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VOL. XLIV, WINNSBORO, S. C, WEDNESDAY, JULY i, 1888. NO, 49. IA Broter's Keeper. I DISS'S WORK OF LOYE I? DUTY. \ 2T KASY HA3TWELL CATHEHWOOD, 'Author or "Craque o' Doom," "Stephes | Guthrie," 'The Lose Man's Cabin," and Other Stories. [Copi(righted, 0897, by the A. X. Kellogg A'twspoi _ per Company.] . - ^ _ The trivial experiences of common people, mere atoms in the universe, may seem scarcely worth the great reader's attention, until he remembers that he is himself merely one of those atoms, and that the ancient of all readers unceasingly cons this primer world and its simple combinations. Several people were grouped around the aeep rea nre, over wmca uuii^ wirec uuu kettles breathing an odorous steam Into the air. Beyond this stood a tent of poles covered with brush and blankets, where the men who tended camp slept It was a closely wooded spot. Tom Holmes, in one of his woolly overcoats, was stretched at the roots of a tree smoking. Randy Thompson, insulated by silence, sat uptight and attentive near the fire. A sister of the two men who were boiling sugar occasionally helped them try a ladle-full in cold water, or took her turn at the long stirer. As Gurley approached the camp he noticed these people after he had seen that McArdie was there sitting by Phcebe White. To her black dress Phcebe White had added a scarlet shawl, looping it around her waist and hooding one corner over her head. He felt sure no influence erf the dark ouirdoors *porld was lost upon ker. She was listening to other sounds besides ifcArdle's remarks. Sl*e heard the first sighings of spring in the tops of naked trees. 44 You're late, my lad," said Holmes, rising to meet Gurley and his horse, and at once taking hold'of the bridle. "But'tain't sugared yet," called out the elder of the boilers. " Mose, he poured a bucketful of cold sugar-water in the kittle when my tack was turned." ' "Ididn'l. do no such thing," retorted Mose. " Twas you went to sleep early in the 6venin' 'at let the fire go out" " J/? went to sleep! when everybody in the d&estrick knows you ain't never half awake. Folks mind yet how you used to sit In school all day with your chin on your -breast and the boys firin' wads down your throat." "There ain't one word truth in it," -muttered Mose, fixing his tcrpid regards on the fire. "This looks like the gypsy scene in TroTatore," lifting his hat as he joined the party, "even to-the anvil-chorus. Adam and Hose are going to fall to and hammer . each other." "It is rather picturesque," admitted McArdle, 'looking about him. "But I apprehend you find it different from Miss Fawcett's dining-room." ' "Miss Fawcetts drawing-room is. not to be allowed any picturesqueness, then?." responded Gurley. "I only meant in point of fact," McArdle hastened to add, "that this ia what you might call sylvan; while down at Fawcett House the refinements of life are?I would say?paramount." . "Who's Miss Fawcett," inquired Phoebe. ; "She is a very beautiful, very wealthy young lady," explained McArdle, "who has just returned from foreign travel to her homestead not far from Gurley's. 1 bek lieve it is,understood," added McArdle, ^0m.^axaiSJiyTCFi~EC05e"U0liiei>ic-^SiS .-considered a fortunate thing, under the cir. cumstances." "This 'sn't a had nag, Jack," remarked Tom Holmes, finishing a critical examinartion of Gurley's saddle-horse. "But she'll , -,never make a goer. You could have found . more points for the money." "Let-me see her," said Phoebe, coming to Uook at the pretty animaL "She ha^a^^ . :just like velvet^^|^ffl^ On a velvet nose." Phoebe put one arm across the shining neck and ;ahe and the horse exchanged a caress. "My goodness!" exclaimed Randy. "Kiss a horse! That's most as simple as them .heathens worshipin' dumb beasts." " You like a horse, don't you?" said Gur?ey to Phoebe, with appreciation. " Indeed, yes. What do you call herl" . -'Bess. Do you ride?" 1 ** I have always known how to ride?my fashion. It's as good as being like those .Centaura; and not half so clumsy." " I'd consider it a favor if you'd ride her Rnmpt.impq." said Gurlev. . u Oh, would youl" ' "Yes; I've really thought of making a lady's horse of her." .Phcebe rubbed her cheek against the mare's warm neck. 44 I would so love to get upon, her now." ' " Butshe isn't properly saddled for you." - ** I don't mind about saddles. If you don't -object." 44 Oh, I dout object," said Gurley, laughing, 4'except on account of your safety." He stooped tc receive her foot, and in an instant she and Bess had shot away through tha trees. 4> That girl will get her neck broke," ex. claimed Randy Thompson, apprehensively. 44 You -were careless, Gurley," declared .-McArdie, coming forward with disapproval "Let her alone," said Tom Holmes, spreading smoke around himself. 4tI shouldn't be afraid to see that little thing mount a tiger if she took the notion. Besides, that nag of Jack'3 isn't going to run with anybody." 44 I'll put up all I paid for her, Tom, that you'll be wanting to buy that nag of me before six months. It's a way you have of abusing my choice and then begging it away from xrte.^ Phoebe came back in a few moments, ?Krminc to the BTonnd and taking the bridle on her arm, as the horse paused. Both were exhilarated by the run;"and she tied the hitching-strap in a horseman's knot around a branch by the time Gurley was at hand to do it. " Oh, it was delightful. -We rushed like wind to the very edge of Black Hollow. And there we stood still and looked across st tse ioaesomest light that shone like some thing one-eyed just ready to spring at H. as me ing of agi iliiss r a lev kuuimww nvmau. juwuuuu o wu Ldry or so ago, and soured him against the race. But it's my opinion the old wretch was too stingy ever to get married. He is eredited with keeping 'barrels of money in t&at old den. We don't know where he came from. He and his house were suddenly there, like . a toadstool- * Some of the neighbors think he is crazy, but his wits all come horns when he makes a bargain. He keeps his own .house, and I don't think anybody in this re.giou has ever seen the inside of it." "I seen it onct,,v said Nease, the sugarboiler. "The boys sakl he'd use!LCil uii hi* money together and made a gold stove So I peeked at the winder when he'd gont off, but jest then he come up behind m< i?- makin' that noise in his head, and I disro member w&at I seen or what I done." "He's got an infirmity in his speech,' Randy, "and that's a great mercy, fo: folks can't tell what he's a sayin' when h< abuses them." sat lookine in the fire with he: hands crossed oa her lap. Adam and Host piled on more brush and the boiling liqui< bubbled louder. "Hear what the kettles say. What d< they say to you, Raady?" "jlothin'." ' / ' ** 'Double, double, toil and trouble,' is th Shakespearean rendering of what boilinj cauldrons say, I believe," answered M<> Ardle, with lightness and grace. 