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ISSUED SEMI-WEEKLT. t. *. grist's sons. Pubiiihen j % .Jfamilg $ f :rs pa p t r: 4?r (hi promotion of the political, Social. ^griuollural and tommerfial Jnterats of the jpfople. { tkk?wolk chiA.Vivk i>E^VANCK' established 1855. YORKville, stc^"FRID A-:Y,IsroyEMBER 15, 1907." KO. 92. . Brothe . * # BY ETTA \ CHAPTER III?Continued. I was paralysed with amazement. "You my grandmother!" I gasped; "oh. I cannot believe It." "All the same. It is true," she answered, grimly. "You are your moth^ er*s Image. Mason, take her away and find suitable clothes for her, and do ?? Koor^aara Felice know any HUl ICl IJICVb i/ug g vi p v ...... thing of this matter." Verily, jt was strange! I felt like al person in a dream. I had found my # kindred at last. In the dead of night, in this grand house to which I had I been sent as a servant, Esther Fox, the forlorn little Shakeress, died, and Esther Fox the child of good fortune, the direct heir of a rich, aristocratic! old woman, leaped into sudden joyful I life. The neit morning I was summoned to my grandmother's chamber. Shej looked wan and haggard?evidently I she had not slept, but she took my I V brown hands kindly in her own. For the present," she said, "I do not! wish any one to know that I have fcund you?least of all, Marcia Johnsbury. She expects to be my heiress ^ some day. I am a lonely old woman. * and I am glad to give you a place in my heart and home. If I was once! hard and harsh with your mother, you I must forgive me now in my old age. I I will today write to Sister Mehltable I and refund all the money which those I people can possibly have spent upon I you in sixteen years. I will also act I i upon Hallam Klrke's idea, and send I r you immediately to school. Of course, I you understand that your whole life is I now changed, and that you must be I civilised and educated as befits my I ??" I KiaiiuuauB^wv*. Yes, I understand?in a vague fashIon. I asked if Miss Johnsbury lived with her. "No," she answered, shrugging her shoulders; "her sister Ada has a comfortable establishment They dwell together and scheme together, and together wish me dead every day of their lives." Well, she had been cruel indeed, to ( ^ my dead mother, but heaven knows how glad I was to forgive her. She was still a hard, unlovely old woman, but I was ready to love and obey her in all things, for we were of one blood, and I felt that I belonged to her and ( 7 she to me. ( I was sent to a distant school to complete my education, or, rather, to be educated entirely anew. My vacations were spent with Grandmother j Somerset, on which occasions she went into strict retirement, and shut her doors upon all comers. Six months after my first night in Golden Square she told me that Hallam Klrke had 1 been called abroad, and that Miss Johnsbury was spending the season in a distant city. "Did she ever question you about your Shaker waiting-maid?" I asked, laughing. Grandmother's sharp beak went down to meet her pointed chin. "Yes. I told her that I discharged the creature for incapacity. She has "? Kw thto time. rorgouen you tuiugcuici u.i Ah, I have a little surprise in store for her, my dear." During one of the vacations above mentioned I was one day sitting in Grandmother Somerset's carriage before the door of a fashionable shop in which my relative was making purchases. Suddenly a man passed along the crowded pavement, looked at me, stopped looked at me again ?at the handsome landau, at the horses, at the liveried coachman, in a very strange, eager manner. He was a tall, lank person, all in black, from head to foot He wore black gloves and a tall, black hat. and he looked like a theological student. Advancing close up to the wheel of the carriage, he pronounced these two words: W v "Sister Esther!" Merciful heaven! where had I heard that voice before? I stared at the speaker, and with a thrill of dismay, recognized?Brother Silas! 9 "Sister Esther, have I found you at last ?" Before I could answer, Granama Somerset came out of the shop, and took a seat by my side. The landau rolled off down the street, and the man in black disappeared in the crowd. A few months late* I saw him again. It was a holiday week at school, and I was taking my morning constitutional under the trees of Golden Square, with Mason for an attendant. The latter I, had stopped to chat with a nursemaid, and as I sauntered alone through the prim flower-beds, thinking of many things, I became aware of a pursuing shadow at my side, and turning, found myself face to face with Brother Silas. ^ His cadaverous countenance was white with agitation. The lank red hair clung sparsely around it. He made a deprecatory gesture. "Esther?Sister Esther, will you speak to me?" I drew myself up to my full height. "How came you here?" I demanded haughtily. He struck his black-gloved hands sharply together. "Three months ago I saw you in a crowded street. Heaven! that was the happiest moment of my life. For two years I had looked everywhere for you. I followed your carriage to this square. I learned that you had become a lady? the heiress of a rich woman. 