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YORKVILLE ENQUIRER. issnxis twice al webz-wednesdat and saturday. l. k. grist & sons, Publishers. } A ^amitn fleirspaper: ?or the promotion of the gotitieat, ?ociat, Agricultural, and Commeijciat Interests of the ?outh. { VOL. 44. YORKVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1898. NO. 12. LOLA CR BY A. W. MAR! Author of "Miser Hoadley's Secret," "By .Whose Hand ?" and Copyright, 1897, by the Author. Synopsis of Previous Installments. T? 1?41 4 A*' Tap l?V. Ill UlUtJI luat nor* icnuoio ma JL UK quirkr may begin with the following installment ot this story, and understand it just the same as though they had readmit all from the beginning, we here give a synopsis of that portion of it which has already been published: Lola Turrian, whose father, an exile for crime, is at the inercy of her husband, goaded by Turrian, pushes him from the Devil's rock and supposes him to be dead. Sir Jaffray Walcote, partly pledged to his cousin, Bery! Leycester, proposes to Lola and is finally accepted. Beryl, though she loves Sir Jaffray, magnanimously acquiesces. Lola and Sir Jaffray are married and leave England. Turrian makes his appearance at the home of Beryl Leycesterarid learns of Lola's marriage. Sir Jaffray and Lola return to England, where Lola meets Turrian and ignores the fact that she is his wife, introducing him to Sir Jaffray as a musician from whom she had taken lessons, but secretly grants him an allowance. Turrian tells of a friend who was pushed from the Devil's rock by his wife, and Beryl recognizes those referred to. CHAPTER XIL AJi EVIL FLAN. As Pierre Tnrrian stood, like one spellbound, reading the slip of paper which Beryl had pet into bis hand his first struggle was to fight with the seuse of paralyzing astonishment which the girl's words had produced. Then be ransucked every nook and cranny of his memory to recall what had passed between them at the time of their first interview, while mixed op cariQusly with the whoie mental effort was a recollection of his blunder, for which be enrsed himself, in mistaking this calm, unimpassioned, qniet girl for a fool. His first sign of a recovery from his surprise was a laugh, forced, short, unnatural and sneeriDg, but still au advance from his silence of blank dismay "How do you say you got this, Miss Leycester?" he asked, waving the paper fnnrnr/I hor ntid orient ina with a sneer ! on his lip. "The question is not how 1 got it, but what it means," returned Beryl coldly. "On the contrary, it has everything to do with it. It is tbe most extraordinary coincidence I have ever heard of." "Is that your answer?" And Beryl 4 looked more stern than before, every feature speaking her disbelief. 4 'There is nothing to answer in such a thing as this. If you want an answer, all I can say is that either those who gave you this have imposed upon you in tbe most monstrous fashion in the world, or for some purpose which I don't pretend to know you are trying to impose on me. That is what I mean when I want to know where you got this extraordinary, document." He laughed again now, as if tlie charge were beneath serious notice. "You are recovering from your first surprise, and in your effort to find time iu which to invent some sort of explanation you make it a kind of implied charge against me that I have been prying into your secrets. I understand you perfectly and have seen through your pretenses from the first Please to appreciate that fact in whatever you suy." He looked at her viciously as she spoke, but he wus almost frighteued at the cold, implacable, resolute frankness of her gray eyes. He shrugged his shoulj j I:CA?i i.;. u?.win uers uuu uneu lijb v>ujic uuuuo auu smiled till be showed bis teeth as hereplied in a tone of assumed carelessness: "Yon are a delightful antagonist, Miss Leycester, so fair, so true, so straight. But tell me, if you have made up your mind beforehand that I have all sorts of pretenses to be seen through and that 1 am the villain your looks imply, what is the use of this conversation?" "I have said nothing about your being a villain, M. Turrian. I have asked you only what that entry in the 5st Sulpice book means. That is all." "And in what capacity do you do me the honor to catechise me? On whose behalf do you act? In what interest?" There was no mistaking the palpable sneer