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I <Duv .family Story. The End of Her Waiting. BY KLLF.N F. WYCOFF. It wa? a now scnsution to Dolly?tl?in l>erfeet, beautiful happiness. Itseoiued to her that some wonderful new brightness must have settled down over the world. And it was only this morning that she had dusted the old brown dross and tried to brighten it with a fresh collar and pink bow. Only this morning - j scarcely twelve hours ago?she had pinned on the brown hat, with its dejected " droopv " bows, and wondered j if she must walk about under it all the summer. And now it was all away back in that pitiful past ! For at noon a telegram had eotue for her. She was eating her lunch, so daintily put up by Aunt Harriet, when the tnossemror-hov oamn into t.lw? ' back room of the millinery store and handed her a yellow envelope. And the opening of it whs all that lay Ihjtwoen the old world and the new. .lust that tiny isthmus of time l>otweon the old life and the now. Kvorything was changed as by magic, and she wanted to take the freckled-faced boy in her arms and kiss him then and there : but instead, she wrote her name in the book he held out to her. and when ho was gone, she read the scrawling lines again. " it is all right. Coming to-morrow. Rohert." That was all : hut oh, the meaning of it '. It mount an end to the years of weary waiting. It meant comfort and happiness and rest and the fulfillment of countless lovely dreams. It meant everything to the woman who had waited and waited for her weddingday. And it mount thutiun heir hud boon found at lust by tho puzzled lawyers, und that tho fortune of tho old Western minor would no longer go a-begging for some one to use it. For tho miner's will hud called for "tho son of my friend Garrison Brent," und Robert was the fortunate man Dolly's hands wore not quite steady that ufternoon, when she fitted one after another of tho pretty huts over her Cousin Kitty's yellow bungs, and Kitty was hard to please. " You ain't interested, Dolly : your eyes are dreamy. Do you know Robert Is coming home ? Amy told mo *, they had a telegram. He is tho heir : isn't he rich ? Rut he's hud u hard time taking cure of his mother und sisters und Mrs Brown's children. That one is a little too close; try a Muring brim." Dolly brought another hut und patiently laid the blue feathers around it. "Maybe you'll ho getting married now," l<itty said, smiling under tho drooping plumes, "bow that Robert is u rion man." Dolly flushed and bont over tho hats on the counter. " It looks like it's time," Kitty wont on, " if you are engaged, as people say. But long engagements rarely ever end in marriage, mother says. Yes, this one will do. Get it ready by Sunday, Dolly: and I nearly forgot?mother told mo to ask if Aunt Harriet is through with her headache." And when Dolly hud answered, pretty, dimpled, rosy-cheeked, yellowhaired Kitty tripped out of the store. But it was not of her pretty cousin that Dolly thought now, us she lay in tho hammock under the low spreading magnolia-tree down by the gate. She was resting and thinking of the blessedness of this now world that had formed itself about her?the world that held Robert all her own, and a home that she would make beautiful for him. It was twenty years since Robert, standing by her under this very tree, all in blossom then, hud told her the sweet old story that every maiden must hear. Twenty years ! She had been a slio of a girl then, awkwardly conscious of "her first long dross : and Robert, a boy scarcely older than herself, had blushed and stammered over the story that is never easy to tell. And then his father had died, and his mother and sisters; and, later on. a family of little orphaned nephews and nieces had been left to him. Dolly was the lirst to say that they must wait. She could see how impossible it would be for Robert to take care of them all. Me left school and worked bravely on the old farm, and the waiting hud gone on. So twenty years crept away. Dolly hud remained in her aunt's homo, helping with the children ut first, and afterward workine down town fo?< lini> aunt's daughters needed everything, now that they were grown up, and Dolly was used to looking out for herself. But there had always been the love that bound her and Hubert to each other. Not even the slenderest shadow had ever fallen between them. And now the waiting was over at last, and she would bo Robert's wife. She would rather have waited for this than to have been a queen long ago. It seemed to her that the very leaves knew and trembled, as she did, with joy; and the stars twinkled down between them, as if they too, knew all ubout it. The town clock struck .ten, and Patty and Ben came in from the reading club. They always lingered a little at the gate, as the manner of lovers is, you know. Dolly smiled as the soft murmur of their voices came to her. Sko wondered if the poor young things would ever be as happy as she was then ! And then, as they walked slowly up the path, words began to grow out of the soft murmur. " Bob Brent has struck it. they say," lien remarked in his elegant way, and Patty replied mournfully : 44 Ah, yen. How sorry 1 am for Dolly ! Poor faithful, loving Dolly !" 