'That's witch's nonsense," puffed Holmes. "These here kittles," interpreted Adam, "says if they have good luck and Mose don't go to sleep and dip his head in them that they'll sugar off before long." "This is what they say, said Phoebe: "Trouble, trouble, effort double; trouble, ? I N'EVEK COULD TELL X 8TOSY TO ORDER." ' trouble, effort double.' They say it over and over. Let's tell stories." "Suppose we do tell a limited number," said McArdle, "and draw lots for the enviable opportunity." "I never could tell a story to order," said Holmes. McArdle had already taken out his notebook; he cut slips into his hat. "Put the shadow of a subject on those fatal papers," urged Gurley, "so the victims may have a straw to cling to." "Good," 3aid McArdle, sharpening his pencil. "Subjects are In order." "Injuns I'' spoke up Mose. "The thought of be in' scalped is wakenin' to Mose," remarked Adam. "Give us something pathetic?with tears in.it," proposed Tcm Holmes, with a comfortable smile. "Indians?Tears," voted McArdle. "One more will do." "Something about the North, then," said fim-'orr timmop Kic hoar? tj"l 1/v-iV 11T> at, tVlA dark sky. "Any other point of the compass would do as well, but the lichens on the north side of this tree s x>ke first." "Very well,'' said McAidle, and he arose and carried around his hat lor the drawing. "The Indians have me," confessed Gurley. "And I've drawn the North," said Phoebe. "But who has drawn tears?" inquired McArdle, looking carefully around. "This fellow will draw blisters," exclaimed Adam, dragging his brother's shoe from the coals. "He'd burn himsolf to ashes, and set smokin' two or three days before he found it out, if I didn't look after him." Mose ?truck out at his brother with a fist which revealed the third penciled slip. "Come, Moses," said Gurley; "let's have the mellowing story first." "Oh, git out," muttered Mose, in discomfort. "Some short and simple tale," added Holmes; "only let it be calculated to touch the heart." "Oh, git out," repeated Mose, twisting uneasily. "If you have tears prepare to shed them now," quoted McArdla "Oh, blame it, git out," growled Mose, looking helplessly on all sides of him. suggtote i Adam.jticni^_mJbuM-inS II bl"Here, Mose, give me your hat for a forfeit" said Phoebe White. "You'll redeem it some way. Thev shan'tdrive you to tearf while I am by. It is Mr. Gurlev's turn, "a Jfose giadly gave up his hat, andoj|jm his shaggy head nearer the lor unlimit 3dbasldj38^^^^^^rc>repared ' "But give me your attention and.1 will endeavor to follow the war-path." w Adam or his sister kept skimming the thick sirup, and the sound of the skimmer on the siden, or the stirrer on the bottom,, of the Irettle ^vas Gurley's accompaniment. 44 Only a few miles from the place where we now sit," said he, "there is, as you all know, a mound so ancient that the aborigines of this country coifld give no account of it. .Trees of centuries' growth spring from it, and it is believed to be the work of an extinct race." 44 He's stealing bodily from pioneer papers," sighed Tom Holmes, "ilose, bring us a pitcher of fresh sugar-water. We all love that i&ound. It has been written about and photographed, but we like to rest ourselves from it occasionally. "We couldn't keep house without that mound, but when you attempt to give it to us. for an Indian story, Jack, you are taking a mean advantage of local weakness." 44 Only a. few miles from the place where we now sit," repeated Gurley, with a deaf expression of countenance, 4tthere is a mound so ancient that the aborigines of this country could give no account of it. Trees of centuries' growth spring from it, and it is believed to be the work of an extinct race. That ought to give me a fair start unless the judges persist in ringing me back." . "The Gurleys were always norsey," commented Tom. '.'But I could stand turf t-n.iv better than I can quotations from old pioneer papers." "Not many years ago the speaker was a youth who had a Familiar, and this Familiar, instead of being such a mentor as his age ought to have made him, acted rather as a tempter." "Tempt a mulish Gurley!" murmured Tom Holmes. "Mexican relics and Aztec tradition interested us greatly, and we laid up heaps of knowledge; only, one of us became positive that this old mound was merely u burial place of the native Indians, and the other became equally positive that it was of more ancient origin. "Aftei long quarreling we decided to dig until we found proofs to satisfy us. But as the law protected that mu?md from curious investigation, we decided to say nothing about our intentions, but to go quietly there in the night, with pick and spade, and avoid disturbing people. "It was fall, and hardly a leaf remained on the sighing trees. I hugged my coat collar uar to my ears, not because I was cold, _ Juft because the weirdness of the woods and season drove one in on himself. We found - - ? -3 ? A r.f tne spot previously agreeu uuuu, uuu uuw ui us fell to work, digging straight downward. Our slido-lantern was shut up and sat at hand to hash on our discoveries. Before long wo stood to our waists in the hole, and then to our armpits. The Familiar, being corpulent and lazy, now climbed out and said he would hold up the lantern/1 "This story is a contemptible poor peri formance," continued Tom Holmes. "It grows "better as it gets on," promised Gurley. "The lazy, fat Familiar, I said, opened the lantern slide and fatigued himi self throwing light into the hole while I t threw dirt out. And presently the metal struck something which rang in response. The Familiar squatted in excitement and hissed directions over my panting head, threatening me .with his lantern because I did not upheave the whole find at once. The spade s?^x>pod a great head over: and it continued turning slowly as if by its owu > will The top of a helmet, on which I had i been clinking, remained intact, but the lowei . part;broke away and an under iaw fell froir its ancient repose, shedding teeth on th* ' spade with the rattle of over-ripe peas. i;TTT ? ?; >, +>!? omnt.irms of thf r " i\CXO VYlJhyyw* ? discoverer. I stooped down and took hoi-. of the helmet, and I can still feel its pe r ?culiar metallic thrilL The skull was gij gantic. We turned it in the lantern light ] The ashen front head;had a delicacy of text ure which was almost inf a nt like." B "But you ain't tellin' about In'juns," com plained ilose, curling himself around in an other attitude. 