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ISSTJE3D TWICE A WEEK-WEDNESDAY A3NTD SATURDAY. l. m. geist & sons, Publishers. ! A Ifamitg ffercspper: Jfl)r promotion of the {political, Social, Agricultural, and (Commercial Interests of the jSoutit. {TERfiioE'corYyieLL^EN^15' ' VOL. 43. YOEKVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 1897. . XQ. 3Q. THE GREAT TRAII\ BY PAUL LEIC Copyright, 1896, by J. B. Lippincott Comp Synopsis of Previous Installments. In order that new readers of The Enquirer may begin with the following installment of this story, and understand it just the same as though they had read it all from the beginning, we here give a synopsis of that portion of it which has already been published: Chapter I.?Dick Gordon, Yale grad uate, goes in ior nam wors. x- rum me Chicago and Alton railroad repair shops he is gradually promoted and finally works up to the position of superintendent of a western railroad?the Kansas and Arizona. The story opens with an account of a trip by rail of Mr. Cullen, a railroad vice president, over the lines of the K. and A. Gordon is asked to meet Cullen and party and pilot them through. In the party are Madge Cullen, with whom Gordon falls in love; Lord Ralles, an Englishman, in love with Madge, and Captain Ackland, brother of Lord Ralles. Talk turns on train robbers. Madge would like an adventure with hold ups. So would Ralles and Ackland. While horseback riding near Santa Fe, Gordon points out among convicts working on a railroad grade Jack Drute, a train robber under a 14 year sentence. Madge speaks to the convict, who auswers gruffly. Chapter II.?The party is joined by Madge's invalid brother. On a special train all go on westward. While Mr. Cullen, his elder son and the two Englishmen play poker and Gordon and Madge enjoy the moonlight on the rear car the train is held up by bandits. Chapter III.?The robbers are fired at and frightened away, taking with them but three registered letters from the mail coach. Gordon telegraphs for help and starts the company's sleuths. He overhears Lord Ralles talking rudely to Madge and knocks him down. Chapter IV.-Mystery of the search for the robbers: only four shots fired by the robbers, and yet six empty shells are found. Cullen and party go on to the Grand Canyon. Goruou remains to assist the sheriff. Chapter V.?Gordon with the sherifi and posse follows to Grand canyon, finds the party in camp, tells them he suspects them of complicity in the robbery and searches them and their effects. Chapter VI.?to nna me leuera ue decides that be must search Madge. When she finds be is determined, sue yields up the letters. The motive of the robbery is explained. The letters were proxies for the K. <S A. election. Cullen's company was fighting for control. They took a desperate chance to get the proxies. Gordon resolves to pull the Cullens out of the scrape for Madge's sake. Chapter \ II.?Our hero in league with the Cullens. Madge is happy and Lord Ralles discomfited. CHAPTER VIII. how did the secret leak out? I made up for my three nights' lack of sleep by not waking the next morning till after 10. When I went to 218, I found only the chef, and he told me the party had gone for a ride. Since I could not talk to Madge, I went to work at my desk, for I had been rather neglecting my routine work. While I still wrote I heard horses' hoofs, and, looking up, saw the Cullens returning. I went out on the platform to wish them good morning, arriving just in time to see Lord Ralles help Miss Cullen out of her saddle, and the way he did it, and the way he continued to hold her hand after she was down, while he said something to her, made me grit my teeth and look the other way. None of the riders had seen me, so I slipped into my car and went back to work. Fred came in presently to see if I was up yet and to ask me to lunch, but I felt so miserable and downhearted that I made an excuse of my late breakfast for not join ing them. Alter iuncneon tne party in toe otoer special all came out and walked up and down the platform, the sound of their voices and laughter only making me feel the bluer. Before long I heard a rap on one of my windows, and there was Miss Cullen peering in at me. The moment I looked up she called: "Won't you make one of us, Mr. Misanthrope?" I called myself all sorts of a fool, but out I went as eagerly as if there had been some hope. Miss Cullen began to tease me over my sudden access of energy, declaring that she was sure it was a pose for their benefit, or else due to a guilty conscience over having slept so late. "I hoped you would ride with us, though perhaps it wouldn't have paid you. Apparently there is nothing to see in Ash Forks." "There