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QUESTION. When you are old, and I am old, And Passion's fires are burned to embers, And life Is as a tale that's told, And only worth what love remembers. If we should meet-two quiet folk And change opinions of the weather, Could word or look again provoke The heart and eyes to speak together The heart benumbed with so much ache, The eyes bedimmed with so much crying? Do buds long blighted ever break, And green the vine already dying? What hand of skill shall draw the line 'Twixt sordid love and holy passion? What art shall fix the unfailing sign, 'And bring its reading into fashion? What is the meaning of it all, The chastened woe, the vanished sweet ness, If dark Oblivion's night shall fall Forever on its incompleteness? When you are dead, and I am dead, Our faces lost, our names unspoken, Shall then the mystery be read? Can Heaven bind what Earth has broken? In clearer light and fairer day, With finer sense the impulse proving, Unfettered of this hindering clay, Oh, what must be the joy of loving. ISABDEL; -) on ( 'rom Shop to Mansion. he Romantic Story of a Dreas Maker's Rise In Life. BY MRs. F. M. HOWARD. (Copyrighted, 18*9. CHAPTER L F that bow was a -...-. little more to the -ight-a half inch, say-I think I should like it better." The - speaker was a tall, imperious - lookuin g woman, and the girl whom she addressed had just tied the rich strings of an elegant bonnet for II her inspection in the 4ffull-length mirror, "Very well, mad - am; I can alter it for you in one moment." The girl's tone was fully as haughty and cold as madam's own, and there was not a symptom of cringing m the proud face of "that shop-girl," as Mrs. Monteith mentally designated her. She was used to servility and fawning, and of-being flattered and told how exceedingly wel every thing became her, and, conse quently. was not pleased with this quiet at tendance. "Dear me, what an awkward bow you have tied!" and Mrs. Monteith petulantly twitched the strings of the bonnet spite fully, as she took it off for the alteration. Isabel Grant looked at her half defiantly, then took the bonnet in her hand, with a strong effort at repression, and biting her bp until it bled to keep back the words ch longed to break out in a torrent and overwhelm this aristocratic lady in her vic -tence. She had been in a stormy humor all day, and from the first customer in the morning., the fat woman who tried on every hat on the rack, and departed with the purchase -f's hat-pin, to this haughty Mrs. Monteith at three in the afternoon she had been rasped and tortured, until ery nerve was in a-quiver. o'Bless us, Isabel Grant, you look like a thunder-cloud!" said lively Jennie Dewey, as Isabel came back to the work-room for a ecedle. "Get up your lightning rods, then, if you ire afraid of a storm," replied Isabel, briefly. She was in no humor for joking, M'- ~ en with Jennie. "i'm surelIdon't see any need of using WMe. Arnot's needle," said another; "you have pins and needles enough in your ex pression to supply the whole shop." "Potr shame, girls; you can't help seeing that Isabel is tired and worn out with wait K ng on those trying customers." The voice was a soft, gentle one, and at its sound the lively girls ceased their tan talizing laughter and looked gently at the: speaker, it was sweet Lottie Ford, the lame girl, whose tender sympathies for others was born of intense suffering, and Isabel, having scured her needle, stooped and kissed tihe -white, blue-veined forehead of thegir3,aa she turned to leave the room. "You have always a soothing word, you lit gle white dove," she said, in a half-whisper, and~a gentle expression came over her face, a s sheimade her way back to Mrs. Monteith. It was a very fashionable establishment, Mmne. Arnot's, and its plate-glass show windows were marvels of tasteful beauty, ingwith airy laces and bright designs in ribbons, the show-room itself had little to indicate the character of the establishment excoept one large rack in the center of the room, hung with trimmed hats, and the row -on row of band-boxes on the handsome shelves where the choicest specimens of pattern hats and Parisian styles were kept. Elegant mirrors hung on all sides; easy Schairs and little sofas were scattered about for the convenience of the fashionable ladles, whose labors in shopping were sup "istive, but woe to the shopgirl .zace dare sit down en these inviting res~,foi' Xime. Arnot ~was a strict disciplinarian and indulged in~ -no inconvenient sympathy for her work people. A mere shop-girl was not sup posed to be tired, and if she was there were plenty of good, hard chairs in the work room, provided she found any time to use one Mmne. Arnot had no idea of being a harsh mistress; in fact she prided herself exceedingly on her Christian virtues, and considered herself a particularly amiable -person; indeed among a certain class of her customers she was spoken of as that - sweet person," Mmne. Arnot, but the title never extended to the work room.. She was a small woman, with blue eyes which were capable of a variety of expres sions; to the rich Mrs. Monteith they beamed with good nature and pleasant emo tions; to Isabel Grant, the poor shop-girl, a paidperson, they could flash with a tyran mical gleam that transformed the plump, prietty face completely. Mme. Arnot had been once poor herself, bitterly poor, and had risen by various stages to the position she now occupieJ, and 6. commend me to that person who, with a' -mean, selflshheart to begin with, rises from poverty to affuence for an exampleof the snob perfect; one who will grind her poor dependents down to the very smallest pow der and make them feel her power to the uttermost To say that Isabel Grant felt this amiable quadity in Mmne. Arnot's make-up is a fee ble term; it stung her, degraded her, filled herv'ery soul with bitterness from day to day, but as yet she had seen no escape fromn it, for she had her bread to earn. - The season was almost over, and only this morning Isabel had received a letter from her aunt, with whom she had always lived, and it was filled with bitter complaints of poverty, of the