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V Though* is<le?per 'han si! i speech, Frelin-,: <li'ej-ei th*!i all thought; Souls to j- us can n. vt-r teach What unto themselves was taught. We a^e s(. ri s eUd in veils. Man l-\ nun was n?-v??r -e. n; jil! our dt?*p Communing fails To remove the shadowv screen. I Heart to heart 'was never known, Mind with mind did never meet; We are columns left alone Of a temple once complete. Like the stars that gem the sky, Far apart, though seeming near, In our light we scattered lie, Al! is thus but starlight here. What is social company But a babbling summer stream? What our wise philosophy But the glancing of a dream? Only when the son of love Melts the scattered stars of thenght; Only when we live above What the dim-eyed world hath taught; Only when our souls are fed By the Fount which gave them birth And by inspiration led Which they never drew from earth. We, like parted drops of rain. Swelling until they meet and run. Shall all be absorbed again Melting, flowing into oae. A ROMANCE OF I TWO BROTHERS, j BY EDGAK FAYTCETT. Author of "The Confession of Claud" "The Evil That Men Do." "A New York Family," Etc. [Copyrighted by the Author.J "The doctor whom I called in couldn't i quite grasp her case, he said. She had grown quieter by the time he saw her. 1 She had yielded to my persuasions and j my servant's, and had let us put her to bed. The doctor gave her some sort of ^ soothing medicine, and left her. That night I was very nervous and hardly slept a wink. The next day she seemed a good deal better until afternoon, when she began to have the same hallucination about you, and begged me to lock the doors of the bedroom and put the keys in my pocket. But I had no sooner done \ f this than she began to shake with fear j K that you might be hidden somewhere in j K the room itself, with the flask of white L poison?it was always the flask of white poison. . - I obeyed this second ^c/iiiia. She had never been at all T'" iroient that day. and later, when the doctor came, she produced in both him \ and myself the belief that she was now truly on the verge of a marked change for the better. He encouraged me, and ! said he had given her something to make her pass a tranquil night. (Oh, I've never felt till now, with all my respect for the wonders of science, what guess-work, what empiricism, is the craft of all physicians, and how there's nothing certain about them except when they're surgeons, though surgery may kill as often as it cures!) . . . By eight o'clock that evening?last Wednesday evening, it was?she had fallen into a very placid sleep. I was dreadfully tired, and lay down in my own room, so near hers that I believed the least call from her could wake me. But I must have slept very heavily indeed, and I certainly slept much longer ?v. than I had expected. When, with a guilty kind of start-, I watered, my first impulse was to seek her room." Here Mrs. Calderly rose, and again clasped her hands, this time with supplicating fervor. "I?I didn't find her L there. Sylvan! She'd risen and someI how dressed herself (for certain of her clothes were missing) and she'd gone from the house." "Gone from the house! And you've not heard of her since?" He hurried up to Mrs. Calderly and grasped the wretched little lady's wrist, ' This happened last Wednesday night, -> ? and since then you've had no news of her?none?" "None." 4'And you dare to say it?you dare to say it!" The sorrow in Sylvans face was strongly mixed with wrath. "All this time you never sent for me? All this time!" "I'd spoken to the police. It was only about an hour ago that they T\wvii nrl-i4- r li a rl nr\+. Ti i"f. I upon the least clue, and doubted if they could ever reach one. I wanted to spare you as long as I could, Sylvan ?" lie shot into her speech a laugh that was replete with mockery. "Ah," he cried, as he fell rather than sank into the chair he had quitted, "you've certainly spared me all along! I ought to feel overburdened with gratitude for the mercy you've shown me!" CHAPTER IXOn a certain afternoon Gerald woke I to the conviction that he had been treating his brother shamefully. But the blunt truth was simply that he had been forgetting all this while, if such a person as Sylvan Maynard were in existence. His thoughts would not dwell for longer than a brief space on any subject save one. This woman whom he had brought back from death haunted hkn always, with her bronze11J Viov /tori- aws tinced bv V1V1TU i.U?, aJW ... ?J 0 i|||L flickers of tawny light. He found BKKH himself clothing the whole incident .of B8W& her rescue from death in colors of pic|IL torial appeal. He imagined her draBHjHH^poncd figure standing on the threshold |P?==?-^!fb whose inky back-ground gg^ymbolized death itself, while she ?gg|||^^^ stretched forth a glad hand to the lamp he bore, and caught its rays upon her i|?jj^ kindling eyes and parting lips. He would have liked to be an artist, if just for a short- interval, and paint this pic|j|gg& ture. He felt the desire to paint it grow jjiig all the keener when he was first admit rtcd to the chamber where sue sat. Mrs. Brawne had been very kind to her, but if Gerald had given a closer glance intotlje^face of his landlady he might tar^enotcd that the serene stolidity there was touched by an expression as of restrained anxiety. For Mrs. Brawne had not been by any means dull enough to fail of seeing a wildly improper glare about certain recent occurrences in her establishment. What means had l>een used for continuing the former current oj^ier complaisance Gerald d never thought to asK ford Clyde migrht easily u and bank-notes would terms, as it were, of such But