in the question. "There is no necessity to answer that question. You are i:ct compelled to an|wer what I have asked you unless you please." He was cm.u.ng enough ot fence to see his advantage und to press it instantly. "On the continent, Aliss Leycester, we are not accustomed to meet wi;it lady knights errant who take up the cause of men of the world whom tbey imagine to have been ill used. It may be quite usual in England, of course, but that is my reason for asking in whose interest you undertake this energetic detective work." His last words stung her, but she showed no irritatiou. "The one question is what that paper means," she said finely "There is no other question of any importance." 41 Well, that is quite my view. " He bad now recovered his customary impudent audacity and was beginning to enjoy the incident. 44And in that view this paper means that a young lady of excellent family, uubltmished character, great mental capacity and many personal charms," and he bowed and paused a moment, "who is not married to Sir J affray W'alcote, much to the regret of that distinguished baronet's more distinguished mot In r, has bun prying into matters which do not concern her at ail, except, of course, in so far as they relate to that period of her life when?it was gem rally understood she would make that marriage." 44 You will do no good by evading the question I have asked you in the attempt?a useless one, I assure you?to irritate me by insults into a foigetfuluess of it," replied Beryl, seeing that AWSHAY. CHMONT, B. A. "The Mystery of Mortimore Strange," [ "The Old Mill Mystery." fie paused to notice what enecc ma words would Lave upon her. "It looks?I do not say it is, but it looks?as if any such action were impelled by a deBire to injure the woman who had taken the place of that young lady of excellent character as the wife of Sir Jaffray. The world is a harsh censor, Miss Levcester," be said, with an indescribable air of patronage and worldly wisdom, "and reads the motives which lie on the. surface, especially when somebody's character is dirtied in the process. Had you not better be careful?" "That iB nonsense," replied Beryl curtly, "and you know it as well as I. What my motive may be is my own j concern, and 1 am not likely to ask you < or"? She checked herself, and in a i flush be filled up the gap. i "Say Sir Jaffray's wife," he said, with a grin. ''Or any one," she added, passing by j the interruption, "to help me to take i care of myself. If things are as that pa- i per says, the motives of those who discover the truth are of no concern. I am not here to discuss motives, but facts. Is : that trne or not?" point iug to the paper, i "Certainly nud emphatically it is not 1 trne in the seuse in which you seem to imply it?that I ever married Lola < Crawsbay at the Church of St. Sulpice : in Montreux. The thing is ridiculous." i And be shrugged his shoulders again with bis usual gesture. < "You make my part much more diffi- I cult," said the girl, and then she turned : aside a moment iu thought. "Do you : understand that?" she asked after a mo- . ment of consideration. i "Miss Leycester, 1 understand noth . ing whatever of all of this," he an- i swered. < "I have evidence which puts it be- i yond the shadow of a doubt that what fliat- rinnor euro lc fmn f llflt. mn HTA * VUMV UMJU ?M V* "V, J v? ? the Pierre Turriau named on tbe face of it, and that on tbe dute given you married tbe Lola (Jravvsbay mentioned there, and that tbe Lola Crawsbay is tbe same woman wbo. is now my Consiu Jaffray's wife. Is that plain enough? If you wish to know bow I found it out, I may tell you that your own conduct at tbe last interview we bad set me thinking, that tbe monstrous story you told about your fiddle strings did not for a moment deceive me, that your confusion when I told you of tbe marriage made it as plain as day that your interest was infinitely greater than you pretended, while your own mention of Montreuz and your subsequent obvious attempt to make me tbink there was nothing of importance in your connection with Moutreus confirmed my opinion, and that a subsequent chain of circumstances, all save one unsought by me, forced tbe full discovery upon me. That every fact is known to me please to recognize as absolutely certain." He bad listened to her statement almost breathlessly, yet showing outwardly