is something that may interest you all," I said, pointing to a special that had been dropped off No. 2 that morning. * "What is it?" asked Madge. "It's a G. S. special," I said, "and Mr. Camp and Mr. Baldwin and two G. S. officials came in on it." "What do you think he'd give for those letters?" laughed Fred. "If they were worth so much to you, I suppose they can't be worth any less to the G. S.," I replied. "Fortunately there is no way that he can learn where they are," said Mr. Cullen. "Don't let's stand still," cried Miss Cullen. "Mr. Gordon, I'll run you a race to the end of the platform.'' She said this only after getting a big lead, and she got there about eight inches ahead of me, which pleased her mightily. "It takes men so long to get started," was the way ?hc explained her vicfnr-cr Then she walked me bevond the end of the boarding to explain the workings of a switch to her. That it was only a pretext she proved to me the moment I had relocked the bar by saying: "Mr. Gordon, may I ask you a question?" "Certainly," I assented. "It is one I should ask papa or Fred, but I am afraid they might not toll me the truth. You will, won't you?" she begged very earnestly. "I will," said L "Supposing," she continued, "that it became known that you have those letters? Would it do our side any harm?" K & A. I ROBBERY. 'ESTER FORD. any. I thought for a moment and then shook my head "No new proxies could arrive here in time for the election," I said "and the ones I have will not be voted." She still looked doubtful and asked "Then why did papa say just now, 'Fortunately?' " "He merely meant that it was safer they shouldn't know." "Then it is better to keep it a secret?" she asked anxiously. "I suppose so," I said and then added, "Why should you be afraid of asking your father?" "Because he might?well, if he knew, I'm sure he would sacrifice himself, and I couldn't run the risk." "I am afraid I don't understand?" I questioned "I would rather not explain," she said and of course that ended the subject. Our exercise taken, we went back to the Cullens' car and Madge left us to write some letters. A moment later Lord Ralles remembered he had not written home recently, and he, too, went forward to the dining room. That made, me call myself?something, for not having offered Miss Cullen the use of my desk in 97. Owing to this the two missed part of the big game we were playing, for barely were they gone when one of the servants brought a card to Mr. Cullen, who looked at it and exclaimed "Mr. Camp!" Then, after a speaking pause, in which we all exchanged glances, he 6aid "Bring him in." On Mr. Camp's entrance he looked as much surprised as we had all done a moment before. "I beg your pardon for intruding, Mr. Cnllen," he said. "I was told that this was Mr. Gordon's car, and I wish to see him." "I am Mr. Gordon." "You are traveling with Mr. Cnllen?" he inquired, with a touch of suspicion in his manner. "No,"I answered. "My special is the next car, and I was merely enjoying a cigar here." "Ah!" said Mr. Camp. "Then I won't interrupt your smoke, and will only relieve you of those letters of mine.'' I took a good pull at my cigar and blew the smoke out in a cloud slowly to gain time. "I don't think I follow you," I said. "I understand that you have in your possession three letters addressed to me." "I have, " I assented. "Then I will ask yon to deliver them to me." "I can't do that." vvny 1101.' ne cnaiiengeu. xney re my property." I produced the postmaster general's telegram and read it to him. "Why, this is infamous!" Mr. Camp cried. "What use will those letters be after the 20th? It's a conspiracy." "I can only obey instructions," I said. "It shall cost you your position if you do," Mr. Camp threatened. As I've already said, I haven't a good temper, and when he told me that I couldn't help retorting: "That's quite on a par with most G. S. methods." "I'm not speaking for the G. S., young mail," said Mr. Camp. "I speak as a director of the Kansas and Arizona What is more, I will have those letters inside of 24 hours." He made an angry exit, and I said to Fred: "I wish you would stroll about and spy out the proceedings of the enemy's camp. He may telegraph to Washington, and if there's any chance of the postnmster general revoking his order I must go back to Flagstaff on No. 4 this afternoon.'' "He shan't do anything that I don't kaow about till he goes to bed," Fred promised. "But how the deuce did he know that you had those letters?" That was just what we were all puzzling over, for only the occupants of No. 218 and myself, so far as I knew, were in a position to let Mr. Camp hear of that fact. As Fred made his exit he said, "Don't tell Madge that there is a