A BLUESTOCKING; ROMANCE REALITY, By Miss Annie Edwards. CHAPTER XV. ? ' Continued. P ?'Bow should you? No announce- 1 Blent was pat in the newspapers, and. for reasons that you can understand. 1 1 ,?d not care -about writing to mj to ; you. perhaps, a* letter would hare been easier than to I ?lost people. Ah. Mrs. Chester." she I runs on. with the frank self-absorption the unaffected egotism that renders the society of newly married persons soJ dismal to the rest of human kind, "do 1 you recollect a conversation we had In ?your own rootn-sll roses, and white , olmlty. and full of the smell of sea weed, thst laat evening I was at .Fief- 1 . de-Is -Heine?" Yes, Daphne remember the conver- 1 sstlon accurately, word for word. "I don't mind confessing that I felt I ?the least. Just the very least, degree hitter against you that evening." . "Bitter? against me?" .? "You seemed so contented with the I t*orId and the world with you. and my I own spirit so heavy, and? well. If the I .truth be told. It did appear to me. I ^relghlng our lota, one against the oth- 1 ?r that I had some ::mall reaaon to ?eel jealous." | ? So Aunt Hosle was right. Human ns. I (ture remains the same alwaya. Clem- 1 .?ntlna s love for Severne, lukewarm I .though it may have been, contained! Just sufllrlent vitality to admit of that old-fashioned sentiment, jeslousy . "I recollect one thiug with "great! Clearness: thst I prophesied your hap- 1 plnesa." says Daphne, a little con- 1 science- stricken. I "And how you extolled Sir John!! iWell, looking at his character now with I unprejudiced eyes, I can ssy. honestly and dispassionately, that I think be deserved every word of your eulogies; I can. Indeed, poor fellow!" Up springs the blood Into Daphne Chester " face. Something In Clemen tlua a half-pltylng tone wounds her to the quick. As though ahe had a right to feel wounded, to take any lingering Jiterest whatsoever, either In Sir John ^everne or In his wife's estimate of] J?? merits were not made for I ? " lher* waa the pity of it The fact I ?as. we became engaged much too young, i felt it instinctively that first I -moment when we met again, don't IIS Tk""1"'1'- Mr" Chester, bow F?|u 5?k; 'n ?P?n ? "tile Hketcbing .???aon Sir John was giving you under! the rocks? And every hour we spent together afterward convinced me more I .and more of our mistake " ? burn like ?Jli . ?.he_hf* heard rumors, even at Fltfjie-laJleine. of the rapid pace. matmn of youihfui matrsus of the day. Confidences like .these, confidence? from the lipH of a I tWO month? married, posl- 1 lively stagger her. I "You must have guessed, I am sure. ??elpg so much of us ns you did." And ^now it^ls Clementina's turn to show | she casta down her | her bright new wedding I "I'm? round and round upon her finger. | ? have guessed? thnt I cared 1 ; ~Yor^.y^<$u3in I ^J^^njouSiiii repeats Daphne J Chester, by this time too thoroughly mystified to do more than re-utter the bride's own words. ; "He is not briUlant na far as hooks go; it may be good judges would say he lias not got Sir John Severne's sol ad qualities^ and_ he is certainly poor, while Sir John Severne. as certainly, lias plenty of this world's goods. But you see one cannot reason about earing 'for people! I-I think I have cared 5for Felix always," says Clementina, the ^sweetest flush of womanly feeling staining all her fiiee, "and I know that to l>e with him. poor, abroad? anyhow." will be the only possible hnppln'cs?? oC rnjr lire." .Daphne had turned first rod. then pnfe. then red again, during Mrs. Bioughton's confession? for it is time to call the bride by the name she wears so Joyously. No word of congratula tion can she speak. Bewilderment, scarcely yet enlightened, the dawnintr of a now wild personal hopp, combine ? together to render her dumb. Your Cousin Felix, I ? I mean Mr. Broughton, is with you?" she asks, at length, stammering ns guiltily as though her heart owned a secret pas sion for Clementina's husband. Yes, ho Is at the hotel, and Inter on In the day you will see him? that Is, if you will let us Invite ourselves to a Flef-de-ln-Relne high tea. Felix re quires a good ninny hours for break fast and rest, ofter the horrors of n Channel steamer, and. as Sir .fnhn was ready to escort me. I thought I lind bolter drive on first and give you warning of our advent." . "Sir John Severne Is? Is traveling with you, then?" Surely, were Clementina's lips ab solutely engrossed in herself nnd her 1' ellx, she must decipher the meaning of Daphne Chester's trembling voice nnd rapidly chnnglng color! "Traveling with us? Well, that Is a comical lilon. Do you think we