no more than a sort of polite indifference, but be was revolving hastily in bis thoughts a score of different courses of action. There was no use in further concealment. It was clear from the pitiless frankness of tbe deliberate statement that this girl was speaking the truth, and it seemed as though all the pleasant plans of an easy life were to be shattered in a moment, and he hated toe womau wbo had done it just as he hated everything that came in the path of his enjoyment. He glanced at her vindictively as she was saying the last words, and he felt that he would give half his life if he could have seen that cold, hard, merciless face lying dead before him at that instant. That thought started another and a grimmer one, so grim that involuntarily lip olnnpprl nhrmt him. as if the mere harboring of it might be dangerous, i while his lips felt suddenly so parched i that he moistened them with his tongue. The idea grew on him like the germ i of a noisome plague, and instinctively bis cunning prompted him to shape his course by it What he had to find out was whether any one else knew of this secret. Now that his eyes had been so rudely i opened to the real cleverness of the girl Who had thus faced him his wits had been quickened to read her, so as to know how best to deal with her. For that new plan of his he must i have time. "I accept your conditions, Miss i Leycester," he said when she finished. "I admit?for now it is useless to deny? that what you have found out is true in every detail." The suddenness of his change of manner and of the confession startled the girl more than anything that had yet ' passed, and she shrank back and clinched her hands tightly. "Then what business have yon here?" sho cried in a voice filled with indignation and anger. "I will tell you all, everything," he said. He paused a mouieut iu indecision. He was doubtful even at the last moment whether for his purposes he would be wiser to put the blame on himself or on Lola, nor did lie settle the point until he had begun to spiak again. "You have learned much of the " l,n c-iirl "liPI'.lllSfi VOI1 llUVe learned the foundation fact of this most 6a?l and terrible matter, fcjir Jaffray Walcote and 1 are both married to the woman who is known as his wife, but by law and right she is my wife." The expression on Beryl's face deepened to one of acute pain. "It is terrible!" she exclaimed, almost under her breath. Bhe had been "Qo OTt? to the end," said Beryl. confident of it before, bat this plain statement of it by the Frenchman shocked her. "Yon do.not know ail." "More tban yon seem to think," she interposed. "I recognized that awful story which yon told last night ut dinner. " He looked very keenly at her for an instant, and something which he read in her face decided him so to tell the story as to make Lola appear the unwilling victim of bis own villainy. "Ma foi, I told it well!" he ex- ( claimed, with a boastful laugh. "And it was a devilish bit of revenge, and on my soul I was sorry for the poor girl. You know, Miss Leycester, I am not cast in the mold of common men. I can be as stanch and true and good as the rarest of men, but 1 can also be just qs rough and hard?aye, and as merciless. Man that is born of woman is born sometimes with all a woman's qualities. My mother was a tigress. Let me smoke. It is long since 1 was in tbe confessional box, and I need tobacco to ?*!? ...?j? ? LLlUKtJ l/IJtJ ?'UIUD WUJC guuij. He spoke with easy, fluent impudence, infinitely disgusting to Beryl, but chosen by biin designedly to throw back the girl's pity on Lola, painting himself intentionally in the blackest colors. "I married Lola Crawshay," he re- < sumed after lighting a fresh cigarette, "from no silly, sentimental notions, but t>ecanse I bad a bold over her on account of a trip of her long headed but somewhat irresponsible old fatber. To ( 3o the girl justice, she never did any- , thing but hate me, but she was exceedingly useful, and?well, she was afraid ( to carry her hatred of me too far because I had a knack of using with ex- \ cellent effect my knowledge of her father's mistake. You understand?" He leered at her with repulsive assur- ; ince as he paused to tuke a couple of | whiffs of the cigarette, which he did , with great apparent enjoyment. , "You will make this as short as possible if you please," said Beryl, begin- . aing