husband's drunkenness, and sad bewailings of her hard lot, which sent the girl's heart, throbbing with pain, down, down like lead, and made her feel as if she hadno right in that already over-crowded home. She was no tender-eyed heroine who could go into that disordered household and, with gentle words and saintly influences, lure -coarse John Harmon from his cups and be a tower of strength to the long-sufferingi wife. No, indeed ! she felt only too clearly that, harassed, goaded and over-worked as -she had been, she would only prove another element of discord there, and she longed, with fierce intensity, for some refuge which would take her from it -"Miss Grant, if you can not look more plesnt you had better retire to the work -room and let Miss Dewey take your place," s:aid Mmne. Arnot, coldly, as Mrs. Mon >teth swept out to her carriage, followed by ~ isabel's flashing eyes. "Your expression is enough to drive customers away, instead of .attracting them." -They were alone for a moment, and Mine. Arnot took the opportunity to speak her - reproof, but another party coming in she was all smiles in a moment. There were several in the party, and de would only too gadly have followed Mme. Arnot's advice, and retreated to the workl room. Upon so small a thread our destinies sometimes hang, but one of them, a bright youn g lady, who was evidently about to be come a bride, claimed her attendance. Two gentlemen came in with them, a tall. middle-aged manwhom theeyounger lady ad. dressed as "Uncle Harvey," and a younger gentleman, evidently the bridegroom-elect. It was a pleasant task to wait upon this gentle girl after the rasping experiences of the day, and while Mime. Arnot smiled lavishly on the elder ladies of the party Isa bel brought out the daintiest and most ex quisite models of the millinery art for the inspection of the younger lady,who received her attendance with a sweetness and grace which soothed and comforted her in spite of herself. The elder of the gentlemen had thrown himself upon a little sofa, and was watch ing proceedings with silent attention. Isabel was not a handsome girl. She realized this painfully when placed in con trast with those more favored, but there was in her face an interesting expression which attraoted more attention than she knew; her eyes, which were large and full, were really fine when lighted up with feel ing, or brilliantly electric when in passion; her hair, if allowed to curl, would shape itself into long, glossy ringlets which well became the haughty poise of her head; but aside from these redeeming features Isabel was undeniably plain; yet few gave her a pass ing glance, and surely this elderly stranger was not doing so, for he fixed his eyes upon her and watched her every movement with intense interest. "Isn't that hat perfectly lovely on Lilly?" said one of the ladies. "I never saw any thing more perfectly in her style." It was indeed a gem, as bonnets go, and was further adorned by the pure, gentle face which it framed. "Mrs. General Lansing ordered one just like it for her daughter; you know they spent their honeymoon in Europe, and the bride w*Xas exceedingly particular," said IMme. Arnot; she was all smiles, as these customers were looking at her best goods, and Isabel was redeeming herself in her eyes, as she waited on the young bride-to-be with pleased interest. "How do you like it, Uncle Harvey?" and the young lady whirled gracefully on one toe, interrupting the gentleman in a brown study. "Me? Oh, I really am not a judge of mil linery," he replied, rather absently. "Be sides, the absurdity of asking me for an opinion when Ralph is here." "She knows only too well what my opin ion is," said the younger man, gallantly. More badinage was gayly tossed back and forth, and more bats were brought out and tried on, and amidst the merriment Isabel had forgotten her troubles; even her aunt's unhappy letter had faded from her nind, and she was smiling cheerfully with the rest, and for the moment forgot that she was only a shop-girl, so soothing was Lilly Stanford's gentle manners and pretty speech. Finally the purchases were made, and the party were ready to go. "Why, aren't you going with us, Uncle Harvey?" saId Lilly, as the elderly gentle man remained on the sofa, hat in hand. "If you'll excuse me, I believe I'L do no more shopping to-day. You see you have given me no opportu'nity to select a hat for myself," he added, laughingly, "and I can easily walk home when I find one to suit me." "Quite likely he is going to look up a suitable present for Lilly," said one of the elder ladies, nodding her head sagaciously, "since he can not stay for the wedding." ; Meantime Mr. Harvey Falconer hadl stepped up to Isabel, as she was arranging theiaeoris of the last invasion of band. boxes, and, as the carriage drove away, he said, gravely: "Pardon me, miss, for such an apparently unpardonable liberty, but I would like very much to see you alone, with madam's permission," with a bow to Mine. Arnot smiling behind her counter. :4 She would have been supercilious under other circumstances, but this man's family were among her best custumners, so she re strained her surprise, and said, politely: "Miss Grant, show Mr. Falconer to the parlor up stairs," but there was a trace of suppressed coldness and disdain after all beneath her smiles, and her mental com ment was: "What can Harr'mFalconerhave to say to that shop-girl?" Isabel led the way to a small but hand somely-urnished parlor on the second floor, and as her companion dropped into the easy chair which she wheeled out for him. he handed her his card, saying: "I hardly know how to commence this interview, which must seem so very strange to you, but I have found myself taking a remark able interest in you as I have been watch ing you in the shop, and I wish to inquire into your history, so far as is necessary for a clear understanding between us, and I, in turn, will give you my own." "My history is soon told," said Isabel, with a half smile. 