal sitter. He sat four| teen hours per day. The trial lasted five days. i Opposing counsel, rival claimants, j even witnesses, all had maps, long, brill- ! | ian t, parti-colored maps of their claims, i which they t.nrolled and held before us j and. swung defiantly at each other. ,The ; sixty witnesses testified from 1849 up to j 1864. After days of such testimony as 1 | to ancient boundary lines and ancient | mining laws, the lawyers on either side, still more to mystify the case, caucused the matter over and concluded to throw out about ha If of such testimony as bej ing irrelevant. But they could not throw it out of our memories. The "summing up" lasted two days i more. By this time I was a mere idiot j in the matter. I had, at the start, endeavored to keep some track of the evii deuce, but they managed to snatch every clew away as fast as one got hold of it. We were "charged" by the judge | and sent to the jury room. I felt like both a fool and a criminal. I knew 1 ! had not the shadow of au opinion or a ; conclusion in the matter. However, I found myself not alone. We were out all night. There was a stormy time between the three or four jurymen who i knew or pretended to know something of the matter. The rest of us watched the controversy, and of course sided with the majority. And at last a verdict was agreed upon. It has made so little impression on my mind that I forget now whom it favored. It. did not matter. Both claims were then {laying well, and this was a sure indication that the case would go to the supreme court. It did. This was in 11360. I think it made these yearly trips np to 1867. Then some of the more obstinate and combative meuilicrs of either claim died, and the remainder concluded to keep some of the gold they were digging instead of paying it out to fee lawyers. The Table Mountain vs. New York Tunnel case stopped. All the lawyers save two or three emigrated to San 1 Francisco or went to congress. I gained ! bnt one thing from my experience in the matter?an opinion. It may or may not be right. It is that juries in most i cases are humbugs. Prkntick Mulkord. SENATOK ruiiUl'ITT'S VIEW. The Washington correspondent of The Atlanta Constitution, in an article ; on the next presidency, says: Senator Colquitt, of (Jeorgia. who has been in New York for three weeks, is at the Metropolitan, on his way home. He has been in conference with New York politicians regarding the approaching campaign in that State, and has recommended them to discuss measures rather than men. ' You see," said the senator, "if the Democrats in New York make the ! campaign a Hill and Cleveland li^ht. it will cause laetional ditl'erenees and dissensions. and make New York a doubtful State. It may even defeat us there, and thus put both Hill and Cleveland out of the race. "My advice would be to the party to stand together next fall, and then after we have carried the State, let , (iovernor Hill and Mr. Cleveland each | endeavor to secure the delegates to I the nominating convention. To turn I the election next fall into a personal I struggle would be hazardous." "Is this plan to be adopted ?" 1 "1 think it will." "What is the feeling now in the South toward Mr. Cleveland?" "The feeling in the South regarding the lext Democratic presidential ean' didate has not erystalized, although i there is of course, considerable talk. ' I find a growing feeling against the ; advisability of renominating Mr. Clove- ( , land, and I do not believe the South | will advocate his candidacy when the j i convent ion is held. The antipathy to ! question. I believe that the next Democratic platform will contain a strong free silver plank, and that we will win on such a platform. Without it, I believe we will court defeat." "What names are suggested in the South for the nomination ?" "The sentiment of the people has hardly reached the point of discussing names. We want, however, a good, clean candidate, and a platform that will advocate relief of the people from the burdens of heavy taxation and the evils of constricted money. I think that the Democrats can easily adopt such a platform, while it will be difficult for the Republicans to agree to mch broad principles." "Will the third party figure in the presidential campaign ?" "It will not in the South. The third party even there are Democrats, and if the Democratic platform is framed in the interest of the people, as it ought to he, we will not lose a vote." TIGER TAMING. A. Sturdy Heart, Strong Arm and * Stout Gluli Necessary; ' * A New York Sun reporter describes a recent interview with George Conklin, superintendent of Bam urn's menagerie, VVe quote as follows : Air. Conklin and his visitor approached a long cage standing in line with many other cages in a long onestory brick building, which bounded the eastern end of the great enclosure which the big show occupies during the winter season. The cage had live Bengal tigers in it. Four of them were together. The fifth was separated from the others by a temporary