to take tbe impression of the case ' which he intended. J "Certainly. Well, 1 will pass over cur matrimonial life and hurry on to J the end. There came the day when we ( Qad tbe scene 011 the Devil's rock. 1 , colored the incident a little in my telling it last night, and the little episode , cf the stamping on my fingers was an effort of my own invention. " He did j not wish Beryl to think that Lola had . done anything of tbe kind. "In the plain and uncolored version I had nothing but my own clumsy stupidity to , blame for the whole affair. I had said , things which did not please her lady- , ship?a man cannot always guard his , tongue, you know, Miss Leycester, even to his wile?aud when she retort- 1 ed I tried force, uud then when she re- ( seuted it 1 started back, and, like a , fool, fell over the edge of the cliff. How I was saved from iustaut death I can- ( ot even guess, but I didn't die, as you ( can see for yourself, and when I found myself alive I had wit enough to hide . the fact of iny escape, seeing that in , course of time 1 could probably make excellent use of it should she ever again marry. I wasn't altogether a bad judge, as you will now admit. Was 1?" , "Have you anything else to tell me?" asked Beryl, with angry contempt. "Anything else?" And he laughed ( lightly and rolled the cigurette between bis fiugers and looked at it as he repeated the words with the air of one" who repeats a good joke. "Anything else? I should think so. Why, I could i fill up any number of your spare hours ( with the tale of any number of good I things, but let me stick to this one i while 1 am about it. I didn't get off j scot free, of course. I sprained and bruised and strained aud crushed myself in a goodly number of places, and | as soon as I could do so without that ( devoted wife of mine knowing anything about it I laid up and passed a mouth or two dismally in bed, maturing my plans, but when I got about again my lady had flown, and, what was worse, her father was as dead as the tombstone they put over him in Neufchatel ceme- , tery. Well, I let her go. I let her feel ner ireeaom. l am kiuci aua genue as the morning when no one gets in my way. I let her go. I knew I could find her, and being always an honest and industrious soul I set to work whereby to live, but in a year I began to pine, to droop, to fail, and I set out on my travels in search of her who had deserted me. In the course of time I tracked her to England, and?well, you know the rest." He stopped and waved bis baud as though he had finished. "Go on?to the end," said Beryl. "The end! Ma foi, the end is not yet! You gave me the news that my wife had done what I hoped she would, and yon helped me to find her. I thank you. I found her, saw her, showed her what my power was and how she must do what I wished or be draggled in the dirt of scandal and calumny. Poor Lola I I am sorry for her. She thought my booes were bleaching at the foot of the Devil's rock when they walked into fcer presence, covered with flesh and clothed in sprightly attire. Poor devil! Bat a man mast live." And belaagbed as if the thoagbt tickled him. Beryl looked at him with the deepest loathing and conld scarce restrain the words of scorn that rose to her lips. He read her looks. "1 see what yoa woald say," he ex claimed, with bis usual movement of the shoulders as if to deprecate her opinion. "For the moment it is an ngly looking part that I play, bnt Lola can well spare the little allowance which I require for my few wants. She made the mistake, not I, and man can't-live without money. 1 am no Enoch Arden, and so long as no one knew there was no risk. Bnt now yon have probably told half a dozen people, and the thing ronst end, and that's all abont it. I'm not sure that I'm sorry." "I have told no one as yet," said Beryl, and conld she have seen the light that leaped into his eyes at the statement she would have been on her guard, bnt her head was turned from him for the moment. "I don't mean told people outright, but you silly women do a hundred things which leave the trail of yonr movements such that a blind fool can see what yon've been doing. It's tLe same thing." "No one has even a suspicion of this horrible secret except myself," said the girl. "There's bnt one paper which under any conceivable circumstances could suggest a clew to any one. I have been most