'Ijam Isabel Grant, an "Bow DO TOU LIKE IT, CxcLE HARVBY ?" orphan, and my home has been with ar, aunt who is poor like myself ; my home is not a happy one." She wondered at herself that she could give these particulars so freely to one whom she had never seen be fore, but there was something in this man's face that was kind and reassuring, and, without being able to explain why, she felt as if there was no strangeness in his re quest. He looked at her kindly and -searchingly. "You are heart-whole?" he said, inquir ingly. "Perfectly so," she replied; "I have had no time for love-making. I will not deny I have had my dreams of a home, and my ideals of what that home should be; but, sir, why do you ask me these questions?" She looked at him fearlessly and inquir ingly. "First let me return your confidence, and will answ-er your questions," be replied. "I am a widower; five years ago I buried my life's dearest hopes, in the person of my wife, whom I loved more tenderly even than I knew until I was forced to give fier up. I thought then my heart was broken, and that I could never love again. I am some thing os a mind-reader, and while you were waiting upon my niece I studied you care fully, and I saw in your face the index to a mind akin tomy own. "Never, since my darling Mattie died, have I seen a woman who seemed. like her, to be a part of myself, and as I looked at you, and felt this mysterious drawing towards you, 1 resolved that, however strange and uncon entional the proceeding might be, I would ask for this interview and make your ac :usintance." Isabel smiled a little skeptically: "Your interest is indeed strange, sir, toward a umble workwoman. If I were in the higher walks of life, such as I imagine you to be familiar with (he had an air of quiet goodbreeding which justified her assertion), the interest would be mole natural; as it is, perhaps I am vicious and designing as well as poor." " No, you are not," he replied, positively. "I have made faces a study, and I read no bility in yours; true, the circumstances you have mentioned may have lent a bitter tinge to your character; I could readily believe that, for I do not imagine poverty, depend ence or continual strife cailculated to bring out the best emotions of the soul, but, Miss Grant, I read unswerving integrity in your face, undeveloped power. -anid ;n ability to control self that I am assured will make you a noble woman, if you cani have the op portunity for the development of these bet ter qualities." "But, sir, granted that this supposition is correct, how can it be helped?" This view of her case was an inspiring one, in spite of the fact that it came from one so entirely a stranger; she had groaned in spirit under the knowledge that sh ...., grow every day more un amiable and frettul. How much of this was die to merje physical disability she did not iealize, but, at times, it seemed as if she could not bear another particle of strain upon her over strung nerves. The time had been when she could bear Mme. Arnot's almost intolerable arro gance with good nature, could endure John Harmon's coarseness with patience, and help her aunt bear her heavy burdens with tender sympathy, but that time had passed by, and she little realized how near she was to a complete breaking down, both physical and mental. "The poverty is still an insuperable bar rier; the unhappy home is growing more and more tangible and unalterable, and my position as dependent upon Mme. Arnot's freaks of temper, or ethers just like her, seems just as inevitable as before." She spoke bitterly now; the remembrance of her aunt's letter loomed up before her, and all the trials of her lot seemed doubly un bearable in the light of this glimpse of better things, and she dropped her head upon her hands in dejection. " No. not inevitable," said Mr. Falconer, slowly; "there is another life before you where none of these things can come. I :an offer you a home," she raised her head 4 SHE SPOKE BITTERLY NOV. - 4 with a startled expression, "where there is plenty and peace at least, and through the medium of which I hope to win your love in due time. This home is with me, and as my wife. Will you marry me!" CHAPTER IL "I am aware that my proposition is a strangely startling one," said he, gently, as Isabel looked at him with clasped hands as if in a dream; "but I leave the city to morrow, and I wish to take you with me, and release you at once from the hardening influences by which you are surrounded." " To-morrow !" said Isabel, repeating the words after him, mechanically; release from all these harassing things to-morrow, and through such an unlooked-for medium, no wonder the girl was dazed. "But your family, your friends, what will they say to your marrying ashop-girl?" she said, her mind going back to gentle Lilly Stanford, irrelevantly, because it really had so little to do with the matter, but feeling for the moment as if scorn and aversion toward her in that sweet young face would be more than she could bear; worse, indeed, than her present ills. "My family!" he replied, haughtily; "fort unately I am entirely independent of their fancies, and fully old enough to choose for myself; besides, they aresensible and kind, and if I am happy, will love you for my sake, until they can do so for their own. Take a little time, Miss Grant, and think over the matter calmly before giving me an answer. I can give you undoubted refer ence as to my character before the mar riage." "One question," she said, gravely; "I have seen what a love of stimulants can do in a home whether it be rich or poor, and I have vowed sacredly never to marry a man who indulged in them, even in the least degree." She looked at him interrogatively. "Fave no fears in that respect," he re plied, earnestly. "I despise any thing of the sort as much as you can do, and I honor you the more for your resolve in regard to it. I never use liquor in any form." She raised her eyes and looked in his face long and searchingly; she, too, had a fac ulty for reading faces, or rathier her in stincts read for her, and rarely betrayed her; she saivin this case an honest manli ness in the face before her which inspired her with confidence, and going to him she stretched out her hands, saying, with a tearful smile: "Mr. Falconer, if you are wvill ing to abide the