8 "Wait, Moses. Their moccasin sole: y make no noise, hut step by step through th< dark woods they are coming." ilose glanced behind him. "I whispered to the Familiar that both of us working together could hardly dig out his length in a week. " 'You could do it yourself in half the . night,' hissed the Familiar, 'while p hold the lantern for you, if you'd only put to it. I hope the whole skeleton is in mail and as well preserved as the head. This proves my theory that Indian tribes buried their dead in mounds, and some of them had reached a high state of civilization.' " 'Don't deceive yourself,' said I. This proves my theory that an ancient race made this continent great when the old world was plunged in barbarism.' "I threw out a shovelful of earth, and felt as if I had struck somebody. The Familiar lifted his lantern and flashed it around. We both saw: standing in unwinking gravity on the ridge cf fresh earth, a tall Indian who never moved a muscle while the lantern pierced him. The Familiar turned our light around the circle of the pit, and behold, we were surrounded by a ring of savages. The searching lantern revealed their Wfcr-paint, their steady glittering eyes, their moccasin thongs and even Unj wrinkles ia their skin. " Neither the Familiar or I spoke; we felt under a spell. When the Familiar wag pushod into the pit, almost smothering me, I thought it was a trick. But come hand took my spade, and earth showered back into that hole with terrific swiftness. "We endured the shower of clay, tramping it under our feet in a dance so rapid, or we should have been buried. The Familiar,as if bewitched, still moved his lantern around in a circle, and there stood every brave motionless while the spade clinked and the dirt fell in. In a brief time we stood on level earth, still tramping earth where the hole had been. But then the lantern was flung against a tree, the Indians seized us and we " were tied to saplings before -I could realize any thing except a deer-hide throng which cut palpably into my wrist. * "The elder Indians stood in a group,while limber, young ones collected chunks, twigs, whole stumps, to wall us in for burning. Instead of preparing my mind for death, I found myself ruminating on the Familiar's immense capacity for combustion, and wondering if he would not burn up richly like a barrel of tar. "As our fires mounted so did the spirits of our captors, who were so determined to keep from the white man the secrets of fJioiT* orimant 'PhA-fr nrtrl t/hrATO tomahawks awhile; then they paused and stared; then they fell upon their knees in two circles and all blew the flames. I can still see those aquiline noses bent to earth, those leathern cheeks distending and collapsing as they blew. But that ghostly fire of the past, rubbed in the beginning out of two hard sticks, would not take hold of the breathing present. It failed even to warm us. And when those wretched beings became convinced of that fact, tfcev rose with one accord and tomahawked eacn other and threw each other into the fire, in true Indian fashion, until the Familiar and I were walled aboutby their charred figures and not one brave was left." "I don't believe there's a word o' truth in it," commented Mose. "How can you be so incredulous?" remonstrated Gurley. "Why, it don't stand to reason," argued Mose. "Imagination," said McArdle, spreading his hands airily, nis a fine thing, Moses." "Oh, isn't it!" murmured Phoebe, watching the fire. "It's a kind of wonder palace that you c*a step into out of any thing. May be Lazarus had his head in such a pal. ace. Whatever your self lacksjrou^w^; I go tha^t seems U3 if God gave us a sixth sense witn wtacn we can enjoy tnings we don't possess." "What on earth is the girl talkin' about!" said Randy Thompson. 'She is tuning her imagination for the story about the North," volunteered Gurley. "J thought one out a long while ago," said Phoebe, "when I was reading Scandinavian things?abeut Thor and Sif and Wodin?but this is about a hill TrolL" ''Now, what's a hill Troll?" complained Randy. "He was a little spirit fellow, sometimes . good and sometimes bad, who lived inside a hilL" "There ain't none of them thing9," said Mose, with conviction. "There was this one Troll" insisted Phoebe, "and he quarried rock. And Ono | night when he put up his quarrying tools a wrinkled dwarf came and offered to show him away down in the heart of the earth a diamond finer than any the sun ever saw. He did not hesitate to follow the dwarf. 'And if I find that diamond, I'll put up my quarrying tools for a hundred years," said tbe Troll. "They went down and went down until theTroil began to distrust His guide ana called a halt. They were under the very ribs of the earth. 'I'll go no further,' says the Troll. ' The dwarf laughed. 'Don't you hear a booming sound*' says he. " 'Yes.'. "Well, that's the sound made by people on the other side of the earth trying to pick this diamond out.' "The Troll hurried on again until he felt smothered, and stopped again,.saying: " 'I'll go no further.' " 'Don't you hear the lapping of Water!' cries the dwarf. " 'Yes.' ? " 'Well, that's the wash of the open sea, contending with men for this priceless tiling.' "The Troll thought, 'if this way leads to the open sea, x can easily rise through that to the surface.' So on he went. "But presently they came under a rock dome hung with stony icicles, and. at their feet lapped a reservoir of water full of human fragments and pieces of ships. " 'Here's the end of the search.' grinned the dwarf. 'The diamond I brought ycu to seek is that whirling Maelstrom which outa its planes ot waters on tins coast, mo is closed up behind you; now get out if you can through the Maelstrom!' ' Then the dwarf disappeared just as if there never had been a dwarf, and the Troll stood under the roar of the Maelstrom, his knees shaking; he felt himself a dead Troll. For in those days the Maelstrom was a boiling whirlpool miles in circumference. When sailors became suddenly aware of gliding across a field of water depressed- toward some unknown center,-they knew the Maelstrom had them. First she described a huge circle, as if swinging them around her victim's head. Then they felt her fury. She whirled and beat them, she rolled them over and crunched them in her awful jaws, out of which no ship or man ever rose again. "Pretty soon a voice near the Troll said: 'Who knows, Troll, but you may conquer this Maelstrom and quiet its rage for the remainder of the centuries. "He looked around and saw a white child. 'You have worked in the quarries and knit your strength,' says the child, and I can cIiatv rnu the wav to the ore-dwarfs, and in their furnace you will find a hammer and anvil ready for any body who wants to use them. IS ever mind what any dwarf does, but take your heart, your brain, your hands and feet one after the other, and beat and temper then? on the anviL' 'They are all flesh,' objected the Troll. 