44 Sorry ? Why isn't she in it? I thought they were?" 44 Why, Ben," Patty broke in, with tears in her little babyish voice, "can't you see that Dolly is only a faded middle-aged woman now, while Robert is in his prime?the handsomest man in town ? And haven't you noticed how he admires Kitty ? It was all well enough when ho couldn't marry ; but now " But the words were indistinct again : Dolly heard no more. She had risen from the hammock and was standing, white and still, in the glare of the electric light. The stars were mocking her now up above the lower light, and the breezes wore whispering of the twenty years that had rolled over her, carrying her freshness away. Ben saw her there when ho came down to the gate, and bowed with a cheery 44 flood night, Miss Dolly," and went whistling his newest favorite down the street. Then Dolly crept to her room. 44 And I would nave let him do it! I never wouid have thought of the change' Oh, tho shame, the humiliation of it! To think that I, a faded middle-aged woman, would have held him to the promise made to a fair young girl twenty long year* ago 1 lie was too true and noble to lot me know, too tender to hurt me. If only 1 had eon ! It is all so different with women, but I never thought of it Imv fore. It would not matter to mo how changed Robert might l>o: I'll love him only more, if ho needed more. Hut he is grandly handsome and and he must have a?a young, pretty wife. It is l>est, I see that?Iiest for lioliert and for her and for ino : for I couldn't beat* to have him sorrv or?or ashamed." She loosed her dress at the throat and pressed her hands against her temnfes. " Ho mustn't i>o?usliamod of ins? wife, dear faithful Robert. lie must l>e happy, now that the world is brighter for him. 1 can l>oar it?for him/' And then she wrote a letter, and, when it was finished, she knelt by her bedside : and the stars twinkled in and the breezes fauned her pale ealtn face. Faded V OI?. the beauty of it us she knelt there giving up all she held dear ! What are dimples ami all fresh prettiness to a beauty like that'( You only get to the soul aftor theso are gone. In tho morning, before any of the household was awake, she took the let tor ami carried It out to the mail-box on tho corner ; and then who wont to the hammock under the magnolia, and watched tho Bun rise down at the end of tho cross street. Presently the guto latch clicked, j and then a pair of strong arms folded | themselves about her and her head was on Robert's broad shoulder, and he ! was telling her how he had longed for her, and what an ago the last week had been. I " You would have been sorry for me, Dolly," ho was saying : " for, in my hurry getting otT, I left your last photograph in the pocket of the coat I'd 1 been wearing, and there was only | the childish little thing taken twenty years ago ! Forgive me, dear, but its more like your little silly-faced Cousin Kitty than like you. There, don't be vexed?1 know you are not very like her now ; hut, between us, I believe you wore in those first days, though it is hard to think of inv beautiful full-blown rose as anything less lovely and sweet than she is now. But you will soon be my very own, Dolly, and I shan't be missing a photograph when i have you." Dolly drew her breath. She was in , till' lli'W wai'lrl !iir,.iii - - ? " * "? "h1*1 ( "Do you really want mo, Robert V who asked, a glad light in her dark-bluo eyes. " I'll show you pretty soon. Want you ? Oh, Dolly !' and then ho went on, laughing happily as he told her of his plan. " I'm coming to-night with Mr. Sims, and I'm going to claim my wife and take her away with me. What a jolly tour ours shall he ! Yes, 1 know there is always trouble about clothes and things; hut we won't let that mako the waiting longer, l'uton the little blue frock and come away with me. I want you, and I've waited twenty years : and now I must hurry to mother and Amy and the sinall'army of young people. I '11 come for my wife at nine, Dolly. Will she ho ready What could she say hut yes V And then how her happy eyes followed him as long us his broad shoulders wore in sight! Sho stood by the gate until the postman came to take up the mail, and then she Hew out to him and begged for the letter she had dropped through the slot an hour ago. "It's against the rules, Miss Dolly," he said : hut sho hold out her hand and lifted her pleading eyes to him, and ho laid the letter across her palm. Then the break fast-hell rang, and uony w?*nt in l(? tell thorn that, her wedding-day wascotno.?Arthur's Now Homo .Magazine. Uattgk kok Commkrcial Supkkhacy,?Is not the industrial and comi moroial supromacy of Knglnnd to bo ! transforrod to this country, and what are some of the forces working to that end? Of all tho coal mined in the world from tho beginning of this century to tho present time that speck upon tho occun has produced quite one-half, lier output of coal still exceeds that of any other country. In 181U she mined .'!(> per cent, of the world's product, while the Unitd States produced 3d per cent. This country is increasing its output of coal at tho rate of 10 per cent, per annum, while the increase in Great Britain is less than 2 per cent, The cost of coal is in creasing in Groat Britain and decreasing in this country. Fugluud exports .'11 per cent, of her total product of coal, while this country exports less than 1 per cent, of its product. This country will in the near future become a large exporter of coal. Great Britain has for many years led all other countries in the production of I pig-iron, producing,' until of late years, more than one-half of all the pig-iron made in the world. Grout Britain reached her maximum output of iron in 1882, and this country has doubled its production since that time, now producing more iron and steel than its competitor. In 1807 Great Britain produced f>2 per cent, of all the iron made in the world and the United States produced only 14 per cent. In 18U1 the United States produced .'14 per cent, and Great Britain only .'10 per cent, of the world's product. The production of iron is increasing in this country faster than the