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lewis >i. grist, proprietor. J giit Jndcpcndent Jfamilg Ueurepapcr: <^br (he promotion of (he folttal, Social, Agricultural and Commercial Jnterests of the jlouth. | TERMS?$2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE. "VOL. 36. YOEKVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY SI, 189Q. :s~Q. 91. By Capt. i [Copyright, by J. I *m~-~^ published 1 SYNOPSIS. Preludr.?During an Indian liglit in the West, Capt. Hull, of the United States Regular ariny is killed. Roforo his death a large sum of money?about the pay of soldiers who, "whiloon liold duty, missed the paymaster? was placed in his charge. While dying, ho hands tho packago to Lawrence Hayne, a young ofticer whose father had * been a dear friend of Capt. Hull's. Hayne has, by l?oyish irreverence for superior ollicers, made an enemy of Capt. Kayner, another officer engaged in the campaign. It also develops that Sergts. Clancy and Gowor havo lost considerable money by gambling, part of the missing cash belonging to others. They are in bad odor un/iAmlincrl \r avwiu4uAij* Chapter 1.?The scene is a Pullman car on its way to Warrener, near which village is situated Fort Warrener. Among the passengers on the car are Mrs. Rayner, wife of Capt. Rayner; Miss Travors, her sister (who is engaged to marry Steven Van Antwerp, a rich New Yorker, who has shown a queer aversion to travel in the West), and a young man whose evident desire to avoid conversation or acquaintance has piqued the curiosity of the women. before the train reaches Warrener it takes aboard some badly frozen cavalrymen, who are being sent to tbo fort. The mysterious young man does much to alleviate the sufferings of the frozen men on the way to Warrener. Chapter 2.?The ladies are greeted at Warrener by Capt. Rayner and other of- . licers. It develops that the mysterious young man is Mr. Hayne, who had been {promoted to a tirst lieutenancy in Capt. tayner's company. Capt. Rayner shows that he still feels a decided dislike for the young officer. Chapter 3.?Lieut. Hayne proves a disturbing element among the officers at Fort Warrener. A scandal has been attached to his name in the past, and those who sido with him are forced by the peculiarities of the case to side against Capt. Rayner. The two men have been sworn enemies for five years. The commandant of the post receives Lieut. Hayno kindly and decides to give a dinner in his honor. In fact, most of the cavalry treat him well, while the infantry (his own regiment) do not. It transpires that the trouble connected with Iiayne's name was a courtmartial, which hau convicted him of a serious offense, principally on Capt. Rayner's evidence. This ruling was reversed by higher authorities. Some of Hayne's old comrades make advances, which are repelled. Hayne takes up his quarters in a house at somo distance from the other officers' quarters. fliiAPTKU 4_?Onnf. Rnvnp. 's wife irets angry because of the colonel's courtesy to Hayne, and the is divided into Hayne and anti-Hayno factions. An evening gathering at Capt. Rayner's liouse, where the matter is discussed, is broken up by cries of "lire" from outside. Chapter f>.?The lire is in a house occupied by Private Clancy (who was a sergeant during the Indian light mentioned in the prelude) and his wife, who is a laundress. Lieut. Hayne rescues Clancy and his little daughter from the llames, and also saves a bundle of bank notes of largo denomination, which Mrs. Clancy eagerly clutches and apparently considers of greater importance than the lives of her husband and child. Ilayne himself is badly burned, and Miss Travors evinces great interest in the young officer for whom her sister and brother-in-law show so much dislike. * CTIAPTER VI. 1 Fr\'] llftr "I mean the injuries at the fire.'" An unusual state of affairs existed at the big hospital for several days. Mrs. Clancy had refused to leavo the bedside of her l>eloved Mike, and was permitted to remain. For a woman who was notorious as a virago and bully, who had beaten little Kate from her babyhood and abused and hammered her Michael until, between her and drink, he was but tho wreck of a stalwart manhood, Mrs. Clancy had developed a degree of devotion that was utterly unexpected. In all tho dozen years of their marital relations no such trait could be recalled; and yet there had been many an occasion within the past few years when Clancy's condition demanded gentle nursing and close attention?and never would have got it but for faithful little Kate. Tho child idolized the broken down man, and loved him with a tenderness that his weakness seemed but to augment a thousandfold, while it but served toinfuriate her mother. In former years, when ho was Sergt. Clancy and a fine soldier, many was the time ho had intervened to save her from an undeserved thrashing; many a time ko/1 cpiTOfl linr in liia cfmipr nrmc: nnrl I,WV4 **w wv*"*vx* "v" "* *.r> confronted the furious woman with stern reproof. Between him and the child thero had been the tendercst love, for she was all that was left to him of four. In the old days Mrs. Clancy had been the belle of the soldiers' balls, a fine looking woman, with indomitable powers as a dancer and conversationalist and an envied reputation for outshining all her rivals in dress and adornment. "She would ruin Clancy, that she would," was the unanimous opinion of the soldiers' wives, but beseemed to minister to her extravagance with unfailing good nature for two or three years, lie had been prudent, careful of Ids money, was a war soldier with big arrears of bounty and, tradition had it, a consummate skill in poker. lie was the moneyed man among the sergeants when the dashing relict of a brother non-commissioned officer set her widow's cap lor ldm and won. It did not tako many years for her to wheedle most of his money away, but there was no cessation to the demand, no apparent limit to the supply. Both were growing older, and now it became evident that Mrs. Clancy was the elder of the two, and that the artificiality of her charms could not stand tho test of frontier life. No longer sought as the belle of tho soldiers' hall rooms, she aspired to leadership among their wives and families, and was accorded that preeminence rather than the fierce battle which was sure to follow any revolt. She became avaricious?some said miserly? and Clancy miserable. Then began the downward course. lie took to drink soon after his return from a long, hard summer's campaign with the Indians. lie lost his sergeant's stripes and went into the ranks. There came a time when the new colonel forbade Ins re-enlistment in the cavalry regiment in which he had served so many a long year. lie had been a bravo devoted soldier. lie had a " ood friend in the infantry, he said, who wouldn't go back on a poor fellow who took a drop too much at times, and, to tho surprise of many soldiers?officers and men?ho was brought to the recruiting officer one day, sober, soldierly, and trimly dressed, and Cnpt. Itayner expressed his desire to havo him enlisted for his company; and it was done. Mrs. Charles King, U. S. A. unraven Ranch," "The Colonel's at," "Marion's Faith," Etc. t. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, and jy special arrangement with them.] Clancy was accorded the quarters and rations of a laundress, as was then the custom, and for a time?a very short time?Clancy seemed on tho road to promotion to his old grade. The enemy tripped him, aided by tho scoldings and abuso of his wife, and ho never rallied. Some work was found for him around the quartermaster's shops which saved him from guard duty or the guard house. The infantry?oificers and men ?seemed to feel for tho poor, broken down old feliow, and to lay much of his woo to tho door of his wife. There was charity for his faults and sympathy for his sorrows, but at last it had come to I tills, lie was lying, surety uijuicu, in | the hospital, and there were times when ho was apparently delirious. At such times, said Mrs. Clancy, she alone could manage liiui; and she urged that no other nurse could do more than excite or irritate him. To the unspeakable grief of little Kate she, too, was driven from the sufferer's bedside and forbid'.h n to come into the room except when her mother gave permission. Clancy had originally been carried into the general ward with the other patients, but the hospital steward two days afterwards told the surgeon that the patient manned and cried so at night that the other sick men could not sleep, and offered to give up a little room in his own part of the building. The burly doctor looked surprised at this concession on the part of the steward, who was a man tenacious of every perquisite and one who had made much complaint about the crowded condition of the hospital wards and small rooms ever since the frozen soldiers had come in. All the same the doctor asked for 110 explanation, but gladly availed himself of the steward's offer. Clancy was moved to this little room adjoining the steward's quarters forthwith, and Mrs. Clancy was satisfied. Another thing had happened to excite remark ?. nd a good deal of it. Nothing short of eternal damnation was Mrs. Clancy's frantic sentence on the head of her unlucky spouse the night of the fire, when she was the central figure of the picture, and when hundreds of witnesses to her words were grouped around. Correspondingly had she called down the blessings of the Holy Virgin and all tne saints upon tne man who rescueu and returned to her that precious packet of money. Everybody heard her, and it was out of the question for her to retract. Nevertheless, from within an hour after Clancy's admission to the hospital not another word of the bind escaped her lips. She was all patience and pitv with the injured man, and she shunned all allusion to his preserver and her benefactor. The surgeon had been called away, after doing all in his power to make Clancy comfortable?he was needed elsewhere?and only two or three soldiers and a hospital nurse still remained by his bedside, where Mrs. Claucy and little Kate were drying their tears and receiving consolation from the steward's wife. The doctor had mentioned a name as ho went away, and it was seen that Clancy was striving to ask a question. Sergt. Nolan bent down: "Lie quiet, Clancy, me boy; you must bo quiet, or you'll move the bandages." "Who did he say was burned? Who was he going to see?" gasped the sufferer. "The new lieutenant, Clancy?him that pulled ye out. lie's a good one, and it's Mrs. Clancy that'll tell ye the same." "Tell him what?" said she. turning about in sudden interest. "About the lieutenant's pulling him out of the lire and saving your money." "Indeed yes! The blessing of all the saints be upon his beautiful head, and" "But who was it? What was his name, I say?" vehemently interrupted Clancy, half raising himself upon his elbow, and groaning with the effort. "What was his name? I didn't see him." "Lieut. Ilayne, man." ? "Oh. my God!" gasped Clancy, and fell back as though struck a sudden blow. She sprang to his side. "It's faint he is. Don't answer his questions, sergeant! lie's beside himself! Oh, will ye never stop talking to him and lave him in pace? Go away, all of ye's?go away, 1 say, or ye'll dhrive him crazy wid yer? Be quiet, Mike! don't ye spake agin." And she laid a broad, red hand upon his face. He only groaned again and threw his one unbandaged arm across his darkened eyes, as though to hide from sight of all. From that time on she made no mention of the name that so strangely excited her stricken husband, but the watchers in the hospital the next night declared that in his ravings Clancy kept calling for Lieut. Ilayne. Stannard's battalion of the cavalry came marching into the post two days after the lire, and created a diversion in the garrison talk, which for one long day had been all of that dramatic incident and its attendant circumstances. In social circles, among tho officers and ladies, the main topic was the conduct of Mr. Ilayne and the injuries he had sustained as a consequence of his gallant rescue. Among the enlisted men and the denizens of Sudsville the talk was principally of the revelation of Mrs. Clancy's hoard of greenbacks. But in both circles a singular story was just beginning to creep around, and it was to the effect that Clancy had cried aloud and fainted dead away and that Mrs. Clancy had gone into hysterics when they were told that Lieut. Ilayne was tho man to whom the otic owed his life and the other her money. Some one met Capt. Rayner on the sidewalk the morning Stannard came marching home and asked him if he had heard the queer story about Clancy. lie had not, and it was told him then and there. Rayner did not even attempt to laugh at it or turn it oif in anyway. lie looked dazed, stunned, for a moment, turned very white and old looking, and, hardly saying good day to his informant, faced about and went straight to his quarters, lie was not among the crowd that gathered to welcome the incoming cavalrymen that bright, crisp, winter day, and that evening Mrs. Rayner went to the hospital to ask what sho could do for Clancy and his wife. Capt. Rayner always expected her to see that every care and attention was paid to the sick and needy of his company, she explained to the doctor, who could not recall having seen her 011 a similar errand before, although sick and needy of Company II were hot unknown in garrisons where he had served with them. She spent a good while with Mrs. Clancy, whom sho had never noticed hitherto, much to the laundress' indignation, and concernin" whose conduct she had been known to express herself in terms of extreme disapprobation. Rutin times of sulk-ring such things are forgotten; Mrs. Rayner was full of sympathy and interest; therewas nothing she was not eager to send them, and no thanks were necessary. She could never do too much for the men of her husband's company. Yet there was a member of her bus- ! band's company on whom in his sulk-ring J neither she nor the captain saw lit to call. ' Mr. llaync-'s eyes were seriously injured by the llanies and heat, and lie was now living in darkness. It might be a month, said the doctor, before he could use his eyes again. "Only think of that poor follow all j alone out there on that ghastly prairie and unable to read!" was the exclamation of one of the cavalry ladies in Mrs. Iiayner's presence; and, as there was an iwkward silence and somebody had to t>reak it, Mrs. Rayner responded: "If 1 lived on Prairie avenue I should consider blindness a blessing." It was an unfortunate remark. There was strong sympathy developing for Ilaync all through the garrison. Mrs. Rayner never meant that it should have any such significance, but inside of twenty-four hours, in course of which her language had been rejieated some dozens of times and distorted quite as many, the generally accepted version of the 6tory was that Mrs. Rayner, so far from expressing the faintest sympathy or sorrow for Mr. Hayne's misfortune, so far from expressing the natural gratification which a lady should feel that it was an officer of her regiment who had reached the scone of danger ahead of the cavalry officer of tho guard, had said in so many words that Mr. Ilaync ought to be thankful that blindness was the worst thing that had come to liim. There was little chance for harmony after that. Many men and some women, of course, refused to believe it, and said they felt confident that she had been misrepresented. Still, all know by this time that Mrs. Rayner was bitter against Hayne, and had heard of her denunciation of the colonel's action. So, too, had the colonel heard that she openly declared that she would refuse any in vita tion extended to her or to her sister which might involve her accepting hospitality at his house. These things do get around in most astonishing ways. Then another complication arose: Hayne, too, was mixing matters. The major