could endure to have any other soelety thnn our own? No; our crossing over to Kothrr Inst nlarht was purely accidental. I never knew Sir John was on board until wo got pnst the Needles, and then the vessel began to roll, and ?very one vaa. feellr.g co wretched, Snap Shots, 2,000 a Second. An Italian named Luciano Butt! has perfected a photographic apparatus capable of registering the Incredible number of 2,000 photographic Impres sions per second, says tho London Olobe. The most minute and least rapid and casual movements of birds and tnsocts on the wing, which have hitherto defied science, can. It Is claimed, be reglatered with accuracy, thus opening a now world of natural observation to ornithologists. The Alms used cost ?2 per second for the 2, C00 Impressions. that It quite took away the awkward nen of meeting." "Awkwardness!" repeats Daphne, mechanically. Amidst the chaos of feelings that be set her, blank wonder certainly pre dominates; wonder how any woman, learned or Ignorant, could discard Sev ern*. without a pang, to become the wife of Felix Broughton. "I can tell bjr your face that, you . think very badly of me, of course. And yet my own heart tells me if ever there was a case In which to break an en gagement would be more honorable than to hold It, that case was mine. To begin, with. I have a haunting fancy that Sh- John Severne' will ' not be in consolable. Daphne rises hastily and mores across to a side window. Away on the orchard terrace she can see Sev erne's figure. Just as in the old happy days, with Paul in his arms. Aunt Hosle is In conversation with him? animated, eager conversation, a look* of mingled surprise aud happiness on her sunburnt face. "I was thinking badly of no one." she answers, very low. "I was only won dering " "Over the unaccountably foolish choice of Clementina Hardcastie. Ah. well," says Mrs. Broughton. falling back upon one of her stlfT little blue stocking phrases, "the depth of human perversity In these matters seems still to be an undetermined quantity. You must remember. If you wish to be char 1 table," she adds, "that I did not go fgom giv w?rd quite without a strug gle. After I returned to London In June It was a settled thing tbat I should marry Sir John; and I let the dreary farce go on? let Mrs. Hard castle busy herself over dresses and bonnets, and the lawyers and papa addle their heads over settlements, without telling any of them that my heart was breaking. I had only to tbink of the error of giving up a "rich lover? there was the shame of aban doning a cai^glt As Lady Severue. ?n?ney, wltF Influence, I might have founded scholarships for my sex, laid the first stone of a new college or two. and, perhaps* in . time, have stepped into the lecturer's chair my self. As it was? as it was. Mrs. Ches ter. I broke down suddenly one day. Just us the milliter was to have fitted on my wedding gown! I broke down, confessed everything, wrote to Sir John, who was away in Scotland, and was sent off, in disgrace, to do pen ance with Cousin Ethelberta, the cross grained typical old maid of my moth ir's family In Devonshire." ? "And Mr. Broughton, what had be come of Mr. Broughton all this time?" "Felix was in Paris, poor fellow, ex pecting dally, so he says, to be asked over, as best man, to the wedding. However this may be. he made his ap pearance In Devonshire Just one week ifter I arrived there. Old Ethelberts, lo our wild amazement, turned out a ?rick! Yes, a brick," says Clementina, with tears in her eyes, and, for the ftrst time in her mortal life, stooping to a word of slang. "When she beard my story, and how I had given np money for love, Ethelberta declared 1 bad behaved as people did in her routh, and received Felix with open hrms. You can imagine the rest. Without bridesmaids, white satin, or settlements, we were married one tit miner morning in the village church, Cousiu Ethelberta acting as witness, tiie parish clerk giving me away, and have lived happily, and coutentcdly ever feince." .. .. The Inide pauses. / "And your own family?" asks Daphne, "the people who care for you mo$t? Has your marriage been kept a secret from tliein all?" "VPell, in time, naturally, we had to write penitential supplications, not only for forgiveness, but for money; Mrs. Hardcastie sent me down my trousseau, without a word or message ?the irony of twenty-four silk dresses, all with trains, to people who want bread! Papa Inclosed a check for five hundred pounds, and begged we would iook upon the giff ns a final one. These are our material prospects," says Clementina, cheerfully. ."Ethelberta, however? who looks as if she would live