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' . .. ll % c- -i* - ^ ... - - - V~jy*: I YOL, XLfV, WINNSBOBO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 1888. . . NO. 50. fe fk Brother's Keeper. 1WS W0M 6FL0YE iSD DUTY. f ST XAXT SAETWZLL CATSSRWOOD, Ucsao* or "Gbaqcv-o' doom," "Stzjphzh . Gdtkbus," "&bx Lose mast's | - {-' . oiwb?w jls? Otsbs. Stobtss. * ~ A prolonged score from Hose covered the plimar of this story. Adam dragged him op blinking like an owl. Twhoo-oo!" imitated Adam. "Wake up, -tiiickan-ester. The story's told and the molasres is a waxin'. Ton. help me sling off &68fe- kittles." l "You meant let each back-acbey, gruesome yarns get into your head, Miss rhaebe," oai/1 I'om Holmes. "It isn't Wealthy. Life's not a tug; it's pretty much SS oae masts u~ .acre s xtnuici ?yu wo follow. He could, be living like a decent Christian, but shuts himself up like a wolf. JFhat if things haven't gone to suit him? A L man can't boss' the world. A man expects to be trod on once in awhile, but let him &ke it with & good grace and kick back if tw Oca, and If he can't, grin about it." People who are out of the water can give Rich lucid instructions how to escape Irowning," retorted Gurley. "You've always had a good time yourself." Ti^re was some bustle in taking off the fcettle* and helping the sugar- the party about, talking. When Gurley Brought Phoebe White her saucer of sugar, ibe said to him: ' I wonder what that hermit is doing rioross the Hollow? May be he's sitting before Us fire with his heart all bitter." . "Perhaps he is," said Gurley, smiling iniulgontly. "I've been down in the mouth, lay self When I was lonesome." Tom Holmes looked at her with the imused contempt which experienced people. j| ktways bestow on visionaries. "Go over and invite Painter to join us, * **v ?uWvawvu uPd like to t?o and carry him some sugar, just to let him know there were human beings in the world who could take a thought, tor him." "Do it," said Tom. "I'm curious to know, low he'll receive yoa." "I will," returned Phoebe White, neftled, ~if some one pleases to show me the path. i?ose, ou forfeited your hat. Redeem it by { joing across Black Hollow with me." "I don't care nothin' about that old hat," raplied Mose, slouching into the- lodge with _____ . I jarful of the grained sugar. ."What'll you be up to nextl" disapproved Bandy. "Hobody will go with her," said McArdle, isaoity. "it is too absurd." "Not at all absurd," said Gurley, ready afth another saucer of sugar. "Will you .fekemy arm, Miss White? I know every tfepping-stone in the Black Hollow.'' "Jntinter will shoot you both," said Torn **ViXB CP, CHZCXKX-BATSS I" ?gofacea, chaofcHng. "You are a pretty pair lock's errand." i"WfceR they rferrwjyr, -Vfe^-^Iled as sooa better Ifcnp back here fasti yor.what's left of you. Camp's breakin j I ipaadthe horspittle amb'lance isa-startfc'.V . ^Yoa didn't stay long," remarked Holmes, rtgndbgby his democrat wagon, which bad ^istarrired'to take his party home. Ifioee sfered at the adventurers, sus5?Sdiag hza business of washing out the "Wfcs* did Painter do?" took th? sugar from Miss White end cos soma of it in his mouth," replied "And than ho threw the rest of it at your bead," said Holmes. "But what's he got in his house?' in|ttfc?d Bandy. "Bottled snakes," said Gurley; "Chemical and a furnace. I had the merest mPr fdmps* before he shut the door on us. But fea J?ve a man of science over the Black. Fjp&ow; parhaps-an inventor: one who has it any rate fooled everybody as to his fttMoter and pursuits." _ ain't footed nobody in his looks," asttctedUo^. . Fhcebe White was shivering close by the ?ro. fee had not spoken a word since reggmlnf gcArqto approached and talked i&to&t and she turned her face toward him < to2stao With apparent effort. iJastey was waiting to hand her into the . gmsoontf wagon whgre Randy Thompson Jwadv sat wraooed up like a sausage. i.fterfchCBbe ha^ up her scarlet" - Slap and fastened it more snugly around: i80Ptosrlba"iide, Gurley saw her take a " ?a&by portemonnaie from her pocket and pM3 * arisp green note swiftly to Mc^So MoAx^^borrcws money of her," the' ^ ptmgmsn thought, "with scorn, as he can-' iauA heme utter they had separated. a sort 9i tributary chapel of her' iimeschpoi-house, to swell the church's do* * nittgnt Iffopgoae h6 iateoda to marry her ted sponge off her the rest of his life. O . that 1 had my will of him I" v * Psyche Fawcett rode over to return Mrs. Holmes' call, and she handed in a card for l&ss Phoebe Whit*, also. Miss Fawcett would not be taken into the room of state, . tot snuggled to the sitting-room Are of togs which was always kept burning there until the heated season put it out. "This is a sight feat warms one's soul, YV?**ac>*?* ? ceM 7T) V QAlll Mini fir' I vwvk *?ais IS X SIGHT THAT WAEM3 0>"E'S SOCL-" ^as been, in a shiver ever since we came *- ? n BDHBO*"'" "There is not much of you except your joul to stiver, ray dear," laughed Mrs. . gotmea. 44I thought I had-grown vastly corpulent. But Cupid says I hare wasted away. For ta? society." She idea of calling Jack Grriey Cupid! it always annoyed him; it made him so r ielpless with fury?a big bluff fellow to he jsiled Psyche's Cupid, especially when he lysaabout sistoenj andallkauckies and feeL ' Is that your baby looking through the ioor f' Said Miss Fawcett, twirling a willow twig which she had snapped off during her ride. "The g^eat monster! how he has add-, jd to himself. Come here, Thomas Holmes, junior, and see your aunt." Toddles slyly shut the door and patted away. The vision was too wonderful for tiim. Miss Fawcett was exceedingly slight, and tremblingly alive: She had a low" orpwed face, clear as alabaster, and the 2olor of her eyes varied from yellow to vioist, according to their expression. They followed every speaker with change and sparkle, and her playful nostril and round-, 3d cheek and chin spoke in unison with iham. Phcebe White thought her the moat beautiful woman in the world, as ehe heN . self passed inside the door to be introduced. Miss.Fawcett stirred "in response-to the introduction, and sent