commanding the battalion, a man in no wise connected with his misfortunes, had gone to him and urged, with the doctor's full consent, that lie should be moved over into and beeomo an inmate of his household in garrison. He had a big, roomy house. His wife earnestly added her entreaties to the major's, but all to no purpose: Mr. Hayne firmly declined. He thanked the major; he rose and bent over the lady's hand and thanked her with a voice that was full of gentleness and gratitude; but he said that ho had learned to live in solitude. Sam was accustomed to all his ways, and he had every comfort he needed. Ilis wants were few and simple. She would not be content, and urged him further. Ho loved reading: surely ho would miss his books and would need some one to read aloud to him, and there were so many ladies in the garrison who would be glad to meet at her house and read to him by turns. Ho loved music, she heard, and there was her piano, and she knew several who would be delighted to come and play for him by the hour, lie shook his head, and the bandages hid the tears that came to his smarting eyes. He had made arrangements to bo read aloud to, ho said; and as for music, that must wait awhile. The kind woman retired dismayedshe could not understand such obduracy, and her husband felt rebuffed. Staunard, of the cavalry, too, came in with his gentle wife. She was loved throughout the regiment for her kindliness and grace of mind, as well as for her devotion to the sick and suffering in the old days of the Indian wars, and Stannard had made a similar proffer and been similarly refused, and he had gone away indignant, iio thought Mr. liayne too bumptious to live; buthoboro no malice, and his wrath was soon over. Many of the cavalry officers called in person and tendered their services, and were very civilly received, but all offers were positively declined. Just what the infantry officers should do was a momentous question. That they could no longer hold aloof wits a matter that was quickly settled, and three of their number went through the chill gloaming of the wintry eve and sent in their cards by Sam, who ushered them into the cheerless front room, while one of their number followed to the doorway which led to the room in rear, in which, still con.med'to his bed by the doctor's advice, the injured officer was lying. It was Mr. Ross who went to the door and cleared his throat and stood in the presence of the man to whom, moro than five years before, ho had refused his hand. The others listened anxiously: "Mr. Ilaync, this is Ross. I come with Foster and Graham to say how deeply wo regret your injuries, unci 10 tender our sympathy and our services." Thero was dead silence for a moment. Foster and Graham stood with hearts that beat unaccountably hard, looking at each other in perplexity. Would he never reply? The answer came at last?a question: "To what injuries do you allude, Mr. Ross?" Even in the L.vilight they could see the sudden flush of the Scotchman's cheek, lie was a blunt fellow, but, as the senior, had been chosen spokesman for the three. The abrupt question staggered him. It was a second or two be- j fore he could collect himself. "I mean the injuries at the fire," lie replied. This time no answer<.vliatever. It was j growing too painful. Ross looked in bewilderment at the bandaged face and and again broke the silence: "We hope you won't deny us tho right to be of service, Mr. llayne. If there is anything we can do that you need or j would like"?r hesitatingly. "You have nothing further to say?" asked the calm voice from the pillow. "I?don't know what else we can say," faltered Ross, after an instant's pause. The answer came, firm and prompt, but icily cool: "Then there is nothing that you can do." And the three took their departure, sore at heart. There were othcr3of tho infantry who had purposed going to seo llayne that evening, but the story of Ross's experience put an end to it all. It was plain that even now Mr. llavno made the condition of tiie faintest advance from his regimental comrades a full confession of error, lie would have 110 less. That evening the colonel sat by his bedside and had an earnest talk, lb; ventured to expostulate with the invalid on his refusal to go to the major's or to Stannard's. IIo could have so many comforts ami delicacies tlioro that would he impossible hero. lie did not refer to edibles and drinkables alone, ho said, with a smile; hut llavne's ]>atieiit face gave no sign of relenting, lie hoard the colonel through, and then said slowly and firmly: "I have not acted hastily, sir; I appreciate their kindness, and am not ungrateful. Five years ago my whole life was changed. From that time to this I have done without a host of things that used to be indispensable, and have abjured them one and all for a singlo luxury that I cannot live without?the luxury of utter independence?the joy of knowing that I owe no man anything? the blessing of being beholden to no one on earth for a single service I cannot pay for. It is the one luxury left me." CHAPTER VII. It was a clear winter's evening, sharply cold, about a week after the lire, when, as Mrs. ltayner came down the stairway, equipped for a walk, and was passing the parlor door without stopping, Miss Travers caught sight of and called to her: "Arc you going walking, Kate? Do wait a moment, and I'll go with you." Any one in the hall could have shared the author's privilege ami seen the expression of annoyance and confusion that appeared mi Mrs. Ravner's face. "I thought you were out. Did not Mr. Graham take you walking?" "lie did: but we wandered into Mrs. Waldron's. and she and the major begged us to stay, and we had some music, and then the first call sounded for retreat and / y//{ " You shall not go!" Mr. Graham hail to go, so ho brought me home. I've had no walk and need exercise." "But I don't liko you to bo out after sunset. That cough of yours" "Disappeared the day after I got here, Kate, anil there hasn't been a vestigo of it since. This high, dry climate put an end CO it. i\o, i u uc reaiiy in uuu minute more. Do wait." Mrs. Rayner's hand was turning the knob while her sister was hurrying to the front door and drawing on her heavy jacket as she did so. The former faced her impatiently: "I don't think you are at all courteous to your visitors. You know just as well as I do that Mr. Foster or Mr. Royce or some other of those young officers are sure to be in just at this hour. You really are very thoughtless, Nellie." Miss Tra vers stopped short in her preparations. "Kate Rayner," she began, impressivoly*?"itwas only night before last that you rebuked me for sitting here with Mr. Blake at this very hour, and asked me how I supposed Mr. Van Antwerp would like it. Now you" "Fudge! I cannot stay and listen to such talk. If you must go, wait a few minutes until I get back. I?I want to make a short call. Then I'll take you." "So do I want to make a short callover at the doctor's; and you are going right to the hospital, are you not?" "How do you know I am?" asked Mrs. Rayner, reddening. "You do go thero every evening, it seems to me." "I don't. Who told you I did?" "Several people mentioned your kindness and attention to the Clancys, Kate. I have heard it from many sources." "I wish people would mind their own affairs," wailed Mrs. Rayner, peevishly. "So do I, Kate; hut they never have, and never will, especially with an engaged girl. I have more to complain of than you, but it doesn't inako me for lorn, whereas you look tearfully worried about nothing." "Who says I'm worried?" asked Mrs. Rayner, with sudden vehemence. "You look worried, Kate, and haven't been at all like yourself for several days. Now, why shouldn't I go to the hospital with you? Why do you try to hide your going from me? Don't you know that I must have heard the strange stories that are flitting about the garrison? Haven't I asked you to set 1110 right if I have been told a wrong one? Kate, you are fretting