increase in population.?John H. Proctor in the Forum. What Thky Wn.r. Pay.?Some illustrations of the effects of the proposed income tax upon men of means may he found in the cases of cortoin prominent men. If the bill passes, each Congressman will have to pay Jiti/t ' ? *? * - . - . - <p-u year. mo i'resident will have to pay $1120, aiul tho members of the cabinet will luivo to pay $50 oncli, while tho Supreme Court justices will be taxed $120. There are thousands I of millionaires in the United States, and each one of them will have to pay about $1,000 on every million they own. William Waldorf Astor is said to have an income of $0,000,000 a year, and if this is true, bis annual tax will I amount to more than $180,000, or about j $15,000 u month. Coilis l\ Huntington and Russell Sago would bo subject I to a tax of aliout $50,000 a year and numerous other millionaires would have to contribute to the national treasury princely fortunes annually, where now they do not pay, all told, as much taxes as the owner of a $100,000 manufacturing plant. ?A special dispatch from Knoxville, Tenn., says: "Sixteen Tennessee soldiors, under indictment for the murder of a man named Drummond at Coal Creek, last summer, were freed yesterday bv the circuit at Clinton, .'their cases being nolle pressed. This ends tho notorious Coal Creek war. Lieut. .1. II. Fyflfo, who commanded tho troops during two days' bombardment in 1892, was tho onl/ofllcer indicted." ?Dr. J- Win. Stokes is a candidate to succeed Judge Brawley in Congress. mi,L A 111' ON ORAXCCS. Various Opinion** About tin* Crop Home IVople Make Money un<l < >i liei'N l)o Not?Tlie Climate Worth si oo an Acre, hut the Soil Ih No <*oo<t. Atlanta Constitution. Sot oo jKirtions of wont Florida tiro still in the piney woods and very lonosomo. Traveling ovorland I found the habitations several miles apart on the main road, hut was told that the little [ grass-covered roads that branched olT right ami left led to somebody's house, where clover people lived and' cultivated orange trees for a living. "This is a great country," said a settler, " where the climate is worth $100 an aero and the land ain't worth a darn, it is risky for a man to die here and be buried for there is not enough virtue in the soil to make him rise when Gabriel blows his horn." "It seems to produce fine oranges," said I. " Yes," said he, "but what's oranges? The more oranges he nas got the poorer he is. The price has got down to about 20 cents a hundred on the tree, and he can't keep up his grove for that." That man was a pessimist, and there are thousands of them. I found Mr. Starr packing 2,f>00 Iwixes of his own crop and ho saiil that his not profit would be 00 cents u box, and that would pay him woll on his investment, lie is an optimist and is increasing his acreage every year. I found M r. Itobinson near l.enard with 20,000 trees and ho is entirely content with his business. His twenty acres of bearing trees have paid all expenses of increasing his acreage and all will be bearing in two years more. Like I every other trade or calling more de| ponds on the man than on the business. Mr. Sampson has shipped thirty carloads of lemons and is getting rich. Hut 1 see many neglected groves and j some that have been abandoned. You can tell the thrift and industry of a ' man by his orange grove. Then there are hundreds of groves that belong to people who live away otT and have got I tired. They get some poor fellow to live in the little shanty and look after I things, and he, perhaps, was born I tired. The other day we came to | when; the road forked and not knowing which to take we drove to a dirty little hopse not far away for direction. "Take the right hand," said a big gray-bearded man with a newspaper in his hand. " I have to tell somebody that most every day." " You might put up a signboard," said I, "and that would save you the trouble." "Then they wouhlont drive down hero to ax mo," said he, " and 1 wouldent get a chance to hoc 'cm. No, I won't put up 110 board, for I likes to sou folks once in a while, specially women." The poor old man was living there alone watching a grove. With constant care and attention ! there is still big money in growing oranges and always will be. It is a simple business and is easy and attractive. Many citizens add to it in a small ami profitable way by growing i lemons, limes, grape fruit, shaddocks, guavas. mangoes, peentos, oumgusl I oranges and other tropical fruits. 1 have seen acres of easava, from which tapioca is made. The peontoos, when ripened on the tree, arc said to be the ; most delicious of all peaches. The j trees are now in bloom. Strawberries are just coming into market. The gardens are supplying us with all i kinds of vegetables. The woods have been burned oil and thousands of acres of low bush palmetto killed, leaving i uieir groat roots piled across eticli i oilier in promiscuous confusion/ They j look like great snakes with alligator scales on them, hut, of course, they are not killed and will soon sprout again and cover the earth with their fun-shaped leaves. 