iron grating. Two of the four tigers which were in company had thick leather collars round their necks and stout chains several feet long fastened to them. The tiger in solitary confinement was similarly harnessed. "Well" said Mr. Conklin, "I'll tell you one thing we do besides feeding these tigers. We train them. Those fellows in there who have chains or them, and are just now spitting and growling at us in such a savage style are new. We have had them only u month or two. The others are old boys who will let me go into the cage aud not say a word to me. By the time we go on the road they will all lei me go into the cage. ,1 give them ? lesson every day. That's one thing we do during the winter." "How do you tame them?" asked the visitor. ' It's easily done," said the truinei carelessly. "Every day I have tin men catch the ends of the chain! which hold the new tigers, and faster them to the bars so they can only move a certain distance. Then I arm mysel with a rawhide whip and a stout clul and enter the cage. I take a chaii with me and sit down in the corner The minute I get in, the untrained tigers spring at me. No doubt thej would chew me to shreds it they goi at me, but the chains hold them uuc they only tumble on the floor. I hit them smartly with the whip and the} crouch buck und snarl. After a little j shove my chair closer. Then the} jump at me again, but again they ar< thrown down by their chains. I shovi closer and repeat the programme, am finally I get so close that they car touch me with their noses, but not ^it< me. Here I sit for a long time, talking to them as long us they remain quiet and switching them with all the forci possible when they become fierce. Ii the course of a few weeks they beconn used to my entrance, and only cringi and snarl at me. Then I try them one by one, without a chain. I havi never so far used the club. Now ] hold it ready to deal a mighty blow i necessary, but it is seldom necessary The tiger is subdued and permits m} entrance whenever I choose. I hav< got these tigers here nearly trained They snarl yet, you see, but next weel I will tackle them without chains That fellow in the other compartment is tractuble enough, but he persists ii fighting with the Ifig Bengal, so w< have to keep them separate. Do yoi see that long murk on his belly ? Hi and the big fellow had a particularl} hard tight the other day that is on< result. If we hadn't had the big fel low's claws clipped beforehand, lie'c have ripped open the new one frou end to end. So there's another deli cate job for me. I've got to get thos< tigers on good terms." "Is there any basis of truth in tin many stories that are told of the pow er of the human eye over wild beasts?' "Not the slightest," said t'onklin disdainfully. "Of course, it is true thai a man who aims to subdue wild beast: must show u fearless front, and lit doubt the eye shares with the bod} generally the task of impressing tin beast. But the reul requisite is rea fearlessness. If a man's heart is sturd} he need not cure about his eyes. Hi can leave them to themselves just u: he leaves the other members of hi: body. The secret of taming wih beasts is the realization that all wih beasts, however ferocious, are at hear cowards?particularly if they belong to the eat family, as lions, tigers, leop ards, and panthers do. That granted a stout heart, a stout arm, and a stou whip or club is all that is necessary I never have known fear." "I)o you always clip the claws o your ferocious animals ?" "Those of the eat tribe, always,' said the trainer. "It is quite a job 100, Mild requires quae u luimuci w men. You've got to get your lion oi tiger bound in such a way as to tlirov him on his side and then reach it through the burs and grid) his folii feet. These you pull out between tin bars and hold tight. This is no smul job in the case of a very large lion o: tiger. They struggle violently, evei after they are helpless, and while tin operation of clipping is going on. killed a tine panther this winter clip ping his claws, or rather lie killed liini self. After we had hiiii securely dowi so he could hardly move a muscle, hi strained so in his efforts to free hinisel that he broke a blood vessel and diei almost instantly." St'Xii To SLKKl*.?A New Mexici cattle raiser tells in The St. Lour (ilobe-Democrat of the curious methoi by which cowboys prevent stampede in their herds: The signs of an up preaching stampede are familiar t< every man who has been much on tin trail. First a few cattle will begin ti low. or rather to utter a sort of roar All through the herd, single animal will get up and begin to move around The others become restless, and i something is not done to check them the whole heard will, within a slior time, be rushing headlong over tin plain. The most soothing iulluenci -i I... : . ?i... l......... 1IIUI rilll HI- r.\n ii-u i.