yourself to death about something, and the captain looks worried and ill. I cannot but think it has somo connection with the case of Mr. Hayne. Why should the Clancys" "You have no right to think any such thing," answered her sister, angrily. "Wo have suffered too much at his hands i?r on his account already, and I never want to hear such words from your lips. It would outrage Capt. Rayner to hear that my sister, to whom ho has given a homo and a welcome, was linking herself witli those who side with that?that thief." '"Kate! Oh, how can you use such words? Ifow dare you speak so of an ofliccr? You would not tell me what he was accused of; hut I tell you that if it bo theft I don't believe it, and no one else" There was a sudden footfall on the porch without, and a quick, sharp, imperative knock at the door. Mrs. Raynei llei back along the hall towards the dining room. Miss Travel's, hesitating but a second, opened the door. It was the soldier telegraph operator with a dispatch envelope in his hand. "It is for Mrs. ltayner, miss, and an answer is expected. Shall I wait?" Mrs. ltayner came hastily forward from her place of refuge within the dining room, look the envelope without a word and passed into the parlor, where, standing beneath the lamp, she tore it open, glanced anxiously at its contents, then threw it with an exclamation of ]>ccvish indignation upon the table. "You'll have to answer for yourself, Nellie. I caunot straighten your affairs and mine too." And with that she was going, but Miss Travers called her back. The message simply read: "No letter in four days. Is anything wrong? Answer paid," and was addressed to Mrs. ltayner and signed S. V. A. "I think you have been extremely neglectful." said Mrs. Rayner, who had turned and now stood watching the rising color and impatiently tapping foot of her younger sister. Miss Travers bit her lips and compressed them hard. There was an evident struggle in her mind between a desire to make an impulsive and sweeping reply and an effort to coutrol herself. "Will you answer a quiet question or two?" she finally asked. "You know perfectly well I will," was the sisterly rejoinder. "How long docs it take a letter to go from here to New York?" "Five or six days, I suppose." Miss Travers stepped to the door, briefly told the soldier there was no answer, thanked him for waiting, and returned. "You are not going to reply?" asked Mrs. Rayner, in amaze. "I am not; and I inferred you did not intend to. Now another question. How ln.anv davs have we been here?" "Eight or nine?nine, it is." "You saw me post a letter to Mr. Van Antwerp as we left the Missouri, did you not?" "Yes. At least I suppose so." "I wrote again as soon :is we got settled here, three days after that, did I not?" "You said you did," replied Mrs. Rayncr, ungraciously. "And you, Kate, when you are yourself have been prompt to declare that I say what I mean. Very probably it may have been four days from the time that letter from the transfer reached Wall street to the time the next one could get to him from here, even had I written the night we arrived. Possibly you forget that you forbade my doing so, and sent mo to bed early. Mr. Van Antwerp has simply failed to remember that I had gone several hundred miles farther west; and even had I written on the train twico a day, the letters would not have reached him uninterruptedly. By this time he is beginning to get them fast enough. And as for you, Kate, you are quite as unjust as lie. It augurs badly for my future peace; and?I am learning two lessons here, Kate." "What two, pray?" "That he can bo foolishly unreliable in estimating a woman." "And the other?" "That you may bo persistently unreliable in your judgment of a man." Verily, for a young woman with a sweet, girlish face, whom wo saw but a week agonc twitching a kitten's ears and saying liltlo or nothing, Miss Travcrs was displaying unexpected lighting qualities. For a moment, Mrs. Rayner glared at her in tremulous indignation and dismay. " You?you ought to bo ashamed of yourselfl" was her eventual outbreak. Ihit to this thoro was no reply. Miss Travcrs moved quietly to the doorway. turned and looked her angry sister in the eye, and said: "I shall givo up tho walk and will go to luy room. Excuse me to any visitors this evening." "You are not going to write to him now, when you are angry, I hope?" "I shall not writo to him until to-morrow, but when I do I shall tell him this, Kate: that if he desire my confidence lie will address his complaints and inquiries tome. If I am old enough to ho engaged to him, in your opinion, I am equally old enough to attend to such details as these, in my own." Mrs. Itayner stood one moment as though astounded; then she flew to the door and relieved her surcharged bosom as follows: "Well, I pity the man you marry, whether you are lucky enough to keep this one or not!" and flounced indignantly out of tho house. When Capt. Rayner came in, half an hour afterwards, tho parlor was deserted. lie was looking worn and dispirited. Finding no one on tho ground floor, he went to tho foot of tho stairs, and called: "Kate." A door opened abo- ^' "Kato has gone >i UUL, UUpUUU* "Do you know where, Nellie?'' "Over to the hospital, I think; though I cannot say." She heard him sigh deeply, move irresolutely about the hall for a moment, then turn and go out. At his gate he found two figures dimly visible in the gathering darkness; they had stopped on hearing his footstep. One was an officer in uniform, wrapped in heavy overcoat, with a fur cap, and a bandage over his eyes. The other was a Chinese servant, and it was the latter who asked: "This Maje Waldlon's?" "No," said he, hastily. "Maj. Waldron*8 is the third door beyond." At the sound of his voice the officer quickly started, but spoke in low, measured tone: "Straight ahead, Sam." And the Chinaman led him on. Rayner stood a moment watching them, bitter thoughts coursing through his mind. Mr. Hayne was evidently sufficiently recovered to be up and out for air, and now he was being invited again. This time it was his old comrade, Waldron, who honored him. Probably it was another dinner. Little by little, at this rate, the time would soon come when Mr. Hayne would be asked everywhere and ho and his correspondingly dropped. He turned miserably away and went back to the billiard rooms at the store. When. Mrs. Rayner rang her bell for tea that evening he had not reappeared, and she sent a messenger for him. Tf- #1 Uvillinrif n\AAn1if nvmtitur A JLU ?tw a uiaiiaiiu IUWUXIV V<vuiuq< strong prairie gale had begun to blow from the northwest, and was banging shutters and whirling pebbles at a furious rate. At the sound of the trumpets' wailing tattoo a brace of young officers calling on the ladies took their leave. The captain had retired to his den, or study, where he shut himself up a good deal of late, and thither Mrs. Rayner followed him and closed the door after her. Throwing a cloak over her shoulders Miss Travers stepped out on the piazza and gazed in delight upon the moonlit panorama?the snow covered summits to the south and west, the rolling expanse of upkuid prairie between, the rough outlines of the foothills softened in the silvery light, the dark shadows of the barracks across the parado, the twinkling lights of the sergeants as they took their stations, the soldierly forms of the officers hastening to their companies far across the frozen level. Suddenly she l>ecanie aware of two forms coming down the walk. They issued from Maj. Waldron's quarters, and the door closed behind them. One was - sxtl.n,. ul.r, cnrulilo it 1/lllV.V.I , VIIW VVUU4) DHU U|/VVM?y made out, a Chinese servant, who was guiding his master. She knew the pair in an instant, and her first impulse was to retire. Then she reileeted that lie could not see, and sho wanted to look, so she stayed. They had almost reached her gate when a wild blast whirled the officer's cape about his cars and sent some sheets of music flying