Gerald, who had air, was in no state for s of effect from cause, elief that when they met 2T after their fateful exilic elixir, she on whom ? wnnlrl i JB it/ UiUi ativvt % quite have recovered her lost remem?rw brance of the past. It jrave him a sharp shock to find that this was by no means * the case. \ '"Still," she said to. him, "all is a blank." lie seated himself beside her, and for a long time they talked together as though nothing strange had occurred. Ilcr sadness now and then k frave way to a transient mirth; it was jggfo* iike the parting of mists and the glimps- !' V2* of blue heaven behind them. But ho mists of oblivion were more stub rn; these would not divide. Meiuivliile they spoke of books that both i ad road, of poetry, music, art. A new ; and peculiar feeling began to steal over lerald. It was like a sense of pos essorship. proprietorship. Death had given him this charming' woman for his , very own. Sho had been; she was now once more, newh*, and for him?altogether for him! This meant the reward I of his labors. He nau aone ner xxie i i service of bringing her back to life, and j | hi surrendering" her death did so royal! ly. as all kings should do. That afternoon he said to Clyde, when the latter came and before he had seen ! her: "You will tind Perdita quiet and i in a way contented." ' Perdita?" queried Clyde. "You know j I her name then?" "1 call her that in my thoughts, for want of another name.' | "Oh! really." "Indeed. 1 have confessed to her that j I call her so, and asked permission to | address her by this name whenever we j now meet." "Is it possible?" returned Clyde, with j much dryness. "All ?>f which means. I suppose, that the lady still recollects nothing1." ' Nothing-," said Gerald, soberly. On a sudden he brightened and went on: "In one sense she recollects a great deal. It is simply the question of rcho she teas that escapes her. Otherwise she is full of the most refined past influences, reminiscences, associations. Oh! my dear Clyde, you have but to know her and the charm of her presence will penetrate you completely." Clyde pulled at his mustache for an inrfint anrl lnnlr<vl down. "I think I'd rather not be penetrated quite as completely as yourself," he said, still with the same dryness. Gerald drew himself up somewhat haughtily. "What do you mean?" he | asked. "Mean? Why, my dear Gerald, that you've lost your head over 'Perdita,' firy ^p^f] tfSfj "STILL," SHE SAID TO HIST, "ALL 13 A BLANK." I as yon call her with such romantic felicity." "Lost my head? Nonsense. I?" "You're gone, my dear boy?fatally gone. Don't glare at me. It's no use. Cholera sometimes will howl a man over just as suddenly?or sun-stroke. But I imagined love didn't. It hasn't me?m m?I'll go and see our patient." He went to Perdita's room with the idea that perhaps Gerald had fallen a ; victim to the trap set by some shrewd adventuress. After all, those men wnom ne nza onoea to cneat tne morgue of its lawful flotsam, and jetsam ?how did he know of what deceit they were capable? They were fellows of no special character, those night-river prowlers. "Why might they not?? But he tried to strangle these new suspicions at their birth, and went into the chamber where Gerald's enchantress reclined, beautiful past all doubt, and with a look of wistful worriment in her shadowy eyes that seemed to reproach him for the distrust she had unconsciously roused. From the standpoint of-the physician Clyde was disappointed in her state. Gerald had described it as wholly healthful except for her failure trt recall the facts which intimately concerned her identity, and here it soon struck his friend that Gerald had judged most ill. The pulse was feeble and spasmodic, implying a threat of heart failure; the repose of manner was induced more by exhaustion than wholesome sense of rest. In a little while Clyde had assured himself that the desertion of memory, however remarkable, could not be assumed. He detected no further signs of the intense dread and gloom which he had noticed in her on the previous night. But this half mournful indifference, touched by little flashes of good spirits, i bore with it no hopeful augury. ; "She seems to be living an artificial life," he thought. "Good heavens, what if the drug I was awkward enough to spill last evening were still breeding in her brain and body a kind of spurious vitality which may soon lose its force and leave collapse behind it, such collapse ending again in a reversion co former conditions?which would, mean death? Gerald's father had iie'ver really exploited the elixir i1!- which he so firmly believed. The plant which in his letter he clairns to have seen briefly "U?,+ Kv roAnnQ rvf the fluid ruay merely have appeared thus in a dream of his half-delirious mind; for-fce confesses that he was ill and ^uffciring: at the time the phenomenon 1 dawned upon him. Of this I now feel r certain: the elixir is a very potent ! stimulant. In the first place, did it ' 1? V.>-" -r\ rr 4- Vi i C ivAm^n 'hnf.lv to life? I And in the second place, if it did so bring- her back to life, will its effects prove lasting? Are they not. judged by this hypothesis, effects curiously incomplete?" Aloud he said to his patient: "You are very composed, I see. You are quite willing to remain here, are you not, and wait quietly until your memory returns to you?" "Yes." she replied. "It is peaceful and pleasant here in this pretty room. I am not happy when I try to think. At Srst I found it hard not to try. But now I do not find it so hard. I simply let myself rest. It is easier to do that than I supposed it would be. And it is very agreeable." cu v 1 /J r\ Vml-T-crmlr* Oiitr KMUVU r.