scrupulous because I have bad to think of the honor of the family. I have a plan"? But at that tooment the door of the { conservatory wis opened with a needless amount of noise, aud some one came in coughing loudly and shuffiiug the feet on the'tiled floor. The two turned and found Mrs. De Witt coming toward tbem. "I hope I don't intrude, bnt npou my word I couldn't restrain myself any longer. I'm only n woman, yon know, and when I'd seen yon two here in such 6erious consultation for over an honr? positively, Beryl, over an bcnr, and nearly two?and as I was dying to know what it was all about I couldn't resist the temptation to inuke a noise and come in. M. Tnrriau, you interest me so much I can't bear to see yon monopolized in this way, and by Beryl, too, of ull people." And she looked from one to the other with curiosity in every eyelash. "Madame, if the interest that yen feel were only such as I could dare to hope I should feel that I bad lived indeed." And he bowed with his exaggerated courtesy, while a mocking smile drew down tbe corners of his mouth. " You Frenchmen are all equally insincere," she said. "But what on earth have you two been talking about, you two of all others?" "You may not know, madatne,"re plied Turrian gravely, "that Miss Leycester was the first person in England to whom I spoke on the great object of my presence here in England, that she then was able to throw most valuable light upon it, and now I have been ex plaining to her at great length all that is meant by tbe fifth string on a violin and all tbe part I have cast for myself. Is not that so, Miss Leycester?" He turned to her with unabashed impudence and Bmiled as he waited for her answer. Beryl passed over the qaestion and spoke to Mrs. De Witt. "We had nearly finished. You did not interrupt. I want to think over what M. Turrian has said." And she left them. "She takes the interrupticn badly," Baid Mrs. De Witt when the two were alone. "I think she is a good deal changed?since this marriage," she added a little maliciously. "I have beard about that," said M. Turrian significantly. "She is a very curious girl, I should think very close and secretive. Umph!" "She is as good as sterling gold," Baid Mrs. De Witt in a burst of enthusiasm, but, hedging her verdict instautlv. "and. like all good neople, some times very objectionable. As for closeness, sbe might be an iron safe." "I thought so," murmured the Frenchman, and as he turned the conversation with a light compliment the thought was running in his head that Beryl alone knew the secret and that if by mischance she were to die it would die with her. TO BE CONTINUED. Won by His Wits.?The persistency of a street urchin who wishes to earn money is something annoying, but generally excusable. Now and then it becomes amusing and almost irresistible. ''Say, mister, do you want your valise carried?" asked such a boy, running after a man who was hurrying along the street, evidently bound for the depot. "No, I don't," answered the man, a little sba ply. "I'll carry it to the depot for a dime," persisted the boy. "I tell you I don't want it carried," said the man, quickening his pace. "Don't you ?" said the boy, breaking into a trot to keep abreast of his victim. "No, I don't!" said the man, glancing fiercely at his small tormentor. "Well, then, mister," said the urchin, with an expression of anxious and innocent inquiry on his round, dirty p. U...UA? afA tiAii oarrvincr it. fnr? IUCCj ? i j n l ate jvu va?? j??g ? .w. . Why don't you set it down ?" In spite of himself, the man's mouth twitched, and with a "There, take it!" he passed over the bag to bis persistent companion, who staggered rapidly along without another word until the depot was reached, where he received the coveted 10-cent piece with a beaming smile. S&T Spain has more sunshine than any other country in Europe, the yearly average being 3,000 hours. piscfUaneous Reading. ; THE NEWSBOY WON. < While the eastern lines are compara- ' tively free from that obnoxious at- 1 tacbment, the newsboy, many of the ! western roads still have them in plen- 1 ty, says the New York Tribune. On a train running over the Santa Fe, from Kansas City to Chicago, a news- ! boy was plying his trade with great 1 vigor. He encountered in one of the forward coaches a passenger who, although it was broad daylight, was try- ] inc to snatch a nan. He had secured 1 ?o ? r a pillow, and, stretcbiog out in the 1 seat, had just dozed off' when the boy < came-through. "Papers ? candy ? books?cigars!" 