'That shall not hinder me from claiming my own.' I said to myself. I have watched the grand house yonder for weeks and months. I have seen you come and go. Today, when you appeared i with your servant, I vowed to speak to you at any cost. You remember the night you ran away from Hadham? Your flight was soon discovered. I could not stay In the community an I hour after you left It. I left, too?started In pursuit of you. but did not find you. Then I bethought me of my own people. J had a brother?a prosperous florist?In this city. I traveled to r Silas. V. PIERCE. I him, and he took me into his business. Esther! Esther! how handsome you are! Your beauty has increased tenfold since the old days at Hadham, and God knows you were lovely enough then. It was your maddening face that turned me from the Shaker life. 1 Now you are a lady, but Til say It all j the same?I love you, and after the fashion of the world's people, I ask you will you marry me?" ! The angry blood leaped Into my face. "How dare you say such things to me?" I stormed. "How dare you even speak to me? Years ago, at Hadh&m, I detested you above all living things. As I look at you now the old feeling returns, stronger than ever. Ugh! you make me feel as if some unclean reptile had touched me. Gk> your way, and If possible, spare me from ever looking on your face again. He grew perfectly livid. ( "You despise me, then?" ^ j "Yes, with my whole heart." "You hate me?" "Yes; a thousand times, yes." I had put on my grandest air. He fl recoiled a step, but I saw that he was C( very angry. c< I made a sign to Mason. She came hurriedly toward us. "Good-by, Esther," said Brother SI- H las, in a hoarse, suppressed voice; "but you will see me again." "Heaven forbid!" I answered, angri- ^ Iy' In He was gone the next moment across the square. Another year passed. On my nineteenth birthday, I left school "thor- tfl oughly accomplished," my partial tr teachers said, "and fit to adorn the ^ highest walks of life." ^ "And now," said Grandmother Somerset, "you must make your debut In society. I have arranged everything. H Your dress is ordered, the Invitations . t6 are already out. I am going to give a aj ball in your honor. Don't open your . big eyes. Hallam Kirke is just home ^ from Europe; we will ask him, also my dear niece, Marcla. You shall have # m one grand triumph, Esther." ^ She had grown very old and feeble In the last year, but her love for Marcla ^ Johnsbury had not increased. That same day, as I was reading in ^ the embrasure of a drawing-room win- . dow, quite concealed by the heavy curtains. a servant, unconscious of my ~ presence, ushered into the room two visitors. fll I heard the rustle of a silken train, cc and through a little open in the lace ]U and damask saw a richly dressed, m passe woman, with pale hair and a m high, aquiline nose, and a gentleman, sj bronzed, bearded, looking darker and older than when he bade me good-by th on the shores of Hadham Lake. Miss Johnsbury and her betrothed to husband, Hallam Kirke! je Grandmother Somerset hobbled quickly into the room. She knew that I was behind the curtains, but one glance showed her that all was safe, and she greeted her visitors in her own peculiar fashion. G "Hallam, how bored you look! That is your usual expression when in Marcla's company. My dear niece, I sent th you a check yesterday for five hundred dollars. I wish you to buy a new dress for my ball. Si Miss Johnsbury looked hard at her ,ri relative, ^ "In heaven's name, Aunt Somerset, c' what possessed you at your time of life, s* and with your infirmities, to think of er giving a ball? It is too absurd?every- tfl body is talking of It. I can't think ln what has come over you." al Aunt Somerset' smiled serenely. "I have a charming surprise in store es for all my dear friends, and particularly for you, Marcia. You see that I am pl falling fast. I cannot expect to live a( many months, and 1 have made my will recently. At the ball which I shall n give, all the world and his wife will know who is to be my heiress." ec - - ' - ~ ~ I# \f Il<o cl I neara a siiarp rusue txa ml in.oo Johnsbury moved uneasily. "Indeed, you dear old darling, that is Just one of your odd freaks, lou ^ must not talk of dying?we cannot j spare you for twenty years, at least." Mrs. Somerset laughed shrilly. ^ "Marcia, my dear, you are a precious ^ hypocrite! The hour of my death, you ^ well know, will be the happiest of your tv life. e{ And after that I did not ltsten to the 0( two women: I looked at Hallam Klrke. A He had seated himself by a buhl ta- S( ble on which lay a portfolio of sketch- )3 es?my own work. Among them was cj a view of Hadham Lake, a tolerably q clever head of Sister Mehitable, the OJ Shaker church, and one or two others cj of like nature. > OI He turned them in his gloved hand; m how somber and brown he looked?not Di In the least like a happy lover. He f? started, his face changed, he recogniz- is ed the lake, the Shaker garden. t( "May I ask where you found these tl sketches?" he said, turning to Mrs. 01 Somerset. di "They belong to a friend of mine," tf she answered. cj "Do you know the artist?" h "The owner is the artist." o] He said no more. I sat behind the curtain as still as a mouse, but my ?J heart beat like a trip-hammer. tl Fortunately, they did not stay long, m and after their departure, Grandmoth- F er Somerset limped to my window, a Ilung back the damask and lace, and F with a pale, smiling face, kissed me 0 affectionately. v ??? 2 A fortnight later came the fateful ^ night of the ball and of my debut. It 0 was wintry weather. A thin coating of ^ ice and snow clung to the trees and a statues and frozen fountains of the 1 square. I stood before my mirror, while Ma- a son put the finishing touches to my toilet. Could that image in the glass be Esther Fox, the Shakeress of Hadc ham? I stared at It in wonder and delight. 