1 went out in the country to see the fruits and tiowers of an old lady who s lives in primitive simplicity and loves j Florida and her humhlo home and j cultivates tropical plants for the plca; sure it gives her and gives those who 1 visit her. 1 cannot give tin; botanical , names as she gave them to mo, hut she had more curious plants than i oversaw before. There was the date palm and thistle hemp and camphor ' tree and eucalyptus that I remember j and there was an oleander in bloom that was nearly a foot in diameter, j and there was cactus vines running over the house and tea plants ami cof; fee plants and many curious tilings that I never saw before. As for oleanders, they are common enough everywhere, and some on the sidewalks.in Clear Water are twenty feet high, and are now putting on their beautiful garments. The liora of Florida is so easily grown that most people take little pride in it. What we grow at homo in greenhouses and pits will grow and llourish here in the woods, or oven in the big road if planted there. Mrs. Clodwin, of Lakeland, gave mo a bouquet of the finest roses I ever saw?a bouquet that an Atlanta swell would have given $f> for to present to his best girl. Hut the climate?the elimato on the gulf coast?tho coast whoro no east winds prevail?tho oast wirul that comoB over tho Atlantic ocean and brings aches and shivers and cold and asthma and catarrh?the east wind that was accursed from way back, for .Job says, 44 lie llllcth his belly with tho oast wind." If our northern brethren want it on Indian river lot them have it, but 1 want some of our southern folks to come down to Clear Water and take it with its balmy west wind and its odors from the pines and get well of all pulmonary and bronchial atTcctions. I mean just what i say. Wo have bought two lots hero and there are plenty more for good people and 1 want to colonize them. My nigger, Hob, wasted a whole week at a big mooting up tho road while 1 was gone away, and when 1 complained of it ho said, 44 well, now boss, you J musent get mad wid mo, for you know now it is?you white folks is done got dis here world it ml wo niggers is just lixin' a trick to got do next one.'' Just so our northern brethren have done got east Florida, all the way from St. Augustine to St. Taioio, and now let us tlxuputrick to capture west Florida and be happy. Of course we won't rule any clever yankeo out, but I toll you right now we don't want any stuckup millionaires from anywhere. There is room enough from Cedar Keys to St. Petersburg to locate thousands of unponsioned sovereigns of the South, where they can come and spend the winter and bring their invalids and be calm and serene. We want no palaces to live in, but can build little cottages, with broad verandas, and live on air and water, and iish and oysters and oranges thrown in. 1 have eaten oranges until 1 am getting a rich, golden complexion. Tho little grandchild is getting fat on tangerines. J lor bronchial troubles have passed away and she can wade in the salt water on the sandy beach with porfect impunity. Folks go to the springs and drink sulpur water, but that won't eomparo with tho salty air of the gulf when it is tlltored through tho pine tops and drawn into the lungs at every breath. There is somo grip down hero among the natives but none umong the visitors I reckon it is becanso they gorge themselves with fruit. Joe Anspaugh keeps the girls in fruit. Joe is tho bully boy with u glass eye. lit* lost one eyo in Cartorvillo and wears a giuss one. Joo is tho life of the little town. If a bad man comes here .loo frets his crowd and runs him out. Joe moves signs and gates during Christinas. He has a sailltoat and a row boat and ahorse and buggy and will take you anywhere for the fun of it. .Its* steals oranges and tangerines for our little girl. lie went out tho Other night to a grove, whoso owner lives in Boston, and found a fellow stealing on the other side of the tree. Joe made a noise and the other follow dropped bis bag and ran like a turkey. Joe picked up the bag and brought it home. The landlord of the hotel told Joe to get him some chickens if ho had to steal them. That night Joe stole four out of the landlord's coop and sold them to him at Ho cents a piece. Joe is a trump, and everybody likes him. Bill Aki\ ? ??? A 1>ISI?KN8AHY Il.\rriil<:. Spooling AH'ruy in < 'oluiiihiu? Dug I Meet/.e (Jets u I(iiII?*t in I In- Groin?I 11 Fulls Near (lio Spot WIumt llo Killed Clark. COM'MiUA. S. C., Feb. 2.?Tlio dis; pensary constables have entered the 1 capital city, and to-day blood Mowed on : the streets near the court house and at ' the famous Mancke corner, where a i number of lives have been lost during the last six or eight years. The principals in this duel wore W. I II. Meet/.e, who killed Trial Justice Clark on this corner several years ago, and openly defied Governor Tillman and the State constabulary while sell! ing beer at the State fair grounds, and Davis Milior, a young stockman, 1 who testified for the State to-day in the trial of W. S. Seal for selling liquor. It was an exciting occurrence, and happened on u crowded thoroughfare which was almost blockaded by hundreds of persons coining out of the ! court room, a quarter of a block distant. Miller was supposed to be a dispensary spy and there was bitter talk I against him during the trial, lie was armed to the teeth, and kept his hands in his Dockets while on the witness ; stand. During a recess of the court, Miller got into a quarrel in the court room, and a serious fuss was imminent: but was stopped by Justice Clarkson. When the crowd tiled out, it was evident there was some trouble afoot. A young1 man named Fry, who bad also testified in the case, stepped up to him and asked if be bud said be (Fry) bad perjured himself. Miller denied | tbis, and said that who ever said so | was all sorts of a scoundrel. As be said this Meet/.o struck him in the face : and the row began. i Nobody appeared to try to stop the men, except Trial .I ustico Stack, who commanded in the name of the law to observe the peace, and struggled to bold them apart. Stack called for assistance, but no one responded. Miller retreated into the street, Meet/.o following him, bareheaded, and daring him to shoot. Miller jerked