4A nice temper I should beat into them on metal.' " 'The hammer and anvil are not metals,' says the child- 'You make yourself able to 1 rise through the ilaelstrom.' * "So the Troll went to the furnace of the ore-dwarfs. He saw them fuse and force ' into upper rock and soil the metals for which ' men dig. The black fellows would seize jets of fiery liquid, and leaping like meteors, fling them to force their way upward. They * looked curiously at the Troll and made faces. But without spe%Jong to them, he ' *- " ^ 1 "?rrV?J/VS went TO ine immmcL ivuu nuivu ' child showed him. These tools, while he worked with them, passed through all the colors of the rainbow. 'They must be made * of light,' he thought. 3 "He beat away on his heart, but the more he thumped the larger it grew, and when he put it back into place it pushed out his chest and lifted him off the ground. At that the Troll* dropped his tools, dashed out of the furnace and threw himself across the reservoir, which opened into the sea, sure that he could face th i Maelstrom. His light heart carried him straight up tho whirlpool, but before he had risen six fathoms he was pounded and suffocated?the soa throw him back into" the reservoir and shook her witch's fist at him through the opening, as if saying: 4Is that enough flw you!' ,4*The Troll limped back to the furnace, where every grinning dwarf capered at him. But he hammered his brains and condensed them until they became magnetic, forcibly drawing or repelling objects. And when he put them uacK m tus heaa he saw himself differently, and did not attempt the whirlpool again until he had followed all the child's directions?beating his hands and feet to an amber glow, the very tint of light under water. "Then he crept out and launched*ioto the base of the Maelstrom. But it beat him down, and lashed him across.the fne&with bodies, and stung him with sea-nettles, until he threw up his arms and was sucked among the dead in the reservoir, scarcely able to lift his nostrils over the brink. So stubborn was the Troll, however, that he crept again to the fufnace, and this time the dwarfs stuck their flame-like tongues in his face, and bent over and slapping themselves and twisting their tiny black noses in derision. "Without watching them, the Troll tempered himself a third time. And after that trial of the Maelstrom he would not have lifted a finger for his life and the whole world besides. # I "The child came and smoothed his bruised limbs, saying, 'Poor little hill'TrolL' " 'I'm ready to die,' said the Troll. But after he bad rested along time he added: Til die trying it, though.' "Over and over he tempered himself, over and over he tried the Maelstrom, astonished to find how life and determination did linger in him, until he rose through the whirlpool and drew up calm under his feet. To this day the Maelstrom remains conquered, and is no longer dangerous except in winter storms, .ma ine wnoie worm?wno aia not care a pin. for the Troll when life was beaten just to death in his subterranean reservoir?; could not praise him enough." [TO BE CONTINUED] Society's Latest Toy. "What is the bandurria?" was asked of a well-known musical authority to-day. "Well," he answered, "the name is of Italian origin, and not Spanish, as is generally supposed. The correct name for this little instrument is the bandora, or in Spanish, again, the bandolon. It is of the same family as the^ mandolin, which it is destained to succeed as the favorite musical instrument among ' society people. Here and there names were derived from the East, where in the heydey of' the Renaissance they^became generally used to accompany tile voice and support the recitals of improvisatore as well as solo performances. Although 'Panduro' appeare in the Greek, it is not a true Greek instrument, but an exotic. Pythagoras, writing about the Red Sea, states that the Troglodytes made the Pandonra of daphne or laurel, which grew^near the seashore. The idea o? tension would seem to be inherent in the first syllable of names of the bandora or > tamboura family, preserving in each instance ?0 remarkable an identity; The gT*e~Trn^ circular body, the open strings producing four *4 Uftfi A? pcif lAJxICD j It ljcu3 ulll ITUTW AAWVO: v* vuua vw? gut bound around the neck and disposed for the intervals, smaller than half tones, belonging to the Arabic scale." The bandurria has bounded in popularity along the Pacific Coast. Jn San Francisco it has developed as a fashionable fad, completely overshadowing and eclipsing the ci-devant favorite, thebaujo although it is much harder to learn. Its svreet and delicate tones lend themselves sympathetically to all Spanish airs and plaintive melodies. In the hands of a skilled performer, accompanied by tenor . or mezzo-soprano, it is sure to evoke frequent encores. Nor is it to be despised for more ambitious productions. When the Bandurria Club of Chicago, composed of the best musical talent in upper social circles, gave a, testimonial concert recently the rendition of the "Miserere" from "Trovatore" was so exquisitely done on bandurrias and guitars tnat there was scarcely a dry eye in the audience at the conclusion. ^ *o Kooert tonyer on liuoi , I have no hesitancy in saying that the man who builds a strong, straight wall week days does better than the man who preaches a weak sermon on Sundays; that the maid in the kitchen working faithfully takes a far higher rank than the young ladies in the parlor who dawdle through the days reading the last new stoiy?a story, perhaps, which, tells of the grand dignity of the worker, while she herself is unable to bake a loaf of broad or wash a shirt. The secret thread of this life of nobility, my dear people?this life of labor?I feel as free to say as you are to hear, lies in the isolation of the vast and ever-growing working forces from" those who employ them; and may I not say also that this general great contempt of labor is steadily eating like z cancer into the strong manhood of A merican citizens? Be proud, my dear people, of the working folks in every calling, and do not forget that from their ranks have sprung the greatest minds in theology, science, literature and war. When 1 in memory recall my old friend Garfield, it is then that I recognize to what distinction and honor the laboring man can ? - - i a. attain. 