* "iui her pillowed chair. Clyde vratehed her, for a moment, in liis physician's way of not seeming- to watch. Presently he said: "You have no desire to see any of your former friends?" "Friends?" came her slow response. "I did not know that I had any. Have I?" "Xo doubt. I can't tell you who they lint >iavf? vmi no surnrise at beinc here, in these surroundings?" "No." "Do they not seem strange to you?"" "Strange? No. They seem quite familiar." "Have you no desire to learn how you came here?" She appeared to muse, and whisperingly repeated the words "came here." three or four times. Then suddenly her XUCt? gTCW aiucu ami ?? V/ A*, I must always liave been here, must I not?" she faltered. ''That handsome young' gentleman who sat beside me this morning?perhaps he knows all about it. He seems so clever and so kind. I will ask him. He will tell jpe, I am sure." ' Mr. Mayuard, you mean?" 'Maynnrd?" she repeated, ium! made a j gesture with one hand rus thnivjh she j would lift it to her brow. L<ut the i:? ;;t ! instant she Jet it fall again. "Was that ; his name?" ITer eyes kindled. "Oh, so much! He is charming. I wish he would ecme to me again. I do so like to hear him talk ?to have him here at my side!'' "There's a bit of candor." Clyde reflected, "that would feed the fuel of poor Gerald's love-sick madness if he heard it!" Before leaving the house that afternoon he said to Gerald: "She has no | wedding-ring. Did you observe that'?"' "Yes. yes," was the eager reply. "Her lovely white ringless hands did not escape my notice. How could they? - - n. ! And l wus ^xau? see the wedding-sign absent." Clyde stared at him. ''My dear fellow," he broke forth, "what are you saying?" 4'Only what I mean, Clyde. Ah, you don't lcnow the power with which that exquisite creature has taken hold of me!" "You seem determined that I shall realize it," said Clyde, with more grimness than his blithesome mien had shown in many a daj\ That night he wrote a long and somewhat anxious letter to his friend, Ross Thorndyke, in Chicago. He disclosed ' * * ~ ? 4. ~ o f f tne enure lncumm, w ucjoiuo with the elixir. He refrained, however, from admitting- his own active share in the weird enterprise and the secret coni viction which had beset him that a robbery might have been committed by the men whose services he had secretly and not wisely secured. 'This whole affair," he finished, "has told in the oddest way on Gerald. What will you say when I add that he shows every symptom of I - ?*^ rr ccinn -fnr t,"hft I [ 3, VlUiCli 0 cillu. J.1VJC4U~LVJ-L^ j/uvs??vM - j truly lovely woman whom he believes himself to have snatched from death, i It sounds incredible, I know; but if you could only come on here and observe him you would be almost stunned, as I am, by his rapid and yet radical change." ; Fate, for all they may claim who in1 sist on the detached and zigzag modes of her workings, now and then helps to construct what we call drama with a terrible skill. Clyde's letter, which in ordinary circumstances would have summoned Thorndyke promptly to New York, reached him but a single day before the breaking-out of that huge and disastrous lire whose ravages flutur in ruin almost all there was of Chicago ex cept her matchless fortitude and thrift. Naturally Thorn dyke did not come on to New York. Gerald, as we know, remained for several days in mental turmoil. At last he went to see his brother, but went with the fixed determination to keep silence regarding1 all that lately had passed. Had he not deemed it far more prudent to tell Sylvan noth1 Lug with respect to his chemical efforts? The elixir had surely wrought pain enough with his brother as affairs now stood. And to inform him of these recent almost lurid happenings!?would it not be like a new fret given a wound that was already fraught with ache? "If I ever make Perdita my wife," i Gerald meditated, just before he rang the bell at his brother's door, "I will of 1^.4. 1,,'m L-noitr rr>v intent. I>llt | WU1J>C mm mmv >? ? j more than this he >eed never learn. lie would hold-it- a gross impiety, no doubt, for me to have thwarted what he deems the sacred laws of death. If Pcrdita never recalls her name and her past, I shall invent both for her (why not?) when she becomcs actually my own." All of which introspective mood plainly betoken just that curious madness which Clyde had endeavored to portray in the letter he had sent Thorndyke. Poor Gerald had drunken of no , palpable elixir, yet that which he bemiraeulouslv to have | composed had proved a true love-poi tion, forceful as any which legend would have us accept in its records of the classic or mediaeval philtres. There are many kinds of sane madness under the visiting1 moon. His tinted the autumn air with illusive rose and charged his young- spirit with a divine sort of inebriety that was, after all, slight matter for surprise. His father's bequest had in the first place addressed imagination like a voice at once clarion and persuasive. Then had come the intensity and severity of effort and search. Afterward, to a soul fired by enthusiasm and hope, had dawned, in fair, palpable, feminine shape, that victory which at times had seemed remote from his reach as its outmost planet from the sun. The grace and n-"hrun "he had chosen fan UCilliUJ Vi cifully to call Perdita were sponsors of a passion whose birth environment richly aided. They were like just that needful stage of twilight which lures the inevitable star. Xo sooner had Gerald met his brother than the air grew ungenial and harsh. Sylvan looked ill but had the manner of one who will play invalid no longer, cost what it may. "I do so hope you'll pardon my stay ing away from you all this time," saia I o'Cfaia- - ?