5 *.' ^Sn^Xnw&nBL * '2r tyV; '' E. H. HARRIMAN. New York, Nov. 12.?The reasons Iven by E. H. Harrlman as to why he lould not answer certain questions at to him during an Investigation by le interstate commerce commission re set forth in a brief which has been led by Former Judge R. S. Lovett, >unsel for Mr. Harrlman. The pro>edings brought by the commission to >mpel Mr. Harrlman to answer the aestions is to come up before Judge ough of the United States circuit >urt tomorrow. The principal point in the brief is le contention that the acts concernig which Mr. Harrlman was quesoned did not relate to Interstate comerce nor to a violation of the interate commerce law, but was designed > compel a disclosure by him of ansactions for which, "had they tak1 place, neither the commission nor le congress of the United States could ford a constitutional remedy." The brief also sets forth that Mr. o^-iman rinas not admit that the in rstate commerce commission has ly power other than those conferred f the act of congress approved Feb. 1887, and the amendments thereto. The questions to which Mr. Harrlan objected related to the purchase ! the stock of other railroads in the terest of the Union Pacific and to le Union Pacific dividend and more irtlcularly the' $28,000,000 of Illinois antral stock purchased at $176 a tare. * ! i-L-- ----- -X? A cream-white face, with a faint. ckerlng color on the oval cheek, a lffure of shining chestnut hair, great strous brown eyes, a curved scarlet outh. a throat like parlan, and a full the figure, all in spotless tulle and lk, looped with lilles-of-the-valley. Grandmother Somerset had chosen ie dress, and it was simply exquisite. "Oh, Mason, I do not know myself night!" I cried, in a sort of harmss ecstasy. [To be Concluded], FUTURE OF THE PACIFIC. rest Trade of the Future Across Western Ocean. It Is generally conceded, I believe, by le best and most far-sighted minds, tat the greatest world trade of the iture is to be across the Pacific, says jccess. For centuries trade centred the Mediterranean, with the result lat the largest and most Important ties of that time were formed on the lores of southern* Europe and north n Africa. The discovery of America, ten a wilderness, centred trade later the Atlantic, and the most lmportrt cities of the world then grew up 1 the shores of western Europe and istern America. So the cities of the aciflc coast of America in time will obably be in proportion to the trade ?ross the Pacific, and the trade across 1 ocean, other things being equal. Is proportion to the number of people ho live along Its borders. Today the Pacific coast of the Unit! States has about one-twelfth as any people as live along the Atlane seaboard; yet the shores of the Pafic are many times richer In natural .'sources than are those of the Atntic. There is hardly any compari>n between the sterile hills of New ngland and. the garden valleys of Washington, Oregon and California, alifornia alone is, broadly speakfng, vo-thlrds the size of France, and Is isily capable of supporting 20,000.10 people. France supports 46,000,000. long the lower half of the western acoast, for hundreds of miles, there but one world harbor?San Fransco. This fact alone insures to the olden Gate a city as large as Paris, r even larger. It may be San Fransco. or Oakland, or any other point i the great bay; in a large sense it latters not what the local point or ame is, or will be. The important ict is that at the Golden Gate there i to be an Atfierican city of from two > five million people. The growth of lis city?or of any of the other cities a the Pacific coast?will not be suden. but it will be in exact proportion > the pressure of population in Ameri i. the awakening or Asia?as japan as awakened?and the development r other Pacific shores. > ? ? tiT America now leads the world in ie manufacture, sale and use of autoloblles. This Is the declaration of a rench expert, who has been keeping record of the automobile business. Ive years ago the United States built nly 314 automobiles of all classes, ;hi!e at the same time France built 3.711 machines. Last year the prouction in the United States was 60,00, in France 55,000, in England 28,00, In Germany 22,000, in Italy 19,000 nd Belgium 12,000. In nine years In he countries named there have been nanufactured, sold and used 550,000 LUtomobiles, representing more than 1,000,000,000 of money. Greece is said to bo the poorest ountry of Europe. Her total wealth imounts to $1,000,000,000, or about half hat of Switzerland. iHiacrllancous ^radint). NEW YORK HANDLING MILLIONS Sub-Treasury Sect the Physical Side of tha 8care. The man in the street who isn't hard hit by the financial troubles has read many figures in these last few weeks. He has wondered if the typesetting machines hadn't stuttered while speaking ciphers and asked, "What's 12,103,641,523.90 (the bank clearings I iur IIIC WCCIk C11UIU5 Wiuv/Vi MW/, ?M?%. is there really so much money in the world and where It Is all at?" The money represented by those twelve Arabic numerals isn't all In one place, nor in a thousand places, but there's a good big lot of It in the sombre sub-treasury that stands downtown among a host of slender, ornate structures which seem to penetrate the skies. That squat and columned building grew up In seven long years (a neighbor five times as tall went up In as many months), but it has walls that are eight feet thick at the base and five at the eaves, and It has dozens of rifles and revolvers and two Oatllng guns and scores of cases of ammunition; also some holes in the roof of the portico Just over the doors so the protectors may drop bombs on the heads of any persons who can t be repulsed In any other way. In the little desk crowded office? first floor to the right as you enter the building from the Wall street steps? a rotund, gray haired man retched to the flat top desk adjoining the one at which he sat, picked Up a tall spindle, dropped his silver rimmed spectacles Into place and held the topmost paper on the peg beneath the light. It bore nine figures?no explanatory memoranda, not even a symbol. "Two hundred and seventy million dollars," the rotund, gray haired man Interpreted. "That's exactly how much money we had on hand this morning." If one goes down into the depths of the building and sees a little white sack Ailed with double eagles and peera Into the gray vaults and sees also what looks like a dozen vanloads of the same kind of bags, and If he closes his Angers on a package that would easily slide into his overcoat pocket and which, he learns, contains 500 $10,000 gold certlAcates?