another hnlf century? hints that we are to be her heirs, and Felix thinks he will some day be made Sec ond Secretary, with a salary of three hundred and fifty pounds a year, in Vienna! For this winter, we are going to economize In Italy. You look grave still, Mrs. Chester?" "I ain thinking of your father? and of Sir John,", is Daphne's answer. "Papa has begun to relent already. I had a kind little note from him, written, you may be sure, without Mrs. Hardcastle's leave, the evening before I left Devonshire. As for Sir John? 1 confidently look to the l*ady Severne of the future, that unknown but 'not Impossible She,' " ssys Clementina, with meaning, "to restore his hap piness. Do you despair of ray predic tion being fulfilled?" But Sir John and Paul having by this time reached the parlor window. Mrs. Chester's answer remains forever unspoken. . (The End.) ' The cathedral at Ulm. Wurttem berg, possesses the highest church spire in the world. It 1 r. 033 feet high. A moat unusual e*perlonco from a row's kick happened to John Case, owner of some flno Jerseys, In Platn fleld, N. J., the other day. Going Into the stable, he stepped near one and put his hand out to stroke her, when the cow launched a kick at him. Her hoof Just missed his hand, but It caught tho ring on one finger and shot It clear across the barn, without leaving a scratch on him. The only way ho know she had struck him was the slight Jar #nd the finding of the ?ring several foct away on the concrete floor. - ? ? S9UT1CAMUNA comma ? tvi; * The Session Clsssd WMk *a Aitp IIMfltS PKttMY*tr. Hm Booth Carallfet iUMt Ooaftr ence oC the Met bod 1st EjlsiOMl church. 8o?th. which h*M IU MMioti at DairlliiftM last week closed Moo day, the sppolntments tor the ysar being announced aa followa: CHARLB8TON DISTRICT. H. W. Bajra, presiding Elder. Allendale. W. C. Ktrkland; Beaufort. O. P. Watson; Bethel circuit. W. H. Thrower; Black Swamp. O. P. Clark son: Charleston: Trinity. C. B. Smith; Bethel, M. L. Carlisle; Bprlng Street, P. L. Klrkton; Cumberland. J. W. Speake; Mt. Pleasant. L C. Car son: Cordesvllle. W. R. Buchanan; Cy pres s. C. W. Burgess; Dorchester. W. T. Bedenbsugh; Ehrhardt, T. h Bel ?In; Grover, S. C. Morris; Hampton. O. R Shaffer; Harley Tills and Indian Fields. W. 8. Goodwin: Henderson vllle, J. E. Peeler; McCtellanviUe. W. T. Patrick; Plnopolla. W. E. Bar re; Port Royal. L. D. Gillespie; Rldgeland, W. H. Murray; Rtdgerllle. H. C. Mou son; Round O, E. P. Hutson; St. George. W. 8. Stokes; Summervllle. J. L Daniel; Waterboro. Henry Stokes: Youngs Islnnd. W. A. Wlmber ly; Charleston' Port 8oclety. P. A. Mur ray, chaplain; 8tudent at Vanderbilt University, P. C. Gsrrls. COKESBURY DISTRICT. > J. E. Csrllsle, presiding elder. Abbeville. P. B. Wells; Antrevllle. J. A. Peeler; Butler, Poster 8 peer; Cokes bury. S. D. Vaughn; Donalds, Peter Stokes; Greenwood, W. A. Massebeau; Greenwood end Abbeville Mills, J. M. Lawaoo; Kinards, J. T. Miller; Lowndesvllle, R. W. Barber; McCor mick, II. W. Whttakcr; Mt. Carmel, R. C. Boulware; Ninety-Six, A. J. Cauthen; Newberry. Central. 8. H. Zimmerman; O'Nealle Street and Mollobon. J. H. Graves; Newberry cir cuit, J. E. Beard; Parksvllle, R. R. Dagnall; Pheonlx. J. R Copeland; Princeton. O. R. Wblttaker; Prosper ity. J. K. McCain ; Ssluds, R W. Hum phries; Verdery. C. W. Creighton; Waterloo. J. L. Ray; Whltmlre. J. N. Isom; lender College, J. O. Willson, president. COLUMBIA DISTRICT. I J. 8. Beasley. Presiding elder. C t fio?;/1' T,UI?lp8ecd; Batesburg, Ktreer i w8;rk5?. l!m,),a- wa?bington I Dan,e,: Ma,n street. w. I. Herbert. Green street. W. R. Trues tar!** W J" 8n,deri Br?ok and. W. 8. Henry; Edgewood J a w * w? wni1?aeW'?* AuId: riirtwu. Wiil,am8: Fort Motte. J. K. Inabinet; Granitevllio, a. R. Phillies il W Marl,n: ^esvill" m! M Brabham ; Lewledale. J. K. Strlck I ? Lexington. O. N. Rountree- Lea "Kton Fork. (I. H. Pooser; North Au j?unta. If. J. Cauthen* Rldgeway A S L**sloy ; St. Matthewn. J. E Vahaffey War, vine F. 8. Hook: Wi^ro j. It. Campbell; Epwortb Orphanage W 'Ill^eawI1wUrlr,n,fOd0I,l: ^iiiege, W. W . Daniel, president* J ' A utc-' c" w? w^.t' *genl; P*?o*'lnsU; uic.. tj. w. Walker, president. FLORENCE DISTRICT. A. J. Stokes. Presiding Elder. j* Tjlvu*/' ri, WhUe; Carters vllle. J. Z'h Taylor ? Cberaw, Bob ?. Marphr rberaw circuit. O. L. Dwant nontT""iTPg: Df^U0?t01^ Trinity. J.' V ^oper: Epworth and Pine Gnwe J "lark??*aiw Dar,,*to? circuit. N.' li. ^larkson. Florence; J. G. Beck. with ? Georgetown. B. M. Orler; ttSSyTille *artslm!! J* R w*Idon;' r E Sr&r?