1 bowled the boy in the ear of the sleep- < ing man. "Better buy a book. Here's ' a good one. 'Little Rosebud's Lovers,' 1 by Laura Jean Libbey?hot stuff !' ' All the man did was to swear, and the j boy passed on. In a few moments the I wiKi BA;i'^KC <%?&M HB2BBHB V' tr^ -M MM % V/-v^h j ifBH jBl^ni H fl BEFORE THE CO The above photograph is of a salesda if it were taken last Monday. The step court bouse, and the circular object in the the fountain which plays opposite the bi in the bidding that is to follow the read to be sold. The large building on the righ goods store. The identity of the man with old gentleman who stands behind, ought any individual who has ever been to Y who claimed to have been here and w have misrepresented the matter at home man dozed off again, and the boy sud- i denly appeared again. { "Books I" he shrieked in the ear of i the sleeping man. "Chewing gum I" \ The man arose and swore again t mightily, and the boy passed on. ( Again the traveler patiently settled e down for a nap, and bad fairly start- 1 ed when the boy loomed up again. t "Harper's?just out!" he shrieked. The man sprung up livid in the face. "I don't want any of your books, or anything. If you have a j nice baby elephant I will buy it; but I don't want anything else, so get out e of here, and don't come back." j The boy passed on and the man fell asleep. Presently the boy returned J and inquired solicitously, "Do you want a male or a female elephant ?" ( The man only glared. The boy j wandered up to the front of the car j and waited until the passenger had j fairly dozed off, and then came back ^ and shook him gently. t "Do you want a white elephant, or t will any old kind do?" Then there was an explosion, and the boy fled to the next car, only to return in a few moments, after the t man Ha/1 miiotpd flown, and. r.limbin2 i u,?u **"" M 1 1 oover the back of the seat, said in a whisper : "Must this elephant be trained?or will any kind do ?" The man looked steadily at his tormentor, and then bought "The Quick or the Dead ?" for $2, hoisted the window and hurled it out, and turned over to go to sleep. The boy walked off with a smile of triumph on bis face. The man slumbered on, the train rolled on, and the hoy every once in a while passed through the car and tiptoed so that he wouldn't wake the sleeper. WINTER CLOTHING. In writing about "Clothing as a Protection Against Cold," Dr. Robson Roose, an English authority, lays much stress on three points that are too generally disregarded. Not clothing, but plenty of exercise and proper food are the sources of bodily warmth ; clothing does not give warmth, but only retains that of the body. Therefore at least one hour a day should be devoted to active exercise, after which a cold bath should be taken, if possible, and a- change of underclothing certainly. One heavy garment of any kind is not so effective in retaining bodily heat as two much lighter garments of Daftiroon onnarotn nrormontc llltlt MUUi iJCl TV ttu 0?|'ai?VV(l,HiuJVMi>w t lies of layer of air, warmed from the body, and as still air is an excellent 8 nonconductor of heat, it keeps the ' body's from radiation, or going away ' on the moving outer air. Another advantage of thin woollen garments is that they can be easily re- ( duced or multiplied in number worn t to suit changes of weather. Many ath- t letic men value this advantage greatly, < and wear two or even three light over- ? coats, instead of one heavy oue in severely cold weather. When a thaw i comes they lay one or more off', and i so escape the overheating and sweat- ] ing from which the heavy-coated suffer during warm winter spells. The Japanese and Chinese both understand this principle well, and go clad in thin garments, each .layer formed like its fellows. They reduce Dr add to the number of layers according to the degree of outer cold. Moderately loose garments retain the body's warmth much better than tight ones, simply because the loose include more air that the body has warmed. Again, a loosely woven fabric is oetter than one woven closely. This s not commonly appreciated enough jy civilized people, who are apt to choose clqge-woven thick garments for winter wear. The American Northwest