consequences of this im pulsive act, I will accept your offer, and earnestly strive not to disappoint you." He rose, and taking her bands in his, said uietly: "-It shall be the study of my life to convince you that your informal choice is a wise and happy one. I leave the city to. morrow at 2:15. Shall we fix the ceremony at one, In this room?" " As you please," replied Isabel; she was yet too bewildered to give attention to de tails. "Very well, I will call in the morning at nine, and ask Mine. Arnot for permission to use her room." "Isabel Grant, do, for pity's sake, tell us what Harvey Falconer could wish to see you for," cried Mmne. Arnot, who was in the work-room when Isabel entered it at last, with a preoccupied, far-away look in her eyes. "We are dying to know!" said Jennie Dewey; "has he gone into the millinery usiess and offered you a position as sales woman?" The idea of Isabel and bonnets seemed insepar'able. "He has offered me a position," replied sabel, dreamily, "not as a saleswomaa,' but ashis wife." . .4 "His toife!" almost screamed Mme.Arnot. in her surprise; "Harvey Falconer, the nimionaire; nonsense, girl, you're joking." "The miluionaire!" It was Isabel's turn now to be surprised; she had thought little f his position in life, and had supposed him to be a comfortable tradesman, or, to come earer the truth, she had had no definite thoughts on the subject except as his words, "peace and plenty,' suggested a home of omfortable abundance, and she sank into a chair trembling. "I'm not joking," she said, faintly. "but I had no idea he was a an of suoh wealth when I accepted him." "There will be a fine humming among his ristocratic friends when they hear he has arried a shop-girl," said Idmie. Arnot, scornfully; she had married a canal driver in her days of poverty, in lieu of a better ofer, and through all her years of prosper ity he had remained the same, low, vulgar and illiterate, a creature to be kept out of sight of her present circle of friends, so far as possible, and it galled her and filled her with wrath and jealousy that a girl, hitherto ependent upon her for her daily bread, should by one stroke of fortune rise so high above her in the social scale which she would occupy as Harvey Falconer's wife. "But there's no danger ! He's fooling you, girl; he'll never marry you !" "Time will tell," was Isabel's quiet reply. It seemed to her now, in the family atmos phere of the work room, that it was all a dream, and that Mmne. Arnot's disdainful words were only too reasonable, but, as she had said, time would tell, and a very short time, for Mr. Falconer'slast words had been: "Expect me at nine to-morrow." "In case of such an absordity occurring, I will give you just one year to get behind my counter; no good results could possibly come from such a strange alliance," and Mie. Arnot flounced out of the room far from gracefully, and the girls were left alone. "The spitefulold cat !" said Jennie Dewey, indignantly; "it's no wonder she envies you, Isabel, in comparing Mr. Falconer with hor rid John Arnot; but do tell us all about it." But Isabel could not; she was not a gush ing or effusive girl, and her deeper feelings especially were inexpressible. Mr. Fal coner had touched these In his conversation, and she could no more have repeated it than she could have brought out for inspec tion the tenderest of love making. "It all seems so unreal," she pleaded; "all I can tell is that he proposed to me and I ac cepted him." "For Miss Grant," said Ellice Ryan, com ing in from the shop at the moment with a small package. "That certainly looks like tangible proof," said Jennie, as Isabel undid the package and disclosed a plush box which, when opened, revealed an elegant diamond ring. Mr. Fal oner must have studied the slender white ingers to advantage during his stay, for the rg fitted her engagement finger to a nicety. A new, sweet feeling stole into her heart with the gift; she had not been used to being considered and cared for, and a new world was openmng up before her; one of happiness as well as her own in her hanes, and the questlon whether or not she.woiild fail in the trust committed to her was a serious one. 'Dear me! you wouldn't catch me looking so like an owl if I had some one to send me diamond rings," cried Jennie, as Isabel turned the brilliant slowly around on her finger. "Dear Isabel, I am so elad for you," said gentle Lottie Ford, rising and limping over to her side, where she stood caressing the waves of Isabel's dark hair, as she whis pered softly: "I believe he is a good man, and that is worth more than gold or dia monds." "Yes. Lottie," replied Isabel. in a whisner also; --yet that seems to De the iast thing others think of. If I could not have felt that he was good and true, I would never have consented." Nine o'clock precisely brought Mr. Fal. coner to the shop, where he proffered his-re quest with the air of a man who knew what he-was about. Madam was all smiles, and seeing that the affair was a reality and near at hand, began to alter her deportment to ward Isabel materially, in hope of gain to herself; the future wife of a millionaire be ing a person of much more importance in her eyes than plain Isa el Grant. She could not forbear one little malicious shot, however, and she asked with a touch of sarcasm in her honeyed tones: "Do your friends, the Stanfords, attend the wedding?" "Mrs. Falconer will make the acquaint ance of my friends in her own home, madam," replied Mr. Falconer, coldly; he understood the sarcasm perfectly, and re sented it. ,-I observe that the ring fitted, Miss Grant," he said, gravely, taking her hand; there were too many curious eyes about to indulge in aught but commonplaces. "I wonder you could have guessed so ac curately," she replied. "At one, then, you will be ready," he con tinued, still holding her hand. "Yes." How atrong he was; howhis pres ence swept away all the objections which, when the darkness and solitude of night had surrounded her, came trooping to her mind, suggesting a thousand tormenting thoughts and fears. "If there are any expenses to be met you will allow me to defray them," making a motion toward his