*? J}Uer; J^??nvllle. ^ake CuT i ?lnf8toce-1 W B Justus; ?Z.Cy' J ? B- Ttaywlck; Lunar T Gibson ; Liberty R w riij * Jome T. J. Clyde; iiltef^e w!r?? Jam pit, p. A. Calhoun ; Dcraaten W* a .O,eaton: South Florence F* B. lodges; Tlmmonsville. U F. McGhee. GREENVILLE DI8XRK7T. Jon??' presiding elder. Anderson, St. John's. M. Et Kellv >rrv?'e; S. T. Creech; West End. D J ' I*. Sa y an nor, J. C. Holley, ?r "OCK H".L DISTRICT. W. P. Meadors. oresldina elder, Blacksburg, C. C. Derrick; Black ?tock, J. |f. Noland; Chester, Bethel, M..L. Banks; Grace and New Bethel, lo be Supplied; Chester circuit, J. M F??' Ch?stor- c- p- Carter;' Mill r p[Cr'^' n' In*rrahom: Fort Mill. J. c. Chandler; Hickory Grove. fn'.fl- J ii Heath Springs, David Hrrnu ^ J B,? Tl,rn,nw^(1: l^ncaster w A iJi (5.UnJ": North Rock Hill, ? ' p- Winn; Rlchburg, W. A. Falrev Hock Hill, St. John's, Watson B. Dun t-n' t ? Holler, supernumerary; Laurel Street and Manchester, C. E* Poole; Rock Hill circuit, E. A. Wilkes Vw Wfdt. A. Sharp; ttfrWII*. J. L. IMMl tAiWtbtr, au?f*merary; n** s ^ ? STAftTAMBURO DISTRICT. J. W. ywp, presiding elder. 2 James; Buffalo and iMt Oil*. L E. Wiggins; Clifton ?Ml OlNdak, J. W. Elk Ins; Cherokee. B. M. Robertson; Clinton. W. H. Hod?; Cavpobello, J. T. Fowler; Bmtm, C. I. Burns; Gaffney, Buford 8treet. J. ML 8teadmsn. Limestone Street. J. B. Kllgore; Onffney circuit. J. B. Wilson; Jooesvllie. D. E. Csmak; Kelton, A. H. Best; Laurens. Pint church. M. W. Hook. Laurens mills. C. L McCain; North Laurens. J. F. An* derson; Pacolet. to be supplied; Paco let circuit. B. W. Mason; Reldavllle. T. J. White; Saatuc, T. B. Owen; Spar tanburg. Central. E. O. Watson. Dun can and Saxoa. 8. B. Harper. Bethel J. . W. Shell; Ualon. Grace church. D. M. McLeod, W. H. Miller, supernumerary; Union mills, W. M. Owens; Southern Christian Advocate, W. R. Richardson editor. O. H. Wsddell ssslstant editor; conference escretary of education. J. W. Kllco; ffaanclal agent Wofford col lege, r. a. Child. SUMTER DISTRICT. H. B. Browne, presiding elder. Bethany. B. F. Scogglns; Blshop vllle. D. Arthur Phillips; Csmden, C. C. Herbert; Chesterfield, j. j. Stevenson; Jordsn. S. D. Bslley; Jefferson, S. M. Jones; Lynchburg. S. O. Cnntey; Man ning. A. N. Brunson; New Zlon. B. J. Guess; Oswego. E. K. Moore; Pine wood, L. L. Bedenbaugh; Providence. C. S. Felder; Rembert and SL John. S. H. Booth; Richland. Walter P. Way; Santee. J. C. Yunue; Sumter. First church. P. F. Kugo. Magnolia Street. J. P. lnabinet; Wateree, W. D. Patrick; conference missionary secretary. P. F. Kllgo; assistant, Sundsy school editor. L. F. Beaty; transfered, K. S. Enochs to Alabams conference; superannuated, G. N- Boyd, J. M. Carlisle. A. M. Cbreltzberg. W. A. Clarke. D. D. Dantz ler. R. L. Duffle, J. W. Humbert. A. W. Jackson. W. W. Jones. C. D. Mann. N. K. Melton. J. A. Merritt. J. J. Neville. I. J. Newberry. J. A. Porter. T. P. Phil lips, B. H. Rawlrf? W. A. Rogers, J. L. SI fly, A. J. Stafford. T E. Wannama ker, J. F. Way. J. A. Wood, J. J. Work man. LABOR WORLD. There nre. almost 18,000 organized Workers in Norway. There are almost 570.000 clerks and copyists in the United States. Mills in the English cotton industry are again running on full time. Mattressmakers* unions belong to the Upholsterers' International, the A. F. of L. convention decided. ? Building Laborers' Internationa i will meet In annual convention at Minne apolis. 31 inn.. in January. Advances have been msde toward co-operation by the A. F. of L. and the Western Federation of Miners. There have been strikes in C.ermni# en a large scale among the brass work ers. cabinet makers and bricklayers. Membership in the American Federa tion of l.at>or has Increased from 40.000 in 1881 to 1 ,672^00 at the present time. A resolution asking for more and better parks in the great cities was passed at the recent convention, of the A. F. of L. All bricklayers' unions were enjoined from striking on the building at Madi son avenue and Ninety -seventh street, in New York City A sympathetic movement to aid the striking 'longshoremen of the Mer chants* Line at Boston has tied up hundreda of bales of cotton there. Three hundred miners are thrown ?at of work at Bed Lodge; Mont, by an injunction closing the Oebo mine because of violuttons of the mining laws. The Dublin (Ireland) CorporatioITTe ?ently decided to promote a bill in the ensuing session empowering them to award old-age pensions to their em ployes. Pittsburg has been selected as the next meeting place of the National As sociation of Carpet Mechanics. Cyrus Roberts, of Pittsburg, having Just been elected President. NEWS OF THK FAR EAST. The North Sea Arbitration Commit won met In Paris. A call to 2?v>,ooo Russian reserve# In