new fMimnlifiitiroi for the dear irirl has had worries enough already." Miss Cullen not rejoining us, and Lord Rulles presently doing so, I went to my own cur, for he and I were not good furniture for the same room. Before I had been there long Fred came rushing in. "Camp and Baldwin have been in consultation with a lawyer, "he said, "and now the three have just boarded those curs," pointing out the window at the branch line train that was to leave for Pheuix in two minutes. "You must go with them," I urged, "and keep us informed as to what they do, for they evidently are going to set the law on us, and the G. S. has always owned the territorial judges, so they'll stretch a point to oblige them." "Have I time to fill a bug?" "Plenty," I answered him, and, going out, I ordered the train held till I should give the word. "What does it all mean?" asked Miss Cullen, joining me. I laughed and replied, "I'm holding up a train all by my lonesome." "But my brother came dashing in just now and said he was starting for Pheuix." "Let her go, "I called to the conductor, as Fred jumped aboard, and the train pulled out. "I hope there's nothing wrong?" Madge questioned anxiously. "Nothing to worry over," I laughed. "Only a little more fun for our money. By the way, Hiss Cullen," I went on, to avoid her questions, "if you have your letters ready and will let me have them at once, I can get them on No. 4." Miss Cullen blushed as if I had said something I ought not to have and stammered, "I?I didn't write them, after all." "I beg your pardon," I said, thinking what a dunce I had been not to understand that the letters of both herself and Lord Ralles had been only a pretext to get away from the rest of us. My apology and evident embarrassment deepened MissCullen's blush fivefold, and she said hurriedly, "I found I was tired, and so, instead of writing, I went to my room and rested." I suppose any girl would have invented the same yarn, yet it hurt me more than the bigger one she had told on Hance's trail. Small as the incident was, it made me very blue and led me fn eVint mvfiplf nT> in mv own car for the rest of that afternoon and evening. Indeed, I couldn't sleep, but sat up working, quite forgetful of the passing hours, till a glance at my watch startled me with the fact that it was a quarter of 2. Feeling like anything more than sleep, I went out on the platform, and, lighting a cigar, paced up and down, thinking of?well, thinking. The night agent was sitting in the station, nodding, and after I had walked for an hour I went in to ask him if the train to Phenix had arrived on time. As I opened the door, the telegraph instrument began clicking and called Ash Forks. The man, with the curious ability that operators get of recognizing their own call, even in sleep, waked up instantly and responded, and, not wishing to interrupt him, I delayed asking my question till he should be free. I stood there thinking of Madge, and listening heedlessly as the instrument ticked off the cipher signature of the sending operator, and the "24 paid." But as I heard the clicks which meant ph, I suddenly became attentive, and when it completed Phenix I concluded Fred was wiring me and listened for what followed the date. This is what the instrument ticked: That may not look particularly intelligible, but if the Phenix operator had been talking over the phono to me he couldn't have said any plainer: Sheriff yavapai county ash forks arlzona be at railroad station three forty five today to meet train arriving from phoenix prepared to immediately serve peremptory mandamus issued tonight by judgo wilson sig theodore e camp. My question being pretty thoroughly answered, I went back and continued my walk, but before five minutes had passed the operator came out and handed me a message. It was from Fred, and read thus: Camp, Baldwin, and lawyer went at once to house of Judge Wilson, where they staid an hour. They then returned with judge to sta uon, UHU lllttr Uispuiuumjj a H-lctjiaui uotu taken Hi'uts in train for Ash Forks, leaving hero ut 8:25. I shall return with them. A bigger idiot than I could have understood the move. I was to be hauled before Judge Wilson by means of mandamus proceedings, and, as he was coming to Ash Forks solely to oblige Mr. Camp and was notoriously a G. S. judge, he would unquestionaly declare the letters the property of Mr. Camp and order their delivery. Apparently I had my choice of being a traitor to Madge, of going to prison for contempt of court, or of running away, which was not far off from acknowledging that I had done something wrong. I didn't like any one of the options. CHAPTER IX. A TALK BEFORE BREAKFAST. Looking at my watch I found it was a little