&?- the truth is, I have had | a dreadful cold, witfxRevere attacks of i headache" (he wondere(14?,hc were not I blushing- at his own desperate" 1*? as he j spoke it) "and so . . . have been [ . . a . . . prevented from coip; ing. But I'm glad enough to find you" | up 'n' about. You've not left the house >5 T | SU1CC, J. f "Yes." replied Sylvan, shortly, "I've , been out several times." A grim smile crept along the pale curve of his lips. "I've had something to take me out. I ' was right as to that devilish Calderly woman." And then he went On to recount just what had been disclosed by Lueia's aunt. i "It's a most unhappy thing," said Gerald, guiltily conscious of the coldness with which he hud listened?of the absorption which vetoed and blighted his proper sympathy. "And so at last you have sought the aid of detectives?" ''Yes. And in a way these tidings have done me good. I mean physically and mentally both. The mind has a definite purpose to carry out, the body is spu: red into aiding it. I realize now that the accursed manuscript our father willed to me drove poor Lucia insane. I've no longer a shadow of ill-feeling1 against her; I've nothing but pity toward her, blent with an enormous desire to discover the poor child's whereabouts." "I can understand that.'' said Gerald. "I can understand it only too well!" An/i TVfinnp nthfr desire." oursued Sylvan, with knit brows and almost a savage accent: "To destroy both the manuscript and the letter." "Destroy them!"' exclaimed Gerald. ''Yes. Gall it superstition if you will. Xo doubt it :'.s. 3 Jut I want to see the devilish papers really burned, as I once +i~> Vmm fhpm before mv I'i V. C \. XiUV.U wv ?- v wife's eves. Then they can breed no further trouble. Give them to me. I should have sent to you for them this very clay if you hadn't come here. I dream of them in what sleep I am able to get?of them and of Iter. Give them to me." He held out one hand, rising and ap-. proaching his brother. Gerald, still seated, stared up at him for a few seconds. Then, while swiftly reflecting that he could not remember by any possibility the complicated and abstruse ' formula if the sheets w.\ich contained it were lost, he let a ne~vous laugh leave his lips and answered:% "I haven't them here. I uont carry them about with me._ Why -should I?" "lint you'll get them?send them? ! bring- them, perhaps; and at once?" r- ...1,1 u;* v.5d I5r\ Innu" ncra." "rl "i" r- -o-. j he said, **you thought it would be a 1 desecration, a blasphemy, to destroy tliem.*' "I did?yes. But I think this no long- j cr. I want the whole testimony of our j parent's foolish endeavor swept into nothingness." "You call it a foolish endeavor!" broke from Gerald as he in turn rose. "You're wrong- in that?absolutely wrong-!" He spoke with heat, though not yet in anger. It was in anger, however, that Sylvan replied: "Come, now, Gerald, doa3 I or cler. uet taose papers immcuiawij? before you hare time to copy them, I mean. If you have them not with you, procure them." "This is plain speaking-, upon my word, Sylvan." "I mean it to be. The manuscript is mine." "You gave it to me,11 affirmed Ger aid. "For a time." "For all time?if I chose to consider it in that 1 ight. You said nothing' about my returning you the envelope. You simply placed it in my hands, and? " "Tush:" broke in Sylvan. "I was half out of my head when I took that coursc. I'm sane enough now to reconsider it." "Pardon me," said Gerald, in his throat. "You are not sane at all to think of destroying it, and I refuse to give It JOU DaCK lor SUCX1 a. purpose. Sylvan scowled and clenched his hands. "Bah! you must! You must, and you shall!" "I refuse." "Then you commit an outrage!" cried Sylvan. "You rob me shamefully!" He flung himself back into the chair he had quitted, and for a moment bowed ms iacc toward ootn ms vrcuiuuug hands. "Our mother was right!'' he suddenly shouted, again springingerect. "God was against all that bad business! I never felt it as I feel it now. But you don't feel it?you!" he went on, in scathing wrath. "You're an atheist?you've been one for years! You call it agnostic, free-thinker, rationalist and such facile, convenient names. But 'atheist' is behind them alL Come, now, Gerald, if you refuse to give me back those papers, that in turn I may fling them back !.!? i mK "TT-T" CCT att. TTWVfEFO'RTH BE STRANGERS." among: the powers of evil where they belong', I?I shall never willingly speak to you or notice you again." Gerald measured his brother's frame w?lth kindled and contemptuous eyes. "Then we separate from this hour," he said. '"I will not give the papers back. "I despise in you the spirit that makes you seek to burn them, and I gladly agree that we shall henceforth be strangers. Furious, he dashed himself out of Sylvan's house. Doubtless at any previous period of his life he would ha*e remembered with pity that illness had 1--r>"f }"l 1Q T*Js periittjja iaiu cvw *ww ^^ ?? _ arrogant claim. But now lie quickly forgot even the fact of their quarrel. It was so easy for his infatuated mind and heart to forget every thing1 except the new devotion which now mastered both. A month, two months, passed for him like the lapse of a week. He received three or four kind letters from Thorndyke, telling- of the frightful fire and his own extraordinary financial escape from disaster which had beggered not a Two nf tli? iUW UX IXio iwnv/.T ~ letters inclosed drafts, which Gerald cashed in New York, scarcely having a grateful thought, as he did so, with regard to the kindly motive that prompted their conveyance. At another time he would have written his protector pages of thankful response. But now he wrote only