through the .room a current 01 rose iragrance rraai tne Dunca. of yellow roses at her belt. "Yes, I came on Saturday so I should be jure of seeing you," she exclaimed. "Mr. Burley has been telling me about you." Mrs. Holmes lifted her eyebrows. "I'm very glad he ha3," said Phoebe, so innocently pleased by the sight of Miss Fawcett that the young lady laughed. "I believe we aren't going to be a bit strange. I always hate or adore people on sight. Madam Drusie here was a big girl at school when I was a little girl, but i pinned to her and have hung on ever since. I hardly let her be courted in peace.. To I tins day I believe Tom Holmes considers me a long-legged girl to whom he must perforce offer his other arm if he wants a min-* ute with Drusie." "You forget how early Cupid began his siege of you," said Mrs. Holmes. "Siege! I don't call it a siege when cur people made the engagement and t&rew us at each other. You should have seen the way that fellow used to glower when his mother made him dance with me at children's parties, Miss White. He trod :>n my feet, too. I never forgave him." "But he has improved," laughed Mrs. Holmes. "Vrrn imnrnxrp o-Anrlpv ThA old Irish is too strong in them. Can you both jome and ride with me ? I know this is a busy morning with you, Drusie, but I always made it a point to interfere with your affairs." Mrs. Holmes excused herself on many accounts, so Phoebe White only went with Miss Fawcett behind her ponies. "Where do you want to go's" inquired iliss Fawcett, as her low phaeton entered the road. 'That is, after we have driven through Greensburg main streets. They are smooth, even at this time Of the year, when other roads ere full of ruts." "Anywhere," said Phcebe. "I loye to be 3Ut-doors in this humid air without having to feel the ground moist under jay feet. Spring weather makes one f^&Srnew." She thought suddenly of "ffiorney, chop- | pingc wood across the Black Hollow, and half regretted being at ease herself and in the company of this untroubled girl. Miss Fawcett observed her closely from time to time as they poked along the fencesorners. "I've been abroad several years," she said, "and dropped all my old strings. The girls are changed about. In a school-town so many of one's intimates are transients. We used to have the house full. Now it is xuucauurc iui JUV. x u JVUWW < myself. Someti-?3s I think I never can set- ! tie myself. You jcdow my aunt lives with me, of course. But we don't get on. She's 30 set on having her own way. She's mamma's sister: j?y~iather had no sister. Only a brother who went off and died, or he would have had half the property. It was real .convenient of him. Besides he was so ugly, poor man, with a deformed mouth so he couldn't speak plain; and I know it would have torn me all to pieces. I can't even remember him. Mr. Gurloy says you have no relations." . " I have a brother," said Phcebe. " Pd like a sister," said Psyche. "An older sister who would take all the care and leave .me nothing to do but spend money. How nice it must be for you 1 You can live just as Bohemian a life as you want to." "I don't think I like a Bohemian life," said j nmnfii * I "Oh, I do! I've sdways wanted to be a boot-black or an actress or a wandering poet" "When you have your beautifol home?" "Beautiful cage! who wanta to be tied by her foot to a perch 1" ^ "I should love every stick and every blade ' of grass on my homestead," exclaimed Phoebe. "It tears me up by the roots tc Change from one place to another. I should think you would be so happy tojtxave your tome and all sorts of ties provided for you. ' i r*q sltiub, lie? uuwx uckllluji uu l.o. . brother depending on jour undisciplined brains." "Is your brother half-witted? How ammusIng he must be. And it Vrould be perfectly delightful to me if I did not know what was coming to-morrow and the next day and the next." I "You wouldn't like," said Phoebe, forcibly, "to be dogged by an evil fate, to have your best wishes crossed, to run like a fugitive through the world." es, I should, said Miss Fawcett," watching her with interest. "I should dote cn it. Zbcra would be some variety in. that, X _ob <9^nr \\ aqaoqj passsj eqg -emoo -I3J4 (}ueisat cn peXsiderp aqs qonj-u 'qjaaj fcjiqM. 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' though she was so uncomely, her dress looked lull of snuggling places^ foe cbil urea's neaatSj ananer large .snouiuer UKe pillow lor the forlorn. ' " Now, take off-your things, and be comfortable," she -said, .-fi was afraid you couldn^t come this evening, the weather's jo raw." - - = " I don't mind the WjatBer^' said Phoebe, " when I am asked to supper with you. Here you are shut in princess-like, with a red-hot forest stacked in your fireplace, the woods outside breathing, and the kitchen kettle singing. I wish Thorney and [ were set up in a log-house life." "How is Thorney?" inquired Mrs. Barker. u He is welL He is so stout and brawny." She looked at the hearth without brightening, " I am glad he has muscles, anyhow." . "Mr. Barker's late to-night," said the schoolmaster's -vile. "Jlia school is so fulL Ee's fitting some of the young men for college, and often helps them after hours." She hung up her guest's wraps on deer, antlers. Several doors of various heights jpened from this general room. Beyond Due the kitchen showed its burnished stove, uid tin vessels; another, stooping down-^ ward a step, gave entrance to a bedroom, where Mrs. Barker's best finery hung on the loj? wall protected by a muslin curtain, rwo more doors just like it probably opened on similar state-rooms. But the master's library was a bolder conception, cast out like a dormer-window from the main pile, to be entered by a pine archway hung with curtains of chintz calico. The shelves were very full Rudely carved pyramids of pomegranates supported the master's row of Greek authors. His study-chair was a gnarly stump, chopped into shape and cushioned. A long clock in a cherry case filled one oorner beside the fire-place, its yellow dial marked in Arabic figures. One iron haad pointed to five,'and with a deliberate, rasping voice, it