seven distri 'ts lias been issued. Seven Russians bearing dispatches reached Chefoo from Port Arthur. Three Japanese torpedo boats were destroyed by mines at Port Arthur within a month. Some of Admiral Rojestvensky's war ships were sighted off Cape Town, heading eastward. lleneral Baron Kaulbnrs arrived at the front and had a conference with (Jeneral Kuropntkin. The thermometer where Kuropntkin aud Oyama face each otiier dropped seven degrees below zero. It was reported that important Jap anese gains had been made in the neighborhood of 203-Metre Hill. One Japanese torpedo boat was aban doned at Port Arthur and one Russian destroyer was reported aground. The auxiliary cruiser Okean. sup posed to be in the Mediterranean, was sighted passing Denmark headed for the Baltic Sea. I* ood and fuel were reported scarce In the neighborhood of Mukden, and the Chinese are suffering. The mili tary situation is unchanged. The Budget Committee of the Jap anese House reported the war esti mates without change. Some altera tions have been made in the ordinary budget. Admiral. Togo's reports of the torpedo flotillas' rocent attacks on the Sevasto pol and theHuRslan destroyers outsldo Port Arthur harbof were tnade public at Toklo. Dispatches from Mukden said that winter has effectively checked move ments on a large scale. Night sorties continued and sharp skirmishes were frequeht. Coromantee Proverbs. To him who runs full honor ntiv Though he be lust. Though you mny fall the catch each Yet may you cast. If you would trap the agile gamo. Oo softly, brother. Look on a child and Judge the samo: Don t auk lt? mother! Beware when o'er the wlno he says I am your friend." rss?Ti n"m" - "k?ok? szniur"" """ *'orl" N8RT?-2t -th* thnt know" no birth Knows no strife; None but the dead below the earth. May lauah at Life. ?Stephen Chalmers In New York Times. CM1KE CUSSES FKIT V X An Ugly R*w Among ths ltu<>nt? of Columbia. Now .York. Special. ? No action will bo takon by the Columbia University authorities In tho caso of x Klngdon Gould, tho freshman student who thwarted tho purpose of five. sopho mores who sought to Udasp him, by shooting a rsvolvel orer their heads, tho affair haTing occurred outside the college (round. Captain Nally was or* dcrcd to lnvestlga^p tho shooting. Po lice Commissioner McA(loo said: **I must take cognisance of thia caso. Young Gould baa no more right to carry a pistol without a permit than tnyono else.** Indignation at the action of King ton Gould and the doelre to secure a largo contingent of freshmen for tho sophomore dinner was tho cause of a remarkable display of class ani mosity at Columbia University. Over 300 freshmen and sophomores engaged In a fierce street battlo around the sub-way station at Broadway and One Hundred and Sixteenth ctreets. Young Gould himself did not appear at college, but the sophomores were determined to take revenge for his ac tion on his classmates. A number of freshmen, attempting to spirit away President Holbert, of the first year class in the sciences, were Inter cepted by the waiting sophomores sr. the sub-way station, and the fight rapidly centered about there. The Eurfacc traffic was stopped for an liour, and tho subway station was wrecked. Holbart finally escaped from the crowd, and boarded a down town subway traif, but the fight con tinued fiercely. The freshmen were led by P. Von saltza, a 200-pound student, who bowl ed over dozens of sophomores before he was himself overcome by force of numbers and tendered unconscious. Many other men on both sides were hurt in tbe same way, but no serious irsults were reported. After several hours of continuous fgUting. the affray was abandoned by mutual cousent. Wracking of Ships. St. Petersburg. By Cable. ? While declining: to give details, the admiralty admits that Russian advices from Port Arthur sent by Gen. Stoessel sub stantially confirmed the Japanese ad vices of the partial wrecking of the Russian ships In the harbor.. and the censor has been instructed to permit the publication of the dispatches. It is claimed that several of the larger ships and a respectable number of tor pedo boat destroyers are stilt seawor thy. bwt they are not being considered as a factor fn the coming fight between Admiral Togo's ships and the Bussian secood Pacific Baltic aqpadron. If the fortress is relieved, it la believed the most of the sblps will be raised and saved. Wo Fighting For TWo Days. Krdagou. Manchuria, By Cable. ? The oppreaslVe silence continues. Hot a shot has been flved during the last two days. Both armies seem dormant. Russian scouts crept eut yesterday evening east of Erdagon