brief if cordial notes, all sense of duty "being vailed for him in vapors of heedless egoism. He incessantly saw the woman he loved, and incessantly told himself that she grew dearer to him after each fresh interview. He had become iealous of the possibility that she would ever regain her memory. He preferred her just as she was, and had no realization of the reckless outlook on his own future? which he betrayed when declaring to Ch'de: ilEven if she had really been some other man's wife my marriage with her would now seem to me wholly sacred. Death took her, and in dying all the worldly bonds that she had formed were nullified. Death gave her back to me, new-born, a second and pSXhaps a finer self. If she had sinned some ii^rk sin during- her former life, I should nevtT.dream of not pardoning it. I feel that sif6^jp soon consent to marry me. Almost^Tfi^ediately, then, we shall be made one. He! health is frail, and I will take her into ttie West, where Dr. TJborndyKe, ever kihu io me,? will welcome us." (T# bti continued.) Electropolse. Why suffer with sickness or disease when you can be so easily and quickly it. cured witnout meaiciue d> iuc use wj the Electropoise. This is what Mrs. Sallie Chapiu has to say about it: Mrs. Saliie F. 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Moore, JD. D., ?f Florida, 1 and others, whom 1 personally knovr 1 and who have been benefited, I feel It \ a duty I owe suffering humanity to i say, try the Electropoise. A 40 page book, describing treatment ald col taiciog testimonials from i all sections* and for the cure of all (lis- j eases, Kailed free on application. Ad- . dress. i ATLANTIC ELECTROPOISE CO., ; 222 King St., Charleston, S. C. , 1 i tmtt r\T J T1i\TT PI) lh\l li> A DUILLIi. AN ENGINEER'S TEHRIS..E SA83ATH DAY EXPERIENCE. JtiiiC!n? t r li.sl?Y Went Into the Koil?*r to 3IaI<e Some Kfpair.t-Gat Fastened a>:d Spent Nearly a Day Expecting That the Fire "W-juIiI be Lighted. Cincinnati, Feb 15.?Sunday morning Engineer]-'. W.HisIey, crawled into a boiler. Sunday Dight he crawled out. It was a bright, active man mat entered the giim mouth of the hi* iron cylinder. It was a feeble, broken, nerveless creature that emerged to jight again after *n experience such as turns men's hair gray in an hour and sh-ttter3 their constitutions for life. That Mr. Risley is ahve today is due both to his presence of mind and the endurence of his sinewy frame. Death had stared him in t.hp face for hours that seemed like interminable days to him. Mr. Risley is employed as engineer in the factory of Nathan Drucker & Co., trunk and valise manufacturers. Sunday the establishment was solitary, and Mr. llisley took advantage of th<: opportunity to clean out the big boiler In the basement. lie went alone He usually took a candle into the boiler, but could find none on this morning, and he lit a lamp, which he placed in such a position that its bright ravs ilickered down - ? ** J u; rvu tbrougn tne gloomy nues uuua ?ui?u he was to pass. Opening the manhole in the end, Mr. Ilisley had soon wormed his way to the farthest end of the passage into which he ventured. Water was standing several inches deep in the bottom of the boiler, having dripped down from above, and the engineer was chilled to the bone. But he cared little for that expecting to " "moin hnf. a. tpiv minutes. He finished hli work and started to return. It occurred to him that he might avoid theicy water better if he turned around and sought egress head first. Narrow as the passage was, he had accomplished this feat more than once before and he anticipated no diffic<tityin repeating it. Slowly he turned. Closing his limbs together like the blades of a knife and bringing his knees aziwnst his chin. He succeeded in turnj^kjtflf ?7ay. around when he 1'ouuJ^HBfe could go no farther.. ilr. Kisley made vigorodSH complete the turn, but. in vainP^| he conc'udfd to resume his originai^^ sitioti and back out,but to his horror he found that he could not move. He had become fixed in this strained position he occupied, and his attempts to move only made matters worse. For a quarter of an hour the engineer worked to free himself, while the perspiration poured from him in spite of the chill the water had produced. Then the a^ful reality of his predicament dawned upon him for the first time and almost drove his -JTcrav Tip was fastened, with gvugto t* ?r ^ ? , out hope of free lom, in a space hardly large enough for his body. The pitiless iron bore down on his head above and seemed to be acquiring the weight of a thousand hundredweight. The faint gleatn of the lamp above illuminated the darkness of the engine room and th* blacker night of the boiler's interior. His position forced the blood to his bent head. Mr. liisley did not not know how long he could stand the strain. Before the morning, however, when the factory would re sume its lift.*, he would be unconscious and the manhole would beshut,thelires lighted aod he would awake, if he awoke at all, to be roasted alive before it would be possible to extricate him. FiJlea with the horror of his position, the engineer shouted for help, but his voice was smothered in the deptns of his prison. He found, too, that he could not exercise nis vucai powers with effect, as bis ch*st was pressed against his knees so tightly that he c?uld hardly t>reatiit\ Mr. llisley collected his senses and resolved to" husband bis strength, and, above all, to keep cool. He knew that to remain where he was until the next day, cramped In the icy water, would be fatal, and he went to work carefully to extricate himself. Xo words could descr'L - the sufferings of Mr. Misley during that Sabbath. Noon came, and he thought it must already benight. Then the long, long at'- , ternoon. The lamp paled, aud with a final splutter went out altogether. The captive felt himself growing weaker. His body was half frozen as it lay in the water. He had spent the long hours in desperate attempts at freedom, alteri? * ? Af r?