$5,000,000?and then sees several safes Ailed to capacity with similar packets, he can real tze?even if his mind can't comprehend the amounts?what the big figures that appear in the sub-treasury statements mean. This store has been more violently disturbed of late than in many years. Nearly $50,000,000 in currency and an enormous mass of gold and silver certificates came in, and the fact that the daily balance didn't fluctuate much itonly a few millions) indicates how hard the office force has worked and explains why they and W. O. Marlor, the, cashier, were "all in," aa one of the money toters said. Yet another view was expressed by one of the squad of scrubwomen who entered the building on the heels of the last messenger hurrying out with his bag of gold. "Shure, this bank business is about as hard as me own," she said. "Th' bankers you see around here lately do more sweatln' than I do on me knees scrubbln' up the dirt they leave behind. And the poor men here in th' bank (the sub-treasury she meant) they work harder 'n my ol' man. He's a hod carrier." So the physical aspect of these millions the public has read so much about lately Is a matter of muscle to those who are in actual contact with the cash. Take, for Instance, the coming of $10,000,000 in bullion on the steamship Lusltania. It sounds good to the worklngman whose savings are too securely locked up In a perfectly solvent bank, for he has read that all that is needed is more cash in circulation. But a million millions in gold bars aboard a hundred ships or the same amount piled in City Hall Park wouldn't relieve the situation if it were not for the waving of Uncle Sam's wand over it in the sub-treasury. There the bullion or coin is presented. after it Is carted from the pier. and in an hour, if there is call for such swift exchange, John Jones may get a piece of it?a piece of the actual coin Just come from Europe?when he presents his check at a bank window uptown. More likely, though, he would get some of the certificates issued against that value in gold. As to the gold bars, they are taken at once to the assay office, the crowded little building that adjoins the subtreasury on the east. There their weight and value are determined, and when that is done certificates are issued against them up to 90 per cent of their value. The bullion is not made into the "coin of the realm" until later?until Uncle Sam or his men at the mints find it convenient to do so. That stock which has been tested and stored in the sub-treasury vault Is "as good as gold," so there's no hurry about converting it into eagles since the certificates are flying around. Now and then in the recent series of runs on banks attention was called to the actual physical transfer of the casn wnicn some ucpuauuis uciiiawu ed. On one occasion an automobile carrying several bags of gold to a bank In Brownsville broke ddwn near an East River ferry entrance and a crowd of tenement dwellers that gathered about the treasure car had to be held back by a big squad of policemen. Again, a messenger boy skipped for a few hours with several thousand dollars In bills which he had drawn for his employer. But the general public, even the close readers of the newspapers, did not know the circumstances of the transfer of an Infinitesimal proportion of the total. Those tew persons who stood In the main corridor of the sub-treasury saw the procession there?long lines of men, with here and there a woman, who rushed In with empty bags or satchels and walked out a little more sedately, bearing nobody but themselves and the paying tellers knew how much money. And when the bearer of the gold or Its equivalent got out Into the crowded streets?what then? Why, he Just walked along endeavoring to simulate the careless stride and idle curiosity which In New York mark the man who has no deep concern. That no robberies of such messengers as these were reported In the course of the recent "panic" speaks well for their ability to "act Just naturally" and In that way keep their valuable secrets; also it tells, perhaps, that the "trailers" wdre on the Job?for trailers were there, strong detectives who are capable of handling any ordinary thief with lease and rapidity. And 'while the messengers filed In the malp corridor of the sub-treasury, got their money and hurried out, there was another channel from the building through which disbursements flowed even njpre rapidly. It was the little door" ill the Pine street-side of the building, near which were lined up a curiou^ array of vehicles?at one moment fc hansom cab, a coupe, four automobiles, a grocer's delivery wagon and a motorcycle. Men with proper certificates rushod Into the building and with short delay helped the attendants to carry bags and bundles to the curb. Then Into the tangle of traffic in the narrow downtown streets went the currency conveyors( to dispute the right of way with troubled truckmen. AH the time this extra work made necessary by the stringency Is going on at the sub-treasury there Is no respite fnem the- regular business. Money contln es to pour In from the postofflee. tl e customs, the internal revenue and o1 ler departments of the Fedeiul government, and the paymasters check against the deposits for the salaries of the m*n of the army, the navy and all other branches of the government service?a business which proceeds with precision, panic or no panic.?New York Sun. INFECTIOUS . AND CONTAQIOU8. Difference- Between Diseases Not Always Undsrstood by the Layman. The term "infectious" should be applied to all diseases caused by the entrance Into the body of their specific micro-organisms, writes Dr. William Hanna Thomson, In Everybody's. A brief and easily remembered classification of these diseases might be formulated as follows: Those which are communicated from the sick to the healthy directly. That is, simple proximity is sufficient to convey the disease. To this class only should the term "contagious" be applied. To those which are communicated from the sick to the healthy indirectly, that is, by ??