loose from the trial justice and in a twinkling bad both pistols levelled and then shooting began. Miller tired nine times and Mcet/.e live. Mcetze fell to the ground with a bullet in bis side, not far from the spot whore be killed Clai k ; and bis infuriated friends rushed towards M iller, with every appearance of harming him and crying out, " Lot's kill him." It looked as if the man was doomed, when policeman Moorhoad sprang forward, and with drawn pistol, defended bis prisoner, telling the crowd that further advance, meant death to the first man. Meet/.e is dangerously wounded in the groin, but will hardly die therefrom, while Miller got olT with a llesh wound in the arm. Thoro is great excitement. over the utTair and staid citizens say that more bloodshed is bound to result. The case tried today was that against W. S. Seal for keeping a blind tiger. The only witness for the State who testified as to bis having sold whiskey was Miller. The jurors were on their voir tliro, unci they were all substantial citizens. In ilftocn minutes they agreed ananiniously upon a vor: diet of " not guilty." A CillAVH QUESTION. A Wi<lou Wlio Was Orently Changed l>y Her Second Marriage. Sam Benton used to keep a kind of a tavern on a mountain road in West Virginia and one summer evening I stopped at Sam's for supper and the , night. 1 had never met him before, but we wero soon 011 good terms, ami after supper we wont down to the road and sat on a saw log to smoke and converse together. " Air you a married muii?" lie asked , familiarly. " Unfortunately, I'm not," f said. " Don't worry about it," said he. "" " I don't," said I, " but I'm sorry for myself." " Vou might be sorrier," said he. " You talk as if you had missed it," 1 said 1, a little curiously. " I ain't savin' so, am I V" said he. "No," said 1, "hut you are coming close to it." He took three or four long pulls at his ! cob pipe. "Well," said lie, "1 reckon I ain't | 110 wuss oft' than most folks, only I don't understand one thing." " What is it?" said I. " It's this way," and he slid over con! fidontly. " You see, Bill Simons' farm ; and mine jinod ; 1 was a bachelor and ! Bill had a wife ; one day Bill died and 1 left a widdor. Mightly soon after Bill I was burled the widdor got sprightly I an' uster be talk in' 'cross farms to me ; ! 1 kinder liked it, for she was powerful ! good lookin' an' had a tongue in her I head that you could mow grass with, j 1 wuz kinder shy, though, an' hel'oil for mighty nigh three yo'r, the widder all the time talkin' an' talkin' an' me injvin' it lit to kill but mity baokerd, not knowin' b'out women ; utter while, though, I come 'round her way an' we wuz spliced. That wuz seven yo'r ago, an' for the last six yo'r I've been tryin' to llnd out why Mrs. Benton ain't so (logon perlite an' palaverin' as the j Widder Simons wuz. llave you got an 1 idee 011 the subjick ?" But 1 hadn't; j at least, not one that 1 could have 1 fully set forth to t he entire satisfaction | of both of us, including Mrs. B . ! who just then cauio to tho front door und yelled for hor husband.? Detroit. Free Press. ? ?? ? ?A bolt of lightning near Luling, Tex., struck tho corner of a house, nasscd through a sholf, hit u snutT bottle and leaped to tho Moor, where it seemed to exhaust itself on a little two-year-old child. Tho child was only slightly stunned, but in a short whilo its hack turned perfectly black. Father?''Tho idea of marrying thatyoung follow ! Ho couldn't scrape | enough money together to buy u square : meal." Daughter?"But what difference ' need that make? We havon't oithor * of us had a bit of appotito for mouths." IF WE COL'tiD KNOW. F1Y MRS. A. \Y. CURTIS. If wo could know what lies before our feet, If we could see thoshadowshovering near, Wo would not dare to take another step ; Our life would 1h> an agony of fear. If we could know what one small word would do. To brighten up this little world of ours, To cheer and comfort worn and weary hearts, How carefully we'd scatter these sweet llowers. If we could know how soon our homo would be Bereft of all that makes it bright and dear, How would tho shadow of the coming loss O'erwhelm us with its constant dread u ud fear. Not knowing, wo go onward day by day, And if this day be full of grief and pain, Wo think to-morrow will be brighter far, And for each loss there will be some sure gain. Oli ! it is well for us our Father keeps. Securely hidden from our mortal eyes, The rough and rugged pathway wo must tread, Before we reach our home beyond the skies. Oh, it is well ! for stumbling blindly on, We reach like little children for His hand ; ; And, clasping it, take courage, knowing well lie'U bring us safely to the better land. now ri<;.\KF/rn;s aki?] madr Appalling I iiloi'inni ion About tlie Matcriul UscmI?Their Ftl'eets upon the II iiinaii System. Bo you euro to know how cigarettes are made? 1 think I can enlighten j you. An Italian boy,only eight years I old, was brought before a justice in New York City, as a vagrant, or, in 1 other words, a young trump. But with what did the ollicer charge him? Only with picking up cigar-stumps from the ! streets and gutters. To prove this, ho showed the boy's basket, half full of 1 stumps, water-soaked and covered with I mud. j " What tie you do with these ?" asked His Honor. What do you think was his I answer? "I sell them to a man for ton cents a pound, to ho used in making cigarettes." Not a particularly , agreeable piece of information, is it, boys ? In our largo cities there are a great many cigar-butt grubbers, ais they are called. It certainly is not a pretty 1 name, though very appropriate : for it j is applied to the boys and girls who