told the hour. Phoebe stood on the hearth to warm her hands, while Mrs. Barker drew a table from the wall and set up its leaves on extra legs. The broad-boarded floor showed the many grooves this table had made in its many journeys. The master's wife spread a cloth of unbleached linen, exactly balancing the ample folds at each table corner, and put her blue-edged dishes and horn-handled knives and forks in array upon it. Her talk with her truest was as brisk and con Btantas the flfm leather pat of her foot| steps on the naked floor.. She brought jama f and fifiHTly SCenrtcd cako -front her storo- room. The master's chair was dragged from his library to preside at the foot of the table like a throne over two splhit-bottomed seats and one wooden chair with gilding on the back The hostess'sewing-rocker stood near the fire for Phoebe's use. [ "I told Mr. Baker if he saw your brother to a?k him to supper along with you." "Thorney would be too shy to come," said ; Phoebe, wistfully. ; "You 'oca* very different to me," remarked M*s. Bsfkec, candidly, as s&e set' down the maple sirup in * gless dish and ; arranged in a pcblet the silver spoons she i had bought with her own first savings, before sh'e-^a&rried Mr. Barker. "I always tell girls," sa&.thft master's wife, standing back and admiring "the first thing they ought to do is to get-aset ' rake some of your earnings and buy 'em whether you're thinking or going to housekeeping or not Then you have 'em." "Thorney and I can hardly afford silver when we set up our house," said Phcebe. 'Merely to begin it will be a great undertaking. But we have saved more than a hundred dollars betweeD us, Mrs. Barker." "Well, that does first-rate for two orphans. And I hope you've put it out safe." "I?loaned a little of mine," said Phoebe, hesitating. "The rest I keep by me; to be always ready." "Mercy I you oughtn't to keep such a big sum in the house. You bear the spools in mind," urged the master's wife, laughing. "You ain't going to keep old maid's hall with Thorney for ever.'' "I hope I am. It would be almost too much to have a snug log-pile like this, and be sheltered up among trees, and never tormented by anybody. Thorney is a good boy, and I have only him. it would be nice," said Phoebe, locking her fingers, "if I could be proud of him; if he were bright and handsome, like such young men as Mr. Gurley, and could direct and advise me instead of my having to direct and advise him. But he can't help it, you know, and I must just cover up his weakness as well as I can and take him for his good qualities." "You dear child!" said the master's wife. "He's my brother," explained Phoebe, sincerely. "And even if he appeared dis ?vAATv1a if tTTAtllil Ko V>OOA IAJ Ul>UCl AW nvmu wv vwww for me to own to myself that I found him so. Other people do not know the best of him." "Does he favor the father's or mother's' side?" inquired the master's wife. "I don't know," said Phoebe. "But your kinfolks could tell." "I don't know any of them," reip0hde? Phoebe, briefly, and a great stamping outside the door broke through this conversation. The aaaster entered with a second and smaller self at his heels, excepting that he was gray and stout and his son was lightlocked and chubby. He wore a' blue army overcoat, and the boy one of similar cut and color. "Well, here you are, Ogre," said Mrs. Barker. "The Ogre's late to-night," he responded, in a great bas3. "He had five stupid fools to eat up. And here's Miss Phoebe." He advanced his square paw and shook her hand. 'Am win cninc to eat me for another fool, Mr. Barker?" "I hope not. But we'll see how you have your German. Orcutt Barker, take oft your hat, sir, when you come under a roof, and speak to Hiss Phoebe." "I was waiting till you gave me a chance, sir," responded Orcutt, boldly, with the appearance of enjoying skirmishes with his burry^ther. "Mind your tongue, sir, mind your tongue," growled the master, rolling his son's head between his palm3. Neither of them could resist a tousling romp, which lasted until the elder felt sufficiently relaxed from his day's toil, when he at once resumed his mastiff-like demeanor, and Orcutt gravely shook hands with Phoebe and hung up their wraps. "Well, Miss Phoebe," said the master, planting Lis feet on the hearth and gathering his coat-tails under his arms, "what is the height of a tree on the opposite side of the river, which formfc one aide of a triangle, the hypotenuse being " "Please, no, Mr. Barker. Try me with the German." "What's the hypotenuse, pat" inquired Orcutt, immediately bringing slate and pencil. "There is nothing in the world," said tho master, "so beneficial and strengthening to the mind as that same science of mathematics." "What's the hypotenuse, pal" repeated Qrcutt, importunately, twitchmgj^Jfr^or^ trousers. The master turned and drew a long iwitch off the mantel, where, from a limber: indjucy shoot it had dried in disuse to , frrittleness, and suggestively measured the i distance between his outstretched hand and His son's fat legs. "That's the hypotenuse," threatened the master. The son set down giggling to solve jther imaginary problems. , Supper was- coming upon the table. Mr. Barker's basso seemed to reverberate imong the dark joists. "Now, Miss Phoebe, let us have that verb sonjugated before we blunt our minds with sating." Phoebe therefore plunged into German injunction and afterwards produced her jxercise from her pocket; he examined it frowning. "What's this! This is too ambitious. A good student keeps his eye on the structure jtthe language; he doesn't run after sentiment^' u . "It's the last part of Schiller's 'Diver,' inrt is familiar enousrh to everv bodv blifc oie," said Phoebe. "I did enjoy it. The jense of much of it came to me without the dictionary." "Yes, I don't doubt it I" commented themaster, dissentingly snorting. "Let me' iAir you pronounce now." ' It bears one along," pleaded Phcebe, ; "even the foolhardines's which toak him." ander the water a second time *iter he had brought up the cup in safety once." * : The master listened to her reading, giving f rent to gutteral