1 trust tnai ere long mt> buabu thread of honest labor may -weave a string which will in turn produce a cable, and then a bridge, upon whose broad span one and all?labor and capital?may stand and cheerfully fraternize. France is spending her Season of peace in extensive preparation for war. The Senate has just unanimously voted the extraordinary army appropriations demanded by the Minister of war for the year 1888. These credits amount to 470,000.000 francs, of which the artillery get 234,000;000 francs and the engineers 236,000,000 francs. In asking for these sums M. de.Freycinet, Minister of War, said to the Senate that they were intended tc perfect the armament of the French troops and the completion of fortresses. "We must face manfully," added the Minister, "the eventualities in the presence of which we may find ourselves." These patriotic words produced tho best effect upon the Senate. Seabrin Stroke, ap eccentric old cobbler in Jefferson, Ga., who still keeps at iiis tract6, aitnccigii eaymj -uxuc j old, is a veteran three wars. He bett a dram in Jackson's army at the battle of New Orleans, fought in the Mexican war and served with credit in the Confederate army through the war between the States. Despite his advanced age, he makes as good a shoe as any man in the State. The All-Healing Springs, though right at the base of a mountain, are easily aooessible by rail. See map in another column. A MOMENTOUS MESSAGE. THE NATIONAL DEMOCRACY TO GROVEK CLEVELAND. Presentation to tlie President at V.'ashingiug of the Official Notification of His Kenoniinatlou--Mr. Cleveland Receivesthe Delegation and His Answer is, as Always, Fitted to the Occasion. t. : "Washington, June 26.?The National Democratic Committee and the ratification committee appointed by the late Democratic Convention to notify Cleve- j iand and Thurman of their nomination for President and Vice-President met at .the Arlington Hotel to-d*y. The notification committee met at 10 o'clock with the Hon. P. A. Collins, of Massachusetts, in the chair and Thomas S. Pettit, of Kentucky, as secretary. T ^^proceedings were conducted in secret session. The committee adjourned at 12 o'clock, and it was an -T il. _ 1- 3 . _ .1 . .1 JL - nounceu iiiixi it nau aeeiueu w noiiiy the President at 2 o'clock to-day, and also to leave Washington to-morrOw evening for Columbus, Ohio, to notify Thumian. The letter of notification -waa Bub^mitted to the committee by Mr. Jacob, of Kentucky, and was accepted by the committee. The letter was signed by all those present. The committee also accepted an invitation from Secretary Whitney to visit his country home at Grasslands to-morrow afternoon. The following is the notification committee: Alabama, J. H. Caldwell; Arkansas, Wilson Hemingway; California, W. D. English; Colorado, C. Bart la; Connecticut, W. H. Barnum; Delaware, E. B. Cochran; Florida, J. B. Prout; Georgia, John Triplett; Illinois, J. S. Ewing;. Indiana, A. W. Conduitt; Iowa, W. W. Baldwin; Kansas, S. F. Neely; Kentucky, C. D. Jacobs; Louisiana, John Fitzpatrick; Maine, B. W. Black; Maryland, Wm. S. Wilson; Massachusetts, Charles D. Lewis; Michigan, S. F. McGarry; Mississippi, John W. Allen; Minnesota, John Lutewig; Missouri, Ji N. Burts; Nebraska, John McShane; Nevada, James S. Mooney; New Hampshire, G. B. Chandler; New Jersey, Moses Bigelow; New York, Solomon "SfliAn Xnrf.li <"5?rnli-na. T. W. SfcrancA! Ohio, M. V.' Beam; Oregon, J. L. Cowan; Pennsylvania, K. S. Patterson; Rbode Island, Isaac Bell, Jr.; South Carolina, Leroy Springs; Tennessee, M. T. Bryan; Texas, W. H. Pope; Vermont, J. D. Hanrahan; Virginia, B. B. Gordon; West Virginia, B. i\ Harlow; .Wisconsin, It. It. Kirkland; District of Columbia, Lawrence Gardner; Utab, W. M. Terry; Wyoming, J. H. Dixon; Arizona, G. G. Berry; Washington Territory, J. ?7. Browne; Montana, Jamea-Sullivaa; New Mexico, Eatael Komero; Idaho, John. John M. Selcott. . Honorary. Membei&r-P. A. Collins, Maesachueetts;' ThoiofeS. Pettit, Kentucky; Basil Gordon, Virginia. 'j, AS the m'embere^or the committee wereTpresent at t?e''inee$mg this moraing exeeptiaj? E. B. Cochran, J. B. Proutt, John Fitzpatrick, Solomon Schen and J. L.-Cowan. THE JiABCH TO^EHE WHITE HOUSE. The notificsiid^ committee, accompanied by mam^ar& of the National Democratic Committee and the Columbia DemocrcticjCJub -of the District of Columbia, met at the Arlington Hotel at 1.30 o'clockthis afternoon and, form4MM v>nr*n A \\j hi fo xug jLLIWU pttixr, JLUCU.Vti^v*. uv mv it ui^ House. They were tishered into the East room and ranged themselves in a circle in the south end of the room. Palms filled allthe windows and a'coves in that portion of the room, and potted plants decorated the mantel?. THE PRESIDENT APPEARS. The President was -notified of their arrival and descended to the East room, accompanied by the following-named persons: Mrs. Cleveland, the Rev. Wm. N. Cleveland, the President's brother, and his wife, of Forestport, N. Y., Mrs. W. E. Hoyt, the President's sister, of Fayettevilie, N. Y., Mr. and Mrs. Lamont, Mr. .W. S. Bissel, of Buffalo, all of whom were present at the ratification of his first nomination; Mr. * Bayard, Mr. and Mrs. Fairchild, Mr. and Mrs. Whitney, Mrs. Endicotr, Mr, Vilas, Mr. and Mrs. Dickinson, Mr. Benjamin Folsom and Speaker Carlisle. Their approach was the signal for a general clapping of hands on the part of the visitors, and as soon as the party had taken their places Gen. Collins stepped forward and addressed the President as follows: CHAIRMAN COLLINS'S SPEECH. "Mr. Cleveland, we come as a com-! mittee authorized and instructed by the National Democratic Convention recently held at St. Louis to convey formal notice of its action in naming you for the office of President of the United States during the next four years. "It would ill become the occasion or your presence to express at length the full meaning and significance of that great assembly. Its expression willl be found and heard elsewhere and otherwise, from now till that day in November when this free and intelligent people will record their approval of your great services as Chief Magistrate. j "We beg to congratulate you upon this hearty and unanimous endorsement of you* course as President by the great historic party to which in all the days of your manhood you have belonged, and to congratulate the country upon the assured continuance of your wise, just and patriotic administration." THE LETTER OF NOTIFICATION. Upon concluding Mr. Collins introduced Chas. D. Jacob, of Kentucky, who read the following letter of notification: Washington, June "26,-1888. To the Hon. Grover Cleveland, of New York?Sir: The delegates to the National Democratic Convention, representing every State and Territory of our Union, having assembled in the city of St. Louis on the 5th inst. for the purpose of nominating candidates for the offices of President and Yice-President of the United States, it has become the honorable and pleasing duty of thin committee to f >rmally announce to you that without biUot you were by acclamation chosen the standard-bearer of tbe Democratic party for Chief Executive of this country at the election to be held in November next. Great as is such distiuction under any circumstances, it is more flattering and profound when it is remembered