breast pocket. Mine. Arnot had withdrawn her sharp eyes for the moment. "Oh, no, no," and she shrank back hastily; "I have been frugal and am well supplied for the present." There was little accomplished in the work room that morning, the prospect of the wediling in the afternoon effectually dissipating business ideas. Isabel would almost have preferred leav ing her life at Mme. Arnot's where she had taken it up, in the work room, but she ban ished the idea as a sentimental one. All the girls were to be present at the ceremony, and Kitty Ray remarked that they owed Isalkel a vote of thanks for getting them a glimpse of madam's parlor, which, though nothing grand in itself, she held sacred from the intrusion of her shop-girls, but in this instance she could not refuse the re quest of the rich Mrs. Falconer to be. She was too busy during the short time remaining to have many ideas aside front packing her slender wardrobe into a trunk several sizes too small for it. "I suppose the next time you travel you will have a sara toga trunk with a cupola on it," said Jennie, as she dextrously fitted Isabel's best hat into a box. "The future looks like a vast untried sea," replied Isabel, "so entirely vague that I make no calculations on what may or may not come to me." "Not even in the prosaic matter of a trunk," laughed Jennie;'now, I should have a whole wardrobe, hung with elegant dresses, and half a jewelry store blocked out in my mind if I stood in your shoes." Isabel dressed herself in her best, a plain brown silk, suitable for traveling, with bonnet and wrap to match, and she looked quite as stylish as Mrs. Stanford herself, and Mr. Falconer looked at her in pleased surprise as he, in company with a clergy man, came into the parlor; he had only seen her in her plamn shop dress, and to-day she had let down her hair and allowed it to take its natural bent, the little tendrils curling about her forehead and quite trans formingher.plain face. "A decidedly fine looking woman," was Harvey lkaleoner's In ward comment, "and will fit into her sur roundings like a charm." The solemn service was soon said, the heavy wedding ring slipped into Its place, and after bidding the girls an affectionate good-bye, Isabel Falconer was handed to the carriage in waiting, and bade adieu for ever to her life at Mmne. Arnot's, and it re nained to be seen whether Harvey Falconer had read her character aright, or had masde a false move in the game of life. a . [To be continued.] A Stormy Session. ST.FPAUL, Minn., July 8.-The State xecutive committee of the Farmer's Al lance met here yesterday and later a onference for the purpose of organizing anew people's party in Minnesota was eld. Donnelly, who had been appointed hairman of the Minnesota committee by he Cincinnati convention, presented the ame of the full State committee. Sen tor Hompe, leader of the anti-Donnelly Alliance faction, objected to the new ommittee. Debate prew warm and inally a compromise was adopted, hough D~onnelly objected strenuously. A compromise committee of five an ounced a new committee late in the af ernoon divided between two factions. Another fight then arose on some mem er of the committee. Ex-President R. . Hall denounced Editor Fish of the reat West as a traitor and called him a liar, when the latter attempted to de fend himself. The report was adopted and the new State committee met last ight. _______ Horrors or Heathendom. SAN FRANCISCO, July 3.-The steamer hina arrived this evening from Hong ong and Yokohama. The threatened rot at Nanking took place'. The Meth dist girls' school was attacked, pillaged and bunned on May 25 by a Chinese abble. Several other mission build ngs were attacked and would have been emolished but for the interference of oldiers sent by the viceroy after urgent appeals from the missionaries. Furth r rioting is expected at Kin Kiang. he outbreaks are said to be the work f secret societies, the prime object not eing to injure foreigners, but to en angle the Chinese Government in foreign complications in the hope thiat hereby a successful insurrection may e started. At Tanlang on June 1 a ob pillaged the mission building, over owering the mandarin and soldiers. he Christian cemetery was dug up, he heads piled in a heap and the man arin dragged to the spot by his queue. he Governor of Annan reports behead ng of twenty-five ringleaders in the roubles at Nicu. The Storm at Galveston. GALVESTON, July 8.-The loss on alveston Island from Sunday night's torm did not amount to more than 1,500. The citizens were more seared han hurt. The fishing smack Dania, ommanded by Capt. Robert Frank ovneh, was wrecked off~ Smith's Point, on he north side of Galveston Bay, during he squall Monday morning, and five of he six men aboard of her were drown d, Those drowned are: Robert Frank vich, Frank Miliovich, Pete Strangel, ack Speech, and an unknown man. ews of the terrible disaster was brought o the city Monday evening by Vincent agovitch, the sole survivor of the little raft. The sloop Mattre left last night o search ior the bodies of the unfortu ate men. Death at a Dance.1 WASHING TON. Pa., July 8. -An inci-1 ent occurred at McDonald, Washing on county, in which a young girl namedi argaret O'Hara lost her life. A num er of young folks were holding a dance t McDonald and had the platform ighted by coal-oil lamps, hung above the heads of the dancers. One of the amps became detached, and falling at the feet of Miss O'Hara., exploded, from which her clothes caught fire, and she as soon enveloped in fiames. The flames were soon extinguished, but too late to save her lif e, as she died that niht in the most terrible aony. KILLED BY _LECTMiCITY FOUR MURDERERS ELECTROCUTEC'j AT SING SING PRISON. There Was a Terrible Shock anl then Ob livion--Nothing to Terrifv the Speeda tors-The Men DII Widiou. a S. .iiz Cie. SING SING.N. Y.,.July 7.