corrections, while she took her momentary stand in his book alcove." The sash there was not so deeply imbedded ? in logs as were the other windows, and such' late light as still straggled across the clea^ in g illuminated her and her German text. Mrs. Barker drew backher own chair from the iable and announced with housewifely formality that supper was ready. Orcott, having suspended his .ciphering to- hear Phcfbe's aBtercise, now briskly hjid aside hM slate; and the master was willing to postpone further drill until he had filled the plates on the table. "Come, Miss Phcebe," said ha "Some day, with constant practice and the chance Df conversing with intelligent Germafia, 1 you may get a fair grip of the language.1' .""What's the matter, child!" exclaimed Mrs. Barker. "What do you see out there!" " Oh, nothing, nothing," replied Phoebe, coming swiftly away from the window. ; 1 ^ 1 I "May be I fancied o^ie of the diver's mon? sters bad come up out of^fi ^hy^pol_pj*L. into s?me place and be bid and qniiet tee ever." She pat her hands over her face, bat not la time to 8top s stray cob. iEra. Barker put her aria aro?id PhcBhe and petted the girl's head against her shoulder. The master,, with his fists clasped, the thumbs pointing upwards, one at each side of the pile of plates, glared sternly at his pupiL "You've been worried out," he pronounced. "The" children of that whole district need killing. I've said so repeatedly. They're a noisy, scandalous aet.f> . "Oh, no," said Phcsbe. ' ' 6 "Yes, they do. Sbme of them ought to be skinned slowly and hung up in the sun to dry, Adam and KAJ. * ~SndT Mose Guy ain't children," piped Orcutt, "and they don't go to school any more." "They used to," maintained the master. ??I can't control myself t^ry well," pleaded Phoebe, drying her face. "But nobody is to blame." "She has to carry too old a head," said Mrs. Barker, putting her guest in the giltbacked chair and spreading her napkin. "She ought to be thinking of young folks and a good time, and here she is worrying to save money, and studying Dutch between whiles. Next time you come, Mr. Barker aVa?UVa1i3 r? ?rt/fl AvommefiAn attoh tw\ti I) DUOU bliuiu O 3V/UUVJ> VTV*. J vu> "Do let him! How little I shall ever know if Mr. Barker does not train me. And I have been seeing young people." She began to tell about Psyche Fawcett, and talked rapidly while the meal lasted. After supper the master and his son went into the twilight, chopped wood and kindling, fed the pij?, and carried fodder to and milked the cow. In the midst of these homely cares, and while the mastei's bass reverberated among solemn trees with Old Hundred, Phoebe's voice and presence broke into his hymn. She was standing Wrapped in her scarlet shawL ready to go home." " Good-night, Mr. Barker. I must hurry this evening." 44 But you are not going home now. You are going to spend the evening1#and may be stay all night." "I must go," said Phoebe. "Wait till I've milked the strippings, then," commanded the master. 44 You can't go alone, it's ausK." But repeating good-night," Phoebe was already on the path through the woods when Mrs. Barker ran out of the cabin after her. However, the master had scarcely carried his frothing pails into the house when Mrs. Barker came back, drawing her shawl to a focus over her nose. . "She wouldn't let me go a piece with her," said the master's wife. "I don't know what possesses that child to-night." She looked anxious as she hung her wrap on the deer-antler. "I'll just step outi and overtake her," said Mr. Barker. "Don't." "But she oughtn't to go alone through the woods, ought she?" " She isn't alone, Ogre, dear. A man met her just out of the clearing. That's why I turned back. I saw she wanted me to." " May be it was her brother, or one of the neighbors' boys." "It was a stranger. I took a good look at him, and enough worse looking he is than her poor simple brother. I don't like it. And her getting so excite4 before supoer, as if she saw something out of the window ?and all." "I don't like it either," said the master, rubbing hi3 grizzly head. ("TO BE CONTiNUJCi'j Effect# of Kentucky Whisky. Louisville, Ky., July 2.?Near Pine vile lust right Ja?. MeGorge and Bill Smith, special %henff deputies, shot each Other to death. They weie seat to arrest some violators of the local whisky laws. Keturning they stopped at a floating saloon on the Cumberland river, and while drinking there they got into a wrangle over a pistol taken from a prisoner." Smith had the pistol and in the scuffle to keep it, shot AIcGorge througn me nsca.. juwui^c drew his own pistol and shot three times wildly as he fell. One shot struck Smi?h in the head, killing him instantly, and the ! other two woundea Bill Boskins and an1 other bystander. McGorge will die. The people were much excited over the affair, and the owner of the boat abandoned it and is hiding. ? A woman of polish?the laundress. WHAT THEY THINK. A Variety of Opinions from Many Sources ?The Republican Ticket as Viewed from Various Standpoints. :Secretary Yilaa?"Cleveland will be re-elected." The Times will give Cleveland and Thurman its hearty enpport. James G. Blaine: "It is a good nomination." Don Dickinson?"That temperance plank in the twelfth hour defeated them." Nashville American: The nomination of Harrison and Morton means a fight for both Indiana and Sfew York. ' Senator Vance (Dem.) of North Carolina?-"I am a Democrat and it suits me. Well beat him so badly his mama won't recognize liim." - . Senator Vest (Dem.) of Missouri,? "Admiration shudders and shrinks into the ooattail pocket of chagrin in the presence oJ; Harrison. We will beat him easily. : New York Times-(lad.): Albeit not a great man, General Harrison is a citizen nf thft "Rfitmhlin. who has dnnA wnrthilv such share of public work as has devolved upon him.