- narrlep nf the InfeC- I BUIIIC lUtClillcuiavv v??? * ?v? w? tlon, and not by simple proximity. These diseases, therefore, are not "contagious," and those sick with them can be personally attended without danger. , Now, every infection can be communicated by injection into a vein, and some of the contagious diseases, like smallpox and scarlet fever, may be carried by clothes, or even by letter, from one person to another. The term ' contagiouV need not be objected to because^ strictly speaking, it defines the mode of communication to be by persdhai contact. This probably is not the actual mode in the majority of cases, but the explanatory term "proximity" is amply sufficient; and, moreover, points out the only adequate means of prevention, namely, quarantine. The practical question, then, becomes how long the quarantining of the sick should be continued, and this can be settled only, according to the particular Infection itself. The chief members of this class are: smallpox, scarlet fever, measles, whooping-cough, diphtheria, influenza, typhus (not typhoid) fever, the bubonic plague, mumps, besides some other minor contagious complaints. It is with the mode of propagation of those diseases which are communicated by some intermediary carrier, that the publlj needs the most instruction. The chief members of this class are typhoid fever, Asiatic cholera and tuberculosis. None of them are contagious ?the person sick with them may be attended all through the illness by physicians, nurses or friends without their contracting the disease. And yet no person ever has any one of these affections without having got it from some one who has It FI8HERMEN* GET A DEER. While the Hunters Who Had Wounded It Stood Afar Off and Said Things. To go gunning for deer and catch a fisherman cursing and to go fishing for salmon and catch a deer were the varied experiences of two distinct classes of sportsmen at Tennessee Cove, says the San Francisco Chronicle. The two conflicting parties at break of day took their several ways, one expedition going on to the game preserve of the Tamalpals club and the other as passengers on Sutherland's launch from the Sausallto for a salmon fishing trip up the coast. The party of hunters gave chase to a fine, fat and fleet-footed deer and kept it up all over the preserve until late in the afternoon. One of the party said that the deer could have been killed at "most any time," but that the sportsmen preferred to prolong the pleasure of the hunt until the hour had arrived for returning home. The deer became wounded in the course of the chase. In its mad run across the preserve It struck a. trail which led to the big cliff fronting the water at Tennessee Cove. The hunters were In close pursuit, and as the deer came near to the cliff it dived into the water in a mad effort to escape its pursuers and struck out for a rock rising in the water about 300 feet from shore. The party of fishermen happened along on their return from Sausalito to Bolinas bay Just as the deer made its mad plunge. The launch was reversed and headed for the swimming deer. When it came abreast the boat one of the "sportsmen" therein landed with an oar upon the deer's head and killed It. The game was hauled aboard and the launch set out for Sausalito with all possible dispatch. The hunting party, which by this time had gathered on the fcliff, looked on for a moment with chagrin. Then one of the party commanded the fishermen to "come back with that deer." The reply from the boat was, "Not on your life; we killed him and we are going to keep him." The reply was followed with oaths. In an effort to restore the deer and the honor of the day's hunt one of the party on the cliff fired five shots in the direction of the fleeing launch. The 1 bullets failed to reach their mark and the deer hunters retired to the clubi house. HISTORIC JACKSON VA3E. Famous Souvenir Now Within Eas; View of Public. The State Historical commission through Its secretary. Mr. A. S. Salley Jr., has just had the famous "Jacksoi Vase" thoroughly cleaned up, repalre* and mounted In a glass case on i stand about three feet high, and nov the seeker after objects of Interest li the state house may see this ven. handsome piece of plate and read ? brief history of It without puttlni state officials to the trouble of haullnt It from its hiding place in a safe 01 vault, as has been the custom here tofore. This very handsome silver vase which stands aboAt fifteen Inches high and Is about eighteen inches long an< ten Inches wide, was presented to An drew Jackson by the ladles of Charles ton Just after his victory over th< British at New Orleans, January 8 1815. At that time, in fact durlni Jackson's whole life, he was regardec as a native of South Carolina, and th< people of the state were very prom of him. Jackson, too, was proud o: being a native of South Carolina, anc when discussing that state never fall' ed to proclaim with pride that he woj a native thereof. His own testimony Is fully borne out by contemporary official records, but, nevertheless through the efforts of modern hlston fakirs the Impression has been established, long after his death, that h< was born In North Carolina at a spo about three miles from the spot upot which he. and his contemporaries havt said that he was born. This vase was made for the ladies who raised the funda with which t< purchase it, by Fletcher & Gamlner of Philadelphia. The handles represent colled snakes and the top Is surKir on A mAriron AflfflA Or I1IVU111VU U/ an .u.