across the road. Leaving his master at tho fence, the Chinaman sped in pursuit, and the next thing sho noted was that Mr. Ilayne's fur cap was blown from his head, and that ho was groping for it helplessly. There was no ono to call, no ono to assist. She hesitated one minute, looked anxiously around, then sprang to the gate, picked up the cap, pulled it well down over tho bandaged eyes, seized the young officer firmly by the arm, drew him within the gato and led him to tho shelter of the piazza. Once out of the fury of tho gale, she could hear his question, "Did you got it all, Sam?" "Not yet," sho answered. Oh, how she longed for a deep contralto! "IIo is coming. He will bo here in a moment." "I am so sorry to havo been a trouble to you," he began again, vaguely. "You are no trouble tome. I'm glad I was where I happened to see you and could help." He spoke no more for a minute. She stood gazing at all that was visible of the pale face below the darkened eyes, it was so clear cut, so reiined in feature, and the lips under the sweeping blondo mustache, though set and compressed, were delicate and pink. Ho turned his head eagerly towards the parade; but Sam was still far away. The music had scattered and was leading him a lively dance. "Isn't my servant coming?" he asked, constrainedly. "I fear I'm keeping you. Please do not wait. lie will lincl mo here. You were going somewhere." "No?unless it was here." She was trembling now. "Please be patient, Mr. Hayne. Sam may bo a minute or two yet, and here you are out of the wind." Again she looked in his face, lie was listening eagerly to her words, as though striving to "place" her voice. Could she bo mistaken? Was he, too, not trembling? Beyond all doubt his lips were quivering now. "May I not know who it is that led me here?" he asked, gently. She hesitated, hardly knowing how to tell him. "Try and guess," she laughed, nervously. "But you couldn't. You do not know my name. It is my good fortune, Mr. llayne. You?you saved my kitten; 1?your cap." There was no mistaking his start. Beyond doubt he had winced as though stung, and was now striving to grope his way to the railing. She divined his purpose in an instant, and her slender hand was laid pleadingly yet lirmly on his arm. "Mr. llayne, don't go. Don't think of going. Stay here until Sam conies. He's coming now," she faltered. "Is this Capt. Kay tier's house?" he asked, hoarse and low. "No matter whose it is! I welcome you here. You shall not go," she cried impulsively, and both little hands were tugging at his arm. He had found the railing, and was pulling himself toward the gate, hut her words, her clinging hands, were too persuasive. "I cannot realizo this," lie said. "I do not understand" "Do not try to understand it, Mr. Hayne. If I am only a girl, I have a right to think for myself. My father was a soldier?I am Nellie Travers?and if he were alive I know well he would have had me do just what I have done this night. Now won't you stay?" And light was beaming in through his darkened eyes and gladdening his soul with a rapture ho had not known for years. One instant he seized and clasped her hand. "May (Jod bless you!" was all he whispered, but so softly that even she did not hear him. Ho bowed low over tho slender white hand and staved. [TO IIK CONTINUKD NKXT WKKK.] JeT Tho pen is a mighty engine, and it sometimes runs away with the engineer. IttiscrUanrous I'radimj. THE RELIGIOUS WORLD. TIIE DIOCESAN CONVENTION. The centennial celebration of the Episcopal cliurcli was held in (Carleston on the 7th instant, in the presence of 2,000 persons. Services were conducted by Bishop Jlowe and ten clergymen, after the Anglican church ritual. On the same day the Diocesan convention met and perfected organization with colored clergymen on the bishop's list. This lias been a source of controversy in the church for the past two years, and has been the cause of the secession of a number of members from the diocese. On Thursday a vote was taken on an amendment of the constitution to insert the word "white" in the clause prescribing the qualifications of clergymen. This was tabled, and a compromise adopted which the seceders elnini does not evcbide nowrn olero-v w""'" n' " men from the convention if the bishop chooses to admit them. The scceders tiled a protest against the adoption of the compromise and declare that they have not given up the fight. The convention adjourned on the fith, to meet next in Greenville. SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION. The Southern Baptist convention met in its forty-sixth annual convention at Fort Worth, Texas, on the morning of the Oth instant, President Jonathan Haralson, of Selma, Ala., in the chair. Seven hundred delegates were present from Alabama, Arkansas, Indian Territory, District of Columbia, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. Mr. Haralson was re-elected president. The Home missionary hoard reported for the past year 270 missionaries among native white population ; 30 missionaries among foreign population ; 4,477 baptisms; organized during the year 207 churches; Sunday-schools instituted, 33(5; churches built, 84; total receipts, ?171,000; expenditures, ?170,000. The foreign mission board reported for the past year 37 stations occupied with 116 out stations, 78 missionaries, 400 baptisms, 20 schools with (57o scholars; receipts ?18(5,800 ; all debts paid. Various committees were appointed. During the session on the 10th, committees were appointed as follows: On resolutions, on hopeful views of work, on vice-president's report, on treasurer's report, on papal missions, on pagan missions. Sixteen thousand dollars was raised to swell the endowment fund of the Southern Baptist Theological seminary at Louisville. The Rev. J. S. Felix, of Virginia, reported on the missions among white people. Recess was then taken. Tlie report on missions among the native white population was adopted. mi.,. 1 r!or,i.n-!il I lit* IVl'V. J/I i lilli l."*j wi submitted the report on missions among the foreign population. The licv. Baron DeKalb Gray, of Mississippi, reported on missions among the colored population. E. B. Caswell, of Georgia, made the treasurer's report and L. B. Ely reported on legacies. The above reports were adopted. The convention then adjourned until Monday. Having adjourned over Sunday, the convention resumed its labors on Monday morning, the 12th. The report of the committee on the question whether to continue the "Kind Word" series of Sunday-school publications, or to sell out to the American Baptist Publication society of Philadelphia; in other words, whether the South or the North should furnish the Sunday-school literature was submitted, and after a warm debate the offer of the Baptist Publication society was rejected. The report of the committee on Christian unity was adopted. T. B. Moore, ofSouth Carolina, submitted a report on "Woman's work." Women contributed last year to missions, not counting gifts, $:?l,2()i). Eulogistic speeches were made and the report was adopted. The Centennial committee reported in favor of a suitable commemoration of the beginning of the Baptist mission work at Kettering, England, aiul that the American Baptist Missionary society l>c invited to co-operate with the Baptists of CJreat Britain and the rest of the world in the celebration. All arrangements were left with the joint committees, which will select the time, place and programme. The report was adopted. The Sunday-school committee was directed to pass on books suitable for Sunday-school libraries. Routine business was transacted until the hour for adjournment. In the convention on the 13th, Dr. Burrows, of Georgia, and Dr. Gregory, of Maryland, and Dr. Thomas, of South Carolina, were chosen fraternal delegates to the English Baptist convention. The convention responded to the greeting of the Methodist General conference in session at St. Louis. Birmingham, Ala., was selected as | the place and Friday before