after 8, which meant G in Washington. Allowing for transmission, a telegram would reach there in time to be on hand with the opening of the departments. I therefore wired at once to the following effect: Postmaster General, Washington: A peremptory mundumus has been Issued by territorial judge to compel mo to deliver to addressee the three registered letters which by your directions, issued Oct. 10, I was to hold pending arrival of Special Agent Jackson. Service of writ will be made at 8:45 toduy unless prevented. Telegraph me instructions how to act. That done, I had a good tub, took a brisk walk down the track and felt so freshened up as to be none the worse for my sleepless night. I returned to the station a little after 6, and, to my surprise, found Miss Cullen walking up and down the platform. "You are up early 1" we both said together. ii it? ?? it /./mnlan'f JL huu Ol^UUU. A. WUAV4U v sleep last night." "You're not unwell, I hope?" "No?except mentally." I looked a question, and sho went on, "I have some worries, and then last night I saw you were all keeping some had news from me, and so I couldn't sleep." "Then we did wrong to make a mystery of it, Miss Culleu," I said, "for it really isn't any tiling to trouble about. Mr. Camp is simply taking legal steps to try to force me to deliver those letters to him." "And can ho succeed?" "No." "How will you stop him?" "I don't know yet just what we shall do, but if worse comes to worst I will allow myself to be committed for contempt of court.'' "What would they do with you?" "Give me fret! bo;ird for a time." "Not send you to prison?" "Yes." "Oh," sho cried, "that mustn't bo! You must not make such a sacrifice for us." "I'd do more than that for you," I said. And I couldn't help putting a little emphasis on the last word, though I knew I had no right to do it. She understoou me and blushed rosily, even while she protested, "It is too much"? "There's really no likelihood," I interrupted, "of my being able to assume a martyr's crown, Miss Cullen, so don't begin to pity me till I'm behind the bars." "But I can't bear to think"? "Don't," I interrupted again, rejoicing all the time at her evident anxiety and blessing my stars for the luck they had brought me. "Why, Miss Cullen," I went on, "I've become so interested in your success and the licking of those fellows that I really think I'd stand about anything rather than that they should win. Yesterday, when Mr. Camp 4.1? TKon T cfrvnTwl n.q "if. tiueaiciicu w ~ -suddenly occurred to me that it was best not to tell Madge that I might lose my position, for it would look like a kind of bid for her favor, and, besides, would only add to her worries. "Threatened what?" asked Miss Cullen. "Threatened to lose his temper, " I answered. "You know that wasn't what you were going to say," Madge said reproachfully. "No, it wasn't," I laughed. "Then what was it?" "Nothing worth speaking about." "But I want to know what he threatened. " "Really, MissCullen"? I began, but she interrupted me by saying anxiously: "He can't hurt papa, can he?" "No," I replied. "Or my brothers?" "He can't touch any of them without my help. And he'll have work to get that, I suspect." "Then why can't you tell me?" demanded Miss Cullen. "Your refusal makes me think you are keeping back some danger to them." "Why, Miss Cullen," I said, "Ididn't like to tell his threat because it seemed ?well, I may be wrong, but I thought it might look like an attempt?an appeal? Oh, pshaw!" I faltered, like a donkey. "I can't say it as I want to put it." "Then tell me right out what ho threatened," said Madge. ' Ho threatened to get me discharged," I said. That made Madge look very sober, and for a moment there was silence. Then sho said: "I never thought of what you were risking to help us, Mr. Gordon. And I'm afraid it's too late to"? "Don't worry about me," I hastened to interject. "I'm a long way from being discharged, and, even if I should be, Miss Cullen, I know my business, and it won't be long before I have another place." "But it's terrible to think of the injury we may have caused you," said Madge sadly. "It makes me hate the thought of money." "That's a very poor thing to hate," I said, "except the lack of it." "Are you so anxious to get rich?" asked Madge, looking up at me quickly 'Td do more than that for you." as we walked, for we had been pacing up and down the platform during our chat. "I haven't been till lately," I said. "And what made you change?" she questioned. "Well," I said, fishing round for some reason other than the true one, "perhaps I want to take a rest." "You are the worst man for fibs I ever knew," she laughed. I felt myself getting red, while I exclaimed, "Why, Miss