-> niv iiiiiuiii voice. ami when these ominous mutter ings are heard every one on nigh waleh begins to sing. As soon as tin songs are heard the nervous animal become quiet, one by one they lie down and soon all are at rest, fairly sung t< sleep. A peculiar feature of the sing ing is that every cowboy, no matte how rough and lawless, knows a varie ty of hymns' and it is with church mil sic that the stampede is prevented. By shaking the magnetic need I you may move it from its place: but i returns to it the moment it is left b itself. In like manner, believers ma; fall into sin : but no sooner do the; wake to reflection, than they repent and endeavor to mend their ways, am resume a life of godliness. : Here are Some .Remarkable Stat' > ments and It Will Not Coat Muc to Teat Their Valne. In the issue of The Enquirer fc ; May 27, was published an article o , pecan nuts, written for The Souther j Cultivator, by Mr. Herbert Post, < , j Fort Worth, Texas. The article r< 1 : ferred to ereaped so much interest i | this county that we wrote to Mr. Po! : for additional information on the sul | ject. We recommend Mr. Post's repl to the careftil consideration of all 01 > readers: y ^ ; . ' L. M. Grist, Esq. : Your request f< 1 me to write an article on the soft she ; Texas pecan, for publication in yoi valuable paper, is at nana, rnoug I exceedingly busy, I will take pleasiu ; in doing so. Such industries as grov 1 ing pecans should especially inter? the people of the cotton growing State A man growing cotton for a livin wants something to stand between hii and the poor house, and I know < 1 nothing upon which he could betfc place his reliance than a^flTTeTJWSsn o, i chard. This will in time support h family in affluence, even while he go< on with his fun of selling cotton i seven or eight cents a pound, whic cost him probably twelve cents a pour to raise. The Southern people know but litt of the value to a community of a vi | riety of orchard products such as ai I grown in California and Florida. 1 ; give an idea of the value of these pr< ! ducts, I will cite one instance. In tl valley in which Riverside, Californi is located, the people grow grapes, o anges, nuts, fruits, (marketed hot 1 green and dried) hay, and minor pn ; ducts. In 1890 the income of thei , people was $2,223,000 from six thoi sand acres of land, or an average < j $370 an acre! One hundred thousar I j acres in cotton would not havehrougl I that amount of money. Now, sin< [ ; the labor of the negroes is becomii ! less and less reliable every year, it clear that the owners of the land mu grow something else besides cotton at ' corn. I While the alluvial lands along oi ! streams, which occasionally overflow | are the best for pecans, yet no one net I be deterred from planting these tre * I because they have no such land J Every farm has lands that will pi ' I better in pecans than in any oth I | crop. And not only this, even aft ! the trees are planted, the land up< i which the orchard stands may be en r j tivated every year and made to pt * expenses until the trees commence * bear at six years of age. At eigl ' years old, the trees will begin to pt ?t handsomely, and at ten years of aj ^ the yield is from four to five bushels ' the tree. At fifteen years, eacii tr< r will average from ten to twelve bushel Now as to the profits. Counting tl ' nuts at only twenty-five ceuts a pout (and the product will be for consum | tion, worth twice that) each bushel ' worth $10. With these figures give ^ take your pencil and figure out tl ! product of fifty acres?thirty s ^ trees to the acre, or 1,800 trees. r you think the income is too large, c 3 vide by four and see what that tel 3 you. Would not that satisfy at I reasonable man? Your first cost 1 planting 50 acres is but $150, or $3 i 3 acre. The day your pecans are oi ? year old you could not afford to s< > your land at one hundred dollars i 3 acre. The trees increase in value u 1 til, at eight years old, they wiJl eai 3 you every cent of $180 an acre, an 3 at 10 per cent valuation, that mak > every acre worth $1,800. Vast quantities of rich bottom lam ' along the streams are not worth fr f dollars an acre because you cann * use them. Planted in the Texas Sc ' Shell Pecan, in eight years, your ii 3 come will be greater from one ac * than from ten acres of your farm : ordinary cultivated crops. From the * on the value of the trees increase ea< k year until it becomes more than qua 1 rupled. 3 There is no danger of an over supp 1 of pecans, for, being the favorite of ? 3 nuts, the market cannot be overstocke ' On no other continent do they grow ai 3 nowhere of such quality as in Texas. Being of the hickory family (cary * the pecan neither transplants, grafts 1 buds well. While one expert mig * succeed, a thousand would fail. So tl 3 only safe way, as well as the cheapef is to procure the best soft shell nut ai i plant them where the tree is to gnr This is a new industry. The on orchard of any size being near her , containing 400 acres of 11,000 tree t is now only three years old. i How many parents are working hai ) and anxiously to provide for the >' children an education, desiring to gi1 i them the very best. While your ch 1 dren are young, plant you a pecan o ' chard of fifty acres, and you need n i worry for the future. Not only an e * ucation for them but a splendid incon * for yourselves, when the shady side 1 life comes on. The investment of $1J 1 now in planting a fifty acre orchard t pecans, is far lretter than for you ? give to your children $25,000 ea< - when they become of age. , These are plain every day fad t without embellishment, and well wo . thy of. consideration and investmeu i A?it ?