the second Sunday in May, as the time for the meeting of the next convention. The Rev. Carter Helm Jones, of Tennessee, will preach the annual sermon. Mr. Jones spoke on the report of the committee on papal fields. Eleven hundred dollars was raised for the church at Zacatecas, Mexico. Reports on the "method and working of the church board," and on "pagan fields" were read and adopted. President Haralson announced the Centennial committee as follows: The Rev. J. L. M. Curry, Dr. II. H. Harris, Dr. II. A. Tupper, Dr. T. P. Bell and George Cooper, all of Virginia. The Report on "A hopeful view of missions" was read and adopted. Louisville, Ky., was the city selected for the Sunday-school hoard in charge of the "Kind Word" series publication. Reports of the committee on mission hoard nominations, committee on vice-presidents' reports, and committee on enrollment, were read and adopted. The Louisiana lottery was denounced in aresolut ion, which was adopted. The hoard of publishers was announced. The convention then adjourned sine die. M KT11 < > I) 1ST (i KN K It A I. CON F K It KX<' K. The Quadrennial General conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, was opened in St. Louis on the 7th instant. Forty conferences were represented by eight bishops and 2JM) delegates. Bishop Keener presided at the opening exercises. The second, third and fourth days'proceedings were devoted mainly to the reading of reports and similar routine work. On Monday, the 11th, after the usual exorcises, the Sunday-school committee, through its chairman, T. J. McGrider, of Baltimore, submitted a report, in which it is stated that: "The past four years have been the ninst nriKMcroim in oiii* historv. The increase in our Sunday-school membership and the circulation of our periodical literature is very encouraging, and tlierelation of our Sundayschools to the church generally is hecoining more satisfactory every year. We have 12,~?S!i Sunday-schools, with ssfs;j{# teachers and (Hi: J,s-l~? scholars? total, 782,(18-1. This is an increase during the quadrennial of 1,11(17 schools, with 111,Slid teachers and l.'J2,U!>S scholars?total, MS,(58-1. The circulation of our Sunday-school periodicals has increased during four years 2(11 ,;V>(). We now issue monthly 728,001) copies, and in addition to this we furnish the African Methodist episcopal church (5,!UI0 copies per month." The committee on Episcopacy reported a eulogistic memorial on Bishop McTyoire, who was senior bishop at the time of his death, and it was adopted. The committee 011 revisals made two long reports 011 proposed changes in minor details of discipline. They recommend non-concurrence in nearly all instances. A resolution was adopted providing for the appointment of a committee to consist of four laymen and three ministers to consider the expediency of constituting a hoard of trustees to he invested with corporate powers and authorized to receive and hold in trust and for the benefit of the Church, under direction of the General conference, all donations, bequests, devises and grants of whatever description made to the Church, South, as such, and if the same he deemed expedient, to report a plan of said trusteeship and for insertion in the discipline of a statute in accordance therewith. Bishop Duncan from the chair appointed the committee, which is to he known as the committee on trusteeship. A resolution against the liquor tratlic was introduced and referred to the committee on temperance. A resolution to increase the salaries of bishops from $11,000 to $4,000 per annum was sent to the committee on the episcopacy. A way is to be provided for the legal raising of funds to pay the salaries of presiding elders. A resolution calling for the insertion in the appendix to the discipline, of the resolutions adopted last Thursday, condemning worldliness, dancing, card-playing, theatre-going, etc., was laid on the table. The Rio Grande Mission conference in memorial, called attention to the great increase in membership of Spanish-speaking missions, and asked for the assignment of a bishop in that field. Referred to the committee on episcopacy. In the session on the 13th, George W. Walker, president of Paine institute at Augusta, Ga., submitted a report. The institute is for the benefit of the colored Methodist Episcopal church. The session to close in June has been the most successful one since the school was established. Thirty-five young men are preparing for the ministry and there are 184 pupils all told in this school. George W. F. Price, president of the Nashville college, for young ladies, made a report. The college continues in the same line of prosperity as heretofore. The committee on episcopacy reported that it had- examined the members of the college of Bishops as to their work and character, and had approved of them all. The committee also recommended that a bishop be assigned to reside on the Pacific coast. The committee on Sunday-schools recommended non-concurrence in the memorial asking that churches separately be allowed to name a day for Children's Bay. The committee oil commissions recommended nonconcurrence in the memorial for ordination of deaconesses. A resolution was introduced asking that a plan he devised for reaching the poorer laboring class in large cities with religious instruction. Several strong anti-liquor tratiie resolutions were introduced and referred. A resolution to change the basis of representation in the general conference from 1 in .'14 to 1 in 12 was offered. Dr. J hint, of the American Bible society, made an address to the conference. After a long discussion, it was decided to print parts of the ritual in hymn books. On the 14th, the conference entered upon its second week. The report of the committee on revisals recommended that various changes be made in the discipline for the benefit of the Spanish-speaking Methodists of Mexico. The committee on publishing interests made a report which caused a long and animated discussion. It recommended that a premium be ottered for a series of catechisms for use in the church. This was opposed by one delegate as being in the nature of a lottery. Another opposed it because he thought the church had good catechisms now. Secretary I iarrison said he had 140 catechisms in his library, and the church would not be able to improve on them by offering a $100 prize for the most difficult book in the world. He said that the college of bishops had been instructed four years ago to prepare a series of graded catechisms, but had not done it. The committee on temperance reported in favor of unfermented wine for sacrament, whenever it was practicable, and approved resolutions introduced last week by Messrs. East, Wall and Haynes, opposing all laws licensing or permitting the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors as a beverage, because such laws provide for the continuance of the traffic and furnish no protection against its ravages; that the proper attitude of Christians toward the drink traffic should be uncompromising opposition, and that voluntary total abstinence, the sole and true ground of personal temperance, and the complete legal prohibition of the liquor traffic, is the duty of the government. The report went to the calendar, and will no doubt cause much debate when it comes up for consideration. On the loth, the committee on temperance concurred in a memorial changing the decree of the offense committed by a member who encourages the iiquor traffic in renting property for saloons, and in signing ]k itions for licenses, from "imprudence" to "immorality." The Bible Cause committee reported that during the past four years tin1 society has distributed ;>,H?SK,42!) copies of the Bible. Five hundred and sixty-two thousand Bibles have been distributed in heathen lands. The remainder of the session was devoted to routine matters. THE LEE STATl'E* L'NYEILINU. (ion. Joseph E.Johnston has telegraphed to the Lee Monument association accepting the invitation ten dered him to unveil the monument. ( Jen. Wade Hampton has been invited to command the cavalry and Gen. Harry Heth the infantry. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee will he chief marshal and his aides will he the gentlemen who were members of his staff while ho was governor. Gen. John R. Cooke is chief of stall', and among his numerous assistants are Generals L. L. Lomax, R. Lindsay Walker, Thomas L. liosser, Fppa Hunton, William 11. Payne and William R. Terry, of Virginia; J. R. Kershaw, Thomas M. Logan and F. M. Law, of South Carolina; A. JL Colquitt and P. M. R. Young, of Georgia ; A. M. Scales, Robert Ransom, Jr., and Robert F. Hoke, of North Carolina. At the unveiling ceremonies Governor McKinney will call the meeting to order, Dr. Minnigerode will lead in prayer, Gen. Jubal A. Karly will he announced as chairman, and the orator of the day will he Col. Archer Anderson, of Richmond. Gen. J. F. Johnston will unveil the statue. The parade will he formed with the police at head of the column. Then will follow the Stonewall hand, marshals and assistants, distinguished guests in carriages, veteran organizations, volunteer troops, civic societies, tire department. In regard to other details, the following information is given authoritatively : While in no place in the land are the people more loyal to the Federal Hag and the Union than in Richmond, it has been suggested, and meets with the approval of many, that on the occasion of the unveiling of the statue to Gen. Robert F. Lee, 011 May 21), the hands should play exclusively the airs popular to the Southern people during the war. As this occasion is a memorial one to the great comman mies, it is contended that all the surroundings of the day should harmonize with the period in which (Jen. Lee won his fame. The airs to which the Confederate soldiers marched during the war and which will he most familiar to their ears when they gather at the former capital of the Confederacy, are: "l)ixie," "The Bonnie Blue Flag," "My Maryland," "Oh, Alabama," "When this Cruel War is Over," "Lorenna," "Farewell Forever." "Dixie" and "The Bonnie Blue Flag" were regarded as national airs, and never failed to stir the hearts of all Confederate veterans. Gen. J. C. Cook, chairman of the Lee Camp committee, estimates that 2,500 uniformed military, and as many organized Confederate veterans, will he present at the unveiling of the Lee monument. The total number of visitors on that occasion, it is estimated, will reach 25,000. The governors of Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and West Virginia will attend. All of these, as well as the governor of Virginia, will take part in the decoration of the soldiers' graves at Hollywood cemetery the day after the unveiling of the Lee monument. No sort of rule governing the carrying of Confederate colors in the line has been or will beadonted bv those having charge of the ceremonies. Each organization will he at liberty to carry the colors of their choice. It is deemed peculiarly appropriate that the standard under which Gen. Lee won fame should be displayed ; therefore, many Confederate camps will carry Confederate flags. The colors will be profusely displayed along the line of march. The stars and stripes will float from all the public buildings and be borne by all the Southern military in procession. FESTIVAL DAYS. Editor of Tiik Exquirkr : Will you be so kind as to give in your paper a short sketch explaining the festival aays, by whom they are celebrated and their object? 0. L. S., McConnellsville. A full and comprehensive answer to your question would require more space than you would care to see devoted to it. All annual festivals have a religious origin, and each nation of the earth, civilized or uncivilized, celebrates a greater or less number of such days in its own peculiar way. The Jews have five annual festival days, observance of which is strictly required, and a number of minor festivals, the observance of which is optional. The regular feast days are: 1. The Passover, to which the Christian Easter corresponds. 2. Feast of the Week, seven days after the Passover. 3. Day of Remembrance, first day in the Seventh month?September 4. Day of Atonement, ten days later. ">. Day of Tabernacles, five days later. Christian festivals are more numerous, though less strictly observed. Following are some of the more important festivals observed by the Roman Catholics, a few of which are recognized by several of the Protestant denominations: The Nativity, (Christmas), the Epiphany, Easter, with the three preceding and jtwo following days, Whitsunday, Trinity Sunday, the nativity of John the Baptist, Saints Peter and Paul, All Saints' and All Souls' days. etc. The first day of the new year and Christinas are probably the most universally observed festival days. The 25th day of December, on which the sun is near the most southern point in its apparent annual journey, lias been celebrated as an occasion of joy and gladness from time immemorial. The Romans celebrated this day in honor of their god Racclius, rejoicing with him that the sun was about to return to revivify the vineyards. The ancient Egyptians celebrated it as the birthday of their god Horus, and the Persians as the birthday of Mithras, the Mediator, a spirit of the sun. In China it is a general holiday for the children, and all business is suspended, while the Hindoos decorate their homes and make a great feast. The 25th of December, however, was not celebrated as a Christian festival until the Fourth century after Christ. Pope Julius assembled the theologians of Christendom to definitely settle on the date of the Saviour's birth, with a view to celebrating the same as an annual festival. There was great difference of opinion among the theologians at the time as to the actual day, and even as to the season of the year, and it is thought that the 25th of December was lixed upon because this day was already the occasion of the most popular festivities of the age. The principal argument urged against the 25th of December being the date of the Saviour's birth, is the fact that it occurs in the height of the rainy season, when both shepherds and flocks in Palestine are compelled to remain under shelter. Using thh Tkktii.?The law of deterioration from disuse obtains with the teeth as well as other things. The constant and regular use of them in masticating hard food tends to make them continually gr6w harder and stronger, and better able to resist the influences that make for decay ; while, on the other hand, living on soft food and neglect of mastication makes them tender, softens the enamel, and renders them easily susceptible to corroding effects. This is sometimes especially shown in the case of people after long illness, who find their teeth tender and sore when they begin to return to a diet of solid fisml fond. A dentist, speaking on this subject, says: Some men have healthy teeth all their lives, because they were given good, hard food during their infancy. This is the period to begin to save the teeth. Mothers and nurses give children soft food, utterly ignorant in many cases of the result. Crusts and hard stuffs should be given to children as soon as they can eat them. In this way the teeth begin to grow healthy, and gradually harden with time and use. The chewing gum girl gives her molars plenty of wholesome and unwholesome exercise. But chewing-gum is not especially healthy, because only part of the teeth are used. It is jaw exercise more than anything else. But in eating hard, wholesome food all the teeth come in contact with the substance. Tobacco chewing is not healthy for the teeth, because the tobacco is generally placed in one location, like chewing-gum, and there remains until thrown out. The Southern negroes have better teeth than most any race, because they use them from childhood up in masticating hard food. What Tiiky Wiute Fok.?The day-laborer who carries brick up a