Cullen, I don't think I'm a bit worso liar than"? "Oh," she cried, interrupting me, "I didn't mean that way. I meant that when you try to fib you always do it so badly that one sees right through you. Now, acknowledge that you wouldn't stop work if you could'' "Well, no, I wouldn't," I owned up. "The truth is, Miss Cullen, thatl'd like to be rich because?well, hang it, I don't care if I do say it?because I'm in love." Madge laughed at my confusion and said, "With money?" "No," I said; "with just the nicest, sweetest, prettiest girl in the world.'' Madge took a look at mo out of the corner of her eye and remarked, "It must be breakfast time." Considering that it was about 6:80, I wanted to ask who was telling a taradiddle now, but I resisted the temptation and said: "No, and I promise not to bother you about my private affairs any more." Madgo laughed again merrily, saying: "You aro the most obvious man I ever met. Now why did you say that?" "I thought you were making breakfast an excuse," I said, "because you didn't liko the subject. " "Yes, I was," said Madge frankly. "Tell me about the girl you are engaged to." I was so taken aback that I stopped in my walk and merely looked at her. "For instance," she asked coolly, when she saw that I was speechless "what docs she look like?" "Like, like"? I stammered, still embarrassed by this bold carrying the war into my own camp?'' like an angel." "Ofi," said Sludge eagerly, 'Tve always wanted to know what angels were like! Describe her to me." : "Well," I said, getting my second wind, so to speak, "she has the bluest eyes I've ever seen. Why, Miss Cullen, 8 you said you'd never seen anything so blue as the sky yesterday, but even the atmosphere of 'rainless Arizona' has to ij t;Jie a back seat when her eyes are j, round. And they are just like the at- ^ mosphere out here. You can look into them for 100 miles, but you can't get to a the bottom." 1 *' The Arizona sky is wonderful, "said b Madge. "How do the scientists account for it?" E I wasn't going to have my description jof Miss Cullen side tracked, for since she 0 had given me the chauco I wanted her .. to know just what I thought of her. I B didn't follow lead on the Arizona skies, t but went on: ^ "And I really think her hair is just t as beautiful as her eyes. It's light brown, very curly and"? '' Her complexion!'' exclaimed Madge. "Is she a mulatto, and, if so, how can ^ a complexion be curly?" "Her complexion," I said, not a bit rattled,'' is another great beauty of here. . She has one of those skins"? J! "Furs are out of fashion at present," she interjected, laughing wickedly. "Now, look here, Miss Cullen!" I 0 cried indignantly. "I'm not going to let * even you make fun of her." "I can't help it," she laughed, "when you look so serious and intense." "It's something I feel intense about, ? Miss Cullen,'' I said, not a little pained, I confess, at the way she was joking. I don't mind a bit being laughed at, but ? Miss Cullen knew about as well as I 1 whom I was talking about, and it seemed ? to me she was laughing at my love for * her. Under this impression I went on: F "I suppose it is funny to you. Probably f so many men have been in love with 1 you that it hits come to mean very little in your eyes. Put out here we don't * make a joke of love, and when we care r for a woman we care?well, it's not to 8 be put in words, Miss Cullen." "I really didn't mean to hurt your s feelings, Mr. Gordon,'' said Madge F gently, and quite serious now. "I ought F not to havo tried to tease you." d "There!" I said, my irritation en- F tircly gone. "I had no right to lose my I temper, and I'm sorry I spoke so un- t kindly. The tiwih is, Miss Cullen, the g girl I care for is in love with another e man, and so I'm bitter and ill nutured t in these days." f My companion stopped walking at t the steps of 218 and said, "Has she told li you so?" g " No," I answered. '' But it's as plain as she's pretty." p Madge ran up the steps and opened t the door of tho car. As she turned to f close it she looked down at me with the t oddest of expressions and said: d "How dreadfully ugly she must be!" r TO BE CONTINUED. F ?? a CRAZED BY THE STARING EYES. F a A Gravedlgffer's Grewiome Experience t Shatter* HI* Blind. ^ John McCloud, 81 years old, sexton of t St. Mary's Catholio church, South Amboy, t N. J., was recently driven Insane by a pe- . cullar experience. While digging a grave In the cemetery his spade broke through c a coffin which had been previously placed 8 In the plot. McCloud was standing shoul- J dor deep In the hole that he dug, and when t his spade struck the wooden obstruction g he was horrified to see an upturned face with glaring, open eyes, peering through j the