/-\CTT-ioiri r\ CV racf I II3I-6Q uy lUUg pcJ luuo \jl u.wpwiuip iv wv* Thoughts of his wife and three little children came to his frenzied brain. The flues seemed pressing slowly upon him on all sides, like the famous "iron bride" of the days of torture. After nightfall, by some happy chance, the engineer unlocked his cramped limbs. How he did it he does not know. Half crazed by his terrible experience, he struggled madly for escape. Beaching the air outside he sank to the ground and lay exhausted for an hour before he was able to go home. Mason Cotton Harve?ter>). Sumter, S. C., Feb. 4.?A number of Mason cotton harvesters were manufactured for the last crop and were sold to banters in Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas. The machines worked so successfully that ihe company received orders lor a number of new machines from the same parties. The harvesters have been manufactured at the agricultural machine works, owned by the late James Richardson, the great Mississippi cotton planter, but owing to his death a short time aao, the works have been closed, and the company have been compelled to make other arrangements for the manufacture of the harvesters. v Just previous to the reccnt illness of I Mr.'C. -!! Mason, Jr., the company had authorizerft.iCJ to fit up the shop and obtain workmenffGI? the North to manufacture the harvester here. Owing to Mr. Mason's illness nothing, has been done yet; but it is expected thaf>aCl??2:eruents will be perfected in a shoj?Th?e and the shop hen: will be runni^j fulb time turning out the harvester. Dur^iai j ob JU? ?? Lewiedale, S. C., Feb. 5.?Wade Leapheart's store was broken open and robbed last night of goods to the amount of 8200 or more. Among the articles 3tolen were one t'vans twen'y-six shooter rifle, one double-barreled shotgun, watches aod jewelry, dry goods, notions and many or,her things. A liberal reward will be paid for any in for mation.?State. liurnod to Deuth. Louisville, Kt., Feb. 5? Fire at 4 A. M. destroyed the Central tobacco ware house. Capt. W. E. Edwards, who was sleeping in the building, mis burned to death. Loss, 825,000. Capt. Edwards was the senior member of Edward -% Barnard ?fc Co., who owned ihe ware house. His body was found just mside the front door. Swamped. Beaufort, N. C., Feb. 11.?The ?1. \ir<ii.Q Pont'jin Vptrcnmp i )CUUUli^"l ?? ft > rt vuj/ywiu at v" w*?vj . t)Ound for Norfolk with a load of oysters, was swamped in Pamlico Sound and Lhe crew lost. About fifteen feet of the vessel's uiasti3 out of water. The Cap:ain was from New Jersey. lie leaves i widow and one child. The mate, 55. D. Parsons, belonged here. Blaine Denies a Story, Washington, D. C., Feb. 10.?Secretary .Blaine's attention was called :his mornins to a story telegraphed from Washington last night nod printed, in some papers to-day that he will shortly retire from the cabinet. Mr. Blaine promptly and emphatically said: 'The story is false. There is not a word of truth in it." STOLE 0\.?R A MILLION. ; JItraphls Cort<-? ;,ierchar.t3 Kan 4-way ' Alter D^-audins: Customer*. Mkmi'iiis. ^Vd. .j.?.Jones Brothers &!. Co. w-rea vet-K a ro anion ; the best; i i known ami m(^ extensive cotton buy | , ers in tue Missis^, Vallev, their purj cbases ranging r^m 50,000 to ICO,000 | bales a sea.^00. Toa^w they ata supposed to be somewhere imfeaOM!^?repar- < ing to enjoy t fortuntM^Hr^ff onBdence" methods in busii^HE < Their correspondents ^ rgL^ Und : i Havre are short iust abc^Py^ <n'ount 1 ! of their ill-gotten gainsTy^e were ; until recently two kindr?<jgrms con trolled by Walter j. and f^cnard J. j Jones Brothers & Uo., and Jonfe,Mothers & Fleer, the former buying i'c^ SpjD. ners and the latter for foreign acWnti They did business in Memphis, %ew' Orleans, Tupelo, Miss., and Xe\v]5grt Ark. ' Six weeks ago. 'he Jones Brot^ers and their partner. Sinney J.Fleet, ?ent to New Orleans, chartered three sai jDg ships and loaded them with cotton f0r Bremen acd Havre, the shipments ag_ gre^atin/ over 15.0U0 bales. They drew exchange on the bills 0f lading: in the usual way and got money for the cotton from New Orlea.ls banks. The drafts were drawn on tlje basis of the price of middling cottcn that being the grade specified in t?,e bills of lading. The amount tnus resj. ized by the operators was scarcely Ies= than $500,COO*. The drafts were honored on the other side, and so the New Orleans banks will loose nothing. The first of the ships sailed early in January and the first of the three is now due at Havre. The Jone3 brothers returned to Memphis and boasted that the7 had made $50,000 by a decline in Xew Orleans, and Walter exhibited a roll of bills amounting to over $10,000 in proof of the assertion. They also claimed to be $100,000 ahead on their transactioDs in futures during the present season. Ten days a?o the firm of Jones Bros. & Fleet was dissolved, Fleet retiring and returning to .New York, and the business of both houses was consolidated under the na tip of Jones Bros. & Co. The first hint of trouble came last Saturday. Hirsch Brosrr cottoi^?i tors, attachc-d 400 bales' oFcs longing to Jones Bros. & Go.,/* ^ r>.itr -nont /\f nirarHi-nftr. IflH 1?, n to be r? marked thaj^to^dyiiad sten either of the J orie^sbont to wn since thepreeeedi^OBaS^y. Monday came and still P^femaiced invisible. ^Alarge proportion of the 15,000 bales shipped to Europe in the chartered vessels