-Th.: fwmr inierable murderets-$lI m. Soil. r. Wood and Jugigo- wre put to detht here early this morning in thr -lee ri i chair; the first naied at 420 . i. ar'i the others later, at iintervisl (of ab;ut half an hour apart-Jugigo. LI las' victim. receiving the deadly lightning stroke at 6.05 a. i. Most of the men were awake wher, shortly before 4 o'cock, the piiests and the chaplain appeared. Chaplain Ed gerton spoke a few words of comfort to Jugigo, when he told him that the end was near, but the Jap did n( t re ceive them in a grateful spirit. and the chaplain passed on to Smiler's cell, while the two priests busied themselves respectively with Slocum and Wood. The condemned men took very calmly the announcement that the sentence was about to be executed. They were dressed when the chaplain and the priests entered. Their clothing was much alike-a suit of dark diagonal, white shirt and collar and black tie. About 4 a. m. the witnessts distribu ted themselves about the death chain ber. The electrician was in charge of the apparatus for measuring the cur rent, which was fastened to the side of the closet opposite the entrance to the cell room. It consisted of a volt-meter, a resistance coil, and a row of twenty incandescent lamps, each measuring 100 volts. A heavy switchboard formed the connection between the wires from the dynamo room at the other end of the prison grounds and the wires in the executioner's closet adjoining. A push button communicated with a sig nal bell in the dynamo room. When the witnesses had ranged themselvts about the room, the electrician touched this button once. The engineer re sponded to the signal and starte d the dynamos. They had been tested up to 3,000 volts during the morning. When the current had been turned on Ihe elec trician threw the switch which turned it into the row of lamps above his head. They burst into a glow of light that rivalled the daylight shining through the canvass covering of the the windows about the sides oi the im provised execution room. The testing apparatus showed again a satisfactory strength of current. The electrician advised the warden of this fact. The warden went to the great iron door at which stood one of the as sistants, whom he had ap pointed under warrant of the law, and it was opened to permit him to pass through. 11 was gone only a couple of minutes. In that time he had notified Head Keeper Connaughton. who was in the con demned cell room, that the 'chair was ready for the first of the condemned men. The death warrant was not read to the condemned men in the cell as was done in the case of Kemmler. The warden had said that he did not know anything in the law requiring him to read the death warrant. As a precau tionary measure he would read it, but not at the time of the execution sometime before, if possible. It was his wish to prevent the other men knowing that the first man had been taken from his cell if it was possible to do so. So the exit from the cell room was made as quietly as possible. The warden and the head keeper walked ahead, then the condemned m an, be tween the t wo priests, Father Creeden and Father Lynch, then the t wo guards. When the witnesses had gathered in the chamber some of them appeared very nervous, and all showed signs of great strain on their sensibilities. Sloum had been selected as the first victim, and as soon as the good priests had finished their supplications, he said he was ready and stepped out of his cell with alacrity. The walk to death began. Following the Warden and his deputy came 5locum, between two priests, who held aloft in front of him a crucilix, at which he steadfastly gazed. Two keeper deputies brought up the rear of the fatetul procession. Slowly the heavy doors swung back, and with a solemn tread and mien the little procession walkE d into the room where the silence of death prevailed. They had but few steps to take. The chair was directly in their front. As the leaders parted the chair stood out in all of its awfulness before the man about to sit in it and die. Siocunm halted at the Warden's command just on the edge ot the rubber mat which was to protect those who were watching his life go out. The doomed man's gaze was riveted on the chair. Then it wandered to the dangling wire and the closet from which it was suspended. Back to the chair It came like a needle to the magnet, and he started as though he had received a shocg from the wire when the Warden began reading the death warrant, while the reverend men engaged in silent prayer. The wit nesses were grouped to the left of the chair. The scientists stood in front of the switchboard watching the current, which they read like a book as it ilashed in the lamps and through the recording instruments. The executioner was heard to rise from his chair in the closet nd place himself ready to do his duty. With an attempt at a smile Slocum seated himself in the chair and leaned his head back against the rubber rest as though lie was simply preparing to be shaved. The forced smile remained n his face, and as Fathers Creeden nd Lynch took up) their position in frono of him he again directed his gaze at the cross while Connaughton began fastening the straps. Slocum's eyes were cloar and he appeared to be in perfect physical condition. ie took his eyes from the cross long enough to aid Deputy Warden Connaughton in his task, and then until the shield was placed on his face, his lips moved in prayer as he looked lixedly at the cross. Straps crossed and re-crossed his body nd his legs were tightly bound to the foot rest. ~Then his arms w~ere tastened nd Slocom could no longer move a muscle. Finally an oddly arranged set f straps that oound his chair in one position and covered his eyes were put in place. Now Doctors MacDonald and Rockwell and Professor Laudy ap proached to attach the electrodes. The positive electrode was placed on Sio u's head,the same as in the K~emmler electrocution. The negative electrode was attached to his right leg, the trousers having been folded up for this purpose before Slocumn was bound in the chair. When the electrodes had been satisfactorily adjusted and the wires attached the three scientists glanced at the switchboard, said the current was steady and registered 1.100 olts. Doctors MacDonald and Rock ell then stood on either side of the chair. Other physicians among the witnesses drew near. w'.le the laymen stood back as though not sure of their nerves. Doctors Daaiiels, Southwick