that you have been selected as your own successor to an ofiice, the duties of which, always onerous, have boen rendered "of an extraordinary sensitive,- difficult and delicate nature, because of the change of political parties and methods after twenty-four years of uninterrapted domination. This exaltation is, if possible, added to by the fact that the declaration of principles, based npon your last annual message to the Congress of the United States relative to tariff reduction and diminution of the expenses of the Government, throws down a direct and defiant challenge for an exacting scrutiny of the administration of executive power, which four years ago wa3 committed in its tra'st to the execution of Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, and for the most searching inquiry concerning the fidelity and devotion to the pledges which then invited the suffrages of the people. Aj5 engrossed copy of that platform, adopted without a dissenting voice, is herewith tendered to you. In conveying, sir, to you the responsible trust which has been confided to tlem, this committee beg, individually an 1 collectively, to express the great pleasure which they have felt at the results aitei ding the National Convention of the Democratic party, and to offer to you their best wishes for official and personal success aud hap i.in ess. We have the V>nn?vr sir tn hfi vr.n r ohflflipinf. sprwnt.s. I (Signed by all tie members of the committee.) * Mr. Thomas S. Pettit, secretary of the notificition committee,, tnen presented. Mr. Cleveland with a handsomely engrossed copy of the platform adopted at the National Democratic Convention. THE PRESIDENT'S BEPLY. The President then said: "I connot but be profoundly impressed when I see about me the messengers of the National Democracy bearing its summons to duty. The political party to which I owe allengiance both honors and commands me. It places in my hand its proud standard, and bids me bear it high at front in a battle which it wages bravelv, because, conscious of right, confidently because its trust is in the people, and soberly because it comprehends the obligations which success imposes. "The message which you bring awakens within me the liveliest sense of personal gratitude and satisfaction, and the honor which you tender me is in itself so great that there might well |^e no room for any other sentiment. And yet I cannot rid myself of grave and serious thoughts when I remember that party supremacy is not alone invoi^ j 11.. a: u:.u YUU 111 feLlO vUUJUlUv WHICH JLJrCfcaCB UpUli us, but that we struggle to secure and save the cherished institutions, the welfare and happiness of a nation of freemen. Familiarity with the great office which I hold has bat added to my apprehension of its sacred character and the consecration demanded of him who assumes its immense responsibilities. It is the repository of the people's will and power. Within its vision should be the protection and welfare of thef humblest citizen; and with quick eai>it should catch ; from the remotest corner of the land the the plea of the people for justice and for justice and for right. ? "For the sake of the people he who < holds this office of theirs should resist every encroachment on its legitimate functions, and for the sake of the integri- i ty and usefulness of the office it should , be kept near to the people and be administered in full sympathy with their wants and needs. - "Thisoccasionreminds memostvividly of scene when; four years ugo, T 4-/-V rrUirtK "Mr\TTT WltTl U\J bJU.au nrnuu juti uutt uuii*w? mvu all that has passed since that day I can timely say that the feeling of awe with : which I heard the summons then is in- , tensified many fold when it is repeated now. "Four years ago I knew that our chief executive office, if not carefully guarded, might drift little by little away from the people to whom it belonged and become the perversion of all it ought to be; but I did not know how much its moorings had already been loosened.- I kne\y four years ago how well devised were the true principles or true Democracy for the successful operation of goverfiment "by the people and for the people, but I did not know how absolutely necessary their their application then was for the resto-. ration to the people of their safety and prospeity. I knew tben that abuses and extravagances had crept into the management of public affairs, but I did not kfcow their numerous forms nor the tenacity of their grasp. "I knew then something of the bitterness of partisan obstruction, but I did not know how bitter, how reckless and how shameless it could be. [Prologed applause.*] , "J knew, too, that the American people were patriotic and just, but 1 did not know how grandly they loved their country, nor how noble and generous they were. "? shall not dwell upon the acts and the policy of the Administration now drawing to a close. Its record is open to every citizen of the laud. And yet I will not be denied the privilege of asserting at this time that, in the exercise of the high trust confided to me, I have yielded obtdience only to the Constitution and the solemn obligation of my oath of office. I have done those things which, in the light of the understanding God has given me, seemed most conducive to the welfare of my countrynen and the promotion of good governme^-. I would not if I could, for myself nor for you, avoid a single consequence of a fair interpretation of my course. "It but remains for me to sav to vou. and though you to the Democracy of the nation, that I accept the nomination with which they have honored me and that I will in dae time signify such acceptance in the usual formal manner." AFTER THE SPEECHES. The President's remarks were made in an earnest and emphatic manner,and were frequently interrupted by applause. ThJj closed the speech-making, and then all present proceeded to the State dining room and partook of light refreshments. Afterwards the committees became the guests of the Columbia Club and were driven about the city. THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE. The national Democratic committee met at the Arlington Hotel at noon today, and remained in session about an hour and a half. The Hon. William H. Barnum presided, and E. B. Dickinson, of New York, acted as secretary. The followingmembers were present: Alabama, Henry D. Clayton, Jr; Califnrrio* "\T P. TarnAV! finlrvradn. T. M. Patterson, prosy; Connecticut, Wm. H. Barnum; Florida, Samuel Pasco; Georgia, John H. Estill; Elinois, *E. M. Phelps; Indiana, S. P. Shoarin; Iowa, J. J. R>'chardsoD; Kansas, C. N. Blair, Kentucky, H, D. McHenrv; Louisiana, N. C. Blancbard, proxy; Maine, Arthur Sewell; Maryland, A. P. Gorman; Massachusetts, Charles D* Lewis: Michigan, 