and found the Japanese pickets withdrawn. The Russians approached the Japanese trenrhes. where a few shots were ex changed. The same thing occurred In front of Poutifoff Hill. The cessation of hostilities has encourage* the na tives to return to the villages, but some of the tatter have been destroy ed and are uninhabited. A commis sion is engaged in paying Indebtedness to the destitute Chinese. Murder and 8uiclde. Victoria, Texas. Special.? At a farm i about eight miles from here, a double tragedy was enacted. Net! Stubbs, a young farmer, rejected. It Is said, by Miss Julia Mischulka, shot her to death and then put a buiiet into his own brain. Washington Club Burned Out. Washington, Special.' ? The Metro politan Club House, tho homo of tho most fashionable club In Washington, v/as gutted by fire, involving an esti mated loss of from $60,000 to $100,000. partially covercd by insurance. The fire was caused by a spark from an electric wire near the elevator shaft. A library, eotlmated to ba worth up wards of. $15,000. and containing some voiumes that cannot bo replaced, es caped practically uninjured, and the ?ai>bs did not reach the wir.e cellar. To Change Date of bieciion. Washington, Special. ? Representa tive Livingston, of Georgia, intro duced a joint resolution providing that hereafter electors for President an 1 Vico President and Representatives in Congress shall bo voted for In each State on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in September, and that the 59th" Congress shall assemble and hold its first regular session on tho first Monday in October, 1905. 14 Quns Captured. Toklo, By Cable. ? Tho Japanese army besieging Port Arthur reported as fol lows regarding the trophies captured by the Japanese in the north fort of the Keekwan Mountain. "Further investi gation shows that we captured five 8-7 quick-firing field guns, two 47-mllllme ter quick-firing guns, one of them be ing serviceable; four machine guns, all serviceable, and a qr.antity of small urms and ammunition." Three Children Burned. Macon. Ga., Special. ? A special to the Telegram from Elberton. Ga., says that at Swift's Cotton Mills threo child ren lost their lives by fire In the last two days. Two wero children of Mr. Smith, an operative, and wero burned to death before assistance could reach them after their clothing had caught. The next day tho child of Mr, Strick land, another operative, suffered a sim ilar fate. % Chattanooga's Poultry Show. Chattanooga Special ? The first poul try show held here In ten years was opened last week. Nearly twelve hun dred birds are on exhibition and fan ciers are here from all parts of the puuth. THE GENTLEMAN MINUS THE STUDENT A\ Protest Aplmt the AccorM Do>bl? SUadard of Collo* (Uto Conduct. ?y Wolord toll?(?. ANIBL kWEBSTEK, looking back .to ,an Incident in Ills dfteragli jenr (1TO7>. wlica his fallier ^va* taking lilm to a Rotiool g?lx .mHefc from me norne, writes: "On 4he w ay my father intimated to mcMila\lnteotion of sending me to college. The very idea thrilled my whole frame. He Held he then lived for but hi* children, tiad if I would do all I could for myself he would do whnt he could for me. f re member that I wan quite mercome md my head grew dlszy. TLte thing irp peared to me so high, and the expense and sacrifice It was to cost my father so great. I could only press his hands nud shed tears. Excellent, excellent parent! I cannot think of him even now without turning a child again." Perhaps 100,000 young men may lte In American collegc* this year. Let us speak to one of them early (n the session. "Is It your ,pur|M>?e to be a gentleman while In college?" Perhaps he Is at first disposed to resent the question as an insult. But give him a few moments to collect his thoughts and he may give us a frank answer.. "xes. or course. I export to be a gen tleman. that Ik. a? mucin or a gentle man as a student can be. You know some things are excused ?o a student and expected In liira that ran not Ite done by ordinary young men of our age. I expect to be a gentleman, mi nus the student; a gentleman. except in the things where my stinlcnt char acter make* me fall short.'