as middling was, in reality, cotton worth from one cent to three cents a pound less than that grade. Those who are in a position to know estimate the amount that the brothers have got away with to be, at least SI,000,000 or 81,500,000. COTTON FACTS AND FIGURES. Farntubeil by the National Department . of Agriculture. i "Washington, Feb. 10?The February cotton report of the statistician of the Department of Agriculture relates to the proportion marketed, qual | yifciu 01 nut, uiuac ui pitrnug ocaouu, | losses by insects aod price of seed. The proportions sent from plantations as estimated by reporters and accurately consolidated is as follows: Virginia SO, North Carolina 82, South Carolina 90, Georgia 92. Florida 92, Alabama 91, Mississippi 88, Louisiana 87, Texas 86, Arkansas 88, Tennessee 99, Missouri 88; general average 88.3 per cent. Returns of comparisons with the crop of last year are: Virginia 78, North Carolina 79, South Carolina 82, Georgia 85, Florida 94, Alabama 92, Mississippi Q/*. T.miiaigriti Q<1 TV-vac 107 Arkansas 90, Tennessee 94, Missouri,etc., 90; general average 94.3 per cent. The returns are remarkably consistent, as their indicated results vary by less than 1 per cent., indicating a crop about 500,000 bales short of 1890. The October reports of the two years make an almost identical difference. These results are submitted without comment. The estimated average time of close of picking is by States; Virginia, December 11; North Carolina, Dec. 10; South Carolina, Dec. 8; Georgia, Dec. 4; Florida, November 20; Alabama, Dec. 2; Mississippi, Dec. 10; .Louisiana, Dec. 12; Texas, Dec. 4; Arkansas, Dec. 12; Tennessee, Dec. 12; Missouri, Dec. 13. The quality is the highest for many years; staple medium, or somewhat short; color excellent, and unusually free from trash. The low price of cotton and disappointment in money returns have led. to a large saie of seed to oil mills at prices somewhat reduced, as folJows: Virginia 14 cents per bushel; North Carolina 14; South Carolina 14.5; Georgia 14 5; Florida 14; Alabama 13; Mississippi 12; Louisiana 11; Arkansas 11; Tennessee 13; Missouri, etc., 11. On the Atlantic coast the larger uss of seed for fertilization makes a rela I uveiy mgu price. Losses from insects were not very serious, and weie mainly confined to the Gulf coast States. The boll worm ; was nearly as destructive as the caterpillar. The People's Partvln Congress. Washington, Feb. 4.?Tbe People's parly of the House of Kepresentatives is an intact political organization and united as to party measured which it is to press upon tbe two houies of the Fifty second Congress. In a caucus which met before the organization of tbe House and nominated^ Representative Watson of Georgia as candidate ot the People's party for Speaker of ijje I House the nine independent Representatives. then assembled, decided to preserve their political autonomy on all questions to the end of the session. Within the past few days various reports ot allesred dissension m the ranks of the nine People's party Representatives have been current, and the third party men to-night compliin that these rumors have been inspired by politicians oHv&er pari ies and telegraphed to the partisarTl)>??s throughout the country purely for poiTuSri To silence these insidious rumors in their>*TS??P^PD nine regular Representatives olTWri Peode's uartv to-day issued the follow- j ing address to the country: "To .-orrect an erroneous account which has appeared in the public prints in reference to dissensions in the ranks of Alliance Congressmen, we make the following statement: "At no meeting of Alliance members of Congress was any motion or suggestion made that they should join the Democratic party or cast their .ot.wiih it. A disagreement occurred because certain of the Alliance Congressmen thought that the contest should be made through the old parties and others thought that independent political action was necessary. There has been no split between the People's party Representatives. We aie uiited now as we were at the opening ot Congress. We hold our conferences as we did at the opening of thn, session and they are harmonious. The only dissension that has come amon^ Alliance members came when we had conferences with Congressmen who adhere to old party lines. [Sinuned]?"Tims. E. Watson, W. A. i ilcKei^han. John (Jr. <.'tis, K. Halverson, O- M. Kem, Jerry Simpson, John Diivls. William Baker. K. H.TJIorer." President Beers, of the Xew York Life Insurance Company, has been retired on a salary of S25,00b per annum, We would be willing to retire from our position on a much smaller pension} thantnat. j A Dastardly Attempt. Pittsburg, Pa., TV\ 8 ? The Woo's j Ullii carta u?- i^r, ??41.s , :^n board thirteen <> ' lb-- nes? . ! af the cotopauy. v. a3 ?rt-ck c:i ver Av?i:ie a? 1:30 i!:is ;r:urai:; !<y ; Lhe explosion of a carir: : which had Inn p-'jicrU un ;' ?? rr :< :<. ! The explosion ut: a h-> car -x.i ; passing the Mancntsitr ioct-roohvf ( wuins, <xuu iuvu^i tut. h : ...?? . so severe that ihe car was thrown from j the tracks and badly wrecked ar:?l windows shattered in a*;l the houses -n the side of the street nearest the 'rack over which the c.ir was running', not one peason was seriously hurt. No doubt the intention was to kill tiv I new men. Some days a^o threats were made and some of th<- stnkii:^ employees say they have b; en invited t par-1 ticipate in ad\namite plct, bill the strikers and their friends have been quiet for several da>s ai-u it ?.v;:s though' they had abandoned '.he light and that all trouble was over. A Ktl!rr Killed. Little Rock. Aiik., Frb. 4 ?Partic- j ularshave been received here of the kill- i ing of .James Odein by asherili"* p"S-e near Morrill Station. Last Friday 0-iem, who lives in West Carroll parish, \ve;:? to Portland. Ark., and wantonly killer! , two nejrroes. J. Prie.