* * * Senator Wade Hampton?It is the very best nomination that could be made for tie Democratic party. It is "the weakest nomination the Bepnblioans oonld have made. Representative Bynum (Dem.) of Indiana: "The best they could make. Bat we will carry Indiana. The Pacific coast is lost to tlie Republicans. ' Secretary Bayard?"I don't see why Harrison should have been selected. He is a man ol! fair abilities, against who.n nothing cz a be said, but still, it seems to me like a surprising nomination." New Ycrk Tribune (Rep.): In his whole career as soldier and statesman Benjamin Harrison has displayed a sound judgment, a well-balanced mind, and a character of the highest merit Baltimore Sun (Dem.): While not a man of commanding intellect^ or heretofore a recognized leader of his* party in or out of the Senate, General Harrison has nevertheless been regarded as a gentleman of excellent parts and of irreproachable* privaie-life. Savannah News: The Republicans have nominated Benjamin Harrison, a TJCOtCiTii JiOWJW- OUU UUlikLUlrkU, 1UI President, and Levi P. Morton, a New York bonier, and politician, for Vicepresident. It cannot be said that these gentlemen jnake a strong ticket. Atlanta Journal: We cannot regard 'this ticket as an exceptionally strong one for the Republicans, and we are inclined to the belief that it would have been a stronger one if the positions of the nominees had been reversed. Petersburg (Va.) Index-Appeal (Dem.) The nominee for the first place on the Republican Presidential ticket seems to have been selected more on account of his availability as the favorite son of the doubtful State than for any individual merit of his own. _ Indianapolis Journal Jjtep*) "H his nomination were not so clearly the result of human wisdom, we could call it inspiration." The Sentinel (Dem.) says: ' 'General Harrison's nomination is not in any sense n strong one." Macon Telegraph: Democrats should not mi ike the mistake of believing that, though the Republican candidates are Commonplace men and their platform a 'thoroughly bad one, their own candidates^ ian be easily elected. Sam Douglass, State secretary of the Gieepback party says: "There are 20,000 voters in Indiana, r^iaaja^jQjUthft. parEyj^who will vote solidly against Harrison. The policy of the present administration has been ac ceptable to the Greenback party." Representative ^Burrows (Rep.) of Michigan: "Harrison can carry every State that Blaine carried in He will sweep Indiana, New Jersey and Connecticut will fall in line under the banner of protection. The soldiers will support him enthusiastically." The Atlanta Constitution says in one of its leading editorials: "There is one fact that need not be disguised, and that is that Harrison will be a stronger man before the- country than 21aine would have been. He is a man of high character, and appears to have conducted himself as decently during his political career as any Republican could be expected to do. A. K. McClure, in Philadeljr' ia Times (Ind.): It is just fair to say that General Harrison is a clean, creditable Presidential candidate, and his nomination in? ill MT> ViWiO liUO UUILUUJ IAJ l>UiU uvui ituv fiendish jackals of low grade politics to soberly consider and decide the grave national issues which are to be decided by the American people in November next. The Way Girls Do. "Oh, Kitty! I've something the beet to tell yon !,s "No?" "Oh, but I have, though 1" . "Do tell me, quick!" "YouH never lisp it to anyone?" , "No, indeed!" "I wouldn't have you breathe it fox i the world!" "Oh, I won't" "Not to any one, remember." "No?hope to die if do." "Well, then?oh, it seems so funny J" "0hs do hurry up and tell me." "I'm afraid you'll teiL" "Oh, indeed, indeed, I won't" "I'd never forgive you if you did." "Well, but I won't" "He might not like it you know." "Who's he?" "Oh, I forgot! How foolish I am!" "Are you ever going to tell me?" "Yes; yes?I said to myself right away that I'd tell you anyhow." "Well, do, then." "Well, then?oh, you will be awfully surprised!" "Oh, do hurry and tell." "Well?I?I'm engaged!" "No?" "Yes!" "Well, who to?" "To Charlie Lawson." "Why?Lol?Brigham!" "I am!" "Tee, hee, hee!" i "T'u't it funny?" ' Why, jou old darling!" "Don't you congratulate me?" "Of course I do. Charlie's perfectly lovely. I'm awfully glad for you both. "Oh~ thanks!"?Detroit Free Press. A Railroad Wreck in Montana. St. Paul, Minn., July 3.?A Helena (Montana) special says: "An east-bound Northern Pacific passenger train jumped the tracfc oa tfunoay nignt at woia urees, fifty miles west of here, the day coach, dining and Pullman cars rolling into a ditch. "Wfaa Nelson, of Riley & Wood's Theatrical Company, and Mr. Ulin, of Missoula, Montana, were seriously injured. Many others were injured, but not dangerously. * GEORGIA'S MONSTER SNAKES. Stories of Them Revived by Attacks on Horses and Cattle. (Philadelphia Times Correspoa "ent.j Athens, July 2.?H. H. Carlton, the Representative from the Eighth Congressional district of Georgia, has a magnificent i tub urban home in sonthern i Athens, to which is added an admirably agnipped farm. Mr. Carlton takes especial pride in ids horses, of -which he has" a large and valuable stock, but which during his residence in Washington spencLmost of their time in a rich pasture at some little distance from the house. A few days ago two of the Congressman's horses became afflicted with an ailment which baffled veterinary skill. They came up from the pasture limping, with inflamed and running sores on their legs. Their eye-sight, too, appeared to be affected, while a heavy discharge of mucus from the mouth and nostrils gave indications of lung fever. Medicine was copiously administered, but both the animals died. Others of Mr. Carlton's stock were taken sick in a similar manner, find in a short time the disease broke out) among the fine blooded stock of several gentlemen residing near by, and several of the animala have died. The matter was, of course thoroughly investigated, but without result, until it was givesi wide publicity.There are living in and around Athens several o'! the early pioneers of Wilkes and Madison counties, who near ly fifty years ago were actively engaged . in agrioolture there. When the nevra of the trouble with the horses became known these old people unanimously declared it to be caused by the bite of a species of monster serpent known as the "horned" or "brill" snake. Fifty years ago, they declared?and their statements have been verified?this section of the country was overrun by these reptiles, and. so desperate was their warfare againf>t cattle that it was only with the greatest of care that any stock at all oould be preserved from them. It was not until parties of hunters rid the i country of these reptiles that cattle could be raised here. To describe these venomous reptiles almost necessitates one laying himself open to the imputation of writing a < "snake story." Your correspondent has never seen one of them alive, but he has seen the preserved skin of one, a mon- i ster some five feot in length and of unproporticnately huge girth, which was < killed near this city about ten years ago. < The color is dark brown, and on the end of its tail is a spur or horn of about I three inches in length, somewhat re- 1 Li.