^r. the four corners of the base are fom more eagles, all with wings displayed On the side of the base there is ar engraving of a battle scene and above "8th January, 1815." On one side ol the bowl the arms of South Carolina are inaccurately engraved and on the opposite side the words, "Presented by the ladles of South Carolina, tc Major General Andrew Jackson." When he came to make his will General Jackson provided for the disposal of this vase In the following manner, the provision here given being taken verbatim et literatim, capitalization, punctuation, spelling and all being reproduced as In the original. "The large silver vase presented tc me by the ladles of Charleston, South Carolina, my native State, with the large Picture representing the unfurling of the American banner, presented to me by the citizens of South Carolina, when it was refused' to be accepted by the United States senate, 1 leave In trust to my son, A. Jackson, Jr., wljh directions that should out country not be blessed with peace, an event not always to be expected, h? will at the close of the war. or end of conflict, present each of said articles of inestimable value, to that patriot residing in the city and state from which they were presented who shall be adjudged by his countrymen, ol the ladles, to have been the most valiant In defense of his country and our country's rights." About thirteen years after the death of General Jackson final disposition was made of these "two articles of Inestimable value." Early in 1858, Governor Alston of South Carolina, a man who deeply appreciated those things which go to produce broad culture, wrote to Major Edward Biddle ol Louisiana, with a view of getting in touch with the younger Jackson and having the vase disposed of. He suggested that as it would be difficult to mnct valiant man whom South Carolina bad sent into the Mexican war, the next foreign war In which the United States engaged after the making of Jackson's will, the best disposition to make of the vase and picture would be to give them In trust tQ the Palmetto association, composed of the South Carolina survivors of that war. to hold for the last sur/ivor of the association. Young Jackson approved of Governor Alston's suggestion and wrote the following letter to the governor: Memphis, Tenn., April 3, 1858. His excellency, Governor Alston of South Carolina. Dear Sir: The day before I left the Hermitage, I had the pleasure of reading a letter from you, addressed to Major Edward Biddle of Louisiana, relative to the "vase and picture" bequeathed by my father to that patriot most valiant in defense of his country and our country's rights, to be adjudged by his countrymen or by the ladles from that city and state from whence they were presented. Your suggestion, governor, I most cordially approve of, and can see no other mode by which they can be satisfactorily disposed of than by the one suggested: therefore have ordered them to be carefully packed and boxed and given in charge of the Adams Enpress company of Nashville, Tenn., to be safely delivered Into your hands at Charleston, S. C. Receive them, sir, and as executor of the last will and testament of my venerated father, I hereby a thorlze you In my name and In your own name, as governor of the state to present them to the survivors of that noble and valiant band of men, the Palmetto regiment, when the association meets In May next, to be handed down to the last survivor, etc., with the remark. May these Inestlmat ie gifts of the dying patriot stimulate this heroic and patriotic band of men. and too, sir, the old and young of our favored land to remember his cherished motto, "Our Glorious union ?if mnot una shell he nreserved." Nothing: would have given me more pleasure, I do assure you, than to have been able to come on In person and perform this pleasing duty, but othei engagements will prevent. Therefore I leave It In trust to-you. sir, hoping the mode of disposal will meet the approbation of the ladles and citizens of your gallant state. I* remain, respectfully, your Most Ob idient Servant, Andrew Jackson. In May following the receipt of this letter and the vase and picture, Governor Alston Issued a proclamation conveying "to William B. Stanley, president of the Palmetto association anc to his successors In office, the sllvei vase presented by the ladies ol Charleston, together with the picture above mentioned, to be preserved among the trophies of the said Palmetto regiment, for the honor and gratification of the surviving members of the same, he being a citizen o: South Carolina and a resident of th< said state, to him his heirs, executors administrators and assigns within th< state aforesaid." I The picture mentioned ar^ beryueathed along with the vase was a i nalnting representing the scene in the City of Mexico upon the occasion when i, a mob following an offending foreigner to the door of the United States lega1 tlon and Minister Joel R. Poinsett, ani other native of South Carolina, told J. his secretary, Mr. Mason of Virginia. ' to take the United States flag and i flaunt It In the face of the mob to Y drive It from the legation door. This l dramatic act had the desired effect and the foreigner was saved. John f Blake White .