scour the streets in search of half-burnt I cigars and stumps, which aire dried I and then sold to be used in making eigarctts. But this isai't aill, nor even the worst of it, These cigairottos have bqen anI aly/.ed, and physicians and chemists i are surprised to lind how much opium ( is put into them. A tobacconist himself saiy that " the extent to which ; drugs are used in cigarettes is appatlling."' ' ilavaina Havering" for this same purpose is sold everywhere by the thousand barrols. This flavoring is niado from the tonkai-hoam, which contains ai deadly poison. The wrapI pers. wurrunted to bu rice-paper, awe sometimes made of common paper, and sometimes of lilthy scrapings of ragpickers, bleached white with airsenie. Whait a eheait to be practiced on people ! Think of it, boys ! the next time you I taike up ai cigarette, drop it ais you I wonUl ii coal of liro. Tho latter would simply burn your fingccrs; but tbis ' burns up good health, good resolutions, good manners, good memories, good faculties, and often honesty and truthi fulness as well. A bright boy of thirteen came under | the spoil of cigarettes. lie grow stupid, and subject to nervous twitch! ingr, till finally bo was obliged to give J up bis studies. When asked why ho I didn't throw away bis miserable cigar; ottos, the poor boy replied, with tears, j that he bad often tried to do so, but could not. Another boy of olovon was made crazy by cigarette smoking, and was taken to an insane asylum in Orange County, New lYork. lie was a violent and dangerous manic, exhibiting some of the symptoms peculiar to hydrophobia. The white spots on the tongue and |inside the cheeks, called smoker's patches, are thought by Sir Moroll Mackenzie to be more common with users of cigarettes than with other smokers. 44 Does cigarette smoking injure the lungs?" asked somo one of a loading Now York physician. For his answer, tho doctor lighted a cigarette, and inbaling a mouthful of smoke, blow it through the corner of his handkerchief which be hold tightly over his mouth. A dark brown stain was distinctly visible. ".lust such a stain," said the doctor, "is left upon the lungs." If | you ever smoke another cigarette, think of tho stains you aro making.? | Christian at Work. I) CAT 11 Til ltOL'till A KISS. While Caressing Mis Gi-niiflcliihl a llair Lodged in I lie Old Man's Windpipe and Killed lliin. SUSQUEHANNA, l'a., Jan. 30.?An affectionate kiss, imprinted upon the rosy cheek of a beautiful flaxen haired grandchild, has suddenly terminated the festivities of a golden wedding. The aged grandfather is no more, and his widow, overcome with grief, is not likely to recover. It was a joyous company of young middle aged and aged people who congregated at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Larkin on Thursday. They met in honor of tho fiftieth wedding anniversary of their host and hostess, who had passed their allotted threescore years and ten. and were still in the enjoyment of perfect health. Several sweet faced, laughing grandchildren wore present to contribute their share of sunshine to tho occasion. liittio o-year-old Mary Kdwards, with hor bright blue eyes and light tresses, was there. After kissing her grandmother affectionately, she sprang up in her grandfather's lap exclaiming, "Grandpa, 1 have lots of kisses and a bear hug for you." Then the old man pressed the sweet face of his favorito grandchild to his, fervently remarking : " God bless you, Mary ; no company would l)o complete without you ; you are the embodiment of sunshine itself, and 1 trust you will grow to bo a noble woman." " Toll mo how much you love me, grandpa," said tho child, "and then I will givo you the kisses and the bear hug.' " I cannot toll you how much I lovo, you, ehild, " answered tho 6ld man, " but I can assure you it is a big lot.1' Then Grand fat bet* Larkin irupriiited kiss after kiss upon the ruby chot ks, and the child, delighted at the ruunlfeatulion ??f alTeotion, returned the coinpiiineiit, and throwing her little arms about the old man's nock, gave the promised " bear hug" She then crawled down from Grandpa's lap, and busied herself for a time among the others of the company. An hour later and just before the joyous party wero about to partake of dinner, the same little Mary approached her grandfather, remarking: "Grandpa, I want to give you one more kiss before dinner, nud then I want you to sit by me at the table." The old man smiled and lifted the little girl in his arms. Two minutes later he felt a tickling sensation in his throat, and realizing that in returning the last kiss a hair had caught in his mouth and been siiel'ed into his wind pipe. Phis immediately produced hard lits of coughing, and before relief could be obtained a blood vessel bad ruptured, and death resulted instantly. Consternation reigned for a time, and the aged partner of the unfortunate septuagenarian, overcome with grief, fell in a swoon. She rallied an hour later, but it is thought her great grief will cause her death in a short time. AN OIUUINAIj AlUiUMIONT. Congressman Itayner <Jets a Very Amusing I otter oil the Turin't^uest ion. Uoprosontativo Uaynor, of Haitimore, lias hud many queer letters from all sections of the country since he made his dauntless taritT reform speech in the House a few days ago. One of these letters has gone the rounds of the House and created considerable amusement among the members. It came from a Kansas farmer and reads as follows : "My Dear Sir:?Send mo two hundred and tlfty copies of your spoo;h. I want to distribute thorn at church next Sunday. You have preached the best religion 1 have ever heard and it will keep the sinners awake. I would put another mortgage on my farm to hear you. 1 have a large farm hero, hut it has one mortgage on it which is larger than the farm. The Mclvinley i bill lias starved us Western people to death. There is nothing free hero i except blizzards and children. Kvery i man, woman and child who can read j ought to read your speeches. 