nd Ward took special iuterest in these preliminaries and with watch in hand waited the signal. Warden IDuston of Auburn prison stood alongside Warden ~rown and offered suggestions. All his had taken less time tnlan it has to tell it. Professor Laudy's hand graspe:l he handle of the switch which turiied Lhe current into the wires in the elec rocutioner's closet. Warden Brown 'aised his hand and Professor Lru dyf turned the switch. Then the Warden1 tapped on the closet. The unknown oside gave a quick pull to his rubber overed lever. Trhe electric iluid was released before the sound of the tap reached Slocum's ears, and like light ning's flash it sped through his body. Vhere was not a tremor of the body as 1 physician counted the seconds, and when Professor Laudy turned off the curent Slonum sat rigid and lifeless in th* clir. When the electrodes were removed it was discovered that his skull and the ilesh of his leg had been slighi ly burned; but there was no smell of roasting Ilesh such as made the Kerunnier eirctrocution so horrible. The straps were unloosed and the body carried back into the rear room. Smier di i not hesitate when told th.t his hour had corme, but when the deaii chair appeartd before him he almost fell to the '.oor. His knee. ktiocuk- t ntA.;r and but for the sup pint of hi. spiritual advisers he would eer'in iy ht co'lapsed. Warden Otro%1n quily read thi- death warrant, ain1 'a'ler wats ba-oily seated in the chair. His iace tuooK on a ghastly hue an.1 Coaaughton gz(ot no assistance froin this victim in arranging the straps. Smiler was bound and the elec trodes applied in a much briefer time than Slocum.v nd in a lew seconds Smi ler also was deid. The same light burning under the electrodes was no tieed as in Siocun's case. Wood had been prepared by Fathers Creeden and Lynch while Smiler was going to his death and he was all ready. lie uttered no word when the time cane. Ile walked to death supported by the oriests. Wood betrayed noemo tion when he gazed upon the chair, but kept his eyes fixed on the crucifix. He sat down in the chair diffidently and his binding was accomplished so quick ly that it was only twenty-four min utes irom Smiler's end until death came to Wood. t was becoming easy to kill men. The witnesses displayed no emotion. There was nothing to cause nausea, and death came to its victims so quickly that it was all over before they realized it. Jugiro at first refused to leave his cell, but when Connaughton said Come on, Joe, be a brave man,' the Jap walked out quietly. Two additional keepers marched one on each side of the Jap, while the chaplains followed behind the warden and his deputy. The Jap did not seem to comprehend the pur poses of the chair and seated himself without a protest. A keeper assisted Connaughton in binding the Jap and the last act was quickly accomplished. The current was allowed to remain in the Jap's body about three seconds longer than with the three others; ac cordingly his skull and leg were strong ly maricd by the electrodes. Jugiro's body was taken away. Six bells were struck as a signal to the electrician in the dynamo room that all was over, and the witnesses returned to the War den's room. The approximate time of turning on the current in each ease was: Slocum. 4.10: Smiler, 5.10; Wood, 5.30; Jugiro, 6.0. The prisoners had received some intimation beforehand that the execu tions were to take place this morning and they were prepared for them. They went to the execution chair bravely and met their fate without a struggle. They offered no resistance, but rather assisted the keepers when they were bound down in the chair. The elec trodes were not applied as in the Kemmler case to the top of the skull and the base of the spine, but were bound to the forehead of the con demned men and the calves of their legs. The current was turned on in each case for twenty seconds. The voltage was anout 1.500 and 1,00. In each case there was apparent evidences of revival as in Kommler's case, and in each of these four cases the current %:as turned on a second time. In spite of the fact that the sponges were kept constantly wet all of tne executed men were burned nv the current, and espe cially about the calves of their legs. Medical men present agree that death came on the first contact and that the seeming revival was merely reflex mus cular action. None of the witnesses was overcome by fright and all of them who have spoken have made the state ment that the electrodes were success ful and that death in all cases was in stantaneous and painless. Shall Nct Go to Jail. CHATTANOOGA, July 8.-Athens, Tenn., is in a great state of excitement. During the session of the Circuit court today, Judge Arthur Traynor presiding, (ol. T. M. Burkett, a well known lawyer, was pleading for a re duction of the fine .imposed upon a client. In the course of his remarks he made some very disrespectful allusions to the judge presiding. The juodge there upon lined Col. Biurkett $50 for con tempt of court, and afterwards Burkett again commenced to use abusive lan guage, and made soms steps toward the judge apparently to assault him. The sheriff intercepted Col. Biurkett, and thereupon the judge ordered the sheriff to place Col. Burkett in jail. Burkett bade defiance to the court and officers and said he wvould not go to jail. The sheriff summoned all in the court room as a posse to carry out the orders of the courts but Col. Burkett walked from the court house unmolestled and is not yet under arrest. Some friends have paid the fine imposed but they say Bur kett shall not go to jail. Monster in Human Form. NEW YORK, July 9.--A newspaper reached this city tod ty from the State of Chihuahua, Santa Rosa, South Amer ica, which contains a startling story of cannibalism in Brazil. According to the article, the horrible feast'ngoccured at Salhnas, in the State of Minas, Brazil, where the human monster, a man named Clemente Vierra, was caughit in the very act of eating a portion of the remains of :'ne of his victims. The editor of the papcr Cida D' Leopoldina. saw Vierra n jail, and asked the prisoner if It was rue that he had nourished himself on .mman flesh. "'Yes, sir,' answered the risoner, "for some time I and my riends, Basilo, Leandro and others, mye eaten human flesh; in fact, we lived n it."