broken boards of the coffin Ud, staring , at him as if In anger at being disturbed. ? McCloud stood transfixed for a moment, * unable to move. He almost fainted from c the nervous shock, and it was some moments before he became calm enough to ascend from the grave. He at first started to leave the cemetery, but returned and covered up the grave again, whloh he did with a great deal of difficulty, owing to tho nervous state he was in. After he had t finished his task, he returned to his home t and told his family of his strange expert- r enco. 0 From being a gay and light hearted man j, he went into a decline and became melancholy and morose. He was superstitious, and tho vision of the dead face haunted 1 him night and day until his mind gave G way. His relatives noticed tho change and c tried in every way to brighten him up and i remove from his mind the thought of his *] terrible experience. Their, efforts were of g no avail, and at last he became a raving ^ maniac, so violent that at times it required tho united efforts of three men to re- c strain him. 8 When he was in these fits, he would cry f out to those around him to remove the t dead body from his sight. ( Carious Cases of Cruelty to Animals. t Tho Boston Society For the Prevention e of Cruelty to Animals was very active last a year and investigated 8,000 cases of cruel a ty. One man, who drove his horse to c death, was sent to jail for six months. For ovordriving, two other men were sentenced to throe and four months, respectively. As 8 usual, there were a number of convictions r for beating and kicking animals, one man a being so gratuitously brutal as to beat a j gray squirrel. Another man, while drunk, i bit three inches off the tall of a cat. It 0 cost him $5 an inch. Two Frenchmen were fined $5 each for exhibiting a bear. F Tho animal was confiscated and killed, so 1 that thero will bo no more cruolties prac- 1 ticed on that bear, at any rnte. A butcher f was fined $10 for hanging up a steer before (3 slaughtering him. Two men, while drunk, c attempted to kill a hog with an ax. They f mangled him torribly and were each giv- c en ten months in the house of correction. . Two cases of docking horses' tails cost the ' offenders $100 each. , . # , c Soot Water For Plants. t Boot water, made from the soot of ? wood fires, is said to be an excellent fer- * tilizer of house or outdoor plants. The 0 soot should be brushed down from the 1 chimneys with a long handled bru6h, 0 gathered into a quart bag and soaked in r rainwater overnight. The water, black ? as ink, will be ready for use tbe next morning. To uso about house plants it ^ should be considerably diluted. It has ^ a tendency to bake the soil and can 1 easily be too strong for the little amount c of earth in window box or pot It is a perfect destroyer of insects and worms 1 that sometimes infest honse plants and to may be used in such cases once or twice o a week until they disappear.?New u York Times. ^ v Jrtiscetlaiuous Reading. , 1 AS SEEN BY A LAYMAN. i trong Endorsement ol the Position Taken ^ by Mr. MnLaarln. Since the delivery of his recent tar- , (T speech, Congressman McLaurin has < teen receiving numerous letters of en- i lorsement from all parts of the state, ] ,nd, with the consent of the writer, j las given out the following, dated Lis- ( on, Laurens county, April 2 : , Dear Sir : I hope you will excuse i oe for intruding on your time; but I lave just finished reading your speech >n the tariff and feel it my duty toexiress my thanks to you and to com- i nenH vnn for the stand vou have I aken. The southern members should j lave taken that position long ago; < ben, perhaps, we might have been in > better condition financially today. | Lt least we would have the satisfaction i f knowing that we had stood up man- i ully for our rights and not tamely * ubraitted to every demand that the j lorth has exacted of us. Your speech j 3 the ablest exposition of the infernal j leviltry (if you will pardon such an < ixpression) and the canting hypocrisy * if the descendenta of the Mayflower i rilgrims that it has ever been my < ileasure to read. It should be read i ly every man, woman and child in the | outhern states. It should be scatter- 1 id all over the United States. It will ] te one of the best campaign documents < hat could be asked for. If it does ] lot open the eyes of every southern * arraer as to the manner in which they 1 ire being fleeced to enrich the New England manufacturers and stop the | iroduction of any more Samps. Popes, , 3. S. Nettleses and George von Koln- , tzes, no argument will. The north j expressed great sympathy for France i vhen Germany took Alsace and Lor- , aine and demanded two billion franks j is