*" Unfortu nately there wu? a tiine wbon an an swer like this was natural. For gen erations a student was locked) upon as a privileged wild animal, not subject to the written lawn of college; city or State, or to the equally ini|M>rtant un written law? ?f retlned. or eve* civil- : Ized society. Conege laws, at one time, seemed to recognize a peculiar' college code. In the eighteenth century lines wece imposed on America n students. The grades of tines and offense- seeui strange to us now. For playing ranis a tine of Ave shillings might be im posed.. while one shilling and a' half would do for playing any game- for money, "tioing upon the top of the college was an offense equal In gravity to-dcuukenness or lying. It is not sur prising that nndcr a system like- that the college boys- had rather a confused creed of uioralH And manners. We need not go back to the rult'? of tlmt day to learn what it In to he a gentleman in college-- We shall not try to- give a full definition of the word. We* may safely take for granted 'hat truthfulness, honor and kindness are- In eluded. Doesthe fact that a young man lia? entered a college- campus release hiim from any of these traits? "I was a truthful boy and nwn until I entered college.. ? expect to- be 'truthful int va cation and after L leave college. But duflng the-aesslon time mhiip who meet me* officially must be- sutislled with a little lower- standard in me." Wllliany student deliberately adopt a creed ar a practice like this? Take the- question of honor, certainly a wide, all embracing word. Will, the student ?lalm the privilege to play fast and loose with It. while in college? "There- are certain, kinds of properly. In the- possession of eertnin people, which. I will most sacredly respect. There are other- kinds of property which- my ideas of honor and rJtslit al low me to handle without any sense of wrong or shame.'*' It may be extreme to suy that a student who will hike one article from any person will take any article from any person whenever he cart do so with. safely. Hut it. is not extreme to say that this same- student bus a very di'fwtlve, eolor-blind con science and mistaken sense ot rl jr lit. Take the trait of kindness. The name of Philip Sydney is j household word in all lands where the Kngllsh language is spoken. When a hoy n t school, twelve years of age- HiiGtb, he wrote two letters to his father, one in Latin, the other In French. lie was re warded by an answer in which were wise maxims that helped to form the boy's character and lift*.. ll"re are two short sentences, worthy to be read nud practiced by every Kngllsh reading l>oy. "He courteous of gesture and af fable to all. with diversity of rever ence according to J he dignity ot a per son. There is nothing that wiiinetb so much with so little cost." Hoes tin* stu dent of to-day approve this, with the reservation that this high standard must be revised to suit the public senti ment of our campus? Let us suppose a case. A new student on his way to col lege stops for a night with a joung man already in college. All that a sin cere, rotined hospitality and courtesy cnu suggest Is offered to the guest. The two go on to college. In a few days or so the former host Joins with fellow students to annoy, mortify, ha rass and a III let his late guest. If there Is chivalry, honor, manliness or nobil ity here It Is that of the Arabian host, who entertains his wayfaring guest with till possible politeness, bidding him farewell with profound bows and repeated wishes for a snfe Journey? then hurrying on .by a direct path waj lays and robs him of all his money. '??I expect to be a gentleman, consid erate and tender, except in my special relation as student." Can you let down In .vour refinement, courtesy, manners and morals for four rich years of your life, and then let up with no permanent loss In character or reputation? Coarse fun. Jokes that wound, may suggest a change In Sir Henry Sydney's maxim. Nothing does much harm.- causes so much suffering to one party, with so little real satis faction to the other. It 10 your 'duty and your privilege to be a gentleman plus the student. When you en me to college most of your class mates went Into the walks of business life, farms, mills, stores and offices. They are expected to show their gen tlemanly character In their sphere-. You have some helps which they not have. Your Intercourse with men ?nd books will enablo you to put in character and life tralta. _ color*. graces, beauties whl^h may be in their reach. Will you. for ^ fleetluf, unsatisfying amusement ?C thoughtless hour lower your stai below theirs? * ( Let us approach another student a still more important question. your purpose to lead a God-fearing lu college?" Here agalta the frank u dent may give a qualified answer. "Y< of course. I expect to do this, but know that I am In a peculiar poaL for a few years. 