*- - xi_ ? ^ c A semDiuig uiu spur uu uw um vi a scorpion, although, of course; very much , larger. All thia I can positively vouch for and prove, if necessary. But I'can only give you tradition as ; to the way in which this now almost extinct snake carries on its warfare against cattle. The old settlers state that the snake would strike Athair foee by throwing their tail foremost, and, | with the horny appendage described, dealing a deadly wound.. As is the case j with the rattlesnake, they can thus project themselves, albeit tut foremost, for several feet. These old people were j shown some of the wounds on the legs of the cattle, and are persistent in declaring them to have been caused by a j bull snake. Farmers now living in i Madison county, hard by Athens, have < often bpen brought into contact with these monsters, and unqualifiedly express themselves in a similar manner. Thia story would be hardly complete ] were no mention made of a statement t given your correspondent bv_ag^ohLu lady, Mrs. Qlarissa EvanSj^Pthia city, and con?borate<^feij feer children?now 'JTCiSfen. Mrs. ?vans says that on her farm in Madison county she and her husband once encountered one of these snakes in a sapling thicket Her husband struck at the serpent with a fence rail, and the serpent simultaneously struck at him with its tail. Mr. Evans dodged the blow, and the serpent's horn grazed the bark of a poplar sapling. This happened about noon. By night the leaves of the tree were entirely withered and by morning were black, dry and shriveled. The Joint Summer Meeting. On the occasion of the meeting of this Society daring the Grange Encampment at Spartanburg, August 6th to 11th, the 8th of August nas been assigned the Society on which day to hold its annual summer meeting. The meeting will convene at 11 o'clock a. m., when the following order of business will be observed at the morning session and the following eesiys read: Test of the parity and vitality of seeds, by Prof. JR. H. Loughridge. T-w 1_" _t iJiYersuitaj juuuuauriea ae uiumuuvo ui agricultural prosperity, by Hon. Samuel Dibble. The natoro- and treatment of contaS'oua diseases of stock, by Dr. B. clnnee, Y. S. The ideal farm, by Hon. John S. Yerner. YiticultuKi, to be assigned. The South era dairy, to be assigned. This annuj d igathenng of our people from all sections of the State at the close of the cultiviUions of the crops, to compare notes as to the best modes in the preparation of the soil for seeding, the kind of manure, hop much used and the cultivation cf the various crops, and the results obtained,, is a pleasing and profitable occasion for the meeting of the farmers of the State. Besides the pleasing intercourse of our people, the subjects for essays are practical, and the essayists are gentlemen peculiarly fitted io treat tut) buujwus tuxugucu. The discussion on eaon et-say is another pleasing feature of the occasion, furnishing much, useful information to those whom intended to benefit. All things considered, it would seem of the highest importance that there should be a full turnout of our people at Spartanburg during the seoond meeting of the Inter-State Farmers' Summer Encampment.' Guardin g Against Falsehood. Dunn was an -English farmer who em* ployed*a laborer named PauL Mr. Dtun one day asked Paul to take luncheon, and Paul refused; .but afterwards the workman repented, and went to ask for the food. "No," was Mr. Dunn's answer; "vou i^aid you would not eat, said I never allow any ues WJ u a w_uu ux IUJ uuodo. "So," Baid Panl; "I lost my dinner." Next week Panl returned to his work, the thought of his lost meal still rankling in his mind. Mr. Dunn asked him again whether he would take some luncheon, and, determined this t'\n. enot to be done, Paul said, "Yes." | A huge Cheshire cheese was set before him uncut, aad Paul inquired, ''Where -hall I cut it?" "Just where you please," said Mr. J>nnn. "Then," said Paul, "I'll cut it at home, and?you won't have any lies told in your house, -you know." A pocket-book is paradoxical. The smaller the size the greater the sighs. * THE NEW FIKST READER. SImple Lessons, Not D?*igaed for Children, but Adapted for the Delectation of Elders. (From the Detroit Free Press ) Leeson L?"Do you see the machine?" "Yes,-, I see it; it is a strange thing. What is it for?a brickyard?" "Oh, no; it is called a staffer." "To stuff sausages." "No; to stuff school children. Come and exmine it You put a child from 10 to 14 years of age into this end, and into the other you place thirteen examples in fractions, three pages of history, two of grammar, three of orthography, an hour of writting and a yard of algebra, and then all is ready to loosen this spring, and the child is duly stuffed." "It must be very nice." "It* is. The schooling of the average pupil can be shortened up several years by this process, much to the honor and ored&of the teacher." X/UV UVU V VMUUAViA VUv UiiUOl UUC stnffin?" "Lots of them, bat it is laid to a too active brain." "Are there many staffers in nse?" "There is an average of one to every school in town, and some have two- Yon may now ran up and down four pairs of staia&to expand your longs." Lesson IL?"What has Charles found?" "It is a bumble