-ter and ,)o:-.n Evan?. The murderer made ^oydes cape. Thf sheriff with :? posse pursued Odem and found him Mocf!:;y i:i the woods near Morrill Staticn. He re fflWW! Ulliil1 fliftL oiiicars The lire was returned, a&d dead. Padgett Pais tie FMtl I A Great Oefek teat mat not AgaisS be Repeated, eo do sot delay, 4 "Strike Weile the Iron is Hex." | Write for Catalogue now, and say wha.i? paper you saw this advertisement in. g |jw>aieniber tnat I seiieverytningtnaia gees to furnishing a home?manufacture ing some things and buying others in the^ largest possible lets, which enables me tc3 wipe out ail competition HERE ARE A FEW OF 31Y START-1 LING BARGAINS A No. TFlat tooCaoking Stove, fuiig i^?Sfe?13xl3 men fcuTinch top, at * ed with 21 pieces cf ware, for THIK-p ,'EEN DOLLARS, and pay tiie Ireigfct &;?' our depot. " > >0 NOT TAT TWO PRICES YGR3 YOUR GOODS. | I will send you a nice plush Parlor suit J ralnut frame, either In combination o:fe aided, the most stylish, colors lor 33.5U,g your jailroad station, freignt pa;d. g I will also sell you a nice Bedromos m:? j insisting of Bureau with gla=s, l iug.';? ead Bedstead, 1 Wa^hstand, l Centred ifele, i cane seat chairs, l cane seat anas aek rocker alitor 16.50, and pa? fKigj*? ? your dep?t. 3 /"v- 1 ?Kori2 a ui x win acuu jou <an ??Isuit with large glass, luu marble top, joi< gjS#, and jeay freight. jJS'ica wisa?w shade on sorlas r-jlier ? ?c j ,J?nut&50il geanwtar day aicleck, - *-? IWainutiuange, 7.wi sLace curtains per window, l.&ji | 1 cann?t describe every tiling in a smaii f 2advertisement, but have an immense storey containing 22,b00 teat ti hoor roon.', with^ ware heuses and tact "^ry buildingsin ether; parts ol Augusta, making m an ine iar ^ gest business ! this^ina under one mas-3 agement in the Southern fctau-M. ; ?it*r?.saa* warensuser* are ?r?vraed ibe chsicest producti?>?:>?X iii*e ^est ries. ALy cafeuegufteeriuiimng ii:astru;iy*--j jx goo?5 will i;? ia>iiJ05 n jvu *?sii z^-sijS -.ay v\ j ou sav> 1.IH2 <i'lii? yav iicijtnt. Address. ^ (L. F. PADGETT, | Proprietor I'adgett's jfuioitura, .;tov>.jj| and Carpet btore, _ ^ | am a eananaBnaai messsagaamaJ ? * ?a?cams fffel" s a 11 c kimi Lis L" c \ ?et- Bea 3 *3 S n | a.z?n m 2^i uJ i I j**i t >rK ,-<sf < ^9 *-?? i-*w * <-sr ^3 j?3 ? ! ij J : J ? i * s1- I jtH-Ullii ypLAjLlj Sars?, eiau.dular S?Trliia~s, KhocniMism, Xa!?::j, old Chres'.c "icert '.it.*. fc?v* rtt'jied eU trtsnsear, Cst?rri, i y ' .1 1 Jif ? 11|| | c|fj|? bdituuic tip cue ytitin r?pi.;<y. Ltdi?? ?wt.-ins *! ? po'.ton*! aad Then fclocd 1? !a ' ffSBi CUBES | RKl! MALARIA i I ~ 8 ' I Ml III "LI u? W"^S&KAIT BEOS., Proprietors,.' Dr';rgis.ro, Lirpi-an's Block, SAVANNAH, run n RTOTHT7V MADE EASY I" Mothers' Friend " is a scientifically prepared Liniment, every ingredient of recognized value and in, constant use by the medical pro-_ fession. These ingredients are commanner hitherto unknown " MOTHERS' j * S T\ILi1 U WILL DO all that is claimed fx it AND MORE. It Shortens Labor,. Lessens Pain, Diminishes Danger to Life of Mother an J Child. Book to " Mothers " mailed FREE, containing valuable information and voluntary testimonials. ( Sentbv express on receipt of pricc ?!.?0 per bottK BSADFIELO R5GULAT0S tO? Atlanta. Ga. _ ! SOLD BV ALL DRUOOISTS. ! J ^ | | r t UPPBAH BBQS.. ProprieJors, ? j*' Talbot & Sons, j ' I.mufact'irors <>f ENGINES, BOILERS, COTTON" SEED OIL MACHINERY jr anil ail kiuds of / 7 TOBACCO MACHINERY, ^ CORN AND WHEAT^fTCtS7 TURBINE WATER WHEELS, SAW iULiJLO, WITH RA.PE FEED, 01 BELT AND VAKIADLE FRICTION FEED, IMPROVED DOGS. AND SET WORKS AND TIMBER GUAGEESj graduated to sixteenth of an inch ?200 to j $600: Brick Machinery and Wood Working Machinery a specialty. Planing Machines ?200 and upwards. Drying Kilns for Brick and Lumber. Every yard should have onePlans and drawings for construction furnished, Wc sell the highest grade of Machinery and at low prices. V. C. SSAB^AM, GENERAL AGENT, i Columbia, S. C. ig.irr X 1 %/-*. ? v THE LARGEST STOCK. MOST SKILLED WORKMEN.: ' - j r. M. MY ATT, 1 PKSPEliETOB. Is the best place in South Carolina ei Southern States to secure satisfaction ii American and Italian Marble Work. AT kicus of I Cemetery Work j a speciality. TABLET?, HEADSTONEb, ' MONUMENTS, Ac. tod for prices and.! ull iEforraatton. F. H. HYATT April8 ir COLUMBIA. S. C. First Glass Work. V ery Low Prices. Bnsrgies, Carriages, R?ad Carls, Wagons, 1 ate., Warranted Second ;o none. J Inquire of nearest dealer iB these good? ?r send for Catalogue?Mentioning thfl paper. K 0 M,F R & A N" D ? R S BUGGY COMPANY, M Rock Hill, sfl VEHICLES mm Desiring to reduce our large jB will sell a number of "A" Bfl Carriages, full leather top and fl at cost, for cash for 30 days. M riages, &c., b?- made by tJfl United States, Capital CityM Cos., of Columbus, Ohio, a^H proved manufa turers. fl Columbus Buggies, Collifl add Parry Carts and B gra* well as Old Hickory WagoH stock. . Saw Mills. Engines and fl ery as usual. We have in stock severaH hand Edgines of from 4 to^H in good order, which we^B :t'H rag W. H. GlBBEsfl Leesville ~M CO-EDUCJM p KIM ART; AC Aim I ATE and COMMjfl \"ocal and Instrument :ion, Physical Cultural igx, Donaestie EcojH ?s?ies. Nin? teact^ rearl?8<?{1Pi,s J| Strong rnmL^^.m i)j?r room near&Mtijfl Health 101 loca^B evel of the s*a, 46Q jfl L28 feet above AikeiM Young ladies can boflj July College in the^H fision for youn^ila^H r. c*ing dorstW^JH adies aided this '9 "or literary couiH "eonths. ?106 t? ?? ne, ?20. >"?xt S idu. For cataiosfl L. lM