a war indemnity ; but when it comes mmfi she has no svmDathv for the I outh. After destroying the south's , >roperty, the north has forced her to 1 >ay as pensions to the northern sol- , liers a far greater burden to the im- i toverished south than that imposed on j rrance; and added to that is the trib- , ite she has exacted of us under the ;uise of protection. While the southrn members of congress foolishly de- , sand free raw material, the northern ( ellows, with an eye to business, helped o secure their wish; at the same time, , mowing where the profits were, they j ;ot the manufactured article protected. t By placing everything the south i ?roduced on the free list, they have ( leen able to import tbe raw material , ree, or force the southern producers o accept their prices for southern pro- ( lucts. They then manufacture the ] aw material, purchased at free trade t trices, and sell back to the producers , it protection prices. No other peo- j >le or country but southern people , tod the south, placed iu the condition | hey were by the war, could have surived such a drain. It is time for us , o call a halt, and your speech is a ( imely notice that the new south in- , ends to made a departure from old , ustoms and will no longer quietly < ubmit to the unjust exactions of New < England, but will demand equal rights | o all and special privileges to no one ( ection of the Union. Not being one of your constituents, | feel a delicacy in addressing you, ( >ut being a South Carolinian and in t ull sympathy with you in this, is the , inly excuse I have to offer. ] Yours respectfully, i Alex J. Smith. , ? t 1 HOW ACTORS LEARN THEIR PARTS. Probably very few persons, when hey are witnessing a performance at be theater, give one thought to the nanner in which the well trained act- < irs have learned their parts. Yet this i 3 by no means an unimportant part I >f theatrical lives. Some actors, even I hose of long experience, have great ( lifficulty in committing their lines to J nemory. Different men have different oethods. Here are a few of them: i The most unsal method adopted by < tage people is to write out the part < wo or three times until the lines be- ! :ome familiar, one very well known ! otor declares that until he has per- I ormed this process at least a dozen < imes he has not an idea of the words. < )n the other hand, one celebrated i lomedian is almost word perfect after i he first writing out of the role. Oth- I irs, again, simply read the lines over i ind over again, just us a child learns i l lessou at school. But perhaps ODe i ?f the most extraordinary methods of < ill is that adopted by an American j ictor who owns a phonograph. He eads the whole part into the machine, ind then makes the phonograph re>eat the lines to him time after time | mtil the words become familiar. An- i ither performer, who spends the best i >art of the day when not rehearsing, < n bed, gets his wife to do the same I king for him as the phonograph does or the American thespian. The writer i loes not know, however, which methid is the more successful. Another < ootlight favorite avers that he can i mly learn his "scrip" when traveling i n the train or a cab or other vehicle. < ie states that the motiou assists his 1 irain to take in and retain the words, i hough why this should be so it is i omewhat hard to say. It is well i mown, of course, that authors and ] ither persons who have to exercise heir imagination (more or less) will iften find their brains stimulated by i apid motiou ; but one would hardly 1 lelieve that the organ of memory ] vould be so influenced. Strong drink i las often been known to rob a man of < lis memory for the time being, and I he events of a dissipated evening are I oustantly what novelists call a I blankbut what will be thought of < he actor who seriously declares that ; ie can only commit his lines to mem- i ry when in a state of semi-drunken- j iess ? When he is sober, he says, the < vords seem to make no impression on I him ; but let bim be elevated with drink, and he positively "eats" the lines, retaining them afterwards most thoroughly. Strange vagary of the human brain, this. But whatever bis methods, or difficulties in learning his part, the actor has to be word perfect at the dress rehearsal, and when he somes forward on the first night and reels off his words as though they represented his spontaneous thoughts, it is somewhat hard for those "in front" to realize the fact that the words in H f ?