~ The story goes on to relate the killing mid ea-;!n ~of several nersons, until inally, when victims became scarce, Derra and Basilo killed one of their oman ous and devoured him. Vierra ater on kiiled Basilo. but had only.eaten t part of the body- when he was arrested. ['he rest of Basilo's remains was found xekd away in a barrel, prepared with >eper' anid salt. A Total Accident. CnIL.mLsT0N S. C., July 9.-Mr. Daniel McS winy, a well known citizen >f this city, attempted to cross the city ~ailway tracik ahead of an approaching orse car this afternoon at the corner >f King and Morris streets. He missed is focting, tell, and before the driver ~ould s:op the car, the wheel passed ver the unfortunate man's neck, kill ig him instantly. Mr. McSwiny was t)ot 50 years of age, an:1 the father of Mr. Eugene P. McSwiny, general freight tul passenger agent of the Charleston m~ Savannah Railroad Company. it .s said by witnesses that the car driver iut dIown brakes and d.d all in his pow r to stop the car in time to avert the ~atastrop.he, but without success. The I stressmen accideuthas created utiver lal sy m path y in the comimunity.-State. Money Value or a Wire's Afrections. IENv Eu, Col., July 4.-A verdict of M00,00 dlamages, the largest sum ever iwardeud in A mnerica upon the suit for ,he alienation of a wife's affections, vas returned yesterday by a jury in the istrict coirt in this city. S. Willis rnch, believed to be a nmillionaire, nust hand over this sum to Cecil A. *ane as the result of a suit which lasted *or nearly three~ weeks behind closed loors. Reward Oftered. ('uim.OTTE, N. C., July 8.-GoVer itr Tiilmnan of South Carolina has of eredl a reward or $250 for the arrest of Jras Kelly, who murdered J. Duncan haw, editor ofT lie Bishopville Eagle, >f Kershaw county, S. C., on the even - ng ot July 4. Kelly is reported to be a lesperate character, naving cut eight nn lately. Editor Shaw being the iVETHERHORN & FISCHER, --MANUFACTES )F SASH, DOORS, BLINDS, ETC. 7, 9. 11, and 13 Smith Street. CHARLESTON, S. C. Write for prices and estimates. CHARLESTON Mattress Mf'g Co., MANUFACTURERSOF High Grade Moss, Hair, & Wool Mattresses. Office & salesroom, 552 and 554 King st., CHARLESTON, S. C. Reduced price list, for fall trade, 1890. Mattresses,-assorted stripe ticking: No. 1, Straw and Cotton, S2; No. 2, $2.50; No. 3, $2.75. No. 1, Excelsior and Cotton, $3.50; No. 2, S3; No. 3, $3.50. No. 1, Husk and Cotton, $3; No. 2, $3.50; No. 3, $4. No. I. Cotton Mattress, 4 lbs., $5; No. 2, S7; No. 3. $8. Prices quoted on Wool Mattresses if desired. No. 3, Moss Mattresses, $5; No. 2, S; No. 3, S7. No. 1, Hair Mattrcss, $10;No. 2, $15; No.3, S20. 3ed Spreads, $1.50 to S3. Comforts, 95c. to $4.50. Blankets, 90 cents to $5. Feathers in best ticking at 75 cents per pound, plain or fancy stripe made up. Lounges in imitation walnut, oak, and ma hogany. In raw silk, 4; carpet, $5; moquett plush, $6.50. Upholstered cots, $2 to $3. Spring beds, $1.50 to $5. Buy direct from the factory. Send cash by express or postal note to T. H. McCALL, Gcn'l Sup't. The BaleyLebby COMPANY. 213 Meeting St., Opposite Charleston Hotel, CHARLESTON, S. C. Maniufacturers' Agents. Machinery, Supplies, Oils. Attention mill men ! We are now offer ing the best and latest improved SAW HILLS, ERINES AND 1004li -AND Iron, Steel, Pipe, Nails, Fitting, Belt Lacing, and a full line of Phosphate and Mill Supplies. State agents for THE SCIENTIfIC GRINDING MILLS. ykSend for our new illustrated catalogue and lowest prices. Agents wanted in every county. FERT ILIZERS! PIEDMONT GUANO CO., CHARLESTON, S. C. IMPoPTE:s, MANUFACTUREfls, a Df.ALEfls TN Safest, High Grade, and Guaranteed Kainit, Blood Acids, Dissolved Eone, Solubles, and Ammioni ated Mlanipulated. Handled by Mr. M. Levi, Manning, S. C. Get prices before buying. WM. BURMESTER &C00. Hay and Grain, AE XNArcTURERS OF EJil & MEAL Opp. Kerr's Wharf, and 23 Qneen St., CHARLESTON, S. (. BOLLMANN BROTHERS, Wholesale Grocers, 157 and 169, East Bay, CHARLESTON, S. C. JoN F. WENER~n. L. H. QUItoLLo. JOHN F. WERNER & CO., Wholesale Grocers -AND Provision Dealers, 164 & 166 East Bay and 29 & 3! 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The celebrated Royal St. John Sewing Machine, and Finest Razors in America, al ways on hand. Repairing promptly and neatly executed by skilled workmen. Orders by mail will receive careful atten tion. SILVERWARE, &c. I have in stock some of the most artistic pieces in this line ever brought to Sumter. Those looking for Tasty Wedding Presents will (do well to inspect my stock. Also on hand a magnificent line of Clocks, Watches, Chains, Rings, Pins, But tons, Studs, Bracelets, in solid gold, silver, and rolled plate. Repairing of all kinds will receive prompt and iocnre1 attention. L. E. LEGRAND, SUMTER, S. C. NOTICE OF REGISTRATION. State of South Carolina, COUNTY OF CLAR1INDON. I N ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVIS ions of an act of the General Assembly. ratitied on the 9th day at February, 1882, I will be in the court honse in Manning, in the office of the clerk of' the court, the first Monday of each month, for the purpose of allowing persons coming of age since the last general election to register, and to at tend to any other business pertaining to my official duties. S. P. HOLL ADAY, Supervisr Registration Clarendon Co. P.0O. Address: Panola. S. C. OF NEW YORK. R. A. McCURDY, Prest. Assets, $147,154,961.20. Surplus, $9,981,233.38. The oldest, strongest, largest, best company in the world. It "makes as surance doubly sure." E. B. CJanley, Agent for Kershaw and Clarendon, C'amde'n, S. C. ED. L. GERNAND, GnYr.r. Acirxr, Columbia, S. C. James F. Walsh, WHOLESALE LIQUOR DEALER. IGHHI GRADE LIQUORS. 199 Meeting st., CHARLESTON, S. C. EAT AND DRINK! 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Special attention paid to shampOO ng ladies' heads. I have had considerable speiecelfC in several large cities, and guar intee satisfaction to myi customers. Parlor ext door to Manning Times