* | Any parties wisnmg lurmcr intuitu f j tion on this subject, may write me. e closing a two-cent stamp, and tin will receive a reply by return mail. , * hkrhkht 1'ost. f Fort Worth, Texas. r ? THK KKASIIN WHY. ? A crowd-had gathered in the villaj r street, watching a bear-dance. 31 ? Grove, the storekeeper, passing, laug 1 ed at the bears, nodded to his neig r bors, but went on his way. i "Say Grove!" shouted Abe J.ak e "Stop and look at this. You nev I saw anything t'unnier in your life." - | "I am too busy." said (trove, as 1 - | hurried on. i j Abe, who was plowing a Held f '? j Squire Smith, followed the bear ai f I the organ-grinder through the tow 1 ' pitching pennies to them until li j pockets were emptied. "I'm a poor man. but I can aHbrd ) pay for my fun !" he bragged. "The s is that skinflint Grove can't waste In 1 an hour or a penny." s At the end of the day. howevt - when he went to the Squire for I j wages, he was enraged because he r i' oeived only half a day's pa\. d "You followed the bear all thenior . ing." said his employer, dryly, s Abe's wrath was increased when, . i moment later, he met Mr. Grove dri f I ing out with his wife in a comfortal; . | carriage. The Squire of the villaj t : happened to be passing at the tim c and heard Abe call down vengeance t e J "bloated aristocrats and misers wl :i I were rolling in riches, and hoard' - ! every penny and every minute." t ; "Hold up there, Abe." said t u ' Squire. "(trove is no miser. 1 s gives away more than you earn : b he lakes his amusement when his wo > is done. I>id it ever oeeur to you," - said, meaningly, "that (trove is able r live in a comtbrtable house and todri - in a carriage, because he and his foi - fathers were industrious and careful their money and time, and that y< are poor because you and your latin e wasted both?" t Abe was silenced, but not convince a There are people in every commui v ty who act and reason like Abe. Th y know that they would enjoy rich , and the pleasure which riches brin \ i and rant against Providence as uiiji 1 for withholding those pleasures, ui I cause ne nas mem. / *- [ In tills country, where the chances * h : are so many and so vast, the man who has good health and reason, and yet )r I reaches middle age/ in. want, must, in i most cases, be in some measure himself : to blame. Wise frugality, and steady, 11 persistent industry, rarely fail to place if a man far above want, e- > A'poor man is not necessarily worn thy because he is poor, nor a rich one I a miser and tyrant because he is rich, j In no country have great capitalists )m i used their money so wisely and freely y . for the benefit of their fellow-men as ir , here, where the money gained by almost every rich man has been by his )r ; own personal effort,'?Youth's Com11 j panion. ir i ' ? < ;h i Women and Ladies.?There have *e j been some amusing instances of the v- I misapplication of the word lady, which 1 nuafnm Tim diwreed to mean social s. culture, instead of its original meaning, ig "loaf giver." tn A girl waiter in a large hotel in an }f eastern city, approached a guest with sr this query: * / . r"Has any der?" ' . T' , ' ?s This was equivalent to the politeness it of the little girl yrho surprised the :h family by announcing: , id "Mamma, the swfll lady is at the back door." ' le There is a story of the mistress of a a. fashionable house, who, on being left re without any servant, answered the '0 door bell and was confronted by a stout girl, who asked: ie "Are ye the woman that wanted a a lady to work for ye?" rI When Harriet Martineau visited America she asked the warden of a 0. prison reformatory in Tennessee to ^ show her through the woman's ward. a. The answer Is embalmed in history. 0f "I am very sorry, ma'am, that I' ,d cannot accommodate you, but we have no ladies here at present." 3e A minister who wds very polite, ,g changed a portion of Scripture to read: js "Ladies and gentlemen created He themand a lecturer who cared more for the sweet phrases of politeness than for plain statements of the truth, rung Jr this query upon an astonished audience ^ as he discoursed ori the characteristics of women: es "Who were the last at the cross? I8> Ladies. Who were the first at the Vy sepulcher? Ladies. er But even he was outdone by the exer quisite divine who, as he concluded )n marrying a couple, said gallantly: [j. "I now pronounce you husband and if lady." to ' ' ht I What two Women Did.?A corty respondent writing from Milledgeville, ?e Ga., says: "Mrs. Daniel and her t0 daughter, in the southern part of this l?oira lnAmoi^ un na aimnnlhi. 