/\n A MA KAAIlU A C 1 a jucouuu atc iuo icouit ui inuuiiuus, md, in some cases, most eccentric itudy. THE PRESIDENT'S CABINET. An effort will be made to have the aumber of cabinet officers increased to nine. The proposition being agitated s to create a cabinet department of commerce and industry. The first cabinet, that of Washington, consisted of five members. The secretary of state was paid $3,500 a pear, and the others $3,000 each. War and navy formed obo department, ind there was no department of the nterior or of agriculture. The first ncrfease in the number of cabinet officers was under President Jefferson, who had a secretary of the navy and a secretary of war, instead of the two offices being one. The number regained at six until President Taylor's term, wheu a secretary of the interior was added. Just before the close of President Cleveland's first term the department of agriculture was established, and a secretary of agriculture was created. Prior to that there had been a commissioner of agriculture. The salaries of the cabinet officers tiave been increased from time to time, until now they are $8,000 per year each. During the first three or four Eidministrations of the United States the cabinets were not composed exclusively of men who agreed in politics. Washington's administration was kept in a state of turmoil by the disagreements between Hamilton and Jefferson, until finally the cabinet was broken up. Madison, John Adams and Jackson had much trouble with their cabinets. Madison had 17 men in his cabinet during two terms ; Jackson had 17; and Grant had 21. The Eye of the Hobse.?In purchasing a horse a close scrutiny of the eye as to any defects is imperative. The following points therefore may be of value : The calf eye or gross eye is one where the eyeball is too prominent, that is, bulges out from between the eye lids. Animals with such an nAOMi/vv^fa/) no a ?nn_ DJO QI C Vlicu ucaioi^uv^u auu uo w wusequence shy or are irresolute. Id the small eye or pig's eye, the eyeball is not well developed, the eyelids are thick and the openiog between them is narrow. The eye as a whole appears triangular. This eyes iB especially prone to diseases, periodic ophthalmia, commonly known as moon blindness is often seen in them. The concealed eye is justly known as the eye of the vicious horse. It is characterized by its smallness and somewhat sunken state, while the bony arch above the eye is excessively developed. Eyes unequal in size are always suspicious, as they either have been diseased or are very apt to become diseased. The wall eye is frequently looked upon as a bad eye, but such is not the case. Of course it is as liable to disease as any other eye but certainly not predisposed to eye troubles. It is recognized by the absence of the natural hazel color in the visible colored portion of the eye, causing the eye to look pearly white. W. E. A. Wyman, V. S. Clemson College, S. C., April 10th, Round the World.?The planet cn which we live is now a small concern in comparison to what it appeared to be to our grandfathers. When the trans-Siberian railroad is completed, one may travel around the world in 33 days, thus: from New York to Bremen, seven days; from Bremen to St. Petersburg, one and one-half days; from St. Petersburg to the Pacific, ten days; from the Pacific to San Francisco, ten days; from San Francisco to New York, four and onehalf days; total, 33 days. Summer excursions around the eartb will become fashionable. As tbe distant nations and countries will come much nearer to one another, many of the mutual prejudices will give way to a better mutual understanding, and tbe human family will become more reconciled and prepared for that brotherhood of the whole race which Israel's prophets many centuries ago predicted with so much certainty. t6T The celebrated phrase, "Millions for defense, not a cent for tribute," was the reply made by Charles Cotesworth Pinckney to the Jirectory of France. Pinckney had been sent as an embassador from the United States to solicit aid from France in the probable trouble between the United States and Great Britian. The iirectory refused to receive Pinckney, and also refused even the promise of assistance; but intimated that the julicious use of money paid by the United States government to France night have influence in securing favorable action. Pinckney made his reply, which has become a watchword in our foreign policy. IST" The campaign against cigarettes s increasing in strength. Like7most -eforms of the kind, it is largely dependent on women, who are pushing inti-cigarette bills into the legislatures >f the various states. Iu Tennessee ibe governor has just signed an absolutely prohibitory cigarette law. The Connecticut law forbids the sale of jigarettes to persons under sixteen years of age. The Kentucky law makes the age limit eighteen. The Massachusetts law, which is generally jbeyed, forbids the sale of cigarettes ;o minors.