1 have six daughters, and tlioy each want a | copy. Four of my daughters are young : two, I am afraid, have lapsed beyond their time. They say it is the fault of the MeKinley hill. Are you and Hilly Wilson single or married ? i'lease write. Send us your pictures, agricultural seed or anything that will give us a show alongside of those tariff protected barons in the East who havo swallowed up all the money and let farmers and mechanics starve. 1 read about the attack, the tariff people want to make on you. 44 1 was a cowl>oy once. If you are in i danger telegraph me. Is there any little olliee around Washington that (irover would give mo? if it pays i living expenses that is all 1 want. I do not care for any more money bej cause I would have to pay it out on my mortgage and the government might ; as well keep it as for the mortgagor to get it. Tell (irover not to bother I about the Quoen, but to put his whole | mind on having the money of this country divided up a little more evenly than it is now. 1 am for an inI come tax strong. It don't hurt anv| body that hasn't got an income. It I won't catch anybody in these diggins. ; A government detective couldn't lind | enough income within a hundred miles of this place to pay his trip out. | Don't forget your picture and Hilly ; Wilson's and tell me how old you are." Mr. Havnei* has i'i?c<?ivi>?l t.lmn ! ii thousand letters since lie made his ' speech, lie handed these letters over to the National Democratic Committee 1 ho that H they desire it they can puhI lish them in the next campaign in I order to show the views of the laboring men upon turilT reform. The old pages report that the call for Mr. Mayner's and Mr. Cock run's speeches have been creator than any demand ever made in Concross for speeches. Mr. Kay nor only spoke twenty minutes and Mr. Cock ran an hour and a half. A prominent Senator said to-day : 44 Mr. Kaynor is the only man I over saw with his wonderful and absolute command of the English language that I can put a speech of an hour and a half j in twenty minutes." Evapouatkd Sweet Pokatoes.? ! Few people know how easily sweet j potatoes can be dried, even in the sun, and how handy and useful the dried potatoes are. At best sweet potatoes are a troublesome crop to keep, but when driod or cured in an evaporator they are really no trouble to keep and are always at hand for use on the table at short notice. They should be sliced and then evaporated. Then to uso them they are soaked to restore the evaporated moisture and then baked in pans as the fresh ones often are. They are an adiuirablo article for puddings and pies. For this purpose it would be better to grind them into meal and put up in packages with directions for making puddings. Put up in this way it ought not to bo much .pankin * 1 t - i ./...n.w.v; iw a uuu ivuo lui' uio dried swoct potatoes. If un evaporating plant would but undertake tlie putting [ up of the sweet potato meal in puck* I ages the article would sell well. GroI eerymen are slow to take hold of such ' products in the crude evaporated state, but in such packages, with a few atractive hand-bills and a lot of receipts for making the many delicious preparations that can he made from sweet potatoes, a market could soon he made for a product that the Southern Stutes can supply in limitless quantities. Who will start this enterprise? ??a? ? The Farmer and the Newspaper Man.?Many men think that newspaper men are persistent dminers. By way of comparison lot us suppose that a farmer raises 1,000 bushels of wheat a year and sells this to 1,000 persons in all parts of the country, a grout portion oft hem saying, ' I will hand you a dollar in a short time." The farmer does not want to be small and says all right. Soon the 1,000 bushels are gone, but he has nothing to show for it, and then ho realizes ho has fooled away his wholo crop, and its value to him is due in a thousand little driblets, consequently he is seriously embarrass ?_ ? in nis easiness, became his debtors, each owing1 him a dollar, treat it as a small matter and think it would not holp much. C'ontinuo this kind of businesss year in and yoar out, as the publisher ilocs, how long will ho stand it ? A moment's thought will convince any one that a publisher has cause for persistent dunning. ? - - ?The Florida orange crop will bo larger this year than was anticipated, it was estimated at from 4,000,000 to 4,500,000 lioxos. The storm that provailod in October ovor the eastern part of the Stato shortened the crop. In somo places the estimate of damago was as high as 26 per cent. STATE XKWS IN OUIKF. Interesting Notes IVom Various Sourccs. I The next session of Cleinson Collego will open on the 15th inst. ?Thomas 11. Karle, Ksq., lias Iktu appointed Coroner for Anderson County vice R. M. Wright, resigned. -The State Dispensary has shipped to Greeley ville, in Williamsburg County, a largo supply of liquors for the dispensary just opened there. ?An election was held at Little Mountain, New berry County, for "dispensary " or " no dispensary.'' The 1 dispensary people won by vote of 25 to 10. The Htato Supreme Court lias adjourned till the 10th of April. Cases from the Kighth Circuit will he called on the 2Sth of May and seven days will be allowed for arguments. ?The State Dispensary was shut down last week, and nearlv all of the employees