bee." . "Does he know what it is?" "He doee not. He is too young and. unsophisticated for that. He thinks it is a Waterbury watch some millionaire has had the msifortune to lose." "And he will try to wind the watch up?" "He wilL Let us move on. It promises to be a harrowing scene, and we had best be as far away as possible." Lesson IIL?"Do you see the man?" "Yes, I see him. He is swinging in a hammock under the trees. He must be rich to take Ms ease while other men work. How many millions is he worth?" <He will never have the tenth part of a million cents." "Bat he is not at work." "Oh, yes, he is. He is a sidewalk inspector for the city, and is now -putting in time." "Can he inspect sidewalks while lying in a hammock?" "He can. He wag selected on account of his great brasn power to do such things." "Will I ever know enough to become a sidewalk inspector?" "It is barely possible, and much depends on your making your solid with !tex&n city officials. Be commencing at your tender age to developed into a ward briker yon may in time get there, although the field is always crowded." ' Lesson IV.?"Ah! here comes a poor, old man, leaning heavily on his cane. You may give him a penny if you wish." "It is sad to see one so old and poor. Do you know him?" "I do. His name is Goneooon." "That is a funny name. Why is he so poor?" "Because he lost his job. He used to be the city gas inspector." "And did he live in a h.fuimook and inspect gas?" Some of tho time, but his -favorite method was ta sit in & saloon with hie feet on a beer table." "Was the gas all right?" "Oh, yes. No one ever heard of the gas inspector finding anything wrong with the gas. The gas was all right?so eras the inspector." "Then why did they bounc^rtem?" "It was the work of tfco'newspapers, rhey were jealous or the great brain power it to^krWnold a saloon chair down sndj^ra^'$1,600 a year. The aldermen kt&d his placi for him for several years, but at last the public kicked so hard1 he had to go." 'And didn't he find another job?" "No, my eon. It broke his heart in two, and he gave up all hope after that" ?Detroit Free Press. AS AMAZON IN OREGON. An Invitation to Dinner and a Surprise for a Party on Horseback. The jar of heavy feet was heard. Some young horsetf came down a steep hill at full run. Behind was a reckless, rapid rider. The loose stock dashed past. The horse that bore the rider was tossing its head madly and slinging white foam in flakes from his mouth.' He was a rearing, restless, heavy built, regulation broncho, but it was remarked that he waa well under control, for he seemed to be fairly rifted from side to side by t&e reins at the will of the rider, who drew up to our ressing place. We started in a way that was not mannerly, even in the wilds of Oregon. The rider of the restless pony was a young girl. She waited with embarrassment for us to tell our errand. "Who lives here?" we asked. "I do," she replied, in a tone that did not make us feel any more at home. <aWhose garden is this?" was the next question. "Mine." - -V . .33.3. Artex a pause sac aaueu: "Can 1 do anything for yon, gentlemen?" -"Well, well, no," was about the only intelligible answer at command. "Will you come to the house?" she added; "it is near dinner time," As she rode before we looked upon a graceful rider, a well-rounded, neat figure, a brunette, with the languid beauty so much admired in the Oastillmn women, clad in coarse, strong, short skirts, below which showed a small boot and a keen, bright spur. Her rich saddle was new, strong and double rigged. Her horse had not stopped at the gate till she sprang to the ground. My companion stepped forward with a Chesterfield bow, but too late to assist her. She asked us to go to the house while she led her horse to the^ stable. When we were within a rod of tfie door we both started with surprise. A repulsive, sullen, scowling Indian was at each window. We were greatly surprised tj learn that our hostess was u half-breed. In her features or actions we had observed notonetraoe of the Indian. Her de^ mean or was modest, while at the same time she was fully "imbued with that Wflctarn lfKar Ji that allnno nn man tn pass without an invitation to partake of a meal or night's lodging. We bade her good-bye reluctantly, and continued our hunt, thinking ho& much more appropriate such grace and such wealth would be in the circles of society than on the back of a broncho.?San Francis oe Chronicle. * Maxwell Will Surely Hang-. St. Louis, July 4.?Governor Morehouse was in the city yesterday, and questioned as to his action upon the Maxwell petition for a commutation of the death sentence. The Governor refuses to express himself upon the subject to newspaper men, but to others he said positively that he would not Interfere' with the course of the law. Yesterday the doomed man's mother and sister paid him another visit at the Four Courts. They were much more cheerful in appearance .than on their pre vious visit. Maxwell'si attorney saja that his mother and sister will probably await the result of his argutaent before the Governor on the petition :for clemency before they make a last appeal fS. FRESH MUMMIES FOR ALL. Bill Nye Regrets The Decadence of Real Old Relics. (From the New York World.) Among the many letters of inquiry recieved during the past week is tbi following: "Last year I made a trip abrcard, and among o?ier trophies of my visit to the Old World I secured a fine specimen of a mummy, for which I paid seventyfive scudi. While showing it to a friend last week I discovered that the air of Illinois is detrimental to it and that disintegration is taking place. Can yon tell me what is the cause and what I had better do in order to preserve the specimen intact?" You have no doubt paid at last seventyfour scudi too much for your mummy, as nfammies go. Nothing is more dieheartening than the discovery-that ooe'a mummy is not standing onr harsh American climate. But the chances are that you have the modem style? of mummy, made especially for Americans by the trade. He is not an antique, and before August you will have to decide whether to cast him aside