Indians knows better. He goes ilad in blankets, and bis squaw weaves iiim, from small peltries, a coarse robe ;hat is wonderfully effective. The rabbit or squirrel or sometimes gopher skins are cut into strips with ;he hair or fur on, and these strips are -tt?r-= -T?? URT HOUSE DOOR. ,y scene in Yorkville, and it is just as ?s shown are the front entrance to the foreground is a portion of the hasin of ailding. The crowd aronnd is interested ing of the description of the property t is the rear end of H. C. Strauss's dry the books in his hand, as also that of the to be established without difficulty by orkville on salesday. In fact the man ho cannot identify these parties, must and gone somewhere else, voven crisscross so loosely that a finder can easily be poked through. Yet such a robe one can sleep in a tent vithout fire on a far below zero night ind feel positively hot. So if "By >h, Baby Bunting's" mother got that lort of a rabbit skin to wrap Baby Sunting in, the infant was well proected. RAPID BREATHING AS A REMEDY. About 15 years ago Major General Drayson of the British army often luffered, especially at night, from a levere pain in the region of the heart. 3e believed be was doomed to die <oon of heart disease. About that ime certain of bis experiences in the nountains of India led him to think hat his heart pain might be due to nsufficient oxygenation of the blood. 3e therefore tried to relieve it by treathing rapidly?at the rate of about 10 breaths a minute. In a few seconds be pain ceased and did not return bat night. After that, he says be always resortid to the same expedient, and invaiably with success. As time went on be pain became not only less frequent >ut less severe, and now, if there is be slightest indication of it, rapid >reatbing prevents its arrival at maurity. He thereupon brings forward many nstances in support of bis belief that ome of the advantages of moderate ixercise are to be gained by simply irealhing rapidly. Rapid breathing is in effort of exercise, and this is beneicial because the rapid breathing gives he blood plenty of oxygen. Invalids or others who cannot take sxercise can obtain some of its good iffects by deliberately passing much >ure air through the lungs. Rapid >reatbing is particularly helpful in :ases of sleeplessness and restlessness. The air must of course be pure, else apid breathing can have no good effects. Hundreds of thousands attribite disease to themselves when nothing s wrong except their habits of breathng air impure from tobacco smoke, ^as-burning, or simply from a lack of ventilation. Impure air makes impure blood and mpure tlesh. Thus those who consume such air fall quickly into and beore disease. They cannot endure an >pen window or door because they eel cold, this sense of coldness being n many case simply a symptom that he blood has been vitiated by the >reathing of poisonous air. To breathe air laden with human exlalations is not a whit more sensible, ? ^ ' AkriAMtma Urt n /\ lb vjreuerui fitt^auu uuaci *ca, mou tu Irink liquid sewage for a beverage.? ifouth's Companion. The Dog Voted.?The Rev. Dr. J. 2. Wingo was recently re-elected pas,or of the Baptist church at Carrollon by the most unanimous vote ever :ast by its members, says the Atlanta fournal. It was at the annual church rueetng, over which Dr. Fitts was presidng. One of the members has a pet 5Ug dog that has been taught a num ber of tricks, one being to rise to bis bind legs and walk at tbe command "stand." Dr. Wingo bad retired in order that the church might vote on the question of his re-election. One brother had moved the re-election of Dr. Wingo. Another had seconded the motion, and several speeches bad been made, while the pug dog, blinking solemnly, sat in tbe front part of the church. The question was called for, and Dr. Fitts put it. "All who are in favor of the re-election of Brother Wingo will please rise and stand." F.vorvhnHv rrtaa and than tha ntitr " ? Vi J WVViJ ? VOVj MUVt vuvu vuv 2^ 0 dog got up very solemnly on bis hind legs and walked around in front of the pulpit. Everybody laughed, and then Dr. Wingo was informed that be bad been re-elected by the unanimous vote of the members and the dog. ARIZONA OSTRICH FARM. Peculiar Habit* of the Large Bird* From the Sahara. Globe-Democrat. "There is money in raising ostriches, and this fact has been demonstrated by