wore laid oil for u week. This is necessary in order to tuko stock and make up the quarterly report. ?A special to the Times-Union from Titusville, Flu., says: A man named Laguiro from South Carolina, was murdered and robbed near Kockledge this evening, by two negroes. If trie negroes arc caught, lynching is likely to follow. ?Uev. \I. A. Connolly, a superannuated preacher the South Curolina Conference, died on the 2bth ult. in his seventieth year. His remains wore interred in the cemetery at Kershaw, - . Lancaster County, where he was living at the time of his death. ? State Phosphate Inspector Jones is still at work preparing, under the recent act of the Legislature, the rules and regulations under which the phosphate mines will he managed in the future. It will he some time before ho is ready to report to the State commissioners. ?The President has sent to the Senate the nominations of Thomas 13. Ferguson of Maryland as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Sweden and Norway, and George 1). Bryan of South Carolina as collector of customs for the district of Charleston. ? S. C. Whitehead, of Marion, committed suicidcon the .'list ult. bv shoot ing himself in the head with a .TJealibrc pistol. Mr. W hitch cart was a inorchant, dealing in stoves, about forty-live years of ago and possessed of ? many noble traits of character. Ho leaves a wife and live children. ?Circuit Judge Simonton has designated Augustine Seymour, of the Western District of North Carolina, to hold the February term of the United States District Court which convenes at Greenville, S. C., on Monday, February Judge Brawley, th* new judge for this State, not having yet qualified. ?Laurence Tolleson, a young man about twenty years old, committed suicide on the .'loth ult. at Gowdeysville, Union County. Mr. Tolleson was a bright young man, but has been a sulTerer from indigestion for some time. Ho was an inveterate cigarette smoker, and it is suppposed -thut despondency caused the act. ?The test ease against George S. Legaro for interfering with whiskey constables in Charleston was tried in the judicial court on Friday, Whaley h?r ine prosecution ami Smytho for the defendant. The jury, composed of prominent business men, were out live minutes and returned u verdict of not guilty aipid great cheering. ?The first conviction under the new dispensary law in Anderson County was secured before Trial Justieo Fant at Townville, when Warren Holland, colored, was convicted of selling whiskov contrary to the dispensary law and delivering contraband whiskey in the nighttime. He was sentenced to pay a line of one hundred dollars or he confined in the county jail for thirty days. ?As a result of the suspension of tho collection of taxes in Georgetown County, owing to the August hurricane, all the public schools in that county have been closed, save tho graded schools in Georgetown and two in the county, which do not have to rely on the collection of taxes for their maintenance, it seems that the county is run on a cash basis, and was not willing to go into debt to continue tho schools. ?At the twenty-sixth anniversary of the homo for mothers, widows and daughters of Confederate soldiers, held in Charleston last week, a gift of $20,000 from a Baltimore,-in was announced, but tho name of the giver is withheld. This home, the oldest in the South, was founded and has been managed by women. It has housed thousands of widows and ndni'atn/i ........i.. ? iivm iy u wiousand daughters of Con fed e rato soldiers. Up to this time, the late W. W. Corcoran was its main benefactor. Tilk Draining.?It was a western New York farmer, .John Johnston, of Geneva, who nearly sixty years ufA began the first tile draining in America. The drains he made then are in good condition to-day, and tho farm has been kept up to the high degree of fertility which its tirst owner mado for it. After land has been made fertile, if it is in a locality where it can be profitably used for producing other than grain as its staple crop, there is no trouble in keeping it fertile. It is the grain crops that are sold from the farm that exhaust fertility most rapidly. This is especially true of underdruined land. It is saved from tho losses by washing that take away fertility from soil that is not drained. Whatever fertility a farmer puts into a drained soil must remain until it is used by crops. ?The Pension Ollico in Washington has received a communication from . Special Examiner Eitzpatriek at Cnattunooga, Tenn., announcing tho arrest of Rev. C. W. Lewis, William Johnson and John Cry for frauds in connection with pension claims. Upon the hearing before United States Commissioner Ewing each of the accused pleaded guilty to tho charges, and they were all sent to jail in default of $1,000 bond. Rev. C. W. Lewis confessed to illegally using the seal of notary public and forging his namo to pension papers in several claims. The other two confessed to filing fraudulent claims. Numerous arrests are expected. ? The Assistant Attorney General of tho United States ?!>? i-" v.nu iubtor carrier is cxompt from military duty. The case under consideration was of /&* carrier who desired to withdraw from a military organization because of tho hardships incurred by frequent drlling exorcises. Being refused leave of absence, he applied to the postotlioo department, which docided in his favor, ?Hon. W. L. Wilson, chairman of the committee on ways and means, has rrangod to go to St. Augustine, Fin., this week for a brief rest, lie will be accompanied by Mrs. Wilson and Representative and Mrs. Tarsney. The trip may bo extended to the City of Mexico. The party will bo absent about it month,