(1781-1857), the eminent { South Carolina artist, was the painter r and Mr. B. F. Pepoon, a merchant of Charleston, raised a fund by subscription and purchased the picture and ' ?ffered it to the United States senate, which refused it, probably for dlplo mauc reasons, n was men pmeuieu " to General Jackson. By Governor Alston's proclamation both of these "ar8 tides of inestimable value" were giv en into the keeping of Capt W. B. Stanley, president of the Palmetto as5 soclatlon. When Sherman's army 5 reached Columbia, where Captain 1 Stanley lived1, the vase was saved, but ' It is believed the picture was lost in the great fire kindled by those modern ' Huns and Goths. Some years ago, ' while Capt. James D. Blandlng was ' president of the Palmetto association, he induced the association to return the vase to the custody of the state, ' and it is now in the custody of the Historical commission and kept in a metal and stone furnished room?in a ? ?lass show case, as stated at the outt set of this article. AB8ENCE OF MIND. A Funny 8tory About Ampere, the Famous Mathematician. You all know the old joke of the professor who, pondering over the saying that In a railway accident absence of body was a good deal better than absence of mind, went to the nearest railway station and tried to take a ticket "for the nearest railway accident," so as to have the matter proved to his own satisfaction. You doubtless know the story, too, of the professor of mathematics whose new parI lor maid told him when he rang at his , own door that Professor Jones was out. "I'll call again, Til call again," Hn oq IA onH u'Pnt qwflV But these are stories merely. Here, . however, are some Incidents from real life: Ampere was remarkably absentminded. Hundreds of stories of his I absentmlndedness are told, but quite the funniest is that of his dinner at the house of M. Fontanes, the grand-mas, ter of the University of Paris. For a l Joke somebody had told Ampere that , he must go to the dinner In his academician's uniform of green and gold and girt with his sword. When he got to the house he was very much annoyed to find everybody else in ordl[ 'nary evening dress. "I will get rid of , the sword at all events," he said to himself and slipped It behind1 the cushi ions of a sofa. After dinner Ampere ? forgot himself, as' usual, and became I lost In abstruse calculation. He took a i little piece of chalk out of his pocket : and began working out problems on i the black satin cover of the mantel1 piece. He became so absorbed in what he was doing that all the guests left, without his noticing them, and .when ' he wrote down Q. E. D. no one was left In the room except Mme. Foni tanes, and she unfortunately sat fast i asleep on the sofa where Ampere's sword lay hidden. Ampere went down upon his knees i and pulled gently at the sword, so as i to get It away without waking the lady. He pulled and pulled, and pres' ently the sword came out?without the i scabbard. At this moment "Mme. Fontanes awoke and alarmed the house with her screams of terror at seeing a 1 man on his knees before her with a drawn sword in his hand. But mathematical professors have not the monopoly of absentmjnded' ness. La Fontaine, whose fables are the delight of adult Frenchmen and their children's earliest task, went to the court of Louis XVI. to present a copy of his fables to the king. And he forgot the book. Fortunately, the klhg knew La Fontaine, his fables and his foibles and gave him a thousand pistoles (about (250). Unfortunately, though. La Fontaine left the money in his hired carriage on his way back to , Paris. But the prettiest- piece of absentmindedness of which I have ever heard was that of Professor PozzI, who asked a lady who was bewailing the fact that she had no children whether she thought the falling was hereditary. This is even more amusing than the delightful answer made by the engineer of the Seine tunnel, M. Berlier, td a servant who told him when he went to call upon his lawyer that that gentleman had died that morning. "Oh," said M. Berlier, "dear, dear, I'm so sorry. But tell him I won't keep him a minute."?St. James' Gazette. KING3 SET THE 8TYLE. Then the Fashions Spread to the Middle Classes. The horse is no respecter of persons. He is always as willing to unseat a princely rider as he is the unaccustomi ed clerk who has hired him by the hour, says the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Kings have frequently had > trouble In connection with their : mounts. One Richard is, perhaps, 1 best remembered in the popular mind ' because he once, we ate told, begged , the privilege of exchanging his klngt dom for a likely plug. Latterly, royal I equestrians have been having a less , Impressive sort of difficulty; that, . namely, of sticking on. Some time ago > at some military manoeuvres, Kaiser 1 Wilhelm fell off his horse. Another, also at some military manoeuvres, the king of Saxony fell off his. The thing promises to become the fad of the i hour. For it is well known that what a great monarch does, that everybody else who Is anybody must do. If King Edward wears a pink waistcoat on I Derby day, all England blossoms with pink waistcoats the following morning, f That the kaiser's example Is no less i hortatory Is shown by the demeanor 1 of the king of Saxony. The kings of . Greece, Spain, Italy and Norway are 1 requested to get In line as quickly as i possible. In time the fashion will f spread to America, to Newport, to i Harry Lehr. Later on It may come within the reach of the middle classes, i of the proletariat, of editors. Meantime, It Is for the blood only. WEED8 THAT ARE WH0LE80ME. 8corned By Our Ancestors, Thsy Are Now on Our Tables. < Since the pure food law has rone Into operation, one has new and strange thoughts forced upon him by recalling the number of weeds, fungi, and vegetable