ladder, or mixes mortar at its foot, is not supposed to perform his task from philanthropic motives. It may occur to him to assist in providing a shelter for his fellow-men is a good thing to do, but if the virtue of the labor were its sole reward, he would see his fellow-men further ere he used his flexors or extensors to put them under cover. But it is popularly believed that authors are moved to write by higher incentives than those which urge the ordinary working man to pursue his daily toil. As regards seven-eights of all who write for the public, this belief is a mistake. Unquestionably there are highly gifted men and women with whom the public utterance of the great thoughts that surge through their prolific brains is a positive necessity, but they are few and far between. Bread and butter is the leading incentive of half the popular writers of the day. Even that vanity which "springs eternal in the human breast," would scarce be a sufficient torians, poets, philosophers, and polemics, if Fame, after blowing her trumpet in their honor, did not convert it into a horn of Plenty, and pour from it the golden fruit of Success. As a rule, the author regards his brains not as an instrument he is bound to use for the ben tit of mankind, but sis a bread-winner. If he devotes his pen exclusively to moral work, he may feel, like the bricklayer's bilHirer that his toil is useful and honorable, but, nevertheless, he would be very apt to let the world go to the bad without attempting to lecure it, if the only pay of moral essayists was the luxury of doing good. THE CAUSE OF CRIME. Crime in this country is on the increase, that is the per cent, of crime increases faster in proportion than the increase of population. It must be obvious to any one who will take pains to observe that such is the fact, anu ims neinginu case inure must uu n cause for this increase. In the nature of tilings if everything was as it should be, crime should decrease with our improved system of civilization, but instead, it increases, not because people are naturally growing more depraved, for they arc not. With our improvements, our citizens should and would be better citizens, but we are sick, something is the matter and something should he done to ascertain the cause of our troubles and apply the remedy. We are confronted with a condition and our people are tempted by that condition. Poverty and misery are great incentives to brime. Few men with comfortable homes, with money in their possession,will commit crime. We all know that crime is on the increase, and it is due to the unhealthy condition in which we find the business of the country. Are we not in danger? Should we not wake up * and look around us and see where we are drifting before it is too late? Is it not crime which precedes revolutions ? The increase of crime was alarming just before the fall of Rome, and such was the case with France; for a few years before the revolution, crime was almost doubled. It behooves us to profit by these examples and tone up our system before we are visited with the calamities which have deluged other countries with blood before they were purified.?[National Advocate. A Mammoth Show Building.? The new building of the Madison Square Garden company is the most extensive structure of the kind in the city. The amphitheatre is an enormous room 310 by 194 feet and 80 feet high, with an arena containing 30,000 square feet. There will be permanent seating rapacity for 6,000 persons, including 150 private l)oxes. The view from the seats will be unobstructed and practicaily free from the hideous and vexatious columns. For conventions and great public meetings the arena can be floored over, giving seats for 12,000 persons. For summer performances the roof can be opened by machinery. Underneath the seats will be a continuous hall of 32 feet wide and 22 feet high, with 3,000 square feet, available for exhibitions, fairs, stabling, etc. There will be main entrances on Madison avenue and Fourth avenue, and exits, in rase of emergency, on Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh streets. The restaurant, 80 by 90, will l>e on the Twenty-sixth street side, with a concert hall over it having a seating capacity of 1,500, and a ball room floor. On the Twenty-seventh street side will be a theatre with a seating capacity of 1,200. There will also be a roof garden to scat 5,000 persons. '? * ? n xi i l psurrounuing uu vmw room* win be ample lobbies, broad aisles, retiring rooms, private dining rooms, and all the modern conveniences for public gatherings, smoking rooms, coat rooms, lavatories, waiting rooms, etc. ?[New York Sun. Tiip: Old Fashioned Girl.? She was a little girl until she was fifteen years old, and then she helped her mother in the household duties. She bad her bours of play, and enjoyed herself to the fullest extent. She never said to her mother, "I can't?I don't want to," for obedience toher was a cherished virtue. She arose in the morning when called, and we do not suppose she had her hair done up in curling papers and crimping pins, or banged over her forehead. She did not grow into a young lady and talk about her beau before she was in her teens, and she did nor read dime novels nor was she fancying a heroin every boy she met. The old fashioned girl was modest in her demeanor, and never used slang or by-words. She did not laugh at old people or make fun of cripples. She had respect for her elders, and was not above listening to words of counsel from those older than herself. She did not know as much as her mother, nor did she think her judgment as good as her * i -- ru . _1 .1 4.^ granamomer. one uiu no go iu paities by the time she was ten and stay till after midnight, dancing with chance young men who happened to be present. She went to bed in season, and doubtless she said her prayers, and slept the sleep of innocence, rose up in the morning happy and capable of giving happiness. And now, if there is an old fashioned girl in the world to-day may heaven bless and keep and raise up others like her.?Bishop Gosgrove. A Certain Man.?A preacher, who had great "liberty," was preaching from a part of the thirtieth verse of the tenth chapter of Luke,?"A certain man went down to Jericho, and fell among thieves." He opened his discourse thus: "My brethren, the Bible is a very wonderful hook. It says so much in a word. Now, there is very little said about the character of this man that fell among the thieves; hut I know just what sort of a man he was. And, first he was a sober man; secondly, he was a punctual man; thirdly, he was an industrious man ; and, fourthly, he was a married man. And I learn all this about the man from one single word that the Bible says about him ; it says he was a certain man. Now, we all know that there is no certainty in a drunkard, there is no certainty in a man who is not punctual to his engagements, no certainty in an idle loafer, and there is not one of these bachelors in forty that you can trust." Amuskmexts.-TIic following rules in regard to engaging in social and public amusements was adopted by Airs. Marsh, the biographer of Hedley Vicars. They may help others in solving questions of personal duty: "As 1 belong to the Lord Jesus by creation, by redemption, by his choice, and oy mi/ choice, I will not go to any entertainment where I could not ask for his presence to go with me; where I could not, as opportunity might occur, give a message from him to any one who should converse with me; where, if he were still on earth, I could not have expected to meet him; and where, if he should return suddenly, I would . rather that he should not And me." "* A Chinese Scheme.?According to a California paper, the Chinese at San Jose, Chi., lease property from white men for twelve months in the year and charge their tenants for thirteen months, there being this many months in the Chinese year. I6T The man who is drawn into a scheme to invest 1 cent and draw out $1 may not lie a fool, hut