00 VUUIIVJ j IIMIV 1WU1VU U|/ UO M^tlVWiVW |8i ral heroines of a high type. The story je of their prosperity, as told by a couple ?j of gentlemen of undoubted veracity, p. is to the effect that they were living jg together three years ago in an almost n destitute condition. A gentleman, inspired with the spirit of the good 8ajx maritan, offered them aid in the rental If of several acres of land on fairly easy li_ terms?that they would pay the rent Us At the end of the year?trusting to jy their honesty in the fulfilment of of the contract, they having nothing to m put up as collateral. The old lady [je aud her daughter made a covenant * ?" j]l with each other to the effect that one to would manage the domestic and busin. ness afiairs, while the other would ril raise the crop. Miss Daniel, to whom d the task of managing the farm fell, eg took an axe and went into the woods ! and made a plow stock from a sassads fras tree, broke a little bull that was thrown in with the land, planted and ot raised the best ten acres of cotton and corn that was raised in Baldwin county. H. They paid their rent promptly the first re year and set their stakes high for the iu next. Last year they paid for the re land and raised cotton and corn enough >h to make them more than happy, d- They have already begun work for the present year, and if fortune doesu't jy change, it will not be long before Mrs. dl Daniel and daughter will be the richd. est planters in Baldwin county. Their ' uj history ought to be written in serial form and scattered broadcast throughly out the territory of the Farmers' or Alliance. Never Sorry.?Not long ago the writer asked a class of small boys in jJ Sunday-school what was their idea of lV heaven. It was curious to note how jy their replies were influenced by their ,e circumstances in life. A ragged little !>s' urchin, who had been born and brought ' up in a squalid city street, said it was rd tall grass and green trees. One from ,iP the richer quarter of Boston said it was 1 k.e like a big, broad avenue, with tall il_ houses on each side. A sweet-voiced ir. Episcopal choir-boy was of the opinion 0t that the people would sing a good deal in heaven. The last member of the ie class, u quiet, thoughtful boy, though 0f one of the smallest of the class, au30 swered, just as the bell was ringing for 0f the close of the lesson: "A place t0 where?where?you're never sorry."? .jj Our Sunday Afternoon. :s, j txiF Energetic American travelers are r- | the surprise of Europeans each tourist it. j season. A correspondent tells of a a- Denver man who stayed in London n- four hours. "Say, young fellow," said >y he to a clerk, "I've been to the Mint, the Bank of Eugland, the Tower of London and the British Museum, an' I've seen 'em all! Anything else here?" The clerk looked at him tranquilly for a moment, and replied : "No, sir ! You've seen hour greatest sights ! ir. Better go to Paris! A man who can do h- London in three hours is wasting time h- when he stays here hover a day !" e A Car Load.?Nominally a care,'. i load is 510,000 pounds. It is also ! seventy barrels of salt, seventy of l,e j lime, ninety of Hour, sixty of whisky, j 200 sacks of Hour, six cords of wood, 0,. ! eighteen or twenty head of cattle, uj i fifty or sixty head of hogs, ninety to ? ' 100head of sheep, 17,000 feet of siding, :! ! 1.'1.000 feet of flooring, 40.000 shingles, | one half less of hard lumber, one t0 | fourth less of green, one tenth less of re ' joist. U40 bushels of wheat, 400 of barjlf ' ley, 400 of corn, 000 of oats, 000 of Hax 1 seed, 000 of sweet potatoes. lis fit#* A railway across the ocean will i>- ' be the next enterprise for modern geuj ius to undertake. A French engineer ii- ; some years ago wrote a paper in which i he assumed that at a depth of say 000 a | feet, the water of the ocean is of such v- l density that it will sustain any object >lt. : which can possibly be placed upon it, ge | and then proceeded to propose the conic, ! struetion of a railway across the At)u lantie by sinking a continuous line of lio I iron tubes in which a double track ed ' could be laid for the running of trains I from continent to continent, he ? le A Skvkn- Foot S.vak k.?A box count i tabling a big snake, consigned to Kiug rk i v't Franklin's circus, fell and broke he | open in the Southern Fxpress ottice ut to ! Birmingham, Ala., on Sunday night, ve The snake, seven feet in length, drove :e- the other occupants from the oflice and of J compelled the night clerk to take reou fuge in the vault, where he spent hours >rs ! before the snake was recaptured. d. i Whisky and Quinine.?Quinine ii- j and whisky make a line tonic for ague ey patients. The way to take it is to put es the quinine in one glass and the whisky ig, I in another, then set the glass containist ! ing the whisky in the closet for future ml 1 reference and take the quinine.