0. M. Barnes; Minnesota, A. P. Gorman, proxy; Mississippi, C. A. Johnston; Missouri, John G. Prather; Nebraska, J. A. McShare; New Jersay, Miles Boss; New York, Herman Oelrichs; North Carolina, M. W.,Ranaon; Ohio, Calvin S. Brice; Oregon, A. Coltner; Pennsylvania, W. L. Scott; Rhode Island, J. B. Baraabay; South Carolina, F. W. Dawson; Tennessee, B. F. Looney; Texas, O. T. Holt; Vermont, Hiram Atkins; Virginia, J.. S. Barbour, West Virginia; Charles J. Faulkner, proxy; Arizona, J. C. Hern don, proxy; District of Columbia, Wm. Dickson; Montana, A. H. Mitchell; Utah, \vm. M. Ferry; Washington Territory, J. H. Euhn; Wyoming, W. L. Kuvkendall. The committee deoided to postpone the election of officers until the evening session and then adjourned. The committee met again at 10,30 tonight and remained in session until after midnight. The committee was called to o'rder by Senator Gorman, and proceeded" at ones to the election of a permanent chairman. Mr. Barbour, of Virginia, nominated William H. Barnum, of Connecticut, and his motion "was seconded by Mr. Tarpey, of California, and others, whereupon Mr. Barnum was elected by a rising vote. - A committee, with Mr. Gorman as chairman, was appointed to nominate a secretary and assistant secre tary 01 tue comminee, ana saDseqaently reported the names of !3. P. Sherin, of Indiana, as secretary, and ?..B.JDiekinson, of New York, as assistant secretary, and they were immediately elected. At the snggestioik~of~-jGeir<~ GolSns the*-Chair" was authorized to appoint a committee of fifteen to accompany the notification committee to Columbus to notify Mr. Thurmanof his nomination: On motion of Mr. Pasco Chas. J. Cauda, of New York, was re-electred treasurer of the committee. On motion of Mr. Gorman the Chair was authorized to appoint an executive committee of twentyone members to take general charge of the affairs of the campaign, and also to appoint a committee of seven, to be known is the "campaign committee," which cc'nmittee is empowered to select such persons, not members of the committee, as they may deem necessary to aid them in campaign work. The chairman was made ex-oificio chairman of the committee of twenty-one. A committee of three, consisting of Messrs. Barnum, Oelrichs and Dawson, was appointed to select the committee's headquarters in New York city. On motion of Mr. Patterson* of Colorado, the silver gavel presented to the National Democratic Convention by the Colorado delegate," and now in the custody of the national committee, was presented to' Gen. P. A. Collins, chairman-of the Convonfinn. A wmmitt/w. firmsrisfcintr nf Messrs. Gorman, Ransom, Barbour, Pasco, Faulkner and- Dickson, was appointed to represent the committee at the Conventien of the Democratic clubs in Baltimore on July 4. After the transaction of considerable routine business the committee adjourned, subject to the call of the Chair. A Hubbub in the Faterson High School. The Paterson high school for girls is in a state of ferment. Thirteen pretty wonld-be "sweet girl graduates" are bathed in tears, and thirteen irate parents are reaming about <with six-chambered revolvers, muskets, big sticks, horsewhips and other things, vowing all kinds of. vengeance upon the stony-hearted examiners who have dared to cast reflection upon the probity or scholastic qualifications of their daughters. In the Paterson high school there was a large graduating class, composed of some of the prettiest girls to be met with anywhere who were believed to be gifted as we'll as pretty. The annual examination came on and the idols were shattered beyond all r^ i ilia- ?i i i-wT unable to answers the questions put j them, and, of course, did not j ass. TlLsi hard J reiXlttlillilg KUiCU WCit UU3W * UIW* cv j^LMjyj obtained the majority of their answers from older and wiser girls. . D. Rheinhardt, the principal eximiner, was placed in a position of peculiar embarrassment, but decided that he must be square. The result was that the whole thirteen are left out in the cold. But like all women they would not own to being fairly beaten and with heart rending sobs poured out the story of man's inhumanity upon the maternal shoulders. Then the thirteen papas of of the thirteen damsels called upon the Board of Education. The Board met in full conclave and decided, in face of Dr. Bheinhardt's protests, upon letting the three little plagiarise damsels through, on the principle, expounded by the chairman, that "all girls copy each other's work." Then they dried their eyes and went home flushed with their triumph over the tyranny of the examiners. As to the unhappy ten who Couldn't answer the questions, even with the aid of the others, it is understood that they Will Lit) auuwou o VUOUbC ihj [Iicnwu Iiucuiselves for re-examination and may graduate next September. Some Queer Verdicts. The duties of those who serve on coroner's juries do not ordinarily suggest anything very Tunny, and yet some laughable results come from their work, particularly if they do not exactly understand what was expected of them. * An amusing story is told of a verdict bro tight by a Western jury impaneled to inquire into, the cause of the death of a man supposed to have committed suicide. The verdict was brief and to the point, the foreman saying simply: "We, the jury, find the deceased guilty as charged." Another jury exmined a great mjiny witnesses in the case of a man run over by a railroad engine. The verdict was: "We find him to have come to his death Vitt 'ho'fnor nrit. in ton Vw ft rAilrfiad whereby he .could not breathe, hence he choked to death." A coroner's jury in the backwoods of Missouri heard all the evidence in the case of a man killed by a runaway team, and brought in the following verdict: "The jury Sndsthe deceased to have come to his death at the hands of a runaway team, the horses therefore being blameless, they being frightened by a dog." It is told of an old German that he sat stolidly and stupidly on a coroner's juiy and listened to all the evidence, after which, he walked over toward the corpse with some degree of curiosity. Lifting the cloth, he started back, turned to the other jurymen in amazement and affright, and cried out: "Mine Gott, shentlemen, dot man is dead!" A jury in a Missouri rural community deliberated three hours over the corpse of a woman burned by the explosion of a kerosene lamp. The following verdict was then announced in writing: "Resolved, That the diszeased was burnt to death. The joory," A man supposed to be a tramp was found dead in^the woods out West. A W AOttflA **V f V*io J Ul V Xlll^ULXdi lUWV me Wiurt VI UIOVIV^'U, and reported as follows: "The jury does not tlnd that the dead man has been foully dealt with, and is oi the opinion that he died simply because his time had come and there was no gelling out of it."