the owners of an ostrich farm in * Arizona," remarked Colonel W. 8. Hadley, of Phoenix, Arizona, at the Laclede. There are now about 100 ostriches on this farm, and all the birds are doing well. The farm was first started as an experiment, but it has proved to be a fairly good business venture. The ostrich has many peculiar habits, and it took some time'for the managers of the farm to learn how to handle these Sahara desert birds. For instance, the female makes a nest by scratching a hole in the ground large enough to hold a bushel basket. She lays 20 eggs before she commences to sit. Each egg is left just outside the nest, until the 20 eggs eucircle the hole in the ground. Then the female kicks all the eggs into the hole with one foot. She sits at night, and the male sils on the nest in daytime, thus lobinn tnanaKAilt until t VftXX UAIintV Afl. lavwug iui uauv/u v uuvu vuv jvuug ww < iriches are hatched. "A young ostrich must be one year old before it can be 'picked.' An ostrich has scarcely any feathers on its neck and breast, and is, therefore, an ungainly looking bird. The long feathers, known in the trade as ostrich plumes, are plucked from the wings. These plumes are shipped to New York, and bring from $7 to $9 per pound. Of course, these plumes are there cleaned and steamed, and when fully prepared for the millinery market, bring from $7 to $9 apiece. An old ostrich is worth from $75 to $100, and a young one is worth from $40 to $50, and they are sold at those prices to menageries and zoological gardens throughout the country. Another revenue comes to this farm from the sale of ostrich eggs. Persons buy them as curiosities, paying $5 apiece for them. It has been found that the ostrich thrives splendidly on the alfalfa grass that grows wild in Arizona. Sometimes corn is fed to them. It is quite amusing to see a long-necked ostrich swallow a whole ear of corn as easily as a chicken swallows one grain of corn." PLANNING THE CAPITAL CITY. The city of Washington was long known as the city of magnificent distances. Yet how few us have ever heard of the man who, with a grand faith in the future, planned the city and designed its first public buildings. Peter Charles L'Enfant was born in 1785 in France. He entered the French army with the commission of a lieutenant, and prepared to scale the slow and difficult ladder of military promotion. But when the American colonies raised the standard of revolt, he watched their course with keen interest. As soon as the colonies proclaimed the doctrines of freedom, and declared themselves an independent nation, L'Enfant resolved to give his skill as an engineer to the cause. He came over with Datayette id 1777, aod almost immediately received a commission in the Continental army. On the 18th of February, 1778, he was made captain of engineers, and was a remarkably active and able officer. In the attack on Savannah he displayed the utmost gallantry, and was severely wounded. On his recovery General Washington appreciated his merits so highly that he placed him on his staff. After the war he employed his skill on various engineering and architectural works at Fort Mifflin. The selection of a district for the seat of government was a subject of long discussion, and when the present District of Columbia was fixed upon, Major L'Enfant was selected to lay out the city of Washington, aDd to select the position. He drew the plans also for some of the public buildings, and sketched others as a part of his projected arrangement of tne city. In 1812 this able veteran of the Revolution received the offer of a professorship of engineering in the Military academy, West Point, but declined the position. He died at his home in Prince George's county, Maryland, June 14, 1825. Nearer Than That.?It may be news to many people that there can be a nearer family relation than that of brother and sister, but a little miss gave this information to the world on the first day of her attendance at the public school: Accompanied by a small boy she appeared in the school-room, and the teacher Droceeded to take down the new pupils' names, which were given as Ralph and Edith JohnsoD. "Brother and sister, I suppose," said the teacher, pleasantly. "Oh, no ma'am, we're twins!" was the little girl's reply. fIt may be pleasaut to be a man's first love, but a wise woman will prefer to be his last.