1 must, of course. _ low the crowd iu some things, wbl ordinary church members of my a eonld not do without loss of self*; spect aud the respect of others. . this important purenthesis of fonffj years Jn my life 1 must lower the typt of piety which I Intend to resume .wheal L I get my diploma." J This is certainly nnfortunnte. la these years .when your piety and cliar* " aeter nfgbt be taklug their permanent, shape, *11 disturbing, enfeebling influ ences shsuld be avoided. Your student relations. duties. atssortatlons should be wings t >lile*l of then? all behind to nxtk the dinner and to tend the Iioumo. tlive your intelli gence- to Hod." Hew Is one great mistake easilv and often made by students: "The tie tlutt binds one to my fellow students is stronger tban all the- ties binding me to the eollejge, the community. the church; my parent* or my Maker." This s?iort nwd la the Idol, tlsr phantom of tlio , eampus den that ban disturbed the i'p 1 llglous creed, poisoned the moral scrKe and wrecked the life t?C many a noble* young fellow. To be n gentleman plus the student! will not ma.kc your college- life barren or joyless. Et la an Irreverimt. if not a blasphemous- thought, that our Ileav-f enly Father allows 110 enjoyments to* Hi* young followers. .V college cam pus* is the place where- gentlemanly character may be found in full rich ness and <*ompleteness. It needs no wrong or questionable amusements to make a happy college course , no hours spent in scenes that are to be recalled in later life with a blu^li or a tear. Take another sentence from Sir^ Henry Sydney: "(live yourself to lay merry., for you degenerate* tVoin your father- if you do- not llnd yourself most able in will and' body to do- anything when- you be most merry, but let your f mirth be ever void of all scurrility and biting words to ? any man. For a wound given by a word is oftentimes harder to be cured than thai given- by the sword. " To every atudenl who may read these lines a merry, gentlemanly college life. Over 78.4)00 rats were killed on the London wharves by the health author ities last year,, hut u greater t-rusido will he waged against them next, year, as it is thought that the- rodents are still increasing.. A Mexican eaetus is eaten by Indian* during, their religious ceremonies to in elte visions. An Kuglish naturalist. Dr. Dixon, has been testing upon him self Its extraordinary properties, and 1 reports that the air seemed lilUtl with vague odors of perfumes, a halo of musical sounds .surrmiiidiug him. and a marvelous display of every changing brilliant colors passed clear!,* before hl'i. vision. The Covcriimcnl l i-.li Commission has been making its vest izaiioris about the suitability of !?,?.!> skins Cor cloth ill". It lias been found that salmon ?skins make cxcellen;. leather, and have been used for boots by tin I'.skiiuo** j, for this purpose for years. These [ Northern people xlso use I Milled cod fish skins for voats and waterproof garments. The l''ish Commission has also found that: whale st?in makes, beautiful leather ami takes color well. Tbo letters addressed to, the Presi dent average 1200 a day Highly per cent. of tlu'm never reach the eye of either the Chief Kxecutive or his pri vate secretary. They .ire sorted* by, the clerks under the direction of Pri vii te Secretary Porter and sent t<* the proper departments for attention.. The largest proportion of the letters ask, for tluanclul assistance. The next largest number pray f>?.- the Presi dent's assistance In purely personal matters. Germany possesses a miniature but most useful railway to which tin paral lel is found in this country. It pecu liarity is tluit it train* have no driv- ( ers. It is used for carrying salt from the salt mines at Htnsfurt. The trains consist of thirty trucks. e:i?-li carrying half a ton of salt. Tin* engine* are electric, of twenty-four Itorv* power ( each. As it approaches a station, of which there are live along the line, the train automatically rinu* a bell, and the station attendant turns a switch to receive it. He Is able to stop it at any moment. To si art it again he stands on the locomotive, switches the current and then descends again be fore the engine has gained speed. I'orini on tttc* of I1IIW. Mrs. Margaret Dcland's essay* la The Common Wh.v, which the Harper* have Just published, are eminently practical In their views oT life. They, recall the 'fact that though, when Mrs. Delaud llrst began to write, hep genius turned to poetry, yet the poem* were written on the backs of market ing memoranda and account books; and this combination of the Ideal ami real Is characteristic of much of her work. It Is interesting to note that even I)r. Lavcndar himself, Mrs. De land's greatest creation, may be sahl to stand as an admirable representa tive of the altruistic and the practical combined. -? ?