?Detroit Free Pres3. The Anguata Exposition. "Washington. June 28.?In the Senate today Mr. Colquiit introduced au amendment to the appropriation bill, authorizing the appointment of Commissioners to the National Exposition at Augusta, Ga., in October and November next; also, directing the departments to loan articles, and appropriating $30;000; also providing for a committee of five Senators and five Representatives to attend. WHAT A WOMAN EATS AND DBiXKS. It Is Often Something That WooH Make an Octrlch Pale. . . (From the Sew York Times.) "The ordinary woman must hare a digestive apparatus similar to that supposed to be enjoyed by the ostrich," ma the suggestive comment made yesterday by the proprietor of a ftshionabls restauant in the shopping district up-to^n. He was checking off the day's order* as he spoke, and a Times reporter hearing the remark naturally followed it up. "Why?" repeated the caterer. "Well, I'll just show you. All orders here aw - ? written, you kner, consequently the ladies haTo ' pat"their testimony jn black and white. Here are some of their lunches: 'Bouillon and pistache ioa cream.' Fancy a man puttingthatoombination in his stomach to nourish him for a day's tramp. Here's another: 'Strawberry short cake and a cup of chocolate; that was the first course, folio wed by 'cream meringue and a lemon - ice.' 1*a like to bet thai womeartrSHse Waited by both her' ,aiieefetrsl' grandmothers tonight. '. Here's* an order in swell English handwritihgfor a goblet of iced milk and an extra porterhouse steak. Nothing else. Enough to kill her? Pshouldaay so. Tliio a?'tr - alioKarl A chicken salad and a cap of tea; this one reveled in fried Little Necks and pineapple ice cream; and a third went from shadroe to charlotte russe without stopping at.any intermediate stations," "What's the trouble with the ladies?" asked the reporter; "ignorance or economy?" "Both," was the emphatic reply. "They come in here and puzzle over the carte for fifteen minutes and then order consomme and frozen custard. Deaai every woman must have, and the Oonsomme -or chop or bit of fish is a delicate attempt to lead up to the sweete.. They have no conception of seasonable food, either. They ask for mince pie in'June wd iced tea in December. In Augnfet, when I have exhausted every resource at hand to reduce, the temperature oi the place, they rush in flushed and gasping and call for a fan and a cup of hot choc"olate. "Few men eatj. here during tha- day, but whqn one dees accompany .% laay the order shows at once his presence.. I can tell, too; nine times out of ten, if the man is the husband or only the fiance. If the latter, the young woman orders in a lavish, generous way that is most agreeable to my professional taste; but when mademoiselle becomes m aflame she contents herself with a modest luncheon. That is the time the husband is reckless, and spring lamb, early strawberries, and i other expensive delicacies just about oil the bill for him. "As-a rale, however, my patrons during the day are ladies. I had to get used to them. It took me some time, but I've learned the ropes, and I let them run the thing pretty much as they want to now. From before 12 to 3 o'clook every day my place is filled with women, ana _ by George! they have a good time if I ' :? ? don't. "They sit forty minutes some&hes ^ ; over a 25-cent order. They meet people whom they know and block the aisles and delay, the waiters while tbey exthe recipe of a delicious souffle they had just eaten. "I blandly reply that every loaf, of bread is m ide upon the premises, and that my cook, who is a chef, creates those souffles without other recipe than his own high art. 'No ortiiuaiy cook, madame,' I will conclude sympathetically, 'could produce the same reeplta from the safipe ingredients.' " r, "Which is a lie, of course," pnt ia the reporter. . ,ir> i^.n_ )j ; z i.1- - ' "\raruauy, buu iuo rt?t?u?bc?u wuu & deprecating gesture, "you know I could uot give away my kitchen secrete, ana, besides, that woman will come again to eat that sotuSe and tell her friends about it and get them to come, all because of the little mystery I know about iL Curious lot, these women." finished the caterer, generalizing broadly. "Rather a paying lot, too," suggested the reporter, glancing at the. prosperous aspect of the place. The proprietor laughed as he'leaned over the desk. "I have just leased the place for another ten years,"he said. A Bad Sign. An old fellow who was running a sawmill down in the southern part of Tennessee had considerable trouble in getting a man who understood the business of sawyer. Finally, when the owner of the mill had become wholly discouraged, a respectible fellow came along and asked for a situation. He showed* paper from one of the leading millmen in the country. stating that the applicant was one of the best of sawyers. Ge was engaged, and when fie had been at work abotif'three nroalra tVio Ttwvnriaf/Vr AftJltv) J?fm AT1A - ? morning, ami said: "Mr Oollier,you needn't go to work to-day." "Are yon going to shnt down?-' / "Yes, so fur ez you are coasamed." f ' 'What, yon don't want me any longer?" "Yes, that's it." v "Why haven't I been giving satisfaction?" "0 yas, so far ez yo' work goee." "Then, what is the matter?" "Well, I have noticed' that yon put on too many shirta." ' "I don't understand you." "Wall, you change yo shirts too often. You have been workin' here now three weeks, an' I notice that you put on a clean shirt about every eight days." "But, my gracious, is there anything wrong in that?" - "To some folks thar mouten't be. but thar is to me. A feller came along here once and changed hia shirt every twelve days." "Well," said the sawyer, "what else did he do?" "Bun away and married my daughter, that's what he done. Then thar come along a feller that changed his shirt Ixrat ever'ten days. Hf x .u way with my ? wife. Then anoth> * f ; that changed his shirt about ever niue days run away with my pocket-book containing fifteen dollars; so I find that the ofner a man changes his shirts the worse he is, an* fearin' that you mout run away with my "mule-colt, I reoon you better go now, while I've got myeye on'you." A Downpour In Mobile. ~^***^*^ r t cuf a ;? --* - ? jliOBLLE, dune zi.?ram siurm yraierJ day and last night, lasting in all thirty-six "4jours, and at times approaching a deluge, j was the heaviest rainfall ever recorded heN. During the time mentioned the rain fell to the depth of .ten inches and seventyeight h undredths. The streets through the . > city were flooded, and in a number of business houses damages occurred owing to leaking, roofs. The Daily Register office, in course of construction, was flooded from top 10 bottom, and all the editors and compositors were driven out. Ten cents^ worth of do is worth many dollars of protyuse, f