or let him run the house. The genuine mummy' haa been ground up for fertilizing purposes during the past twenty yeairto such an extent that we are running short, and gpurious mummies made of coarse people who have died recently are flooding the market. A friend of mine purchased a varnished king, supposed to be over 2,000 years old, for wnioe he gave lfO ecudi and a silk umbrella. In May of last year he began to assert himself?the . king did?and to enter more and more into the home life of his owner till it was decided to have a coat of shellac put on him. A house, sign and carriage painted came up to the house, and while refitting and refurnishing the royal relics diecovei- " ed on the forearm a dark blue Goddess of liberty in India ink and the legand, "Richard TVfaginnis, Yaipariso, Ind., 1853." A mummy that has to be kepis the refrigerator is a bitter, bitter disappointment, and no doubt yours is of that class. The modern methods of preserving people do not in all cases prove satisfactory, and I do not know of anymAM ifiil s\y ITIAM krimiliflfrnrt 4iiiniig mwo |/nuiu vx Auvnw wiiiniiwiTii^ than while explaining your mammj to a coterie of friends in the' library to have him explode on your hands and and re* veal his true identity. Should diafattgr&tdon continue in the case of your own mummy, a private funeral is the best _ thing I could suggest. Let it be a plain affair, opening with a select reading or recitation, followed by a vocal solo and a a set-to between some good -artisc and i the piano. You could charge a email ! admission fee, perhaps, which would go toward defraying expenses, and close with a parade and torrent of grief at the grave. ' The wanton destruction of mummies , and their wholesale importation to this country were they have been ground up and used as fertilizers, is going to make good mummies scarce and high. When a nation becomes so haughty and exacting that it demands rhubarb pies, stimulated by the gentleman who furnished com to Joseph dursng the dry spell, and expects , to promote its asparagus by means of dead monarchs and thejdust of heirs pre- j&k sumptive to the "throne of Egypt, you ju can safely predict that mumihjee" mnmrniw before snow fiierarajj^rPou can't eat your cake ag^ggepit, too. Neither ca^>^?rkturaotit a mummy in <j?3aiScticut in two days which will take [the place of the real thing* A judge of I those things will tell youat once that the I bouquet is different There is not the aamenut brown flavor and odor of poorly ventilated lineage about the Connecticut made mommy that there is about the Egyptian job. The Egyptianshed a way of oaring their people a good deal the same as our physicians have now, vis ^ by filling them with high priced' drugs. Our physicians, however, begin on a man before he dies, while the Egyptaasujinstead of printing bulletins about, thin people, showing what their respiration and temperature were, and a large amount of sick room gossip, which a man hates to read after he has recovered, just waited around until the gentleman bad been permitted to die quietly in his own way, surrounded by his family, and then they came in and cured him, so that 09 the morning of the resurrection a tooth brush and a Turkish bath would make him look like a new man. The American bison and the Egyptian mummy are fading away. The day will soon come when those who have slaugl> tered whole herds of buffalo for their tongues and fertilized their timothy sod with the dost of dynasties will go hungry. WAtnatr ttiinV that ?n "F.inmtriftTk rtfim AtPrv has no bottom to it and that a true fissure vein of theee^people is practically inexhaustible, but some day the foreman working on lower level will come to the surface and state in hoarse accents that the pay streak has pinched out. .The difference between a gas well, for instance, and a deposit ot emperors, is that the latter is not sfelf-susteining. A gas weil may continue to give down-or give up, as the case may be, for hundreds ox years, but you cannot dig up kings and queens forever. Some day you are certain to dig below their set and strike another strata of society. -Embalming is a process worth of the dark ages. It is expensive, foolish, useless and highly "injurious to the com5lesion. I am bitterly opposed to it. [y own nothing about it is that the man who embalms me will have to climb over my dead body to do so. a rMCACTOAlie milDTU n uign^invwg rwunin> A Grand Stand Falls at Water Valley, 311m., with TenlLIe Results. New Orleans, June 5.?A special from Water Valley, Miss., says: "Our little city, which until noon yesterday was one- continuous round of enjoyment, was in mourning in the evening. The Yallabusha Fire Association had made the usual preparations for their annual Fourth of July meeting, and an immense crowd from the neighboring towns and villages had assemble? to witness the day's sport. At 1 o'clock, when about 400 had taken seats on the grand stand the building gave way and fell with a crash, burying in its ruins men, women and children. Indescribable excitement and confusion followed. Strong men turned pale at the scene; mothers screamed for their lost children, and whole families were pinioned, as it were, in a solid mass under the debris. Those who were so fortunate as to be on the outside rushed to the lescue and in a short time the imprisoned victims were released. Something near fifty people were taken out with broken arms and limbs, bruised bodies and almost every conceivable wound; hut it sn hftnihened that no one was killed outright. At this time it is impossible to give a list of the wounded, some of whom it is thought cannot live. One member of the band had an arm broken, another a leg broken and a third was slightly wounded. An Electric Storm in Iowa. Mason City, Iowa, July 5.?A very heavy storm swjept over the north part of this county yesterday. Corn h&lds were levelled, a number of houses were unroofed and small grain was badly damaged, fiain and wind were accompanied by the heaviest electric storm known bere for years. Many horses and cattle in pastures stsnding near fences were killed* Ok. 4 I