parasites regarded as dangerous, as well as repellent to our ancestors, writes Julius Chambers in the Brooklyn Eagle. Our grandparents regarded tomatoes as the fruit of the weeds, utterly unfit to eat. The bushes grew wild in the middle west, where I passed my boyhood, and "were to be encountered in the corners of "worm" fences. The tomato was a yellow or redskinned pod of seeds about the size of a plum. In shape, it was perfectly round. The fruit of this neglected weed had been developed by cultivation into the large and succulent vegetable of today. It has become one of the most valued accessories to culinary art?Invaluable in the preparation of sauce and dressings for meats of any kinds. And yet, physicians insist that it contains the cancer germ. wt>?? /a *-* thalr full.rrflwn *V IlVil ilMlllVTP VMt. _mmmrn 0. cabbages from the stalks which lifted them nearly a foot above the ground, preparatory to burying the cabbages In the ground or stowing them In the cellars of their "smokehouses," they noticed that young bulbs sprouted around the tops of the decapitated stalks. Nobody thought of eating them hi our American grandparents' days. Hogs and sheep were observed to be very fond of them. Goats, also, ate them with avidity; but, then, goats thrive upon newspapers and were currently believed to feed on tin cans. Those little bulbs are the Brussels sprouts of our present dietary system! Opinion Is greatly divided as to the origin of the cabbage, and for that reason the vegetable hasn't taken a high rang among the family of edible plants. Germans rot It in a barrel, pickle it, and name it "sauer-kraut" That It Is a development by evolution from the "skunk-cabbage" of the ponds Is doubtful, because its leaves are quite dissimilar in form. But it is a food of very low origin. The same may be said of turnips, beets, and potatoes?among the latter must be In??-? ...M A, auroAt nntntn. U1UUCU liic jam v? onw* When the French colonised the country that Is now Louisiana, they found a weed growing amid the bayous and overflowed land along the Mississippi to which the aborigines gave the name of "okra"?a word meaning a muddy place and probably referring to the localities in which the herb grew. It bore a mucilaginous pod, which, when cut, exuded a milk-white Juice. When the Creoles got their cooking outfits in working order, they tried the weed as a thickener for their porridges and found It very eatable. The man or woman who ate the first dish of okra soup must have been worthy of a Carnegie medal. However, the weed became one of the staples of New Orleans eplcurlanlsm. The Creoles called It "gumbo," a reference to its glutinous character. From that day its place in culinary art never has been in danger. "Gumbo" is hardly known In Paris; a French cook will have naught of It; but It is king of all American soups, being to this country what mutton broth, with barley, Is to Scotland; what bouillabaisse is to Ffance and puchara to Spain. But the milk weed of the Louisiana swamps remains one of the food discoveries of the world. The Roman gourmands whose palates were so- . highly trained that they could tell the difference in taste between lampreys fed upon human flesh and those fattened upon goats, would have appreciated okra, or more properly, "gum bo" stew. With chicken, It is a delight to the palate. LAW AGAIN8T KILLING. ( Deep-rooted Feeling Against Murder Exists In Most Animals. Ernest Thompson Seton's "The Natural History of the Ten Commandments" in the November Century declares there is a deep-rooted feeling against murder In most animals. Their senses tell them that this Is one of their own race, and their instinct that therefore, it is not lawfuL prey. Newborn rattlesnakes will strike Instantly at a stranger of any other species, but never at one of themselves. I have seen a young mink, still blind, suck at a mother cat till fed, then try to kill her. Though a bloodthirsty creature, it would never have attacked its own mother. Wild animals often fight for the mastery, usually over a question of mates, but in virtually all cases the fight is over when one yields. The vanquished can save himself either by submission or by flight. What is commoner than to see the weaker of tow dogs disarm his conqueror by groveling on the ground? The victor in a fight between two cats is satislied when the foe files; he will not pursue him twenty yards. In either case had the enemy been of another race the victor would have followed and killed him. What makes the difference? Obviously not a reasoned-out conclusion, but a deep instinctive feeling?the recognition of the unwritten law against unnecessarily killing one's own kind. There are doubtless exceptions to this. Cannibalism is recorded of many species, but inyestigatlon shows that it is rare except in the lowest forms and among creatures demoralized by domestication or captivity. The higher the animals are the more repugnant does canniDausm uetumc. It is seldom indulged in except under dire stress of famine. Nothing but actual starvation Induced Nansen's dogs to eat the flesh of their comrades, although it was offered to them them in a disguised form. Expert ence shows me that it is useless to bait a wolf trap with a part of a dead wolf. His kinsmen shun it in disgust, unless absolutely famished. Obviously no race can live by cannibalism, and this is instinctively recognized by all the higher animals. In other words, the law against murder has been hammered into them by natural selection, and so fully established that not only will they abstain from preying on one of their own tribe, but will rally to rescue one whose life Is threatened. The fact that there are exceptional cases does not disprove the law among beasta any more than among men.